The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-30

Strange how stories get started
that apparently have no foundation
whatever. a few days ago man
who had come up on the night train
from Hu .lboldt came into this office
and said he had heard some Hum
bOldt men talking in the depot and
they had said that the Gas Company
down there was having all kinds of
trOu BILE, that Mr.. Fussman had re-
signed as superintendent because
the Company wouldn't let HIM put
pressure enough on the line to supply
the people and Mr.. Tilldale had been
appointed in his place, and hOW a
great many people are throwing out
the gas and putting in coal and lot
more like that. The REGISTER
printed what he said about the re-
sighat' on Of Mr.. Fussman. because 1t
was news, but not saying anything
about the people throwing out the
gas because that would he had news.
And now comes Mr.. Cunningham, of
Humboldt. and says the whole story
is "A fake from beginning to end,
that Mr.. Fussman never resigned
and Mi. Iilldale was never appoint
ed, mob Idy had taken out ga and
he nnn who tried to make u living
selling c,sl in Humboldt would
starve tn death and So on aud So on.
or cpurse Mr.. Cunningham knows
aud tells the truth rhe other man
doubt css told what he heard. But
Judge SlillWel's remarks TO the
dOZeu men who were found guilty of
violating the pruhi 1itory lav before
the men confined to the county jail TO
serve their sentences is being widely
commentrd-upon by Kansas papers.
Tue Mail aud Breeze comments thus:
? The Judge is getting dosn tn the
, 900 of the business, The joln'est has
no excuse tot running tbs ] lint hLsi
ue-s IN kau-tS. As = mater of fact
he has 40 right to discuss the ques
tioi MS To whether It il wrong to seil
y ia" stuff AZ Il beverage or not. 1t Is
no difference, 20 far MS he IL concern
ed, whether II is any more harm to
sell beer than vinegar. 1t Is his bust
ness to obey tie laws OF the stale.
II he doesn't choose to do hat he
should yet out of Kansas. He can go
to Missouri or Colorado or Texas or
to - VI he wants to engage IN the
. joint business in any one of those
places he will probably he welcome,
II he stays In Kansas and dce- not
, obey the laws he should have the
clamps put on his hand and put on
, hard.
Mr.. A. j. McClnng, trustee of Els
more township, drove up last Fri
day bringing with him homeless
pensioner whom he wished to send Ia
the Old soldiers Home. He learne
however, that the Home IL already
full and has some 200 applications
, still pending, aud as the law does not
allow any old soldier to he sent to th G
Poor Farm there seemed to be notb-
ing to do but to take the old man
: him cared for there at the county e
= expense Benson Williams is the
mans name. He is 81 years and IL
almost helpless, being unable to dress
: himself. He has been living with
: his son, but the latter is unable tC
keep him longer. 1t Is pitiful case
and 1t Is to be hoped comfortable
b home viii be found for the old man.
l. Saturday night the dismally anC
I alsrmingly familiar 'clamor of the fir'
d bell drove sleep from the eyes of {
i large portion of the town. A snal
o boy brought word that fire had broker
It out in one of Mr.. II. w. William
d houses on n. Cottonwood. When tn,
Q crowd got there the fire was all owe
o having been put out by the family
1t had caught in the flue and ate
y burning through the roof and beer
" promptly extinguished, the boy beinl
3. dispatched as precaution in case tn
10 fire gained headway The house wa
% occupied by Grant Spears, who saveC
l. all his goods uniniured.
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