The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-01-18
HAN. sA S ITEM
: SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS
ire DESTROYS Six buildings.

Ire DESTROYS DIX pu'to"9s'
Fire at Almena destroyed six build
ings and damaged others. Included
in the loss was the First State bank,
two drug stores, grocery store
and an empty building. The amount
of the loss is not known, though
| quite heavy. There was partial in.
surance. lira
Captured Jail Brcaker.-ITd Dut-
Ter. wanted for jail breaking in
Woodson county, was captured ut
Hartford by Sheriff Stephen Hin
shaw. He located his man In tlic' up
per story of an office bnilding. Full
Ter had barred the door on the in
side, but Hinshaw got crowbarfand'
pried the door off aigi...r5 t1Hs'E
Changes in Kansas Postoffice. -
Joseph c. Colin has been appointed
postmaster at ArgoIia, Sumner
county, to succeed J. w. Rutherford
resigned VIM. Robertson at Cay
Vile, Wilson county, in the place OF
|tF. NJ. Robertson, resigned; George
T. Mallatt n at Townsend, jCowley
county, vice ;, NJ PoihterY resigned. q
Worried Over His Studies.-rJohn
Frederick cTerhune. student 20
years of age, who resides AT Soldier,
Kan. but who was attending c''
lege at Emporia,s committed suicide.
by drinking carbolic acid and shoc'
ing himself through the head with
a revolver. The only cause that can
be assigned for the act is that he
was worried about His lessons,
Died While, in Jail. = Louis PHI
lips. d glass cutter employed, By tie
Western Window Glass company at
Independence. was found dead in
cell in the city Jail. He had been
locked up for drunkenness and al
though he was very drunk, 1t was
not supposed that his condition was
serious. He leaves a. wife and nve
small children. raIInlf1-. l'
Band of Boy Thieves. - The off,
GERS at Ottawa have rounded up Il
gang of four boys who in the last
few weeks have stolen electric light
wire from the city and contractors
working for the city, and brass from
the Santa Fe amounting in value to
several hundred dollars. All con
fessed. Some of the stolen prop
erty was fished ont of the river
where it had been sunk to await
marketing. .r.tf.iI
Was a Great Meeting.-One of the
greatest meetings of it's kind ever
held in any state was that just clos
ed at the State Agricultural College,
at Manhattan. where over one thou
eand stockmen and farmers from
Kansas and other states gathered
seeking knowledge in all lines al
lied to stock breeding and agricul-
ture. One hundred and forty men
we're enrolled in the nine days
stock and grain Judging school.
Bee Sting Almost Fatal. - Two
physicians worked all night on H.
H. Beal, well known farmer living
near Princeton, to save his lie
from the effects of bee sting. In
eating some honey from tie hive
Mr.. Beal took bee into his mouth.
The bee stung him on the tongue
and In short time the tongue and
throat were swollen so breathing
was almost impossible. Mr.. Beal is
now out of danger. 'l.rty .tt4
Kansas Manufactures. - Statistics
have been compiled by the state
| bureau OF labor and industry giving
| the totals of the manufacturing in
J dustries cf Kansas for the year
1906. The repsrt shows returns
, from zoos industries with the total
capital invested in the business OF
! sS6 ,O54 .46o. The cost of materia' $
used in the manufacturing industry
was $15G, 544,241 for the whole NUM-
, Der reporting, or an increase over
| 1905 of As per cent. The value OF
products was s2o7 S9,492, or an in
crease over 1905 of 5.3 per cent.
II Cost Him His Foot,--Bert Mack,
| 1G years old, had foot cut on by
the passenger Lrdlu vi thS "iSi nv
son branch of the Union Pacific at
Salina. He had been to Assayrla
visiting and as the train neared his
home in the western addition ne
stepped to the platform to wave TO
! his mother when he lost his balance
the train passing over one of his
| legs.
| StalIard Arrested.-On complaint
sworn to by d. ]. Moore, cashier OIL
the Ponies National Bank OF Sc
dan. Otto D. Stallard, former cashier
of that bank, was arrested charged
with the embezzlement of $4,000 OF
the banks funds. He waived exam
! nation and was placed under bond
: of one thousand dollars for his ap
pearanc. before the February term
of the district court which sits al
Sedan. His bond was promptly
! signed by ten of the best citizens OF
, Chautauqua county, whose aggre
gate wealth is quarter of a million