The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24
)SE BLED % HOURS.
t. L. Cooper Recovering After a
Trying Experience.
Feeling Very Weak, But He
Will Recover.

]. II. Skinner of East Indianola
yesterday brought in a sample of salt
water which was taken from the
abandoned oil well on his place. The
water will be analysed by a chemist
to see if it contains enough salt to pay
for being evapcrated and the estab-
lishment of a salt industry on the
farm. Mr.. SINNERS interest in the
matter was aroused by the stories
which have been published in the
state Journal concerning the salt in
dustry proposed to be located on the
Joseph place if the water from the
old oil well on that farm would be
found to yield a strong per cent
enough of salt to pay for It's manu-
facture. The well is just south of the
green house west of the Rock Island
track.
The we'll on the Skinner place was
put down before the one on the
Joseph farm. 1t was abandoned and
the other well dug. At present the
casing in the former we'll extends
about eighteen feet to the rock below.
1t had been plugged and capped. The
cap was few feet below the ground.
Thursday Mr.. Skinner uncapped it
and procured a sample of the water
which oozed from between the plug
and the sides of the casing. In speak
ing about the matter Mr.. Skinner said
today:
at the time the well was put
down, we struck several veins of salt
water. Then the stream had enough
artesian force to flow considerable
distance above the surface of the we'll
mouth. Some of it was boiled down.
The salt left had a reddish tinge,
indicating the presence of iron.
The other day when / uncapped the
well the water came out in a small
stream. The liquid was very clear
l. st.
analysed just to see what the per-
centage of salt is. Of course 1 do not
know what the result will be or
whether or not there will be some
other mineral which will interfere
with its profitable manufacture"
T. E. Cooper. who lives two miles
west of the Reform school on the up
per Silver Lake road. is recovering
from the effects of having had the
nose bleed for nearly twenty-five
hours continuously. Over eXertion is
said to be the cause of the long con-
tinued flow of blood.
The house was being repapered and
other improvements were being made.
On Tuesday Mr.. Cooper had helped
had done some heavy lifting. He
went to bed feeling rather tired but
nothing out of the way. About 4
O'Clock Wednesday morning he was
awakened from sleep by his nose
bleeding. From that time on il bled
almost without intermission until
O'Clock Thursday morning. In the
meantime he had eaten nothing and
grew very weak from this and the loss
of blood. Wednesday morning a
physician was summoned and every
thing possible was done to stop the
bleeding without avail. Finally it
stopped of it's own accord. Mr..
Cooper said today that he was feeling
very weak but thought he would re-
cover fully. He also thinks that he
lost about a gallon of blood. He is
about so years old. He moved from
northwest of Menoken to his present
home this spring.
The North Topeka X of p Amity
lodge. No. 231. will erect building
in North Topeka. 1t is to be three
stories high and have a frontage of
fifty feet 1t will be modern and fire
proof. The site has not been selected
but it will probably be on Kansas
avenue. A stock company will be
formed among the members of the
lodge to raise the funds. The in
dividuals of the order may have
shares of the stock and at the same
time the lodge will have a controlling
Interest in the building. After the
site is selected work on the hall will
begin as soon as the funds are raised.
At present those in charge of the
project are not prepared TO say just