The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-25
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The following are the sections of tn
law of 1888 relating to the removal o
the county seat:
Whenever buildings have been erected at an.
such county seat for county purposes, the cos
Of which shall have been at least ten Thousand
dollars, or when such county seat has beer
eight years or more continuously ut any ont
place by a vote of the electors of any county, i
shall require vote of fhree:fffhs of the lega
electors Of such county to relocate the county
seat and remove 1t from such place, and thu
board OF county commissioners shall only upOl
the petition of fcofhirds Of the legal electors o.
such county, order an election for the relOca-
ton of any such county seat
| SEC. z. For the purpose OF this act the
county commissioners shall be governed by
the last assessment rolls of the several town
ship and city assessors of the county, and nc
petitioner shall be deemed legal electOr un.
less he be an elector and his name appear on
| said rolls.
We hope that no farmer will allow
himself to be deceived by the talk OF
envious and interested demagOgues
who may attempt to persuade him that
his interests and those OF lola are an
tagonistic. A moments thought will
show him that their interests are and
must be identical. It is plainly to the
interest Of lola to cultivate the good
will of the farmers for without their
patronage she could not exist. It is
equally plain that the prosperity Of the
town means also the prosperity of the
surrounding country. The larger our
town becomes, the more valuable will
be every farm near it. This is too plain
to need argument, and the man who
attempts to stir up strife between pat
ties whose interests are SO identified
should be denounced as q public enemy.
Gan Elector" will find our views on
the subject of his letter on the first
page. The answer to his apparently
ingenious proposition to have the
election and settle the question once
for all, is simply this, The question is
already settled. Gan Elector" can
certainly see that too many interests
can be combined against LaHsrpe to
ever make it possible to remove the
county seat to that place. II then, as
he truly says, it will always be impos-
sible to remove it either to Humboldt
or to Moran, why need we go through
the expense of needless election?
Why not accept the situation, and "as
citizens put our shoulders to the wheel
and remove those disgraceful old traps"
erecting in their place substantial
buildings that shall be credit to the
county?
1t certainly comes with a poor grace from
the CouTanf which was made the official paper
by Henderson and Ross. and which owes
large portion OF its revenue If not its very eX-
istence, to their nom partisan fairness and
honesty, to accuse them now OF perjuring them
selves for the sake Of party Register.
Well, well. We never thought it would
come to this. Is person to remain silent and
countenance fraud and high handed outrage
for the patronage of the county commission
ers9 Can it be possible that the REGISTER is
now endorsing this fraud on account of PROM
ise of the county printing ?-Democrat.
If the Democrat were not so prone to
Judge Others by itself, it would have
seen (what was perfectly clear to every
body else) that the only meaning of
our paragraph was to remind the COur.
ant that it was itself living witness
to the non-partisan fairness and hon
esty of Henderson and Ross. The
REGISTER is endorsing no fraud. It is
defending Mr.. Henderson and Mr..
Ross from the outrageous and uDjusti.
fable attacks of men who are not wor-
thy to serve as door-mat to them. And
before casting out the insulting insin-
uation of the last line of its paragraph,
the Democrat might have learned by
asking Mr.. Henderson or Mr.. Ross,
that the REGISTER has not asked eth
er of them what disposition they in
tend to make of the printing next
year, nor has it intimated in any way
its wishes in the matter. 1t doesn't
do business that way, and the Demo-
crat knows it.
The neighborhOod west of the river
was visited last Monday morning by
one of the most destructive tornadoes
that has ever been known in the cOun-
ty. The Onion Greek school house was
utterly demolished, as was also the
residence of w. NJ. Beard. The L of
Jas. Ferguson's house was blown to
pieces and the main building badly
shattered. The doors Of Mr.. Bales
large barn were torn off, and his buggy
she'd blown away, the buggy remain
ing unhurt. Mr.. Boards house was
torn to pieces and scattered for 100
yards or more, even the floor being
lifted, and vet Of the family of 6 who
were in it at the time, three escaped
entirely uninjured, while the other
three received but slight hurts. All
the furniture, except two chairs, was
broken to bits. Franklin Ferguson
was sleeping in the l. of his fathers
house, and when the storm came he
got up to hold the door of his room
shut. He says he knew nothing more
until his father picked him up in the
orchard, 60 yards from the house, and
carried him into the barn. He was
quite severely bruised between the
shoulders and on the right thigh.
When found, the bed clothes were
wrapped around him, showing that the !
wind that carried him must have been
q whirling one. Fruit trees in the
path If the tornado were UproOted and
broken off, and farm implements were !
broken and scattered.
DR.. Fulton was called to attend to
the wants of the injured persons. and
we are indebted to him for the above