The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
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SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

that the total valuation of all proper
ty in Kansas this year, to be returned
for purposes of assessment, will ap-
proximate $2,250,O00, 900. The esti
mate was reckoned conservative, as
general talk has guessed $S,000,000.-
600.
Sees End of Quarantines.-Dr. S. j.
Crumbine, secretary of the Kansas
state board of health, in his monthly
bulletin just issued, declares that
smallpox quarantine will soon be a
thing of the past, and that by con-
tinuance of vaccination, systematic
ally and thoroughly carried out this
can be accomplished.
Goes to Perdue University.-Mrs.
Henrietta w. Calvin of the State Ag-
ricultural College has accepted pc
sition as professor of domestic science
at Perdue University, Lafayette, Ind.
Mrs. Calvin's resignation, which was
accepted by the regents, takes effect
July /, when she will take up her
work in Indiana.
Still Seeks One-Cent Rate.-Gover-
nor Hoch has appealed to the Western
Traffic Association for a one-cent rail
road rate for harvest hands into Kan
sas He has been carrying on an eX-
tensive correspondence with the pas
senger agents of the different roads,
but has not yet been able to secure
the desired rate.
Wichita Police Use Automobile
Chief Emery of the Wichita police de-
partment has placed an automobile pa
troll along the streets intersecting
Douglas avenue, and two men have
been regularly detailed on automobile
service. They have been furnished
with a high-grade machine, to look
after and arrest violators of the city
speed ordinances.
Hangs Himself on a Tree.-Eric
Erickson, a Swede farmer and Bur
lington section boss, residing about a
mile west of Wayne, was found by his
daughter hanging to tree In the pas
ture. He had been insane from re-
cent illness. He leaves a large fam
lily. This is the fourth suicide among
Swedes in this neighborhood in the
past year.
Western Kansas Prosperous.-West
ern Kansas is enjoying very substan-
tial prosperity, according to Secretary
Coburn, who issued a few remarks"
T.; or hoCaI fantc anh f1p.
ures taken from assessors statistics
and county clerk reports. The west
ern grazing ranges, open and I'M
fenced, are passing. There is less I'M
fenced grazing land in Kansas today
by 1924 per cent than there was ten
years ago. The majority of the west
ern counties heard from are enjoying
an Increase of population. Coburn
registers anew his objection to raising
dogs instead of sheep
Sees 70 Per Cent of Crop.-E. j.
Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain
Dealers Association in his wheat bull
letin for June 3, declares that the
wheat crop in Kansas this year will
be about 20 per cent. He sees a
shortage of several million bushels as
a result of the ravages of the Hessian
fly, and the dry weather earlier in
the season in the northwestern part
of the state. Smiley makes up his es-
innate from personal investigation and
from correspondence. The flies were
worse in the eastern part of Kansas
than in the west He found the green
bugs conspicuous for their absence.
1.-THE lack of moisture in the western
part of the state has done for the
wheat what the Hessian fly has done
for it in the central and southern
parts of the state, and the devastation
has been more complete" said Mr.
Smiley. 81 have used sixteen and two
thirds bushels of wheat per acre as a
basis for 100, and on this / find that
the wheat conditions in the state to-
day are between 70 and 70 per
cent"
Colorado Man May Get Job.-It is
reported unofficially that Professor W..
l.. Carlyle, dean of agriculture at the
Colorado State Agricultural College,
has been offered the position of di-
rector of the Kansas Agricultural Elk
pertinent station to succeed F. W..
Burket, who resigned recently to be.
come one of the editors of the Orange
Judd Farmer.
Youthful "Fan" Falls From Tree
The probable fatal injury OF 15-year-
old William Bauman married a game
of baseball at Oakdale park at Salina.
The boy was watching a game from
the tree top outside when the limb
broke, throwing him to the ground.
Both arms were broken and he is in
ternally injured.
Jap Must Go to Prison.-G. Oki,
charged with assault with intent to
kill F. T. Ono at Garden City, was
found guilty of assault and battery by
shooting with pistol. F. T. Ono in
such a manner that would have con-
stituted manslaughter in the third de-
gree IL death had ensued. The penal
ty for this Is not less than six months
in Jail nor more than five years in the
penitentiary.