The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
How Mining Stampede Breaks Out.

Dear reader. shall give You few
symptoms of the mining epidemic in
mountain towns? All right. L Will
anyhow
symptom IA long-haired man is
about the size of mans hand.
symptom Two men meander up
to him, and ask h m where he got it.
symptom 3.--The long-haired man
looks down into the mortar, and lies
gently to inquiring minds who linger
near.
symptom More men come around.
The long-haired man gets gold-pan
and doubles him,elf up over the ditch
and begins TO pan.
symptom 1.-Two hundred more men
come out of saloons and other mercan-
tile establishments and Join the throng.
symptom 6.--The long-ha red man
gets down to bla K sand, and shows
several colors about The size of a blue
jays ear.
symptom timeS.-Seyeral solitary
horsemcn start out. with some pack
mules. and blank location notices and
valley tan. The plot deepens. The
telegraph gets red-hot. Men who have
been impccuniouS. for 10. these many
years, come around to pay some old
bills. Poor men buy spotted dogs and
reckless, and buy the first box Of straw
berries without asking the price.
| have caught the epidemic myself
l am getting reckless. Instead of
turning my last summer lavender pants
hind siic before, and removing the ham
sandwich Autographs from the front
breathS, have purchased new pair.
/ never experienced such wild, glad
feeling o perfect abandon.
| 90 to church and chip in for the
heather. per ectly regardless of ex-
pense. [ , ion languisheS. come for
ward and throw in the small currency
with lavish hand.
Banks. offices. hotels. saloons and
private residences show specimens of
quart carrying free gold and carbon
ates, hard. so t, and medium soft, with
iron protoXide of nitrogen rhom-
bohedral glucose indications of vale
dictory and free milling oxide o. anti
fat N abundance
Nellis, who lives near the Mill Greek
carbonate claims, came into town the
other day to get an in JUNCTION aga nSt
the mine :, so that he could injunct
them from prospecting in his cellar,
and stalking his pie-plant bed.
When he goes out after dark to drive
the cows out of his turnip- patch he falls
over stake every little while with a
notice tackled on it. which sets forta
1t 10 T.
Conelately. Joe Newbegin, Shoe Fly
Smith and Union Forever Dandelion
claim one thousand five hundred feet in
length by six hundred feet in width for
II neral purposes on this claim. to he
known as The Gal with the Skim-M;lk
Eye together with al d ps. spurs. an
gies Or variations. gold, silver or other
precious metals therein ronta ned.
Mr. NelliS SAYS be Is glad to see Z
.'boom." and a. .rst he di4 ali lie could
10 make ii pleasant tor proSpectors: but
lately he thinks that their sociabi-iiy
has become too earnest and too stimuli
famous.
told him the only way could see
to avoid losing his grip. and having bis
string-beans dug up prematurely. was
to stake the entire ranch as 4 placer
ciaim. buy him 4 Gatiing-gun that
would shoot the large size Of buckshot.
and then trust to the mysterious move
ments of an overruling Providence.
1 do not know whether he took NV
advice or not. but am looking al ious-
IL along the Mil Greek road every day
for six mule team loaded W tn disor-
ganized remains and driven by 4 man
who looks as though he had giutted his
vengeance. and had two or three glut.
LET. over on BIS hands. BIZ Nyc.