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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
THEY WANT A BRIDGE
Farmers Southeast of lola Petition
for one at Minors FOrd-Mer-
chants Agree.

Readerssof the REGISTER will recall
the controversy over the closing of
Northrups' ford on Elm creek to en-
able the Cement Company to use their
land without endangering public life
and limb by their blasts and their
railroad trains. The affair was sup
posed to have been amiably settled,
the company Offering to cut down and
repair the ford half mile east, known
as Minors ford, and the farmers ex-
pecting action to be taken on their re-
quest for bridge at Minors ford.
The cement company went ahead
and spent time and money repairing
Minors ford also built dam near
their plant which backed water across
and rendered useless Northrups' ford.
A delegation of Elm and lola township
today asking that action be taken on
the bridge matter, and they demand
ing simply what they expected all
along. Petitions signed by a dozen
prominent farmers southeast of town
and by the leading merchants in town
have been filed and the bridge matter
will be strongly urged. As it is now
the only bridge south of lola is the
Washington avenue bridge which is
too narrow now for the traffic. More
over in order to reach it farmers
southeast of town have to drive
through the factory grounds where
the noise and the cars promise runa-
ways galore. The increased traffic de-
mands such bridge, at least so it
looks to the REGISTER, and this paper
wants to join with the petitioners and
inquire why bridge should not be
! built.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
"MIGHTY OLIVER"
Governor Roosevelt Considers Crom-
well "tbe Greatest Ruler
of England"

With divers death his memory
passed under cloud, through which
his greatness was to be but dimly seen
until generations of men had lived and
died. He left many descendants, and
there are now in England, and also in
America, and possibly Australia, very
many men and women, in all ranks of
life. who have his blood in their veins
though in the direct line his name
has died out. Even during the present
century, when among the English up
per classes it was still customary to
speak of him with horror, his very de-
scendants in certain families felt keen
shame for the deeds of their great fore
father. With childishness in no way
above that of Congo savage, it was
actually the fashion in some of these
families to make the children do pen
ance on the anniversary of the death
of Charles l., as kind of atonement
for the deeds of Cromwell. The gro
tesque nature of this performance is
added to by the fact that in that very
society peculiarly high place of honor
was uNNbINth " lllt lullh NtSttuA Il II 1 >
of Charles II. and his mistress, writes
Theodore Roosevelt, in Scribner's.
One hardly knows whether to be
most amused or indignant at such fan
tastic incapacity to appreciate what
was really noble and what really igno-
bic. The men among whom such false
conventions obtained could not be eN
pected to see in its true proportions
the form of mighty Oliver, looming ever
larger across the intervening centuries
Sooner or later justice will be done
him; sooner or later he will be recog
nized not only as one of the Creates
Of all Englishmen, and by far the great
est ruler Of England itself, but as a mar
who, in times that tried mems souls
dealt with vast questions and SOLVED
tremendous problems; a man who
erred, who was guilty of many short
comings, but who strove nightly to
ward the light as it was given him to
see the light; a man who had the wei
fare of his countrymen and the great
ness of his country very close to hii
heart, and who sought to make tn,
great laws of righteousness living
forces in the government of the world
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

make this language strong enough to
have this subject taken up by every
newspaper in the land. We wage
earners, it concerns you. If the
farmer fails, you go to the wall first.
The farmer can get along while you
go supperless to bed.
burned over field of clover be
fore blowing for corn. In one space
of not over ten feet, if there was one
dead worm, there were 800 dead cut
worms. | do not believe in worrying
nor crossing bridges before getting to
them, but it is good plan to be
ready for any emergency.
All foreign countries recognize the
value of birds and have stringent
laws for their protection, France hav-
ing the best, as they have crops that
would be destroyed year by year il
not for the birds and toads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
Lost Their Only Child.

The eighteen months old baby girl
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Myers, who
live in Gas City, died at noon on
July 4th of cholera infantum and was
buried Friday in the lola cemetery,
Rev. Drake officiating. Mr.. Myers is
a laborer in Gas City and has wide
circle of friends who deeply sympa-
thize with him and his wife in the loss
of their only child, and twenty car
riages followed the remains of the little
one from the house to the cemetery.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
A NATIONAL CALAMITY.
Cor. Toledo Blade.

Cor. Toledo Blade
In all my life and observations l
have never seen so many insects, bugs
and worms that destroy the crops of
the farmer, as now. In l776 the Hes
sian fly was introduced into this
country. For nearly a century the
birds kept down the fly. In the last
twenty-five years there has been n
steady increase; until nearly all the
States are now troubled with them.
Wheat that was in good condition the
first of April today will be turned UNI
der and the ground put in corn. Last
April was the most favorable to the
cut worm and wire worm. The ground
is full of them, ready to take the
young corn.
The cause of this has been the de-
struction of the birds. | saw in a
fashion paper that there had been
over 81 900, 600 worth of birds sold for
the decoration of ladies hats in New
York. If this government does not
take hold of this question, and each
State pass laws prohibiting the kill
ing of birds, we will have famine
equal to India, This is no idle talk.
1--WE never miss the water till the we'll
runs dry" Here is greater issue
than prohibition, than expansion;
greater than fighting the trusts, 1t is
fight for bread We will not starve
this year, nor next, but as sure as
! God reigns, as sure as day follows
night, if there are not heroic measures
taken, and that soon, the hand writ
ing will be seen upon the wall, Let
each State pass law prohibiting the
wearing of birds on hats and at the
same time pass stringent laws for
their protection. The most of the
birds that destroy insect life in the
north are nearly extinct. The birds
of song are all insect eaters. A flock
of quail on farm are thousand
times more valuable alive than dead.
crossed field of wheat the last OF
| NluINH llub NOulh luNb maui hllANi
favorable conditions twenty bushels
to the acre. On April q crossed the
same field. Wheat all gone, but the
flies were there by the millions. The
San Jose scale seems to be new in
sect, but it is not. 1t has been KEEP
in check by birds, and will eventually
cover all the country, if not destroyed
Not many years ago the Colorado
potato bug was unheard of, but tn
bug keeps marching on. 1t is a.
issue that all parties can agree on
God pity the man who does not loo
after his future interests and the in
terests of his children and the welfar
of his country. Oh, that / coul
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
Going Down East.

Last Monday a party of five
Allen county people who had planned
to go to Paris started on their way to
New England where they will spend
several months. Mr.. and Mrs. Lon
Rowland. Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. De-
Clute and Miss Louise compose the
party. They went to Chicago and
there take the lake boat and have a
long ride around to Buffalo, then visit
Niagara, Saratoga Springs, New
York and other points of interest.
Mr.. Howland will visit his boyhood
home in Michigan for several weeks
and Mr.. DeClute his old home
near Rochester. Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowland will spend August in the
Maine mountains and the whole party
will put in several months without any
definite plans, just doing what seems
the easiest and promising of pleasure.
Their many friends envy them their
outing and wish them a good time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

You tire easily?
Your heart Hip hops, you tremble
and think you are getting old,
and fear some one will know it.
You pretend you aren't tired.
You try to look pleasant, when in
fact,
you are putting like "A steam engine,
and can't throw brick across a COW
path,
without whizzing like shingle-mill.
But you bet you are not getting old.
You have Indigestion.
You have let it run too long.
You can cure it by using
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
It's Il sure shot, l0c, SOC or 81 bot
tie.
Get it of
c. b. Spencer or w. S. Sannels,
Moran Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
Publication Notice.

In the District Court OF Allen Coin,y, Kansas
The State of Kansas to Sarah j. Thompson.
Lena Taylor, j. w. Tayl)r, Harmon Il.
Thompson Susie Thompson. Lula ThDup-
son, Luta Thompson and Jessie N. rhomp-
son:
You and each of you are notified that Jan es
n. Duln, and William Duln have hled their pc
tition with, and in the ONCE Of the Clerk Il
the District Court OF Allen County, Kansas ,
bringing suit against you and all OF You to pr
tition the north half OF the north west ulrter
of section twelve; and also the east ha.f OF the
south west quarter of section one % all in
township twenty six (26) south of range seven
teen, east in Allen county, Kansas; also for the
recovery of rents and profits of the said lands
for the years 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900. Unless
you plead TO the said petition on or before
August 10TH 1900, its allegations win be taken
as true and judgment win be rendered against
you and each OF you, for the value of the said
rents, also setting on TO you and each OF you
the portion II any you may own In the said
lands and the said Judgment win further order
and provide II the said lands cannot be parti.
toned they shall be sold according to law, and
any judgment against you for rents and profits
is to be alien upon your portion of the lands or
money as the case may be.
JAMES Il. DULIN and WILLIAM DULIN
Attest. p. c. Young, Attorney
II. M. MILLER, Clerk OF the District Court.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
Two Precincts in Elm.

Among the townships in Allen
county which have made a rapid gain
in population during the past year or
two Elm has been at the top of the
list. LaHarpe and Lanyonville and
Gas City have all grown up within
her borders and these three towns
acne represent fifteen hundred peo-
pie. Having this in mind and like
wise the convenience of the residents
of the townships, the county commits
sioners today divided the township
into two voting precincts, the line be-
ing the road west of the Lanyonvillo
smelter. Hereafter the east side will
vote at LaHarpe as heretofore and
the west Iside residents will vote at
Gas City.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
ENGLAND's ASHANTI ROW.
The Kings "GOiden stool" Figured
In the Recent Uprising of
the Natives.

The british are new sending n few
hundred troops from the coast to
Cumassi, the old capital of Ashanti,
to punish the natives there who have
taken Up arms against their white
rulers, killed and wounded number
Of the British police and prevented the
missionaries and other whites from
,enving the town. An official report re-
reived at the coast says the uprising Is
Tue to the efforts of the British to OBJ
tain possession Of the golden stool OF
Ashanti. says the New York Sun. At
the time King Prempeh surrendered to
the British expedition which defeated
him four years ago, 1t was asserted
that the king had buried the golden
stool with thousands of dollars worth
uf other valuable property. hoping that
some time he might be able to regain
these treasures and use them to his
own advantage.
The golden stool was the Ashanti
substitute for a throne. and II was re-
Duted to be made for the most part of
gold. II was n large article of furni-
ture and was perhaps worth some thou
sands of dollars. The British have been
searching for this valuable relic. and,
in fact. have been digging holes far
and wide around Cumassi in the hope
of unearthing other treasures.
\ great deal of god was produced in
Ashanti for many years and most OF
it found its way into the hands of the
king and the mobiles. The precious
metal was WORKED up into rudely fash
toned jewclry or adornments for the
attire and furniture of the wealthy
classes, and great many of these
products of the native godsmiths were
buried with every man of importance
The natives say their fathers have be-
lieved for hundreds of years that burial
of gold in their graves assured them OF
great blessings in the next world; and
white men who have visited the coun.
try say that gold to the value of $1,000
or more is hidden in many a grave. Per
haps these stories are exaggerated
but at any rate there has been in the
past three years a good deal of this
sort of god mining near Cumassi.
II is possible that the whites In their
efforts to bring the golden stool tc
light have been getting quite near the
| object of their search and this fact may
have melted natives who are in the
secret to begin this quarrel with the
foreigners. King Prempeh is now IL
exile in Sierra Leone, far from his ma
tive land, and though he promised
when he begged the British to make
peace with him, that he would revea
The hiding place OF his buried treasures
he did not keep his word. He is still
permitted to retain ths rude but val
liable jewelry which was in his pos
session when he surrendered, and h,
is quite gorgeous object when h,
shows himself in state at FreetowI
wearing his yellow satin trousers ant
n weight OF gold ornaments that make!
him appear like benst of burden.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
She Was in the Joplin Wreck.

Mrs, Cora Martin is here from Jop-
lin, Mo-, visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. d, G, Wood, She had the ad
luck to be one of thirty-fve people
who were on board Joplin street car
enroute for Carthage to attend the
street fair when freight train backed
down on the car. upsetting land push
ing it some distance. Twenty-Five of
the occupants We're more or less hurt,
one man being killed. Mrs. Martin
was severely bruised about the limbs
and head, but her injuries are not
considered dangerous. She will re-
main here :and recuperate from the
nervous shock.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Leroy Taylor Writes an Interesting
Letter to One of his Friends
Manila. p. l.. MAY q. 1900.

Munllu, !. l., MAY -, l'OV'
Dear Friend:-As | haven't written
to any of the boys since l left lola
thought | would try and write you a
few lines to let you know that I am
still kicking, although I came very
near going over the road few nights
ago. I hear everybody is getting
married. Is it true? Give old lola
my best regards. / hope to be back
by June 1901. We are doing nothing
over here but hike over the country,
and as the rainy season has com
menced you can guess how nice that
is. We have had few small sSir-
mishes but nothing to amount to any
thing. | think it is a disgrace to
wage war against these people. |
despise the very sight of them. When
the Twentieth was over here they
thought they could fight, but before
they left for home the negroes changed
their minds and came to the con-
clusion that they were better foot
racers than fighters which they are.
The average native smells and looks
like hog with big sores all over
their face and body. l honestly
would not have this Island as a gift
unless all the natives were killed. The
worst sight l ever saw was three
negroes that wore Furnishing them
selves for their sins. They had a
piece of wood about foot long with
a string tied to it and they were beat
ing themselves until they laid their
backs open and were blood from head
to foot. Do you call them civilized !?
They were promptly thrown into the
guard house. When we get a suspi-
cious native that doesn't savy Span
ish we promptly carry him to a creek
or well and proceed to business.
First, if it is a well, we get cup and
bucket: if creek, we stick his head
under and generally before we take
him out he tells us where there are
several guns buried. l have known
them to drink several gallons of water
before they would talk. Thus is war
waged in the Philippines, and l sup
pose most people would call that
cruel. Is it any worse than the pun
ishment they inAict upon themselves
1 hear General Fred is going home.
We are stationed about $50 miles
from Manila at place called Llama
Hermosa. You will be surprised, nc
doubt, to learn that l have neither
been fined or put in the guard house
since my enlistment. Well, bidding
you good bye, 1 will close.
Yours truly,
LEROY G. TAYLOR,
X. Co. 80, U. s. V. I.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
An Old Settler Gone,

Columbus Robertson has just re-
turned from Urbana where he buried
his mother Mrs. Alagal Kitterman at
the age of eighty-one. She was the
first white woman who lived in Elm
Township. She settled on the Clifford
farm forty three years ago, when not
another house was to be found east of
the Lyman Rhodes farm( the Northrup
homestead until the Fort Scott
vicinity was reached.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
OVERCOME BY THE HEAT
Mr.. McNary Yields to the Hot Sun
and SIN liter Smoke

Mr.. M. McNary one of the carpent-
ers at the Lanyou Zinc Company's
plant was overcome by the heat and
the sulphur fumes last week and had
to be taken home. He was working
No. /, where a new engine room is be-
ing built and was up on the roof
where the heat reflected and where the
fumes from the tall smoke stacks
reached him. For several days he
has been complaining but stuck to his
work until yesterday when he had to
give up, sick and dizzy. He was
taken to his home at 2l7 south Cotton
wood street and with little rest and
care promises to quickly recover.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

Roosevelt talked two minutes to the
boys at the State reform school.
Unlucky IS. a Galena gambler
was fined S25 for shooting craps with
a l3-year-old boy.
A Kansas woman accidentally dis
covered that flour scattered on gaso-
line fire beats water all to pieces.
f. +. Kelly, of Yates Center, has
been asked by the editor to write a
story for the YOUTH Companion.
A Salina girl married a minister
within thirty-tive minutes after she
graduated. ',Hopeon, hopever."
A Humboldt boy says that the reason
some kisses are louder than others is
due to the presence of powder of some
faces.
Among the current events the Re-
publican notes that 247 dog licenses
have been paid, 100 short of last year,
at Newton.
The gold craze reached Thayer, but
only after the chief store had burned
and it was known that jewelers.
stock was burned.
NOW LIldL lllt
ton has adjourned the Kansas corn
crop may be consided practically
safe from hot winds.
Two eagles were captured at small
town in Doniphan county and the town
folk propose to pull off the father OF
celebrations this year.
People who know that a family
| nt
have been expecting several heat
prostrations in that town.
A southern Kansas paper notes that
during flood in a small creek the
railway bridge stood until a shock OF
wheat was washed against it.
A feature of the 4th of July celebra.
ton at Ottawa was the swimming OF
Marais des Cygnes by part of the the
original Bag Bag swimmers.
The Wichita Eagle sounds the
Chinese alarm thus: Already the
Chinese nation has lost only 5000
men in this war, and there are 400, 900
600 of them.
This year the 4th of July was cele.
brated in more placesthan ever before
and by next year perhaps we will own
a part of the country where fire crack
ers originated.
About the handsomest 4th of July
issue which circulated in the state
this year was the Pittsburg Headlight
printed in red, .white and blue, and
full of patriotism.
The unholy alliance with England
has appeared at Wellington in the
shape of an English merchant who has
contracted for all the flour which the
local mills can spare.
They had a parade in Pittsburg or
the 4th and prizes were given. The
fat man got Anti-fat, the hot man {
fan. thelcold man a dish of chilli ant
the ugly man a mirror.
The Chetopa Advance warns it,
maiden readers not to be misled
about the advantages of the tailol
, maid, as it is admitted that the frs
married is ready maid.
The cheering news comes from tn,
hort grass country that railroad sec
ton hands have to carry shot guns L
keep from being kidnapped and put il
the wheat fields by farmers,
A stranger tried to sell 26 vol
scalps to the Woodson county clerk
He was questioned and confessed
Shipping them from Kansas City, anC
told of shipments to other points.
One of the events in Salina whic
elected more groans and expires
, sions of sorrow was the wrecking of
wagon loa ded with beer kegs on tn
main street, and the loss of the beel
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
Rebuke.

Weary Willie had asked for T. cup OF
coffee, and Euphemia had icily in
formed him that she had only cups Of
china, but she could give him some
coffee in cup.
Thanks, miss" said the traveller,
"and please be kind enough to drop
into the receptacle a cube of sweet,
crystalline vegetable substance, with
a small quantity of bovine juice"
He got it.-New Lippincott. .,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

The blood is strained and purified
by the kidneys. No hope of health
while the kidneys are wrong, Foley's
Kidney Cure will make healthy kid
neys and pure blood. Campbell &
Bureell
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
In The Sumner

OF life woman may find herself fading
and failing. She doesn't understand it.
She goes to doctors, who treat her for
this or for that, but she gets no better
She grows frail and pale. She can just
vdrag about the house.n but has no
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

Ordinance No. AIS to regulate The
running of railway trains and engines
and cars through the city of lola and
for the protection of the public from
accident therefrom was read and
passed. This ordinance permits the
erection of electric bells or gates at
crossings.
Bids for the printing of specifca-
tions of water works and electric light
plans were opened and the contract
awarded to the REGIS TER at $29.50 or
go cents a page.
Council adjourned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY,

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F..
j. Cheney & Co., doing business in
the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONEHUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catawh
tina lcannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence. this 9th day of Deem
Der. A. ID. 1886.
A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public,
I 49,,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
nally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of system. Send
for testimonials, free.
f. F.. CHENEY & Co., Toledo,O o..
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-13

Any advertised dealer is authorized
to guarantee Banner Salve for letter,
eczema, piles, sprains, cuts scalds,
burns, ulcers and any open old sore.
Campbell & Burrell.