The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-06-14
1t Happened X A n S a S
OUR WEEKLY GIsr OF CONDENSED ITEMS

Kzrsan Minis in Beauty Show. =
Roy s. Thompson of Topeka, was
voted the handsomest man OF the
xenior class OF Yale university by
mis- classmates in the annual beauty
conteSt-
More conyicts paroled. Gov
ernor Franta issued paroles to these
Oklahoma prisoners in the Kansas
penitentiacy: George st. Clair,
Woodward county convicted Novem-
Scr, 1906, grand larceny two years
Bert Burns. sentenced from Kay
county five years for burglary sec
Ond degree: Sabin Tucker. Woods
county. sentenced two years for for
gerry.
Old Settler Shoots Self.-John Nc
Knight. an Old soldier of Clay Cen
ser. shot himself just above the
hearg with revolver. The act was
due to despoadency caused by ill
ness. He is an old soldier OF the
southern side and about 65 years old
gie WAS once marshal of Clay Center
ami knowu by everybody ia the
county. The doctors say he can live
only short time
Sanitation For Teachers. School
seachers will be taught the new pure
food, drug aud sanitation laws
Every county in Kansas will have a
aorInSI institute this summer. The
board Of health has prepared small
pamphlet which summarizes the
ahese pamphlets will be the text
Soos for the teachers. Especially
will An effort be made to instruct
teachers how to cope with the SAM
sary problems in schools. Through
she drinking water, the ventilation
abe heating and good many other
avenues. disease is carried into
school rooms More than that, the
seacher should know what to do ia q
community in which an epidemic Of
q contagious disease has started
csmpbelrs' Official staff. - R. A
Campbell, commander department Of
KaESas. G. A. r.. makes the follow
ang announcements of appointments
zor mis- official staff: Assistant adiu
sant general. J, NJ. Miller, post No l
Topeka: assistant quartermaster
general. H. X, Deyendorf, post No. |
Topeka; Judge advocate, o. l.. Moore
post No. G3. Abilene: department ia
spector. Joseph A. Walters, post No
SO. Great Bend; chief mastering
officer. A. M. Crazy post No. 424
Herington; patriotic instructor, Viii
Ham Leonard post No. 25, Wichita
assistant patriotic instructor, J. NJ
Burt, post No. 81. Parsons; chief OF
staf, A. M. Fuller, Topeka; chief Of
recruiting aides, Daniel e. Reid
Hutchinson; chief of aides-decamp
j. II. Rickle, Chanute; chief bugler
C. H. Hoyt, Lawrence.
Must Accept C. o. D. Whisky. -
Judge Pollock has granted manda
cory injunction compelling the Wells
Fargo and Pacific Express Com
0anies to accept and deliver in Kan
sas C. o. D. liquor shipments. Judge
Pollock holds that prohibition or 10
cal option laws cannot affect inter
state shipments, and that since I'm
5er the constitution an express com
pany cannot be stopped from max
aug deliveries in a prohibition state
II cannot refuse to accept such c. o
d. shipments in another state. ]. M
Shoeuheit, general attorney for the
distilitng company. urged that that
discrimination could not be made
against liquor or any other class oil
merchsndise. Judge Pollock's tenn
porary order is to hold until June IL
when he will give the matter hear
kng.
coidcst in Forty Years. The
weather. report for May, 1907. pre-
pared by Dr. F. H. Snow, of the Uni
Sersity of Kansas, from obserya
tions taken at Lawrence, says the
past month was the coolest May in
forty years record. There were five
white frosts during the month, the
last being on the 9th, the latest
spring frost on record. The rain
fall was nearly the normal amount
The wind was below the average We
socity. and the cloudiness very much
above formal. The mean tempera
anre was 59.05 degrees, which is 5g5
degrees below the May average. The
highest temperature was S7.5 de-
grees. on the 18th; the lowest was
- degrees, on the Sd. The rainfall
was 4.06 inches, which is SO inch be
5og the May average. The entire
rainfall for the five months of 1907
nov completed has been 1858
inches. which is sc inch above the
average for the same months in the
thirty -oine preceding years and
aouhIe the amount for the same
period in 1906. Rain in measurable
qualities on seven days. There
were three thunderstorms during the
month. The month was 5.97 per cent