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

to her dun and she will have the law
on him for sending threats through
the mails.
A Girard husband stopped his wife's
inquisitiveness when she asked him
what "this closure is they talk so
much about" by assuring her it was
something awful, something you
wouldn't tolerate in this house for a
single minute"
A new county court was established
by the Legislature for Douglas county
and two young men Immediately
sprinted for the chair as the salary is
$1,000 year. Oscar Learnard won
and Immediately ruled his opponent
out of the race.
Three small boys playing "jail" at
Florence Sunday had among them a
22-rine. The "prisoner" broke jail
and ran and the guard" fred at him
from the "unloaded" gun. The bullet
penetrated both lungs and the little
boy died Tuesday.
Yates Center Advocates: An old
lady over 81 years of age has made
and sold to Palmer & Trueblood
100 pounds of butter between October
23rd and March Goth. This was from
three COWS and was in addition to the
needs of the family.
When a great man gets sick, says
the Marion Record, and fourteen
"eminent physicians 90 fumbling with
his pulse and testing his temperature
and respiration and bulletining the
business every fifteen minutes, look
out for big funeral.
While the Coiieyville opera house
was packed by men only to see a
racy show, minister objected to n
song and the managermade the singer
leave out all the other verses. Think
of Cotfeyville, famed for murder and
bank robbery, coming to this!
The law says that property of de-
ceased person must be sold at public
or private sale when debts are to be paid.
Another law says noKansan must sell
liquor. So the probate Judge at Nc
Pherson sweat blood when he found
Il gallon of rye in a dead mans eff
fects.
Fuuston's latest exploit hardly
caused greater wonder at Hutchin-
son than his feat in that town three
years ago. He was billed to lecture
and Mr.. Meyer had guaranteed the
church society for whom he talked S75.
The receipts were about $.75 and Fred
refused to take the SO.
Bent Murdoch warns ElDorado peo-
pie not to get gay, that II a list of ten
people to be banished from the town
for its good was made up, each of his
10 nd
then he confesses he would expect a
complimentary vote"
There were dreaded rumors of sh IL
down at the Mt. Carmel mines near
Pittsburg, but it was learned later
that the company had simply given
the 300 Buffaloes among the miners n
day off to mourn for a Buffalo who
had recently died in New York.
Most of the residents of a township
out in western Kansas have had what
they call crash" Nobody went to
bed nor got scared nor was quaran-
tined and only last week was a doctor
called for one such case and he pro-
nounced the rash" smallpox.
Hutchinson News There is lesson
to some local politicians in the fact
that Aguinaldo owes his capture by
General Funston to pernicious habit
he had of opening his campaign by
writing open letters. 1t might be add
ed that the result will be the same in
both cases.
Usage City Free Press Miss Sadie
Moon received Filipino flag beltirom
the Philippines this week. The belt
is very pretty one. 1t is made of
red and blue silk and has silver clasps
at the two ends, decorated with gold.
The belt was captured from an insur-
gent soldier by Robert Glass, of Co.
l, 33rd Reg.
Newton Kansan: A Santa Fe rail
way official gives it as his opinion
that in fifteen years the railway mile
age of Kansas will be nearly doubled.
He says it will pay to build line of
road anywhere in Kansas where belt
of good farm land six miles wide on
each side of the road can be de-
pended upon for patronage.
An Oswego man owns pack of
hounds which chased a wolf into a
pond. He grabbed a stick and tried
to strike the wolf, but the dogs mis-
lOOh MS lhSdulllB anu Hcu' lpolOlp no
could get out of the pond the wolf
grabbed him by the leg, but he took
the beast by the head and drowned it,
Last year Mr.. Carey of Hutchinson
fitted up pond with bath houses and
made bathing beach of it, 1t proved
surprisingly popular and he has add
ed improvements for this year, and it
is said the Kansas sun puts a seaside
tan on ones arms and legs in a day,
thus permitting one to be fashionable
without neglecting business long.
Mrs. Belle Harbaugh, of the Erie
Record, having tried every other spe-
cifc for the grip, has tried the cuss-to-
mary male cure, thus:
Oh, March indeed is hummer
Shifting us thigh and hip.
Oh, for the fervid summer,
And the dell take March and the
grip
Abram Williams returned home to
FIT. Scott Wednesday after an absence
of several years to see his wife. He
dropped into court and found that his
wife had secured divorce some time