The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-16
KANSAS CLIPS AND CONMETNs

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A Chicago company sunk So 900 in
cold cash in q cold storage plant at
Girard
A Galeua girl whom Cupid sighted,
mbraced Morpheus by taking NOR
phine, and the funeral was held next
day.
An aucliOneer and HE family have
recently located at Horton, but So
ciety is stunning him until he calls
first.
At a depth of $50 feet Great Bend
lows she has six foot vein Of coal
and the vanity of the town is beyond
endurance.
Emporia is not so bloomin' effete.
A restaurant there is making q great
hit by advertising the arrival of $40
worth of tooth picks.
A local paper after noting the sale
OF kiss for $500 in London, says there
are girls In Salina who couldn't give
kisses away with cigars.
Leoti Standard: There are three
ways of communicating news, tele-
graph, telephone and tellawoman,
but the greatest of these IL tella
woman.
The Joplin, ONO, } News says a car.
penter was arrested there recently
and fined 81 on suspicion, and says
farther on that he resembled Mr.. PEI
fer, of Kansas.
The Florence Bulletin, RENE mber-
ing Helen of Troy and the present
seige of LadySmith, says that two.
men are at the bottom of all the
trouble in this world"
Does the Populist party mean that
1t has given up the fight when It an.
nounces that 1t intends to convert
Jerry simpsons warlike Bayonet into
a peaceful "organ?"
Such a demand is expected for the
Sheldon edition of the Capital that
two competing newsboys fought re
Gently at Wellington as to which
should be given the sale.
An innocent old farmer down in
Crawford county who has lived on the
next farm to a widow for years and
never proposed ls being sued by her
for malicious persecution"
hNlbhlCI lOb more
Kansas people are becoming stuck on
the movement for good roads. A few
more months like January and some
thing would possibly be done.
Coffeyville men have zinc mining
cQRpany which they call the Holy
Nbsees" company, probably in the
hope that the name will carry them
through the rushes to the new fields
A Salina man has Just been IN.
formed that he Is one of the principal
heirs to an English estate worth $3.50.
DOC, 900. but go far he has been too
busy on the farm to look into tho
matter.
"A music lover" Contributed q
prayer to the Kansas City papers
asking the women to please not slob-
Der over Paderewski as they did over
HoDson, and there lie a large suspicion
that Paddy was the author.
Many q narrowing tale and close
shave will be the result of the meet
ting OF the BARRIERS of the State at
Hutchinson, but fortunately there Is
an abundance of salt handy.
The POpulists deny that It was the
anarchistic atmosphere which they
expect to find at FIT. Scott since the
lynching which induced them to
choose that town for their State con.
vention.
The day a II pound son was born to
j ed Clark of Cottonwood Falls, he
(Jed) caught II fish that weighed ~
pounds each. The local paper failed |
to note the brand, but it is presumed
oil were suckers.
The old plainsman who edits the |
Arkansas Traveller snOrts at the re-
port that a Baltimore professor has
declared whisky no good for snake !
bite and declares it carrying scien- |
tific research too far"
The two extreames in Kansas are
said to be the figures which men sub |
NIT as representing their wealth |
when talking to the wrlte-up man for |
The special addition and when con-
versing with the assessor.
The agitation to have a working |
capital-punishment law enacted in |
This State will make the forty-nine |
men now in the pen condemned to
death long for their lost right of fran.
chise that they might vote q loud
and unanimous "no."
An Eldorado man had q son away
At College and, being onto the boys
,urves, when the kid asked for money
% recover his watch which he had
tropped in the river, wrote: "Watch
lot worth diving for. AS we'll soaked
me place as another"
A Kansas City paper suggests that
he following be Incorporated in the
school arithmetics: l,5OO
grains make one ear; go ears make
'ne bushel; 226, 100000 bushels make
me Kansas crop; one Kansas crop
makes the wheels go round.
Frank Montgomery: The wealthiest
'olored man in Kansas is 1. G. Groves,
II Edwardsvtlle, Wyandotte county.
de owns one of the largest potato
arms In the KaW valley. and shins