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THE WEEKLY EXAMINER.
VOLUME XII.
BARTLESVILLE, INDIAN TERRITORY, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1900.-EIGHT PAGES.
NUMBER 13.
BROKE ALL RECORDS
ii It EAT EST JVBIF PRODUCTION IN A
MONTH'S FIELD HISTOK T.
7-27-18 Marietta company, Susan Klk-
hair, M
1H-27-18 John A Steel, Nannie Wil-
liams, 2
N-27-18 Wllhlte A Co., W. Smith, 4
s-27 18 Barnsdall* Weber,8. Williams
7-H
10-27-18 T. N. Barnsdall. H. 1>. Adams,2
| 27-27-18 Johnstone company, Kay Shall-
Gushers in the Itic Pools Were Many
and L(r(e,-Mora Weill Completed and
Drilling Than at Any Former Time.—
A Complete Summary.
Copyrighted By The Examiner Company.
A compilation of figures obtained
for the oil report covering the month
of May is almost startling in its im-
port. Never in tbe history of the Ter-
ritory field has; there been such an
increase in new production nor so
many wells completed- As compared
with April there is almost double the
new production and the end is not in
sight. When the Weber pool was op-
ened up east of Dewey it was confi-
dently asserted that this was the most
prolific oil body that would be found
in the Cherokee or any other adjacent
territory, yet, with scarcely six
months having passed since the bring-
ing in of the first well in the Weber
group, two more pools have been un-
earthed, each giving promise of being
even more prolific. A glance at the
figures obtained from conservative es
timates and actual gauges for the
wells finished in the territory in sec-
tions 2, 3 and 11, northeast of Copan
and still further north, near the Ca-
nary pool will give some idea of what
ha9 caused this increase. One well,
that of the Copan company on the
Matilda Sanders allotment did more
than 2,000 barrels during the first
twenty-four hours and has been en-
tered in this report at 600 barrels,
while two others for the same compa-
ny and an old gas well that was drilled
into the Bartlesville sand did better
than 600 barrels each during the
twenty-four hours following the shot.
Smith & Irvin, Munger & Campbell,
Charles Owen, Jacob Bartles and oth-
ers have exceedingly large wells in
tbe same vicinity and every person or
corporation holding approved leases
in this pool is drilling or rigging up
bnd some wonderful results can be
confidently expected during June. In
the Weber pool other large wells came
in, doing from 100 to 600 barrels each,
while in the forks of Caney and south
to Bartlesville along the Osage line
have been developed wells of more than
ordinary capacity.
A partial resumption of work in the
Osage has caused a number of big
wells to be brought In, but there have
been no discoveries of extreme im-
portance in the reservation. In Cleve-
land and the district immediately sur-
rounding operations amount to prac-
tically nil. Occasionally a well is
brought in but Cleveland as an oil
center is now almost ancient history,
where a year ago it vied with Bartles-
ville as a center. Unlike Bartlesville,
however, there was but little develop-
ment aside from the town lots. Hund-
reds of thousands of dollars have been
expended by operators in an attempt
to find the "outlet" or an extension,
but hope is fast departing.
With a brilliance thatis almost daz-
zling, looms up the operations in the
Creek nation, in the Glenn pool. The
wells on the Glenn farm are still pro-
ducing heavily while gradually the
operators are extending the limits.
The high grade of the oil causes an
assurance that it will be well taken
care of by the pipeline companies and
this has stimulated operations. Ap-
provals on leases are being pushed
and before three months have passed
rigs between Mounds and Sapulpa will
be as common as along some portions
of the Osage-Cherokee line. There
will be some bitter experiences before
the limits of the district are defined,
butthatisone of the characteristics
of the oil business, lucky wben you
strike It and unlucky when you drill
In dusters.
In the shallow sand district of the
Cherokee there were an even 244 wells
finished, breaking all previous records
by twenty-two. According to the best
figures obtainable there are ninety-
six rigs at work In the field and by
working steadily they will finish a
well on the average of every four and
a half days, which shows the possibil-
ities of future record fracturing. Be-
low i-< a summary of the month, as
compared with April of this year:
er,2
7-21-18 m Big Injun company, chancy.2 dry
7-27-18 Howe company, Hildebrand, 8 SO
17-21-18 Commercial Oil and Lumber
company. James Tucker, 1 ■•••■ «*>
27-27-18 Barnsdall A- Weber. Etta Mode,
5,
. 300
IN EASTERN FIELDS-
THE INDIANA AND NORTH HESTERS
OHIO DISTRICTS LOOKINd VH.
17-21-18 Commercial Oil and Lumber
company. Quaty Tyner, I dry
7-24-14 Roth, Argue A Malre, Tyner, 1. gas
2-28-18 Charles Owen. Martha Norris.
5 gas
14-29-12 Charles Owen, Leo Johnson, 1 dry
2-28-18 Jacob Bartles, John Kalleaf, 4 k200
1 20-18 Kansas Prospecting anil Devel-
opment company, Ingram, 1 dry
TN-27-18 J. E. F. McGee, S Williams, f So
18-27-18 St. Louis Investment compa v,
J. N. Kequa,8 40
21-28-18 Sheets Brothers, 1 #0
22-28-18 Kansas Natural (las company, 4 gas
86-20-12 Douglas, Lacey A Co., James
Neal. 1 gas
27-28-18 R. M. Snyder, Susie Beam, 1 .. gas
22-27-14 Eugene Curry, Shade, 1 10
25-2ft-12 Fullerton company, M. Arm-
i strong, 1 «'ry
27-27-18 Cln#o company. I va Shaller. 5 250
81-28-12 Parsons company. 1 40
1-26-12 Curl & Gates, Morton, 4 *0
86-22-12 Jones company, 1 50
5-28-14 Stubbs <& Low, Kalleaf, 1 dry
18-26-12 Johnstone 4 Johnstone, Bixler
1 50
29-28-18 Steven Markham, 1 80
21-28-18 Georgia company. Coombs. 1
24-21-12 Prairie company, Mary Walk
er, 1 dry
2-26-12 Delaware-Cherokee company.
W. K. Rogers, 2
82-SH-18 Charles Livingston, Dabney, 2 dry
18-2,-12 Manufacturer's company,Btubb
■ Low, 2
14-27-12 Howe company, Hildebrand,6. 40
4-27-18 Eastern company, Fannie Need-
ham, 1 SO
4-27-18 Welch Brothers, Valentine
Need ham, 1 50
7-27-18 Owing, McOully A McPeck, Su-
san Elkhalr, 8 50
14-25-12 Southern company, Shufelt, 3 gas
19-26-18 Katy company. 2 dry
1N-24-11 Henry company, Hummingbird
1 gas
85-28-13 R M. Snyder, JohnGrlffln, 1 dry
81-28-18 Royal Victor company, 1, 45
82-28-13 Moser company, James N.
Thompson, 1 60
18-27-13 W. B. Chapman, 2-8-5 90
25-27-12 American company, Jonas
Swannock. 7 <8
25-27-12 Newton company. Eaton, 2 50
18-27-13 Sagamore company, .L. White-
turkey. 14-16 100
18-27-13 T. N. Barnsdall, R.C.Adams, 5. 50
32-28-13 John A. Steel, Job Parker, 1
7-27-13 Marietta company. Sarah Klk-
hair, 1
27-27-13 Barnsdall & Weber, Ktta Mode,
14
. 250
33-27-18 Barnsdall 4 Weber, (i. Coney, 4 05
17-27-18 J. E. F McGee. 8. Williams,6 .
17-27-18 Barnsdall & Weber, Denny
Whlteturkey. 7
6-27-13 C. S. Matson, Brown,5
18-27-13 Barnsdall dt McMahon. GHstrap,
4 «0
27-27-13 Johnstone A Co., Ray Shaller, 8. am
8-27-13 Barnsdall A Weber, S.Williams. 4(i
33-27 13 Barnsdall A Weber,T. Knight, 3 OS
7-27-13 J. K.F. MeGee.Llllie Williams,4 4<
11-28-13 MungerA Campbell. Faileaf, 2 . lot
2,28,13 Copan company. E. Hall, 10 154
2,28,18 Smith A Irvin, Coombs, 3. ..... ISC
1h, 29, 14 New York, company, J. H.
Canary, 1 SO
24.27,18 American National Bank, A.
Dabney, 2 30
14,27,12 Stubbs & low, J. H. Bartles, 1 25
25,28, 12 Parsons company, Mantle Rose,
I dry
19,29,14 J. M. Oudahy, Calvin Martin. 1 125
6.27.13 Collis company, C. Chandler, 4 SO
18,27,12 Meridian company, R. Daugh-
erty, .1 26
13.26.12 Sagamore company, Buford, 4 . 20
24,27, 12 Shertzer&Co., Stubbs, 2 40
18, 27,13 J. A. Steel. R. C. Adams, 3 30
33.27.13 Wllhite company, Weber, 4 dry
80, 27, 14 Test company,Laura Barnett, 1 dry
27,27,13 (i. B. Snyder, J. H. Deal. 3 50
22, 27, 14 R. M. Snyder, Emmett Lowery
1 *o
12,21,18 Creek-Indiana company, Chis-
holm, 1 gas
5, 20,18 Savoy company, FJossle Eng-
land. 2
14, 21, 12 Savoy company, Mary Turley 2
7.25.14 Kanawha company, Ander-
son, 1
7-27-18 Judge Barlow. 1
Robinson and Casey Attracting Atten-
tion.— Pipelines Building Into Egypt.
—Standard Leaving Lima for Shallow
Sand Ilegion of Suckerdom.
Examiner Special Correspondence.
Lima, Ohio, May 28.—Operations
afield throughout the high-grade crude
oil districts of the country present
little change from the past month and
no excitement is in evidence among
operators, save for that which has
been created by the new Robinson
and Casey fields of Southern Illinois.
The developments in Crawford and
Clark counties have reached such a
stage as to predict for Illinois that it
will become a great operating field,
for a high-grade product has been
found in shallow sand drilling, mak-
ing drilling much less expensive than
in the gusher territory of Indian Ter-
ritory, or in the older and higher
price fields of the eastern states.
The Standard has early recognized
the extent to which the developments
may exteud and is fast penetrating the
field with its pipe lines, which have
been placed under the name of The
Ohio Oil company, general headquar
tersfor the purchasing, pipe line and
producing branches having been op-
ened at Casey, and superintendents,
heads of departments and a clerical
force transferred from this city
there.
The sensation of the past week in
the Illinois districts was the drilling
in of a producer in Lawrence county
far in advance of past developments
and opening up a wide range of new
territory, while the Shire pool
Crawford county continues to be of
general interest, and the large number
of central western operators who are
interested are sanguine of the new
district's future. The Standard has
established a market for the llllDois
product of 83c
In the high-grade fields of the cen
tral west the past week Indiana takes
a prominent place, its production
shoeing a big increase, along with
the appearance of gushers in the Jay,
Delaware and Randolph county fields
The summary of the week, however,
shows an increase in failures through
out the high-grade fields, though
slight increase in the average well for
the week. The new work was distrib-
uted over the fields as follows, with
initial production and failure noted
Wells Prod. Dry
registered mail, a completed checking
system having been devised by which
the person signing for the letters will
have to receipt for a certain patent
which is that to the land to which the
pateut is addressed. It costs 8 cents
to register each of these patents.
There will be 45,000 to deliver in the
Cherokee nation, about the same num-
ber in the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations and perhaps 5,000 in the Creek
nation and 2,700 in the Seminole na-
tion. If each patent has to be enclosed
in a separate registry package, it will
cost the government $7,316 to pay pos-
tage on the letters. In addition will
be the extra expense of a special deed
delivery department employing sever-
al clerks. The postage item is 9itnply
a case of government shifting that
moDey from one pocket to another.
STATEHOOD A CERTAINTY.
Conference Committee lias Agreed and
Vote Soon to be Taken.
An agreement has been reached by
the joint conference committee of
the house and senate, according to
advice from Washington, In which
statehood is said to be assured to In-
dian Territory and Oklahoma within
few hours.
An attempt to compromise the dif-
ferences between Speaker Cannon and
Senator Foraker have failed and it is
claimed the bill which is assured of
passage will carry the Foraker amend-
ment, allowing the residents of Ari-
zona and New Mexico to vote on the
question of the acceptance of state-
hood. It is asserted that the bill will
probably be voted upon today, the
house being almost unanimously in
favor of the bill and a poll of the
senate showing a majority in its favor.
Senator Foraker's contention that the
Burrows amendment, eliminating ail
reference to Arizona and New Mexico
be incorporated seems doomed to
failure. The bill to be reported pro-
vides that the capita) of the state of
z-ti.i-i remain in Guthrie until
Wells completed
Production
Dry
Gas
127
NEW WORK.
Oomp. Brls. hole
. ...44 829
...45 1,810
.39 394
... 86 602
...167 3.452
Total completions
New production..
Gas
Dry
Drilling and ltlgs..
April
. 205
May
481
18,981
Cherokee—Bartlesville District,
COMPLETIONS.
24-27-12 Cudahy Company, J. Fields,
1-2-3 1
14-27-12 Cudahy company, Georgia Stok-
ers, 2
1-26-12 Cudahy company, J. C. Blythe
„ 6-0..
24-27-12 Cudahy
son, 2
28-27-12 Cudahy
1..
company Susan Hud-
company Lizzie Hicks,
gas
UQ
Kll-
7-2ft-18 Cudahy company 2
22-27-13 Jack & Co., Smith. 3
2-21-14 Henry company, Allen, 2
86-22-12 Jones company, 1
13-20-12 Los Angeles-Cherokee, Charles-
worth, 1 dry
24-22-15 S. D. N. Prlddy, Dennlson, 1 — 05
2-28-13 Copan company, Matilda Sand-
ers, 12 600
2-28-13 Copan company, Matilda Sand-
ers, 13 8W
2-28-18 Copan company, Amanda
Watle, 8 800
2-28-18 Charles Owen, Martha Norris ft.. 2150
26-26-12 Place. Allen A Co., ;1 gas
26-27-12 James McCormick, Annie Sams.
1...
. 200
8-25-14 John A. Steel, Byrd 1 gas
18-24-14 Henry company, 1 gas
35-22-12 Prairie company, Fowler, 8 dry
17-29-14 Canary company.Gourd, 9
17-29-14 Canary company, A. J. Canary,6
24-2A-12 Huckleberry A Johnstone, 3 ...
17-27-18 Adirondack company, Dabney 4 SO
81-28-13 Brush Creek company, Holm 6.. SO
24-27-12 Akin company, Parrlsh.2-3 175
9-27-13 Moser company. Pouts, 2
25-27-12 Caney Valley,Josle Hrower.2
26-27-12 B. F. Holmes, Goldle Htarhuck,
7 <0
30-26-13 S.G. McGee, Arnold. 1 dry
32-28-18 Lumberman's company, Pierce
Fields. 1
81-28-18 Lumberman's company. Kouts
100
SO
7-27-18 F. R. Hertsel, P, Holland. 2 ... 75
22-27-18 K. E. Hertsel, Keteher. 1 75
86-21-11 Prank Barnes,Josephine franks
1 drjr
23-27-12 cudahy company, Lizzie Hicks,
2, . di
24-20-12 Cudahy company, Lucy Snr-
coxle, 4 drg
24-20-12 Cudahy company, Jeff Sarcoxle.
2 rig
25-27-12 Cudahy company, Jlncy Fields,
2-3 rig
21-27-12 Cudahy company, Chas. Squir-
rel. 8 • ■ ■■ rig
23-27-12 Cudahy company, Chas. Squir-
rel, 4 rig
32-27-13 Oudahy company, Earl Overless
l tig
19-26-13 Cudahycompany.Fred Keeler.l rig
24-27-12 Cudahy company ,Jincy Fields.4,drg
21-27-12 Cudahy company.,lincy Flelds.Srlg
13-21-12 Thompson « Collins, Bertha
Wilson, 1 drg
82-25-14 Harry Heasley, Sanford Davis 1 drg
24-22-15 S. I>. N. Prlddy, Dennlson, 2
17-25-14 Austin company, W. Oliver, 1 .drg
12-21-12 Shawnee company, John Tuck-
er, 1 drg
Centralia Centralia company,town lot l.drg
17-29-11 Canary company, Gourd, 10 drg
18-29-14 Canary company, S. (I'Flelds, 5 drg
17-29-14 Canary company, Sunday, 1 . drg
7-27-18 Phillips*Co., Anna Paradee,3 sand
6-27-13 Frank Phillips, Anna Ander-
son, lo sand
17-27-13 Adirondack company, Dabney,
5 ... drg
13-20-12 Renfrow company. Zorn C. Lan-
nom, 26 900
1-21-12 C.W.Stewart, Via Phillips, 2 drg
30-27-13 Caney Vnlley company, Jennie
J.Johnson, 3 drg
11-24-12 Security company, Nancy J.
Laughlln, 1 drg
81-28-18 Lumberman's company, Fouts.lOdrg
82-28-13 Lumberman's company, R. M.
Fields, 1 rig
7-27-13 F K. Hertsel, P. Holland, 8 ... .drg
7-27-13 F. E. Hertsel, P. Holland,!. rig
22-27-13 F. E. Hertsel, Keteher, 2. drg
2-25-12 Kansas and Texas company,
Josephine Ryder, 1 abn
18-21-13 Klmendaro company, Spy buck,
1. drg
30-21-11 Colin company. Emily Measles, I rig
1H-2I-I1 Henry company, 1 drg
22-22-14 Kansas Prespectlng and Devel-
opment company. 1 rig
12-21-12 Evans. Leap & Hoover, Tucker,
1 . drg
10-27-13 T. N, Barnsdall, R. D. Adams, 3 drg
27-27-13 Johnstone company, Roy Shall-
er, 3 rig
27-27-13 Barnsdall A Weber, Etta Mode,
0, drg
27-27-13 Barnsdall A Weber, Etta Mode
7 rig
28-25-12 Southern company, S. Flanagan
8 drg
28-25-12 Southern company. C. Flanagan
1 drg
24-27-12 J Akin company, Parrlsh, 4 drg
24-29-12 Charles Owen, C A.Stradleyl drg
21-29-18 Charles Owen. Robert Owen, 1 . drg
20-29-18 Charles Owen, J. Sullivan, S drg
27-29-13 Charles Owen, Pauline Good-
man, 1 drg
8-28-18 Charles Owen, l>. McDanlel, I drg
8-28-18 Charles Owen, B. Ladd, 1 .....
12-28-13 Jacob Bartles, Fred Falieaf. S _
drg
„ drg
80-27-14 Test company, Bnrnett. 1 drg
11-28-13 Munger .* Anderson. Falieaf, 2. drg
11-28-18 Pooler Creek company, 0. Con-
way, 2 drg
16-21-16 Kansas Prospecting and Devel-
opment company. Galcatcher. 1 . drg
8-20-18 Indiana—Cherokee company.
Halsell. 1 drf
I i-£n- id j lit tut ixt i iii'n, rini rnn'iiii "
28-25-12 Southern company, Boyle, 1
2-21-14 Henry company. Helen, 1
Northwestern Ohio.
Indiana
Southeastern Ohio.
West Virginia
Totals
I*ast week . _
Decreased production, 216 brls.
Increase in failures, 6.
Average well this week, 24 brls,
Average well last week, 22% brls.
The operators of northwestern Ohio
are not developing any new territory
just at this time, but confining field
work to boosting by additional wells
the production on already producing
properties. The South Lima field is
very inactive, while the* North Lima
counties are giving out good, steady
producers. The average well this
week was good for 18} barrels. Pro
duction increased 279 barrels.
In the Indiana field the past week
results have been much better than of
late months, gushers being found in
Jay, Randolph and Delaware coun-
ties of an interesting character, and
bringing the average well to twenty
nine barrels, with 213 barrels increased
production. Save for the three fail
ures in Jay, every county in the state
produced crude in payiug quantities.
While much interest centers in the
western tier of Indiana counties,
next two months will see a larger
amount of new work in the old, and '
would not be surprising to see some
new territory developed of a promi
ing character.
The work In West Virginia the week
past shows a large percentage of light
producers and dusters, operators
finding it difficult to maintain thei
production, much less to increase it
The development in Calhoun county
holds out some encouragement for
new producing territory. It is a rath
er expensive territory in which to op'
erate, but in tbe absence of something
more desirable operators will take
the chances. The Keener sand pool
in Point Pleasant Creek, Tyler coun-
ty, continues to contribute some good
ones. The average production to the
well for the week was a traction over
twenty-three barrels, compared with
twenty-nine barrels for the week pre-
vious. Production decreased 413 bar-
rels. Operators in southeastern Ohio
are not finding any new pools, de-
spite the fact that there is considera-
ble activity in some sections. In the
Woodfield district in Monroe county
some fair producers were completed.
However, the production is declining,
aud the wells are of a much smaller
average in size than last winter. The
average production to the well for the
past week was ten barrels, compared
with 124 barrels for the week previous.
Harrison county is the only one that
has a prospective new pool, and there
is no certainty that it will make good
when more test wells have been com-
pleted. Holders of territory are not
disposed to delay starting new work.
Production for the week decreased
ninety-two barrels.
The production for the week in Ken-
tucky is again confined to Wolfe and
Wayne counties, the average produc-
tion to the well being but twenty-four
barrels, compared with thirty for the
week previous. Attempts to extend
the field from these two counties seem
to be of no avail. Production de-
creased 203 barrels.
HITCHCOCK AS CZAR.
I-ROCLAIKS HIMSELF SUPREME DIC-
TATOR IN OIL LEASE MATTERS.
Oklahoma
1915.
TO REMOVE RESTRICTIONS.
Senator Clapp Introduces a Bill Contain-
ing Administration Views.
A bill drawn by Senator Clanp and
designed to cause the removal of
restrictions from the alienation of
Indian land, has been introduced into
congress and from the fact that the
bill is based on the needs Oi the Ter-
ritory as seen through the eyes of
Senator Clapp during his tour of the
Territory last summer and supposed
to incorporate the views of the admin-
istration, is being given considerable
attention. The bill provides that the
secretary of the interior shall deter-
mine which is supposed to be mineral
and oil land and these lauds will be
left under the supervision of the in-
terior department. It is provided
that from time to time the president,
by proclamation, may remove the re-
strictions from this land. The lan-
guage used in the restriction removal
clause is as below given:
"All restrictions on the alienation
of lauds which have been or hereafter
may be allotted to Indian allottees of
the five civilized tribes are hereby
removed except as to fullbloods, and
lands which may be classified as coal,
oil or gas lands as provided herein;
provided no lease of agricultural
lands for a term exceeding one year,
nor any mineral lease of lands from
which the restrictions have not been
removed shall be valid unless ap-
proved by the secretary of the inter'
ior, and shall be subject to such reg
ulations as he may prescribe: and no
land from which the restrictions are
not removed shall be alienated or en-
cumbered without the approval of the
secretary of the interior."
Goes Over Till Fall.
No decision will be rendered in the
"white man" suit against the Chero-
kee nation for several months yet. A
Washington report last Monday stat-
ed: The case known as the "inter-
married whites case," involving the
right of the intermarried citizens in
the Cherokee nation to share in the
lands and trust funds of that nation,
will not be decided by the Supreme
court until next fall. The understand-
ing among the lawyers interested was
that the court would render its decis-
ion today. It failed to do so, how-
ever. This was the last day of this
term, as the court adjourned until tbe
second Monday in October. The in-
termarried whites case is the most im-
portant Indian case before the court.
New Furniture Establishment.
Harry D.Boston, of Stevens Point,
Wis.,arrived in Bartlesville this week
for the purpose of providing the fur-
niture for the new home of Dr. R. D.
Rood, in theMcDaniel addition. Mr.
Boston has about decided to open a
large furniture and undertaking store
in this cLy, in conjunction with other
local people and with that object in
view has opened negotiations for one
of the rooms in the Brennan block,
which is to be constructed this sum-
mer. Mr. Boston is proprietor of one
of the largest furniture stores in Wis-
consin. It is probable that Fred Bos-
tou. of the Boston Drilling company,
will manage the local store.
CONTINUED ON FOl'RTH PAGK.
Delivering Land Patents.
The Dawes commission la deliver-
ing patents to Indian allottees very
rapidly now. They are bijing sent by
Picnic for Roosevelt Club.
The regular meeting of the Roose-
velt Republican club was held Tues-
day evening in the opera house with a
fair attendance. Routine business
was transacted, after which a dis-
cussion was had as to the holding of
a picnic at some future time. It was
unanimously decided that a picnic
would be the proper thing and a com-
mittee was named to make arrange-
ments for the same, the date for the
event being left open for the present.
See the Bloomer Girl's base ball
team stack uu against the Eagles at
the park Sunday, June 10.
Latest Hegulations Declare He Can An-
nul leases Without Process of Law.—
Important Meeting of Producers Called
to Safeguard Their Interests.
The most Importaut meeting of oil
producers ever held in the southwest,
or for that matter, in the country, is
scheduled to convene In Bartlesville
on Thursday of next week. The recent
autocratic rulings of Secretarv of the
Interior Hitchcock has made this meet-
ing necessary and imperative and if
any producer in the entire field fails
to be present he is not only doing him-
self, but his associates an injustice.
The following call has been issued by
the Midcontlnent Oil Producer's as-
sociation:
'The following is one section of the
new application to be signed by the
lessee in getting oil leases approved
by the secretary of the Interior: 'That
any violation of the lease or of the
regulations heretofore or nereafter
prescribed by the secretary of the in>
terior respecting oil or gas leases in
the Cherokee or Creek nations, shall
render this lease subject to cancella-
tion, after ten days from receipt by
meot notice, in the descretion of the
secretary of the interior, whose decla-
ration of cancellation shall be elTec
tive without resorting to the court and
without further proceedings, and that
the lessor shall then be entitled to im-
mediate posession of the land.' Can
you afford to have your property so
jeopardized? A general meeting of the
Midcontinent Oil Producer's associa-
tion will be held in Bartlesville, 1. T.
Thursday, June 7, at 1 o'clock p. m
to discuss and take action on the situ
ation. This one section is enough to
show you tbe importanceof attendance
and every oil man in the country
should be on hand to devise ways aud
means to protect his rights."
When notice was promulgated that
new rules and regulations applicable
| to the obtaining of oil and gas leases
and the operation of the lands would
be issued, hope was entertained that
relief from tbe former asinine rules
and regulations would obtain. On the
other hand they are much worse and
more imbecile. To one who Is on
the ground and is in touch with the
situation it reads "business suicide
and oppression." The czar of Russia
is no more of an autocrat than Secre-
tary Hitchcock sets himself up to be
Here are a few samples of the rules
and regulations, together with extracts
from the application which all must
sign:
"No lease or any interest therein,
by working or drilling contract or
otherwise, or the use thereof, directly
or indirectly shall be sublet, assigned
or transferred without the consent of
the secretary of the interior first ob-
tained, and if at any time the secretary
of the interior is satisfied that the
provisions of any lease, or that any
of the regulations heretofore or that
may bereafter be prescribed, shall
have been violated he shall have au
thority, after ten days from notice to
parties, to cancel and annul said lease
without resorting to the courts and
without any further proceedings, and
the lessor shall be entitled to immed
iate posession of the land."
In the foregoing, usages of three
centuries ago are dug up. In those
days an official high in power could
confiscate the lands and worldly pos'
sessions of another without due pro-
cess of law. We read of those things
in histories and wonder that such
things could have existed. The czar
of Russia, emperor of China and the
rulers of a few barbarous states still
have these powers but it is hard to be-
lieve that in the United States, or
any other civilized country such things
could exist. The right of an individ
ual to confiscate the property of an
other without due process of law
make a law to fit any occasion, with
out regard to the justice of tbe cause
located a thousand miles from the sub
jects over whom he rules, knowing
nothing of local conditions and set'
ting himself above the constitution of
the country, is a backward step into
the dark ages. In article V, amend
msnt to the constitution of the United
Slates appears the following, "Nor
shall any person be subject for the
some offense to be twice placed in
jeopardy oi life, or limb; nor shall be
compelled in any criminal case to be
a witness against himself, nor be de
urived of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law. "
In making application for a lease
the lessee must make oath that the
lease is taken for bis exclusive benefit,
that no person, firm or corporation
has any interest, present or prospec-
tive and that no benefits will accrue
in any way to any other person, which
apparently shuts out the wife aud chil-
dren of the lessee. It certainly does
shut out the operator of small means
who secures a lease and through mis-
fortune is unable to properly operate
the same. He must put up $5000 as an
earnest, but, when this is used up and
through misfortune he has no further
m-jans, he must quit operating aud
throw up the lease. Secretary Hitch-
cock said this was done in the interest
of tbe poor man, but it is adirect blow
at the man of small means, struggling
to secure a foothold. Mr. Hitchcock
desires power to constitute himself
absolute monarch. It is time the pro-
ducers took a hand in this un-Ameri-
can game and thwart it.
game Is immediately branded as a
Standard Oil agent. The United
States district attorney'3 office was
called on last week to pass upon some
letters sent out by this young Napo-
leon to a woman stockholder of the
Uncle Sam. The letters did not come
within the pale of the law, although
they were insulting and unreasonable
as most of Tucker's letters are. The
woman had agreed to buy $5,000
worth of Uncle Sam stock and bad
paid $750 of the purchase price when
she lost faith in the outfit and tried to
have her money refunded. She was
given no consideration, and scant
courtesy and some threats, whereupon
he told the secretary of the Uncle
Sam concern that she would denounce
him to the public. "Go ahead and de-
nounce. You are a paid agent of the
Standard Oil company," was his
characteristic comment. It is jugt such
mouthy pretenders and humbugs as
"r. Tucker who are destroying the oil
business of Kansas. They howl thief
and liar at everybody in sight while
they work the unsuspecting public
ith their stock swindling schemes.
When they have finished and tbe game
no longer possible Kansas will
have a black eye in the oil business
from which she will not recover in
many vears.—Topeka Herald.
COUNCIL IN SESSION
Allowed Bills and Passed Some Import-
ant Ordinances.
At an adjourned session of city
council, held Monday evening, two
bills for street work and cemetery
cleaning were allowed and an ordi-
nance revising tbe rules and regula-
tions governing city council was read
and passed under luspension of the
rules. An ordinance regulating the
tapping of sewers and making sewer
connections, providing for a licenec
sor plumbers and for a belter sanita-
ry condition of the city was read and
passed. Other oidinances had been
prepared among which was tbe street
and interurban railway ordinance,
granting to the Bartlesville Interur-
ban Railway company the right to
construct and operate a street car and
interurban railway system in the city.
This had passed its first reading and'*
was passed on its second reading and'
referred to the city attorney and ordi-
nance committee.
On Thursday evening another ad-
journed session of council was held
with Recorder Mullen in the chair.
Bills for the fire department and street
force were allowed. Another bill lor
$114 for cleaning the cemetery was dis-
cussed at length and referred to tbe
finance committee. The old queetion-
of allowing the torpedo companies tO'
haul nitro-glycerine through the city
was again brought up. It was re-
ported that some the owners of tbe
and lying along tbe river north of
the city had refused permission to al-
low the explosive to be hauled over
their land and it was again asked that
jortions of First and Second streets
>e designated for use of the compa-
nies hauling through the city and the
question this time was referred to the
ordinance committee. An ordinance
amending a former ordinance, pro-
viding for the taxing of dog and tag-
ging the same was read and passed,
the amendment fixing a penalty for
persons harboring untaxed dogs.
Thinks Bartlesville a Great Town.
Professor NeVille, the healer now at
the Almeda hotel, is another victim of
the Queen City's captivating charms
and he is deeply smitten. "Bartles-
ville looks mighty good to me," de-
clared the professor to an Examiner
scribe the other day; "in fact it is
the most prosperous andthrlvlng little
citv that I know of anywhere. The
numerous substantial improvements,
the handsome buildings in course of
erection, the bristling array of oil
derricks which surround the city like
ever vigilant sentries, the shops and
factories, the hum and din of indus-
try—all, all appeal strongly to me and
I would like to be one of you. I con-
sider Bartlesville the most inviting
town in the. Southwest today, and I
am borne out in that belief by the fact
there are, practically speaking, no
vacant dwellings or store rooms in
all the length and breadth of the city.
Bartlesville's marvelous gain in pop-
ulation the past twelve months will be
duplicated the present year. You are
going to have a fine city here; there is
no doubt of it."
Trouble for "Uncle Josh."
Adams Brothers, a firm of Topeka,
Kan., last week: obtained judgment
against the Uncle Sam Refinery fakirs
of Cherryvale for a claim of less than
$50. The claimants were unable to
secure a settlement without the inter-
vention of the law and after attaching
one of the company's delivery wagons
the matter was adjusted by the pay-
ment of the amount of the claim into
the court, together with the costs in-
curred. The suit of the Adamses is
but the percursor of much litigation
in which the Uncle Joshers will be the
parties defendant.
A Kansas Humbug.
Tbe absurd young man who pre
sides over the destinies of the Uncle
Sam get-rlch-oulck concern at Cher
ryvale, has added Tom McNeai to his
list of Standard Oil agents In Kansas.
Appointing agents for the Standard Is
a mania with this effervescent chain
piou of the rights of the people
Everybody who recognizes the true
inwardness of hi* little
itamona Herald Changes Hands.
E. O. Wooley this week transferred
the Ramona Herald to Prof. R. A. low-
ing, superintendent of the Ramona
public schools. Professor Kwing has
secured an excellent newswaper prop-
erty aud is to be congratulated on his
good fortune. He will have to hustle,
however, if he surpasses the standard
set by his predecessor.
Strayed.
From my pasture at Wann, I. T.,
one brown three-year-old pony mare,
one three-year-old bay mare mule,
roached, one two-year-old horse mule,
dun or dark iron gray, and three dark
two-year-old mules, unroached. A
reasonable reward for information.
Address W. N. Adams, Coffeyville,
Kan.
Base ball each dav, trap shooting
and minor sports aud amusements are
some of the things being prepared by
.Ochelata for the celebration, July 3,
confidence 14 and 5.
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