The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-05-01
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SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

; and villages along the Kansas Okla
homa border will be held within ten
days to increase the reward offered
for the capture of the Tyro and Chau-
tauqua bank robbers The reward, 1t
, Is believed, will be made as high as
$4,000 for the two gangs The gov
errors of Kansas and Oklahoma will
be asked to help.
Put Body on the Track.-W. W. Hut
to, principal of the Central high
school of Manhattan was slug
ged, robbed and his body placed
on the Union Pacific tracks where he
was run over by a train. The man is
still alive though one leg was cut off
below the knee. He is unable to give
a description of his assailants except
to say that there were two of them.
He had SIS in money and a gold watch
and these were taken.
To Connect Oakley and Garden.
An Eastern capitalist is now plan
ming on daily automobile route from
Oakley to Garden City, 1t Is intended
that one car shall leave Oakley in the
morning and one leave Garden City at
the same time, both cars carrying mail
If it is possible that government con-
tract for carrying mail can be secured.
The distance is approximately 100
miles and might be covered easily by
automobiles.
Autoist Hard Hit.-Three thousand
dollars damages for soaring a horse
and hurting a girl is the heavy penal
ty inflicted by Neosho county jury
on ]. N. Mcdonald, an automobilist.
who was sued by Grace Yoder Nc
Donald appealed the case to the SUI
preme court on the ground that there
were irregularities in choosing the
jury. 1t developed after the trial that
one of the jurymen was relative Of
Grace Yoder. From the size of the
verdict it would also appear that the
jurymen were most all farmers.
$4,000 in Fire Escapes.-The, sum
of 100000 has just been spent upon
the state charitable institutions of
Kansas by the board of control for fire
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been needed. A spiral sliding escape
was adopted. At Coney Island an ex-'
actly similar device is used for pleas
ure seekers, and is there known as
''The Dew-Drop." At the Topeka hos
pital for the insane eight escapes were
erected at cost of $7,245; at the Os-
sawat6mie hospital for the insane sew
en- were put up at a cost of $6,51S; at
the orphans home at Atchison one es-
cape was erected at a cost of $1,165;
at the Olathe school for the deaf two
were built at a cost of $4,000. Some
special device is being planned for the
school for the blind at Kansas City. A
tall steel standpipe is built alongside
the building. From door on each
floor are wire entrance cages, again
connected with the pipe by door. In
side of the pipe is a long spiral chute.
A prisoner in burning building rush
es into the wire cage, and humping
against the door into the pipe opens
it in that way the automatic lock
springing apart by merely being shov-
ed inward. Just as quickly as the per-
son gets through the door, down he
goes into a sitting or lying posture,
and in few seconds his feet jam into
another door at the bottom, which
automatically flies open, and he finds
himself tumbled out on the soft
ground and in safety. At the school
for the deaf at Olathe and the orphans
home at Atchison, the youngsters find
the escapes so much fun that the
teachers have some trouble In keep.
ing them from wanting to make a
pleasure resort out of them. This is
the first time in the history of the
state that the insane asylums have
been equipped with fire escapes.
Washburns New President.-The
board of trustees of Washburn college
have elected DR.. Frank Knight San
ders of Boston as president of the
college, to succeed DR.. Norman Plass
who resigned to devote his whole time
to business. DR.. Sanders will take
charge in September. He is now gen
eral secretary of the Congregational
Publishing Society. For twelve years
NC was PAOlOooOls w ntH LIZ
Harper the late president of Chicago
university, resigned as dean of the
Yale divinity school, he chose DIR. San
ders to succeed him. DR.. Sanders Is
46 years old.
Millionaire Visits Greeley County,
Frank C. Lewis of Peoria, Ill, the mil
lionaire land owner in Kansas. has
been visiting Greeley county getting
acquainted with the people and look.
ing over his holdings. which consist OF
1903 quarter sections in Greeley county
"a in Wichita county and AZ in Kear
ney and Scott counties. He exepcts
to hold his lands for ten years and te
put them into cultivation and secure
tenants to raise wheat and barley,
The blowing is to be done by big
steam plows.
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