The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-17
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS
The Select Friends have not had
death in their order for 30 days.

death in their order for 30 days.
Emporia owns its electric plant. A
lineman fell from u rotten pole and
has sued the city for $4,000.
There are remarkable number of
fractured limbs reported resulting
from Kansas lads trying to break
fractions colts.
So many bodies are being found in
the Missouri near Leavenworthi that
bereaved relatives have trouble in
identifying their own.
A burglar pried open the M. f.
parsonage at Abilene while the parson |
was away, took one look and fed. He
will not be prosecuted.
w. A. White has launched Willis
Gleed, one of the brainiest lawyers of
Topeka and one of the best men in the
State, for U. S. Senator
The Independent Telephone Company
was granted the right to enter Kansas
City, which will give all its Kansas
offices connection with that city.
The Chanute man who looks most
like bloated bond holder is j. l..
Lyen who cut apoisonivy vine down in
his back yard with pen knife.
A squad of 81 Pittsbnrg boys, in
Guiding s 20th Kansas veterans, are
drilling to be in readiness to go to
China if an opportunity offers.
John Breidenthal opened bank at
Stockton and then opened his mouth
and the campaign. Stockton may be
included in the wide OPEN class.
The business men of Holton tried
not to show that they expected it when
/ the clerks beat them - 10 IL at base
ball. The clerks had been practising
at beating the old boys for some
time.
OF theSljO. OOOauthorized by the state
| for the peniteutiary binding Irvine
! plant. only 800, 900 was issued. 500
600 of this has already been paid
off and the twine trust hangs limp
from defeat.
The secret of all those Topeka joint
raids is now out. The city wants a
lot of stale beer with which TO wash
down the walls of that new auditorium,
contractors having recommended
stale beer.
1t was an ingenius Missouri editor
who, having in mind the recent L. L,
train robbery, suggested that
asophoedita be rubbed on car steps sc
blood hounds could more easily trace
train robbers.
Salina is all aroused over a sermon
on Expansion delivered by the NJ
+. minister. The republicans are cry
ing a loud amen ana the opposition
are insisting that he said expansion
and not imperialism"
Holton Tribune: Don't be dis
couraged if you do feel miserable par
of the time. One of the Rockefeller
has been operated on for appendiciti
and another has the dyspepsia. You
are not the only rocky Teller in tn
; world.
A Democratic doctor at Arkansa
City labored long and well patchin;
up Republican injured by an acct
, dent, but was startled the first time h
, saw his patient down town to hea
= him delivering spirited expansion
' talk.
8 A young man at Cherryvale pro
E crossed in matrimony TO the poin
{ where he bought a license when tn
e girl changed her mind. He has
, standing ad. in the For Sale o
/ Trade" columns of the city paper
=. now.
}. The Fredonia Citizen says a part
?. of young folks out picknicking ha
their dinner stolen by hogs. The girl
prepared the best dinners they coul
and the Citizen says that lat Las
. reports the hogs were doing as well a
could be expected"
Willie Hampton, sturdy lad {
seven living at Neodesha is OF IL
a fibre that men are made. Will
II playing in the lot with his baby brotl
y en-, during the absence of the family
L. he somehow ran "a stick into his face
- breaking the nasal bones and hurtin
his eye. He carried his baby brothC
: to the house and lay down quietly G
g the bed until his parents returned.
I. An Ottawa woman, according TO Il
= Republican, heard a tramp ask h,
! little daughter if her papa was
u home and when told hewas not orderC
It the girl to tell her mama to send OF
e. meal or the money TO get one. III
II resourcetul woman kicked the pr
n puppy in the house at the same tin
eXclaiming: Get out of the way, yt
70 big ugly dogw The puppy howleu
~ the tramp went and the woman spe
>; the rest of the day petting the dog.