The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-08-17

run over by Rock Island train near
Oklahoma City was identified as
Johnnie Brinkerhoff, whose parents
live in that city.
Strike Gas Near Garrett, Kan. =
The Garnett Light and Fuel Company
struck a fine gas well two miles
southeast of that city. 1t is one of
the best found in this territory.
Fire Does $4,000 Damage. = A
large cooperative store at Assaria,
Kan. together with residence near
by were destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. Origin of the
fire is unknown.
Must Afford Daily Service.-The
state board of railroad commission
ers has ordered the installation OF
daily passenger service over the st.
Louis & San Francisco line from
Cherokee to Girard. There has been
no daily passenger train on that line
for some time and the people have
been petitioning the board for relief. =.
To Make Paving BIocks.-Misouri
capitalists are interested in scheme
to erect a 100000 plant for the
m4nufacture of asphalt paving block
in Wichita. This city has been Sc
lected as a desirable site for an in
dustry of this nature, owing to the
immense quarries of limestone To-
Gated in Butler and adjoining coun-
ties.
Gas Main Expoded.-Frank Smith,
workman for the Lanyon Zinc Com
pany at Iola was probably fatally in
iured by the explosion of gas MAN.
With other workmen he was repair
ing a broken main leading to the
works. Just as the workmen had COW
cred the ditch the main blew up.
Smith. who was STOPPING over the
main at the time, was hurled twenty
five feet and rendered unconscious.
Escapes From Asyum.-Wesley D..
Wright, taken to the asylum at Osa-
watomie last week from Wichita,
escaped. Wright was arrested at
Wichita on March &c. on charge OF
burglary. On the goth of the month
a brother from Oklahoma went to
Wichita and swore to a complaint
in the probate court, charging him
with insanity. A jury found Wright
insane.
FORGOT to Cash Warrants. - The
10 hn Of
state were overhauled for the purpose
of ascertaining how many warrants
have been issued and not paid dur
ing the past ten years. While the
work is not completed. yet 1t Is found
that the state has saved considerable
money by the failure of the employees
to cash their warrants. In the list OF
rncashed warrants now in the ONCE
of the auditor are two belonging to
Victor Murdoch, congressman from the
Eighth district. The warrants were
Nor services performed by Murdoch
NJ 1903. when he was clerk of COM
'mittee in the legislature. Shortly be-
fore the end of the session, Mr.. Muir
dock decided to become a candidate
for congress and left Topeka. The
auditor of state issued two warrants
in his name after he became a can
didate. One was for $50 and the 9TH
er for S24. Another warrant which
has been issued and never called for
is for $4,000 and was issued to Sen
ator e. R. Fulton, of Marshall, for
mileage travelled to attend the special
session of the legislature of 1903. An
other warrant which was issued and
never returned to the auditor was to
w. G. Eastland, district judge, and
was for his salary of S20S.SO for the
month of August, 1905.
VIII Practice Dentistry in India
Willis Winder, of Peabody, who
graduated from the st. Louis Dental
College, has been chosen from his
class to go to Calcutta, India, and
practice his profession in a large den
tai institution.
Manhattan Water Is Pure.-Several
cases of typhoid fever have been re-
ported in Manhattan and vicinity and
one or two deaths resulted. in an ef'
Mort to ascertain the source OF the
sickness the city health officer had
the city water analysed by the Kan
sas state bacterologist at Topeka.
Both we'll and city water was exam
ined and reported by the bacterolo-
gist to be above the average in pur-
ity.
New Road to the Gulf-A railroad
TO run from Kansas City through
Eastern Kansas counties. the Indian
Territory and to Denison. Tex. has
been chartered. The line will have
a branch to Joplin, Mo-, and another
to Shreveport, La. The name OF the
company is the Missouri River q
Gulf Railroad Company. The COM
pany is organized with a capital stock
of 100000.
For Harvest Festival.-The Holton
Commercial League fixed October 3
and as the dates for the annual Har-