The Iola register., 1901-10-11
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

A million dollar company has been
chartered in Topeka to build an elec.
trio line from Kansas City To Olathe.
Emporia Gazette: When boy goes
to reporting all the life insurance
agents come after him and he wonders
why.
The corn husk prophet predicts a
mild winter, but the goose bone
specialist says that don't amount to
shucks.
A machine is now being tried which
prairie dogs, 1t is, probably some
thing like an empty gun.
Rev. Chas. Sheldon sprang the
opening chapters of new story on
his congregation at Topeka Sunday.
1t is the tenth winter he has done this.
A young man who for years has
been carrier on the Emporia Gazette
has been shown the error of his ways
and will devote the rest of his life to
preaching.
A man resisted Galena's town mar
shall when put under arrest and the
officer filled him full of the metal that
made Galena famous. The lead strike
killed him.
Kansas will use two acres at the ST.
Louis exposition for her exhibit. 1t
is doubtful If this amount of space
will accommodate all the curiosities
deserving place.
The supreme court has ruled that
joint smashing is illegal. 1t is hoped
that Mrs Nations peculiar conscience
will not take this as call to come
home and argue.
A Wisconsin man who has been
visiting in ST. Marys for some time
dropped dead while strapping his
trunk for the return journey. 1t is
hard to leave Kansas.
Herbert Hadley, of Kansas, prose-
cuted Bud Taylor, the murderer at
Kansas, and Louis Boyle, of Kansas
defended him. Hadley won but Boyle
added to his reputation.
Fire from an unknown cause started
in a bed in Burington's leading hotel
and the lawyers want to begin an in
vestigation with only the dispositions
of the bed bugs to go on.
Several people in south Lawrence
have their eye on one-eyed horse
which is roaming about the neighbo?-
mood. Prospects of a street car line
are mighty poor to ride on.
1t is suspected that the way Ira
Yingling came to fall out of hay
NOV in Cofey county and break four
ribs was 10y being pushed out by some
musical cuss who wanted to hear his
name jingle.
According to the Wamego Times a
little Bellvile girl, whose parents we're
shortly to move to- ST. Marys, ended
her evening prayer in her old home
thus: Goodbye, God. We are 60
ing to St. Marys."
Santa Fe Detective G. c. Montgom-
cry was shot and instantly killed in
his home in Winfield Saturday night.
The Company offers 81, 900 reward and
men and bloodhounds are following
theItrail of the murderer through Okla
homa.
The State equal suffrage association
meets at Mcpherson next month and
the women are said to show great en-
thusiasm for the cause. The horrors
Of having to pay poll tax are not in
1t with mouse where the fair sex is
concerned.
The papers claim that Minnie Hauk,
the world-famed opera singer spent
part OF her girlhood in Atchisou
county where her mother ran a board
ing house. This is close enough to
Kansas's Sing Sing to make the story
probable.
A Sabetha man visited doctor on
suspicion that he had consumption.
The doctor discovered that the creak-
ing noise the patient thought was the
action OF his lungs was due to his sus-
penders. "Suspendered animation. ."
the local paper called it.
Two men of Hesston, near Newton.
had q row. One was sitting on
grocery store box and the other stand
ing. The one on the box was knocked
off and his assailant only fined 81.
Which is another argument against
the grocery store box habit.
The Dexter Advocate was shy on
news last week because the editor was
overcome with sadnessby the discovery
that the average oyster lays million
eggs day and but five or six live to
BeJ III tne soup. Anu u lne soup IL
might be added that oysters are like
men in that the good die young
The American Indian jumped onto
the Baptists from Ottawa and lifted
their football scalps by the score of 28
to last Saturday. 1t is not yet known
whether Johnny Red Nose, new stu
dent at Haskell, was in the game.
There were red noses there however.
just as the preacher was getting
ready to marry negro couple at
Topeka the sheriff arrested the groom
for stealing hogs in Missouri. 1t is
we'll. No Kansan should countenance
man who would steal Missouri hogs
when there are Kansas hogs to be had.
Printers on the Lindsoorg Record
are subject to lock-jaw. 1t seems to
arise from setting up ads. for the fol-
lowing business men: Berglund, Hag-
strom, Nordmark, Rosengren, Berg
gren, Beckstrom, Gustafson, Grondal, q,
Thorstenberg, Nordberg, Berquist,
Sohlberg.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of the