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The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-07-11
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Land On ce at Guthrie 0. T.,
June 10" 1896.
Notice is hereby gwen that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof
10 support of his claim, aud that said
proof will be made before Register
and Receiver u S. Land Office at
Guthrie .. T., on Aug. 49," 1896
viz: David Walker for William l..
Walker, Allie Underwood, and David
Walker heirs OF James NJ. Walker
deceased for the N. E. IA Of Sec II
Twp. IL, n. Of II. W.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
on and cultivation OF, said land, viz:
John Ellis, Of Guthrie d. r.
Sylvester Latin, OF :"
William Bates, of Z"
Shuble Y. Seeds, OF
A N. j. Crook. .REolsrss,
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will spend his remaining years in Newark
n. j., his old home.

will spend his remaining years in Newark,
n. j.. his old home.
Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker
has been reelected president of the Penn
sylvanh Sabbath School association.
Archbishop Machray. the prmate of Can
ada, who has just returned to the Dominion,
is the tallest bishop in the world.
There are two places in London where
clergymen can buy sermons already printed
They cover all subjects and can be had for
every season.
Rev. Helen Van Anderson has become
pastor Of the new Church Of the Higher Life
. in Boston. She was born in Iowa and is
about 80 years old.
1t Is estimated that the removals of the
Wesleyan Methodist ministers and their fam
lilies and luggage this year in England have
cost not less than Sl25,0O0.
Miss Fannie Whelan of Washington is the
treasurer OF a fund now being raised by
prominent Catholics in Washington and Bal
timore to be presented to Bishop Keane, who
is at present the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
O'Connell of San Jose, Cal. at is a well
known fact" says the Baltimore American,
that when he shook the dust of the Cath
olic university from his feet and with panied
and sorrowful heart started for California,
where he is now, he was practically penni-
less. Bishop Keane's income has been dis
pensed In charity these many years. He
cared nothing for money, save when he
could get 1t for the advancement of the
university, for which he collected hundreds
OF thousands, and when he could relieve
some destitute case which might be brought
to his notice."
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many times by death and disease its veins
steadily filling again with the best blood OF
the nation, fighting against the Navajos and
the Apaches in all the exciting Indian cam
palgns from 1910 to 1860, until when the ele-
monts OF the greatest civil war OF history
were a-mixing, II was ordered to the north
and from it's long service on the soil of the
south. Passing through San Antonio, Tex
It was suggested that the regiment march
around, rather than through, tho principal
streets OF the southern city, where the SYM
pathy with the cause OF the south was so
pronounced. council OF the officers OF the
regiment was called and 1t was unanimously
decided that 1t would never do for the Oldest
regiment In the army, regiment which had
never been in the habit OF travelling rounda>
bout when the main travelled road was open
lit would never do for such a regiment to
change its policy under such conditions; So
bedecked for the occasion in the finest garb
OF their wardrobes, with, as writer OF the
day said, "the regimental colors flying, the
band playing and every man and officer as
fine as brass and bullion could make him."
the old Third marched onward through the
streets Of the southern city to take Its place
In the great conflict then impending.
PRISONERS OF WAR IN FLORIDA.
Three OF the companies OF the regiment,
A. II and /, were captured by the enemy
in the earlier part OF the war, In Florida.
Their reputation was well known In the
south, and It was generally conceded that
Il was one OF the best drilled and most i'm
portant military bodies on the continent,
80 every effort was made to induce the mem
bers OF these companies to renounce al
legiance to tho general government and
take up the cause OF the south. The men,
bers OF the companies were offered positions
as officers in the southern army, aid no
doubt there were few OF them who were
not far better fitted for high positions than
a very large number OF the volunteer sol
diers, north or south. But the captured
companies remained steadfastly loyal TO the
government and. after parole. Joined their
regiment In the north and fought on through
the campaign.
From the outset OF the civil war the
Third was In the height Of battle. II won
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were put in and the price was put up to
10 cents, then to 10, then to 25, and now
1t is SO high that produced gas is able to
compete with 1t.
What is true Of Pittsburg is true OF hun
dreds of other localities. The town of Find
lay, o., sprung from 5000 to 10000 in two
years There, you know, they struck the
the famous Karg we'll, whose flow ranged
around 100000 or ~ 900 feet per day,
and then still larger one whose flow Of
3O.O00,00 feet at first was Is, 600 feet
when 1t settled down to steady work. Con-
template this enormous how-there was lit
orally so much gas that the people did not
know what to do with 1t, and then remem-
ber that for a long time 1t was thought the
flow would last forever. Here you have all
the conditions for waste In the most reck-
less fashion.
AS soon as drilling for gas became a reg
uiar industry the cost of the wells was
brought down to a minimum, and there
was seldom a place where "wild-catter"
could not 20 and raise money to drive
hole. The cost OF the wells ranged from
81 500 to $500, In the neighborhood
around Pittsburg. where II was necessary
to 60 down 800 to q, 800 feet. AS you went
westward this steadily declined. so that In
many localities in Ohio and Indiana the
cost OF we'll was not over 81 200 and 81 800,
and around Erie and Buffalo only $500 or
1900.
GAS TORCHES FOR FARMS.
At this rate II was often cheaper TO drive
well than to lay even short pipe line
to one already in existence. In fact In
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of falling fields. Very often factories that
were built up over gas well have been
compelled to move elsewhere in order to get
cheaper fuel and power. Plants that were
worth millions of dollars have had to add
coal bunkers. now that the gas has given
out. In many places too, towns and cities
went to large expense to build extensive
piping systems and very often elaborate
plants to make the natural gas suitable for
lighting purposes In many places where
this was done the supply has given out and
these plants made worthless unless other
plants for the regular manufacture of gas
have been added.
AN ESTIMATE OF THE WASTE
1t is impossible to compute the extent OF
the failure of the gas fields or to put the
wastage into dollars. An attempt to do so
would be nothing more than the widest
guess. But it is possible to get some idea
of the reduced flow from the fact that, ac-
cording to the figures of government experts,
the amount of coal displaced by natural
gas is now about half what II was five Of
six years ago. Add to this the fact that
the gas is now being used at a few ounces
pressure, where before it was used at six
or eight pounds, and you get some notion
OF the difference.
Then as to the waste. If 500 900, 900 900
feet were actually consumed in 1882 as the
census experts estimated 1t is safe to say
that in the ten years the total production,
counting all that was consumed and all that
was never used at all, must have been above
five thousand billion feet. l be-
lieve the latter figure would actu-
ally be far under the mark. At
an average of cents thousand feet,
which is far under the average value OF the
gas at the present time, the total value of
the gas produced in these ten years would
be $3.50 900, 900. What proportion of this
was actually wasted. no man, of course,
could say. My own view, as | have already
stated, is that fully nineteen-twentieths was
absolutely thrown away.
The finale of the story is this: II any,
thing like an approach to ordinary eco
nomical use had been made there would be
still gas enough to last for generations.
From not spending a few dollars to put a
cap over the unused wells, many a city
throughout the gas regions now languishes
and many a man, who let his gas go to
waste would now be independently wealthy,
or If he did not use the gas would leave
heritage for his children, II he had merely
taken the precaution to spend few dollars
for one of these same caps.
All told, the waste OF our natural gas Is
the most reckless example know OF n per-
fectly needless and reckless dissipation OF
one Of the greatest natural resources OF
the country. Yet do not doubt that II
new gas field Of equal value were to be
found the same story would be repeated in
almost every detail.
H. i. JOKOSA, Phi, ID.
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some localities every farmer was his own
gas company. Out in Indiana there were
four farmers who put down well for
$1,000 that supplied them with all the fuel
they could use for heating their houses
and running their farm machinery and left
enough over to light a torch that ilumi-
mated all four farms They could go plow-
ing and harvesting at night.
In Fostoria and Findlay and Muncie and
hundreds of other places. the wells were
allowed to burn all the time Just for the
line sight they afforded at night. And it
didn't even seem worth while to put them
out by day. The roar OF those wells still
rings in the ars of the people who heard
them, but in many places the torches are
eXtinguished and they will never be lighted
again.
You ask why all this reckless waste was
continued even in the face of the fact
that many fields failed after a short time
Well, in the case of the furnaces, there
was for time a theory that high pres
sure was needed to insure perfect COM
bustion They drove the gas into the
furnaces with the velocity of a cyclone
The result was that the great bulk of 1t
was never burned in the furnaces at all,
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It's first recognition at the first opportunity
which presented itself, when II showed It's
splendid qualities by It's mastery covering
OF the flight OF the army at the first battle
OF Bull Run. Lieutenant ]. ii. McRae OF
the Third, the historian OF the regiment,
and to whose statistics I am indebted for
the skeleton OF the regiments movements
above given, says OF the regiment at this
first battle OF Bull Run:
Its gallant conduct In this, the first
great battle OF the war, It's un1lnching
steadfastness and perfect order In covering
the flight OF the panc-strcken army, was
but presage of that which was to dis
tinguieh 1t throughout the war"
IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Many times during the civil war the
fighting qualities OF the Third were called
into play. 1t took part in twenty-one
battles and sieges losing in killed, wounded
and missing 267 men, a number equal to Its
average strength during the war. After
1t led the noble column at the close Of the
war In that last grand review before the
president in the city OF Washington, chosen
from all the forces for this high honor, 1t
once more became a frontier regiment, and
since that time IL has been engaged in i'm
portant Indian campaigns in the west and
southwest, aiding, too, in the suppression OF
the Pennsylvania riots in 1871 and at other
times in putting down riots in various parts
of the country. 1t was honored by having
a prominent part assigned 1t at the dedica-
tory exercises OF the Columbian exposition
at Chicago.
In the year 1883 the Third became the
post regiment at Fort Smelling located
at a strategic point on the upper Mississippi,
and covering several thousand miles of
Indian territory, and within a twelve-hour
ride of Chicago and other western cities
in the Mississippi valley.
This regiment has drawn from the very
best fighting blood of successive genera
tions of Americans. 1t has not only fought
through all the campaigns of the century,
but it has furnished other commands with
leaders, helped to deplete exhausted reg
iments, set a fine pattern OF soldierly sta
bility for the incoming bodies of volun-
tcers.
NOTED COI.ONELS OF THE THIRD"
Some Of its commanders have been prom
inent in the military and civil life OF the
nation-such men as General Zachary Tay-
lor, afterwards president of the United
States; General Anthony Wayne; Major
Charles X. Gardner, author of the system
by which companies are designated by let
ters of the alphabet; Colonel Leavenworth
who selected the present site of Fort Leav-
enworth, and who was a leading military
figure; Colonel Benjamin s. E. Bonneville,
whose life and adventures Irving has so hap
PLY described. From the regimental Off
GERS who served in the war with Mexico, six
major generals of volunteers were con-
tributed to the federal armies OF the civil
war, and one major general and one brig
adler general to the southern forces.
And what revolution, or perhaps IL
would he better to call 1t an evolution, this
regiment has witnessed as 1t has marched
onward through the century, an evolution in
arms, in accoutrements, in uniforms; in
deed, 1t has seen marked changes
in the very flag itself. When the
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regiment was organized President
Washington had been engaged with the
republic of France in that charming inter-
national episode, when the colors of the
two nations were exchanged in such formal
and inspiring manner in the congressional
halls of the two republics. The flag was
then the same in colors as that of the sis
ter republic over the seas, though II had
the five pointed stars belonging to the her.
aldic device OF the house Of Washington,
and with them the stripes or bars OF the
great generals arms, the first suggestion
Of the banner of the new nation.
1T SAW THE FLAG CHANGE.
The flag then had but its thirteen stars,
but as the Third has carried 1t on through
the century it has seen the white stars
grow and grow In number on the beautiful
azure field, while the nation has been
giving mighty birth to noble states, until
today upon the ensign which floats atop
the milk-white flagstaff on the wide-hori-
zoned parade ground of the regiment there
are forty-five snowy stars, steadfast tokens
OF tho nations steadfast states.
When the regiment received Its formal
commission as a military body of the army
OF the United States, its uniform was more
or less nondescript in style, though the pre-
vailing continental garb was followed.
There were the long coat, caught back at
the bottom of the skirt by buttons, showing
the moro or less gay facings, the snug.
spruce waistcoat. bright of hue, the
knee-breeches and leathern leggings. When
tho century was young the leggngs had
heightened out to the conventional panta-
looms of today, the coat had lost a good
deal of its continentalism, and the three
cornered hat had given way to the stin
tall one with Its gay cockade. AS the garb
Of the nation changed the regiment took
on new dress, and as the years passed the
arms OF the regiment changed in style,
though not so markedly as the uniform.
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the regiments OF the army in this country.
While the Chinese made use OF a breech-
loading gun at least as early as the year
1913. the arms OF the regiments OF the nine
teenth century were. until some time after
the civil war, almost wholly OF the muzzle-
loading type. Indeed, 1t is estimated that
very large per cent, perhaps seven-eighths,
Of the soldiers OF the war OF the rebellion
carried muzzle-loading muskets
The Third has kept pace with the ad-
vancement of the equipment OF the years,
and Its arms and accoutrements are now,
OF course, OF the most approved modern
pattern. When the regiment was organized
tho war forces OF tho nation, thanks to the
patience and the skill OF the irascible, many
oathed Baron Steuben, the inspector of the
continental army, had somewhat emerged
from the chaos In which he found them
when he came over the seas to the aid OF
the struggling states. Could that profane
but invaluable old drill master, who was
wont to swear at the clumsy contlnentals in
all Of the languages at his command, have
visited the Third at its centennial celebra-
ton he must needs have been deeply grati-
fed at the show OF earnest discipline, the
marked attention to details, the complete
soldierllness which were so striven for when
he was in the charge OF the raw recruits
of the revolution.
THE THIRD NOT IDLE TODAY.
The rcgimental life of this historic body
Is not now so full OF stirring events as in
the days of battle but the regiment is by
no means leading an idle life. The post
duties are full Of education. There are
practical military maneuverings, OCCASIONAL
jaunts overland to put in practice the arts
of war, long summer days spent in camp
where the regiment follows active army
life to the letter; these and the carefully
kept up drills, and study, and lectures
and the like, give to the present members
Of the regiment opportunities for such ad-
vancement as were not possible in the days
when 1t was campaigning in Mexico. or
sweltering in the swamps OF Florida, or
fighting red men on the frontier, or battling
with undaunted courage through the most
terrible civil war of history.
The members of this, the oldest regiment
in the army of the United States, are very
proud OF Its history as they gather in the
autumn days to celebrate the Tooth anniver-
sary OF its birth. The regiment begins it's
second century under far different condl-
tions than those which prevailed when II
received its baptism of blood at old Fort
Recovery under the splendid command OF
Mad" Anthony Wayne, but 1t shall not be
said when another century ends-if, indeed,
there shall be any need of men of war in
that far day-that in it's second century 1t
was more loyal to its native land, more
brave in battle, more potent as a pattern
for all who would win success in the mad
game OF war than in the first hundred years
OF its life now so happily concluded in this
unique centenary celebration
w. S. HARDWOOD.
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were wasted in the way that the gas was
used. Take the city of Puttsburg as an
example. There, today, natural gas is
burned under a pressure OF half an ounce:
For years it has been under pressure OIL
eight pounds that Is to say, at sixty times
the pressure that 1t is now used Ana
even this is fully four times as strong
a pressure as would be required for use
in the most economical way.
N-TWENTIETHS WASTED.
1t will not, of course, be fair to jump
at the conclusion that something like 250
times as much gas was burned up as was
actually required but still, think 1t
could be said that at least 19-2Oths OF all
the gas used in PttsbGrg was absolutely,
recklessly and crminally wasted l
speak by the card when l say that In five
years Pittsburg burned up enough gas
to supply all its factories and furnace for
the next century. And dearly now is it
paying for its folly. In the flush times
of the boom, gas was sold in Pittsburg
at or cents per 1000 feet. 1t was
piped through the streets and sold
in the houses. at first under contract, at
perhaps not more than twice this. Then
when the supply began to fail, meters
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as valiantly for the preservation of the
country or the repelling Of a foreign foe.
Circumstances and time and history, how
ever, have given this body particular fitness
for recognition.
1t is the oldest regiment in the regular
army OF the United States The original
First was established in June, 1884. This.
by subsequent consolidation was merged
into the present Third, so that 1t is, in real
ity, decade more than century old. On
March s, 1892, congress authorized the formal
establishment of the regiment. 1t was then
known as the infantry of the Third sub
legion. AS the army was reorganized In
November, 1896, when the infantry OF the
Third Sub-legion became the Third regiment
of infantry, the latter becomes 100 years old
In November. 1896.
This is the same regiment which fought
under Mad" Anthony Wayne when he
led his forces with impetuous ardor against
the Indians OF the northwestern border;
which was so powerful factor in the war
of 1912; which passed a decade or more OF
its life in the Great Lakes region when the
feeble garrisons along the inland seas were
so sorely in need of its staunch aid; which
was foremost in the long and trying cam
paign in Florida, where IL maintained the
splendid reputation as an Indian fighter
which IL has kept for a century. 1t Is the
same regiment which, when Texas would
maintain her own definition of the boundary
line between her and Mexico, was ordered
W thc sou'HMoSt' "hSie' thioubh that spll-
tied and picturesque campaign, 1t fought
Its way at Palo Alto, at Resaca de la Palma.
at Monterey, at the siege and capture OF
Vera Cruz, then onward under Scott on
that irresistible march straight to the cit
adel OF the Mexican capital. After the
brilliant battle OF Churuhusco. when the
Third led the deciding charge, and when
the colors of the regiment were the first
to be flung from the parapet OF the old con-
vent, the regiment was one of the first to
march into the conquered city over which
foated the flag OF its nation.
A CAREER or GLORY.
So onward the regiment fought, depleted
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but went up In clouds of smoke through
the chimney Then again. there were
billions of feet OF natural gas burned sim
ply in the manufacture OF lampblack. No.
body ever thought of using the gas twice,
even where 1t was perfectly feasible to do
so.
THE GAS WAS FREE TO ALL.
Some OF the companies tried to stop this
sort of thing. but what could they do?
Anybody could put down a WELL and pipe
gas. and the result was that the compa.
MES were absolutely at the mercy OF the
consumers. Tho latter could do just what
they pleased. In Pittsburg the Philadel-
phla company alone at one time supplied
1000 million cubic feet OF gas per day.
And 1t was only one OF dozen or more
distributors. Most of the gas was used
under contract, or else four or five neigh
boring factory owners would combine and
build q pipe line for themselves. Then
everyone used just as much as lie could,
for fear someone else would get more,
and then swore that the other parties
were getting all the gas In the case Of
the furnaces, many OF them were kept at
white heat all the time, day and night
whether they were In use or not. II any
body expostulated, the foreman would ex-
plain that the men had forgotten to turn
off the supply.
Now note the result. In Pittsburg, as j
said, the price OF natural gas has risen 80
high that manufactured gas successfully
competes with II. All over the whole area
where gas is found. there Is the same story