The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-16
Their BUSY Day
Charter Board Has to Step Live
" to Keep Up.
Sixteen Big New Companies
Arrange for Business.
NEW STREET RAILWAY
Hutchinson to Have One Built
by Local Capital.
Three Big Foreign Corporations
Given the Licenses.
NEW STREET RAILWAY

This was q big day for the state char
ter board. Sixteen new companies or
gained under Kansas laws and repre-
senting a capital stock of $358,00O were
chartered, and besides there were three
foreign corporations representing a CAPT
tai stock of 81, 100000 given the right to
do business in the state.
The biggest Kansas corporation is the
Hutchinson Interurban railway, the con-
Germ which is building a city railway in
Hutchinson and which proposes to ex-
tend its lines to Branch Lake, Nicker-
son, Huntsville and Sterling. represent
ing a total mileage OF about so miles.
The capital stock is 100000, and this is
divided into shares of s25 each. The
people who put up the money are all 10
cal capitalists. 1t is strictly home en-
terprise. Among those whose names APP
pear on the Incorporation papers are
Emerson Carey, W. Y. Morgan, J. S.
George. 7. J. Temple and r. E. Sentney,
among the best known Hutchinson citi-
zens.
The w E. Jett Mercantile company,
presumably a branch house for the
Jett & Wood Wholesale Grocery com
pany of Wichita, was chartered to do
business at Pratt, Kan It, is a $4,000
concern, and viii be quite an aequisi-
ton for Pratt.
One peculiar organization which
was chartered is the Hunters and
Anglers Association of America. which
has its headquarters at COmeyville, and
the objects of which are set forth in
the application as follows:
ITO enforce the laws of the various
states against the indiscriminate de-
closed seasons, or by any unlawful
means The bringing together into a
fraternal organization of good men
everywhere to secure this end. The
encouragement of field sports, the en-
tertainment of members and guests.
The diversion of the minds of its mem
! bership from business cares. The en-
/ couragement of social life and the
proper discipline of abuses so detri-
mental to modern society. The dis
/ tributiOn of fraternal aid to its mem
/ berShip, and the enforcement of law.
4 The incorporates are Joe Hawkins
/ Harve ROadamer o. B. Hill, Frank
Griffin and John Sergeant.
The Simmons Warehouse company,
I a New Jersey corporation with a capt.
/ tai of $25O,000, will come into the
I state and start a branch at Wichita.
This institution is a part of the Sim
mons Hardware company of St. Louis
/ and it means that the ST. Louis con-
( Germ is establishing a big branch
| house at Wichita.
The Ozark Smelling & Mining com
pany which has been located in the
Ohio gas belt. has built new smeltei
init to do business in the state.
The following is a list of the char
ters granted:
Burlington Roller Mills Co. SOS, O0O
! The w. e. Jett Mer. Co.. Pratt, $40. 600.
Stockton Lumber Co, Stockton, Sic, 900
Garrett Telephone Co. S25, 600.
Wood Hardware and Implement Co.
Middle West Investment Co, Garder
| City, 50, 600.
National Cooperative Burial associa
/ ton Abilene. $1,000.
Ameyville TOWnsite Co, Wichita. $1,000
Hunters and Anglers Association o
America COffeyville.
hutchinson Interurban Railway Co.
100000. rsa'-
4 Home Realty Fund. Ness City, 81 600.
Frizen Hardware Co, LaTned, 1000.
Wagner Gas Co, OswegO. $50, 900.
Church of Christ Lincoln Center.
New Cambria Telephone Co. Salina. IS,
OOO
Chautauqua Springs Sanitarium an
AnthropOlogical Institute, Chautauqu
Springs $4,000.
zelIner Clothing Co. Ottawa, $4,000.
J. I. Case Pillow Works, Racine, Wis
ozark Smelling and Mining Co, Ohio
100000.
/ $3.50. 600.