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Show STATE OIL REFINERY, Kansas to Engage in Competition With Standard Oil. TOPEKA. Kan., Feb. 7. -The Kansus Senate, sitting as a committee of the whole, today recommended for passage the bill providing for the establishment of a Slate oil refinery at a cost of $110 000 The bill will pass tho Senate tomorrow' morning and will then bo submitted to the House. The friends of tho measure claim a majority for It In the House. A number of members of the House, hitherto hith-erto regarded aa supporters of the refinery scheme, havo como out against It its passage, therefore, is not nt all certain. The Standard Oil company has a powerful power-ful lobby here. |