The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

In Sumner county.
The Kansas City Star says: The Atch-
ison people still keep up the oldfasb-
toned custom of counting the carriages
in funeral professions.
Ed Howe has published a new book,
in which he makes a vigorous assault
on the church and its dogmas, and ad-
vocates religion Of the conscience.
The peoples party of Barber county
in convention at Medicine Lodge, NOM
mated county ticket. All but two of
the nominees are former republicans.
The town of Hope was visited the
other day by a citizen of Dickinson
county who was 100 years old. He was
accompanied by his wife who is only 81
John Dumbell. lodged in Jail Satur-
day al Marion for assaulting his wife
committed suicide that night by hang
ing himself to the ceiling OF his cell by
strap.
Captain George w. Stabler of Huron,
KS, Is holding two offices. Ho Is mayor
and postmaster. Huron being fourth
class postofice allows him the unusual
privilege.
Land out in Ford county which went
begging a year ago at "a and IS an acre
has produced twenty and twenty-five
bushels of wheat to the acre this sea-
son. Moral:
Thomas G. Smith, IS years old AN old
resident of Topeka. was run over and
killed at Topeka yesterday by the Den
| YER express train while crossing the
Santa Fe track.
The Daily Republic, of Manhattan,
suspended Saturday night, owing to q
boycott by republican merchants and
politicians because it advocated the
peoples party movement.
A fight occurred the other day at Ar
kansas City between a woman and
man whom she annoyed by lariating q
cow near his residence. The man kick
ed and so did the woman, but the latter
came out ahead of the game.
Newton Kansan: A mathematician
of this city has figured out that IL would
require corn crib Is feet wide, 10 feet
high and II miles long to hold the corn
now growing in Harvey county. Esti-
mating the yield Of this county as an
average Of that in each OF the los
counties in the state. 1t would require a
crib 10x16 feet by 1875 miles long-twice
the length of the stste-to hold KANSAS
crop.
Arkansas City Dispatch: Unless the
one written by Governor Robinson Is
the true history OF Kansas, the true one
has not been written, and probably new
er will be. Mr.. Robinson was in a po-
sition before and during the war to
know the facts during those turbulent
times, and he can give them to the
world II he desires to do -. Heretofore
the men who knew these facts have not
been disposed to reveal them In written
history, but perhaps the old war gov
ernor has concluded that there Is no
longer any reason for conceallng them.
DR.. Cordley in the Lawrence Jour-
nal: Here we have been nearly q week
in London. The arst impression 10 that
it Is less busy than New York or Chi
cago, but it grows on US as the days
go-eyerything is systematized. and
moves without confusion. The traffic
scatters itself and travel also. The
cabs seek the less crowded streets, and
the underground railways relieve the
surface in a wonderful degree. The
buses seem like great band wagons at
first sight. They are all two story"
affairs and the seats on top are the
choice seats. After riding on top
few times, one will be reluctant to 60
back to the American system and be
packed inside. The motion is easier,
the air delightful, and the whole street
is before you like q panorama. The
charge is only about penny a ride.
and you can ride all over the city for
only few pennies.
Atchison Patriot: Kansas people
have no doubt been told of their one
great fault in the matter OF assessment
and taxation very many times, and
doubtless know it. But 1t OCCURS to
us who have just cast our lot with you
that it is proper for US to remind you of
it again. The Kansas idea of low valu-
ations and high per centages has done
the state irreparable injury. 1t has
kept many and many q mandatory
from the state, many and many capt.
alist, many and many sturdy farmer.
People east and people in the great
Mississippi valley read the figures that
tell the stJry of your wealth and your
taxation, not knowing as you do that
they tell a monstrous lie, and shun the |
state because of her fearful high rate of
axation. They do not know that your
property Is listed at about one-third Its |
actual value and that the rite OF taxa
ton is therefore, though apparently |
very great, no greater than that of |
other states.
The tendency for years has been, as
we are informed, to decrease valua- |
tions, so that lands valued at g. ID in |
1887 are now valued at only 1882 per |
acre, and personal property shrunk |
from sixty millions In 1887 to forty-uine |
millions in 1890. In 1890 the assessors |
returns show fewer horses, fewer cattle, |
fewer hogs, fewer wagons, and Of less
value in Kansas than III 1887. What is |
true of the state at large is also true of |
most of the counties and municipalities. |
Values have been cut down and as a |
consequence rates of taxation have |
gone up. The law that all property |
shall be assessed at its real value has
been most shamefully violated. In an
elaborate report upon assessment and |
taxation by the board of railroad COM
shown us few days ago,
the board declares: 1T Is the judg-
ment of this board that all property |
should be sssessessed at its real value.
Such is the intent and meaning of our
statute. The law has been continuous
ly and shamefully evaded by making
low valuations and consequent
high per cent Of taxation upon the ss-
sessed valuations, and thereby making
citizens of the older states timid about
and injuring our credit.
To illustrate, suppose one dollar was
required to be raised upon horse of an
value Of 500; the levy would be
per cent upon the valuation: but to
raise the same dollar upon the same
property assessed at s25, the levy would
be ner cent IL can readily be seen