The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-09-03
Domestic Items.

State and National Food and Dairy
departments by resolution approved
the use of benzoate of soda as food
pfeservative.
The Sons of Veterans will meet next
year at Atlantic City at the same
time as the Grand Army Of the Re-
public.
The Union Pacific railroad will
establish a school for employees and
prospective employees where all
branches of the service will be taught
free by experts.
Fifty experts from state and ma
tional experiment stations have met
in Cheyenne, Yyo., to study dry farm
ing.
Eight counties of Western Kansas
are being asked to vote bonds of 81
600 per mile to help build a railroad
from Goodland to Liberal.
The street railway employees union
of Lincoln, Neb., has made formal
demand on the company for an in
crease in wages, for one day off each
week for each employee and for
recognition of the union.
The Perkins excursion party while
cruising along the Alaska coast dis
covered a new glacier emptying into
Prince William Sound. The ice river
is two miles long and 200 feet high in
front
Three weeks ago Mrs. Kate Clay
comb wife of a farmer near Gallatin,
Mo-, left her husband and six children
and ran away to Excelsior Springs
with John Ward neighbor. When
Ward went to the Claycomb home to
get some of the woman's property he
was shot to death by the angry hus-
band.
Officers of leading western railroads
are making an effort to stop the cut
ting of passenger rates for excursions
and conventions and to establish two
cents a mile as the minimum rate
throughout the western states that
have laws reducing fares.
George Rutledge of Mount Vernon,
H., found a peal in the Wabash river
weighing 46 grains which he sold for
$4,000.
Motor car service is to be installed
on the st. Joseph and Grand Island
railroad covering the entire distance
from Kansas City to Grand Island.
Attempts are being made to run the
plant of the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany at Schoenville, Pa, with i'm
ported workmen while the strikers are
held in subsection by the mounted
police.
Judge Porterfeld continued the
incubator baby" case when it came
before him on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings brought by Mrs. Barclay in
her effort to prevent being returned
to Kansas on requisition of Gov.
Stubs to meet the charge of hdnap-
ing. The case will again be heard
September Z. In the meantime the
little girl will be kept in charge Of
Clarence ]. Trigg, clerk Of the
juvenile court until that date.
In order to more successfully sup
press violations of the prohibitory law
the police of Nashville, Tenn, have
been ordered to report for duty in
plain clothes and without clubs.
A contract has been signed with
Wilbur Wright to make an aeroplane
fight at the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton on the Hudson. Glenn H. Curtiss
is also expected to make a fight.
Iowa has over 1900 rural carriers
being second only to Illinois in the
number of rural routes.
Fishermen at Beaufort, N. c.. caught
500, 900 pounds of Mullets in one morn
ing making the greatest catch OF that
fish ever secured on the Atlantic coast.
The thirteenth annual convention Of
the Association of State and National
Food and Dairy Departments is in
session at Denver.
A negro appeared in the street of
Monroe, La. with a shotgun and shot
at every man in sight and had
wounded 29 before he was killed.
Eastern Nebraska is again ex-
periencing a heat wave and the corn
crop will suffer serious injury from
the heat and lack Of rain.