The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-26
Their HANDS TIED.
State Officials Unable to Stop
the Raise in Price of
Natural Gas.
SOME ARE CHARGED 40 CENTS
Governor and Attorney General De-
eide Federal Injunctions Can't be
Dodged in Fighting Company.


be made to stop the hike in the gas
rates. The United States courts did
such good job in spreading injunc-
ton orders around that the receiver
for the Kansas Natural Gas Company
can order dollar natural gas If he
wants to, and get away with it. After
a conference between Governor Cap
per and S. NJ. Brewster, attorney gen.
eral, the conclusion reached was that
Kansas would have to sit down and
hold its hands while the Kansas Ma
tural takes whatever money and other
yaluabIes it may find.
The federal court granted permis-
sion to the Kansas Natural to charge
thirty-five cents a thousand feet for
gas The court said that not less
than this sum should be collected.
The Kansas Natural is taking care to
see that rates do not get as low as
the minimum, for reports from a large
number of cities served showed rates
of thirty-five to forty cents.
Along with this rate order was an
injunction against all the state Off
Gals prohibiting them interfering with
the rates fixed by the receiver. There
is no review or no official sanction to
the rates
THE price increase is an outrage"
Governor Capper said 1.-The order
that the minimum monthly bill should
be 81 is even worse. I wish there
were some way to stop it, but it
seems that our hands are tied
Anthrax in Kansas. = Anthrax, a
contagious disease, deadly to farm
z. H. Miller, near JarbaIo, nine miles
west Of LeavenWorth. Three cows
died and one was killed by order of
the officials of the Kansas live stock
commissioner. The carcasses of the
animals were burned and a quaran-
tine established on the Miller farm
and the neighborhood.
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Boy Saved Once, Drowns.-Ivan w.
Weinbar, Is years old, high school
student, was drowned in twelve feet
of water in the Rock Island gumbo
pit west of Wellington. Robert Tuck
er, chum, who dived and recovered
Weinbar's body, saved him from
drowning two years ago in the same
place.
Crop Failure Causes Suicide. =
Worry over the loss of his corn crop,
which was destroyed by the drouth,
is believed responsible for the suicide
of James F. TombeTlein, a wealthy
| farmer, near Kirwin, Kas. Tomber-
lein was found hanging to a tree.
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Killed by Gasoline Stove.-Geralda
Holmestrom was burned to death at
the home of George Shirk. banker, in
Lost Springs, south of Harrington. She
was filling the tank of the gasoline
stove while the fire was burning
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Drowned Near JarbaIo.-WhiIe wad-
| ing in Big Stranger river, near Jar
balo, in Leavenworth county, Albert
| Murphy, S-year-old son of Samuel Muir
ply, a Jarbalo rural mail carrier, was
| seized with cramps and was drowned.
X X x
Henry Allen to Maine.-Henry ].
Alien, editor of the Wichita Beacon,
will enter the campaign for the Re
publicans, making speeches first prob
ably in Maine the latter part of this
month
Son of BeIoit Mayor KiIIed.-Lyle
Stack, the 15-year-old son OF Mayor
Stack of Beloit, was killed when he
was jerked from motor car, striking
his head on the pavement
x x x
Phone Cashier Short. ". Ken
nedy, cashier for the Missouri & Kan
sas Telephone Company in Wichita.
| has been placed under arrest, charged
in a state warrant with falsifying
books of the company to cover up an
alleged shortage of more than $50, 900.
His arrest followed an examination OF
the company's bank deposits by an
| auditor for the company.
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A Kansas Soldier Shot = Peter
Trear, stOrekeeper at the federal peni-
tertiary, recently received the news
| that his son, Patrick Trear, a Leaven-
| worth High school student, who is
now with Company C, Second Kansas
Infantry, on the Mexican border, had
narrowly escaped death while swim
ming in the Rio Grande. Young Trear
ventured too near the Mexican side
and was shot, being made uncon-
! scious. He was saved by comrades
from drowning.
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| Gets Second Oil WeII.-WilIhite
Well No. 2. at Toronto, came in re
Gently at 1920 feet and is estimated
at 315 million feet, 24O pounds rock
pressure The PocheQuette Oil Com.
pany is doing the developing. Well
No. 1, brought in three weeks ago
was hundred-barrel oiIer.
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The Herington Sun soId.-W. E.
Blackburn completed negotiations fol
| the purchase of the Herington Sun
from NJ. F. Amrine and has assumed
charge Under the new management
the Sun win be Republican paper.
Bandits Plead Not GuiIty.-Frank
Mulkey, Barney BaIlew, Frank H
Evans and his wife, Beulah Evans
| who confessed in Kansas City of rob