The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THe Ralston Tribune
Volume I
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Fruity, February 2, 1917
Number 33
NOW DOWN
OVER 2,200 FT.
Driller on Lowcall Lease to Go
4000 Feet Unless Strike
]• Made Sooner.
The test which the Coeden Co.
is drilling on the Loveall lease,
west of town, is down better
than 2200 feet, and so far, so it
is said, the formatter encount-
ered has been most encouraging.
With a fair run of uck the
3100 feet ought to be struck in
about two more * ks of drilling
Unless something worth while
is found at that depth, the hole
will be put d other thous-
and feet.
UNDER CROSS AND CRESCENT
City of Khartum, in the Sudan, Haa
Characteristics Which Male* It
Unique Metropolis.
Khartum offers, as no other city,
the contrast of two religions—that
of the mosque and of the cathedral,
of the crescent and the cross, the
standards of the prophet of Mecca
and our Savior Jesus Christ. The
city haa two calendars, dating one
from 622 A. D., and one from the
birth of our Savior. Outside of
Khartum, in the vast Sudan, Islam
still scein s to be chiefly a veneer,
and the negro blood carries with it a
characteristic jovial friendship and
responsiveness to kindness; but in
Khartum and Omdurman -Islam is
stiffening and deepening ita grip on
the people.
Gordon college and the primary
schools connected with it in the Su-
dan, although they are Mohamme-
dan schools and observe Mohamme-
dan holidays and teach the Koran
and Moslem ethics, have nevertheless
1>een a great stimulus to education.
The children are eager to learn, and
statistics which I have gathered
show a great increase in the imports
of paper and printed matter. In
1914, for example, tlje total value of
books, mostly Moslem, imported into
the Sudan was $30,000. The follow-
ing year this had risen to $38,000.
Only a very small proportion of this
consists of Bibles for the British
and Foreign Bible society, or school-
books for the mission schools. Nine-
ten!’is of it is Moslem literature.—
Christian Herald.
BROUGHT THOUGHTS
OF DAYS OF YORE
The Sound of the Six-Shooter
Shatters the Silence of the
Sleeping Town.
The rattle of revolver shots,
reminiscent of "those good old
days" aroused the residents of
the South Side, about mid-night
Tuesday. All sorts of conjec-
tures filled the minds of the
startled householders. Some
thought the town was afire; oth-
ers were sure the bank robbers
had arrived at last; still others
thought oil had been struck a*
the oil well.
It wasn't really anything very
serious.
A Fairfax sport and a chap
who lives on this side of the Riv-
er. connected up with too much
fire-water and tried to break into
the Barker house, so the women
staying there claimed. They
'phoned to Jos. Rucker, the con-
stable, wno went to the place to
investigate matters. The men
heard him coming and jumped
into their car snd started west.
Mr. Rucker called repeatedly for
them to stop, but they only
speeded up, so he emptied his
revolver at the rear tires of the
car. But those chaps weren’t
stopping for a little thing like a
punctured tire. They hit a forty
mile gait and kept on going un-
til they had crossed the ^est riv-
er bridge and made their escape
to the Osage hills.
RUMORS OF
NEW TESTS
NINE HUNDRED CARS
OF SAND SHIPPED!
Three New Riga to Go Up
Weft o! Town, According
Stories Current.
A report If In circulation to the
effect that three {more rigs will
go up west of town in the imme-
diate future.
According to our informant,
one location has been made on
the Wheatley farm, another on
the 8andbaoh farm, and the
third somewhere between the
other twor-
There has been several scouts
gum-shoeing about town recent-
ly, and it la possible that there is
really {some foundation to the
story.
Figure* for Sixteen Past Month*
Show Immense Volume of
B
uaineaa.
PIE LOVER MAKES PROTEST
After Detailing Grievance He Urgaa
Inquiry Into the Inflates Cost
of American Luxury.
While dealers and consumers are
haggling over an extra cent or two
for bread and milk, has any humani-
tarian cult considered what has hap-
pened to pie? asks the New York
World. They used to cut pie into
four comfortable sections, each re-
tailing for five cents. Then, with no
change in price, came six, and final-
ly seven pieces, distressingly sharp
at one end and of fruit cake propor-
tions at the other. Now, in the fu-
rore over the high cost of living, we
have six sections once more at ten
cents each.
Here, then, is pie at 60 cents
which used to sell at 20 cents, and
the dealer boasting of his generous
portions. While the eco >austi and
mathematicians are making mental
calculations as to the percents \ of
appreciation involved in win to
maoy good Americans is the stxu of
life, let us ask if anything in thes
booming times, with the exception of
a very few war brides, has shown any
such rise as this, and what can be
the cxcuso for it?
We are always reluctant to add to
the agencies of government, but
what this town needs right away is
a state pie commission.
A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US
HAS GONE. A VOICE—ETC
Died: one red hog of Arkansas
type, three years old, weight
about thirty pounds.
The death of this swine was
due to a combination of diseases,
according to a post-mortem ex-
amination held by the sand-haul-
ers, namely: tuberculosis, Brights
disease, contraction of the dia-
phragm,. contagious pneumonia,
worms, cholera, and a general
lunriown condition of the system
Dr. Fane Fisher states that
the deceased should have been
sent to the mountains, and that
its life might thus have been
prolonged. — J. C. Dryman, own-
er and chief mourner.
THANKING YOU
The following new subscrip-
tions to The Tribune since last
issue:
Mrs. Julia Whiles,
Tillamook. Ore.
B. F. Casto, Wichita. Kans.
S. D. Barrier, Okla. City
E. C. Garkil), Ralston
Mrs. M. E. Paxton, Ralston
Mrs. A. Levick, Ralston
ANOTHER BUILDING
GOING UP ON MAIN
Ford Garage to Budd on Lot Weat
of Present Quarter*.
The Ford Garage Co., in which
aJe associated J. A. Stuart and
F. L Carter and sons, annonnccs
that they will begin work within
the next few months, on | in ex-
tensive addition to their present
quarters. The building will be
extended twenty-five feet furth-
er west, snd south to a point ev-
en with the Hodge & Son store
building.
The company has been doing a
nice' business^ durimr the few
weeks of its existence, and looks
forward to.# rapid1 growth, with
the hnprovedfatetHttes the new
building will make possible.
HE’S GONE BUT LEFT
HIS HOUN* FOR SELBY
New Liveryman Leave* Ralaton
For Greener Paatores, after
Brief Sojourn.
Some time Tuesday night, the
man who recently leased the
Brooks Livery, packed up his
collar box and, in company with
his family, "folded his tent like
tha Arab and silently stole
sway" to parts unknown.
He had mortgaged his live-
stock heavily snd left it and the
household goods he had pur-
chased—on time—from W. E.
Selby, behind. However, he left
Mr. Selby one (I) houn' pup to
pay the rent on the furniture.
The family had been living in
the store building west of the
Jones Hotel.
Few of us think of the ship-
ping of sand as one of Ralston's
chief industries, but such it ap-
pears is the case.
During the past sixteen months
so J. C. Dryman tells us, he has
shipped out over nine hundred
car-loads of building sand. For
the hauling of this sand from
bar to car the laboring men of
the town were paid over $11,000.
This means an average. monthly
pay roll of nearly $700.
The sand business has an al-
most limitless growth before it
There is an inexhaustible supply
of the finest building sand in Ok-
lahoma, hers, within easy haul-
ing distance of the railroad, and
there is a {ready market for it
wherever building is going on.
The new Santa Fe line will
open up a vast new market to
the Ralston sand men.
ENTERTAINS CLASS
Mrs. R. O. Clark entertained
her Sunday school class, Thurs-
day evening, at her pleasant
home on Seventh Street. Nine-
teen youngsters were present,
and, needless to say, all had a
perfecly gee-Iorioua time.
HARRY HODGE NOW
GROWING BETTER
MORE IMPROVEMENTS
Brock Bros, have just finished
re-finishing and re decorating the
interior of the First National
Bank. It a very handsome piece
of work. They will perform a
simitar operation upon the Gates
Grocery in the immediate future.
Will Bi Home the Latter Part of
Next Week.
#
While still in a serious condi-
tion, Harry Hodge, who has be< n
in tnq Wesley Hospital at Kansas
City for the past three weeks is
reported to be improving rapidly
and will probably be back the
10th of the month.
CHRISTIAN REVIVAL
The Chrtetain Church has ar-
ranged to postpone {its revival
meeting, until the Methodist
Meeting which is announced to
begin Feb. 11th. over. Arrange,
ments have been made with
Evanglist Ernest House to begin
the Christian Church Revival
immediately at the close of the
Methodist Meeting.
FIRST ZERO
WEATHER!
Cold Wave Sweeps Down from
North' Pole Following
^Varm Days.
After several days so warm
and spring-like that instinctively
one's fancy turned to garden-
ing, ice-cream-sodas and low-cut
shoes, with customary fickleness
the wind changed suddenly Wed-
nesday morning, snd the bottom
dropped clear out of the ther-
mometer. The temperature
dropped steadily until it reached
ten below, Thursday morning—
the coldest weather of the seas-
on.
The River is frozen over so
that it wili bear up a team. The
usual number of cases of frost-
bitten ears and fingers and froz-
en pumps and pipes were report-
ed.
Fortunately there is a plentiful
supply of coal and other fuel in
town.
CALLED TO M1NCO
BY DEATH OF SON
Mr. and Mra. J. H. Comer
were called to#Minco, Monday,
by the death of their son. Earl
Sutherlin.
GONE AGAIN
After trying for six weeks to
resusticate the Terlton Enter-
prise, R. M. Phillips has given
up the job. Terlton doesn't need
a newspaper—it needs an under-
taker.
Mra. A. Levick went to Okla-
homa City,* the latter part of last
week, to visit her daughter
Laverne, who is attending
school at that place.
The Santa Fe surveyors are
now twelve miles this side of
Pawhuska. They should be get-
ting in here within the next few
days.
For Sale: A 7-8 Percheron filly
coming three years old. lExtra
fine, weighs 1335 lbs., $260 if
taken this month. — U. A. Ross.
MOVING TO WICHITA
B. F. Casto and family, who
have lived near Ralston for sev-
eral years, left, Tuesday, for
Wichita, Kansas, where they
will mgke their home. Their ad-
dress will be 105 W. 23d Street.
Buy your meats and other eats, Tho Tribune solicits your job
at McSpsdden's. printing.
J. D. Coombs, of Kendrick,
Okls.. spent several days in this
city, the past week, visiting his
daughter, Mra. S. A. Clark.
Bert Reed, of Newton, Kans.,
and Roy Reed, of Tulsa, are here
visiting their mother, Mrs. E.
Reed.
- - — m I
Wanted: To plow your garden.
Get your order in early.-Rals-
ton Dray Line.
Bert and Grey Reed left, Sun-
day, for Iowa to spend the sum-
mer.
Spend your money in Ralston-
ELECTRICITY AT LOW RATES
Pubtie-Owned Powar Plant, with an
Enormous Capacity, Proposed
for Niagara Fall#.
Jn the hope of bringiug about the
establishment of a state-municipal
hydro-electric plant at Niagara Falla
that could supply current at low
rales to towns in western New York,
an association of business men’s or-
ganizations of Buffalo and nearby
communities haa been formed to
promote a new ifater-power develop-
ment scheme, according to Popular
Mechanics Magazine. The body, is
cudeavoring to obtain from the gov-
ernment the right to take a flow
amounting to 4,400 cubic feet a sec-
ond from above the falls. This is
possible nnder the existing treaty
with Canada. In addition it ia
planned that the 600 cubic lent of
sewage disposal water from the town
of Niagara Falla should l*e utilized,
making in all 6,000 cubic feet, or
enough to produce 100,000 hone
jxmer.
The main volume of water would
be conducted through to 18-foot un-
derground conduit*. These would
lead to eight or ten perpendicular
penstocks connecting 10,000 or 12,-
000 horse power turbines located in
a partly concealed subterranean
power house constructed in an ex-
cavation at the bottom of the cliff
near the American falls on the New
York state reservation. The front
side of the power house would be
flush with the cliff wall and of glass
and steel construction. It, as well
as its observation gullerie* overlook-
s
ALL HI HAD.
Lord Korthcliffe, in one of his let-
ters from the front, describes some
of the minor works of the great
army now in the field. One depart-
ment cares for the property of the
dead soldiers. This is sent in large
bundles from the field, and each in-
dividual parcel finally sent to ita
proper destination. ‘T watched/’
says Lord korthcliffe, “the opening
of one such pathetic parcel during
the final checking. It contained a
few peace, a pipe, a photo of wife
and bairu, a trench ring made of
aluminum of an enemy fuse, a small
diaryt and a pouch. It was all the
INEFFECTUAL AUTHORITY.
“Bliggins has a wonderful com-
mand of language.”
*1 don’t know,” rejoined Mr.
Growchcr. “He threshes it around a
great deal. But he seems to have a
great d< al of Jitlicultv in making it
tall the truth”
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