The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-07
ROB ANOTHER KANSAS BANK
TWO Bandits Raid Institution at
Niotaze and Escape to Usage
Hills with Cash.

The State bank of Nfotaze. a town
twenty miles west of Coffeyville, was
held up and robbed of about 5000 by
two unmasked men the other after
noon The robbers carried revolvers
and rifles.
Entering the bank they found For
est Erhart, the cashier, talking to
Charles d. Armour, a farmer The
men were commanded to hold up their
hands and the cashier ordered to get
the money from the vault The rob-
bers locked both men III the vault and
carried their loot to where their horses
were tied nearly block away. Then
they set out directly south for the
Usage hills of Oklahoma
The robbers put the money they Sc
cured in a sack, concealed it under the
coat one of them wore and slowly
walked to their horses. They rode di-
rectly south toward the state line
In short time Wayne Lindsay en-
tered the bank and heard the en-
trapped mems calls from within the
vault. He passed some matches to
the cashier, who, with the light, read
the combination of the vault and soon
They were imprisoned about ten
minutes.
Sold Ranch at Auction@The Viii
liam Clarke ranch of 500 acres was
sold at auction twelve miles east of
Salina recently. 1t was divided into
nine different parts and sold to as
many different buyers at terms of
one-third cash and the balance in one,
two and five years. The total sales
amounted to 4,O00 Only $4,000
was given in notes, the balance was
all in checks.
Gas Explosion Kills One.-James D.
McMahin, an empIoye at the Rich
mond pumping station on the Santa
Fe, three miles south of Ottawa, was
killed when an explosion wrecked the
pump house. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by the gen.
GRAFTON of gases in the engine pit
To Build Big Oil Pipe LineZIt is
announced at independence that the
Harding oil interests of ST. Louis
have concluded negotiations for the
property of Miss Haermana kaess
mann. The new owners will make
Their headquarters in independence.
An S-inch pipe line is to be construct
ed from the Gushing oil field to hide
pendence and from there to Chanute,
Erie and Humboldt
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Army Builds Rock Roads.-Ofhcers
and soldiers at Fort Riley have been
doing volunteer work on the road lead
ing to Junction City from the post to
the reservation limits on Riverside
drive More than 100 men put in two
days at grading, ditching and drain
ing and the road was then surfaced
with rock and rolled
Boy Killed Under Wason.-Vernpn
Reed, years old, was killed five
| miles west of Augusta when he slipped
from load of baled hay, struck the
double trees and bounded off on a
stone in front of the wagon The
horses became frightened and pulled
the wheels over the boys head
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Elevator Burned.-The elevator of
the Oswego Seed and Grain Company
burned at Fredonia the other morn
ing. The cause OF the fire is un-
known The loss to the building is
$4,000, and in grain, $1,000. 1t was
about half covered by insurance
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| Indian Students Build GyFn.-Indian
students at Haskell Institute are build
| ing a new gymnasium for the school
by their own labor, making practical
use of their knowledge OF manual arts
and crafts learned in the regular term
Of school
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Summer Course Ends at K. Five
hundred students were enrolled In the
six weeks summer course which
closed at the University of Kansas re
Gently. Immediately after the short
course Of three weeks began. at which
an enrolment of about 200 was expect
ed
Wichita Boy Dro~ns.-F1oyd Woods
years old. decided that he could swim
so he Ieaped into the Arkansas river
at Wichita His body was taken ont
Of the stream a mile south OF where