The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-10-09


ering them, for his butcher shop, has
I been caught near the City of Mexico.
A detective has him in charge and
he will be brouhgt to Liberal.
One Found Gulty.-The jury at Nor
ton in the trial of Charles and Ralph
Madden for the murder of Sam ROW.
ley, acquitted Charles Madden and
found Ralph Madden guilty of man
slaughter in the second degree, after
being out about five hours. Rowley
was killed in fight with the Mad
den boys August /, and the evidence
showed that he made no resistance
and that Ralph Madden followed him
up when he tried to get away and
struck him a number Of times after
he fell.
100000 Pounds of oats.-Thomas
Dixon of Junction City has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
oats for the two army posts, Riley and
Leavenworth. The contract calls for
100000 pounds of 100000
LOT ftlley anu O,UUU,uOU lOi iSSo'S'
worth--to be used commencing Octo-
Der / and ending July /. Mr.. Dixon
had the contract for last year. There
is considerable increase in the amount
now contracted for over any previous
year. The fact that the contract is
given to a Junction City man means
much to the farmers of the county,
as Mr.. Dixon will this year, as in
previous years, buy as much of the
grain here in the home market as he
can. OF course, the quality must be
of the best, and for these the highest
market price is paid.
ties.-The government and state quar-
antine authorities will remove the
quarantine from seven Western Kan
sas counties at once. These counties
have been quarantined since last
spring because of mango among cat
tie. They are: Decatur, Hodgeman,
Ness, Ellis, Rush, Pawnee and Ed
wards. The first of last January there
were thirty-five counties in Western
and Southwestern Kansas that were
quarantined against on account OF
mango. Since that time the state and
government officials have been work
ing out plans to stamp out the dis
ease. They have been working through
the long summer and have driven
the disease out of the seven counties
mentioned above. The government
and state quarantine on the balance
of the counties will be raised October
IS so there are twenty-eight counties
from which the mango must be stamp
ed out within a very brief period.
Big Bond Issue For Three.-Three
counties of the state, Montgomery,
Wyandotte and Sedgwick, issued near
" half of all the new bonds issued in
Kansas last year. The total for all
counties was S3,2S9,529 and this in
Guided city, township, county and
school district bonds. Montgomery
county issued $539,972, Wyandotte
S501 OH and Sedgwick issued $4S9,G22.
Other counties which issued a good
sized bunch of bonds during the last
fiscal year were these: Crawford
S14S.S51, Labette S113,750, Shawnee
s92,OS9, Cowley $59,O66, Seward $685.
315, Renok $79,970. Johnson $76,676.
The total bonded debt of all the
counties, cities, townships and school
districts of Kansas is $35,62o,S44. Iris
| l. i,,iI nj ~
debt $10763,62S, city debt $40, 16l, S35,
school district debt $4,272,327. The
county with the smallest bonded
debt of any county in the state is
Cove, which has outstanding in al
kinds of bonds, city, township, county
and school district, only $4,000.
Cleo Bennett Has Reformed.-Clec
Bennett, a woman who was the terror
been released from the penitentiary
and is doing evangelical work. She
says she has reformed and that here,
after she will devote her time to say.
ing hayward women.
For a Ten-Ton Alfalfa Mill.-A. II.
Hill and A. G. Collins of Wichita have
commenced the erection of a ten-ton
alfalfa mill at Burton. 1t is expected
that the structure will be completed
in three or four weeks. This, is Mr..
Collins second venture with an al
falfa mill in Burton. His first mill,
together with a large elevator, was
destroyed by fire last April-presum-
ably the work of an incendiary.
The Half Million Mark.-The half
million mark for hog receipts at the
Wichita Union stock yards has been
passed. To be exact, at the close OF
business the week ending September
25, the fetal number of porkers I'M
loaded at the yards from January
was 5O0,460. For the same period of
1907 there were 331,S54 hogs received.
The increase for the present year is
] 16S,G06, or so per cent.
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where sick almost to death he had
remained all summer. His family,
Mrs. Gethin and four children, have
left for that place and will make their
/ home there For over a wear his fam