The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-04

lahoma law forbidding the piping of
natural gas outside the state in inter
state pipe lines repugnant to the
provisions of the federal constitution
which orders that congress shall
have sole jurisdiction and direction
over the regulations governing inter
state commerce? is the grave ques-
tion aroused in the granting of tenn
porary restraint yesterday to the
Kansas Natural Gas company of Della
ware, the Marnet Mining company of
West Virginia, A. W. Lewis. an Ohio
oil and gas operator interested in
Oklahoma gas leases and O. d. Bleak
ey of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, inter
ested i'm various Oklahoma Interstate
gas pipe line ventures, against Cover.
nor Haskell. Attorney General Chas.
West, State Corporation Commission
ers Love, McAlester and Watson, and
State Mining Inspector Pete Hanraty.
These defendants, under the terms
of the temporary restraint. the writ
rcturnable February 23, are prohibited
| from interfering with the plaintiff
companies and individuals from per
fecting pipe lines and transporting
Oklahoma gas through these lines to
points outside the state
The petitioners assail The federal
constitutionality of the state law
which declares that no foreign cor
poration shall enter the state with a
/ pipe line for the purpose OF carrying
| the gas outside the state.
Under the terms Of the INJUNCTION,
/ the plaintiff individuals and corpora
tious are now free to perfect lines
and transport gas outside the state.
and TO prevent this action the state
must show cause why the practice is
/ Illegal, under the provision of the fed
eral interstate regulations.
In their recital for injunctional re-
lief the plaintiffs lay special stress
upon the language of the governors
recent message to the legislature in
which he says: oklahoma will keep
her gas, because If her gas Is re-
tanned. manufacturing plants will
come to the gas and into the state,
| whereas If the gas is allowed TO be
piped outside the state, the factories
will not come
This statement, recite the plaintiffs
is evidence that the officials tacitly
realize that the law is not in con
formity with the federal constitution,
The petitions are lengthy. each
covering thirty two typewriter
pages.
All the petitions, although filed by
different companies. are similar.
The petition of the Marnett Min.
/ ing company recitcs that the company
is a corporation organized under the
laws of West Virginia and cites as de-
/ PENDANTS:
Charles y Haskell govclnrr hf
oklahoma; Frank Il. Burford, deputy
attorney general; Charles West, at
torney general; John J. Shcat, assist,
ant attorney general; j. r Love, J
j. McAlester, \. p Watson, corpora
tion commissioners and Pete Hanraty
mining inspector, all of Oklahoma.
Much Gas in State.
1t is stated that for four years
great quantities of gas have been
known to exist in certain sections OF
Oklahoma and that many wells have
been driven and millions of dollars
spent in gas development. This gas
has been shown to be of great value
in producing light and power and
cities in Kansas and Missouri depend
ON it altogether for these purposes
This supply of gas in the counties oi
Muskogee, Tulsa, Nowata, Craig
Wagner, Okmulgee and Washington
they assert, has attracted the atten
ton of capital seeking investment anC
. lNdl great SuulH VI Ilul'N Hd'' n'''
spent in developing the field and tina
four hundred producing wells with {
capacity per day of more than 1900
600 600 feet of gas have been drilled
The petition states that all OF thu
cities OF importance in Oklahoma u.s.
freely of this supply of gas for pun
poses of light, fuel and power ant
that the aggregate consumption doe
not exceed $4,000 900 daily. Many o
, the wells are now capped as there i
no market for the product in Okla
, homa.
, Recite Troubles.
r In Kansas and Missouri all of tn
| larger cities depend for light and fue
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