The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-16
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

Conversation with the assessor
lie plainly case of shut up or put up.
A duck hunting club at Eldorado
has tor motto the words: Live and
let live.
William Stryker thinks he would
make hit as state superintendent of
public instruction.
Fit. Scott thinks she can raise 81 900
for convention hail. This decision
was reached the day after /. Million
came out for clerk of the district court.
An Abilene stone cutter offers TO
bet S75 that he can carve the hand
somest "clssped hand" on q tomb
stone of any man in the county.
A TT. Scott merchant offers 81 per
set for three cats and their litter Of
kittens, but there are 30 many old
maids in town that he cannot get
them.
The beautiful climax OF their mu.
tual admiration came at FIT. Scott
recently when too deaf mutes were
married. A future of silent bliss is
assured to them.
An awful uproar was created at
tiOn of "a dispai ch from Rochester as
small legacy"
1t is reported that unoccupied land
in the short grass country 10 being
gobbled up. These lands have been
repeatedly gobbled but come how
they don't seem to stay down.
Hutchinson News: One ofthe funny
things in politics this year will he the
Democratic national convention meet
ing on the 4th of July and resolving
I'm favor Of hauling down the flag.
The produce dealers OF Kansas and
Oklahoma bad the nerve to fix the
price Of eggs for the coming year but
the way the Kansas hen Is cacklIng
at the rates there may be trouble.
The old theory of the Larned
ChronoScope thinks women are taxi
ing mems jobs and views with alarm
that n woman il now supposed to
occupy the place always held by the
man in the moon.
Already there ia a hum OF subdued
cussing going up over the State
from those subscribers who failed to
connect with the Sheldon paper the
first day. And the rush at the office
probably makes swearing come easy.
And now comes Barney Sheridan,
of the Paola Spirit, and offers to let
Brigham Roberts edit his paper )ne
week as Mormon would run 1t
This is particularly surprising as
Sheridan Is not n fusionist. Bigamy
and fusion are similar.
The Wichita Eagle has taken the
pains to figure 1t out that while play
ing at whist 1t IS possible for a player
to hold $50 ,0l3 $50, 600 different
hands and to think 973, 657 1886, 1915, 548
things of poor partner.
Emporia lie now in the lead on the
Kansss gold field story. A woman
cut q SIS gold piece out Of a chicken g
crop. The chicken couldn't swallow
the coin; neither can many people
swallow the story.
julius Ostberg, Of A bsline, who
came home with 500 600 worth OF
Alaska gold last year. is preparing ia
go again. There are people who
would try to worry along with that
sum right here in Kansas.
The Llnsborg Record hopefully re-
marks: The glass trust is cracked
the flour trust can't raise the dough
to keep going, the mule trust is on its
last legs and altogether the trust
business seems to be on the slump.
The Columbus Courier Gays that
the idea of being carried to the skies
on ffowery bed of ease is "a canni
bus indicus." So few people have ex
perienced il that there is little chance
of the statement beng denied.
Why do the exchanges insist on cal
ling stuff like this ed HOwe's phil
osophy:" Whenever Il mothers at
teniion is called to her children sh'
makes O dive at Them, and wipes theil
noses Nose wiping is considered q
necessary pre- caution, not theory.
sheldon arrived none too soon
Note this from the Jetmore Repub
Hcan: A Jetmore farmer chDTp {
down dead cottonwood tree huo
found eight large coOns in the cavity
Continuing his investigation h'
ran across three more, and in TIT
stump found u 50.Dnunder the larges
and latest of them all. Under thu
coon in the stump he found gallon
Jug of Kentucky rye whisky, left ther'
by United States surveyor in 1863
When the finder went to lit the jug
bull snake ten feet long disputed h
right to the jug, The inventory o
the days labor footed up 300 pound
of coon meat, ~ coon skins, gallon
of "a year-old Kentucky rye, ] quar-
OF snake oil, a cord of dry wood and
leather medal to the iitor Of The Jet
more Republican for being the big
gest liar in Western Kansas.