The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS
Dr'ef Review of the Happenings of Week Condensed Into
Paragraph for our Busy Readers

Lansing, VIII take charge of the rental
business Of the Clearinghouse Realty
company at Topeka.
Legislature Gets Invitaton.-The
Sunflower club of LOO members, OF
Seattle. Wash, has invited the mem.
bers of the legislature and all other
hansans to come to the Alaska-Yukon
fair at Sattle next Summer. It called
attention to the fact that 1000 for.
mer Kansans lived in Sattle and they
are anxious to have everybody come
and see them during the fair. The
club intimated that Kansas should
have an exhibit at the fair.
Oldest Man in Kansas Dead
Fountain Shorts, aged 1903 years, re.
Gently died at Paola of old age. He
had been at the county poor farm for
some time. He was the oldest man in
this state and came from Cass coun-
ty, Mo-, about twenty years ago. He
was born in Georgia in 1901. His
body was intended to be sent to the
Kansas University Medical depart
ment, but subscription was taken
up and he was buried by the side Of
his wife in the Paola cemetery.
Bootleggers Sent to Marion JAIL
g. c. FARO and Ed. Stark, non-resi-
dents, were sentenced to the Marion
county Jail for bootlegging at Peabody.
They were arrested one nay and sent
over the road in record breaking time
the next day, each getting thirty days
Imprisonment and one hundred dollars
fine. Each had sold several gallons OF
liquor. Stark was caught near Elm
dale, where he was in hiding. This Is
the first liquor prosecution at Peabody
for several months.
Offered Bride to Undertaking
Judge Nerdlinger, of the district court
at Leavenworth, fined Attorney
Schwartz $50 and committing him to
the county Jail for ninety days for Of
fering the Judge bride. Attorr oy
Schwartz, the Judge charged, appear
ed at his home and offered him money
II he would favor Schwartz in his de-
cision of pending case. Judge Nerd
linger sent the sheriff after Schwartz
and had him brought into court,
where he was fined and sentenced.
May Collect $5oo,oo0 In War Claims.
Kansas is in line for receiving
snug bunch of money from the federal
treasury If congress can be induced
to make the necessary appropriation.
1t has been ascertained that Uncle
Sam owes the state nearly 100000
by way of reimbr -sement for money
that was expended by Kansas In arm
fing and equipping troops to repel in
vason and guard against Indian de-
predations. The claim of the state
for these funds has been prosecuted
before the auditor of the war depart
ment by Attorney Nicholson OF New
ton, agent for the state in the prose-
cution of its claims. Judge Nicholson
presented the claims and arguments
were made in support of 1t by Sera-
tors Curtis and Long and special In
terest was manifested in the subject
also by Representative Madison. The
auditor of the treasury for the war de-
partment has informed the members
of the delegation a careful examina
ton of the case had demonstrated that
there is owing to the state of Kansas
from the federal treasury $425, 065.43.
The next step by the delegation will
be to obtain certificate from the de-
partment upon which to base an ap-
preparation to meet the payment. The
funds were expended by Kansas on
account of Indian depredations, the
money having been borrowed by the
state to meet that expenditure.
Average Tax Rate o5 Cents on S1oo. |
State Auditor Nation has completed
a statement showing the total amount
of taxes levied in the various c. inties
of the state for 1908 for all public |
purposes, and the total tax rate in
each county. The tax rate this year |
for all purposes in all the counties of
the state averaged So cents on the
500 as against $4.67 on the 500 last
year. This great difference is due to
the assessment this year of all proper
ty at its true value, and the placing
on the tax rolls of vast amount of
property that heretofore has escaped
taxation. The total taxes levied for
all purposes this year was $21,217,979
as against s2O.497 COS in 1907. The
tax was divided as fellows: State
taxes: 1907, s2.745,797; 1908. s2,215,-
1913. County taxes: 1907. s5.205,167
1908, S5,291,492. City taxes. 1907,
1926, 612; 1908, sS.SO6.S17. Township
taxes: 1907, s2,654.422; 1905 $2,7O7, 40.
school district taxes: 1907, s6,596,6O3;
1908, s7,196,6O0. State taxes were
lower this year. County, city and
township taxes were a trifle higher,
while school district taxes were $780,
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