The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-07

Pensions to Home Veterans. = Ma
jor Martin, treasurer of the Soldiers
home at Leavenworth, paid $114,OOO
in quarterly pensions to the veterans.
OF this amount 100000 was paid in
cash and the remainder sent out in
checks. After the payment twenty
eight veterans took out transfers to
other soldiers homes and 10 left on
furloughs.
Would Enjoin Eldorado. = The city
of Eldorado owns the water plant and
is going to build dam to secure a
better water supply. The Orient rail
road claims the putting in of the dam
is for boating and other sporting pur-
poses, and will raise the water so that
erty would be damaged. The COM
pany asks an injunction against the
city which Judge Altman has refused
The road filed notice of appeal.
Arrested as Soon as Released. -
Four members Of an outlaw gang
which terrorized Southern Missouri
and the northern portion of Indian
Territory a few years ago, were re-
leased from the United States peni-
Tertiary and were Immediately re-
arrested by Sheriff Ball and three
deputies of Dent county, Mo-, where
they are wanted for robbery COM
mitted about six years ago. The
men are D. D. Kelly, James Black
burn James Wallace and Nicholas
Gardner.
Charged With Murder.-U. S. Mar
shall W. H. Mackey arrested Nell Barr
at Junction City on the charge of be-
ing implicated in a murder of an old
man at Bartlesville, l. T., in the spring
of last year. The woman was indicted
at Vinita, I. T.. and was traced here
by secret service agent from Dallas.
1t is charged that she was aided by
three men who killed an aged farmer
and robbed him Of about 5000. The
woman will be kept in the county
Jail until her trial comes up in the
federal court.
Counties Without Criminals. -
Eighteen Kansas counties have no
prisoners in the penitentiary. accord
ing to the report of the PRISON chap
lain filed with Gov. Hoch. All the
counties are in the western part Of
the state. They are Cheyenne,
Comanche, Garfield, Grant, Gray,
Greeley, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kiowa.
Lane, Morton. Ness, Scott, Seward,
Sheridan, Stanton, Trego and WITCH
tia. Wyandotte county has the lar
gest number, eighty-nine, and Leav-
enworth county is second, with fifty
three prisoners.
Consumption Leads. - The bulletin
for July to be issued by the State
Board of Health shows that the num-
Der of deaths in the state from con-
sumption during July was three times
greater than from any other disease.
There were ITO cases of consumption
and sixty-three deaths. There were
12G cases of typhoid fever and only
10 deaths; 10 cases of diphtheria and
two deaths; 53 cases of scarlet fever
and two Deaths 81 cases of smallpox
and no deaths; SO cases of measles
and one death. The great increase in
the death rate resulting from con-
has caused Secretary Crum-
bine to decide on making application.
to the next legislature for sanitarium
for consumptives. Secretary Crum-
bine would locate the sanitarium at
some point in the western part of the
state. Other measures will be taken
at his suggestion to check the spread
of the disease. In July, one year ago,
there were 1913 cases of consumption
in the state and only "a deaths.
Sly Dixon's Train. - Sly Dixon has
arrangements for his
Southwestern Kansas Exhibit Adver-
Using Train" which will start over
the Rock Nland railroad from Dodge
City September IS. The train will
stop over at Hutchinson for three
lays during the fair and will then
proceed over the Rock island. Mr..
Dixon says this will be the finest
agricultural exhibit train that has
ever been run out of Kansas.
Kansas Boys Were lt.-Gov. Hoch
S enthusiastic over the Kansas ma
.ional guard. He believes the troops
made an impression at Fort Riley
which will mark the beginning Of a
broader policy Of the government 20
yard the state military departrs.S s.
The governor said: "The troops
we're showered with compliments
md the compliments were sincere.
rhe general in command of the
was very complimentary"
Adjutant General Hughes expressed
himself as delighted with the out
.ome of the maneu,ers. "a high |
'ficer in the regular army told the
Governor that Kansas was to be con.
-ratulated on its troops" 4
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