Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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OLDEST PAPER PI'ltLlSHEIt (ON TIM'OUSLY IN OKLAIK
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO 48
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 191
\( I S SERVICE UIOVE l'ARTV POLITICS. ERIEMI 01 SCHOOL l.AM IKsKI.S.
11.00 PER YEA k
Col. Harvey Routes Ozark
Trail from Tulsa, through
Guthrie, to Geary.
"If Guthrie sees to it that as good i asm all along the proposed line was
a road is .built from Cushing through great. He explained how the Lincoln
Logan county on the route to Geary Highway, the northern trans-conti-
as any other it will get the Ozark nental Highway, going through Kan-
Trail" was about the substance ot | sas City, both touched St. Louis; and
Col Harvey's promise as he can te how the Ozark Trail starting at St.
made to promise ahead of the final I Louis would join with the continental
judgment on June 27. when the final in New Mexico and go on to_C.ali-
committee decide.'
WHEN NATION CALLS THESE BOYS WILL ANSWER Logan County's PrOIllinCIK
as an Oil t. Id
After an all day trip from the east
ern end of the line, Col. Harvey spoke
to a large audience in the Methodist
Clurch Tuesday evening . Col. Harvey
told of meeting with a big reception
everywhere. Nearly one hundred au-
to mobiles went out from Guthrie to
meet him at Coyle. Roy Teal presided
over the meeting at that place the
school children of t'e-ie paraded the
streets. As large a number accom-
panied him over from Perkins. Good-
night and Vinco. After an enthusi-
astic meeting at Coyle the party pro
ceeded to the
•w here it was greeted "by a brass band.
President Marquis introduced the
speakers and the glee club and Uni-
versity orchestra furnished tv.e must*
At Langston Co. Harvey congratulated
the people for the amount of work al-
ready done.
Col. Harvey was in charge of J. S.
Bellis of Cushing, president ot the
fornia. This straight cut from St.
Louis to New Mexico will make it the
shortest of the three routes from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Col. Harvey dwelt long on the im-
portance of highways in the future civ-
ilization of the country. When the
government has added its work to
them, they will be thelife blood ot the
country's commerce and travel. An
average of three hundred automobiles
will pass through a given point
daily. He said that the right-of-way
of the Ozark Trail had to be sixty
feet wide; the road-toed from twenty
OYI It I'll III I IIIMHU n I
v\it ihm.i \ks sri:\ r i
VI \ It IN II \SI N(«.
I E. E. Mc
da rd < a lift
leases themseW ""
instead of decrei
■' has erected a i. ■
rig on his block
This month is the first anniversarj
of Uigan County's serious develop
ment in oil. It is true that the Cim
arron Valley Oil Company startei
digging very nearly three yean
not until E. E. McGinley cami
over from Tulsa as the agent for sev«
eral powerful companies was Ixigau j" oo feet, if
county really taken seriously as ^ | startod
possible oil field. Now it is consider
comprises about 20,-
•xact location being in
section &1, Twp.. 11,
ft''1' Range l West His contractors who
ago. aro drilling this well have an extra
heavy boiler and the heaviest drilling
Is, as this test is contracted to go
y. The well
ith 20 inch casing and is
the heaviest and best that could be
d one of the most promising conn- i purchased costing alone $18,000. Nat
ties as a whole in wild-catting devel-jul.a| gag j,as been piped three miles
opment. It is not too much to say|for di-nHng purposes and Mr. llugh-
41 n,,nfi,i..npn ihsit I At- L,s tjlp contractor, states he will com-
t,,„* woun^., « p..,, , ^ : -
langston University to twenty-three feet. I'- r1':.Major Scott is
Ready for Call
routes must by June 25, 26, 2 , the ■
days on which the inspection commit-
tee will go over the route, and the
final convention at Amarilo, Texas will
be one of the greatest ever held on
any occasion. The city of fifteen
thousand population will not be able
to house all the visitors, but is mak-
arrangements to put up tent
Items or i usinus, ui v— " , , , „a
northern route organization and Fred | There will be many_bands^along and
I . ,1 t<> furnish < \t t" \\ 1 1 \ 1 ill \
nizauou uiiu rie ••• ....
and general man- asked to furnish CMFWY P VBG \\ I Guthrie is i iotne from dut
Wenner, Secretary aim - . . , .
ager of the Guthrie-Geary end of the glee club singers, one of which hi
line When the Guthrie party returned asked to be furnished by the Langston
from Coyle it was met at the Santa | l/.iversity.
I-V Lake b\ about ftfty more auto- Wednesday morning A. J.'Davidson,
mobiles who joined the line. A. *' of Cashion with a party H. r I anheld
o'cltK'k a large audience awaited Col.;of Navina, with a party and Frank
Harvey in the Methodist church. Us- Northup. puUlicity agent ot Okla-
lie G. Nlblack, editor of the Leader,
presided and after introducing Mayor
J. E. Nisley, J. S. Bellis, Rev. Pindley,
who spoke their hopes in securing the
trail, he presented Co. Harvey who
•mo.de plain all the requirements
City, met Col. Harvey at the
the afternoon in
Former Oklahoma Officer, Not* a Keg-
iilair. Thinks War Certain.
Maj. Hugh Scott, physician and sol-
dier of fortune, former citizen of
, in the Ha-
waiian islands on leave. He believes
hat the president will call for volun-
teers and is read*..' to go into active
service with Oklahoma troops. Until
he left. Oklahoma to join Pershing's
expedition into Mexico, Major Scott
was commanding officer of th
Peace Meetings
Called Anti-U. S.
Senator Ferguson of Cherokee I omit)
Issues Heply to Judge Dale.
From the Oklahoonen.
Voicing the belief that the citizen-
ship of the country is behind the na-
tional government in dealing with
Germany, State Senator Walter Fergu-
son of Cherokee replied yesterday to
a telegram sent him by Judge Frank
Dale of Guthrie.
Judge Dale, who formerly was su-
preme court justice of Oklahoma, had
regi- . . _ . k;,n
America as
Solid as Rock
Chicago, March 23.—Thomas W. la-
mont, member of the firm of J. I' Mor-
gan & Co., in an address tonight be-
fore investment bankers of the 'twid-
dle west on "America Financially Pre-
pared,'1 reviewed financial conditions
that the present confidence that I
gan county will be a producing field
is more due to Mr. McOrinley than any
one else, if it is not entirely due to
him. It was a year ago this month
that he presented a block of leases foi
sale at Tulsa, to some of the promi-
nent oil developing companies and
persuaded them that the structures in
Ijogan County were more promising
than in many of the fields that they
were exploiting Even then they were
I slow in placing their money in leases.
1 Hut yvhen one company had taken a
I shot at the field, others came, until
today almost all of the principal com-
panies have leases and are either
road work that pass the test to secure , goes from Cushing, by way of Guth
the Ozark Trail. He said the entrust-' rie to Geary.
wired Senator Ferguson, asking him to
ho'ina City, met Col. Harvey at tne mental infirmary ot tne rirsi « - a]Tange a meeting at Cherokee Tues-
lone Hotel afid escorted nlm to the | homa infantry. He will be reinstated ^ t<) 1(rotegt agai„st any ae-
t.„u il<r> qPtornnntl ill I u„ nirinhnma nrcantsntinil «18 railk- * . . , , .
tion by Congress that might lead to
war. The reply in part is as follows:
"Hon. Frank Dale,
"Guthrie, Okla.
i , r from Amen
"Dear Sir—1 have your telegram ot , ,. t. . thr
.making total purchases foi the. thi
"TIte trouble with Germany this date, w hich is as follows: I lease ^ ^ ap|)rox|1Ilately $7,500,000,000
n brought home closer to us j arrange next Tuesday night mass
meetings held
those communities.
The present route, unless changes
are made, misses Oklahoma City and
MKTHOWIST IMVKKSI-n OF OKLA. the present building. The plan is to ^ ^
IKOH. | hold an election within the shottest
mental infirmary of the First Okla-
homa infantry. He will be reinstated
j in the Oklahoma organization as rank-
ing medical offlcer if he decides to
leave the regular service.
"Over in Honolulu there is more than
there is here," .Major Scott said last
eight
has 1
We saw the German cruis-1 meeting to protest against any
Patriotic Friends of Guthrie Making j <en days alter the issuance of procla-
Kffurt* to llepair llninatfe <>( | mat ion by the Mayor The trustees
Iconoclasts. : l,'atl ot '"ken Hnal a<llon this °
I ;my oti er proposition at time of going
to press, but propositions from other
cities were also being considered, as
shown by our special reporter at the
— • out mere >> e saw mc • •••«*•* - «•>« « — ' .. ..
hold an election within the shortest er in.tcrned there set afire by her crew ] tion thai may plunge this nation into credit to the
time legally provided, that is within ^ ( ^ destruction of machinery j war. In this way get true sentiment less than i
In the same period we have granted
counties of something
I University.
Wednesday afternoon a mass meet-
ing with Judge Bierer as chairman
and V. G. Houston, secretary was held
at the City Hall, for the purpose of de-
vising means of averting or prevent-1
ing ti'., diststrous effects that the ad-1
verse vote cast on Monday, against. freely all par
conveying convention hall and sur- i Texas, to consider the next move in
I Methodist 1 the O. M. U. situation. Without van-
roundmg grounds to tt.ie Metnoaisi:
that
twar. in this way get true sentiment less than $2,000,000. These figures
and boilers in German merchant ves-, uf your town and wire Congress at set w to show how H orn a^ pi" J u
Lis tied up in the harbor. Germans I A„ effort is on foot toj ^ ^ ^ ^
.made extensive pr«parattons for a congress believe people wan, - ^ Anlerlca and would more than war-
break wi li the United States and mediate action necessary. Jrant ex,e„sion of continued credit up-
",n declining to respond to ' °I on „„ lncrea8i g scale, even If t ese I
sueKestion, which I am convinced thai , , . «ohtinir I
entente nations had not been ngnting |
our battles for us. as I believe the> |
have, and even if we were not about I
ast our lot in with them,
How best can America serve In j
. t-\ I this cause ai.d help to bring about a i
discus's the [international compile*-; - ..
itions and to resolve as to the various ^finite and speedy ending of th, ar |
S. TO REQUIRE HK..1M KVTION ;. action to be taken looking 1^'tlon a„sw,r. ,t
or ALL GERMAK8. 1 0 , s„luli„n of the coa/ronttng prob- •" "" ull"1l ,
j lenis, would be ill advised and result one stated by the ver. w e head oi
Event of ar Oovernnient IMans in mftro harm than good Congress Ithe fedcral ,(M
plete tln> well within Com- months.
The Cosden Oil and Gas Company
spudded in their well in the NVV cor-
ner of the SE l-l of section 112, Twp.,
Hi. Range .1. West. This is to be a
deep test.
The Empire Gas & Fuel Company
are building their rig iu the SE 1-4 of
section 13, Twp. 15, Range 1 West.
This location is miles south of Mer-
idian.
The No. One Oil Company in section
28, Twp., 17, Range 1 West have a
finishing job at 1950 feet, and Mr.
Murdock, the manager tor the com-
pany has employed an expert for the
drilling or preparing to drill in the job.
county. The Rig Star Oil Company has
t'p to present date two-thirds of tin erected4t standard rig in place of the
•ounty is under lease, at a rental all machine they have been using in Sec-
tion 21, Twp., IS, Range 2 West, it is
their intention to underrcani the old
hole and make a deep test.
Gillettee & Cowden are drilling in
section 4, Twp 19. range li west at 400
feet.
The Universal Oil Company is dril-
, ling in section 29, Twp. 17, range 2
shows that the big companies holding East at a depth of 1620 feet and it is
reported that they had a showing for
oil at l« 0() fe j-
The Roxana Petro'eum Company is
drilling at 2000 fee* iu the NE 1-4 of
section ".O, Twp 17, Range o East.
This is the well that had a strong flow
of gas at 1409 feet.
The Miller-Smith well is shot down
at lf 00 feet, the location being in sec-
tion HI, Twp. 17, range 4, west.
The Roxana Petroleum Company is
rounding Guthrie, within an area in (drilling with a California Rotary out-
whieh the operators do all their busi- fit at 1060 feet In section 9, Twp. 20,
ness with the Guthrie banks. This range 2 west.
amount of activity is naturally having Kingfisher County has wells drill-
a stimulating effect on all business, ing north of the town of Kingfisher,
way from one to twenty-five dol-
There is probably over
$:?00,000 already Invested in lease
bonuses, on the basis of the normal
rental of one dollar, and tin- renewal
of one dollar per acre each year is
being paid at the end of the first year
i in most cases before it is due. This
in this country since the outbreak ot J l.'.1'^ j',"
the European war and showed how
the financial centers of the United
States . ad cooperated in the placing
of foreign loans for the purpose ot
maintaining and upholding America's
export trade
He said in part 11he leases are confident oil will he
"Of America's total exports for 1916 found, and will not drop their leases,
amounting almost to $5,000,000,000, ap-1 but pay them annually, until the
proximately $4,000,000,000 were sold < ounty is thoroughly developed,
to England, France, Russia and their lx>gan County has been thoroughly
possessions In the two years pre- worked by the geologists, and six
vious these same countries purchased known anticlines have been found in
$3,500,000,000 of goods, [the county, and it is confidently ex-
pec ted that oil will be produced in
this county within the year. There
now nine drillings going on. sur-
everybody in the Pacific .'believe
war cannot be averted."
, -Oklahoma should put at leas, three j Jd'cis'on""^ ^ I"
Methodist l'niverslt v trustees M -- ^ t * ^
commissioners assembled this moi u
m.missioncrs assembled this morn- is made and e y | , ,im persuaded that mass
,e a, the college .building, coming has seen service should respond. I througl.oul the country to
all parts of Oklahoma and from Major Siott said. discuss the [international compllta-,thls
WILSON I VI.IS M KKMMKNTS.
National (Juanl ill He I'mmI for Po-
lice Protection in Several
States.
U. S. Calls 18,000
More State Guard
rountm.ggroui.us - "| atlon expre8Bed regret that the ''
University, would have on the future I outeome of Monday's vote has served ;
toreward growth of the city. ! to throw the fnlversitj matter in the Ib ^ #( ,V||r (.overiim,.llt Plan*' more harm than good Congress I
The consensus of opinion express* d uir agaiI1 A resolution, introduced ( ( |1(K-fc mi VII Sympathisers ! W(H|1(1 be hampered In the considers "> ■
by a nmnlber of the apeakera w* . 1 by Dr. I. Krank Roach of Oklahoma u). h#|M.r. <;mird Capital. U|on 0f diverg. tit views from the var- I ••Governor llardina's solution, aa an
that by overconfldence the election CUv was passed unanimous!-,, record-1 lions lections of the country and per- ' nounced by him recently, was to have
had been allowed lo go by default. inK the appreciation felt by the com-j m Marfh 24,_Arrange-1 haps the necessary votes of congress- the federal government, in one lorn,
there being no experienced campaign lltissioners and trustees for tile loyal- ,ieen completed >. the lie-1 men influenced against the national or another, grant to the allies a sul
ty of local citizens wi.io have endorsed . . ., .k inn..rrir<r tho
managers in charge of the city's and
University's interests, while the op-
position was well organized and ac-
tive. That a large number of voters
had not been informed 011 the condi-
tions and provisions of the proposed
contract to . e entered into by and be-
tween the city of Guthrie and the Uni-
versity authorities.. This was admit-
ted to be true -by some of the speakers
who had cast their votes against the
proposition.
After a thorough discussion of the
matter, resolutions were offered by
Judge A. G C. Dierer and adopted
unanimous:*., reciting that the result
of Mondays election was not a true ex-
pression oi a majority of the voters of
and stood by the institution during the
stormy past.
Following the passage of this reso-
lution, action was taken throwing the
location of the Methodist college in
tais state into the ring again, to be
contested for by all comers, and won
by the best proposition.
Notice was given immediately that a
] delegation was present from Broken
1 Arrc
j in fee simple the building and equip-
i nicut, with 80 acres of land, now hous-
ing the Haskell State School of Ag-
riculture, one of the institutions re-
ently vetoed by Governor William
menu .ave oeen cowipieieu •. 1,1 mfu luiiuruvcu
part-meat of Justice, in conjunction 1 good through fear of incurring the flcient credit
with the military department of the political displeasure of those to whom .jrosecutc
... i>*n.nnrm<lll tlx., nine t n niinol fur FO.pIpc! 1(111 Wi'll ViUO
ere to enable
Washington, March 25.—Calling into
'the federal service of fourteen regi-
(oients of the national guard for po-
I lice protection purposes was announc-
ed by the war department.
| The department issued this state-
ment :
"Many states have deemed it advis-
able to call out the national guard for
police purposes of protection. As the
them to I necessity for such steps arises from
with a proposition to .present their homes.
It was said tod*
government, to control pro-German they must appeal for
ac ivities in this country. It is ex-
pected that as soon as war is declared
that the government will issue regu-
lations requiring Germans residing in
the United States to register and to a
certain extent freedom of travel may
be res ricted by requiring a special
permit for extended trips away from
their military operations
with vigor and success.
Meetings MiMepresentatiie. | "Kortunaiely. in a fliian. iai aj.
To hold a meeting and give ex- utir country is in a state of complete
presslon to hopes of peace would be preparedness. There is no sign o!
superficial movement w.ich panic and no possibility of one The
but
community has passed through all
the apprehension of impending war
without a tremor. As a solid and un-
shakable basis we hav
stock of gold. Those same allied na-
tions that have in the last thre years
'bought from America nearly $7.">00,-
ft. city, for reason, given above, and The Broken Arrow cotnnuttee mad
requesting the mayor to call a special "P of President Geo. A I^offey, head of
el,,lion a, which the question shall be ; > •• agricultural school, ft.. T. Netting,
resubmitted. In addition to the above I a merchant. Q.B.Chenoweth. a banker
$15,000, was pledged for improvements
on the building now used for school
purposes.
The above propositions were pre-
sent! d by a committee from t. .e
Chamber of Commerce on Thursday to
the trustees in session in the Unlver
and Rev. J. M. Strong, were requested
to appear at the afternoon session of
the coailssion, when business of loca-
tion would take precedence.
Guthrie citizens, represented by F. McRill is s
W. Lintz, L. J ;tark,%Mrs. M. K. Hart, hers of the
Judge V G. C. Bierer, President S.fm in the cltv to attend the meeting, and
Sit. chapel Also that during the sum- j Gardner or the Chamber of t'onierce, it is expected that all delegations will
met- t'.e sum of fan,1)00 will he ex-! F. W. Oreen. and others, present ,1 the be i card and action taken this eten-
pended in repairs and additions to now Guthrie proposition late In the ing or tomorrow.
woul utterly fail to respond to the
condition of the time. I am sure that
the clti/.ens of this section of the state
desire peai e. in the vague'meaning of
I the term, ibut 1 am also equally cer-
that general in- tain that they do not d sire to com-
ternment of all Germans Is not consld- ' premise peace with national honor nor
ercd necessary, as the only aim of the I,,ture aecurity. If such a meeting 000,000 of our foodstuffs, raw mate-
United States in the war would be to! should be held In this community 1 rials and manufactured goods have in
German Government, and not to in-lain certain thn: the expression that the same period shipped us in gold
jure its subjects re siding in this coun- i would .he forwarded would be one of over 1,200,000.000. bringing America.
confidence in the national government, sti k of t .o precious metal up to a
the Congress and ti .e president with figure unprecedented for any country,
sincere assurance that whatever ae- nam ly $3,l.i0,000,000.
tion is held to be necessary would —
gov,, ,, our conduct j I W.I. FOB* CIJI lltKON V W.l.n
When it becomes necessary to I I Hit MKhllMi.
guard public utilities plants two The direc tors of the Cimarron Val-
thousand miles inland against the ag- ley Fair are called to meet Wedne sday
gre.slon of agents or a rorelgn en- atterpoon at 4 o'clock in the hambr-r
emy. prior to a declaration of war, and <-f 'commerce, City Hall Secretary
when the present honorable peace Is Wenner will make the final report and
disputed by plots insainst our national the 'on.lng year s fair is to he con-
(Contlnued on Page Eight.) sidered. JOHN GOL.OHIE. Pres.
try.
afternoon, along the lines adopted at
Wednesday afternoon's mass-meeting.
Judge W. M. Short, of Fort Worth,
it* president of the session, and A. h.
•retary. About forty mem-
omission and trustees are
issues which are more national than
local, It has been advisable by tie
president to call into federal service
for the above mentioned purpose the
following organizations of the national
guard:
"Massachusetts Second and Ninth
regiments.
Pennsylvania First and third regi-
•normous j ments.
'Maryland—Fourth regiment.
"District of Columbia—First sepa-
rate battalion.
"Virginia—Second regiment.
"Vermont—Companj B, first
ment.
"Connecticut First RcgUr.ent
New York -Second and Seventy-
first regiments.
"New Jersey First and Fifth regi-
ments.
"Delaware—tFlr st battalion, first
regiment.
"The following organizations which
are now In the federal service will not
be mustered out.
"Thirteenth Pennsylvania, B and F
companies of the first Georgia.
Washington. March 27.—Nearly 1">,-
000 were added to the national guard
force available for federal police duty
jy a war department order suspend-
ing the muster out of all guard organ-
izations still in the federal service.
With t!.e men called out during the
past few days this gives the govern-
;;;$nt nearly 50,000 gugnlwuep f°r
ployment in their home states to pro-
test industries and other property.
Most of the men affectPd by todL*.'#
order are at their home unobilization
camps, preparing to return to civilian
life after long stays on the (Mexican
border. They now will be held at
their camps or armories for assign-
ment as condition requires.
In all 18.000 men ar retained by the
order but several of the units already
had ben designat d for federal ser-
With army, navy and industrial pre-
paredness measures to meet German
aggression going forward as rapidly as
jepa- possible. President Wilson and his
cabinet today took up consideration
of further steps to follow the conven-
regi- wf conKress in extra session next
Monday.
IVKATIIKK FORECAST
West (■ult States: The weather will
be generally fair with the temperat ir«?
above the seasonal normal.
I'IhIns States and I pper and Middle
Mississippi Valley: Generally fair
weather and moderate temperature
will prevail until Wednesday or Thurs-
day when the weather will become un-
settled with probably local rains, fol-
lowed by much colder.
E. H. BROW IE, Forecaster.
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