The Iola register., 1901-11-15

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York Stock Co., Jan. 81; Elias Day,
March IT. There are some good seats
still on sale at Crabb's Drug Store.
Everything on the list is first-class :
enterta inment and worth twice what
you have to pay for it.
Ed Hardness 1early lost his life in
the Santa Fe yards az Chanute the .
other evening. While uncoupling an /:
engine he wascaught by the cars creep :
ing forward between the car and the .
tender and was unconscious when the
fireman went to see why he was so long. :
1t is believed he was not dangerously
hurt. Mrs. Clint Taylor ofthis city Is
a sister of the young man.
The matinee races atthe fair grounds
Friday afternoon attracted some
200 hundred people. Two races were
run. both half mile events. The pace
was won by Lady Fulton, Bob Fletch-
er's horse in 1:20, Ed Davis's horse
being second. The trotting race was
Ed Davis trotter taking second
place.
A controlling interest in the Fort
Scott Monitor has again changed
hands, this time coming under the di-
rection Of Col. j. II. Richards, for
merly of lola. The Colonel has been
looming up politically more and more
of recent years and IL is believed the
acquisition of personal organ means
that be is contemplating the rendition
Of some tunes composed and sung by
himself.
Mr.. l.. w. Duncan started Tuesday
to Emporia where he will act as field
agent for Lewis g. Co., of Chicago,
who are engaged in the work Of pub
| fishing biographical history of q
a number OF counties of central Kan |
sas. MIR. Duncan is an expert in this |
work, having been employed by the |
same firm for a number of years, and |
the REGISTER commends him TO the
good people of Lyon county and wish
es him success.
Gas City Headlight: A big pelican
made a mistake this week in getting in
the way of charge of shot from VIM.
Poling's shot gun. The bird measured
eight feet from the tip OF one wing to
the tip of the other and from the tip OF
its bill to the end of its tail was five
feet eight inches. The big bird was
killed in the Cherokee Lanyon pond
and its death caused considerable ex-
citement among the employees.
A number of linemen arrived from
Ft. Scott last week and copper
wire will be strung from lola to Bur-
ington and Emporia for the Missouri
and Kansas telephone company. This
will give lola long distance connec-
tion with these towns and the line
from EmpOria to Oklahoma City and
intermediate points. Gradually this
town is getting to be- The center of a
telephone system trni reaches over
thousands Of miles G country.
Lewis Coflield has letter from Mrs.
McNaught of Hydro, Oklah' ma, dated
. November Q, stating that h brother
Sam O'Hara. left for his home in Mo-
ran on that date, very i'll. Sam never
recovered from his illness contracted
, in the Philippines. He was granted
pension and he won n claim in the
Kiowa country, but while down there
was again taken down aud his sister
says he is worse than ever and failing
rapidly.
There isn't another town any size in
, Kansas that is as we'll lighted as lola
, Down at Winfield, for instance, which
is thriving city and ranks we'll there
is not an eletric light in town and the
main street is as dark as bunghole-
less barrel after night. Without
street lights the business art of lola
would be well lit from the gas lamps
in the stores, but with the fifty arc
lights and the fifteen commerciallig
the business section is as light as day
all night.
\ stockmun told REGISTER re-
porter recently that he had tried the
experiment of feeding cotton seed
hulls To his cattle and that they ate IL
ravenously and fatLened in remark
ably short time on the provender. II
no evil effects result the discovery
may prove valuable especially in the
southern part of Kansas and Okla
homa where cotton hulls are obtain
able AZ a low price and more parti-
cularly in seasons like this when feed
is scarce.
Every time sheriff Hobart rides be-
tween Humboldt and Chanute on the
Santa t'e he points out to anyone who
will listen the old farm where he was
born, the fields he plowed, the river
he swan in. the school house where he
attended, and the house where he was
born. Then he points out a little
church. ~ used to 60 there and get
= stack Of merit cards for having my
! Sunday School lesson best" and he
swells up so one can hardly sit in the
seat with him.
Ft. Scott Tribune: The first car to
be run over the new Ft. Scott, lola a.
Western road was run yesterday. 1t
was IA private car and on board we're
, President b. =. Mcdonald and Secre-
tary Q. c. Nelson, The Ger was a
vestibued, rubber tired hand car
which the two railway magnates pro.
} PEELED without assistance. They both
3 have blisters on their hands today.
: There are now eight aud half miles
D of the new road completed.
One of the amusing things in this
par. of the state in recent weeks was
the foot ball game between LaHarpe
p and Yates Center. Jim Rodgers, of
F. the Lanyon Zinc Company, organized
r and trained u foot ball team out at
TaHarpp took il to Yates Center and