The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

farm implements at Lawrence, has
failed.
A man named Hanna is the fusion
candidate for senator in ,e tlay-D.ck-
inson district.
Dodge City viii soon have fire pro-
tect on. the city council having pur'-
chased an engine and fO~e.
The republican st. t. committee rec
ognized the Buchan faction in Wyan-
cote county as the REGULARS"
Lottie Bowes a bright Young To-
peSa actress. is winning laureis IN "A
Texas Steer" now playing in the east
@. A. Davis, farmer near Hiattvilles
was arrested chAr> ed with trying to
burn the house of j. q. Bowers, .
ne, htor.
A great mum Der of miners from Bour-
bon, Crawl Ird and Cherokee counties
have gIne to Leadville to take the
| place striking miners
Noah Allen. VINO vas assistant at
tome general under John T. Little
has teen nominated for congress by
the popu lists of the Teuth district OF
Texas.
Tne offic al Kansas ballot this fall
will resemble a newspaper in size II
will be 22x3O inches in size and will
contain seven or eight, perhaps nine,
| ticket.
Editor Kurtz of the Augusta Press.
was given a vigorous horse whipping
by two young ladies, who were offended
at news item concerning their
| broth r.
Two Young men of Topeka were ar
rested for saturating dog with kero-
sene and tnen touching a match to it.
The poor brute ran several blocks and
dropped dead.
Z r. furry, Of Kansas City, Mo-,
has laid claim to tract # land upon
which "a large portion Of the business
houses in Fort Scott are located. Flur-
ry claims he can establish clear title
Mrs. Maggie Miner. aged 80. of Argen-
tine, was convicted of selling liquor
and sentenced 10 80 days in Jail. Upon
her promising to quit selling liquor
the Judge ordered the Jail sentence
stayed.
The federal grand jury at Wichita
indicted Mrs. Nellie Thomas, of Leav-
enworth, for pension fraud. She swore
that she was a veterans widow, al
though it is alleged she was never
married.
Eugene Hagan, chairman of the gold
standard democratic state committee,
has arranged for a number of noted
speakers. Among them will be Secre-
rary Carlisle, Bourke Cochran, Gen.
Palmer and Gen. Buckner.
A railway man who had travelled
over the state said the attendance
from Kansas to the g. A. r. encamp-
ment at st. Paul would be very light,
the veterans preferring to wait and at
tend the state reunion at Topeka.
w. A Boicourt and Senator Edwin
Taylor will open up creamery a. Ed
wardsvilIe, Wvandotte county, on big
scale. They will feed Mr.. Taylor's big
potato crnp to 200 Jersey cows, and ex-
pect TO realize fortune on the invest
ment.
Col. c. K. Holiday, the man who
founded Topeka and who has been for
years director of the Santa Fe rail-
road. is the fusion candidate for the
legislature from the Topeka district,
being nominated by both democrats
and populists.
lola is particularly honored by hav-
ing a representative on three electoral
tickets Charles F. Scott was first
named on the republican ticket, then
J. B. Goshorn on the democrat and
populist. and lastly NJ. L. King on the
national prohibition.
The Kansas state fair at Wichita the
past week was a conspicuous success
both as to attendance and display.
Every county in the state was repre-
sented with exhibits, and the races
were as good as were ever seen in the
west The average daily attendance
was about %. 900.
Rev. Thomas Boss, pastor of the First
Congregational church at Leaven-
worth, was recently forced to resign.
He later appeared at the church PRAYER
meeting and created a scene by charp-
ing that his dismissal was not regular
and that the trustees had used his SAL
airy to pay their debts.
The new Methodist Protestant uni
versity at Kansas City was formally
opened on the 24:h. President Heinz.
of Pittsburgh, Pa, was present and
addresses were made by Chancellor
Stephens, Rev. DR.. w. A. Quayle and
others The first years outlook for
the new university augers we'll
The democrats and populists have
fused on state senators aud representa-
tives in practically every district in the
state. The greatest majority of the
nominees are pOpulists, the democrats
securing % and the silver republicans
II Fusion has been made in every
congressional districtexcept the Sixth.
Judge Hazen. of Topeka. refused to
grant the injunction asked for bv
George w. Crane to prevent the Amer
lean Book Co. from supplying the
schools of the state with books on the
ground that it was trust, and there
fore in violation Of the state laws
Judge Hazen considered that the evil
denee of trust submitted by Crane
was not sufficient to Justify an iniunc-