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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
TALKING NORMAL COLLEGE
Mr.. John Fessler Again Returns to
lola This Time With Success
In Sight

Mr.. John Fesler, q brother of the
Fesler Brothers who started and are
successfully conducting the lola
Business College, is again in lola,
and thereby hangs tale.
Mr.. Fesler is engaged in the BUSH
ness of building colleges and he now
has two in course of construction in
Oklahoma. He has made repeated
visits to lola with the hope of start
ing q normal aud business college
here, but always found people too
busy to take hold of his project, all
though everybody agreed that 1t
would be valuable acquisation to
the city. Since his last visit here,
Mr.. Fesler has become connected in a
business way with Rev. James,
Methodist minister of central Kansas,
who is heir to a $40, 900, 900 estate in
England, and is now in that country
proving his title Mr.. James's claim
has been discussed at length in the
newspapers aud 1t is agreed that he
is the direct heir of an estate which
will bring in revenue of million
annually. He Is an enthusiast about
schools and Mr.. Fesler has sold him a
half interest in the half dozen schools
which he (Fesler) owns ind Rev.
James will continue to use the inn
mense wealth which has come to him
in establishing and building up col
leges.
Some time ago the lola Realty
Company sold to the Cement Com
any the major portion of the DR..
Merriman 100 acres east of town, on
which the brick plant and Nicholson
smelter are located Mr.. Fesler pro-
poses to secure from the Cement Conn
pany tract OF fifteen or twenty acres
as site and build thereupon hand
some building, surrounded by at
tractive grounds, in which he will
establish normal school, preparing
teachers for their work, and prepar-
ing students for colleges. The lola
Business College will be united with
it and the new school, back ed by
ample capital, would move forward
to a successful career.
So the good people OF lola should
feel gratefuLto Mr.. Fesler and should
wish for favOra Die winds to watt Rev.
James safely home from England.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
Interesting SmeIter RepOrt.

The Joplin News-Herald follows up
the reported strike of the employs of
the La Sale, ILL.,, zinc smelter, one of
largest in the country, with this art
icle about the rumored plans of the
company:
There is a street rumor that the works Of
Matthiessen and Hegeler, which have been the
largest and most prominent in the United
States for quarter of a century, have been
acquired by combination of smelling interests
for the organization ofa smeltering trust, that
the furnaces will not be restarted, and the roll
ing mills win be removed to the gas fields TO be
operated in conjunction with one of the big gas
smelters.
These rumors are In part borne out by the
La Sale Tribune, which makes a statement
tn at It was inferred from Ia conversation with
members of the company that the furnaces
might never be started again in La Sale and
the intimation that they could no longer COM
pete with gas smelteIs indicates that this
strong company Will either carry the war into
the gas fields, or turn their large inter ests over
to a combination to be operated on the trust
plan,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
A Very Pleasing SIGHT.

There is goodly gang of men
working at the northwest corner OF
the square on the buildings going up,
The south wall of the BArtels build.
ing is being laid and the brick layers
are Singing brick, the mortar men
throwing mud and five lusty colored
boys are doing the cake walk with
brick on their shoulders, singing songs
as they go, Every thing is rush and
yet the finest order and precision pre-
walls, The heavy flooring of the
Northrup building Is going in and
last week the long expected car
load Of iron for the basement arrived
and will Immediately be put in place
so the floor can all be laid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18

ed they very naturally were afraid to
disposeess him. A crowd of curious
people, old and young, gathered and
stood around with firm grip on their
noses, to see the fun. John Hostetier
got a shot gun, and then Uriah Wilson
went in the back door and "shooed"
the kitten out with a broom, when
John gave him dose which proved
his death. You can still tell there
has been a skunk on the premises,
when you pass by that way.
Oswego has secured leases on 1900
acres OF land and raised over $1,000 to
sink test gas We'll.
viii White Is said to be signed up
to write ali artlcle entitled whats
the Matter With Bryan 1t will
necessarily be voluminous II it is
exhaustive.
Some fisherman who wants to drive
off competition has started the report
that a woman IN western Kansas died
tIom being wounded by the horns
on q cattish's back.
The editor ofthe Wetmore Spectator
must be related to an actress. His
house WAS quarantined for small pox
=
burn $500 wor tn OF clothing.
Belle Hsrbaugh, of the Erie Rec
ORD, admits that her new teleph one Is
number IL but declares "Im not
scared" Many women believe that
number is as deadly as mice.
This item from the Capital ought to
douse the glim of would.be State
clerks, but it probably won't: "Mrs
Emma Foot, clerk in the State
Auditors office, lost a 800 bill out of
her pocket"
Hope springs eternal in railroad
breast" several Frisco officials
stopped in Lyons long enough to look
down main street, and The Republi-
can editor can close his eyes now and
see new depot.
Telephone exchanges are being put
in all over the state, scarcely q paper
failing to have something to say about
new lines. Kansas Is getting ready
to keep up communication even if hel
growing wealth should bring on q
general govt.
Ewing Herbert invites the people OF
Hiawatha to help him beautify the
town until strangers entering shall
exclaim: "A diamond in the lap OF
spring !" If he succeeds, some slang
singer will sour the taste by saying
"Git onto de sparkler!"
The American eagle will eventually
have no more tail than rabbit
Fresh hands have taken up the pluck
ing and items like this will become
more and more common: Captain
Howard Scott, late of Company q o
the Twentieth Kansas, will deliver
the Decoration Day address at In
dependence this veal.
In 1892 with an acreage of about
3 800 900, Kansas broke the record
with n 00O. 900 bushels Of wheat, Thit
year the acreage is 4 100000 and the
. government report of May conditions
is l07 The prophets are placing thu
prospective yield at 100 900, O0C
bushels. II does beat the baud wha
a far reaching effect that India famine
has !
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
HOODS Pills

On retiring, and tomorrow your di-
gestive organs will be regulated and
YOU will be bright, active and ready
for any kind OF work. This has
been the experience of others; it
will be yours. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all medicine dealers. 20 cts
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
Il. G.. Franklin's Work .

Lawrence Journal: The American
Chemical Journal for April appears
with its leading article, that occupies
nearly one half of the periodical, on
"The Electrical COnductivity of Lii
guild Ammonia Solutions" by Il. G.
Franklin of Kansas University, as
sisted by Mr.. Charles A. Krause.
This is rare distinction for Prot.
Franklin. The Chemical Journal is
the leading technical periodical in
The large space given to Prot. Frank
work Is high common dation of it's
merits on the part of Prof. Ira Rem
sen, the editor, who stands at the
head of American chemists.
This Is one more instance following
along the same line that has recently
induced the resignation of Prof. Can
field. Sooner or later the result will
be the same. Prof. Franklin, it lie
we'll known, is already winning, for a
young man, q reputation of brilliant
accomplishments In his profession. 1t
will not be long before repetition of
such eminent endorsements as this
will take Prof. Franklin away from
the State University. And who is to
blame that a teacher so exceptionally
valuable in his own speciality will,
find IL pecuniarily advantageous to go
elsewhere to advance his own career ?
II the standard of professorship in
the State University must needs be
lowered on account of an inadequate
grasp on the part of State Legislators,
then the students who come to the
University with a sort of halo resting
on their expectations, must be con-
tent with a schoolmaster's education.
That is, with the meat without Its
ia ce and with fruit without its flavor.
This lie exactly what a Kansas Uni
versity education may hereafter
amount to. A professor is worth his
market price the same as hushel OF
wheat. 1t is very easy to understand,
that an institution that fails to afford
its own professors the opportunity to
make their own careers, must also
fail to give its students that preemi.
nent training that comes from having
preeminent masters.-X.
Nina fchancaa i'm ten IFS Vuur kid
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
Unable TO Work

Chas. Replogle, of Atwater, o.. was
unable to work on account of kidney
trouble. After using Foley's Kidney
Cure four days he was cured. Camp
bell a. Burrell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18

Mr.. Wyatt Ship, assessor of Els
more township, has completed his re-
port and while it shows a slight de-
crease in population, the wealth of
that thriving neighborhood shines
forth brightly. The live stock, its
average value and total value lie as
follows: Horses 1926, worth, $40 SO
each, total $50, 4S0; cattle 1900 at So. 25
total $50, $50; mules 1863 at $54.4l,
total $3.50; sheep 3S at 81 10, total
800; hogs 1440 at 1926, total $9,0l5.
Total personal property SlS0,69O, less
the exemption Of S43, 800, leaves total
taxable personal property Sl36, 800.
Town lots SOL SOL; other real estate
property S4S4, 0S5; total taxable Prop
erty 1862, 526. The population last
year was 1860 and this year is 1916,
but the decrease is largely due to the
removal of quite a colony from that
place to Canada recently, and but for
this the township would oubtless
have shown an increase.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18

IDo not buy any Clothing for yourself
or boy until Monday May 2lst. Then
go to Geo. w. Stephenson at La
Harpe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
Cancer on Her Tongue Cured Without
Pain.

Cancer on Her Tongue Cured Without
Pain.
Leavenworth, Kansas.
STATE OF KANSAS, 90
Leavenwort Co. 3d.
fancy Purvis, being duly sworn ac-
cordlng to law, deposes and says that
she had a cancer on her tongue and
was treated August %, 1893, by DR.. j
G. Mclaughlin, OF Kansas City, Kans.,
with his painless remedy for cancer
aud tumors; that in about one month
her tongue was well, and Ia sound
and we'll today. There was no pain
from the application of the medicine,
as she could read during the severest
treatment. JANEY PURvIs,
800 3. Broadway.
Sworn to me, Thomas l., johnson,
notary public, this 18th day OF
March 1900, Leavenworth, Kansas.
(sEAL) My commission expires
August 81, 1900
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
Tonight

II your liver is out of order, causing
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart
burn, or Constipation, take dose of
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The Insurgents Urged to Hold Out
UntiI November.

MANILA, Sept. "a number of letters
written by General Sandico, a rebel lead
er, have been captured at Nueve Eciia.
The writer urges the insurgents to main
tain their present opposition until the
elections in the United States take place.
David Fagin. a deserter from the
Twenty-fouTth Infantry. is leading band
of Filipinos in Nueva Ecija. The band is
very active in raiding the quartermaster's
wagons and in rObbing peaceful natives.
II is reported that Teceson, the rebel
leader who has captured number Of
Americans. intends TO release them, as he
finds il impossible to hold prisoners.
The first executive action Of the Philip
pine Commission was the consideration OF
a bill appropriating 81 ,O0O,O0O for the con
struction and maintenance of highways
and bridges. a public hearing on the
matter will be held Wednesday.
Gen Pic Del Pillar, who was released
some time ago on parole, was arrested
while he was returning TO the provinces
He is now held in communicate in the
walled city. The authorities refuse to
divulge the reason of his arrest.
During the past week there were sew
eral small engagements in which twenty
five Filipinos and two Americans, lnclud-
ing Captain Bentley, were killed
It is reported that the rebels IN Camar-
ines are in a demoralized ccndilion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
THE DAMAGE IN LOUISIANA.
Loss From the Hurricane Less Than
First Reported.


NEW ORLEANS La, Sept. 9.-Later re-
ports show that Louisiana suffered less
by the West Indian hurricane than first
reported. The only serious injury is on
the east bank of Plaquemne Parish on
which the rice and vegetable crops are
more than half ruined. From southwest
Louisiana it is now reported that the in
jury to rice is only half whatit was first
estimated Much rice is blown down. but
it was all blown down the same way, and
not twisted. and it will be possible to
harvest it. Cane escaped altogether, and
cotton was but slightly damaged.
Reports from all the fishing stations say
that 10 lives were lost. Many hundreds
of the fishermen and their families man
aged to make their way to Fort st. Philip
and find refuge in the easements of the
fort.
\ The Hydasper, from Liverpool, was the
first steamer to arrive. The Breifond and
Utstein arrived here today from Central
America. Their eargoes are dana sed, but
the vessels are but little hurt. They en-
countered the hurricane Tuesday in the
Yucatan Channel, and have had a hard
time of it since then. They report the
steamer Oteri, 400 miles off the Passes
and so injured that she will have to be
towed @ New Orleans.
TeIegraphic communication was estaD-
lishe6 with Houston this afternoon after
twenty -four hours interruption
count Of the storm
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
GENERAL RELIEF FELT.
Surprise and satisfaction Over Post
poncment of the strike.

HAZLETON. Pa, Sept. 9.-The news of
the postponement of the strike in the
Pennsylvania anthracite regions came so
unexpectedly last night as to cause the
greatest surprise. Up to the announce
ment of the action on the part of the In
disnapois junta by the committee it was
thought certain that the strike order would
issue from there in the course of the even
ing and go into effect on Monday morning.
The main thoroughfares of the town were
thronged with groups of all sorts and con-
ditions Of men eager TO hear the news
from the head centre. The news of post
ponement of the strike was received with
satisfaction, there being few if any here
whose interests are not more or less in
terwoven with the mines. 1t was more
over, felt that postponement meant an
entire collapse of the strike movement in
this region. When the first surprise of
the news had died away. however, a new
question thrust itself upon the public at
tention. Why this sudden change of front?
There was really very little going on to-
day with the exception of a number OF
meetings in the schoolhouses in the mining
districts. where more or less inflammatory
addresses were made by various labor agi-
tators.
On Monday evening there is to be
meeting OF the radical element in Latti-
mer Ito commemorate the Lattimer mas
sacre on September 10, 1897" as the cir
culars which were given out on the streets
here last night read
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
A BOOM IN SOFT COAL.
Immense Orders Booked on Account
of the Anthracite Troubles.

ALTOONA. Pa, Sept 9.-The threatened
trouble in the anthracite coal regions has
resulted in a rush of orders for bitumncus
coal being placed in this section. Every
colliery in the field is working full time
and some OF them day and night. oper-
ators are giving the men nearly every
thing they ask for in the matter OF wages
and scale concessions, and the miners are
consequently prosperous and contented.
Immense orders from abroad are going
begging in the central fields. Some of the
more lucrative ones have been scooped up
by concerns having vessels TO ship in, and
as result a considerable trade in coal is
being developed with Mediterranean and
North Sea ports. British shippers have
been driven out Of the Mexican market and
Pennsylvania is now furnishing nearly all
the coal used in the sister Republic, ship
ping overland.
Miners in this region will not give as
sistance to the anthracite men should they
go out. They consider the fields as com
peting and remember that the anthracite
men rendered them no aid during the big
bituminous strikes of 1894 and 1897.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
FOR ACTIVE OPERATIONS.
Movement to Organize an Allied
Force Startsd by Germans.

LONDON, Sept. fO.-The papers this
morning print somewhat prominently a
news agency report from Pekln dated
August so, via Shanghai Sept. Z, 10 the
effect that the Germans are Initiating an
attempt to organize an allied force for
active operators in the province Of Chi
Ii. The various commanders has been
requested to cooperate by contr!t utins
men before Field Marshal ven WaId srsee' s
arrival The project has not yet been
agreed to.
1t is understood that a majority Of the
commanders have referred the proposition
to their Governments The purpose of
the proposed force is not clearly under
stood 1t is believed that enc object of
the expedition is Paoting-Fu, where Chin
csc are reported to be massing.
The Giplomatic situation in Pel1in, it
is added, is becoming complicated.
The despatch further says that the Rus
Stars. japanese, and Germans were push
ing troops on September 1, from Tienisin
to Pekin
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
RAVAGED BY THE HURRICANE
tcontinued from First Page.)

hotel is injured badly, particularly the
Capitol and the LawIer. The Grand Cen
trail station is unroofed and otherwise
wrecked. Scores of dwellings are torn to
pieces and their occupants huddled to-
gether wherever they can procure refuge
Not a smokestack is left standing in the
town. The Houston Daily POST build
ing is unrooted ard the plant of the paper
badly shaken up. The brewery and the
cotton presses are partially destroyed
The towns of Cypress, Hockey, Waller.
and Hampstead are badly wrecked 1t is
estimated that fully 20 per cent of the
buildings in these towns have been de-
stroyed. 1t is known that lives have been
lost, but names and numbers are impos-
sible to obtain tonight. All the towns on
the line of the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas Railway south of Waco, on the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe below Temple, and
on the Houston and Central below Horne
are badly injured
A Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Fassen-
ser train is reported TO have been tlown
from the track below Rosenberg late last
night, and what has become OF it has not
been learned.
A La Porte relief train got as far south
as Seabrook, half way to Galveston. but
had TO return, and picked up three corpses
on the way. The hurricane swept the
town of Taylor, wrecked the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas depot, burned out the
Western Union switchboard and destroy
ed communication southwark.
Relief trains that left Houston this
morning for Galveston have not yet beea
heard from.
The City of Mexico reports that the
Mexican cable is crippled between Calves
ton and Vera Cruz SO there is no chance
to reach Galveston by cable.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10

when these negotiations shall end. The
board received a number of kilograms
from the officers in the anthracite region
late this evening, but said that they
were not sufficiently numerous to give a
correct idea of the sentiment which had
followed the reception of the statement
deferring the strike. though it was ad-
mitted that some of the miners approved
the action of the board while others did
not.
w b. Wilson, secretary-treasurer OF
the beard said that 1t would not require
a formal order from the board to in
augurate a strike in the anthracite
regions. for the statement issued last
night was really conditional order to the
same end He said that the miners were
asked in the statement to restrain them
selves for few days, and if negotiations
failed the board would approve the strike.
This means said he, that it will not
require an official order to the men to
strike. but as soon as they are notified
that negotiations have failed the order to
strike becomes operative
Fred Dilcher, who is in charge of Dis
trict No. l. left here tonight for his home
in Ohio, and will go directly to Scranton,
Pa, and will be in charge of the strike in
that district if one is ordered. None of
the members of the board expressed conf
dence in an amicable result of the pending
negotiations.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10
GALVESTON ON AN ISL
Peculiar situation of the
swept Texas city.

swept Texas city.
Galveston is situated on cigs
sand bar about tkirty-nye mi
and not more than mile wide at any
point This island. which lies parallel
to the main land and less than mile
from the shore, is almost fiat. The
highest point in the city is said to be no
more than two and one half feet above
the high water mark.
On any other portion of the seacoast
the average September storm would
wash from one end of the city to the
other. But at Galveston the beating Of
the Gulf Stream and a steady westward
wind makes constant a surf of unusual
strength-the distance from crest OF
wave to the trough of the sea only a
little distance from the beach being
thirty or forty feet. Even a very strong
wind does not vary the size of these
waves. When once the water is washed
over the high water mark, however, it
sweeps freely from the exposed side Of
the-sand bar to the bay behind.
Ii is to this unhampered access to the
whole island that the awful damage Of
yesterdays storm is due. Nearly all the
finer residences of the city are along
the beach nearest the open sea, and must
have been entirely wrecked. That part
OF the city toward the mainland is
given over to railroad stations, small
manufactures and business houses.