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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
S27o,OOO Paid in Gold.

Leavenworth, Kan.-Three hundred
thousand dollars, lie largest amount
ever handled at an army post or sol
diers home in this country, was PAID
by the government the other dav TO
it's old and young soldiers here. OF the
total S240,000 went to regulars sta
toned at Fort Leavenworth, $4,000 20
militiamen of Kansas, Missouri, ana
Oklahoma, who participated in the re.
cent army maneuvers, and the balance
to veterans of the Civil and Spanish
American wars. Only $4,000 OF the
amount paid the veterans was issued
by check The rest was paid in gold.
The troops had not been paid since
last May, while pension day was long
overdue.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Wood Will Plead Guilty

Wellington, Kan.-Sam Wood, who
lies desperately wounded in the coun-
ty jail facing a charge of murder and
several hardly less serious offenses.
announces that if he RECEIVERS he will
go into court and plead guilty. He
says he committed the deed with
which he stands charged and has no
desire to escape the penalty. His aged
mother, Mrs. Emily Wood, visited him
and strongly supported him in his an
nounced purpose Wood will hire no
attorney and attempt no defense. His
chances of recovery are considered
slight,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
To Reclaim 10000 Acres.

Forty thousand acres of waste land
in Barton county will be reclaimed for
farming within the next few years II
the plans now being worked out in
the office of H. B. Walker, drainage
and irrigation engineer at the Kansas
agricultural college, are followed Mr..
Walker visited the proposed drainage
district last week-the Chey snHe bot
toms. near Great Bend-and was ask
ed to prepare plans for Kidding these
bottoms OF their surplus water, which
he will furnish at once.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
WILL REACH MORE FARMERS.
More Than 200 Institutes VIII Be Con.
Quoted Before December 20.

Manhattan, Kan.-Representatiyes
of the extension department of the
Kansas Agricultural college addressed
audiences last year aggregating 349,967
persons. OF this number a large per
cent were in farmers institute meet
ings-the principal vehicle Of the col
lege in its going-to-the-p people work.
And it is this branch of the agricultu-
raj colleges work which will be made
even larger and more efficient this
year, according to the plans of ]. H.
Miller, director of the extension de-
partment A specialist in extension
work, Edward c. Johnson, Of the Unit.
ed States department Of agriculture,
has been employed exclusively to SUI
perintend these institutes.
More than 200 institutes will be con-
Quoted by representatives of the agri-
cultural college before December 20,
according to the schedule which is now
being made out in the office of the
superintende Thirty lecturers will
be available for this work. More wo-
men lecturers will be detailed to the
work this year
The fall institute schedule will be d.
vided into two series. The first series
will extend from September to Oc-
tober II, and the second from October
81 to December 20. All Institutes
which are to hold corn contests will
meet in the second series. For con-
venience it is desired to get as many
meetings as possible in Southeastern
Kansas scheduled on the first series,
beginning September 8. Any commun-
ity desiring an institute organized
should make application at once. A
second circuit of 200 meetings princi-
pally for western communities, will be
arranged later. This series begins in
January.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
WARDEN j. X. CODDlNG
HAS A NEW SCHEME
Would Commute Convlcts' Sentences a
Day for Each Days Work Outside
the Prison Walls.


]. X. Codding. warden of the Kansas
penitentiary, has asked Governor
Stubs to indorse a plan to commute
the sentences of prisoners one day for
each day of meritorious service out
side the prison walls. Warden Cod
ding has large number of men work
ing on the Observation-Disclosures City
rock road and it is his idea that those
men should be given an extra reward
for excellent work done on this road.
ut Is Improbable and impracticable
to take general bunch of men from
the prison and put them to work on
the roads," said Warden Codding in
discussing his plan. when You put
men at work on the roads and have to
have guard with gun for each three
men and cage in which to keep them
at night, it is really cheaper and better
to go out and hire the guards to do the
work instead of hiring them to carry
guns and watch the other fellows do
the work.
"Of all the men in the Kansas prison.
have about $50 that am not afraid
to send out anywhere to work, and l
know they will be decent and do an
honest days work and not disturb any
one. That's the only sort that can be
sent out on road work profitably. They
work along the roadside Women and
children go along every day and they
camp near where they work. They
must be men that the citizens are not
afraid Of They must be chaps who
will not steal or brighten people.
81 have $50 Of these chaps working
on the Observation-Disclosures City rock
road now, and there is less disturbance
in their camp than In any camp OF
laborers of the same size in the coun'
try. All the guards those men have
is the men who are experimenting the
work of road building. They don't
need any other guards
What want the governor to do Is
to say to these men Every day you do
good honest work on the roads means
one day taken off your sentence If
man is sent to prison for ten years
and works three hundred days on the
road work, does honest work, is indus
trious, and careful, then year comes
off his sentence, as three hundred
working days makes about year. 1t
is only the best grades Of prisoners
that this plan would be available for
1t would be an incentive to better
work.
The governor has ample authority
for this as he is permitted to commute
the sentences of prisoners at any time
and as he sees fit. l believe it would
be a good scheme, and l want to try
it."
Warden Codding had long confer
ence with Governor Stubs about the
plan, but no conclusion was reached,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Loses Arm in siIage Cutter.

Great Bend, Kan.-While operating a
silage cutting machine near here
George Guin caught his shirt sleeve In
the cog wheel and before companions
could stop the machine, it had drawn
his arm in and ground it to pulp TO
the elbow, and but for timely aid he
would have been pulled in bodily
Aside from excruciating pain and loss
of the injured member, Guin is resting
nicely. The accident occurred on the
day of his brother Eds marriage to
Miss Francis Osborne of Harris, Kan,
and cast a gloom over the nuptials.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Katy FLYER Kills Woman.

Parsons, Kan.-Mrs. Chas. Orner was
struck and instantly killed by the Katy
flyer. The body was thrown about
twenty feet from the track and almost
every bone broken. The train was
close upon Mrs. Orner as she was try
ing to cross the track before she was
seen by Fireman Stark. He jumped
from his seat to notify Engineer Yum.
ker but was too late to save the
woman
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
First Referendum Vote at cherryvaIe.

CheYryvale, Kan.-The first reGeren-
dunn vote ever taken in Cherryvale
occurred the other day on the propo-
sition to grant an electric light and
power franchise to d. H. Siggins,
president and manager of the Union
Traction company, which operates an
interurban between Cherryvale and
Coffeyville via Independence. Cherry
vale being under commission govern
ment the franchise granted by the COM
missioners had to be referred to the
people for their sanction. The prop
osition carried in every ward in town,
the vote being 364 to 1O7 ratifying the
grant.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Can't Use the Name Of "woodman."

Kansas City, Kan.-Judge Ralph c.
Campbell of the federal court at Kan
sas City, Kan, in an exhaustive opin-
ion handed down the other day in the
Modern Moodman case, held that the
dissenters of that order had no right
to use the word woodman in the name
of their new order and no right to
unlawfully use its funds, forms, laws,
regulations, titles, or designations, and
issued an injunction prohibiting such
acts to which the defendants consented
by filing their written recitation and
confession.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Movable School Popular.

More than 40 towns in Kan where high
schools did not offer instruction in
home economics have had movable
schools" in cooking and sewing from
the Kansas agricultural college. These
SCHOOLS" are offered in September
and in April and May. Owing to much
other work this year the college can
offer these schools only for three
weeks in September and only to towns
where the schools have not yet intro
duced domestic science. The school
will continue for one week, the work
beginning at 1880 Monday afternoon
and ending at 1880 Saturday. The
maximum number for a class is forty,
no girl under Is and no woman over
100 to be enrolled Five lessons
In cooking and five lessons in sewing
and each member of the class must
do the work exactly as she would do 1t
II in a class at the college. Each
member of such a school will pay fee
of 81 to the local committee to meet
expenses. Clubs, societies and groups
OF interested women may arrange for
these movable schools or demonstration
classes through correspondence with
the director of college extension work
at the agricultural college.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
EInd SUGAR eeet crop satIsfaetory.

Garden City, Kan.-After complet-
ing an investigation of the sugar beet
crop conditions here recently C. c.
Hamlin and Spencer Penrose, presi-
dent and secretary OF the United
States Sugar and Land &C., and J. H.
Waters, president of the allied rail-
roads into Colorado Springs, pronounce
the crop satisfactory in every respect
A yield of ~ tons per acre seems as
sured, with some chance of a better
crop should conditions continue fav-
orable.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Rural Carrier Injured,

Emporia, KAN. H. Brooks, a rui
al mail carrier, drove his rHlabout
into a telephone wire lying across the
road, at a point near Lang, and mar
rowly escaped decapitatlon. He was
jerked from the car, rendered uucon-
scious, while his neck was severely
torn. After his injuries had been
treated he finished his route.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Storage Wheat All Sold.

Larned, kant is estimated that
for the first time in ten years there
is practically no old wheat left in
Ford county. OF the 2,000,0 00-bushel
crop of 1910 nearly 100000 bushels
were left this time last year. OF last
years 100000 bushels practically
nothing exists now. The new crop is
being held by many of the leading
wheat men for higher prices.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Hogs Die of Disease Like Smallpox!

Arkansas City, Kan.-What farm
ers of Sumner county choose to call
smallpox" is threatening every hog
in that community. Nearly $50 hogs
have been lost in the last week of the
disease which breke out on the hogs
in sores. Tho disease is puzzling all
hog raisers, who have never seen any
thing like It, 1t is at its worst around
South Haven, and is contagious.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Deeds Asked to Right of Way.

Arkansas City, Kan.-Deeds to right
of way of the Southwestern electric
interurban road projected from Arkan-
sas City to Ponca City, have been sent
to land owners along the proposed
route for signature. C. l.. Brown Of
Chicago is promoting the road, which
is to be fifty miles long and to run
through Northern Oklahoma.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Auto Blows Up; Engine overheated

Arkansas City, Kan.-An automo-
bile owned by Neal A. Pickett, re-
tired farmer and fine stock raiser OF
Sumner County, burned near South
Haven. The car stopped because OF
overheating of the engine He no
sooner stepped from the car than the
gasoline tank under the seat exploded,
the flames completely destroying the
paP
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Domestic Science Girls in Demand.

The girls who know how to teach
cooking and sewing are not long idle
these days. The Kansas Agricultural
college was not able to supply more
than one-half the teachers required in
1911 and 1912. Six hundred and sew,
enty-five girls were enrolled in the
domestic science courses at the col
lege, but only few of these intended
to leave home. rewer than one hun
dred had any desire to teach school,
and still there was a constant call
for girls to fill positions paying from
forty to one hundred dollars a month,
and this Notwithstanding the TACT that
home economics or domestic science is
taught also at Pittsburg. Emporia,
Hays and at Lawrence. Forty-five
young women were placed this sum
mer by the Kansas Agricultural col
lege as teachers of domestic science It
would be hard to imagine more prac-
ticable instruction than the girls re-
ceive. In the domestic science course
the students learn the laws of health,
and get an understanding of the san
itary requirements of the home; they
learn how to use things, how to pre-
pare food properly, how to spend
money wisely, how to save time, how
to plan their work for themselves and
for others, and how to care for child
rem. Such training results in content
ment, industry, order and cleanliness.
They do their own marketing, their
own cooking, their own waiting on
tables and their own dishwashing.
They buy materials, make their own
patterns, cut the goods and make their
own clothes. They buy straw in
bundles and make and trim their own
hats. After they have done these
things acceptably, they know how to
teach others, or they can go to their
own homes or their parents homes and
make life happier for some one. One
of the other important things taught
in the school is how to equip the high
school in which domestic science is to
he taught
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Help Farmers Fight Insect Pests.

That the farmers may be able to
know in the spring just what insect
pests he will need to look out for with
special vigilance during the season and
thus, being forewarned, may ward off
damage, the purpose Of extensive
experiments now being undertaken by
the department: of entomology at the
University Of Kansas. To cary out tho
experiments, Prof. 8. J. Hunter, head
of the department, has had built a
temperature control apparatus capable
of producing any desired kind of
weather-inside. By taking general
average he has figured out the typical
Kansas climate. This climate he will
produce in the apparatus, only shorten
ing the seasons so as to run a year
through in three or four months. Thus
in a comparatively short time he can
determine the effect on insect life of
the typical Kansas year and of the
many variations from the typical con-
ditions. Professor Hunters observa'
tons on the green bug have shown
that when the temperature in sum-
mer goes above 105 degrees there will
be no green bugs the following sea-
servation to establish this fact.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Wichita Woman a Suicide.

Wichita, Kan.-Mrs. Alice L. Cupit,
aged "a years, committed suicide here.
Mrs. Cupit had never fully recovered
from an illness contracted seven years
ago. She was the mother of E. R. Gu
pit. a manager for the Dold Packing
Plant. She came to Wichita from
Kansas City two years ago. Harry H.
Cupit of Kansas City, is another son.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Fire Destroys Mo. Pac. Depot.

Arkansas City, Kan.-Arkansas City
suffered a $4,000 fire when the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot, three freight cars
and their contents were destroyed. The
origin of the flames is unknown. When
the fire was first discovered the sta
ton was ablaze and the box cars were
burning at fast rate.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
A,tlnIties Fined and Taken to Jail.

Emporia, Kan.-Harry Whinnery
and Mrs. Pearl Parker. who were ar
rested in a house near Neosho Rapids,
were found guilty of improper behavior
in a Justice court trial and fined. The
woman received fine of S25 while
Wbinnery was fined $3.50 and sentenc-
ed TO six months Imprisonment. Both
were taken to Jail when they could not
nav Mrs. Parker's husband offered
10 nav her fine and find her job II
she would leave Whinnery. which she
refused TO do.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Drinking Fountains at Arkansas City.

Arkansas City, Kan.-This city has
installed public drinking fountains In
important parts of town and claims to
be the first city in the southwest 70
do this.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
stakino Claims in Arkansas River.

Great Bend, Kan.-Since the decis-
ion of the supreme court calling orig
inal islands in the Arkansas river
school lands, the river bottoms have
been rapidly cleaned in Barton coun-
ty Entries have been made almost
daily.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Killed Is RattIesnakes

Larned, Kansas. - Henry John
son, farmer living southwest of this
place, killed fifteen rattlesnakes with
whip the other day
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
Epidemic Among Horses Causes Alarm

Manhattan, Kan.,-An Epidemic, the
cause and nature of which has not yet
been determined, is proving fatal to
scores of horses in western Kansas.
From Dodge City in the south to Hoxie
and Jennings on the north, there is a
stretch of country across the state
from which complaints and appeals for
aid have been coming to the Agricul-
tural college. The college has sent
out various men, DR.. Burt, DR.. Dykstra
and DR.. Haslam from here, and others
from Topeka and Kansas City, have
been out in different sections, but
none of them have identified the dis
ease. 1t resembles the influenza that
occasionally affects the horses Of the
state, but if that is the disease, 1t is
in a very virulent form. Ordinarily
with influenza the mortality is very
light but the present disease is taking
fifty to sixty per cent Of the horses
affected.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06
KANSAS TOPICS
STATE MEETING A. H. T. A.
AT ARKANSAS CITY IN OCT.
Will Last for Three Days, Beginning
Tuesday, the 18th.

Arkansas City, Kan.-The thirty
first annual meeting of the A. H. T.
A. of Kansas will be held at Arkansas
City October is, and II. The fol-
lowing program has been arranged:
Tuesday, October is.
Noon-Auto trip to Chilocco Indian
reservation and Geuda Springs health
resort. 600 automobiles provided for
the excursion)
7 p. m.-Concert by Chilocco Indian
band at Paris park.
S:15 p. m.-Musical comedy play,
"The Masqueraders, at the opera
house on Fifth avenue.
Wednesday.
1000 a. m.-Open session.
Delegates assemble at Fifth avenue
opera house.
Opening ode-Piano accompaniment,
Mrs. Penniman
Invocation-Rev. Henshaw.
Address of welcome, behalf of state
Hon George Buckman.
Address of welcome, behalf of city
Mayor Reed.
Response, behalf of the A. H. T. A
]. w. Wall, state president.
Address by national president-N. j..
Randall.
Address by state president of the L..
A. A. H. T. A.
Address by president sub-order No.
157-W. D. Kreamer.
Recitation-Miss Jessie Johnson OF
Salina.
Grand street parade.
The Ladies Auxiliary of No. 1877 will
entertain the visiting members and
delegates of the auxiliary.
Miss Jessie Johnson, the only wo-
man member of the A. H. T. A. In
Kansas, will entertain the L. A. of A
H. T. A. and the Ants sometime dur
ing the session.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-09-06

LESSON TEXT-Matt. s:S5 to 10:15 and
1910 to Ill.
GOLDEN TEXT-"He that receiveth
you receiveth me, and he that receiveth
me receiveth him that sent me."-Matt.
10:40.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
WOMAN DETECTIVE
GIVES TESTIMONY
Tells in DarrOw Trial How
She Found Woman Wit
ness in Mountains.

Los Angeles. Calf. June 13.-The
monotony Of a string OF detectives
successfully testifying TO the same
thing was broken today when a wOm-
an detective took the stand in the
trial Of Clarence s. DarrOw for al
legged jury bribery.
Miss Eula Hitchcock, secretary to
chief Of detectives, Samuel L. Browne,
Of the district attorneys office who
wears a gold star presented by her
assistants. told how she took up the
search for and found Mrs. Flora Cap
Ian, wife of David Caplan, a Times
dynamiting suspect as vet uncaught
Miss Hitchcock testified that she
found Mrs. Captain in LahOnda in the
Santa Cruz mountains, and there
served the latter with a subpoena TO
testify in the Mcnamara case. The
witness said that the woman was liv-
ing in an isolated part Of the noun
tains with Eric Morton, q san Fran
cisco labor leader and the latters
wife.
It was the states contention that
Mrs Captain was one Of the important
witnesses spirited away by the de-
fence
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
STOCK MARKET HAS
FIRM UNDERTONE
American Cotton Oil De
cIines , Points; Bonds
Remain Steady.

New York, n. Y, June To-day s
early stock market was in most essen
tials a repetition Of the preceding day
Trading was scarcely more active and
no less professional but the undertone
was decidedly more firm This ap-
piled especially to the leaders, Read
ing, Lehigh Valley, Union Pacific, and
a few issues in that class, all making
gains. but with little effect on the
rest of the list.
Bonds were steady.
American Cotton Oil preferred de-
clined over two points, probably =
sympathy with the weakness in other
fertilizer issues. The movement other
wise was lfstless and without signifi-
canoe.
The market closed steady. Dealings
in minor speciaIties absorbed most OF
the limited business Of the IinaI hour.
Guggenheim exploration stgnallzed
its admission to the stock exchange BY
rising 31s points.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
sUPERsTITUTI0N
GOVERNS WHEAT
Goes Down in Memory Of
Letter Failure-COrn
and Oats Higher.

Chicago. his. June 13.-Wheat trade
ers today remembered that June Is
was the anniversary Of the Letter fall
ure and seemed disposed to avoid the
buying side Of the market General
rains west Of the Mississippi formed a
more definite cause for depression in
prices. The opening was &c lower to
a shade advance. September started
at S1.O5h to S1-O5Ss. a decline Of =
to 3 to &c, touched S1-055 y and fell
back to S1.052s.
The close was unsettled at S1-05 =
to $IO5A for September, a net loss
of &c
Complaints Of cut worms in the
northwest had a bulish effect on corn
July opened lis up at T42s and rose
to 745zc-
The close was steady, with July =
to p C net higher at 741zc.
Oats showed strength in sympathy
with corn July started unchanged to
Is C higher at SOS to 5Oaa, and hard
ened to 500 TO 5O5sc
Provisions became easier all around
owing to the fact that support was
poor. Initial sales ranged from 3 20
125zc down with September delivery
s19.12k for pork; S1L171s for lard
and S10-675z for ribs