The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-07-14
KANSAS COMMENT

HAS Uttu HdNlHS llOuDlC Will iOoNs
both west on the Emporia cutoff and
up the Lawrence branch. Emporia
line trains were forced to come over
the Missouri Pacific. A bridge has
also been out on the Waukarusa, near
Lawrence.
Geary County Wheat.-The first of
this years crop Of wheat was brought
to Junction City. 1t tested sixty-one
pounds bushel. Seven hundred bush
els were sold for eighty-five cents a
bushel. Last years crop of wheat in
Geary county did not test above fifty
Eve pounds.
Danger is Over.-The danger of a
food at Wichita is past. At no time
was there any serious danger here,
as the Little river was never filled
to it's full capacity and the Big river
has always been able to carry Off
the water emptied into it from the
tributaries in this section
Postponed Their Wedding. - Be-
cause her lover had asked for a post
ponement of their marriage, Miss
Bernice DeLano, daughter of F. G..
DeLano, a city councilman, took her
own life by swallowing carbolic acid.
She left letter to her lover, forgiv'
ing him for wrecking her happiness
caIdweIPs Mayor ousted. - c. W..
Cupp, mayor of Caldwell, in a trial
before L. D. Chaddon, justice of the
peace of Wellington, on the charge OF
violating the old soldiers preference
law, was found guilty and fined $40
and costs. A judgment was also rem
dered ousting him from office. Cupp
has appealed from the decision to the
district court.
Back Broken by Fall. - Manford
Williams, carpenter 80 years old,
lies in st. Mary's hospital at Win
field with two vertebrae broken, re-
sulting from fall with scaffolding,
and the local surgeons who are at
tending him say he will recover. The
broken bones have been removed
from their strain on the spinal cord
and at last reports Williams was rest
ing easily.
Plenty of Wet Goods.-"The move
ment over the state for the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law has made
some little Roadway in Labette coun-
ty," said Frank M. Brady, an Oswego
attorney. Several of the drug
gists, who have practically a monop-
oily on the business there, have been
arrested, and there has been some
thing of showing for REFORM but it
is hard to tell whether it will last very
long"
: Held to Trial. - At her preliminary
hearing at Troy Mrs. Mamie Mitch
ell was bound over for trial at the
September term of court, charged with
the murder of her husband, William
Mitchell, June IS. Her bond was fix
ed at $1,000, in default of which she
will be confined in the Atchison
county jail. Mitchell was found shot
through the head and his wife wound
ed in the arm. She claims the shoot
ing was done by Mitchell
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Farmers May Enter.-At the meet
ing of the Lyon County Rural Tele-
phone association the Independent
Telephone Company offered to reduce
the phone rent to rs cents a month,
the telephone company to take care
of the lines, or to make so cent rate
and the farmers to maintain their
phone lines and own their own in
struments. This offer was refused and
without Offering a counter PROPOSE
ton the farmers appointed a COM
mission to see about obtaining a char
ter and franchise for farmers CEN
trail.
Sugar Beets Doing Well. - Sugar
beets in this section in the patches be-
ing cultivated by the Arkansas City
Commercial Club, and numerous
farmers living in the vicinity are 60
ing to make record breaking crop
according to the expert who has been
here from Colorado instructing the
farmers in beet culture. He complet-
ed his work today and has left. The
beets have been grown as an expert
ment and the prospects are excellent.
A factory will be built here by the
American Beet Sugar Company, If the
results of this years experiments
prove to be up to expectations.
Pipes Are connected.-The Stand
ard Oil company has begun running
all the high grade oil in Kansas and
the territories where the wells have
been connected with the pipe lines.
Heretofore the Standard has been run
ming one 250-barrel tank from each
lease each week. The daily runs from
the entire state of Kansas since Feb.
ruary have averaged 6,000 barrels a
day. The runs from the territories
have averaged a little more than
$4,000 barrels day.
Stop "6ootIegsIng." = At Leaven.
worth the Soldiers home officials have
taken steps to shut OF ''bootlegging'