The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-13
KANSAS NOTES.

KANSAS NOTES.
Salina will give 81, 100 for a paper
mill.
The Chapman creamery will be start
ed again.
The Severy Telegram has succeeded
the Record.
The daily wages of mechanics in Kan
sas last year averaged 1923.
A single firm in Coffeyville last week
shipped 49, 500 dozen eggs.
Ex-Congressman Anderson goes to
Egypt as consul of the United States.
Kansas, first, last and all the time
should be the cry OF all good citizens.
Colonel Gilmore of the Wilson County
Citizen is now director of the peniten-
tiary.
Wichita voted bonds to the amount of
$50, 900 in aid of the Wichita & Ell Paso
railroad.
The alliance agent at Lawrence is
short about 81, 900 for grain received
from farmers.
Fifty-four families raised cocoons last
year and received an average Of s23.3 30
per household.
Pittsburg business men have contrib
uted S25. 900 to advertise that town at
the worlds fair.
The Washington Post says Blaine
has Busted the Bourbons with Brains,
Brazil and Business.
The water works at Concordia are
paying expenses and making little
money for the city besides.
Erie will give some genius a bonus
who will devise the means of Kidding
the town of its surplus dogs.
Kansas farms are mortgaged for
1926, OO0, 600, and Ohio farms are plaster
ed for five times this amount.
Matters are shaping up at Emporis
for a red-hot municipal election. One
of the issues will be free coinage.
Web Wilder will engage in the publ
cation of financial and insurance jour
nal at Kansas City after June 30.
On account of the scarcity Of cases the
grand jury of the United States district
court at Wichita has been discharged.
The amount of taxation levied on
Kansas last year was s3,432, 800, an
average of 1912 for each 800 Of assessed
value.
Thomas county holds special election
March 3 to vote $4,000 to buy seed
wheat, corn, oats and potatoes for the
farmers.
Fifty-six carloads of coal aggregsting
2S,035 bushels, has been distributed by
the state among the needy settlers in
fifteen counties.
General Lyon OF the Kansas depart
ment of the Knights of Pythias muster
ed in a uniform rank Of twenty-nine
knights at Chetopa-
Two Atchinson wOmen-Mrs. N. A.
Maher and Miss Fannie Harding-will
graduate from the st. Joseph medical
college next month.
Emporia has union soldier just 80
years old, who recently received PEN
sion. His days are being shortened by
exposure in the army.
A Phillips county fruit grower pre-
vents the bugs in his peach orchard
from becoming too previous by putting
ice around the roo OF the trees.
The Wichita Eagle wants the age Of
consent raised to twenty-five years.
Colonel Murdoch thinks the boys are
able to to take care of themselves.
Wichita offers Garfield university to
Kansas on condition that it be maintain
ed as normal school. Here is a chance
for the state to secure an elephant on
tempting terms.
According to State Sugar Inspector
Kellogg, there were manufactured in
Kansas in 1890 67I.740 pounds of
sorghum sugar and 49, pounds Of
the best beet sugar.
George Morgan, president of the
Kansas diary association, has been Sc
lected as member of a committee of
twenty-five who have charge of the
diary interests at the worlds fair.
A number of colleges which could not
gain admission to the state oratorical
association have formed seperate
organization. They intend to hold
their first annual contest in Atchison
May %.
The Girard Press has looked up the
records of the Santa Fe general offices,
and finds that one of the alliance men,
bers from that county. Mr.. A. J. Cory,
travels on pass, L, No, 45l, good I'M
til April |, 1891, over all the Santa Fe
lines in Kansas.
How is this for a marriage notice. Il
appeared recently in Kansas paper.
Miss Rose Hobson and a man named Howe
were united in marriage at the home of the
brides parents on Woodland avenue, on Satur-
day morning at nine o'clock.
"A man named Howe" must have felt
fattered by the notice.
rIbo ,ro,,o,, If E'or+ S,o++ mot ~ ,,o.a
convention few days ago and placed .
full city ticket in the field. The candi-
dates for mayor and councilmen are all
men of good moral character, while all
the candidates for members of the
school board are women Of acknowledge
ed intelligence and business quail
ficatiOns.
1t is useless to oppose woman suffrage
in this state. The women have an equal
voice with men in every farmers sub
alliance in Kansas. They have already
won the day. 1t is only the question OF
ore legislature or two before they will
be as freely admitted to the ballot box
as the men. The question has got past
discussion. The women have got
there. State Journal.
Augustus Higgeland, president of the
Second National bank at Mcpherson,
was shot and probably fatally wounded.
Whether he shot himself accidently or
Intentionally is a MYSTERY He said he
dropped his pistol and it was discharg-
ed. About two years ago his father
was killed in the bank, presumably by
the accidental discharge of pistol, and
it is said to have been the weapon which
the son was carrying.