The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-11-19
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.

O,OUO pCloOho aJtChuCo tlS SASi SioS'
attending the installation Of Henry j
Waters as president of the Kansas
State Agricultural college.
five-year-old girl at Roswell, y
NJ, crushed a thermometer in ne1
mouth while her temperature was be-
ing taken. She swallowed some of the
mercury and died soon after.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured when the controller
burned out on a Kansas City street
car near the Stock yards.
The annual meeting of Missouri
State League of Building and Loan as
sociations was held in st. Louis.
The president has approved the
recommendation of the joint army end
navy board making pearl Harbor in
the Bawiian islands the naval base OF
the Pacific.
A running fight between bank rob
bers and citizens occurred at Ben
Arnold, a small town near Waco, Tex.
No one was injured and the robbers
escaped with $4,000.
The New York Sun charges that the
sugar trust has stolen from the United
States $30,O00,000 and that it was done
with the assistance of officials employ
ed by the United States.
The board Of directors Of the board
of trade Of Chicago have voted unani-
mously to so change the rules as to
make the cornering of grain impos-
sible.
A correspondence school for minis
terial studies has been started at Chi
cago under the direction Of the Con
gregational church.
The Wichita, Kinsley. Scott City
and Denver Air Line Railroad COM
pany a western Kansas project has
been authorized to issue bonds and
stock to build a road through the Kan
sas wheat fields.
Secretary Coburn in his latest crop
bulletin says that never in the history
of Kansas have the three crops wheat,
corn and oats been worth so much in
the aggregate as in 1909. Their COM
bined value amounts to $l69,262,323.
Lead by women many of them wives
of well known citizens mob OF 10000
avenged the murder of Anna Pelley at
Cairo, H., by hanging negro William
James. The mob also took white
man who had killed his wife from the
Jail and hanged him also.
A series of farmers institutes was
held in Dickinson county, Kan, by
specialists from the state agricultural
college at Manhattan in which i'm
proved methods of dairying was eX-
planned.
The American consul general at
Buenos Aires reports that the traffic
in beef from Argentina to England is
growing rapidly.
The National Waterways commits
sion appointed to make an investiga-
ton of water transportation problems
and who have just returned from an
extended examination Of European
waterways will make an examination
Of the Missouri river from Kansas City
to its mouth.
On October % there had been re-
moved from the Culebrat cut OF the
Panama canal 39,OO2,299 cubic yards
of material and there yet remained a
like amount to be removed.
Robert Simpson a young man OF
Newark, N. j., was hypnotised before
O large audience by professional
hypnotists. When he attempted to re-
yive Simpson he was found to be dead.
The Kansas supreme court again
sustained the old soldier preference
law by sustaining the Allen county
district court in issuing a writ of
,mandamus compelling the city council
of LaHarpe to conform to the law.
Contracts have been let for the con-
lstruction of three new buildings at
Fort Riley.
Two years ago the town OF Barney,
Neb., moved back two miles from the
Missouri river to prevent being en-
quilted and now the river has again
reached a point so near the town as
TO make a second move imperative.
Cecause of the brutal and revolving
conditions revealed by an investiga-
ton of the penal institutions Of Texas
q special session OF the legislature is
TO be called to reform the whole con-
Hict system.
The Kansas state -oard Of health
has declared the roller towel in public
places TO be the greatest collector Of
germs and distributor OF infection
thus far discovered and have an
nounced a war of determination.
The pupils in the schools of Kan
sas City are to have constant medical
inspection under the direction of the
health commissioners.
A company has been formed at
Macon, Mo-, to operate a gold mine
a New Cambria where 2O-fOot ledge
OF ore exists.
James Curry a fisherman found $50
pounds Of smbergris few miles from
Fort Townsend, Wash, which chem
lists pronounce to be worth $4,000.