The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-10-23

'hC al DofIiCT springs HILL IuS
business portion of Bonner Springs
watering resort twenty miles west
of Kansas City, was destroyed by fire
October 10, causing loss estimated
at $150,000. Seven business houses
were destroyed.
Gas Main to Emporia.-The work
of digging the ditch for the laying OF
pipe line from the Elmdale field to
Emporia, to supply the latter town
with natural gas, has been begun.
The line already extends to Strong
City and will be extended here. A
ditching machine which works at the
about two miles out of Strong City
Pinned Between Cars.-Tom Lewis
section hand, was injured, probably
fatally, in a rear-end collision between
a freight train and a handcar in the
yards at Emporia. The car with it's
crew of five men was following the
freight at a high rate of speed, and
whom the train stopped suddenly the
car collided with it and Lewis was
pinned to the drawbar head, the iron
sticking through his right leg.
dence of Scott e. Whine, in Wichita
has been sold by the trustees in bank
ruptcy for $4,000. Whine left WITCH
.ta when It becam known that the
Whine Mortgage company, of which
Ne was president, was about to lapse.
The residence is about all the cred
itors get out of the Whine estate, and
this will not give them 10 cents on
the dollar. Whine is said to be in
Brazil
Plague of Pigeons-A phenomenon
that is causing damage to the wheat
fields in Rice county is the myriads
of big, fat wild pigeons that appear
from mo one knows. They appear
almost by millions obscuring the even
ing sun and spend the nights and NOR
nings in the wheat fields which they
leave as clean of Vegetation as would
a grasshopper raid Pot hunetrs and
to move on. 1t is many years since
such a visitation has happened before
in Kansas They will disappear as
suddenly as they came.
Farm Product Prices.-At a meeting
of the Kansas branch of theAmerican
Society of Equity held at Wichita,
the following officers were elected:
President, L. P. King, Winfield; vice.
president, l.. T. Cross, Lewis; secre-
tary and treasurer, G. w. Peckham,
Haven; directors P. D. Spohn, Imam;
Frank Moore, Hayes; NJ. Chaplin, Hav-
en-; T. B. Umrich, Pawnee Rock; D. S.
Haverstadt, Oxford. This Is the first
meeting of the society in this state.
The object of the society is to fix the
price of farm products. 1t does not
attempt to eliminate the middle man
as does the Farmers Union, but the
members think that there should be a
unoform increase in the price of farm
products.
Odd Fellows Elect officers.-In the
grand lodge of the Rebkah assembly
at Salina, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Mrs.
Fife McCurdy, Larned, president;
Mrs. Gertie K. Johnson, McLouth,
vice president; Mrs. Bertha Willis,
Wichita, warden; Mrs. lisa e. Potter
Clifton, secretary; Mrs. c. B. White,
Hutchinson, treasurer. In the grano
lodge Odd Fellows T. P. Roney of
Washington was elected grand senior
warden, the other officers having
been elected by the local lodges last
May. Wichita was selected as the
place for the meeting next year. In
the competitive drill of the Patriarchs'
Militant teams Caldwell won the
prize. The only other team in the
contest was Kansas City, Kan.
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Forty Cows Under CIoud.-The gov
eminent has been making inspection
of the cattle at Haskell institute at
Lawrence and has made some alarm
ing discoveries. There are ia cattle
in the heard, seventy of which are
COWS. The young stock does not
seem to be affected. OF the seventy
cows examined twenty-five showed
reaction" in the tests, proving tuber-
culosis. Twenty We're suspects" and
are probably the worst of all. Tween |
ty-five seemed to be free from the |