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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
A CHANCE FOR PEACE.
The Gas Company Offers Dollar Gas
For Five Years.

VI w
There is little question that the
majority of the citizens of lola believe
that peaceful solution of the present
agitation of the gas question would be
happy event and one much to be
desired. With this in view a meeting
of the business men of the city was
held last Wednesday night and a
committee consisting of ID. Ewart, A.
l.. Taylor and w. l.. Bartels was ap-
pointed to confer with the Gas Com
pany. AS a result of that conferences
the Company has agreed and is now
ready to make five-year contracts
with consumers at the present sched-
ule price. This is guaranty that
the present prices will be maintained
and meets the satisfactory approval
of large number who were led to be-
lieve that the price of gas would be
raised in spite of the COURTS decree at
the expiration of two years. A five
year contract certainly proves the
Willingness of the company to do it's
share toward ending the strife.
This ought to settle the question.
A great many people took sides ON
the gas question chiefly on the ground
that the price would be raised and
the argument was used all through
the recent campaign Every tax
payer will agree that dollar gas is
cheap enough and with a guaranty
of that for five years without the ne
cSssity of doubling our indebtedness
by voting bonds, everyone ought to
be satisfied.
Let us have peace!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
Could not Walk.

81 had sore on one of my limbs
and could not walk. | began taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla, by the advice of
a physician, and when had taken
five bottles | was sound and we'll. l
am very thankful for this medicine
and the benefit l have derived from
its use.n MRS. NICHOLAS HARRING-
TON, Argentine, Kansas.
Hoods Pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Sarsaparilla. Easy
aud yet efficient.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
GAS AT LAHARPE'
The Well Opens Up Finely and is One
of the Best.

OF the Best.
Friday afternoon after drilling
about a foot into the gas sand in the
LaHarpe we'll, operations ceased and
the tools were sharpened for the final
work so that the forge fires could be
extinguished when the full flow was
struck. The sand was struck at n
depth of 9l5 feet, exactly the same
depth rs in the Ohlfast well which
was sunk TO 935 feet and proved a
gusher. The top OF the Ohlfast well
is however twenty-five feet lower
than the top of the LaHarpe well and
the drillers have a theory that there
is an upward bulge of the top of the
sand at Laharpe, while the bottom OF
the sand is on level This would
mean pocket and the well will be
sunk as long as, the pressure allows
the tools to work with view to find
ing out just how much gas there ia.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
w. L. McNall, Tramp Who Claims
To Bea
SON OF WEBB IM'NALL
Suicidal Intent-Not His
First Attempt.

About nine o'clock Sunday night
a fairly well dressed tramp applied to
night marshal Brewer for place to
sleep and was locked up in the city
calaboose. A about an hour later
people passing by were startled by
groans issuing from the calaboose and
upon investigating found that the
tramp was drawn up on the floor,
apparently In great pain. He told
them that he had taken an ounce of
arsenic. DR.. Morgan, the county
physician, was summoned at once and
worked with him until late hour.
The tramp said that his name was
Will McNall and that he took the
poison because he was tired and
hungry aud broke. He said he was a
son of Webb McNall and that he and
his father didn't get along very well
together.
Young McNall was picked up from
the hard floor where he was lying
and taken to the Nlckle Plate
restaurant and put in bed. Aside
from beng very sore internally he
seems to be getting along all right,
of danger tor some time yet. He is
large, sandy-haired, smOoth-shaven
fellow about "A years old. He was
seen at Mann's livery stable Saturday
afternoon and said that he had just
about run out of money and had been
living on one meal a day for a week
past. II. Layton, who used to know
his uncle at Lebanon, Kansas, and
his father, said that had he known OF
his condition, he would gladly have
taken him home.
AS soon as he told the doctor who
he was message was sent to Webb
McNall at Topeka and as no answer
was received it is thought that he
started on the first train without
stopping to answer. The boy told the
physician not to worry that twice be-
fore he had taken poison In larger
quantities. AT one time he took ten
cents worth of strychnine and at
another fifty cents worth ofmorphine.
He bought this particular dose OF
arsenic of Miss Lutte Evans at Evans
Bros. drug store. He said he wanted
, 1T for Mrs. Alloway and signed his
mama NJ. l., or NJ. 5. McNall. Every
thing was all proper, apparently, and
she let him have 1t. He probably
spent his last cent for it, as he had nc
money on his person. He took the
whole ounce and would probably have
taken more II he had had more money
to buy 1t with.
Walter Pattee used to know young
McNall at Lebanon, Kans., and sayt
ne had been married and was di
vorced and had a daughter eigh
years old living with the mother wh'
married again. Young McNall a
one time had considerable money
but has been up and down of recen
years and Sunday night touched bot
tom.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
STORM SWEPT.
New England and New York
Buried in Snow.

SPECIAL to the REGISTER.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. Late dis
patches state that the worst storm
known for years is now raging in
New England and other eastern
states.
AT Albany N. Y. the snow is 81 feet
deep and all traffic is suspended. 1t
is feared that the loss of lives and
shipping on the sea coast will be very
heavy
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
Real Estate Transfers.

Furnished daily by the SLOWER
ABSTRACT COMPANY, bonded alb
tractors, lola. Kansas.
Geo IIettinger to Peter scheer VIII lot 10
blk u Humboldt .....,,..,,... ......,. 400 o.
Peter scheer to T W Ellis VIII lot 10 blk p
HUMBOLDT .,.,. ........ .,,...,. ..... 900 "
Chas A Clark to Homer Hendricks lot 70
blk ITO lola. .... .........., .....,.,',. l21 "
r ! Leek to Geo Eldridge seq of neq and
neq o. seq sec p nwq Of swq 20 "A Is $50 o.
James b, Rush ct al to Nm Bolin, swA Of
nwA 9.2b.1S wd,...,, .....,, O.. 1000 OF
Emma Noggle and husband to Earnest
welch, lot blk 100 lola, wd ....... 200 o
G Anderson and wife to NJ Mcdonald
lots and seq neg 26-24-is c d.. B.. 200 0
Newton Warner to J NJ Mcdonald undiv
100 lots and in seq nwq 26-2i-ls wd 10 0
Lucy L Dayton ct al to Joseph and Geo
Mckinley lots /, ?, 3, 4, g, blk II Hid
Ayers add W d.. .,...,,.,,,.,,..... 200
Albert A Peckham and wife to II L Peck
ham nwq 20 .24-2l W .......... ...... 1000 0
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
WHOLESALE JAIL DELIVERY.
Six Prisoners Escape From the Fort
Scott Jail.

Six Prisoners Escape From the Fort
Scott Jail.
Special TO the REGIsTER
FIT. SCOTT, Kans., Feb. /, 1S0S:-A
wholesale Jail delivery occurred here
this morning. There were prison
ers in the Jail and all of them escaped
except one whose sentence expires to-
day. The prisoners who escaped were
confined on various charges ranging
from petty larceny to murder. Dur
ing the night they sawed one of the
cell bars off and got out in the hall
way of the prison and when the
sheriff opened the door this morning
they made q rush at him and over
powered him. AS soon as he was dis
posed of, they made good their escape,
scattering in all directions. Steps
were at once taken for their capture
and deputies sent out to scour the
country while the wires were kept
hot warning the authorities of neigh
boring towns TO be on the lookout
Up TO the present time however, no
traces of them have been found.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
Fatality OF Group.

Statistics show that thousands of
infants and children die yearly of
membraneous Group. We do not ex-
aggerate when we state that every
one of these innocents could have
been saved had Foley's Honey and
Tar been given them in time. Can
you afford to he without 1t in your
household? Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
THE TOLEDO GAS PLANT.
Mr.. Hoyt, a Travelling Man, Tells
About His Home.

iDOut
Friday afternoon Mr.. Hoyt, a
travelling salesman for Toledo, o.,
wholesale house, was in lola and
hearing some gas talk, he learned
what was being urged in the way of
city ownership. Mr.. Hoyt, from his
experience in his home town, was
very decided in his opinion of mum.
cipal ownership. "Years ago Toledo
voted bonds and bought her gas
plant and she has never received
enough money from it to pay even the
interest on the bonds" The expense
of extending the lines and sinking
new wells has run ahead of the re-
ceipts and now the wells are playing
out and Toledo has gas bonded in
debtedness of over half a million and
a rapidly decreasing revenue.
Mr.. Heyt put the case in a nut
shell when he said: AS long as the
gas lasts and holds its orig inal pres
sure, your town will grow and expand
and the expense of the necessary
extensions will equal or surpass the
revenue. AS soon as the gas begins
to fail, the consumption drops off and
the revenue is cut down while at the
same time the expense of the plant
is increased by the necessity of sink
ing new wells and connecting them
And when the town is suffering from
the reaction from the gas boom, when
the taxes are particularly burdensome
there still remains the bonds and
they have to be paid.
There is good sound sense in Mr.
Hovt's remarks and they deserve
honest consideration.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04

What does A stand for ? When
some friend suggests that your
blood needs A sarsaparilla treat
ment, remember that A stands for
AYERS. The first letter in the
alphabet stands for the first of
sarsaparillas first in origin, first
in record, first in the favor of the
family. For nearly half century
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
John Often Has a Key.

Several weeks ago the REGISTER
stated that John Often was the only
merchant i'm town who didn't have 8
key to his store, and it was true. To.
day he received sheet-iron key
which when open is about a yard
long. John suspects a Pittsburg
friend of the Joke. Accompanying
the key was the following type-wrlt
ten note:
Mr.. John often 1t has been said by the
merchants Of your city that you were the
only man who did not have key to his own
store. We therefore took the liberty of
starting collection for yourl benefit, the
proceeds of which were to go towards buy
ing key for you. That the collection was
success is evidenced by the enclosed,
which you will -please accept with our
thanks. and may it be said by all hereafter
that you will never be caught without u
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
There Is mol 2 About Il.

No question indeed with those who
have used it, but that Foley's Kidney
Cure is absolutely reliable for all
Kidney and Bladder diseases. Evans
Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
A CHEAP FARM.
Humboldt, Kas.

100 s'res-l30 i'm cultivation, 80 in
pasture, spring in pasture. Small
house and barn This is situated in
the best portion of A lien county, good
ghborhood, miles from railroad
station. Price. $1,000. $500 cash,
balance in payments to suit.
BosTwICK u A GERS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
RHEUMATISM CURED IN A DAY.

"Mystic Care" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to 3
days. It's action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits: 70 cents.
Sold by all druggists.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
A Short Sad Story.

A Short Sad Story.
A Cold.
Neglect.
Pneumonia.
Grief.
Had Foley's Honey and Tar been
used, this story would have had a
happier ending. Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
Ayers
SaPSdpaPlIld

has been curing all forms Of blood
diseases -scrofula, eczema, letter,
rheumatism, erysipelas, blood poi
soning, etc. There's book about
these cures -" Ayers Curebook, a
story of cures told by the cured"
which is sent free on request, by
DR.. j. C. Aver, Lowell, Mass. The
book will interest you if you are
sick or weak, because it tells not
what it is claimed the remedy will
do, but what your neighbors and
fellows testify that it has done.
Win it cure you ? 1t has cured
thousands like you. Why not youf
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04
FOR FORTY YEARS.

Portrait and Biographical Sketch Of
the Oldest Postmaster In
Allen County, and
Perhaps In the
State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04

Glad Tidings to Asthma Sufferers.
Foey's Honey and Tar gives quick
and positive relief in all cases. Evans
RrOs
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-04

A BENEFAGTRES9 5F'll9 fS

Be5....Jl l...sa.ECUlAnl.E GOOD.
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11

cular forms, SO that each student will
have an uninterrupted view of any expert
ments or demonstrations at the professor
table. Opening from this table is Prof.
Elders work room, to be furnished with
tables and shelves and every possible
convenience. Adjoining this room is the
apparatus room in which will be kept all
the various pieces of apparatus usually to
be found in building of this charac-
ter This room is fitted with gallery and
case running from floor to ceiling,
Through passage leading from the main
hall directly back is large library or
class room, 1926 feet. Adjoining this Is
the girls coat room. On the left of the
main entrance hall is the laboratory prop
er. This room. is 38x54 feet and is to be
fitted with tables and sinks con structed
in the most approved manner, and SO ar
ranged tho 40 students can be easily ao.
commodated without interfering in any
way with one another. Along one side
of this room is row of hoods with tho
rough ventilation SO that experiments
evolving noxious or disagreeble gases can
be carried on behind glass and the fumes
or gases be Immediately carried away by
the vent f1ues The walls of this room are
to be of brick laid in red mortar as we'll
as the ceiling in the lecture room is to be
of stamped steel.
A stock room 14x37 feet opens from
this laboratory and in this room will be
kept the various chemicals and materials
used by the students in thsir work.
From the main hall way wide stair
case leads to the second story landing in
large hall 20x25 feet.
Over the laboratory is the assembly hall
thu full size Of the laboratory beneath.
Directly back of the entrance hall are the
presidents offices comprising waiting
room 12x17 feet and private room 15x17
| feet. In front of the entrance hall room
25x16 feet is to be fitted up as study
| room for the use of the students at any
time they may desire. Over the lecture
room the space is divided into two large
class rooms a7xss feet.
| In the third story or attic there will be
a janitor's room, the remaining space be.
| ing devoted to the net work of ventilat-
ing pipes which are necessary in order to
carry out the scheme of heating and ven.
tilation which has been provided.
The heating will be by means of steam
coil Rand large. fan, or what is known as
the Plenum system in which the air is
forced through ducts into the various
rooms, dues being provided for the foul air
to make it's escape through central VEN
tilator on the ridge.
The building will be finished through.
out in brown ash in simple manner as
BELTS a building Of this character, but
everything will be put in upon the most
substantial basis.
The exterior promises one Of the most
attractive buildings on the campus. The
walls are to be built of the local stone
with trimmings at entrance and windows
of red brick laid in red mortar, with
adornments of terra Gotta and moulded
brick. The roof is to be slated with Maine
slate and the color effect of the building
will not be surpassed by any college
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11
CITY GOVERN MENT.
Special Meeting of Board of Mayor and
Aldermen.

A special meeting Of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen was held at noon
yesterday. the Mayor presiding. Absent
Aldermen Sprague and Smith.
Alderman Rounds presented the petition
of James P. Baxter for permission to
build four iron bay windows, as an adj
dition to his block at Nos. 9-I5 Exchange
street to project over sidewalk two feet,
in second, third and fourth stories. Mr.
f. II. Fassett the architect was present
and showed the proposed plan. 1t was
stated thar no work had yet been done on
the rebuilding and as the workmen were
anxious to proceed without delay immedi-
stead of the petition being referred as is
customary.
On motion Of Mr.. Rounds the petition
was unanimously granted
Alderman Mannix offered petition of
residents of Anderson street for an arc
light on the street half way between Cum
berland and Oxford streets. Referred.
Alderman Dow offered petition of
Charles Horyseck for permission to erect
two and one-half story frame building
'orner of Payson and proposed street
Referred.
Alderman Lamson offered an order that
Etty Clerk grant the usual licenses for
ale of fireworks for July 4th Passed.
Licenses were granted. subject to the
Jules, to A. ]. Cobb and A. G. jackson
IS victuallers.
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11
HARBoR NOTES.
1t Was Bright and Breezy on the Water
Front Yesterday.

Commissioner Tolman sent four men
to Bath yesterday for the schooner r. E.
Pettigrew, bound from Bath to Phila.
delphia and return.
The smack Hermann Reesing arrived
with 5000 Holsters to N. F. Trefethen
the Eva M. Martin with 1000 Holsters
from Digby, N. S.
The Boothbay steamer Enterprise is al
Central wharf undergoing a general
spring overhauling. She has been fitted
with new mast and is being reprinted.
There ara five or six cargoes of molasses
at Porto Rico waiting for chance to be
shipped north.
The Pride of the Port with 5000 Holsters
from Nova Scotia arrived to +. S. Will
lard.
She boys on the Montauk were prac-
ticing Wig Wag signalling yesterday
The tug Wrestler, with the barges Draper
and Oakhill IN tow, left yesterday.
The steamer 3. S. Willard brought In
10000 Holsters.
The State of Maine arrived at 4 p. m.
and the Horatio Hall at p. m.
The Nellie Burns came off the railway
and will go on a sword fishing trip.
New mess kits arrived for the Montaul
yesterday.
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11
BELLOWS SCHOOL.
Graduating Exercises Took Place Yester-
day.

The graduating exercises of the class
Of '9s, Bellows school for girls were held
in the Second Advent church at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The. programme
was as follows:
Recitation of the Inscriptions in the
Congressional Library at Wash :.
inpton. d. c., School
Reading From Dialogue of Plato.
Helen Dana
Recitation-"Kubl Khan" School
Reading from Herodotus,
ng-'Nuremburg, Evelyn Fogg
Essay Mile" Margaret Neal
Reading-"The Sower,"
Alice Chamberlain
Recitations. Children's School
ssay-"Education," Carrie Harmon
Essay-"A Picture" Helen Manning
Scene from g A School for Scandal +"
Helen White and Henry Bellows
Essay-"A Child's First Sorrow"
Elizabeth Varnum
Scenes from Filbert's play THE
Princess. Members Of the School
Address to the Graduates and Award
ing of Honors, Rev. John A. Bellows
THE following young ladies compose the
graduating class: Miss Alice Chamber
lain, Bethel; Helen Dana, Westbrook !;
Mary Evans, Bangor, and Helen Mann
ing, Margaret Neal, Eiiznnth V"rnum'
After the reception. tea and dance was
given at the school on Danforth street by
the members and invited guests.
There is great regret that Mr.. and Mrs.
Bellows have decided to move to Boston
where they will open school in the
autumn on Beacon street.
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11

building in Maine. The stone for the
wall will give variety of color, being full
of rich warm yellow and brown shades,
constrasted with the red brick at win
dows and entrance. A broad and en-
erous flight of granite steps leads 80 a
recessed porch with arched entrance. the
floor of the!poroh being laid with marble
mosaic, while the woodwork at the door
and windows of the entrance will be in
old oak.
In the two main piers of the entrance
will be large terra Gotta panels to be fine
" modelled and with Inscriptions which
have not as yet been decided upon.
The cut Of the building which we pub
lish, however, will give much clearer
idea of its general form and appearance
than can be given by any description.
The main contracts for the work have
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11
CHILDREN'S DAY AT CONGRESS
STREET ME-. CHURCH.

Od1l4OItu1N LA "a L OONdhhISS
STREET ME-. CHURCH.
Children's day will be observed at the
Congress Street III. E. church. In the
afternoon the pastor will preach sermon
appropriate to the day and in the evening
a concert will be given BY the Sunday
school with the following programmes:
Voluntary.
Anthem, Choir
Scripture Reading.
Prayer. sff
Singing by the school.
Recitation-"S Storing Sunshine for a
Stormy Day., Walter Haskell
Song, Celia Lowell
Exercise, BY 26 little folks
By three little girls
Song-"He Cares for the Lilies, -
By four children
"Sowing Time
Eugene Shaw. Clarence Holbrook
Collection.
Anthem, Choir
Duett-"Just Little Pansy.''
Vella Weber, Mildred Richards
Reoitation-"T Thoughts for Children's
song@Hour Country" H lazy Me Shave
ExerciseEand Motion Song, SIX girls
solo, ,,u, Miss Schumacher
Recitation-"A Message of Song,
Marion Littleield
hecltaglon' Eta Laiten
6 hemarks, :. A. By the pastor
Benediction.
The Portland daily press., 1898-06-11
PEAKS ISLAND.
Committee on New Streets Visited the Is
Iaud Yesterday.

Members of the aommittee
on streets visited Peaks Is
land yesterday to take view of the new
street laid out from point near the Gem
Theatre to the top of the hill, and
terminating at located way known as
Adams street. The length OF the street is
3s252 feet. The petitioners were Ben
jamin Welsh and others, who were repre-
sentsd by Locke & Locke, attorneys The
matter of acceptance will be determined
at some future meeting of the committee.
At the conclusion Of their official duties
the committee visited the Gem and made
an inspection of the theatre. They were
highly pleased with its neat and artistic
finish.
MIR. J. S. O'Brien. of Bangor, who is
on his annual tour through the State,
supplying the hotels with printed rates
and regulations and copies Of the State
laws, was at Peaks yesterday, and will
soon visit Orr's Island, HarpsweIl and
adjacent spots.
Frsd Englund. while rowing in boat
just off the pier, upset yesterday. He and
accompanying friend escaped, but with
a pretty good ducking
Miss Nellie Brackett has entered the
employ of Littlefeld & Co. on the Ave.
nue.. as bookkeeper.
James Day has just moved his cottage
so as to be on line with others along the
street. and yesterday was engaged ma.
king repairs.
The agent Of the Emergency Fire Ex-
tinguishers has just supplied the Gem
with extinguishers. He will give an ex-
hibition at an early date on the Avenue
Littleflt Id & Co. are his authorized
agents.
Mr.. Sawyer, of the Peaks Island House,
has just received $50 Vienna dining room
chairs from the Thomas P. Beals COM
pany for use in his hotel
The Eldorado yesterday afternoon towed
to the pier scow loaded with crushed
stone, which is being used to grade and
improve the road leading up from the
pier.