The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15


Referring last week to the Allen
county assessment for the Worlds
Fair fund, the REGISTER said: ave
believe that some good man, in whom
everybody has confidence by making
an individual canvass and taking
small donations as well as large,
might collect the amount required"
By card published elsewhere in this
issue 1t will be seen that the sugges-
ton has been approved and the man
has been found. Our popular and
efficient county treasurer, with the
public spirit characteristic of him has
consented to take upon himself the
burden of collecting the sum demand
ed of Allen county, and has opened
subscription papers at his office where
those who desire to contribute may
have the privilege. The Bureau of
Promotion at Topeka asked that 10
per cent of the assessment be forward
ed as soon as possible, and i'm compli-
ance with that request Mr.. Cunning
ham forwarded on Tuesday draft for
SI8., thus making Allen county the
second in the State to respond. The
remainder of the S78i will be ON hand
when it is needed, for Mr.. Cunning
ham says that with scarcely an ex-
ception every body seems willing to
contribute. Nobody is asked to give
very much, but every man i'm the
county should be, and doubtless will
be willing to give little, because
1t is for the honor of Kansas. This lie
work that should have been done by
the Legislature. But since it was not,
the generosity and patriotism of in
dividual citizens will accomplish that
which had failed through the wrang-
ling of their unworthy representa-
tives. Kansas Will shine; and Allen
county will be proud in the knowledge
that she did her part. Boom the
fund.
The county treasurer has received
$3.50 from the State Auditor for the
maintenance of destitute insane peo-
pie that could not be Accommodated in
the State asylum for want of room.
This item furnishes text for q SER
mon about the spigot economy and
bunghols extravaganza of the last
legislature in not providing for addi-
tional room in our insane asylums.
AS it is now the insane who cannot
be provided for cost the State more
and cost the county more than if they
could be kept i'm an asylum. The
State can maintain an asylum at an
average daily cost of 40 cents for each
inmate, while it is required to pay the
county 50 cents day for each insane
person in the Jail. And while this re-
ing the prisoners is concerned it does
10 n htal, H.
paid the jailer for attendance. And
in this reckoning no account is taken
of the inhumanity of combining insane
persons in common jails. As a mere
matter of dollars and cents the appro-
priation for a new insane asylum
should haye been made.
The Attorney General has decided
that under the law originating in the
Alliance House last winter requiring
the county surveyor to keep his Office
open "at least one day i'm the week.
that official may keep his office open
six days i'm the week and collect a sal
airy of four dollars day for so doing.
Capt. Dewitt could make several hun
dred dollars clear money between now
and the end of his term by hiring a
hand to take his place on the farm and
taking advantage of this law. But
like the honest man he is he says, ut
would be nothing less than n steal, al
though authorized by law, and 1 do
not propose to be guilty of it. I am a
I shall keep my office
open the one day that is required, but
1 shall not ask the county to pay me
for five more days when I could not,
to Pm off
equivalent for the money" We hope
this little matter will be called to
mind when the effort is made next
fall, as it will be, to convince the peo-
pie that all Republican officials are
thieves and boodlers.
Topeka Letter in Il. c. Journal: III
Charlie Scott wrote that tramp article
in the last lola REGISTER he has sue
ceeded i'm getting closer to the real ma
ture of a tramp printer than any man
ever has before who has not carried
the banner" ITO sleep in hay lofts
or goods boxes, or Jail once in awhile
for luxury! To eat when God pleas
es! To be ragged and dirty! To die
at last like a rat in some hole! Me, a
wife and children! Why, child, you
make me laughw But he didn't
laugh, and for a long time nothing
came from his alley but the steady
click of the types as they fell into the
boxes. He didn't talk any more eth
er, and at the end of an hour he put
on his coat and his old white hat and
took his quarter and went out to get
his breakfast. He didn't come back
any more. Probably he heard the
u-;Id pooSo calling him ~
A gibe from the Yates Center NeUs:
Zone of the most progressive towns in
this part of the State has been in SER
ious trouble every spring for score Of
years on account of duck pond that
forms on one of the principal business
streets when the spring rains occur.
This spring a brilliant idea dubbed
up to the surface of the thought dome
of one of the business men who had
been most perplexed by the trouble
some water hole. A survey was made
and it was found that the hole could
be drained by digging a ditch which
would only be thirteen inches deep in
the deepest place, This reminds us of
one of Artemus Wards heroes who for
some imaginary offense was cast in
prison. He had languished there for
sixteen bitter, solitary years when a
happy thought struck him and he
raised window and got out"
Mr.. f. H. Tobey, of Elm township
shipped S15, 900 worth of cattle to the
Chicago market last Saturday. He
bad a special train of twelve cars,
which went straight through in the
quickest possible time. Mr.. Tobey is
one of the men who doesn't spend
much of his time regulating the Gov
eminent, nor sit up nights to worry
about the Rothschild foreclosure suits.
The chances are that he never read
the Mckinley bill or gave an hours