Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-22
Receivers for Kansas Natural
60 to Federal Court for
37-Cent Tariff.
SAY BUSINESS is INTERSTATE
Company Also Claims 2s-cent Rate
Allowed by Utilities Board is
Not Remunerative.

SdS Utilities Commission and to force
the gas consumers of Missouri and
Kansas to pay thirty-seVen cents a
thousand cubic feet for natural gas
for domestic purposes. The suit was
brought against the Kansas Utilities
Commission, the attorney general of
Kansas, the Missouri Public Service
Commission, the attorney general of
Missouri, all of the distributing COM
panies handling gas from the Kansas
Natural lines, all the cities reached
by the company, all the subsidiary cor
porations and the trustees for the var
ious bondholders.
The suit does not ask the court to
enjoin the enforcement of the ascent
gas rate ordered by the public utili-
ties commission twenty days ago, I'M
til after the final hearing of the case
in the courts. 1t is set out that the
order of the Kansas commission is an
interference with the property under
the control of the receivers. The two
points on which the suit is brought
are:
That the business of the Kansas Ma
tural Gas Company is interstate COM
merce, and hence not subject to regu-
lation by either state.
hat lHt IdtcS HOW ll8eu lOT
gas are confiscatory, unremunerative,
noncompensatory and seek to deprive
the company of its property without
due process of law.
Both states are brought into the
suit because of the mutual interest of
the people in Eastern Kansas and
Western Missouri in natural gas.
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EnDoria Votes Water Works Bonds
Bonds were voted at a special cleo
| ton in Emporia to the amount of $780,
900 for the improvement of the water
| works system. The election was close
| and the majority for the bonds was
only 45, according to the unofficial
| count
Kansas Firm Sharing Profits-The
| Humboldt Brick Manufacturing Com
pany, one of the largest plants in the
gas belt, has inaugurated profit shar-
| ing plan, dividing a sum among its
employees equal 10 , per cent of their
years wages. The presentation was
made at banquet given the employees.
| Charity Cost Him Sc, 3oo.-While
William Mock, IS years old, farmer
residing near Corbin. a small town
| thirty-five miles south of Wichita,
was looking into a young mans eye to
see if it was bloodshot, he was robbed
of a wallet containing cash and ne
gotiable securities worth $4,000.
Married $50 in Oiathe. - Probate
| Judge 3. A Roberds, Johnson county'S
marrying judge has made a record
by issuing marriage licenses to $50
than half of this number-44S, to be
City.
The Kansas Auctioneers Meet
The annual meeting of the Kansas
| State Auctioneers' Association was
held in Leavenworth recently. Col
onels'' from all parts of the state
were there for the two-day session.
Killed Two Rabbits, One Shot
C. w. Miller, editor of the Pratt Re
publican, defies anyone in Kansas to
shoot two running rabbits with one
shot. as he has done. Recently he
and two friends were out hunting
when two rabbits jumped up and ran
toward each other. The editor saw
only one, but he got both.
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New Augusta Gusher-The first
real oil gusher in the Augusta field
was brought in the other night on the
Ed Warner farm. 1t flows twelve hun
bred barrels a day. The drill is in
fifty feet of rich sand, which was
struck at 1855 feet.
Gasoline Explosion Fatai-Miss An
ma Miller, 19 years old, of Russell, is
dead in Wilson as the result of burns
received in an explosion of gasoline
the other day
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Train Cuts Off Foot--John Half
penny, a laGndryman, was struck by a
train at Lincoln the other morning.
He rolled under coach and one foot
was cut of. He was on his way, to
Junction City TO spend Christmas
Pittsburg Banker Dies.-William L
Miller. 76 years old. one of the richest
| citizens of Southeastern Kansas, is
| dead at his home in Mulberry Mr.
Miller was head of the State Bank oil
Pittsburg He had lived there forty
three years
"Aggies- Have CeIebration.-Stu
dents in the Kansas State Agricultural
, College at Manhattan from fifteen diff