The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-04

cal survey. was S,317,315 short tons,
| having a spot value of $5,444, 907. In
/ Missouri as in Kansas Oklahoma aNAad
| Arkansas, the coal mining industry last
year was adversely affected more by
| the increased production and conSump-
| ton of petroleum and natural gas in
the midcontinent field than by the bus
| mess depression.
Natural gas from the eastern Kan
sas felds is now piped to Kansas City,
St Joseph, and Joplin. Mo. and 10
AtchiSon. LeaVenworth Lawrence, Ar
kansas City, Winfield. Wichita, We'll
ington, Hutchinson, Pittsburg and Ga
lena, Kan. Oil from the same fields
extensively used for fuel at Kansas
City. These conditions have naturally
affected the coal production in Mis-
souri,.
To Missouri's coal production in the
last few years should be added a con-
siderable tonnage credited to Kansas,
the workings of the mines at LeaVen-
worth extending under the Missouri
river into Missouri territory and the
larger part of the production of Leav-
enworth county, Kan, being in fact
taken from beds underlying Platte
county Mo. Possibly a quarter of i
million tons of coal credited to Kansas
is mined in Missouri.
The market for the coal product of
Missouri is practically confined to the
states own borders. as it is surrounded
Iowa on the north. Kansas on the west,
Arkansas and Oklahoma on the south,
and Illinois and Kentucky on the east.
Moreover. some of the larger cities
draw their principal fuel supplies from
the neighboring states, st. Louis, for
instance. being chiefly supplied with
coal by Illinois. and Kansas City draw
ing its fuel largely from the Sunf1ower
state.
c. L. Kagey of Beloit, Kan, is reg
istered at the New Willard hotel
Frank Munsey's Washington Evening
Times says that Victor Murdoch has
been offered many positions in Kansas, |
among them the United States senator !
ship and that he can have any of them
for the askance. The Times says:
Representative Vic Murdoch OF
Kansas has so many good jobs lying in
wait for him that he doesn't know
where to turn. OF course. being mod |
est person, he doesn't talk about it. but |
his Kansas friends do. They say that |
the red-headed bane of Speaker Can !
mons life can have most anything he |
wants down in the Sunf1ower state. He |
can be senator if he wants to make the |
race: he can remain in congress for an |
indefinite while, or he can enter the |
lecture field, to say nothing of having IL |
good field ahead of him in continuing |
to run the Wichita Eagle and engage
thus in the uplift of a great state. The |
trouble is that he can't do all these |
things at once. If he runs for the SEN
ate he has to drop out of the house.
and he can't stay in politics and devote |
a great deal of his time to lecturing-
The chances are that Vic will con-
clude to linger around the house a
while Just for the sake of being in at |
before long. of the Cannon organiza-
ton and the existing rules"
Senator Charles Curtis has intro
hi he n
G. Martin, which has been referred to
the committee on interocean canals;
other bills presented by him are to
grant increased pensions to A. Morrow.
T. NJ Harrison. Sarah E. Garner, Rit-
tie Dundridge. William G. Stout Nor
timer Stiles. William Hayes. Enoch A.
Barnett
Congressman Anthony presented a
bill for the relief of John W. Johnson
Congressman Reeder presented in the
house a petition of the Topeka Clear
ing House association, against corpora
ton tax amendment.
Congressman Calderhead introduced
a bill granting an increased pension to
George W. Smith.
The Washington Post says: Ed
mond S Warner. of Topeka, Kan,
who is at the Riggs. said that the
Democrats of Kansas believe they see
1 chance to elect two congressman in
Kansas next year.
|
tinued Mr.. Warner. lis the pin on
which they hang their faith. They
have singled out the Fifth and Sixth
districts as almost certain territory,
and have slight hopes of carrying the
First and Fourth districts But this is
he season when the Democrats of
Kansas are always hopeful They are
always the strongest in the off years.
The tariff fight has naturally caused
Wo alignments in Kansas, as it has in
very other state. There are the
Did -time protective tariff advocates
md the low tariff advocates. No mat
er what the outcome of the tariff
contest may be, either one side or the
,ther in Kansas will be disgruntled.
Whether this will be carried to the
election remains to be seen. The
Democrats believe it will; the Repub-
leans say it WON'T
Kansas truckers will be interested ,
n recent experiments conducted by ,
he department of agriculture in !
which variety of means and .
he cheapest and most effective way
# destroying potato beetles. This !
pest has worked great losses in the
he present season. It is recon- !
green or arsenate of lead be dissolved
n bordeaux mixture and applied to Y
he plants while the young tubers are
prouting. This treatment has. it is
laimed, a wonderful beneficial effect |
md increases the yield of potatoes.
The growers are advised to pur- l
hase power spraying outfits which Y
will enable them to apply the poison {
and to go over their fields a
t least three times during the season. i
II this way they may save the cost
# the power outfit in a single season. I
Now, the whisper is going round /
gain that Secretary Wilson is not t
cheduled alone to remain in the r
abinet and that he will leave to be ]