The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-01-04
TX AN S AS. ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

dHuull WOlI nuuJ COVERING pOItlOi
of Chase and Lyon counties will take
place New Years day The captains
will appoint as many deputies as
they may think necessary to keep
the lines well formed and prevent
carriages from going into the terri
tory to be covered in advance
| Fire Does $4,000 Damage. = Fire
at Salina did probably 100000 dam
Iage to business houses and stocks,
The fire originated In the Thompson
candy store which it ruined It
spread to the Hub Clothing Company
the stock Of which was nearly de-
stroyed by fire and smoke. Origin
not known.
New Plan Saves Money. - The
abolishment of the old board Of live
stock sanitary commissioners and
placing the department under one
commissioner has resulted In a saw
ing Of nearly so per cent according
to the report Of John B. Baker, live
stock sanitary commissioner. made
to Gov. Hoch.
/ Shaw Coming to Kansas. - Secre-
tary Shaw Of the treasury has de-
cided to. hold up the purchases Of
sites for the federal buildings au-
thorized at lola, Manhattan, Wichita,
Newton and Pittsburg until a time
when he can come to Kansas and
make a personal inspection Of the
property offered for sale. !
Baby Boy Born on Train. - Mrs.
Charles Bright, of Fort Worth. Tex,
en- route to Wichita, gave birth to a
baby boy on a Rock Island passeng-
err train between Duncan and Mar
low. l. T. Travelling men made up
handsome purse for the youngster,
who has been named Rock Island"
Bright
There Should Be More. - The Uni
ted States government has made an
Investigation Of Kansas highways
and finds we have 101. 1876 miles of
public road. or this 1853 miles are
surfaced with gravel, Ill miles with
stone and three miles with shells,
making only 272 miles Of improved
road in the state.
In Presence Of Family. = Frank
Stewart, aged 46. carpenter, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Ga
lena by drinking three ounces of
carboIic acid Stewart drank the
acid in the presence of his wife and
two children who had just returned
to their home from town. Excessive
drinking was the cause of the sui
eide.
Bank Robber in Prison. - Joseph
s. Kern, the Great Bend bank rob-
Der, has been taken to the state
penitentiary to serve a sentence OF
from ten to twenty-one years. Kern
also confessed to having robbed the
bank at Newton and he may be tried
for that crime after he has finished
his sentence for the Great Bend rob-
berry.
Lower Death Rate. = Health condi-
tions have improved considerably in
Kansas during the past year accord
ing to vital statistics made public
by DIR. s. j. Crumbine. secretary
Of the State Board of Health. in his
annual report. In 1905. 9,003 cases
Of typhoid fever, diphtheria and scar
let fever, with 757 deaths we're re-
ported to the State Board In 1906
only 1924 cases of these diseases
with 566 deaths have been reported. l
Hospitable Pratt. - A young man
landed in Pratt recently broke and
entertaining bad case of tuber-
culosis The free-hearted fellows OF
Pratt made uD small collection
and sent the poor fellow on to Buck
lin. There he waited for his train
in waiting room without any fire,
and when his train arrived he stag
gered on and went to Dodge. He
fell dead there in the depot imme-
diately after arriving.
His Seventeenth Annual Dinner
Thomas Shaw. the Wichita music
man, gave his seventeenth annual
dinner to the boot-blacks and news
boys OF the city on Christmas day
II was attended by about seventy
five Of his boys"
Kaiser Sent Him Calendar. =
Charles walkenwitz. a citizen OF
7 .eavenworfb. who fwenty-five years