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

ONNI An0 nIbb Hhu Whi DdlDt
and death dances are occupying
society.
Kansas is getting back into the old
stride. Saturdays Capital gives list
Of ten companies TO which charters
have been Issued.
A case of smallpox is reported at
Lansing and that famous resort may
suffer wane in popularity.
A sslipa joint keeper is suing a
man for whisky sold and not paid for.
How does that sound in Kansas?
AZ result Of the Boer war car
bolic acid and quiniDe have gone up.
Few Kaneans eat carbolic acid but
the guinine Will be mis- sed sadly.
Chagrin, deep and gloomy, hangs
over FIT. Scott Her entertainment
piece de resistance for the editors went
off prematurely Saturday night.
Right on the heels of the announce
ment that the penitentiary 10 quaran-
tined comes the dire word that the in
cane asylums are also cloee to the out
side world.
One Woodson county farmer re-
ports the loss of ffty-five head of hogs
from cholera. Bad luck like this
makes n man morbid and that, be-
come chronic, is cholera morbus.
Two Wichita lads have started for
the Paris exposition with 81 each.
The ordinary exposition Is robbing
game but in the case of thsse two II
will be case OF the plncker plucked.
Kansans view with deep alarm the
Yankee move TO limit legacies to ten
million dollars. Wall Street reco-
uizes that the money bags are hiking
westward and are already aiming
blows at future Kansas octopi.
A deaf and dumb man was run
over and killed by a Memphis train
near Fulton. The attraction which
rs ilrosd tracks have for those thus
afflicted almost seems to be Natures
way of eradicatiDg the species.
Craps has never resulted in many
deaths and crap shooting seems eafe
kind of target practice. but Gerry
Stevens, of ScsmmOn, was killed while
participating In such a shot Friday
last.
The X. &. Star insinuates that Ed.
Little would like to return to the Re-
publican party and throw himself on
the mercy of the court. And this.
too, before the dogs have finished
their fortieth century of barkiDgl
Olathe capitalists have Joined
hands with Kansas City capitalists
and ask for u 2l-yesrs franchise for
an electric line connecting the two
towns. The major portion of north
eastern Kansas seems to be going into
the mouth of the Kaw.
Walnut Valley Times: "Look here"
said o barber this morning to the
restless man In the chair, "if you
don't keep still Pm liable to cut your
throat" "Oh, Pm not afraid of
that replied the helpless victim,
$50 long az you continue to use that
razor"
One Of the most peculiar deaths in
Kansas history wac that OF Josephine
Emery, q Normal student at En-
pOria, last Wednesday. She had o
felon on her finger and accidently
hit 1t against a door, the pain send.
ing her into faintiDg fit from which
she never recovered.
Ira Shepard recently went crazy at
A bilene aud it developes that he has
been there before. The other time he
thought all the women were going to
heaven in an air ship, leaving him
behind. IT is presumed his second
affliction came when he fully realized
his mistake.
The Leavenworth Christian Scent
lists have asked TO have their child
rem excused from being vaccinated.
The board should agree to this but
should insist that the children be tax g.
en- from school. A man has a lot more
right to make himself and family sui
fer for his whime than he has to com.
NIT wholesale murder.
Here's western Kansas story told
to the Mcpherson Republican,. A
farmer had given his note for snid Q
pillow and when due the company
said nothing to him but mailed it to
IA Justice of the Peace" They were
considerably chagrined later to re-
ceive notice that suit had been
brought and Judgment for the costs
rendered against the plaintiff The
man who gave the note WAS the
Justice, and he tried the case and
rendered judgment.
Ellsworth Reporter Mrs. Sam
Sweigart, on the 23d day of last Dec
ember, lost a turkey. Every effort to
find the American bird proved futile,
and the hunt was given up as a bad
job. Last Tuesday Mrs. Sweigart lost
pet cat and thinking that the cat
had fallen into well some sixty. We
feet deep-the well being dry and not
finished, she got looking glass and
reflected the SUMS rays into the well
and 10 and behold you, there was the
long-lost turkey, as lively as a cricket
Mr.. VIII Knight let himself Down
to the bottom of the well by a rope
and brought Mr.. Turkey out, and the
moment he got on top he began IN
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