Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-13
GAS LEAKS ARE EXPENSIVE
Operator Tells State Utilities Board
that 80 Per Cent of Kansas
Flow Escapes.

Gas valued at SASS 900 has leaked
from the Kansas gas fields purchased
by the Kansas Natural Gas Company
since they were taken over several
years ago, r. NJ. Snyder, Jr., of Kan
sas City, large gas operator. testi-
fled before the state public utilities
commission in it's hearing on gas rates
at Topeka. He pointed out that much
leakage is a big factor in increasing
the cost of producing gas.
Mr.. Snyder asserted that his figures
were based on the selling price of
gas in Independence and that the loss
amounted to one-third of the gross
revenue to the Kansas Natural from
the sale of gas since the purchase of
the fields.
He offered numerous documents
telling the financial story of the gas
situation and described in detail the
purchase of the fields he referred to,
which contain $4,000 acres of gas
land and lie near independence.
From these fields, he said, the Kan
sas Natural Gas Company has taken
100000, 100000 cubic feet of gas. Had
it been able to market this entire out
put at Independence prices, he assert
ed, $13, 52S,632 go would have been re-
ceived by the company. Instead, the
revenue from the sale of this gas was
given by the witness at a little more
than $S.000,00O. Not less than 80 per
cent loss, Mr.. Snyder testified, should
be charged to leakage.
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Motor Car Upsets; Kills One
Harry Moorehead of Troy was killed
in a motor car accident half a mile
east of Beattie recently. Moorehead
and Conrad Scholze and Edna White,
Sara Price and Daisy Benson of Beat
tie were returning home when the
car skidded and upset. Moorehead
was instantly killed.
Big Dog Drowned Boy.-Knocked
from a narrow footbridge by a big
dog. Joseph Bond, an S-year-old boy
of Mineral. was drowned in a pond
the other day. The boy, with several
others, was sitting on the bridge when
the dog chased across it and all were
knocked into the water. The others
escaped
Dies on Way to Soldiers Home
Hiram L. Rounds. a Civil war vet
eran, Sc years old, died on a Frisco
train between Pleasanton and Paola
recently. He was or his way from
Van Buren,, Ark, to the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth.
Aged Emporia Woman Dead.-Mrs.
Hester Marshall Goodell, who was
boSn in Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1925, is
dead at her home in Emporia. Her
grandsons are S. H Marshall and
Frank Warren of Emporia.
Penny a Day for Parks.-The FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs of McPher-
son has developed a novel plan for the
support and maintenance of the two
city parks. The women decided to
give a penny a day for the coming
year, and with a membership of sew
eraI hundred the fund will be devel-
oped-
Cousin of La Toilette Dead-Mrs.
Phoebe Anna Nitsinger. 80 years old
and cousin of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette of Wisconsin, dropped dead
at Ottawa while sweeping She had
lived in Franklin county since 1863
100000 for College of Emporia.-
The Presbyterian Synod of Kansas,
at its meeting in Emporia recently,
voted unanimously to begin at once a
50-day campaign to raise 100000 to-
ward its half million dollar endow-
ment for the College of Enporia-
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Harvest Hand Shoots Two.-An
Italian known as Tony shot and per
haps fatally wounded John Cutsha1
and Ed Bailey near Stockton The
men were members of threshing
crew at o. H Noh's farm, fifteen
miles northeast