The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-25

allow the Knights to drill In the
park, although they had tents up
there and the men were camping
there and could not by any possibili.
ty have Injured the park by u 80 min
ute drill.
Then the captains, who are iokers
themselves, offered to drill on the
streets around the square. (They
have neither paved nor macada mlZed
streets and mud was at least six
inches thick.)
But the f. g. of 1. thought the peo-
Pile of lola couldn't find place. TO stand
and see the drill; one of the f.. G. OF
+, who is quite eloquent, said,
Gentlemen" with the accent on the
gent and the men like this) 1--WE
feel that our position is one of trust,
we are the guardians of our peoples
interests, "a charge to keep we have,
and we do not feel as though we
should allow you to drill and have
any body" accent on the body "miss
this, the browning event in this
glorious meeting"
Then the captains (who really, OF
course felt In jovisl joking mood by
this time) offered to wait until the
next day, or drill in the opera house
most any old place-but most of the
f.. G. of L. were "looking out the
window" by this time and the cap.
tains retired.
lola is noted for her Gas-and of all
the displays, the whistle, the gun"
the smelters, the feuce-all are the
most ELUSIVE flows that the X. of z.
people saw was the $3.50 worth that
this T.. G. OF l. showed up. 70 realize
that town with people like lola ad-
Yertise, "crawlingN on paltry $3.50
is almost too much for the imagin-
alton.
OF all the scurvy, Shiny, scrofulous
Spanish actions that we ever heard
of this lie the Weyler" of them all,
after the f. C.. OF |. had allowed 20 or
30 joints to start up for the occasion,
charging them $25 per day for run
ming, they had them pulled again
just before the crowd lett, and fined
them again. Think of that.
The expenses incurred by the f. C
of |. could not have been 5000 Not a
citizen was forced to "dig." The
"jiggers" paid for it all.
The boys, sympathizing for the f..
G. of L (who are 80 squeezy that they
hold dollar so hard that II makes
the eagle shout) donated the oue.ha!f
railroad fare that was promised by
this f.. G. of l.. offered to take up a
collection and pay for the straw that
was put in the tents to sleep on, paid
their baggage wagons for hauling
their baggage to the depot, would
have stood for the opera house rent,
but the f.. {. OF /. Couldn't think of
allowing them to do that" Talk about
your "grouchy people" the f. G. of
|. promised balloon ascension and
had the balloonist on the ground and
he had his balloon about three sixths
inflated land by the way, this Gas
town would not allow him the priv
ilege of filling his balloon with the
gas, aud he had to build q fire and
initiate 1t with hot air. and asked for
the 5000 that ne was TO get for the
ascension, and some one, probably a
menu Der of the +. g. of l., took his hat
and started the collection.
There were at least 1000 people
standing around and this member of
the f.. G. OF l., actually collected
SIXTEEN CENTS ON THE SPOT, and 1t
only took him about 20 minutes too.
Now lola may have a different brand
of citizens than this +. G. of Lin
fact we met q couple of pretty nice
people while we were there-(some
friends who were In the Goth Kansas)
and there was at least one on the +.
e. Of 1. who was pretty nice. hut for
downright nerve, gall, brass and
gas the +. c. of l. take the prunes.
Why they are go pinchy that when
the mayor turned over the keys Of
the city, the chairman Of the e. G. Of
l. TOOK THE KEYS HIMSELF. What
do you think of that?
We've seen bunco games, sure
things. fakirs, icon" men, ring drop
pers, county officials, politicians, etc,
etc, ad infinitum, but for absolute,
undiluted. pure, $50 proof "measli-
ness" the f. G.. of l. can take the
whole hakeshop and the surround
ings also. lola PAPERS PLEASE
CoPY.-The Girard Verdict.
Such wonderful mixture of false
hood and dir coming from another
source would be surprising, but from
q town where the leading paper Is an
anarchist organ, it might have been
expected. The facts in the case not
having been even limited at in the
foregoing, they are still "news." The
committee makes the following state
ment:
The money for all prizes was in the
treasury, collected by voluntary sub
scription OF the citizens of lola. The
drill was expected to be the really
magnificent part of the whole meet
ing. Tuesday 1t began to rain and
continued all day, and all Tuesday
night and all day Wednesday, with
the result that the streets were sea
of mud and the park almost as bad.
Only three companies Of the Uniform
Rank were thinking of drilling, Wich-
tia, Paola and Girard Wednesday
morning before O'Clock, the captain
of the Paola company inquired of Cen
eral Lyon, in command of the Uniform
Rank ~ there wculd be "A drill He