The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-22
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


of kite which e had patented. He
. ellis about 100 week.
Bent Murdock says all the older
business men of ElDorado merely
grvnt as they pass each other. They
hate too hotly to speak.
Mrs. Mary A. McGill, who since
the dea h of her husband in 1879 has
successfully published his paper, the
Oswego Independent, is dead.
AS the price of wheat goes up the
hope of Bryan carrying Kansas goes
down and it's funny how tickled peo-
pie are to note these ups and downs.
When Horton man gets in fight
and is getting the worst of it he cuts
his enemy's trousers off. To a cool
head, however, this looks like going
to extremes.
The arrival of a baby inthe home of
William Allen White of Emporia, a
"Young King of Boyville," will be
learned with interest by the friends of
the family all over the State.
A female signing her name "Wini- |
fred ID Estcouri Sackville Stoner" has |
poetic spasm in the Hutchinson |
News about love. Luckily the readers |
of the papers had plenty of salt
handy.
Buttonhole; Twentieth Kansas
soldier and casually mention China
and ninety per cent of them will say.
"By the way do you know I've no.
tion to get in that scrap if it gets going
real good and strong"
A hankering for real estate specula-
! tiOn springs eternal in the Kansas
| breast. Note this from the Eliwatha
World; At $50 lot an acre in
cemetery nets the owners 81, 500. AT
/ $40 a lot $4,000.
The Beloit Times thinks that if the
Khedive Of Egypt really comes to the
! United States to get recruits for his
! harem, he will get badly left. He GER
! tainly will if he comes to Kansas and
even did he succeed he had better take
home cargo of hair tonic with him.
The report comes from Emporia-
without details-that a one legged
restaurant man kicked an intoxicated
preacher from Council Grove out of
his place of business. 'Pegged OUT
would probably describe the alleged
preachers feelings.
one of the gas wells at Yates Center
is down nearly 1900 feet and the papers
say nobody thinks of quitting. And if
they keep 1t up long enough and war
breaks out in China that cut oil will
make. the Suez canal look like a lead
cent as thing of value.
The first car 1900 wheat from Kansas
sold on the Kansas City market for 20
cents a bushel. At this price the crop
is worth 10 million dollars and every
time wheat goes up one cent, the Kan
sas farmers make 81, 100000.
A Utah woman will be a delegate to
the Kansas City convention and she
will vote for Bryan. II is to be ex-
pected that man who has sworn love
for so many different issues and be-
come a sort of mental bigamist, should
be the choice of the women of Utah.
Three Chanute boys started for
South Africa but when they got to
New Orleans and looked across the
water and could see nothing that
looked like kopje close to shore their
inland stomachs revolted and they will
fight their battles back in Neosho
county as of yore.
= a Salina man rushed breathlessly
down town with the astounding news
that he had struck silver while dig
ging well. but nobody paid heed
save to remark that "by and by, when
the wheat harvest is cared for it
might pay to look into the matter"
While Miami county commissioners
were in session trying to adjust the
assessment of Osawatomie, man
of that place, rushed before the board,
and so startled them they have not yet
. l..
Osawatomie City Council" said he,
' 'to request the Board to raise the real
, estate of Osawatomie there he paused
long enough to give the Board time to
recovery and raise it so high that ii
won't overflow"
2 Marion Record: There were three
prominent gentlemen in Yesterday
, Republican county convention as del
egates who were until this year Popu-
lists. We refer to Tom Reed, of An.
telope, Tom Hanson, of Summit, and
g Win Bozorth, of Catlin. Perhaps
y there were others. Will Bozorth said
81 have a boy in the Philippines, and
| want to belong Ito the party that
stands by my boy" Welcome, gen
= tlemen, "A warm, cordial welcome.
l Two Missourians who were campeG
+ near Wisdom, Kansas last Sunday
a when a young cyclone passed were
"sighted One had lumber Wagon
), and the other "A spring wagon. Wher
5 the storm struck it took the big lum
ber wagon, ran it east through draw
through a three-strand wire fence
then through a garden, and backed il
up against an elevator. The spring
wagon never moved, but when the
= | storm came nm the man Stuck his hpaC
= out and the wind took his new g hat
He hasn't got it b ok yet.
Good census lie from the Parsons
Sun: They tell good joke on one o.
our neighboring census enumerators
AT the end of busy week, nearly worr
out brain racked and altogether ou
of sorts, he sought his couch early
Along about midnight his wife listened