The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-04-10

| a fake wrestling match at Wichita
month ago, died at Wichita of heart
| disease.
Wellington Boy Commits Suicide.
Clifford Durham, aged % years,
committed suicide at Wellington by
| shooting himself in the mouth with
| 3S-caliber revolver. Dependency
| due to ill health is supposed to have
| been the cause.
X. U. Is GroWne-The attendance
at the University OF Kansas has
doubled in the past ten years and is
increasing now at the rate of about
| 200 a year. The increase this year
is the largest in the history of the
institution, the attendance having
reached 2047.
Republic Farmer a Suicide.-Moses
Bushby. a pioneer wealthy farmer
living five miles south of Belvllle,
committed suicide. Mr.. Bushby had
been sick for some time and it Is
supposed that dependency was the
cause of the act He used a shot
gun and was frightfully mangled.
629 Smallpox Gases in February
The vital statistics of the state Tor
the month of February, just publish
ed by the State Board of Hearth,
show that there were 629 cases OF
smallpox in the state that month.
However. there was not one death
reported as a result of the disease
Twenty Head of Horses Burned II
Fire entirely destroyed the large barn
of Al Ramage, living two miles from
Little River. Twenty head of horses
were burned, five farm wagons and
buggies, all the harness and farm i'm
PIGMENTS and hay and grain. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Found Dead in Engine Room. -
Roy Chaplin, night engineer at the
electric light power plant at Lyons
was found dead in the engine rooms.
1t is supposed that he slipped ana
fell while closing down the engine.
This is the second night engineer to
be killed since the plant was in
stalled two years ago.
Government Pumping Plant. - The
government pumping plant at Deer
field has began operations with ten
batteries of ten wells each being
pumped. There are in all 230 wells
and the plant will be operating full
capacity in a short time, 1t is esti-
mated that the system will cover
10000 acres in one season. The wa
ter is pumped from the Arkansas
river underflow.
March Was Dry Month.-Only II |
of an inch of rain fell in central Kan
sas in March. The precipitation in
central Kansas has been less than
three inches since the middle of Oc-
tober last. Professor Jones of the
government weather bureau at Salina
says this is the most severe spring
drouth experienced in this part OF
the state in several years. Crops
are not suffering the farmers say.
Issues Call to the State Banks. -
State Bank Commissioner John Q.
Royce issued a call for state banks
asking for statements of their condi-
ton at the close of business March
31st. 1t will take at least twenty
days to get all of the returns in on
this call. 1t will be awaited with
considerable interest for the reason
that it will be the first statement of
Kansas state banks since the finan-
cial furry subsidized.
$4,000 in Charter Fees.-The state
collected $4,000 in charter fees dur
ing the month of March and this
amount was turned over to the state
treasurer by Secretary of State Den
ton. Ordinarily the charter fees for
a month run right around $4,000 but
the fee paid over by the company
which proposes to build an interur-
ban line from Kansas City to Topeka,
$500, brought the total amount up
to $4,000 for last month.
Hoch Refuses a Pardon. - Gov.
Hoch has refused TO pardon ]. B.
Shane from the Kansas penitentiary,
where he is serving a life sentence
for killing Edward Katherman,
boy. in Lawrence, in February, 1902.
Though Abilene people. where Shane
formerly lived, urged the governor to
release Shane, a large list of protest
ing petitioners appeared from Law
renee. Shane is an old soldier He
lost leg and was made deaf at the
battle of Lookout Mountain. At Law
renee the boys and young men teas
ed him. One day, when standing in
front of his photograph gallery he
shot one of the boys.
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Whereabouts Of Whine a Mystery.
-zIuch anxiety is evidenced In
Vy;caita over the absence of Scott Il.