The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-09-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS
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Sued for $4,000 Damages.-Mrs. J.
w. Farley has brought suit against
e. v. Hoffman, the miller at Enter
prise, for $4,000 damages, claiming
that her husband was killed in run
away as a result of his teams fright
at an automobile driven by Mr.. Hoff-
man. The accident occurred on a
country road and Mr.. Farley was
thrown out and injured, dying some
weeks later.
An Estimate on Wheat.-In report
just issued by F. d. Coburn, secretary
Of the State Board of Agriculture, the
wheat yield for Kansas for 1908 is es
timated at 100000, which is 372, 900
bushels greater than last years yield
and 10 per cent less than the yield
Of 1906. This estimate is based on the
reports of county assessors from each
of the 105 counties in the state. The
total acreage was 6,S34,S00, which Is
less by 217,0S2 than the total arecage
of the previous year.
Bank Robber Given Pardon
Charles Arthur, sent to the penitenti-
airy in November of last year under
a sentence of from five to ten years
for attempting to rob bank, has been
released from the penitentiary under
a Communication by Governor Hoch
Arthur and two other attempted to
rob a bank at Hunnewell in Sumner
county, year ago last March. They
bored holes In the safe and set the
charge. When the dynamite exploded
Arthur was too close and the sight
of one eye was entirely destroyed and
the other was so weakened that it is
useless. Governor Hoch granted the
pardon so that Arthur could go to his
parents at Louisville, Ky. The of,
ficials of Sumner county asked that
he be released.
$4,000 More Left Than Last Year.
1t has been found that the balance
In favor of the state at tn eclose of
the fiscal year 1908 was $4,000 ahead
Of the balances at the close Of the
year 1907, according to the figures of
the state auditor. The accounts Of
the various counties with the state
have just been checked up and COM
PARSONS made with last year. In 1907
the balances ON hand at the close of
the fiscal year were $1,057, 900, while
this year they were S1,100,000. This
condition was brought about on &C
count of the large amount of fees paid
In by various state departments dur
ing the closing months of the year.
For three months it was not neces-
sary to make a draft on the county
treasures for money TO pay the state
expenses as he fees were sufficient
to meet all of the bills.
1000 Inspections by Pure Food Men.
1t is eighteen months since the Kan
sas pure food law went into effect,
and since that time nearly one thous-
and inspections have been made by
the pure food department. Two in
spections have been made in the
stores of each of the larger cities and
In some cases the cities have been
visited three times. By the first OF
November all towns, even those with
one store, and forty miles from a rail
road, will have had at least one visit
from the pure food inspector. Last
winter the inspectors confined them.
selves to towns on the railroads, but
during the summer while the roads
have been good they have been doing
a great deal of driving and visiting
the small towns off the railroads. For
this reason the small towns in the
southwestern part of the state were
not visited until this summer. In the
eighteen months in which the law has
been in operation only about twelve
prosecutions have been brought for
violations of the law.
- DOJ OIOWfICu at GiiUhdlC'-I
old Martin, aged 10 years, was drown
ed in the Cottonwood river at Elm
dale bridge, five miles west Of Cot !
tonwood Falls. His father was fish
ing and got his hook fast. Harold |
started to wade out to loosen 1t and
stepped into deep hole.
Unidentified Body in car.-The body
of a stranger, evidently tramp. who |
had been murdered, was found in a |
box car in the Missouri Pacific yards |
at Arkansas City. The skull of the
man had been crushed as with blunt
instrument. No marks of identified
ton other than cards saying, I am
a crippled MINER" we're found on the
body. The man had been dead several
days when found.
Forty-Eieht Die From tuberculosis.
to its monthly bullentin
Just issued there were reported to the
state board Of health during the past
month Sc cases and 4S deaths from
1877 cases and % deaths
from typhoid fever; 90 cases and 4
deaths from dintheria. 20 cases and 2 |