The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
POSSE CATCHES 8 BANDITS
Wichita Officers Make Capture After
Battle With Gang That Raided
AndaIe Bank.

Robbers wrecked the Andale State
bank, twenty-four miles northwest of
Wichita, and being routed in a pitch
ed battle with citizens, escaped to
Wichita, where three were captured
after another pitched battle in the
outskirts of the city. Two of those
captured were slightly wounded.
Two are known to have escaped.
The attempt to blow the Andale
bank was blocked when Miss Clara
Grassl, "a years old, telephone girl
at Andale, heard the men trying to
break into the office to destroy the
switchboard. She opened fire with a
revolver and called the marshal, who
rang the fire alarm, calling out the en-
tire pOpulace.
Two robbers held the armed citizens
at bay while three others blew the
vault door and set off the charge in
the safe. The safe withstood the
shock and the robbers fed in an auto
mobile stolen from Wichita the night
before. There was more than $4,000
in cash in the safe.
The automobile carrying the bandits
went dead" in the highway, eight
miles northwest of Wichita, and the
occupants stole two horses from a
farmer and continued toward Wichita.
Sheriff Frank Sarver and Jack Hay,
assistant chief of police, organized
posse and hurried to the west city linn
it's of Wichita. The bandits opened
fire on the officers and in the battle
which followed more than 200 shots
were fred
Kills Conductor in Car.-An emer-
gency call for the sheriff when south
bound ST. Louis & San Francisco
freight train No. 1876 arrived at OIathe
recently revealed the killing of Con-
ductor Owen E. Quinn of Kansas City.
The rear brakeman, w NJ. White of
Fort Scott admitted the Staying, ac-
| cording to the train crew.
Found Dead In Bed.-Austfn Will
day, aged so. a contractor, was found
dead at his home at Wichita Death
probably was due to apoplexy and
acute indigestion.
Holding Wheat for $2-Many farm
ers in Ellis county are holding their
wheat for 81 a busheL One farmer,
out of debt entirely, has 1O.500 bushels
Another with $500 bushels is holding
for $50 busheI, while other farmers,
clear OF debt, have smaller amounts
which they refuse to let go, although
some of them are within a quarter Of
a mile of an elevator. Most Of them
want 50 a bushel
New Postmaster-Preside Wilson
has nominated o. S. Hoss, jr, to be
postmaster at Cherryvale.
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Humboldt Buys Theater.-Humbo Idt
has entered the list of cities owning
theaters. This was decided at a re-
cent meeting of the city council The
building in question was built about
ten years ago by a stock company
The original cost was more than $780,
600.
Marketing More Wheat-Notwith-
standing the bad condition OF the
roads; the high price is attracting
wheat to market rapidly. Thousands
Of bushels have been brought in in
| Kansas recently
Farmers Buy EIeVators@The Trego
| County Cooperative Association has
! purchased the elevators and nipple
ment houses of Ross & Waldo at
Wakeeney and Voda. paying cash In
the deal. Stock in the association is
| owned entirely by farmers.
! =
WiIled Farm 20 church-The late
James Mason, who in his life gave
$4,000 to Catholic institutions of that
diocese, gave at the time of his death
cordia an s0-acre tract OF land in sa-
line county valued at $4,000.