The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-20
HELPED Make Kansas History.

Captain Curtis M. Benton, who tool
an active part in making Kansas his
tory in the early days, died at Leav
enworth in the hospital at the Sol
diers' home =,
Inspect FL Dorado X. N. G.-Majol
T. j. Lewis, regular army officer Of
Fort Riley, and p. M Hoisington Of
Newton. colonel of the Second regi
ment. X. N. G., inspected company
K after which the women of the town
gave them banquet. The company
here is one of the best equipped in
the state.
Kansas Sportsmen's Shoot. - The
seventeenth annual shoot of the Kan
sas Sportsmen's Association will be
held in Great Bend, April IS, 10, ~.
The coming shoot promises to be the
largest Of it's kind ever held in the
state. An unusually large amount OF
entries are on hand and many yet to
come in; $500 is the added money, to-
ssther with several special events.
Killed In Driving Belt. - Charles
Riley, an oiler employed in the Hun
ter Touring mills at Wellington, while
trying to throw off the belt driving
large grindstone in the mill base
ment, had his clothing caught in the
belt, and he was whirled around the
shaft until life was extinct. Both
arms were torn from his body. He
was 20 years of age and unmarried
New Road to Coal Field. - c. D.
Perry, a prominent ranchman of En-
glewood, says gang of surveyors is
running line west from Englewood
through Liberal to Trinidad, Colo.
There were ten men in the party and
they stated that they were making
the survey for a party of Trinidad
capitalists who were seeking an out
let for their coal into this part of the
country.
Kansas Bankers Close Meeting. -
The annual meeting of the bankers
of group five, comprising the south
west quarter of the state is closed.
The meeting of the group next year
will be at terling. The new officers
chosen are: President, Thomas At
kinson, Sterling; secretary, T. A. Eng
lish. Sterling; member state nominal
ing committee, F. S. Larrabee, Stat
ford.
Pool Hall Regulation. At Concor-
dia Judge w. T. Dillon, in a case in
district court, has held the law OF
1886 requiring owners of billiard and
pool halls in unincorporated towns to
secure a license from the township
clerk to be unconstitutional. The eff
feet of the decision will be to AXE
it impossible for any unincorporated
town to collect license from billiard
or pool halls or to prevent their
operation.
Fish in Kansas Streams. -. Harvey
county streams have been stocked
with fish from the fish warden's
ponds at Pratt, Kansas. County Game
w
ceived from Del Travis, the state fish
warden, seven large cans of small
fish including the croppe and the
black bass varieties. Each can con-
tanned 500 fish a little more than a
finger length in size and Mr. Aims
worth promptly took the fish to the
country streams and turned them
loose.
Investigating Land Frauds. - The
federal grand jury commenced its de-
alterations towards ferreting on. land
April 8. One hundred and forty wit
nesses have been summoned to ap-
pear. Just very small per cent of
the jury's work is other than land
charge from the bench dwelt exhaus-
lively upon the point that each indi
vidual juryman must let nothing Of
the proceedings escape him either by
action or word of mouth.
Standard Oil Properties. The re.
turns which the tax agent of the
Standard Oil Company has made to
the state board of railroad assessors
shows that this company has invest
ed little more than 100000 in Kan
sas property and development during
the last year. The returns made by
the company year ago showed that
it owned property in the state valued
at S2,153,S95, and the returns made
this year show that this amount has
been increased only to S2,56G, 1862.
The increase has been in the erection
of tanks on the new tank farms es-
tablished during the year. There
have been no new pipe lines.
Transfers in Saline County-It has
been years since the real estate trans
fers in Saline county reached the fig
ures in numbers or aggregate value of
property that was reached last month.
Salina property was exceedingly ac-
tive, more than seventy-four transfers
having been made. A number of
these, however, were recorded giving