The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-07-21
KANSAS COMMENT

the new Doniphan county court house
HIS bid was $39,950. Heating, light
ing and plumbing will be in addition
Contractors from over the state ant
from st. Joseph and Kansas City
were bidders. Washburn & Son o.
Ottawa are the architects.
Medical Board SeIf.Sustainins. -
The state board of medical registra
ton will meet at Topeka to examine
about fifty applicants for licenses te
practice medicine in the state. The
board was selfsustaining last year
Secretary Johnson produced the fig
ures at this meeting The receiA'
were $3.50, while the expenses of the
board, including salaries and other
things, were 1925.
To Spot Tax Dodgers.-At Burling'
ton County Tax Ferret Wisman has
started a petition to get grand jury
te meet in September. The petition
states the principal reason for the
grand jury is to investigate the tax
dodgers. There has been much hard
feeling since the tax ferret was ap-
pointed little over year ago. There
Is not much doubt that many signers
will be secured to the petition.
A Defective Rail.-A defective rail
on the main line of the Missouri Pa
cifc just east of lola caused switch
engine and heavy loaded car of
brick to plung into an embankment,
badly injuring W. U. Morrison, fore
man of the switching crew. and
George Bright, switchman. Bright
was caught between the engine and
the embankment and his leg may
have to be amputated. 1t is thought
both men will recover.
Shooting at Alta Vista.-Dr. c. E.
Smith, a physician of Alta Vista, shot
and probably MORALLY wounded Cara
Norlin, telephone lineman, of Alma,
at Alta Vista. The two men quarrel
ed on train and fought on the depot
platform at Alta Vista. DR.. Smith
secured a shotgun, and following Nor
lin to the south edge of town, fired
both barrels, some of the shot enter
ing the abdomen. Smith was arrest
ed at a farm house south of town.
Vote Bonds for Road.-At the spe-
cial bond election held at Arkansas
City to vote $4,000 bonds for the
Midland Valley railroad only light
vote was cast The bonds carried by
over 500 votes. The road is to be
built into Pawhuska in the Usage ma
ton and the grading is being done be-
tween that point and Silverdale,
Kan. The road will run from Silver
dale to Arkansas City. The objective
point is Wichita.
Old Grades Establshed.-The Kan
sas millers won decisive victory
over the grain dealers and elevator
men when the state grain grading
commission practically adopted the
grades established last year. The
dealers wanted the board to establish
grades without fixing weights. They
claimed tina. the fixing of weights
worked a hardship on them unless
there was uniformity in all the states
and at all markets, which was not the
case now. The millers said their
chief protection came from establish
ed weights. They knew now when
they ordered No. wheat, for instance
within a pound or two of what 1t
would weigh to the bushel. If the
weights were abolished on grades
they could not tell whether No. 2
would be light or heavy, but appre-
hended 1t would be light. The board
adopted the old grades with one or
two minor changes.
Hold It Next Year.-At Ottawa all
questions as to the continuance of the
Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly next
year was set aside by the meeting of
the stockholders at which time the
unanimous opinion was expressed in
favor of holding the meeting next
year in spite of the financial losses
which threaten this year.
Against Park Proposition.-At Cot
tonwood Falls the vote on the propo-
sition to purchase the vacant ground
west of the court house for $4,000 for
a city park was against it. The vote
was the largest ever polled in the
city. Old men and women who never
took part in elections before were out
with carriages and working like pro-
fe. SIGNALS.
Dodees Dark celI.-In an effort to
escape the penitentiary John Lewis,
negro now confined in the Sedgwick
county Jail awaiting trial on the
charge of burglary, is alleged to be
feigning insanity. For the past few
days he has been very violent, yell
ing and screaming all day long. How
ever, when the sheriff threatened to
lock him in the dark cell he ceased
his rawlings.
Prisoner Wants Release. - Thos.
johnson, a prisoner in the Kansas
penitentiary from Labette county,
filed a habeas corpus suit in the dis
trict court at Leavenworth. He al