Arizona republican., 1905-02-22
DIR. J. II. FORD ROnE
Though not an Artist, He Is Doing a
 Study in Oil."


 terday morning from a more or less extended stay in Kansas City and other Missouri river points. As most of his Phoenix friends know the doc tor is considerably interested in oil in the newly developed regions in that country and particularly in the Indian nation all of that oil field being in way tributary to Kansas City. The doctor says that the enterprises with which he is connected are prospering and he is pretty well satisfied with conditions.
 His personal interest has naturally caused the doctor to follow pretty closely, the struggle between the Stan dard oil Co. and the operators in the new Kansas fields which resulted in recent legislative action at Topeka that is designed to make the Standard peo- pie a little uneasy. He says that it has resulted in making the Standard enter the market again at several points, namely at Neodesha, Independ- ence, Tyro and COffeyville in Kansas and all over the Osage and Cherokee lands in the Indian nation. They still refuse to ouy the product of the up- state wells for it is low grade and Standard has no use for it at this time.
 The Kansas producers though are very much in earnest in their fight against the Standard and they are not only doing things in Topeka and for warding petitions to the secretary of the interior designed to head off the Standards projects for leasing, but they are sending commissions to ad- joining legislatures and asking them to cooperate in putting a kink into the Standard.
 The doctor said he met at the Mid ] land hotel in Kansas City, one of the l leading representatives of the Standard i oil Go. in Kansas and had considerable fun joking him. He told the oil man that he didn't believe he really appre- ciated what he was doing when he I stirred up the jayhawkers. Then he reminded him of a few things that have been jotted down in history to the credit of Kansas. He pointed out that Kansas was the real bacillus that ! caused the fever which resulted in the civil war; that it was Kansas that first claimed the attention of the country and got it, as an object of charity from g-asshoppers and drouth and more re- gently has made similar representations ! as the result of floods. It was Kansas where prohibition which did not pro hibit gained a foothold and stuck; 1t was Kansas where the women secured a limited franchise and seldom used it; it was Kansas where pOpulism with a little that was good and much that was bad, first sprouted and later grew with tropical luxuriance. It was Kan sas populism with it's attendant isms that raised the dickens with the repub- lican party and it was the same bunch of isms that wrought havoc with the democracy just as it thought it was beginning to get its grip on the nation. It was Kansas that retired her most brilliant senator in the height of his career and was sorry fer it later. It was Kansas who sent scckless men to congress where they learned to wear silk hose and stand up collars. It was Kansas where whiskers and hair were at a premium for many years, but it is recalled that Samson was not weakling and not all the Kansans have vet cut their hair. It was Kansas man who gave up a good government job in the pension office rather than be criti- cized. It was Kansas where John Brown first began his marching and his restive soul is still marching up and down those broad plains with an' olive branch in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other Concluding the doctor quietly nudged the Standard oil man and intimated that nobody ever caught any flies in Kansas with vine gar. Kansas will take most any kind of bait but there's got to be honey on it