The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-07-07
WILL ENLIST MORE
Artillery, Cavalry and Engin.
eer Units to be Recruited
Immediately.
WOULD FORM CAVALRY TROOP
Gen. Martin Has Asked Permission
Of Government to Transfer the
Company from Eureka.

The Kansas National Guard is to be
augmented at once by one troop OF
cavalry, two batteries of field artil-
lery, one company Of engineers and
two ambulance corps. Authority to
recruit these organizations to be in
cluded in the Fourteenth Division has
been received by c. l. Martin, adju-
tant general, he announced recently.
The Kansas troops, the First and Sec
ond Infantry, Battery A Of Topeka
and the signal corps and auxiliary or
CARNATIONS, are part Of the Fourteenth
Division.
Recruiting for the new organizations
will be begun at once and they will
be sent to Join the other Kansas
troops at Douglas. Ariz., as soon as
they are mustered in and equipped.
according to General Martins infor-
nation. One of the new batteries will
be commanded by Maj. Bruce Griffith
Of Wichita, now In the quartermaster
corps, and the captaincy Of the other
has been offered to w. A. Patterson.
who organized Battery A and for
many years was its captain.
Permission was asked Of the War
Department by General Martin to or
ganize the Second Regiment provis-
ional company OF Eureka, encamped
at Fort Riley with mo place to CO."
as a troop Of cavalry.
One of the new ambulance corps
will be organized in Kansas City, Kas..
because Of the proximity Of the Rose
dale Hospital and the Kansas Univer-
sity Medical School.
Governor Capper reviewed the
troops at retreat" the other after
noon, but he declined to permit the
guard to be assembled or paraded for
his inspection. With Mrs. Capper and
Col. L. M. Penwell, Col. Earl w. Rich
ter and Gen. C. S. Huffman of his per-
sonal staff, the governor motored
from Topeka.
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Fathehr and Son .EnIlst.-The
neighbors will have to harvest Albert
Ferguson's wheat as a result Of the
mobilization of the X. N. G. Fergu-
son and his two sons were at work in
their wheat field near Minneapolis
when they heard Of the mobilization
order. The three Immediately stopped
work and walked to Minneapolis.
where they enlisted.
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Old Katy Employe klIled-Milton
M. Dugan, 65, was fatally injured at
Parsons when he was struck by q
Katy freight train as he was crossing
the track. He had been in the en-
ploy of the Katy for many years.
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Dies In Motor Caro-. W. Shaver,
81 years old, president Of the Univer.
sal Lens Company Of Atchison, died
suddenly from heart disease while
driving his car on Main street the
other night.
Boy Falls Under Traln.--Clarenc
DoyuStOu, I'LL OTpudu 10 years Olu, WAS
Instantly killed at Geneseo, when he
fell under the wheels of freight
train. Boydston was standing on a
pile of coal beside the tracks and
slipped.
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Saline's Harvest lie on.-The work
Of harvesting Saline county's $4,000
acres Of wheat has started In earnest.
Grain men there estimate that the
crop will average about seventeen
bushels to the acre.
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No Arms to Mexlcans.-The Olathe
commissioners have passed a resolu-
ton asking the merchants Of 0lathe
not to sell firearms or ammunition to
Mexican laborers, in view Of the I'M
settled conditions in Mexico. County
and city officers also will be asked to
enforce strictly the regulations against
carrying concealed weapons.
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