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In a school year unlike any other, Marmaton Valley High School’s junior and senior classes were able to turn a springtime staple — prom — into a little summer fun Saturday.

Several parents banded together to help create a mini prom in Iola.

The setting was The Warehouse Event Venue, a former Haldex Brake warehouse now owned by Mike and Nancy Ford.

The Fords acquired the 40,000-square-foot building at 612 W. Miller Rd. in February, with the intention of turning it into an event center. (A 900-square foot loading dock was converted into an outdoor party deck, one of the building’s signature elements.)

Saturday’s Prom Night was the inaugural celebra-

At top, Ryan Getler and Zoi Yoho prepare for their entrance to the Marmaton Valley High School Prom Saturday. Below, Kendall Scharff, left, is escorted by Bo Knavel for the grand entrance. At left, Dakotah Cox, left, arrives with Braden Allison. See more photos at www.iolaregister.com.

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College towns brace for life with no students

By MICHAEL HILL The Associated Press

What happens to a college town when the students disappear? Ithaca, a small upstate New York city nearby gorges and vineyards, is finding out.

Most of the 24,000 students at Cornell University and 6,200 more from Ithaca College effectively vanished in March when the coronavirus pandemic struck, leaving behind struggling restaurants and shops. Locals still reeling from the outbreak and resulting exodus are wondering

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J.J. Edwards points towards the former site of an Osage village near Turkey Creek. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

Haunting the warrior village “Disclaimer: I tend to drive this places where it’s not supposed to go,” J.J. Edwards maniacally grinned as he shifted the Polaris ATV into four-wheel drive and gunned it up the steep muddy embankment.

The door handle was stuck from the inside, basically trapping me, so there was nothing to do but hang on, pretending to study my books and maps, as we climbed what felt like an almost 90-degree ascent.

We were on the hunt for the location of an Osage village that was rumored to be on land once owned by J.J.’s father, Donnie, where the

Above, Darcy O’Neill and her daughter, Delaney O’Neill, of Wichita, check out clothing at Audacious Boutique during 620 Day Saturday. The O’Neills and their friends were passing through Iola and stopped to check out the event. At left, Heather Breitenstein and Travis Sigg learn about bicycle helmets from Dave Fontaine. The Allen County Multi-Agency Team (ACMAT) received 100 helmets from Kansas Safe Kids, and gave away several at Saturday’s event. REGISTER/

Trevor Hoag Just Prairie native people had camped during the latter years of the Civil War. The group of about 1,000 people was composed of 600 warriors, many of whom had brought along their wives and children, after being hired by the U.S. government to protect settlers who’d been See VILLAGE | Page A4

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Obituary Richard Brewington Richard Brewington, age 66, of Iola, passed away Thursday, June 18, 2020, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola.

Richard was born on Dec. 8, 1953, in Miami, Okla. He was the third of four children born to J.W. Brewington and Mary (Williams) Richard Brewington. Richard grew up Brewington in Galena, where he graduated from Galena High School with the class of 1972.

Richard particularly enjoyed playing football while in high school. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pittsburg State University in 1976. Richard married Katherine Mummert. They were blessed with two sons, Ryan and Josh. They later divorced. Richard worked as an insurance salesman in Pittsburg until moving to Overland Park, in 1986. Richard furthered his education in the 1990s, earning two master’s degrees from Keller Graduate School of Management. While in Overland Park, Richard’s work included teaching accounting for Ottawa University. He particularly cherished the years spent teaching accounting in Southeast Asia. Richard retired from the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment, where he worked as a division director. In 2018, Richard and Joyce Sipe moved to Iola, where Richard looked forward to spending many years pursuing Allen County’s best fishing spots. Working as a “bean counter� was offset by Richard’s passion for fishing, he cherished his time fishing for that next largemouth bass. He also enjoyed many years of golfing until his back decided that it was built for fishing rather than golf. Every football season meant time for Richard to cheer for his OU Sooners and KC Chiefs. While all of those passions filled a place in Richard’s life, none compared to the joy he received from spending time with his beloved grandchildren.

Richard was a loving and devoted grandfather.

He was preceded in death by his father, J.W. Brewington.

Richard is survived by his significant other, Joyce Sipe of Iola; two sons, Ryan Brewington and wife, Mandy, of Riverside, Mo., and Josh Brewington and wife, Carol, of Overland Park,; nine grandchildren, Noah, Allie, Zach, Leo, Lily, Emma, Kasen, Eli and Reid; his mother, Mary Brewington of Pampa, Texas; two sisters and one brother, Martha Jordan of Tulsa, Okla., Max Brewington and wife, Johanna, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Jean Ann Johnson and husband, Chris, of Pampa, Texas.

A celebration of Richard’s life is being planned for a later date. Condolences to the family may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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tion, with a special green carpet walkway adorned with balloons to greet the revelers.

Parents snapped photos and videos from the side of the walkway as roughly 20 prom-goers arrived.

Following a night of dancing, the students partook in after-prom activities at the same site, with a number of activities, such as laser tag the featured fun.

The parents assisted with last-minute prep, from helping clear out old recyclable materials

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High school proms were among the scores of spring events wiped off the calendar because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marmaton Valley hosted a slimmeddown high school graduation ceremony for the seniors on May 19.

Iola High School and Humboldt High School will host senior commencement ceremonies in the coming weeks. Iola’s is at 10 a.m. July 11, while Humboldt’s is at 2 p.m. July 12. Both will feature measures to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.

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Suit moving forward against Kansas officer in hoax call BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit can move forward against a Wichita police officer who fatally shot an innocent man in 2017 while responding to a hoax emergency call stemming from a dispute between two online gamers.

The death of 28-yearold Andrew Finch drew national attention to “swatting,� a form of retaliation in which someone reports a false emergency to get authorities to descend on an address. The address the gamers used was old, leading police to Finch, who was not involved in the dispute or video game.

U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in a 57-page decision refused

to grant Officer Justin Rapp’s request for summary judgment in the federal lawsuit filed by Finch’s family.

Rapp’s attorneys argued that the officer’s actions did not violate Finch’s constitutional rights against unreasonable force, and that Rapp was entitled to qualified immunity. “A reasonable officer would have known that using deadly force when Finch displayed no weapon and made no overtly threatening movement was unlawful,� Broomes wrote in the ruling.

The decision leaves it up to jurors in the civil case to decide whether Rapp’s actions were reasonable. No criminal charges have been filed against the officers.

Unemployment benefits extended TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansans struggling to find work amid the coronavirus pandemic can receive unemployment for 13 more weeks.

The Kansas Department of Labor announced Thursday that the state has qualified for a program that provides federal reimbursement for extended benefits during periods of high unemployment, the

Wichita Eagle reports.

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MONDAY — Iola USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office. — Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

TUESDAY — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse. — Veterans Administration representative available for walk-in health care and claims, 9:30 to 11:30 am., clerk’s office, Allen County Courthouse. — Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College. —Allen County Farmers Market, 1 to 4 p.m., 700 N. State St. — Allen County Regional Hospital Board of Trustees, 6:30 p.m. , hospital conference room.

THURSDAY — Rotary Club, noon, Allen Community College. — TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church. — Allen County Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7 p.m., southeast corner of the square. Enter from the north on East Street.

SATURDAY — Allen County Farmers Market, 8 to 11 a.m., downtown Humboldt.

SUNDAY — GriefShare Support Group, 4 p.m., First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood.

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when — or if — things will get back to normal. “It’s going to be hard. I mean, normally we have about seven months that the colleges are here,� said Gregar Brous, who runs the local Collegetown Bagels shops, other restaurants and a catering operation. He has brought back just over 100 of the 330 employees he laid off, but the longterm fate of college-dependent businesses remain cloudy. “One of the biggest challenges right now is so many unknowns,�

Brous said.

Ithaca College intends to bring students back this fall, but weeks later than normal on Oct. 5. Cornell — the Ivy League school that dominates this city of 31,000 — is offering its summer courses online and expected to release its plans for the fall semester soon.

Even if Cornell opts for a return to in-class instruction as locals expect, they’re concerned about returning students holing up on campus more, or an autumn surge in COVID-19 cases sparking another sudden exit. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick said possible international

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travel restrictions could affect Cornell, where almost a quarter of the students come from other countries. “If people don’t feel comfortable sending their children across the country or across the world back to our campuses, then we’ll start to shed jobs,� said Myrick.

Cornell students spend an estimated $225 million annually, helping fuel a healthy retail economy highlighted by blocks of funky shops and restaurants on the Ithaca Commons, a pedestrian strip downhill from the sprawling Cornell campus. “If you’re a line cook or a server in Ithaca before the pandemic ‌ it was so easy to get a job.

You couldn’t avoid it, they were everywhere,� said Matt Stupak, a laidoff line cook now working a part-time delivery job with partial unemployment.

David Foote was laid off from his job at Ithaca’s Planned Parenthood the same day his wife found out her hours at a not-for-profit were being reduced. The couple had savings and deferred expenses. But even with his wife back to full-time hours recently, he’s still looking for work and waiting on unemploy-

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ment benefits. “At this point, things are starting to look a little stretched so I’m hoping that things start to shape up,� he said, “but also recognizing there’s still a lot of dangers in a lot of people being in the same place or not taking the proper precautions.�

Ithaca is still doing well, relatively. The regional April unemployment rate zoomed up to 10%, but was the lowest for metropolitan areas in the state. With more than 10,000 workers, Cornell is the county’s largest employer and has yet to announce job cuts. The university has even taken steps to help locally, such as contributing $100,000 to a fund supporting businesses hurt by the pandemic.

Still, area hotels, restaurants and shops are recovering from a big hit. The number of leisure and hospitality jobs alone in surrounding Tompkins County was down by 2,000 from March to May, according to preliminary federal data.

Cities all over bled jobs this year, but the effects were more concentrated in some smaller college towns, where businesses depend heavily on students. “Our entire economy left,� said Gabrielle Gould, executive director of Amherst Business Improvement District.

The quaint Massachusetts college town had to deal with the sudden loss of some 35,000 students from UMass Amherst and four other colleges in the area.

By May, Amherst had a 32.6% unemployment rate, tied for second highest in the state, according to an analysis provided by the Pioneer Institute.

The 47 restaurants

in Amherst’s business district were allowed to add outdoor seating this month, though Gould said the struggles continue.

Ithaca’s economic picture is brightening as pandemic restrictions are slowly eased, with area restaurants recently allowed to open at half capacity. Ithaca is also a summer tourist destination, with people passing through after sipping rieslings at local vineyards or exploring local gorges.

Myrick appreciates the business bump from April, but said it looks more like a slump when compared to last year. With local residents still hurting, the city council this month approved a novel resolution allowing the city to ask for state permission to forgive rents due between April and June.

Beyond concerns over fall sales tax revenues, Ithaca residents are wary of long-term trends in higher education. Colleges all over are dealing with pandemic-related budget problems as they reckon with uncertain futures.

Some students are deferring enrollment and long-term business models are being re-accessed.

Ithaca College has already furloughed 167 workers. Cornell, which has a $7.3 billion endowment, is expected to weather any storm.

But Cornell President Martha Pollack in April wrote that the school’s plan to navigate the crisis “will almost certainly include painful steps such as furloughs or layoffs.� “How worried am for Ithaca if the future of higher ed changes?�

Myrick said. “I am worried. I am extremely worried.�

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Trump’s order to reduce testing defeats efforts to curb spread At Saturday night’s rally in Tulsa, President Donald Trump said he has requested health authorities to slow down testing for COVID-19 in order to keep the numbers low.

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please!’”

The value of the testing, of course, is to determine who has the virus so it can be contained. This is especially important because many with the virus are asymptomatic and as such are unknowingly spreading it to those who may suffer more serious consequences.

For those who surmise they can withstand the effects of the virus, this is not about you. It’s about those you may infect.

To knowingly suppress the discovery of who may have the virus is beyond reproach. Unfortunately, that appears to be this administration’s goal.

In a discussion with state governors last week, Vice President Mike Pence urged them to reduce testing to quiet public concern about surging case tallies in some states.

Their theory is what you don’t know, won’t hurt you.

But in the case of the coronavirus, the opposite is true and we need no better proof than the 120,000 Americans who have died from the virus.

THE PRESIDENT’S argument that increased testing yields a false picture of

the true rate of infections is wrong.

The United States has the most cases per capita of any country, recording 2.1 million to date. That’s one-fourth of the global total. Experts say that even with increased testing, the number of positive cases still will not reflect an accurate picture, the virus is so widespread. If anything, the U.S. is not testing enough to match the severity of the pandemic.

“We have a much bigger epidemic, so you have to test more proportionately,” said Jennifer Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a public health foundation.

The president’s point that “if we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases” is absurd.

Not knowing the truth, doesn’t make it go away.

And creating an “alternate truth,” is a lie.

In the last two weeks, cases have risen 15% nationwide. As of Saturday, eight states, including Missouri and Oklahoma, reported their highest single-day case counts since the pandemic began.

Despite the president’s assessment that the virus is “fading away,” statistics say otherwise.

BECAUSE most states have eased their restrictions to contain COVID-19, it’s more important than ever for each of us to do our part to contain its spread.

Be smart. Be safe. For your sake as well as for others’.

— Susan Lynn

Playing it safe Ethan Gendron, 5, is ready for his train ride as he sits with his mother Leeanna Gendron at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, NJ last week. The zoo reopened after being closed for months during the coronavirus pandemic. PATTI SAPONE/NJ ADVANCE MEDIA

Congress must ensure US is for Dreamers Hundreds of thousands of young people — Americans in every way except on paper — won a reprieve from possible deportation last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday halted the Trump administration’s plan to strip the “Dreamers” of assurances they won’t be forcibly expelled to countries that many of them don’t even remember.

But the ruling is a temporary reprieve. That makes it all the more urgent that Congress finally codify the protections this administration is so maliciously trying to end.

As contentious as the immigration issue is, polls have long shown one area of overwhelming agreement: Most Americans believe undocumented immigrants brought here as children shouldn’t be threatened with deportation, since they didn’t come here by choice but were raised here. But despite bipartisan consensus in Congress, legislation to that effect has been elusive.

President Barack Obama in 2012 addressed the issue by executive order. His Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) created a renewable

two-year reprieve from deportation for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before age 16 and who meet strict conditions, including finishing school and keeping clean criminal records.

Currently, almost 700,000 of these American-raised “Dreamers” reside here, working, going to school and living as productive members of society, with full knowledge of the government.

DACA wasn’t the best solution — that would have been a law providing protection from deportation pending a path to citizenship — but fair-minded people in both parties generally accepted it as a stop-gap measure until Congress got its act together. Nonetheless, President Donald Trump, after some attempts to reach a compromise, ultimately sought to end the program.

The Supreme Court prevented that last week, in a 5-4 decision that had Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s liberals. Roberts wrote that the administration didn’t meet the “procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation” for ending DACA. It’s a technical

US trade policy with China nothing but hot air Kansas is losing ground under current trade policy, as farmers nationwide see longtime trade surpluses turn into deficits.

Through the first four months of 2020, the nation’s agriculture-related trade balance is running at a deficit, a rare if not unprecedented event.

U.S. ag imports exceeded exports in three of the first four months of the year. The cumulative trade deficit stood at about $730 million at the end of April, the most recent figure available.

The numbers are what America has to show for President Donald Trump’s attacks on trade pacts and foreign alliances. COVID-19 has played a small but temporary role, as evidenced by the annual numbers since 2016.

That year, the United States exported $20.2 billion more in agricultural goods than it imported. The surplus has shrunk every year since, and in 2019, it was $5.6 billion.

Exports of grains, meat and other farm commodities have been flat or falling, while im-

Julie Doll A Kansas Contributor ports of farm goods have increased.

Trump’s policies aren’t the only reason, but his destructive decisions and half-baked deals have damaged overseas markets, not only for farmers and ranchers, but for almost everyone who depends on international trade. That includes Kansas manufacturers that build aircraft, farm equipment and navigation systems, and thousands of other companies that do business internationally.

The pandemic does skew the picture somewhat. For example, a huge drop in all U.S. exports of goods and services in April is certainly connected to COVID-19.

But nothing in the longer-term trends suggests that Trump’s trade policies are helping U.S. farmers and com-

panies grow international markets.

That’s because they are more of a political device than an economic strategy.

One need look no further than the president’s approach to China to understand the difference. When he ran for president, Trump promised that he would get tough with China on trade. Once elected, he raised taxes — aka tariffs — on goods imported from China and many other nations. Those tariffs cost U.S. consumers and businesses billions of dollars.

The stated goal was to compel manufacturers to move jobs back to the United States, but mostly, Trump’s tariffs hurt U.S. farmers, who saw most exports to China drop.

Meanwhile, rather than move jobs to the United States, U.S. businesses tended to shift their international purchases to countries not targeted by Trump, or to countries and companies the president had granted tariff exemptions.

The result? The overall trade deficit in goods in 2019 was more than $850 billion,

compared to a little more than $735 billion in 2016.

Lots of rhetoric, but little benefit — that’s the hallmark of this administration.

The president’s focus on politics also explains why Trump repeatedly praised China’s leaders until recently.

Even as his intelligence agencies told him that China was providing misleading information about the pandemic, Trump continued to laud the country’s communist leaders.

Only after his administration seriously botched the response to the pandemic did Trump decide China was a bad actor. With the economy tanking and an election only a few months away, he needed scapegoats. So, as they have so many times before, shortterm political ambitions superseded other considerations.

The president continues to hail his trade deals as the best deals ever made. But boasts and brags don’t change the numbers. And the numbers show farmers are losing ground as they try to compete globally.

rather than philosophical rationale, which leaves the door open for the administration to carry out its malice as soon as it can get its incompetence under control.

Malice is really the only word for it. What else explains this urgency to persecute young people who personally broke no rules — and are following multiple rules now — for seemingly no reason but to feed red meat to the most xenophobic corners of Trump’s base?

The administration hasn’t provided “a reasoned explanation” for ending DACA because there isn’t one. But that doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying. Trump indicated Friday they intend to do just that. Surely congressional Republicans don’t want to be blamed when America watches American-raised young people who’ve done nothing wrong being forcibly removed to countries where they may not even speak the language.

Republicans should work with Democrats to pass, and press Trump to sign, legislation making the protections of DACA permanent.

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50 Years Ago June 1970 Fire consumed the Diebolt Lumber Co. in Le Roy and resulted in damage to two adjacent houses. Loss was estimated at between $75,000 and $80,000

by Lawrence Diebolt, Iola, owner. Gerald Clay, manager, said the cause was defective wiring.

The yard is one of three lumber companies owned by Diebolt.

The other two are at LaHarpe.

The blaze was fought by the Le Roy volunteer fire department and units from Burlington, Yates Center, Colony and Iola. Members of the auxiliary unit of the volunteer firefighters made coffee for the firemen and served them bacon, eggs and toast at about 4 a.m. ***** Dr. Cora Crews is the second female physician to practice in Iola. Crews graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1926 and did her internship in Denver at the Children’s Hospital. She met and married C.E. Crews, who became supervisor of the Soil Conservation Office in Allen County, a position he held for many years.

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moving into the area.

The politics of the tribe seems to have been complicated, with some people having ties to the Confederacy.

As J.J. and I stood on what at one time had been the south bank of Turkey Creek (as opposed to a small lake built in 1974), feeling the wind and sunlight die in the summer evening, I dreamed them there, imagining the laughter of children, the men leaning against rifles, murmuring, the women perched over fires around teepees.

Few stories of the village remain, unfortunately, save tired tales of “thieving Indians” who couldn’t help but steal ropes, saddles and someone’s kitchen stove; and another wherein a white fellow had “gone native” because he liked having an Osage wife do all his work.

One genuinely fascinating detail that remains from their daily lives, however, is the story of a young Osage boy who’d been fiercely — and perhaps mortally — kicked upside the head by a horse.

A woman who lived nearby named Elizabeth Miller had traveled to the camp with fresh milk and a resolve to heal him, though her daughter Eliza J. left no mention of whether or not he survived.

In the 1970s, though, local historian Lester Harding mentioned how he and others had watched the opening of a grave at the site be-

A tall red brick silo on the Holmquest farm remains standing after almost a century.

J.J. Edwards explains how the invasive species sericea lespedeza causes problems for pastures and cattle. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG longing to a small native child.

The ground being on the eastern edge of the Flint Hills, and “hard like concrete,” as J.J. had put it, the grave had been rather shallow, capped with a piece of flat native limestone and covered with only meager earth.

Whether it was the same boy cared for by Miller, Harding did not speculate.

He’d only suggested that the exhumation was prompted by a farmer who’d wanted to convert the ground for agricultural use.

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the area, however, given its harsh and rocky nature, it’s far more suited for cattle than crops.

A few of J.J.’s own cows had just escaped that afternoon, and so as we bounced across the prairie in the ATV, we kept our eyes peeled.

“The old thistle’s getting high! Damn!,” he shouted over the grumbling engine as the grasses were ground beneath the hungry treads.

We had decided to check out remnants of the post office known as “Juse,” christened in 1884 by Jesse Pickering, following the pet name he’d given his daughter Jerusha.

Along the way, though, J.J., a former high school biology teacher, paused to give me a quick lesson in botany.

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once I had extricated myself from the ATV’s door — we leaned down and he showed me a clump of sericea lespedeza, an invasive plant with stubbornly deep roots that secretes toxic chemicals into the surrounding soil, making it a real headache for ranchers.

Spray it and it sometimes comes back. Burn it and it often returns with a vengeance.

Yet despite his frustration, J.J. seemed to regard the sericea with a kind of begrudging respect, the kind of honor a soldier reserves for an enemy.

J.J. is a former Marine, after all, someone indigenous men from the Osage village may have at one time recruited to ride south into Indian Territory on a foraging trip.

As we neared the post office, we passed a tall red silo on the old Holmquest farm, which has somehow managed to remain standing after almost a century.

J.J. pinched a wad of Grizzly chewing tobacco between his cheek and gum, then sighed as he noticed the pasture gate beside the Juse site was open.

“It’s not supposed to be like that,” he said, shaking his head, then directed me to where the historical marker also should have been before being ripped to shreds by some piece of heavy equipment belonging to county road crews who’d gotten a little too close to the fenceline.

After fixing the gate, J.J. and I wandered over the sandstone foundations of the post office, which he showed me were made of stones that had been carefully cut, despite having been worn away over the course of the century.

I then dreamed Jesse Pickering there, in the small building with many drawers, filing away letters and other

correspondence.

His prize-winning prototype miniature windmill was standing just outside, which he hoped would one day make him rich.

Over the years the post office changed hands and locations multiple times, as nineteenth century prairie post offices are wont to do, passing from Pickering to John Pace to Wilson Goreham to George Farnum, who moved its location to another nearby ghost town called Keck.

One tale vividly recalls Farnum carefully cutting out enormous blocks of ice from nearby ponds and creeks, then packing them in sawdust so as to save them for the following year.

The Juse-Keck area is still a bit of a windswept badlands to this day, so it’s not hard to see why Farnum would go to all the trouble.

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and I returned to the Osage village site, this time on opposite banks, and I was taken in by the melancholy thought that all that remains now of the Osages’ stay are their undiscovered artifacts to compliment the many that have been unearthed there over the years.

That, and the indigenous burial ground west of the primary campsite, full of graves all unmarked with the exception of a particular chief.

The burial site had long predated the mobile village, and when J.J. and I had stood on the high hill where we believed it to be located, it was as if the world slowed down, making what is sometimes called by photographers “the golden hour” stretch out into a lifeage.

Eliza J. had told the tale that the Osage chief who was buried there, despite the tribe being poor, had enjoyed

a fairly elaborate funeral, with accompanying fancy dress.

She remembered him being a big man wizened with age, which perhaps made him difficult to carry on a litter up the steep incline to the cemetery.

After he died, she said he’d been bedecked with rings on his fingers and tiny bells on his toes.

A wide copper headband was wrapped about his temples, and accompanying him to the grave were an iron kettle, colorful beads, flint arrowheads and several other items.

By contrast, his final resting place was marked with only a small modest sandstone.

Intriguingly, it seems he chose to adopt the funeral practices of either the white Christian people he’d come in contact with, or perhaps that had been handed down to him as a member of one of the five “civilized” tribes.

When J.J. showed me a single plain flat stone atop the hill that may have been the same mentioned by Eliza J. and belonging to the chief, I couldn’t help but reach out and smooth its surface with my hand, wondering if the rock itself might contain some memory of the truth.

I’ve written before about the question as to how and whether a life leaves its mark on a place, as well as harrowing events, especially those fraught with trauma and excitement and death.

Yet a house or other place does not feel truly haunted unless one has access to its story.

And I have been nothing but saddened by the fact that when something terrible has happened to someone or something I’ve loved, I could not sense it from afar.

We carry our ghosts with us...

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Noose found in Wallace’s garage during postponed Talladega race

Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 World Wide Technology Chevrolet, stands on the grid prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on June 14.

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Hopes for season hit a standstill NEW YORK (AP) — An email from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed season, which now won’t begin by July 19.

The executive committee of the players’ association was set to vote and reject Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a 60-game season on Sunday.

“I really believe we are fighting over an impossibility on games,” Manfred said in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “The earliest we will be ready for players to report is a week from Monday, given the need to relocate teams from Florida.

That leaves 66 days to play 60 games. Realistically, that is the outside of the envelope now.”

Players want 70 games and $275 million more than teams are offering. They are worried that if a resurgence of the new coronavirus causes the 2020 season to be cut short, the deal being negotiated would lock in innovations for 2021 and lessen the union’s bargaining power.

“Tony, am writing to reiterate what I told you on the phone a few minutes ago,” Manfred wrote. “Given the Covid developments, I understand that the players are concerned that the 2020 season will be truncated beyond the agreed upon number of games (for example, we agree to play 60 and can only play 40). If that were to happen, I would be prepared to eliminate the 2021 components of the deal. That would mean that we would not get the expanded playoffs in 2021 and the DH rule would revert to the current rule (DH in AL, no DH in NL).”

Players didn’t take a vote and will consider their next move today The 2020 only items in the deal include starting extra innings with runner on second and a discussion of whether to allow tie games after a specified total of innings plus player re-entry in extra innings.

Some players would prefer there not be a deal and that Manfred unilaterally order the schedule. Because players insisted on full prorated pay, he threatened a schedule of about 50 games. MLB agreed See MLB | Page B4

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series who just two weeks ago successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues.

NASCAR said the noose was found on Sunday afternoon and vowed to do everything possible to find who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.”

“We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” the series said in a statement.

“As we have stated unequivo-

cally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.”

On Twitter, Wallace said the “the despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism.”

“As my mother told me today, ‘They are just trying to scare you,’” he wrote. “This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.”

The noose was discovered

on the same day NASCAR’s fledgling flag ban faced its biggest challenge. The ban took effect before last week’s race near Miami, but there were only about 1,000 military members admitted into that race.

At Talladega, in the heart of the South, as many as 5,000 fans were allowed in, even though rain postponed the race until Monday and visitors were barred from the infield. No flags were spotted Sunday, but cars and pickup trucks driving along nearby roads were flying the flag and parading past the entrance to the superspeedway over the See WALLACE | Page B4

American Legion Baseball: A Iola Indians

Indians take first in Emporia

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

EMPORIA — For the second-straight Sunday, the A Iola Indians finished the day as champions.

The Indians went 4-1 en route to gold at the Summer Slam Emporia Invitational tournament, earning wins against El Dorado, Topeka’s Kansas Senators, and the host in the title game.

Iola opened the tournament against El Dorado on Saturday in a non-scoring affair until the bottom of the fifth inning. Two Indians scored on wild pitches, plus another run off an error by El Dorado’s shortstop. Trevor Church capped the scoring with an RBI to center field, giving the Indians a 4-0 lead after the fifth.

El Dorado responded with four runs in the top of the sixth, but Iola got the run they needed in the bottom-half of the inning. A long fly ball to right field from Carter Hutton allowed Drake DeLaTorre to cross home, leading to the Indians’ 5-4 win.

Game 2 against Emporia was a different story. The Indians mustered only three hits in the contest, while Emporia’s bats went rampant.

Emporia tallied 11 runs off nine hits, handing Iola the 11-1 loss in four innings.

The loss pinned Iola against the Kansas Senators in the semifinals of the tournament on Sunday. Both teams com-

Eli Adams takes off to first base at the Adam LaRoche 16U Invitational Tournament in Fort Scott on June 14. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

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NFL: Kansas City Chiefs

NFLPA tells players to stop working out together due to COVID-19

By SAM McDOWELL The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As coronavirus cases spread throughout sports organizations, the NFL Players Association sent its players a strong advisement Saturday: Stop working out together.

In a statement authored

by Dr. Thom Mayer, the association says “no players should be engaged in practicing together in private Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks to media after workouts.” winning Super Bowl LIV. MADDIE MEYER/GETTY IMAGES/TNS “Please be advised that it is our consensus medical should be engaged in practic- all players and your families opinion that in light of the in- ing together in private work- as healthy as possible in the crease of COVID-19 cases in outs,” Mayer’s statement coming months. certain states that no players read. “Our goal is to have “We are working on the

best mitigation procedures at team facilities for both training camps and the upcoming season, and believe that it is in the best interest of all players that we advise against any voluntary joint practices before camp commences.”

The league’s players have seen an increase in coronavirus cases over the past few days, as have sports organizations across multiple leagues.

Earlier Saturday, two Buccaneers players tested positive for COVID-19, per an ESPN report. On Friday, NFL Network reported that a 49ers player also tested positive, and he had been working out with teammates in Nashville.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ outlook on the national economy has improved somewhat from its lowest points during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, but a new poll suggests Democrats and Republicans are living in alternate economic realities amid the sharpest recession in the nation’s history.

Eighty-five percent of Democrats call economic conditions “poor,� while 65% of Republicans describe them as “good� in a new survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

This divide reflects the deep polarization ahead of the 2020 presidential election, as well as a series of indicators that point toward a weakened but recovering U.S. economy. “The economy is in terrible shape and improving rapidly,� said Harvard University

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The survey finds that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely than white Americans to say someone in their

household has lost a job or other income. That inequality has added to the broader reckoning with structural racism amid nationwide protests over police brutality following the murder of George Floyd.

Overall, 66% of Hispanic Americans and 53% of Black Americans say they’ve experienced some form of household income loss, including layoffs, unpaid time off and cuts in hours or pay. Forty-two percent of white Americans say the same. Thirty-four percent of Hispanics, 29% of African Americans and 20% of white Americans said someone in their household has been laid off.

The poll finds signs that some of those layoffs are becoming permanent.

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The unemployment rate improved to 13.3%, a number that is still the second highest reading in records going back to 1948.

Leah Avery, 54, lost her job driving a school bus in suburban Dallas. She said she checks her email daily to find out how schools will reopen. She applied for unemployment benefits a month ago, but the request has been under review. “It’s a struggle day by day for us to pay our bills, and I know others are going through the same thing,� she said.

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Friend is pushing motherhood on others Dear Carolyn: A close college friend of mine, “Anne,” is a mom of a lovely 3-year-old, and for the past three years she has not stopped demanding that our mutual college friend — “Joan,” to whom I’m a bit closer — and I have children because it’s “the best!” and she’s “so excited for us to get pregnant and we can all be mothers.”

Well, I’m only just getting married, and Joan is single. She has had some difficult abortion experiences and I haven’t been tested for fertility, nor am I at that stage. We have both tried explaining to Anne that we’re very uncomfortable with this topic and her approach, which is very assumptive and insensitive.

At a recent girls’ trip, Anne shouted about this again while drunk, and a separate friend of mine — they had all just met for the first

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time — later confessed that she has a variety of genetic and medical issues that will make pregnancy difficult, painful and expensive, if she can get pregnant at all. Joan and I were hoping this would be a wake-up call for Anne, but we’re both still anxious about what to do and dread that she will do this again. What else can we do to get through to her??

— Friend Friend: Next time, before you shut Anne down, consider encouraging her to open up. Give her room to talk about her stage of life right now. Ask about her kid. Ask her if she is craving mom friends.

Maybe she is exactly as high on

motherhood as she claims to be and just wants everyone to be as blissed-out as she is, but I’m more inclined to believe she’s struggling and this is her way of trying to chip away at the stress, loneliness, self-doubt or whatever else is gnawing at her. People who load up on drinks and start shouting obsessively about things they had to be asked not to obsess about generally aren’t at peak selfhood in that moment.

But this license is for when she’s talking about herself.

Any and every time she turns her baby fixation back on others, shut the harassment down. “Anne — we’ve been over this.

New topic.” Then change the subject, or walk away if she doesn’t back off.

Re: Baby-pusher: I think it merits serious consideration that your friend may be struggling with

Therapy for ‘explosive disorder’ Dear Dr. Roach: I have a relative who fits the description of intermittent explosive disorder, which I recently read about. Could you please tell me what kind of therapy a person would need if diagnosed with this problem? — T.M. Answer: Intermittent explosive disorder is an impulse control disorder: an inability to restrain behaviors related to emotions.

As the name suggests, people with intermittent explosive disorder have periodic bursts of aggressive behavior.

The behavior can be verbal or physical, and is grossly out of pro-

portion to the situation.

The outbursts are impulsive and unplanned, and importantly, cause distress to the person.

I suspect most readers will not find it hard to think of someone who has had these kinds of outbursts, but the formal diagnosis requires the person to meet strict criteria. The diagnosis is usually made by a mental health professional.

There are many risk factors, including family history and prior history of abuse or neglect.

Genetics is suspected to cause about half the risk for developing this condition. It is more common in men.

Treatment may be with medication such as the SSRI fluoxetine (Prozac), with cognitive behavioral therapy or both. Cognitive behavioral therapy encompasses 12-20 onehour sessions. Alternative medications are available for those who do not do well with Prozac.

While I have heard friends and family members excuse such behavior, people with intermittent explosive disorder may cause injury to people or animals, cause property damage and get in legal trouble. Most importantly, treatment is usually effective.

something. Get to the root of why this is so important to her. I’m also recently married with no children and have a mom friend — she isn’t as persistent as yours, but it did come out that she was a bit wistful of her life before kids.

Not that she doesn’t love hers, but she admitted she was having trouble reclaiming her identity outside of being a mom and felt like if I was on the same page, then she wouldn’t feel so alone. She’s the first in our close friend group to have children and so far the only.

— Anonymous Anonymous: I appreciate your compassion, and I’m sure your friend does, too.

Write to Carolyn Hax at tellme@washpost.com. Get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo.st/haxpost.

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bined for 26 runs in the game that finished in extra innings, with Iola pulling away in the top of the eighth to earn the 14-12 win.

Cooper Riley led the Indians’ offense with a 4-4 day at the plate, finishing with a team-high five RBIs. Also earning four hits was Avery Blaufuss, who also chipped in three RBIs. Hutton and Gavin Page each notched three-hit games, and TJ Tayor along with Eli Adams collected two hits each.

After the win against the Kansas Senators, the championship game’s stage was set. Iola sought revenge against Emporia, after the hosts handed the Indians its first run-rule loss of the season just the day before.

The Indians never trailed, and pulled away to a 5-1 lead after RBIs from DeLaTorre, Page, and Taylor in the top of the second inning.

Emporia’s downfall was their miscues in the field, committing eight errors which helped the Indians keep the base paths busy.

Emporia came with-

in one at the end of the fifth inning, but the Indians did not want to leave any doubt in the sixth. Eight runs came across for Iola in the sixth to give Iola a nine-run lead entering the bottom of the sixth.

With Emporia scoring only a single run in the sixth, the eightrun rule after five innings was triggered, giving Iola the 15-7 championship win.

Mac Leonard earned the championship win on the mound, tossing four strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings pitched. Eli Smith relieved Leonard for the remainder of the game, allowing one hit while picking up four strikeouts.

The Indians will be at the Humboldt Sports Complex on Tuesday at 6 p.m. for a doubleheader with Pittsburg, before hosting rival Chanute on Wednesday.

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weekend. A small plane flew over the track Sunday pulling a banner with the flag and the words “Defund NASCAR.” Wallace’s 2013 victory in a Truck Series race was only the second in a NASCAR national series by an Black driver (Wendell Scott, 1963) and helped push him into the Cup Series, where he drives the No. 43 for Hall of Famer Richard Petty and is forced to scramble for sponsorship dollars.

Wallace, a 26-year-old Alabama native, said he has found support among fellow drivers for his stance on the flag. He noted that in his tweet after the noose announcement.

“Over the last several weeks, I have been overwhelmed by the support from people across the NASCAR industry including other drivers and team members in the garage,” he said.

“Together, our sport has made a commitment to driving real change and championing a community that is accepting and welcoming of ev-

eryone. Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate.”

NASCAR has spent years trying to distance itself from the Confederate flag, long a part of its moonshine-running roots from the its founding more than 70 years ago. Five years ago, former chairman Brian France tried to ban flying the flags at tracks, a proposal that was not enforced and largely ignored.

This year was different and it was Wallace who led the charge. Over the past month as the nation has been roiled by social unrest largely tied to the death of George Floyd, Wallace wore a black T-shirt with the words “I Can’t Breathe” at one race and had a #BlackLivesMatter paint scheme at another.

Wallace, whose father is white, was not always outspoken about racism; even after Floyd was killed last month while in police custody in Minneapolis, he was not the

first driver to speak out for racial equality. He has said he began to find his public voice on racism after watching video in May of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting in Georgia. He said he now recognizes he must not let his platform as a prominent driver go to waste.

NBA star LeBron James tweeted his support to Wallace, calling the noose “sickening!”

“Know you don’t stand alone! I’m right here with you as well as every other athlete,” James wrote. “I just want to continue to say how proud I am of you for continuing to take a stand for change here in America and sports!”

Talladega is one of the more raucous stops on the NASCAR schedule, but the coronavirus pandemic prompted the series, like all sports, to ban or sharply limit fans for months. The scene this weekend was a dramatic departure from the Talladega norm with plenty of room for social distancing and fans asked to wear masks.

David Radvansky,

32, of suburban Atlanta showed up Sunday with his wife and boys, 3 and 6. Radvansky, who started coming to Talladega in the 1990s when his father parked cars at races, applauded NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag.

“I don’t think there’s a place for it in NASCAR, to be honest with you,” the 32-year-old said.

“That doesn’t sit well with all the good ole boys but it is what it is.”

Across from the track, Ed Sugg’s merchandise tent was flying Confederate flags prominently in a display alongside Trump 2020 banners and an American flag.

“People are disappointed that NASCAR has taken that stance.

It’s been around for as long as all of us have been,” said Sugg, a Helena, Alabama, resident who has been selling wares at NASCAR races for 21 years.

“I don’t think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything,” he said. “It’s just a Southern thing.

It’s transparent. It’s just a heritage thing.”

MLB: Season will not come before July 19 Continued from B1

to prorated pay when Manfred met with Clark last week.

The proposed deal would give Manfred the right to suspended or cancel play if “restrictions on travel throughout the United States are imposed” or if he determines after consulting medical experts and the union that there has been a change in circumstances posing “an unreasonable health and safety risk to players or staff to stage those games, even without fans in attendance.”

MLB’s proposal for 60 games includes $1.48 billion in salary plus a $25 million postseason players’ pool, while the union’s plan includes $1.73 billion in salary and a $50 million pool.

Absent an agreement, the union would file a grievance claiming MLB violated the provision in the March 26

agreement recognizing “that each of the parties shall work in good faith to as soon as is practicable commence, play, and complete the fullest 2020 championship season and post-season that is economically feasible,” subject to several provisions.

Those provisions say that without MLB’s consent, the season shall not start until there are no legal restrictions on playing in front of fans at the 30 regular-season ballparks, no relevant travel restrictions and no health or safety risk to players, staff or spectators to playing in the 30 regular ballparks. The agreement also says the sides “will discuss in good faith the economic feasibility of playing games in the absence of spectators or at appropriate substitute neutral sites.”

MLB had proposed having the season

run from July 19 or 20 through Sept. 27, the shortest since the 1870s, while the union agreed to the start date and said it should end Sept.

30, or earlier using doubleheaders. Both sides proposed pitchers and catchers report June 26, followed by position players two days later, but that schedule has come and gone, like the proposed Fourth of July start.

A rise in positive tests last week in Florida caused MLB to close all 30 training camps for deep cleaning and disinfecting. The Philadelphia Phillies announced Friday that five players had tested positive for COVID-19 and person familiar with the process, speaking on condition of anonymity, 40 players and team employees had tested positive as of noon EDT Sunday.

MLB sent 200 COVID-19 tests to each

team to be used over the weekend, the person said.

Twenty-nine of the 30 teams now intend to hold training at their regular season stadiums rather than spring training sites. Toronto may be an exception due to Canadian federal and Ontario provincial restrictions.

Manfred’s email referred to another issue: termination pay for players released prior to opening day.

“I think I have previously agreed to give you full termination pay for players who were salary arbitration eligible in 2019, are on non guaranteed contracts and are terminated in spring training,” Manfred wrote.

“Those players would get the numbers of days of termination pay equal to the number of games we agree to play, subject to the repayment of salary advances.”

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included the team’s quarterbacks and skill position players, are awaiting the results of their own tests.

Multiple Texans and Cowboys players have also tested positive for

coronavirus, including running back Ezekiel Elliott. Broncos safety Kareem Jackson announced on social media on Thursday that he has coronavirus after “experiencing mild symptoms.”

The Chiefs completed their offseason workout program on Thursday — which had been moved to a virtual platform — and will next meet for training camp in late July. The NFL has released its 2020 schedule,

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and it remains unaltered, pending the state of affairs with the pandemic.

The NFL has allowed coaches to return to training facilities, but the only players permitted inside the training facilities have been those rehabbing from injury.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, had expressed doubt that football can be played this fall. The NFL’s medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, responded, “We will be flexible and adaptable in this environment to adjust to the virus as needed.”

“Social distancing, all those things, are important until we know more,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said in a call last week. “We know that right now works, so let’s focus on that. Until we know something else, we’ll do something else.

But this is new, so let science help us along with this thing and hopefully time takes care of it.

Which it normally does with these things.”