The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
STANDARD IS o. K. IN KANSAS
State Supreme Court Modifies the
Antitrust Decision-Company
Plans to Resume Operations.

The state supreme court has modl
fled its judgment rendered in the anti
trust suit against the Standard Oil
Company six years ago, so that the
Standard Oil Company of Kansas and
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
can engage in the production of oil in
this state. This means a big impetus
to oil production in the Butler county
field
When the antitrust judgment was
rendered the two companies were sub
sidiary concerns of the big Standard
Oil group. Later on they were segre-
gated by the decree of the United
States supreme court and became sep
arate and independent companies.
When a part of the group the Stan
dard of Kansas refined oil and the
| Standard of Indiana marketed it. Nei-
Their was engaged at that time in the
production of oil, so the Kansas SUI
preme court judgment was written in
way that forbade them from ever en-
gagfng in the production of oil. But
since they have become separate con-
Germs, working independently of each
other, and of the parent concern, each
has decided to go into the production
| business. To do so the Kansas de-
cision had to be modified. Application
for such modification was made by the
companies and the court granted it.
The attorney general made no objec-
| ton to the modified order.
Earl Evans, attorney for the two
companies, announced that the two
companies will spend a vast amount of
money in oil development in the new
Kansas oil field.
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Scouts Win Effingham Boy
! Scouts led Kansas in the sale OF Lib
| erty bonds, according to a message re-
ceived by Junior Pittman from J. T.
English of Omaha. AS a reward for
their services, they will receive flag
from the President.
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Killed in Accident-Earl Keist, z6
years old, is dead at Salina as the re-
suit of an accident in which he was
! thrown into a wire fence from a mo-
tor cycle. Charles Weiss was also
seriously injured. He was riding in
the side car of the motor cycle. Keist
leaves a wife and one child.
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Bandaoe Caused Death-Homer
Cooper, Sc years old, was burned to
death at his home in Junction City
| when a leg bandage soaked in tur-
pentine caught fire He is survived
by his mother of that city and Irving
Cooper, a Union Pacific office en-
ploye at Kansas City.
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Kansas Army Officer Dies.-William
! Mitchell, a lieutenant in Company B,
Forty-first infantry, is dead at Fort
Smelling of pneumonia. His mother,
Mrs. John Mitchell, of Lawrence, was
at his bedside.
Victim of Own Gun.-June Dawson
of Elwood. II years old, accidentally
shot and killed himself at st. Joseph,
Mo-, recently as he was taking a shot
gun out of a boat.
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Fair Weather Only ReIief-Fair
weather will be the only thing to keep
Kansas people from suffering until
miners can dig some coal and more
cars are secured in which to haul it,
according to Emerson Carey, state
fuel administrator.
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Injuries Fata! to Woman.-Mrs,
Julia H. Soaring. wife of c. H. Scar
ing, president of the Arkansas City
Milling Company, is dead as the result
of injuries received when she fell and
broke her hip. Mrs. Soaring was 20
years old.
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J Luray Editor Dies.-Ira S. Trevis.
widely known in Central Kansas as
the editor of the Luray Herald, was
found dead in his chair recently. IRE
Wis was an early newspaper man in
Western Kansas, having been connect
. ed with several papers. One son,
George Trevis Of Goodland, survives.
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| Atchison Man Dies in BattIe-Atchi.
son county's first soldier to fall in &C
ton in France was Harry Swendson.
News of his death in France from
wounds received October was -
caived by his relatives recently