The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-03-31
0usted Atchison Mayor Will
Stay in Race to Fill
Unexpired Term.
WILL FIGHT FOR HIS RIGHTS
Attorney General Brings Proceedings
In Supreme Court Against c. ief
of Police Coleman.

against him, he said he would take
time to consider what action to take.
Coleman says his resignation has been
with the city clerk since March 20,
but that he continued to serve at the
request of the president of the coun-
Gil, Louis Weinmann.
Coleman denies that he has broken
faith with the Atchison county dis.
trict court or the attorney generals
office, as he complied with the agree
ment when he rendered his resigna-
ton. He feels that the attorney gen.
eral Is unfair in his action. Chief
Coleman has eliminated himself as a
candidate for chief of police, in case
DR.. Finney is elected mayor again.
Meanwhile, DR.. Finney is showing
no inclination to withdraw as candi-
date for mayor, as Attorney General
Brewster demanded, but intends to
fight II out Mr.. Brewster's action
indicates it will be a fight all right.
DR.. Finney this afternoon said:
LET him hop to 1t. I'm in the race
until the end, even II have to con.
duct my campaign from a Jail.
want the world to know that every
detail Of the gentleman's agreement
I entered into with the attorney gen.
eral has been carried out, and that
no part Of my agreement nas been NO
lated. This agreement was that all
the cases were to be settled except
the case in the supreme court, which
was held Up by the attorney general
for reasons Of his own.
AFTER the conference l was asked
whether I would again become can
didate said l would not make any
expression until had fulfilled my gen.
tleman's agreement by resigning."
Boy Burned to Death.-J. M. Clark,
five miles west of Webster, burned
some trash and put out the fire. After
dinner Clark and his wife went to
town, leaving their three children at
home. When they returned they found
one boy dead, the other two badly
burned. A large pile of trash had been
burned and meadow burned over
but whether set by the children or
from the morning fire is unknown.
Republic r mers unite.-The farm
ers of Republic and adjacent territory
have organized a Farmers Shipping as
ISOLATION to further the interest Of the
cattle shipping industry of that section
The officers of the association are A.
B. Evans, manager; T. A. Charles, sec
rotary.
Another X. U. Professor Gone
Prof. w. H. Twenhofel, state geologist
and professor of geology at the Uni
versity OF Kansa has resigned to &C.
cept position at the University OF
Wisconsin. He has been at X. u since
1910.
Gets 5000 Gift-The will of the
late James Haskit, an unmarried far
mer of Saline county, just filed for
probate, gives $4,000 to the Kansas
Wesleyan university and $1,000 toward
the building of the new Methodist
church. The balance of the estate,
amounting to more than $4,000, goes
to nieces and nephews in Saline coun.
ty and Oklahoma.
Prairie Fire Burned Woman.-Mrs
Bert Babb, wife of rancher near
Sharon Springs, was burned severely
in a prairie fire recently. Babb went
to the assistance of his wife in mo-
tor car, and while extinguishing the
flames enveloping her, the machine
was burned.
Have Community Garden.-A COM
munity garden is to be planted by boys
in Wichita. A committee of the men
of the Oak street Presbyterian church
procured an acre of good garden
ground and will back the boys in the
enterprise.
Get Increased Wages.-An advance
in wages from fifteen to fifty cents q
day for one hundred employees has
been announced at the w. s. Dickey
Clay Manufacturing plant in Pittsburg.
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High School to Test Crops.-The
Mcpherson high school is preparing to
have an agricultural station in connec-
ton with the school work. A plan is
being developed to use vacant lot in
making agricultural tests in germina-
ton and the growth of grains and
flowers.
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Shotfirer In Blowup.-A mine expl0-
sion is believed to have killed Archie
Fulton, shotfirer. and wrecked Mine
No. 10 of the Western Coal and Min.
ing company at Franklin recently.
Louis Regard, another shotfirer, was
rescued from the shaft
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Wheat outlook Is "Flne''-Wichita
Board Of Trade members vho have
been into the country and have made
an inspection of the wheat conditions
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