The Iola register., 1901-11-08
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENT,

Yates Center wants waterworks so
badly she is splitting cotton. Every
inducement Is offered but the water.
S. N. Dwight, who owns Galena's :
waterworks, has let the contract for
a seven-story office buildingin Kansas
City.
Mr.. Jeckyl, rich stockraiser OF
Guatemala, was in Wichita recently.
probably to find market for his
hydes.
A Leavenworth man says he has
found u fine quality of red and gray
granite on his land in the Wichita
mountain.
Emporia has a Uneeda Club, and
with Men and Women in Black on ev-
cry street the wise citizen feels that he
needs u club.
Willie Young played with revol-
yer at Manhattan. After the doctors
cut the ball out and sewed up the hole
Willie Young was Johnny Wise.
A Pittsburg woman who saw a sign,
Horehound drops five cents" in a
window went home and told her hus-
band that horehOund was cheaper.
The Lawrence journal finds n pc
culiar fitness in Chester Longs ad-
dressing the farm machinery men in
Kansas City for Chester has machine
in the Seventh district.
The raglan" overcoat, the fad last
year, has struck Highland and the
Nidette says IL its the average High
land form like barrel on barber
pole, so the editor will stick to the old
fashioned rags
The experiment is being tried at
Hutchinson of putting cattle on full
feed on cotton seed meal. An advan-
tage gained is that carpet rags in
stead of cheese can be made of the
skinned milk.
A girl was arrested at Baxter
Springs who has masqueraded in boys
clothes for five years Remembering
this and Bent Murdock's experience
has u tendancy to make one suspect
his boon companion.
Mrs. II. Odom of Weir City, locked
her three children in the house while
she went to town trading. The fire
department beat her home and saved
part of the house which had burned,
all three children pcrishing.
Hutchinson News The old song of
the Populists, Good Bye. Old Party,
Good Bye, is now drowned by the
lusty notes of the Democrats as they
respond to the dying notes Of their late
allies with go Away Back and Sit
Down"
Charlie Harger v no is deliver in
ancient writings, says: The thought
comes that when the Arabs folded
their tents and silently stole away
that they had missionary wrapped
up in the tent.
a meat market at Concordia was
robbed of $57 in silver. Bloodhounds
were secured and put on the trail but
persistently chased to the front door
of a prominent citizens house. Did
they arrest the =. c.? No they called
the hounds Lying curs.'
Four small. Kansas City boys aged
about fourteen years each were arrest
ed in Ottawa. They were headed for
California to win the woody west with
a pistol, three dollars and bottle of
whiskey. Thev are now back at dads
table and the woody west has escaped
again.
A natural born knocker started
report that a Winfield bank was
shaky and a run began. AS soon as
people learned the source of the re-
port they took their money back. All
the ornery people can't be anarchists;
some have to be lying knockers.
An Ottawa man who has been
breathing with difficulty coughed
up what the Ottawa Herald calls
a "calcareous substance from his
bronchia." He should have some of
the shale experts from Trego county
examine it.
The Wellington News C la i'm 3 tn lat Cor
nelirs Vanderbilt, who is making an
inspection tour of his railrOa DIS,
bowed to q reporter as the train flew
through town. Wellington is sinking
wells for water and rather hopes Van
derbilt's visit will help insure good
flow.
DR.. Calhoun of Mound Valley is in
jail charged with poisoning his wife.
Well, up to last Saturday, she died
suddenly and the cOrone"'s jury Sus-
pect she came to her death by reason
of a 1000 life insurance policy
recently taken out in her husbands
favor.
Joe BartoIif and John Whealan,
two Italians working in coal mine at
Pittsburg, were "buddies'' and like
brothers until black eyed girl came
between them. AS result of the
jealousy Whealan was shot and is
dead. Bartolit is in Jail. The girls
eyes are still black.
The John Thomas Company is to
give a concert at Winfield soon, and
John Louder is billed as star. But
if he can outshine some of the
Thomases who give concerts in Win.
fields back yards at night he will get
louder noises out of catgut than the
original owners can,
The report comes from Franklin
county of foreigner who wanted to
name his baby Leon Czolgosz. The
priest proceeded with the baptism un-
til he heard the name then stopped,
rebuked the father and refused to fin