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The Iola register., 1902-07-18

a letter from Kansas City, Kans.,
to the labor committee here brings the
cheerful news that a train load of
union people and their friends may
come here from there on Labor Day.
1t is hoped to bring close to 1000
people.
Officer Palstring Saturday evening
arrested a colored man named Will
Davis, wanted at Dunlap, Kas., on a
charge OF having knocked a railroad
detective down who was pursuing him
in box car. Davis was held here
while officials from Dunlap were ex-
pected, but as they failed to show up
the man was turned loose.
On July 4, during the day when the
refreshment dealers had large stock
on hand and we're doing wholesale
business, the officials of Neodesba
made raid. Four men were arrested,
including one Ed Schrant who is said
to be from lola. Schrant claims he
was only selling malt ale. His shop
was next door west of the Presbyter-
ian church.
Julian Paugh, a we'll known young
printer Of lola, was married Satur-
day evening to Miss Cornelia Thayer.
The ceremony was performed by Judge
Smith at the home of the groom's
brother, Acelle Paugh, at COG north
Chestnut street, at o'clock Saturday
evening The bride is an orphan girl
who has been living in lola for some
time. They have the good wishes of
all their friends
The Iola register., 1902-07-18

and down the center of the board was
rough place. There was nick in
the plane. There are some hicks In
the planes which God is using in try
ing to smooth out affairs in the Philip
pines. There has been some cruelty
and drunkness 10 the Philippines, -
the hicks in the plane-but they have
been very much exaggerated. What
will gosdown in history Is not the face
thatl there was somsdrunkenness and
cruelty in the Philippines on the part
of our soldiers but it will be the fact
that they broke the bondage Of mil
lions of oppressed people there and
gave them an opportunity to receive
the benefits of civilization" Speak
ing of what the Filipinos think of us
he said: "Some of them only know
that we burned house in q forced
march or battle and they don't think
much of us. Others know that we have
esta ablished free schools and opened
courts of justice for them and they re-
ceive us gladly. The rascals have had
to stop their rascality and they don't
like US, the thieves have had to stop
their thieving land they don't like US,
the robbers. ..have had to stop their
robbing and they don't like US but the
better elements all like us, the IL, 1856
prisonersiwho had been unjustly sent
to prison :and whom we released all
like us and all who have ,had time to
be convinced that we mean to treat
them kindly like u.s." He paid high
tributelto the school teachers sent out
from this country and the good work
they are.doing there.
In the course of his remarks he SAID
that he was proud to speak in a town
which was the home of man who had
done so much for the Philippines as
had General Fred Funston. The DR..
expects to sail with his family for
Manila in .December and will remain
there in missionary work ia company
with otherlmissionaries. He has done
a great work in the East but the mis-
sionary board made wise move when
they called him home for years
work in this country. He Is con-
scientious, educated man with ability
to study great questions and grasp
them in their full meaning and signi-
fcance. He has been on the field and
studied the situation there himself and
does not have to take it from hearsay.
He is here collecting funds to help
carry on the work there and no one
can do it in better and more forci-
BILE way and with better results than
DR.. StuntZ.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
Good Racing in Prospect.

Last week the secretaries of the
Southeastern Fair Circuit held meet
ing and compared notes about the
county fairs this fall. Mr.. Wheaton,
local secretary, reports that the pros
poets for the agricultural and live
stock exhibits were unusually bright.
In the matter of races the outlook Ia
excellent. The 2:35 pace and the 3:35
trot have been closed by the circuit,
there being seven entries in each.
The purse in these races is $400. The
2:28 trot, the 2:2O trot and the 2:25
and 2:15 pacing races we're re.opened
and will be kept open until August 81.
These races are for $500 purses.
There is a good prospect for lot Of
fast horses and three running races
being filled. A new event will be a
pacing or trotting race for 800 for
Allen, Wilson and Ncosho county
horses only. Mr.. Wheaton is much
pleased with the present outlook and
predicts one OF the best fairs Allen
county ever held.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
Preparing tor the Reunion.


A largo and enthusiastic meeting
officers and executive committee and
members of the Soldiers Gas Belt as
soclatiou was held last Saturday
night for the purpose of making ar
rangments for the regular annual
meeting which will be held in River
side park on the 10, 20, 2l, and % of
August, All indications, thus far,
point Enthusiastically towards the larg-
est and most successful reunion ever
held here. Col. T. T. Anderson, COM
mander, was n the chair. After the
minutes of the last meeting held near
ly one year ago. were read and ap-
proved Comrade 7. S. Ball was APP
pointed quarter er-master sergeant to
fill vacancy.
The following committees we're ap-
pointed:
Finance committee: 7. S. Ball and
w. j. Ihrig; Com on railroad rates:
7. T, Anderson and T. Newton Fun
ston Com. on amusement: o. B.
Nichols, w. j. Ihrig and Jno. w.
Carter; Com. on music: John M. Nc
Donald and Il. S. Ball; Com on re-
ception; d. B. d. Smeltzer, G. w.
Missman and Il. T. Anderson; Com.
or printing: Il. G. Hough and o. B..
Nichols; Com. on program: j. S.
Walker and j. w. Johnson; Com. on
speakers: VIM. w. Knapp and d. B.
d. Smeltzer; Com. on grounds: j. H.
Book, T. N. Funston and VIM. Hart
sell.
All committees were authorized to
make additions as they may desire.
The Finance committee was directed
to start out Immediately to solicit sub
scritions and we bespeak for them a
kind reception and liberal contribu-
tions for upon the financial success
hereof depends the ultimate success of
the undertaking.
The fact that we will advertise more
largely than ever before and that We
have new railroad covering more
territory and plenty of good speakers
engaged and everybody is happy and
full of money makes success an assur-
ance and lola will enjoy a week OF
the biggest crowds of the best natured
people that ever struck the turf.
With plenty of tents and nice clean
straw and plenty of fine shade and
natural gas (free) for cooking and
for lights and plenty of good ice water
and amusements galore and good
speaking morning and afternoons and
camp fires at night. If this is not
enough just ask for anything else
whlcn you may want,
The meeting adjourned to meet in
Smeltzer's Real Estate Office Saturda ay
night July Goth.
D. B. D. SMELTzER,
Auiutant
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
FOUR DEATHS IN ONE DAY
The Cool Hand of the Dark ROBBED
Angel Brings Peace to
Weary Sufferers.

Sunday was sad day in several
lola homes, the death record showing
that four people passed away during
the day. In several cases the change
brought an end to suffering that was
harder to bear than hundred deaths.
Mr.. S. L. Rogers, whose home was
at BIZ east Irving street, died Sunday
and the funeral was held at IL o'clock
next morning, the remains being taken
to Kincaid for burial. Mr.. Rogers
was son-in-law of S. B. Blood and
was carpenter by trade. For nearly
two years he has been afflicted with a
cancer in his mouth, which he had op-
Grated on several times. Nothing
helped it and be grew worse until the
end. He was fifty-three years old.
Mr.. Robert Close, who lived on
north Chestnut street, died at ll:3O
Sunday morning of typhoid fever. He
was strong man in the prime OF life,
being but thirty-five years old, and
leaves wife and baby. He was a
member of the Odd Fellows lodge,
which order had charge of hisfuneral,
which was held at 10 o'clock Nor day
morning from the house. Mr.. Close
carried $1,000 insurance in the order.
Mrs. Reno, mother of j. T. Reno,
of lola, died at 1880 Saturday night
at her home in LaHarpe. She was
eighty-seven years old and was an old
resident of the county, The remains
were taken to Bronson for burial, the
funeral being held at the home in La
Harpe at $3.50 Sunday morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth Swapp, aged fifty
years, died at O'Clock Sunday after
noon after long illness with con-
sumption of the bowels. The funeral
was held at 10 O'Clock Tuesday
morning from the home of her sister,
Mrs. @, H. DeClute, and the remains
buried in lola cemetery. Mrs. Swapp
lived on Neosho street with her son
Willie, who alone survives her.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18

81 suffered for months from sore
throat. Electric Oil cured me in twenty
four hours" M. S. Gist, Hawesville,
Nv
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
The Same Old Story.

j. A. Kelley relates IAN experience
similar to that which has:happened in
almost every neighborhood in the
United States and has been,told and
re-told by thousands of others. He
says: Last summer l had an attack
OF ysentery and purchased bottle
OF Chamberlain's Collie, Colera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which used ac-
cording to directions and with entire
ly satisfactory results. The trouble
was controlled much quicker than
former attacks when ! used other
remedies. I" Mr.. Kelley is we'll known
citizen of Henderson, N. @. For sale
by w. L. Crabb & Co., Campbell &
Burrell
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
County Commissioner Doings.

Some OF the business scraps which
the board Of county commissioners at
tended to before adjourning, 10 addi-
tion to allowing bills, are Of interest.
The board adjourned Thursday and
will not meet again until in August
when it will levy the tax for the ensu-
ing year.
The board visited the bridge over
the Neosho west of town, to look into
a complaint that it was in an unsafe
condition. ,sThey found that the
bridge itself Is all right, but decided
that lola township should do some
work on the west approach and that
lola city should make a change in it's
waste pipe from the water plant. The
pipe empties just below the bridge on
the east side and has washed away the
earth close to the road.
The Humboldt Brick Company was
granted the use of the river bridge at
that place for the laying of their pipe
line. H. l.. Henderson was granted a
permit to pipe gas in Overstreets ad-
dition to Gas City.
superintendent Arnold reported
thirteen inmates in the county Poor
Farm. All are there because of ILL
ness or mental inirmity.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with local applications, as they can
not reach abe seat of the desease' Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional dis
sease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Hall 'sCatarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls catarrh Cure is not a
quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by
one of the bestphysiciansin in thiscounty
for years, andis regular prescription
1t is composed Of the best tonics
known, combined with best blood
purifiers, acting directly on the mu-
cous surfaces. The perfect combina-
tion of the two ingredients is what pro-
duces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, To-
do, o.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c.
Halls family pills are the best.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
PLANS FOR BIG LABOR DAY
Other Unions Will Come Here, Big
Crowds will Follow and Record
Breaking Time Result.

The delegate sent south to work up
interest in Gola's labor day celebra-
tion reports that indications are very
good for large crowd on that day.
Joplin and P!ttsburg will have a di-
vided delegation-some for Fort
Scott and some for lola. Parsons
and Coffeyville will be with US and
send large crowd, also Cherryvale,
and many will come from all towns
visited and where advertised. Towns
visited we're Parsons, Oswego Baxter
Springs, Columbus, Joplin, Webb
City, Carterville, Galena, Mound
Valley, Cotfeyville, Independence,
Cherryvsle, Chanute, Burlington and
Hartford City.
Coffeyville will send her "F'ifty-six"
striking paper mill girls to march in
the parade. Burlington will send
Cigar Makers union with a float for
the parade.
If you want to see Fort Scott out
done in a grand display help the
unions do it. Youmust get interested
and that soon, and help raise funds
to pay good premiums TO bands and
for other amusements. A number of
bands will be here to compete for the
prizes offered, and the crowd always
goes where the band does.
Subscriptions for labor day so far
are:
l.. l.. Northrup .......... ...............S $50 90
George A. Bowlus.. 5000. ................. Is 90
c. f. Scott zee. ........... ..,......... 25 90
Our Way Restaurant. IS 70
TO THE MERCHANTS OF lola.
There has been in the past and We
understand there are parties soliciting
advertising at present>who are doing
1t representing it to oe in the interest
of the labor day celebration. None
Of then has the sanction OF organized
labor and we think it an imposition
both to the merchant and to us, and
respectfully ask all business men to
withhold their advertising from any
one representing that it is in the in
terest of labor organizations unless
they have the authority from the CEN
tral body with the seal Of the order
attached.
This resolution was passed May 25
and ordered published.
PRATT WILLIAMSON,
Secretary l. G. L. U.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18

81 am using box of Chamberlain g
Stomach & Liver Tablets and find
them the best thing for my stomach 1
ever used" says T. w. Robinson,
justice of the peace, Loomis, Mich.
These Tablets not only correct dis
orders Of the stomach, but regulate
the liver and bowels. They are easy
to take and pleasant in effect. Price
25 cents box. For sale by W. L
Crabb & Co., Campbell & Burrel's.
The Iola register., 1902-07-18

YOU KNOW WHATYOUARE TAKING
When you take Groves Tasteles
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle show
you that it is ssimplyIron and Quinw
a tasteless form No Cure, No Pay
25 cents
The Iola register., 1902-07-18
For Sale

A half interest in crop about 80
acres of corn and IL acres OF millet
will make two tons per acre. Corn is
good, cane acres and As acres oi
pasture. Four and one half miles
southwest of lola on Manley's farm,
The Iola register., 1902-07-18

Builds up the system; puts pure,
rich blood in the veins; makes men
and women strong and healthy. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters. At any drng
store,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-10
RETRAClNG HIS STEPS.

The President Eliminates Many OBJ
jections in Recent Order.
Ever since President Roosevelt issued
his order forbidding all Federal en-
ployees to petition their representatives
IN congress on any matter pertaining to
their employment, he has been modi-
flying it, explaining it, and receding
from it's provisions. The order was
iron-clad and alright. forbidding petit
tioning either singly or collectively, as
individuals or through associations.
This, of course, would have meant the
end of the most valuable part of the
work of the trade unions-that before
congress-as we'll as the destruction of
an immemorial safeguard of freedom,
the right of petition. First, all old SOL
diers were declared to be not included
in the ORDER and the work of the G.
AIR. was thus allowed. Then the
activities of the American Federation
OF Labor were declared to be not for
hidden: And now the president himself
has stated that he lis not opposed to
suggestions for legislation and redress
of grievance from authorized represent
tat1ves of great bodies, but he does not
favor individual complaint and insist
ence."
AS the right Of individual complaint
Is guaranteed by the national Con-
stitution, and was we'll established be-
fore that instrument was framed, it
seems strange that the president does
not favor it. Still, as that is the only
part of his outrageous order which he
has not explained away, we may hope
that it, too, will shortly be declared to
not mean anything.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-10
CHILD LABOR QUESTION.
Something in Reference to the Mat
ter in the South.

Something in Reference to the Mat
ter in the South.
The trade unionists of the South are
taking up the child labor question in
earnest. They are making bitter at
lacks through the newspapers and from
the rostrum upon the heartless corpora
tons, who upon one hypocritical pre-
text or another succeed in robbing the
cradle.
One unionist of Macon, Ca, writes
that he is employed in factory in
which the bosses hire babies who are
still too young to go to school. He
placed one of the six-year-old tots on
the scale and she weighed 40h pounds.
She holds regular position as spin
ner and works from o'clock, a. M, to
o'clock p. M, with 40 minutes for
lunch. The child does not know how
much wages she receives as her mother
who also works in the mill draws the
nay. "Her father stayed at home and
cooked and brought the dinner.
1.-THE average life of the factory
"hild," the writer says, runs from the
cradle to Is years." Humanitarians are
'nxiously aiming to provide for poodles
md cats, but they don't seem to care
much when the bone and flesh of in
7ocent babes are ground into profits.
Let us hope that the Southern trade
'1nionists will continue their agitation
against the capitalists cannibals and
advertise their hideous conduct to the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-10
A VERSATILE "|NJUN."
From Butcher to Colonel Roosevelt's
Private Secretary.

From Butcher to Colonel Roosevelt's
Private Secretary.
Benjamin Colbert, United States
Marshal in the Indian Territory and a
half breed Indian, is, according to the
Kansas City Star, the most versatile
individual on the governments extern
sive payroll.
When the troops were at San JUAN
Colonel Roosevelt wanted a butcher to
dress a few beeves for his regiment.
Colbert was called in. II am not a
butcher" said he, but my brother is,
and have often worked in his place."
Colbert slaughtered some beef cattle,
cleaned them up in the best of style
and was commended for his work.
It was not long afterward that the
presidents horse threw a shoe. Il am
not blacksmith" said Colbert, "but I
can set a shoe." and he went about
the task in approved style. Then. later,
Colonel Roosevelt wanted stenog
rapher. II can write shorthand" de-
clared Colbert. He took dictation from
his chief with rapidity, wrote the letter
out on a typewriter and for the re-
mainder Of the campaign served as pri-
vate secretary.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-10
LABOR MAYOR
OF San Francisco Rebukes Street Car
Company's Spotter.

OF San Francisco Rebul<es Street Car
Company's spotter.
For some months past the street rail-
way employees of San Francisco have
been endeavoring to form a union, and
the Market Street Railway company
has discharged great number Of men
for declaring union principles. So many
have been dismissed that committee
of the men went before Mr.. e. E.
Schmitz with a view Of securing his
good offices as a mediator.
While the committee was closeted
with the mayor, word was brought
that a man was in the corridor. who,
seemingly, had no business there, and
the secretary was instructed to bring
the man in. A few sharp, short ques-
tions from the mayor disclosed the fact
that the intruder was spotter hired
by the Market street corporation to spy
upon the movements of it's employees.
The mayor scored the creature roundly
in good old union fashion. In fact, 1t
is authoritatively stated that the may
or's feelings got a little the better of
him and that his language was far
more forcible than elegant. At any
rate. Mr.. w. Leet remember the name,
boys) went from the presence of San
Francisco's chief executive with
b1anched face and trembling limbs,
carving the assurance that If he was
caught about the place again the mayor
himself would enter complaint and
lave him do a little honest labor as
"vag."
No class of men in the world more
heartily sympathize with Mayor
schmitz in his dislike of spoilers than
railway: employees, for on the railroads
spoilers are in the habit of turning
n' men whether guilty of any in
frinRement of the rules or not, to en-
deavor to prove that they are needed.
The mayor has declared himself I'M
equivocally, and after the incident he
IS quoted as having said:
1--WE have had enough of the Pinker-
tons. The Pinkertons have acted as
the bulldogs of the corporations in the
past, and if it is within my power to
prevent it the men in this city will not
suffer from their persecution"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-10

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
is one of the staunchest and ablest anti
imperialist papers In the United States,
but it has not come to an understand
ing Of the strong ground on the subject
taken by Tom l.. Johnson. In a recent
issue the Republican made this plain.
as follows:
Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland, g.
Democratic presidential possibility. has
been opposed to the Republican imper-
lallst policy and again announces his
opposition, but he Is not favorabl to
any plan to divert the attention of citi-
zens to outside issues when the real
issues are to be found right here at
home His idea seems to be that syn
dictate privilege is primarily responsible
for the imperialistic plunge of the ma
ton, and that the way to strike at i'm
perlalism Is to strike at monopoly. This
may be true, but the view that the Phil
lpp1nes outrage is not to be considered
Immediately and apart from it's possible
ultimate origin, will not find much
favor among voters opposed to the
course of the Washington administra-
ton. A man who regards the Philip
pine business as an outside issue is
decidedly too queer in his mental
processes to make much Roadway to-
ward the Democratic presidential NOM
ination two years from now"
This lead the Johnstown (Pa.) Demo-
crat, which is quite as staunch and able
IN the cause of liberty as the Spring
field Republican, to say:
His critics need not waste time in
worrying over Tom Johnson's queer
mental processes. Mr.. Johnson's queer
mental processes have generally
brought him to the sanest possible con-
illusions; and we suspect they seem
queer only to those who are not ac-
customed to logic that doesn't limp and
to reason that doesn't fall into fits of
the blind staggers. Mr.. Johnson knows
whereof he is speaking. He under
stands, as every single taxer under
stands, that imperialism has but one
spur-and that is greed. Imperialism
has gone over seas on a piratical war.
not for benevolent assimilation, and
not even for glory. It has gone for
loot. 1t has gone to grab franchises,
to gobble up land, to appropriate valu-
able natural opportunities, to grasp
new privileges and through these to
exploit labor. But what would happen
to adventures if here at home a rear
fire should be poured in upon the whole
fabric of privilege-upon franchises,
upon protective tariffs, upon govern
ment by injunction, upon the hundred
and one devices of greed for robbing
labor and limiting it's opportunities
Would they waste their time in the
Philippines if here at home their base
Of supplies were threatened? Would
they feel safe in centering their ener-
gies on a foreign conquest when the
enemy was in their rear cutting them
off from their communications and de-
stroying the very citadel of their
power? johnson is right. A war on
the imperialists here at home would be
the quickest possible means of stopping
the Infamous attack on liberty in the
Philippines"