The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-29
OUR FOLKS AND OTHERS.
Some of the Things that Outside Papers
are Saying About People We Know
or Things that Concern Us.
Wouldn't 1t be Sweet.

Hutchison News: A good way to
end the story would be to have Fred
Funston and Miss Cisneros get mar
ried and let the band play America
while the audience goes round.
Don't Worry About Col. Fred.
Newton Republican: AT last the
spell is broken and Major Fred Fun
ston, that valiant Kansas boy, has
written home from Cuba where he is
fighting Weyler's hosts. Funston is
ali right and there need not have
been the slightest fear about HIM.
Romantic. but Not Likely.
Laurence Journal: 1t is just barely
possible that Fred FunstOn's reason
for coming home may be in some way
connected with the arrival on our
shores of the beautiful Cuban prisoner.
If it is, then Miss CisnerOs may con-
clude to come TO Kansas, even though
she does not come az a member of the
Munger family.
Now Who DO You suppose 1t Was?
Humboldt Herald: Monday night
a liveryman of lola, was driving to
Humboldt with a commercial man and
met one of his rigs, the horses being
without a driver and the buggy Occu-
pied only by a jug of whiskey. The
rig had been hired by an lola man
that day. How he got home no one
knows, but the coincidence in this
matter lies in the fact that little dis
lance farther on the liveryman met a
second rig without driver. 1t also
belonged to him and had been hired
by couple Of Iola's society blOOds.
This carriage contained case of beer,
few bottles of which were brought
to Humboldt and placed on ice. And
the blow almost killed father.
Good Words for a Good Man.
HbmbOldt Union: John McDon-
aid, Republican candidate for Com
missioner in the Second District, is
one of the oldest settlers of Allen
county, and is the best man that could
have been put upon the ticket for
Commissioner. He is a man of sound
judgment, fair and honest in all his
transactions, and has made a model
county official in every particular.
He is staunch Repu blican in politics,
but works for the best interests of the
entire county. He should be elected
by handsome majority, and we be-
lieve he will be. People of the Second
District will miss it if they turn down
John Mcdonald. He has been tried
and found true. Vote for him and
you will not be disappointed.
Everybody in Kansas will Welcome Him.
Burlington Republican: Charlie
Scott has received another very inter-
esting letter from Fred Funston in
Cuba. That gentleman has been pro-
NOTED to the office of Lieutenant Colo
mel and is the hero of the most impor-
tant victory gained by the Cubans
during the whole war He announces
his intention of coming home about
Christmas, saying that an American
who has fought through twenty-five
battles and four sieges has done his
share for Cuban independence and is
entitled to a rest. For a year or more
we have been almost afraid to open
the daily papers for fear of seeing the
announcement of Fred Funstsn's
death. On account of his peculiar
and heroic career, both as a Cuban
warrior and an Alaskan explorer, the
people of all Kansas take a remarka-
/ bic interest in him. He is one of the
most popular men in the State. and il
| he comes home soon he will be over
whelmed with the reception he
receives. He ought to come home
and accept a nomination for some.
/ thing.