The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-09-29
KANSAS COMMENT

WSSL VI htShA'Oh
county, was struck by fast Santa Fe
stock train and instantly killed. He
was walking on the track when the
train rounded sharp curve and
caught him.
Frats Drop Behind.-An investiga,
tion of school records at Lawrence
shows that members of the high
school fraternities are inferior in
scholarship to those who are not mem
bers This is the basis for the fight
the teachers are making to abolish
high school frats.
Suicide Smashed Furniture. - Jas.
Dougherty, a laborer, broke into a
physicians office at Newton and took
a quantity of atropine. He was found
In a dying condition after he had de-
molished nearly all the furniture in
his struggles. No cause for the sui
eide is known.
To Have Sewer Systematic city
council and the Commercial Club
have adopted plans for the immediate
construction of a sewer system in
Usage City. The preliminary topo-
graphical surveys have been made
and plans completed for the work.
The actual work will begin as soon as
practicable.
At Odds With Company. - The
electric light company which furnishes
light for Holton is in quarrel with
the city council over rates. The COM
pany wants to raise the present sched-
ule Is per cent while the council
wants to reduce it 10 per cent. The
city's contract with the company eX-
pires September 25.
. National Life Wants Securities. -
The National Life Insurance Company
wants the 100000 in securities which
the state is holding to protect policy
holders of the old Union Life Company
of Kansas. The Union Life had that
amount on deposit with the state to
protect it's policyholders. 1t sold out
to the National Life.
Game Law in Force.-The first case
brought under the game law has been
decided by district judge at Wich-
tia. He held the law constitutional
and held further that a man with a
hunters license must have the writ
ten consent of the land owners on
both sides of road before he can
even hunt in the road.
. Hiding in CornfieIds. - David r.
Coulter, an inmate of the state refor-
matory, escaped from the cane patch,
where he was engaged in stripping
cane for the sorghum mill of the in
stitution, and has not been heard from
since. A field of corn adjoins the cane
patch on the east, and the convict is
supposed to have gone in that direc-
ton.
Naval Cadetships Coming. - AL
though Kansas is entitled to twenty
scholarships in the naval academy at
Annapolis she only has seven stu
dents there. This is not the fault of
the school, but of Kansas. Her boys
seem unable to pass the examination
required. Only one Kansas boy-Will
Leland, son of Cy Leland, passed. the
last examination, Six failed,
Binding Legislative Journals.-Fred
Knapp, chief clerk of the house, and
w. S. Kretsinger secretary of the SEN
ate, have completed their indexes to
the legislative journals. The state
printer is now binding the books. They
are about two-thirds the size of the
old legislative journals, and will not
cost the state much more than half
what the old ones did. All superhu-
GUS matter was cut out.
Say It's Petty Graft. - At we'll
attended meeting of the State Grain
Mems Association, held at Topeka,
the grain men almost unanimously de-
cided to employ legal action at once
to stop the custom of grain commits
sion firms at Kansas City of deduct
ing 100 pounds from the weight of ev-
cry car of grain regardless of quality
or price they receive from shippers.
The grain shippers argue that it is
a petty graft and propose to stop it.
Drowned Herself in Cistern.-Mrs.
Sartio, young Italian, living in West
Chicopee, suburb Of Pittsburg, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into a cis-
tern in her husbands yard. The body
was recovered shortly after the act
was committed, and it is thought that
she had not been in the water more
than ten minutes. Mrs. Garlic was
the mother of a child about a week
old and she was badly frightened by
a shooting affair that occurred in
West Chicopee. Since that time she
had been almost insane with fright.
She slipped from her house unnotic-
ed and jumped into the cistern. which
contained about six feet of water.
Attached Maehinery.-The Interna-
tional Harvester Company tries to
dodge its taxes just like other people
II failed to pay S39. so in taxes in Re