The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-13
STATE NEWS Items
Occurrences During Past Week
Gathered From All Parts
of Kansas.
DENIED A FORTUNE BYCOURT
State Supreme Court Denies Kansas
City Woman Right to Share in
100000 Estate.

100000 Estate.
BY a decision of the state supreme
court a young woman of Kansas City
lost her suit to break a will involy.
ing an estate valued at Il million dol.
lars. The girl, a hairdresser, took
court action two years ago against
the Norton Investment Company OF
Norton, Kan, the present holders OF
the estate. Suit was brought under
the name of Miss Lacita Alise Bro.
quet. known in Kansas City as Ger.
trude Tevis. Miss Tevis Contended
she was the lawful child Of Ernest
Broquet, formerly Of Norton. hence
entitled to a share Of his estate.
d The circuit court at Norton ruled
November %. 1918, that Miss Broquet
had no right to a child's portion OF
the estate left by Broquet, a Belgian
pioneer immigrant. r. A. Milton, at.
torney for the girl, filed an appeal
to the Kansas supreme court. Miss
Tevis now is employed at a beauty
parlor in the Altman building. Kan
sas City.
The supreme court, after a review
of the case, held the evidence had
failed to establish the girl was the
child of Broquet and ruled Miss Tevis
was entitled to none of the estate.
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At request of Adjutant General Mar.
tin, Daniel G.. Imboden, former in.
structor in the artillery officers train.
ing school at Camp Taylor, Louisville
will begin recruiting a company OF
national guards at Concordia.
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The unprecedented demand for fuel
oil for heating has caused the price
of fuel oil to soar to $3.50 and So a
barrel. Six months ago it sold as low
as 60 cents a barrel. One refinery at
Wichita was offered a contract to sup.
ply fuel oil at 81.
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Mrs. Margaret Cunning Of Lonacon.
Ing, Md, applied to the state board of
administration recently for compensa-
ton for the loss of her son, John
Cunning, killed in the state peniten-
tiary coal mine at Lansing. Cunning
was an inmate of the prison and was
working in the coal mine October g.,
when a rock fell on him. Mrs. Gun
ming asked the state to pay the reg.
ular compensation allowance for de-.
pendents. This is the first claim of
the kind eve made to the state.
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The attitude of Pittsburg remains
4 puzzle to the Kansas men who are
there. The browning incident of
P~ittsburg's fear of the miners came
recently. The receivers for the mines
had arranged to open their official
account with some Pittsburg banks,
starting with the 800, 900 of receiver.
ship certificates. The Pittsburg bank.
ers refused to handle the account.
Not only did they refuse to accept
the certificates, but they asked the
receivers not to open accounts with
them so that the pay checks of the
volunteer workers would pass through
their banks. They fear a boycott of
the miners upon the banks after the
troops and the volunteers are with
drawn. When Governor Allen heard
Of it he asked the receivers to dis
pose of the certificates at other banks,
and the receivers will open their &C.
count with a bank at Girard. Cover
nor Allen took the first issue of the
certificates himself, writing a check
for $4,000.
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Warrants have been issued for three
Wichita policemen who were together
when Paul w. Strickland, % years old,
a craftsman, was shot and killed while
walking in his sleep.
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Mrs. Ida NJ. Brailer, 63 years old, is
dead at the home of her son, C. w.
Brailer at Salina. Mrs. Brailer was in
a motor car wreck September 2, near
B~urlingame, in which her husband, S.
]. Brailer, was killed instantly and she
received injuries.
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Paramount college offered fifty tons
Of coal to the county commissioners to
relieve the shortage among the poor
people of Sedgwick county. The com.
missioners accepted. Paramount col,
lege has closed till December 20 be-
cause of the coal shortage.
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More than two hundred women OF
Cloud county formed the Cloud Coun.
ty Club recently for the purpose of
uniting club activities. The club pur.
poses to do away with gossip, tattling,
snubbing and social wrangling and to
devote activities to community devel.
opment OF the county.
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A force of se~venty-five business men
and se%venty-five high school students
T%houldered axes the other day and OBJ
tanned $50 wagon loads of wood to re,
lieve the fuel situation.