The Iola register., 1902-02-07
LOCAL NEWS
Prof. Johnson went to Chanute.

sas City.
w. E. Bush of Girard, is in town
on business.
Mrs. Eva Taylor arrived from
Lawrence for a visit with Mrs. r..
Jones.
Mrs. Della Moore arrived Wednes-
day evening from Climax, Kansas,
and will make her home here.
One lola man says he thinks the
sugar works proposition is not yet
hopelessly lost. Faith has moved
mountains.
Nathan Greenfield, father of the
family of that name engaged in the.
clothing business at TT. Scott. died
there Tuesday.
Ft Scott has killed the proposed
occupation tax and decided to collect
monthly fines from the joints and let
them run full swing.
The Wellington News, trying to
buoy up the courage of its readers in
the pursuit of gas, quotes Mr.. Spen-
Ger as having stopped in lola ard
having found that the earth at Well
ington looks much as it does here.
Hence Wellington will find gas.
a reference to the State statutes.
shows that the punishment for resist
ing an officer and permitting a crimi-
nal to escape is punishable by a fine
of 1880 or by Imprisonment in the
county jail for year or both. SO it
depends on Judge Stillwell just how
much of this is stuck onto viii Mills
whom the grand jury found guilty of
these crimes.
Mr.. f. V. Crouch has made a pro-
position to Mr.. d. Horville for the
rent of a tract of ground on the river
bank and known as the "Horville's
Grove" The proposition is for
yearly rental the lease to run ten
years. Mr.. Crouch wants it for
park for his street car line and be-
lieves he can make very pretty and
a popular resort out of it.
1t was reported on the streets last
night that boy had been run over by
the street cars. The report started
from the fact that a boy was carried
home by friends and the cause was
not electric cars but liquor. There is
not citizen OF this county but what
would like to see the grand jury trans
act business with the party who sup
piled the boy with liquor.
: Harry Hutchinson, who lives on
south State street, while putting off a
blast at the south works of the lola
Brick Company this morning was
, severely injured. He had prepared
! thesblastIon top of the hill above the
: shale:pit and when he lighted the fuse
, stepped back. His foot slipped and
e he rolled down the bank into the pit
j. eight or ten feet, severely bruising his
" back. The doctor thinks no bones
;, were broken and that he will be al
u right in about week.
r Ft. Scott Monitor: Edward Beck, 0
e Fort Scott young man who served ir
d the Philippines with the Three Hun,
+ dred and Twenty-Ninth U. S. volun
! teers, has been granted pension o.
- $17 per month: He also received S12(
10 back pay. The pension was obtained
,r through the influence of Congressman
a. at Large Scott who recently becam,
m interested in the young man. Edward
ls was wounded in the Philippines, hav
ing been shot through the knee, splin
III tering the bones. He has been laiC
to up for months and is still usinI
crutches.
20 Reports from the bedside of F 'anS
~ Canatsey are most distressing
ID There seems to be little doubs tina
8. when he fell he broke the hip bone
lg where his limo artitulates with hi
so body. Surgeons consider this one o
rs the gravest injuries, for while it ma
5, not prove fatal it is moreithan likel
~ ~ to render the person aninvalid for life
~ Mr.. Canatsey has lost all his nerv
ct power through intense suffering an
ly seems to feel that he is hoplessl
crippled, although the doctors kee
n the real state of affairs from him.
"a A test case has been brought befor
is the Supreme Court by the people {
m Wellington to test feature of th
h occupation tax ordinance. Thei
he ordinance provided that no man VIII
a had failed TO pay his occupation ia
~ could have standing in court. S
n men refused to pay bills and the dis
trict court refused to let them sue
They have appealed. Another, an
he more interesting test case comes to tn
en- court from the same town. The cit