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

The United States court OF appeal!
at San Francisco reversed the decis
sion of the trial court which fined the
Santa Fe railroad $330,000 for grant
ing rebates at Nelson, Ariz., and re
manded the case for new trial.
: The Missouri senate passed reso
luton submitting to the people at the
next general election the question o
statewide prohibition. The bill ha,
passed the house but as the senate
has since amended it the house musi
again act.
Representative Murphy Of Missouri
introduced in congress resolution
that contained bitter attack on fed
eral judges j. F. Phillips of Kansas
City and Smith Mcpherson of Red
Oak, Iowa in connection with their
handling of the railroad rate cases IN
Missouri. The resolution calls on the
speaker to appoint committee to in
vest!gate the conduct of these two
judges.
A charter has been granted to an
organization of National bankers OF
Kansas capitalized at 100000 the pur-
pose of which is to insure depositors
in National banks in the state.
Late reports from the storm place
the deaths at 224 and injured at 400.
The gale extended from Western Kan
sas to the Atlantic states and from
the lakes to the gulf.
Granite monuments are to he erect
ed by the United States government
to mark the graves of Confederate sol
diers in cemeteries in Alton, ILL.,, and
Indianapolis.
All previous records were broken by
the shipments during the month of
April through San Barnardino, Cal, of
1884 cars of oranges each car of
which contained 3S4 boxes.
The second National Peace con-
gress convened in Chicago and is the
greatest gathering of it's kind ever
held in America. Scores of eminent
political economists and diplomats of
this and other countries attended.
Smallpox has broken out in cpl
demic form at Adana, and because of
the recent massacre of Arnenians
there and the consequent suffering 1t
is expected to assail great numbers.
The 51st annual Minnesota Sunday
school convention was held at Crooks
ton and hundreds of Sunday school
workers from all parts of the state at
tended.
May /, 1909, was the coolest that
has ever been recorded by the United
States weather office at Topeka, Kan,
in the month Of May The thermome'
ter registered 20 degrees.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed in South Dakota for the Missouri
River Navigation company with a
capital stock of $5.000,000. The com
pany will operate passenger and
freight boats on the Missouri river.
The supreme court of the United
States has rendered a decision in the
that the roads may mine coal but
must sell it before 1t can be transport
ed over their line. it also holds that
roads may own stock in coal mining
companies and yet transport the coal
owned by the company; it also holds
that congress has full power to pro-
hibit the mining of coal or the owner
ship of stock in mining companies if
il cared TO do so. The constitutional
ity of the act is therefore upheld but
the contention of the government in
the case is held to be foreign to the
intention of congress.
Revenue officers have discovered
more than a dozen Illicit stills in the
Jack Fork mountains of the Oklaho-
ma and have met with resistance
from the moonshiners.