The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

at Manley, Neb., were wrecked by rob
bers who tried for two hours to reach
the money box without success.
An examination of the students oil
the University of Georgia shows thai
at least 80 per cent are suffering from
the hookworm which scientists ascribe
as the cause of laziness. The class
standing of those afflicted is in every
case lower than those free from the
hoOkworm.
Prof Hunter one of the commission
ers of the state university in charge OF
eradicating tree diseases from Kansas
hopes to have the state free from San
Jose scale by spring.
The Farmers State Bank of Okla
homa City is to be changed to the
Farmers National Bank of Oklahoma
City.
All rural schools of Kansas are to be
required to follow the course Of study
prepared by the state board of educa-
ton and approved by the legislature.
The executive council of the Fedora
ton of Labor has passed resolution
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partment of labor with a secretary of
cabinet rank.
The annual convention of the Nation
al Woman'S Christian Temperance
, union is in session at Omaha.
Auditor Nation of Kansas has an
be issued to school land until the full
price of both land and improvements
has been paid into the state treasury.
The United States supreme court
has decided against the insurance com
pany that is attempting to evade the
payment of 100000 life insurance to
the estate of Lucius H. Perkins of
Lawrence, Kan.
Three Oklahoma lawyers one white
and two eolored have been sentenced
to serve terms in the penitentiary for
forgery.
The interior department has author
ICED the setting aside of 26,5S5 acres
Of land in the Roswell, N. NJ, land dis
trict for school purposes.
So great has been the demand for
the new Lincoln pennies LAT nothing
else has been coined at the Philadel-
phia mint since July /. In the three
and one-half months 70,000000 of the
copper pieces have been turned out.
Secret service agents in New York
have discovered that large quantities
of counterfeit S. bills are being made
in Italy and disposed of in this coun-
try through regular agents.
The New York Tribune foundeu by
Horace Greedy in 1S41 has cut the
price from rec cents to one cent.
Mrs. Alonzo Van Royen and her
sister were found murdered in a farm
house four miles west of Kansas UI,y
the body Of the husband Alonzo Van
Royen was found covered with leaves
in the lot back of the house. No clue
to the murderer has been found.
The celebration in honor of the dis
covery Of San Francisco ,ay and also
of the rebuilding of the city has COM
Eenced at San Francisco.
1nree hundred delegates are in at
tendance at the the conference of de-
pendent people held at Mohonk Lake,
N.
The circuit court of Franklin county,
Ohio, has decided that man may hold
both the office of mayor and congress
man at the same time.
Herman Ridder, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers as
ISOLATION has addressed a letter to
President Taft in which it is asserted
that the presidents failure to insist
upon duty of 81 per ton on print pa
per as advised by the Mann committee
has produced a condition which will
cause many paper mills either to close
or move to Canada.
Three women are taking the exami-
nation for a Rhodes scholarship at the
University of Kansas. This is the first
time women have been made eligible
to the examinations.
The combined protestant churches
of the United States will conduct
campaign Of newspaper, magazine and
bill board advestising to call the at
tention of the public to the importance
of remedying certain social and
economic conditions.
The district court has authorized
Bank Commissioner Young to sell
bonds and warrants of the defunct
Oklahoma City, Ok. bank to the extent
of 100000 to pay depositors.
The excess Of exports over imports
IN the nine months ending Septc
1909 is $92 ,292, SS2 a decrease Of $780,
s76,299 when compared with same
months of last year.
The Chicago election board after
testing a number of voting machines
have rejected all bids as none Of the
machines offered proved perfect
The mineral output Of Missouri as
reported by the state board OF miners
and mining amounted to S32.5S7.s2s
for 1908.
City officers OF Kansas City. Kan.
have enjoined the publication Of an or
dinance passed over the mayors veto
reducing the salaries Of all city en-