The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-07-12
1t Happened X A n S a S
OUR WEEKLY GIsT OF CONDENSED ITEMS

lena The girl S BODY was loun1 LII
fifteen inches Of water, 1t is believed
to be a case of murder.
S6,ooo0Oo Mortgage. - b. far the
largest mortgage ever filed in Shaw
nee county was filed with Register OF
Deeds S. J. Hodgins recently. The
amount was S6,000000. and the mort
gage covers all of the right-of'Way,
track, telegraph lines, rolling stock
and all other property Of the Topeka
Southwestern railroad. The mort
gage secures gold bonds bearing IN
terest at S per cent
Bouquet for kingman. - Secretary
J. S. Crumbine. Of the state board or
health says he believes the city OF
Kingman has the best water supply
in the state and that it is going 10
spend $4,000 on a pipe line in order
to make use Of it. There is a big
natural spring about three miles
from town in the sand hills that runs
the year around and the city council
is going to have a pipe line coz
structed from the spring to the city. L
Quitting Through College. Two
boys from Sabetha, Lloyd Mosser ana
Lloyd Beegley, have just closed OUT
at Abilene a quilting factory with
which they have started their way 70
college They began last fall and
made exhibits at the fairs. They
arouse much interest among the Wo-
men Of that community and quilted
over five hundred quilts. Some OF
the quilts were very interesting, one
having been made during the war
and never put together. It was
visit of much interest for the women
who came to Abilene when they cali
ed on the "quilter boys" as the Two
young men were generally named.
The walls Of their rooms was cover
ed with quilts aud the varied figures
were novel and unique. The Boys
sold the business they had built up
at a good price and expect to enter
college this fall They will set up
quitting establishment in some coll
lege town and the work they do at'
ter school hours will. they think,
carry them through their college
course. They graduated at the Sa-
betha high school and their pluck
and enterprise have attracted much
favorable attention from ali who
have watched them.
Ties Are Rotten; Spikes Loose. -
Charles A. Ryker member of the
State Board Of Railroad Commission
ers. made a smile inspection Of the
Missouri Pacific track northwest or
Hutchinson. Mr. Ryker also walked
for three miles along the Missouri
Pacific northeast of Anthony. Mt
Ryker did not hesitate to say that
the track inspected on the Hutchtn"
son division is unsafe for heavy trat-
fic and for passenger trains. He salf
that the conditions found near An
thony are even worse. There every
two or three ties were in bad shape
from one cause and another, ne said.
A sample Of what was seen is con
tanned in his report Of what was
found between mite posts 4s and 40,
west from Wichita. The east end ot
this mile is about 4 mile west Of
Hutchinson. The defective ties we're
counted and S07 bad ties were found
in the mile There is an average Of
$500 ties in mile Of Missouri Pa
cific track in this division. This
means that almost One-third or the
ties are defective. It grew worse al
the inspector went west. As many
as five bad ties were found in sue
cession. Only ties under which there
was no support or which were 50 rot
ten that they would not hold tho
spikes were regarded as defective.
They Win Their Suits. - The most
important case disposed of in the
Kearney county district court at La
kin was that OF H K Biehn and
Frank r. Aidtz against the United
States Sugar and Land Company, for
damages by reason of the building or
the big McKinnie reservoir in this
| county. The jury gave Blenn YER
dict of S7.025 and Aldtz S5,78i46.
These two farms are included in the
reservoir and the owners refused TO
accept the condemnation figure.
June Wettest in Twenty Years. -
Last month was the wettest June IN
twenty years, according to the wealth
er record of DR.. Snow OF the State
University The precipitation was
7.42 inches. which was 2.SS inches
above the June average for twenty
years. The mean temperature OF the
month. III degrees. was is degrees
below the June average. The months
maximum temperature was 80 de-
grees. the lowest maximum for June
in twenty years with two exceptions
in twenty years with two exceptions
The run of wind was 1906 miles, or
1853 miles below the June average
for twenty years.