The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-02

officers who went to the Hickory
settlement near Guthrie, Ok, to arrest
cattle thieves met with resistance
from the negroes who live there and
after fight lasting one night and part
of a day two negroes were killed and
40 taken prisoners.
The secretary of war has appointed
the board of inquiry authorized by the
Foraker resolution to investigate the
discharge of the colored troops fol
lowing the affair at Brownsville, Tex.
Willie Whitla, the boy kidnapped at
Sharon, Pa, and returned to his faith
er after the payment of $4,000 has
positively identified the man and wom-
and arrested at Cleveland as the par
ties who took him away and held him
for ransom.
The statehood bill granting seperate
statehood to Arizona and New Mexico
which failed to pass the senate at the
last session of congress will be rein
troduced at the special session.
A heavy fall of rain and wet snow
caused damage to the amount of $780,
900 in Denver and cut off all wire CON-
munication and tied up all street cars
and disabled the telephone service.
According to the London Daily Tele-
graph, the Argentine Republic has &C
tually placed the contracts for two
dreadnaughts with German firms
The tracks of the Missouri Pacific
railroad in Kansas will be improved
at once by the expenditure of $780,
600.
A delegation of Porto Ricans is in
Washington to lay before the presi-
dent and congress their views regard;
ing the government OF the islands
which they declare to be worse under
American administration than under
Spanish rule.
Executive and traffic officials of all
railroads in Missouri have asked for a
conference with Gov. Hadley regard
ing the passenger rates.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress to promote the safety of pas
sengers on railroad trains. One OF
the provisions calls for the construc'
ton of passenger coaches with
frames of steel.
A mistake of the enrolling clerks
may require the Kansas legislature
to convene in special session to pre-
vent the closing of the State Normal
school as the appropriation bill was
so bungled as to make it invalid.
The six persons who made the bal
loon ascension from Pasadena, Cal.
landed on one of the Sierra Madre
mountains and were in snow storm
two days before they succeeded In
reaching a camp from which they
could notify their friends.
Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania has is
sued a proclamation offering re
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the kidnapers of Willie
Whitla.
The water in the harbor at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, has become so shallow
following recent earthquakes as tc
make it impossible for vessels draw
ing "a feet to land there.
despatch from Colegue, Germany
expresses the opinion that former
President Castro may use the fortune
he is supposed to have taken with
him to Europe to finance a revolution
to place him again in power IL
Venezuela.
Yellow fever is gradually disappear
ing from Barbados. Sir Rupert Boyct
is directing the work of dealing witt
the disease.
The st. Joseph, Mo-, Star has sus
pended publication.
Because the specifications of the
race demand a machine different from
the one they are now using, Wilbur
and Orville Wright have decided no
enter the flying machine contests a
Rheims, France, August 20.
The Nebraska Legislature has passed
a bank guaranty bill.