The Iola register., 1891-10-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

to change radically and p. d. q.
No young man can ever hope to be-
come a social favorite ct Sabetha who
is not connected with railroad.
An eighty-acre peach orchard near
Severy netted the proprietor about
Sc, 000-Or at the rate of S75 au acre.
Bert Dawson. aged II, and Emma
Andrews, aged Is, were married YES
terday at Atchison, Kansas, by the con-
sent of their parents.
There is an attorney in Arkansas City
who is very successful in securing
Indians for shows. He stands in with
the interior department
Bailey Waggener began his career in
Atchison by saving wood. Now he
gets s17, 600 year out of Jay Gould and
is worth one-fourth million.
The Parsons Eclipse signalizes the
removal Of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas offices to that town from Sedalia
by blooming out in new head.
The Atchison papers state that John
]. ingalls, is connected with an irriga-
tion scheme in Texas, out of which he
expects to make a barrel of money.
The city marshal of Manhattan is
paying his respects to the dogs Of the
third ward, and the people of the Sec
ond ward wanted him to salivate the
cats.
\ paper at Anthony makes the cheer
full announcement that the association
has the new cemetery plated and
fenced and that everything is now
ready for business,
1t requires three days for paper to
travel By mail from Kansas City to Hi
awatha, and John Wanamaker is noti-
fed by the Hiawatha World that that
kind of service won't do.
Father Eskridge of the Erlporia Re-
publican takes the pains to announce in
a special paragraph that he is still the
fighting editor of that paper. Just as
if any body would doubt it.
A new paper has been started in
Dickinson county for the sole purpose
of booming Topolobampo. Nothing is
ever allowed to interfere with the free
dom of the press in Kansas.
An acre of corn in Saline county is
reported to have produced 764 bushels
this year. That may be straight goods
but the story that a Seneca man raised
1873 bushels TO the acre is clearly a bald
headed lie.
Another inmate of the soldiers home
near Leavenworth was killed by the
dummy line the othey day. Not less
than twelve veterans lose their lives
every year on the different railroads
running into Leavenworth.
John Gilmore declares that the grass
has not been dried up in Wilson county
so badly since 1874 as it is this fall.
But no one will kick very hard if the
drouth in Kansas will continue to come
in September instead OF June.
A man who owns q quarter section of
land near Anthony received as his
share of the wheat crop raised on the
land this season ] 900 bushels, leaving q
like amount for the man who put it
out. That is how the old adage, Live
and let live, works in Kansas.
The story that A. p. Riddle sank
1000 in the Pittsburg Star is incor-
rect. He made no financial sacrifice,
but merely lost his time. He belives
that the paper can be made paying
property by any good newspaper man
who would be willing to give it his per-
sonal attention.
A Kansas girl. Miss Lottie Short of
Blue Rapids. Marshall county, was
awarded the prize by Boston agricul-
tural paper for the best menu for din
ner, the recipes to be given for all the
dishes mentioned. Miss Short is
graduate of the State Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan.
Over 100 acres have been sown in
wheat on the government farm near
LeaveEworth, but the clods were so
hard that the hair and in
some places the skin was
worn from the hooks OF the horses.
Uncle Jerry Rusk ought to give this
matter his attention.
Bent Murdock announces in the last
issue of the Ell Dorado Republican that
hereafter he will be on deck in his own
and shake hands with the subscribers
when they come in. He has been TAX
ing rest for the last two years-that
is, If fishing can be called resting.
senator Plumb tells the following
good story on the venerable Judge A.
S. Kingman of Topeka, one OF the three
surviving members OF the original su-
preme bench of Kansas: Plumb and the
late Colonel John A. Martin acted as
secretaries OF the first republican state
convention which was held after the
admission Of Kansas into the Union.
DR.. Charles Robinson was nominated
for governor, DR.. John P. Root for lieu
tenant governor, and DR.. John W. Rob-
inson for secretary of state. After the
first three candidates on the ticket had
been chosen, Judge Kingman, who as
pired to the Office OF associate justice,
leaned oyer to where Colonel Martin
was sitting and said in an audible
whisper: John. for Gods sake call ME
doctor when you propose my name to
the convention"
Wichita Eagle: There is an old man
who for many years, has had a habit Of
borrowing exchanges from the Eagle.
He always asked that certain papers be
kept out for him. Three years ago he
liked the Globe-Democrat and Sol Mil
ler's chief. Last year he dropped these
two and asked every week for the Nom
Conformist and the Kansas Farmer.
Last January he took great liking to
the Kansas City Times and any other
democratic exchange to be had. Since
last March the Office has not seen him
until yesterday. He had been over to
Coffey county on a visit, he said, and
had heard Plumb at Burlington last
week. He fumbled over the exchanges
a long time and went out without say
ing anything. But later, when we
looked for our Globe-Democrat and Sol
Miller's Chief. thev were gone.
In addition to the vast amount OF
public and private business which Sem
ator Plumb dispatches, he carries a
load OF care and anxiety as a family
man which would tell seriously upon a