The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-02-12
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
Expert insurance men declare that
the damage in Kansas and Nebraska
from the recent windstorm will reach
100000 in each state, while in Mis-
souri, the loss is placed at $4,000.
The electric light and power plant
ct Muskogee, Ok, was temporarily put
out of business by a small tornado,
leaving the city in darkness and COM
polling every factory to shut down.
A tornado at-Sulphur Springs, Tex,
wrecked eight buildings and serious
ly injured one woman.
Fire destroyed the Haskell Memoir
ial home, a Battle Creek, Mich, or
phanage. The 81 inmates succeeded
in escaping with the exception OF
three children who are missing.
Fire at Neosho Falls, Kan, the 9TH
err night destroyed several business
buildings including the postoffice.
A premature explosion of dynamite
in a mine near Joplin, Mo-, caused the
deaths of two miners.
The California assembly has passed
the bill segregating Japanese children
in separate schools along with Chi
nese, Koreans and other Asiatics.
The bill is considered the most Of
fensive of all the anti-Japanese bills.
The Texas legislature has defeated
prohibition for this session at least by
a vote of 50 for to 40 against. The
dry" advocates were unable to mus
ter the necessary two-thirds by four
votes.
A series of small tornadoes in the
south has cost the lives of score oil
people and hundreds of thousands OF
dollars in damage to property. The
storm area reached from the Tennes-
see line to the Texas panhandle.
c. r. Cooksey, an attorney of Kan
sas City, Kan, has been publicly re-
proved by the Kansas supreme court
for bringing disbarment proceedings
against C. W. Trickett, assistant at
torney general for Wyandotte county
All his charges were proven false.
The Wisconsin assembly has killed
the senate resolution for an investiga-
ton of the United States senatorial
primary.
A $4,000 factory and two small
dwellings were destroyed by fire at
Tulsa, Ok, recently.
Rev. George Groves, a negro preach
err OF Tulsa, Ok. was caught stealing
coal and dangerously wounded by the
policeman who arrested him
Heirs of James Hillman base
claims to a big slice of st. Louis
valued at S2O,000,O00 on documents
found in AN old trunk at Butler, Pa.
The case of Maj. Harvey Salmon
of Clinton, Mo-, who was under a SEN
tence of three years in the peniten-
tiary for unlawful banking, has been
reversed and remanded by the Mis-
souri, supreme court. 1t is improbable
that he will ever be tried again.
John E. Swanger has been con-
firmed a state bank commissioner fer
Missouri for term Of four years from
January Is.
The Birmingham Coal & Iron COM
pany has been thrown into the hands
of receivers in the federal court at
Birmingham, Ala. The company owns
properties valued at s6.00O.000.
Senator Ledge has introduced an
amendment to the diplomatic and con-
sular appropriation bill providing for
the appointment of a congressional
committee to investigate the diplo-
matte and consular service abroad.
Wichita and Anthony, Kan, have
adopted the commission form of mu-
nicipal government by decisive ma
jorities.
The Kansas State Editorial associ-
alton has chosen Wichita as the meet
ing place for 1910. Arthur Capper of
Topeka was elected president.
Five thousand Chinese corpses,
bound for their final resting places in
the Flowery Kingdom. left Brooklyn,
n. Y, on board a steamer recently.
Gov. Patterson of Tennessee has
vetoed the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture of intoxicating liquor in that
state after January l. 1910.
The woods Opera House block. to-
gether with the National Bank of Com
merce at Wellington. Kan. burned re-
Gently, causing a loss OF $4,000.
At Saint Pons. France. two aero
nauts were dashed to death while at
tempting to alight from balloon dur
ing a storm.