The Shamrock Brouge (Shamrock, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 2, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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When In Need of Building Material ftus
Roofing Cement, Auto and Buggy Paint, Kouse and Barn Paint, Wall Board
Certainteed Roofing and Building Paper
“The Old Reliable”
n<M» Long*Bell Lumber (pmpan^ W.H.D™.mp.
FAUGH-A-BLLAUGH DANCE. j Gillespie's attorney’s decide Ellen They attempted to tear down the blaz-
• - Deer s title Is food, the $106,000 re- mg bunting, the clerk sustaining sev-
TUiere may be social events and mains In escrow and If It is proven ere bums to his hands in his efforts
dances in the future Just as good but Ellen's title is not good the money Although they had a hand flre-ex-
CHOtTAWS CLAIM MILLION'S.
there will never be one better than
the reception and dance given by the
Faugh-A-Ballaugl.i Club at Cain's Ac-
ademy Tuesday night. It was the
maiden effort of the new social organ-
ization and as entertainers the boys
surpassed themselves. The dance has
•been the talk of the town ever since.
While no effort was made to make
the occasion an ultra-exclusive one,
literally only the best people in Sham-
rock were there and it was a tine,
congenial, happy crowd. Everybody
had the best kind of a time and there
was not a single incident to mar a
wonderfully pleasant and happy even-
ing. f
The boys 'must have si>ent many
laborious hours and spared no ex-
pense to transform the hall into the
bower of attractive and tasteful dec-
oration which greeted the guests as
soon as they entered the hall. The
color scheme of decoration was green
an,i white. Festoons of streamers t.ung
from the central beam of the hall,
completely hiding the ceiling, the side
walls were covered wi0.i streamers of
the same colors, and the ensemble
was completed with a profusion of
wiri-colored autumn leaves which
added Just tne proper touch of color.
The decorations made a beautiful set-
is returned to the bidder. The price tinguisher m Che atore they were
I’lLRUt-IOIlDll E DILL Hl'U.D. that Black was within a few feet of
- The completion of the contemplated him at the time of the explosion. Mrs.
Victor M. Locke, governor of the i*',H *’ne I’lwce-Kordyce inter- Black has four children, two of them
Choctaw nation, will present a claim 08,8> connecting the Shamrock-4 ush- minors, the petition says.
is the largest ever paid for an unde-
veloped lease in that section of the
country.
POSTPONE “HHAFFER" HEARING
The adherents of the movement
to create the new county of Shaffer I fire out before it made any headway.
feeling
evidently panic stricken and made no
effort to use it. Fred Cook and Don
Churchill ran across with extinguish-
ers from the Newton Hardware com-
pany stock and with Denny Cawley
assisting they succeeded in getting tibe
would appear to be not much further
along in their efforts to have Gover-
nor Williams call a special election
for the purpose of taking a vote on
rhe .proposition. The Ibeutyng Ihas
again been posponed, this time until
December 19 at which time it is hoped
to get the final decision of the gov-
ernor on the matter.
An adjourned meeting was held in
the ^tvernoifVs office jat .Oklahoma
Citr last Monday at which time there
was a further continuance, the gover-
nor stating that he wished to hear
that was subsequently appropriated
by the United States government and
not paid for. It has since been home-
steaded. The present value of the
land reaches an enormous sum.
Another per capita payment will be
asked for on beihalf of the Choctaws,
out of tribal funds now in the hands
of the secretary of the interior. Thru
' he efforts of the Locke administration
i payment of $300 per capita, total-
ling for the man*., handsome gowns (in; $9,000,000 was distributed last
of the lidies. ! spring. It w as the first payment of
The music furnished by the Tulsa the kind in 14 years. In this connec-
orchestru was all that could be dc-
fc*rod. A buffet collation was served
there was a punch of ambrosial qual-
ity which one dreams of but seldom
realizes. Other creature comforts too
numerous to mention, including an
abundance of cigars and cigarettes
for tho gentlemen, all placed at the
disposal of the guests. The generous
hospitality of the club was a quality
seldom met up with.
The dance and reception was the
most enjoyable and pleasing social af-
iair ever attempted in Shamrock
Much credit is due the officers and ex-
ecutive committee of the club for the
manner m which the affair was plan-
ned and carried out. The Faugh-A-
Ballaugh Club promises more of t.;e
same kind and they will be eagerly
awaited by Shamrock folk-
The officers of the club are as 01-
lows:
President—P. B. Cawley.
First Vice-President—J. K. Kuhns
Second Vi we-President—R.G.Lavery
Third Vice-President—John A
Cooney.
Trejpurcr—pDennls Cawley.
General Counsel—Charles Conley.
Executive t’omlttee—P.. B. Cawley.
J. VV Kuhns and R. G. Lavery.
GILLESPIE MAKES PURCHASE.
Frank A. Gllllespie of Tulsa paid
the record price of $106,000 in the
county court in Muskogee for a lease
upon a three-quarter undivided In-
terest in the entire south half of sec-
tion 2-15-14, 320 acres on the extreme
northern edge of t/he Raldhill Held and
six miles west of Haskell. ,
The land involved is the inherited
interests of Ellen Deer, a minor, 15
'.ears of age. It is in the northeast
corner of the northwest of this same
section that Pinestorm & Stanberry
and others brought in & big well last
Sunday. This well is Just a half
mile from the center of the north line
of the acreage involved. Offsetting It
to the east is a well recently drilled
in by J. W. Moore and the purchaser
of the Ellen Deer interest and other
interests Involved must drill an off-
set to this Moore well at once.
Gillespie has now to recon with
Berney McBride, who carries a life
estate in the land, and also with Bar-
ney Taylor, a claimant of an undivid-
ed one-fourth, Interest in the acreage
The Barney Taylor Interest Is adver-
tised for sale In the Okmulgee county
court Saturday.
In the meantime, there Is a suit in
tion it is an interesting fact that the
Cohoe taw nation has not lost a legal
battle in six years.
The fight of the Mississippi Choc-
taws and so-called court claimants to
reopen he citizenship rolls of t/ie
0 octaw nation is to be renewed at
this session of congress," said Mr.
Hurley yesterday. “We will resist
them as firmly as ever."
Mr. Hurley expressed the opinion
jiat more matters affecting the in-
ercst-s and welfares of the Choctaw
There was considerable
against the photographers who have
no interests here to protect, whose
sole purpose in coming here was to
take away what Shamrock money
they could grab off in their business,
and whose carelessness very nearly
caused a fire which would i>osslbly
have wiped out a whole section of t)!ie
town.
NEW ELECTRIC MANAGER.
Dave Williams, the theatrical man-
ager of Drumright. who ra-emly pur-
chased the Electric Theater, was iu
town Wednesday arranging for his
first show, tomorrow night. Manager
Williams took over the show house
December 1. He Is a live manager
and knows the theatrical game and
will undoubtedly give Shamrock a
much better line of shows than have
been presented at it»e Electric here-
tofore. Mr. Williams still retains the
management of the Majestic and Pds-
time Theaters in Drumright.
runutng into millions of dollars at
the forthcoming session of congress,
according to P. J. Hurley of Tulsa,
national attorney for the Choctaws,
wlho returned from a conference of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
Mr. Hurley leaves for Washington to
assist Governor l.t>cke in many
weights- legislative matters of import-
ance to the Choctaw people that are
to come before I'ongress.
It is the contention of Governor
Locke that the Choctaws originally
owned a tract in western Oklahoma
consisting of five million acres and
more on the general movement for
tae new county.
iug field with the refinery at Fort
Worth, Texas, will greatly strengthen
the market as it is the intention of
these interests to purchase the oil us
common purchasers and to use the line
as a common carrier. The line will he
of 8-inch pipe and will be 100 miles in
length.
OIL PREMIUM TAXED.
With n premium of between 55 and
60 cents being offered for Cushing and
Shamrock crude a recent letter from
State Auditor E. U. Howard to the oil
producers is of the greatest interest.
The letter is in regard to the position
A party of officials of the Pierce 0f the state with reference to the pay-
intcrests, including General Manager jng of the gross production tax on oil
that is selling above tho “posted mar-
ket price." Many producers have be-
lieved that they only bad to pay tho
gross production tax. on the bafts of
the market price, regardless of what
premium they received.
The state auditor takes the position
that the law requlrea'the tax to be paid
Thomas White of Tulsa. H. C. Pierce
of St. Louis, chairman of the board,
C. A. Pierce, president, and (’. W. Ca-
hoon. manager of the refinery at Ftort
Worth, were in the field this week
looking over the situation. They went
front here to the Healdton field, thence
In the amount actually received for the
oil, which in the case of some of the
to the company's refinery at Fort
Several legal points were brought, Worth. and ^ lat(or ,,art of fhe Week
up at Monday s meeting chief among I visiting the company's refinery at
them being the right of . person who|-pexgj, Th„ „ar,y '■? ZTZ ’L'ZZ.I™
had signed a petition to withdraw his j Meric test at Leon, Isove county, which would be as much as 60 cents above
name- The fact tha: such a question j8 drilling at 850 feet in section 13-7-2,
arises in connection with the Pru 'and will be drilled in within the next
iwsed Shaffer county petition is taken few days.
indicative of considerable activity on | ____ _
REST EQUIPPED LUSE.
A sojoumer, who has beea looking
over the Mid-Continent field and Js
well qualified to pass an opinion on
this question, says that the best equ-
ipped lease in the Mid-Continent is
that of the Cosden Oil and Gas com-
pany in the Shamrock field. He is
enthusiastic because of the fad that
electricity is used for pumping u
well as lighting his big lease and Is
icople would come up -in Washington | strong for t ie system, used in deter-
mining sand depths and the proper
place to case. "It will take at least
two years to drill up this property.”
'# tho way he puts it, "although there
are seventeen or eighteen strings of
tools running at present."
The fact is. the Cosden Oil and Gas
company own 13,000 barrels daily of
the 90.001) barrels produced in the
Cushing field, all of which is worth
in the neighborhood of $1.50 per bar-
rel on account of the excessive prem-
The company owns much of
.during the next six months than dur-
ing any other similar period in a de-
cade.
ANOTHER RIG DEAL.
Right on top of the purchase of the
'production lot Gunsbk'rg and the
3 utliwcstern Petroleum company in
Oklahoma comes the announcement
hat tihe Ohio Cities Gas compai.*,- has
also purchased two of the best re-
fineries in Oklahoma- They are the
International Refinery at Cushing and imns.
the Ardmore Reflninlng company at
Ardmore. The price paid is said to
he $2,250,000. This purchase brings
the total investment of B. G. Dawes
and associates in Oklahoma to over
$7,000,000 as they paid aroun
15.000.000 for the producing proper-
tlea.
These two refineries in which Guns-
berg and Foreman own a large inter-
est were optioned some time ago by
the Armstrong crowd to a banking
house In New York. Then t)!ie Ohio
Cities Gas company began a deal to
purchase the Gunsberg and South
western production. They also want-
l
ed the refineries. A deal was made
whereby the New York banker
turned their option to Dawes and the
deal has now been practically closed.
The Ardmore Refining company lo-
cated at Ardmore has a dally capacity
of about 6,000 barrels a day and the
International plant at Cushing can
handle 3.000 barrels a day.
SERIOUS BLAZE THREATENED.
Two Itinerant photographers, who
were "working" Shamrock, Wednes
day. caused a fire in tihe Farris Dry
Goods Store which, but for the prompt
and effective work of the fire chief
Frew Cook. Don Churchill and Dennr
Cawley, would undoubtedly have
reached serious proportions and
might have developed Into a confla-
gration.
While taking a flashlight of the in-
terior of the store, some edvertlslng
Okmulgee county to determine the ex-’bunting caught (Ire from the blaze In
act status of all claimants and until the flash pan. Mrs. Farris and the
this case is settled or that time when ‘ olerk, Eddie, were alone in the store.
the stuff in fee which helps a lot- It
has a total of 20,400 barrels daily pro-
duction, which is going some these
daps when everybody knows that oil
is going to be worth a lot more In
the near future.
SUPERIOR COURT BILL.
When the legislature convenes a
bill will be Introduced to create a
superior court In Creek county, with
alternative terms at Sapulpa and
Drumright. The bill will be intro-
duced by Representative-elect W. L.
Cheatham. I.t Is felt that the large
population of the oil fields in the west
side of the .aunty and the inacessabh-
Ity of Shamrock, Drumright and Oil-
ton to the county scat should be taken
into consideration when the bill ia
up for consideration. It is argued
that It is only fair to thla side of the
country that such a court should be
created and *n effort will be made to
push the bill through 1n spite of op-
position which It is feared may crop
up.
both side* of the proposition. Gov-I
ernor Williams may render his final!
decision the matter when it conms up
on tbn proposed date.
AIL PIKE EXTINGUISHER.
A SALE.
1 in I’ort Arthur, Texas, was extinguish-
ed within 30 minutes by using carbon-
dioxide foam, according to the Dec-
Another big eastern concern has ember Popular Mechanics Magazine,
entered the Mid-Continent field This is said to be the first working
through the purchase by the Ohio fit-! demonstration in that section of the
ies Gas company of the production of country, in which this foam was used
Gunsberg and the Southwestern Oil to put out oil fires. Certainly It is a
company for a consideration of about. very striking example or the effective-
$5,000,000- The production is between ness of the method. The fire was
3,000 and 6,0*10 barrels. The purchase j started by a stroke of lightning which
does not include tho refineries at 1 struck one of the oil tanks. An explo-
L'usliinng or Ardmore, althougG it is sion followed and presently three
rumored that these have been sold to i tanks containing all told 1,500,000 gal-
two eom-erns in New York. The pro- l°ns of refined gasoline and gasoline
duction involved includes about 2.- distillate, were ablaze. AH the pipes,
non barrels at Cushing, 2,000 at Heuld- lankB and conduits on the place had
ton and some scattered production at been equipped with foam-making ap-
Hamilton Switch and Nowata. The Paratus and the flames were put out
tho market price of 90 cents.
The Sapulpa Refining company will
pay a premium of 55 1-2 cents a bar-
rel for Cushing oil as the result o$ the
auction sale of the Sarah Rector roy-
alty at auction in Muskogee last Sat-
A recent oil fire, w-hich threatened urday. The gtfardi&n for Sarah Rec-
great quantities of gasoline on the tor was seeking to obtain the highest
premises of a big refining company j price possible for the oil and so Invited
public bids for the 160 barrels a day.
The Twin State Oil company offered
a premium of 55 cents and the Sapulpa
Refining company topped its bid one-
half cent per barrel.
SINCLAIR BUYS GRKIS STUFK.
Following Its evident policy of buy-
ing production wherever it is avail-
able, the Sinclair Oil & Gas company
has purchased from H. N. Orels, eighty
acres in the north half or the northeast
of section 21-17-13, The eighty acres
contains four producing wells with a
daily production of 200 barrels. Tho
price paid 'tis said to be $75,000.
ARREST ALL Fa ED TRAIN RAH-
BEHS.
...CREEK COUNTY’S CORONER.
Creek county now has a coroner In
the person of Dr. Amos Avery of
Sapulpa. He was elected at the last
election and will assume the duties of
his office as noon as hln bond hns been
furnished and approved. Dr. Avery
haa been health officer of the Cite; of
Sapulpa and han resigned that posi-
tion to avume the duties of his new
office.
DENIES REPORTED SALK.
That the Oklahoma l’roducing and
Ohio Cities company is headed by B. in ,088 than hair an hour. In many. J Refining company has an option on
G. Wawes of Chicago. ,ir not *n a majority of oil fires, the the properties of the Monitor Oil &
loss is fifty per cent or more, while Ges company, is denied by Homer M.
here it was less than one-hair of one Preston, president of the latter com-
per cent of the value Involved. pany. Mr. Preston's statement would
----------indicate that there has never been any
MUM ON'TIN'LN’T PRODI CTION ground for such a rumor.
Federal deputy marchals. assisted The apparent estimated production At the present time, however, there
by Purcell city Mice, working on of the fields of the Mid-Continent at is more dealing and trading going on
clues which they had been following the close of the paHt week was as fol- for oil producing properties and re-
fer several weeks, early this week lows: Caddo, 25,460 barrels; Klectra. fineries than ever in the history of the
went Into a hotel at Purcell and ar- 25.000 barrels; Corsicana light and J Industry. Many big deals now corn-
rested Joe Davis, W. F. Wells. John Thrall, 1,300 barrels; Kansas, 70,ooo 1 pitted are known to be under negotla-
Brogan. John Courtney and Lula Cobh, barrels; Oklahoma, outside of Cush- tion. At the present time there Is
Lula Cobb is the woman for whom ing, Healdton and Shamrock. 119,200! practically only one large producing
federal officers have been searching barrels: Cushing and Shamrock 93.750 property In the Mid-Continent field
far and wide for two months. The barrels; Hi'aldton, 60.000 barrels: tot- which is not rumored to be In the posl-
otficcrs believe she is the ringleader ®1 394,910. The estimated dally produc- Mon or being negotiated for, which is
of a band of train robbers whose op- ,ion heavy-gravity oil In the Gulf the C. B. Shaffer production of about
erutiOns extend from California to (’oa8t Acid was 53,000 barrels; Cor- 7,000 barrels. Practically all of the
Oklahoma. Since the holdup of an alcana heavy, 500 barrels.—Oil and Gas other large producing propefties have
El Paso and Southwestern train at Journal. been taken over by one or the other
Apache. Arlz, September 6, when --——- of the big combinations.
robbers secured a large amount of1 HEAVY DAMAGE SUIT,
money from the wail and express
cars, detectives and government of-
ficers have been making every effort
to locate Lula Cobb. It is believed
WILL NOT INITIATE NEW LAWS.
Senator Campbell Russell announces
that he will not be able to Initiate
either his bill to vitalize the section of
the constitution known us 12-A or the
new gross production tax against oil
production. The petitions have been
An aftermath of the tragedy enacted
In the Cushing field In the fall of last
year, when two men lost their lives In
that she is the directing genius of an an t>xPl°aion of nitro-glycerine, Is the
'organization which is alleged to have 8u*t ^or dantaBfca of $25,000 filed In the
as its purpose the holding up and rob- J’nl,ad States District Court at Mus-
bery of mail and express trains. kogee against the Independent Tor-
Joe Davis, for whom federal offi- pedo Company. In the suit Mrs. Mary circulated for the ninety days allowed
clals have been looking for several l,lack ftlle*C8 lhat ** Hayc8. •»- by law and ar* insufficient slg-
n.onths la said to be wanted In con-'ploJ1ye °f thP company' waR negligent natures to make them the basis for an
nection with the recent holdup of the fnd ca"1?8" ,n httnd,,n* nltro-gylccr- election. The time on the 12-A meas-
Atchlson, Topckt and Santa Fe train ln° ^ ^ lMlvai of |,ack,n* Ra,ul ,,pre explred Novembcr on
at Bliss, Okla., several weeks ago. Joe Tmt „ u ,0n Wh°n he 8tarted ,he Rros8 productlon mea8Ure' Nov-
to fill It, he set cases of dynamite all 1 ember 21.
about It and as a result her husband j Senator Russell has been the most
mi _ . . .Alvin H. Black, was killed in the active agitator of initiated laws and
L Hn" :rl*ht:°.r:iag0| ° ’cxploslon- • amendments to the state constitution
rt *1,... a I,a l*pr hushand was working as super-*under the initiative provisions of the
in h mi C Rf th » u ln,pndpnt a drilling gang, was 4*5 constitution. He Is now a member of
ic io ng up o « ay m .years old earning a salary of $175 a the corporation commission and It Is
ear napa ne,ar y roe >ear8 a*0< I month and had bright prospects of ad- expected that his activity In Initiating
Their appeals are now pending before! vanc,mont whcn he met hl„ dt,Rth on
November 20, 1915, the petition sets
and Jack Davis, with Buck Iiurdolf
and "Red" Worthman, were convicted
the United States circuit court. Until1
about sixteen months ago. Joe Davis
was In the federal jail, but his release
on bond was finally secured. Since
that time, officers say. hts where-
abouts has been unknown <o them'
It Is said that thoae arrested will
be grilled In the matter of other train
holdups which have occurred In Okla-
homa during the past two years.
forth. He was working for the Quak-
er Oil and Gas company on Its lease
on the Jeanette Richards farm In
Creek eounty at the time.
The petition aaserts that tho Inde-
pendent Torpedo company ia respon-
sible for the carelessness of its em-
ploye. While the petition does not
mention what became of Hayes It says
laVs may elapse for a time, as the
duties of the new office are manifold
and the relation of Senator Russell to
the voters will he different of that of
a memMr of the legislature which has
been his office in the past while he
was Initiating laws.
0. what a tangled web we weave.
When first we practice to deceive!
—Scott.
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