The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-01-01

has been made to State Labor Commits
sioner w. L. A. johnson by the union
men of Wichita regarding the Wichita
Street Railway company working the
men engaged in paving its tracks more
than eight hours day. The attorney
general has held that while street
railway may pave streets and do the
work for the city in consideration of
valuable franchise it cannot be consid-
cred municipal contract such as the
eight hour labor law applies to.
CuAs. e. DRAKE DEAD.-His age was
II years. Mr. Drake YVES president OF
the Bank of Fort Scott and one of the
wealthiest men in that part of Kansas.
In 1858 he came to Kansas on foot prac-
tically penniless. All his money was
made in this state. In 1868 he was
elected to the legislature by almost
the unanimous vote of the county. He
recently proposed to give the city OF
Fort Scott large tract of land for
park. His proposition had not been
acted upon by the city council.
FARMERS HAVE PIAN.-The Farm
ers' Grain, Fuel & Live Stock company
of Pawnee Rock, Kansas, which has
been refused site for an elevator on
the right of way of the Santa Fe rail-
road at Pawnee Rock, may build a
spur track and ask the board of rail-
road commissioners to issue an order
compelling the Santa Fe to connect the
spur with its main line track and to
set cars at the elevator as demanded.
FOUND DEAD.-The attention of
neighbors was called to Bruce Deslins'
place east of Ottawa, by his cattle
which were showing by their actions
that they were hungry. The house
had to be broken into for the neighbors
to get in, where they found DeslSins on
the floor dead, with lamp tightly
grasped in his hand and match on
the floor beside him. He was an old
soldier and lived alone.
PIANO Nor NECEssARY.-In Ford
county a school district built new
school house. Some of the patrons OF
the school wanted piano installed,
the expense to be borne by the district.
Under the law the district board is au-
thorized to contract for school house
and necessary appendages. The qucs-
ton is whether piano is necessary
appendage" The state superintend-
ent says it is not
THE TRUANCY LAw.-The child pass
es out from under the truancy law the
day he is fifteen years of age. The
truancy officers must serve their no
tees in person. The mail won't do,
no does the law recognize a deputy
truancy officer. Habitual truancy is
matter for the court to pass upon and
each case must be decided upon its in
dividual merits.
WITHOUT RAuoADs.-There are five
counties in the state which have no
railroads and as result get no aid
from railroad tax. They are Grant,
THE School Book CAsE.-The Amer
lean Book Company case, which in
wolves the constitutionality of the Kan
sas corporation law, is set for hearing
in the United States supreme court.
OLD LAW INvALID.-The Kansas SUI
preme court has declared that the law
giving people the right to vacate town
sites and additions upon petitions in
the district court is unconstitutional.
BUYING TnREsuERs.-Since the or
ganization of the Threshermen's trust
in Brown county many of the farmers
have dubbed and bought threshing out
fits which they have used together.
STATE BEEKEEPERs-Th first an
nual meeting of the Kansas State Bee
keepers association, which was organ
lied at the state fair last fall, will be
held in Topeka on December 30.
SUGAR FANNIE wholesale gro
GERS of Wichita, during holiday week,
could not supply the retailers with
sugar for several days.
KANSAS UTOPIANs.-FrankA A. Bush,
of Belleville, Kan, the originator and
manager of the Kansas Utopian asso-
citation, an organization to nullify the
prohibitory laws of the state, has been
sentenced, aftor two trials in the dis
trict court at Troy, to serve sixty days
in Jail and pay a fine of $780,
LOWER COAL RATE.-The state board
of railroad commissioners announce a
reduction of ten cents ton in the
coal rates from Pittsburg, Kansas, to
Wichita. This is the first order of the
kind issued by the board.
IT WAS A SwINDLE.-S. T. Butner,
the Highland man who started for
Spain in response to several letters no
tifying him that he had fallen heir to
large Spanish estate by the death of