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Show Newspaper Man in Kansas Kan-sas in Danger of Going- to Jail Topoka, Ivan , Jan 17 J. E. House, a well-known Kansas newspaper writer, may be sent to jail for contempt con-tempt of court without the prMlege of a jury trial, if the Instructions of Gov. Stubbs are carried out by Attorney At-torney General Dawson. House" j-ea-terday refused to give information regarding re-garding the Illegal sale of liquor In a town the name of which he withheld, with-held, whe,re ho said, in a newspaper paragraph in the Topeka capital, he saw beer being sold openly. The inquisition in-quisition to which House was subjected subject-ed came only after Gov. Stubbs had secured a wrjt from the state supreme su-preme oourt'to compel the attorney general to call House before him Jn a letter received from the governor gov-ernor todav, the attorney general ia requested to at once take House before be-fore a court where he may be questioned ques-tioned and, upon refusal to answer, sent to jail. |