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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Hotel Inspection Ordered.

DR.. S. ]. Crumbine, secretary of the
Kansas state board of health, has in
structed the six food and drug inspec'
tors of his department to give their
entire time to inspecting hotels and
restaurants in Kansas. The full force
will devote their entire time to this
work for a month or six weeks. There
are no special hotel inspectors on the
state board of health inspection staff.
This work is done by the local health
officers and the local fire marshals.
The things to be looked after in ho-
tells are fire escapes, ropes in, rooms,
chemical fire extinguishers, clean
sheets, clean fowls in rooms, clean
toilets, clean kitchens and "blino
rooms" which are rooms with no out
side exposure. Restaurants will be
looked after particularly as to their
conditions on sanitation and cleanli-
ness.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Kansas Fruit Looks Good.

Walter Wellhouse, secretary OF the
State Horticultural Society, is sending
out requests to Kansas fruit growers
for reports. Speaking from personal
observation, he says:
kansas will have fruit crop that
will surpass 1910, especially in apples
and cherries. At the beginning of the
year we had some below zero weather
and the tenderer varieties of peaches,
like the Elbertas, were damaged. The
severe weather froze the heart of the
bud, forming an icicle right in the
bud
But the prospects for an apple
crop are good. Last year Kansas had
spotted crop. In some localities
there were hardly any apples, while
in others the yield was good. No
trouble has been reported yet this
year in the apple orchards outside of
canker worms in a very few localities,
and I think that spraying would have
eradicated them.
Growers in several places are COM
planning that the recent dry weather
has affected the strawberries. Drouth
will shorten a strawberry crop very
rapidly. But the rains which have
been falling in the last two days will
help the berries"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Pastors Wife Uses Lash.

Caney, Kan.-Mrs. w. A. Haynes,
wife of the pastor of the Christian
church here, publicly horsewhipped
Daniel w. Plowman, widely known
dairyman and member of the Caney
school board. Mr.. Plowman swore out
a warrant for the arrest of Mrs.
Haynes and her son, who accompanied
her.
The trouble grew out of fight over
the election of superintendent of pub
lie schools Mrs. Haynes wrote COM
munication to a local paper concern
Ing the election Plowman posted the
clipped communication in the window
of his store and appended the words,
"She says she is religious woman"
Mrs. Haynes entered the Plowman
store and demanded that the clipping
be removed Plowman refused. Then
Mrs. Haynes attacked him with a rid
ing quirt striking him II blows before
he could disarm her.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Joint in Cave Behind Hen House.

Wichita, Kan.-The biggest raid on
"joint" here within months past was
made the other night when a squad
of policemen discovered cave under
hen house at Joseph Jones resi-
dence, 1857 North Wabash. The cave
. subterranean walled chamber lGge
enough to hold a wagon load Of IN
toxicants-was found to contain one
half barrel bottled whisky, four cases
of whisky, 10 cases of beer and one
tub of iced beer. This is the third
time Jones has been arrested for main
tanning a Joint" Each time he NOV
ed his depot, however, and for con-
siderable time has baffled the officers
who have repeatedly searched the
house at 1857 Wabash avenue, only
to find nothing there. Suspicion was
directed toward the hen house be-
it was unoccupied by any fowls
and was so clean that it apparently
had been vacant for long time.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Stops EpiIepties Marrying.

Harry Bowman, chairman Of the
state board of control, is making an
effort to secure a more rigid enforce
ment of the law which prevents mar
riage of epileptics or feeble minded
persons or between relatives by blood.
A case recently came to his attention
where a woman epileptic who was dis
charged from the Parsons hospital as
unimproved, was married by the pro
bate judge Of Leavenworth county to
a barber of that town. A child was
born. The woman is now applying to
the Ottawa county probate court for
a remittance to the Parsons hospital
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
COUNTY QUARANTINE
IN KANSAS TO GO
THE GOVERNMENT AGREES TO
FREE ELEVEN.
Have Been Restricted For Years
Oklahoma and Colorado Cattle
Must Show Health Certlfi-
Gates.

Topeka, Kan-There will be no
county in Kansas under quarantine
for scabies or mango among cattle by
July l. j. H. Mercer, state live stock
commissioner, returned from Wash
ington, where he conferred with Sec
rotary Wilson of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, and A. d.
Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal
industry. The federal department
favored the lifting of the quarantine.
Eleven counties are now under
quarantine" said Mr.. Mercer. They
are Finney, Hamilton, Stanton, Nor
ton, Stevens, Seward, Mead, Clark,
Kearney, Grant and Haskell counties.
They have been under scabies and
mango quarantine for some seven or
eight years, and the restrictions will
be removed from them by July l, ac-
cording to the present plans
THE federal department looked
with favor on my suggestions. or
course, quarantine restrictions will be
maintained right along the line to
prevent the movement of cattle from
Oklahoma and Colorado into Kansas
without health certificates. We will
cooperate with the government just
as heretofore. The government will
maintain a corps of inspectors.
"When we hear and learn OF
herd of cattle which is affected with
mango or scabie, just that particular
herd will be quarantined, instead of
an entire county or district. The
mango has been cleaned up in Kan
sas and we feel absolutely safe in
taking this step.
81 also discussed with the depart
ment the hog cholera serum PROPOSE
ton. The government discovered
serum and gave out formula as to
how to make it, but placed no re-
strictions on who should make and
handle it from a commercial stand
point. AS a result of this unrestricted
privilege, there Is some serum on the
market under the name of govern
ment hog cholera serum which is not
a good serum and not up to standard.
suggested that serum made from
the government formula should not
be permitted to be sold unless 1t bears
a department approval stamp.
81 also asked that the government
assist Kansas in testing dairy herds
for tuberculosis. The government is
helping other states in the way OF
sending veterinarians and inspectors
to help in cleaning up tuberculosis af-
fected localities. l was assured OF
help for Kansas in the matter"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Head on Crooked.

Little Paul had always been laugh,
by his mother that God had made him
and that he ought to be thankful that
he had been made so perfect; eyes,
ears, feet, hands and all complete.
His mother had bought a new cook
stove and Paulie was examining it.
He lifted the reservoir lid and looked
in. There was his picture, as natural
as life, in the water, but he was sore
ly troubled, while looking at it. When
asked, by his mother, what the trouble
was, he said:
>'Dod might O. made me persect, but
he put my head on trooked."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
SORGHUM SEED GRAF
BEATS WHEAT SWINDLE
Kansas Agricultural Expert Warns
Against wonder" Selling at
Rate of 81 500 a BusheI.


Manhattan, Kan.-You remember
the 22-bushel-an-acre-wheat story Of
a year or two ago, don't you? Re-
member how some smooth persons
sold that seed for $1,000 a bushel-
so much a pound?
Well, here's another, only worse,
and farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Illinois are falling for it-sorghum
seed at $1,000 bushel. The post
office department inspectors are after
1.-THE swindle, not the seed. said
Arthur H. Leidigh assistant professor
of agronomy in the state agricultural
college.
Watch out for the man who sells
little packets of this sorghum seed
a thousand seeds to a packet. This
makes the retail price 81 800 bushel
Someone has been soliciting for four
months, for persons to take state and
county rights to sell this seed at 81
a packet. Every man who buys
county right must buy 100 packets OF
seed and agree to sell 900 more and
he signs a contract"
Professor Leidigh has been cooper
ating with C. R. Ball of the United
States department of agriculture who
has charge of the grain sorghum in
vestigations in trying to run down
the perpetrators of the latest swindle.
The sorghum has been sold as Cali
fornia wheat" Mexican wheat" and
Egyptian wheat" 1t has been grown
more or less throughout the. sorghum
producing area of the United States
for several years, and in the Southern
states for a longer period. Where
conditions are favorable for its
growth, the crop at first has aroused
great expectations. However, when
harvest time arrives it is discovered
that the heads, which have plume
like appearance, are made up mostly
of chaff and glumes, and that the
seeds are hardly as large or as plen-
tiful as those contained in common
kafir. The result is that, while the
field produces large amounts of head
ed grain, as far as bulk is concerned,
it rarely ever makes more than two
thirds as much threshed grain as
kafir.
The sorghum came originally from
India and virtually is the only variety
from that country grown to any ex-
tent in the United States. The seed
is white and somewhat flatter than
the seed of kafir. The test weight by
the bushel is quite high, sometimes
reaching siXty-two pounds. The
growth of the plant in many ways re-
that of the durras, or Milo
and Jerusalem corn.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
OUR STATE CAPITOL LETTER
DOlNGS OF THE
KANSAS
STATE OFFICERS.
A Brief Resume Of What Our
alfred Men" Are Doing, How
They Spend Their Time, Etc.
Farmers Join In Protecting Fish.

FARMERS JOIN IN protecting Flsn.
Farmers Fish Protection Associa-
ton" Is the latest plan promulgated
warden, for the building up Of the
Kansas fish industry.
Mr.. Dyche organized his first asso-
citation among the farmers living be-
tween Wakarusa and Auburn on the
Wakarusa river recently. The dis.
lance by river between the two towns
is between fifteen and eighteen miles
The Wakarusa river has always been
popular with sportsmen, and usually
yields a good return to a patient fol-
lower of Izaak Walton.
Il found" said Professor Dyche,
that nets and traps were in the river
/ don't know who put them there. The
farmers were anxious to have good
fishing in the river, but the only way
to keep a stream stocked up is to
rigidly protect the fish. The law for
bids trapping and illegal seining
Seins with three-inch mesh may be
used, because through them the small
Ter and spawning fishes can escape.
So l decided to have the farmers or
ganize to protect the fish in the stream
in case l restocked it. Twenty men
living along the river were enthusiast
tic over the idea and Joined me right
away. They agree that the law is a
good one and that the plan is all right.
II took some $500 fish down there,
of which at least 800 are large enough
to spawn this season. l gave them
black bass, giant croppie, Dreams,
which are large sunfshes, blue gills
and rock bass. The twenty farmers
who joined me in seeing that the fish
are protected and that the stream gets
a good chance at being restocked will
look after that stream.
II am going to organize similar pro-
tective associations all over Kansas.
have listed about 100 streams and
fishing places where this can be done
and l shall visit these places and Sc
cure the cooperation of the farmers
living along the streams, and get them
to organize to protect the fish"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
KANSAS PROFESSORS TO
RECEIVE HIGHER PAY
Loss of Good Men to Eastern Colleges
on Account Of Low Salary
Arouses Commission.


The state commission of higher
education, consisting of the regents
of the state university. agricultural
college and normal schools, at its
meeting here favored the plan of
breaking away from uniform salaries
in the several institutions for various
grades of professorships.
There is no iron clad rule in Kan
sas higher educational matters on the
subject, but 1t Is a general custom
to pay full professor in Kansas state
schools $4,000 a year. and a dean of
a department $4,000 a year. The
idea which met favor is to pay a
high-grade man larger salary. Kan
sas has lost number of well known
educators because other schools Of
fered them considerably larger sal
aries.
1t was pointed out that Kansas uni
versity recently lost a professor who
was offered almost twice as much by
an Eastern university and that the
state agricultural college lost pro-
lCppOl III lily way oIhCi Cn'
amples were cited, and the spirit was
general that Kansas should break
away from uniformity and, on the
contrary, pay good men good salaries.
Coordination and duplication of
work was discussed at length, and the
talk favored plans to install profess
sor of architecture, for instance, who
could teach three days at Kansas uni
versity and two days at the agricul-
tural college. 1t was thought that
several departments of learning might
be established in that way. The COM
mittees on efficiency, finance and CO.
ordination have been gathering ma
terial, but have not yet digested all
of it. The commission did not deter
mine definitely on any of the points
under discussion.
Before the commission formulates
any final and definite reports their
decisions and plans will all be sub
mitted to Andrew Draper, United
States commissioner of education, and
to Henry Pritchett, head of the Car
negie foundation.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
To Help Fight Cattle Infection.

The federal Department of Agricnl
ture is lending assistance to some
states in the detection and eradication
of tuberculosis among cattle and ]. H.
Mercer, state live stock sanitary COM
missioner, has asked the department
to give Kansas that service. He has
assurances that the service will be
granted.
There is considerable tuberculosis
scattered around among the dairy
herds of Kansas" said Mr.. Mercer,
land by taking hold of it right now it
will not be difficult to completely
eradicate the disease. The assistance
will be in the form of inspectors paid
by the federal government"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Girl, Thirteen, Wins Honors.

Salina, Kan.-Miss Esther Crismore
received the highest general average
in the Saline county diploma examina-
lions, her average being "a. She is
but 13 years old and had her choice
of a free scholarship in any of the
Kansas interdenominational colleges,
by reason of the highest general aver
age. She has accepted the scholarship
of the Kansas Wesleyan university at
salina. There were thirteen pupils in
the county who received an average
Of 80 OF above.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Eliminating Bank Robbery.

Kansas is making crusade against
bank robbers. ]. N. Dolley, state bank
commissioner, is working with might
and main to rid the state of them. So
far this year fourteen robbers Of Kan
sas banks have been captured. Five
are in the penitentiary; two have been
convicted, but not yet sentenced; five
are still awaiting trial, and two have
been found, but the officers are not
yet ready to give out information
about them.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
A School for the Health officers.

The county and city health officers
of Kansas are to have an opportunity
next month to learn in school what is
required of them in looking after the
health and sanitation of their counties
and cities. For a week, beginning
June ~, school for county and city
health officers will be conducted at
the State university. The state board
of health will meet in Topeka June
IL and will adjourn to Lawrence
where the remainder of the week will
be spent for the benefit of the health
officers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
cankerwOrm InIuring Orchards.

FL Dorado, Kan.-Great injury has
been done to the orchards in Butler
county this spring by the canker
worm. This worm has destroyed
about 200 acres Of apples alone be-
sides injuring other fruit trees. The
worms disappeared about five days
later this year than is usual for them
and although large spray pumps we're
kept at work in some of'the orchards
all the time. the worms seemed to
proper so much that they staid long
er than usual. The damage done BY
them is not fully known.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
A Wilv JUDGE,

At an assize court, according to the
London Times, juror claimed ex-
emption from serving on the ground
that he was deaf. The Judge held a
conversation with the clerk of ar
raigns on the subject, and then, turn
ing to the man, at whom he looked in
tently, he asked in whisper: Are
you very deaf?" Very" was the un-
guarded reply. $50 l perceive" was
the rejoinder of the Judge, but not
whisper deaf You had better go into
the box. The witness shall speak
ow."-Case and Comment.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
MENTAL ACCURACY
Greatly Improved by Leaving Off Coffee

The manager of an extensive cream.
cry in Wis. states that while a regu-
lar coffee drinker, he found 1t injuri-
GUS to his health and a hindrance to
the performance of his business du-
ties.
1T impaired my digestion, gave me
q distressing sense of fullness in the
region of the stomach, causing most
painful and disquieting palpitation of
the heart, and what is worse, it mud
died my mental faculties so as to seri-
ously injure my business efficiency.
81 finally concluded that something
would have to be done. quit the use
of coffee, short off, and began to drink
Postum. The cook didn't make it
right at first. She didn't boil 1t long
enough, and l did not find it palatable
and quit using it and went back to COT
fee and to the stomach trouble again.
Then my wife took the matter in
hand, and by following the directions
on the box, faithfully, she had me
drinking Postum for several days be-
for / knew it.
when 1 happened to remark that
/ was feeling much better than / had
for long time, she told me that
had been drinking Postum, and tina.
accounted for it. Now we have no
coffee on our table,
my digestion has been restored,
and with this improvement has come
relief from the oppressive sense Of
fullness and palpitation of the heart
that used to bother me so. l note such
a gain in mental strength and acute
ness that can attend to my Office
work with ease and pleasure and with
out making the mistakes that were so
annoying to me while l was using
coffee.
Postum is the greatest table drink
of the times, in my humble estima-
ton" Name given by Postum Co,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, ''The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the above 1etterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Public Utilities Board.

The public utilities law is now in
effect. The present railroad com
mission, F. ]. Ryan, ]. T. White and
George Plumb, become the public
utilities commission. The working
force of the new commission has only
been named in part. Carl Witt of
North Dakota has been engaged as
engineer and e. e. Smyth of Kansas
City as rate clerk. Mr.. Wits salary
is to be $4,000 year and Mr.. Smyth's
$4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Files Mortqaqe in Atchison.

Atchison, KAMA first real estate
mortgage for 100000 and a chattel
mortgage for the same amount were
filed with the register of deeds here
by the Kansas Natural Gas Company
in favor of the Fidelity Trust Com
pany of Pittsburg, Pa. The mortgage
covers all the real estate and person
al property the company owns in
Kansas including pipe lines, right-of
way and pumping stations.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Railroads Assure Board Of Help.

What assistance the railroads will
be able to give to the public utilities
commission in the making Of physi
cal valuation of the railroad property
Of the state will be given. The public
utilities commission has received as
surance of this and sent out to the
railroad companies a complete list OF
the information desired. The com
mission wants a complete inventory
Of the property Of each OF the railroad
companies doing business in Kansas.
The blanks mailed out call for this
information.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
wichita Complaint First.

The first case filed before the new
public utilities commission was a
complaint from the Wichita board Of
trade regardiTg a change in milling
in transit rates in Kansas. The case
was received after the books of the
old board of railroad commissioners
had been closed and it was docketed
on page one of the new books. The
publication of the statute book
changed the board Of railroad CON-
missioners into the public utilities
commission.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Called Witness a "Liar."

Wichita, Kan.-When a policeman
stated on the witness stand in police
court here that Clyde Tarbill, alleged
jointist, was not in bed when the
officers raided the city hotel finding
a wide open saloon, young Tarbill
shouted, you are a liar" The court
did not fine Tarbill for contempt but
gave him $500 and six months in Jail
for selling liquor. Tarbill has been
arrested FIVE times within the past six
months for selling liquor.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Sold Patent Medicine, Goes to jail.

Lincoln, Center, Kan.-E. Mersinger
was convicted in the district court
here on six counts for the violation of
the prohibitory law. He is a medicine
man, selling over the county, and has
been selling, a compound called "Ner-
vona," which he claimed was a medi-
cine only. The county attorney claim
ed that it was sold to be used as a
beverage and was intoxicating. The
case was one of the hardest fought in
years in this county. The sentence
was a fine of $500 and $50 days in jail.
Notice of appeal was given.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
To Gust Missouri Company.

Attorney General Dawson has filed
in the supreme court an custer suit
against the Regal Realty and Invest
ment company of st. Louis. holding
company for brewing interests in Mis-
souri,. and also asked that a receiver
be appointed. 1t is charged that the
company holds $50 properties in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties and has
not compiled with the charter laws Of
the state
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
DR.. Slack Resiqns Position.

Manhattan, Kan.-Francis H. Slack,
professor of bacteriology in the Kan
sas State Agricultural college, re-
signed his position to accept an ap-
pointment as secretary on the Boston
board of health. His resignation took
effect May 81. DR.. Slack began his
duties in Boston June l. He came to
this college from Boston last Septem'
Der.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02
Fort Riley Soldier Killed.

Junction City, Kan.-Private Will
liam Hawks of the Sixth field artillery
at Fort Riley was instantly killed
while painting an electric light pole.
His body formed a short circuit and
he was electrocuted. Efforts to lift
his body from the pole were unavsil-
ing until the power was turned off in
the junction City plant.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02

A western nature wizard has been
grating alfalfa roots on strawberry
plants. Now the blame laid on the
early imported strawberry can be
placed where it belongs.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-06-02

Three discoveries Of April 26, 1911,
are the cure of rheumatism by re-
moval of the tonsils, the prevention of
hydrophobia by eating beetle and the
restoration of speech and hearing by
being hit by an automobile. All are
practical.