Western Kansas world., 1917-11-08
CAN'T GET The COAL
Dealers Claim Their Orders are
Being Turned Down by
the Operators.
SEES GLOOMY OUTLOOK AHEAD
Fuel Administrator Carey Fears Many
Towns Will be Without Coal un-
less Situation Improves.

Fuel Administrator Carey Fears Many |
Towns Will be Without Coal Un-
less Situation Improves.
Evidences that Kansas coal dealers
are trying in vain to secure ship
ments of commercial coal, and that
their orders are being turned down by
operators, are pouring into the office
of Emerson Carey, state fuel admins
TRAITOR, in the form of letters, tele-
grams and telephone calls. Unless the
situation is changed. Kansas towns
will find themselves without coal and
unable to procure any kind this win
ter, Mr.. Carey believes
Take the output of the mines at 100
per cent, and few of them are run
ming even half time now, due to car
shortage and trouble with the miners.
Of this 100 per cent possible, accord
ing to Mr.. Carey, at least 60 per cent
is taken by the railroads. If they do
not get it on orders. they confiscate
the cars after they have been shipped
from the mines.
After this 60 per cent is taken out 1t
leaves only 40 per cent and out or
that amount the government needs
| must be met next. All the postofflce
buildings and various other govern
ment establishments, must be fur
nished coal. ard then come the mu-
nicipal plants, such as city buildings,
| electric light plants, waterworks and
| other plants.
The coal dealer, who in turn sup
| plies the ultimate consumer, gets his
coal only after it has run tre gaunt-
Elet of the railroads. government and
municipal plants, and with the short
output of the fields today there is lit
| tie reaching the yards. The shortage
! will be very acute on the occasion of
! the first real cold spell, in the opinion
of Mr.. Carey.
1 Conscience Money to Red Gross
| Mayor E. w. Olson of Hazelton re-
ceived from Ford a check from a man
who said he had overcLarged the
| mayor six years ago in a business
deal and wanted to ease his con-
| science Mayor Olson donated the
money to the local branch of the Red
Cross.
Doctor Drops Dead.-Dr. Newton G.
Davis, widely known physician and
/ examiner for the Kingman draft
board, dropped dead recently at his
home Heart disease was the cause
Doctor Davis came to Kingman from
Indianapolis. He was Mason.
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A Pioneer Kansan Dead.-Hiram w
johnson, pioneer Kansan, formerly
resident Of Horton, is dead at the
home of a daughter in Junction City
He was 76 years old. A widow ano
eight children survive him
, Exhibition Cakes to SoIdiers.-Ai
, the conclusion of a community schoo
| fair at Lancaster, near Atchison, il
/ was decided to send all the twenty
| five cakes on exhibition to Atchisol
, county boys at Camp Funston.
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, DiphtherTa on Train.-Charles Har
ris, years old, and two brothers. An
) tthony and Edward, and IL year:
: did, were taken from a Rock 1slans
: train at Pratt affected with diphtheria
, Doctor Patterson found one boy sui
1 fering with blood poisoning The ca
: was set out and fumigated. The boy
: were travelling alone from San Diego
y | Cal, to Springfield, o., where thei
r father, a United States army officer
resides.
: Big Apple Fire.-Seventeen thou
: sand five hundred bushels of apple
: were destroyed at Parker when tn
: barns and storage houses of the Xii
= larney ranch were swept by fire. Tn
s cause of the fire is not known.
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j, Parsons Has Coal Famine.-A Goa
S famine exists at Parsons and dealer
; hold out no hope for relief. Not
= pound of coal could be bought ther
), recently, the dealers even refusing t
l. book orders, declaring they could no
p learn when they might expect shiI
d ments. The power companies, how
ever. have supply sufficient to las
a few days
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Rabbits Feel War Effect.-The wa
y has hit the price of Kansas rabbit
at Wichita. Produce men paid s
cents a dozen for rabbits a year ag
and the supply exceeded the demand
=
a Shorter Hours Tor Mill Hands.-Tn
t. Leavenworth Milling Company ha
e granted it's men an S-hour day. Her
3 tofore the men have been workin