The Iola register., 1901-06-21
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


since.
John Thompson of Ottawa put
chemicals on wart and the doctor
had TO amputate the finger. 1t included
the wart.
The court refused to enjoin the
Orient from running down Second
street in Emporia, providing it doesn't
run 700 fast.
Clahin, in Barton county has been
quarantined by the state board of
health. And the people think it a
scabby trick.
Not n single person in Kansas went
into involuntary bankruptcy last year.
The Kansan is like the Irishman's flea
and dies game.
A Lawrence woman is called "Swede
Mary" The folks who gave her tn at
name doubtless had influenza and
meant sweet Mary.
People are far more considerate of
the crank who has visions OF reaching
the north pole in hot weather than
they have in cold weather.
Leavenworth was AZ years old Thurs
day. Kansas City woul never have
been had Beavenworth known AZ years
ago what she knows now.
ID. b. Binder welded Miss Kate
Binder at Abilene this week Natur-
ally the officiating clergyman was a
graduate of Mccormack seminary.
Forty Indians graduate from Has
kell Institute this spring, and as most
of them are boys it seems that none
but the braves deserve the sheepskin.
A Wichita man was cleared of the
charge of insanity for when asked
what his father worked at he replied
that "he don't work; he's lawyer. ="
Judge Hazen has ruled out spotter
evidence in liquor cases, SO that in
order to testify you must buy booze TO
slack thirst and not to satisfy curio-
sity.
The editor of the Arkansas City
Traveller wants a job as instructor in
II new eastern school he has heard of
which will teach Zip exercises for
girls"
No Kansas farmer would like to have
II spouney daughter, but in the wheat
belt many farmer realizes that his
daughters are holding the harvest
hands.
The Manhattan Agricultural Col
lego has booklet out which tells of
the "pruns domestica.,' This is prob
ably the variety that infests boarding
houses.
Il. NJ. Wright, state superintendent
of forestry, distributed 1900, 900 trees
in western Kansas this spring. They
were locust, eatalpas and Usage
oranges.
The speculative craze which has
struck the whole country finds vent ia
Kansas in naming Cy Deland's sue
cessor. And fortunes have been made
and lost at this game.
Up at Leavenworth examination for
a position in the public schools con-
sists OF reading and pronouncing the
name OF the city clerk, Mr.. Przby ylowicz.
The State examining board might try
this.
Difficulty is being found in getting a
jury to try Jessie Morrison, but were
il necessary to find II women who
would agree not to discuss the case
during the trial, they would never get
jury.
A number Of Kansans who had their
eye on the Job have decided not to run
for president now Mr.. Mckinley has
set his veto on three terms. 1t would
hardly pay to leave the farm for only
eight years.
A medium between the value placed
on house or new enterprise by the
local paper when first announced and
the owners return to the assessor
would be about the real value of Kan
sas property.
Emporia is enjoying work on the
Orient line down Second street and
still has fit whenever anyone talks Of
the roads plan to skip the town anC
make little whistling station the
division point.
The long-haired youths of foot ball
fame who graduated this year from
college and are now helping harvest
the wheat will find that hal" good
binding twine. Education helps il
every walk of life.
The same issue of the Arkansas Cit,
| lTdNell6F lOlu Vi II TlSb III Ulb AThull
sas river and u million snakes coming
down stream, and of the resignation
of the town marshal because he coulC
not close the joints.
Five bull pups and young vol
play together in an Atchison stable
setting an example which Charlie
Curtis would like to see some of tn,
Republican politicians of that tow
emulate. He is visiting there.
After the State bank of Dexter wa
examined the cashier, j. II. Watkins
suicided. Examination showed he wal
short, but the credit he doubtless eX
pected from his last deed is out of tn
jurisdiction of the court before whicl
he has gone.
A Parsons mother caughther augh
ter kissing boy. The girl said sh
did il because he had lost dear rela
tive and the kiss was zone of sym
pathy." The wise mater warned tn
daughter that il she were not careful
the young man would soon be withou
a living relative.
George Bordenkircher, an Empori
Elk, took his bride home recently an,
on the train said to a friend that "thi