The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-12-31
Domestic Items.

An exploding locomotive boiler in a
Rock Island roundhouse at Shawnee,
Ok, completely demolished the build
ing and killed and wounded a large
number of men.
Gov. Hadley granted three Christ
mas pardons to men serving time in
the Missouri penitentiary.
Thomas NJ. Casey who pleaded
guilty to forgeries aggregating $780,
900 while cashier of the Salmon & Sal
mon bank at Clinton, Mo-, has COM
pleted three-fourths of his five year
term in the penitentiary and has been
released.
The formal demands of $4,000 rail
road employees working on all the lines
east of the Mississippi river for in
creased pay will be laid before the
railroad companies early in the year.
The Illinois supreme court has up
held the Chicago ordinance requiring
bakers to stamp the weight on all
loaves of bread
To man the present American fleet
in time of war would require 1911
officers and men and in time of peace
64,554 would be needed.
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of
the Kansas State board of agriculture
will be held at Topeka January IL, 10
and IA.
The government will begin January
10 the distribution Of 100000 to the
Cherokee Indians as payment for frac-
tional allottments to which they are
entitled.
The Twentieth annual meeting Of
the Western Association of Nursery
men occurred at Kansas City with a
large number of nurserymen present.
A. Brown of Geneva, Neb., presided
A we'll defended rumor is in circu-
lation in state house circles at Topeka
that Attorney General Jackson intends
to begin action at once against the
Kansas CITY, Kan, packing houses for
violating the antitrust laws of Kan
sas.
The Ncaraguan insurgents have Is
sued manifesto declaring the election
of Madriz to the presidency unconsti-
tutional because the Atlantic coast of
the republic was not represented.
The Santa Fe railroad paid out ST.
100000 in taxes in Kansas. This sum
represents all the state, county, town.
ship, school, and city taxes assessed
against the road, less 21S per cent re-
bate. This company is the largest
taxpayer in Kanss.
The Rialto building at the corner of
Ninth street and Grand avenue, Kan
sas City, burned causing a loss esti-
mated at 100000 on building and con-
tents.
A farmer from the wheat regions Of
the Saskatchewan went to Detroit to
do little shopping and purchased
80 motor cars for his neighbors paying
100000 cash for them.
The grand jury in session at Tulsa
about two weeks returned 45 indict-
ments.
Gen. Estrada has announced that he
will assume at once the offensive
against the government of President
Madriz
The war spirit again has broken out
in Russia and $4,000 men have been
Nordered to Manchuria while the Jap
anese have thrown an army into
Korea. II would seem probable that the
struggle for supremacy in the Far East
is to be resumed.
The battleship Utah the largest war
ship of its class ever built in the Uni
ted States has been successfully
alunched from the yard OF the New
York Shipbuilding company at Cam
den. n. ].
More than 100000 is the Christ
mas gift of the United Steel corpora
tlon to its officers and employees. The
amount to each is determined by his
annual earnings.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion has sent out a notice to the rail-
roads that failure hereafter to obey or
ders Of the commission viii be treated
as intentional violation.