The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-10-08

julius Caesar Hurst shot and killed
his brother Hannibal.
The four days visit of the Japanese
trade commissions to Chicago closed
with the most elaborate banquet CIV
en- in their honor since their arrival
! In this country.
The twelfth annual session of the
American Mining congress convened
at Goldfield, New.
Bogus deeds to land in Western
Kansas have made their appearance
| at Topeka and the county attorney Of
Seward county is looking for the gull.
| ty parties. Several persons have been
swindled in the transactions.
Naturalization was refused to 2,067
more aliens last year than during the
year previous.
The Great Northern railroad has
put in operation from st. Paul to
Seattle a fast mail train which cuts
IL hours off the present running
time and is said to be the fastest long
distance train in the world.
Ten men were killed and 16 prob
ably fatally injured when passenger
train crashed into the caboose of a
stock train filled with stockmen at
Chicago. The engine plowed through
the caboose, tearing it to shreds and
setting fire to the wreck.
A cold storage warehouse at Miner
al, Kan, was raided by the sheriff and
100 barrels of beer confiscated.
A wireless message to DR.. Cook
from Harry Whitney states that DR..
Cooks instruments and records were
left at Etah. Peary having refused to
let anything belonging to DR.. Cook
to come on board the Roosevelt.
S. NJ. Jordan, institute specialist Of
the Missouri State Agricultural Board
at Columbia, has just finished series
of lectures to farmers in the Ozarks on
scientific soil preparation and i'm.
proved methods of raising corn.
The inauguration of causeway to
connect Galveston Island with the
mainland was publicly celebrated. The
causeway will be 100 feet wide and
about two miles long, crossing West
Bay. 1t will cost $1,50O.O0O.
The Burley Tobacco society Of Ken
lucky has been sued by tobacco manu-
facturers under the antitrust laws for
restraint of trade and maintaining ex.
cessive prices on tobacco. Damages
aggregating $750,O00 are claimed.
The directors of the Kansas City
Terminal Railway company, the cor.
poration that is to build and operSte
the new $2O,0OO,OOO depot at Kansas
City, have formally accepted the ordin.
ance recently adopted by the city.
Foreign Affairs.
A Paris paper asserts that secret
treaty exists between Great Britain
and Spain by which England supports
SPANS program of African conquest.
A Canadian official who has made
an inspection of the Northwest esti-
mates that $4,000 American families
have entered Canada this year to Sc
cure homesteads.
Thirty balloons sailed away from
Paris in the French Aero clubs an
nual long distance race.
A Spanish division has advanced
from La Restinga setting fire to the
Moorish villages. Heavy resistance
was encountered at several points.
Dispatches received by the state
department from Consul General
Hanna state that relief is still needed
by the people at Monterey, Mex.
Personal.
w. J. Bryan and wife celebrated the
silver anniversary of their wedding
at their residence near Lincoln, Neb.
Justice w. ]. Gaynor of the New
York state supreme court has been
nominated by the Democrats as mayor
of New York.
Wilbur Wright, with his aeroplane,
circled around the statue Of liberty in
New York harbor during the Hudson
Fulton celebration flights.
Mrs. Sarah Riddle, an aged widow,
was struck by train while crossing a
bridge at Strasburg, Mo-, and killed.
o. ]. Morris, a graduate of Kansas
Wesleyan university at Salina, Kan,
has gone to Singapore to teach in a
mission school.
w. ]. Bryan denies that final ar
engagements have been made for joint
debate with Senator Bailey Of Texas.
He says if the debate takes place it
can not occur before the middle of
November.
August Tischner was killed near Sc
dalia, Mo-, by tree falling on him.
Chas. R. Crane, recently appointed
United States minister to China has
left Chicago for his position of duty.
Robert German, a farmer living
eight miles south of Leavenworth,
Kan, was killed in a runaway. His
horse become frightened, throwing
him out. His body was dragged a
mile
The preliminary hearing of Rev.
Stuckey, accused of abducting a 16-
year-old girl, has been postponed until
October 9 at ottawa, Kan.