The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-22
CHA 3. F. SCOTT
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Linn county is building a new jail
which will accommodate Is prisoners,
with commodious residence portion
for the sheriff.
Latest advices from the Clay county
cyclone district are to the effect that
five of the injured have died, making
the death list 13.
Charles Lucas, a colored student at
the state university, was recently con-
victed in the district court at Law
renee of stealing books from fellow
students.
Kansas homeopathic physicians, in
session at Topeka recently. elected E.
W. Boardman, of Parsons, president,
and Edward Bumgardner, of Lawrence,
Secretary.
Miss Maude Hamilton, of Princeton,
Franklin county, will deliver the vale
dictory address at the Kansas state
normal, and A. 7. Mills, of Emporia,
the salutatory.
From January to May of the present
year Kansas shipped 81, 1877 more cattle
to the Kansas City market than for the
same period last year, the greatest
gain made by any state
The State Electric Medical associa-
ton in session at Topeka recently
elected DR.. Page, of Topeka, president
and DR.. Packer, of Topeka, secretary.
The legislature was petitioned to pass
more rigid laws to punish quaclls.
A special grand jury at Fort Scott
raoan4lr- ipdictuoanfS IN cf
l6 jointists, who had fed the city and
were living in tents across the state
line in Vernon county. They could not
be arrested except on acquisitions.
The cattlemeR of Lyon and sur
rounding counties are organizing to
ship cattle direct to Liverpool, Eng.
They say the market there is II cents
and the difference in freight is not
enough to cut down the price much.
The Kansas Commandery of the
Loyal legion met at Leaven worth in
annual session recently. ]. L. Aber-
nathy was elected commander, Lloyd
Wheaton vice commander, 4. 3. VOL
verton secretary and j. l. Weaver
treasurer
The coroner's jury at Wichita held
DR., L. J. Jones bla neless of killing the
infant recently found in the Arkansas
river at Wichita The baby died a
natural death and the doctor gave a
negro boy 81 to bury it, but the boy
threw the baby in the river.
DR.. L j. Jones, a prominent physi-
clan of Wichita, was recently arrested
for drowning an infant whose mother
he attended in childbirth. The child
was found in the Arkansas river
weighed down by a flat-iron, and a
mate for the iron was found IN DR..
Jones' office.
The Woman's Social Science fedora
ton at a recent state meeting at To-
peka elected Mrs. w. L. Moore, of
Hutchinson. president: Mrs. Jennie
Kellogg. of Emporia, vice president,
and Miss Frances Hall, of Fort Scott,
secretary. The 1897 meeting will be
held at Hutchinson.
The annual state Sunday schooi as
ISOLATION will be held at Forest park,
Ottawa, June 1915. Some of the best
workers from New York, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Kansas are on the pro-
gramme. Railroads have granted a
one fare rate, good TO remain through
the Chautauqua assembly.
The Kansas Million club held meet
ing at Topeka recently and decided TO
send three big missionary trains, laden
with Kansas products, to the four
quarters of the country, at date to
be fixed later. The club is pleased
IL - he -,
sent to Chicago last winter.
At Topeka the other day JudgerFos-
ter appointed three receivers for the
Investment Trust Co. of America,
which has headquarters at Topeka.
The outstanding cebenture bonds OF
the company are cTer S2,O00.100. said
10 be amply secured. The company is
said TO OWE 25, 600 acres of land nea,
Hutchinson.
The Woman's Relief corps Of Blue
Rapids will observe May 90 as memo
rial day to their deceased members
and those of the Sons of Veterans, in
stead of the usual custom of deeorat-
ing sucn graves with those of the tOm-
rades of the g. a. R., May 30. This
step has been taken in order to set an
example to civic societies and to pre-
vent a loss of the real object of the day.
Reports from a number of counties
TO the agricultural department indi-
cate that worms are creating consider
able havoc in the fruit trees. Where
spraying is regularly kept up, how
ever. the trouble is not of long dura-
ton. The counties which have COM
planned of this pest are Barton, Butler,
Coffev, Cowley, Chautauqua. Crawford,
Doniphan. Elk. Greenwood, Linn,
Montgomery, Lyon, Riley and Wilson.
Farmers in four counties of the
southwestern part of the state have
brought suit against the seed house of
D. NJ Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich, al
leging abrogation of contract For
several years these farmers raised
watermelons, pumpkins, squashes,
ETC., by the train load simply for seed
under contract from Ferry & Co. Now
the Detroit company charges that last
years crop was worthless and refuses
70 take this years crop The farmers
have banded together and hired an at
torney 70 enforce the contract He
went to Detroit recently and procured
-ou1Ias Of all the Saad said Tn be