Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-05-02
OPERATORS SEE OIL SLUMP
Predictions Freely Made that Crude
Product Will Drop to Seventy
Five Cent by May.

The latest scent drop in the price
of crude Oil, coming on top of the re
cent cut, has caused the belief that the
slump will continue and many opera
tors are predicting that oil will drop
to seventy-five cents before the first of
May. The operators take the view
that they are to pay for the extra
tankage the big wells around Cushing
have made necessary. They also be-
lieve that since some operators have
extended themselves financially the
old process of gathering them in is to
be prevented.
Those close to the situation, how
ever, say that the drop was inevitable,
the supply not only exceeded the de-
mand, but overtaxed all the facilities
of the pipe line companies. When the
Prairie Oil and Gas Company sent out
a recent warning against oyer-produc-
ton, and as an evidence of good faith
shut dow its own wells, operators
laughed and builded more rigs. Re-
Gently the Prairie Company quit TAX
ing oil from the Gulf and Gypsy Oil
Companies and took fifty thousand
barrels daily from it's pipe lines. Since
the Gushing field caught its second
wind, tremendous gushers have been
ing on actively in all other fields. The
Prairie Company simply could not han
die the oil and the only way to make
the operators quit drilling was to cut
the price.
New "Gym."-Ottawa University
has accepted plans for new $4,000
gymnasium to be built this year. Work
will be started April 81, which is col
lege charter day for the university.
A swimming pool will be part of the
new building.
Horses Kick FataI-D. B. Garth
waite of Furley, near Wichita, was
killed when his horse kicked him over
the heart while he was hitching it.
He was 60 years old and wealthy.
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Combine to Sell Eqgs.-A co-opera-
tive egg selling association has been
organized by the women's auxiliary
to the Lyon County Farmers insti-
tute Under the central association
will be neighborhood circles. A man
eger will be employed by the central
association to collect, grade and mar
ct eggs on commission. The asso-
cation is modelled after similar or
carnations in Denmark and Canada.
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School for Merchants.-Fiye thou
sand merchants have received invita-
tions to attend the merchants week
at the University of Kansas May 5, 6
and 4, when the extension department
of the university is planning to hold
school for several hundred Kansas
storekeepers-
Educator Dies-Prof. Edmund Kel-
ley, teacher of mathematics in the
Sumner County High School, is dead
of heart disease at his home in Well
ington He was 55 years old and had
been connected with the Wellington
schools many years. His former home
was at Nickerson.
Wreck on Santa Fe.-The engine OF
a Santa Fe passenger train plunged
down an embankment near Sharpe
the other day The engineer and fire.
man remained in the cab and escaped
serious injury. Three men were hurt
in the wreck
His Conscience Hurt--Conscience
stricken and haunted by fear of ar
rest. he said, Horace Hollingsworth.
alleged defau1ting agent for the Rock
Island at Turon, walked into the of
f1ce of. Sheriff K C. Beck recently and
surrendered.