The Iola register., 1901-04-19
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

Inc republican says tnat an ElQO- |
RADIO girl is called Misery because she
loves company so we'll.
A LaCygne girl who admires Funs-
ton, when asked what she would like |
to see him do next, answered; "Get a
divorce"
A LaCygne man recently sold two
black wolves to q New York Zoo for
800. That beats the county commits
sioner prices.
Governor Riddle of the Minneapolis
Messenger believes that Adam was
really a Chinaman and that in that
day he spelled it, All Dam.
Directory men credit the Brown Sup
ply Company of Independence with
doing the same trick for that name
that the Smith Manufacturing Com
pany does for the Smiths.
Robert Richmond died of smallpox
at Ft. Scott, one of the very few cases
in the State. The doctors say he had
four cases in one, one eruption follow
ing quickly after another.
A man who is gambler and ought
to know says that the Kiowa country
will be opened not with horse race
but with horse dice--or some other
gambling device just as good.
Nine people graduate this year from
the Scandia High School, and they
are all so good looking that no boy
was able to stay in the class and
study enough to reach commencement.
A real estate item in the Parson Sun
states that Mr. Turner bought the farm
of G. b. Bugg and will move into the
| Bugghouse. 1t is one of the few ways
of getting that way since Carrie came
along.
Franklin county farmers during
March received Sll, ,463.9 from the
Ottawa Creamery and during one week
in April received "a, ,024.91 from the
Armour Packing Co.'s agency for
poultry.
The entire town of Putnam, in
Harvey county, was recently sold to
Geo. w. Kanavel, of Sedgwick The
world refused to listen to the promo
ters and corn will be raised instead of
skyscrapers.
Congressman Bowersock secured
300 packages of garden seeds from
! Uncle Sam for the little Indians at
| Haskell Institute. Think of the grand
son of old Sitting Bull pulling weeds
out of an onion bed.
About everybody in Harvey county
who could get away attended the
funeral of Edward Nelson, returned
soldier. The papers say it was one of
the most numerously attended funerals
ever held in the county.
Tribute of Bent Murdock to his
newspaper contemporary: God AL
mighty doubtless could have made a
bigger fool than the one down on the
alley, but He doubtless never did
The narrow, pintopped, brainless
fool.
Henry Hiner is dying in Newton
from the effect of the bite of a Cheetah
spider last summer down in the Terri
tory. The bite was on his right hand
and in spite of all he has done for it,
the poison has spread until now his
entire right side is paralyzed.
Seventeen colored people recently
converted at Hutchinson were baptised
in Cow creek near the water-works.
The presence of little ice on thecreek
was simply to add TO the impressive
ness of the fling at old Satan that he
] Nv INuStI NuIS any NlJu IuClu'
The handsome j d Hill residence
in l't Scott has been purchased by the
sisters of St Joseph. Il Catholic order
comprising about 60 sisters and hav-
ing all southern Kansas as its terri
tory, and will be converted into Ca
tholic academy for young ladies.
The Hutchinson News, although re-
calling Captain Rowen, Corporal III
tus and General Funston, declares
that the bravest Kansan is the Law
renee man who took Carrie Nation
out of a billiard hall in that town.
"He. declares the News, "made a
rampse in the game of glory"
Some learned Prof. has written a
volume TO prove that Adam was a
Chinaman, and the Lawrence Journal
wants to know if he was also Boxer.
He probably was for he certainly
chopped his own head off by monkey
ing with that green apple and getting
thrown out of his boarding house.