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

pany, has turned in to the state tan
commission the property statement
of the Prairie Oil and Gas company
the Kansas branch of Standard Oil
showing that the Prairie owns $S,6O4,
431,.72 worth of property in Kansas
Mr.. Cady says that it cost the Prairie
Oil and Gas Company $4,000 to col
lect the information for this report {
Infant Found in a Box-The body
of baby, black from exposure, was
found near the banks of the Arkan
sas river near the Orient railroad
tracks in Wichita. Owing to the con
dition of the body of the baby, it was
impossible to determine the age. The
body was small and the police believe
that the child was but a few days
old.
| How New Tax Law Works.-The re-
| turns of the city assessors of Atchison
| show one great surprise. The value of
| personal property is greater under the
| workings of the new tax laws than the
value of real estate. The value of
real estate, under the new law, is $6,-
| $4,000, compared with $1,5S5,000 a
| year ago, while the value of personal
property is $7,750,OOO compared with
| S422000 q year ago.
Meeting Has Been Postponed.-Tho
meeting of the state federation OF
women's clubs, which was to have oc'
IL, hot 70,
| May, has been postponed to May 10,
| because Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker, pres
| ident of the general federation, who is
to attend the Manhattan meeting, has
| been invited by President Roosevelt to
attend a forestry conference in Wash
ington during the week first appoint
ed.
Great Days For Masonry.-The days
of June s, and 10, will be days of
glory for Wichita Masonry. Then
they initiate the largest class ever
taken into any lodge in the history Of
the order and dedicate the finest tenn
pie in the United States. And those
days will not only begin new epoch
in the local history of the order. but
they will stand out before the whole
world of Masonry as the time of great
est achievement ever gained by one
lodge.
Machlnist Gets Heavy Damages.--A
jury in the United States circuit court
at Topeka, returned verdict award
ing to August Pohlman, machinist,
formerly in the employ of the Rock
Island company at Harrington, the sum
of $4,000 damages. Pohlman had ask
ed for $4,000. The attorneys for the
defendant railway company had set up
allegations of contributory negligence
as defense, but the jury couldn't see
it that way and brought in a verdict
for Pohlman, as stated above
Toothpck Caused Death.-Chas.
Barnes, state insurance commissioner,
has held that death from swallow
ing a toothpick entities the heirs of
anacident insurance policy to the in
surance policy to the insurance. H.
S. Myers of Arkansas City swallowed
a toothpick, it lacerated his throat
and blood poisoning set up, causing
his death. He held an accident policy
for $4,000, but the company claimed
that swallowing the toothpick and the
subsequent death was not an acct
dent.
The Largest Kansas Barn. What
is probably the biggest barn in Kan
sas, counting floor space, is being COM
pleted on the George Stunkle farm,
four miles southwest of Mulvane. The
barn is 1876 feet long by 80 feet wide
and it's dining room will accommodate
400 head of cattle and 200 head of
horses and mules, besides an endless
amount of hay. Water is pumped to
troughs in the building by gasoline
engine, and things are arranged to
make the handling of stock easy and
profitable.
Says It's Just to Advertise.-Goyer-
Hoch thinks that the meeting of
all the governors of the country
at the White House on May Ia and IS
is largely for advertising purposes. ut
is intended to make people talk" he
said, land to get them Interested in
preserving our great national bless
ings. 1t will be for congress to do the
acting"
Two Engines Stolen.-Two loco
motives were stolen from the Mis-
souri, Pacific freight yards in Wichita.
They were recovered near Toler-
vile, six miles east. Railway Of
ficials believe the engines were taken
by men who wanted to go to a nearby
town. An incoming extra freight train
caused the engines to be abandoned.
To Get a Line on JaiIs.-Governor
Hoch is writing to each of the county
clerks in the state to see If the dis
trict judges and county attorneys
are making Inspections regularly of
the county jails, to see IL they are in
a safe condition, and are sanitary.
The county clerk, according to- lat,
should have in his office a record of
such inspections, and the governor
has written for this record.
Rov Drou,as in Walnut River.-Har-