The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-07-14
MAKING BIG GAS PROMISES
Officers Of Reorganized Kansas Nat
uraI Declare They Can Furnish
e0,000,000 Feet a Day.

100000 Feet Day.
A definite promise that 80 million
cubic feet Of gas would be pumped
into the pipelines every day by the
Kansas Natural Gas company the
coming winter, and 100 million feet
a day within year, was made to
Governor Capper and S. M. Brewster,
attorney general, the other day. Vic.
tor Hayes, president Of the Kansas
Natural; G. T. Bradon, president Of
the Oklahoma Natural, and several
members of stockholders commit
tee named to perfect plan for re-
organizing the Kansas Natural, had a
long conference with the state Off
cials. They proposed to take the
property out of the hands of the re-
ceiver as quickly as possible.
The committee has just completed
an inspection Of the properties and is
on its way to Pittsburgh, Pa, to re-
port to the stockholders at meeting
there. The plans for financing the
company will be worked out there.
The committee told the state Off
cials that the receiver already had
contracted for sufficient pipe to open
new fields to the company and the
gas had been contracted for. 1t was
explained that about 80 million feet
day was all the pipelines would
afand in tho mi condition
that several hundred miles of pipe
would have to be relaid to carry the
extra load. This will take at least
a year.
Dies In Saving Pet Dog.-Stumbling
when she ran on the Frisco tracks to
rescue her little dog, Mrs. Lutte Willis
of Atlanta was instantly killed by a
Frisco special train carrying officials
at Atlanta. Mr.. Willis, who is en-
ployed by the Frisco, saw his wife
killed.
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A Boy Drowned i, Whirlpool
While swimming in the Cottonwood
river below Soden's lam, John Ran
dolph, son of Mr.. and .Irs. Frank Ran
dolph of Emporia. WIS drowned re-
Gently. The boy was caught in q
whirlpool.
A Farmer Killed HimseIf.-Fred
Shurtz, widely known farmer Of
Sumner county, committed suicide the
other morning by shooting himself in
the right temple with rifle.
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suit of seeing her grandson, Harry
Hunter, struck by baseball bat in a
Fourth of July game, Mrs. Hannah
Hunter, II years old, died at the home
of her son, R. c. Hunter, at Cotton
wood Falls of hemorrhage of the
brain.
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Smoking Was FATAL. R. McKain,
so years old, was burned to death by
sparks from his pipe while enjoying
his evening smoke at his home, nine
miles east of Mulvane the other night.
He leaves widow and five grown
children.
Three Drown In creek-C. L. Man
shardt, his wife and 10-year-old son,
Leonard Manshardt, were drowned
in Wildcat creek four miles west of
Manhattan while on fishing expedi-
ton.
A Rusty Nail Fatal.-John Wesley
Mason, 70 years old, of Greenwich,
died in hospital at Wichita follow
ing the amputation Of leg that had
become infected when he trod on a
rusty nail a week ago. He came to
Kansas in 1858.
Oil Boom Near Toronto.-The first
oil we'll brought in around Toronto was
shot at eleven hundred feet. In two
hours oil rose in eight u inch castings
$50 seet, indicating 100-barrel we'll
In the last two months forty thousand
acres have been leased at dollar an
acre and up. Several rigs are in the
field. Many oil men are coming in
Snake Bites Man.Ewhen Harry
Krenkle tried to decapitate rattle.
snake with an ak at Barnard recently
| the reptile proved faster than the
man and bit Krenkle on the arm