The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-22

and Topeka try conclusions Topeka gets
whipped.
When the same young man and the
same young woman go boating at Law
renee for three nights in succession it
is looked upon as equivalent to an an
nouncemeut of their engagement.
Hon. C. G. Foster, Judge of the Uni
ted States district court for Kansas,
who has been in ill health for long
tim. will leave this week for the cele-
brated Carlsbad Springs in Germany.
Emporia Republican: A man was
hanged in South Carolina the other day
for numbering his mother-in-law and
two children. Why a man should want
to kill his children is incomprehensi-
bic.
An Arkansas City photographer took
group picture the other day in which
four generations were represented-a
child, its mother. the grandmother and
great grandmother. The latter was
only 10 wears old.
Junction City is holding entertain
ments to raise money to procure a pub
lie fountain. That is something that
every town in Kansas ought to have,
with the exception OF Wichita and
L aTenwOrth and Atchison.
The Topeka agent Of the Kansas CITY
Sunday Sun has been arrested and
jailed. He is TO be prosecuted under the
new law which forbids the circulation of
immoral and indecent literature. II
the prosecution is successful, the news
dealers in other towns would do well to
shut down on the dirty sheet while
times are good.
The Southwestern Firemen's Assocla-
ton, to which many Kansas fire depart
ments belong. will hold its annual tour
nament at Joplin. Mo, on June 9, 10. II
and II The cash prizes to De given
away at the tournament will amount to
81, 800. The railroads have all made
half fare rates and large attendance
and an interesting time is expected.
The widow of the late NIilt Reynolds
is stopping at Hamburg. Mich. In a
letter to the Arkansas City Traveller
she expresses her deep affection for
Kansas, her continued interest in its
prosperity and her desire to return to a
state which she can not forget. She
says: Il am proud every day to point
to Kansas for advanced ideas in legisla-
ton and to Kansas laws which Michi-
gan is just copying"
Emporia Republican: Rev. Updike
says he spent several weeks at Atchi-
son, Fort Scott and Mcpherson. and did
not see a drunken man. nor hear an
oath, but since he came to Emporia he
has heard swearing enough on the
streets to compel him to rank our city
VI n iF- Nis=nrtni
Ohio. He SAYS swearing IS hook of the
devil which is swallowed without bait
by mullet heads. Swearing is the curse
of our country.
Leavenworth Standard: For some
time Governor Smith and Surgeon
Weaver Of the home. have been consid- /!
ering the advisability of employing
trained women nurses at the home hos |
pital. Application was made to the !
board, and the reasons for the desired |
change fully set forth. 1t is understood |
that the application has been approved. :
and Governor Smith intends to install /.
women nurses into the hospital not later !
than July 18th.
The kiowa Journal boasts OF four /
peaches on one stem. The Index man /
don't want to boast. but just to show XII |
Owa a new kind, We will say that three |
of our neighbors were examining one of |
our peach trees a few days ago, and on |
one limb were three peaches in bunch, |
two punches of four peaches. and one
bunch OF six peaches. All four bunch
es are within space of three inches. |
Six peaches from one stem is pretty .
good. Fours are too common to men,
ton.
Saline County Journal: Five acres in
the northeastern part of the city at
500 per acre were purchased by Messrs.
Barney & Hiukle Saturday for the pa
per mill site. The tract lies on the !
river and is near the railroads, all that
could be desired for a manufacturing
enterprise OF any kind. These gentle
men left Saturday for Chicago to have
the plans and Specifications prepared
and will return with them as soon as
when work will begin on the
buildings. Three and possibly four
buildings will be erected. the main one
being about 400 feet long. The plans
alone will cost 1000.
4 shocking tale comes from Kiowa
county, relating to the death of Johnny
the 6-year-old son OF farmer.
The boy and an S-year-old sister were
playing ''burying." A hole had been
dug, Johnny sat down in it, and the girl
had piled in the earth till it reached the
boys chin. and it was tightly imbedded.
At this juncture an old SOW and her
brood appeared and savagely attacked
the girl, who was standing over her
brothers head, and drove her away.
The SOW then turned on the UNI rejected
head OF the boy in the ground, and sank
her teeth in mis- face and skull several
times. By this time the screams Of the
children had been heard and assistance
but by the time the boy was
aiken from his position he was dead. Il
An interesting point in connection
with the state prohibitory law was re-
Gently decided by Judge Crozier at
Leavenworth. It was brought about !
through a case from Lenape in this
wherein 4. A. Polite was before !
he court on the charge of violating the
state liquor law. Polite set up defense
hat he sOld nothing but 'crab apple CT
Ter" and that il was not a drink prohib-
ted under the state law. Witnesses
we're examined by the court to show the
fleet Of this drink on partakers of it,
md 1t was clearly proven that it cheered {
md inebriated. The court ruled the
rink was an intoxicant and that Polite
vas guilty Of violating the liquor law in
elling it. An injunction restraining
Polite from selling it in the future was