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The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Willie Todd, Filipino.

1t is believed that lola has dis
covered a genius sin our midst"
Friday before a crowded house at
the high school building Willie Todd
impersonated a Filipino insurgent,
fresh from the bamboo Jungle armed
with machette and thirsting for
blood, buckets Of rich red blood.
Willie is the coilee-colored annexed
relative of old Aunt Sallie. AS
general proposition one would expect
Willie to have been overcome when he
appeared on the stage with stage
fright and to have been so nearly
paralyzed that only the knocking to-
gether of his knees would have evil
dence of life. But not so.
Willie came upon the stage like
whirlwind and only after the dust set
tied down could it be definitely dis
covered whether he was body of foot
soldiers advancing at a run or a squad
of cavalry. The corn knife which he
swung cut figue S's in the peaceful air
anu lO IOSC w tllS SuD-
Unity of the occasion until he seems
to have really thirsted for the blood
which he was pretending to thirst for.
At any rate in one of his fierce evolu-
tions he brought his machette with
smack against the face of little Ira
Kruger, who was sitting in speechless
admiration at the edge o' the stage.
That Ira was not decapitated was due
to his lucky star and not to Willie.
Fortunately the edge of the knife did
not strike squarely and the only in
jury inflicted was small flesh wound
that bled slightly, but the audience
and the actors were all somewhat un-
strung by the incident.
Willie should be taken out OF light
opera and put in training in Shakes
pearian characters. 1t is believed he
would make fine Hamlet or dash
ing Othello.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
A Sale With a Story.


At O'Clock last Monday at the
court house Sheriff Hobart cried a
public sale of tract of land near
Humboldt and it was bought ia by
Mrs. Joanna Miller, The story of the
sale is of interest.
The land was left to Joanna Miller
and her brother Christian Hoffman
the latter receiving one-fourth interest
and she three-fourths. At the time
the wi II was probated conveying the
land Hoffman was a sailor in Uncle
Sans employ. The land was not di-
vided. Hoffman served out his 'tlme
and was discharged at San Francisco
several years ago. Nothing further
was ever heard from him and it is
suspecteda tht he may have been made
away with for his back-pay money.
After waiting long time Mrs. Miller
has finally asked that the land be
sold and divided, and the sale
Monday was made to carry:out that
wish, She will retain the land, hold
ing her lost brothers. interest for him
in case he ever turns up.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
smeIter OPTIONS Have Expired.

Talking with a we'll known smelter
man just recently the REGISTER
learned authoritatvely that the smelt-
er combine has been called of "for
the present" Whether it ever will be
carried out now is not known
options were secured on all but one
of the smelters in this field, and an at
tempt was made to secure it but the
proprietor said he had nothing to sell
at any price. THE Pittsburg papers
which exhaust the lola gas about
twice a month, might give space to
this. Then the wire began pulling to
get themen with the long green to di-
vorce themselves from enough millions
to buy all the plants. They were not
on the bargain counter and it meant
millions to buy them. There was de-
lay after delay and the options expired
on December I. Recent vagaries in
the money market, particularly caused
by the slump in copper and standard
oil, made the floating of the new COM
pany difficult and it is now stated that
all is off for the present.
And lola don't care whoop. The
men who are running the smelters suit
her mighty we'll. They are living here
and spend their money here and have
an interest in the town. 1t don't do
much good to have number of plug
hat citizens who come to a town twice
a year and pocket their dividends and
take them to New York to spend them.
lola don't care if the promoter never
comes back.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
THE PROGRESS OF AMERICA
Public School Children sGive an En-
tertainment Showing How the
Country has Grown and Ad
vanced.

The assembly room at the high
school building could not seat the
people who gathered Friday to see
the school children give their enter
tainment. Every seat was occupied,
many stood up inside the room and
some stood outside. 1t was one of the
most elaborate entertainments ever
carried out by the students and was
pronounced a success by all who saw
it.
The entertainment was divided into
three parts; the first representing the
early settlement, the second the coun-
try's expansion and the third the good
cheer of the Christmas season in the
land of the free.
Students from the third ward put on
the first part. Dressed as Indians
they went through the beautiful lines
of "Hiawatha," with singing and
reading of the words.
The fourth ward children presented
the second stage. Uncle Sam and
two Indians occupied the country at
the beginning, then came the Dutcn-
man, the Englishman, the Irishman
and other Europeans. The colony
grew apace. Finally Louisiana was
received and Cuba and then Willie
Todd. Willie represented the Philip
pine islands. Then forty-fve little
girls appeared and sang columbia,
the Gem of the Ocean"
The last part was presented by chill
dren from the north building. Santa
Claus and Jack Frost and the cold
North Wind were theearly characters.
Santa told them what manner of
weather he wanted for Christmas day
and then a lot of little girls appeared,
sang and recited about Christmas and
hung up their stockings. Some were
poor children. Santa filled all the
stockings, giving one small boy a
bundle of switches.
Thechildren entered enthusiastically
into the spirit of the evening and the
audience was highly entertained all
the time. 1t was cleverly conceived
program and the children deserve
great praise for the manner in which
they carried it out. The proceedsi of
the evening will go toward the libraries
of the different schools.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
STNII1VN/U11~D7
s w. c. T.U. COLUMN s
Ena Helfrch, Superintendent. G
[~nOnN.NeN-N-n>n.NA>S
NO COMPROMISE

The liquor traffic, as conducted un-
der our saloon system for drinking
purposes, has nothing whatever to
commend it to favorable considera-
tion. Most questions that come be-
fore us for consideration have some
merit on both sides. But this ques-
tion has only good side and bad
side. 1t is known by its fruits, and
these are only evil without any com
pensating good. No room is left for
Cancellation and compromise. Moth
ing is left for us to do with the saloon
but to stamp it out by the strong arm
OF the law. The saloon makes no
concessions. Why should its op-
ponents be guilty of such folly? 1t
is useless to plead with saloon keep
ers about the ruinous character of
their business while they can point
to their license for protection. 1t
matters not to them that unc ounted
homes are impoverished and ruined,
that society is polluted, and that the
very foundations of our government
are in peril. They can defantly
answer: "My business is legal, and
will continue" Nothing short of
heroic measures will dethrone the rum
power. Has not the time fully come
for the friends of law and order, of
humanity and Christianity, to wake up
to the situation and demand that this
unhallowed creature of law shall be
prohibited by law, A bold, aggres-
sive movement is needed all along
the line, strongly emphasized at the
ballot box. No apologies, no con-
cessions, no terms whatever should be
given to the saloon except uncondi-
tional surrender. Samuel Daggy,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Whoever does not apply Christi
anity to the special sins of his own
age, in his own person, and by his
own work, is, to say the least, most
unscientihc Christian. When the
spirit of God has generated in a
human being, 1t must not be shut up
in the prayer meeting or the church
building, but turned on in the houses,
the haunts of shame, and for this pur-
pose the ballot box is one of its most
effective batteries of power. Frances
Willard.
1t is leaking out that the saloon
men expect to lose about So, 1000, 600 a
year on account of the abolition OF
the army canteeA, and yet they conf
IDENTIFY expect to have it re-established
on the ground that it is in the interest
of true temperance for soldiers to get
their liquor over government bar,
and they will deceive many good peo-
pie into thinking so.-Our Messenger
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
The Cubans are all Right.
n the New York Times;

From the New York Times
"Bob" Church, Princeton, 'SS, was
in New York the other day. Church
is the army surgeon who won the then
Col. Roosevelt's high praise for con-
spicuous gallantry at Santiago. His
record as a football player marked
him as a man of superb courage. He
was walking down Broadway after
two years spent in Cuba.
"You can't imagine how strange
this all is, he said as he lodged a
motor vehicle. "Seems as if every
body had gone stark mad the way
they rush-and those tall buildings
| am afraid TO pass them. Seems after
sleeping under a tent or in the squat
buildings of Cuba as if the skyscraper
must tumble.
"There is one thing wish the boys
who were Rough Riders could know,
and that is that the Cubans improve
on acquaintance. We had no use for
them in the fighting days. They seemed
so useless we we're sorry to kill plucky
Spaniards to free the Cubans. After
you have lived with them you change
your mind and are glad they are free.
There is nothing a Cuban gentleman
will not do for an American soldier,
and the women are really beauties,
Shouldn't be surprised If sometime l
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Prescribed by Her Physician.

Neosho Falls, Kans., Nov. 13, 1900.
Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, Ill.
Dear Sirs;-For almost fifteen years
| suffered from indigestion and last
winter thought would die, when my
physician, DR.. a. j, Lieurance of this
place, advised my trying DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, which did, and
two bottles cured me. 1t not only
relieved me, but it cured me so that
| have not been troubled since.
If any one should offer me $500 for
the good Syrup Pepsin has done me-
| would not take it. No one can take
your medicine without being convinced
of its more than wonderful cures. l
recommend it to all my friends as a
laxative and stomach remedy. Yours
with gratitude,
MRS. j. MORGAN.
See Kline & Son, Moran, or w. j.
Waters & Co., LaHarpe or Chas, B.
Spencer & Co., lola.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
The Academy of Science.

The REGISTER has finally received
accouncements of the coming meeting
of the Kansas Academy of Science, of
which mention has already been made
in these columns. The Academy will
convene in lola Monday, December3O,
the first session being held at 1880 that
evening. Two sessions will be held
Tuesday and one at u. IN. Wednes-
day. The membership of the Academy
is about $50, of whom fully one half
are expected to be present at the lola
meeting.
The program of the session consists
OF thirty-nine papers, all by leading
men of science and letters. Some treat
of biology, others chemistry, geology
and paloentology, while nine are
classified as miscellaneous. This SER
les of papers will be like a lecture
course and will prove intensely in
teresting to those interested in scien-
titic matters. Among the papers will
be one by Prof. Grimsley, of Wash
burn College, on "The Economic
Geology of lola and Vicinity"
The Academy has held thirty-three
previous meetings, each time being in
vited to some of the larger towns and
there provided with a suitable hall for
its sessions and entertained at their
homes by the citizens of the town. An
entertainment committee should be
ready to escort the visitors about the
city and the various interesting indus
tries and those who will entertain any
of the visitors during the session
should inform the local committee
which will have charge of the enter.
tanning. The visit of these distingu.
ished Kansans cannot help but prove
of value to lola and it is sincerely to
be hoped that cordial welcome will
be extended by the good people of this
city so that Iola's reputation for hos.
pitality may be maintained,
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
ALL AROUND ALLEN COUNTY.
What the County Papers Have to Say
OF the Happening of the Week
Passed.

Louis HUFF who died at Savonbura
on December 13, aged 81, was privi.
legged to live to see 30 grand children
and 80 great grandchildren
Savonburg Record: We have named
our wife's dog "Atheno." Early In
the morning he comes to the office,
buries himself in the waste paper
basket and sleeps as soundly as
though hypnotised; dinner time and
supper time comes but the dog sleeps
on. About midnight he drags out,
goes into Mysteries because he can't
leave the room, gets up on the desk
and kicks over the ink and entertains
all those within hearing distance with
a series of vocal selections.
b. F. Dudlum and his boys killed
four otter on Big Creek last week ac-
corGing to the Elsmore Enterprise.
A big turkey shoot, with 100 birds,
was held at Elsmore Saturday.
Humboldt Union: According to the
expert figures Humboldt has the best
oiler of any in this section, as the
we'll on the George u. Work farm,
just west of the river had 800 feet of
oil in it in short time after it was
shot. All the Humboldt field needs is
few promoters. We have the oil.
Humboldt Union: The morning after
the explosion lola people were sorry
they didn't subscribe for glass fac
tory at that place. Glass was in
great demand. There was big sur
plus of second hand glass.
Laharpe News; II. H. Jones and
family moved to their new home in
LaHarpe Thursday. Mr.. Jones is
the promoter of LaHarpe Telephone
Company and will commence work on
the new line as soon as the material
arrives.
One of the rural mail carriers out OF
Moran has a small oil stove in his
wagon.
a party of Moran hunters killed
260 rabbits in one day.
Moran Herald: Miss Elsie Teel, who
came homel from lola last Saturday
evening, was taken sick with the
typhoid feverlthe first of the week.
Moran Herald: Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Carol went to lola last Friday morn
ing after making a short visit with the
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Culbertson. They will make. lola their
future home.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
L IrC. {. I,.Ar-nr


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F..
j. Cheney q Co., doing business in
the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum mofONEHUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
tha lcannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence. this 9th day of Decem-
ber, A. d. 1886.
- A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
-
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of system. Send
for testimonials, free.
f. F, CHENEY & Co., Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
OHAMRERLAINiS

STOMACH AND LIVER TABLETS
Try them
When you feel dull after eating.
When you have no appetite,
When you have bad taste in the
mouth.
When your liver is torpid,
When your bowels are constipated.
When you have "a headache.
When you feel bilious.
They will improve your appetite,
cleanse and invigorate your stomach
and regulate your liver and bowels.
For sale by w. L. Crabb u Co., and
Campbell & Burrell.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
NOTICE..

All parties knowing
themselves indebted to
the CuIbertson Furniture
Co., will call at room 8
NOrthrup Blk and settle
same as we have sold out
and must have all ac-
counts settled without
further delay.
CuIbertsOn Furniture Co.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Food Changed to Poison.

Putrefying food in the intestines
produces effects like those of arsenic,
but Dr. Kings New Life Pills expel
the poisons from clogged bowels,
gently, eaisly but surely, curing Con-
stipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache
Fevers, all Liver, Kidney and Bowe
troubles. Only 25c at Evans Bros.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Hines carney.

AT 4 O'Clock Saturday afternoon at
the Methodist parsonage Rev. John
Maclean United in marriage Mr.. Tom
Hines and Miss Laura carney. Mr.
and Mrs. G. E. Newton, relatives of
the groom, were present, the wedding
being quiet one owing to Miss Ear
ney's being stranger here. Mr..
Hines is brother of Mrs. Newton and
has worked with his brother-in-law
here in the laundry business for sew
eral years. He met Miss Carney at
Colorado Springs where he worked
for some time and she arrived in lola
Friday evening according to arrange
ments previously made. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hines will occupy rooms in the laun.
dry building and they have the sim
cere congratula ations and good wishes
of all their friends.
Accidents come with distressing fre.
quency on the farm. Cuts, bruises,
stings sprains. DR.. Thomas Eclec.
Lric Oil relieves the pain Instantly.
Never safe without IT.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27

would participate in ceremony tothe
tune of wedding bells"
The blonde giant escaped a Broad
way car. His blue eyes fell to dream
ing, and he acknowledged that there
were pair of black eyes mixed up in
the dream,
The Iola register., 1901-12-27

Charlie Smith, of Joplin, gotdrunk,
spent S25 for liquor, was arrested and
fined $25 more, and all because he was
celebrating the fact that the Smith
family OF America is heir to an estate
OF 8 millions in Scotland. The Kan
sas Smiths are waiting to "bS shown"
the estate.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-05-07
DEER PARK HOTEL,
Deer Park, Md. Most Delightful Sum.
mer Resort OF the Alleghenies.

Swept by mountain breezes, $500
feet above the sea level. Absolutely free
from malaria, hay fever and mosqnitos.
Reached without change of cars from
all principal cities via Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. Every modern conve-
nence. Rooms en- suite with private
baths. Electric Lights, Long Distance
Telephone, Elevator, Turkish Baths,
Swimming Pools, Golf Links, Tennis
Court, Bowling Alleys, Magnicfcent
Drives, Complete Livery Service. An
Dapolis Naval Academy Band Hotel
remodeled with additional convenient
ces. All cottages have been taken
for the season. Open from June 22nd
To September 30th.
For rates and information address
w. f Burell, Manager. care Queen
City Hotel. Cumberland, Md, until
June Ist After that time, Deer
Park, Garrett County, Nd,
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-05-07
KIDNAPPING PLAN BLOCKED.
Detroit Chief of Police Refused 10 Al.
low BlddIe-Dorman Gang Ac-
complete to &c Carried OFF.

Detroit, Mich, May 7.--Governor
Bliss signed the requisition granting
Detective Kelley power 70 remove
from. .Lc state OF uIanigan "a. ~ !
Welbe, WbC Is charged ia Tue are.
gaeas county coAlJs Win receiving
the .sJ04s stolen " tHe Bidale lJDf.
man sang out detective 4Net.eS 5
plat - 4stily remove the prisoner
was alochea by Cnief CT toIsee .aAf.
TIN. @AJ Will be ripped oul = ~.
ice III = few days aha sueceeded %
L.eutenaAi OF Detectives John
DowHes
Tn understanding was between
Captain OF Detectives McDonaie
Lieutenant OF Detectives DoWney ana
DetecGlye Kelley tnat ~ soA.e hooA
Or crook that the prisoner should yet
INTO the bands 81 detective Ketiey a.
soon as the requistlon papers were
received from the governor Detee.
tive Kelley was then 10 take aH e!ee-
trio ear ride with the prisoner aad
shortly would be out OF the county
and consequently out o. the Jurlsdie.
ton OF tic Wayne county courts
Governor Bliss wired Captain Nc.
Donald that he mad attached his sig
nature te the papers and to hold the
prisoner 81 all hazards from being adj
United to bail. Since then Captain
Mcdonald and Lieutenant Downey
have beer called TO Port Huron on d
big burglary case and Chief of Police
Martin refused to carry out the de-
tectives agreement, claiming the
prisoner IS entitled to reasonable
time to take out writ of habeas
corpus after the papers are received.
Werbe has another attorney to as
sist w. l. Robinson. He is Marcus
Pollaski, last year candidate fot
governor, and now a candidate fol-
governor of Porto Rico, for which
position he claims to have a promise.
He is of considerable political i'm.
portance and has the endorsement of
every official and member of the legis-
lature.
What move the attorneys propose
to make cannot be ascertained. They
refuse to talk further than to say
they are ready. Werbe is now being
Illegally held in confinement. Under
the law be should have been arraigned
by noon Monday on the last charge
placed aginst him by Detective KEEL.
ley on Saturday. that of receiving the
Caldwell and Graham silks, shipped
from Pittsburg to Detroit.
For some reason unknown, Detec-
tive Kelley has consulted with Dis
trict Attorney James Hurst and has
retained Allan H. Frazier, one of the
best criminal lawyers of the state,
and will hight for his prisoner.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-05-07
SOME NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Sumner with 900 men has
burned the camp of the outlaw FIJI
ipino. General Cables, in the Philip
pines, and scattered his men to the
mountains.
Charles Robinson, an Infatuated
negro who had shot boy with whom
he had quarrel. was almost lynched
by a mob of citizens at Philadelphia.
He was rescued by the police
John Nuss, who four months ago
disappeared from his home. No. 3207
SAMSON street, Philadelphia. was
probably murdered for $500 which
he carried in his clothing. His body
was found in the river near Norris
town.
After enGeavoring to obtain posses.
sion Of the property for Years, the
Drexels have finally succeeded in pur-
chasing the independence National
bank building, Philadelphia. The
transfer is recorded as having been
made to John R. Drexel for $40, 900,
The building was vacated several
days ago When the independence bank
was merged with the Girard National
bank in Third street, below Chest
nut.
Workmen are now busy on the
white house painting hte building
from top to bottom On the inside
men and women are busy cleaning up
the rooms. taking down the draperies
and fixing up the executive mansion
for the summer. When the president
returns from his Pacific coast trip he
will fined everything at the white
faY- hi 90,
during his absence the house will be
put through a thorough renovation
and made as cool and attractive as
possible.
The masters report at Philadelphia
recommending that divorce be
granted &c DR.. Clement Biddle, of the
United States navy, from his wife,
Palma Morris Biddle, was approved
and a decree entered accordingly in
common pleas court No, 3. There
was no proceeding whatever in the
court Neither DIR. nor Mrs. Biddle
appeared. The Biddles are well
known ia this country and Europe.
Dr. Biddlc being a member of one of
Philadelphia's most exclusive fam.
lilies Mrs. Biddles theatrical preten-
lions are said to have been the cause
Of the separation.
A sensational kidnapping case, with
an American woman as the chief fig
ure. has developed at Vienna. Mad.
anne Bertha Benoit secured a divorce
from her husband an Austrian, in
Boston. She was awarded custody Of
their child The husband carried the
latter to Austria and the wife. de-
termining to get possession of her off
spring, tracked her former husband
through Europe. She finally secured
the child and fed to the American
consulate at Vienna The husband
has taken the case to the Austrian
court in an endeavor to gain posses
sion of the child The American con-
sui promises protection to Mrs. Benoit
no matter how the Austrian courts
decided