Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-20
CITY MAY BUY WATER PLANT
Merchants Association of Lawrence
Negotiating with Owners-Tired
of the Poor Service.

Action of the stockholders of the
Lawrence Water Company, in consent
ing to accept $4,000 for the water
plant in Lawrence, paves the way for
municipal ownership of the water sys-
tenn. For several years the corpora
ton owning the plant has given I'M
satisfactory service, and last spring
an election was held in an attempt to
take the plant over and put it under
municipal control, but the plan did not
carry.
The Merchants Association has
been negotiating with the company, a
New York concern, to buy the plant
1t is believed the Lawrence citizens
will vote to buy the plant at the price
set by the stockholders rather than
submit to the present inefficient wat
er supply. The water problem is i'm
portant in Lawrence, because of the
fact that the state university is To-
Gated there with the health of twenty
eight hundred students depending on
pure water. Practically every well in
Lawrence has been declared unsafe
because of sewage contamination. The
alternative is drinking city water,
which is so hardened with chemical
tfeatment in filtration that it is harm
full to digestion.
Judge Gillette Dead.-P. B. Gillette,
Judge of the Twenty-fourth Judicial
District, is dead at Wichita hospital
following an operation for stomach
trouble. Judge Gillette had been a
resident of Kingman County thirty
years and judge of this district, con-
sisting of Kingman, Harper, Barber
and Pratt counties, seventeen years.
Ensilage Cutter Expiodes.-Ernest
Olmstead, young mechanic of Medi-
cine Lodge was killed by being struck
behind the ear with a heavy iron bar
of an ensilage cutter which he was
operating, near Lake City. An OBJ
struction in the cutter caused the ma
chine to explode, scattering machinery
for $50 yards.
GIeed's Portrait at K. ia por-
trait of Charles S. Gleed of Topeka
has been received at the University of
Kansas and will be hung in the chan
cellor's office. Mr.. G1eed formerly was
secretary of the board of regents for
the university. being on the board
from 1890 to 1897.
Third Augusta Gas Gusher-A gas
well of " million feet on the Henry
Moyle farm, three miles south OF
Augusta, makes the third big producer
within a week in that field
Wichita Music Teacher Injured
Miss Zelma Fisher, a music instructor
at Wichita, may die of injuries re-
ceived recently when she was struck
by a Missouri Pacific engine With
several others she was returning from
Sharon, where they had given a mu-
steal program
Call for Rev. A. J. SoIdan.-The
congregation of Trinity German Luz
theran church at Atchison has unani-
mously extended call to the Rev. A
j. Sedan of Leavenworth. Mr.. Soldan
has been chaplain of the federal prison
at Leavenworth the last seven months
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Emporia's Sheep Pens Biggest
Work has been started on an addition
to the sheep pens at the Santa Fe
Stock Yards in Emporia, which when
completed will provide feeding faciIi-
ties and shelter for forty thousand
sheep, making the Emporia yards the
largest sheep feeding station in Amer
lea
Shoots Himself by Accident-Bryan
Heckroot. 81, accidentally shot him.
self in the right breast while hunting
near Ottawa the other day He prob
ably will die.