The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-11-15


j. E. Brewer & Company, OF Abb
lene secured the contract TO- fur
nishing potatoes for the state chart
table institutions for the T'ext SIX
months. Senator ]. e. Brewer Is at
the head of this company. The con-
tract price is 70 cents a bushel ana
the total number of bushels con-
tracted for Is G,400. The potatoes are
to be delivered to the institutions
Cost the Brewers $4,000. - The
Sch1,tz Brewing Company, of Mil
waukee. has surrendered to the order
of custer from the state of Kansas
made against 1t by the supreme court.
The Brewing company paid $4,000 IN
to the court and formally stipulated
to remove all Of its personal property
from the state and sell its real estate.
OF this amount $3.50 goes to the
three receivers-Whitcomb Allen and
Carver, as fees, and the remainder
represents nominal court costs. The
case was practically compromised
Some time ago the receivers settled
upon $4,000 as a proper figure for
their fees and the minor costs. But
the Schlitz company at once set up
objections and threatened to go TO
the federal court and make fight.
With the surrender of the Schlltz
company thirteen of the fifteen brew
ing companies proceeded against by
the attorney general have accepted
the order of custer. The Lemp ana
Coetz companies are still out, From
these thirteen companies the three
receivers-T. F. Carver, G. H. Whit
, comb and S. H. Allen have each re-
ceIved a total Of $3.50 as fees, or
grand joint total for the three OF
| s2C,25O. Each brewing company had
slight additional sum to pay as
court costs and minor expenses at
tendant to settling up the case. This
sum ran from $50 to 5000 In differ
ent instances It can be safely reck-
oned that in actual financial payments
to the supreme court these thirteen
companies have paid something like
$4,000. Their next task will be TO
take their personal property out OF
the state and sell the real estate.
2,soa.574 Hogs in Kansas. - The
swine population Of Kansas, accord
! ing to figures given out by F. D. Co.
burn, state secretary Of agriculture,
is 2GOS,574. Mr.. Coburn says:
While vegetarians have inveighed
against eating pork there seems to
be no appreciate abatement in the
rearing Of swine. In spite of the
warnings of Moses and the sad fate
thot befell the wine Of Gadara, the
demand for the toothsome ham con-
stantly increases, and the Kansas
farmers have found it profitable to
increase their hogs. Kansas, with
Ter abundance Of alfalfa, which, eth
err as pasture or hay, Is now recog-
nized as one of the most valuable
foods for hogs, her plentiful supply
of corn and her salubrious climate,
probably presents conditions unsur-
passed in any other territory of the
same area for the hogs health and
development. Kansas has more hogs
than all New England and fifteen
states and territories added, and a
strong testimonial to the popularity
of the pig in Kansas is found in the
live stock statistics of this year now
being compiled by the state board OF
agriculture. Nearly every county re-
ports an increase in its porcine popu-
lation. and the aggregate for the
state is 2.G0S,574, a net increase over
the preceding year Of 9l,449, or
more than 20 per cent. In but one
year of the states history has the
number been larger and that was in
1898, when the total was 2,76G,O21.
| Kansas Boys Strange Suicide. -
Andrew Mills, aged Is years, who
committed suicide at Enterprise by
hanging himself in the barn on his
fathers farm. had no reason for SO
doing that the coroner can find out.
He was well and seemed to be happy
and contented.
Sues Man Who Sold liquor.-Mrs.
John Sullivan. wife of a railroad
man at Atchison, has sued w. R.
Burk, of that place, for ten thousand
dollars damages. She charges Mr..
Burk sold her husband liquor and
that it caused him to fall and sus-
tain permanent injuries.
Paid $2,327 for a Charter. - The
state is richer by s2,327 since the
granting of charter to new cor
poration. That was the charter fee
for the big lola Portland Cement
Company of West Virginia which was
granted charter by the State Char
ter Board. The capital stock of the
new company is $45OO,OO0. Its bust
ness will be to manufacture cement
in a factory it will build at lola. The
officials and stockholders are all
J fasteners.
G~~~N~N~~O~~~-~-N~NO~O~~~
NFzDkar-a - 1.