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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
FILES AN ANSWER
Kansas Natural Denies Right
P. Z. c. to Interfere in Rates.
Says Commission Cannot Con-
troll Charges to Distributors.

In an answer to the petition of the
public utilities commission, the Kan
sas Natural Gas company today de-
clared it was engaged in interstate
traffic and denied the right of the
state to control rates which it charged
distributing companies for gas. The
answer was filed in reply to the state
commissions application to the state
supreme court for an order blocking
the rate increase to local companies.
The producing company in its state
ment today declared that gas pro-
duced in Kansas is intermingled with
gas from the Oklahoma fields which
flows thru mains from that state in
Kansas and Missouri. 1t is denied
that the Kansas utility commission
has authority to regulate or control
affairs of the company.
Facts and Figures Presented.
In its reply the Kansas Natural as
serts that it does not own franchises
in any towns in that state, that its
business is that of a producing COM
pany, and that it sells to the local
companies at the city gates. Facts
and figures are presented in support
of the Kansas Natural assertion that
it does not come under jurisdiction of
state regulatory bodies or state courts.
1t is contended by the Kansas Nat
ural that last year it produced a total
of 11,013,40S 900 cubic feet of natural
gas. OF this supply 7,216,71S. 900 cubic
feet came from wells in Oklahoma.
The Colony, Kan, field produced l.
100000 cubic feet, It is declared.
This field, tho, is failing and the an
swer states that next winter it will
furnish but nominal supply.
OF the production of the Kansas
Natural for use in various cities, As
per cent of the supply is sold in this
state, the pleadings state. The remain
ing 2 per cent is sold in Missouri. 1t
is contended that the state of Kansas
has no authority over the gas trans
ported into or thru the state and can
not regulate or control prices charged
to local distributing companies.
To Hear Case in X. c.
Recently the Kansas Natural noti-
fled distributing companies that be-
ginning with the April readings the
charge at city gates would be in
creased from 35 cents to 40 cents
thousand cubic feet. The Consumers
Light, Heat & Power company, thru
it's receivership, has restrained the
increase in an order signed by Judge
Pollock. The case will be heard in
Kansas City this month Other dis
tributing companies in Kansas now
seek relief in the case in the state
supreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
NEITHER SIDE FOR PEACE.
Proposals Issued TO Quiet Ireland"
Acceptable to No One.

Dublin. May After sitting thru
out Sunday to consider the breakdown
of the Irish peace conference the ex-
ecutive committee of the Irish Ia abor
party issued a statement last night
setting forth the proposals submitted
by the party which were not accepted
by either side.
The proposals suggested that repre-
sentatives of the local authorities and
economic forces should be called into
consultation by the Dali. and a coun-
Gil of state be set up 10 act as the
governme of the country subject %
the Dali as the supreme governing
authority and a council OF state 10
control the army The statement OF
the Labor party says that Archbishop
Byrne stated that the reason why an
unofficial army council was not called
into the conference was that the re-
quest was not unanimous.
The Labor executive committee will
resume the sitting and may issue
later statement defining it's future
course of action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
Federal Supervision Over Stock
Yards Held Constitutional.
packers and Stock Yards Act"
Decided FavOring U. s.
HELD A NATIONAL UTILITY
Dealers Who Buy and Sell
Livestock Are Under Law.
All Such Trades Called Inter-
state Commerce by Court.

Washington, May 1.-The packers
and stock yards act of 1921 was de-
clared constitutional today by the SUI
preme ocrut.
Chief Justice Taft in holding fed
eral control of the stockyards of the
country as directed in the packers and
stock yards act to be constitutional,
declared the yards constitutional a
channel thru which interstate ship
ments of livestock, flowed and further
were great national. public utilities.
Justice McReynolds -disSented without
delivering an opinion and Justice Day
did not participate. ,
Such is Interstate Commerce.
The court, in disposing of cases
brought by James E. Burton and
others representing Chicago traders,
and Stafford Brothers in behalf of the
Chicago commission merchants, de-
clared that commission merchants.
traders and dealers who buy and sell
livestock after its arrival at Chicago
stock yards are engaged in interstate
commerce.
Federal control over the stockyards
of the country, as asserted by con-
gress in the packers and stockyards
act of 1921, was challenged by com.
mission merchants and dealers at the
Chicago stocl1yards who contended in
suits separately instituted by them,
that their business was strictly local
dS commerce ceased. W1en
the livestock in which they deal, was
delivered at the stockyards. The
government insisted. however, that
the law was a legitimate exercise of
the regulatory powers of the federal
government over interstate comm cree.
The two cases were brought in the
United States district court at Chicago
by Stafford Brothers and others for
the commission merchants, and by,
James E. Burton and others for the
traders. 1njunctions were sought to
restrain the government from enforc-
ing, thru the secretary of agriculture
supervision over the stockyards on the
ground that such federal Interference
was unconstitutional. The injunctions
were refused.
Say Law Is "Irksome."
Both the commission merchants
and the traders contended. the law
would be irksome, and would impose
upon them restrictions and publicity
which would materially interfere with
the conduct of their business. The
commission merchants explained that
they were paid by the shippers of
live stock a stipulated commission
charge per head of livestock sold by
them. that tiher compensation was not
dependent upon the price at which the
livestock was sold. and that their
compensation was in no way affected
by the livestock being in whole or in
part an interstate or state shipment.
The traders asserted that they were
further removed from interstate COM
merce than even the commission mer-
chants from whom they made their
purchases. Their business consisted,
they stated. of bidding for livestock
chants at the stockyards, or in the
pens of other ira dPTS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
DEATH OF MRS. MAC LEHMAN

Mrs Frank p. MacLennan. wife of
the editor and publisher of The State
Journal. died at the family home,
1919 Topeka avenue, at 8 o'clock Sat
urday evening.
Mrs. MacLennan had been i'll for
the last four years but her condition
was not considered critical until bron-
chial pneumonia developed suddenly,
Wednesday Her husband and daush- :
ter, Mary were in New Nork and
were called home. They arrived Fri
day morning and were at the bedside
Saturday evening.
The funeral services will be con-
Quoted from the home at 8 o'clock
this afternoon DR. S. S. Estey, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church. will
be in charge Of the services at the
home and the cemetery. Burial in
Topeka cemetery.
The pallbearers this afternoon will
be: Henry Parker. Kansas City, Mo.
Arthur J. Carruth, jr.. William P.
Snyder, L. S. Ferry, Earl Akers and
J. H Lee. all of Topeka.
At the home services Mrs. Henry
J. Dotterweich and Mrs Howard
Searle will sing Lead. Kindly Light
and Abide With Ne"
Mrs. Anna Goddard MacLennan was
born January IS. 1860, near Americus,
Kan. She was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elisha Goddard, who came
to Kansas several years before the
state was admitted to the union. When
Mrs. MacLennan was a child the
family moved to Emporia where she
spent most of her childhood and girl
hood and also where she met Mr..
Emporia and studied music for many
years, taking special training in St
Louis and other cities.
On May %, 1890 she was married
to Frank P. MacLennan and the
couple made their home in Topeka
where Mr.. MacLennan is editor and
publisher of The State Journal.
Mrs. MacLennan was generally re-
spected and loved by friends and ac-
QuafntanceS in Topeka and Kansas.
She was vitality interested and talented
in music and was at all times con-
cerned in religious and welfare ac-
tivities- She was a member of the
Alta Vista club, the Ladies' Music
the Colonial Danes. She was affili-
ated with the First Presbyterian
church in Topeka.
Mrs. MacLennan is survived by her
by her sister, Mrs. E. NJ. Jolley, of
Kansas City, Mo.
The wonderful floral tribute today
indicated the great respect with which
Mrs. MacLennan was held and the
wide bond of sympathy that exists for
the bereaved. The living room of the
home was a solid bank of
these tributes and adjoining rooms
we're lowered with tokens, from sad
dened friends, clubs and organizations.
kilograms of coincidence from all
parts of Kansas and from many parts
Of the United States extended the COM
of friends of the MacLen-
nan family.
Among the out-of-town persons in
Topeka today for the funeral services
are: Mrs. F. P. Lentz. of Argentine,
niece of AIRS. MacLennan; Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Parker. of kansas City,
Mo-, relatives of the family; Mrs. W. J.
Bailey, of Atchison; Mrs. z. NJ. Jolley,
Of Kansas City, a sister and three chill
dren, Caroline, John and Mary Eliza
beth; E. C. MacLennan, of Cascade,
Colo, Frank P. MacLennan's brother,
who arrived Saturday afternoon; Mr..
and Mrs Stanley HARRISON of Kansas
City, Mo, relatives of the family;
Charles NJ. Harger of Abilene and his
Mrs. Ross Parker of Chi
,ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
P. OF P. PRIZE WINNERS

Following are the prize winners in
various guessing contests held in the
Court of Commerce during the
Pageant of Progress:
The Ford coupe. offered to the lucky
holder of an admission ticket by the
Merchants association, was Won by
Clyde W. Miller S11 Buchanan street,
president of the Preferred Fire Insur-
ance company
Payne Shoe company: First prize,
$40 pair of shoes, E. J. Malone, 72S
Clay street; second prize. IS pair of
shoes. James Murphy, S12 Monroe
street: third prize, IS pair of shoes.
Kenneth Hancock, 1927 Arch street.
Gladstone bag awarded to W. S.
Mitchell. 466 Freeman street, holder of
ticket No. 4,IS9.
Viola Beauty Shop contest: Mrs.
ticket for $11 worth of work at the
shop; Mrs J. o. Abrams, 427 Madison
street. So box of powder.
Consumers Light. Heat and Power
company contest: First prize, Toledo
Fireless cooker. p. Z. Halterrnan. 1871
Western avenue, on ticket No. 1855
second prize, ten pounds of Hurley
soap. Mrs J. Brober, 335 Clay street
Apex Electrical Distributing COM
pany contest: First prize. an Apex
can. 619 West Eighth avenue.
Wolff Packing company's contest:
The prize ham was won on the Ia st
night of the Pageant by ]. F. Lager
man, Baker apartments, holder of
ticket No 6,115.
on-Bauer-Austin Hardware
.company's contest: a. r. Bartram
Elmont, Kan, won the $40 in repairs
offered for the closest guess on the
number of Alemite fittings.
Hall Stationery company contest /:
First prize, SIS Eversharp pencil. Mrs
L. c. Herwig. 1917 Laurel avenue:
second prize. $3.50 Eversharp pencil,
Miss Virginia Lee Wilson, 713 Topeka
boulevard: third prize, $3.50 Ever
sharp pencil Mrs. Walter Warlon. 81 4
Ash street; fourth prize. 81 Eversharp
pencil. Mrs William Sager 304 JEFF
ferson street. There were 1902 pencils
in the basket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
ANNUAL ORATORICAL CONTEST
Five Colleges Will Take Part in
Event at Wasbburn.

The annual oratorical contest of the
Women's State OratoricaI association
will be held al macVicar chapel,
Washburn college, tonight, and will
be followed by a business meeting OF
the association.
Coed orators from Washburn col
lege, Fairmount, Friends, Southwest
ern and Sterling will be in the con-
test tonight. Delegates from the
schools named, and also from Nc
Phersoa, Bethany. Kansas State
Normal and Ottawa university, will
attend the annual convention of the
association which will follow the con-
test.
Miss Rebe Whitehair. a pupil of
Prof. Frank J. Kolba ba, of the music
faculty of Washburn, will give a vio-
lin recital before the contest tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
MORE RAIN DUE IN KANSAS
Total Rainfall Up to This Afternoon
Was .26 of an Inch.

Z O'Clock .53t11 O'Clock Sc
s O'Clock .53t12 o'clock 80. 5S
8 O'Clock. SIS / O'Clock -...6
10 O'clock .....55 o'clock. -. .64
Topeka received a rain of .26 of an
inch up to o'clock this Afternoon and
more rain is scheduled for tonight,
SAYS Meteorologist Flora. Chilly and
cloudy weather will prevail Tuesday
but rain is not likely, says the weather
man There will be practically no
chance for frost to occur in Topeka
after this week.
Showers were general over Kan
sas today No rain exceeding
one-half of an inch was reported. The
Kansas river made a rise of one and
one-half feet during the last twenty
four hours 1t is now at the seven
foot stage IN Topeka. The rise was
due to the heavy rains which fell in
lfIonfinnnd IN Page TWo.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
BRITAIN CUrs DowN ExPENsE.
saves Nearly One Billion Dollars Over
Expenses of Last Year.

London, May 1.-The British gov
ernment expenditures for the fiscal
year of 1929 are estimated at 91O,-
O69 900 pounds sterling, which is ap-
proximately 2OO,O00.0O0 pounds ster-
ling less than the expenditures of last
year, according to an outline OF the
new British budget, revealed this af-
ternoon by Sir Robert Horne, chan
cellor of the. exchequer.
The army estimates for the new year
are put at 62,30O.000 pounds and the
navy estimates at 64,SS4, 900 pounds.
The expenditures last year were
about 81, 100000 pounds below the
governments receipts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
RACE TO SAVE \ SHIP CREW.
OIL Tanker Whittier i'm Distress 100
Miles North of Frisco.

Sar Francisco, May In a race TO
save the crew of fifteen or more men,
the coast guard cutter Shawnee was
huIrying early today to the aid of the
Oil tanker Whittier, reported on the
rocks at Point Arena. 100 miles north
OF San Francisco. The Whittier sent
out SOS calls shortly after 9 O'Clock
this morning. Then she was silent
Wireless calls for help found the
Shawnee about seventy miles from
the position given by the Whittier. 1t
was estimated that the coast guard
cutter could not reach the reef for
five or six hours. At daylight no
further word had come from the oil
tanker. It was said the cutter was
the only adjacent vessel that could
get close enough to shore to be of
assistance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
c. OF C. MEMBERS VOTE
New Hotel Takes First Place as To-
peka's Greatest Need.

Next to a new hotel, Topeka. needs
more conventions held here, according
to. the results of the questionable
.ssnt out to the membership of the
Chamber of Commerce last week. The
replies to the questionnaire were tab
ulated by the office force at the
Chamber of Commerce.
The QUESTIONABLE was designated to
take the place of the suggestions made
at the group meetings of the mem
bership held last year. 1t was taken
by postal referendum.
Each member of the chamber was
asked to state what he believed the
organization should do to assist his
own particular business or profession,
and then to name, in order, five ac-
tivities which he thought the Cham
ber of Commerce should engage in
for the general good of the city and
the community surrounding it.
The results We're as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
United States Decides Red
RiUer Government Property
Oklahoma Has Riparian Rights Center of Non-navi-
gable Stream But Texas Can Claim None of Big Strip
Which Lies Boundary Line Between Two States
Which Have Warred Over 1t for Years.

Washington. May 1.-The United
States supreme court today decided
the long standing dispute between the
states of Oklahoma and Texas over
the ownership of the bed of the Red
river. by declaring that the river bed
belongs to the federal government
The river is the boundary line between
the two states for more than 500
miles
The court in a decision a year ago
held that the south bank of the river
constituted the boundary between the
two states but in today's opinion did
not say whether the river bluffs or
the cut bank" was the boundary
The court today held that the ripar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
ARGENTINA WHEAT IS UP.
Crop VIII Exceed Early Estimate
with an Foreign Crops Better.

Washington. May IA Eurnma -
of foreign crop prospects issued yes
terday by the department Of sgricul-
ture indicated that the wheat crop in
Argentina would exceed the early Of
ficial estimate ofs154.sT3.0O 600 busffelss
that in Australia Official estimates
placed production at 154,1S4,o0o
bushels and that in British India the
outlook for the crop in general con-
tinued favorab BILE.
The total winter wheat acrea gs for
1922 for Belgium. Bulgaria Spain.
Finland, France, Letvis. Poland. Ru-
mania. Czecho EIovakia. Canada.
United States. British India, Algeris
nd Tunis was said to aggregate 1o7,-
0OO, 600 acres or Is per cent more
than last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01

ian rights of the claimant holding as
Indian allottees extended only to the
middle of the river and not to the
south hank. but that the south half of
the river belonged TO the United
States This conclusion as to federal
ownership. Justice Vandevanter said.
was binding upon all claimants
Another finding of the court an
nounced today is that the river along
the stretch in controversy is net nav
igable and therefore the bed was un-
der federal Jurisdiction. Justice Van
deFanter said the court rejected the
claims of those interveners which
were based on Oklahoma claim to the
bed of the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
KIRwIN FOR BIG SCHOOLS.
$4,000 Is Voted for the Consolidated
District, 1928

kirwin Kan, May 1.-The board of
directors of the Kirwin consolidated
school voted $40, 600 for the school
budget next year. This will include
the enlarging and improving of the
primary room.
L. F. Campbell was elected director
to succeed. James F. Gray, who has
served in that office several years.
Prof. Roy Parsons was reelected su-
perinteEdent for another year.
Raymond johnson and Paul Platt
won the oratoricaI contest this week
and will represent the school at the
county contest at Long Island next
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
(By the Associated Press.I-

PeklnR, May line Dattle Tor
possession of Peking was still continu
ing today with the advantage appar-
emily going to the forces of General
from the south AdVices from the
center of the fighting. IL miles south
west of the city were that Gen WI
was forcing the soldiers of General
Chang Tso-Lin from Changsintien and
that the tide of battle was rolling
eastward toward the southern wall of
Peking.
Heavy gun fire broke out to the
east of Changsintien early last night
continued internationally until day
break.
Artillery firing in the sector south
of Peking became more intense tow
ard midnight and small part of Cen
eraI Chang Tso-Lins army retreated
toward the southwest walls of the
city.
General WI Pei-Fu's forces ap-
peared 10 be developing their flank
ing movement on Chang's right wing
while the latters troops were defend
ing the Marco Polo bridge across the
Hun river commanding the approach
to Peking
Observers reported that Chang had
seven batteries of three guns eacn,
firing simultaneously with trenches
over the hills along the river six hun
dred yards apart. General WI has
gone from Paoting Flu, his headquar-
ters to Liuliho, to take charge of the
drive on Peking. His forces are using
shrapneI and machine guns.
(Liuliho is on the Peking-Hakow
railway about 35 miles south of Pekng
and 20 miles south of Changsintien on
which General Chang Tso-Lin's right
wing rests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
BUSINESS ON STEADY INCLINE.
Boom Unlikely But Slow and Sure
Recovery Is Predicted.

ate business boom in the United States
is unlikely because of Europe's tardy
economic reconstruction. but funda-
mental conditions are much better and
there is every reason to believe that
they will continue to improve steadily.
tho slowly.
This was the opinion expressed by
officials of the department of COM
merce, basing their predictions on re-
ports of increased production, more
stable prices and larger export trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
Sinclair RUsHEs TO ILL son.
Special Train Carries OIL Man to His
Boys Bedside.

New York, May LIN a special
train from Mexico City by way of San
Antonio, Tex. Harry F Sinclair.
chairman of the Sinclair Consolidated
Oil corporation, today is rushing to
the bedside of his 6-year-old son,
Harry F. Sinclair. Jr.. VINO is seriously
i'll here following an operation for
double masto.ds. The trip may go
down in history as the fastest railroad
run of its kind ever made.
Mr.. Sinclair left Mexico City yester-
day neon and is expected to reach his
home here Thursday morning He
arranged for the special train imme-
diately on hearing of his sons Illness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
RETIREs AFTER 20 YEARS.
Veteran Salesman at Ottawa Behind
Counter So Years Ago.

Ottawa Kan, May II. f. Forbes,
a salesman representing hardware
wholesale houses in Kansas and other
middle western states for twenty-nine
years, announces his retirement on
June I.
In a bulletin which he is sending
out to his customers he recalls he laid
out goods fifty-five years ago when
he was western order clerk in a Bos-
ton store. for two of his present Gus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
HE WAS G. 0. P. FOUNDER
Edmond Abbott West Dies in Chicago
at 80 Years.

Chicago, May 1.-Edmund Abbott
West, one of the founders of the Re
publican party, who celebrated his
9sth birthday anniversary last Friday
died here yesterday.
He was born in Elyria. Ohio, April
%, 1923, and went to Wisconsin. He
served in the state legislature and was
one of the group that held the cele-
bration meeting in Ripon, Wis, at
which it is claimed by some the Re
publican party was born.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
POLITICS IN CIVIL SERVICE?
Charge of Fayoritism Made by Civil
Service Reform League.

New York, May 1.-Ninety out of
ninety-two postmasterships went to
Republicans under the present ad-
ministration altho the appointees were
not first on the civil service list, the
National Civil Service Reform League
declared in a statement issued here.
The league denounced the method
of naming fourth class postmasters
and declared their investigation in 20
states proved that politics is the DOM
mating influence in postmaster ap-
DOfntTuentS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
RAm LINEs oPENED AeAIN.
Fort Worth Now Has Partly Reeov-
cred From Floods Effects.

Fort worth. May For the first
time in a week all rail lines into and
out of Fort Worth are open today fol-
lowing the subsiding Of flooded creeks
and rivers.
The zoe transcontinentai passengers
who spent a week In ranch houses
around AIedo or remained in the ma
rooned cars. were moved out yester-
day and resumed their Journeys west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
Bolt KiIIs Kansas Farmer.

Salina, Kan, May when the
herd of cattle belonging to Ernest
Musseman. Trego county, came into
shelter during a rainstorm Sunday
without Walter Girl, a young man
who had gone out to get them, an
investigation was begun. Girl was
found lying dead in the field, the VIC
tim of a bolt of lightning.