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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
A GREAT SHOW FREE.
All Kinds of Attractions to be Seen at
Fort SCOTS Free Street Fair.

1t is probably safe to say, without
exaggeration that the greatest free
show ever given I'm the west will be
the Fort Scott Free Street Fair that
will he held in that city Oct. 10 to IA
inclusive. The grand entertainment
is given under the auspices of the
Fort Scott business men who pay the
bills and furnish the amusemeuts FIRE e.
The street fair, containing as 1t does
the circus, menagerie, hippodrome,
museum, carnival theatre and old
time horse and county fair, with
many other features all merged into
one vast, magnificent, and costly en-
tertainment, and to be seen on the
streets, has entirely outrivaled the
old time institution, the county fair IN
popularity. The one to be given in
Fort Scott will be the first real one
seen in this part of the country. Dur
ing the days of the fair grand and
gorgeous parades and flower displays
bewildering in brilliancy and surpass-
ing in grandeur any street spectacle
or procession ever seen in this coun-
try, will he seen together with other
free features on the streets.
No street fair would be complete
without - Midway and this Fort Scott
will have in all It's glory. Here will
be seen the Streets of Carlo, with its
FAR famed dreamy eyed, dancing girls
of the east; the mysterious Hindo Jug
glers; Japanese and Indian villages;
Idols of art; Partisan beauties and
other special features too numerous 20
mention. Other attractions will be
balloon assertions, parachute jumps,
revolving ladder acts, slides for life,
perilous feats on wires stretched from
the highest buildings, and exhibit
tons by the fire department with its
wonderful trained white horses.
The agricultural, horticultural and
live stock departments will be COM
posed of the finest exhibits to be pro-
cured in this part of the country.
At night the streets will be COM
posed, of perfect fairy bowers by the
brilliant illuminations and elaborate
decorations. Another of the many
features will be the high class vaude-
willie and theatrical performances on
large elevated stages erected i'm the
open air and positively free.
special low rates Will prevail on all
railroads running to Fort Scott, and
it is consertively estimated that
thirty thousand people will be pres
ent daily. 1t will bet graud treat
for all, and as the town will be at the
disposal of the visitors they will bt
cure to have most enjoyable true as
the guests of the Fort rcott business
men. st.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
n. NJ. Bartels VIII Build.

The REGISTER stated last winter
that Il. Nj. Bartels had decided that
he would build brick business house
on his lot on north Washington
avenue providing things went to suit
him in the matter of persuading his
neigh bors to build. He now intends
TO build anyway. The room he now
occupies was bought lately by Mr..
Barclay, of Chillicothe, Mo-, who ex-
pects to come here with clothing
stock i'm few weeks and go into the
adjoining room. The lease on the
Bartes room expires next March and
will not be renewed, so Mr.. Bartles
has to build or quit. His lot is the
one on which now stands the one
story frame Office of o. Foust IL Son,
owned by the Northrups. This
building will be moved off next week
and the work of excavating for the
basement and the foundations begun
az once. The building will be two
stories high, twenty-six and half by
one hundred and twenty feet ia
Dimensions, with a fifty foot base
ment beneath.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08

Several of the business men have
private tents on the grounds, among
them the Democrat, the Allen County
Investment Co., aud the REGISTER.
AS rule hand organs and machine
made music is night mare, but one
of the shooting galleries at the
grounds haze a mechanical piano that
could win honOrs at any piano re-
cital.
Secretary Wheaton in a good ma
tured scutile sufiere :. a rip along the
inner seam of his trousers which
rendered him hors de combat and
kept him seated in his carriage all
the afternoon.
The Humboldt belle, the little
steamer from down the river, arrived
yesterday evening. Charley Gard
ner is in charge and he says they
left Humboldt Monday morning.
For five miles only they had an easy
passage and the boat had to be prac-
'iN"iF NoIilcu liio resi- vi lHb way Oh
account of the low water. Last night
they ran out OF grub and landed in
a corn field to look for house. They
had a torch and followed the fence
clear around the field, returning to
the starting point without finding out
their mistake. Then the torch went
out and they had no matches and it
was only after half the night was
gone that they found house and
filled up.
Ernest Jordan with his Manila
pictures and curios was kept busy
all day telling about the Philippines
to curious crowd Oflisteners.
One of the street sprinklers is en-
gagged to put in each night at the
grounds laying the dust and coolir g
off the atmosphere.
The mains of tho Santa Fe and
smelter water lines are both tapped
on the grounds and an abundance of
water furnished wherever need.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
At the Big Show

Tuesday was the day set by the
management for the entrance of all
the exhibits to he made at the fair
and the time was devoted to nothing
else. The hot weather, bringing also
the fear of hard storms, made 1t
rather hazardous for people tn take
live stock any great distance and it
somehow took the ambition out of
people to help make the fair roar
ing success And then the new
ruling that passes would not be is
sued to exhibitors had adampening
effect on the public ardor on account
of its strangeness. But in spite OF all
these things tho display at the
grounds at o'clock last night was
superior in many departments to
those of former years. In other de-
partments there are fewer exhibits,
but taken as whole the fair IL ex-
cellent and up to the usual standard.
In Floral Hall there are some at
trac.ive displays which none should
miss. Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Turner,
in charge of department X, shave Il
better display than last year. Mrs.
Burke, of GaTnett, has again made
twenty or thirty entries, and all the
embroidery and drawn work is new.
Mrs. j. f. Thompson across the
room to the south with a similar de-
partment, has larger display than
last year.
In the fine arts department, Mrs.
A. l.. Taylor, are some very interest
ing curios sent home by the boys in
Manila, There are shells ,and fans
and flags and weapons, to say moth
ing of the handsome paintinge.
In class H., Mrs. Scott and Mrs.
Randolph, are some more relics, one
a special edition Of n Washington
paper at the time the news came that
Vicksburg was captured. 1t is a
little potter and is headed:
Latest From Grant!
Most Glorious News!
heau heau lNedu
How we have changed our ways
since then This paper is among a
collection of interesting relics and is
only an item in whole array of ar
tistic and interesting displays.
The fruit display makes one think
that this year has been an exceptions
ally good one The luscious apples
and grapes and years look woefully
out of place in this present climate
And one small boy named Bracken'
ridge has gone after the S3 prize fol-
a collection of native fruits. He has
wild grapes, cactus, yonkerpins
pawpaws, walnuts, hickory nuts, pc
cans, buckeyes. plums, sumac, poke
berries. cherries, black and red haws
hack berries, pigeon berries and
acorns. A savage would get fat IL
the Allen county woods.
The display of canned fruit is ex
cellent but noe so large as some years
have been, due to the poor season fol
fruit.
j. M. Williamson and q. II. De
Clute have awaited themselves of I
privilege which every lola merchan
should have done, to make a nea
} display in floral hall.
A. l.. Harmon has his usual beau
tiful array of flowers and plants.
) j. G. Cotiield is highly pleased
, with his department, the agricul
tural corner. The potatoes and corr
are the best in years. This isn't
/ corn joke,) The pumpkins are "some
t and all the lines are we'll represented
The geese are immense and lea
t the poultry procession.
t The horse show is fair and som
: fine stock is shown, but the cattle al
! nu sually fine. Not 80 many 90 lai
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
For Sale or Trade.

40 acres of land, two miles north on
Santa Fe railroad, no leases on land.
Inquire at REGISTER for information.
NJ ound OF fine shale for brick plant
FOR SALE OR TRADE-W. G. shinkle, Wise, has
high grade Durham bull calf and two Berk'
shire boarf, Tor sale
For SALE OR TRADE Elias Rhodes. six mile 8
south OF Lanyonville has one 4.yeaI-old short
horn bull, 3cows, yearling heifers and
yearling steers for sale.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
some MUST Ply
The Court DissOlves the In
junction in Part and At
firms Part.


Stillwell adjourned until Wednesday
when he: agreed to hand dowA
his opinion in the occupation tax in
junction case. MIR. &. A. Savage and
J. b, Goshorn represented the
plaintiffs and they made a
fight on purely legal grounds The
attorneys for the defendant argued
warmly in behalf of the rity ard
Judge Thompson toyed familiarity
with forty-five law books while he
spoke and read extracts from most of
them.
"Wednesday the Judge in a few
words gave II az his opinion that the
tax was legal in some lines, and
he dissolved the injunction, in part.
The decision is based on the stat
utes of 1897, in chapter 81 section GA,
relating to licenie taxes, in cities of
the second class. The section says
that "the ely council shall have eX-
elusive authority to levy and collect
license tax ON and then enum
crates those lines of business which
can be taxed The conclusion follows
that the lines not named cannot be
taxed, so the ordinance was amended
to conform with this list. AS result
the following sections of the occupa-
ton tax ordinance were dropped out:
Sec. 9. Abstractors or abstract firms,
SO.
4. Architects, so.
8. BARRIERS, So
" 10. Bill posters, resident IS an
nually, nonresident, SIS a day.
" 10. Brokers of all kinds, not spec
flied SO.
%. Confectioners restaurants and
bakers SO.
" 20. Creameries So.
"a Founderies and mach i ne
shops SO.
so. Laundries $40.
" 81. Meat markets SO.
5s Meat and fish wagons SO.
80. Merchant tailor SO.
60. Merry -go-round and swings,
IS day, $50 week, $40 a
month.
81. Mlliners IS.
81. Mills, flour, feed, grist. cider,
corn, $40.
70. Plumbe and gas filters SO.
70. Pop factories SO.
70. Scales $25.
A /" SO. Tombstone and marble works
v SO.
d" 81. Undertakers SO.
" IS. Veterinary surgeons, resident
So, foreign $40.
Quite a number of people paid theil
tax this afternoon as the ordinance
went into force again after dinner
Several of those who have previously
paid will De gwen back their money
but the sum is small.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08
NOTES.

There are twenty-one stands up
and more coming and the street is
as gay and giddy and noisy as Mid
way. The men are all jolly and
offer all manner of refreshment, in-
cluding candy, peanuts, watermelon
pop, lemonade, cigars and tobaccos,
knives, canes, niger babies, merry
go-rounds, aud regular meal. You
can't afford to miss it.
The supply of 500 exhibit tags pro-
vided by the association wac ex-
hausted soon after noon Tuesday
and more had to be improvised
which means that II you look the
grounds all over, you will find al
much or more than usual, some de
D rtments being ahead of others.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08

We wish to say word in regard to
the Monroe Drug Co. manufacturers o.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes. They not only
make the best dyes on the market
aud give you the most for your money
but thoy actually pay the printer in
advance. Campbell a. BurIell are
their agents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08

year, but all good. Fred McCarty
has some fine Herefords, ana f. p.
Stotler, of Hum bodt. and f. Hun.
sicker, of Colony, have herds of Jer-
seys that are hard to beat. Anyone
who fails to see that two-weeks-old
Jersey calf will miss one Of the pref
test things on the grounds.
Lew Horville and his hogs are all
fine. There are more hogs than ever
before and they are great. The eX.
hibits of sheep are also excellent,
thanks to Messrs, Dunlap and Town.
send.
Wednesday was really the first day
OF the fair and while the crowd was
not nearly so large as the directors
expect during the remainder of the
week, they were quite well pleased,
1t was an lola crowd largely and the
same people will be down every day
while the country people have not
yet been heard from.
The races were of course the main
event of the day and the grand stand
was filled with people from the trot-
ting of the fret heat to the declaring
of the winner at the close of the two
races. w. o. Irwin, of Wichita,
started the races and while the
starts were not all that could be de-
sired, it was no fault of his. He wac
the starter last year and gave general
satisfaction andsthe management was
very pleased when they secured him
again this year.
The first race called was the Thu ee-
year-old pace, best three out of five,
for. Il purse of 500. The horses, their
owners and their home and the order
in which they finished the heats is
given below:
Lite squaw, W f. Elwell, Ottawa. ......1 l
Lorell NJ, Sweeney, Coffeyville ...........32 4
Octo Ed Toler, Parsons ,.............,,....4 4 3
Belle Medium. G. II. Denkerson TT Scott 3 ?
Little Squaw got $3.50; Lorell NJ,
$3.50; Belle Medium, Sl4.25; Octo
$3.50.
The other race was the 900 trot for
500 The heats were made as fol-
lows:
Vendee P. H. Albright Winfield, .........4 4 8
Alberta Atkins, Knapp, owensburg Ky, !
Try Me, VIM Sherlock, Fredonia ..,.,.,, 3 3
Dad Delaney, II D Toler Wichita .... % 2
Prince Harrison, A Dehn Williamsburg, 4
The money was divided as follows:
Alberta Atkins, 500; Dad Delaney,
S47 90; Try Me, SOS 80; Vendee, $40.
Both races were won in straig hit
heats with apparent ease although
the other horses took turns in push
ing the winners. Twice the tires
came off the bikes and one time a
horse reared up, throwing the driver
from his seat, but no accident Oc-
Cured. Had the management had
flags they could have prevented two
horses from finishing In each race
and thereby saved paying third and
fourth money. This will be cor
rected.
NOTES
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
PROSPEROUS TRUSTS.

As an evidence of prosperity Hanna
ties call attention to the fact that
prices are advancing, that everything
controlled by trusts is going up, that
interest rates are increasing, and that
wages are advanced 10 per cent by
trusts whose profits have been increas-
ed 100 per cent and upwards.
The Standard Oil trust is booming it's
prices and enjoying an unprecedented
prosperity along with the other trusts
and combines which flourish under
Hanna's administration like a forest of
green bay trees.
The railroads are determined to fur
nish their share OF the evidences of
prosperity and incidentally to prevent
anybody else from getting any more
than The law-as enforced by Attorney
General Griggs-allows. Freight rates
have been advanced on all commodities
for which there is a large demand in
the west, such as mining machinery,
agricultural implements. household fur
niture and wares, groceries and every
necessity of life that the transconti-
mental lines handle
In the meantime the farmers of
Cache valley are getting 80 cents
bushel for wheat, and the shippers who
send livestock and produce east will be
compelled to add to the increasing pros
perity of the railway corporations
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
SOCIETY NOTES.

The faculty of the Latter-day Saints
college gave the students of the insti-
tuition a reception and dance at Chris
tenseD's last evening. In addition to
an evening spent in dancing there was
a short programme of singing and
speaking On the stage to the rear OF
the orchestra refreshments were served
during the evening. A number of prom
inent church officials were present. The
members of the faculty having the af-
fair in charge were: j. II. Paul, presi-
dent: Joseph Nelson, John Nj. Mills
Ralph " Chamberlin. NJ. A. Miller
Ada Bitner, Philip 5. Maycock. j. Reu(
ben Clark. jr.. c. b. Stewart, Nellie
Boyer, Evan Stephens. ]. B. Fairbanks,
L. c. Snow, D. j. McRae, Milton H.
Ross.
Mr. Best of Michigan is spending the
holidays in the city as the guest of his
daughter, Mrs. John White.
Miss Rookledge entertained Thursday
evening informally.
. @ @
Alex Goliath and Enos Hoag are
down from the Park for Christmas.
@ 8 @
Miss Welby returns home from Phil
adelphia this morning.
10 %
Captain ]. Wash Young returned
from Idaho yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
YULETlME PICTURES.

These are joyous times for the little
folks. Their cleaning eyes are drink
ing in the beauties of the window
shows along the streets; their anxious
ears are strained for whispered con-
situations in the home or for the tink-
ling bells of coming reindeer; their
little hearts are throbbing with excite
ment and their brains are whirling
with the anticipation of Christmas joys
and gifts
There are some who are doomed to
disappointment, who will look and long
in vain. who viii pray and hope with
out avail, whose poor abodes the mys-
ferrous dispenser of heaven-sent gifts
will pass without a glance in their di-
rection. But these will be very few
we trust that in the cities and towns
of Utah there will be none at all. Every
Christmas finds the number of neg
lected children fewer-there are kind
souls who seek them out. and organ
izatiOns whose object is to keep Santa
Claus posted as to where they live and
what they want.
There is nothing more pathetic than
to see a wan, pinched child of poverty,
a shivering, ill-clad girl, gazing into
richly furnished window, longing
through hopeless tears for a pretty
doll; or to see a ragged boy, who has
become despairing through frequent
disappointment. watching the we'll
dressed lads pointing out to indulgent
parents the things they most desire.
There are tragedies to be read in the
faces on the streets in Yuletime, trag-
edies of wistful longing and uncon-
scious envy, as well as poems of con-
tentment and carols of joy. But hap
piness and hope predominant, and
every year the composite picture grows
brighter, as every year the world
grows better.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
BREAKERS ARE AHEAD.

The Stockton Mail, one of the leading
newspapers of interior California, asks
three pertinent questions:
II Polygamist Roberts should be denied
his seat in congress-what then? Why.
those who elected him would be disfran-
chised.
What law is there. written or unwrit-
congressional district in sovereign
What law is there for denying his seat
to a regularly elected congressman be
cause of his religious opinions or moral
practices?
The Mail answers these questions in
its own way. 1t takes the position that
to deny Roberts his seat is to disfran-
chise his people-just what Represent
alive Hepburn. one of the Republican
leaders in the house, says it is proposed
to do. Utah is to be deprived of the
privileges of statehood because. it is al
legged, her laws are not rigidly enforced
But the Mail goes a great deal further
than The Herald has ever thought of
going in denunciation OF the methods
employed to deprive Utah of her rep
resentation in the house of congress.
Our Stockton contemporary says that
the situation is rendered peculiarly re-
pugnant TO fairminded men capable of
seeing higher than the top of church
spire. in that the moral practices of the
offensive congressman are distinctly
better than those of the average men,
Der of the body with which he is con-
sidered unworthy to affiliate. The only
difference is in the name. In his case
it is called polygamy; in theirs it is un-
derstood by various designations.
What authority the Mail has for
making this statement we do not know,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
EXCUSES ANALYzED.

What is your excuse for turn
ing traitor to the silver cause, for
"stultifying the record of twenty
years? asks a Sacramento newspaper
of an erstwhile champion of the white
metal.
I'VE have three excuses in stock, -
replies the ex-champion, in substance:
l. silver is only a hard times issue,
as Hanna remarked in 1885,
2. The men who walked out of the
St Louis convention were not elected
to Office by the Democratic party"
8. 1T is necessary to wave the bloody
shirt and fight the battles of the civil
war over ONCE more"
g @ %
Goldbugs never said a meaner thing
of bimetallism than that it was a ca
lamity cry-a hard times issue. For
three years the gold newspapers of the
country have been repeating that in
fanny. during which time we have come
TO look upon the "microcephalous
rogues" in their editorial chairs as ed
ucated idiots accomplished black
guards" paid attorneys of the money
power" small souled scoundreIs" and
''bunco men" who ought to be dangling
from the telephone poles of their re-
spective cities.
The men who walked out of the ST.
Louis convention are still out. and they
are not going around exhibiting sore
heads and asking political aims because
Of hopes deferred. Three years ago they
renowned the agents and the platform
of gold monometallism, and they still
denounce the men and measures put
forward by the money powers for the
enslavement of the American people
8 9 g
The civil war WAS ended more than
thirty years ago. A new generation has
grown up since then. The differences
which led up to that conflict and those
growing out of it have been satisfac-
torlly adjusted. and even Joe Foraker
has discarded the bloody shirt as an
emblem of demagogism and a relic of
ancient hatred.
But there are those, it seems, who
never outlive the animosities of youth,
who cherish musty grudges and nourish
imaginary grievances, who do their
fightingsf far from the scene of war and
fight the harder when the war is over,
who never engage in the actual defense
of their country. but always assail the
motives Of political opponents who do
enlist and offer themselves, their lives,
their all. in the nations cause. There
are such men. They are the malcon-
tents, the grumblers, the croakers, the
Benedict Arnolds whenever the price
and chance appear.
The man who deserts a sacred prin-
ciple and assigns for his reason the
strength. strategic advantage and
wealth of the enemy, would desert his
country's flag under the same condi-
tons and for similar inducements
Devotion 10 principle and devotion to
country are Identical. 1t is not an evil
dence of courage TO shake ones fist
across thirty-fve years of intervening
time at a vanquished foe in a war
which was fought without the aid or
presence of the fist-shaker. 1t is not a
sign of loyalty to fawn upon an admin
istration one has denounced in time of
war and in time of peace as IAN aggre-