The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

General HltcnCOcK stated tnat eCOnO'
my in every division of the postoffice
department would be insisted upon.
In test of speed by the cruisers of
Pacific squadron the Philadelphia
per hour.
The Arctic Club of America gave a
banquet to DR.. Cook at the Waldorf
Astoria at which the explorer made a
speech telling of the things which
made his accomplishment possible.
The latest estimate of the number
who lost their lives in the gulf coast
storm is 100
The Republicans of New York have
formed an alliance with all the indie
pendent reform forces except the In
dependence League and nominated
Otto T. Barnard for mayor.
A line of warships ten miles long are
drawn up in the Hudson river repre-
senting the United States and foreign
nations and awaiting the opening of
the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
The commission of the Methodist
Episcopal church which is raising
100000 to extend missionary work in
Africa announced that $4,000 has
been raised.
Sou ern France, especially Prov
ence, has been visited by heavy storms
accompanied by earth shocks. Con-
siderable damage has been done.
Enid, Ok, by a majority of two to
abo VT VII limo
for government by commission.
United States torpedo boats destroy
err Smith made the remarkable speed
of 80 knots an hour, four knots more
than required by the contract in the
standardization run off Delaware
Breakwater.
A good roads convention has been
called by Gov. Hadley to meet in
Sedalia October 6.
Forty cases of infantne paralysis
with 10 deaths in Norton and Decatur
countless Kansas has caused the state
board of health to send expert bacti-
biologists from the state University
Medical school to the locality to at
empt to learn the cause.
Salina, Kan, is TO vote on the prop
osition for the city to buy the water
works plant
The twelfth annual convention of
the League of Iowa Municipalities was
held at Fort Dodge.
A 17-year-old girl at Gypsum City,
Kan, committed suicide by Shooting
herself with revolver and no reason
for the act is known.
Eight inches of rain fell at SIAM
ford, Neb., in limited time and flood
ed the business streets to a depth Of
three feet.
During the last fiscal year 573,551
more aliens arrived in this country
than deported. During the previous
year the number was 209,S67.
Judge Campbell of McAlester, Ok,
has granted temporary injunction
preventing Gov. Haskell from inter-
fering with the construction of pipe
lines to convey gas out of the state.
William Pritchard a cabin boy on
the Roosevelt who remained with the
stores at Annatook where DR.. Cook
stopped when returning from the
north admits that Cook told him that
he Cook had reached the North
Pole.
The bank at Ames, Ok, was burglar
ICED and $500 was carried away.
In a riot at Omaha, Neb., caused by
the strike of the street car company's
employees one man was shot, several
others were hurt and eight cars were
demolished.
In the vicinity of New Orleans alone
It is reported that so persons have
lost their lives in the hurricane that
swept the coast.
President Taft in his speech at
Colorado Springs cautioned the people
that in the era of prosperity they must
not forget to carry forward to COM
pletion the reforms started my his pre-
decessor, Theodore Roosevelt. He said
his administration was pledged to such
measures as would carry the Roose-
welt policies to fulfillment.
, A man travelling through Canada
and the east has victimized many
manufacturers by giving large orders
for firms he pretends to represent and
then chashing forged drafts.
The feature of the weeks session of
the sovereign grand lodge of the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Seat
tie was the parade of 10000 members
headed by the patriarchs militant in
fall regalia.
The Democratic state committee of
Missouri has called a conference Of
Democrats to NEE; at Kansas City
November 10 to discuss party prob
lens.
The east dome of the capitol build
ing at Jackson. Miss. was crushed in
by the recent hurricane and hundreds
OF buildings were unroofed.
After many dlsappOintmehts Law
renee. Kan. has a street car line upon
which cars are running.