The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-16
City alter Works.

| SiuerinS Oy our mayor and council.
That is pumping water into their stand
! pipe with a windmill When YOU re-
member that the mill has to pump
through two miles and a half of pipe
and lift the water 283 feet it seems an
impossible proposition, but the fact
that the mill is doing this successfully
and has done it continuously since
last February, fully demonstrates its
feasibility. The mill and pump are
down by the river bridge, the stand
pipe is on the hill fully mile distant.
When Mr.. Frizzell first advocated the
putting in of this mill, everyone lau.
ghed at him. His confidence in the
project was SO great that he offered
to put in the plant for about $500 free
OF all cost to the city and let the city
operate it year, and if at the end OF
that time it was not in perfect running
| order and had not done the work he
claimed it would, the city need not pay
for 1t. His proposition was accepted
and the mill began pumping last Feb
ruary and has pumped continuously
until the present time without the ex-
penditure of a dollar on it for any
purpose. The mill is an Ideal and
the pump is a six inch cylinder and
thraws h gallon and "a half to each
stroke.
1t is not expected that the mill will
pump all of the water for the city,
which has population of 1900, but
that it viii lessen the amount of pump
ing done by the steam pump, thus saw
igg enough on coal in one year to pay
the entire cost Of mill and pump.
Knowing that Mr.. Frizzell was a
pump man and naturally enthusiastic,
we concluded to see the superintend-
of the water works plant, Mr.. Nesbit.
We found him at his office and he
was abous as enthusiastic as Mr.. Fritz
zell, in the matter. He stated that in
the matter of coal alone the saving
amounted to about a dollar a day,
that the outfit was in perfect running
order and had not cost them mo-
ments loss of time from the day it was
put in, that he regarded it as an exec
lent arrangement both as money
saver and for the additional safety
given the city, as nights when the
wind blew the mill kept the stand pc
full so tn ey had fire pressure all the
time.
Knowing that Mr.. Nesbit was famil-
lar with our plant we asked him as to
the feasibility of using plant here.
He said that owing to the fact that a
mill could pc placed so close to our
standpipe the work could be done cas-
Ter than in Larned and that it should
supply all of the water used in the
city large part of the time which
would result in large saving on our
coal bill. also give us greater safety
from fire, as the wind would almost
always blow enough in the hight to
keep our standpipe full.
From what we could learn in the
brief time at our disposal we are in
clined to think that our mayor and
council will do we'll to make some fur
Their inquiry into this matter.
Died, at Windsor, Ohio. May!17,
1899. OF paralysis, Mrs. Julia A. Gro
yer. wife of f. w. Grover. formerly
of Garfield. Kansas. who were among
the first settlers of that town. 1t will
be remembered that it was the daught-
err of of Mr.. and Mrs. Grover who
was inviegled away from her parents
by one, who to save himself from the
indignant citizens, made her make
very grave charges against her father
under threat of death if she did not
do SO. 1t will also be rendered that
she, after suffering many indignities.
was left to die at the eating house
here, after stealing her trunk keys
from under pillow, taking her watch
and what little money she had, left
her to die, which she { id within a very
few days, and was buried by the au-
thOrities of this town. *<*
The above notice is published by
request and while we have no person
al knowledge of the facts, we are in-
formed by parties living here at the
time of Miss Growers death, that the
facts are as stated.