The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-11
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

claims there were four cyclones visible
from Salina. Another instance of
over production.
Eureka must have an unusual
allowance of pure persons, as 1t tax es
three columns to note the Purely
Personal" items.
Two attempts have been made to
burn an A Abilsns mans meat market,
and suspicion Is centering on q man
who recently lost u pet dog.
Ed Howe, editor of the Atchison
Globe, writes back from Europe that
he was so sea sick going over that he
will not return until the Atlantic has
been bridged.
The war spirit hasn't left the State
yet, twenty men appearing the first
aay at the Hutchinson recruiting
station, most Of them anxious to go to
the Philippines.
Memories OF past visits to the Peer
less Princess came over the editor of
the Cherryvale Clarion as usnIt es
the coming carnival there and he
spells 10 Wichita"
The Hutchinson agent of the New
York Life Insurance Co., has agreed
to build an opera house tor that
town If 20 men will take out $1,000
insurance policies with him.
Miltonville, small town of 800
population, has set the example of
street lighting with gasoline lamps
which is being followed successfully
by some OF the larger towns.
Peter Goetz, a 16 year old Hays City
boy, was recently convicted of killing
his father. Now if the boys name
were Billy Goetz, the absence OF
lamb.like propensities would be ex-
planned.
G.. A. Buck, postmaster and chess
fiend of Toronto has gone to New
Orleans to gather material for book
which he 10 going to write a bout Paul
Murphy, a great chess authority OF
that place.
Two men down in Montgomery
county celebrated st. Patrick's day
last SUNDAY by going out on the
Caney river and killing POS rattle
snakes which were summing them
selves on the banks.
Curlew is rung at Burlington by
the water works engineer ana then
the parents spank the kids and the
kids Immediately put on forced pres
sure and cry themselves to sleep.
That's Kansas economy.
The Coneyville Journal, after
simply noting that "AuOlphus Won
BOuUhtOnkeigheimersteln, of Bremen
Germany, spent sunday at the Hotel
southern ~ mad to drop the subject
lest the paper be crowded.
A Frontenac man was recently
rolled over and injured by barrel OF
wine, which leads Frank Montgomery
of the Kansas City Journal TO think
of his sinful past and to confess that
he admires man whom it took IA
barrel To roll over.
The six j0intists of CofTey county
who have kept the courts busy tor
years and piled up monument of
costs, have gone into a voluntary
agreement with the county attorney
to cry quits and quit.
Henry Metz, who works on the rail-
road at Yates Center, was lsboring
uN0I tllk lOOChblJ W WhGh lld It
was puff and Metz's whiskers we re
taken off as clean as If q goat had
been browsing on his chin.
1.-The more gaudy woman dresses
the more she knows she needs it. A
real pretty woman is content to wear
very simple costume" says the
AtchisOn Globe. but 1t will be noted
that Ed Howe held Off the item until
the day after he sailed fer Europe.
Phillipsburg Dispatch: c. II. Tur-
ner informed the writer that he had
shipped from Agra In the last eight
months; seven hundred head of horses
for which he had paid the farmers in
that locality over thirty thousand
dollars. He says that helps the "per
capiter."
There are 10 Kansas counties, 81
states and territories, and three
foreign countries represented in the
present enrolment OF teachers at the
University Of Kansas, with Cuba,
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phillip
pines still to come in. Think what
an impetus will be given to foot
racing and foot ball when several
bhp VI al
enter X. U.
An exchange says that the twine
trust agents called on Governor STAN
ley the other day and threatened to
cut the price If the Kansas peni.
tentiary twine Ia to be sold cheap,
"You can't cut any too quick" re.
piled the Governor. "That's what
we are here for, to save the farmers
money. Cut as de p and quick at
you please-the deeper and quicker
the better"
At the Osawatomie insane asylum
the other night one H. Goertzen, q
former citizen Of Coffeyville, hanged
himself with the bed clothing. This
was the simple story sent out from
the institution, but 1t might be en-
larged into q tale of heroism. -Four
years ago q runaway horse dashed
down the principal street of Coffeyville
dragging a carriage In which sat Mrs.
j. r.. Mitchell and her baby. Mr.