The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09

There are empty tank cars enough
on the side tracks right now in south-
ern Kansas to ship every barrel of Oh
in the state to a fuel market, and
these cars should be pressed into ser
vice. Why allow this grasping band
of thieves to override the wishes OF
the state and the rights of her citi-
zens? The slick, oily-tongued Attor-
ney Eddy at Topeka last week seemed
very anxious about the recelvership
for the Prairie company. What these
raScals don't want is what the people
and justice demand and are entitled
to. Why let barrels of Kansas oil go
to waste just because this overbear-
ing. grasping, socialistic monopoly,
through spite against the Kansas peo-
pie, because they approved and help
ed to pass some good laws in favor OF
the people, now sulk and cause dis
tress and loss of valuable property III
the oil fields. Put this corrupt Stand
ard Oil Prairie company into the
hands of a receiver who will do the
square thing and teach these Wall
street plunderers that they cannot rob
one-half of the Kansas taxpayers and
make love to the rest. Kansans are
true to one another's interests Thew
always have been and always Will;
they are their brothers keepers and
realize that a company that would roo
ore KanSan would rob any of us If
they could Do what you can to put
the Prairie company in the hands of y
receiver and you can help relieve the
oil fields, as they will leave their cars
stand idle for year rather than lend
d helping hand 10 the producers that
they are now trying to force out II
business by criminal discrimination,
and then buy their valuable proper ties
for SCng.
There are thirty empty tank cars on
side tracks at Cherryvale alone, and
all over the oil district the same way
since The Standard commenced its boy
cott on Kansas.
/ Now therefore, after being assured
HINES without number by the agents
of brigand Standard Oil that they
would buy all the crude oil that could
possibly be produced, and especially
that they would pay a fancy price for
the high grade oil that we were Sc
curing off the Barker and Kincaid
lands, which we were developing in
good faith, and after certain assur-
ances from time to time that they
would like more of the oil, and after
being repeatedly encouraged to crowd
ahead and more thoroughly develop
the said lands and now, after nearly
one year of crowding development at
as many as four drills, until now we
have completed forty eight (4S) pro-
ducing wells and have two fifty well
pumping plants running, have over
four thousand barrels of tankage, have
miles of pipe lines, shackle rods, three
lease houses, two pump houses, one
boiler house. one tank house and af-
ter oil field has been developed
almost to the pink of perfection, and
now with one of the greatest produc-
tions in Kansas, without one minutes
warning, we are notified at o'clock
at night on Saturday, March rs. even
after the agent of this Standard
brigand monopoly had on the morn
ing of Saturday notified us to prepare
and steam four tanks of oil ready to
run early Monday morning, after all
this we were notified that only $50
barrels could be received a day from
the entire Cherryvale field Now there
are seven producers in the field and
so only one producer can run oil each
day, thereby giving u.s. the underslgn-
ed. practically an outlet only once in
every seven days for just $50 barrels,
while the daily production from our
held Will average Gas can be proved by
truthful witnesses) over 30 barrels of
high grade oil. testing better than 81
gravity and some running AS high as
Sc, besides a 200-barrel daily produc-
ton of heavy oil. Facts will further
bear us out in the statement that we
have one of the most valuable oil fields
in the State and that we furnish two
thirds of the production going over
the Cherryvale Standard line, and that