Sanders, George "Chick"

Miami route 3, was admitted to the American hospital at Picher Oklahoma, yesterday for medical treatment.

George Chick' Sanders, 45 years old, well known miner of the Picher district, died at 2 o'clock Saturday morning at his home, three miles south of Miami. Death was due to typhoid fever and followed an illness of 29 days. Sanders had been a resident of this district for the last 16 years, during which time he had worked as a miner. At the time of his death he was ground foreman at the Ramage Mine, south of Picher, which position he had held since being employed by the Ramage Mining Company in 1926. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Goldie Sanders; five children, Glen Sanders, Beverly Sanders, Mattie Sanders, Iola Sanders and Marguerite Sanders, at home; and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Haddock of Anderson Missouri, and Mrs. Mattie Culbertson of Keyport Washington. Funeral services will be conducted at the First Baptist church in Quapaw Oklahoma at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning with the Rev. Mr. Dearing officiating. Pallbearers will be fellow workmen, W. Morgan, Lon Atnip, W. Warner, Ollie Shoemaker, H. Hull, and Marion Rardin. Work at the mine will be suspended Monday in respect to the veteran miner. Burial will be at Purcell Missouri. The funeral will be under direction of the Green undertaking company at Picher.

INTEREST: A mine cave-in about 40 yards from two busy roads on the Kansas-Oklahoma state line south of Baxter Springs Kansas drew watchful attention, but no immediate action, from authorities Friday. A hole about 30 feet across and 40 feet deep was evident in a field just off the intersection of State Line Road and Roberts Road, at the south edge of Baxter...a map of lead and zinc mining sites shows that the old Ramage Mine lies directly under the state line, and the road, at that point. The former Bethlehem Mine is nearby on the Oklahoma side of the line. The cave-in appeared to be on top of an old cave-in, and had been filled in with dirt and chucks of concrete...Cherokee county Kansas crews determined at the time of the earlier cave- in that the road was not in danger...