The Iola register., 1901-08-30

Rol Gard and Cash Edison we're dis
cussing the dangers Of various occu-
pations. Cash said he would not go
up in balloon for half of Allen county
Neither would Rol, and he added that
he saw carpenter hanging by his toe
nails over the edge of the north school
building. He did not want to be a
carpenter. Rol finally stated that the
only safe work he knew of was laying
cement walks, but Cash called his at
tention to the fact that a runaway |
team might run over you then. They |
finally agreed that any kind of work
was far too dangerous for them.
Some local interest will be taken in
the recent hanging of man cut west
for the reason that Oscar Cain, an old
lola boy, is the county prosecuting at
torney who brought the murderer to
the scaffold, although defended by the
willy j. Ham Lewis. The victim was
Charles w. Nordstrom, and he muir
dered William Mason in 1891 in cold
blood over a dispute about a few dol
lars wages. Nordstrom appealed
from court to court and the hanging
was thus delayed ten long years, but
when it was due he broke down and
cried and fought. He was tied by
force to board and IN this way
hanged.
| T. s. Slower, who was born "oown
!! in Maine," is of family of old sea
. captains and knows everything about
! ships, probably gave the publishers
J of Golfers Weekly a surprise today
He wrote them a letter in regard to a
recent frontspiece. The picture
showed the Shamrock II at anchor in
New York harbor, under full sail.
After taking it for granted that
, Golfers knows the truth Slower
said that Kansas yachts men
\ were betting on the Defender II the
Shamrock s captain did not know bet
- ter than to lie at anchor under full
sail. And the editor will wonder what
:. subject Kansas cannot rise up and
= testify about.
10 Mr.. A. Barnard, of Toronto, VIII
>, has been here visiting ID. Horville and
discussing the stock farm which they
mutually own in Woodson county re-
:. turned home last week. Year
;, ago he lived here and herded cattle
onthe hillswhere LaHarpe now stands
=, unimpeded by fence or house. HI
=. vividly recalls rounding bunch oi
- steers up on the public square in lola
J.. He was riding bronco and the beas
=, began to buck, keeping up the contor
no tions clear across the square and final
: ly bringing up in pile of farm ma
chinery. Barnard was smoking ;
'' new clay pipe and he bit the stem of
II unconsciously and it was A. w. Becl
" who discovered the fact after th
Bronco quit.
- There is man on the streets no,
~ who has a glow on his face, who in
iU sists on shaking hands with hi
io friends, who looks happier and clean
II Il er than he has for years. That ma
u has just secured his freedom from
- bondage that held him captive for te
years, robbing him of the money tha
VI he earned, running his body and sou
,n and making his family miserable. II
ne has just finished taking n course {
,o treatment for the liquor habit unde
81 DIR. Woods and declares his firm fait
We that he is his own master again an
an will remain so. And if he stand
al straight the town ought TO make it to
eil hot for the "friend" who shall temI
nc him to fall again.
ITS -,
"a The liquor row still boils at Fo
4 Scott. Rev. Martin breaches on Sun
day and the Committee of Fifty answt
w through the Monitor. Sunday NJ
w. Martin likened Fort Scott to Sodon
aS declared the administration The rottej
ue est of many rotten ones and proceedC
aS generally to hang it on the bushes
er' men. A new feature has caused
er' scandal. The council in secret Sc
~ sion seems to have agreed to let IL
eli city attorney collect the joint fines f,
io' two months to pay him for defendr
Ns' the jointists. In the new jury pan
ioe are two Fort Scott saloon keepers al
ar to help get convictions the Civic Pun
ice ty League is urging grand iur
Ine And the whole State is lookir
ne askance at Fort Scott.
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