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The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TROUTMAN'S SIDE
Moved Cattle Around Because of
Scarcity of Feed.

Eldorado, Kas., April 29.-J. G.
Troutman, who is in Jail here charged
with selling cattle mortgaged to j. V.
Moore, stated today in a deposition
that he purchased them of Moore at
$32 head, and gave mortgage on
them to Moore; that he took them to
his farm near Douglas, and later
moved them around because of scar
city of food and water. he says he
shipped them to St. Joseph, Mo-, and
sold them through the Clay Robinson
Commission Company, at4 cents. He
says he paid something over a thous-
dollars of small debts and he spent
the balance betting on horse races in
New Orleans. He said his brother
had nothing to do with the deal. Dep
ositions are being taken from others
to be used in the case of Moore against
the Clay Robinson Commission Com
pany to recover for the cattle.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
d. c. EVANS MAY GET IT
will Probably Succeed AsbOrne as
Consul at London.

Washington, April 29,-There is a
that the commission er of
pensions, H. Clay Evans, will be
offered the position of consul general
TO succeed William Mckinley Osborne,
whose death was announced this morn
ing. White house officials are reti-
cent in regard to the matter, as is also
Mr.. Evans, but there is reason to be-
lieve that the President would very
much like to have him accept it, and
the chances are decidedly in favor OF
its being offered to him.
The State department received to-
day the following cablegram from the
vice and deputy consul general, Mr.
Westacott, dated London.
deeply regret to report death this
morning OF General William Mckinley
Osborne"
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
EXCLUSION AGREEMENT
The House and Senate C0nferees
Settled the Question.

Washington, April 2s.-The con-
ferees upon the Chinese exclusion bill
have reached an agreement upon the
bin. II strikes out the portion of the
Senate bill limiting the extension of
existing laws to the life of the present
treaty and re-enacts them so far as is
not inconsistent with the treaty obli-
gaAons until otherwise provided by
law, and extends the laws to the island
territories so far as applicable. 1t
allows Chinese to enter for exposition
purposes and retains the provision
regarding certifcation in the Philip
pine islands.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
MINISTER TO CUBA
Herbert &. SQuires of New York Said
to be Slated.

Washington, April 29-TInless there
should be a change in the present in
tention of the President, he will APP
point Herbert G. Squires of New York
as the first minister of the United
States to Cuba. After considering the
records of many men, Mr.. Roosevelt
has come to the conclusion that Mr..
Squires is in every way fitted for the
important post. At the outset, the
President determined that he would
not send to Have "a as the head of the
American mission any man who had
no experience in diplomacy. To as
sist in making a selection, he made a
careful inquiry into the records of
officers now in the diplomatic service.
The choice narrowed finally down TO
Mr.. Squires, who was an avowed can
didate, and William w. Rockhill, di-
rector Of the bureau of American Re-
publcs and ex.special commissioner
TO China.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
n .. D GET TIE $4,000
President Roosevelt Interested in the
Free State Hotel Claim.

Washington, April 25-Representa-
tive Bowersock will call up in the
house early next week a bill intro
duced by him appropriating 500, 900 to
be paid to the University of Kansas
to satisfy claim growing ovrt of the
destruction OF the Free State hotel at
Lawrence in May, 1856. The House
committee on claims has reported this
bill with strong recommendation
that it be passed and it is not proba-
ble that any serious opposition to it
will develop. Mr. Bowersock has in
vestigated the claim of the University
and will present the facts to the
House.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
MOST MUST GO TO PRISON
Application,for Writ of Reasonable
Doubt Denied

Albany, N. T., April 80 The appli-
cation of Johan Most, of sNew York,
for certificate of reasonable doubt
in connection with his appeal from
Judgment of conviction of violating
thestate laws relative to inAammatory
publications, was today denied by
Chief Judge Parker of the court Of
appeals, Most was convicted of hav-
ing published in lhis paper an article
which it was held by the court tend
ed to destroy the public peace" Most
will be compelled to go to prison,
pending the final settlement OF the case
by the court of appeals.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
CONVICT-MADE BRICK
Parsons Asylum to be Constructed
with Material from Penitentiary.

Parsons, Kansas, April 2S.-The
Ave buildings to be built this summer
to.be nucleus for the new insane
asylum will be constructed Of peni-
tentiary brick. The contract for the
erection of the buildings will be let on
May 7. The specifications provide
that the state shall supply the brick.
In order to be turned on time, the
prison officials are already shipping
in brick, They are being stacked up
on the asylum site. The brick are
said to be as fine as those made by
auy private brick company in the
state. They are pressed and are as
smooth as glass.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
A Cannon EVrur
The Same Mistake is Made by
Many lola People

It's a common error
To plaster the aching back,
To rub with liniment rheumatic joints,
When the trouble comes from the kid
neys.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ills,
And are endorsed by lola citizens.
Mr.. A. G. Patterson, employed in
the lola Feed Store, living at $40 east
Spruce street, says: "For two years
attacks Of pain in the small of the
back came gradually on by degrees,
always increasing as time went by
and all of them disappearing just as
mysteriously as they originated. Other
symptoms plainly indicated that my
kidneys were at fault and [ went to &.
B. Spencer a. Co.'s drug store for
Doan's Kidney Pills. The treatment
helped. | will be only too pleased too
repeat what have said above to any
resident of lola"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan' sand
take no other.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TELEGRAPH NEWS NOTES

Chicago. April 26. Indictments
have been returned against seven men
in the cases being prosecuted here for
jury bribing. Several of them were
very prominent.
San Francisco, April 26.-The street
car strike which has been in progress
for week was called off today, The
men secured everything sought for
except the recognition of the union.
Joplin, April 26.-Three Kansas
City business men have decided TO
build cold storage and ice plant at
Joplin. The capital stock will be
$50, 900.
Topeka, April 26.- The negroes
have applied to the Supreme Court
for writ of mandamus against the
school board in Lowman Hill suburb
TO compel the board TO allow the
negro children to attend the white
school.
The Hague, April, 2S.-Queen Will
helmina's physicians announce thai
she is free from fever this morning.
New York, April 2s.-ArchbishoI
Corrigan continues to improve
Weakness alone remains of all his
symptoms.
Joliet, Ills, April 2S.-At Patterson
last night the Santa Fe run down ant
killed Mrs. Michael Pollock, daugh
ter of Audrey Floyd Pearce,
Chicago, April 27-Hon. ]. Sterling
Morton, former secretary of agricul
ture, died at 4;30 O'Clock this afternoon
at Lake Forest, at the home of his sol
Mark Morton.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
BANKERS AT WAR
Chandler Woods Combination to Have
Opposition.


Medicine Lodge, Kas., April 29.-
War among some big banking insti-
tutions for the control of the banking
money in Kansas has broken out.
How far it will reach or how long it
will last depends. If G. Q. Chand-
ler, the Kansas banking king, con-
tinues to organize small banks
throughout the state, the fight is
liable to keep up for a good while. If
he quits spreading out, then it will no
doubt die out. The war broke out
here and threatens to spread. The
immediate cause of the outbreak was
the establishment by Chandler of the
Stock Yards State Bank at the Wich-
ita stock yards. The first step in re-
taliation was taken when the Wichita
bankers, backed by some Kansas City
bankers, took out charter for the
Barber County State bank of Med
icine Lodge.
CO. Chandler is a nephew of DR..
w. S. Woods, of the National Bank
of Commerce, of Kansas City. He
first engaged in the banking business
at Medicine Lodge. He still resides
here and runs the Citizens State
bank, for long time the only bank
in the town. Backed by the National
Bank of Commerce. OF Kansas City,
Chandler has been busy during the
past three years organizing small
banks throughout the state. He has
also acquired some very large ones.
At present he controls about eigh-
teen banks in the state. Two of his
largest banks are at Wichita and
Wellington. He controls all the banks
in Anderson county except small
savings bank at Westphalia. He and
his friends own two banks in Wyan-
dotte county. He took out charter
last week for bank at Norton, and
scarcely month goes by but what he
acquires some old established bank or
starts new one. OF course the Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce, Of Kansas
City, Mo-, ultimately becomes.s the
reserve agent for all OF these Chand-
Ter banks. Chandler's rule is to es-
tahlish a bank wherever there is an
opening if the bank or banks at the
place are not doing business with some
of his institutions. In this way he is
gradually corralling the Kansas
business.
The other Kansas City banks have
watched the growth of the Chandler
chain OF banks closely. Chandler knew
this He has been expecting them TO
break in, but did not anticipate tha'
they would tackle him on his owr
ground, but that was what they did
He must stay at home and fight theil
invasion on his own territory now.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TO MAKE CEMENT COFFINS
lola Man has a Patent for Making
COflins and Caskets of Portland
Cement.

The field for portland cement is
growing every day. Hardly a week
goes by but some new use for it is dis
covered but DR.. Wyatt has one of the
most novel and probably one of the
most practical plans of any yet pro-
posed. 1t is the manufacture of burial
caskets. He has patented acompound
which has as its basis portland cement
or artificial stone. BY series of ex
periments he has composition which
has been reduced in weight to 33b per
cent of the weight of artificial stone
but which has an added strength of
IL per cent.
Out of this material DR.. Wyatt ex-
poets to manufacture all kinds of
collins and cas5ets The new coffin
will have all the advantages of the
metallic, air tight coffin and will cost
much less. 1t is impervious TO water,
Experiments have been made and it
has been impossible to force water
| through high pressure. 1t is not sub
ject to influence by the elements and is
indestructible. In fact it is the same
as a sarcophagus. 1t weighs no more
than the metallic coffin, an adultisize
not exceeding $50 pounds. A can of
the same material will be sent with
each coffin and before it is placed in
the earth it will be sealed with some of
the compound. This makes it abso-
lutely alright.
A casket two-thirds size has been
made and has proved to be all right.l
Metal moulds are being made now am
as soon as they are completed nun
ber of different sizes will be made
They can be made of any pattern an,
style and can be stained any color de-
sired. Trimmings and ornaments can
be added to suit the same as to
metallic coffin.
Experience has proved that metallic
coiiins are sealed in such way that
in time they will be destroyed by IT,
elements but these cement cofine wi
be indestructible. DR.. Wyatt ieelt
confident that the field for them is
unlimited and the idea he has worked
out certainly looks feasible
Three other men have been interest
ed with him in the securing OF the pat
ents and perfecting the plans. They
expect TO be in:shape soon to incorpo-
rate their company and begin manu-
featuring for the trade No def
mite plans have been made but it looks
as if lola was the logical point for its
location. The material which enters
] largely into its construction is right
here and cheap fuel can be had.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TO BE PROBED
Beef Trust Will be Investigated by
Attorney General

Jefferson City, Mo-, April 2S.-At-
torney General E. c. Grow, late this
afternoon, presented petition TO
Chief Justice Gaven Burgess OF the
Missouri supreme court, asking that
he issue an order directing the heads
of the different packing houses doing
bushes in the state to appear before
the said &. d. Burgess, one OF the
judges of the supreme court, as afore-
said, or any person who may be desig-
mated in said order at court room in
Jefferson City, ColeIcounty, Mo-, on
May 6, 1902, TO answer such relevant
and material questions as may be put
to them by the Acknowledgement of the
state of Missouri, concerning any il
legal contract, agreement, arrange
ment, combination, pool, understand
ing and confederationlto fix maintain
and regulate the price to be paid by
all retailers and consumers of dressed
beef and meats of all kinds, and to
limit the supply and production
thereof and to maintain such fixed
supply, production and price as
agreed upon.
Judge Burgess issued an order az
requested by the attorney general,
summoning these persons to appear
in jefferson City on the date men
toned, to give testimony relative tc
the beef trust. In speaking about the
matter, Attorney General Grow said
"The trust law of Missouri is valit
and if any combination to contro
prices exists in Missouri the hearing
ought to determine it, 1t is fair II
both packer and retailer. If the in
formation shows no beef trust exists
no further proceedings will be prose
cuted."
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
SANTA FE TO ST. LOUIS
A Report That 1t Has Bought th'
Colorado Line.

Kansas City, April 29.-The an
nouncement from St. Louis that the
Virgins Ferry company and the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado rail
road have been sold and ere under
one control is regarded as little short
of confirmation of report that the
AtcLhison, Topeka & Santa Fe will
soon have a ST. Louis line. The Wig
gins ferry and the Colorado road"
gives the purchaser a genuine ground
floor" entrance to ST. Louis.
The Colorado" road has been
building toward Kansas City for
nearly three years, but it has not made
much noise lately because the work
D progressed slowly. For more than
eighteen months the work has been In
the granite hills south of the Missouri
river and has been exceedingly slow
and expensive. John Sculin, who has
been president of the road since it was
taken out of the hands OF a receiver
told a business associate recently tina
the work is costing $50, 900 mile ant
the obstacles have been serious, br
as fast as the road is built IL is pu
into the best of condition for roa'
TO do heavy traffic.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
DEFENDS THE TRUSTS
Mr.C. w. Armour Says that there is
no Combine

BY seripps-MeRae Press Assn.
Kansas City. April &c. w.
Armour, head Of the Armour Packing
Co. said today that he probably
would personally appear before the
Missouri supreme court TO answer
questions in the beef trust inquiry
started by the attorney general.
Armour said 1.-THE inquiry should
settle all OF the doubts as to the exist
ence of beef trust. Natural causes
have produced the present high prices.
During April the live stock receipts
in the five biggest markets, Kansas
City, Chicago, Omaha st. Louis, and
ST. Joseph fell off as compared with
April last year to the following as
founding extent Hog 225,O 900, cattle
a., 600, sheep, $4,000. Drought was
the cause. Meanwhile coal during
the past few years has increased
thirty per cent; pig tin which used to
cost eleven cents now costs twenty
eight cents a pound; salt has increased
one hundred per cent? lumber seven
dollars thousand; and everything
has advanced excepting the cost Of
labor"
Armour said "With the millions
and millions of idle capital in this
country it was preposterous to pre-
sumo that the combine could exist to
rob the people by artifcially high
pripae
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
pan,y
Won't Follow Advice After Paying
for 1t.

In a recent article prominent ply
sician says, "It is next to impossible
for the physician to gets his patients
to carry out any prescribed course of
hygiene or diet to the smallest extent;
he has but one resort left, namely, the
drug treatment. When medicines
are used for chronic constipation, the
most mild and gentle obtainable, such
as Chamberlain Stomach q Liver
Tablets, should be employed Their
use is not followed by constipation as
they leave the bowels in natural and
healthy condition. For sale by w.
L. Crabb Il Co, and Campbell & Bur-
rell.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
World Wide Reputation Z.

Whites Cream Vermlfuge has
achieved world wide reputa tion as
being the best of all worm:destroyers,
and for its tonic influence on weak and
unthrifty children, as it neutralizes
the activity or sourness of the stom-
ach, improves their digestion, and as.
similation OF food, strengthens their
nervous system and restores them TO
health, vigor and elasticity of spirits
natural to childhood. 25c at @. B..
Spencer q Co.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TRAMPLED TO DEATH
False Alarm of Fire Causes Women
to TO Frantic
scrlprs-McRae Press Am.

BY scripps-McRae Press Assn.
Philadelphia, April 30-A panic
was caused among a thousand female
employees at Harburger " Hopman's 5
cigar factory today by a groundless
cry of fire. Tue employees rushed
frantically down a narrow stairway.
piling up six and seven deep. The
death list at 1870 p. nj. totaled seven,
and the injured twenty. Women
fought and bit and scratched each
'other, trampling to death three under
meath. The factory occupied the Sec
ond, third and fourth floors.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
ROOSEVELTS VACATION
A Visit to Colorado Springs. Col.
Possible He Says.

Colorado Springs, Col, April 90
Sherman Bell, once of the First
United States cavalry volunteers,
which was commanded by Colonel
Roosevelt, has just returned from the
East, where he visited the President
He says that the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt may visit Colorado Springs
this summer, should their itinerary
permit
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
M'KINLEY'S COUSIN DEAD
He has Been Consul General at London
SinceJ 1897.
ey sc1ipps-mcRae Press Association.


London, April 29.-William Me-
Kinley Osborne, United States
Consul General to London, died this
morning. He was cousin to Presi.
dent Mckinley. He was born in Ohio
in 1912. He was formerly mayor of
Youngston and member OF the Boston
police board, secretary of the Repub-
lican national committee ana ap-
pointed consul in 81.
His death was!duel to Brights dis
ease. The body will be cremated
here.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02
TAMPERED WITH MAIL
Serious Charges Against Frisco Postal
Authorities.
ev scripps-McRae Press Association.

San Francisco, April 30.-Rich ard
Cornelius, leader of the street car
strikers has filed charges that the
post Office officials permitted tamper-
ing with his mail. Superintendent of
city detectives Cox admits that he
permitted Cornelius mail to be photo
graphed. Cornelius says it was done
in the interests of the street car COM
pany.
The Iola register., 1902-05-02

WANTED; Country produce, eggs
and butter. j. E. Stanley, lola.
Arizona republican., 1902-05-03

Washington dispatches state that the house naval committee provision that at least three of the battleships and armored cruisers shall be constructed at a navy yard under this years pro- gramme of increase may get through the house, but the senate committee has decided that it will reject the pro vision. The experience of the navy las shown that there is no advantage in Construc ting any class of war vessels at the government yards. and great disadvantage is the political scramble that would result in procuring men up on the navy yard rolls. The chambers of comerce at several cities where na- " yards are located have pctitiored both congress and the navy department in favor of naVy-built ships and the la bOr organizations generally have favor ed construction by the government. Undoubtedly during the years in which government there were many abuses in the navy yard through the padding of the rolls by political and worthless appointees. But since then the civil service rules have worked a reform in all the departments of the government, and there is no reason why effective service should not be had from the gov ernrent ship yards
Arizona republican., 1902-05-03

rections. Already electrical science is and predicting a new century in which these devices will be spoken of as things outworn and disused.
 These considerations lend an unusual degree of public interest to the outcome Of the government experiments con- ducted for a year or two past at Roam oke Island. N. C.. by experts from the weather bureau. The system here en- ployed-devised substantially by Pro- lessor Fesenden of the bureau service employs devices and operates on lines radically different from those with which the public has become familiar. There is no "coherer;" no attempt to employ Hertzian waves from an elon- gated spark: no complicated machinery for receivinb messages. The electrical wave utilized does not travel straight through space. but follows the surface of the conductor, whether land CT wa ter. Messages have been sent a dis taECe of fifty miles with Q quarter-inch sparka feat which would require a two-inch spark in "'coherer" system Should this Fessenden device solve the problem of wireless telegraphy to the satisfaction of weather bureau, signal service. and navy department experts, it's primacy in the United States woul1 scarcely be disputed, however powerful and eager the interests arrayed in op-
Arizona republican., 1902-05-03

So Willie Waldorf Astor is to be made a lord, at last. After long years ct
 fawning on the British AN aristocracy and endur- AMERICAN ing insult from high LORD. quarters, the word h15
 gone out that his lavish contributions to the campaign funds of the unionist-conservat patty are to be rewarded by title. A London spec iaI to the New oYrk World says:
 Latest official report has it that Will liam Waldorf Astor will be created l5a- ron Clivedon oi TaploW next month. How popular a peer the former Amer ican will be was proved this week in the house of comons. Mir. Astor strong ly opposed the granting Of a concession whose fate for long years had tcemblad in the balance. shall the public com fort De subservient to the convenience of this domineering millionaire Amer ican, Astor?" cried an advocate of granting the concession. That ended the discussion. The debates of two years vanished: the concession was granted. Clivedon, from which MT As
 
 seat which he bought from the Duke of Westminster seven years ago. The price was then said to be $1,250, 000. CIivedon is on the Thames between Taplow and Goodman, about seven miles above Windsor. the addition of the words of Taplow" to the tltie will. as usual, further individualize it and point out where lies the land the peer possesses. It has long been known that Mir. Astors social and political ambi- tions pointed straight to the house of lords. The head of the house of As tor, he chose to cxpatriate himself in 1895 and take up his residence in Eng land
 Mir. Astor is donkey, of course, and so far as Americans are concerned he { is welcome to remain in EnglanI and be a lord. He long ago demonstra ted that he was out of sympathy with all American institutions - except the | American dollar-and had he remained in this country there was no way in which his tendencies could have per mitted him to be useful to society i Other dispa tches tell us that the baron ] -@ e' 0OAi H49 AS"9A'tlDSi' Iile ! all >dttii i Gazette, because he does not consider that the ownership of such an estab- lishment would comport with the dig mites Of his new position. There has not not been a similar incident in mod ern times where an international ass took himself so seriously. There is probably not another man of American birth who would be so incapable of per ceiving the hunor connected with his elevation to the peera Ge.