The Iola register., 1900-04-06
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


Kansas will lay aside rag time and
coon songs next week while Linds-
borg sings "The Messiah"
Secretary Coburn says that Kansas
has 65, 900, 900 bushels OF corn on hand
so that donation to India will not be
missed.
Seven burglars entered seven houses
In Olathe the same night. That town
is about ready to become suburb of
of Kansas City.
When q young man from Madison
died at Emporia the Gazette told the
news to the world under the lines
"Dode Death"
The man with the hoe spells it
''helI-fulln hen. They are enemies
since before the day either was cele-
brated In verse.
More Kansas people are gadding
about the world now Than ever before
and their letters to their home papers
prove infectious.
Among the faults which Topeka
man recently confessed to we're half a
dozen sets of false teeth which he has
a mania for stealing.
Col. Bill Sapp has waxed 80 rich
that he Is going to Europe and will
permit the country to go to the dogs
some more under the Republicans.
Arkansas City suffered a dou BILE
loss by fire, her mattress factory and
electric light plant burning. In the
dark the factory burned like Bed-lam.
The station agent at Mortimer COM
mits verse OF the Bible each time he
wits Cherryvale, and with his mind
thus on heaven he feels safe even in
that rapid town.
1t is reported that Co operative
store with $50, 600 capital Is viewing
Garnett, and the merchants of that
town probably are returning a CLASSY
stare.
Congress has ordered that two
months more pay shall be given to
each of the Rough Riders. Many of
them live in Kansas, 20 it's probably
all right.
Recently the Hiawstha World ad-
vertised for a Christian young man
for office work. When one OF the ap-
plicsnts was asked if he was Christ
ian, he replied, "Hell, yes"
Emporia has lost caste as live
town. Two women driving the family
horse recently ran over policeman
standing on crossing. What shock
it must have been to his dreams!
1t can be taken as final evidence OF
incoTrigable cussedness when people
are ordered out of gas towns. All the
towns are hustling 80 to grow that its
like suicide to order person away.
The Reporter claims that one OF the
stone cutters working on the new post
Offlce building at Independence is
worth $50, 900 but still plleG his trade
, rather than loaf He is not married
and report from the town girls is eX'
pected soon.
An old timer near Oswego remarke ed
. the other day that he came nearly
homesteading quarter in the Craw'
ford coal fields, but instead took up g
poor quarter in LAbette where he add
ed "by hard work managed to keeI
, out of the Pop party and raise little
q dust every year"
Topeka has had another newspaper
experience. A young man appeared
claiming to he correspondent, saio
he as drawing a salary of $4,000 pei
annum and easily passed 300 worth
. of worthless checks. He collected the
money for charity. but expended it OF
n the charity that "begins at home"
= Two men at Denton obtained a jus
o of whisky one Sunday evening anC
I selected the empty calaboose as gooC
q place in which to drink it, but TIVE
boys saw them enter and turned thu
= key. The next morning the towI
o marshal found two well developee
. jags locked up and he Ia standing for r,
d election on the strength of his record