The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-05
KANSAS STATE LEWIS.

All railroads have granted one-fare
rate to the Ottawa Chautauqua assem-
bly,. June 1926.
All the Santa .Fe mines in Usage
county have closed, throwing 600
miners out of work.
The 0sawatomie Journal is a new
republican paper launched by >. Fred
Whiting and S. A. Luesing.
The interstate commerce commission
will be in Kansas City June to hear
complaints in the Kansas corn rate
case.
Fred Crum, aged 10, was drowned
while bathing in bayou with COM
panions in the Verdigris river near
Coffeyville.
T. A. Jones, a leading school-teacher
of Reno county, was arrested recently
charged with the rape of his 15-year-
old sister-in-law.
The opera house and masonic hall
at Hiawatha were destroyed by fire the
other day. Gov. Morrill, was the priD-
cipal owner of the opera house.
A waterspout in Coffey, Anderson
and Linn counties recently precipitated
ten inches of water and washed out
ten miles of railway track near Gar
nett
Gov. Morrill, and other state officers
counted the cash in the state treasury
recently and found it to be 1926, 5l6.93.
year ago in MAY it amounted to $780,
23z72
Both democratic and populist con-
gressional conventions of the Second
district will be held at Ottawa, and on
the same day-June Is Fusion is
limited at
1t is said that W. Y. Morgan, of the
Hutchinson News, will buy and run
the Agora, the Kansas magazine edited
| by Dewey, of Abilene, and formerly
published in Lawrence.
Henry Shindler, of Leavenworth,
was elected national commander of the
army and navy union recently in ses-
sion in Washington city. The 1897 re-
union will be held in Kansas City In
May.
| Gov. Morrill, has appointed Frank
NJ. Lockard, of Norton, a member of
the board of charities to succeed Wal
ter n. Allen. Lockard is already clerk
of the court of appeals of the North
west district
Fifteen thousand people gathered at
Leavenworth the other day to witness
the celebration of veterans flag day."
| Three thousand school children and q
like number of veterans participated
in the exercises
a. W. Hostetter, who was arrested
at Chicago for alleged ENLIGHTENMENT
committed at Goodland, Kan, was re-
leased by Chicago judge on habeas
corpus. Requisition papers from Gov.
Morrill, were not recognized.
Gov. Morrill, has refused to honor the
requisition from the governor of Okla
homa for George D. Hartley, president
OF the First national bank of Arkansas
CITY. who was recently Indicted at
Perry, Ok, for alleged bank frauds.
At Fort Scott the other day Sam Da-
Wis escaped a ten-vear sentence in the
penitentiary for burglary by the over
sight of the prosecuting attorney in
not having Davis in court when the
verdict of guilty was read by the jury.
Under the Kansas law the court was
required to grant an arrest of judg-
ment and discharge the prisoner.
The attendance at the Emporia state
normal school the past year was 1,73o,
an increase of 90 over last year. The
graduating class this year numbers
100. and the prospective graduating
class for 1897 numbers ITO. Eighty
nine Kansas counties and II states and
territories are represented in the
school. Outside of Kansas, Missouri
leads with 10 counties
The committee on prizes for the
Knights Of Pythias grand lodge drill
at Topeka the other day awarded
prizes as follows: First prize, largest
number of men in line, Carbonate
second, Kansas City. First prize, mos
miles travelled in reaching Topeka
Kansas City first, Carbondale second
Largest number of past chancellors IL
line a =