The Iola register., 1901-04-26
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

and other fish.
Leavenworth has begun digging the
| foundation for the Andrew Carnegie
| library, and Andrew is expected to
begin digging about May l.
"It will always be remembered by
the Oldest inhabitant," remarks the
Dodge City Reporter" 'that the win
ter of 1901 came in wrong end to-"
A toe was amputated from the foot
of Salna man the other day because
the wound inflicted by his attempt to
burn corn off with a red hot poker
did not heal
A Garden City man who captured a
premium at the county fair with
watermelon that weighed 10 pounds,
has recently confded to a friend that
he loaded it with shot.
The Seneca Tribune notes the arri-
val of a baby girl in that town Cry
ing for dinner, iustas the noon whistle
called the sons of toll from the factory
to their midday meal"
Owing to small pox having cost the
city between one and two thousand dol
lars the past month the Salina council
had to pass over $1,000 of bills the
other night with only $3.50 in the trea-
sury.
'"The Funston Bow" is being pushed
by all up-to-date haberdashers 1t
is very becoming to most men and is
guaranteed, if not to make briga-
dier of man, at least to make q dear
of him.
A man from Nelson writes to the
Pittsburg Headlight to learn how to
close the two joints running in Nell
son, day and night, Sundays included
This burden ought to be easy to
Carrie.
A statement from the land depart
ment at Washington shows that there
are 2, ,242, 800 acres of land in Kansas
open to homesteading. And God S
country beats the Kiowa country all
to pieces.
G. w. Wiltberger was shot, killed
and robbed while returning home from
Winfield Thursday where he sold a
load of wheat. Being a king is a
hazardous job, whether of wheat or
of people.
Three Chanute boys who acquired
: considerable deep water experience
during the seasons when the Neosho
makes Chanute look like Venice, have
enlisted in the navy and will begin
training at Frisco.
A farmer shipped 146 sheep from
x. G. to Ft. Scott and unloaded then
} in the yards there over night. The
next morning he found a herd of Ill
twenty-five lambs having been borr
during the night.
! Eldorado Republican,: "What dist
| find in YOU hair boss ?" said thu
barber to the editor. my scissors
lost 'em last August. Scratch around
D little more and you may find al
, ink bottle and paste pot"
Zachariah North Of Olathe, break
into court this week with suit, whicl
doubtless never would have beel
brought had he not long since lost hi'
, temper over carrying such nam
u about in the goth century.
One Kansas editor feels certain tha
: the first thing Funston said TO Agui
: naldo when he nabbed him was: "Ar
h you Buffalo ?" And Aggie not be
:, ing able to answer Funston gave hir
: the work right then and there.
. An Ottawa man at local banque
. responded to the toast: "The Cit
j. Library" Now the library ladle
s are roasting him in the papers for a
n unfortunate sentence, and he yer
y much resembles quail on toast.
v Kansas people are mighty anXiou
h for rural delivery and if the govern
- ment keeps insisting that routes wi
% only be granted where the roads al
ID good the state may live to see a muc
IS needed reform inroad agriculture.
A Galena woman is suing for divorC
not because her husband is q brut,
y but because he is so polite he bov
low to every lady he sees and she
wasting her life trying to keep suspe
n der buttons on the rear of his trouse
Galena Times: Here is new toas
s. Here's to our wives and Sweetheart
IN may they never meet. And here is t
- :, latest conundrum; Why is it so e
o. pensive to keep a COW in Omaha? b
ds cause it costs $25, 900 for a little Gu
st a-hay.
r. Having been snubbed by Sene
is girl the Tribune man wrote: If &C
"a tain Seneca princess looks up her a
be cestry she will find that one other pr
genitors sawed wood in the daytiI
oS and stole hens at night to make be
rs ends meet.
The latest statement shows SAC
Modern Woodmen in Kansas, carr
IT ing S96, 566. 900 insurance. The la
- absence of cyclones in this State
-ht doubtless due to the prayers of
other $50, 600 Woodmen who dol
want their treasury busted.
ial A Lakin jointist was fined 800 a
IN put in Jail AT the same time his sto
M of liquor, l40 bottles of beer and fo
-, quarts of whisky was confiscated a
TAI put in the Jail. At the end of ten da
ad the liquor was ordered destroyed, tn
ess it was found the jointist had got al
to and destroyed the whole supply.
itb 1t has been decided to postpone {
i'N Kansas G. A. r. state reunion
on Junction City until month later
ely comrade Mckinley can attend. Otta
ter ought to yield her claim to the twer
eth Kansas reunion and hold it at