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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
The Chigger Bearded

A party of lola maidens who had
they lived in war times would have
armed themselves with hat pins and
taken their place in the front of the
fray, Monday evening about o'clock
led valiant assault on the lair of the
chigger at the Mineral Well park.
Hammocks and grub were much in
evidence, with this difference, the
hammocks remained i'm evidence.
Chicken and cake, pickles and prunes,
salad and sandwiches, ice tea and
ice cream-they ate of these until a
hosting pulley and rope were required
to get them on their feet. Then there
were the hammocks most of which
broke down because nobody observed
the rule that two is big enough
crowd anytime in a hammock and
drop the handkerchief and blackman
and then lot of songs. 1t was the
first picnic Of the year but it will not
be the last.
Among those present were the fol-
lowing: Misses Ausherman, Hen
bricks, Priboth, Stone, Halle and
Della Irving, Adah and Blanche
Wright Lulu Harris, Rudow, Holden,
Gertrude and Daisy Hobart, Swear
ingen, Reed, Dudley, Anderson,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
LucOck- Mann.

Mr.. G. C. Lucock and Miss Matte
Mann went to Chanute Tuesday after.
noon where they were married
that evening in the parlors of the
Oriental hotel by Rev. l. b. Pulliam.
Both of these young people are well
known in lola. Mr.. Lucock was at
one time a member of the city police
force, but resigned to go to Arkansas
where he has steady employment de-
veloping zinc claims, several of which
he owns himself. Miss Mann is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Mann
and she has made lola her home for a
number of years. She has been local
editor of the Farmers Friend for
several years and has done efficient
work in that capacity and made a wide
circle of friends. Mr.. Reagan and
Miss Daisy Mann accompanied the
party to Chanute and will give their
blessing after the ceremony. The
REGISTER joins their many friends in
congratulations and good
wishes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
The June Bar Docket.

The June term of the District Court
commences on the 18th of this month.
and the clerk of the court Miller has
already come out with one of his usual
interesting dockets.
Interesting quotations adorn the
pages, CLEANED from many sources.
On the title page is "The law is the
last result of human wisdom acting
upon human experience for the benefit
of the public" "Where law ends
tyranny begins
Above the list of lO7 cases to be
tried appears: "The brain may de-
wise laws for the blood, but hot
temper leaps DER cold decree"
The jury is paid this compliment:
Revenge is kind of wild Justice
which law ought to weed out" 'Let
us consider the reason of the case. for
nothing is law that is not reason"
The members of the bar are noticed
thus: "There are men whose visages
do cream and mantle like standing
pool" 1--WE give strength with our
mouth and the moving of our lips
abateth trouple."
There are thirty-iive lawyers en-
gagged for the term. of whom seventeen
reside in lola. One hundred and seven
cases are on the docket, many of then
of course held over from previou.
terms. There is the usual grist o
eight or ten liquor cases. either in.
dictments of iniunctions, twenty suit.
for damages eighteen divorces. two
suits to set aside gas leases and sis
foreclosures.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

which means "The Society of the
Great Sword"
1t is law and order league gone
wrong. AS this society became more
powerful many dishonest and design
ing persons entered it, and in numer-
Gus cases directed its efforts against
personal enemies whom they repre-
sented to be bandits and lawless per-
sons. Some of these victims, looking
for help from the prosecutions of the
Great Sword Society, turned to the
Christian missionaries, especially, it
is said, the German Catholics. They
professed conversion and the mission
aries sought to protect them.
a series of outrages ON Christians
followed until, in last October, the
Christian nations forced the govern
ment to send force against the
Great Swords. There was battle,
followed by the report of the Governor
of Shan-Tung that the so-called rebels
were honest country folks.
Then the Great Sword Society disap-
peared, by edict, and in its place
sprang ready-made the Universal
Society of Boxers" with the old
organization and purposes and with
the added idea of fighting all foreign
inluence-missionary or otherwise
and of having the government help it.
The operations of the society and the
outrages committed by it have since
continued, and have constantly be-
come bolder.
The Chinese name for the society is
I-Hot-Tuon, the meaning righteous
ness, the Io standing for peace and
Tuon meaning fist.
As to the increased influence of Rus
sia at Pellin, it is explained by point
ing out that Russia declined to ioin
the other powers in making repre-
sentations to the Pekin Government
with respect TO the Boxer movement.
basing her refusal upon the fact that
she is an Asiatic power.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
ANNOUNCEMENT

FOR CLERK or THE DISTRICT Court.
II hereby announce myself candidate for
he office of Clerk OF the District Court, sub
ioct to the action of the Republican county
convention. A. b. CoNLEY.
FOR CLERK or THE DISTRICT COURT
hereby announce myself as candidate for
the Office of the Clerk of the District, Court,
subject to the Republican primaries
8. @. BREWSTER
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
ihereby announce myself candidate for
the onlce of County superintendent of Public
instruction subject to the decision of the Re.
publican primaries and convention.
@ W. SMITH
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
am candidate for the office OF county
superintendent Of Allen county, subject to the
action OF the Republican primaries and conven.
tion. q. W. KLINE.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
thereby announce myself as a candidate fol
denomination to the Office of superintendent
of Public instruction, subject to the Republi.
can primaries and convention
GRANT B1LLBE,
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY
hereby respectfully announce that am a
candidate for the Office of county attorney,
subject to the decision Of the Republican pri-
maries and convention G. A. SAVAGE.
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY,
| wish TO announce to the Republicans OF
Allen county that am candidate for the
ofhoe OF county attorney, subject to their
decision at the primaries and the county con.
vention, and would respectfully solicit their
support. GEORGE A AMOS
PROBATE JUDGE.
/ hereby respectfully announce that am a
candidate for re nomination to the office Of
Judge OF the Probate Court, subject to the de-
cision of the Republicans at the primaries and
the convention. J. B. SMITH.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

cisely who and what the Chinese
Boxers" are is probably due to the
rapidity and frequency with which the
native secret societies of China
change their names when they desire
to continue their organization and
purposes free from the superveillance
of the government. When at last an
edict of suppression is issued the So
ciety simply takes new title and
goes on as If nothing had happened
The society of Boxers is supposed
to number eleven millions of men. 1t
was originally sort of law and order
league, organized for protection
against the bandits with which the
province of Shan Tung was infested.
Its name was then Ia Tao Wwei,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

of Allen county, are making what
seems to be very successful expert
ment in raising wheat by drilling salt
in with the seed, an experiment has
been made with alfalfa in Bourbon
county which has enthused all who
are acquainted with the facts.
The experiment was made on a
twenty-five acre field of bottom land
adjoining Ft. Scott on the north, owned
by Sheriff w. e. Brooks, who con-
ceived the idea. In 1899 he had four
cuttings of alfalfa and harvested an
average of a ton and half of hay at
each cutting, making six tons to the
acre for the season. He sold the hay,
or all he cared to sell for $3.50 per
ton. Thus the land yielded $33 per
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

Auditing; Robin son, Thompson and
Cecil.
Ways and Means; Thompson, Cecil
and Allison.
School house and school property:
Remsberg, Robinson and Evans.
Grades, Studies and Text Books;
Allison, Thompson and Cecil.
Regulations and Discipline: North
rup, Evans and Remsberg.
Library: Mitchell, Cecil and
Thompson.
The committee on teachers and
salaries made a report in reference to
salaries but nothing definite was
done.
1t was reported that the piano fund
had been helped SlO.S6 by reason of
the recent teachers examination, the
fees charged being turned into this
fund
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

acre minus the cost of hauling, which
was light. AT present Mr.. Brooks is
cutting the first crop of 1900 which is
so heavy that it has been born down
by its own weight. 1t is yielding more
than two tons to the acre. Horses,
cattle and hogs, Mr.. Brooks finds, eat
it in preference to other hay and it
contains moro food substance to the
ton. Alfalfa is unquestionably com
ing crop in eastern as well as western
Kansas.
"If you would pay me the value of
the land and permit me to keep it, -
said Mr.. Brooks, 81 would not allow
you to plowupthat alfalfa ield.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
ROYSTER ELECTED PRINCIPAL
Board of Education Monday Filled
Vacancies and Appointed
Committees

The Board of Education met Mon
day and elected w. E. Royster prin-
cipal of the high school for the com
ing year, in place of Prof. Minckley,
who resigned. Prof. Royster comes to
lola with an excellent reputation.
While not a native of Neosho county,
he has spent most of his life in that
locality, passing through the common
education at the State Normal at EN-
poria and at the State University at
Lawrence. For five years he has
taught in his home county, being
principal of one of the ward schools
in Chanute for several years and
chosen as principal of the Chanute
high school last year, aposition which
he filled so acceptibly that he was
unanimously reelected for this year
at an increase in salary, but came to
lola because this is a larger school
and gave him a better chance to widen
his reputation He is still young
man, dignifed but with nothing of the
encyclopedia about him, pleasant of
manner and with a physique which
will win the cordial respect of the bad
boys. The REGISTER has had the
pleasure of meeting Mr.. Royster and
as result of that interview, feels
assured that the excellent reputation
of the lola high schools is in safe
keeping.
The position of musical director of
the schools, a new one, brought out
considerable talent, but Mr.. l.. w,
Lewis, who was first on the ground
and with winters work to recon-
mend him, was a favorite and was
elected to that position. Mr.
Lewis work is already known in the
city and his selection as musical
director insures the schools excellent
training in this important branch of
polite learning.
The Board selected committees as
follows:
Teachers and Salaries: Allison,
Evans and Northrup.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
MORE FACTORY EVIDENCE
Additional Reasons Why a Factory is
Certain if the Clay Should
Stand the Test

The REGISTER is willing to take its
readers into its confidence in reference
to that fire clay find, on the under
standing that it is not TO 90 any
farther until new developments have
been made. The clay is found on the
old Marion farm near the mouth of
Elm creek. in the ravine which runs
north and empties into the creek near
the Neosho. As stated before it is
four or five feet in depth, buried forty
feet under ground. Samples of the
clay have been secured by Bostwick g.
Acers and anyone who believes he is
authority on the subject can see them
at their office. The samples certainly
look the part
The cement company owns the land
and Mr.. Holmes when here on his last
visit authorized the expenditure of
money enough to fully determine the
question of the amount and value of
the clay. DR.. Gerlach has samples of
it which he is testing at the coment
company's laboratory and if it stands
the test a factory for the manufacture
of brick will be started soon. This is
assured because Mr.. Holmes has :said
it. The cement company uses fire
brick to line the huge rotaries with,
paying ten cents brick for them and
buying them 10y the car load. The ro-
taries weigh about 800 tons and when
lined with brick weigh 700. Forty
two rotaries will require lots of brick
and factory which will furnish them
would save its cost to the company
every year. The smelters all use the
brick and the home market for the
product would keep big factory
busy.
Who the Boxers" Are.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
Republican County Convention.

A delegate convention ofthe Republicans OF
Allen county will be held at the Opera House
Ia lola at 10 O'Clock a, m Tuesday July 10th,
1900 for the purpose OF selecting eighteen dele.
gates To the Senatorial convention, Fourteenth
district to be held in Yates Center Kansas,
July oath 1909 aud County Central Com.
mittee, also TO place IN nomination candidates
for the following offices: Representative of the
Twenty first district Probate Jul lge County
Attorney, Clerk OF the District court, Superin.
tendent of Public Instruction and Commits
sioner from the Second district 1he oasis
OF representation at said convention shall be
one delegate for every ten votes or major frac-
tion thereof cast for SEQ. A. Clark. secretary
OF state in the election OF 1895 under which
rule delegates are appOftoned to the several
precincts as follows.
Geneva 8. Humboldt 90
Carlyle g. Salem :,
Deer Creek 6, North Elsmore o
Usage South ElsmOrc TO-
MaImaton II, East Cottage Grove e,
Kim -, West Cottage Grove g.,
lola 10, Logan
lola CITY
First ward r. Third ward 10
Second ward Q, Fourth ward 9
1t is recommended that the primaries for the
selection of delegates and for voting by ballot
for the candidates after the usual method, be
held on Saturday, July eth, 1900 at the usual
voting place in each precinct at the hours
named; Geneva to g p. m, Carlyle to $50
p m, Deer Creek to9p m Usage to .,
m, Marmaton to y IN lola to . IN ,
Elsmore to p. M, Logan ITO 9p m, Hum
boldt TO p. m East Cottage Grove to 9p
M. West Cottage Grove togp m. Salem 10
8 p m, lola City, lst ward 3 to p. m; 2nd
ward to p. M; 3rd ward to p. IN 4th
ward TO 9 p. m.
1t is further recommended that the primaries
be held open at least two hours and that the
judges OF the election at each precinct take
care in making out credentials of the delegates
TO enclose therein a certified report of the
number of ballots cast In said precinct for each
candidate.
By order of County Central Committee.
MELVIN FRoNK, NJ. JACoBY,
secretary. Chairman
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

Exchange: a good story on the
Modern Woodmeu comes from
Ipswich, 5. D. Their hall at that
place is situated over an opera house
which was recently wrecked 10y gas
explosion. On the eventful night a
candidate was being initiated. The
goat had just done his worst when all
of sudden there was fearful noise
and at thesame Instant the floor was
raised up six feet while the ceiling
came down half way to meet it. The
members fled panic stricken from the
hall, forgetting the candidate for the
time being. One member. braver than
the rest, returned to find his remains,
but on entering found him standing
among the debris, waiting for the
rest of it, he said. 1t was long be-
fore they could convince him that the
explosion was not part of the cere-
mony of adoption, "because anyhow"
he said, lit wasn't any worse than
the rest"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
Patents Granted.

E. G. Siggers, Patent Lawyer,
Washington, d. c., reports the follow
ing patents granted to inventors in
the state of Kansas, May 20, 1900. He
will mail copy of specifications and
drawings of any patent for ten cents
in stamps.
w. S. Brown, Bayneville, wire
stretcher and gripping device; r.. p,
FAIRIES, Wichita, grinder for grain or
fruit; G. II. Horne, Williamsburg,
buckle; E. r. Nichols, Manhattan,
stroke regulator for windmills.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
The County Commissioners.

Nothing new has transpired in the
present session of the county commits
sioners. In fact they have been called
upon but slightly so far, the chief
arguing taking place between the peo-
pie who object to the assessments and
the assessors. Nobody seems to have
any objection to the 100 per cent basis,
provided it were adhered to strictly
all over the county, but the assessors
themselves say that they based their
assessments on fifty, or sixty or 100
per cent valuations.
There is feeling over the county,
more or less general, that the real
estate in lola City and lola township
have not been valued as highly as
it should. .One gentleman from
Usage township was in the REGISTER
Office this morning and he cited the
instance of his own and his neighbours
farms, assessed at S2400 .and $500,
while a certain tract of land near lola.
which this gentleman says he tried to
buy last year and was told would cost
him 500 an acre, is valued at few
dollars.
"Itwould hump us considerably
said he, ''to dispose of our land at Sl5
an acre. and while we are not going to
object to a full assessment, we are
going to stand up and protest unless
the same rate is uniform all over the
county" In fact there are a dozen
men in the court house who are there
taking notes and making comparisons
like the one cited above and general
equalization will have to be made or q
good part of the county is liable to go
out on strike. The REGISTER be-
lieves there is not a person in lola
who wishes to have the rest of the
county pay the city'sl taxes,
and that when once the boards gets at
the question little trouble will be found
in having all the assessments made Just
and equal. 1t would certainlysbeJvery
deplorable if the effort to lower the
present high tax rate by having a 100
per cent valuation should simply
result in great family row among us
all, making the tax question more dis
pleasing than at present.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
A Monster Devil Fish

Destroying its victim, is a type OF
constipation. The power of this NAL
ady is felt on organs, nerves, muscles
and brains. But DR.. Kings New
Life Pills are safe and certain cure.
Best in the world for Stomach, Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels. Only 25 cents,
at Evans Bros. Drug Store.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

The Emporia Gazette offered as a
prize a fine piano, the voting being
done by coupons and a warm fight
was finished Monday when the Degree
of Honor won the prize from the
Eastern Stars by narrow margin.
The piano will be used in the lodge
room and nearly all the lodges were
represented in the contest.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

Coflield, Cora Mcdonald, Cora and
Edith Charles, Post and Randolph.
Messrs. Wagers, VIII Brewster,
Brister, Tom Bowlus, Percy Harris,
Campbell, Bob White, Walt and
Bert Mcneil, Gibson, Coflield, Jones
Holden, John Henderson and Drs,
Teas, Taylor, Waugh, Corbin,
Christian, Pendarvis and Chastain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08
BLACK BISHOP-14238,

BLACK BISHOP has been shown at numerou
Fairs during the past six years, and has been a
prize winner wherever shown In Offering this
horse for public service your attention is called
10 his magnificent breeding-a combination of
the best families known, and with more record
breaking blood close up in his pedigree than
any other horse ever offered for service in KAN
sas. His colts show great speed and a fine way
OF eong and all are very intelligent and tract.
able. As an individual he ranks A l. as all his
colts are of good confirmation, size and colors
BLACK BISHOP will make the season of 1900
at J. r. Dunlap's, one-half mile east aud one
fourth mile south of Carlyle, at the low price
of slU and sl5. This is a gooo time to breed to
good horse cheap, as many horees with less
individuality are standing at three times this
ee. DUNLAP & LoNosHo RE,
II. Owners
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

Live for those that love you,
For those whose hearts are fond
and true,
The only way to do this right,
Take Rocky Mountain Tea at night.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

No man can work we'll with a torpid
liver or constipated bowels. A few
doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will
quickly remove this condition and
make worka pleasure. Sold by Chas.
b. Spencer e. Co.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-08

Who the Boxers" Are.
Such confusion as exists at to pre-
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RUSSIAN WOMEN.
One Of Their Number Says They Are
the Most Enviable In the
World.

Countess Anna Kapriste, writing on
"The Position of Russian Women"
saws a great deal to their credit. As
compared with the women of other
European countries, Russian women
work more and weep less, they love and
they hate perhaps in greater intensity,
they marry with more deliberation,
they abide by their choice more firmly,
they exalt their mission of motherhood
more highly, and on the bearing and
rearing of their children they lavish all
their energies of mind and body. To
have strong and healthy children, sons
strong as lions whelps, and daughters
Aawless as doves, is the primary ambi-
ton of every normal Russian woman, and
in the upper educated classes of society
she often chooses her husband (when
she has the choice), not from passion.
not from love, not for place, or riches,
or power, but with an eye to this pur-
pose solely: "Will he make a good
father of my children?" She speaks
equally favorably as to the political and
social position of her countrywomen.
She says: In conclusion, should like
again to aver that the lot of a Russian
woman is happy one, whatever may
be her class. Comparisons are odious,
but if we compare the actual position,
l should say that on the whole the po-
sition of Russian women was better
than that of English women, and their
influence, politically and socially, was
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