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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
GOOD CROPS SAYS coBURN.
Hard Winter Wheat Will Return
Bountifu Yield.

F. d. Coburn, the agricultural nestor
of Kansas, who, for nineteen years has
been the official authority in that state
on all matters pertaining to the farm,
was in Kansas City the other day to
attend the hay dealers convention. I'M
mediately his arrival became known
and he was besieged by score OF
delegates who fired a volley of pleas
antries at him. Then somebody touch
ed the secret spring which opens the
treasure-box of Secretary Coburn's
store. What about Kansas? How is
the wheat this year? Make us some
good prophecy about the crops"
81 never prophesy about anything; |
am very conservative" replied Secre-
tary Coburn. Its part Of my official
religion that Kansas will be able to
deliver all the time more than she ad-
vertises. The supposition by strangers
would be that a man holding my posi-
ton, say press-agent of the state,
would need to brag and exaggerate,
that he would make great claims for
what his state is, has, and is doing.
have always pursued the opposite
course and have really found it the
best policy, not only in the interests
of the state, but of myself personally
CAS- to the present situation | might
say that, while Kansas may not have
matured this year the largest wheat
crop in her history, there is undoubted-
ly vast quantity of the choicest hard
winter wheat-the kind that has made
Kansas famous The acreage of corn
and kaffir is immense and, although
rather backward in growth en- account
of the late spring, it is mostly report
ed very promising. While | am not
able to say that there will be a corn
crop harvested | see nothing in the
way at this date of the states produc'
ing more corn this year than in any
other year in her past.
There are, to be sure, parts of the
state where conditions for the wheat
and to some extent, the corn, have been
unfavorable and in such neighborhoods
the yield must inevitably be shortened
As a whole the situation is very en-
couraging and promising indeed.
alfalfa, you know, is one of oul
great things, a crop in which Kansas
leads every other state and country
Strange to say, despite the cold spring
which retarded other growths, the
conditions seemed in no wise to affect
alfalfa .,-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Nav Look at Lid In Hutchinson.

1t is probable that Attorney Gener-
al John S. Dawson will investigate
charges that have been made against
the city of Hutchinson in connection
with the prohibitory law. Mr.. Dawson
refused to discuss the matter but it is
known that information has been filed
concerning the violations of the pro-
hibitory law in that city. 1t is said
that while officials vigorously prose
cute persons caught selling 1.-TWO per
cent" prominent hotel keeper and
other individuals manage to sell the
real thing without prosecution. The
persons who filed the information re-
uuested that an investigation be made.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
BIG AUTOMOBILE BURNS
WHILE OWNERS ARE FISHING
Horton Merchant and Sons Find Ma
chine In Ashes After Two
Hours Absence.

Horton, Kan.-Ed Winterschneidt,
his two sons and three Others went
fishing near Horton the other day,
making the trip in Mr.. Winterschneid's
big auto. Leaving the machine in a
field near their fishing place, they
stripped off their clothes and put on
overalls so that they could wade in
the water and catch fish with their
hands. They left their clothes in the
machine. After spending couple Of
hours at the creek, during which time
they caught enough fish to go around,
they returned to the auto. But they
found only smoking ruin. Auto,
clothes, shoes, money and watches had
been destroyed by fire, the origin of
which is a mystery, as there were no
matches left in the clothes
AS the fishers were clad only in over
alls they had to borrow shirts and
shoes in which to return to town. The
auto was va lied at $4,000. No one saw
the auto, while it was burning.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE SUNFLOWER STATE
THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF
A WEEK..
Prepared for Our Busy Readers Who
Want the Whole News In
Little Space.
KILLED BY HIS NEIeH-oR.
A. E. Click Shot to Death and His Wife
Injured Near Cimarron.

Cimarron, KAMA. e. Click was
shot to death by Henry Meyers and
George Deupsers on the north line OF
Clicks land, south of Cimarron. ClicR
and his family were driving along his
place, preparatory to going to work
and in a dispute with Meyers ano
Clicks brother-in-law, George Deup
sers, he received two wounds, one IN
the leg and the other in the abdomen
and his wife received wound in the
arm.
DR.. ]. n. Alexander and Sheriff Tabh
were hurried to the scene. The former
stayed until Clicks death, while the
sheriff borrowed a horse and started
in pursuit of Deupsers, who had es
saped and was making his way to
wards ingalls,. Meyers drove to Clm
AKRON and gave himself up. The Kill
ing is the outcome of long-standlns
teud.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
lax Increase in Counties.

Charles Sessions, secretary of state,
in response to numerous inquiries for
an official statement of the increased
cost Of state and local government
in Kansas between the included years
1909 and 1911, has procured authorized
figures from the state tax commission
The increased tax collection for all
state purposes, including the mainte-
nance of the executive, legislative, and
judicial departments, the penal, edu-
cational and charitable institutions,
the appropriations for public buildings
and sites and all other appropriations
made by the legislature, was $S10,523.
The increased tax collection for local
purposes, including all the cost OF
county, city and township government
as well as for city and rural education,
was S1O,O5SO54 The per cent of the
increase in state taxes was 1921. The
per cent of the increase in local taxes
was 1895.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Limit Insurance to lax Value.

In his annual report to the governor
l. S. Lewis, state superintendent of in
surance, recommends the enactment
of a law limiting the insurance of prop
erty to the amount of the valuation
fixed by the assessors returns. So far
as is known, no state has law of that
kind and no insurance company limits
its policies to the amount of the valua-
ton of the property. In Kansas. under
the new tax law. property is supposed
to be assessed at its actual value, and
Superintendent Lewis believes it
would be an equitable arrangement to
limit the insurance to that extent.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Kansas Postmaster Arrested.

Emporia, Manchester F. Candy
postmaster at Plymouth, six miles
west of here, has been arrested on a
federal warrant charging emoezzle-
ment and alteration of office records
Candy is charged with having appro'
priated $1,697.14 from the money or
der department. His bondsmen nave
made good the deficit. Mr.. Candy Is
the owner of a grocery store in Ply
mouth. and when the bills from the
wholesale houses were brought to nlm'
it is said. he wrote out money orders
to his creditors for the amount OF his
bills. The accounts in the postofflce
part of the office were in good condl-
tion and the deficit in the money or
der department had been covered SO
cleverly that the Inspector had hard
work detecting it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
ss.5oo.ooo in Bonds This Year.

So far this year Kansas municipali-
ties have issued bonds to the amount
OF three and one-half million dollars
That amount had been offered to the
state school fund commission up to
July /. This amount is not so great
as it was for the first six months of
1911, but crop conditions were better
in 1910 than they were in 1911. Bond
issues follow farm yields up and down.
The total offerings to the commission
during the first six months of 1911
were only $4,000 greater than the
offerings for the first six months of
the present year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
aulldlun Removable Dam.

Dodge City, Kan.-Work has begun
on the removable dam across the Ar
kansas near ingalls,. The project is be
ing put through by the Arkansas val
lev Irrigation Company. The dan
will be built in such way that it can
he removed in two hours in case Of
danger from floods. The water of the
river will be diverted into the Ole
sonic ditch, of boom days fame, anc
Lii do away with the necessity OF
humping. The company also intends
70 extend the old Soule ditch to the
state forestry station east of this city
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
The MiddIe-Aoed Woman.

OF the many ways in which the mid
dle-aged woman may vary the effect
of her afternoon gowns none is sim
pier than the use of a collar and cuffs
of white wolfe edged with scalloping
and embroidery in floral design. An
other change may be the frock set of
white chiffon with border Of black
malines, and still another is the one of
black net hemstitched with silver
thread. Some of these collars are so
long in front that they terminate only
at the waist line, where they cross in
surplice effect and are tucked away
under the girdle. An excellent model
of this sort is of light blue lawn en-
broidered with black dots, and a Sec
ond is of white agaric trimmed with
tiny folds of broadcloth, alternating
with eponge.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
ENOUGH HARVEST HANDS.
Now Plenty Of Men in Kansas to Han
die Wheat Crop.

There is no need for more harvest
hands in Kansas.
That sounds considerably different
from the bulletins that have been 60
ing out from the office of Charles Har-
ris, director Of the state free employ
ment bureau, for the last month. All
the bulletins have called for more men.
But now the harvest is almost over
and the men now in the state can han
die the situation. Not all the wheat
has been cut but this week will see all
of it in shock or in the stack.
This season." said Mr.. Harris,
has been the most trying since the
bureau was established because of the
varying weather and inability of any
one to predict with any certainty when
harvest would begin. And when it did
begin it was in spots, wheat being cut
in some of the counties in the northern
part of the state before cutting had
been even commenced in the extreme
southern counties. Even adjoining
farms, in some instances, varied a
week or more in the ripening of the
wheat. Two weeks of cold, wet wealth
err in the middle of June retarded the
crop materially, but at the same time
it developed the berry to such an ex-
tent as to almost double the quantity
and quality of the yield from what had
been the outlook previous to the rain
and cool weather.
This made it difficult to supply the
harvest hands needed, because harvest
hands were on the ground in many
places before there was any call for
their services. This caused some peo-
pie to think the supply of hands was
more than was needd, and this before
the cutting had even commenced. One
or two correspondents wired or wrote
to this effect to some of the newspa-
pers and others informed the Kansas
City free employment bureau that the
state was overrun with harvest hands.
Theee statements were promptly con
tradicted by this bureau. But for a
time the effect was felt and the sup
ply of harvest hands was materially
diminished just when most needed
Up to date this bureau has not mad
one complaint to file"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Dawson Saws New Law Expensive.

Attorney General John S. Dawson
says the last legislature enacted first
class law that is proving mighty ex
pensive to the state. There is nothing
wrong with the law. In fact Mr.. Daw-
son says it is first class. But it needs
some amendments that will cut down
the expense to the state. The law in
question permits a school district to
levy more than the maximum in order
to raise sufficient funds for a new
school building. Under the old slaw
only a given levy could be fixed, no
matter whether it raised sufficient
money or not. The new law provides
that with certain legal procedure the
school district may levy $50 per cent
of the maximum. 1t may raise one
third more money. One of the re-
auirements is that the state school
fund commissioners shall visit the
school district and hold hearing. 1T
is this latter feature that is eXpen'
sive" says Mr.. Dawson. ut costs mon
ey for the members Of the commission
to make trip away out in some dist
ant part of the state and the state has
to stand the expense. 1t might just
as well have arranged so affidavits
could have been taken and submitted
to the members of the commission
here at the statehouse.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
An s.ooo.Acre Wheat Field.

Hutchinson, Kan.-One of the big
gest wheat fields in the western Kan
sas wheat belt this year is that Of Ross
Mitchell, in Rush county. This wheat
field consists of 5000 acres, or 121a
square miles of land. 1t formerly was
a stock ranch, but last fall the ground
was plowed up, using big steam tract
ors to pull the plows. Reports from
the big wheat field indicate that the
crop will harvest an average of fifteen
bushels to the acre, making a yield
of 10000 bushels worth at present
market prices around $4,000.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
s45, 1870 Judgment Against Gas Co.

lola, KAMA Judgment of $45,1SO
and costs against the Kansas Natural
Gas company, in favor of Axel e. john
son, was recorded in the district court
here the other day. Many years ago,
Johnson left home and became wan
derer. He became sheep herder,
ranchman and farmer in turn. His
parents and relatives believed him to
be dead. Several years ago the Kan
sas Natural leased the Johnson home
stead and brought in several big gas
wells, on which they paid a rich roy
atty. Recently Johnson learned of the
strike made on his fathers farm. He
Immediately came to life and demand
ed that the gas company pay him his
share of the royalty, regardless of the
terms of the lease made with his par
ents.. He had never Joined in making
the contract. He won his suit and the
Judgment recorded here will be filed
also wherein the company has prop
artV
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
KANSAS TOPICS
TO BE BIG MIMIC WAR
The Maneuvers Of Armies in Kansas to
Be Held August 19 to %.

Junction City, Kan.-The Thirteenth
cavalry and Sixth field artillery at
Fort Riley are preparing for the man
euvers to be held from August 10 to
2S. Officers at the post say this will
be one of the biggest war games ever
played by Uncle Sans regulars.
The regular troops from Fort Riley,
to join the Red column, will proceed
from the post to Lawrence, Kan.,. as
follows:
August 11-Fort Riley to Manhattan,
17h miles; August 12-Manhattan to
Wamego, IS miles; August 19-Wame-
go to st. Marys, 16 miles; August IA
st. Marys to vicinity of Silver Lake,
IAN miles; August 15-Silver Lake TO
Topeka, 1874 miles; August Ito
peka to Perry, 10 miles: Angst IL
Perry to Lawrence, II miles.
The company of engineers and the
half companies of signal and ambul-
ance corps from Fort Leavenworth will
receive orders from the headquarters
of the central division to report to the
umn on August 10. They will be mus
tered on the date of arrival as requir-
ed by general orders.
The period assigned for the maneuv-
ers proper includes the time consumed
by the troops of the organized militia
in travelling to and from the maneuv-
ers. HOstlities will commence on the
evening of August 10 to the extent
that outposts will be posted. On
August 20 the troops of the organized
militia will be paid off and embarked
for their home stations early enough
to enable them to reach home on that
date Payment will be made on Aug
ust q upon termination of the opera
ton The commander of the Blue col
umn will have charge of the embark
ing of the militia troops.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Aeronaut Receivers Speech.

Dodge City, Kan. New, the
aeronaut who fell 1900 feet from a
balloon here about two weeks ago, is
now able to talk. New Says that after
he had dropped several hundred feet
he looked up and saw that the para
chute was not going to open This is
the last he remembers. 1t is probable
that he will be paralyzed from the
waist down, but no internal injuries
whatever are apparent.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
u,,,ohlnson Man Drowned in Park.

Hutchinson, Kan.-William H. Del
linger, A years of age, car inspector
was drowned in Stevens swimming
pond here. Dellinger, who was an eA'
cellent swimmer, had started to SWIM
across the pond with three women
cIinging to a small barge in tow. When
the barge reached the center OF the
nond if began to sink and the women
became excited and began TO scream
and struggle in the water. The wo-
men were rescued.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Vaccination Brings Safety.

"Only the unvaccinated died from
smallpox and recent successful vac
cinatien gives absolute immunity" is
the moral which the Kansas state
board of health bulletin declares is
drawn from the epidemic which pre-
vailed on the east side of Topeka in
July, 1911. In this epidemic 14S cases
we're reported and there were %
deaths. The bulletin declares that or
the 90 fatal cases not one had ever
been successfully vaccinated.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
A WINNING START Z
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes
Nerve Force for the Day.

Everything goes wrong If the break
fast lies in your stomach like a mud
pie. What you eat does harm If you
can't digest tit turns to poison.
A bright lady teacher found this to
be true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
1.-TWO years agoI contracted very
annoying form of indigestion. My stom'
ach was in such condition that sim.
pie breakfast of fruit, toast and egg
gave me great distress.
81 was slow to believe that trouble
could come from such a simple diet,
but finally had to give it up, and found
a great change upon a cup Of hot
Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream,
for my morning meal. For more than
a year have held to this course and
have not suffered except when injudi.
ciously varying my diet.
Il have been teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest
ed breakfast means a saving of nerv.
GUS force for the entire day. My gain
of ten pounds in weight also causes
me to want to testify to the value of
Grape-Nuts.
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our
table"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's reason" Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time TO time. They
interest.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Sand Plum Picker Shot.

Wichita, Kan.-While picking sand
plums on the farm of Fred Mathews,
a farmer residing near Peck, sixteen
miles south of Wichita, Clarence
Scarth, aged 20, of this city was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded. He was
brought to Wichita and taken to hos.
pital by his brother. Harry Scarth.
Thirty-five buckshot struck young
Scarth, one penetrating his lung.
Scarth's brother charges the owner of
the farm with having fired the shot
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
There Drown at Emporia.

Emporia, Kan.-Mrs Hiram waite
81 years old, of st. Louis; her sister
Miss Nellie. Anderson, 26 years OLD
and Edward S. Newlin, former sheriff
of Lyon county, were drowned in the
Cottonwood river near here. The wo
men were wading in the shallow part
of the stream when they came to a
"sten-off" and sank. Hearing thell
cries, Newlin, who was near BY RAJ
70 their rescue and while endeavorlns
tn save them. lost his own life.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26

The great wheat crop in Kansas this
year and the immense number of men
required to gather it constitute a mat.
ter of comment, even as far away as
London. The call for harvest hands
issued by Charles Harris, director OF
the State Free Employment Bureau
and given to the newspapers, June s,
appeared in full in the July number OF
the "Colonist," large magazine pub
lished in London. It is devoted to colo
nization, immigration, investment and
travel.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Kansas Bank cashier Arrested.

Seneca, Kan.-John G. Mcclure,
cashier of the State bank of Bancroft,
was arrested by Sheriff Andrews on a
charge of defaulting. State Bank Com
missioner ]. n. Dolley called up City
Attorney Herold and requested that
the arrest be made. The banks books
we're being gone over at the time and
Mr.. Dolley said that the shortage
would be something over $1,000. Nc
CURE was released on $1,000 bond. It
is said that MCGUIRE has been drinking
hard for the past year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Killed by Runaway Team.

Bellaire, Kan.-Earl Jennings, the
14-year-old son of Lon Jennings, living
about six and one-half miles north OF
this place, was instantly killed while
engaged in hauling water for the
threshers. He was driving a very
trusty and gentle team when, for some
unknown reason, they became fright
ened and ran away, throwing the boy
from the wagon and breaking his neck.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
New Water Supply Wanted.

Wellington, Kan.-The city commits
sion has called an election to be held
September 3 to vote on a proposition
to issue bonds for S175.0O0 to extend
the present city water works and get
a new water supply. 1t is proposed TO
lay a main to the Arkansas river at
oxford, a distance of fourteen miles,
and tap the underflow OF the river.
The city's present supply is drawn
from a reservoir that impounds the
waters of Slate creek and from a num-
Der OF large shallow wells.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
South Africa Wants Kansas Teachers

Manhattan, Kan.-South AFRICA mas
asked Kansas to help in getting lie"
teachers of agriculture for that coun'
try. Lovedale is the attractive name
of the town where the teachers are
needed and D. A. Hunter is the sec
rotary of the education board. Frol
E. L. Holton, head of the department
of rural education in the Kansas Ag
ricultural college, to whom the appll
cation was made, has written the non
orable secretary that teachers are
rather scarce in Kansas also and tha'
Kansas prefers to keep the best Ine
person who goes to Lovedale-a bach
elor might do well-must know lo'
about maize and cotton growing.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26

Paola, Kan.-Weldon Hinkel, six
years old, was thrown from his pony
at his home, two miles northwest of
this city, and was so seriously injur-
ed death resulted an hour after the
accident occurred. He was lying In
the yard unconscious when found by
his parents. The boy was the son of
Oscar Hinkel, clerk of the court of this
county. The parents are Frustrated
with grief.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Pittsburu ChivaIry,

whats going on here?" demanded
a man as he came upon two little boys
battling in a vacant lot on the south
side. The lad who was on top was
rubbing weeds over the face of the un-
der one.
Stop it," said the man, grabbing the
victor by the neck and pulling him
away. What in the world are you
trying to do to his face with those
weeds?"
do? Why, he swore in front Of
some girls, and l rubbed some smart
weed in his eyes to become a great
man like Abraham Lincoln. Pitts
burg Sun.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-07-26
Ca. Trust Case to be Heard Sept. 9.

The antitrust cases against the
Kansas Natural Gas company will be
heard in Montgomery county Septem-
Der 9. Attorney General John S. Daw-
son has returned from Independence,
after attending the preliminary hear
ings. He spent a week in Indepen-
dence. The postponement was asked
for by the attorneys for the gas COM
pany after Mr.. Dawson submitted a
list Of IT'S interrogatories- The ques-
tons put the attorneys up against 1t
temporarily.