The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-06
KANSAS ssar-ss
Wheat dull and lower.

| NdGR iounu Hucn 70 praise III tno
Topeka legislature.
Beloit's city council prohibits smok-
ing in the post office.
Farmers are dispOsing of their sur
plus hay at fair prices.
The largest county in Kansas-Butler
has but one national bank.
Eastern papers are booming Ingalls,
for the vice presidency in 1872.
E. A. Wasser of the Press has been
appointed postmaster at Girard.
There are twenty counties in Kansas
in which coal is successfully mined.
BY the Knox failure at Topeka the
New York NJ. Z. conference loses 500
600.
Mrs. William Graham, at Wichita,
Kans., found her babe after a search Of
q year.
A literary organization in Norton
lcOunty is called the Noble l.. Prentis
society.
Sab tina citizens have donated car
load of provisions to the needy of Raw
Inns county.
c. G. Fox of Highland, Kas., found
box Of Spanish gald pieces while dig
ging on his farm.
There is talk of two more wholesale
houses being started in Salina soon,
also another large foundry.
A new Methodist church. costing ST.
100. was dedicated at LOngton last week
by the Rev. BerneFd Kelley.
Washington Star: SenatOr-elect
PETER of Kansas reioices that he is not
a plutOcrat, but potatOcrat.
There are 266 varieties of wheat sown
on the agricultural college farm at
Manhattan for experiment.
A new school house or an addition to
the old one will be erected in HOiSing-
ton during the coming summer.
Jewell county is going right ahead.
Since January 10 the net decrease IN its
mortgage Indebtedness was Sl4, 1866
The people of LOuisburg showed a
good deal of Judgment in electing Mr..
Lively to the Office of street commits.
sioner.
Uncle Chester Thomas, who is the
other man in Kansas, is living now at
Stafford.
| An Atchison man who was supposed
to be dead returned home from the far
west the other day, after being away
twenty-six years.
| The society of ex-PrisOners of war
met at Fort Scott recently, selected
officers for the ensuing year and were
given banquet.
| Jerry Simpson is stopping in Wash
ington at the Hotel Johnson. But in
writing to his constituents he always
alludes to it as the johnson House.
The Junction City board of trade has
committee at work at Topeka, seeking
to have tho lawmakers investigate the
question Of drouts and how TO overcome
| it.
w. r. Harvey, the defaulting city
clerk of ConcOrdi8 who has been SEN
fenced to a year in the penitentiary,
lost the city's money drawing to bob
tails.
The three links are rather solid ones
in Kansas. There ars 353 lodges and
1864 Odd Fellows In Kansas, and they
paid S5O,676,79 foz sick bsnefits last
year.
As an evidence ct Kansas thrift it is
said that "the Emp0ria canning factory
put up 900 cases Of tomatoes, 1000
etkSSS Vi dp5ieS tkffu CdSc0 vi
peaches the past year.
A good mazy people will 5e surprised
to learn that the MethOdist Of Atchison'
refused the G. A. R the use of their
house of worship for holding memorial
services in honor of General fisherman.
The heerfulannouncemeet is made
that the peach buds are all right yet
and those who'hay trees may reasona-
bly, expect a crop this year. There are,
however, very few thrifty peach trees,
to be found, comparatively speaking.
The Alliance Herald SAYS that the,
membership Of the Farmers Alliance
in Kansas is now loo, 600 and is incress-
ing at the rate of 1000 a month. There
are supposed to be about 100000 voters
in Kansas.
President Angel of the Michigan
university will represent at the quarter
centennial celebration Of the Kansas
State university in June, and will make
one of the principal addresses on that
occasion.
The Atlantic Constitutionsays: 'EMrs.
Lease of Kansas is reported TO be an
infdel." There is no ground for any
such statement. Mrs. Lease believes in
God, but she thinks He has been
crowded out OF some Of the churches.
A bunch of Shawnee county prisoners,
who were taken to lansing the other
day. swelled the list OF peaitentiary in
mates to an even 900. OF this number,
49, are males and eighteen females.
Forty-nine are what are termed ito.
hang conViets," eight are from Okla
homa and seventy are United States
prisoners
This is. the way in which the Eesyen-.
worth Standard presents the prohibit
ton situation: Just think Of it,.
LeavenwOrth, city Of 10000 people,
and the police force in the hands of
men who believe their only duty is 20.
watch the pontOon bridge for beer,
while robberies which are being COM
United every day are not noticed BY
them.
The Kansas. papers generally have
not failed to condemn Governor Hum
phrey for removing Web Wilder from
his Office as state superintendent OF in
surance. The Greeley News fairly
phrases the general sentiment when 1t
says: ":This removal OF Web Wilder is
an outrage. The Humphrey
striker must have q job. and Will
der is sacrificed. We may now look for
fake" insurance companies TO. oyerrun
the state.n
where Nero Dad.
One By one the mysteries Of antiquity