The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
IT CROWS WARM.
Creamery Rate Case Is Nearing
the End.
Long and Short Haul Question
Is the Feature.
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REPRESENTED
Express Companies Have At
tOrneys at Hearing.
Claim That the Cream Rates
Have Been Too Low.

There are three different schedules Oh
rates now before the state railway
board in the hearing of the cream rate
case. The express companies want the
Interstate commerce commission rates
adopted by the board These rates are
slightly higher than the present rates
in this state on both the long and snort
haul. The creamery companies want
the present rates to stand. The board
IS considering still another rate, ana
this is to increase the rate for the long
haul and decrease it for the short haul.
This would tend to help the little
creameries who get all their milk from
one neighborhood in a close raoluS
around their plants, while it would op-
crate against the big ones VINO get
milk from all over the state ana IN
wade the territory of the small cream
cries. It has been alleged that there
Is a creamery trust whose operations
extend to this state.
The outcome of this cream rate case
will be OF interest to Topeka. Inc
Continental creamery, one of the larg-
est concerns of the kind IN the coun-
try is located here and an increase OF
the rates for the long haul VIII tend 10
cripple this big institution In the
meantime the express companies would
reap big profits for two years on the
long haul while the farmers were walt
ing for smaller creameries to be estao-
1ished and thus take advantage OF 10"
rates for the short haul
All the express companies are repre-
sented here at the hearing and the1r
agents are being grilled on the witness
stand by attorneys for the creamery
companies.
It has always been popularly sup
posed that express companies pay as
large dividends as any corporation IN
the world excepting Standard OH alone,
yet the witnesses in this rate case de-
clare, with tears in their eyes, that the
poor, downtrodden express companies
are actually losing money in their SELF
appointed benevolence of hauling cream
for the benefit of the Kansas producer,
manufacturer ard consumer.
The case. so far as developed seems
TO be an effort on the part of the ex-
press companies to split the creameries
of the state into a faction and play the
little fellows against the big ones.
w r. Borman, president of the Con-
tlnental creamery of Topeka, declares
that If the big creameries wanted to
put the little ones out of business they
ould let the rate asked for by the
express companies go into effect with
out a fight, that rate is higher for
both the long and short haul. Mr.. Ror-
man states further that the whole
question at issue in this case is whether
or not the express companies shall be
allowed to charge a still higher rate
for hauling cream in Kansas.
The case has been before the board
for three days and many delicate points
are involved in reaching a decision as
to which of the three different sche-
dulles of rates shall be adopted here
after. 1t looks from a distance as
though any increase in rates would be
playing into the hands of the express
companies.
L D. Young, the well known at
torney of Beloit, Mitchell county. is
looming to the front as one of the
most prominent of the many candi-
dates in the Sixth district for Con-
gresham Reeder'S place in congress.
Five candidates are being groomed
congress. They should hold a con-
vention and agree upon which one is
closest to the grass roots.
The patriots are lining up already
for the appointment for census
supervisor. One of these places is
available in each of the congressional
districts of the state and it is a fat
job while it lasts. W. r. Smith of the
Fort Scott Republican is after the
place in the Second district, but is
meeting with considerable opposition.
Dell Valentine, clerk of the su-
preme court, will leave next month
Britain and will also visit in France
and Germany before his return to
the u. S. A. William Allen White
and family are now in Europe,
Charles Scott of the lola Register is
now in Porto Rico and w. Y. Nor
gan and several other Kansas editors
are planning trips abroad this sum-
mer.
Attorney General Jackson is send
ing out the following circular letters
to county attorneys of the state to
spur them up to go after the clubs
and lodges of the state under the
new prohibitory law:
"a club or lodge has no more right
than a joint keeper or bootIegger to
violate the intoxicating liquor laws of
this state. The penalty of the law
should be inflicted on all who violate
its mandates without regard to
powerful or weak, influential or an
outcast etc.
The attorney general started in to
set a good example by putting the
Topeka club out of business last week
by laying down on Mayor Green of
but when the club members defed
the chief of police to enter their
home in the same manner and
assumption he would whisky Joint
the attorney general sidestepped and
delegated the job to County Attorney
schenck. He did not extend that
courtesy 20 Schenck in the first place,
however.
Wichita Has a $4,000 Fire Loss.
Wichita. Kan, May 2o.-Ffre here
Wednesday evening gutted the three
story building of the George T. Motley
Wholesale and retail furniture com
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