The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-06-14

DepOSitOTS VIII iNot LoSc' iOi''
torlal Bank Commissioner H. II.
Smock announces that depositors in
ire Farmers State Bank at Berlin
and the Bank of Hamburg, which fall
ed May 20, will be paid in full
through assessment of stockhold-
ers.
Gain a Million a Month. = The to-
tai bank deposits in Kansas increas-
ed sG,0GG,45S.76 between January 20
and May 8, according to the report
made public by John @. Royce, state
bank commissioner. There are III
banks in the state, an increase OF
twenty-six since January 26.
Had 100000 Insurance. = Lucius
l.H. Perkins. secretary of the state
board of bar examiners and former
president of the Kansas Bar Assocla-
ton, who died as the result of a fall
from the roof of his 100000 home,
Upton Court" at Lawrence, carried
more than half million dollars
worth of life insurance. and was one
OF the heaviest policy holders in Kan
sas. or this amount it Is understood
the New York Life wrote policies for
100000 and the Northwestern Mu-
tuai 100000 the remaining 100000
being in smaller policies OF several
ompanies.
Travelling Farmers Institute. -
The most unique of all educational
agencies is the Agricultural College
train. TO give instruction to the farm
ers right at their doors. Eastern
Kansas has a small alfalfa acreage
and the Kansas Agricultural College
wants it multiplied by ten, claiming
that not only is it the most profitable
farm crop, even for market, but also
the most valuable for adding fertil-
| ity to the soil and also the most
valuable of all feed and dairy crops.
The college people insist that it Is
| now most serious economic ques-
ton for the farmers of eastern Kan
sas to preserve the fertility of their
soils and that the raising Of more al
falfa and more live stock will not
only add fertility, but add great
wealth to that part of the state
Hence. this effort OF the college right
now to reach several thousand farm
ers and instr ct them in sowing
more alfalfa this summer and fall
Prof. Ten Eyck. of the Kansas Agri-
cultural Cole &c, recommends fall
sowing in eas ern Kansas, but in
sists that too many mistakes are
made in preparation of the seed bed
and in using poor seed. Hence, the
| Farmers Institute department of the
college will hold seyenty-two meet
ings in eastern Kansas, passing
through twenty counties. These
twenty counties now have total al
falfa acreage of 1876, while Jewell
and Cloud counties have total al
falfa acreage Of $685.. This ''Trav-
cling Farmers Institute" will find
the farmers busy. but the initenary
will be widely announced, published
in daily and weekly papers and as
the train will run on exact schedule
time, farmers and others interested
can get to the railroad stations. hear
the lectures and get back to their
work in comparatively short time.
1t is especially hoped by the college
| boE P.r will hriu u
! their boys to the lectures; be at the
| station at the schedule time of the
train. The lectures will be given in
the cars, except for the evening
lectures. which will be held in pub
| lie halls, and at stations on branch
lines where speakers are dropped OF
while the train goes on to the end OF
| the line. At these places the lectures
will be given on the station platform
unless local committees arrange for
halls and announce same.
Beat Up Reformatory Guard. -
John Simpson and Blair Riley sawed
out of their cells at Hutchinson and
attacked Officer Sherman Monroe,
night cell guard, and after beating
him nearly to death, were frightened
away by his cries for help. George
Goodman, an inmate and a cell house
trusty, went to Monroe's assistance
with broom, but was driven away
by Riley with the bar of iron torn
from his bed. Officer Monroe was
terribly beaten. The bones in the
back of each hand were broken, one
finger was cut off and there are nine
cuts in his scalp. He will recover.
Riley was sent up from Sedgwick
county for burglary in September,
1905. He had previously served a
in, ha fnr IL ic