The Globe-republican., 1908-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Brief Review Of the Happenings Of Week Condensed Into
Paragraph for Busy Readers
Tax Values Must stand.-Bourbon

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mission to have the 25 per cent in
crease In land values and 10 per cent
increase in town lot values, as fixed
by the commission, wiped out, so that
the assessment would stand as re-
ported by TIE county assessor. The
tax commission turned down the re-
quest.
Mistake In Medicine FataI.-Ruehl
Wilbur, aged Is years, died at the
home Of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Wilbur, in Lawrence, from
dose of carboic acid, given by mis-
take for medicine. The boy had been
sick for some time with typhoid fever
l.et was in fair way to recovery.
The father got up to give the boy his
medicine and by mistake got hold OF
a bottle containing carbollc acid that
had been used as a disinfectant. The
dose was not large one, but the boy
was too weak to survive the effects.
Issues Call for Bank Statement
State Bank Commissioner John c.
Royce has issued a call for state
ment showing the. conditions of all
state banks, all private banks and all
| trust companies at the close of bust
ness, September l. The last call was
made in May. The bank deposits
were crawling upward at the time OF
the last statement and everything In.
| dicated that the financial troubles
were about over. For that reason
here will be considerable interest In
the coming statement.
New Shop at Newton.-That New
ton Is to continue to be one of the
most important railroad centers on
the main line of the Santa Fe is
brought into evidence more and more
every day. The latest addition thai
| company has decided to make to Its
| already numerous facilities there Is
factory for making guard rails, frogs
and switch points for the entire Santa
Fe system east of Albuquerque, In
place of buying this material in the
open market, as heretofore. The build
ing Is to be approximately 40x72 feet
| in size and will be located near the
rail mill. Plans and specifications for
the structure have already been ap
proved and the machinery for making
the material referred to has been or
dered. 1t is expected that the new
industry will give employment tc
about twenty men.
Orient Shops Big Thing to Wichita
That the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient Railroad company intends to
begin work on its roundhouse, shops
and other general terminals in Wich
ita within a few months is now as.
sured. The plans for the improve
ments to be made there are being
prepared by Mr.. Parent, engineer for
the railroad company. When complet
ed the company will be ready to let
a contract for the work. The immens.
ity of the general shops of the com
pany being planned for Wichita are
realized after the plans for the build
ings have been seen. Seven separate
buildings will be erected on the prop.
erty of the company on the West Side.
There will be brick 21-stall round
house. a large machine, blacksmith
and erecting shop, brick power
house, brick transfer stable, coach,
tank and carpenter shop, a one-story
brick house, brick oil house and d
0000-gallon cement reservoir. No es
innate has been made on the cost of
these buildings, but it will be an enor
nous sum of money, as all will be
built substantially The bonds, re-
voted by the city to the railroad com
pany to secure the general shops OF
the company, make it necessary fol-
the railroad company to have these
improvements completed by January
/, 1910.
Kansas Fruit Growers to Report
The annual report of Walter Well
house, secretary of the State Horti-
cultural Society, will be prepared
and given out in short time. Mr..
Wellhouse is sending out one thous.
and postal cards to fruit growers in
all parts of the state with blanks
ready to fill in with the information
needed for the report. This report
will be late enough to show practical
ly what the fruit crop in Kansas has
been this year. This will be an in
noyation in Kansas.
Arrested for Selling "Phony' Honey.
Under the pure food law artificial
honey cannot be sold in Kansas as the
natural product of bees. Two boys,
Harry and Landsing Brace, tried this
in Fort Scott, and are now under ar.
rest. The boys came into town as
strangers and imediately began manu-
featuring honey and peddling it over
town as pure bees honey. They
made the mistake Of trying to sell
some of it to A. G, Fike, pure fooG
Inspector. He knew the. law and
knew pure honey, so placed the boys !
lnder arrest instead of buying their
product
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ormatoIy, $4,000 game warden,
Il 500 and part of expenses; director