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...natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors in such important centres as the two Kansas Cities, St. Joseph, Joplin, Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and Wichita, are also owned by Cities Service Gas Co. Governor Woodring contends that the wholesale rate of gas sold to Kansas City Gas Co. is 10¢ too high at the present rate of 40¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that lower commodity prices all around should find reflection in lower...
...Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into...
...westward, its terminus called "Turpin." Two years later the B. M. & E. went farther west to Hooker where it crossed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tracks, then on to Hough. This gave it 65 mi. of track. Last year it pressed on another 40 mi. to reach the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks at Keyes...
Died. Rev. Dr. Ozora S. Davis, 64, president emeritus of Chicago Theological Seminary, from 1908 to 1928 its president; of diabetes; on a train near Topeka, Kan., while en route from Los Angeles to Chi-cago...
...House rules as the price of party support. The other seven bolted as a protest against the Longworth leadership which had refused to bring up at the last session oil embargo legislation demanded by independent producers against the big importing companies. Representative-elect Harold McGugin announced from Topeka that he would vote Democratic on House organization- a possibility which would produce a 217-217 tie to be broken by Farmer-Laborite Kvale. Three days later the death of Wisconsin's Republican Henry Allen Cooper, House dean (see p. 34), reduced G. O. P. strength to 217, threatened a hard...