The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-05
ALLEN CENTER, ALLEN Co., KAs.

May -otn, 1000.
Dear Register Your circular re-
celved in due time, but owing to bust
ness engagements have been unable
to send you my views on the court
house and Jail question until the pres
ent time. In a post scrip accompany
your circular you say that all go I'd
are in favor of internal i'm
provements. Yes. and are not only i'm
favor of internal but are in favor eX-
.ternal improvements also. AS Elm
Township was pretty well represented
in the columns of your last issue, l
will be as brief as possible in my COM
munication.
In looking over the letters published
last week we find twenty-five in all;
six of that number being from Elm
township, namely: I. Port, J. w.
Johnson, ]. w. Delaplain, H. F. Tray
is and two founding communications,
one written at LaHarpe, signed "a
Citizen" and the other at Allen Cen
ter by cognomen of "Elm Ite." Now,
Mr.. Editor, will you be so kind as to
hunt up the parents of those two found
lings and let your numerous readers
know who take such a deep interest in
the building of a new court house.
think your estimate, and that of 9TH
ers, as to the cost of the contemplated
buildings is far below what would be
required to erect commodious and re-
spectacle buildings. J. w. Delaplain
"a man of pretty good ideas-suggests
$4,000, which is nearer the mark
than $4,000. Now, there is Captain
Stewart, man who, by opportunity
and observation is in a position to
have good idea of the cost of such
and he puts it at about
$4,000, which is yet below my esti-
mate. For my part 1 prefer taking
the Opinion of such men as Captain
Stewart to that of interested archi-
tects.
AS remarked before, 1 am in favor
Of internal and external improvements
Of the old court house, which by some
has been dubbed "that rock pile -
Rather than impose a burden of taxa
ion on ourselves, portion of which
must be handed down to our children,
IS an inheritance, 1 would pu: in the
I'D court house anchors, perpendicu-
ar. horizontal and angular, and make
{ secure, so that our friends from Sa.
EN- and other parts of the county can
% there for protection and not be COM
elled to flee to thestreet. Yes, think
he old court house by judicious repairs
viii answer our purpose quite well for {
few years yet. II
Our county Jail seems to be con-
emned on account of its sanitary ar
angements. 1 have never had the :
onor of making my headquarters at +,
nat establishment, but from outside :
ppearances should take it to be SUBJ
neat and coy, and as long as | t
lr. Brown remains in charge we need Z
ave no fears as to the health of the q
inmates. If sanitary committee 7
as to put in two or three
'eeks' time in looking over this coun-
7, visiting the 10x12 shanties, where q
'omen and children have to live. the Z
uestion of the sanitary arrange
lents' of our county Jail would be en- q
rely lost for the present. The cells q
our Jail are occupied by persons
Utility of violations of the law of our
md. Oh no, it is not healthy to be T.,
onfined any place without the priv.
we of going and coming at will, and :
specially if man has crime goad- =
ig his concience all the time. You T
light take man out on the open q
rairie where the air is perfectly pure, '