Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-12-13
Operators in the Usage Field to
Get Higher Price for Their
Product in Future.
MINERS WILL GET INCREASE
The Order Fixing New Wage Scale
issued by State Fuel Connie
sioner Emerson Carey.

miners in the Usage coal fields, pro-
viding an increase in prices allowed
the operators for their product and
directing that the mines be reopened.
has been issued by Emerson Carey.
state fuel administrator, under speci-
fic powers granted him by DR.. Harry
A. Garfield, national fuel administra-
tor. The order fixes $2.57 ton for
the southern and $2.52 for the north
ern section of the field as the pay for
miners. To cover this increase in cost
of production the new price maximum
fixed allows an increase of fifty cents
a ton, a maximum of $4.95.
The order specifically states that no
commission will be allowed for sell
ing the product of the Usage mines.
The order is issued to T. J. O'Neal,
Usage county chairman of the fuel
administration; Alexander Howat,
president of the Kansas district
United Mine Workers, and w. A. L.
Johnson of the Southwestern Inter
state Coal Operators Association.
The order was effective December 1.
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Bar Atchison German.-According
to ruling by S. NJ. Brewster, attor-
ney general, A. L. Kurtz, street COM
missioner of Atchison, cannot be
elected sheriff of Atchison county
next fall because he is of German birth
and has not taken out his final natur-
alization papers. Kurtz probably will
be permitted to remain street COM
missioner, as that office is not men,
TONED in the ruling and it is an ap-
pointive office. He has a considerable
political following and planned to be
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation next year.
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Want Higher Hog Prices.-Hog
raisers of Miami county, at a meeting
held recently adopted resolution
asking the Food Administrator to es-
tablish price of hogs on the basis
Of fifteen bushels Of corn to the one
hundred pounds of pork. so as to as
sure an increase of 25 per cent in pro-
ductfon.
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Boy Dies of Meningitis.-Vernon
King, IA years old, stricken the day
before, is dead Of meningitis at Leav-
enworth. DR.. J. G. Wilson of the
United States public health service
has been stationed there in the extra
war cantonment zone work and is TAX
ing every precaution to stay an cpl
demic Of this dreaded disease.
Mrs. Moncravie GuiIty.-Mrs. Luella
Moncravie, charged with the murder Of
her husband, Henry Moncravie, last
June, was found guilty Of manslaugh-
ter in the third degree by the jury at
Winfield. The jury recommended
that the court be 1enient in passing
sentence.
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Kansas Boy Dies at Funston.-Dile
J. Upton died at Camp Funston re-
Gently, the first Anderson county boy
to give his life to the service of his
country. He Was % years old. His
parents live on a farm near West
phalia.
Boy Dies From Burns.-Seven-year-
old Richard Mooley Means of Wichita
tried to heat the house for his mother
who was away sewing, but used gaso-
line instead OF kerosene in the stove
and is dead of burns.
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Alleged Pro-Germans HeId.-James
and Adam Troyer, brothers, were ar
rested near Columbus recently and
charged with placing distractions
upon the Frisco railroad tracks in
attempt to wreck a train Inc
bridge bolts were found on the tracks
south of Baxter Springs on Sunday.
The fact trains were late prevented
wreck, officials of the road declared.
The Troyers were released on bond
pending their hearing which will be
held on December 5. They were ar
rested at the request Of Frisco do
tectives.
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Dead In cinder Pit.-The body of
A. L. Pierce11. 26 years old, who came
to Parsons recently from Pittsburg,
was found in a cinder pit in the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railway yards.
It is believed Piercell fell into the pit
and was scalded to death.
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Coal by Passenger Train.-Due to a
coal shortage in Dodge City. the Santa
Fe Railway recently sent four cars of
coal attached to a passenger train
from the Hutchinson yards to keep
traffic moving
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New Flour Mill for SaIina.-A new
milling company with c. E. Robinson
of the Robinson Grain Company as the
head is announced at Salina- The
company will have capital OF $780,
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