The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-11-05
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.

$500 now employed in the shops at
Topeka.
A Garter snake II inches long was
taken by doctor from the stomach
of Mrs. Robert Finsley of st. Joseph,
Mo.
One-fourth of the entire mileage of
the Santa Fe railroad is i'll Kansas and
the net profit from operating in that
state last year was $2S,771,974.
The w. C. T. U. at it's Omaha meet
ing voted the Chautauqua salute I'M
sanitary and decided to abandon its
use. The salute is given by rising
and waving a handkerchief.
Three persons escaped from the
county Jail at Topeka Kan, by throw
ing cayenne pepper in the eyes of the
jailer.
Work has commenced at Enid, Ok,
on a packing plant that is designed to
be nucleus OF a cooperative industrial
colony.
The price OF May cotton has reached
$14.S2 per hundred pounds which is the
highest price in many years at this
season.
The battleship North Dakota built
at cost of s10,00O,OO0 is ready for
her speed trials. Her two $4,000
turbine engines are expected to drive
her 10000 tons through the waves at
a rate of Fl knots.
Mammoth steel and concrete docks
are to be built at Cleveland, o., to cost
100000.
The University of Missouri will re-
ceive $29,226 as collateral inheritance
tax from the estate of Mrs. Mary S.
Dickerson who died in Kansas City.
A kentucky girl fred both barrels
Of shot gun into band of Might
Riders" when they broke down the
door OF her fathers home with the in
tentiOn of giving him whipping.
The board OF regents of the Univer7
sity of Kansas at recent meeting de-
clared that hazing, the destruction of
property or interference with the prop
erty rights Of others could not be toll
Grated ait the institution.
An explosion of Acelytene gas
wrecked the home Of Frank Totten,
Beattie, Kan, and seriously injured
Mrs. TOtten.
Apple orchards in Decatur county,
Kansas, this year have produced good
yields of fine fruit.
The Kansas Agricultural college is
sending a dairy train through eastern
Kansas in an attempt to arouse more
interest in what should be profitable
occupation in that section.
A charter has been issued in Mis-
souri, for an electric road from St
Louis to Kansas City a distance of 295
miles. The company has a capital
stock of s5,0O0,0O0.
More than 10000 school children Of
Chicago can only attend school half
day on account of want of school
facilities.
Dr. Guild OF Massachusetts predicts
that in six generations the race will
be bald unless the practice of wearing
hats is abandoned.
The custer suit against the Interna-
tional Harvester company in the SUI
preme court OF Missouri has been con-
tinued until January.
Mrs. ]. d. Plunkett of Nashville,
Tenn, who is an heir to $5U, 900 of the
estate of the late Thomas H. Swope
of Kansas City has filed a writ of
habeaS corpus for her release from
an asylum where she alleges she is
being held by her husband and other
relatives to secure control of her
property.
Federal authorities have commenced
an investigation OF alleged registration
frauds at Kansas City, Mo-, which may
Increase the population OF the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, if the
alleged facts are substantiated.
Commander Robert +. Peary has
ROW telegraphed to Washington
friends a statement attacking the
truthfulness of the information given
out by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish
explorer in which he says the
Esquimos with whom he talked sup
ported the statements made by Dr.
Cook.
A fraud order has been issued by
the postofice department against a
Los Angeles. Cal, company that ad-
Vsrtised to sell stocks on the INSTALL
nent plan.
me postofice at Jasper, Mo-, was
entered by robbers who secured $500
in money and stamps.
An internal machine placed in the
once Of J. A. Fagin, county attorney
at Lawton, Ok. failed to explode. He
had received letters threatening death
unIess he dismissed certain liquor
prosecutions.
The Kansas Agricultural college is
seeking a man who is a college grad
uate and a teacher and who has had
real newspaper experience TO take
charge Of the newspaper and printing
department at the college.
The daily sales of finished steel
products by the United States Steel
corporation for October were $4,000
tens