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

Big Car Of Flour. - Probably the
biggest car of flour ever shipped IN
the state was sent out by the West
ern Star Mill at Salina direct to Bel
fast, Ireland. The car was filled with
300 sacks of flour, each sack weighing
$50 pounds.
Expects Big Apple Crop. - w. H.
Barnes, secretary of the state board
of horticulture, expects Kansas to
raise the largest apple crop in her his
tory this year. Zone of the largest
crops the state ever raised" he said
was that in 1904. The crop that
year was 100000 bushels. expect
the state this year to produce about
100000 bushels"
Land Agents Must Pay.-More than
1000 real estate agents along the
lines of the Kansas railroads will have
to pay railroad fare next year under
the terms of the recent ruling OF rail-
road attorneys The attorneys for the
companies have decided that the real
estate and land agents who are not
regularly employed by the railroad
companies cannot be given passes.
Negroes Urged to Acquire Land
Rev. ]. r. Ransom of Topeka, presid-
ing elder of the Fort Scott district of
the A. M. E. church. says there is a
strong movement among the negroes
Of the state to go to the farms and to
secure property for themselves. Rev.
Mr.. Ransom says he has instructed
the ministers of his district to urge
this upon the negroes from the pulpit
and in the homes.
Shoots Wife, Then Himself.-Char-
les Martin, night Waterman en-
ployed by the Nevling Elevator Com
papy at Wichita, murdered his wife
and killed himself. Family quarrels
are said to have been the cause. Mar
tin shot his wife three times. He
walked a distance of three blocks to
his mothers house and turned the re-
volver to his own temple. Six child
rem from 1 to 1G years old survive.
Preferred Death to Asylum. -Alva
G. Beaver, aged 60 years. threw him
self in front of Rock Island passen-
ger train at Trey and was instantly
killed. Mr.. Dover had recently been
adjudged insane and was being taken
to the state asylum for treatment. AS
the train approached he and his
friends stood on the depot platform
conversing when he suddenly leaped
in front Of the moving train.
Kansas Legislator Insane.-Applica-
ton has been made to the State Board
of Control for the admission of John
Hargrave, former member of the
Kansas Legislature, to the State hos
pital. Hargrave was member of the
legislature for eight years and at that
time lived at Lacrosse, in Rush coun-
ty. Now he lives in Neosho county
and the papers state that he is
miner and is in poor financial circum-
stances. Hargrave is fifty-nine years
of age.
Monster Petition.-The largest Pc
tition ever filed in the Neosho county
district court, and, for that matter,
probably the largest ever filed in any
court in that section of the state, is
that in the suit brought by A. N. Al
len, trustee. against Fred Hetrick and
Eliza Hetrick, for the possession of
the Hetrick theater, filed by Jones &
Finley. The petition consists of $50
causes of action. nearly 1900 pages
of typewriter manuscript and weighs
90 pounds or more, District Clerk
Null is making copy for Brown G
Grigsby, attorneys for the defendants,
and it will cost only $3.50.
Kansas Flag Day. - During half
hour on, the afternoon of September
%, appropriate exercises will be held
in each of the public schools of the
state in commemoration of the Tooth
of the first unfurling of
the flag of the United States in the
state of Kansas. The anniversary of
this occasion. falls on September 30.
but as that is Saturday, the celebra-
ton of the event will be held in the
schools throughout the state on Sep
TENDER %. The flag was first I'M
furled IN Kansas at Pawnee, Republic
by Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
while making his explorations which
resulted in finding Pixies peak.
Labor Scarce in Kansas. - It has
been many years since labor was so
scarce in Kansas as 1t is at present. |
Of course there is always scarcity |
Of men during the harvest season but
It is seldom that at this season of the |
year there are not enough men to fill |
all vacancies in the state. T. B.
Gerow. agent for the Kansas Free
State Employment bureau, has re-
quests for at least 300 men and has
been able to find only two men with
which to fill the vacancies.
Must Pay In cash.-Attorney Gen