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THE WEEKLY EXAMINER.
VOLUME XII.
BARTLESVILLE, INDIAN TERRITORY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900.—EIGHT PAGES.
NUMBER 2.1.
FLOOD OF CRUDE OIL
FLOWIXO FROM ILLINOIS FIELD IN-
TO STAXDARt* TAXES.
Enormoua Production lte i>on«ible Tor
Declining Market.—l'rice of Oil May
Uo Down still Further.—The Situation
in DUtricta Further Fast.
Examiner Special Correspondence.
Cleveland, O., August 5.—With
oceans of crude oil flooding the lines
of the Standard from the new Illinois
petroleum districts, rapid declines in
the prices now posted may be expect-
ed during the next few weeks. Two
declines were recorded during the
week just closed, which cut off 4c the
barrel from the Ohio and Indiana
product and 6c the barrel from East-
ern, West Virginia and the South-
eastern Ohio crude.
Nothing else can be expected in the
present era, when gushers are as com-
mon in Illinois as ten-barrel pumpers
are in the Ohio and central western
districts. The past week has seen an
enormous overproduction in Illinois,
more than doubling the combined out-
put of the four high-grade fields of
Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and
Kentucky. In one week Illinois has
from 115 wells produced a total of
10,620 barrels of crude. The Stand-
ard has immediately sent down prices
there, which have reflected on all oth-
er districts, and the drill, at no stage
active in the high-grade districts, will
be almost entirely ceased during the
next few months.
Conditions in the petroleum trade
are bow most bearish for the opera-
tor, as results whenever a big field is
opened, with no corresponding de-
mand for refined. Whele the refined
markets are steady they cannot use
the lakes of oil which are now being
drained, and the Standard must place
the overproduction in storage for fu-
ture needs. So long as such condi-
tions exist a gradual descent from
present quotations is to be expected.
The high-grade fields during the past
week have maintained their ordinary
production and West Virginiahas ad-
ded some territory to its producing
area. Wells have averaged beyond
expectations in many sections, but
cannot compare with the wonderful re-
sults being obtained in Illinois. How-
ever, leases are prohibitive in that
field now. and few new operators will
gain a foothold. The trend of the
speculator is toward Chatham, Cana-
da, and at any time this dominion
field may startle the petroleum mark-
ets as Illinois has already done.
OPERATIONS OF LAST WEEK.
Operations in the high grade fields
during the week just closed were di-
vided among the four states as fol-
lows, with initial production noted:
State
Northwestern Ohio..
Indiana
West Virginia
Southeastern I ihlo
Kentucky
Totals
Last week
Increased production, til iiarrels.
Increase in failures, 4.
Average well this week, 'JTU Imnrels.
Average well last week, barrels-
While showing no increase in pro
duction in any county, but with e
steady persistency for good average
pumpers, the Northwestern Ohio field
remains as active as it has been
any lime during the past year. No
new production area is being devel-
oped, nor is any wild-catting indulged,
but the producing on leases is being
maintained by a new well at stated
periods and the response has been re-
munerative.
The work of the week in Indiana has
been more than flattering to the oper
ators there. Wells of from forty to
ninety barrels have been of rather or-
dinary occurence. The work of the
entire state covered twelve counties,
three being of wild-cat character, and
shows an average well of 261 barrels,
as compared with forty-two barrels
last week, when no wild-cat counties
were included.
The Southeastern Ohio field has
shown the poorest returns of any pro-
ducing district in the high-grade ter-
ritory for the past several weeks, and
this is no exception to the rule. Out
of a total of forty-one drilled wells
nearly fifty per cent were failures,
and the biggest well of the week was
found southeast of Jerusalem, in Mon-
roe county, which made seventy-five
barrels. In the Wolf creek district
one well is reported good for fifty bar-
rels, while five and ten barrel pump-
ers alternate in the other few produc-
ers found.
Developments in West Virginia du-
ring the past week have been out of
the ordinary, and Marion county pro-
duced over 1,000 barrels initial out-
put from three wells during the week.
There wells are located in the Man-
nington district, north of Glover's
Gap on Buffalo creek. A second well
on the Snodgrass farm has proved
the sensation of oil circles in the
state. Soon after the drill tapped the
pay sand the weil began its flow and
made 100 barrels an hour, and in one
day had turned 2,100 barrels into the
tank. On the Hawkins farm, in the
same territory, another 250 barrel pro-
ducer was found during the week.
Wells for the week in Kentucky
were confined to the counties of Wolfe
and Wayne, and averaged a fraction
less than twenty-two barrels to the
well.
Weill
Prod
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Comp
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that she had frequently heard from
her father that it was largely upon the
trust of the Indians in the good faith
of these promises that the Indians
consented to the dissolution of their
tribal governments, step by step,
through the years of negotiation which
preceded the event. The Indians well
know that it was the opposition of a
Republican congress, and the veto, in
advance, of the Republican president
which defeated the Sequoyah state-
hood movement. They also know that
Republican legislation and Republi-
can executive rulings have tied uptheir
landed property, both allotted and un-
allotted, in ways which make most of
it unavailable, and which seem to
threaten the loss of large bodies of it.
These Indiana know their friends
among the whites, and that is the rea-
son they are going to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket at the first chance they
get to vote in the state of Oklahoma.
— St. Louis Repulic.
COMMISSIONER'S COURT.
Whitney Held Without ltail for the Mur-
der of Shorty Edwards.
Courtney Whitney, who is charged
with the murder of James Edwards, in
the western part of the city on the eve-
ning of July 3 last, was given a pre-
liminary hearing before United States
Commissioner W. F. Gilluly at the
city hall on Monday, the prisoner be-
ing held without bail to await the ac-
tion of the grand jury at Nowata, Oc-
tober 3.
There were but four witnesses exam-
ined. Daniel Webster and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth McElyea, both eye witnesses,
testified that Whitney assaulted Ed-
wards while the latter stood near
Whitney's tent, striking him with a
piece of gas pipe. Dr. J. W. Pollard
testified that he had attended Edwards
after the assault and stated that in his
opinion the latter's death was the re-
sult of a hemorhage of the brain re-
sulting from the wound inflicted by
the blow. The last witness called was
Louis Pyle, who stated that shortly
before the assault occurred he met
Whitney who declared he was going
to town to get a gun with which to Kill
Edwards.
J. Warren Reed, of Muskogee, at-
torney for Whitney then stated that
his client was willing to acknowledge
that he had killed Edwards without
sufficient provocation and waived fur-
ther hearing.
Alexander Williams, an Indian res-
ident, was arraigned on a charge of
forgery, but waived preliminary hear-
ing and was held in $500 bail for the
grand jury at Bartlesville, January 4.
Dennis Savage, a youth of nineteen,
who was arrested last Saturday in
connection with the stealing of a quan-
tity of rope last January from Eggers
Brothers, well drillers, was held in
*200 bail on a charge of grand larceny
and his case will come before the
grand jury in this city in January
next. R. L. Olson, against whom is
pending a charge of receiving stolen
goods, he having bought the rope
from Savage for $16, was the prose-
cuting witness in the case against
Savage. While on the stand Olson
underwent a sweltering cross exami-
nation at the hands of Attorney Tom
George and presented a rather sorry
spectacle while giving his evidence,
which was in no manner calculated to
help his own case wben it comes up
for investigation before the grand
jury.
Several cases of minor importance
were postponed until the commission-
er holds court again in Bartlesville.
SMELTER SITE SETTLED.
GULF PIPELINE TALK
DIM FT OF POLITICS
REVIVAL OF IXTEKKST LOCALLY IX
AX IMPORTANT PROJECT.
the Democrats executive of Bartles-
ville, is a red-hot Jeffersonian and
I Bryan Democrat, but he was kid-|
napped by his Republican friends and ' t oloxel floreu mill fight for
the delegates iiip.
was seated at the banquet at the
speaker's table. The next morning in |
sackcloth and ashes he appeared in i
mayor's court Bartlesville has a
band that is a cracker-jack. A leader !
that would put Creatore to blush and I
an organization that can play a Re-1
publican dirge "just perfectly lovely.'' ,
In some ways the Checotah ban-1
quet was a more howling success than I
,. . , , , , . .the one pulled off in Derricktown.—I
cline in production and heavy drain | Muskogee Times-Democrat.
on stocks in the gulf coast region du
Conditions in Territory < >il Field Creat-
ing a Demand for an Outlet to Culf,
Where There i« a Market.—Local l'ro-
cer« Generally Favorable to Scheme.
Local operators have been watching
with growing interest the steady de-
Why Indiana Are Democrats.
It is hardly worth while for Repub
j lican organs and orators to try tc
' convince the Indians of the five tribes
that the Republican party has been
their friend, either in the matter of
statehood or in the management of
their estates. The Indians wanted
separate statehood which had been
promised them in the act creating the
Dawes commission In 1803 and in the
Curtis act of five years later. A daugh
ter of Mr. Dawes last summer declared
Oil Lease Caused Slight Hitch in Proceed-
ings.— Lanyoni First to l aeCas.
Dee Lanyon, of the Star-Lanyon
smelter, came in from Neodesha, Kan.,
Thursday to complete the negotiations
in connection with the Overlees tract
for the smelter site. There was a
slight hitch in the purchase of the
tract owing to the existence of an oil
lease. A settlement with the lessees
was necessary before a deed could be
executed, but it is understood this
matter has now been satisfactorily ar-
ranged and the deed has been made.
In view of the fact that the smelter
ter will soon be an established fact, it
may be of interest to the readers of
the Examiner to know that the Lan-
pons are primarily responsible for
Kansas now leading all other states
in zinc smelting. Ten years ago, af-
ter Robert Lanyon, who had been op-
erating smelters in the coal fields of
Pittsburg sold his plants, his sons
wanted to return to the business.
Small experimental retorts were set
up at Pittsburg and artificial gas
tried. The experiment was a pro-
nounced success. The next move was
to try natural gas and retorts were
set up in a stable at lola. The result
proved that natural gas was far bet-
ter thau coal and infinitely more eco-
nomical. The Lanyons immediately
established a large smelter at lola,
beginning operations in 1897. Before
the experiments with natural gas
there were some smelters in the Pitts-
burg coal flelds, but their output was
infinitesimal compared with what the
output of the state has become under
the stimulation of natural gas.
Kills Wife and Daughter.
Pleas Childers, a well known Cher-
okee citizen who resides near the lit-
tle town of Lenapah, last Monday
shot and fataly wounded his wife and
instantly killed his twenty-year-
old stepdaughter, Lena Atwood. It is
claimed that the slayer who is just reco-
vering from an attack of measles sud-
denly became insane. He was promply
taken into custody and will be held for
trial. Childers is a successfull far-
mer and has always borne a good
reputation. His stepdaughter was a
neice of George Atwood, a uromlnent
Caney merchant, and she had been em-
ployed as teacher for the coming year
ring the past seven months. This con-
dition, coupled with the fact that there
appears to be little probability of any
new source of supply opened up in
the southern field, is causing them to
turn southward for the ultimate and
logical market ior their production.
The local outlook has recently been
far from encouraging, and it is not to
be wondered at that what appears to
be a well authenticated report to the
ths effect that eastern capital is about
to take up the project of building a
pipeline to the gulf bomes like a ray
of sunshine in the otherwise clouded
conditions.
That the Mellon interests, of Pitts-
burg, with unlimited capital behind
them, are all but ready to finance the
undertaking is now the belief of more
than one well posted oil man in this
district. It is known to be a fact that
the matter has been thoroughly dis-
cussed by the interests referred to, al-
though no definite conclusion has yet
bsen reached insofar as the immediate
construction of the line is concerned.
While no authorative statement has
yet been made, those in a position to
know declare that the developments of
the next two or three months will
prove a deciding factor in the situa-
tion. That a pipeline will eventual.1y
connect the local field with the gulf is
a foregone conclusion. The distance
from the Glenn pool to Whiting is
more than two and a half times great-
er than from the Glenn pool to the
gulf, Then, too, a market already ex-
ists to the southward—a market capa-
ble of absorbing all the local field can
produce.
The ripening of conditions favora-
ble to the construction of the pipeline
has been the pivotal factor. It is
something over a year ago since the
representatives of the Mellon inter-
ests were in Kansas and Indian Terri-
tory taking options on property and
making tests with a view to ascertain-
ing the exact amount of production
each property would yield. It was
then planned to build a pipeline from
Chanute, Kan., to Port Arthur, a dis-
tance of 650 miles. This would have
involved an expenditure ot $5,000,000.
Since that time there has been a
markea change in the conditions in
the Midcontinent region. A year ago
runs in Kansas totalled approximate-
ly 725,000 barrels a month. During
July of the present year runs approx-
imated 2,022.214 barrels, or an in-
crease of over a million barrels.
This large augmentation in the gross
output is due to the pushing of pro-
ductive territory steadily southward
into Indian Territory where the sands
are more prolific than in Kansas.
Thus the steady encroachment toward
Texas territory and the splendid show-
ing of the Glenn pool, not only rend-
ers the building of the pipeline more
desirable, but makes the project
much more economical one.
During May of this year the Mellon
representatives made a trip through
Indian Territory for the purpose of
giving further study to the pipeline
proposition, and they returned to
Pittsburg fully alive to the improved
conditions. The knowledge thus
gained was thoroughly discussed by
the principals and there are reasons
for believing that the project will now
be carried through.
"There is no disguising the fact,"
said a well known oil operator to the
P^xaminer yesterday, "unless a pipe-
line to the gulf comes quickly, the lo-
cal field must undergo a considerable
period of depression. I am inclined
to credit the report that the Mellons,
of Pittsburg, intend doing something.
The July report of operations in the
Texas field shows that the consump-
tion amounted 3,055,806 barrels, while
the production was only 1,736,000. By
reason of this shortage the price of
oil in the southern field has been grad-
ually working higher. There is a
chance that the price may go too high,
thus curtailing the demand, but under
present conditions the southern mark-
et can absorb the total production of
the local field.
"Even with two pipelines to Whit-
ing the situation will not be greatly
improved. With the opening of the
Illinois field, and the accompanying
large production which must be hand-
led at Whiting, it is doubtful if the
oil from this field will be wanted there,
and the tankage now available in the
east is growing smaller."
J. J. Curl, whose efforts to secure
the construction of a pipeline to the
gulf almost resulted in the project be-
ing carried through a year ago, stated
that he had no information to the ef-
fect that the Mellons are now prepared
to go ahead.
"The report may or may not be
true," said Mr. Curl, "but one thing
is certain, and that is that irrespect-
ive of what the Mellons do in the mat-
ter, local operators will be called up-
on to support a similar proposition
within a very short time."
NOW WILL IT BEHAVE?
City Delivers an I' Itimatum to the Water
Works Company.
Pursuant to the action of the city
council at its last meeting with refer-
ence to the continued delinquencies of
the Bartlesville Water company,
Mayor Sidell on Thursday served the
following notice in writihg on A. E.
Reed, representing the water company:
To the Bartlesville Water company, Gen-
tlemen: The city of Bartlesville, through
Its city council requires of your company
the following services as provided in your
contract with the city.
First—That within thirty days from this
date you furnish to the city and to the water
consumers within the city limits filtered
water according to the conditions of your
contract aforesaid.
Second—That you permit consumers who
want water for lawns, !>arns or stock to have
connections made with your mains, and
that you furnlsli tliem the service, and water
suply for such purposes at the rate llxed In
Ordinance No. and In your contract
with the city, and where water service for
the house is not desired by the consumer,
that you furnish water for such other pur-
poses ns your contract provides, without
requiring the consumer to pay house rates.
Third—You are further notified that until
you comply with the conditions herein set
forth, that the city will hold all monies due,
or to become due under your contract, and
that if you foil or refuse to fur-
nish consumer* with the service as
aforesaid within a reasonable time after
request Is made, therefore, the city
will upon its own responsibility make
the connection and Institute the service,
charging the cost for same to your company
and deducting the amount from any of your
money now on hand, or hereafter coming
Into the possession of the city.—Win. 1.
Sidell. Mayor. „ „
Hy order of the city council.—Jay H. Mil
len, Recorder.
When seen by the Examiner repre-
sentative yesterday, Mr. Reed stated
that the company was making every
effort possible to remedy the existing
difficiency in the service and that
within the next two or three weeks he
Declares He ii Making the Race in <*ood
Faith.—Hon. .J. 1*. Hottiter Addreiwi
Bartlesville Democratic Club.—Demo-
crats Organizing Throughout District.
The principal topic of discussion in
Republican circles during the week
has been the candidacy of Col. John
N. Plorer and James A. Veasey for
nomination as delegate to the consti-
tutional convention. Colonel Florer
having been endorsed for the honor
by the Roosevelt Republican club pri-
or to its consolidation with the Bar-
tlesville Republican club, it is argued
by bis followers that his candidacy
should hove been given the endorse-
ment of the united club, tous making
harmony between the two factions
complete. It hrs been hinted, howev-
er, that certain members of the Roose-
velt organization, prior to the consol-
idation of the two clubs, agreed with
the Johnstone forces that the Florer
boom should be allowed to collapse.
Whether there is any foundation for
this belief is difficult to determine.
The rank and file of the former Roose-
velt club is for Florer to a man and
the very suggestion that there may
have been an attempt to sacrifice their
candidate is sufficient to cause old
wounds to break out anew. The dis-
affection has been steadily growing
and the Florer followers are fearful
that in the event of the contest being
determined otherwise than by a pri-
mary election, an attempt may be
made to force Veasey upon them. If
the nomination is made subject to the
result of a primary election they de-
clare their candidate will win "hands
down."
Since Colonel Florer returned from
the west he has been quietly looking
over the ground and appears to be
very well satisfied with his chances
for the nomination.
"I have reason to believe," the
colonel stated to the Examiner yes-
terday, "that there will be other can-
didates for the nomination in addi-
tion to Mr. Veasey and myself. I was
first notified of my endorsement by
tne Roosevelt Republican club while
I was in Denver. Since my return to
i ,. VY, . n ..r-\mnlnir*t 1 as in ueDttr. since my r«uru w
beheved that all cause for complaint Uartle8ville my friends have urged
■I? i HntTQ 1 WI.J TI nvocnnmp . " . . ,
will have been overcome.
"Thecompany has put in entirely
new basins," be said, "and have taken
out the old Alteration plant. The new
plant is being installed wtih all possi-
ble haste and when it is completed 1
feel certain that consumers will have
no further ctfuse for complaint. Th<
rainy weather has made matters hard
er for the company as it was necessary
to pump the water direct from the
river for several days. We have ex-
pended more than $1,500 in making
these new improvements and when
they are finally completed I am confi-
dent the service will be thoroughly
satisfactory."
me to make the fight and I shall do
so. They argue that my long resi-
dence in the Territory, my intimate
knowledge of the necessities of the
people and my extensive personal ac-
. . „MO H„„„ quaintance are all in my favor and
certain that consumers wi l haje 4 o( t aid t0 m'e should Y ^
urther ctfuse for comp aint The ge;ecW d*ieK«te. I am not a
iv urpnthpp n aA mnnft matters hard- .... , ■* T
politician, never have been, anu I
have not entered the race as a poli-
tician. Indeed, I believe that the del-
egates to the convention should enter
upon the great work the convention
has before it untramelled by partisan-
ship. In the framing of the constitu-
I tion politics has no place.
"My friendly relations with the
MORE SCHOOL FACILITIES. I Usages have been brought up as an ar-
gument against me, it being alleged
, „ that my friendship In that direction
Contract for Erecting Six New Build,n,. < 3 ^ detr^meDtal lQ Bart]eg.
Awarde o .. y. . j ville. Those who know me and know
The contract for the erection of six , my gentiments, know that I am for
school houses, to be located in the j Bartlesville first, last and all the
Overlees, Armstrong and McDaniel | time. Indeed, my friendship with the
additions, has been awarded to T. E. j wil' be an v,aid,/a,th?! lha? a
, . # DO< , . detriment to me, should I be sent to
Stacy, his bid of $1,884 having been ; t^e COnvention as a delegate, and the
the lowest submitted. : fact t^at perhaps two-thirds of the
The buildings are to be one-room j Qther delepate8 wljl in all probability
structures, 20x30 feet with ceilings mv ,)erd0nal friends might just as
twelve feet high, and are to be com- wejj be put forward as an argument
pleted before September 1 *, the date a<rn9t my candidacy. 1 am deeply
of the opening of tne fall term. Ihe j gratified at the manner in which my
buildings are to be of a temporary frlend;j aDd the citizens of Bartles-
character andI at the expiration of a vi]le geoerally have rallied to mv
year or so will either be enlarged or | supportf and if it id ieft to the will of
replaced by more substantial build- L^e people' I have absolutely no
inj*8. a I doubt that the honor of representing
Superintendent Lynn Glover i this district in the constitutional con-
directed the teachers to assemble veDtlon win fan t0 me."
in Bartlesville one week prior to the |
, , opening of the schools and during I Democratic Club Meeting.
I Vm "inclined i ^at period he will conduct a teachers' The political pot has begun to siz-
' institute. __ I zle and it one may judge by the enthu-
Miss Clara Breisser, of Kansas City, | siasm displayed by the small gather-
has been engaged as teacher of music j ing of the faithful at the regular meet-
in the higher grades and Miss Mabel ! iD[r of the Democratic club at the city
M. Clark, of Northwestern university, i hall Wednesday evening, we are on
Evanston, 111., will act in a similar the eve of a campaign destined to oc-
capacitv in the primary department, j cupy a conspicuous place in the po-
ft1
the Caney board of education.
Kclioet of the l'ow-Wow.
One of the curiosities on exhibition I eus tomorrow under the
at the recent Republican pow-wow was the Church of God. A
a strip of bunting about five feet long
upon which in large bold blue letters
was printed "Blaine and Logan."
The freak was In a restaurant near the
Almeda hotel and the twenty-two-year-
old relic occasioned many a smile.
Where that piece of bunting came from,
where it has been wandering for the
past twenty-two years, how it hap-
pened to land in a four-year-old city,
and the history of It might make in-
teresting reading Mayor Sidell,
Both of these young ladies are said to
be talented musicians and it is be-
lieved that with their services the pu-
pils will be given musical advantages
seldom offered to public school schol-
ars
Nothing so clearly Indicates the
rapid growth of Bartlesville as the
need of these additional school facili-
ties, especially when it is remembered
that the enrollment last year closely
approached the 1,000 mark.
Oiutrc Allotment louimisaion.
The Osage allotment commission is
cemposed of a fullblood Indian, a
pair of carpetbaggers and an Okla-
homa politician. The latter, Cassius
R. Peck, ex-assistant United States
district attorney, has accepted the
secretaryship of the commission,
which soon will begin its work of al-
lotting the Osago lands in severalty.
The commissioners are Charles E.
McChesney of South Dakota. Charles
O. Shepard of New York and Black
Dog, a fullblood Osage citizen. Peck
was appointed by Secretalry Hitch-
cock.
Cauipuieeting at silver Lake.
A thirty days campmeeting at Silver
Lake, five miles south of the city, op-
ausplces of
big "round
top" tent with a seating capacity of
1500 has been erected in the grove
which borders the east shore of the
lake and a number of smaller tents
and temporary structures will be pro-
vided for the shelter of campers. Doc-
tor Bloyd, pastor of the Church of
God at Eighth and Dewey, will con-
duct the meeting assisted by Rev.
William Miller, Uev. Alex Miller and
several visiting ministers. The meet
of
litical history of the future state
Oklahoma.
The meeting was addressed by Hon.
J. J. Rossiter, of Kansas, candidate
for district judge in the Coffeyville
district, and if the speaker felt any
disappointment at the smallness of
his audience it must have soon been
overcome by the continuous applause
his remarks evoked. After describ-
ing his first visit to Bartlesville, du-
ring the campaign of 1896, when he
made the journey by stage and ad-
dressed a meeting of Democrats in the
old school house, then one of a half
dozen buildings which marked the
present site of Bartlesville, the speak-
er declared that the one great prob-
lem that the Democratic party would
be called upon to solve within the
next two years was one which threat-
ened the very life of the republic—the
trust evil and the concentration of
wealth. If the Standard Oil compauy
should go on piling up its wealth du
ring the next twenty years as it had
in the past, it would own the whole
United States. This trust evil, he de-
clared, can be abolished only by the
Democratic party. From the time of
Alexander Hamilton the Republican
party had been the party of the aris-
tocrats and its leaders down to the
present day had shown no disposition
to permit the common people to gov-
ern themselves. The Democratic party
had from the beginning been tho par-
ty of the great common people, and
the only party that can and will legis-
late out of existence the immense com-
binations of capital, which not only
owe their existence to the Republican
party, but are being fostered by it.
In conclusion Judge Rossiter urged
the importance of organization, and
the new voters of the new state in the
doctrines of true Democracy.
Indeed the watchword of the meeting
was organization. Dr. M. C. Wyatt
added to the enthusiasm by urging
the necessity of meetings throughout
the recording district. He recounted
the excellent results of the meeting he
addressed at Silver Lake, and the
splendid missionary work that had
been accomplished by Tom George,
Marion Parr and Wallace Buford,
who accompanied him. He declared
it the duty of every man who had the
interests of Democracy at heart to aid
in the active work of organization.
Judge John J. Shea succeeded in
injecting a wonderful amount of solid
Democratic horse sense into a sur-
prisingly short speech. He took a
humorous view of the apparent lack
of enthusiasm on the part of local
Democrats and declared when the
time came the votes would be there.
He arraigned the last Republican
congress for its failure to make either
the railroad rate bill or the meat in-
spection bill effective, and declared it
had been forced by the popular will of
the people into granting statehood
for the Territories and fought to the
last against making a state of what
had been for years a dumping ground
for broken-down Republican "politi-
cians and carpetbag ofllce-seekers who
had outlived their uselulness at home.
P. O. Bucher made a splendid
straight-from-the-shoulder Democrat-
ic talic in which he handled Hitchcock-
ism without gloves. He declared the
new state would be overwhelmingly
Democratic. The 11 publican party,
he said, is counting as theirs, the vote
of the oil men who have come from
the east and have invested their mon-
ey in Bartlesville and Bartlesville en-
terprises, but so many of these men
have had their property rights an-
nulled by the high handed methods of
the present administration, that they
are now almost solidly alligned with
the local Democrats on state issues,
if on nothing else.
Rev. S. A. Evans, whose intimate
acquaintance with the Indian citizen*
gives authority to his opinion, de-
clared that the larga majority of the
Cherokees were outspoken in their-
Democracy and would vote solidly
for the Democratic nominees.
An effort will be made to have sev-
eral speakers of reputation at the
next regular meeting of the club, to
be held on Monday, August 20, and
every Democrat iu the city of Bar-
tlesville is urged to attend.
Ochelata Democrats,
Dr. M. C. Wyatt on Friday evening
of last week addressed an enthusiastic
gathering of Democrats at Ochelata,,
where adherents of that political faith
largely predominate. The Ochelata
Democrats are thoroughly organized,
their club having a membership of 167.
and everything is harmonious and in
efficient working order. The Ochelata
Democrats will shortly assist in the
organization of a club at Oglesby,
where Democrats are as prolific as
the season's yield of corn in the vi-
cinage of Oglesby. Over 150 have*
signed the roll preparatory to effect-
ing an organization.
Silver Lake Democrat*.
The Silver Lake Democratic club
was organized Tuesday evening with
a membership of forty-two. The offi-
cers of the organization are: J. M.
Bird, president; James Wilson, vice-
president: Joel Suagee, secretary;
Cornelius Wilson, treasurer. Messrs.
Tom George. M. C. Wyatt, Wallace
Buford and Marion Parr of this city,
went down to the lake, assisted in
the organization of the club and pro-
vided the eloquence. A large tent,
which had just been erected for camp-
meeting purposes, was captured by
the crowd which "comfortably " filled
it, and-dedicated it to a righteous
cause. Speeches were made by vari-
ous ones and a high degree of enthu-
siasm was aroused, which has not ev-
en yet subsided. The meeting did not
adjourn until midnight, after which
hour the visitors departed for the city.
The indications are that politically
the Silver Lake locality is overwhelm-
ingly Demecratic. A few days ago a
poll of the neighberhood was taken by
Wallace Buford and Jim Wilson,
who found out of sixty pessons inter-
viewed fifteen Republicans and forty-
five Democrats, the latter outnumber-
ing the former three to one. And at
the first election it will be found that
this ratio prevails pretty generally
throughout Indian Territory.
Over the District.
The Democrats are working indus-
triously for a close and compact or-
ganization throughout the entire
Twenty-seventh recording district and
in every locality the Indian citizens
as well as the old-time Democrats are
lining up in encouraging manner un-
der the Democratic banner. Clubs
have been organized at all central
points in the district with the excep-
tions of Oglesby, Owen and Copan.
But these places will at once come in
for a share of attention and party or-
ganizations will be effected. The
work of organization will be energet-
ically carried into every township in
the district by the Democratic central
committee. The clubs thus far organ-
ized are in a vigorous, healthy condi-
tion and their membership is being
steadily augmented. A poll of each
township is being made under direc-
tion of the central committee and the
returns are decidedly encouraging.
Nowhere is the result below an even
break and in most cases the Demo-
crats are in the ascendancy by a ra-
tio of two to one. At Ramona, a
Democratic stronghold, the poll shows
a ratio of six to one.
Ing will continue until September 12.'the necessity of thoroughly educating
l'ike'a l'eak Centennial Celebration,
Colorado Springs, Colo. For the
above occassion we have on sale
round trip tickets as follows: Denver
Pueblo and Colorado Springs, $17.65
Dates of sale September lit to 22 in-
clusive. Final return limit October
15.—G. R. McKinley, agent.
—Mrs. John Flinn and daughter
left on Tuesday for Garden City,
Kan., where they will visit relatives.
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