The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-09-13

| struck in Topeka about mile east
of Highland park. This is the first
| time natural gas has been found near
| Topeka.
d Drowned at Kansas Ford. - Mrs
ed Hem and her 5-year-old daughter
| and Mrs. William Johnson and
| young daughter, We're drowned in Il
creek near Oakley while trying 10
ford the stream, which was swollen
in buggy.
Fire Burns w. U. Office. - the
| office of the Western Union Teie'
graph Company at Arkansas CITY, To-
| gether with all instruments, ONCE
records and furniture were destroyed
by fire, believed to have been OF IN
| cendiary origin.
Got 331 Dozen Bad Eggs.-A Lyon
county man wired the board Oh
health asking what he should do to
man who sold him lot of eggs IN
which there were 331 dozen decayeu
ones. DR.. Crumbine told him to call
on his county attorney The sult
will be valuable as test.
Died in Mail Waeon.-P. M. Axtell,
a rural mail carrier on route NO. /,
out Of Formoso, died in his mali
wagon. He had collected mail three
miles out of town on his return. HIS
horse came into town and walked III
to SCOTS livery barn with the ola
man sitting in his seat dead.
viii Bulletin Trains. W. X.
Smith general attorney for the SAN
ia Fe, in letter to the board of rail-
road commissioners says that the
Santa Fe is very willing and de-
sirous to give the public correct IN
formation about the arrival and leaV-
ing time of trains
Need Cars For Broomcorn. - Com"
plant from many portions of the
state have been made to the railroad
commissioners that cars cannot be
secured to handle the broom corn
crop in Kansas. The crop this year
will be about 10000 tons, 10000 ton
increase over last year. Kansas and
| Oklahoma produce about three-quart-
ers of the total crop of the United
States.
Uncle Sans Secretary Released
H. II. Tucker, Jr., former secretary
treasurer of the Uncle Sam Oil Com
pany has been released from the
county jail at Leavenworth after
serving three months sentence for
contempt imposed by Federal Judge
w. C. Hook Tucker says he viii
Immediately try to straighten out the
tangled affairs of his company ana
try to have 1t taken out OF the
hands of ]. C. o. Morse. receiver.
DOGS Are Killing Stock. - Com
mon, ordinary, domestic dogs are DO
ing as much damage to stock in the
neighborhood of Wetmore, south Of
Sabetha, as the vicious wolf. Reuben
Gibbons recently lost four goats
through the ravages of a pack CT
dogs. Saturday E. J. Woodman
found two packs of dogs in his hog
yard. Each pack was tearing a valu-
able hog to pieces. This is four
hogs Mr. Woodman has lost in a
month by dogs.
Pahst Brewery Quits. - The Pabst
Brewing Company has paid into the
supreme court S1,5G5.15 as its costs
in the custer suit brought b. the at
torney general to drive the brewing
company out of Kansas. This is the
fifth Of the big companies to accept
the same judgment as was handed
down by the supreme court in the
Anheuser-Busch case. The company
paws the costs, agreed to sell its real
estate as quickly as possible and
move its personal property at once
over 2 Per Cent AIcohol.-A series
of malt beer tests have been made
bv the board of health to determine
the amount of alcahol in the con-.
tents. The average ran up to PSI
and the board of health turned the
information over to the attorney gem
eral with the statement that the mat
| ter was properly one lOI thS plOhioi-
tory law and not for the pure food
law to handle.
Women Threaten Lynching. = DR..
S. ]. Crumbine, secretary of the
. state board of health. has received a.
letter from a Hutchinson woman say
ing that unless he at once saws that
negroes at Hutchinson stopped dump
ing refuse on the banks of the Arr
, kansas river, there would be a lynchr5
ing. Either You proceed at once, =
wrote the woman, against these
greasy niggers. or we will proceed
with a rope We won't stand for IT,.
About twenty-five of us white women
, viii just buy a few feet of rope and
; then there won't be any. more law
defying niggers." DR.. Crumbine sent
, the communication TO the adjutant
, generals war" department. 4
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