The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-18
Last Tuesday morning Jack Hall. 8


William Galbraith, of the same com.
munity, charging him with having
committed rape upon the person o.
Halls fifteen-year-old daughter. A
warrant was Immediately issued and
L. +. Strickland was sent out to Gal
braith's home to execute the warrant
The culprit was arrested and Strick.
land brought his prisoner to lola and
kept him in custody until his prelim-
mary hearing should be held, making
his headquarters at Baker d Strick.
lands livery stable. About five p
m. Strickland stepped back into the
stalls to take some care of team, and
just when he left the office John Gal
braith, q brother of the prisoner, came
up to the door of the office and called
his brother out. When Strickland
returned no one was in sight, but he
felt confida mt no attempt at escape
would be made, and felt no uneasi.
ness. He started toward the court
house, and met John the brother OF
the prisoner, coming from the west.
Strickland asked: "Where's your
brother" "Oh, he's just around
there on the east side of your stable"
was the reply. Strickland according
ly looked for him there, but no one
was to be seen, and he then began to
"smell MICE" He started i'm pur-
suit of John Galbraith who by that
time had gone down to Justice Pot
ter's office, and who failed to give any
satisfactory answer when questioned
concerning the prisoners where
abouts. Strickland accused him of
as sisting his brother to escape, and
then gave the alarm, and search for
the prisoner was instituted. He had
been seen going north through the al
ley back of S. BevingtOn's and further
inquiry revealed the fact that Sam'l.
Caughran had seen him out i'm his
corn field in Boughton's subdivision.
Henry Howell was among those in
pursuit, and he saw Galbraith enter
corn field near Willard McClOud's,
but it was then so dark that farther
pursuit was impossible. The officers
secured the eastern part of the county
the next morning, but nothing has
been heard of the prisoner, and he
has probably escaped altogether.
John Galbraith was Immediately ar
rested for assisting the prisoners es-
cape, and as he waived preliminary
examination he was bound over to
the District Court in the sum of five
hundred dollars. He failed to give
bond, and was committed to Jail. At
the last report the condition of the
Hall girl, Galbraith's victim, was
very critical, and her death was ex-
pected hourly.
The Ottawa Herald recommends
that all those who are using the in
fected chinch bugs, save not less than
gallon of infected bugs for next
years use. 1t says that they can be
preserved in covered wooden boxes
wood will not sweat as glass and
metal do) about an inch deep, with
cloth wrapped around them. Early
i'm June at the time the wheat and
Oat fields should be infected it is inn
possible to obtain bugs in quantities
sufficient to do anything with, and
the atmospheric conditions are such
that there is not the certainty of the
infection working that there is in
July and August. For these reason
enough infected bugs should be pre-
served to infect next seasons small
grain fields three or four times, if nec-
essary, and dispose of the bugs before
they get chance to go into the corn,
or even to shrivel the wheat.
An old lawyer was once giving a
young lawyer advice. "When the
law is on your side," he said, "boar
down heavy on the law. When the
evidence is no your side bear down
heavy on the evidence. And if nei-
Their the law nor the evidence is i'm
your favor, abuse the tdUyer on the
other side" We think that all the
anti-Republicans in the county must
have heard this story, for we have
yet to hear of one of them whose chief
argument" is not abuse of this paper
or it editor. Neither the law nor the
evidence is on their side and so the
only way they can talk is to abuse
somebody who holds up the other
side. Listen awhile, or read a little.
and see if this is not true.
The members of the Baptist church
of this place celebrated the annual
Roll Call meeting last Saturday in
conjunction with their regular month
ly business meeting by holding an all
day meeting, with basket dinner in
the church. DR.. 1. n Clarke, State
made the principal speech
of the day, and about three-fourths of
the congregation respond ed to the
reading of their names at roll call.
Everyone who attended reports it as
the most enjoyable occasion of the
kind which that congregation has
held for years.
Mr.. L. c. Boswell, one of the best
known and most respected citizens of
Brownwook, Texas, suffered with
diarrhea for a long time and tried
many different remidies without BEN