The Iola register., 1891-08-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

DR.. Philip Krohn is preaching in enc
Of Prof Swings mission churches in
Chicago.
Salina proposes to have the Fourth
regiment of the National Guards as an
attraction for the Saline county fair.
A Sslina addition, consisting OF 800
,ots, sold last week for $l5, 600, not quite
b39 a lot, to one of the gentlemen con-
nected with the Salina electric light
company.
The Kansas travelling mems conven-
lion meets at Hutchinson on November
list. The people OF Hutchinson are ar
ranging to entertain the association in
rood style.
The Winfield water company has
brought suit against the city in the sum
Of g, 442.50 for hydrant rental. The
average Winfield citizen does hate to
pay for water.
Mr.. Ingalls, bought stock of town
lots at Atchison the other day which he
converted into a pasture field. This
means that Ingalls, Is pretty rich or
that town lots in AtcIison are mighty
cheap.
Arthur Capper, formerly of the To
peka Capital, is working on the New
| York Tribune. There Is an agreeable
rumor afloat 10 the effect that Arthur
is engaged to be married to Topeka
heiress.
There is a marked reduction in the
acreage of corn in Harper county this
year. There were Is, AL acres in 1889,
while this year, owing to the large
~ u,haot fhara cea 40 lcR
planted in corn.
| Marshall county's new court house
will cost $50, 900, aud the county will
not go in debt for dollar. Every cent
Of the money has been raised and is
now in the bank. The corner stone
was laid last Thursday.
Some time ago the pastor OF the
Methodist church at kickapoo bought,
without the consent OF the congrega-
ton, some new tangled" hymn books.
They disappeared, AMI several days ago
were found in sack floating down the
river.
1t hailed 30 hard in Cheyenne county
one afternoon last week that sixteen
men working at a threshing machine
were cut about the face and hands so
badly that they were unfit for work the
rest of the day. Their clothes were
literally riddled.
A. F. Dexter OF Clay Center, is rapid
ly rebuilding his dam, and is deserving
OF great credit for his energy. The city
has been in darkness since the dam
went out, it having been the motive pow
er by which the electric lights were
kept burning.
A minority OF the stockholders of the
Emporia street railway made an appli-
cation for the appointment of receiver
for that corporation. After making an
Investigation into the condition of the
company Judge Graves refused to grant
the receivership.
Miss Viola Price, formerly connected
with the faculty of the State Normal,
has accepted a position in the South
west Kansas college, a Methodist insti-
tuition at Winfield. She declined a
flattering offer from the University of
the Pacific in California to remain in
Kansas.
At Wichita two brothers who had
been separated twelve years. met in the
county Jail. Both were going under as
sumed names, but one day while COM
pairing notes they found that they were
from the same town in Pennsylvania.
One of them finally told his name, and
the other at once recognized him as q
brother.
T. B. Brown, president of the Kansas
state federation of labor has resigned,
owing to business changes. Robert
Tompkins of Atchlson, KS, succeeds
him. The federation comprises car
penters, plasterers, fathers, plumbers,
painters, printers, pressmen, clerks.
tailors, BARRIERS, cigar-makers, coopers,
miners, switchmen, car repairers, etc.
Mrs. E. P. S. Stiteler, county super
intendent OF public instruction of Bour-
bon county, has submitted plan to the
school trustees OF the county to rid
themselves Of the burdens OF the school
book trust by having 3 uniformity OF
county text books, and efecting a coun-
ty organization OF school trustees who
will purchase from no firm connected
with the trust.
A bunch of Johnson grass from
Pawnee county has been received by
the state board of agriculture at To
peka. which is over eight feet high.
The field from which it was taken will
average from six to eight feet in
height, and will yield from five to six
tons of hay to the acre. Cattle and
horses are very fond of the grass when
it is green and after it is cured.
The Stockton Record notes the fact
that Chandler & Heiner of that place
are doing land Office busines in eggs,
drawing their supplies from Osborne,
Alton, Woodston, Plainville and Stock
ton. This week they have shipped to
Denver over 800 cases. containing about
8, 900 dozens. Mr.. Heiner was in Den
yer last week disposing OF the large
shipments, which have been about 200
cases week, for some time back.
Benson. the convicted murderer, has
told his jailer that he prefers hanging
to life sentence and should under no
circumstances submit to a petition on
the part of his counsel for mitigation
OF the courts sentence. II he really
feels that way about 1t he ought to be
very glad that he killed Mrs. Mettman
on the government reservation and
thus escaped the penalty which would
have been meted out to him under the
laws OF Kansas.
The state of Kansas is in prime
financial condition. 1t Is discounting
its bills, many of which are not due for
ten years. The state treasury is regis
tering and canceling more school bonds
now than ever before in the history of
the state. Since the 18th of June
s11O, S32. 81 in school bonds have been
redeemed. Some of these bonds are
not due until 1904, and many Of them
have several years yet to run, but they
are being paid in order to stop the in
terest-State Journal.
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