The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-31

A man talked for two hours on the
street at Marion and didn't sell cake
of soap, nor a gold ring. He talked
about birds and their use and made
plea for their preservation.
The assistant attorney general has
ruled that Kansas counties shall be
liable to the State for its share of the
county tax, whether the county has
been able to collect it or not
The district Judge at Sterling has
pronounced the new law giving old
soldiers the inside track for Office I'M
constitutional. This ruling will change
the practice from must" to "may."
1t is generally believed that the news
that Fred Funston personally assisted
in eating the octopus will remove the
last excuse the Populist party in this
state had for not admitting it is dead.
Funston in his official report says
Aguinaldo raved and swore when
captured, and the Hutchinson News
feels surprised that Annie Dicgs did
not bring up her "little brown brother"
better.
The only point in Kansas where
there is not JOY today is Wellsville.
The public there is slowly recovering
from the woe of Witnessing the sheriff 5
destruction of keg of beer publicly
with an axe.
Mrs. Ella Schubert, living north of
IIeavenworth, became respondent over
Il cancer and sitting in her invalid
chair, held shot gun to her breast
and touched the trigger with a stick,
killing herself instantly.
II the Manila e. Dagupan railway
gets the 50, 800, 900 damages which it
claims from this government, the Kan
sas soldiers who patched together the
old tumble down remnants OF engines
and made them run should put in a
bill to that company.
A man who first went to Kansas
State University in 1890 and attended
a party the first week met young
lady who was considerably his senior
then and last week he saw by the pa
per that she was still doing Lawrence
society The man is thirty today.
The octopus has lost its tail hold in
Kansas. Funston writes that he ate
one and travelling shows exhibiting
one in company with two possums and
pair of white rats. Only a woman s
/ rights party would dare make a cam
paign on an issue in the rat class.
A Paola man who once remarked
that he liked pie was the recipient of a
surprise from his Royal Neighbor
friends on his recent birthday. About
! 100 attended and each brought pie.
| People have been known to suicide to
] pnllant inc hat chic 10 ha Brl
case where an order tried to kill q
member so as to pay insurance.
A woman has Ieen found in Leaven-
worth, young and pretty, who says SIZE
has never kissed or been kissed by boy
or man. She says it is good for mi
crobes and bad for ones health. : he
dislikes the odor of tobacco on a
mans breath. but has never, never
been kissed. Her friends are uncertain
whether to summon Jack-the- Kisser
or Prof. Crook.
Clay Center Times: Led by Will
White some OF the editorial brethcren
are discussing the question as to
whether or not Mckinley is an orator
The fellows who have heard his sweet
voice through fifteen hundred miles OF
quivering space announce their names
as postmasters of their respectiv We
towns and cities, know he is an orator
OF rare penetration and discriminating
power.
Mail g. Breeze: A Chicago capital
ist is making a curious deal with Kan
sas farmers. He buys heifer calves
which he puts out among the farmers
on shares, the agreement being that at
the end of six years the farmer shall
return TO him for each calf so taken
one 2-year-old steer and 81 in cash.
1t is calculated that in six years there
will be an average of half a dozen
animals to represent each original
calf.