The Iola register., 1891-02-13


received by the Car on his arrival in
St. Petersburg. '.Robin Hood" ar
opera by Reginald DeKoven of Chicago
had successful production at the
Prince of Wales theatre. London.
KANSAS NOTES.
The son of Judge PETER is an engineer
on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
There are two artesian wells on the
county poor farm in Meade county.
A bill to establish cheese factory al
Stafford has been introduced into the
house.
Marysville will furnish S25, 900 OF
more to build court house if the coun-
ty seat is permitted to remain at that
place.
An object of curious interest at the
asylum for the insane at Topeka is q
Wichita man who went crazy over re-
ligion.
John S. Gilmore of the Wilson County
Citizen has been appointed a director OF
the state penitentiary by Governor
Humphrey.
There Is q man at Newton who is in
famed with the singular ambition OF
elevating the standard of literature in
barber shops.
Cherokee strip boomers are just as
numerous and aggressive as if the peo-
pie who rushed into Oklahoma were
not in dire distress.
Colonel d. r. Anthony has purchased
the interest of A. G. Lamborn, in the
Leavenworth Times and has gained ex-
elusive control of that paper.
Judge PETER should beware how
Dauch he refers to the Almighty.
beans" Pomeroy was always calling on
the Lord.-Topeka journal.
The dam project has been the best
friend Topeka reporters ever had. 1t
has done space duty ever since the town
had daily.-Hutchinson News.
State Superintendent George W.
Winans is the author OF a bill introduc-
ed in the legislature outlining course
of study for the district schools OF the
state.
The elections of Vance. Vest and
Villas to the senate will have a tendency
to stir up the senatorial bee in the bon
nets of some of the Vincents in
Kansas.
Harrington, in Saline county, has
nineteen secret societies. to which it is
said half the population belongs. The
last organization is a chapter of the
Eastern Star.
There seems TO be no doubt that The
Missouri. Kansas & Texas has offered
to move its general offices to Parsous in
consideration Of u donation of $4,000
from the city.
4 family has been discovered in To
peka which was without food for two
whole days. That sort of destitutiOn
ought never TO exist in a town which
boasts of as many church spires IS To
peka.
All the apple raisers in Kansas ought
to be interested in Sir Arthur Sullivan's
new opera, IvanhOe, brought out in
London Saturday night. The principle
part is sung by Ben Davis.-Topeka
Journal.
Mr.. PETER is not 70 blame because
the newspaper portraits of him look
like composite photographs of Herr
Most, King Lear, Gines de PassamOnte
and Mr.. ]. +. Cooper's Pirate king
Chicago News.
Observer Peters local meteorological
summary for Leavenworth for the
month Of January, shows that January,
1891, was. the warmest January since
1871 and that more rain fell than any
January since 1874.
A Newton man has made discovery
which may prove of great value to the
medical profession. He had a sick cat
which refused to take medicine until
it was rubbed on its sides, when the
animal licked the remedy and was
promptly cured.
Mr.. Gable introduced bill in the
lower house of the state legislature tc
empower the warden and directors o.
the state penitentiary to purchase at {:
mills per bushel, all the coal and coal
rights undertaking certain land adjacent
70 the prison at Lansing.
Missouri papers are claiming great
deal of credit because Governor Hum.
phrey of Kansas edited a paper in Shell.
bina in lS6S-9-70, State Printer Snow
was member of the Twenty-ffth
Missouri Volunteers and Senator-elect
PETER lived in Morgan county from
1859 to 1862.
EmpOria is among the first cities il
the state to correct its census. HeI
new city directory counts 5000 names
and no person under Is has been count
ed 1t is holding its own as well as any
city in Kansas. 1t is one of the mOst
delightful places in the state to live, ,and
people who move away from it are Ger
tain to find that out.