The Iola register., 1901-04-19

w. S. Pryor, the man who handled
the drill here and made the first big
gas strike which has been followed by
making lola city says there is natural
gas at Rosedale, near Kansas City,
and he has been granted twenty one
year franchise to pipe and furnish gas
to the people of that town. If Pryor
should make a strike there he will be
the biggest man in Kansas City in a
few weeks.
REGISTER readers will recall the ar
rest here some days ago of a man
named Shelton by sheriff Whitaker of
Wilson county. The sheriff drew II
gun on Shelton and forcibly took him
the crime being the theft of two hogs.
The man seems to have been guilty,
the hogs were restored to their owner
and Shelton was bound over at his
preliminary under $500 bond, which
he was unable to give and so went to
jail.
The registration books are now
open at,the city hall and all persons
who have not registered since the first
day of January, this year, or who
have moved from one ward to another
since registering, must register i'm
order to vote. For the court house
election May the books will close
April 26. Until the 10th of this month
the Office will be open from a. m. till
p, M, and from the 10Th to the 26th
from 8 a. m. till 10 p. m.
Norris Ball left Saturday night for
| Pueblo, Colo, where he has three
brothers now located. He has job
secured in the car repair shops of the
ID. q II. G. and will go to work at
once at good wages. Mr. Y. j. Ball
father of the four boys, hardly knows
what he will do. With four sons all
in one Colorado town he feels strongly
drawn to pull up stakes and follow
them, but will delay the time if posi-
BILE.
Word comes from Arkansas of a
recent sale of the Morning Star mine
for $500. 600, a recent strike of a very
rich jack, the completion of the new
railroad into Harrison and the be-
ginning of the branch to Dodd City
and the first train run this week, the
finding of oil few miles south of
Yellville, and the lola holders of
mining land in Marion county are
stepping high. The lola proprietors
are all IN the immediate district of all
these good things.
Mr.. H. Klaumann has let the con-
tract for his new store building, Just
back of his building, at the corner of
Madison and Jefferson, to j. f.. Jones.
When the bids we're opened it was
found that Jas. H. Wilson had been
the lowest bidder by about 800, but
he, after securing his bond, discovered
that he hadnot figured everything in,
and so was allowed to withdraw.
the contract going to Mr.. Jones as
! the next lowest bidder. Mr. Jones will
commence work just as soon as the
weather will permit.
DR.. Hirsch noticed the report in the
| REGISTER of the rumored strike of
several millions of gas at Neosho
Falls and he drove so fast through the
mud up there that he made one long
dry streak from the heat of his gait.
When he reached the Falls he found
that the big well was really small
one, of several hundred thousand cubic
feet, but a pleasing and promising
indication that there may be more gas
in the 'neighborhood. The doctor
holds franchise in the little city to
supply it with gas and he was natur-
ally excited over the strike.
Owing to the fact that his two child
ren are attending school in the Ottawa
University and his outside business
takes him away from home much of
of the time, thus leaving Mrs. Beatty
at home on the farm alone, Mrs. Joe
Beatty has sold his farm in Usage
township. The 36O well improved acres
brought Sl3, 200 cash, the buyer being
Mr.. Edward Lantz, of Iowa Mr..
Beatty will hold sale April "A aud
dispose of his cattle and other per-
sonal property and will then move to
Ottawa where the family will reside.
1T least while the children are in
school.
License was issued Monday and
Rev. Weimer performed the ceremony
that evening which made John +.
Humes and Miss Maude Nogle man
and wife MIR. Humes came here
some months ago from Export, Pa,
and has been drilling forFred Horton
incidentally he has made lot of
friends by his manliness and ability.
Miss Nogle is from Mapleton and has