The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-07

The Union Paclflc railroad is TO pull
| on motor car service between Kan
sas City and Lawrence, Kan, to sup
plement the passenger service now
given.
The earnings of the United States
Steel corporation for the first quar-
ter of 1909 were $22,921. 26S, an in
crease of $4,692,2G3 over those of the
corresponding period last year, and
$3,304,217 less than for the three
months ending December 81, 1905.
Ambassador Leishman has cabled
the state department that there is
great restitution in the disturbed por'
lions of Asiatic Turkey and advises
that the Red Cross take up the work
of relief.
Contracts have been awarded by tho
Isthmian canal commission approx
mating $1,OOO,0OO for supplies to be
delivered during 1910.
The secretary of agriculture has
sent to the senate report which
shows that the production of sugar
from beets has increased in this coun-
try from $4,000 tons in 1896 to 425, 900
ton in 1908.
The new sultan of Turkey has been
officially recognized by the Washing
ton government.
After remaining unnoticed for near
ly a century beneath the soil of an
obscure Maryland farm the body OF
Mai. Charles L'Enfant the French en-
gineer who designed the national
capital was removed to Arlington Ma
tional cemetery after laying in state
at the capitol.
At the city election at Muskogee,
Ok, the Democratic ticket was sue
cessful where the issue was white
town" against "black town."
Upon advice Of Attorney General
Jackson State Bank Commissioner
Dolley of Kansas will refuse charters
to new banks where he thinks they
are not needed and also those man.
aged by parties whose ability is ques-
toned.
At conference in Chicago attend
ed by the executive officials of the
different roads operating in Missouri
the Santa Fe contended for a three
cent passenger rate in defiance of the
state courts while the Burlington an
nounced a purpose to make rate OF
2h cents May 10.
A rate has been filed with the inter-
state commerce commission reducing
the freight from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ten cents per hundred pounds.
The Minnesota Grand Commandery
of the Knights Templar met at Min
neapolis and Knights representing
every subordinate commandery in the
state were present.
1t is persistently reported in Cara
cas- that Castro has a fortune in gold
buried there which would account for
his apparent lack of funds and his
desire to return TO Venezuela.
The grand jury ordered through in
structons from Gov. Haskell has COM
menced taking testimony at Ada, Ok,
in an attempt to discover the identity
of the members of the mob which
Refugees who have made their
escape from Deurtyul affirm that 10O,-
900 Armenians are besieged there by
the Moslems and that the besieged are
half starved and in pitiable condi-
ton.
Three-fourths of the tariff duties
collected by the United States are paid
by II classes of articles of which
sugar pays almost twice as much as
any other
The officers and men of the Japan
ese training squadron have been given
a two days entertainment consisting
of long trolley rides through the city
and surrounding country and a ban
quet to the officers by the chamber of
commerce at Los Angeles.
Steel prices at the Carnegie Steel
company's plant have slightly advanc-
ed owing to full supply of orders and
brisk demand
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress providing for the purchase of a
special train for the exclusive use of
the president and approprlatlng sou,
900 for the purchase.
The first congress of the National
Federation of Religious Liberals has
opened in philadelphia.
1t is proposed to, erect 31-story
hotel in New York cast of $1,000
900. 81
Jtalv has a me- ruler. Abdul Hamid
has been deposed as sultan and his
brother Mehmed Reschad Effendi has
been named by the church, parliament
and the army to succeed him.
Personal.
Earth and snow slides near Nyark,
Mont, have blocked the Great North
ern for several days.
Circuit Judge Williams at ST.