The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-06-01
KANSAS COMMENT


Sunflower Glass company, Is the III
ventor of two glass machines, one lor
making plate glass and one for the
manufacture of window glass.
AbiIene's City Park. - The city
council has approved the valuations
made for the whole city hall BLOCK,
and work will begin Immediately IN
the clearing off of the unsightly
structures that have made the BLOCK
picture of desolation for years. Inc
city voted bonds for the improve
ment of the property last spring and
these will pay for the entire prop
erty.
Burned by Live Wire.-Oliver Rog-
ers, conductor on the lola Electric
line, was severely burned about MS
hands by a live wire and but for the
presence of mind and quick action Oh
his motorman Elmer Logan, VINO
pulled the live wire away from him,
he would doubtless have been burned
to death by the strong current OF the
line.
St. Johns Commercial Club.--The
st. John Commercial Club met and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Howard
Gray; vice-president, o. B. Shepherd;
secretary, H. ]. Cornwell; financial
secretary, ]. w. Rixon; treasurer, K,
w. Thompson. The club starts out
with a membership of over sixty and
it promises to do much good in
commercial way, as well as making
the city more attractive.
junction City Gets Contract. - The
bids on the big meat contract at FIT.
Riley for the last six months of this
year were opened at FIT. Riley and
the Junction City Packing Company
had the lowest bid. Severtl big
packing companies of Kansas City
bid on the contract and it was the
first time in many years that the To-
cal contractors have succeeded in I'M
derbidding the outside packers. The
lowest bid en- the meat was 1924 a
hundred.
Adopts Parking System. - At the
last meeting of the city council Of
Marysville an ordinance was passed
looking to the parking of all the resi-
dence streets of Marysville. The plan
outlined is similar to the one used at
Topeka and it is the intention of the
council to inaugurate the system at
once. Eventually every residence
street will be parked for a width of
ten feet from the sidewalk line to the
curb line on each side and trees will
be set out on the parking.
Violated Eight-Hour Law. w. R.
Robinson, assistant labor commits
sioner, has returned from Pittsburg,
where he adjusted a case of violating
the state eight-hour labor law, and in
vestigated the coal strike situation.
H. R. Nash, the state paving con-
tractor, who has been violating the
eight-hour law, paid fine of $50 and
has promised to obey the law in the
future. Mr.. Robinson says that the
miners are looking forward to an
early settlement of the coal strike
To Make Loans Easier.-It will be
possible for wage earners with small
savings to build homes if the next
legislature passes what will be known
as a deed of trust law, declared Kan
sas bankers in annual convention at
Wichita. They recognize the need of
such a law and will favor a bill be-
fore the 1907 legislature that will en-
body their views of what the law
should be. 1t was declared that a
deed of trust law would lower rates
of interest, encourage loans and make
1t safe to loan near the full value on
real estate security.
San Jose Scale at Dodee.-Prof. Pc
pence of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural College, has been investigating
the encroachments of the San Jose
scale in the Kansas orchards. He has
only found it at Garden City.
Report Of Dairy Products. - Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn, of the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture, reports
the dairy products of Kansas for last
year as having a value. of sS,499,-
243.36 Adding to this the value of
milk and butter consumed in the
home, the total would easily be $751;
100000 per year. Although in its in
fancy, the dairy business of Kansas
far exceeds in value the total yearly
product of all of her gas and oil
fields, and all of her orchards and
gardens. The dairy is gold mine
for Kansas, and Kansas butter has
therefore ranked high in the New
York and home markets. Lately,
however, It is found that large per
centage of Kansas butter ranks only
as seconds" in the New York mar
ket, and there is no sale for 1t. The
quality of Kansas butter must be i'm
proved or failure will be the portion
of the Kansas dairyman.
Wholesale Chicken Thief.-William