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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
MIGRATING TARANTULAS.
How the MOnstrous Spiders Move In
Bodies Over the Country.

How the MOnstrous Spiders Move In
Bodies Over the Country.
An old military friend Of mine told
me not long since that in the summer
Of 1859 he and a companion were trav-
cling before day one morning, to es-
cape the terrible heat Of the later
hours along the bank of the ella river,
on the Arizona side, writes Rev. J. ID.
Gillian, in the Christian Advocate.
Jogging along and chatting as they
went, or listening to q distant tu-whit-
hu Of some drowsy sand owl, their
horses suddenly snorted and stopped
short, and underworld to turn about.
They brought their guns into position
and peered into the dissOlving dark
ness, expecting TO see some ''varmint"
or skulking Indian, but nothing ap-
peared in view. They urged their
horses, but not step did or would
they bulge, except in the wrong way,
when their eyes lighted uoon a long,
black, fiat, serpentine-loolEng zone or
ribbon stretching as far as the eye
could reach in either direction and di-
Yectly across their path. One Of them
dismounted, and upon accommodating
found it to be nothing more nor less
than mighty multitude Of silent, soft
footed, marching tarantulas, migrating
somewhere, they could not tell where.
Their animals could not leap over
them, and would not go through, so
there was but one alternative, if they
did not care to stay there, and that
was to return about two miles to where
they had just broken camp.
Coming again later in the day they
found the host had passed by, but had
left in their wake thousands that had
been killed by little enemy that fol-
lows them-a small bird that stabs the
monster spider to death wherever
found.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
IF 1T DOES
A Company With Ample Capital will be
Organized at Once to go Into the
business on Large
Scale

Mr.. n. +. Acers has long been of
the opinion that the stone which has
become known as lola marble'
would make the best lime in the
W orld, and that with plenty of natur-
al gas for fuel it could be burned at SO
mall cost as to make the industry
a highly profitable one. He has talk
I'D this idea 10 some of his Kansas
City friends until he has got them suf-
Fl GENTLY interested in the project to
make test. Accordingly they have
sent Mr.. Arthur PennelI, an exper-
fenced chemist and lime burner, here
and he has had a small kiln built and
will start the fires, probably to-day,
to make a thorough test. The kiln
onsists of an old steam boiler, set on
en- d and lined with brick, which Will
hold about Is bushels of lime. This
has been erected near the Beatty well
from which the gas connections can be
easily made. The stone for the first
run has been taken from the GoodneI
quarry, just across Elm creek. Ex-
periments will also be made with
stone from other quarries. 1t is Mr.,
Pencils expectation TO burn some
two or three tons of lime, so that the
quality may be thoroughly tested. II
will probably be two or three weeks
before any definite results are annouu-
ced, as the utmost care is to be taken
to make the test thorough one.
This looks like business. If these
experiments prove what we hope they
will, that as good lime can be manu-
featured here at lola as there is on
he market, it means that the future
prosperity of lola is assured. The
er ection of lime kilns means big coop
er shops and the construction of plants
Tor the manufacture of putty and con-
centrated I've and whiting. All these
mean the expenditure of money, the
Employment of labor, the revival OF
business. And then where one large
in dustry is successfully established,
others follow.
But it is not wise TO build too many
air castles. Let us wait and see how
the experiments pan out.
LATER: Since the foregoing was
put in type we have talked with Mr..
A GERS and learn that one of the main
purposes of the experiments above al
luded to is to test the capacity of our
tone to make whiting. Personally
Mr.. Acers is certain that the finest
rades of both lime and whiting can
be made here but the capitalists who
are expecteh to invest their money
W ant a practical demonstration on a
large scale, and so Mr.. Acers prOpos-
es to manufacture a ton or so of whit
ing Just 10 show that it can be done.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
A SWEDISH LEGEND.
The Queer Penalty Imposed by Satan
the Psnnr Fannie

The Queer Penalty Imposed by Satan on
| the Piper Family.
will repeat one of the many legends
told me by a charming Swedish lady
about the family of Count Piper, the
well-known minister of her country to
the court of st. James, SAYS o writer in
the National Review. Once upon q
time the head of this house was bored
to death in his splendid castle, and he
yawned his thousandth yawn and said:
II would had even the devil to play
cards with me-" and at the word Satan
himself appeared in the guise of a gen.
tleman, in which Shelley also knew
him. Oddly enough the devil lost his
money, and having none in his pockets,
for reasons best known to himself, he
offered the count, in full quittance of
all claims, an apparently golden chain,
remarking incidently that whenever
that chain was lost or injured the cas-
tie of the Pipers would infallibly be
burned.
This unusual announcement aroused
the winners suspicious, and, happen
ing to look under the card-ta BILE, he be-
held the cloyen hoof. Instantly he
sprang to the wall to reach down his
sword, for swords in those days, the
date of which l cannot exactly give,
were always ready to the hand. But
the devil was gone and the chain alone
remained. On examination it proved
to be long and thin, with innumerable
little links, such chain as old gentle
men used to wear around their neclfs
for watch chains not long ago. An
assay discovered the metal to be some
thing other than gold, but could by no
means determine what it actually was.
An accidental injury to one of the
links, however, caused by the hammer
Of the goldsmith, cost the count a wing
of his castle, and second injury and
temporary loss of the chain having re-
suited in a second and in q third fire,
1t at once became apparent that the
devil would keep his word. Each sue
oessive head Of the Piper family has
worn that chain around his neck from
the day of his accession to the day Of
his death,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
THAT CORN PREMIUM.

The REGISTER announced some
time ago that it would offer a
pre- MUM of $1,000 for the heaviest ten
eals of corn shown at the lola Fair
this fall. Last Saturday Uncle
Johnny Gilkeson, of Carlyle, met us
and said. Look here, that premium
offer OF yours doesn't give US upland
farmers any show. We can't raise
corn with the men in the bottoms,
and we know it. Now why didn't
you offer five dollars for the best up
land corn and five dollars for the best
bottom corn?" 1t hadn't struck US
that way before, but the longer we
think about it the more good sense
we see in the suggestion. The object
of offering any premium at all is to
show what kind of corn Allen county
can raise; and why not arrange it so
that we will get the best upland as
well as the best bottom corn? So we
have concluded, with the consent and
upon the advise of the manager Of
the Fair, TO divide the premium that
way. We will pay $500 for the
heaviest ten ears of upland corn, and
$50 for the heaviest ten ears of bottom
corn. The only conditions required
of any one competing for either of
tn csc premiums are first that they
shall be paid up subscribers to the
ola Register, aud second that they
shall write upon there entry tag the
description of the land upon which
the corn was grown so that there can
be no question as to whether it is
bottom or upland. Observe that the
premiums are offered for the "heavi-
estn corn. We use that word rather
than Largest" or "best" because ex-
perts may differ as TO which corn is
largest or best, but the scales will
Sc tile the question when it is only
one of weight. If two or more lots
weigh precisely the same we pre-
sumo The only fair way will be to d.
vide the premium equally. But the
main thing is to get the corn. We
W ant to see the finest display of corn
ever shown in Allen county, and we
are willing to pay ten dollars for it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.

In addition TO auditing the usua
run of bills, the County COMMISSION
ers at their meeting last week trans
act ed the following business
Ordered that John Gilkeson be al
lowed S25 for hedge on lines between
his farm and county farm.
Ordered that Viola johnson now in
ounty Jail for larceny be released,
providing that she leave Allen coun-
ty.
Ordered that County Clerk represent
tn is Board before the State Board Of
Z qualization in the interest of the as
sessm ent of Allen county for 1895.
Ordered that the order of James
Reedy be modified so that when he.
James Reedy. shall pay all costs for
which the county is liable, he shall
be released frem the county Jail.
Ordered that the report of the view
ers on the petition of Mr.. Lawrence
to vacate a certain road be accepted
and road ordered vacated.
The Board having under considera-
ton the bridge petition on Big Creek
ord cred that an appropriation of $500
be made at the October meeting of
the Board.
n action taken ON the petition for
herd law from Salem township be-
eau Sc said petition was not sworn to
as the law requires.
Ordered that Charles Hall now con-
fined in the county jail be released.
Ordered that the road petition of r.
NJ. H edges for private road be grant
ed.
The order creating a Board of
Health was revoked
Road petitioned for by II. NJ. Pur-
dom allowed.
A few erloIs in ass essment were or
dered corrected.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
SOME MORE ABOUT THAT JOINT.

Every county and city officer knows
the place and the man referred to by
the REGISTER last week in the re
marks about the joint that is being
run in lola. They know that the Law
is being violated just as The REGIsTEF
said it was aud they know the name
and the whel eabouts of the man who
is doing the violating.
And furthermore, every county and
city officer is not only willing but
anxious that the man should be pun
ished and the place closed up. They
say so and we believe they tell the
truth.
Why don't they arrest the man
then, and convict him and punish
him?
The reason is that they can get no
one TO make proper and legal COM
plant against him. The law requires
that before any citizen can be arrest
ed on the charge of violating the pro-
hibitOry law an "informationn, charg-
ing him with the offence. must be
made out and sworn to by some one
who can swear that he positively
knows that the offence has been COM
mitted. 1t Is not enough to swear
that you have information that leads
Won ~ believe that tho law has been
vioia!,d. IUu must possess personal
knowledge that will make you COM
petent witness in the case.
Now the trouble is that the men
who have that knowledge will not file
the complaint, and there is no way to
compel them and the men who have
not that knowledge are not qualified
to file complaint.
So there you have it.
What are you going to do about it d?
That is what the man who is running
this dive asks the city officers when
they throw the matter up to him.
And it is a question the REGISTER
cOnfesses 1t cannot answer. If any
reader of this paper can, no will be
gladly accorded space.
But, dearly beloved, this much is
certain: If this community with its
overwhelming sentiment in favor
of the enforcement of the law, and
with officers at its command who are
in hearty accord with that sentiment,
if this community, we say, cannot run
out one poor. miserable little joint,
and keep it out, then let us join no
longer i'll the cutlery against Gov.
Morrill, because he does not close all
the joints in all the towns of the
State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
THAT TRIP EAST

may be for business or pleasure, or
both; but pleasure comes by making
a business of travelling East over the
Santa Fe Route as far as Chicago.
Thirty miles the shortest line be-
tween Missouri river and Chicago
that means quick time and sure con-
nectiOns
Track is straight, rock ballasted,
with very few crossings at grade.
No prettier, cosier or more comfort
able trains enter Chicago than those
over the Santa Fe. They are vesti-
buled limited expresses, with latest
pattern Pullmans and free chair cars.
Meals in dining cars served on plan
of paying for what is ordered.
Inquire of nearest agent, or address
G. L. Nicholson, G. z. A. Santa Fe
Route, MOnadnock building, Chicago.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12

President Snow, of the State University, Pres
ident Fairehild, of the Agricultural college
have gone TO Europe, while Professor Dyche OF
the University, has gone towards the north
pole. The late legislature pays the bill-EldO
RADIO Republican.
The salary of neither of the gen.
tlemen ma med above has been raised
by reason Of the action of the late
Legislature. Each of them travels
with money which has been already
earned and which he could put down
in q stocking leg if he would rather
save it than spend it. And the State
will re ap more benefit from the trips
they are taking than the men them
SEW es will. The Republicans insin-
uation is unwarranted and unkind.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12

John Preston Campbell has written an anti
free FLYER topical song; some good can come
out o. Abilene X. c Star.
The Star has probably "got them
children mixed" 1t is w. e. Camp
bell, the Topeka lawyer, who has
written the anti-frce silver song. And
it is so good one that Eugene Ware
took the trouble to write long letter
to the K ansas delegation 10 Cleveland
asking them 10 try and have it sung
there. at is Kansas thing, and an
extraOrdin airy good thing" Ware
said, "the best anti-silver campaign
song that could be produced anywhere
but in Kansas" Unfortunately Tom
Ander son was not with the Kan
sss crowd so We could not get il sung.
But wait till next year and then
watch it go.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
The Discovery Saved His Life

Mr.. g. Caillouette, Druggist, Beav.
er sville, ILL.,, says: "To DR.. Kings
New Discovery owe my life. Was
taken with LaGripe and tried all the
physicians for miles about, but of no
avail and was given up and told /
could not live. Having DR.. Kings
New Discovery in my store sent for
a bottle and began its use and from
the first dose beg an to get better, and
after using three bottles was up and
about again. 1t is worth IFS weight
in gold. We Won't keep store or house
without it," Get free trial at Evans
Bros Drug Store.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
CHEAP MONEY,

We ARE for free silver because it viii advance
the price Of cotton and cOrn.-I ". Siblcg, O.
PenRsglUdRid.
If free coinage should be enacted
would the people on that account need
any M ore corn and cotton than they
do now? Or would they on that ac-
count produce any less of either? In
other words would free coinage have
any influence irectly or indirectly
on the supply of corn and cotton or on
the demand for either of them? II
not,-and the answer must be in the
negative, -then how would free com
age advance the price?
By de6dSiRg the currency.
Can there be any other answer ? If
the demand is 10 remain the same
and the supply the same, then under
the universal law of trade the price
must remain the same unless the
the value of the purchasing medium
is dimish 1t seems to us that is
the logic of Mr.. Sibley's demand
Now gold cannot be materially
cheapened. There is a worlds de-
mand for it at its present price which
will maintain that price regardless Of
any action the United States NAV
take. If The United States is to have
cheap money, then, it must be money
which is at discount from gold.
We nave hammered at these things
. long time and that is the only con-
clusion We have been able to pound
out. If we are wrong We should like
to be set right. If we are right, then
does anybody think we should have
free coinage?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
SOME BIG COUNTIES.
California Has One Bigger Than -Four
Eastern states Put Together.

California Has One Bigger Than -Four
Eastern states Put Together.
East of the Rocky mountains there
are only twelve counties in the United
States containing more than 5000
square miles Not one Of these is in
New York state, the largest county OF
which, st. Lawrence, covers only $500
square miles One of the twelve is
Aroostoolz, the forest county Of north
ern Maine, between New Brunswick
and the St. Lawrence. Another is
Dade county, Fla, which includes the
everglades of Florida along the At
lantic coast, and has an area of 5000
square miles and total population of
less than 900. Cherry county, Neb, in
the extreme northeast of the state,
with the Snake river dividing it in half.
has an area of 5,669 miles. Three
northern counties of Minnesota lying
south of Manitoba and west of Lake
Superior, Beltrami. Itasca and St.
Louis, have respectively 500, $40
and $500 square miles. The last coun-
ty includes the important city of Du-
luth, but the first has population Of
only 800 and the second only of $50.
The population of Duluth is IS, 900.
Two counties of Idaho-Bingham
containing the lava fields, and Idaho,
south Of the Nez Perces' reservation
contain more than 10000 square miles
each. Two counties in Texas, Pecos
and Ell Paso, have more than 5000
square miles. Pecos, which is in the
extreme west of the state. on the Rio
Grande, has 6, 100 II PasO, which adj
joins it on the Rio Grandc, has $3.50.
One county OF Colorado, Arapaho, has
an area of 5,22O square miles, but it is
still more notable from the fact that il
has a population of 10000, including
the city of Denver. Routt county, in
the same state, has an area of 6,000
square miles. On the Pacific slope
counties, like trees ard fruits, are of
gigantic size. Six counties of Oregon,
three counties of Washington, seven
counties lof Nevada and seven coun-
ties of California have more than 5000
square miles. The largest of all in the
United States is the county of San Ber-
nardino, to the east of Los Angeles.
Its area is nearly 21,O0O. square miles,
nearly half the size of New York state,
and 5000 miles larger than New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode
Island combined.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12

many old soldiers in terrible shape for it is all
we can do now to exist Mr.. Editor. please
also let me know IL our congressman do go in
with the Southern brigsdiers TO get free
coinage and put prices up. do you think the
men and put up our pensions so that the old
soldiers will have no loss to bear for God
knows we can't stand much loss now. Your
answer viii interest many old soldiers.
Very Respectfully,
AN OLD SOLDIER
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
CHINCH RUGS AGAIN.

ED. REGISTER Last week mention
was made of the chineh bug infection
having appeared in the crop of S. H
Weith before we thought it possible
from the application furnished by us,
but this week several such cases have
come under our observation.
Arthur Cunningham brought to us
live bugs from his fathers farm in Sa-
lem township and among them was
found a sample of the diseased bugs
so well developed that we discovered
it without our specs, and upon plac-
ing it under the powerful microscope
belonging To the Horticultural Society
it was proven to be genuine.
We are also informed of case south
of town where the bugs from wheat
field invaded the corn of man who
takes special delight in scouting the
idea that the infection is of any value
to the farmer, who is now said to be
able to gather up by the quantity
dead bugs covered over with the
white coating that is produced from
no other cause.
Still another case, that of Mr.. RenO's
corn field, probably half mile from
Mr.. Bunnell's where last week we
mentioned such successful expert
ment and adjoining the same large
field of wheat mentioned. When Mr..
Bunnell applied the remedy in his
field the bugs were making havoc in
Mr.. RenO's fine bottom corn and after
taking clean from it five toeight acres
they ceased. Monday we examined
the field and found the largest num-
Der of the dead, fungus-covered bugs
we have seen in one place in our
tn rec years experience.
The weather for the past few weeks
has been very favorable for the spread
of the disease and the bugs are not
having as fair show for good health
as in a hot dry season but they are
present in sufficient quantities in near
ly every community in the county to
bob up in time to damage the excel
lent prospect for large corn crop
that is just ahead of our people, and
L cite these examples to emphasize
the statement of Prof Snow that this
disease is natural enemy to The
chinch bug and is present at some
point each season /; his discovery only
makes it possible to introduce it at
will and with very little trouble or
scientific knowledge into any field or
crop threatened.
Another statement of the eminent
scientist is that the weather only him
ders and does not to any great extent
destroy the bugs.
1 should like to see every man who
observes the disappearance of the
bugs take a few moments time to
look for the cause of it and if they
find in the damp and shaded places
bugs dead with white or mouldy
or even dead bugs in any
quantity, would bring
some, if but one, TO town and have
the Secretary Uf our society, Mr.. Pam
coast, place it under the microscope |
and discover whether he has this po-
tent disease on his place one that he
IAN communicate TO any point with
ease.
1t is almost as easy to rid your crop
rs it was for the people of old TO look
1t Moses's fiery serpent. j. w. j.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
FREE COINAGE AND PENSIONS.

An old soldier recently wrote the
letter which follows TO the Wichita
Eagle, but strangely enough the
Eagle would not even publish it, to
say nothing of answering it. AS the
old soldier is still anxious to get an
answer, and as many of his comrades
in this section who are similarly
situated would also be glad doubtless
to see this particular phase of the free
coinage question discussed, we here
with print the letter, and will gladly
give space for reply:
To the Editor of the Eagle.
DEAR SIK--I am an old soldier with a family
am in poor hea It'll and depend almost entirely
on my pension. ! see you are talking for free
silver, because you say il will make every
thing go up" 1t is also said that our Congress
men should forget everything else and go in
with the Southern brigadiers and get free
Coinage. may not have studied this subject
as shOnld have done. but will you please tell
me II We get free coinage and everything goes
up, viii my pension money buy as many
groceries, dry goods and other necessaries Of
lie as u does now. or viii the purchasing
power be less? II you are going to fix il SC our
pens0n money viii buy less then IL win put
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALLEN COUNTY.
JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the Republicans OF
the Seventh Judicial District will be held 81
Chsnute Kansas. on Saturday July 20 1895 at
o'clock D. m for the purpose of nominating Q
candidate for Judge of the 9TH Judicial District
The basis OF representation will be one dele
rate for each one hundred votes cast for n
Sorrill for Governor in 1894 Under this appor
tionment the teveIal counties in the Distrie
will be entitled 10 delegates as follows:
Allan Is Wilson 80 ......... j
TeSeho . 20 Woodson ......... II
The delegates 10 said convention will be Sc
l0efed from each county at such time and place
and in such manner as the respective Republic
can County Central Committees Of the counties
By direction of the Republican Judicial Dis
tRict Central Committee of the eth Judicial Dis
txict Of the State of Kansas.
Chanute Kan May Is '95.
WM. II. MCCLURE A. Z. GIBsof,
Secretary. Chairman