Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
Attorneys for Kansas Natural
Receivers File Amended
Petition i'm court.
WANT FEDERAL SUPERVISION
Claim Is Set Up That Business Of
Company 10 Interstate Commerce
To End Deadlock.


gomery county circuit court setting up
claim that the business of their COM
pany is interstate commerce, and,
therefore. is not subject to the con-
troll or regulation of the state board
of public utilities.
The petition sets forth that So per
cent of the gas used by the company
is purchased in Oklahoma and 10 per
cent in Kansas, and that the sales
of the company's product amount to
go per cent in Missouri and 40 per
cent in Kansas. 1t, therefore. is as
serted that the company's business
really is OF an interstate character,
over which the utilities commission
has no control.
The purpose of this move is to put
an end to the apparent deadlock that
has arisen between the state court
and the state commission. The for
mer charges that the commission has
ordered an advance in rates on an
impossible condition-the agreement
of the Missouri commission to cor
responding advance in that state,
where the rate already is higher than
right across the line
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PIows at Night.-Persons driving
through Marion county at midnight
recently could see little will O. the
wisps moving through the fields in
dozens OF places. Investigation
showed that it was farmers doing
their blowing by night as well as
by day. And another unusual fea-
ture about it is that the work is be-
ing done by the new gasoline engine
tractors Phil Bruce, a ranchman liv
ing nine miles. northwest of Peabody,
says he is running two blowing shifts,
one man operating the tractor in~day
light and another at night. because
he is way behind in his blowing. The
wet weather has delayed the blowing
this season and big wheat growers
say they could not have got the usual
amount of blowing done if it had not
been for the new invention.
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Farmer Kissed Rryan.-John Ora
Der, a big husky farmer living near
Murdoch, kissed w ]. Bryan at the
conclusion of the colonel's Chautau-
qua address at Kingman the other
evening. The impact came SO sud-
den that Bryan did not have an op-
portunity to sidestep. and when the
buss had been planted squarely in the
former secretary of states mouth he
backed away surprised-like and muir
INJURED something like Thank YOU
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Laid Corner Stone.-The corner
stone of the new Catholic church in
Great Bend was laid recently in the
presence of a large number of specta-
tors. Nineteen priests, with Bishop
Hennessy, took part in the ceremon-
les.
Neodesha Veteran Dead D. Ad-
dis. s. years old. Kansas pioneer.
is dead at Neodesha. He went to
Neosho county in 1850 and was a
member of the Twelfth Kansas regi-
ment in the Civil war.
Made Bank Exaniner-PauI S.
Woods of Kingman has been made
national bank examiner by the Comp
troller of the Currency at Washington,
receiving his commission the other
day
Call United States Inconsistent
Seven hundred delegates to the dis
trict Luther League meeting at Salina
declared it inconsistent for the Unit
ed States to pray for peace and at
the same time export ammunition to
the belligerent nations. The resolu-
ton will be sent to President Wilson.
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Stumbled to Her Death.-Mrs. /. D.
Wright, about 55 years old. was run
down and killed by a Missouri Pa
cific switch train at Pittsburg- Mrs.
Wright and daughter were crossing
the track as a string of cars ap-
preached. Apparently she became
confused and stumbled.
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Their Golden Wedding Day.-Mr-
and Mrs. Alfred Ziegler OF Strong City
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
their wedding day recently. The cou-
pie has lived in Kansas thirty years.
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Got $1.15 for His Wheat.-W. w
Mansfield, farmer near Lucas, re-
Gently sold 1000 bushels of wheat on
contract at Sis a bushel. This is
i regarded as one of the best crop sales
in that part of the state this year.
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III - Days Without Doctor.-An i'm
mediate investigation will be made
into the death of the 10-year-old daugh-
ter of Luther Malcolm of Independ-
ence. County Attorney Charles Ise