Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
TO TOUR KANSAS GAS BELT
Public Utilities Commission to Visit
Various Plants of Kansas Natural
Within the State.

First hand knowledge as to the
4 needs of the Kansas Natural Gas Com
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 10.
| G. F. Foley of Lyons, one of the men,
bers of the state commission, and T.
J. Stricken, engineer, will make tour
of 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 trip to the fields
and the fields to which 1t is proposed
to make extensions. Stiickler, who
helped make the physical valuation of
the Kansas Natural properties before,
which resulted in decrease in capt.
talization from $22 100000 to 100000
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
Flannelly 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 s1,600,000 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.
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Held on Murder Charge.-Roscoe
Hornbaker, the Louisburg mail carrier
who is charged with the murder of
George McElheney, 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.
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Judges Wife Dies.-Mrs. Rankin,
wife of Judge ]. o. Rankin of the
Tenth Judicial Court, is dead at her
home in Paola, the result of stroke
OF paralysis which she suffered ten
days ago.
Bomb" Mystery soIved.-Mrs. Ber-
nardo Ferronitelli OF Capable, whose
hand was blown off at her home
month ago, was picking at dynamite
cap.
Fine Church for Misunderstanding
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 $4,000 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 1t, but business
demanded the site.
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kiIIad hu ptopoainae -ptopnoina noi
soning believed to have been con-
tracted from eating food exposed to
the air while in tin can, killed Ray
w. Rice, q years old, young farmer
living near Pomona.
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A Garnett Pioneer Dead.-William
Davis IS years old, is dead at Garrett.
He went there in 1869. He leaves two
sons and two daughters living in Gar
nett. A son, Walter Davis, lives in
Kansas City, Mo.
Fall of Rock Kills Mlner.-A fall of
rock killed Tony Weisgerber, 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 ]. 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 McElheney,
postmaster of Louisburg.
College Won Debste.-Southwestern
I College won in the debate at Winfield
with Morningside of Sioux City, OH
the question of government ownership