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The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
TO INVESTIGATE AT B00NVlllE
Charges Against the officers to be
Looked Into Immedately-Gov-
ernor Calls for Report

jefferson City, Missouri.-Governor
Hadley has directed the board Of man
ayers of the Boonville Reform school
for boys Immediately to investigate
charges against the officers in charge,
of undue severity in punishing refrac-
tory inmates and the reason so many
of the boys escape from the institu-
ton. He has particularly enjoined
upon Judge William NJ. Williams of
Boonville, Judge John M. Williams of
California and w. G. Pendelton, mayor
of Boonville, to make full report to
him at the earliest date possible.
These three men are the active mem
bers of the board of managers.
Some days ago the governor re-
ceived a copy of the Boonville Adver-
tiser which contained damaging
charges against the management OF
the institution.
The legislative committee appointed
by Gov. Hadley year ago criticized
the Boonville reform school as not
coming up to the desired standard OF
an institution for juvenile offenders.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
ROAD BOOSTERS STARTED RIOT
Usage City, Kan, Meeting Marked
by Noisy RivaIry-Adopted
Packing House Rules.

Usage City, Kansas.-The Ottawa
Olathe and Topeka-Lawrence delega-
tions to the Santa Fe Trail Pan
American association meeting here,
1,5OO in number, adopted packing
house rules in an attempt to have
favorite routes named officially as
the connecting link between Usage
City and Kansas City of the New
York-San Francisco highway. In the
end neither won, for the members OF
the association met after the OPP
posing delegations had left for home
and adopted an intermediate route
which follows as nearly as practic-
able the old Santa Fe trail.
The Topeka-Lawrence men put
three bands into the hall. When any
one attempted to speak the opposition
bands opened up with a roar. Later
some of the delegates sent out for tin
pans, which they beat with sticks {;
others had baZoos.
The disturbance continued for an
hour.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
BOTH McNAMARA'S CONFESS
James 3. Pleads Guilty to Murder
and J. j. Admits Blowing up
of LeWeIIyn Iron Works.
CHICAGO EVENING POST.

Lon Angeles, Cal.-James B. NC
Namara pleaded guilty to murder IN
the first degree in Judge waiter
Bordwell's court. His brother, John
]. Mcnamara, secretary of the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, entered a
plea of guilty to having blown up the
Llewellyn Iron Works in Los Angeles
Christmas day, 1910.
James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy OF
the explosion and fire which, at 1907
O'Clock the morning of October l,
1910. wrecked the plant of the Los
Angeles Times at First and Broad
way and caused the death of q per-
sons.
Both mems sentences were set for
December 5, when it is expected John
d. Fredericks, district attorney, Will
ask for life Imprisonment for James
b. Mcnamara, the confessed murder
er, and probably IA years for his
brother. The mems lives are consid'
cred saved. The great contention
that the Los Angeles Times was not
blown up with dynamite is dead be-
yond further argument.
Bribery charges against Burt H
Franklin, a detective employed by the
Mcnamara defense, probably will be
dropped now as irrelevant to the
main issue.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
MANY OF THEM STUDY FARM.
Convicts of Penltentiary Interested In
observation-disclosures In Spanish
and English Well Attended.

Lansing, Kan.-An enviable record
has the Kansas state penitentiary at
Lansing. Not content with having 1t
known as one of the model prisons OF
the United States, Warden Codding
rapidly is making it an educational In
stitution Of wide scope.
At first, the educational idea was
confined to the enlightenment OF prls-
oners of the illiterate type. NOW, now
ever, the plan includes nearly every
study along the lines of general use
fulness. Classes in Spanish and Eng
lish are among the largest in the penl-
tentiary. And next in Importance Is
the class in farming.
The agricultural study class has 2z
members and is one fitch most recent
ly organized. The interest shown Dy
the convicts, who are members OF tne
class, is perhaps more intense than IN
any other. Most of them are employed
regularly on the prison farm-whlcn
by the way is some institution in IL
self-and they are men VINO came ui'
rect from the farm to the prison OF
young men who plan to take up farm
ing when their sentences exipxre. one
of the students in the class is the sup
erintendent of the prison farm and he
shows as much interest in the study OF
soil culture, the rotation of crops ana
methods to increase yields as does the
Youngest prisoner in the class.
The work is in charge of Chaplain H.
w. Houston who also supervises the
other classes. Much interest has peeh
shown in the work of the class In
farming by men outside of the prison.
officials of the Kansas State Agricui-
tural college and of the United States
denartment of agriculture.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
ARREST AN OKLAHOMA SHERIFF
Trying to Get a Prisoner Back TOR
Trial-A Banker Wants
Habeas Corpus.

Phoenix, Arizona-Sheriff Murphy
of Sapulpa, Ok, who, in an alleged
flight from Phoenix with J. B. West
fall, a former Oklahoma banker,
charged with irregularity in connec-
ton with the Creek Bank and Trust
company of Sapulpa, in custody, was
apprehended at Prescott and is now
in Phoenix to fight habeas corpus
proceedings brought by the attorney
for Westfall.
When Gov. Sloan honored the re-
quisition of the governor of Okla
homa for the return Of Westfall, it
was alleged Sheriff Murphy hurriedly
left the city with his prisoner and did
not give Westfall an opportunity to
file petition asking for relief on
habeas corpus proceedings. Murphy
was overtaken at Prescott and agreed
to return and allow Westfall to have
a hearing.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
PRISON MUTINY Was PLANNED
LEAvENWORTH GUARD DlsCoV-
ERS DYNAMITE AND GUNS.
Change in Usual Holiday Plans Pre-
vented Worst Outbreak In His
tory of Institution.

Leavenworth, Kansas.-A change In
the usual holiday program at the fed
eral penitentiary here probably pre-
vented one of the boldest attempts
vet planned for a mutiny at the pris-
on. A guard on his rounds OF IN
spection of the prison shortly before
noon found a stovepipe filled with IL
revolvers and four sticks of dyna-
mite, which evidently had been drop
ped over the wall into the prison
sometime during the night.
1t has been the custom for several
years to permit the prisoners to gath
er in the prison yard on holidays. But
the usual order of things was changed
this year. Instead of the athletic per-
formance, a play was produced in the
chapel in the afternoon and re-
ligious ceremony given in the morn
ing.
The revolvers were of .3S caliber,
small frames and short barrels, but
every one of the IL was loaded with
six cartridges. They were packed IN
a joint of stovepipe about Is inches
long.
The plan evidently was to drop the
weapons and dynamite in a place
where the largest number of the men
congregate at an athletic perform
ance in the hope that one of the num-
ber would find the package.
The men with the weapons, the
prison officials believe, were to cover
the guards for a minute while one or
two other prisoners blew open the
east gate and then all the men who
were in the prison yard would be able
to make the dash for liberty.
w. H. Mackey, deputy warden, and
r. w. McClaughry, warden, believe II
is the work of two former prisoners
at the penitentiary, who have friends
serving long terms there now.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
CARTOONIST RlOlCULES KANSAS
Western Funny Man Designs New
State Seal With Some Startling
Features.

Topeka, Kansas.-The Kansas Great
Seal, or coat of arms, as some call
it, is known the world over The
Portland Oregonian's cartoonist, has
worked out an entirely new one and
it has been printed in his paper.
The cartoonist shows one of Car
rie Nations matches, weeping sun
flower, the Mary Chamberlain tar
bucket, bleeding star and some
grasshoppers. AS sort of fringe
the artist places a bunch of sun
flowers shading the tar bucket in one
corner and puts in wildcat in i'm
itation of the Kansas skunk, whose
hide is valued at SO. These are the
things which have been uppermost in
the minds of Kansas and the readers
of Kansas news for the last few
months.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
STATE TAX COMMISSION
TO EXPLAIN THE TAXES
SOMETHING TO LEARN ABOUT
TAXATION.
A Campaign Will Be Carried on to Let
The People Know All About In
creases.

Topeka, Kan.-The State Tax Com
mission has sent out to every editor
in Kansas letter relating to the in
crease of taxes in Kansas and the
printed address by Allen R. Foote,
president of the National Tax associa-
tion on "The Moral Element in the
Taxation Question" The Commission
proposes to carry on a campaign or
education during the next year or TWO
in order that the people OF the state
may thoroughly understand the tax
question.
In its letter the Commission dis
closes some startling increases IN
taxes in Kansas-state, county and
city-during the last nine years. Ihe
compilation shows that in the taxing
districts closest to the people there
has been the greatest increase. Ihe
scale of increases between 1908 and
1910 was as follows:
In school district tax. 1858 per cent
In city tax. ......... .ol.oo pei oeh'
In township tax. 1886 per cent
In county 1854 per cent
In state tax ........ .14.71 per cent
ut is important" says the Commis'
sion, ito get the general public inter
ested in tax matters, to the end thal
such changes in the constitution and
the tax laws may be effected as VIII
permit more equitable distribution OF
the tax burden. Another aim should
be to get taxpayers in general to think
about the great increase from year to
year in the amount of taxes levied, SC
that if possible taxpayers may WORK
together to bring about economy IN
public expenditures"
AS an indication of how much the
tax burden has increased during the
eight years extending from 1903 tc
1910, inclusive the following Statement
is presented by the Commission:
State County City
tax tax tax
1910 .$2,S95, ,5O7 $5,670,547 $9,S2S'4I-
1909 2524161 4,477,379 2,921,77;
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
BROUGHT VICTIMS BODY HOME
Young Farmers Son Disappears After
Leaving Buggy With Corpse
at Fathers Gate.

Moline, Kansas.-With a dead girl
in the seat beside him, Don Britain,
son of a farmer living near Elk
Falls, drove up to his fathers home
in the evening, hitched the horse at
the gate and disappeared. The body
was that of Maude Bingham, Is years
old, the young mans sweetheart. The
two had gone riding early in the after
noon, at which time the girl apparent
ly was in the best of health.
An examination by the coroner
tended to show that death was due
to a drug taken because of the young
woman's condition. The contents of
the stomach have been sent to the
state chemist for analysis. A cor
oner's inquest will be held December
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The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
SHOT SIX VISITORS AT ONCE
Farmer Hunting Rabbits Wounded
Young Ladies Standing on Porth
of His Home.

McLouth, While hunting
rabbits on his farm near here, John
GLENN accidentally shot six young
women who were standing on the
front porch of his home. A rabbit
ran around the house and GLENN
fired at it with a shotgun. He missed
the rabbit, but the shot struck the
women, all of whom were wounded in
the lower limbs.
The injured women are: Cordia Mil
ler, Loura GLENN, Dessir Darge and
three daughters of Frank Thornton.
Miss Darge is the only one who was
dangerously wounded. Several shot
penetrated one kneecap. The others
received only minor injuries.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Who Can Beat This Record9

Smith Center, Kan.-A young man
named Ed Hinkelhouse OF Rocks coun-
ty performed the remarkable feat OF
husking and dumping 157 bushels OF
corn in ten hours at the home OF Bar
new Ring in the northeast part OF TINS
countv The corn in which he husked
averaged about 40 bushels per acre.
Hinkelhouse and three other huskers
formed a jackpot of 5000, each one
contributing $50, with the understand
ine that the one husking the most corn
should get all the money.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
onrn Want 70 70 90 bushels.

Highland, Kan.-Fred S. Min
whose farm is one mile northwest
highland, reports that he has just
ished gathering fifty acres OF .
which yielded from 20 to 80 busl
TO the acre, none of it making less
20. and some going as high as 80 b
els. While this is somewhat above
average for Doniphan county. yet
crop is much better than It was
year. Many of the farmers have
ready filled their cribs and cons
able corn is being hauled to mark
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
HAD NOVEL MEANS OF ESCAPE
Prisoner Weighing 200 Pounds Gets
Through 14-Inch Hole But
is Recaptured.

Galveston. Texas.-With an appli'
cation of soap on his body and five
hours work by four companions, E.
B. Keepers, a 2O0-pound prisoner in
the Bexar county Jail was hauled to
freedom through hole IA inches in
diameter.
Keepers was lathered until he was
foam from head to foot and head
first he was started through the
opening.
He was finally landed outside more
dead than alive, and carried away
by his companions. But the expert
ence was too much for the big fel.
low and he was captured.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Found Body of Infant.

Eureka, Kan.-The section men on
the Reece division of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad found the body of an in
FAINT wrapped in a Pullman towel lying
alongside the railroad track near
Reece. The child was dead. 1t is the
theory of the coroner of Greenwood
county that the child was bern on the
train and was thrown from the train
as soon as it was born. The body OF
the child win be buried here. The
authorities have no clue as to who is
the mother Of the child.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
carnett Hunter Attacked by Coon.

Garnett, Kan.-Attacked by vicious
raccoon while hunting near Rose, a
small town near here, ]. e. Robins, OF
Faverly, was severely bitten on the
legs. His companion, w. H. Bruer
tried to choke the animal loose, but
failed He had to lay Robins on the
ground, get the raccoon by the tail
and pull it loose. 1t is believed the
animal was suffering from rabies. IL
was out on the prairie two miles from
the timber AS son as it saw the hunt
ers It attacked them viciously.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
eft $4,000 for Memorial Hall.

Lawrence, Kan.-The will OF Mrs.
Sarah Robinson was probated here
and it was found that $4,000 had been
left for the erection of a memorial
town hall in Belchertown, Mass. Sew
eral minor bequests of a few hundred
dollars were made to Lawrence peo-
ple and many of the paintings OF the
Robinson Gallery were distriDutea
among personal friends in the commune
ity.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Combine Shipments to Help Farmers

Wamego, Kan.-The merchants OF
Wamego have combined in a produce
association and in the future all eggs,
butter and poultry brought here by
farmers living in the surrounding
country, will be bought at one head
quarters. The produce will be shipped
to markets from the same single
source The merchants have formed
the organization, they say, for the pur'
pose of enabling them to pool their
shipments, thereby gaining in market
prices. The increases they will re-
ceive will be given to the farmers IN
increased purchase prices.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
HAD DYNAMITE AS LUGGAGE
FELL FROM TRAIN NEAR CHI
CAGO AND WAS KILLED.
Body Found Near Track With Seven
Sticks of Explosive and In
duction Coil.

Gary, Indiana.-A man bearing let
ters addressed to o. Schohm, $40
Houston Avenue, South Chicago,
Jumped or fell out of the vestibule of
the esatbound Twentieth Century
Limited of the Lake Shore & Mich
igan Southern railroad, and was
killed A mystery attaches to the
death in the discovery within few
feet of his body of a quantity of dyna-
mite and what appears to be an
electrical device for discharging it.
The accident happened at the little
flag station of Pine, just out OF Gary,
The telegraph operator there saw the
mans body fall from the train and
strike a switch, the whole affair being
visible because of the crossing light.
While awaiting the police ambu-
lance, trainmen found few feet away
seven sticks of dynamite which had
fallen upon the snow. Cards bearing
the name o. Schohm, as we'll as letters
and a deed to some real estate, were
found in the mans pockets. In the
pockets was a quantity of electric
wire, and almost beneath the body
was a long. black box, apparently
some electrical contrivance, about the
size of a paving brick. 1t bore plugs
for attaching wires and had a small
incandescent lamp on one end. The
box contained an induction coil.
The police believe the dynamite
was carried by the man, but cannot
learn what it was intended for or how
the man came to leap from the
rapidly moving train.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
No Pardon for Bailey.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The efforts
of labor organizations to secure a
Thanksgiving parole for Edgar c.
Bailey of Kansas City, serving life
sentence in the penitentiary for kill
ing Albert Ferguson, a non-union
hackman, seem doomed to failure.
Mr.. Denton, pardon attorney, stated
that the records would not be taken
up and examined just now, which in
dicates that he will take ample time
to investigate every feature of the
case.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Remedy For Bee Troubles In Kansas

Manhattan, Kan.-Kansas bee-keep-
ers are going to remedy bee troubles
in this state. The Kansas Agricultural
college and the University of Kansas
with the aid of inspectors appointed In
every county of the state where bees
are kept, are to be the leaders in this
fight against bee diseases. This was
decided at the ninth annual meeting
of the Kansas Beekeepers' association
at the Kansas Agricultural college, No
vember. 27 and 2S.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
HIGH SCHOOL. COOKING PAYS
Yates Center Girls Get Breakfast for
Six Every Friday at 25
Cents Each.

Yates Center Kansas.-The Yates
Center high school added domestic
science department to its course this
year and the girls are getting some
good, practical experience in buying
provisions and preparing and serving
meals. Every Friday model break
fast is served by the girls in the do
mestic .cience course. Six guests
are invited and incidentally each
guest nays 25 cents for the meal.
Kitchen cabinets, stoves and cooking
utensils are furnished by the board
and the practical side of cookery is
thoroughly studied and actually DEM
Onstrated.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
SIX HURT IN RAILROAD WRECK
Two Cars Caught Fire But Were
Extinguished by Heroic
Conductor.

Joplin, Missouri.-Six passengers
and a member of the crew were in
jured when three coaches of Missouri
Pacific passenger train No. 692, run
ming between Joplin and Topeka,
were overturned by a defective rail,
1B miles northwest of here.
The train was derailed while rum
ming 16 miles an hour. Two coaches
caught fire but were soon extfnguish-
ed by Conductor Garnett, who re-
ceived severe burns or his hands.
The overturned coaches we're de-
stroyed. Traffic was resumed seven
hours after the wreck.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Reformatory Boys Had Turkey Dinner

Hutchinson, Kan.-The largest
Thanksgiving dinner in Hutchinson,
and one of the best az well, was served
at the State Reformatory Plates were
laid for 376, there being that many IN
mates of the institution. To serve tne
dinner was required so dressed tur-
keys( rs gallons of milk, half bar
rel of cranberries, eight bushels Oh po-
tatoes, a bushel of onions, fifty loaves
Of bread and rs pounds of fruit cake.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Must Get Rid of shuster.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-Russia is
about to demand the resignation of
w. Morgan Shuster, the American fl
nancial adviser to the government of
Persia. This demand is contained in
the instructions which the foreign Of
flee has forwarded to the Russian
minister at Teheran, NJ. Poklewsky-
Koziel. concerning the supplementary
demands which Russia is making on
Persia to repay it for the cost OF
sending troops to that country.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Church Built of Kansas Limestone.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan.--The new
Cottonwood Falls Methodist church,
which has just been completed, was
dedicated last Sunday. DR.. T. c. lliff,
of Denver, Colo, preached the dedica-
tory sermon. The new church is a
handsome structure, built of Chase
county limestone, and 1t has seating
capacity of 500. 1t was built at COST
of about $4,000.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Hay Sells for $40 F. o. 8.

Smith Center, Kan.-Hay balers ar
being operat in almost every neigi
borhood ir Smith county in an effor
to get tie large crop of alfalfa an
prairie hay in shape to ship. A nun
ber of buyers are at work gathering
ND and shipping to points in the ives
ern part of this state. The price pal
here for either alfalfa or prairie hay
$40 a tohsan board the cars. Both az
prime qualfry and the largest yield
many years. ~
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Wounds Neeress; Kills Himself.

Pittsburg, Kan.-Lincolh Kimbal,
negro, shot and probably fatally wound
ed Mary Celestine, a negress, and shot
and killed himself. The couple had
uuarreled.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Riotlna in Mining Town.

Denver, Colorado-A riot is reported
to have occurred at the Superior Coal
Mining camp in the northern Colorado
district, where a strike is on. Several
strikebreakers were shot by the night
marshal.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
NAV Never Try Mrs. vermiIYa.

Chicago, Illinois.-Mrs. Louise Yer
milya, charged with having poisoned
Policeman Arthur Bisonette and sus-
pected of other deaths, is reported to
be so i'll that it is unlikely she ever
will be brought to trial.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Crushed to Death Between Rollers

Lawrence, Kan.-S. 1. Smith, supf
intendent of the Lawrence Paper Ma
ufacturing Company, was killed ne
when his hands were caught betwel
two rollers and his body dray
through. The unfortunate man VI
crushed to death.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Rahv Killed on a Train.

st. Joseph, Missouri-The one-year-
old son of Mrs. w. F. Daley of Tulsa,
Ok, who was on her way home from
Akron, Col, fell out of the berth in
the Pullman sleeper of a Burlington
eastbound train and died just before
the train reached st. Joseph.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Robber Shot Hotel Clerk.

Denver, Colorado-When c. S. Yon-
ley, night clerk of the Great Northern
hotel, declined to throw up his hands
and turn the contents of the safe over
to George Yant, who gives Omaha as
his home. the latter shot the clerk
inficting a fatal wound.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
puts on City Airs.

Paola, Kansas. - Beginning De-
cember 1, Paola will have free mail
delivery. Two deliveries will be
made each day in the residential dis
trict and three in the business dis
trict.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
FIRE LOSSES IN THREE CITES
jamestown and Glasgow Practically
Burned Up-Trainmen Saved
EIbng From Ruin.

jamestown, Kansas.-The entire
business section of jamestown was
swept away by a fire that started ia
the postoffice, probably from an over
heated stove.
Thirty-one business houses were
totally destroyed, including the city
hall, library, Christian church and one
residence. The loss will aggregate at
least 100000.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Britain Wants More shins.

London, Eng.-The probability Of
a big naval loan in the near future is
revived by the Pail Mall Gazette,
which anticipates that $15O,OO0,O0O
and possibly more will be added to
the usual naval estimates.
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
762,549 $8,692,756 $7,526,516

Per cent increase: Township tax,
26 %. school tax, 1858; total, 44.53.
Possibly it should be expected,
saws the Commission, that local ex-
penditures will increase in greater ra'
ito than expenditures OF more gen
eral character, because the local sub
division of the government have more
numerous and varied functions to per-
form, but this only emphasizes the
fact that economy should be observed
to the fullest extent possible"
The Chanute times., 1911-12-08
Two Shocks in Mexico.

Ell Paso, Texas.-Several earth
tremors were experienced in the
cities of Guaymas and Empalme, in
the state of Sonora, Mexico. The first
shock occurred at noon and lasted
for seven seconds.