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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
Speaking of the War.

The recent honors won by General
Funston have caused revival of
martial "reminiscences among the 20th
Kansas boys and the following one
was told Sunday by one of the high
privates
The Twentieth was coming into
Malolos after the hard campaign of
several weeks out in the Jungle where
it won fame, The boys were worn and
ragged and tired, dragging weary feet
into town where they expected to be
relieved and allowed to rest. Rumors
were rife of the imminent capture of
Aguinaldo and it was believed the war
was about over. But the boys knew
nothing, thought nothing, save their
unutterable weariness.
AS the regiment was passing down
the street of the town, someone in the
middle began whistling the tune of
"John Browns Body" Someone else
caught it up and began singing:
"We'll hang Aguinaldo on a Banyan
tree, Wen hang Aguinaldo on a
Banyan tree, Wen hang Aguinaldo
on u Bauyan tree, AS we go marching
on. 1t spread and in u moment the
whole tired regiment was singing the
familiar song with the new words
lnst.nctively the step quickened, un-
consciously the weary backs straight
aYll nd ~ ha 1,1
thousand throats itinspired the singers
and they swung into town with vim
and a step that would have graced a
dress parade, despite the rags and
aches.
1t so happened that General Mac
Arthur was occupying a house on the
street. He heard the song and came
out on his front porch with several
other officers and correspondents. The
soldiers saw him and kept up this song
and the order. AS the General recog-
nized them he gracefully lifted his hat
and swung lit across his breast and
held it over his heart until the Twen-
tieth had passed. And he spoke to
those with him: "There they go! The
Twentieth Kansas! The backbone of
my brigade"
The papers told something of it at
the time, save that Lewis Co1eld was
the whistler who started it. The boys
well remember the day and speak yet
of how surprisingly recuperating that
song was.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
Cow Hurts An Old Man.

Monday afternoon old Mr.. Rosen-
beck, who lives two miles north of
Piqua was seriously injured by a cow.
He was working out around the barn
when the COW charged against him aud
knocked him down. Fortunately she
had been dehorned else she would un-
doubtedly have killed him. AS it was
she repeatedly bumped her bony head
against him as he lay helpless and
broke two of his ribs on the right side
and injured his lungs. She stood over
him and returned to the attack repeat
edly until finally driven away. IT. is
doubtful whether the old man can re-
cover. Last winter his wife was seri-
ously injured by fall on the ice and
the family is certainly having a very
hard time of it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05

him ever since that time, for it hap
pens that his grandmother was the
writer's great-grandmother. And he
thinks just as much of him now as he
used to when he helped him steal eggs
from his mother to roast in the brush
fires out in the clearing.
Nobody ever had much harder
fight to get on in the world than Alt.
Campbell. He began the battle when
he was about fifteen years old, with
his hands. He worked on hay
press long time, Then he happened
to get clerkship in the post-oflice at
lola. He was at the age when most
young men spend all their spare cash
and most of the time that they can't
spare going to parties and things,
Alt Campbell didn't go to parties.
He spent his spare time reading law
books. He didn't have any spare cash,
Incidentally he learned stenography,
so that when the job at the post-oflice
gave out he managed somehow to tide
himself along until he was ready to
begin the practice of law. 1t was
mighty uphill work for long time
after that, for lola was not good
place for old lawyers, let alone young
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
Mr.. KELLEY cor THE BOY
Mr.. Sipes of Pittsburg Wanted Pos
session of Eddie Henson

Mr. Sipes of Pittsburg, was in town
this week seeking to recover Eddie
Henson, thirteen year old boy who
has been living with w. b, Kelley
since last October.
The boy is rather q bright lad, quiet
and well behaved. He drifted into
town last fall and fell in with MIR.
Kelley, told his story and was given a
home. Kelley has clothed and fed him
and kept him in school during the
winter and when Sipes appeared few
days ago and called at the house to
get him, the boy was greatly scared
and declared he did not want to go.
The boy says he is the stepson of
Martin Henson, who works about
town, that his father died when he was
quite small, his mother married Mr..
Henson, then she died and Henson not
caring for him he was adopted by Mr..
Sipes, a farmer. The boy says he
never saw the inside of church or
Sunday school and never went TO
school over two months during the five
years he lived with Sipes. He also
declares that he was cruelty treated by
both Mr.. and Mrs. Sipes, and finally
ran away to escape the abuse. He
drifted to lola and into the Kelley
home where he wishes to stay.
Sipes contended that he would take
out writ of haheas corpus and forci-
bly, take the boy from Kelley, on the
strength OF the papers which he has.
Kelley didn't bluff, but showed fight,
and after talking the matter over at
some length the two agreed to submit
the matter to the boy and Sipes
agreed that if Eddie was unwilling to
go with him he would not use any
other means of persuading him than
talk. So an interview was arranged.
Eddie made the statement before
that Sipes and his wife had ill-treated
him and had kept him out Of school
and church, but there is no disputing
the fact that old man Sipes went down
on his knees and talked to the boy
with tears in his eyes and a quaver
in his voice as if he thought the lad
the dearest mortal alive. But plead
ing and beseeching, although con-
tinued for some time, were of no avail
and Eddie stuck consistently to the
decision that he wanted to stay right
where he was. with w. b. Kelley, and
there he is. Mr.. Sipes kept his agree
ment and when he found that the boy
was determined, yielded and will make
no further trouble.
So w. b. Kelley, for better and for
worse, for good or ilS has a new boy
on his hands, occupying the position
of an adopted son. 1t is to be hoped
neither may ever regret the fact and
that the boy in years to come will re-
pay the old mans kindness in kind
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05

ones. But he kept pegging away.
He was simply at it all the time. And
as he went along he told the truth and
paid his debts and did what he agreed
to do and studied just as hard to get
a verdict in the justice court as in the
supreme court and behaved himself
So that the people elected him County
Attorney once in spite of the fact that
he was Democrat (he got over that
hallucinatiOn four years ago. He
never made any noise. He just kept
pegging away. And little by little he
has gained on the hard old world un-
til now he has it pretty well under
his feet. He isn't rich yet, but men
who are hire him to help them out of
trouble and that is the next best thing.
lola has hired him to help her out of
trouble for the next two years, for the
munifcent fee of two dollars. And he
will give his services just as faithfully
and as honestly and as conscientious
ly as he would give them to a private
client who was paying him thousand
dollars. That is the kind of a man
the people of lola have elected may or.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
TICKET WINS
Clean Sweep Except in The Second
Ward Campbell Elected May
or by 457 Majority.

1t happened on "Chewsday." There
was snow the day before and the
streets were sloppy and the people
did manage to get out and the way
they voted wasn't SLOW The forenoon
went "slow as toad in a tar barrel"
as Eben Holden would say, but i'm the
afternoon lola people hit their gait.
Nothing occurred to mar the day, no
fights, no quarrels, no loud talk and
mighty little olectoneering. The
polls were closed without incident and
closed at the regulation time, the
count beginning soon after supper
and being quickly made. 1t was
evident from the first that the Repub-
lican ticket was going in with a whoop
and the first indication did not lie.
The Citizens Ticket saved one man
from the wreck, Mr.. j. S. Walker, as
member of the city council from the
second ward. He is popular man
and staid close by the voting place
and won out with his bland smile.
The women were allowed to vote and
their votes were kept separate, show
ing some funny things. For instance
down in the third ward A. L. Taylor
had lis votes and j. w. Coutant had
1l9 when the men got through with
them, but the women came along and
increased Coutants majority thirty
eight votes. Which shows plainly
that beauty doesn't count much in
politics where women are voting.
There are those-once there were
more of them-who assert that the
REGISTER cannt tell the truth, so
since figures cannot lie, the result of
the voting, as near as can be obtained
without the official count, is given be-
low, a. follows:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
Court House Election Called.

The county commissioners last
Tuesday called an election to- vote
a tax in the sum of $50, 600 for the er-
ection of a new court house in the
public square of lola. The election
is called for May 7.
The letting of the pauper practice
was made as follows: DR.. Richards,
Elm township, $50 per annum; c. S.
Rannells, Elsmore township, S32; r..
Cope, Humboldt township, S4S; F. ID.
Teas, lola and Carlyle townships,
lola city, the county jail and poor
farm, $3.50.
A rebate of the assessed valuation
of the south plant of the lola Brick
Company was allowed, it having been
placed at $1,000, whereas the agree
ment put it at $4,000 Numerous other
minor assessme ents were lowered,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
lola Elks May Object.

Pittsburg Headlight; Lieutenant
Burton j. Mitchell, who was with the
Funston detachment that captured
Aguinaldo as aide to General Funston,
has many acquaintance in this city.
He lis cousin of General Funston
and his parents live in lola. He was
first lieutenant of Company B, Twen-
tieth Kansas, under Captain w. j..
Watson, Of this city, when Company
b and the Twentieth Kansas was dis
charged. Mitchell re-enlisted, and
through the influence of Captain
Watson he was appointed to a first
lieutenancy in the Fortieth Volunteer
Infantry. He was balloted upon and
elected q candidate to be initiated into
the Pittsburg Elk lodge, but returned
to the front unexpectedly before he
was given the degrees. His candidacy
however, still holds good, and it has
always been expected by the members
of the lodge that when he returns tC
the United States he willcome to Pitts.
burg and become a full fedged Elk
He will be loser if he don't, for his
money is up and in ithe :hands of the
Elks' treasurer. 1t is a cold day wher
Pittsburg don't get into the wagon al
some turn of the road when there is
anything of note takes place, and in
the Philippine war, especially.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
LETTER FROM BRETT CLARKE
Thinks He Has Found the Jumping
off Place-Ilelping Garrison a
Small lSlandlin the Philip
pines.

The REGISTER has been permitted to
make the following extracts from a
letter written by Brett Clarke, an lola
boy, serving with the 23rd regulars on
the island of Siassi in the Philippines
to Lewis Cohield.
"Your letter came with the pay
master from Jolo, and when l tell you
! was more glad to get it than see the
p. M. you know how | felt. OF all the
little dirty, filthy, lonesome, sinking,
out of the way places / have run
across this is the worst. The island
can be walked around in day. and
the town has but 500 people, 400 of
them Chinos and the rest Moros and
East Indians. You probably thought
the Filpinos were pretty low in the
scale, but | am sure the missing link
lives somewhere in this neighborhood.
The Moros are Mohammedans and de-
graded almost beyond belief, buying
and selling their women just like live
stock.
"Siassi is about thirty-fve miles
from Jolo, and the only communica-
tion is the paymaster's boat. 1t comes
down about once every six weeks and
that is our only glimpse of the out
side world. So far as soldering is
concerned we do half an hour drill
daily and regulations are slack. But
the work would turn your hair gray.
A water ditch five miles long is being
dug, brick and tile kilns, a commissary
building 10 by 30 feet, are being built
and the soldiersIare doing the work.
"jolo is a beautiful place, nice to
soldier in, except for the chills and
fever. This place has the same. AZ
ler retreat each evening we march up
so the hospital and all take quinine.
This place would not be so bad we're
it not for the work, and you know how
soldier hates to work.
Company II is down at Bongao,
which is but a few miles from Sandal
kan, Borneo, and the boys frequently
so over. was in Borneo in August
and trotted over across the equator.
Personally l can't complain ! have
not been sick during the two years in
the islands. Only had to walk posts
five times as | was made actingcorpor-
al over new recruits and then put on
special duty in the custom house.
held that till we went to Jolo and vas
then made corporal and have had no
trouble in keeping the stripes. At
present | am acting sergeant major
for this post. 1t is wearing, soul
firing work, however. garrisoning a
town, and we think the scrapping over
and little more to expect.
''You asked what the opinion of the
soldiers was saboutholding the islands.
Aside from few 'kickers' whom one
finds everywhere, the boys favor hold
ing them. The better element who
think, all say s'Hold the islands!
Keep the flag dying from the highest
pinnacle. Maintain and uphold the
honor and dignity of our country.
We would like to see little less poll
tics in the matter at home. If Bryan
and his clique had been shot about
five years ago this thing would have
been over and forgotten long ago.
"Heavens! haven't laid eyes on
white woman since | left Honolulu two
years ago, Another battalion will be
sent home this summer and | think I'll
go, and won't | roll em high when |
do get home"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
NWe Don,t WnntIMoney bad .

We want it good and we will give
value received as is every bottle Of
DR., CaldwelPs Syrup Pepsin, no mat
ter be it l0c, SOC or 800, as we guar
antee it for Constipation, Indigestion,
Sick Headache and Stomach Trouble.
Chas. b. Spencer lola and Kline &
Son Moran.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
'Tis Easy to Feel Good.

Countless thousands have found a
blessing to the body in DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, which positively cure
constipation, sick headache, dizziness,
iaundice, malaria, fever and ague and
all liver and stomach troubles Pure
ly vegetable; never grippe or weaken.
Only 20 cents at Evans Bros. drug
store.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05

the Davis Brothers paying taxes on
one-fourth the valuation, as repre-
senting the machinery which is re-
tanned as private property, while the
other three-fourths, as belonging to
the city, was remitted.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
DON'T Be Funny.

1t does not pay. If you have "a
good thing tell it right out, Don't
use false means to attract attention,
We say "right out" and mean it, too,
that DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
will cure every caseof Stomach Troub-
le. 1t will stop any pain caused by
Indigestion; it knocks Sick Headache
by attacking the cause ofthe complaint
and aids you to digest your food, no
matter what you eat, Chas. b. Spen.
Ger lola and Kline q Son Moran.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
A Practicinp Physician

in Monticello, ILL.,, formulated DR..
Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. Ask Chas.
b, Spencer lola, Kinne & Son Moran.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
IOla's New Mayor.

Altes Henry Campbell was born up
on Deer Creek along about 1868. The
writer of this brief sketch has known
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
For Sale or Trade.

l have some mlllett seed and farm
nearly new. for sale.
p, w, Funston, Carlyle, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05

Hustlng young man can make $50 per month
and expenses. Permanent position. Expert
ence unnecessary. Write quick for particulars
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-07-03

Our suspicious were quickly reused.
We craned our necks and watched in
silence. We had only minute to wait
before big bunch of horses, going at
a swift trot, broke cover of the point.
few seconds later, we discovered, on
the outskirts of the herd, which doubt
less numbered many horses of our
own, two pony riders turning the lead
ers across the valley.
We did not have to guess that these
men were "rustlers," and that there
were more of them in the rear push
ing the horses forward. Every move
ment of herd and men proclaimed the
fact. gang of our mountain free
hooters had taken advantage of the
stockmen's stampede" to Lander to
make another stampede, which should
he vastly to their own advantage.
The men were steering their catch
across Black Rock valley up to the
mouth of Two-owe-tee pass. Once
through that difficult gap, they would
hustle the herd into the businesses of
Owl Creek mountains, break it up into
small punches and get away with the
horses at their leisure.
Ferd and / did not say this to each
other-we did not need to do so. We
slipped off the fence presently, and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-07-03
CHINA WAS TOO EAGER.
Her Ministers Agreed to Pay S24,5OO.OOO
More Than the United Demands of
All the Powers.

Washington, June ga curious dis
crepancy concerning the amount of
the Chinese indemnities has developed,
by which it appears that China has
agreed to pay about 35,0O0,00O taels.
OF 24,500,000, more than the united
demands of all the powers. Just how
this occurred is not clear to officials,
but it appears to have been an error
Of calculation at Pekin, in the first
place by those making up the indem-
mites. and later by the Chinese in
their hasty acceptance of the total
AS finally made up this total was $780,
100000 taels, but the present calcula-
ton, after taking in all of the demands
that are known, makes the total only
415, 100000 taels. In the meantime
China has agreed to pay the larger
amount, so that the question now
arises. what will become of the excess
Of $4,000, 900 taels?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-07-03
PREACHER SEEKS DIVORCE.
Rev. William S. Brandon Testifies That
His Wife Frequently Enforced Her
Arguments with an AK.

Detroit, Mich. june ae.-Rcv. Will
liam S. Brandon, of the Second Bap-
tist church, has commenced proceed
ings for divorce against his wife, Ora
Brandon, whom he married September
10, 1891, at Colorado Springs. He al
leges cruelty; says she frequently
locked him out of the house and threw
a shoe at him when he tried to climb
in the window. He alleges in his bill
that after Sunday morning sermon
he was frequently compelled to wash
the clothes and get dinner. He would
often come home and find himself
locked out, he said. and once during "a
quarrel he averred his wife went to
get the Ak. Fearing violence he locked
her out. Mrs. Brandon, however.
Knocked the door in with the AK, and
when Brandon restrained her from
striking him she grabbed n bread
knife. it is charged, and took several
gouges out of the fingers of one hand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-07-03

after we should get the herd going,
and in certain length of time to take
her fight back over the trail by which
we had come.
Even when we told her we should
fight, pointing out from height the
high banks of dry run where we
should make our, stand when we had
run the herd over the rus stlers, she ap-
proved the plan.
"You can stand them off easily!" she
declared. "Their bullets can't hit you
in there, and if they charge you can
stampede them with crackers"
We rather thought so ourselves. We
then ate a bit of dinner and rested,
listening meanwhile for the tramp of
the herd. 1t was nearly four o'clock
when we heard the rumble of their
hoofs and sighted their trail of dust
up the canyon.
We quickly took our places. Florence
stood just outside the mouth of the
cut, with several giant crackers and
some matches in hand. She was lit
tie pale, but cool and collected, and
showed no sign of fear.
Ferd and 1 sat our ponies on either
side the creek-bed and waited, must
admit, in a state of considerable ex-
citement. We had no fear for our
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-07-03
RAISES A Warming VOICE.
Ex-Attorney General Wayne Mac
Weigh Sees the Future Triumph
of the Party of Disseminated.
MUST REMODEL PRESENT SYSTEMS.
Distribution of Wealth, He Said, Should Be
Upon Bases Wider and More Equitable
The Rich Should Give Courage and
Thought to Solve Present Economical
Problems and Make Property Secure.

Boston, June 29.-The grafton on
''Ideals in Politics." which Wayne
MacVeagh, attorney general in Gar
fields cabinet, delivered before the
Phi Beta Kappa at it's annual meeting
at Cambridge, has attracted unusual
attention. Among other things Mr..
MacFeagh said:
1t seems to me quite too plain for dis
pute that no single member of a weaker
resce can be killed; no hut of such a race
however humble, can be burned; no one
can be selected for especial honor for his
part in such pitiful warfare without its
helping to light the torch which starts
the fire by which some helpless negro is
to be burned at the stake in our own
country, not only in defiance but in con-
tempt of law and all such acts must be
surely followed by greater insecurity for
the surplus wealth wsich the contented
class possesses.
Now. it is at least quite possible that in
the not distant future American politics
may transform Mr.. Websters warning
ready beginning to be divided and must
in obedience to the law of social evolu-
ton, continue more and more to be di-
vided by the sharp cleavage which sepa-
rates those who are contented with their
lot from those who are discontented with
their lot.
Under whatever disguises called by
whatever names, inheriting or seizing
whatever partisan organizations. the
alignment of two great political divisions
of American voters who will sooner or
later struggle against each other for the
possession of the government will in
eVitably be upon the basis have named
The party of the contented will be ranged
under one banner, and the party of the
discontented will be ranged under the
other, and that alignment will steadily
develop increasing sharpness OF division
until the party of the discontented be-
ing the majority, has obtained the con-
troll of the government to which, under
our system. they are entitled. and then
they will be sure TO remodel the present
system for the distribution of wealth,
unless we have previously done so, upon
bases wiser and more equitable than
those now existing
The one party will be, under what
ever name, the party of capital and the
other party will be. under whatever name
the party of labor. 1t certainly would
tend to make private property far more
secure in America If the less fortunate
majority Of our population saw us of
the more fortunate minority giving cour-
age and time and thought to efforts TO
solve these problems and others like,
them. and thereby to lessen some of
the evils which in many cases bear so
heavily and so unjustly upon the poor.