The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-29
MILFORD MEN FOIL BANDITS
Citizens of Town Near Camp Funston
Exchange Shots With Gang
for Four Hours.

Tor Fouf F7OuTSs
A battle between bank robbers and
the citizens of Milford lasted four
| hours early the other morning before
the bandits were routed from the
spoils. About $780, was in the bank,
according to the cashier, but this was
not taken. They made their escape
on handcar, but later took refuge in
motor car, which they found along
the route.
Trucks loaded with soldiers were
sent in pursuit by Colonel George H.
McMaster, provost marshal, and Lieu
tenant Jerry Dugan, his assistant, OF
| Camp Funston.
An explosion was heard about mid
night by Charles Say, night telephone
operator at Milford Latter he saw
three men crouching near the door OF
the State bank He Immediately
spread the alarm. The second explo-
sion occurred just as tie citizens an
swering the alarm approached the
bank. They were armed with pistols
and shotguns. One of the robbers
fired through plate glass window and
this was followed by a shot from an
other one Of the band. The third ban
dit tempered with the lock. Several
charges of explosives were fired by
one of the men while his companions
held off the crowd.
This continued until 4 o'clock, when
the men made their escape through a
rear door of the bank and fled to the
| Union Pacific railroad tracks and
seized a handcar and soon afterward
left it for the motor car.
Surrounding towns reported that a
large black motor car without a Ii
cense had passed through.
Stolen Sugar Breaks Wagon.-Twen-
ty-six 100-pound sacks of stolen cane
sugar valued at $3.50 a sack, were
found by the police of Wichita On a
wagon which had broken down in the
street Bloodstains near the wagon
were taken to mean that either the
thief or the horse drawing the load
j was severely injured in the accident.
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New Wheat Is Up.-Much wheat
sown early is up Preparations are
being made to pasture it a little later
A great deal of wheat is yet to be
sown, but the ground is in condition
for it. The wheat that is up is of good
stand.
Murder by ExpIosion.-Tony Domin-
go, an engineer on a threshing ma
chine owned by Thomas Dryden, was
arrested at Hutchinson charged with
murder He left the engine at Hazleton,
ing ". S. Bramwen. q harvest hand,
who fired it up.
first miller of Wichita, who has been
in the milling business there forty
three years, sold his mill and eleva-
tor in the north part of the city to the
Stevens Scott Elevator Company for
S35, 600.
Kansas Mine Brings $50 GOETHE
HickeI mine. three miles south OF Bax-
ter Springs, is said to have been sold
twice recently. For the first transfer
Mr.. HickeI received $40, 600 from Okla
homa City people. The second consid-
Grafton is said to have been $50,
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Wagon crushes Farmer-Bernie
Comfort, p years old, son Of a farm
er, was killed the other night when
he fell from load of alfalfa and both
wheels of the heavy wagon passed
over his body
Dearth Of School BooEs.-Because
the state printing plant cannot keep
up with the demands for school books
there is a boog famine in rural schools
of Atchison county. In one rural school
there is only one grammar for nine
teen pupils and in some branches
there are no textbooks at all.
LeaVenwortll Educator Dead-Rob-
ert ]. Morgan, for the last sixteen
years clerk of the board OF education
at Leavenworth and among the most
widely known educators in Kansas, is
dead following an Illness of three days.
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Ready for Military Trainino.-The
services of the University of Kansas
will be available for any kind of mill.
tary training the War Department de
sires this year, Chancellor Frank
Strong announced in telegram to the
War Department the other day.
Firm Gives Seed Wheat-The Kan
sas Flour Mills Company, OF Wichita,
J. B. Upp, general manager, has sent
a check for 5000 to State Bank Com.
missioner Walter wilson with which
to buy seed wheat for Western Kan
sas farmers.