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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
GOOD YEAR FOR OIL men
IN INDIANA AND OHIO FIELDS $500
WELLS WERE COMPLETED.
over sI7,OOO,OOO Expended and the
Returns Were Nearly Double That
AmOunt-YearIy Review.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

TOLEDO. O., Dec. 31.-The year of 1903
has developed into one of the most pros
porous in the history of crude oil develop
ments in the Trenton rock oil fields of Ohio
and Indiana. During the year S,5Oi
wells were completed in the two States
at a cost of over 100000. The production
of the product has amounted TO double that
amount, showing a remarkable profit TO the
operator and farmer, the farmer getting
the big end of it as he has no outlay for his
interest. The wells of the two States Tor
the year were divided as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Totals
The above wells were completed i'm the
various counties during the year, and show
that Allen county leads for the year:
Totals
The Indiana Field.

The Indiana oil field is making most re-
markable strides. and is being closely
watched by the oil trade all over the world.
II is the most important field in existence
at the present time. The coming output of
the State must be increased from now on
10 furnish it's quota of high-grade oil for
illuminating purposes. Since oil and gas
were first found in the State there have
been 26.49l wells drilled in. These wells
wara drilled bY wears as follows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
Totals
The wells as above given are divided
among the various counties as follows:

The figures show that Wood county has
as many wells as any two other counties
combined in the Trenton Rock oil fields.
During the year of 1903 but very few
wells above the hundred-barrel mark has
been opened up in northwestern Ohio. The
largest we'll of the season was on the Bishop
farm in Bloom township, Wood county, and
ii did only 300 barrels. The production of the
field is gradually on the decline, and the
large number of wells completed each month
fails to keep the average output to where ii
was at the opening of the year. The follow
ing wells were completed each month dur
ing the year in northwestern Ohio:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
In Northwestern Ohio.

There are more than twenty of the coun-
ties of Northwestern Ohio that are listed
as oil counties. AT least a dozen are listed
as heavy producers and the balance are yet
to be thoroughly tested. showing that there
still remains plenty of undrilled acreage to
keep the trade at work for years to come.
In these various counties the following
wells have been completed yearly:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
YEAR-END QUOTATIONS
FOR LOCAL SECURITIES.

The following table shows the market
value (bid price, of local stocks and bonds.
at the call of the Stock Exchange yester-
day, compared with the exchange quota
tons Dec. 81, last year:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
COMPARATIVE QUOTATIONS.

The following table shows the condition
of stocks Dec. 81, 1903, - indicated by the
quotations. compared with the quotations
Dec. 81, 1902:
RAILROADS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01
THE YEAR 1908 In STOCKS
FINANCIALLY PAST YEAR HOST MO-
MENTOUS OF THE DECADE.
Too Much "High Financiering' In
for 10 Is GOOd-Resume Of Year.

CONCLUDED FROM PAGE tenn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01

Nominal. equivalent to 22S a year ago.
f"Equivalent TO 81 a year ago. **ssEquiva-
lent to 5O4 a year ago. *s**sEquivaIent to
$50 a year ago.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

James T. Mcclure will take notice that on the
18th day Of March, 1904, George n. Riser jus-s
tlce Of the peace Of Lincoln, Lancaster County,
Nebraska, issued an order of attachment for the
sum of 5000, in an action pending before him,
wherein Joseph NJ. Griffen Is plaintiff, and James
T. Mcclure, defendant, that property Of the de-
PENDANT consisting of 1898 has been attached
under said order. Said cause was continued to
the I'd day of May, 1904, at am.
J0SEPHM M. GRIFFEN,
Plaintiff,
BY JOHN ]. LEDWITH and w. M. MORNING.,
his Attorneys.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07
Notes on Progress OF
the Club Organization
By 10 A. Parker.
POPULIST CLUBS.

populist to the core. 1t Is hard to
beat one of these old Peter Cooper
greenbackers that have come all the
way over the trail and have never par
! ticipated in fusion in any shape. |
am sixty-six years old the I'd day
of next month, and have been thirty
years of my life in the reform move
ment, and feel just as young in the
cause as did thirty years ago, and
| just as vigorous as ever, and more so,
| if possible, although / have had some
rough sailing during my thirty years.
voyage, and have had many, many
hard falls, since l first met to organ
ize Peter Cooper club in a little old
log cabin isolated in the mountains
of Arkansas, in 1874, and notwith-
standing all the ups and downs since
then l have kept the banner of lib
erty on the enemies breastworks all
those long years of watching, and in
my feeble old hands still grasp the
staff and say, On, boys, to victory!'"
| If we had one loyal worker like this
grand old brother in each county it
would only be a few days until We
| would have the machinery from ocean
to ocean to nominate by referendum
vote and the party would build around
the nucleus thus afforded to become
strong and great. The work would
start perhaps with five in the county,
but others would see that they would
have to join if they wanted a voice in
the party, and as the weeks go by tie
enrolment would increase more rap
| idly and the organization would be-
come permanent. At first there is
| only one to organize-the organizer;
but after the permanent official club
is formed then every member is also
an organizer, and thus the member
ship increases in geometrical proper
ton. The first duty of the loyal pop
ulist who wants no monkey business
in politics is to see that a club is or
ganized in his county.
The second club to be organized Was
| in Trinity county, Texas, where Bro.
W. F. Hale sends in the following
charter membership: T. T. Thorn
ton, chairman; S. R. Johnston, vice
chairman w. F. Hale, secretary-treas-
ui .. u. SouAG ACyJ W.. -. JOAAoIOlA,
executive committee; all of Groveton,
Tex. The membership of this club
numbers on its rolls men whose names
are well known to the Old Guard pop
Iuiists of the great Lone Star State.
Club No. 3 comes from Sunny Ter.
nessee," Clay county, by Bro. John
j. Miles of Miles X Roads. The FOL-
loving Is the membership: jean :.
Miles, president; Bur Harris, vice
president; S. J. Clark, secretary; }.
VI Intrcll, chairman for next meet
ing, y. G. Clark, S. r. Robards, j, 5.
Browning, James Carnahan, H.
Browning, Dick York, and the follow
ing ladies: M A. Miles, Ev. Brown-
ing, Mary Gravens and S. A. Littrell.
Bro. Miles writes that he is going to
organize the county thoroughly. Tie
good people of Tennessee want a
chance to vote direct on the nominee
for president as well as other mat
tiers concerning the party, and they
know that the official club system is
the only way this can be done. 4
Club No. comes from the great
city Of Cincinnati, showing that this
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF NEBRASKA.
OFFICE Of
AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.


AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
LINCOLN, February LIST, 1904.
tits hereby certified, That the New York Life
Insurance Company of New York, in the state
of New York has complied with the Insurance
Law OF this state applicable to such companies
and is therefore authorized to continue the bus
mess of life insurance in this state for the cur
rent year ending January S1st, 1905.
SUMMARY OF REPORT FILED FOR THE YEAR
ENDING DECEMBER 3lsT, 1903
INCOME.
Premiums. =. i. -. S73. 49,. 174.10
All other sources. Ia, 1857 .S57.3I
Total. ....................... 81, 269, 31.4
DISBURSEMENTS
Paid policy holders. S34, 604, 246.96
All other payments. 1S,279,214.49
Total. s 50. $50, 1915
Admitted Assets. Observation-Disclosures. s52, 2047.57
LIABILITIES
Net Reserve. $500. $500 600, 347.OO
Net Policy Claims. 2,5S0,i73.f1
All other liabilities 1887 2274 40 1852 1852 04757
Total Observation-Disclosures. 1857. 652 047.57
Witness my hand and the seal of the Auditor
of Public Accounts the day and year first above
written. CHARLES WESTON,
fsEA11 Auditor of Public Accounts.
JOHN L. PIERCE. Deputy.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

The work of organizing peoples par
ty clubs as provided by the meeting of
the allied peoples party committee at
st. Louis, with the view of furnishing
a nucleus around which to build q
party organization direct from inc
people, with popular control OF the
party and its nominations, is proceed
ing much slower than its advocates
expected, and, indeed, much slower
than it would have done had both
committees agreed upon the plan OF
action, and made it mandatory in or
der to have voice in party councils.
Until this is done there will never be
potent club system, and the talk OF
nominating by referendum Will De
mere moonshine. There is a right way
and a wrong way to do everything. II
we want to nominate candidates, make
platforms, etc., by referendum we must
have system by which this can be
done, safeguarded so as to prevent er-
rOrs or Intentional fraud, and so ar
ranged as to give every member fair
and free voice in the councils OF the
party. The further work of this sys-
tenn will be to furnish The revenue
necessary to run the patty. To talk
or think Of running great political
party without money is folly. Who is
going to furnish the money? In the
past we have depended upon the few
faithful souls who have for years an
swered our appeals and sent their
mites to headquarters. This has worn
these few threadbare. Many of them
are now old and poor and cannot spare
the money; others are tired OF being
constantly appealed to. They are not
in position to know what the money
goes for, or what it is required lof.
So we had as well abandon that sys-
TEN, once for all; and besides, 1T IS
not fair that few should bear all the
burdens of this movement, when, by
the right kind of system, the load will
be distributed among the membership
SO that none will feel it. The dues
system is the only way to raise rev.
enue. To conduct the affairs of a ma
tional party will require thousands OF
dollars annually. We should learn
from the socialists the efficacy of a
dues system. Some may object to it,
many undoubtedly will, but any mcm-
Der who is able to pay five cents a
month and who will not do. so to carry
on this work Is not a very desirable
refOrmer.
AS before said, the progress to this
date has been slow. However, in few
localities good, earnest workers have
already done what could have been
done in every county by this time, and
thus afforded splendid system of OIL
ganization, and the means to nominate
by a referendum vote.
The first club in the United States
to be organized under this plan Was
organized in Callahan county, Texas
by that veteran reformer known SO
well among stalwart Texas populists,
R. T. Short, of Putnam, Tex Tie
charter members were R. T. Short, F.
M. Short, ]. M Bradley, j. S. Burn
ham, and H. G. Clemmer, all of Put
nam. r. T.. Short is secretary When
notified that he had organized the first
club, Bro Short wrote: II was sur
prised to learn that ours was the first
application in the United States how
ever l am wide awake, duly sober ard
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

While am nominating candidates
and proposing good men. win say
that know Of no man In the United
States who would more admirably uu-
tie all factions OF the party under hIs
leadership aa national chairman than
James III. Ferrlss OF Joliet. III. While
he has always been staunch mid
reader. has never Hlckered or served
tho enemy, YET he has preserved cor
dial relations with tho fusion elemcut.
many Of whom are too prcJudiced
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

Since the meeting OF the allied peo-
Pies party national committee nj 81.
Louis In February the following con-
trlbutlons have been made to assist
The work; u, u. McColliater, Mangnm.
OKLA 81; DIR. H. II. Reemclln. Clncln-
natl. o., 81; ". w. Pirtle. Hartford.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

KY, 81; Rev. A. E. Nelson, st. LOUIS.
S5; total. SIG. Total received from
club enrollments has been S7.25.
Grand total, s23.25.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

The work of enrolling the Old Guard
being done by Bro. Chas. Q. De France
OF Lincoln, Neb.. Is very laudable
work, and shows the utmost care and
tireless effort Mr.. De France shows
by his systematic work that he would
make an admirable secretary OF the
national committee Of the reunited
party. That Office requires a man who
will work. who knows how to work
to an advantage. and who Ia perfectly
sincere. These qualifications NJ Bro.
DE France admirably.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

Organize your county at once on
the club system for you may need tho
club To protect you before the cam
paign Is over.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-07

Bro. J. G. Rawls of Floresville, VIII
son county, Tex, comes forward with
the fifth club organized, with the fol-
lowing members: 1. T. Bell, J. c.
Rawls, chairman; A. M. Dennis, S. M.
Lynn, Samuel Reed and w. P. Graves,
all of Floresville These are all good
workers in the cause and will speedily
build around them large organiza-
ton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
Car Bnrns DESTROYED.

Chicago, March 21.-Fire, said to
have been of incendiary origin, destroyed
the car barns of the Chicago Union
Traction Company last night, injuring
men and entailing a loss of 5000, 0O0
These are the second car barns to be
destroyed by fire within a week. AS
the result of the blaze the west side lines
were crippled today. Two fires started
simultaneously, one at the northeast and
one at the southwest corner of the barn.
The fremen we're hampered and endan-
gered by the live trolley wires in the
street Three hundred and thirty.two
cars have been lost by the Union Trac-
ton Company in the two fires of the
week past.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
TOday's Telegraphic News
Eartbouake i'm New England.

Boston, March 21.-At 1870 O'Clock
this morning Boston was shaken by an
earthquake. The shock was felt dis
tinctly by most persons who were awake
at that hour, and startled the slumbers
of some who were asleep. There was
no loss of life or property in the imme-
diate vicinity of Boston. The earth
quake was also felt throughout the
eastern part of New England, the yibra-
tons extended from st. John, n. b.,
to Connecticut No damage has been
reported, except at Augusta, Maine,
where chimneys were shaken down and
crockery in several houses was smashed,
and in Portland and Bangor, where
slight damage was done to several build
ings. At the astronomical observatory
at Harvard, in Cambridge, the water in
a tank in one OF the rooms of the OBJ
servatory stopped over as a result of the
disturbance. In Chelsea and Everett
vases were shaken off shelves and glass
broken, waking sleepers in the dead Of
night. Peculiarly enough, people sleep
ing on floors level with the street heard
nothing.
Montreal, March 2l.-A slight earth
quake shock was felt through the province
of Quebec, also in New Brunswick, at
about one o'clock this morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
Virginia News.

William Burdette Lewis, of Vienna,
died on Friday, aged &c years.
Robert II. Mays died at his home at
Amherst Friday night. Mr.. Mays was
a prominent farmer and is survived by a
large family.
1t is said that pressure will be
broght to bear to induce District Attor-
new Lewis to run as the republican
nominee for Governor.
Fire on Saturday morning at 4 o clock
DESTROYED the building of the Piedmont
Industrial School, colored, on Rose Hill,
north of Charlottesville, together with
Is contents.
Eugene E. Mayo, son of Joseph r.
Mayo, and Miss Nellie Virts, daughter
Of Isaiah Virts, both of LOudoun coun-
~, were married near Elvan, that coun-
ty, on Friday.
James r. Gordon has announced his
candidacy for Mayor of Richmond against
r. NJ. Taylor, the incumbent. City Ac-
countant Carlton Mccarthy has recon-
sidered bis intention to enter the race.
Hoge Crockett was shot and instantly
killed by Tom Sayers Friday evening at
McGuire's store, in Tazewell county.
The difficulty grew out of fight which
had occurred a short time ago between
Crockett and Tom Sayers' son.
A rural free-delivery route has been
established, to commence April. Broad
run, Fauquier County (Route No. y
Length of route, 10 miles area covered,
II square miles population served, $50
number of houses on route, SO.
DR.. g. w. Carmichael, a prominent
physician of Fredericksburg, died on
Friday night, aged seventy.three years.
He was surgeon in the Confederate
army, and practiced his profession in
Fredericksburg for fifty years, being the
third generation of physicians of his fam
lily there. He is survived by five
children.
The University of Virginia won in its
contest with DR.. G. G. Cannady, ofRoa-
noke, for the possession Of the body of
Henry Williams, who WAS hanged there
on Friday The court ordered the body
turned over to the university, and it was
shipped to Charlottesville. Williams
mother had given Dr. Cannady on order
for her sons remains, but the University
of Virginia made application first.
The large barn and stables on the
Huntingdon farm, near BOyce, belong
ing to Mr.. Clay Carr, we're destroyed by
fire Friday night. Eight head Of horses,
ten of cattle and large quantity of corn,
hay and other feed, together with num-
Der Of farming implements, machinery,
harness, buggies and carriages, were
burned. The loss will amount to seve-
raj thousand dollars, partly covered by
insurance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
The Miners.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 21.-The
mining contract to govern coal mining
in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, Governing working condi-
tons, and wages of their III, GOO miners
for the next two years, was signed and
believed in duplicate by the opera
tors and miners scale committee
this morning. The contract will
be in force until April 1st, 1906.
On that date also will expire the
contract in the anthracite districts
which consists of anthracite strike COM
MISSIONS award. The Interstate joint
conference relations were re-established
today by the date being sent for the next
conference for February 1906. The bonds
of friendship between the operators and
miners seem to have been greatly strength
ened.
Altoona, Pa. March 2l.-The btu
minous coal miners of Central Pennsyl-
yania will meet in convention here to-
morrow to formulate their annual wage
scale demands. There is talk of revolt
against National President John Mitchell
peace policy. The operators are insistent
that the men must accept reduction or
strike. as they choose.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
TELEGRAPHIO BREvITIEs.

New gold fields have been discovered
in British Columbia at Alsek, about 40
miles west of White Horse. Throngs
of prospectors are preparing to make for
the new fields.
The old Smith homestead, near Law
renceville, N. j., built $50 years ago,
and used by General Mercer during the
battle of Princeton, as his headquarters,
was burned last evening.
A whole family of Tony Manardi, was
caught on a small railroad bridge on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, west of
Clarksburg, w. Va, this morning by
passenger train and ground to death I'M
der the wheels.
John Moffett, a cab driver, was sem
fenced by Recorder Golf, in New York,
this morning to ten years imprisonment
for having assaulted and robbed Miss
Clay burn Sheldon, a manicurist, OF
Washington.
In London on Saturday Maj. Hale, OF
the British army, was granted divorce
from his wife whose preference for Col.
Murray she admitted. She wrote her
husband a letter that separation would
be best for both.
! Word reached Manila today that Pang-
lima Hassan, the leader of the Jolo in
surrectiOnists, had been killed by Col.
SCOTS command, assisted by other dat
tos. The War Department is of the
opinion that this will put an end to all
trouble in that region.
Twenty-one guests seated at tables in
Hood restaurant, in Chicago, fed for
their lives shortly after eight O. clock last
night, when fire, which started in the
basement, burst through the floor. In
less than five minutes after all had reached
the street an explosion followed, but no
one was hurt. The loss is about $685.
600.
John l.. Sullivan, the most interesting
figure the prize ring ever produced, is
i'll at his sisters home in Roxbury. The
once mighty gladiator is suffering terri
BILE with his eyes, and his friends fear
that he will become totally blind. Sui
Ivan is said to be suffering from the
ravages of disease, and that tits extreme
ly doubtful if he ever regains his health.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
Pleasantyille, N. j., postofice early this
morning. The interior of the building
was wrecked and the burglars procured
S72 in cash and several hundred dollars
worth of postage stamps. The noise OF
the explosion awoke the town and a
fusillade of shots followed between a
Waterman and the safe crackers, but no
body was hit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
The South and the Presidency.

Atlanta, Ga, March 81. Suggesting
Senator Joseph W.. Bailey as a man
eminently fit for the presidency, Clark
Howell, Georgia's national committee
man, declares that with the election in
November will end the disposition Of
southern democrats to stand back and let
the presidential nomination go always
to some man of the North. Mr.. Howell
says; "The South will not demand
presidential candidate from the South
this year, but let the whole reunited
country be put on notice that the forty
years embargo is ended, with the ides
of next November, and that hereafter no
point of availability is to be raised against
the strongest men OF the nation simply
because they happen to hail from the
southern States.