The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-19
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

In the meantime you might as well |
keep right on sprinkling your lawn.
And now the scarcity of water has
raised the price of milk at Fort Scott.
The cattlemen will hold their annual |
picnic at Kingman August 27, % and
1t took lawsuit at Emporia to give
the people of that town ice at fifty cents
a hundred.
The Santa Fe has tied up the Orient
at Emporia, enjoining it from crossing
ground belonging to the former road.
Kansas City W orld: Roasting ears
are a mighty scarce article in Kansas
now-that is the kind that grows on
stalks.
1t is said that Jessie Morrison's cell
mate is woman who killed rival
with bread knife. There ought to be
a fellow feeling in this case.
Somebody connected with the Trego
county gold shale confidence game has
got weary and has asked the court for
"a receiver of the company. That is
the beginning of the end.
A Labette county farmer got in such
a hard way for feed and water that he
advertised a sale of his stock. Just
four men came out and not one of
them would start a single thing.
Oliver 5. Hiatt, u prominent politi-
clan of Leavenworth county, died from
heat prostration Monday morning.
He was an active factor in Kansas
politics since his arrival in the state
in 1866.
Secretary Coburn thinks Kansas has
forty million bushels of old coHn on
hand in Kansas. At sixty cents
bushel that would go good way to
make this years failure good invest
ment.
Wichita Eagle: When "a Kansas
sunilower gives two gasps. lifts its
head for a moment and with its right
hand clasped over its heart gives one
long, piercing scream and falls dead,
its pretty dry.
There will probably be more ice
plants built in Kansas next winter
than ever before in the history of the
State:-and there will also probably
be the biggest crop of natural ice ever
harvested. a feast always follows Il
famine in Kansas.
a Bourbon county woman whipped
her nine year old daughter with an
elm switch until the blood ran down
her back and her cries attracted the
whole neighborhood. Such things as
that make one feel that the old Gus
tom of an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth would not be such a relic
of barbarism after all.
The Topeka Capital advises the men
who get up the pictures tor the funny
papers in the east to cut out the little
punches of hay which they leave stick
ing in the hair and whiskers OF their
representations of the farmers of Kan
sas. Hay is too valuable to warrant
the farmers carrying any about in
their hair and whiskers.
Three negroes were arrested in
Leavenworth on the charge OF dis
turbing the peace. Their defense was
that they were merely furnishing some
instrumental music and by way of ar
gument played the same selections for
the court. The Judge released them in
order to stop the music but they kept
on and played n half hour just to
show their gratitude.
Miss Hattie Seitz is deputy sheriff
of Mcpherson county. There isn't an
other female sheriff or deputy sheriff
in the United States. The other day
she Travelled thirty-six miles and cap
tured, without assistance, three men
charged with assault with intent to
kill. Miss Seitz is twenty-one years
old, is five feet ten inches in height
and weighs 100 pounds.
According to the Republican the
meanest man in the world lives near
Mcpherson. He sold his son-in-law
a half interest in a COW, and then in
sisted it was the front half he sold and
while he Appropriated the milk he made
the young man feed and water the COW
twice day. The COW recently hooked
the old man and he is now suing his
son-in-law for damages.
Rev. Sorey, the Christian minister
at Arkansas City, appeared in the pull
pit Sunday clad in shirt waist. He
had given notice the previous Sunday
OF his intention and notified the mem
bers of the congregation that they
were at liberty to do the same. Only
few of them, however, followed mis-
1 lt lIuNtltI llllllhS lnub lIt
sermon was productive of just as much
good as though he had worn coat
and vest.
The Populist party in Kansas has
about the worst hard luck story just
now that any political party ever
endured, The lack of moisture the
last few weeks is just the thing to re-
plenish the populist ranks but there is
that biennial election law staring them
squarely in the face and by the time
another election comes around the
dry weather of 1901 will have passed
into history,
you can say just what you've
mind to, we heard a fellow say the
other day, mo poor man can afford
to have beef steak every day, when it's
worth fifteen cents n pound--yau bet
your life we cut it out at our house"
Then he took good, big chew of
Star Plug" and walked up TO the
crack, "like agentleman" and planked
down sixty cents for the game of pool
he had just lost. Queer world, isn't
it?-Concordia News.
The Santa Fe has changed its name.
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