The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
Marshal.

Mr.. L. w. Arnold, Of Prairie Dell
neighborhood, showed us sample OF
his flax the other day. 1t measured
3 feet 2 inches and was well filled out.
And speaking of this reminds US that
Mr.. Beck says he has learned Of at
least two instances this year in which
fax planted on old fleX ground has
failed to mature. In one of these cases
it has been two years since flax was
raised ON the ground, and yet the crop
planted this year, after growing NICE
ly and blooming, dropped and died,
for no other reason apparently than
the elements in the soil necessary to
the filling out of the grain had become
exhausted. 1t has long been known
that flax was "hard on the ground, !"
but this is the first demonstration that
has come to our knowledge that it
exhausts the soil go completely.
1t seems that the tioater found in
the river at Humboldt a few days ago
has been identified. The Fredonia
Citizen says:
Word was received at Fredonia last Sstur-
drowned at Humboldt, and sheriff Manner and
his brother, T NJ, left for that city to investi-
gate the matter. When they arrived at Hum
boldt they had the body dug up for examina-
ton but 1t was too badly decOmposed fol- pos
tive Identification. They are, however, salts
fed that the deceased was Isaac Young, an
adopted son of Mrs. T. NJ. Manner. Young
had gone to Humboldt from Chanute and was
known to have worn suit of clothes like the
one on the body. 1t looks very much as II
Young had been struck on the back OF the heat
knocked senseless, and afterwards thrown In
to the river His feet and hands We're both
tied with straps 1t would seem that they
have queer juries in Humboldt, to return a
verdict of suicide under such remarkable cir
cumstances.
Gas was struck in the new we'll on
Wednesday evening and up to this
writing-Thursday nOOn-the flow
con tiDues to grow stronger and 1t is
thought by conservative men that the
well is the best one We have yet had.
The man who has been experimenting
the boring has gone to Kansas City to
get a packer and other appliances to
shut off the water and when he returns
aud succeeds in giving us a dry we'll
we will know the value Of the find.
When it is proven beyond a doubt that
lola has .'the best natural gas well in
the State" the REGISTER will say SO
in big black letters. Until that time
although the prospect at this writing
is very flattering, remembering the
dlsappointments o: the past, We hold
our peace.
Mr.. John Perry, the we'll known
broom corn grower, suggests to the
REGISTER that the best thing the
bottom farmers, whose corn was des-
troyed by the floods, can do, is to
plant the ground with broom corn.
From advices which he has from his
brothers in Illinois, who are very
largely in the business. Mr.. Perry is
of the opinion that broom corn will
bring a good price this fall. And it
can be planted now and still have
plenty of time to mature, while corn
planted at this late date can hardly
be expected to make anything more
than fodder. The REGISTER takes
pleasure in giving wide circulation
to this suggestion, and hopes somebody
may profit by it.
In view of the approach Of the
Fourth of July, Justice Walters sug-
gests that we call attention of dealers
in fireworks and of the small boy to
sections 36i and 365 of the laws of Kan
sas. Section 364 makes it mis-
demeanor for dealer to sell minor
any "pistol or toy pistol by which
cartridges or caps may be exploded"
and section 365 makes it a misdemean-
or .or a minor to haye in his possession
such pistol or toy pistol. This is
pretty tough on patriotic Young
America, but it seems to be the law.
We wonder how long it will take
people to learn that anonymous con-
tributions to newspaper cannot he
published? The REGISTER has prob
ably stated this rule thousand times,
and yet hardly week passes that
some nameless Communication does
not pass through this Office on its way
t. the vast basket. The last one was
four or five page letter from Book
Ign, N. Y.