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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
plan to Lease Indian Lands.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The sec
rotary of the interior has concluded to
allow the leasing OF certain Indian
lands in Oklahoma. The Indian bu-
reau has received instructions to that
effect, and has been directed to receive
informal bids, and make the leases at
once for the period of q year. The
reservations included in this order are
those lying in the northern part of the
territory, near the Kansas border. The
Usage reservation contains l,4T0,OOO
acres: the Kaw, 100000; the Ponca,
lOl, 600, and the Otoe and Missouri,
$4,000. The total Indian population
on the six reservations is about $500,
and the surplus acreage above
what is actually needed by
the Indians for farming purposes is p
600. 900 acres. Under the severalty act
as amended by the last congress, each
member of a tribe is permitted to take
eighty acres, the law therefore allowing
only heads of families to receive allot-
ments, the extent being 16O acres.
Tribes in the northern part OF the ter
ritory have nearly all taken their allot-
ments under the amended law, and they
permitting such Indians as have taken
and paid for lands in severalty to do
this. The cattlemen formerly enjoyed
grazing privileges on all these reserva-
tiOns, having acquired them from the
respective tribes.
Some time ago they were removed by
order OF the president, but since then
most of the Indians have taken lands in
ltp md 20
the methods of agricultural improve
ment observed by their white neigh
bOrs across the line in Kansas. They
have thus acquired ownership of the
lands in fee simple. and they will be
permitted to lease their surplus acreage.
The leasing will be made under the di-
rection of the Indian bureau. I he sea-
son is now so far advanced that time is
not sufficient to allow advertising for
bids, but public announcement will be
made at the several Indian agencies
and informal bids will be received for
the consideration of the departments.
The lands for grazing purposes will be
let to the highest bidders, the cattle
men who were recently expelled being
allowed fair reduction for their fences
and other improvements in case they
bid. The leases will be only for
one season, but il the experiment
proves successful bids will be advertised
next year and new leases made for
longer terms. The money to be paid
for the grazing privileges viii not go
direct to the Indians as heretofore. II
must be paid to the Indian agent and
Transmitted to the department for &C
counting, and it will then be paid to
the Indians quarterly as other moneys
are now paid. In this way the In
dams will be secured in their leases,
and there will be no opportunity for
violation of contracts or other trouble
over the matter. If the plan now pro-
posed proves a success, it Is to be ap-
piled to all the reservations in which
lands are owned in fee simple by the
Indians and held in severalty.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27

Two prominent men the other morning
were waiting at Willow creek, in MOdoc
county, California, for the Susanville stage
to come from Bleber on its way to Susan
vile, where one of the parties was to go.
The distance was long one, and the stage
leaves unusually early in the morning in
order to make the trip. The gentleman
bad remained in Adm Thursday night and
driven out to meet the stage. To getthefe
on time the parties left Adm at about 2
o'clock in the morning, and as it seemed
warm both were thinly clad In an hour
they reached the stage road and COM
menced a patient wait for the United
States coach. They became tired and
chilled, and in walking around one came
in contact with an old cow lying down,
and found her to be perfectly gentle. He
therefore called his friend, and both sat
down in the dust, with their backs against
the COW. in which position they remained
until the stage arrived at O'Clock. One
can imagine two men-Lassen county's
present District Attorney and the ex-
Superintendent of Schools-hugging that
old roam for over two hours to keep warm
William says: Perhaps it didn't look
nice, but felt So"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
THE TIME OF THE GOLDEN ROD.

whispering winds kiss the hills of September,
Thistle down phantoms drift over the lawn;
Red glows the ivy, like ghost lighted ember,
Shrouded in mist breaks the slow coming
dawn:
Sunlighted vistas the woodland discloses,
Sleeping in shadow the still lake reposes,
Gone is the summer, its sweets and its roses
Harvest Is past and the summer is gone
PlaiStively signing, the brown leaves are
falling,
Sadly the wood dove mourns all the day
long:
In the dim starlight the katydids calling,
Hush into slumher the brook and its song.
Gone are the sewers and ended their weeping,
Gone are the cleaners and finished their reaping,
Blossom and bee with the song bird are sleep
ing
Harvest is ended and summer is gone
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
Kansas Wheat Prospects.

TOPEKA, Kan, March 23-Reports
received at the agricultural department
from ninety of the 100 counties in the
state bring encouraging news regarding
the wheat outlook. In four-ffths of the
counties reporting, the crop is in fine
condition and better than ever before re-
ported in the history of the state. The
open winter and frequent rains and
SHOWS have put the ground in splendid
condition. In Ellis and adjourning
counties the growing wheat is advanced
beyond the condition of any previous
year at this time.
1t is reported that a syndicate of
English and eastern capitalists is invest
ing in the salt fields and making large
purchases Of improved and unimproved
lands
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
Killed in q Fight.

KANSAS CITY, March 23.-Leopold
Goetz, a young plumber, was one of a
party OF men, all drunk, playing cards
in Charles Maguire's saloon, at Ninth
and Wyoming streets, last night. A
quarrel arose, the game ceased, and the
men went outside. There GOetz, Ed
Sheehy and James Callahan lgOt i1to a
fight. GOetz a moment later was
picked up in an unconscious condition.
Ten minutes later he died. A post NOR
TEN this morning developed that death
resulted from blow or a kick on the
back OF the neck. This afternoon a cor
oners jury recommended that Sheehy
and Callahan, who we're arrested last
night, be held for murder.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
The First Class In Baked Potatoes Has q
Trial.

The First Glass In Baked Potatoes Jas q
Trial.
Twenty of the young girls who are be
ing trained as teachers at the normal
school of Philadelphia. put on white caps
and aprons the other morning and took
their first lesson in cookery. This is a
branch of instruction for which the city
does not pay, and probably never will as
long as city councils shall hold the purse
strings. The means are supplied by some
ladies and gentlemen who think that no
girls education is complete unless she has
been taught how to make charlotte russo
and mix a salad, and who hope that, as
time shall show the advantages of instruc-
ton in cooking, the city authorities will
he brought around and will appropriate
the money needed to continue the work.
Miss Helen NJ. Spring, a young woman
from Boston. who shares in this delusion,
is the preceptOr in the new study. An I'M
used room in the Normal school building
has been fitted up for Miss Spring, and
yesterday morning it fairly bristled with
utensils of the kitchen. There were two
rows of tables for the youthful manipula-
tors, and adj Joining the class room was the
kitchen. Miss Spring began her instruc-
ton by going back TO times primeval and
coming down by easy stages to the class
ical cooking of the present day. She
asked the girls easy questions about heat
and combustiC n, and not getting the defin-
ition she wanted for heat gave this:
Energy; the momentum of physical ex-
istence, conserved and stored in the earth
and around us in myriads of forms of in
animate physical life
This rather tired the girls, and Miss
Spring rested them by taking them into
the kitchen, where the mysteries of max
ing fire were revealed to them. The
housekeepers were appointed from the
class, the style of whose duties was shown
by the following instructions for No l
written on the blackboard:
Housekeeper No. 1-Sift cinders, empty
ashes, open drafts, build fire. brush stove
and oven, blacken stove, light fire and pol
ish stove, fill kettle with fresh water, wash
sink, collect soiled dishes. return dishes to
desk. p M.-Add coal, refill kettle, col
lect and return dishes, turn down the fire,
empty and wipe out the kettle, sweep class
room.
Nos. 9 and 8 were instructed with the
important duty of keeping everything
clean. All this was merely preliminary To
the lesson, which was really to elucidate
the problems of how to bake potatoes and
make good, simple soup. This was Miss
Springs recipe for potatoes:
Baked PotatOes-Select potatoes of uni
form size. wash and scrub them well.
Bake in clean oven from thirty to forty
minutes, or until soft; break the skin TO lei
the steam inside escape. Serve at once
uncovered
The girls in white caps baked potatoes
enough for the whole school, but nobody
was compelled to eat them who didn't
want to. Another class will be taught to-
day. The girls are to receive instruction in
cooking only one day each week; but the
critics of this new departure claim that il
will take over fifty hours term from
their other studies.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
Ready For The War Path,

CHICAGO, March Ex-Governor A. c..
Mellette of South Dakota is in the city.
He denies the published stories of des-
titutiOn in his state. The governor
had consultation with DR.. Eastman.
the educated Sioux of Pine Ridge, to-
day, and was told by him that 20 per
cent OF the Ogallallas and Brules were
ready to 60 on the war path and that
nearly all Of them carry belts of am
munitiOn beneath their shirts. The
statement so impressed the governor
that he telegraphed his chief of staff to
investigate the matter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
Random Notes,
Southern crops are backward.

NJONthNA II ~ oi - btsSh
Congressman w. C.. p. Breckenridge.
of Kentucky is dangerously ill at Pensa-
cola, Fla.
Trouble between the whites and new
negro settlers near Kingfisher, Okla
hOma. is threatened.
There is a big fight in Michigan be-
tween the state board of health and the
Standard oil company.
Jacob Scheele, Bridgeport. Conn.
murderer, has starved eleven DAYS and
swears he will cheat the hangman.
In the sugar trust investigation at
New York. an accountant testified that
the trust had made profit of Sl1, $780,
600, of which 10 per cent had been paid
to stakeholder, and that the rest is held
by the constituent companies.
At the Brayton Ives book sale in
New York, Dodd, Meade & Co. bought
an old book on the gospel among the
indians of New England, by Thomas
Shepard. paying $3.50. A copy of
Shakespeare, printed in 1923, brought
81, 200.
d. p. Nesbit, commissioner of agri-
culture in Georgia, declares that tho
farming situation in the south has not
been as bad as now in forty years.
Farm work is month behind, and it is
expected that the cotton crop will be
a half million bales short.
OF the $3.50, 900 worth OF bonds issued
in order TO take up the Indebtedness and
finish the new Brooklyn Tabernacle,
50. 900 has been subscribed for by Rev.
7. Dewitt Talmage, Russell Sage, it is
said, will exchange his Sl25, 900 sub
scription for the same amount in bonds.
Mrs. John Babcock of Bay Roberts,
Newfoundland, rescued five of her
children, one at time, from her burn
ing house. The last one she was obliged
to leave to its fate. Jumping from a
high window, she broke her leg. Mrs.
Babcock and several of the children
were badly burned.
The idea of electing United States
Senators by direct vote of the people is
growing more popular all the time.
The Indiania legislature has adopted
a resolution endorsing the change,
and it's only a question of time wher
the pressure in favor of it will compe:
congress 10 adopt q constitutional
amendment providing thereto~.-Ot-
tulnwa Iowa World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
The Elite Working LAS. Of pa-,s.

Vhe EiIte NOtStnS .fass OF
Paris is not what it is merely because It
has rich and luxurious butterfly class.
Indeed. the wealthy classes of most of the
capitals that l am acquainted with are il
most things the superiors of those in Paris,
and are chiefly inferior in not being toler.
ant of each others little failings and pecu-
liarities. Their houses are more pleasant,
their hospitality more cordial, they are
unless in the above respec0 not so narrow
minded, and they are better informed
But where Paris is unique and above
every other city, is in its working class
elitr. The genius of this curious capital
is incarnate in these struggling people,
which should, so far as it is possible with
out going into grandmotherlv government,
he preserved from deterioration. Almost
any woman in the Madeleine flower mar
ket might give lesson TO q Duchess in the
art of making up posY prettily and pre-
senting it with grace. Those delicious
hats and bonnets, about which the ladies
of Fifth avenue and of the Court of Japan,
including the Empress, 60 into ecstacies,
are trimmed by poor girls who have had
no technical instruction beyond what they
pick up in looking into the shop,windows.
1t is they who invent those darling and aul-
dacious fashions which go VIGOROUSLY
round the world, and who give Partisan
spice and elegance to everything that Eng
land sends us. whether from Dunstable or
Manchester. for ladies TO wear. The Paris
working class elite are so civilized that,
instead of being relegated 10 the slums.
they can be suffered TO live in the garnet
stories of our best streets. Fancy the
Gibeonitcs of Westminster and Cbelses
lodging 10 the uppcrmost floors of the Vic
toria street mansions and the West End
squares Yet in Paris the children of Gil
boon can and do dwell under the states of
the fine houses and in the finest quarters.
What is more, they do not make their
rich ellow-lodgers painfully aware Of
their being in the same dwelling.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
An Indiana Boom.

HURON, IND, March 23,-Kaolin de-
posits have been discovered near here,
which has caused great excitement.
and land owners of the rough hill land
are now imagining themselves wealthy.
and are asking fabulous prices for their
holdings. one tract Of 200 acres, here
tofore of merely nominal value, was
recently sold to kaolin syndicate for
$50, goo. This product is used in the
manufacture Of queenswsre and alum
as well as various other purposes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
CHAPTER VIII.

T came at last, the
blessed, the longed-
for evening. A soft
breeze sprang up,
cooling the burning
air after the heat of
the day, and bring
ing with it { h @
odours of a thousand
flowers. A reg
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-27
SCHOOLGIRLS AS COOKS.

To be Continued.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
The Passengers it Carries IN a wear.

The number of passengers carried by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. during the fiscal
year was, according to the managers re-
port, 1852, 072; previous year, ], 470, 642; an
increase this year Of Is per cent. Revenue,
81, 765, 29S.S1, an increase of 20 per cent.
Nine thousand two hundred and seventy
nine tons Of new rail weighing seventy-fve
pounds per yard were laid on the main track
during the year.
On June 80, 1890, the company owned 237
locomotives. During the year fifteen loco
motives have been added to the equipment,
making total of 252 owned June 80, 1891.
Seventeen additional locomotives have been
ordered, five Of which have been received
since the close of the fiscal year. The COM
pany owns Isl passenger cars.
The total freight movement for the year
was 4, 1876, 102 tons as against 3,76O,577 the
previous year-an increase of 405,525 tons,
1918 per cent.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
Deaths.

Mrs. Janetta COWan q former well known
resident of Staunton, died in Richmond
Monday night, in her seventy fourth year.
She was the widowof Robert Cowan, who,
for many years, was the only bookseller
in Staunton, and kept on New street where
Mr.. Geo. W. Hewitt now keeps. After
her husband S death she managed the bust
ness herself for several years, but some
years ago sold out and moved to Richmond
where she resided an Grace street with her
sister. Of her two children, Robert Il.
and Nora, Robert is a physician in Rich
mond and Nora is now Mrs. H. G. Scott of
that city. Mrs. Cowan was an active mem
Der of the First Presbyterian church here
and prominent in all charitable work, and
her old friends will regret to hear of her
passing away.
MI. D. B. Baldwin owner of the Neir
Era of Greensburg, Bartholomew Co., Ind,
died there a few days ago in his fortieth
year. He was a native of Valley Mills in
Augusta county, and had taught school at
several points in the Valley, including Mt.
Crawford. Six years ago while teaching
in Indiana, he bought the Journal published
at Hope, Ind, and moved there. Last
August he sold that paper and bought the
NeW Era. but death interviewed before he
had taken full charge of it.
Rev. Geo. Diehl, D. D., who had charge
of the Lutheran church at Mt. Tabor, this
county, half century ago, died at Freder-
lex City, Md, last week, aged so years.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
An IrrepresslbIe Lunat1c.

The Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Vir-
giniaqs Of Saturday has the following about
an insane patient who has stirred that coun-
ty up on several occasions lately:
1t was thought by many that William Win
die, of this county, the escaped inmate from
the Western Lunatc Asylum at Staunton for
the third time, would put in his appearance
at the Fair last week, but this he did not do.
He was captured, however, Saturday near (or
at) his home few miles from this place and
while handcuffed and in wagon, in charp e
of Deputy Sheriff Hite and two other guards,
OH the night of that day, upon some pretext,
as we understand it, he was allowed to hoist
a curtain to cut off the chilly wind of the
evening, and from behind this screen he escap-
ed. We are informed that Rev. John S. Hop
kins, of this place, passed him on the road
Sunday. Our information with reference to
the capture of Windle and his escape is very
meager. We do not wish to reflect upon his
guards in his latest arrest but state his escape
as we get it. 1t seems that Windle has been
peregrinating in West Virginia since his last
escape from the Asylum and made things
lively at Wardensville for while He will
probably turn up III a day or two again, as he
seems Invariably to return to his home-(he
owns piece OF property near Lebanon in this
county )-and as They are after him" he will
very likely be run in quickly again.
The Woodstock County Record says he
has been seen since his last escape with the
handouts broken, one released from his
wrist and the other still attached to it. He
says he is hunting horse thieves. The
Winchester Times received yesterday, says
Windle appeared Monday at the store OF
Hite u Goshorn, near that city, armed
with Winchester rihe,and began firing on
them through the windows. They fled to
Winchester and reported it to the authori-
ties.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
Real Estate Sales.

P. H. Trout and w. Fl. Fl. Lynn to the
Virginia Land and Loan Co., a lot in the
N. E. portion of the city. Consideration
not named.
r. F. and r. A. Adams to S. H. Boat
wright, lot corner of Fayette and Johnson
streets, 81 900.
Staunton Development Go. to Michael
Hounihan, lot in Sunnyside, $500.
Samuel Byers to John w. Byers. 1909
acres on the Valley pike, So ,O37.50.
H. C. Braxton, Trustee, the Baker Spring
property, 6S acres, near Waynesboro, (auc-
tion sale by E. M. Gushing & SOM to Jno.
I. Smith and others, $4,000.
w. A. Hudson, Trustee. to c. ]. Koil er,
1871 acres, twelve miles Southeast from
Staunton. $500.
Virginia Land and Loan Co. to Mrs. R.
D. Haslipp, house and lot Sc feet front on
West side of Maple Avenue s., goo.
Geo. r. Bell and others to G. G.. Gooch, a
5-foot strip of land between their residences
$3.50.
w. I'll. Norman and others 10 Mrs. d.
P. Brown and others, of lots No. % and
No. "a of Arlington plat, 1915.
w. j. Perry to Mrs. II. r. Perry, a lot
35 feet on St. Clair street, $500.
Pm. Powell to the Wehr-H obelmann-
Gottlieb Brewing and Mailing Co., of Bal
timore, lot near G. & 0. Depot, 81 SEQ.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
Clerical Personals.

Rev. A. F. Laird of Mt. Horeb, whom
Lexington Presbytery by the close vote Of
8 to s. advised to accept a call to West
Virginia, afterwards received letter from
a member of Presbytery who was not pres
ent at the vote, urging him to remain at
Mt. Horeb. He counted that the lettel
made, as it were, tie vote, and concluded
not to accept the call. The Mt. Horeb PEG
pie are delighted at the decision. They
vigorously fought before Presbytery against
his going.
Bishop James A. Latane of the Reform
ed Episcopal church, q former rector Of
Trinity Protestant Episcopal church in
Staunton. has accepted call to the rector
ship of the Reformed Episcopal Church o.
the Redeemer, on Bolton street, Baltimore
He will not resign the passionate Of tn,
Cummins Memorial church, but have an
assistant appointed and remain in charge
of both.
Bishop Whittle of the Protestant Epis
copal Diocese of Virginia, is now confined
to his bed by a return, in a violent form, OF
his former attack of eczema. His physic-
ian advises him to give up all work until
March LIST.
Rev. Geo. w. Finley, d. D., of Romney
w. Va, who has been called to Thinking
Spring in this county, preached there last
Sunday. He did not make known during
his stay there whether he would accept
the call Oh not.
Rev. Dr.. w. D. Morton, Evangelist of
the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod
and Il brother of Capt. 7. G. Morton of
Staunton, has accepted a call to the church
at Henderson, n. G.
Rev. Fl. G. Early of Augusta, is con-
Quoting series of meetings at Bethlehem
church in Rockingham.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
The Game Law.

Section 2079 of the Code of Virginia
reads as follows: ut shall be unlawful
for any person to kill o. capture or offe1
for sale OF buy any cartridges OF quails be-
tween the first day of January and the 18th
day of October; OIL any pheasants OF wild
turkeys between the 18th day of January
and the 10Th day of October; OF at amy time
to take Or destroy their eggs OF to catch
them with nets Oh traps" Woodcock may
be killed from November 1st to April list,
1t is unlawful at any time to kill the buz-
Zard, OF to kill OIL capture the hooking bird.
brown thrush, red bird, robin, blue bird OIL
house martin. OF to destroy their nests.
The penalty in each case is fine of ten
dollars-one half to go to the 5nformer-
and to be confined in jail till the fine be
paid, not exceed ing thirty days.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-23
Painful Injury.

Mr.. Robert W. Burke, First Vice Presi.
dent of the National Valley Bank, was con
fined to his house on Church street for sew.
eral days by an accident that turned out tt
be more painful than was at first expected
His carriage was standing at the corner Of
Main and Lewis streets, and seelnga street
car being pushed by hand towards it he
put out his arm to prevent collision. His
shoulder was badly wrenched and the mus
cles of the whole arm SO strained that the
arm turned almost black. He made mar
row escape from dislocated shoulder. Dr.
A. M. Henkel is attending him and he is
now able to be at the bank, though the arm
cannot be used for some time to come.