The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-01-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Colony will spend $1,000 in boring
for gas and oil.
Another whisky war was about to
break out in Wichita.
The annual musical jubilee at Hutch
inson will be held June g.
The First national bank of Usage
City will go into voluntary liquidation.
d. N. Willis, of Fredonia, will be
United States Marshal Sterne's office
deputy.
Attorneys of southern Kansas will
organize and fight for federal dis
trict bill.
The electric street railway system at
Fort Scott has been bought by home
capitalists.
The free silver prohibition party
will meet in conference at Topeka
February l.
The populist state committee will
open headquarters at Topeka within
the next month.
Ex-Sheriff Judtins, of Newton, has
been made chief detective of the Next
can Central railroad.
Miss Grace Clark is in Jail charged
with aiding in robbing Dr. Campbell,
of Cherryvale, of S720.
Farmers in the vicinity of Pittsburg
were compelled to organize an anti
chicken thief association.
Attorney General Boyle will now go
after the alleged Kansas plumbers
trust, under the Farrelly law.
The broom factory OF John Magic,
north of Pittsburg, together with a
stock of brooms, was destroyed by fire.
Rev. William A. Briggs, who was a
Baptist missionary in Kansas for 80
years prior to 1850, died at Providence,
II. l.
A Washington telegram said Attor.
ney General McKenna had declared in
favor of dividing Kansas into two judi
cial districts.
A new Kansas law provides for the
destruction of all released and out
lawed chattle mortgages filed with the
register of deeds.
Rev. Alex II. Mclean, of Pittsburg,
succeeds Rev. Bernard Kelly as presid'
ing elder of the Independence district
of the Methodist church.
The probate judge of Sheridan coun'
ty, whose salary the new law reduced to
less than SIS year, resigned in dis
gust and moved to his farm.
The new fees and salaries law bears
particularly hard upon Kansas justices
of the peace. They cannot even charge
% cents for issuing a summons.
The free silver republican state com
mittee has issued an address calling
for the names and address of every
free silver republican in the state.
Dr. r. c. Biddle was forced to resign
the superintendency of the Osawato
mic asylum, and Gov. Leedy named
Dr. Ingles, of Larned, to the place.
An Atchison county farmer signed Z
contract for 81 worth of ligh thing roc
work and later found his signature OF
the business end of a note for $3.50.
Attorney General Boyle has instruct
ed county attorneys to prosecute agents
of the New York Life Insurance com
pany if any are found soliciting insur
ance.
AS a result of a protracted quarre
over police patronage, Gov. Leedy re
moved Joe Furnish as police commits
sioner at Wichita and appointed II. G
Toler.
The total earnings of the Kansas
penitentiary for December We're SIS,
1872, including Sll 1856 worth of coal t,
state institutions The total expenses
were S12, $50.
The president has named Cyrus An
derson to be receiver and X Il. vii
cockson to be register of the land ofiic,
at Colby, and 4. A. Scates register o
the Dodge City land office,
The Brown County Farmers Mutua
insurance company rounds out anothe
year without having made an assess
ment, this being the tenth year with
out any payments required except tn
first one.
The Fort Scott High School Athleti
association has started movement 70
, a field day contest to be participate,
IN by all the high schools of southeast
ern Kansas on May :. The prizes will
} be gold and silver medals,
A Topeka dispatch, uncnnfrmed
said that If Cyrus Leland failed in de
I feating Sterne's nomination for mar
shall he Neland) would resign as pen
! sion agent in favor of l.. S. Crum
Sterne was confirmed on the 1th.
The oswego Independent insists tina
+. c. Dent, a rich farmer convicted o
violating the quarantine law, be sen
to Jail. 1t says poor men are in jai
for their offenses against the state
and the rich man should be punishe
likewise. One prisoner, a boy of ie
; stole gun to buy bread.
At Leavenworth the prsliminar
trial of Samuel Sully, charged wit
killing Jesse Cambridge, was inter
rupted by a mob of negroes who wante
to lynch Sully. Officers succeeded i
getting him to Jail, whe's extra guard
protected him. The preliminary tria
was indefinitely postponed.
At the state meeting of the free 81
= yer republicans at Topeka, resolution
were adopted condemning Secretar
Cages financial plans and praisin
D Gov LeedV, Dr. II, b. Lawrence WA