The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-16

the Kansas City Live Stock cases TO
April 20 in Kansas City. This is the
case filed by the live stock commits
sion men of Kansas City charging
that the railroads entering Kansas
City are too slow in delivering stocl
to the yards after it reaches the ter
minals and that loss from shrinkage
results.
Claims indian Reservation.-Ship
She-Wan.No, son of Maw-Shaw, ar
old Pottawatomie Indian chief, filed
suit in the federal court at Topeka
against the Pottawatomie tribe of In
dams for possession of their entire
reservation in Jackson county. He
claims that his father owned all of
that reservation in an eraly day. and
that neither the government nor the
Indians ever bought it. The old chief
has been dead for many years.
Commend Soldiers for Fighting Fire.
In a letter addressed to Colonel R.
H. r. Loughborough, commandant OF
L ..
H. Slavens, commandant of the mill
tary prison at Leavenworth, which
was threatened with destruction by
fire, highly commends the troops and
officers of the garrison for the work
done in fighting the conflagration.
But for the assistance of the soldiers
the prison would have been utterly
destroyed
One Hundred Banks Ready.-Bank
Commissioner Dolley, speaking of the
Kansas bank guaranty law, stated
that he had received assurances from
100 state banks that they would join
the guaranty association as soon as
it was formed or thereafter as quick
ly as they could arrange their affairs.
There are III state banks in Kansas
and it is expected that the majority
of these will take advantage of the
law which allows them to offer state
guaranty of deposits.
Will Furnish Fort Riley Hay.-Ed.
of Junction City has receiv-
ed word that he was the lowest bid
der on 1000 tons of prairie hay to be
delivered this year at Fort Riley
MIR. Whitehair will have the privilege
of cutting the hay off the reservation
and will start work June l.. A num-
Der of sub-contracts will be let and
the work will be pushed along as
rapidly as possible. Mr.. Whitehair
has had the contract for furnishing
he hay for several years.
Standard Lays Down Arms.-The
Standard Oil company is letting up
N its warfare on its competitors in
Kansas. Representative Mitchell Of
Douglas county says the Independent |
Ill refiners of southeastern Kansas |
have received a tip from 26 Wall |
treet that the Standard will not be |
80 severe on its competitors in the
uture and that its officers have no
objection to the independents extend
ng their business. What prompted
his change of policy is not known,
tut the independent refiners feel free
low to invade Standard territory and
ire doing it.
Have a Plan of Their Own.-Now
hat he department of justice has
uled that national banks cannot par
icipate in the Kansas bank guaranty
aw without an act of congress, the
ational bankers will proceed to for
lulate a plan of insurance of their
wn. The committee of twenty-five
ppointed at the recent meeting of
held in Topeka, will meet
in Kansas City. Kan,
nd devise a plan. 1t is understood
hat it will be in the form of clear
ng house association with a trust
ompany as a side issue for insur-
nee purposes. il
Race a Menace to Health-The
hawnee County Medical society,
of all the leading physi-
ians of Topeka. at a meeting in To-
'eka, adopted a resolution against
he proposed Juvenile Marathon race
ow being promoted. The twenty
even doctors present declared that
UGH a race would do irreparable in
Ity to the health of the young par
cipants and urged the promoters to
all 1t off.
lo5 Cases and 70 Deaths.-Statis-
cs to the board of health show that
uring the month of February there
'ere in Kansas 105 cases of tubercu- >
isis with seventy-three deaths; forty /
vo cases of typhoid fever, with thir- {
cen deaths; 1873 cases of diphtheria,
nth fifteen deaths; 231 cases of scar
It fever, with seven deaths; and ESQ
ases of measles, with two deaths.
.ansas City. Kan, led in tuberculosis.
18th nineteen cases and sixteen
eaths. Topeka led in smallpox with
,rty-seven cases. Wichita being sec s
nd with thirty cases. Jewell county (
eported thirty cases of diphtheria {
Teade county led In mea clos with for- ,