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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
A DROUTH In ILLINOIS
Reports From That State Predict a
Half Crop of Corn.

Springfield, ILL.,, July pa few
crop reports are coming in to the office
of The weather bureau, but the bulk of
the reports have not been received
Those already sent are of the most
discouraging character. as compared
with the optimistic statements made
by the same correspondents week
ago. They agree that the corn crop
is seriously damaged, that the drought
area is rapidly expanding, and that
there is now no hope for more than
half crop Of this cereal in the south
ern part of the state. In the central
and northern division the damage
from the recent hot weather is esti-
mated from % TO 80 per cent, and a
few correspondents say it will be even
greater.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
QUEER CATS IN MAINE.
One Tnbby That Has Acquired the
Hot Water Hnbit-Proft in
Raising Coon Cats.

The cats of Maine have been making
new records for queer doings lately.
says an eastern paper. A Portland
woman owns a striped tabby that cries
for hot water and is not appeased un-
til a saucer of water as hot as anyone
could drink is poured out for her. The
ca has been drinking hot water for six
weeks, and seems to thrive upon it.
How she acquired the habit no one
knows.
A Biddeford man has two-legged
cat that he raised from a kitten. Tom
is big and has a beautiful black coat.
but was born without fore paws. On
the right shoulder small bone pro
trudes, and on the left there is a small
stub. The cat walks erect and goes
about with ease, not seeming to mind
his deformity.
A Bar Harbor cat fancier says there
is great profit in raising coon cats, So
called, il one has good luck to help out
tireless industry in caring for the ami
mails, but that it does not pay to at
tempt to raise them on a large scale.
Until year old coon cats are very deli
cate and subject to many diseases.
such as pneumonia, fits, spasms and
dysentery, and more die than survive.
Seal brown and pure white cats are
most priced, and the man who can raise
to maturity any considerable number
of these colors is sure of big profits.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

town lots is more than two weeks re-
moved. There is the liveliest sort OF
political humming already In pro-
gress. More than 1000 persons who
announce their intention of making
Lawton their home are already there.
QUICK TO GO INTO PoLIT1os.
Fully one-half of these are now
camping in tents around the Lawton
townsite. No less than half dozen
municipal tickets have already been
discussed. The Democrats and Re-
publicans will each have ticket
there is Citizens ticket forming and
the law and order contingent, repre-
senting the anti-saloon element, will
have ticket, and the wet will confront
them with list of candidates favoring
"wide open" town. Texans are now
in clear majority and the politicians
from the Lone Star state make no
secret of their intentions. They say
Lawton is to be Democratic town.
Say, mister" declared the proprietor
of lemonade stand, who had proved
himself q great influence by organic
ing five Texas companies for registra-
ton, we'll lick them Kansans and
Oklahomans out OF their boots. Just
watch our smoke. We've got SPELL
binders for your life in overalls, by
CAD, sir. We've got 'em in overalls
that can skin Champ Clark from your
state a mile. You just tell that paper
OF yourn to watch the smoke from
Lawton. Say, we've got fellows right
here that will take the crowd with them
and we'll have Texas man for may
or" The Democrats from Kansas
and Oklahoma see the handwriting on
the wall and are looking for a valu-
able man from Texasfor mayor. Any
number of Kansans and Oklahomans
are Offering for the minor offices, but
not one has had the temerity to an
nounce his candidacy for mayor.
Frank Field of Guthrie, is a candidate
on the Democratic nomination for po-
lice judge and f.. S. Young, of Enid,
for chief of police and d w. Buckner
of Guthrie, for city attorney The Re-
publicans now on the ground are
booming w. o. H. Haynes of Lexing-
ton, Ok, for mayor, Haynes organic
ed eighteen companies and is well
known among the campers. The Re
publicans claim that after the drawing
at FL Reno the rush from the north
will begin and the Texans will be out
numbered Dennis Flynn will be here
August and organize the Republican
fight.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
USE OF PRIVATE CARS.
Many Handsome Railway Coaches
Are Now Owned by Men Not
MiIIiOnnires

Private railway cars have always
been associated in the popular mind
with great wealth, but plan has been
developed which makes it possible for
even a vaudeville actor or business
man in ordinary circumstances, or any
body else reasonably well to do, who
wishes to make display or to enjoy
the luxury of travel, to own private
car built according TO his own speci-
fications, according to the Worlds
Work.
4 car-refitting company in New York
city buys old Pullman coaches, tears
the inside furnishings out and refits
them according TO the wishes of its
customers. Whatever kind of private
car man may wish he may order
parlors, handsomely carpeted, sitting
rooms, dining rooms, sleeping com
partments, smoking rooms-all with
equipment more or less perfect ao-
cording as the price. And cars are
refitted in this way and sold for prices
varying from 81 800 to SIS, 1000.
Very handsome and serviceable cars
have been built from the old "casta-
ways" and the man Of moderate means
can travel privately and comfortably
in home of his own. 1t is an interest
ing evidence of American manufacture
ing thrift and of the growth of wealth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
SIGNALING MARS IMPOSSIBLE
IL IL Entirely beyond the Power of
Human Resources to Ac-
compIish.

The very largest city that this earth
has ever known would be altogether
too small to be visible to being
dwelling on the planet Mars, even If
that being were endeavoring to see IL
with q telescope as powerful as the
greatest and most perfect instrument
in any observatory on this globe, says
Sir Robert s. Bah, in the Independent.
If the whole extent of Lake gu
perior was covered with petroleum.
and il that petroleum was set on fire,
then ] think we may admit that an
inhabitant of Mars who was furnished
with telescope as good as that which
Mr.. Percival Lowell uses at FalkstaR
might be able TO see that something
had happened. But we must not sup
pose that the mighty conAagratSon
would appear to the Marian as a very
conspicuous object. 1t would rather
be very small feature, but still I
think it would not be beyond the
reach Of practiced observer in that
planet. On the other hand, If an area
the size of Lake Superior on Mars was
to be flooded with petroleum and that
petroleum was to be kindled, we would
expect to witness the event from here
not as a great and striking conAagra-
ton, but as a tiny little point of just
discernible light. The disk of Mars is
not large object, and the confagra-
ton would not extend over the three
hundredth part of that disk.
1t is sufficient to state these facts
to show that the possibility of sig
mailing to Mars is entirely beyond the
power of human resources
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
ARE RUSHING CATTLE
Receipts in Kansas City Reach an I'M
precedented Figure.

Kansas City, July 22.-Cattle re-
ceipts at the stock yards today ag.
gregated $4,000 up to u o'clock and
about %, 900 for the day, the heaviest
on record and nearly 5000 greater
than at Chicago. The highest per-
vious record was on October 9, 1900,
when 81 ,6l5 arrived.
If the railroads are able to supply
the demand for cars, the receipts to-
morrow may be fully as heavy, or
even greater.
The heavy movement is due to the
drouth and the attractive prices paid
last week by exporters, as shown by
the fact that nearly two-thirds of the
arrivals were beef cattle. Prices
opened 10 to % cents lower and closed
% to 40 cents lower.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26

General superintendent Clarke, OF
the Lackawana railroad, made the an
nouncement at Scranton, Pa, the
other night that his road, in the
course of few months, will be oper-
ated by telephone, instead of by tele-
graph, as at present, at a saving OF
about 60 per cent. in the hire of tele-
graph operators. He says that the
telephone system has been placed on
the Morris and Essex branch, where
its use has been successful, and that
it is being put in as quickly as pos
sible on the Scranton branch. First,
the telephone system will be given
q thorough trial on the branch lines,
and if it proves successful there will
come into general use on the main
line from New York to Buffalo, total
ly superseding the telegraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
SANTA FE COLLISION
Two Were Killed and Fourteen In
jured.

Kansas City, July II. Two men
were killed and fourteen injured in a
head-end collision between Santa Fe
freight train, No. 46, and a St. Joseph
II Grand Island passenger train. No.
10, at 4:l5 yesterday afternoon, three
miles west of Cover. No. The dead
are the Santa Fe engineer, Henry f.
Becker, and the Wells, Fargo & Co. g,
express messenger on the Grand Island
train, Captain w. a. Floyd. None
OF the injuries is expected to prove
fatal. The Santa Fe engine is demol-
ished, the st. Joseph & Grand Island
engine badly damaged and coal car,
meat car Owned by Swift & Co., and
car loaded with hogs were piled up
at the side of the track.
The two trains came together at Il
curve, reached from either side by a
down grade. Oscar Smith, section
foreman for the Santa Fe, was on the
track near the curve, saw theapproach
of the Grand Island passenger train
and heard the freight train in the dis
lance, coming from the other direction.
He tagged the passenger train. which
came almost to standstill just before
the freight train rounded the curve and
crashed into it. The passenger train
was backed 300 yards up grade by the
force of the collision.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
Is HARD ON KRUGER
His Wife's Death Has Almost Pros
trated Him.

BY seripps-McRae Press Association
Amsterdam, July %. Former presi-
dent Kruger passed an easy night bu
is all broken up by the death of his
wife. A member of his encourage said,
loom Paul was broken man fort
night ago. Another blow would finish
him. He would not survive the sur
render of the Beers" There is con-
siderable feeling against the British
because they refused to transmit Kru-
gers last message to his wife because
il was written in dutch.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
Schley Threatening all Sorts
of Trouble
ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION
That McClay History is the
Source of it all
He Expects the War Department to
Take up the Matter Most
Thoroughly

Washington, July %. The Wash.
ington Post last night telegraphed AID.
miral Schley that, in an editorial, II
insisted that he owed it to himself as
we'll as to his friends to begin pro.
ceedings against Mr.. Maclay, the
author of the History OF the United
States Navy, to disprove the latter's
charge, adding:
"Will you do this? Please wire
statement"
Today it received the following tele-
gram:
"Great Neck, l.. l., July 23.-Editor
Washington Post: | believe the first
step should be investigation of all mat
ter by a court, then a civil action
afterward. | am preparing to take
this course.-W. S. SCHLEY.
The Post in the morning, as result
of extensive inquiries based upon the
admiral's dispatch, will say in part:
Admiral Schley proposes to ask
an investigation at the hands of ma
val court of inquiry AMI then to sue
Historian Maclay for libel. His act
ion is the sequel to the developments
during the past week, when the entire
country has been stirred by the publ
cation OF the uneXampled abuse pour
ed out upon him in the third volume
of T.. 5. Maclay's History of the Unit
ed States Navy, in which publication
Schley is said to have run away in
caitiff flight and is, in addition, de-
nounced as coward, cur and a
traitor.
The Schley court of inquiry will
undoubtedly be one of the most cele-
brated cases in the naval or military
history of the country. The high rank
OF the officers involved in the contro-
versy and the intense public feeling
which has been aroused will combine
to give to the investigation adramatic
interest. Nothing has occurred IN
Washington for many years that viii
compare with it.
DEWEY WILL PRESIDE.
Washington, July 24-Secretary
Long this morning received from Adj
miral Schley merchandising court
of:inquiry .to investigate Misconduct
during the Santiago campaign. I'm
mediately on receipt of the letter Long
sent for Rear Admiral Crowninshield;
chief of the bureau of navigation,
Captain Cowles, and the latter's
assistant, Captain Lemley, Judge Adj
vocate General of the Navy. A con-
sultation followed relating to the + err
sonell of the proposed court.
Secretary Long, having been inform
ed late yesterday that Schley would
make this request wired Admiral
Dewey to cometo Washington. When
Dewey arrived this morning he was
rendered the position of president of
the court. He Immediately accepted.
The other members are not yet named.
The court will probably meet in Sep
TENDER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
KANSAS NOT 50 BAD
Governor Stanley on Financial Con
ditiOns

Topeka, July Governor Stanley
to-day issued the following interview
on the subject of Kansas crops and
general condition Of the state:
1.-THE present drouth throughout the
West has been very injurious and in
Kansas has worked a practical de-
struction OF the corn is in fair condi-
ton aud with seasonable rains Kan
sas might produce $4,000, 900 bushels,
but the latter part Of July and the
month OF August Is always the trying
period for the corn and very little
hope may be entertained for this crop.
1t may as we'll be considered sub
stantial failure.
but with the corn crop wholly
eliminated Kansas is in a better shape
this year than in many past years,
and while the comparison affords no
particular cause for encouragement, it
affords no ground for encouragement.
1.-The value of our wheat this year
will be equal to or greater than that
Of last year, which in round numbers
was $42, 600 600. Our live stock pro-
ducts will be at least $50, 600, 900, alfalfa
and other forage crops S., 900, 600, hay
and grasses 81, O00,0 900. This makes
total of $lO9, 900, 900, for farm pro-
ducts, not counting corn, oats, pota-
toes, fruit and many other things of
which considerable quantities will be
produced.
1.-The farm products of Kansas, con-
sisting of wheat, corn, potatoes, for
age crops and live stock products, for
the last ten years aggregate more than
400 million dollars.
During this period we had three
short years, the value of the product
far 1893 being 1922, 600, 600; 1894, sll3,-
600, 600; 1896, SIG, 900, 600, so that the
entire farm products this year will
practically equal the entire farm pro-
ducts of the best of the three years
above mentioned.
The bank deposits of these three
years were approximately as follows:
1893, s55, 900, 900; 1894, 800, 900, 600. The
bank depositslof Kansas at this time
about $4,000, 900. The
farm products will be more than $780,
000, 900, and these will therefore ex-
coed the sum of the farm products and
hn l. 10. h.. lar &C L., 81,
small years since 1891.
Taking our farm products alone
for twenty years and dividing them
into periods Of five years each, com
mencing with 1889 and ending with the
present year, we have for the first
period farm production of 1915, 000,-
600, for the second 5000, 900. 600, for the
third $G46, O0O 600 and for the five year
period ending with the present year
$3.50, 600, 600.
Sin 1896, the last short year we had
in Kansas, our Indebtedness was very
large and the amount of money going
out of the state to pay interest was
Since that time public and
private Indebtedness has been largely
reduced, and this is bearing a much
lower rate of interest than ever
Thousands of farmers who we're in
debt at that time are now out of debt,
with deposits in the bank, and we owe
many million dollars less in Kansas
and we did in 1896.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
$50 DEATHS PER MONTH
The Record of the African Re-COncen-
tradO Camps.
9v scripps-McRae Press Association.

London, July PAT is officially re-
ported in South Africa that the recon
centrado camps for June show that the
four camps in Natal Transvaal,
Orange river colony, and Cape Colony
contain over forty seven thousand
souls including twenty thousand chill
dren. There were over seven hundred
and fifty deaths during this month,
including five hundred and seventy
children.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
Make War on seasickness.

The Paris league against sickness t
sea is organizing at ostend an exhibit
ton OF methods for treatment. There
will be six sections in the exhibition
first, apparatus to diminish the rolling
of vessel; second, an apparatus for
cleansing the viscera; third, ventila-
ton OF cabinsS fourth, apparatus, food
and drink for preventing seasickness;
fifth, specifies against seasickness, and
sixth, literature on seasickness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
ALL FOR MANILA
5}8 School Teachers Sailed From San
Francisco.

nv Scriprs McIlae Press Association.
San Francisco, July 23-Five hun
dred school teachers, of whom one
hundred and forty-fve are women,
sailed today on the transport Thomas
for Manila. They are appointed for
term of three years. 1t costs the
government three hundred dollars to
transport en- ch one.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
MRS. NATIONS SENTENCE
Thirty Days and 500 Fine For Sun
day Joint Raid.

Topeka, July 23-Mrs. Carrie Ma
ion was sentenced to thirty days in
jail and fined 800 by Judge Hazen in
the district court yesterday for dis
turbing the peace and dignity of the
city by Sunday joint raid last
March.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
$500 REWARD

We will pay the above reward for any case Of
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Indigestion, Constipation or Costiveness we
cannot cure with Lverita, the Up-To- Date
ittle LIVER PHI, when the directions are strict
~ complied with They are purely Vegetable,
and never fail to give satisfaction CSC boxes
contain 100 pills, 100 boxes contain 40 pills Sc
boxes contain 10 Pills. Beware Of substitntions
ana limitations. Sent by mail. Stamps taken
NERVITA MEDICAL CO., Cor. Clinton and
Jackson sts., Chicago, Ill Sold BY
Chas B. Spencer & Co.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
The Mail
and Breeze.
Official State Paper Of Kansas.

The best weekly newspaper in the
west. Contains all the news of Kan
sas, an ably edited farm department,
"a woman's page, attractive cartoons
and Kansas illustrations, and Tom
McNeals famous fables, and breezy
comment on current events. IL is the
favorite paper of the Kansas farmers
and no farmer in this county should
be without it.
We club with the Mail and B reeze
anlwill give you that paper one year
with the Register one year for 81. 90.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
10000 AT KANSAS CITY.
BY scripps-M cRae Press Association.

BY scripps McRae Press Association.
Kansas City, July 23.-Superinten-
dent Sanford estimates that fifteen
thousand will pass through the local
depot before night enroute to FL Reno.
Such a crowd was never seen at Kan
sas City's station.
THEY MEAN BUSINESS
Fort Sill, Ok, July %. "Notice is
hereby served on all confidence men.
pickpockets, thieves and crooks who
are caught plying their vocations that
they will be hanged to the nearest
tree"
An organization which will call
itself Law and Order league was form
ed here yesterday and will print ,0OO
bills making the above announcement
and distribute them among the crowd
which is already gathering around
Lawton. One of the old residents OF
the reservation has takenthe initiative
in the movement. This would indi-
cate that there might be lynchings and
all kind of things liable to happen
when the new town of Lawton is orga-
nized. But the men who have passed
through similar experiences say it is
all nonsense to perfect such an orga-
nization, and they laugh at the fear of
the inexperienced.
MARK my word, no organization
will distribute any such circulars, -
said man who had seen at both Ok
lahoma City and Enid at the former
openings. but you'll see the live
Hest election that was ever held in Ok
lahoma." An inquiry among the
campers proved the plausibility of the
statement in which the first sale of
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1901-01-18
Nu5 OeutlAlanb.
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Gerempnien inn opfe oes 3engbaufes
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1901-01-18

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ming @tonoaro" per0ffentli4t einen
8eri6t, laut psl9em eine In3abl gez
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