The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-27
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Charles Harris, Z years old, and two
brothers, Anthony and Edward, 9 and
IL years old, were taken from a Rock
Island train at Pratt affected with
diphtheria. Doctor Patterson found
one boy suffering with blood poison
ing. The car was set u and fumi-
gated. The boys were travelling alone
from San Diego. Cal, to Springfield,
o., where their father, a United States
army officer, resides.
Apple buyers are offering Reno
county orchardists high prices for
windfall and waste apples, to be used
in making vinegar. A process by
which vinegar can be used in making
acetic acid, used in high priced ex-
p%losives, is causing the demand for the
apples heretofore regarded as almost
a total loss.
J. r. Gawthrop, B%urlington's oldest
resident, died recently as a result of
a stroke of paralysis he received i'm
mediately after asking the blessing at
the breakfast table. Mr.. Gawthrop
was more than SO years old.
A vein of coal was found recently by
oil drillers at the depth of 1872 feet on
the farm of Robert Blackburn, south
west of Buckner, Jackson county. Row
land e. Wiley, driller for w. F. Nc
Ginnis, Eldorado, Kan, in charge of
sinking an oil well, says the vein is
five or six feet deep and the quality of
the coal is practically the same as Lex
tngton, though the vein is twice the
thickness and much deeper than Lex
ington.
The board of estimate and appor-
tionment of st. Louis has approved the
plan Of the director of public welfare
that the city establish twelve coal
yards at which fuel will be sold to the
poor at a low price.
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A coal famine exists at Parsons and
dealers hold out no hope for relief.
Not a pound Of coal could be bought
there recently, the dealers even refus-
ing to book orders, declaring they
could not learn when they might ex-
pect shipments. The power compa-
MES, however, have a supply suffi-
cient to last a few days.
Herman Douthitt, professor of zool-
ogy at the University of Kansas, and
two University of Kansas students are
sick with typhoid. Another university
student is suspected of having typhoid.
Helen Hertzler and Dudley Brown are
the two students now i'll at the uni,
versity hospital.
j. A. Stone, a lineman in the employ
of the Kansas Gas and Electric Com
pany at Parsons, was fatally injured
when his foot caught in the wheels
of a motor truck and he was pulled
under the wheels. He died a few hours
later at a hospital.
The Colorado, Kansas & Oklahoma
Railway is now being operated under
a receivership. Favorable traffic ar.
rangements with connecting lines have
been secured.
o. T. Powell, a Kaw valley farmer,
was internally injured recently when,
the team of mules he was driving be-
came frightened and ran away near
Lawrence.
r. J. Hopkins of Garden City was
elected president of the Kansas
League of Municipalities at the meet.
ing in Wichita. Other officers are
Charles L. Banker, Salina, vice presi
dent; Homer Talbot, Lawrence, sec
rotary and treasurer. Trustees are
w. L. Porter of Topeka for cities Of
the first class, ]. L. Morrison of Cha
mute for cities of the second class
and P. j. Wall of Moundridge for thirt
class cities.
Robert S. Withers of Liberty has
been appointed by Herbert G. Hoover
a member of the state executive com
mittee for the conservation of the food
supply, as we'll as the chairman of the
local committee for Clay county.
Four dollars a day, with three
square meals, is the price Chase
county farmers have been paying farm
laborers to help fill silos and care fol
their fall crops.
Towanda, the new oil town in But
Ter county, is to have water work;
and sewers. A contract has beer
let for a water and sewer system tC
cost SIS, 900 and a standpipe to cos
$1,000.
A vein of coal four feet thick was
penetrated the other day by an OF
drill at CurleM. ten miles south o.