The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-17

thinks ii is because Bryan is said to
be making 100000 year.
Salina commercial club has ,resolved
against bootleggers and advocated
high license and six saloon keepers
paying 800 "a month fine.
The United States Circuit Court has
decided that Abilene must pay the
So, 600 in bonds voted in 1888 and now
held by Cornell University.
If there was wounded dog lying
out in front of your house, would you
walk out and kick it? That is what
you do when you repeat gossip: you
are cruel.
j. N. Stout, postmaster and editor
of Neosho Falls, has sufficient con-
fdence in his name to try and revive
the Fort Scott Lantern, dying Pop
ulist organ.
The notice in the Bronson Record
that Love brothers have justreceived
lot of clothing will be read with relief
! by those persons who have felt shock
ed at Cupid's usual baroness.
The high price of cornhas compelled
most Of the corn starch mills to close
down, but so long as the prices re-
main stin Kansas farmers will not
bother about cuffs and shirt bosoms.
Five of the seven students who
graduate this spring from the Atchi
son high school are colored. Which
simply reterates that if beauty is but
skin deep brains show no surface
marks.
j. b. Hoy, an old soldier who APP
I,.1g til ~. r II.
job of street commissioner and was
turned down, has brought suit as
new law compels mayors to prefer eX-
soldiers.
The Kansas City Star suggests the
old union depot in that city be taken
down, and then reconstructed for ex-
hibition at the ST. Louis worlds fair,
as an interesting relic of the days of
the Louisiana purchase.
James Skaer is planning to build a
pencil factory at Augusta that will
make 10, 900 daily. He sees a ready
market in the demand from those per-
sons who annually figure up Kansas
corn and wheat crops.
A big-hearted Osawatomie man
offers to show callers the inside of his
safe If they will come during Office
hours and not at night, but of course
his kindness will not be appreciated
by the would-be burglars.
Farmers around Independence are
/ cunning for some supposed wild
beasts that have been devastating
chicken coops. For blind the state
, ment is made that panthers are sup
: posed to have escaped from circus
Things are done so much on the
, quiet in Chanute that people of Ont
ueighborhood didn't know ituntilt they
read 1t in the next days paper that /
. fire had broken out in their block anC
= the fire department had done its durn
dest.
a., There is no disputing the fact tina
! if prosperity continues Kansas peopl,
= will all be driving thoroughbred re
cord breaking horses. 1t is in tn,
blood. but right now the result is sim
e ply heavy death rate from runaway
: of spirited horses.
/ The 2-year old son OF Mrs. Nc
d Mullen, of Salina, pulled tn
e stopper from a patent wash boile
over which she was working an,
! the stream of DO ling water strucl
: him, scalding him SO he died the mex
y day.
n Neodesha Register: No, Daisy, tn
l. terrible racket you heard Monda
evening was not two factions of tn
boiler riveters' union on a strike con
a test. IL was only the "Silent Few
. club whispering goodbye to depart
% ing member.
n Elsie Reasoner, the Abilene gin
who jabbed an insulting Frenchman i
. the face in Paris recently, is said b
" the Abilene Reflector to be one of tn
. most entertaining takers that eve
g struck town. That settles it. Til
- Frenchman wouldn't listen, and n
. Kansas woman will stand that.
w. A. White; Allan Davis, VIII
y, used to carry the Gazette in the fir;
-, ward when the route carried only III
y, papers, was ordained a preacher tn
!. other day by the Presbyterian meetiI
- house. So many Gazette carriers hav
= become Presbyterian preachers that
the editor falls outside the Gates SON
of the boys will certainly slip a tickt
ID through the fence to him.
q The Lawrence Journal cites the cas-
/ of the sucker at Buffalo who got bump
e. ed for $500 and Immediately elaine
10 he was from Kansas as further ev
s. dence that there is a combination {
the rest of the world to make Kansa
W out crazy. Wherever and whenever
I'd man makes monkey of himself
T. seems to feel that he gets anon
tx friends by claiming to be a Kansal
v 1t ought to be stopped.
I'd The newspaper fraternity is wonde
III ing at Win White. He writes MOI
ic arnished-about people /
his town, naming more names tina
-. any other publisher in the state. I'll
ha other day he gave list of five CIR
a'y who gadded the streets while the COO
M ing school was in session and roastC
80 them. The names we're doubtless fl
6e titious but the resemblance hit off pc