The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
TO TOUR KANSAS GAS BELT
Public Utilities Commission to Visit
Various Plants of Kansas Natural
Within the State.

pany will be sought by the Kansas
public utilities commission before the
hearing of the application Of the re-
ceivers for increased rates is heard.
The hearing has been set for May ID.
G. T. Foley Of Lyons, one of the mem
bers of the state commission, and T.
]. Stricken, engineer, will make tour
or the gas company properties in the
fields the first week in May.
Commissioner Foley is planning to
spend most of the week inspecting the
properties, including a trip to the fields
and the fields to which it is proposed
to make extensions. Stricken, who
helped make the physical valuation of
the Kansas Natural properties before,
which resulted in a decrease in CAPT
talization from $4,000, 900 to 10,0OO,-
600, will check up the property with
the old valuation, and also value the
improvements made since that time,
and the proposed extensions and bet
terments.
The commission will ask the state
receivers appointed by Judge Thomas
F1anneIly of the Montgomery county
district court to make an itemized &C
count of the extensions made in the
last year, and also just what extern
siOns they have planned for the next
few years. In their application for in
creased rates, the receivers state that
in the next six years they propose to
spend 81 100000 for extensions and
betterments. The commissioners want
to know where, and when, and why,
and how.
An early decision will be made by
the commission, according to Judge
Foley. The commissioners will try to
have all the information possible when
the hearing opens, and will make
every effort to consider and decide the
case Immediately.
Held on Murder Charqe.-Roscoe
Hornbaker, the Louisburg mail carrier
who is charged with the murder Of
George McEIheney, postmaster Of
Louisburg, on the night of October 4,
1912, was committed to the county
jail at the close of his preliminary
hearing at Paola to await trial in the
June term OF the Miami county dis
trict court
Judges Wife Dies-Mrs. Rankin,
wife of Judge J. D. Rankin of the
Tenth Judicial Court, is dead at her
home in Paola, the result of a stroke
Of paralysis which she suffered ten
days ago.
"Bomb" Mystery SoIved.-Mrs. Ber-
nardo Ferronitel1i OF Capable, whose
hand was blown OF at her home a
month ago, was picking at a dynamite
cap.
Fine Church for Manhattan.-The
trustees Of the Presbyterian church at
Manhattan sold the present church
building and site to l. E. Eakin for
| $500 and work will be started i'm
mediately on a new $45, 900 church in
another location. The old church is
one of the landmarks of the town, be-
ing erected in 1870, but the congrega-
| ton not only outgrew it, but business
demanded the site.
| Killed by observation-disclosures poi
soning believed to have been con-
tracted from eating food exposed to
| the air while in tin can, killed Ray
w. Rice, 81 years old, young farmer
| living near Pomona.
I
A Garnett Pioneer Dead.-Wil1iam
| Davis, SO years old, is dead at Garrett.
He went there in 1859. He leaves two
sons and two daughters living in Gar
nett A son, Walter Davis, lives in
Kansas City, Mo.
| Fall Of Rock Kills Miner.-A fall OF
rock killed Tony Weisgerber, a miner,
in mine No of the Nevius Coal Com
pany at Radley the other day.
Refuses Bail to Observation-Disclosures
Hornbaker, a rural mail carrier of
/ Louisburg, has been refused release
on bail by Justice J. c. Williford-
Hornbaker was bound over to the dis
| trict court for trial on a charge OF
murder in connection with the death
Oct 4, 1912, of George McEIheney,
postmaster OF Louisburg.
| College Won Debate-Southwest
College won in the debate at Winfield
with Morningside of Sioux City, on
the question of government ownership
OF railroads.
Held Up a Sabetha Ticket Agent
A masked man held up Ed Kennedy,
the Rock Island agent OF Sabetha at
the ticket window at $3.50 o'clock the
other night Kennedy grabbed the re-
volver from him, but lost it in scuf-
fle He saved himself by dropping to
the floor The robber got So.
y
Pittsburg Shelters Reopen.-After
being closed down for eighteen years,
the North" shelters OF Pittsburg
have been reopened A Joplin syndi-
cate has obtained control OF the prop-
ertz. About rs men are employed.