The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-03-05

| along a while longer Without WHo-
less telegraph system The ways and
means committee of the house has
killed the Phillips bill which estab-
fishes O wireless station at yelling
ton. The committee couldn't figure
lust what good the Wellington station
would be II there was not another
station somewhere In the state to re-
ceive or send messages. A wireless
station without means of communica-
ton with other wireless stations,
would be useless. Besides the COM
mittee could see no Kansas war loom
ing up on the horizon.
Handling Trains by TeIephone-The
trains over the eastern division OF the
Santa Fe between Emporia and Holt
day are being dispatched by tele-
phone. While the new system has
not been formally adopted 1t has been
completed and all of the trains are be-
ing handled by telephone. The San
ia Fe Is planning to equip the entire
road with telephones for dispatching.
The first link in the system was
made between Emporia and Newton
and. the work of installing the sys-
tenn over the double track cutoff be-
tween Emporia and Kansas City by
way of Ottawa will be rushed and
then the system will be extended to
Chicago.
Tucker Case Observation-Disclosures
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to dismiss the case against II. n.
Tucker, charged with the wrongful
use of the mails. When the president
heard that Judge Amidon of South
Dakota had been assigned to try the
case against Tucker he protested to
the Federal court of appeals of the
Eighth district He claimed that
Judge Amidon was opposed to the en-
forcement of the law under which
Tucker was indicted, and asked that
some other judge be sent to Topeka
to try the case. The court of appeals
ignored the presidents request. When
judge Amidon arrived in Topeka to
try the case, District Attorney Harry
]. Bone arose and said he desired to
dismiss the case
Undergo Punishment.-JohnT homp-
son of Lawrence, Kan, Oscar Howe OF
Hutchinson and " Sexton of Wichita,
have accepted the offer of j. p. Con-
nors, president of the Oklahoma board
of prison control, for any one who will
UNDERGO the punishments, alleged to
have been inflicted on the convicts
in the Kansas pen. The show will be
put on in the Busby opera house at
McAlester, and the receipts will go to
the Oklahoma pen library fund. Mr..
Conncrs wrote them, accepting their
services, ard telling them that 1t was
not the alleged punishments' they
were to undergo, but the "ones really
adopted in the Kansas pen" These
punishments include the Crib the
water cure and other forms made ia
nous by tie Barnard report.
For Many Public Buildings.
sundry civil appropriation bill, repoi t.
ed from Washington, contains the
following, among items from the
Southwest; Public buildings at EN-
poria. Kans., $4,000; Enid, Okla,
$4,000; Independence, Kan, 100000;
Oklahoma City, Okla, $4,000; Par
sons, Kans,, $4,000; Pittsburg, Kan,
$4,000; Wellington, Kans.. $4,000;
drill hall at Fort Riley, Kans., $685.
600; one double barracks, $4,000;
four barracks at Fort Sill, $1S0,000;
guard house, Fort Leavenworth, $780,
600; administration building. $4,000
remodeling barracks, $4,000; addi-
tion TO staff college, $4,000; military
prison, 100000; for western branch
Soldiers Home, Leavenworth, Kan,
$44S,000
The Contests Important.-The Kan
sas boys and girls contests are re
garded as ore of the most important
educational movements ever inaugur-
! ated In Kansas. Last year about
5000 Kansas farm boys were in the
corn contest ard several hundred girls
entered the contests for bread, pies,
mending, etc." said an official. But
everyone knows that Kansas ought to
have three times that many boys In
the corn contest and ten Thousand of
our Girls should enter one of the many
contests oren to girls. Why not? Pos
siply because the parents do not show
enough interest Committees every
where are announcing the contests
and inviting bows and girls to enter.
Good prizes are announced and 1t Is
hoped this year that contests may be
organized in at least so counties and
that every county that had conte7 t
last year may have double the num-
Der II had last year. Sumner county
last year gave out seed corn to S44
boys and this year the committee says
It will have 500 boys and 200 girls.
Why not? What will be the record
for your county? Committees will re-