The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-06-09
KANSAS COMMENT

Pestana resigned the position OF
special assistant attorney general. He
probably will go back to Russell
county and resume the practice of
law.
Oppose Franchise Extension.-The
business men of Topeka have called
a mass meeting to express their senti-
ment against the disposition of the
city council to extend the franchise
of the local electric light plant.
Bank For Brookville.-The Brook
vile State Bank was organized. Brook
Vile is a village in the western part
of Saline county. The stockholders
are composed of merchants of the
town and farmers in the vicinity.
. Heavy Taxpayers. - The railroad
companies are the heaviest taxpayers
in Pittsburg This year the several
railroad companies will pay taxes in
Pittsburg to the amount of $4,000.
This does not include taxes on prop
erty in Baker township outside of the
city limits of Pittsburg. or this
amount Pittsburg will get approx
mately $4,000 for the city school.
Drilling Near Columbus. - Advo-
Gates of deep hole drilling are begin
ming to take lively interest in the
prospect well being put down by the
Black Hills Oil and Gas Company
near Columbus. This well is down
about 1850 feet. The drillers have
passed through the Mississippi lime
stone and are now in a hard, white
sand, which they have penetrated for
about 300 feet.
Ten Negroes Under Arrest. - At
Chanute following closely upon the
fatal stabbing of Herbert Porter,
Pittsburg youth, by a negro woman,
who robbed him, many other cases OF
"holdup' and robbery by negroes have
been reported. The police have now
under arrest ten negroes, four of
whom are under $1,000 bond each for
completely in the Porter murder. The
firemen's carnival here drew sew
eral crowds of negro women to the
town.
Bodies Were Recovered. - The last
of the bodies of Mrs. w. M. Par
sons, Miss Garlic Heithecker, W. E.
Confer and Howard HALEY, Dodge City
people drowned at the Duck creek
ford five miles north of Dodge City
was recovered. Mr.. Confer and Miss
Heithecker, his niece, formerly lived
at Mcpherson. They were proto-
graphers. HALEY was associated
with his father in barber shop Mrs.
Parsons was the wife of railroad
man.
New Court House.-At a meeting of
the board of county commissioners of
Doniphan county, Kan, plans and
specifications were approved for a
new court house to be built on mod
ern lines, 72xS0 feet in size, and to
cost upwards of $4,000. Hon. Cyrus
Leland will furnish accommodations
for the county officials until the struc-
ture is completed. The commission
ers will advertise four weeks for bids
end the contract will be awarded to
tbA lowest bidder.
Robbed Of 81, soo.--Two burglars en-
tered the home of Joseph Carr, one
mile east of Augusta, and stole $1,000
in gold and $500 in currency. Mr..
Carr is 80 years old. He is hard of
hearing and did not awake. HIS
housekeeper, a woman more than
20 years old, was awakened by the
burglars, but was told if she made
any disturbance before daylight they
would return and kill her. AS soon
as the burglars left she went to a
neighbor's and gave the alarm.
For Cooperative 'Phones.-A meet
ing of the Lyon County Rural Tele-
phone Association has been called for
in the school of District 1O9. The
farmers have organized rural tele-
phone association in view of getting
a lower rate on telephones or estab-
fishing rural line central for all the
farm lines in the county. The farm
ers pay 81 a month now. The legis-
lature provided 50-cent rate, but can
not force the telephone company to
make that rate. There are forty rural
lines in the county with about 1000
patrons. If the farmers establish a
central, they figure they can maintain
the system at rs cents month, on a
cooperative plan.
In Court II Years. - Mrs. Mary
White got verdict in the district
court for $4,000 damages against the
city of Emporia because she was in
jured in runaway twelve years ago.
The horse was frightened by a tele-
phone wire that dropped across the
street. Mrs. Sarah Burns. mother of
Mrs. White, recovered $1,000 dam
ages last year for injuries received in
the same runaway. The case was in
the courts eleven years.
Gets New Road. - Contracts were
signed by the promoters Of the Mid