The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-14

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missioners picked the motto and they
recommended it to the commercial
bodies, schools, churches and the
baseball club.
Receipts Were Too Low.-The
books and accounts of the Kansas
state grain inspection department in
Kansas City, Kan, have been taken to
Topeka for an investigation. The re-
ceipts of the department for the last
year ran about $4,000 behind the ex-
penses of maintaining the department
and the state auditor and his deputies
are trying to learn the cause.
S. w. Can Cross Frisco Tracks,
The state board of railroad commits
sioners have granted the Southwest
ern Interurban Railway company the
right to cross the tracks of the Fris-
co Railway company at Winfield.
The Interurban company must give
the right of way to the Frisco and
must pay 5000 damages. The Frisco
can cross the tracks of the interur-
ban without stopping but the inter
urban must stop and signal. This is
only the second case where an inter
urban company has applied to the
commission for permission to cross
railroad tracks.
Can't Use States Name.-No state
or private bank will be permitted to
mislead their customers by advertis-
ing that their deposits are guaran-
teed by the state, so Bank Commits
sioner Dolley declares. The state, I'M
der the new law, does not guarantee
| deposits. All it does is to act as
trustee to administer the new law.
The banks, themselves, furnish the
insurance funds. 1t is simply case
of the banks putting up a small per
cent of their own assets to protect
deposits. The state has no interest
whatever in the fund behind the IN
surance policies, except to see that
the fund is handled honestly and at
no expense to the banks. Kansas
banks, which participate in the fund,
can advertise that they have their de-
anty law, but they cannot state that
their deposits are insured by the
state.
At the State Reformatory.-Al-
though no report is to be made, the
authorities of the state reformatory
at Hutchinson are anXiously looking
forward to the ending of the fiscal
year. which occurs June /. During
the last year conditions have arisen
making it necessary to add improve
ments and this will be done, commenc-
ing the first of the new year when the
state appropriation is to be available.
During the year just ending, the prin-
cipal feature of improvement has been
the addition of laundry house. The
laundry will be completed in about
two weeks. 1t is a one-story frame
building of sufficient dimensions.
Most of the work is being done by the
inmates of the reformatory. The
present laundry location is Just above
the boiler rooms, and is most unsatis-
tory. New machinery will be added
to the laundry. The reformatory is
at last to boast of band. An appro-
priation of $1,000 has been made for
band instruments, paraphernalia and
piano This money will be paid
soon and the work of getting up a
band will be started during July. AL
ready many of the inmates have ex-
pressed desire to become members
of the organization. A number of the
inmates are proficient with musical
instruments. A musical director is to
be employed for regular duty. He
will probably have charge of the re-
formatory choir and any other must
cal organization that may be formed.
Kansas Won't Have Exhibit.-The
expatriated Kansans out on the Pa.
cific coast are writing frantically to
Kansas state officials urging them TO
do something for the Alaska Yukon
exposition. That question was check
ed up in the legislature two years AGO
and that body did not take much stock
in the exposition. Since it failed to
make any appropriation for sendirg
Kansas exhibit about all the state Of
ficials can do is to encourage their
friends to attend the show. The leg
islature increased no salaries and the
officials are not likely to go to the
exposition
Steel Trusses coIIapse.-Four steel
trusses weighing sixteen tons, set in
place to support the roof of the new
100000 normal gymnasium in course
of construction at Emporia. fell, and
Gus Whitening, an iron worker from
Kansas City, was injured and may
die. Whitening was on top of one
of the trusses and fell with it a dis
lance of forty feet. A part of the
running track which forms the fourth
floor was demolished and the walls
danapad and