The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
ASK HIGHER RATE FOR GAS
Public Utilities Commission is Told by
Receivers that Kansas Natural
Lost Money Last Year.

Topeka.-The receivers for the Kan
sas Natural Gas Company has filed an
application with the public utilities
commission asking for an increased
rate for natural gas The commission
also was asked to abrogate the pres
ent contracts with local distributing
companies and to compel the local
concerns to repair their pipelines to
stop the great waste of gas.
The receivers do not ask for 50-cent
gas. They set out that there is great
waste in the local lines; that the COM
pany has been handling business at a
loss; that it must make certain extern
sions and improvements and get new
gas supplies, and that the money it
now receives is not sufficient to take
care of this business
The commission set the hearing for
May Is at Topeka. The application
was filed by T. w. SalathieI, attorney
for the receivers. It is shown that
present contracts with the local COM
panies provide for the Kansas Natural
to deliver gas to the gates of each city,
the local company then piping it to
the consumers. The Kansas Natural
is paid two-thirds of the total collec-
lions on the gross sales.
1t is asserted that this system of
sales has resulted in the local com
panies allowing their pipelines to run
down, the pipes to be rusted out and a
waste of from 10 to 40 per cent of
the gas furnished the towns results.
To Use $4,000 by July.
The university authorities will be-
gin at once the erection of a $25, 900
addition to the Rosedale hospital. The
building must be completed and the
money spent by July 1.
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Chester Long Wins Will Suit
The Kansas Supreme Court recent
ly held that Chester I. Long, former
United States senator, had not used
undue influence over Henry Wisneg,
wealthy Barton county landowner.
The court held that Wisner's will
must stand and his children receive
only a minor part of his estate.
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Earn More Under 2-Cent Rate.
The Kansas railroads have in
creased their passenger revenues more
than one million dollars in the last
two years under the 2-cent passenger
fare, say the rate clerks of the public
utilities commission who have been
digging figures from the official re-
ports OF the roads.
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Decided Sixty Cases.
The Kansas Supreme Court rem
dered opinions the other day in sixty
suits heard by the court month ago.
Several important cases were in the
list. including the unfolding of the
corporation franchise tax and that the
utilities commission had complete
charge OF rate fixing for telephone
companies.
MeNeaI On School Book Board.
Governor Capper recently an
nounced the appointment OF T. A Nc
Neal of Topeka and the reappointment
OF Cora Wellhouse Billiard of Tonga
noxie as members OF the state school
text book commission. McNeaI is for
mer state printer.
Kansas Fair Day July 1e.
Kansas day at the Panama-Pacific
exposition in San Francisco will be
observed July 10, according to formal
announcement received by Governor
Capper.
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To Danish Policewomen.
Topeka is to lose its two police
women soon after the new mayor
takes office Police work is not a
woman's job declared Jay House,
mayor-elect. The two policewomen
will not be retained under my admin
istration.''
Prison Irvine Plant Rush.
Arrangements have been made to
run the prison twine plant thirteen
hours day until wheat harvest. The
plant has been running eight hours
a day