Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-27
Stockholders of Kansas Natural
Have Made Arrangements
10 Raise 1900, 600.
TO PAY EVERY DOLLAR or DEBT
Committee Tells Governor capper and
Attorney General Brewster OF
Their Financial Plans.


dollars of new money for improve
ments is the plan of reorganization OF
the Kansas Natural Gas Company. A
committee of the stockholders, who
spent all Of last week in Pittsburg in
conference with the larger stock
holders of the company, told Governor
Capp.r and s. M. Brewster, attorney
general, about their plans.
Ihe stockholders will raise among
themselves enough funds to pay every
dollar of debt against the Kansas Nat
ural. For this money each stakeholder
Is to pay a pro rata share and Is tC
take additional stock. The committee
told the state officials this stock issue
would have to be at about one-half
the par value of the stock, as the mar
ket value is only fifty celts row. This
would contemplate additional stock OF
about Z million dollars to raise suffi-
cient funds to pay off the bonds and
put the ~ million dollars into i'm
prove.nents and extensions as pro-
posed. That would bring the total
capitalization of the company to
around l3 million dollars, but with
no bonded debt.
The committee of stockholders went
be-ore the public utilities commission
and discussed the plans with 1t. as
the commission must give its consent
to the stock issue.
The committee told the governor
and the attorney general that the
bond for y million dollars the federal
court required before the new 32-cent
gas rate could go into effect had been
secured and was on its way to the
court officials for approval.
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Used Ford to Kill Rats.-P. N. Cline
of Graham county, whose barn was
overrun with rats, filled the supply
tank of his Ford car with gasoline and
coal oil mixed, attached rubber hose
to the exhaust and put the other end
into rat hole and started the engine.
Many rats died under the barn and
others died as they ran out to get
fresh air. He gathered up four BUSH
els Of rats, he says.
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Burns Fatal to Boy.-Newel Sunser-
land, years old, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Orville Sunderland, is dead at Oxford
from burns received when Ed Keith,
q grocer. carrying a can of flaming
oil, collided with the boy at the door
of the Keith grocery. The can ex-
p,oded, enveloping the boy in flames.
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Bale p. Waggener IL 69.-B. p.
Waggener, patron saint of the chill
dren of northeastern Kansas, celebra-
ted his sixty-ninth birthday anniver-
sary at Atchiscn by entertaining thou
sands of children from Atchison and
surrounding territory at a big free
picnic.
Hurt by Fly Wheel.-While at work
on a flywheel in laundry at Parsons,
Miller Smith, proprietor of local
laundry, was seriously injured. He
thrust his head through the wheel
when the engine was started sudden
ly. Physicians believe he will re-
cover.
Train Hits Auto.-When Missouri
Pacific freight train struck August
Eohleder's automobile near Hiawatna
the other day Rohleder escaped with
severe bruises and decorations. The
car was wrecked
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31.RusheI Wheat YleId.-Alex Rob.
inson, a Douglas county farmer, liv.
ing six miles from Lawrence, has fin.
ished thIeshing a field OF wheat that
averaged thirty-one bushels to the
acre. The grain was sold on the local
market at $1.0S.
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Spanish Veterans to Kansas City,
Kansas City, Kas., was chosen as the
place for the 1917 encampment of the
Kansas Spanish war veterans, which
closed at Emporia the other night.
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A Harvester at 6o.-Although Au-
gust Renquist. go years old, of Tren-
ton, Mo-, owns 160-acre farm near
Trenton, he Is working for 81 day
In the harvest fields near Salina.
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Dead From Pellagra.--Mrs. w. T.
Vest. wife Of the postmaster at Pond
Creek, Ok, died Of pellagra in WITCH.
tia hospital, twelve hours after being
brought there. She was 40 years old.
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Child Dies Of Paralysis.-Byron
Nichols, the 3-year-old son of Harry
Nichols. who was stricken with in
fantile paralysis recently, is dead at
Winfield.
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Bonner Springs Minister Dies.-The
Rev. James Michael, SO years old a
pioneer minister of Wyandotte county,
died recently at the home of his daugh.
te:, Mrs. James Wharton. Mr. Mich,
AL had been minister in the Chris.
tian church more than forty years.
Prof H. A. Mills Resigns.-Profe
sor Harry A. Mills, instructor in eco.
nonics at the University of Kansas