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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
HOW COTTON Sums
ksmarkabls careIessness OF Tioss WIS
Handle the staple

keuarkabls CareIessness OF Tioss Who
Handle the Staple
"Um, yum. smell burnt cotton, =
said cotton buyer in front of Tools,
McGarran & Tondee's warehouse sef-
sral days ago
.Here it isl said another buyer
picking up handful of scorched Get.
ton which was lying on the ground-
There is no fire in it, though" he adj
ded carelessly.
.'How fast will cotton burn?" asked
a Recorder man, who was standing BY
at will burn faster than anything
know Of" said the buyer rs he turned
the staple around in his hand. and ex-
amined it. just TO show you-here,
and he picked up handful of the clean
cotton and handed it to the reporter.
.Now wad that up tight and put your
cigar to it. Then fold it up and put
your hands over it."
sThe reporter did SC. The moment
the cigar was applied the cotton caught
and the fire began to sink down like q
drill into the handful. He closed his
hands over it, and in short time it be-
came so hot that he was unable to hold
it. Picking up another handful he
wrapped it around the fire, and, hold
ing it tightly in both hands, succeeded
in crushing out the fire, as he thought.
When it was again opened, however, IL
began to burn as hard assever.
ut is almost impossible to put the
fire out when once it catches cottD)
Tho nlncar a halo Ia naaIra1 <ha faSfar
will it burn. 1t don't spread out like
anything else, but burns directly to the
center and consumes the inside of the
bale first. / remember once in Savan-
nah on the wharf, when l was billing
some compressed bales. that all ut once
a boy yelled at me, and looking around
saw bale had just passed fall to
pieces and flames begin to come from
it. BY good luck the fire got &c
further. That bale, psobably, had been
burning couple of days. Ginhouses
are often burned up by the picAers
smoking in the field and letting spark
drop into cotton basket. 1t is dumped
into the wagon and then into the GIN
house, and does not get fairly started
before night. and before anyone knows
it the ginhouse is on fire and burnt"
'.Big fires in warehouses" he con-
tinued, care often caused by careless
drivers, who smoke as they drive the
cotton to town. The tiniest kind of
spark will sink into bale, and if not
discovered will burn thousands OF
dollars worth of cotton. That is why
buyers always carry as much insurance
as they can get. There is no telling
when a big fire is going to occur."-
Americus (Ga.) Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
oUR ALASKAN POSSESSIONS.

GovernoP Klnnead OF Alaska Desires
Further Legislatisn for His Territory
Seward's Purchase Not Such u Terribly
"White Elephant" After All.
BOSTON, MASS, January 3.
A Washington special says: John
Fl. Kinkead, Governor Of Alaska, is in the
city. In conversation yesterday Cover
nor Kinkead said that his mission here
is to lay before the President and Con-
gress proofs of the necessity of some
further legislation in regard to the Dis
trict of Alaska He said:
"There Is a great deal of legislation
necessary to make the organic law of the
district effective. The act OF Congress
providing civil government for Alaska
is very crude, and further enactments are
necessary to open up the territory and
develop its varied resources. The Ter
ritOry comprises an area as large as all
the States east of the Mississippi. At
present the only mode OF travel is by wa
ter, and it is impossible to properly
carry on the civil government unless some
provision is made for the transportation
of the officers Of the government of tbs
Territory"
LIE uOScIuOT tApIcbSCu MS COuuucuCc
that If proper facilities were afforded to
the civil government, Alaska, through its
rich mines, seal fisheries and timberlands,
would soon prove to be worth to the
United States many hundred times the
paltry sum paid for it.
Mr.. Kinkead will have an interview
with the President and Secretary of the
interior soon, and will lay before them
A., &c tb,r 10 mil Oh
that q mail route be established, giving
semi-monthly communication with Port
Townsend, and that monthly mail serv-
ice be established between Sitka, the seat
of government, and Ounalaska, a settle
ment 1000 miles west of Sitka, which
was made judicial district with resi-
dent Commissioner and Deputy Marshal.
1t at present has no direct communication
with the seat of government. He will
also ask that vessels be provided for the
purpose of transporting the officers of
the civil government from one point to
another throughout the Territory.
Governor Kinkead will submit his first
annual report to the President in a few
days. 1t will give much valuable infor-
nation regarding the Territory and its re-
sources and requirements.
Inc report Oh Tue Inulau CoIniulSSlouS
will also soon be forthcoming. This re-
port will give details of the work of edu-
eating and Outstanding begun by the
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.
The Governor complains of the neglect
OF the Attorney-Genera to comply with
the provisions of the organic act requiring
him to compile and publish and furnish
the officers of the Territory with so much
of the general laws of the United States
as is applicable to their duties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
RULES FOR COLD WEATHER.

Something for Those Persons Who Be-
lieve Prevention Eetter Than Cure.
The following rules, published in
Farm and FTreside, are worth needing
in those who believe that ian ounce of
prevention i: worth pound of cure -
Never lean with the back upon any
thing that is cold Never begin q
Journey until the breakfast has been
eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then i'm
mediately 60 out in the cold air.
Keep the back-especially between
the oulder-blades-wellc covered: also
the chest well protected. In sleeping
in cold room establish the habit oil
breathing through the nose, and never
with the mouth open.
Never 60 to bed with cold or damp
feet.
Never omit regular bathing, for un-
less the skin is in active condition the
cold VIII close the pores, and favor COM.
gestion or other diseases. -
After exercise of any kind never ride
in an open carriage, or near the win
dow of 4 car for a moment; it is danger
Gus to health and even to life.
When hoarse. speak as little as pos.
sible until the hoarseness is recovered
from, else the voice may be perma-
nently lost, or difficulties of the throat
be produced.
Merely warm the back by fire, and
never continue keeping the back ex-
posed to heat after it has become COM
FL, tahly warm To do otherwise is de-
bilitat ng.
When going from warm atmos-
phere into a colder one. keep the mouth
closed so that the air may be warmed
by its passage through the nose, ere it
reaches the lungs.
Never stand still in cold weather, cs-
oecially after having taken slight de-
gree of exercise; and always avoid
standing on ice or snow. or where the
person is exposed to cold wind.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
THE LATEST.

AT Concord, n. H., Ford 6, Kimball. pro-
prietors of the largest iron foundry in the
city, on account of hard times, have dis
charged all but five employees.
THE Chicago typographical Union and
the Chicago Pressmen's Union adopted
resolutions recommending Jeremiah S.
Thompson for the position of Public Printer
at Washington.
THE Norway Plains Wooden Manufac-
turing Company, Rochester, n. H., has an
nounced a cut of ten per cent. on regular
day labor, and fifteen per cent. on opera
tives working by the piece.
NEW York dry goods clerks were re-
Gently threatening to strike.
AT Lawrence, Mass, the Pemberton
Mills has started full time, employing 1900
hands.
LEVI HERMAN & Co., wholesale dealers
In laces, trimmings, ETC., Boston, made an
assignment to George Shoninger.
AT Rock Island, ILL.,, the large works of
the Moline Buggy Company is closed, the
company having made an assignment.
The North German Gazette says: 1t is
to the interest of Germany to encourage
the importation of Russian petroleum and
thus neutralize the practical monopoly now
enjoyed by American producers.
CHARLES CARTER, sixteen years Of age,
wcs drowned at Toledo recently while
skating on the ice.
THE Salvation Army was attacked by a
mob at Dayton, o., on the 4th and several
persons injured.
THE employees of the Keystone Bridge
Company at Pittsburgh, Pa, have ac-
cepted the ten per cent. reduction of wages.
JUDGE II. H. CHALMERS, Associate JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of Mississippi,
died on the 4th, of apoplexy, aged forty
nine years.
AT meeting of representatives of rail-
ways operating in Iowa, held in Milwau-
kee, q resolution was adopted in accord
ance with the expressed wish of the gen.
erel managers of the several lines, reducing
grain rates from stations in Iowa to Chi
cago and points in common Herewith.
FALL RIVER manufacturers state that
the contemplated reduction Of wages is
forced upon them by the action of mills in
other places, which refused to agree to a
proposition for q general curtailment of
production, proposing instead general
CIT down in wages.
In the Magma Charta mine ct Walkville,
Mont, the other day, j. Tippert and VIII
linn Bray, miners, became dizzy ascend
ing the shaft and falling out of the cage
were reduced to a pulp against the timbers.
The remains dropped to the bottom six
hundred feet below. John Bray, the only
other occupant of the CAGE, arrived at the
landing place in a kneeling posture, sufro-
Gated ard holding the bar in his death
clutch.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
THE SOUTH.

The affairs of the Louisville, Evansville
& St. Louis Air Line, have been placed in
the hands of a receiver.
ADvIcEs from the extreme Southwestern
part of Texas state that the recent weather
was quite destructive to live stock, large
numbers of poor cattle and sheep having
persisted.
Two men lost their lives by the wreck of
a train on the Baltimore & Ohio, w. Va,
on the night of the 3lss. Some Internal
scoundrel wedged bar of iron between
the rails, causing the locomotive to turn
upside down and killing the two men in
charge.
A DISPATCH from Birds Nest Va, says:
1.-THE bark Lena Nor, from South America
for Philadelphia, with a cargo of sugar,
stranded on Hog Island Bar during the
thick weather. The vessel broke up before
assistance could be rendered. The cargo
was a total loss"
ANDY CAMPBELL, postmaster at Glenn
emit, Union County, Ga, has been arrested
for robbing the mails.
Mrs. ROBERT JENNErT's clothes caught
fire at Franklin, KY, the other day and
she was burned to death.
PROSPECTS at the Baltimore cotton mills
were reported much brighter.
THE memorial tablet over the grave of
Kit Carson, the famous scout, was dedi-
Gated in Taos County, Tex, on the I'd, in
the presence of 800 people.
a COMET was disco :ered by Mr.. E. E.
Barnard at the Vanderbilt University OBJ
servatory, Nashville, Tenn, on the night
of the ID. The position at the time dis
covered was right ascension twenty-tw
hours, forty-six minutes and fifty-four
seconds, declination north four degrees,
one minute and fifty seconds.
H. KERN's dry goods store at New Or
leans was burned the other day.
THE dry goods house of o, H. Pollard, of
Paris, Tex, was closed recently under at
tachments aggregating $4,000. The liabii-
tiles largely exceed the assets.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
Does Not Fear Investigation.
WASHINGTON, d. c., ia

WASHINGTON, d. c., January Q.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Joslyn says the investigation by
the Senate Indian Affairs Committee into
the leasing of Indian lands for grazing
purposes can not develop anything not 81
ready known, because nothing has been
concealed. He says the Interior Depart
ment did not make the leases, but simply
they deemed it best for their interests.
Secretary Joslyn added that he regarded
this plan of leasing the lands for grazing
purposes as advantageous To the Indians.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
They "PlAy the Devil"

CAIRO, January2.
General Gordon says, in q letter recent
ly received here, that he has two guns,
one on the roof of each of the palaces,
with which he "plays the devii'' with the
rebels when they attack tae WORKS. As
rule, however, the rebels only venture to
approach at night to inspect the forti;ica-
tions, while in the daytime Gordon has
little else to do than to watch through
his telescope the movements in tie Arab
CAMP,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
Who Shall he First Lady.

WAsHISGTOS, IL. u, JANUARY =
The unsettled question in society circles
as 10 who should be considered first lady
of the Republic when the President is
widower or bachelor, WIS somewhat
emphasized by the facts that Mrs. Car
Isle and the Speaker did not return FROM
Kentucky 10 take part in the reception,
and that Mis-. EtiInuEds, wife OF the
President of the Senate anh cx cfficio
Vice President, though first on the list OF
the Presidents invited quests. did not ar
rive until alter the reception was LARRY
under WAY and then was plainly at.ireu
in mourning. She was invited TO the post
OF honor at the right Of thc Presideus
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09
GENERAL.

The French Government denied the truth
Of the story of the sinking of the transport
Bienhoa, by Chinese cruisers. The Bien-
hoa was reported at Saigon.
WILLIAM LEVEL, a salvationist con-
verified at Montreal recently, went to the
police Office next day and surrendered
himself to atone for obtaining goods under
false pretenses from George McRae, by
whom he was formerly employed.
A RePoRT reached Paris on the 3Oth that
French transport with troops frol,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09

Women intend to make as good a
showing of their work as possible at
New Orleans; but however excellent
their 'exhibit," may be it will not in
Guide the results of their best work OF
all, which is found in happy homes,
well-ordered households and we'll
trained sons and daughters--N Y
Commercial Aduer' -e-.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09

The best shot in Dakota, at least
30 far as prairie chickens are concerned.
q said to be q woman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09

Cat1ldiquc uuIheu Out UuIiusS TIC luucTal
addresses.
OF the three speeches, Mr.. Fleming's
was muci the best. In the language of
an intelligent Mason, Fleming twas
TILE MARC ANTONY OF THE OCCASION"
After the addresses aad appropriate
music, the curtain fell.
In the thIrd part of the funeral cere-
monies the scenery had been changed. 1t
apparently represented a crypt under
some old Egyptian temple. iae Stage
was dSrkened, and the black aud white
figures reappearcd with dimmed torches,
which threw lured light On their silver
fillets. They marched and counter
marched, forming triangles, squares and
crosses, and various other Masonic eiu-
blems.
When the sombrc, draped figures were
again ranged on each wing of the stage,
the bier and coffin, with heavy pail, were
brought in, the red crossed figures acting
as pali-bearcrs.
CHOPIS's FUNERAL MARCH
was played, after which there were more
aphori>ms Oh life and death, and the cof.
lin WAS raised and borne 10 al imaginary
tomb in the wing of the stage.
A bencdiction was next announced and
the curtain fell.
In the last scene, tae lodge was
again in session. Jerome Buck made the
peroratioa. and the lodge was closed in
due and ancient form, the whole cere-
mony ending with =
HALLELCJAH CHORUS.
1t was long after midnight before the
Lodge of Sorrow was closed. While i'm
prensive, the ceremony could hardly be
called instructive to any but Royal Arch
Masons. But for the scriptural allusiops
and quotations, those who were not
Mssons, and even members of the blue
lodges, might have taken it for some
pagan rite of the time of Pioiemy rather
than = funeral ceremony of tie Nineteenth
century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09

The Baltimore 6 Ohio Line Make Sub
stantial Cuts I'm Telegraphic TariH-The
Service Brought Within the Reach Of
All Glasses.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-17
TAX SALE.
Office of City Treasurer,

Yanktop, Dakota, Nov. 30th, 1885.
Notice is hereby given that in pursu-
nee Of an ordinance entitled IAN
Ordinance levying e special tax to pay
the cost and expense of building side
walks upon certain streets named therS-
in" passed and approved by the mayor
and council October Goth, 1885, and due
notice having been given that said tax
was due and in my hands for collection,
and that the same would become delin
quent and penalty accrue on the Both
day of November, 1885, I, the under.
signed, treasurer of said city of Ysnk-
ton, d. IT,, will on Thursday, the 31st
day of December, 1885, between the
hours of 9 and 10 o'clock a. NJ, proceed
to cell at public sale at the front door of
the court house of Yankton county, in
said city of Yankton, all the real estate
upon which SAID special tax shall remain
unpaid, to pay such special tax, to,
gether with the penalty, interest, adver-
Using and cost of sale.
The following is a description of the
real estate to be sold and the amount OF
penalty, interest and advertising that
will be due at the date of sale on each
lot or parcel of real estate respectively:
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-17
ziehnch Interviewed.

Mitchell, Dec. 14-Messrs. Ziebach
and Day, ct the g~oyernorship firm OF
that name, stopped over Sunday here on
their way back from Washington. The
Daily Republican will print tomorrow q
short interview with Mr.. ZIe5ach as to
the present status OF the governorship
question, and was given to understand
that a change would be made soon, but
probably not before the holiday recess OF
congress. Mr.. ZIebach called on the pres
ident once during his stay in Washing.
ton, but not as an otficeseeker. He be-
lleves Secretary Lamar favored his APP
poIntment, but that Cleveland is SLOW to
act because OF the pressure which has
been brought to bear to hold Governor
Pierce in. 1t is CLAIMED at Washington
by the ~latter's friends that he is not
much of IL republican anyhow; that
he has disregarded party lines in
appointments, and is not in
any SENSE an offensive partisan. MIR.
Ilebach says that he believes five out of
the hundred odd appointments made by
Gov. Pierce last winter we've democratic.
With regard to division and admission
MIR. Ziebach IS already on record as a
believer that The former should be made
a direct issue this winter. He fears that
II the two are coupled that nothing will
be accomplished. 1t is understood at
Washington that the president had de-
voted s paragraph IN his message to Da-
kota, tavoring division, but was told by
one OF the representatives of the Abe
Boyptou outfit that division was APP
proved by a majority of the people OF
Dakota and favored only by the politl,
cians.and this reference was stricken out
entirely.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-17
1allg gress aud 9akotaian
OMAHA AND THE ElkH0Rn.
John 4. Blair Interviewed Relative to
Desirable Connection.

John 4. Blair Interviewed Relative to
Desirable Connection.
John |. Blair was in Omaha on Mon
day, and q Herald reporter asked him
about The proposed extension of the
Elkhorn Valley road from Keunard to
Omaha.
Yes said MIR. Blair, II think the
road will be brought into Omaha. Mat
tiers are not entirely settled yet, but
they will be arranged at the next meet
ing of the stockholders. OF course it
will depend somewhat upon the attitude
taken by the residents OF Omaha and
other towns along the line. They
will however, undoubtedly be willing to
help us IN the construction, as it will be
greatly to their advantage to have such
abroad"
The reporter questioned the veteran in
regard to the Omaha Northern, and MIR.
Blair said he had never heard OF 1t, and
added
"Of course / don't want to cast any re-
Elections upon tins road, as | don't know
anything about it; bnt they say in the
east that such DAD make lots of poor
men, but lots of rich wives. L snppose
the people here are gong to subscribe
for the road. Why don't they give US
the money and let the road oe "A big
thing, as 1t would be if managed by the
| Northwestern? y
"What do yon think of the Elkhorn
valley region 2" queried the reporter, APP
parently not Noticing Mr.. Blair's inter.
rogatory remark.
"Oh, 1t is a great country and has q
wonderful future before it. We're push.
ing our branch right up into the heart
of the Black Hills, and will reach the
coal deposits in a few days. That loca.
ton contains about the only coal around
| this country, and we are anxious to open
it up as Don as possible. The towns ur
there are growing with wonderful.
rspidity, and are making astounding
progress in a business way. The growth il
founded on a firm agricultural basis anc
is not a mere boom caused by mining
fever. Yes, it certainly will be u goot
thing for the road to have a branch ex
tended to Omaha, as we'll as q goot
thing for the city"
The Herald, commenting editoriall,
upon the interview, says the hint drop
ped 10y Mr.. Blair that the Northwestern,
will expect help from Omaha, in the wa,
OF bonds or other aid, for the Kennarc
line, will scarcely please people there
abouts, and adds: The time is nor yer,
opportnne for the corporation that har
30 long misused Omaha to ask favors o
that kind. The people do not regard
this branch from Kennard to Omaha a
a favor" it Is viewed rather as a brib,
to forestall the construction of the On
aha Northern. If MIR. Blair and col
leagues expect to be subsidized in the
bargain they are very apt, to use an ex
pressive bit of slang, "to get left"