Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-02-12
REPAID HIS FAITH
A Franklin County Farmer Had
Confidence in Finding Oil
and Gas on Land.
ClsHED IDEA FOR $4,000
Henry Anthony Recently Sold His Pipe
line and Lease TO Eastern Capitalists
Keeps Farm.

ftSHFy AHtHoHy HeCSnIiI 0Oio rltS ripe
line and Lease TO Eastern Capitalists
Keeps Farm.
Henry Anthony. a Franklin County
farmer who believed gas could be
found on his farm. the other day cash
ed his idea for 5000 He sold his
dfty-two miles of pipeline, 2,1O0 acres
of leases. including fifteen oil and ten
gas wells. TO j. F. William Renker, OF
Topeka representing Eastern capital
lists
The leases are principally IN the
north eastern part of Franklin County.
The average daily production of the oil
wells as estimated at one hundred and
Fifty barrels. Pipelines connect them
xith lines of the Standard Oil Com
pany
Gas frcm the field is marketed local
ly- Anthony became Interested in gas
about nine years ago. He drilled sew
eral wells and constructed a pipeline.
He has supplied $50 patrons with gas
and the income from these is estimated
at $1,000 & year His first stretch
OF Iiac was only 375 feet long. Mr..
Anthony still retains his 700-acre farm
On which ne has several gas and oil
wells
What Kansas Pays Teachers.-The
average salary paid teachers in Kan
sas I-teacEer schools is about s56.65
a moatfa. according to figures compiled
by Carl T. Salser, director of extern
sion of the Kansas State Normal
School here. The report points out
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$Ie5 month in several counties. Reno
and Marshall counties, it is said, have
the largest number of teacher schools,
there being 127 in each, and Hamilton
County. with Twenty-Five. the smallest.
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Got Aid for Mother.-Mrs. Nellie
Crouch. the wife of Arthur Crouch, of
Saffrodyiile. recently fell down a long
flight OF stairs in her home. She was
made unconscious. Her little son, who
is barely more than baby. climbed
upon a chair and te1ephoned to his
grandmother when he saw his mother
was K$4zt-
To snstail Gift Organ.-The first
Christian Church. of Columbus, has
fet the contract for $4,000 KiIgen
pipe organ to be installed before East
er Sunday. The organ is a gift to the
church by Mrs. r. A. Long. of Kansas
City Mr.. Long gave more than $4,000
toward the construction. of the pres
emit church building.
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oN Boosts Kansas Land.-One hun
dred and sixty acres of land a few
miles southwest of Eldorado sold two
weeks ago to c. E. Thompson for
$2osS Recently C. e. Burllngame, of
BarfIasviue. Ok, brought the quarter"
for S2s.500. He will start drilling for
on at once.
Woman Killed by Train.-Mrs Min
-ervsa A Hardin, IS years old, was kill
ed at Ottawa recently by a Santa Fe
freight train while she was crossing
the tracks.
Two Pioneers Dead-Henry Well
man. IS years old, and a resident
there for thirty-seven years, is dead
at his home in Salina, where he and
his wife celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary last August Frank
Hroack. 65 years old. is dead after
living in Saline county forty-five
years. He WAS farmer near Bava-
ria
a Suicide With Dynamite-Lu6e
Bab4eaeil. so years old. coal miner
OF Radiey. committed suicide recently
hg- exploding = stick Of dynamite in
his z4Srth.s
asa Ambitious Hen-With the Their
rnoEeter at IA degrees below zero.
the Kansas hen has scored again The
other morning Mrs. NJ w OFT, who
lives Two miles south of Olathe. heard
a hen osucising in the hay NOW of the
ha<H- Investigation showed eight
eiowny Buff Orpington chicks. Just
AafzZaed- The hen had stolen her nest
and established a new record for early
fryera
BLISTER Caused Oeath-A little bits
ter sae noticed on his foot ten days
age ended fatally the other night for
Mayor H. A. Kobel of Peabody. Can
CREME developed.
Lawrence Lawyer Dead-B. T. Hor-
CON- 81 years of age. an old time law
yes af z2awrence. died there recently
aftsE an Illness OF two weeks He had
nrsssdiced law IN Lawrence thirty
Eea< and st one. time was probate
judge
sreascs Stock Feeding Record-The
abundance Of all kinds of feed nj