The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-04-26
Breakfast Food Mill.-Klngman

in the near future. Westfall & Son
have leased building facing on the
new court house square, and have
ordered the necessary machinery
with which to operate a breakfast
food and cereal mill.
Hit With Discus. - The third
serious accident to attend the track
meets of the Wichita high school
occurred when John Hazelton one
Of the students, was hit with dis
Gus that had slipped from The hand
of Drew Mccain, one OF the contest.
ants. breaking both the upper and
lower iawbone knocking out three
teeth and cutting n deep gash in the
boys face This discus rebcundeG
from Hazelton's jaw and struck
Professor Enfield, who was standing
nearby. slight blow in the face
| During the exercises in 1905
young girl was hit on the head with
shot The next year Harry sat.
ton broke an arm by falling with
vaulting pole
Santa Fe Trail Markers. - It lie
probable that the markers will be
out the entire lanPth of the Santa Fe
trail through Kansas by the niddis
of May or June /. G. w. Martin
secretary of the state historical So
ciety. has received word from ali Of
! the twenty-five counties through
which the old highway passes. Rice
F.hnsOn and Douglas counties hav,-
already placed their markers. Stones
! have been shipped to Ford Ed.
wards, Wabaunsee, Lyon. Morris and
Marion counties within the past two
weeks. In Morris county one mark
er will be set where the treaty was
made with the Indians for the right
of way through the country for the
tail
Jury's Drag Net. - The federal
grand jury. in session at Topeka ad
journed after returning thirty in
dictments. The most important
of these were the ones against II.
II. Tucker, of the Uncle Sam OIL
Company; the three against
Eugene M. Caffry, o pension attor
ney of Hutchinson, and two against
IN Eastern whisky distributor for
selling liquor in Kansas without
government tax. The Caffry case
pertains to pension matters and in
dctssn not only the principal. but two
women notaries In his office, and a
doctor. Caffry is a pension ATTORNEY
at Hutchinson. He is charged with
forging five pension vouchers, sign.
ing seven pension checks and trans
hitting falsely certified pension
paper. There are twelve counts in
the first two indictments. and are
each punishable by penitentiary
sentence The third indictments
,gainst Caffry is only punishable By
fine. Indictments in connection with
the Caffry case are returned against
Miss Alpheus Walton and Belle
Low. They were notary publics in
Caffrys office. The charge against
them is making false notarial Ger
tifcates to pension papers. The
fourth party involved is Or. J.
Bartholow Darlington, charged with
perjury in pension matters. The
notaries did not swear him when he
made afhdavits, and then it Is
charged he would take oath In \
deposition before the pension com
missioner that he had been duly
sworn. This is a penitentlary Of
tense. Apropos OF this case, j. S.
Patterson. pension examiner. who
worked on the Caffry indictments,
said: THE notaries of Kansas show
less regard for the law, in regard to
the oath in pension matters, than
any state in the Union"
Meets Terrible Death Thomas
Wilson, aged IS. of Wichita, died in
local hospital from disembowel-
nent Wilson was driving a team OF
horses near Goddard when the
horses became frightened and in at
tempting to run away broke the
buggy tongue. This stuck in the
ground and the sudden stopping OF
the buggy threw Wilson out. He
landed on his stomach. tearing loose
The walls of the abdominal cavity.
Fire at Baker University.-One OF
he LARGEST buildings of Baker uni
yersity. known as the Rippey build
ing. caught fire and burned to the
ground between II and | O'Clock
in the morning. Besides the mems
and women's physical training de
partment the building contained the
commercial colleee and art depart
ment. At the church service re
Gently $4,000 was raised to replace
the building. The Baldwin Com
mercial Club met in special session
and subscribed $1,000. The build
ing was insured for $4,000. The
total loss was 100000. Glass work
will proceed as usual and work viii
begin at once on a new building.
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of forty-one. But at that there were
only COO points between them and
the winners. The regular army