Free press., 1907-06-15
1t HaRPened X a n S a S
OUR WEEKLY cIsT OF coNDENsED ITEMS

Gain Million a Month. = The to
tai bank deposits in Kansas increas
ed $6,0GG,45S.76 between January q
and May 6. according to the reporr
made public by John O. Royce, state
bank commissioner. There are 721
banks in the state, an increase OF
twenty-six since January 26.
Depositors VIII Not Lose. Terri
torial Bank Commissioner H. H.
Smock announces that depositors in
tre Farmers State Bank at Berlin
and the Bank of Hamburg, which fail
ed May 20, will be paid in full
through assessment of stockhold-
ers.
More Business for Caney. = The
commercial club of Caney has closed
a deal with the Baker Bros. of In
dianapolis. for the removal of their
glass plant from Arcadia, Ind, to
Caney. The factory is a thirty-six
blower plant and will employ 200
men
Fell Between Cars and Killed. =
Ralph Garfield, son of Conductor H.
E. Garfield, of Wellington, was run
over and killed at Kiowa His train
was dropping some box cars on a
sidetrack, and it is thought he lost
his balance when the cars struck
and was thrown upon the track. He
was % years of age and unmar.
lied
Had $500, COO Insurance. - Lucius
II. Perkins, secretary of the state
board of bar examiners and former
president of the Kansas Bar Associa-
ton who died as the result of a fall
from the roof of his 100000 home,
Upton Court" at Lawrence, carried
more than half a million dollars
worth of life insurance, and was one
of the heaviest policy holders in Kan
sas
Crushed to Death in a Car. - Roy
and Harold Noel, sons of ]. E. Noei,
a blacksmith of Tonganoxie, Kan.
and John McEnulty, a farmer living
near that place, were killed in
City. The young men were bound
for Western Kansas, where they
have been going each year to work
in the wheat fields as harvest hands
and threshers. At Lawrence they
boarded a west-bound freight train
and got into a large furniture car
that was loaded with lumber. In one
end of the car there was a couple
feet of space between the pile of
lumber and the end of the car, and
in this space they were seated on the
floor. out of sight of the train men
The ear in which they were riding
received jolt, which caused the lum-
Der to Size and catch them against
the end of the car, where they were
crushed to death.
sheriff of Barber county,
Kan, was tried at Chickasha before
United States Judge Dickerson,
charged with numbering Adam Ward
on July G. 1880, and was acquitted.
and Ward were cowboys
~
arose over a brand on a cow Many
shots were fired and Ward was
finally killed by McCracken. The
shooting occurred on the C. B. John
son ranch, 16 miles from Chickasha.
The indictment was returned twelve
years ago and A. Cruce, then prose-
cutting attorney. of Indian Territory,
ordered no warrants issued. Last
fall when McCracken ran for sheriff
the old charge against him was re-
vived and another indictment was
fo""EEd: TIE testimony given proved
seii-defense. -.
Wheat Report Discourae:na. =
Secretary Coburn's wheat report to-
day is discouraging. Crop condi-
tions on the 5,3O5,OOO acres which
now seem likely to be harvested
average for the state SCI per cent.
or 27.3 per cent less than the condi-
tion reported by the same CORE
spondents on April "a, when it sum
med "a per cent.
Schools Get $4,000 Less. = By
OCSASlOA IS1lQSISQ Dy IHS
general upon the request of the
state treasurer and the state super
intendent the Kansas schools will be
deprived annually hereafter of about
$4,000 charter fees which now go
into the general fund. A law passed
in 1901, amending a law passed in
1898, directing that the fees received
for charters granted in Kansas
should go into the permanent school
fund, was repealed by the last legis-
lature by a new act relating to pri-
vate corporations, which absolutely
fails to mention what disposition
shall be made of the fees received
Tor the granting of charters under its
provisions. 1t says nothing at all
about them.
Kansas Brick to Mexico. = The
brick plant at Buff City. whose head
quarters are at Neodesha, has just
received an order for several car
loads of buff brick to be shipped TO
Cananea, Mexico, to build a bank. l
TWO Killed in Wreck. = Fireman
Guy Kennedy. of Horton, and head
Brakeman Kershaw. OF Herington.