The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-11
ORDER BROKER ESTATE SOLD
Defunct saIina Bank Will be Aided
by Sale of Holdings Valued
at $125,0co


Broker. The property is valued at
approximately $125, 600. It will be sold
at auction and the proceeds used to r.
hevs the deficiencies of the broken
bank.
Broker is charged with assisting
the cashier, 81. J. Lefferdink, in caus-
ing the banks trouble. The permit
to sell the property came when the
receiver for the bank obtained a jour
nal entry setting aside the temporary
order granted some time ago restrain
ing him from selling the property
The restraining order was obtained by
Lincoln County men who had claims
against Broker, and were trying to
claims
Receiver Fitzpatrick gained another
victory in the district court when he
obtained judgment for $4,000 against
F. E. Lefferdink, brother of the de-
funct banks cashier. With the judg-
ment came the right to sell certain
Salina real estate owned by the de-
PENDANT. The property formerly be-
lOnged for the cashier, who turned it
over to his brother. 1t will be sold at
sheriff's sale, but it is believed it is
not sufficient to satisfy the judgment.
The City of Atchison has gene into
the coal and wood business. Coal is
being mined from a 12-inch vein four
miles south of town. The vein il
manned by volunteer miners with ex-
perience, and from ten to twenty tons
a day are being taken from the vein,
which will last several weeks. Wood
is being purchased by the city and
sold at cost. Both wood and coal
are being parceled out in small lots
not more than load of wood being
sold to one person or more than five
hundred pounds of coal
The local emergency fuel commit
tee placed a ban on all public gath
erings and ordered the stores and
business houses to open not earlier
than 9 o'clock and close not later than
4:30 o'clock
The water supply has only a two
week supply Of coal and the emer-
gency committee appealed to the fuel
agent of the Missouri Pacific at st.
Louis for one hundred tons of slack at
once. Unless it can be obtained
fire protection. Street cars have been
discontinued and street and display
lighting curtailed.
Word has been received by Richard
Hopkins, attorney general, from Sa-
lima that Judge Dallas Grover had set
December 90 as the date for the trial
of Felix Broker, who has been charg-
ed with wrecking the Kansas State
Bank at Salina. Broker will be tried
on three separate charges unless de-
velopments after the first charge il
tried change the plans of the prosecu-
ton. The three specific charges
against Broker are "embezzlement OF
funds belonging to the old Globe Life
Insurance Company and suits evolving
out of the issuance Of 100000 worth
Of certificates of credit by the bank
and the $4,000 in acceptances by the
same institution"
A vigilance committee of American
Legion members has been appointed
at Concordia to watch for un-Amer-
lean remarks or actions. It will serve
as a local gum-shoe bomb squad. Men
found guilty Of un-Americanism will
be brought before the legion.
The $4,000 bond issue recently
voted for an electric light and power
line at Lane was sold to Brown &
Crumer. Wichita bankers. Contracts
also were let for equipment approx
mating $4,000.
Charles WahIe, a wealthy Geary
County farmer is dead at his home
near Junction City He had been in
poor health for some time. Coming
here with his father in 1866, Mr..
Wahle added steadily to his holdings,
until at the time OF his death he
owned two thousand acres of Geary
County land. He was so years old.
His wife and five children survive
him
From thirty to forty tourist parties
from the West are marooned along
the. Pixies Peak Highway by snow, it
was learned recently James Corbett
and William Asker of Trenton, n. J.,
who have been on a hunting trip in
Wyoming arrived at Concordia after