Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-26
Kansas and Missouri Public
Utilities Commissions to
Cooperate tor Result.
HOLD CONFERENCE AT Topeka
Kansas City Officials Discuss Gas Sit
uation With Governor caPper
and Other State Officers


situation Get the gas case out of
the Montgomery county district court
just as soon as possible
These were the conclusions reached
at conference in the governors Of
flee at Topeka, participated in by
Judge A F. Evans and ]. A. Harzfeld,
representing Kansas City, Mo-; Fred
s Jackson and H o. Caster, attor-
aeys for the Kansas utilities commits
sion, and Governor Capper-
The governor said the Kansas util-
tiles commission will cooperate heart
lily with the Missouri public service
commission in making the survey ac-
cording to the Kansas City plan The
commissions will likely begin next
week
The hearings will be held at Kansas
City, Mo.
The attorney general is expected to
file motion soon to dismiss the re-
ownership case in the Montgomery
district court If the motion is grant
ed the litigation then all goes back
to the federal court and the receivers
of that court will be in charge. 1t is
the opinion of the state officials that
the federal court will then order the
property sold and that the stockhoId-
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buy it in and rehabilitate it.
The application of Rosedale and
Kansas City, Kan, to have a survey
of the gas situation made has been
filed with the utilities commission
Announcement was made through
the Topeka Industrial Council that
meeting will be held on the state capt.
toll grounds to form a Citizens Pro-
tective League for the purpose of OPP
posing any raise in the gas rates. Per
sons joining the league, it is proposed,
shall enter an agreement not to pay
more than % cents per 1000 feet for
gas. This is the rate which the Kan
sas public utilities commission fixed
Three Threshers Burn.-Three
threshing machines burned in the
same field near CuIlison within one
week Recently a machine entered
the Dorney field and began to thresh.
1t burned few hours later. The sec
ond machine caught fire in the same
field and burned. Three days later,
the third machine caught fire and
burned near the same spot
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Investigation Ends.-Members of
the state board of control, who have
of cruelty at the Orphans home, con-
Guided their work and left Atchison-
While they would not give out any in
formation, it is understood most of
the charges have fallen flat. The
members of the board will report di-
rect to Governor Capper.
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Big Prairie Fire Near Gove.-The
first prairie fire of the season in
western Kansas burned a strip ten
miles long and five miles wide north
of Cove. Several stacks of prairie hay
was burned and hundreds of acres of
pasture ruined The fire was stopped
by blowing the ground in front of the
blaze. There were no houses in the
path of the fire.
A Big Fire at IrVing.-Fire of IN
known origin which started shortly
before midnight recently destroyed
five business houses and residence
with loss of $4,000 at Irving
Anthrax In Kansas. Anthrax, a
contagious disease, deadly to farm
stock, has broken out on the farm of
E H. Miller, near Jarbalo, nine miles
west of Leavenworth. Three cows
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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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First White Child Dead.-Nrs La
vina Cook. 81 years old. the first
white child born in Burlington, Ia,
is dead in Atchison- Her father found
ed her native town. She married
forty years ago to Noah R. Cook and
moved to Rushville, Mo. Twelve
years ago she came to Atchison.
Saw Her Sweetheart Drown.-Two
young women. one of them Smiths
sweetheart, watched Frank Smith
drown in the Neosho river near Co
lumbus, unable to help him. Smith
and the two girls were swimming
when Smith dived. striking his head
on submerged log
Gets Second Oil WelI.-WiIhite
Well No 2, at Toronto. came in re-
Gently at 1,420 feet and is estimated
at 31z million feet, 24e pounds rock
pressure. The Pochequette Oil Com
pany is doing the developing Well
No. /. brought in three weeks ago.
was hundred-barrel oiler-