The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-04-24
X Ans AS ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS


A dispatch from Laramie, Wyo., says:
''R. B. Kinley a wealthy sheep raiser
of Sheep mountain, was shot in the
back and perhaps fatally wounded py
Harry Monrose, aged 10, who came
here three months ago from Hutchin-
son, Kan. The men quarreled over
wages alleged to be due Monrose.
Auto Man Fined.-I. Zitzerman and
G. F. Schaubacher, the men who were
charged with frightening horse be-
longing to Milo Wilcox, at Burllngame,
by reckless driving of an auto1oDlie,
were tried in justice court at Burling-
anne. Zitzerman, as owner of the ma
chinechine was fined SIS and costs,
amounting to about $45. Ztzerman
runs a machine shop at Newton.
Schaubacher is cattleman, and lives
near Sedgwick.
For Sending Obscene Letter.. G..
Wilson, an old man living at WIN
field. who was indicted by a federal
grand jury at Wichita for sending an
obscene letter through the mails, was
fined $25 and costs by the federal
grand Jury in session at Topeka
Wilson appeared in court and
pleaded guilty. Judge West, assistant
United States district attorney, recon-
mended him to the mercy of the court.
Wilson's letter was addressed to MS
wife with whom he had had some
trouble.
Fatal Accident For Topeka Men,
Walter Holiday, a resident of To-
peka, and an Atchison, Topeka d
Santa Fe bridge builder, was killed
by piles falling on him near Boiling,
eight miles from Leavenworth. Mei-
vim w. Harrison, another bridge
builder and also resident of To-
peka. received injuries that may
prove fatal. The men were close to
car loaded with piles when stakes
broke and the logs fell on them
crushing them. Holiday lived three
hours after he was injured. He died
at hospital in Leavenworth.
Expects Bumper crop.-E. ]. Smil-
ey. secretary of the Kansas Grain
| Growers association, has issued MS
report on Kansas corn and wheat con-
ditions. as received from grain and
elevator men. He ranks wheat at
S9.2. or about per cent less than Co.
burns report. Smiley says that ne
has lust returned from a three weeks
trip through Kansas and has never
seen the prospects for bumper crop
better. Some places, he says, the dry
weather has caused slight damage,
but he finds little of the Hessian fly
or the green bug.
X. N. G. Receives New Rifles. -
Sixteen tons of death-dealing instru-
ments. worth $4,000 have arrived IN
Topeka, the loan of Uncle Sans war
department to Gov. Hoch for the Kan
sas national guard. The consignment
consists of 1880 Springfield magazine
rifles. caliber 80; also equipment for
the guns; 1880 front sight covers
256 screw drivers. 1880 oilers and
thong cases, 1880 brushes and
thongs, 1880 bayonets with new
catches, 1880 scabbards. $4,000 ball
cartridges, $4,000 blank cartridges
1.26O dummy cartridges - making in
all 13O,19G pieces. Uncle Sam paid
the freight from the Rock Island ar
senal-so that Kansas gets $40,OoU
laid down at its capital doors 1or
nothing. 1t means exit the krag'
Jorgensen and enter the Springfield
The new gun that the Kansas nation
al guardsmen will carry will kill az
three miles. 1t will show daylight
through a block of oak, cross-graln
cut. of twenty-six inches, at hfty
feet-and will perforate fifty-siS
inches of pine at the same dis
lance.
Fire at Norcatur.-The little town
of Norcatur was visited by very dis
astrous fire which completely wiped
out a block of the business houses
there. The loss is estimated at 500,
600 with insurance $4,000. The orr
gin of the fire is unknown.
LARGEST Grinding Stone. - The lar
gest grinding stone west of the
Mississippi river has been instalieo
in the machine works of the santa re
shops at Topeka. The gigantic stone
stands seven feet high and has
thickness of fourteen inches. 1t If
one of the three largest grindstone'
in the United States. One is at the
Baldwin locomotive works at Phila
delphia, the other at Omaha.
prohibition Party Convention. =
The Prohibition party of Kansas vii
hold their state convention at Pea
body this year, April 29 and 80, a
which time a state ticket will be sc
lected to present to the voters of thu
party at the general primary in Aug
ust. The convention will also seiec
delegates to the National convention
of the party, which meets at Col
umbus, Ohio, July 18th.