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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
our STATE CAPITOL LETTER
DoINes OF OUR STATE OFFICERS
AT TOPEKA.
A Brief Resume of What Our "Hired
Men" Are Doing, How They
Spend Their Time, Etc.
A Good Compensation Law.

Kansas is the second state in the
union to have a real working mans
compensation law. New York is the
only other state which has such law
and 1t Is unsatisfactory to both the
working men and the employers of
that state. The laboring men who
helped in working out the bill in Kan
sas says that it will be found emf
Dently satisfactory to the employees
and several large corporations have
said that they would be pleased to ac-
cept its provisions.
Hereafter when a workman is in
jured or killed in Kansas he or his
family will not be forced into a long
legal fight to get what he is entitled
to. The railroads and large manufac'
turing plants have long considered
that an injury to an employe or a
death is legitimate charge against
the plant and its product and they
have figured their charges according
ly. But there is always a long law
suit to collect the money and after the
money is collected at least oneth!fd
and generally one-half or more is pa d
out in attorney fees and court costs
All factories employing over 10 per
sons are under the act unless notice Is
served to the employees by the EMPLOY
err. Those plants employing less than
Is men may come under the law by
making a notice to the employees but
the employees are not forced to ac'
cept it.
If an employee is killed by an acct
dent in the factory where he works
his dependent wife and children are n
be paid three years wages at once
This is the amount which the bread
winner would have earned had lie
lived three additional years. 1t can
not be less than $1,000 nor more than
$4,000. If there are partial depend
ents then the dependents are to be
given proportional amounts of what
they would receive had they been TO
tai dependents. Foreign dependents
cannot receive more than $3.50. II
there are no dependents the employer
must give the employee burial cost
ing $780,
If man is totally disabled, he is to
receive one-half of his average wages
for ten years, in no case less than So
or more than SIS a week In case OF
partial disability the employe is to re-
ceive from one-fourth to one-half OF
his average wages, varying from So to
$12 a week for ten years, If neces-
sary. The house and senate conferees
could not agree on the limit to the
number of employees a factory should
have to come under the act, so the
senate simply concurred in theN house
amendments to the senate bill in or
der to get the law on the statute
books.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
ASYLUM ON COLONY PLAN.
Kansas Purposes to Put Idea Into
Practice In New institution.

The new insane asylum to be To-
Gated in the western part of the state,
west of the 98th meridian, for which
the legislature appropriated 100000,
is to be run ON the colony plan.
At least section of ground will be
given to the hospital by the town or
county which gets it, and more than
likely a much larger acreage will be
given, because more than a dozen To-
calities in the western part of the
state are in the race for the new hos
pital.
The colony plan is to build one cen
trail hospital for the scientific care and
treatment of patients and number OF
cottages, each holding some twenty
patients. The cottages are all of one
floor, save middle upstairs room, for
billiards, athletic and club features.
On the lower floor are the bed rooms,
kitchen and eating rooms.
Patients placed in these cottages
are given farm work to do 1t has
been found that insane patients are
often cured by giving them outdoor
work, different from the occupation
which they followed when stricken
with insanity. Fine climate is at a
premium in western Kansas. A large
acreage of ground, ranging from Sec
ton to double or more, which the new
hospital will have, will give ample OPP
portunity for the inmates to work at
farming.
However, a central hospital will be
erected for the scientific care of the
more severely afflicted patients. The
colony plan is being found very sue
cessful in other states and in several
it is being done by counties.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Law Not in Force Until June.

The new law simplifying the ma
chinery necessary for the consolida-
ton of schools does not go into eff
feet until it has been published in the
statute books, which will not be be-
fore the first of June, but State Super
intendent E. T. Fairchild is already
calling the attention of the county su,
perintendents to it. In a letter sent
out to all of the superintendent the
other day, he explains the workings of
the new law He considers the new
law a great improvement over the old.
THE petition for consolidation, he
says, will require 20 per cent of the
voters of the school district, but the
proposition requires majority of
those voting upon it instead of ma
iority of all voters in the district.
The proposition may be submitted in
such a way that it will go into effect
if it carries in two or more of the dis
tricts voting. In consolidated districts
it is made mandatory on the part Of
the district board to provide for the
comfortable transportation Of the pu;
pills living two or more miles from
school by the usually travelled road, IN
safe and comfortable conveyances.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Do Not Know Of Any Trouble.

Speaking of the story to the effect
that there is a row on between Cover
nor Stubs and John S. Dawson and
that the breach is widening, Governor
Stubbs said:
"If there is any row it is in the at
torney Generals office. 1t is not in
this office"
Speaking of the same matter, John
Dawson said:
Since have been attorney general
there has not been one word in con-
troversy between Governor Stubs and
myself. While I was attorney for the
state board of railroad commissioners
we did not always see things alike but
there has been absolutely no contro-
versy between us since the present
administration began"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The answer is fungus.
The particular species of fungus is
a harder matter to determine, but it
is a safe guess, if the Missouri Pip
pins were so badly affected that the
large proportion of them was doomed
to the Gull pAe, that apple blotcch was
the cause. With the troubles dag
nosed the prescription may be given.
Sprays for Insect.
If canker worms were particularly
numerous last year. good spray con-
tanning arsenate of lead, three pounds
to fifty gallons of water, should be Civ
en- as soon as the cluster cups open,
that is, before the buds show any pink.
If the trouble is Cooling moth, the
best prescription is arsaAate of lead,
two pounds to fifty galNAs of water,
Just as the petals fall; another appli-
cation in three weeks. If the number
of drops is very great, another spray
application in ten weeks.
Sprays for Fungi.
For the fungus trouble of all va
rieties, except Missouri Pippin, lime
sulphur solution has been successful.
One and one-half gallons of CONNER
cial lime-sulphur solution to fifty gal
Ions of water, has semed safe and
sufficient. For orchards that have
been badly infested with fungus
troubles, before the buds open an ap-
plication of lime-sulphur is good treat
ment The solution used should con-
sist of one gallon of the commercial
brand to eleven gallons of water; or
the home made mixture, consisting of
twenty pounds of lime and fifteen
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Bank Commissioner offers Rewar

Bank Commissioner Offers Reward
A reward of $500 has been offered
by State Bank Commissioner ]. n. Dol
ley for the capture, dead or alive, Of
the five bank robbers who robbed the
bank at Hudson, Kan. Hudson is in
Stafford county, on the Missouri Pa
cific. The robbers got away with
$4,000. They also wounded the night
Waterman.
The authorities at Hudson called
Bank Commissioner j. N. Dolley over
the telephone and told him the cir
cumstances. He Immediately tele.
graphed and telephoned to all of the
sheriffs and other officials in that
neighborhood, telegraphed to the Of
ficials of the Anti-Horse Thief asso-
citation and to a detective agency at
Kansas City. He offers reward of
$500 for each man. The law enacted
by the last legislature providing for a
thirty year penitentiary sentence for
bank robbers who are convicted is
now in full force and effect. The ap-
preparation given the banking depart
ment for the payment of rewards is
also available.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
"BIue Sky" Law scares Them.

"The mere fact that the blue sky
bill has become a law has been suf-
ficient to put most of the fake stock
sellers on the rum" said Bank COM
missioner ]. ~ Dolley. Eve are re-
ceiving reports from all over the state
to the effect that these fellows are
leaving as rapidly as they can get
their things together. OF course
there will be some who will stick I'M
til we catch them. There is a peni-
Tertiary sentence attached to the pro-
visions of this law, you will remem-
her,"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Blotch on Missouri Pippins. A. Blotch.
mixture is one of the best fungicides,
but considerable injury has been
caused by burning of the fruit when
rain fell soon after the application
OF the spray. 1t is hardly necessary
to say that if the forecast is for rain,
spraying operations should be de-
layed until settled weather is prob
able.
Spraying Machinery.
The machinery for applications
must be adjusted to the size of the
orchard. Two good men with hand.
pump and a convenient supply Of
water can spray fifty or more trees
per day according to the size of the
tree. A tree fifteen to twenty years
old, capable of producing ten to fif-
teen bushels of choice apples, will re-
quire from five to eight gallons Of
spray mixture. A good hand-pump
mounted on barrel fully equipped
with hose connections and nozzles,
will cost from SIS to 800. There are
cheaper pumps and many of them
will do good work for few seasons.
A first class pump should have brass
working parts and connections.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
SPRAYING WILL MAKE KANSAS ORCHARDS
PRODUCE MORE AND BETTER FRUIT
An Interesting Article Containing Valuable Suggestions to orchardsts
by Albert DICKENS, Horticultural at the Kansas State
Experiment Station-When How and
What to Spray for.

of water is used. The mixture must
be tested with litmus paper, or by
means of potassium ferrocyanide; II
the mixture turns blue litmus paper
red, add more lime; and If it turns a
drop of potassium ferrocyanide brown
add more lime. For orchards that are
badly infested with blotch, four appli'
cations of Bordeau mixture seems to
be essential.
Combination Sprays.
The sprays for the fungus diseases
may be combined with the spray for
insect enemies if both are needed; and
in most old orchards this is the case.
in any orchard one or two applica
lions of a fungicide is profitable in
surance for the future health and
yigor of the orchard.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Brewster Still Undecided.

When asked If he has decided to
accept the appointment of assistant
attorney general rendered him by Mr..
Dawson, Senator S. NJ. Brewster re-
piled he was not prepared to give a
definite answer. He said that court
convenes in Doniphan county next
week and will probably last two or
three weeks. If after that he can ar
range to have his private law business
in Troy looked after he said he would
probaly accept the position.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Commissioners Warn Railroads.

The state board of railroad commits
sioners has sent out to all railroads
operating in Kansas a notice calling
attention to a law which appears to
have been overlooked by them. The
railroads have made rates without the
consent of the commission. The law
provides that it shall be unlawful to
charge a greater freight rate to haul
any class of goods for shorter dis
lance than for a longer one in the
same general direction under like
conditions and over the same system
of road.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

NN preparing to produce first class
Il apples the coming season the or
chardist must remember the con-
ditions of preceding years and be able
to answer the question, what faults
did my apples have last year. We're
the apples checked in growth by rea-
son of the trees being defoliated in
early season? The answer must be
canker worms or caterpillars. DID
the apples drop almost continuously
from the time they were as large as
walnuts throughout the season, and
upon examination was each apple
found to contaoin worm or traces
OF its work? The answer is Cooling
moth. Were the apples disfigured by
sunken spots, which as the apple rip
ened, became hard and leathery?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Emphasizes Labor Decision.

W. l. A Johnson, state labor COM
missioner, has sent a letter to all
state, county and city officials operat-
ing municipality owned water and cleo.
trio light plants, or other public utili-
ties or public works, calling attention
to recent decision Of the Kansas SUI
preme court that the eight hour law
applies to all manual labor employed
by the state, cities OF counties. In
some towns it is necessary to have
several shifts of men or work more
than eight hours.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
chanute Will Fight Dawson's Decision

The city of Chanute has decided to
appeal to the supreme court of the
state from the decision of Attorney
General Dawson that the election last
September, at which $4,000 bond is
sue for the extension and improve
ment Of the water system was author
lied, was invalid. The council has
agreed that mandamus proceedings
shall be brought to compel the audi
tor to register the bonds or show rea-
son why this should not be done.
Chanute owns and operates its own
water system, and the money was to
be used for improvements.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
preponderoua Of Evidenced.

Sorry" said the constable, but III
have to arrest ye-you been drivin'
along at the rate of so miles an hour"
you are wrong, my friend" said
the driver. II wasn't, and here's a
ten-dollar bill that says l wasn't"
"All right" returned the constable,
pocketing the money. with II to one
against me l amt goin' to subject the
county to tn expense of trial.
Harpers Weekly.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
Pullman Company Failed to Report.

For three years the Pullman COM
pany has failed or refused to file an
nual reports with the state board Of
railroad commissioners. The law re-
quires that these reports be filed and
all the railroad companies and all
other private car lines comply with
the law. The Pullman company has
refused to do so. The board has sent
TO the Pullman company three blank
books to be filled out and returned.
Unless they are filled out satisfactor-
fly it is likely that some legal action
will be taken by the board.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

New York doctors are preparing to
diagnose disease by studying the pa
TENTS dreams. The phantasmagoria
caused by an injudicious mixture of
lobster Newberg and mince pie would
indicate defective judgment, or we
have eaten things In vain.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

A man in q Massachusetts, town was
arrested for kneeling on the sidewalk
and offering prayers. The magistrate
before whom he was brought decided
Il is no crime TO pray in the streets.
The executors Of the law certainly
have some queer ideas Of wrongdoing.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

A Brooklyn widow who advertised
that she was good cook of both
plain and fancy dishes, and wanted a
husband, got 145 proposals. This
looks as If the cynical clubwoman's
recipe Of making a happy home by
BREEDING the brute is near the mascu-
tine ideal of welded romance.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The New Hampshire legislators are
trying to stop eavesdroppers on party
telephone lines, and they may become
so foolhardy as to ask congress to
request postmasters not to read postal
cards.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

"A New England sea captain died as
the result of being jabbed with a hat
pin worn by Boston woman. What
an irony of fate it was that after fac
ing death on the waters for many
years he should be impaled on the
poiut of effeminate fashion.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

One Of the Johns Hopkins professors
announces that poverty win be abol-
ished. 1t will not be possible, how
ever. to get everybody to be pleased
on account of the abolition Of power
~ unless work can be abolished along
with It.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The auto truck may be commercial,
but it is also humanitarian, as any
one will witness who has seen the
struggles of an underfed horse with an
overloaded wagon.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Another college professor has come
to the front with a plan to regulate
marriages. What has become of the
old fashioned professor who taught
In school?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The news that radium is to be the
future competitor Of coal as heat pro-
Queer inspires the coal dealers with
considerable confidence in boosting
their prices.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

One of the aviators recently went
up several hundred feet in the dark.
He probably had an idea that it
wouldn't hurt any more to fall in the
dark than in the daylight.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The chief difficulty in the improve
ment of wheat is not discovering q
method for betterment but to get
every man to do what he knows to be
necessary to bring about this condi.
ton.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

An eastern club woman who claims
to have Investigated, reports that men
love fluffy girls. Perhaps they do, but
they generally want the girls to get
along with their own tufts.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The government has ruled that the
trousers of an official cannot be pressed
at public expense. We look for more
baggy trousers in Office henceforth.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

There is no more delightful reading
than the story of romance in real
life that ends happily; no more dis
tressing reading than such a story
that ends the other way.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

An American has just paid 100000
for one of Rembrandt's paintings. In
emphasizing the artistic temperament
that is going some.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

The news that the kaiser has In
creased his string of motors cars to
thirty causes one to suspect that Will
liam intends to go some in the near
future.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Jail sentences for women SNUG
glers seem hard, especially when the
women smugglers can better afford
money than time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Germany's rapid increase in popula-
ton leads us to believe that the stork
continues to be more popular there
than the military bird.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

If you have an acre near town OF
city, why not make $500 from it? This
can easily be done by growing head
lettuce. The demand for it always is
equal to the supply.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07
A TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO.
rwenty-four Carloads Purchased for
Lewis Single Binder Cigar

Factory,
What is probably the biggest lot OF
all fancy grade tobacco held by any
factory in the United States has just
been purchased by Frank P. Lewis, Of
Peoria for the manufacture of Lewis
Single Binder Cigars. The lot will
make twenty-four carloads, and is Sc
lected from what is considered by ex-
perts to be the finest crop raised in
many years The purchase of tobacco
is sufficient to last the factory more
than two years. An extra price was
paid for the selection. Smokers Of
Lewis Single Binder Cigars will appre-
ciate this tobacco.
Peoria Star, January 16, 1909.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

A domestic in So years Of service
saved $4,000. 1t would be interesting
to know how much her employer
able to accumulate in the same Pc
Rod.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

In spite of the fact that prisoner
in Washington Jail earned $4,000
while behind the bars, we still hold
that Jail is a good place to avoid.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Chicago is becoming excited be-
cause 30 many of its manageable
young men go west. But can you
blame them?
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

A theatrical manager says there are
no pretty girls in New York. We can
afford to pity the poor metropolis.
There are no ugly ones here.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Radium is being boosted for heating
purposes, and there is no telling how
high its price will go.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Inc harem skirt has displaced the
Mobile skirt, and 1t bids fair to become
popular.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Seattle is to have History build
Ing. 1t wants something Tacoma can
see and put in its pipe and smoke.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Men do not mind how much women
mimic their clothes so long as they
Remain womanly in action.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Care should always be exercised in
handling these materials not to bring
them directly in contact with the
flesh.
Preparation of Sprays. -
One of the essentials is an abund'
ant supply of water and convenient
tanks or barrels for combining the
mixtures. To make good Bordeaux
mixture the lime should be Stacked
and the copper sulphate dissolved
previous to the time of making the
mixture. Fifty pounds of copper sui
phate suspended in fifty gallons Of
water will be dissolved in a short
time, giving stock solution that is
convenient to calculate. Bordeaux
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

1t is no use running; to set out be-
times is the main point.-La Fontaine-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-04-07

Eggs can become so cheap as to
arouse suspicion.