Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-18
KANSAS TAKES
 1 CONTROL OF 150 MINE PROPERTIES
.overnor Expects to Have Them Operating Under Receiver
 ship By End of Week.
prcEJVERS' CONTROL
 IS NEARLY ABSOLUTE
c.n Fix Prices, Arrange for Produc- tion. and It's Sale and Distribution
 Fair Pay for Workers Promised.

Topeka, Kans., Nov. 17.-The
 Iarge coal mining properties of
 Crawford and Cherokee counties this
 evening passed into control of the
 state of Kansas when the state su-
 nreme court issued orders and named
 Receivers for the properties. The &C., lion followed the filing of quo war
 rant to proceedings by Attorney Gen.
 eral Richard J. Hopkins to bring
 about the receivership.
 The states petition suggested the
 names of three men for receivers and
 the court appointed them. The re- |ceiyers are: Mayor Clarence D. Sam Eple. of Ft. Scott, representing the
 public; Willard Titus, of Girard, q
 coal miner, representing the men;
 and c. R. Spencer, of Pittsburg, pres
 ident of the Pittsburg- Midway Min Hing company, representing the oper- tators.
 Action of state officials, it became
 known, was taken after the opera. Itors had declined to have anything i to do with the appointment of receiv- l CTS or to suggest the name of their 1 Representative.
 The court order affects approxi- mately 150 mines in the Pittsburgh l Edistrict, it was stated by state off l cials which comprise about 95 per l cent of the coal producing interests l of the state. The average daily pro- duction of the mines affected is said l to be 36,000 tons. Under the receiv- ership Governor Allen hopes to have I the mines in operation by the end of the week. Judge Crawford, state commissioner of labor. has suggested to the governor that miners be ask ed to work on an eight hour day bas- is with Saturday afternoons off dur ling the emergency.
 Give Fair Wages. Under the order issued by the su- |preme court the receivers have full control of the mine and mining prop critics. They can fix wages, get out the coal, arrange for it's sale and dis tribution. The court order provides that the receivers:
 Are instructed to take immediate possession of all of said property and to operate said mines and produce and distribute and sell within the state of Kansas, all coal possible a5 once. And for said purpose said re- celvers are empowered and directed to employ all lapor or necessary agents and make all construction necessary. Said receivers, before en- terlng upon their duties, shall exe- cute their bonds in the sum of $25,- 900 each"
 Petals of the handling of the mi9es are to be left largely to the receivers. Governor Allen stated be- fore leaving for the coal fields, where ne expects to spend several days. His instructions to the receivers, it was state, simply are to pro- duce maximum amount of coal and to do it at once. He will check the matter to the miners as a call on them from the people of the state, he said, who will suffer if they do not go to work.
 In the matter of wages, the state can promise that the miners will get 1alr wage" the governor said. "I al. am hopeful of having the co-opera- tlon of both the miners and the oper- ators; That is why I am going to the fields myself for this week."
 J. l. Sheppard. of Ft. Scott. att torney for the miners. promised the governor, it was stated, that he would accompany him on his trip ana use his influence in having the recelvership plan approved by the