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ONE OF THE soRDERERs.
Frontiersman ChrIss Can Relate Many
Strange Adventures.

Lawrence Christopher Chriss, OF FL Paso
and western Texas generally, is one OF the
few survivors of that queer old time when
trapping and buffalo hunting was the only
, 1891-11-07

An unusual Offer
tho n that's made by the propri.
etors of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Unusual, but made in good faith.
It's a reward of $500 for an inonra-
BILE case of Catarrh. If you have
one, the moneys for you. But you
can't know whether you have one,
till you've tried DR.. Sage's Remedy.
What's incurable by any other
means, yields to'that. By its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it cures the worst cases,
no matter of how long standing.
That's the reason the money can be
offered There's a risk about it, to
be sure. But it's 30 small that the
proprietors are willing to take it.
The symptoms of catarrh are,
headache, obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid, at
others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
Purulent, bloody, putrid and often
sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
deafness offensive breath; smell
and taste impaired, and general
debility. Only a few of these
symptoms likely to be present at
once.
, 1891-11-07

COURTESY Of E,,o
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Kansas NJ. o. L. L. u. 8.

LEAvENwoRTH, KS, May 1.-THE
annual meeting of the Kansas COM
mandery Loyal Legion was held last
night and the following officers elected:
Colonel +. F. Townsend,
Twelfth infantry, commanding at Fort
Leavenworth.
Senior Vice Communication L. N.
Morrill,.
Junior Vice COMMANDMENTS. J. T.
Weed.
Recorder-Captain Forest II. Hatha-
way, quartermaster at Fort Leaven-
worth.
Treasurer-Captain p. Gerruhty.
Register-Homer Pond.
Chancellor-Dr. Wolverton.
After the meeting the members sat
down to banquet. Many distinguished
officers of the regular and volunteer
army were present. A memorial adj
dress in honor of General Sherman,
prepared by Charles w. Blair, George
r. Peck and George T. Anthony, was
read
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
The cornec,icut Governorship.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, May 1l.-Attor-
ney William C. Case of this city, act
ing for Governor Morgan G. BulKely
and Lieutenant Governor Samuel FL.
Merwin. filed the answer OF those two
gentlemen in answer to the quo war
ranto proceedings brought by Luzon B.
Morris and Dr. Alsop in the superior
court this morning. In his answer
Governor Bulkely claims that he and
no other person is the true and lawful
governor of Connecticut and that the
court should be bound to take judicial
notice of that fact and dismiss the pro-
ceeding. Then he says the general as
sembly of Connecticut at the January
session in 1890, by joint ballot elected
him to be governor for the term OF two
wears and until his successor shall be
Only qualified. Then he goes on to state
that he still acts as governor because
no successor TO him in the office as gov
ernor has yet been chosen and duly
qualified to hold such Office.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
A. Kansas Young Lady Makes a Suggestion
to the Newspapers.

When reading the Tribune celebra-
ton in New York week before last this
idea suggested itself to me: Why
sCfae prominent Gator or editors TO eX-
hibit at the coming exposition a copy
OF all the oldest newspapers in the
country. have their printing presses on
the ground and reprint copies OF the
same to sell rs souvenirs? Who would
not invest nickel for one OF these
curious looking old newspapers? The
writer is the possessor OF one OF the
first copies Of the Wasbingtonian,
which was first printed in the District
of Columbia Thursday Nay % 1886, and
it is well wortl the time spent to COM
pare paper printed nearly fifty years
ago with those We nineteenth century
mortals are treated to nowadays, the
comparison being largely in favor OF
the modern style The Washingtonian
was published at the corner OF Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Eleventh. street,
where now stands the Star Building,
and is curiosity in its way. Had l
spsce | would like to copy verbatim an
article entitled None But the Brave
Deserve the Fair" think women in
general would now be more than salts
fed with their rights and not be SO
clamorous for more.
OF course, to perfect the scheme, the
newspaper fraternity would have to
combine and. to make it more interest
ing. let them get fac smile of Frank
Inns old printing press, If it is impossi-
bic to get the original. Say company
be formed who would give sufficient
bond, they could. in this way, be en-
abled to get hold of mauy old papers to
reprint from. In the patent Office at
Washington can be found numerous
treasures of this kind, which would
make very interesting reading to-day.
III the plan was managed properly and
brought to fruition, there would be, as
Colorel Mulberry Sellers used to say,
millions in it." A hint to the wise is
sufficient. MAMIE G. COOK,
Seaman. Linn county, Kansas, April
%, 1891;
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Gonld as m Employer.

CHICAGO, May l1.-Not little sur
prise was manifested in railroad circles
to-day by the announcement from New
York that President Gould had actual
ly discharged Freight Traffic Manager
Leeds of the Missouri Pacific for viola
ton of the presidents agreement in re-
ducing the rate on sugar. One traffic
official said this evening: ''Mr. Gould
evidently has more plans, the carrying
out Of which depends upon continue
ton of the agreement. After he has
spun his web and got the other roads
where they cannot do any harm to his
interests, I'll wager that he won't be at
any pains to preserve peace"
Other railroad men take more gen.
srous view Of the matter, although it is
hard to find any who do not believe that
Leeds salary will go on just the same
after he has left the Missouri Pacific.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
The Mckinley Tariff Bill as Free Trade
Measure.


from the New York Tribune. Rep
A thrill of surprise went through the
great audience at the Tribune" jubilee
when Mr.. Mckinley stated in that de-
liberate manner which assured his
hearers that he made no statement care
lessly or without full belief OF its truth.
''The new tariff gives us wider and
freer trade than was ever enjoyed UNI
der any other tariff law" Probably
nine-tenths of his hearers were aston
ished. Some wondered if the state
ment could be strictly true. Yet it is
fact that at this very hour a greater
proportion of the importations into the
United States from other countries is
freer of duty than under any previous
tariff since the government was estab-
lished.
Washington, Jefferson and the found
ers of the republic imposed duties on
nearly all imports. The first tariff
which they enacted, that OF 1889. after
imposing specific duties on many arti-
eles, and on others moderate ad valorem
duties, added per cent duty on all
other articles imported. The only ex-
emptions in the original tariff appear
to have. been of skins. hides and furs
undressed, dye woods and drugs for dye
ing, raw cotton and wool, brass, iron or
steel, wire, manufactured pewter and
tin, pig brass, copper sheathing and
crude saltpeter. Raw cotton was also
made dutiable in 1891. 1t was not until
the tariff of 1871 that tools and furniture
of immigrants were made free, or phil
osophical apparatus, or plaster OF Paris.
or old brass, or gold and silver bullion.
Nor were manufactured woods, sui
phur, copper in pigs, or birthstone made
free until 1892, nor rags, bristles, or I'M
manufactured clay until 1897. AS late
as 1921 the free imports were but one
twenty-seventh part of the entire i'm
ports in value, nor were they at any
time as much as one-tenth in value
under any tariff until the compromise
tariff of 1888.
Under that tariff the free goods were
at first a quarter of the whole, and
gradually rose in proportion until in
1910 and 194l, they were nearly half OF
the aggregate. But under this tariff as
a whole, the proportion Of free imports
was only - per cent, and it is now, as
will be shown, more than 4S per cent.
The tariff of 1912 reduced the proper
ton of free imports to about fifth, and
under the low revenue tariff enacted by
the democrats in 1916 the proportion
never rose as a quarter of the entire i'm
ports. Since protective tariffs were i'm
posed in 1861, the proportion OF free
goods has ranged from a quarter, and in
some earlier years much less, up to
about one-third in the later years.
During the five months ending with
February, the latest month Of which
there are complete returns, the new
tariff has been in force excepting in the
first six days of October. The follow
ing shows the value of free and dutiable
goods imported each month, and the
dutiable imports of sugar included:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Cross Denies the Report.

SEDALIA, Mo-, May 1l.-Receiver 81.
C. Cross OF the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, denies the reporv that
the road is about to revert from the
hands of the receiver to the stockho.d-
ers OF the company. ''If such thing
is about to take place" says he, Il have
not heard OF il"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Georr,. win TAX. in tn. world. FaIr.

ATLANTA, Ga, May ia largely at
tended convention Of delegates from all
parts OF the state met yesterday to con-
slider the matter Of the Georgia exhibit
1t the worlds fair. The convention
formally recommended to the legisla-
lure the appropriation Of slO0, 900 for
that purpose.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
A Gigantic Epidemic.

LONDON. May I1.-Each o, the large
hospitals in London, has an average OF
100, 900 cases OF influenza. There are
signs OF a continued increase. Several
more OF the house Of commons have
been attacked.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Business.

A woman in Flint, Mich, advertises
for position as housekeeper, and says
in her advertisement that an offer for
marriage viii be given attention.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON,

CHRIST INVITES YOU TO THE GREAT
EST OF BANoUETs AND AWAITS
YOUR ACCEPTANCE. THE HOLY
SPIRIT, THE CHURCH, hoUh
FRIENDS IN HEAVEN AND THE
ANGELS OF GOD ALL ARE say
ING, "CoME, GOMEZ"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15

Topeka Democrat: Prof Snow is
more confident than ever that the
chinch bug can be successfully annihi-
lated. He has numerous letters from
different sections where the experiment
has been tried and has proved success
full. Just now he is trying the injection
on the chlnch bugs found in the wheat
fields. Heretofore his experiments have
been confined to corn fields. 1t IS too
early yet to hear much as to the result,
but few reports already received show
that it is working all right. The de-
mand is so great that the professor viii
have some trouble in supplying all who
make applications. He can give each
applicant only three or four of the
desired bugs. With these he sends in
structions to have them placed in jar
with 200 or 300 fresh bugs where they
are to remain forty-eight hours. Al
the bugs thus become infected and are
turned out on the wheat field. In few
days all the bugs in the field are
diseased and die.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Total. sI3s. Az. 425 sly2. 32s 1893 s23.655

Total. sl33, 4I2,i25 Sly2.32Sl99 S23,655 1872
It will be seen that if sugars had
been free of duty in these fiye.mOnths
as they are now, and yet not more large
" imported than they were when sub
iect to duty, the total of dutiable i'm
ports would have been only Sl6S, 6I3, OBJ,
and the total of free imports would have
been SI57. l27 .5S7, or 1872 per cent of the
whole. Beginning with April, in all
probability the imports of sugar will be
largely increased by the removal of du-
ties, so that the proportion of free i'm
ports is likely to be nearly if not quite
80 per cent of the whole. Never before
has the proportion been as great eX-
cepting in the single year lS4l. aud if
the free goods during this month rise
above 49t per cent of the whole, as they
probably will, the proportion will be
larger than it was even in the year 1871.
Mr. Mckinley was absolutely correct in
saving that trade was more free than it
had eyer been under any other tariff,
and yet the imports during the current
fiscal year are already larger by nearly
10, COO 900 than in the same months of
any previous year in the history of the
country, and larger in proportion to
population than they ever We're under
any other Kind of tariff.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Snow and the wheat Pest.

KANSAS CITY, Nav 1J.-ChancellOr
Snow, of the State University of Kan
sas, has sent to Secretary Mohler, of
the State Board of Agriculture, a let
ter concerning his conclusions regard
ing the present wheat pests in Kansas.
The letter was made public today. The
chancellor says the present spring
has been particularly unfayorable for
the health of chinch bugs, but still, in
twenty counties in the southeastern
part of the state, included between me
ridians 90 degrees and 80 degrees, and
between the 3Sth parallel and the south
ern boundary of the state, the chinch
bug is out in full force. In other coun-
ties of the state the pest is not so numer-
Gus, still it exists in fully half OF all the
counties.
The bugs now in the fields are a
remnant of last falls brood which hi
bernated. The females have been lay
ing their eggs and the young Will
soon be Matched. The eggs are very
susceptible to the influence Of climate
conditions and If we should have heavy
rains between now and May 10Th, the
crop of young bugs will be much
smaller.
Continuing, the report says: sac
tive measures must be resOrted to TO
keep the pests down. Much hope Is
placed in the outcome Of the workings
Of the new remedy namely: The at
tempt to spread artificially a conta-
gious disease among the bugs. The ex-
Deriments OF the early spring in the la
boratory indicate the activity
of the contagion, and il
the cooperation of the farm
ers, by sending in large num-
bers of live, healthy bugs, may be re-
lied on, the station will be prepared TO
scatter infected bugs all over the state.
Several reports showing the presence Of
the Hessian fly have been received ;
among others, from Summer, Labette,
Butler, Geary, Mcpherson, Marion and
Douglas counties, showing general
distribution. But think that no Sc
rious apprehension need be felt for the
safety of the wheat crop because OF the
fly.
The report from Russell county
showing the presence of a small green
bug in the wheat fields, and the subse-
quent investigation by Secretary Mohler
and myself has been fully exploited in
the newspapers. There is no new in
formation about the bug or its alleged
damage to the wheat to offer do not
believe it will prove consequent a crop
injury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15
Blaine's Popularity.


Emporia Republican: The Newton
Republican takes lengthy exception to
the assertion of this paper that Mr..
Blaine is the biggest man in America
"a great many people of common intel
1igence." says our Newton cOntempor-
airy, would like to know Of what sins
of omis sion President Harrison is gull
ty that he should be pursued by polite
horde who remind him constantly that
Mr. Blaine is very able man." Mr.
Harrison is guilty OF no serious official
sins. either of omission or commission.
Nor are the praises constantly swelling
up from the press and the people for
MIR. Blaine intended either TO belittle
or embarrass the president. They are
the spontaneous Outbursts of popular
admiration and regard for a statesman
of whom the entire country is justly
proud. We are proud of Clay and Web
ster. and often speak our admiration
though they have been dead many
years. Why should the people not
voice their admiration for living COM
peer now at the zenith OF his fame and
popularity:
Mr. Harrison, together with the rest
OF the American people, knows full well
that Mr.. Blaine is the favorite leader of
his party. Mr.. Harrison could not have
been ignorant of the fact that the re-
pubIicans of the country wanted Blaine
in 1898. ara that they would have NOM
mated him if he had given his consent.
He must also know that the diplomatic
triumphs of the past two years have
only strengthened the big statesman's
hold on his party's affections. Why,
then, should he be affronted at the con-
slant reminders of Mr.. Blaine's ability?
IIe shouldn't be. He isn't. Mr.. Harri-
son himself is an ardent admirer of the
man who made him president, and is
doubtless entirely willing to share with
him the honors of a successful admins
tration.
To praise Blaine is not TO humiliate
Harrison. They are both great men,
and, there is every reason to believe, in
perfect accord. Mr.. Harrison enjoys
the respect and'esteem OF his party and
of the country. That he is not as pop
ular with the masses as Mr.. Blaine is,
is neither mis- fault nor Mr.. Blaine's.
But it is fact.
It is said that hunter from this city
was out hunting and discovered flock
of didipper ducks. They say these ducks
watch a gun and whenever they see a
puff of smoke dive before the shot can
reach them. The hunter thought he
could get them and blaZed away until
his ammunition was all gone and the
ducks remained unframed. But the
nimrod was not to be undone by few
pesky ducks. He took out a cigar, lit
it and noticed that at every puff of
smoke the ducks would dive He kent
on smoking faster and faster and the
could not get a chance to breathe. and
not Dan Breese, but he is thoroughly
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-21
A Famous Spanish Poet.


The typical Spanish poet, in the COM
mon idea, is a writer whose verses fow
with the traditional abundant volume of
his race, while without high artistic fin
ish; whose patriotic sentiment is blind and
jealous; in whom philosophic doubt and
sslf-questioning have small place, love,
nature, legend and national history being
his favorite themes. This conception
finds ample justification in the records of
Spanish poetry, so that it furnishes mat
ter for surprise that the leading poet of
contemporary Spain should be distin-
| guished by almost completely opposite
| qualities.
Nunez de Arce, although his poetical
| activity extends over many years, has pub
lished but a slender body of verse. 1t is
verse that betrays the laborious hand OF
the artist in its perfection of form. The
writer's patriotism has taken the form OF
| prophetic denunciation of national sins
Himself thoroughly penetrated with the
| modern spirit, persuaded that the faith oi
his fathers has irreyocably gone, he inter
| prets in his poetry the restless, unsatis
fed, yet aspiring spirit of his day in
way that vividly reminds an English read
er of Arnold and Clough. Yet, in spit
of these un-Spanish and somewhat unpop
ular qualities, his serious purpose, his lif
in entire harmony with his professions
and the genuineness of his lyric gift, hav
won for him the first place in the list o
| living Spanish poets.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-21
Shark and ,Gator Fight.

Int Nrla-l IitIA4u-1
A surveying corps at the mouth of the
st. Sebastian river related to a gentleman,
few days ago, at Titusville, and he to a
reporter, the particulars of most despe-
rate encounter between an alligator and q
shark at the first mentioned place. The
engineers had pitched their tents near the
river and just above its mouth, and were
eating their dinner under a small clump
of palm. All at once their attention was
attracted to a violent commotion in the
water near the shore. At first the bodies
were so active and made the spray, inter
mingled with blood, 80 heavy that they
could not make out what the two objects
| were. Finally, after about half an hour
| of such work, the monsters seemed to be
growing weak and weary. 1t was then
| discovered to be fight to the death be-
tween large alligator and a man-eating
shark. The former seemed to be trying
| to get to shallow water, while the shark
was equally as determined not to go. The
| fight was still going on, although growing
less vigorous all the time, when one of the
| parties got his Winchester and shot them
both. On pulling them ashore the alliga
| tor was found minus foreleg, bit off al
smooth as if cut off with a surgeon.
knife The shark had numerous ugly
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-21
A BIG IDEA.

People have big ideas nowadays, and
not infrequently they carry them out.
One of the very latest is a plan to give
New York city the benefits of real rapid
transit, combined with some other things.
The idea is to build the road over FIVE
story houses, underneath which there
should be subway for freight traffic;
that is, the company would buy the real
estate on its surveyed route and erect q
line of five-stoIy houses of masonry, so
strong as to bear the traffic on their roofs
the streets being spanned by bridges.
Underneath the houses would be the
freight subway, which would also carry
the electric wires and other conduits now
used in the underground electric system
in the city. The roadbed would be seven
ty-five feet wide and contain four tracks,
giving ample space for fast express trains.
Express trains would be run on the center
tracks, which would be about twelve feet
higher than the outside tracks, used for
accommodation trains. Steam would be
used on the passenger trains, but any form
of motor the commissioners might prescribe
would be used for the freight traffic on the
four underground tracks. The building'
over which the road would be run would
be owned by the company, and would b.
used as other houses are, i. e., for storage
purposes, markets, shops, tenement house
and dwellings. The masonry would b.
solid, and there would be no noise or vibra
ton to disturb the occupants of the build
ings.
| Nothing very small about this. TIL
plan gives the cost of real estate as s51.
971 900; cost of building and viaduct struc
ture under the roadbed, s34, ,37s, ,951; cos
of viaduct railroad, stations and equip
ments, s1s, ,4O1 1852; interest during cor
struction, $1,000, ,O00-a total of s109, ISL
$50. There are several people in Ne
York who could build this road out c
their own pockets, but we do not suppos
that any of them or all of them will do
l very SOOn
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-21
THE PURSUIT. OF BACILLI.

The baeilli are being very sharply pur-
sued in these days. DR.. T. NJ. Prudden,
of New York city, has been studying
diphtheria and he has come to the conclu-
sion that "the name diphtheria, or at least
primary diphtheria, should be applied, and
exclusively applied, to that acute infec-
tious disease usually associated with a
pseudo o-membranous Inflammation of the
mucous membranes, which is primarily
caused by the bacillus called bacillus diph-
therie of Loeff1er." The disease may be
often modified in its course by the pres
ence of other pathogenic bacteria at the
seat of lesion and elsewhere But DR..
Prudden' thinks that the fact that poison
locally produced by the Loeffier bacillus can
and usually does alone cause the character
istic systemic effects in primary diphthe-
ria is we'll established. The Importance of
this conclusion lies in the fact that if
diphtheria is caused solely or mainly by
the bacillus of Loeffier, and the detection
of this germ is found an absolute test of
diagnosis, physicians will be, as Dr. Prud-
den says, in a condition to work with
defniteness at the various accessory prob
lens and study more clearly diseases
which cluster about and complicate, and
not infrequently stimulate, the more COM
mon and fatal disease of diphtheria.
Success to the pursuit of the diphtheria
bacillus and all others which work with it.
They have done damage enough.