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The Iola register., 1902-02-14
TO CONVICT HER FATHER
Young Woman Travels a Long Way
to Testify

Mexico. Mo-, Feb. ~. A surprise
was sprung in the murder trial of
Alfred Buff here this afternoon :Buf
is being tried for killing his own wife
at Vandalia, Mo-" The star witness
against him is his1o~n daughter, Miss
Louise Buff, who Had gone to Troy,
H., and it was thought she won Id
not be here to testify against her faith
er. She arrived here unexpectedly
and took the stand. Her testimony
was very damaging and may cost her
father his life. She declared that her
father deliberately shot and killed her
mother before her own eyes. The
young woman broke down while testi-
flying when she saw the gun that killed
her mother exhibited before the jury.
She was taken from the court room
till she recovered. ..
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
BATTLE In KENTUCKY.
Six Killed ina Clash Between Noun
taineers and Officers

Middles boro, KY, Feb. 2-One of
the worst battles ever fought in the
Cumberland mountains occurred this
aftern oon at Lee Turner's blind tiger
saloon, four miles from here The
battle was between Turner's noun
taineers, twenty in number, andlfifteen
or more citlzens of Middlesboro, who
were sworn into posse to arrest Lee
Turner. Turner on Wednesday night
took by force two mules from Gills
Colson. Turner owed Colson some
money and the latter had levied on his
mules. AS result of the battle, it is
reported Charles Cecil, who was among
the Middlesboro officers, was killed,
and John Doyle another officer was
fatally wounded
Turner lost five men. His saloon
was burned to the ground by the Off
GERS and five of his men persisted in
the flames. Turner was absent at the
time of the battle, and is reported to
be now at Mingo, making prepara-
tions to flee from the country. Re-
ports of various kinds are afloat, and
1t is impossible to secure the exact de-
tails or learn the exact number of
men that met death.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
TWO YEARS FOR PRINCE
Pound entity of Manslaughter in the
Fourth Degree.

Kansas City, Feb, l2-The jury in
the case of Will Prince, charged with
being an accessory to the murder Of
of Philip II. Kennedy, returned a ver-
dict at $3.50 o'clockthis afternoon find
ing Prince guilty of manslaughter in
the fourth degree and fixing his pun
ishment at two years in the peniten-
tiary. This is the maximum punish
ment for the degree. Prince took the
verdict quietly. The jury was out
since five o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
Story of an lola Valentine.

Today is st. Valentines Day
and many a sweet worded missive will
be sent by soft swains to tender swain
esses. And there will be the ugly
pictures mailed as "jokes" to people
mildly afflicted with the short-coming
which the picture exaggeratedly ex-
ploits. There is dangerin both kinds.
The girl may consider the sweet words
a promise and cite them in court
against you. The ugly picture may
get you into fight. That has hap
pened right here in lola.
1t was years ago, when everyone in
town knew everybody else and;had all
the love affairs down pat. Two young
men were sweet on the same girl and
were jealous Of each other. One of
these boys vas a printer.
Two business men on the south side
of the square, knowing all these things,
bought "comic" valentine which
showed homely printer hum ped up
over his case and line of doggerel
made fun of him. On the back of this
they scribbled note which purported
to have been written by the printer,
informing the girl that he knew who
sent the valentine, that he would never
forgive her and that all was over be-
tween them, This they sent to the girl.
The printer had not seen the valentine
nor had the girl till then
In tears she hurried with the horrid
thing to the printer and told him that
she never, never sent it, The printer
examined it carefully and Immediately
jumped to the conclusion that his rival
had done the trick to try and break up
the aft air between himself and the girl.
The plotters had planned well.
The printer made it up with the girl
and when the whistle blew-that is
when the clock struck, there were no
whistles in lola then-he hunted up his
rival. BY strange fate the two met
in front of the store where the two
business men worked. The fight was
short and fierce. The printer smashed
the rival once and then the rival stab
bed ,the printer twice with knife. It
was q town sensation, for everybody
knew the whole love affair,
During the fight the two busiest men
in town were these business men,
bending eagerly over their work, al
though they ordinarily would have run
ten blocks to see "A common dog fight.
And they never breathed a word of
the affair until ten years later when
the printer was happily married to an
other girl and the rival was far away.
Only one of the five concerned lives
here now and even yet he declines to
talk much about his part in it.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
SMELTER COMBINE TALKED
Report that the Proposed Deal Will
Yet Go Through is Again Started
Perhaps

Every so often the report bobs up
again in New York that the long
talked-of smelter combine is about Ito
be consummated. The talk lasts few
days and then there Is quiet for a
couple of weeks. This report has
again started, the following New York
dispatch putting it in motion:
New York, Feb. ST. G. Hender-
son, of the Stock Exchang house of
F. c. Henderson & Co. ,.No.l7l Broad
way, New York, is one of the princi-
pal organizers of the Zinc Smelling
Corporation which will be capitalized
at $50, 100000. OF the authorized capi.
talization $4,000, 900 preferred and
$40, 900, 900 common will be issued. E.
Rollins Morse, of 18 Wall Street, is
interested in the financial end of :he
enterprise. Only Sl2, 500, 900 of the
stock will be offered to the public for
subscription. The deal will be car
ried through chiefly by means of an
exchange of securities All the pro-
ted In the Missouri and Illinois zinc
smelling district. 1t will be recalled
that negotiations looking to consoli-
dation of the zinc smelling plants
were begun last fall, when it was said
that among the concerns that would
figure in the combination were the
Illinois Zinc Co., George f.. Nichol-
son, Vulcan Spelter Co., Empire Zinc
Co., Joplin, Mo-, plant), Matthiessen
& uegeler Zinc Co. (half INTEREST,",
Jas. l.. Tourette, S. r.. Lapyon &
Bro, Lanyon Zinc Co., st. Paul Min
ing Co., Kansas City Mining & Spell
ter Co., Cherokee-Lanyon Spelter Co.,
Girard Zinc Co., and Bruce Mining &
Smelling Co. Definite announcement
of the status of the deal is expected by
the trade to be made public during the
next week.
In this connection Wednesdays
Nevada, Mo-, Mail says:
A. b. Cockerill who is a member of
the Prime Western Spelter Company
and who also owns a large plant at
Gas City returned home today from
New York City and when seen by a
Mail representative said:
''The zinc deal:referred to has been
on foot and the Zinc Company has
had options on the smelters but hold
no options on the Prime Western Com
pany's plant or my smelters at Gas
City. 1t is true that the movement to
consolidate the smelters has been on
foot and is now being worked upon
but it is my opinion that the deal will
never be consummated. ..e..
"As to the Prime Western and my
smelters at Gas City, they are not for
Aa,e.n
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
THE POSTOFFICE BILL
Will be Reported to the House in a
Few Days.

Washington, FEB. 12-The postoIiice
appropriation bill has been practical
ly completed by the house committee
on postoilices and postroads, and
will be reported in a few days. 1t
carries $137, ,9l6,59S, an increase of
S15. l33. 90 over the current appropri-
alton and of So, 1873, ,O22 over the esti-
mates. The largest item is S4l, $50, 600
for railway transportation of mails.
The rural free delivery service gets an
increase of 81, 250, 600, making the
total 81, 529, 900, and provision is made
to place the rural carriers under a
contract system, instead of salaries
as at present. The extra allowance
for fast railway mail service between
Washington and New Orleans and
from Kansas City to Newton, Kansas, is
included. There is no provision for
pneumatic tube service. that subject
being covered in separate bill. For
increase of salaries of postofiice clerks
S8ll ,000is allowed and S200,0o for
increase in salaries of railway en-
ployes,
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
Fiye Recrnits i'm Two DAVIS.

lola always was mighty good
point for recruiting Uncle Sans ar
my. Mr.. Johnson, the recruiting Off
Ger here, secured one recruit yesterday
and four today. He is recently here
from Pittsburg and will remain two
weeks or longer, enlisting men for all
branches of the regular army.
The five men who have so far en-.
rolled and passed the examination are
w. II. Holtz, Roscoe Jackson. Lewis
Solley, Harry Ault and Norman Stew
art. All are from lola.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
WANTS TOCOME In
They Ask the United States to Annex
the Islands as II Territory Look
ing to Statehood

ing TO Statehood
Washington, Feb. l2.-The men,
orial of the federal party Of the Philip
pine islands was transmitted to the
Henate this afternoon by the secretary
OF war, together with letter of trans
initial by Governor Taft, in whose
charge the document was given. The
memorial was adopted at an extraor
dinary session of the federal party
| held in Manila in November. 1t sets
forth that the performance of that
obligation of the treaty of Paris which
gave the United States congress au-
thority to fix the status of the Philip
pine islands has been deferred to this
time because of the attack by the Fill
pinos upon the sovereignty of the
United States, an act brought about,
the memorial says, through a misun-
derstanding and not through hatred
of the American sovereignty. It
further states that, out of the sixty
provinces and districts, war exists in
only two-Batangas and Samar. 1t
also asserts that the pueblos or towno
anxiously desire "a definite civil rule"
and says those who were still in arms
allege the lack of a civil regime
"agreed upon and promulgated by
the congress of the United States as
weighty pretext for their beliggerent
attitude, which regime shall determine
at once the political status and civil
rights of the inhabitants of the archi-
pelago in accordance with the treaty
of Paris"
The memorial then makes presen-
tation of the deduction of the federal
party that congress should proceed to
carry into effect its intention of defin-
ing the future of the Philippines in
their relations to the United States
and asserts that there is no reason for
not replacing the military regime "by
civil rule of popular character, in
conformity with the decisive words of
never-to-be-forgotten President Nc
Kinley."
The memorial proper is divided into
two parts. The first of these is a petit
tion for annexation and presenta-
tion of the form of government desired.
In this subdivision the federal party
sets forth that it has made an exhaus-
tive study of both the Filipinos and
the Americans, and concludes that
from the mass of data collected it is
"the intention of the two peoples that
they should never be disunited." =" The
announces as principles for
this union the formation of "a more
perfect union, establishment of Justice,
the insurance Of domestic tranquility
promotion of the general welfare and
the securing of the blessings of
liberty"
The second part of the memorial sets
forth the aspirations of a social and
economical character, the principle of
which the memorial represents to be
the securing Of remedy of the ian
cient evil known as the friar." Under
this designation the memorial includes
all the religious orders now existing
in the islands.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
THE ROUTE is ALL RIGHT
Canadian Government Approves the
Dawson Railroad
pps-MoRae Press Asaoclatlon.

by SuIIpps-NcHhe PTess Asaociation,
Tacoma, Feb. b. Dawson advices
say the Canadian government has APP
proved the projected Klondike rail
way from Dawson through gold creek.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
THE CRISIS PASSED
Unless Something Unexpected Happens
his Recovery viii be Eapid
From Now on

4
Groton, Mass, Feb. 13-The final
crisis in the illness of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. has been met and
passed. Barring totally unexpected
developments the boy will live. The
disease has been checked in the right
lung, while the left lung completely
cleared during the night. The boy
slept all night.
Seer etary Cortelyou this morning
said the boy is doing nicely. The
President leaves for Washington to-
day. Both he and his wife are in
high spirits this morning. A charac-
teristic of pneumonia is rapid recov-
cry and young Roosevelt will proba-
bly, be no exception to the rule.
9 Secretary Cortelyou at eleven said
that the patient continued ito do we'll.
The President leaves this afternoon
but the hour is not fixed.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
IN AHEAD OF TIME
Hohenzollem Arrived In New York
HarbOr Yesterday

New York, Feb. II. The imperial
German yacht Hohenzollern. sent here
forthe use of Prince Henry of Prussia
during his forth coming visit, arrived
today from Kiel. She was not expect
ed for she came by the southern cir
Gle, and it was calculated that the run
wou Id take at least one more day
tnan it did. 1t had also been thought
tha she would touch at Bermuda, and
that place hadreported her as two days
overdue. The weather encountered d
was unfavorable for call at Ber-
muda and at sea Admiral Count Won
Baudissin abandoned the partly form
ed plan and shaped his course for
New York.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
BUTLER WENT WRONG
Helen GOuld's Butler Arrested For
Theft in New York.

Nv NVTIUps- McTtht Ffess Abseclaton,
New York, Feb. l3-Daniel Dona
van, butler at Helen Gould's Fifth
Avenue home for six months, was ar
arrested today, charged with larceny of
property worth threethousand dollars.
He disappeared today with a thous-
and dollar Persian rug, pair of
opera glasses valued at two thousand
dollars. The articles were recovered
at the pawn shop.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
NO VISITORS ALLOWED.
pps- -McRae Press Assn,

New York, Feb. 13-Admission was
refused to callers today aboard the
'Kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern, the tars
being busy cleaning the vessel Ad-
miral Baudissin came from Hoboken
and the German consul and with him
made formal call on the mayor, Ad-
miral Barker at the navy yard and
General Brookes at Governors S
Island
The Iola register., 1902-02-14

Gas City Gaslight; Fred Hall, our
enterprising liveryman has purchased
the Wood barn in lola. Hall is a
hustler and will succeed in the bus
mess.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
OTHER STUDENTS SICK.
BY scrlpps- McRae Press Assn.

Pottstown, Pa, Feb. 13-The death
of Graham Baker, of Houston, Texas,
student at the Hill school from pneu-
monia, and the illness of numerous
other students from the same disease
is ascribed to.the imitation of young
Roosevelt's fad of running about with
out any headgear.
The Iola register., 1902-02-14
Republican Congressional Convention.

There win be delegate convention :of Re
pubhcans held in the city of Fort Scott, on
Tuesday, March l1th, 1902 at 10 O'Clock a. m
for the purposeOof lplacing I'm nomination
Re publican candidate for congress from the
second congressional district of Kansas The
basis OF representation shall be one delegate
for every $50 votes or.major fraction thereof
cast for Congressma ID. Bowersock in 1900
The different counties are entitled to the fol-
lowing number of delegates and alternates
towit
Allen ...........,.... 10 douglas. ..........H
Anderson .......7 johnson .. ........9
Bourbon. ...,...,. ~ Linn.............. 30
Franklin. ...,..,,11 Miami. ......,....I5
@A wyqndotte ......2O
The committee passed the following resou-
ton unanimously
"Thati the member OF the congressional
committeesof each county shall designate the
timeland manner in which the delegates from
his county shall be'selected,"
BY oIderOf the congressional committe OF
the second congressional district OF Kansas
TRACY LEARNARD, -, FRANK SMITH,
Chairman. . e. Secretary Pro tenn,
The Irish standard., 1902-06-21
THE CORONATION.
Londoners Fear Tint as Public
Spectacle 1t Mny Prove
Failure,

London, June 1a.-The coronation,
as public spectacle, threatens to be
a tiasco. So serious and imminent has
this possibility become that the Lon
don Times and other papers are print
ing alarmist letters urging the au-
thorities to take steps to prevent it's
failure before it is too late. The rapac-
ity of the hotel keepers and greed of
the seat spectators are the reasons.
With scarcely more than week be-
fore the coronation, not so per cent of
the seats on the huge stands have been
sold. Thousands of people residing in
the suburbs and country who had
planned to come and see the king
crowned have now decided to stay
away, while large proportion of Lon
doners will avail themselves of the OPP
portunity to enjoy holiday else
where, in preference to submitting to
the Inconvenience of the extraordinary
police regulations which will be en-
forced on the coronation days. 1t is
freely said that unless the stand pro-
prietors admit the public in body and
gratis, or practically gratis, the king
will pass to his coronation through
an array of half-filled benches. An
other factor which adds to the gen
eral gruntlement is the bedraggled
appearance of the decorations which,
owing to the perpetual rain. are now
almost ruined.
The Irish standard., 1902-06-21

minution in business is apparent from la
Dor controversies owing to the prosperous
condition of the agricultural sections and
the bright outlook for this years crops.
Retail distribution of light weight wearing
apparel has felt the stimulus OF higher
temperature. Railway earnings in May
We're ST. per cent. larger than last year and
I'll per cent. above those of 1900. There
continues to be wide discrepancy between
the amount of business offered and the
contracts closed in many branches of the
iron and steel industry owing to inability
OF producers to assure delivery at a speci-
ned time. Contracts running we'll into
next year indicate that the end of activity
is not near. Pressure is still most conspic-
uous Tor railway and structural supplies
and agricultural implement works are
crowded With orders. Grain markets have
SHOWN the effect of conflicting crop est-
mates ard weather reports.
Failures for the week numbered 1852 in the
United States, against 179 last year. and
70 In Canada, compared with % year ago."
Bradstreets says: Labor troubles cloud
the immediate outlook, but good crop pros
poets fairly we'll assure future trade The
effects of the anthracite coal strike are no
longer localized. 1t affects distributive
trace In a wider area and higher prices for
1uel reduce the profits of manufacturers
generally throughout the east. Crop pros
poets are not, of course, perfect, but are
lttle less than that. Confidence in fall trade
seems to be growing. Export business,
notably in manufactured goods, is certainly
improving. The rail traffic outlook is ap-
parently Of the best. The cruder FORMS of
iron and steel are apparently in undiminish-
cd demand. Finished products, though
nothing quoting in influences of the sea-
son. are in quite active request. Building
activity is unimpaired, except where labor
troubles interfere. Some lines of trade
heretofore depressed, notably boots and
shoes and wooden goods, are displaying a
better tendency.
The Irish standard., 1902-06-21
DIES IN NEW YORK.
NJ. j. Spcyers, of Charleston, 8, c.,
Picked Up in Streets While Young
Woman WccpS Over Him,

New York. June ia man partial
ly identified as Mark j. Speyers, of
Charleston, S. c.. who was found I'M
conscious on the sidewalk in Twenty
third street, near Seventh avenue, is
dead at the New York hospital. APP
parently from morphine poisoning. A
young woman known under several
names. and who is said to have been
employed at the Charleston exposition
and later became travelling sales
woman for an Atlanta (Ga.) mineral
water company. was found weeping
over the unconscious man when he lay
on the sidewalk. She accompanied him
to the hospital and remained at his
side until he died. Then she is said
TO have returned to rooms in Seven
teenth street which had been occu-
pied by the couple, packed their be-
longings and disappeared. From frag-
ments of letters in the rooms it ap-
peared that her former home was
Ithaca.
Atlanta, Ga. June.19.-Mark j. Spey-
ers is Il nephew of former City
Marshal Mark Tolbert. He was at
one time a travelling salesman, but was
lately employed in some capacity at
the Charleston exposition.
Mr.. Tolbert says that on recent
visit to Charleston he was introduced
to Speyers' wife and child. Tolbert
did not know that Speyers had left
Charleston.
The Irish standard., 1902-06-21
SENSATION AT MIN AEApOLlo.
Startling Developments in PoIlr,
Bribery Cnses-MaHor Ames
tx Indicted,

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 1S.-Sen.-
sations came thick and fast in the po-
lice bribery cases Tuesday morning
When it came time to open the trial
of Christopher Norberk, detective. for
bribery, w. w. Erwin, his attorney.
arose and confessed that he did not
know the whcreabout of his client
He had an appointment With Nor
beck Monday night, but the accused
had not kept it. Nor had he called at
the attorneys Office Tuesday morn
ing. as had been his custom since the
trial began. The disappearance of
the accused caused great excitement,
and a bench warrant will be issued
for him. Since the conviction of
Gardner. special officer. and the COM
mitment of Detective Harvey for per-
Jury. Norbccl has been very dcspond-
ent and has threatened suicide His
hail bond for $1,000 WAS Signed by r..
j. Hill and Brando Sodini. Mrs. Nor
l>eck told a reporter that her hus-
band had left home with another man
AT eight o'clock Monday night. and
she has not seen him since.
Another sensation developed when
it became known that Albert \. Amcs,
mayor of Minneapolis, had been in
dicted by the grand jury for offering
a bride. The charge is that the
mayor cndcavored to have his secre-
tary, Thomas r. Brown, appointed
sheriff by the county commissioners,
In, J;,>
Megaarden would be removed from
the Office by the governor for mis-
feasance. In attempting to c;frry out
this plan. he is alleged to have Of
fered to so arrange matters that the
$4,000 annual income of the sheriff S
office should be divided equally be-
tween Brown and the three county
commissioners who were to vote for
him. forming a majority of the
board. The evidence to this effect
was given before the grand jury by
County Commissioners NJ w. Nash
and Ed Sweet.
Mayor Ames came into court with
his attorneys at about three o'clock
and listened to the reading of the in.
dlctment charging nm with o1fer-
ing bride to T.. p. Sweet. county
commissioners. He was given until
Monday to plead. and his bail was
fixed at $4,000. Thiswas furnished by
Thomas Lowry, and Will Boutell, Il
furniture merchant. The bondsmen OF
Norbeck raised their offer of reward
for his apprehension to 81 900. May
or Ames declares that he will dis
charge Norbeck from the police force
and direct the department to benz
every effort to his capture.
DR.. Ames has been four times mayo,
of Minneapolis, having been elected
| thrice as democrat and again il
| November, 1909, after having been olt
of office for some years, as republic
an. He is veteran of the civil war
in which he served as surgeon. and j:
' n G. A. r. man.
The Irish standard., 1902-06-21
DIPLOMAS GIVEN CADETS.
President Shakes Hands with Each
New Oliiccr nv He Receives
His Shccpskin.

West Point, n. ", June l3.-'rhe CEN
tcnnial celebration OF the West Point
military academy was ended Thurs
day with the presentation of diplomas
to the graduating class. The weather
was fine and the ceremony took place
out-of-doors on that part of the parade
grounds known as Cavalry Plain"
An open tent over a platform had been
erected for the speakers and officials,
and standing at the front of the plat
form President Roosevelt presented
each new officer with his diploma.
1t was expected the president would
make few remarks, but he simply
shook hands with each cadet.
The speakers were Congressman
Dick, for the board of visitors: Sccrc-
tnry Root. for the government, and
Gen. Miles. for the army.