The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-26
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

So many Iecuits have enlisted from
Caney I'll ut he girls of the town have
signed petition asklug Uncle Sam to
accept no more from there.
Coffeyville and it's surrounding
farmers Will build q stone road into
town, each paying half. Good
scheme, mutually beneficial.
No stri ga will be pulled to bring
to account the Ft. scott mob, the peo-
pie feeling hat there has been enough
pulling OF the cords for awhile.
The oyster supper which has stood
between the heather and hades for
centuries is being used to put side
walks between the people of Abilene
aud the mud.
By the census Of 1895, the negro
population was 4S,7l3 1t IL believed
the federal census this year will
show 1900 and perhaps 100000 ne
groes In the State.
A charter is being prepared for
company to build n railroad from
Salina to Sabine Pass. The capital
is placed at $5,0O0,000. This has a
good old-fashioned sound.
After Chas. NJ. Sheldon has edited
the Topeka Capital for one week he
will forever have u forgiviDg feeling
for the editors who fail to walk un-
waveringly in "In His Steps"
Salina takes Emporia's edlct con-
ccrning shows, especially limb shows.
as final, and so when Della Rocco
and her four elderly wrecks appeared
they were not allowed to show.
It was o Mcpherson man who dis
covered that q dehorned COW gave less
milk than before the operation, where
AS any good stockman knows that q
COW stores her milk in her horns.
A Cofeyville man was acquitted
of the charge of stealing liquor from
jointist, the jury apparently believ-
ing that the buoZe was pubic prop.
The Newton Kansan thinks that the
town could survive the shock II
Andrew Carnegie should refuse u re-
quest to shift some of the burden of
bic wealth onto the shoulders of the
town library.
The Chanute Sun thinks the epi-
demic of kodakery there is plain
case of the effects of environment, the
beautiful scenery causing lust of art
to spring spontaneously in the breast
of the native as 1t were.
State labor commissioner Johnson
has investigated and believes that
there are fewer paupers in Kansas,
per capita, than in any other state in
the union, seven counties having none.
Is there any objection to this "per
cspiter?"
Gentle hint from the Grant county
Vidette: lone of the eu bscribers no
came In last week and settled up his
back subscription has since fallen
heir TO $4,000. One at time, gentle.
men please"
1t is said twenty prisoners are he
ing held in Oklahoma until the
m ,llpox quarantine is raised at
Leaven worth. When q death SEN
tence is committed to a life sentence
it Is not proposed to let him escape
right away.
Mrs. Edgar A Storer, Of Colum bus
O. has made the interesting discovery
that her grandfather was granted SO,
900 acres OF Kansas land for his SER
vices during the Revolutionary war.
That's nearly as much land as the big
6ght was started over.
The La Crosse Republican philo.
sophises at is hard for a married
man to arrive at any scientific con-
clueion In reference to why l-yeRr'
old baby sheuld be so much heavier
at l o'clock a. M, than its mother
used to at precisely the same hour.
Bent Murdoch of the Eldorado Re
publican has wsged a pitiless war on
England for years, and now that the
Fenians are planning raid on Can
ada, John Gilmore of the Fredonia
Citizen, advises Murdoch to spell, his
name "Murdoch" and join the raid.
Cowley, Summer and Harper coun
ties, along the southern border, have
beer ordered to quarantine against
the Territory smallpox and they art
roaring on the expense. Arkansst
City thinks it ia a standoh and that II
has as many cases as the neighbour
hood over the border
Laurence Journal The Clay Cen
ter Times demands to know what has
become of Funston. and the demo
cratic papers copy the query with un
disguised glee. The Times was one o
the papers that was demanding only
a short time ago that Funston keeI
quiet. The Times is getting as hard tC
please as pop.
viii White has had another unique
experience in Kansas newspaper
work. He recently received $2S fol
a ad. from book house, the piece d,
resistance of which was bis OWL
picture. William might be hand
somer but that 10 round price t.
ask for printing his own picture.
500 REWARD 500.