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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Part of Train in the Ditch.

Abilene.-The Santa Fe passenger
train on the Salina branch went in
ditch from the effects of recent heavy
rains. A culvert was washed out west
of town and the engine crossed in safe
ty Lut the baggage and express cars
piled up in the opening. The passen-
ger cars remained on the track. The
Union Pacific and Rock Island tracks
were blocked for several hours.
Brakeman Bentley fell from the en-
CINE tender and his arm was broken
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30

Additional reports from the West
Texas gulf coast show that IL lives
were lost and that the property dam
age will amount to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
Scores of eviction notices have been
served on striking employees OF the
Pressed Steel Car company at NC
KEGS Rock, Pa, who have been &C.
cupying houses owned by the COM
pany.
A hurricane resembling in intensity
the great storm of 1900 caused very
little damage to the city of Galveston.
The sea wall built since the partial
destruction of the city by the storm
of 1900 fully protected the place.
The state board of health Of Mis-
souri, has issued a bulletin in which
residents of the recently flooded dis
tricts are requested to take every pre-
caution to prevent widespread sick
ness.
In a fire at the Tulsa, Ok, race
track four horses, including Toboggan,
Arvid Lad and Pat Ornus, were burned
to death and ten other racers were in
jured. The loss is 100000.
International cooperation for the
suppression of the traffic in opium as
well as cocaine and other habit-form-
ing drugs is being sought by the state
department.
The Photographers Association of
America met this year in Rochester,
the center of Photographic materials
in this country, in their annual con-
vention.
For the second time Patrick Cal
houn is on trial in San Francisco on
charge of Offering a city official
bride in the interest of the street car
company of which he is president.
A temporary restraining order has
been issued preventing the Kansas
railroad board putting in effect the
new schedule of rates on cream re-
Gently agreed upon.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Fire at Smith Center.

Smith Center.-Fire, which broke
out in the grandstand at the fair
grounds. just west of the city, result
ed in the complete loss of the struc-
ture and entailed loss of $4,000. No
cause is known for the fire, but it is
thought to have been the work of in
cendiaries. The fire was too well I'M
der way when discovered to be extin-
guished, although the Smith Center
fire department made a game fight
against the flames. Efforts will prob
ably be made at once to hebuild the
stand in time for the annual Smith
county fair, which will be held this
fall.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Want Night Train.

Salina.-The people along the
Union Pacific road between Salina
and Colby will circulate petitions
early next week asking for a night
train on the Lincoln branch. There
is now but one train a day and daily
the cars are uncomfortably crowded
and there are no accommodations, wo-
men being compelled to ride in the
smoking cars. The new train has
been promised for a year, according
TO information received here. Z
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
This Wheat Sold for s1.os.

Carbondale.-The first rev wheat
marketed here this year was sold by
James Carpenter to c. T. Neihart fog
s1.05 a bushel. The wheat graded No.
and tested SO. The yield averaged
nearly % bushels to the acre. 1t was
in the shock before the heavy rains
and wind.
All oats and wheat in the county
are harvested. many farmers having
worked Sundays as well as up to
midnight in the fields. Corn viii be
a much better crop than was expect
ed two weeks ago.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Personal.

Word was received at the New York
Y. NJ. c. A. headquarters telling of the
accidental drowning by the upsetting
of canoe at Silver Bay, N. Y, of
Bruno Hobbs, field secretary of the In
ternational committee of Young Mems
Christian association.
]. D. Bowersock of Lawrence, Kan,
is quoted as saying that he may be-
come candidate for governor against
Gov. Stubs.
William Franklin Willoughby of
Alexandria, Va, at present secretary
of state of Porto Rico, has been APP
pointed assistant director of the
census bureau at a salary of $4,000
per annum.
j. Pierpont Morgan, who departed
for his annual European trip on Feb.
2 last, has returned to New York on
the steamer Majestic.
E. H. Harriman's health continues
to show improvement. He is now CIV
ing up a small portion of his time 10
his business affairs, with the permits
sion of his physician.
General Charles Elmer Compton, U.
S. A., retired, died at the home OF
his son, Paul L. Compton, in Holly
wood, Cal
A bronze bust of ]. ]. Hill is to be
placed at the Seattle exposition. 1t is
the largest of its kind in the world
yveiphinp 7O0 mounds
Mrs. j. Madison Hayes, daughter of
Jefferson Davis died at her home in
Colorado Springs, Col, after long
illness.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
SANTA FEE BUILDS STOCK YARDS
Company Will Spend 100000 For
Modern system at Emporia.


Emporia-Work has been COM
menced on the new Santa Fe stock
yarcs to cost 100000. which will be
among the largest and most modern
systems in the west when completed
The new yards will contain fifty
four pens with concrete watering
troughs and floors, each pen with
capacity of two cars. The old pens
will be kept for use in rush seasons.
The company has bought fifty acres
of ground southeast of its yards and
on this the stock yards will be built.
The tract includes the Orient right
of way and twelve acres held by that
road for its terminals here.
Much stock is handled, the 2S-hour
law making 1t compulsory to unload
many trains here.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
To Fight Insect Pests.

Wellington. - Arrangements have
been completed for the establishment
of an chronological laboratory here
by the national department of agri-
culture. The Stewart estate is erect
ing a large frame building on plans
prepared by the department. 1t will
be used for a term of years, and will
be fitted up for carrying on expert
mental work in the effort TO discover
the best methods of combating the
insect pest that has done much dam
age to the grain in this section in the
past three or four years.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
$1,000 More Than Spent.

During the last fiscal year the en-
tire appropriation used by the state
treasurers office was $14,16772. This
was for the fiscal year ending June
20. During the same year the state
treasurer's office collected as interest
on funds deposited in state deposit
tories a total of $25, 166.95. The de-
partment collected nearly eleven thou
sand dollars for the state more than
1t spent The following list shows
the amount of interest on state funds
collected from state depositores for
each month during the last fiscal
year:
July 1908, $2,555.69; August, 81
2S1.S5; September, $1,914.1S; October,
s1713.9O; November, $1,39S.77; De-
cember, $1,466.55 January, 1909, 81
2O3.46; February, $2,1S4.O2; March,
s2,361.OS; April, s2,492.64; May. 81
1921; June, $2,462.26.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
But % Failed out Of 1856

Lindsborg.-The county examining
board. which consists of County SUI
perintendent Edgecomb, Prof. c. w
Cline of the Mcpherson city schools,
and Prof. H. n. Nelson of Bethany
College, Lindsborg, completed the
grading OF the papers of those who
took the teachers examination at the
close of the normal institute. One
hundred and thirty-six took the ex-
animation and ia OF this number
were successful in securing certifi'
Gates.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Old Settlers Reunion.

Axtell.-Axtell is preparing for the
Old Settlers Reunion to be held here
August %, 26 and 81. This is a coun-
ty organization and draws large
crowds. The best speakers In the
state are on the program. Two bah
games, a balloon ascension and two
high dives each day is part of the
program now assured.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Killed BY a Life Wire.

Arkansas City.-Roy w. Higgins,
young man employed at the interur-
ban power plant here, was instantly
killed by coming in contact with the
high tension wire which carries 22,00o
volts of electricity. The wire touched
him on the forehead as he was in the
act of sweeping the floor around the
propeller. The young man leaves a
wife,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Railroads to Make Test.

Maintaining their practice Of bring
ing a Joint suit in the supreme court
to test each order of the corporation
commission, fourteen Oklahoma rail-
roads combined to appeal to the high
court from orders 2O2 and EOS, recent
" promulgated by the corporation
commission. The first Is an amend
ment TO the hay and grain rate; the
second, listing hollow cement posts as
cement and building material blocks
for rating.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Founder of Arcadia is Dead.

Arcadia.-J. w. Wallace, who set
tied here in 1865, gave this place its
name, and was one of the three COM
missioners appointed by Governor
Crawford to organize this county, Is
dead at the home of his son at Alex,
Okla. He was SO years of age and
was for 6S years a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Domestic Items.

A member of the New York Aero
nautic society 10 which Glenn Curtiss
sold his aeroplane, attempted to make
an ascension. He took stage fright
and neglected to steer the machine.
1t became unbalanced when about 80
feet from the ground fell and serious
Ey injured the man and disabled the
machine.
Anna Shaw president of the Nation
al Women Suffrage association says
that should the demands of suffragists
be granted women should do their
share on the police and fire depart
ment.
The spread eagle figureheads are to
he removed from the battleships and
states having ships named for them
may secure the loan of the emblems
Cor the asking.
The National Editorial association
closed its meeting at Seattle with
the election of officers. A. Nevin
Pormeroy was elected president
in riot between deputies guarding
the plant of Allen & Sons Kenosha,
Wis, and strikers three men were
shot and a score of others were in
1ured.
In local option election Staunton,
Va, joined the ranks of the dry"
towns of the state, voting against
saloons by 90 majority.
About S0,OO0,0OO vubic yards of ex-
,ravation work has been done on the
-Isthmian canal and there yet remains
100000 900 cubic yards to be removed.
The first railroad to file a statement
of legislative expenses at Jefferson
City during the recent session of the
Missouri legislature was the Illinois
Central. The statement shown ex-
penditures of S75.67.
A 2O-year-old boy employed in the
Chicago Office of the Adams Express
company has confessed to taking $1O.-
900 in currency that was being sent
through the office. All of the money
was recovered except SO.
Ella Gingles was cleared from the
charge of stealing lace. but the story
told on the witness stand of being
white slave" victim was denounced
as untrue by the jury that freed her.
The drawings for the three Indian
reservations will occur on dates as
follows; for the Coer d'Alene reserve
August and 10; for the Flathead re-
serve August IL and 13; for the Spo-
kane reserve August 16 and II.
delegates from 80 countries formed
1.-The worlds prohibition confedera-
uou," at the London Imperial Insti-
tute. The object of the confederation
AZ TO unite for mutual help of the or
Limitations of the world which are
yporking for the suppression of the
zE3quor traffic.
President Taft has formally accept
ed the invitation to attend the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress at
Denver August 16.
Money orders issued in the fiscal
-rear 1908 numbered 2.0S9.0O0 more
than in the previous year but in ag-
zregaie amount were $2S.S46,OOO less.
The reports filed by National banks
show that there is on deposit with
such banks in savings accounts $780,
81 494.59s. -.
The Missouri Valley Fair associa-
zion has secured Electric park at Kan
1as City and the Interstate fair VIII
Xbe held there this fan
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
LIGHTNING STRUCK OIL TANKS.
Uncle Sam Plant at coffeyvllIe suf-
fers From Fire.

Pittsburg-The storage plant of the
Uncle Sam Oil company was Ncomr
pletely destroyed by fire as the result
Of being struck by lightning. The
loss to the company is estimated at
about S1,750.
All of the tanks with the exception
of the large one containing coal oil
we're ruined along with two tank
wagons and the building and contents.
The other property aside from the
1000 gallons of coal oil destroyed con-
sisted of the frame storage house,
40x44 and contents, valued at S1,100. l
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Phone Earnings st,74o,2s6.

Telephone statistics, prepared by
Labor Commissioner Charles l..
Daugherty from the returns of the Pho
neer Telegraph and Telephone com
pany and 139 independent companies
show that the earnings of the compa
MES for 1908 were $1,740,2S6. The
cost of material and supplies was
s305,616; the amount paid out for
rent insurance and taxes was S121,
612, and for wages. sS11.767. The cap
ital invested in the telephone business
IL s5,520,s52. The value OF grounds,
s34,721; of buildings, $27s,761. and
machinery, s5.O7S.S9O. The employees
numbered 1875. including 6s6 male
and l,17s female.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
DEATH LIST GROWS;
REPORTS SHOW rs
NEW TOWNS ADDED TO LIST OF
SUFFERERS.
Tropical Hurricane Causes Property
Loss of Over MILAN DOL
lars N Texas-Over
Fifty Injured.

Houston, Textile number or per-
sons dead as a result of Wednes-
days storm is conservatively esti-
mated at rs; those more or less SER
lously injured number twice as many,
and the property loss is conservative
ly estimated at million dollars. Ex-
cept to isolated points, all communi-
cation has been restored.
Late dispatches add the towns of
Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer to
those which suffered to any extent
from the sweep of the wind. At Rock
Island, nine of the largest buildings
were either RACED or partially wreck
ed. the damage being estimated at
$75,000 Fifty houses were blown
down at Weimer and the property
loss will approximate 100000.
Storm Area 100 Miles.
Wharton suffered more than from
comes the report that the sloop Co.
lumbus, with all on board, was blown
out to sea. Advices show that dam
age was done by the storm over an
area of 100 miles in the interior.
While the property destruction has
been great, the loss of life and the
proportion of injury is almost mex
plicably small. This is attributed
largely to the fact that storm warn
ings gave the inhabitants an oppor.
tunity to prepare.
In many cases crops nave been
Frustrated, but the hot sun following
the hurricane is doing much to re-
store normal conditions in the fields.
The following are the towns from
which reports of the greatest damage
have come:
Galveston, Bay City, Velasco, Ange-
lon, Wharton, Columbia, Columbus.
Palaciso, Eagle Lake, Weimer, New
Ulm, Schuckenburg, Attention, Beas-
lev, Kindleton, Sublime, Glidden,
Markham, La Grange, Bastrop, El
Campo, Yoakum, Garwood, Mat.
thews. Bonus, Waelder, Flatonia and
Austin.
Receivers Bodies.
Houston, Textile bodies of Cap
tain R. L. Bettison and his wife,
scantily clad and girded with life pre-
servers were found at Morgan's
Point. Captain Bettison and his wife
we're among the party of ten who
we're swept off pier near Galveston
by the hurricane Wednesday. Stimuli
taneously with the report Of the re-
covery of the bodies of the Bettisons
came the news that Ernest A. Booth
n dining room boy, who was one or
the party on the pier, was on DRIFT
wood for nearly forty-eight hours
DemoIishes Mill.
New Orleans.-Reports from Bra
zoria, Tex, state that large sugar
mill at the Clemens penal farm was
demolished in Wednesdays storm
Loss. s275,000. One of the prisons
was wrecked but no one was injured
The sloop Columbia, with four men
aboard, was blown out to sea and mas
not yet been heard from.
Kills 100000 Birds.
New Orleans.-Two hundred thou
sand birds on the breeding grounds
maintained by the state game com
mission on Battle Door, Audubon ant
Breton islands, off the southwestern
coast of Louisiana, were killed in the
storm. Many of the birds we're OF
rare varieties. The islands were com
pletely overflown.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
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| STATE NEWS NOTES
Condensed Report Important Events That Happened Kansas
Died From Injuries.

Larned.-J. ]. Myler, who was in
jured in the cyclone which visited the
western part of this city on the 18th.
died from his wounds. Myler, with
his wife and nine children, were liv-
ing in a etone house, which was en-
tirely destroyed by the storm and
every one of the family more or less
injured,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Granted Pardon by Governor.

Governor Haskell pardoned Emil
Walters, an insane Oklahoma county
convict, who was convicted in 1905,
and given fifteen years on statu-
tory charge of criminally mistreating
his 12-year-old niece, who was also his
stepdaughter.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Douglas Coroner Had Close Shave.

Lawrence.-Dr John Rudolph, coun-
ty physician of Douglas county, had a
narrow escape from death when re-
volver, which he was cleaning, slip
ped to the floor and was discharged.
The bullet inflicted a slight flesh
wound on his right leg, which will not
give trouble for more than a short
time
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
S IA T E
CAPITAL
| T f NJ S
Topeka, Kansas.
Delegates Appointed.

Governor Haskell appointed dele
gates to the national irrigation con-
gress at Spokane, August Ola, as
follows: Harper S. Cunningham and
]. G. Jamison of Guthrie, Henry p.
Robins of McAlester.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
More Delegates Named.

Governor Haskell named c. G. Jones
Of Oklahoma City, State Senator j. S.
Norris Of Hooker, and j. A. Jaggers
Of McAlester, as additional state dele
gates to the National Irrigation con-
gress at Spokane.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Brown County Land Sells Well.

Hiawatha.-Brown county land. two
and a half miles south of Hiawatha,
reached the $20O-an-acre mark, when
Ben Jones bought forty acres for
$4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
Twelve Hundred Pupils.

Twelve hundred high school pupils
in Kansas have signed up agreements
already to take the normal work in
high schools and to engage in the pro-
fession of teaching.
The state board of education adj
mitted four more high schools to the
normal course They are: Sedan, Wa
thena, Ness City, Rosedale, Cheney,
Herington, Hartford and Kinsley.
This makes 81 high schools that have
been approved for the work, and each
will be given $500 state aid annually.
The board has approved IS private
schools and academies without aid
In the 81 state aid schools there are
1924 pupils, of which 2,0i6 are non
residents and 426 teachers. Fifty ad
ditional teachers have been promised
on account of the normal work
President Hill of the State Normal
and State Superintendent Fairchild
say the new plan of taking the nor
NAL work right to the homes of the
pupils is the greatest step forward
Kansas has taken in an educational
way for years.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30
EXPRESS Company Asks Exemption.

Express Company Asks Exemption.
The Pacific Express company filed
a petition with the corporation COM
mission, asking exemption from the
uniform accounting order, alleging
that it would cost the company $4,000,
or more than It's Oklahoma earnings
to make the required records, and
would prefer to withdraw from the
state rather than to meet the new
requirements as to keeping accounts
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-07-30

New Orleans.-Two hundred thou
sand birds on the breeding grounds
maintained by the state game com
mission on Battle Door, Audubon ant
Breton islands, off the southwestern
coast Of Louisiana, were killed in the
storm. Many of the birds we're Of
rare varieties. The islands were com
pletely overflown.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-02-09
I ] EDDIE |: ]
..VIS|'I'Sb|ILL !
Elgl land Monarch visits
Berlin and Hopes Arc
Entertained Thai the
Crowned Heads Haven't
Knives ii Their Boots

Berlin, Feb The visit Of ing Ed
ward tomorrow IS regarded generally in
itself IS an event, At the present mo-
5nnent OF the greatest political signifi-
cance and with The feeling that il would
be a. excellent thing for bott, nations if
the meeting Of The two n,onarchs result,
ied III I mutual understanding tending to
allay international tension,
From no quarter however. IS the
expectation voiced with any conf fdencef
that the visit Of the English king viii
produce direct tangible efetcs.
King Edward IS accompanied by1
Queen Alexandra and offciaI circles
Welcome the royal visitors il the court
tone, ressrdin theif coming 70 Ber-
lin, as a return fof HE emperor visit
Eo Ensiand. md n,alEinng - comment
lipon sthe political aspect of the event. q
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-02-09
STOLE GRAIN BY
{. THE WHOLE sale
FARMER Or sTuTsMAN COUNTY
sARREsTED ON CHARGE Or NJ
u. LfEviNo NEioHBoR OF 1900
Y BUSHELS or GRAIN. %s}s

\ jamestown. N. D., Feb. s.--An etl
fort Is being made by States Attor-
ney Thorp to break up what is be
lieved to be q strongly organised bard
Of grain thieves who have been operat-
Ing in the northern portion of thS
county during the last three months:
Granaries on the farm Of Levi Gamhi,
near Edmunds, we're entered and over
1900 bushels Of grain removed. SA
trail was discovered by residents lead.
ing into neighborhood long suspect.
.ed - being the stronghold of TIE
thieves, and four search warrants
were issued at the instigatton of tie
states attorney. Charles Genieg Wss
arrested and brought to Jamestown
for trial, It being alleged that he ~
the ringleader and most closely con.
nected With the stealing. Over TWEEN
ty witnesses will be examined. The
theft Of the grain 10 one Of the btgsest
stunts n this line of work that Nj
been brought to the. attention Of IN
authorities. .s.. g, :. ~. .=.s,,s3.s ssss5ss
r -s-t- d
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-02-09
! WAVE \ ! ' |
G0E||SIEAs | s |
.c.'a.- @-$$p At:TI a$S 49, I'd
* y =. u Nh ~ IA HNi $$
Wave, Accompanied BY sssv
and Wind. Is Sxeepllg
Through Central stales.
We Are Only On The Edge
nf II + ~. l..

Washington, D. c., Feb. 8.-East-
ward across the United States moves
the storm which is bringing with it
severe cold wave. :.>.s,
The western storm has reached Kan
sas with snow and high winds prevail
ing on its northern and northwestern
sides.
By tomorrow night, according to the
weather bureau predictions, it win
reach the Atlantic coast attended BY
rain over the southern and snow over
the northern districts. d. 49,.
Freezing temperature is promised for
north Texas and northeast Louisiana
by tomorrow night, the cold wave
reaching the eastern lower lake region,
the middle Atlantic states and north
east by Wednesday or Wednesday
night.
Snow and high north winds are
promised tomorrow in the Missouri val
ley and by tomorrow night in the Ar
kansas, middle Mississippi and OHIO
salleys, the southern upper lake and
west lower lake region.