The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-09

SOC, 900, the longest span of which is
LISP feet is to be opened at once.
Representative Kinkaid of New
Jersey has introduced bill which pro-
vides that the next state admitted to
the union shall be called Lincoln.
II. l.. Swift son of the late packing
pioneer G. F. Swift has been adjudged
insane.
Indians in the state of Chihuahua,
Mexico have rebelled at the attempt
of the government to collect taxes and
have killed several tax officials.
! A wedding between 12-year-old
boy and girl IA years old belonging
to band of Gypsies was prevented at
Maryville, Mo-, by the recorder re-
fusing to issue a license.
The Mercantile club of nansas City,
Kansas, is planning a trade trip OF four
days duration through Kansas.
Senator Money of Mississippi has
introduced a resolution directing the
attorney general to submit to the SUI
preme court information regarding the
adoption of the Fourteenth amend
ment to determine whether the amend
ment is binding.
The Utah Fuel company has entered
plea of guilty to the charge of fraud
ulently acquiring LAO acres of coal
land and paid fine of $4,000, also
$192, 900 for the coal extracted and
relinqushed the land.
Gov. Stubs and Attorney General
Jackson of Kansas appeared before
Attorney General Wickersham at
Washington in an effort to get the
order forbidding national banks in
Kansas from accepting the conditions
Of the state law respecting the guar
anty deposit law removed.
The Colombian assembly has re-
ferred the matter Of the ratification OF
the Colombia American treaty to the
new assembly to be elected May 80
In a fight at Hickory Ground the
headquarters of the defiant band of
Creek Indians in Oklahoma between
posse of five officers and 20 Indians
two of the officers were killed and a
third badly wounded
To keep down and coordinate the
expenses of the government President
Taft proposes TO have all estimates
considered by the cabinet and in con-
nection with probable revenues.
A well 2,400 feet deep drilled at
Sapulpa, Ok, for gas, produces water
at a boiling heat and strongly i'm
pregnated with sulphur
A brotherhood of Road Draggers"
has been organized at Sturgeon, Mo-,
composed of farmers who promise to
keep the roads along their farms
dragged for one year.
Three men robbed several stores at
| Spickard. Mo-, and attempted to escape
on a handcar but were intercepted and
two of them captured after Marshal
Caraway of Jamesport had been dan
gerously wounded.
All the bureau chiefs Of the depart
ment of the interior have been direct
ed to submit estimates TO cover the eX-
penses of their offices for the year
1911 and to include no item not strict
ly necessary for the public service.
Representative Scott of Kansas in a
speech on the Payne bill declared that
lumber ought TO be put on the free
..st, the duty restored on hides and
that additional revenue should be
levied on beer.
Callers at the White house state that
it is President Taft's intention to leave
congressional matters to congress and
that he will not attempt to influence
congress along any special lines in
considering tariff revision.
In an effort to reach his mother be-
fore she died Frank l.. Vanderlip OF
New York in a special train went from
New York to Chicago in Is hours and
IS minutes and in doing so broke all
records for the trip.
The federal grand jury has return
ed an indictment against c. A. Straus
former cashier of the Portland, Ore,
post office charging him with embez-
element.
DR.. Moses Clegg OF the Bureau of
Science at Manila has succeeded in
-cultivating the leprosy bacillus and
it is hoped specific treatment for tn :
disease may be secured.
More live stock was marketed in
Kansas City during the month just
closed than in any previous March.