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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
May Try mo Seat No Fare" Plan.

Wichita, kant is likely the Wich
ita board of commissioners will take
an advanced step in the way of con
trolling street car traffic. At meet
ing recently, Mayor Graham stated
that he was in favor of mot seat, mo-
fare" ruling and this plan met the fa'
vor of most of the commissioners. No
definite action was taken but the
street car company was ordered to put
on extra cars and tn information was
volunteered that unless this solved the
problem, the mo seat, no fare" plap
would be inaugurated.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Many siIos Being Built in Kansas.

Manhattan, Kan.-In the last year
the number of silos in Kansas has
been more than multiplied by ten. A
year ago last October there were sixty
in the state. More than six hundred
were built last summer and it is eX-
pected that, 1000 more will be built
this summer. The great increase in
the number of silos on the farms IN
Kansas is due to the educational cam
paign made by the State Agricultural
college with its dairy train last sum-
mer and to the publicity given it In
farm papers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Put up Alfalfa for Sick Man.

Scandal. Kan.-The members Of the
local lodge of the NJ. w. A. congre-
gated at the John Freed home west OF
town and moved and stacked twenty
five acres of Mr.. Freed's alfalfa. The
latter has been in very poor health,
the result OF a late operation for ap'
pendicitis. There we're about thirty
men and over a dozen teams and the
lob was completed in two and one
half hours. It was a very neisborly
act and removed considerable worrJl
from his mind.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Arnnistice in Rate Cases.

John Dawson, attorney for the Kan,
sas board of railroad commissioners,
appeared before Judge Pollock here
in company with the attorneys repre-
senting the thirteen railroads doing
business in Kansas, and signed a writ
ten stipulation agreeing to suspend
action in the Kansas 2-cent rate cases
until a decision in the Nebraska 2-cent
cases is reached. This means that the
2-cent fare will continue in Kansas for
some time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Much Life Insurance,

The life insurance companies doing
business in Kansas pail claims
amounting to total of $3,6CO,OOO In
this state during the year 1910, accord
ing to the Insurance Press. OF this
amount more was paid to the benefit
Charles in the city of Leavenworth
than to those of any other Kansas
city. total of $253,750. Wichita was
second, Kansas City was third, EN-
poria was fourth, Atchison was fifth
and Topeka was sixth. Tho amounts
in each of these cities were aver $780,
OCO.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
$4,000 For Girls Death.

Winfield, KAMA suit for $4,000
damages has been filed against the
city of Winfield by William and So
phia Beinhorn for the death of their
Ella, who was electrocuted
about two weeks ago at the home OF
Samuel Goodman. Miss Beinhorn,
who was employed as domestic, had
been cleaning the bath room and took
hold of a wall electric light fixture,
when the current passed through her
body.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
In Charge Of cOrnerstO :. laying.

The G. A. R. council of administra'
ton held a meeting in the office of De-
partment Commander T. P. Anderson
and took up the matter Of a program
for the laying OF the cornerstone of
the new memorial hall by President
Taft next September. A committee of
three was named to proceed with the
preparation Of the program. The COM
mittee Is made up of Department Com
mander T. P. Anderson Of Topeka, and
George W. Martin, secretary Of the
State Historical society.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Pittsburg, Kan.-Mrs. j. H. Way
land, wife of the editor of the Appeal
to Reason, published at Gipard, KAN
died from injuries received in an au-
tomobile accident near Girard. Mrs.
Wayland was riding in company with
her husband, their two children and
Mrs. Clements of Indiana visitor at
the Wayland home.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Loving Cup for 1911 class Baby.

Lawrence, KAMA loving cup will
be given by the class of 1911 of the
University of Kansas to the first class
baby. Joseph w. Murray, secretary
of the class alumni organization, an
nounced the plan. "Of course" he
said, mo member of the class who
was married before commencement
will be eligible. 1t is not necessary
that both parents be members of this
years class. The first baby gets the
cup and it is the official class baby"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Dams Must Have Fish Ladders.

Fish must have ladders to climb
tn dams" is the order that has just
been issued from the office of Prof.
Dyche, state game warden. The law
was passed last winter and Prot
Dyche intends to have it. carried out
The ladders are to enable fish to seek
natural resorts where Their are quiei
pools FOR spawning. About 100 dams
will be affected by the order. The cost
to each will be from one to two hun
bred dollars.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Midland Valley Building at Wichita

Wichita, Kan.-Plans have been
completed for the Midland Valley de
pots to be built in West Wichita. The
structure will cost $2O,5OO and work
will be begun within the next thirty
days. Other buildings contiguous to
the depot will be constructed during
the next two months. The Midland
Valley company has taken charge OF
the old fair grounds and has begun
tearing down the grandstand. stables
and fences. The terminals of the
railroad will be located on the site Of
the fair grounds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Project Interurban Lines.

The public utilities commission has
authorized the Manhattan Interurban
company to issue 100000 in bonds to
build an interurban railway from
Manhattan to Fort Riley to connect
with the Junction City interurban line.
The commission also authorized the
Hutchinson Interurban Railway com.
pany to issue $4,000 bonds for in
provement purposes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Nurses Want Registration Law.

Wichita, KAMA movement has
been begun in Wichita by the trained
nurses of the state to secure a state
law compelling the registration of
nurses, the same as physicians, phai'
macists, etc. The plan is to improve
the standard and ideals of the profess
sion and to weed out the incompetent
nurses.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Health Board Reorsanizes.

At meeting of the Kansas board
of health, DR.. ]. B. Alexander of Hia'
watha was elected president and c. d.
WEIGH of Coffeyville vice president.
The present advisory board was re
elected. w. ]. V. Deacon was chosen
registrar of vital statistics and j. F.
Tilford assistant chief food and drug
inSOpctOr
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Emporia, Kan.-Mrs. B. Frank Rey'
nolds, aged 60 years, died from heart
disease following a struggle with Mrs.
Will Long to prevent the latter from
carrying away her 21a year old daugh.
ter. The child had been placed in
Mrs. Reynolds care by its father
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
wichita Park Man win Fight Closing

Wichita, Kan.-A test case of the
Sunday theater closing la will grow
out of the arrest and filming of ]. T.
Nuttle, manager of Wonderland park
here. Nuttle was arrested together
with his corps of actors and other EN-,
ployes of the park, sixteen in all. Nut
tie was fined $40. the actors fine 50
each and the other employees dischare,
ed. Nuttle Immediately appealed his
case to the district court and if an ad'
verse decision is returned there he win
carry the appeal to higher courts.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Insurance Company Loses.

The Kansas supreme court decided
in the case of Jacob Pfiester of New
ton that when an insurance agent
makes an agreement with a policy
holder, the company is liable for its
fulfillment. The suit was against the
Missouri State Life Insurance COM
pany, which objected to paying the
policy on the ground that he company
made an unauthorized contract.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Santa Ee pepot Burned.

Lyons, Kan.-Fire of unknown or
igin destroyed the Santa Fe depot at
this place. Three empty box cars and
a car of lumber on the side track were
also destroyed and the office of the
farmers Elevator company was burn
ed before the fire department gained
control of the flames. The loss is es'
timated at $4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
PUBLIC UIILIIltS VALUES
ARE GRE.TLY INCREASED
INCREASE OF NEARLY EIGHT
MILLIONS.
The Total Is S427, 043,717-santa Re
Assessed Highest Per Mile Of Any
Railroad In the State-Mont-
gomery County Leads All.

Topeka, Kan.-The total valuation
of all public service corporation prop
erty in Kansas as valued by the state
tax commission, is $427043,717, which
is $7,S30,S73 higher than it was In
1910 when the figures were $419,212,-
S44
The state tax commission values
railroad property, telegraph property,
telephone property, express property,
street and interurban railway proper
ty, and pipe line property, and in each
of these classes there is good sized
increase over the valuations of 1910.
The commission has made public its
valuations. In the matter of valua'
tions on public service property Mont
gomery county leads, Wyandotte coun,
ty is second, Sedgwick county is third
and Shawnee county is fourth. The
aluations-total-fo each of the
four counties are as follows:
Montgomery, $17,599,927; Wyan-
dotte, $16,4S5,717; Sedgwick, $685.
9S7; Shawnee, $11,312,959
The valuation placed upon the prop
erty of the Santa Fe Railway company
is higher than that placed on any 9th
err railway property, $133,93S,231. This
is an increase of over three million
dollars over 1910. The Missouri Pa
cific is second with $79,497,4S4, the
Rock Island is third with $51,511, 2O9.
and the Union Pacific is fourth with
s4S,36O,6S2. The total valuation of all
railroad property in the state for 1911
is $375,570,274, as compared with
1858, 726,726.
The Santa Fe's valuation per mile
is higher than that of any other road
in the state. The valuations per mile
for the six leading roads are:
Rock Island .$4S, 200
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 41,525
ST. Louis and San Francisco. 39,l2S
Union Pacific .............. 40,S17
Santa Fe 5q,554
Missouri Pacific ............. 33,S40
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Leave Other wOman.s Hubby Alone.

The supreme court holds that a
wife is entitled to damages from d
woman who has monopolized the time
and attention of her husband. This
decision was rendered in a case from
Sedgwick county in which Mrs. Leno
ra Burch sought damages of Mary j.
Goodson. Mrs. Goodson was a widow
and hired Burch to assist her with heI
work around the place. In the action
in court il is charged that IN the
evenings Burch would send his wife
and children to bed and would sit up
with Mrs. Goodson.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Can't Find Enough to Pay Requests.

Wichita, Kan.-The much talked OF
estate of Douglas Martin, who was
slain in a mysterious manner in Arr
IONA, was administered at Kingman
and proved a great disappointment to
those who had credited the stories OF
his alleged wealth. Martins will pro-
vided for the foundation of a $4,000
home for the aged at Wichita, but it
is found that his estate will not total
over $4,000 The will also left $500
to the Methodist society at Nashville,
Kan,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
State Federation Of Labor at Atchlsor

Atchison, Kan.-Official announce
ment has been received here that
Atchison has been selected as the
meeting place of the annual conven'
ton of the Kansas State Federation
of Labor, to be held next August IA,
IS, and 16. Two hundred delegates
are expected.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A Brooklyn woman who is -01
years old attributes the fact to her
habit of arising every morning at 6
o'clock. Many feel that getting up
at 6 every morning is enough to make
anyone old.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A New York riser committed sui
eide because he was lonesome, and
yet you can hardly blame people for
not wanting to keep miser's COM
pany.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

There are a great many unreason'
able persons in the world, but few are
more so than the New Yorker who
stabbed a deaf mute because he failed
to reply to a question.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Let the baby squall by all means, "
says Professor w A. McKeever OF
the Kansas Agricultural college.
thereby proving that all the massive
intellects have not been coralled by
ere eastern universities.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Professor Sargent of Harvard mas
It figured out that flowers will reform
bad boys. The next time your youth
full son pours water into the gasoline
tank of your automobile. hand him
IS bunch of violets
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

st. Louis has provided a farm home
for the horses of the city departments
when the animals grow too old and
infirm for work Appreciation of any
kind Of past usefulness in public work
Is SO rare. either in man or beast. that
this grateful act to faithful four-footed
servants does credit to the tity's pub
lie spirit and generosity.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
salina Auto Victim Dies.

Salina, Kan.-John H. MillheisIer,
aged 81, died from internal injuries
received in an automobile accident
here May II, when the machine turned
turtle and three others were injured.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Abilene, Kan.-The mill and eleva-
tor of the Woodbine Elevator COM
pany, which is eighteen miles south
east of here, burned and the loss is
estimated at $4,000. Insurance COW
cred $4,000 of the loss.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A chewing gum famine is threat
ened in Chicago as the result Of a
strike. Our old-fashioned notion Of
nothing to worry abou is chewing
gum famine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Stealing base on the rest of the
country, a Massachusetts school is
using batting averages to stimulate in
terest in mathematics.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23
Wife May Will Property.

That a wife in Kansas who has no
children has a right to will half of the
possessed by herself and
husband to whomever she please~
was decided by the supreme court
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A western railroad has placed on
its rails car reserved for women
only, but the women do not after
all prefer an Adamless Eden on
wheels.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Don't be discouraged If the results
you get from your garden make 1t
seem expensive. The price put upon
Madison Square garden in New York
ls $3,5O0,000
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A Boston street car conductor
found a $4,000 necklace on the floor
of his car. And we thought that
women who wear $4,000 necklaces al
ways rode in automobiles.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A canvass of the goods in Chicago
university shows that only two per
cent. of them are planning matrimony.
That's all right; there's no need to
hurry the girls.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

New York has justsent S2,000000 Of
worn out money to Washington. The
fellows the New Workers took it away
from were probably sent to the hos
pital.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

[ London dressmakers now propose
gown with a detachable train. Hub
by, we presume. will be the switch
man.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

THE earnings Of the average New
York lawyer amount to about $1,000 a
year. Earnings" is a diplomatic way
of putting it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

However, the aviator who threatens
to fly up Broadway will not be the
only high flyer on that wicked thor
oughfare.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Detroit's team loses a game on rare
occasions to prove that it's players are
merely human
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

After college professors reach a
certain age they don't seem to care
what they say about women
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

New York complains of shortage
of water, despite the fact it is sur
rounded by it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

A New Jersey man who ate pie
twice day for SO years is dead-gone
to his desserts, as il were.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Chicago is now advocating air baths
A short time ago one of its citizens
died in a bathtub.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

There has been discovered one or
those old-fashioned baseball games in
which one team scores 20 runs.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

About the only time the women are
good listeners is when the preacher
Is talking
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

1t must be great to be skinny in hot
weather.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

There ought to be Nobel prize for
the parsonage who invented shirt
waists.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Do not overwork yourself taking hot
weather advice.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Now the man who sleeps out of
doors finds it easier to make converts
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

At the Hoe library sale THE Swan
Book" brought S21,0OO.. Its new owner
would not read it for twice that
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

More popular than others are hot
waves with broken backs.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Also. bash the pest that rocks the
boat.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-23

Keep cool and you will be cool.
Evening journal., 1911-01-07
BIRTHDAY PARTY.

A birthday surprise was given Ray
mond P. Johnson, of Greenville, in the
honor of his twenty-first birthday an
niversary on Thursday. He received
many gifts among which was a gold
watch and chain from his grandpar-
ents.
A solo was sung by Edward Beacon
accompanied by Miss Bessie NJ. Ward.
The comedians also kept the company
in an up roar by their witty sayings.
The guests were Bessie E. Beacon.
Madeline Beacon, Bessie NJ. Ward,
Mary Casey, Margaret Casey. Rose
Consono, Elizabeth Walls, Sally Gil
son, Estella Cherry, Katherine Law
less, May Potts, Florence Potts, Nellie
Haggerty, Essie Anderson, Bertha
Bradway, Lille Bradway, Elma Rob
inson, Thomas Jackson, William Fet-
ters, Amos Johnson, James Cheney,
Ford Brown, William Campbell, Joseph
Williams, Daniel Walsh, William Hall,
Edward Beacon, Joseph Sheppard,
Edward Williams, John ellison, Mr..
and Mrs. Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. ST.
mon Cheney, Mr.. and Mrs. e. J. Shep-
pard, and Mr., and Mrs. James Robin
son.
Evening journal., 1911-01-07
"PRACMATISM,"
WHAT'S IT? LISTEN!
PShaW! Ask the Grey-beardS
Who Have Been Shocked by
Modern Ideas on Life

The mystery of what Is meant by
"Pragmatism" was explained by J. C..
Powys, in original and entertaining
fashion, before the members Of the
New-Century Club and many nom
members, yesterday afternoon. The
direct opposite of pragmatism, accord
ing to the speaker, is the philosophy
which tries to find a fixed. absolute
truth, absolute beauty, virtue, ETC.,
which tries to reduce the world to an
eternal one-ness-like the Oriental re-
ligions, like Plato and Socrates, like
the Christian saint trying to lose him
self in the Eternal Being. Pragmat-
ism, said Mr.. Powys, declares that all
truth is relative, life consists of a
good many things and good many
people and truth appears differently tc
different people and under differing
conditions; in way each creates his
own truth, and his only test Of truth
according to pragmatists, is whether
1T works" in experience.
"Spinoza, facing a New York sky
scraper, would say, There is no sky
scraper, these things are illusions
there is only truth The pragmatis
would say to Spinoza, You are afrai'
to face the fact of skyscrapers; yo'
are too tired, you want to get rid o
them and lose yourself in the universe
But skyscrapers are real nevertheless
Life is not unit. 1t is a strung
along affair.""
Pragmatism, said Mr.. Powys, recog
nizes that life is larger than reason
that reason makes az fool of itsel
when it tries to solve things Outsid
of mathematics and material things
The lecturer added that pragmatisr
believes that what is impossible fror
the standpoint of reason, can and fre
quently does happen.
Mr.. Powys named Goethe. Nietsch
and William James, among pragmati
philosophers.
He said that pragmatism had don
away with the depressing fatalisti
teaching, but that 1t was dangeroui
Grey-bearded free-thinkers, he sai'
were aghast to find It was bringin
back certain old-fashioned ideas, a
to the possibility Of a real resurre'
| ton Of the body, a real future worl
and real hell. Mr.. Powys conclude
with the statement on the other han
that it was a revival of paganism, an
pantheism, a return to the polytheist
teaching of Greece and Rome.
Evening journal., 1911-01-07
rTCu rArTnpV
.TEJU Il HUIUN1
IS SAFE NOW
SinkabIe Boat viii Eliminate
Fire Danger in Future

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
LEWES, Del, Jan. IA floating
FISH factory for Lewes, is the latest
development of the 100000 fire which
damaged the fish factories here last
summer. The new factory, which
will be fireproof because of an ar
rangement that will allow it to be
sunk, will be hoated just few yards
off the shore in the Delaware bay, and
Will be operated on a boat 400 feet
long and with a ffty-four-foot beam.
The boat will carry its own steam,
two elevators, one on each side, to
handle the fish, and will be equipped
to carry 5000 tons with room for TO-
600 barrels Of fish oil in her hold. I'm
proved machinery will convert the
fish, which will be brought TO the float
ing factory by boats, into fish guano
and oil without the offensive smell
which has heretofore been a nuisance
at certain times to the people of the
town.
Machinery has been installed so that
in case Of fire the boat and cargo can
at once be sunk in the water, thus put
ting out the flames. and the boat can
afterward be raised. The new device
is expected to save many dollars each
year and avoid all risk of any great
loss by fire.