The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
HAVE PROMISE OF MORE GAS
Contracts Already Made Will Increase
Supply by 100000 Cubic Feet,
Official Says.

The receiver for the Kansas Natural
Gas Company is making a real effort
to obtain more gas, according 20 Rob
ert Stone, one of the attorneys for the
receiver
I'VE have just closed a contract
with the Braden interests in Okla
homa for 80 million cubic feet of gas
day next year." Stone said. I'VE have
been getting II million cubic feet a
day from this company, and this will
be an increase of Is million. We have
started negotiations with several 9TH
er large holders of gas properties and
expect to get a contract with some of
these in a short time that will increase
the supply 40 to so million cubic feet
a day.
The first move to be made will be
tc get the gas contracts. Then pipe
lines will be laid as rapidly as we can
get material. AS soon as we are as
sured of a sufficient supply of gas
the contract for building the new
pumping plant at Scipio will be let.
We viii know in a few weeks whether
conditions will warrant the building
of this pumping plant"
S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general,
announced he would call meeting of
all Interests involved in the natural
gas litigation to discuss any further
legal steps. 1t is the idea of the at
torney general that the Kansas Natur-
al ought to be removed from the courts
and the litigation ended. A proposal
to have this done will he taken up at
| the meeting next week
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Station Safe Eound.-Sheriff z. G.
Carroll of Johnson county found the
safe which was stolen from the Stand
ard Oil filling station at Broadway and
Hamilton street in Kansas City. The
safe was on a side of the road near
Craig Station. on the Santa Fe. The
| bottom had been chiseIed out and the
cash box and it's contents of $50 re-
moved.
Dead on Railroad Track-An IN
identified man about 55 years of age
was found dead the other morning on
the Santa Fe right-of-way, three miles
north of Olathe.
/ Thorpe to Leave K. U.-Prof. Merle
/ Thorpe, head of the University of AN
/ sas department of Journalism, has an
nounced his acceptance of the editor
ship of the Nations Business, a ma
/ tionaI trade monthly magazine pub
! Iished by the United States Chamber
/ of Commerce in Washington. D. G.
] Prof Thorpe left at once to take up
his new work. Although leaving K.
/ only Of oh
Prof. Thorpe's absence will mean
much to the journalism school, OF
which he is the founder.
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Hurt Trying to Shoot Dam.-Lee
Bloom and Russell Henshaw, two
Wichita young men, tried to shoot the
Central avenue dam in Little river the
other night, and as a result both are
badly bruised The river is up from
recent rains and their canoe capsized
in the current They pere rescued by
fishermen.
Veteran Dead at SaIina-Ezekiel
Jones. 7S years old and veteran Of
the Civil war. is dead at the home
OF his son, John W. Jones, in Salina-
Four children survive.
Rocked Baby to Death-An acci
dent at Horton caused the death OF
Eva, the 9-month-old child of Mr.
and Mrs. C. D. Moore. The father
was swinging the child in a bumper
swing. suspended by four springs. One
spring gave way and, in rebounding
struck the baby's head. killing it.
Boy browns While Wadins-WhiIc
wading In Spring Creek with a mum
Der of his boy friends. Alva jackson
the 1S-year-old son Of Bert Jackson
I a Chase county farmer. was droHnsS
vhen he got beyond his depth.