Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
WILL AID LAW ENFORCEMENT
Five Hundred Citizens of Leaven-
worth Hold Enthusiastic Meet
ing-Denounce Joints.

ing-Denounce Joints.
Five hundred shouting, app1auding
citizens filled the Leavenworth coun-
ty district court rooms to it's doors at
a meeting called by the Ministerial AL
lance for the purpose of forming a
law and order league to aid city and
county officials in the enforcement of
law
The chairman, NJ. B. McCreary, was
authorized to appoint a committee of
five who will within the next few
days adopt plan for the formulation
of a permanent Leavenworth county
law and order league.
Nine prominent citizens were asked
to preside at the meeting before one
was found who would consent The
mayor, county sheriff and police de-
partment were Kissed when their
names were mentioned. Rev. A B.
Young, Methodist, was the only min
lister who spoke The others were
business men and the assistant attor-
neys general Coleman and Hawks of
Topeka.
Monster Gas WeIl.-The Skaer Com
pany of Augusta, struck gas Tuesday
lion cubic feet a day The flow in
creased later to million feet
packer and twelve hundred feet of 2
inch pipe were put in and before they
could be anchored were blown out of
the we'll Broken and twisted pipe
and packer are scattered about the
well, some pieces sticking deep into
the ground When the explosion came
the men ran for their lives. The
weight of the gas pipe blown out of
the well was more than two tons.
John Noble, Sr., is Dead.-John No
Bile, ST., father of the noted American
painter, is dead in Wichita He was
Y years old. Mr.. Noble came to
Wichita in 1872. He started the first
sheep ranch in the Southwest and
headed the first company to bore for
oil in that part of Kansas. His estate
is valued at h million dollars Be-
sides John, one son and two daugh-
tiers survive.
New School Paper.-The Birch Rod
is a new school publication in En-
poria, of the department of English of
the Normal summer school. 1t is ed
tied by the journalism students, un-
der the supervision of Baker Brown
ell. Its list of subscribers includes
nearly all of the 1900 summer school
students.
Farmers Buying cars.-Wichita mo-
tor dealers have sold 9S7 motor cars
since April Is, according to compu-
tation made recently. Most of the
cars were sold to farmers who gave
their notes for payment after the har-
vest The value of these sales to-
tails approximately s1,10o.oo0.
Old Atchison Resident Pies.-D. E.
Farnsworth, 20 years old and a resi-
dent of Atchison for forty-three years,
died at his home there recently. For
many years Mr.. Farnsworth was head
ticket agent at the Union depot. Later
he was made tourist agent for the
Santa Fe railroad
Atchison Boy browns. - Ernest
Kemp, IA years old, was drowned in
the Missouri river at Atchison. Eff
rots to save him the lad by a 14-year-
old companion with whom he had
gone swimming. were futile.
IL.
years old, who was resident of Man.
haitian forty years, is dead at tbs
home of his son, DIR. E. A Logan, city
bacteriologist of ST. Joseph, Mo.
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To Have Farm Adviser.-A Joint
county farm agent, to be employed by
Crawford and Cherokee counties, is
proposed in a movement started by
officials of the Cherokee County Farm
ers' Institute The plan is for both
counties to have the services of an
expert farmer to act as an adviser for
the farmers Of the two counties.
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Veteran Horseman Dies--Richard
NJ Talliaferro, veteran horseman, and
known throughout Atchis6n and ad-
joining counties as Hal Talliaferro. is
dead at his home in Atchfson.