The Iola register., 1901-11-29
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

The Augusta Journal has to come
out twice-a-veek now 10 keep up with
the local hurry.
Mrs. NJ. de Forrest of Irving is
credited with a $400, 600 share in a
New York estate.
The coroner, Public Opinion, is pre-
pairing a statement that Emporia came
to its death by town row.
independence is having trouble with
its gas supply because it cannot get
gas pipe ordered last July.
The Lindsborg Record talks about
"hste." The Record must have
taken to spelling fee phonetically.
A ten million trust has been organ
lied which will absorb all the plaster
cement companies, including eight
Kansas concerns.
Mort Albaugh who guided the Re-
| publican party to success last year.
lost The county printing in the election
at Kingman this month.
Newton was visited by s36, 900 fire
Saturday II started from the explo-
sion of barrel of paint which was
advertised to be "lire proof
An eXhange notes the marriage of
Miss Bessie Cake. What q lost op.
portunity that name indicates. She
should be called Pattie, of course.
The evangelist secured $50 conver-
sions at Winfield during the revival.
Who would have thought that lovely
town ever harbored that number OF
sinners
j. b. Waldrupe, the penitentiary
guard who wac shot by the escaping
convicts, has died and now they will
have to answer to the charge of muir
der also.
Somebody has referred thequestion:
SHOULD literary men smoke" to the
Hutchinson News. And the News
thinks some of them should smoke
smoke to excess.
Newton don't encourage girls to
scramble their names. A voting con
test is running and Lizzie Langowsky '
is running clear ahead of girls named
Dottie and lone.
Mr.. Kemper, from near Eldorado,
got nine tons of hay and over IL
bushels of seed from field OF eleven
acres of alfalfa this year, netting him
SlO7.5O per acre.
Why don't few thousand men quit
dreaming of air ships and perpetual
motion and invent a syrup pitcher
that don't run down at the snout;
There's millions in it.
One who reads the papers canno
but be struck by the strange epidemi
OF little girls jumping on ten penny
nails. Strange, TOO, all are reported
cured by the same balm.
Safe blowers dynamited the depot
safe at Hutchinson and one of them
was found dead nearby when tue town
folk arrived. So there is some risk
even in being safe" blower,
A Wisconsin man offers to rid wes.
tern Kansas of the prairie dogs, he to
receive 500, 900 after he has succeeded
This is at the rate Of about cent q
dog andis considered good bargain
A card of thanks in the Alma En-
terprise wishes to "thank all who as
sisted in the death of my wife partic,
ularly the singers from Newbury. y
That must have been murderous mu-
sic.
An Arkansas City jeweler held a
grab sale" for which he sold tickets
indicating the turn of the grabber
There were few watches, diamond
and raft of safety pins they all solo
we'll.
Dave Leahy committed murder a.
Wichita last week. He killed wo'
man and child 'in blizzard last Sat
urday on the prairie three miles ives
Of this city" No arrests have beer
made.
just over the Kansas line to the cas-
a Judge has ruled that a woman may
hb about her age when securing 3
marriage license and it is no lie. Al
least she cannot be prosecuted fol
perjury.
Experts claim to see the time coming
when beef will be so high only million
aires and wheat barons can al ord it,
The cost of producing beef in Kansas
is not going up, so this State needn't
worry.
Wellington claims distinction for
having SO many beautiful widows.
That would be nice place for man Ia
live-but the thought comes that many
must have failed to live there or wild
ows would be fewer.
People who scoff at the Stork' share
in the baby business may learn with
profit that stork visited the home
of @. M. Gibson atSalina when every
body was absent and left well-wrap-
ped up baby on the porch.
A Clay Center man who recently
visited in Sweden was commissioned
by relatives to try and find trace of
any assets Junction City Swede who
suicided 30 years ago might have left,
He could find not even a memory.
A man jumped off atrain at Natoma,
ate full meal and tossing the land
lord five cents returned to the train
and went his way rejoicing. One
would think man with that much
gall in him could find no room for
grub.