The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-09-25


his handkerchief and beating her
about the head. After numbering his
wife he committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
Prisoner Complains of Fare. - A
prisoner in the county Jail at Wichita
complains to Governor Hoch about
inadequate meals and wretched ac-
commodations. He says the jail is
unsanitary and that the prisoners only
get two scanty meals day. If they
ask for more they are placed in the
dark cell. The governor will refer
the protest to the commissioners Of
Sedgwick county.
Robbed The Depot safe-The safe
in the ticket office at the Missouri Pa
cific depot in Newton was broken open
and robbed. The robbers first fired the
tool house nearby and took several
crowbars and hammers. Then they
gained entrance to the office by break
ing through a window. The dial of
the san was broken off and in tho
hole thus made a quantity Of giant
powder or dynamite was inserted, and
the force of the explosion was suf-
ficient to blow the door, weighing
about 400 pounds, off its hinges and
carry it a distance of ten feet. The
robbers secured about $50, partly in
checks.
1923 Telephone Cos. in. Kansas.-Tel-
ephore lines are spread over the
eastern half of the state like a spider
web. The western half is not so slow,
rapidly. 1t Will be only a short time
before all parts of the state will be
in touch with telephone lines. There
are now 1923 telephone companies in
the state doing business in more than
one county. The tax commission has
that number on it's list, and the COM
mission is required to assess all COM
panies having lines in more than one
county. Most of these local companies
are mutual concerns, but they have
working combinations with one or
more of the big companies, SO that
their patrons have long distance con
nection to nearly every point. There
are some counties in the central part
of the state where every home out
side of the cities and towns has
telephone.
Five Per Cent Death Rate.-The av-
erage death rate at the state soldiers
of fy 1ttri
year was per cent, according to the
annual report of Commandant S. II.
Thomas. The population of the home
is 500 and twenty-five persons died
during the year. OF these. eighteen
were soldiers, six were wives of sol
diers or widows and one was a son
of soldier. That disease is rapidly
creeping upon the soldiers is evidenc-;
ed by the fact that The physician of
the home made more than 5000 calls
during the year. That is perhaps
three times as many calls as a ply
stefan of a country town with 800
population would make. 1t cost the
state $166 per capita to maintain the
home and $171 per capita to main
tain the Mother Bickefdvk, home, ali
adjunct of the soldiers home, where
army nurses and widows are kept.
On account of the increasing attend
ance at the home the commandant
asks for heavier appropriations next
year. He wants $4,000 for mainten-
ance, increase of $1,000; $4,000 for
nd fran
crease of $1,000 $4,000 for building
repairs; $4,000 for new furnishings
for the cottages; $4,000 for an cleo.
trfc light plant; 5000 for a resident
chaplain; $1,000 for nurses, an in
crease of 81 400, and 5000 for an as
sistant physician.
A Convict Trusty Escapes.-David
Hughes. a convict trusty, ran away
from the Kansas penitentiary road
making gang. Hughes asked permits
sion to go for a drink and did not
come back. He was brought to the
penitentiary from Carwall, Oklahoma,
for stealing a saddle. He had three
months more to serve of a one-year
term.
Explosion Kills Two Miners.-Win
Murphy and James Mitchell, miners
employed in the Oliphant zinc mine at
Galena, were instantly killed by the
premature explosion of forty-five
sticks of dynamite which had been
loaded IN a hole. The explosion is
believed to have been caused by fus.
ing of an iron tamping bar. Muir
ply was found sixty feet away. his
head mashed to a pulp and minus a
hand and leg. Mitchell's right leg
was blown off and the body horribly
mutilated. having been hurled forty
feet by the explosion. Mitchell was
an old miner, and had regularly ignor-
ed warnings against using iron to
lamp powder. Mitchell's son escaped.
losing two fingers.
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both sides, and all that remains Is
the rebuttal evidence. The state now