The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-05-03


ern train near Pttsburg. He was
apparently 35 years old, sandy mus
tache and beard.
Pounded With Pickax. - A Rus
sian laborer was picked up along
the Katy tracks near, Fort Scott. His
face is mass OF wounds and the
Uranium shows evidence Of having
been pounded with a pickaX.
Hagerman a Kansas Product. =
Herbert Hagerman who is to quit as
governor of New Mexico by order of
President Roosevelt. was former
resident of Kansas. He was reared
at Muscotah, Atchison county. His
father was In business there for
many years.
Appointeu Deputy Commissioner.
N-John Kelly, of Topeka brother
.Apf ex-Treasurer T. T. Kelly, has been
appointed deputy bank commission
er for building and loan associations.
Harry Findlay has been appointed
field deputy bank commissioner.
Findlay is a son-in-law of Cyrus LIE
land.
Body Found in a Ditch.-The body
OF John VerOda. a single man who
lived on a farm in Republic county,
about eighteen miles north of Con-
cordia, was found covered with
brush in ditch near his home. His
head was crushed A 16year-old
boy named Svojgr. employed by
Veroda. was missing. together with
a team and buggy He was caught
near Munden, but refuses to talk.
Accident at Wellington. During
the competitive drill by cantons OF
the Patrarchs Militant. in connec-
eighth anniversary at Wellington an
awning on which some twenty peo-
pie we're standing collapsed, pre-
cipitating them upon the heads OF
the crowd below Among the more
seriously injured were W. NJ. Costi-
gan. Wichita. arm broken and inter
nally hurt; j. C. Smith. Jr.. Yelling
ton. hip dislocated: Charles F. Mar
tin, Wellington arm broken; George
Tracey. Argonia. arms and back
bruised, condition serious; Mrs. G.
II. Barnard. Wellington. hip crushed
and hurt internally; ex-senator w.
j. Lingfeter, Wellington, injured in
back and limbs; Mrs. Port Campbell,
SaldwelI, seriously bruised about
{back and head.
Banks in Western Kansas.-With-
in the past two weeks seven state
banks have been instituted III West
.ern Kansas by Deputy Bank Com
missioner Harry Troville. And this
recalls the fact that two-thirds of the
new state banks instituted within
the last two years are in Western
Kansas. There are now about 1000
state banks in Kansas, meaning that
there are about eight banks for towns
of 1000 population in the state. |
One bank in Pawnee county is SAIL
TO be paying 100 per cent a year to
its stockholders. The banks insti
tuted by the bank commissioner
within the past week are: The |
Grant County State Bank, Ulysses;
The Citizens State Bank Claflin, |
Barton county capital 100000; The
Lake State Bank, Lake City, Barber
county capital 10000; The Citizens
State Bank. Liberal. Seward county, |
capital $4,000: The Peoples State
Bank, Garden City; capital $4,000; |
The Farmers State Bank, Larned, |
Pawnee county. capital $4,000; The
carlton State Bank, Neosho county, |
capital $4,000.
Negro Killed by Police. = A negro |
named Piummer was shot and killed |
at Coffayville by ]. H. Fletcher, a |
policeman. Fletcher shot the negro |
TO save the life of Charles Bliss, an
other officer. whom Plummer had at
tackled with a razor. A coroner's |
jury exonerated Fletcher.
One Year For Perjury = William
j. Stamford, of Sharon Springs, J
SCwho was convicted by jury in the
t3nited States district court at To |
peka. charged with perjury In
Homestead matter, was given one
years sentence in the penltentiary
and $1,000 fine.
Claim Violation of Bill of Rights
The Prairie Oil and Gas Company |
has filed it's reply to the action
which the state took last year to
GUST the Standard Oil Company on
the charge of unlawful combina-
lions or pools. A general denial is
entered Then the action of the at
torney general is declared to be in
violation of the bill of rights and in
conflict with the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of he Uni
ted States.
Prisoner Attempts Suicide. = Will
- xuoru "a wars MD who was /