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If the well be comparatively small and
unproductive one large quantity of the
liquid explosive judiciously touched OFF in
the earth far below will cause the oil-bear-
ing sand to yield It's treasure more freely.
This devil-may-care fellow, who risks his
life every instant he Is at work, is the most
picturesque character in any oil regions.
He doesn't carry any accident Insurance.
for very good reason. and his relatives
always know where to find his last will and
testament. He drives good horses, smokes
black cigars. knows to the fraction Of
second just when to run for life from
nitro-glycerin factory. has handled SO much
of the explosive that 1t no longer gives him
a headache, and doesn't expect to live for
ryer
Apparently he hasn't care in the world
as he jounces along the rough oil country
roads with gallons of liquid death beneath
the seat of his notro- glycerine wagon. The
long, cleaning tin shells in the shell rack
beside him jingle merry tune and he
whistles blitheiy as he drives up to the well,
ties his horse to a tree and carries his
empty shells and his large square cans of
-glycerine into the derrick. The black
cigar between his lips is unlighted. A dry
smoke is much safer.
One by one the shells, which resemble
short sections of caves pipe, are filled and
lowered to the bottom of the well, the
shooter pouring the cream colored explosive
from can to shell as unconcernedly as
milkman plying his trade The few specta-
tors withdraw several rods from the der
rick the shooter drops ''go-devil' or iron
exploding weight. into the SHE'LL then
dashes out at his best speed to join the ex-
pectant group at the boiler house At the
end of few seconds there is faint dull
click" and the tremor in the ground. at
ones feet.
The devil has struck cap affixed to
the topmost shell eighteen hundred feet
below, touching off hundred quarts of
nitro glycerine- low rumble. like that of
distant train, grows louder and louder
each instant. the earth shakes as with
palsy. and with mighty roar that wakes
the echoes OF the hills the tortured well
hurls a column of oil water. gas and rocks
hundred and fifty feet into the air. For
half minute the derrick Is drenched with
stones. the roar sounds from hillside
to hillside and dies away in the distance,
and the shooters work is done.
Gallagher of Bradfords.
The late "Jim" Gallagher was one of the
famous nitro-glycerine shooters of the
Bradford oil country. As he bumped along
over the horrible roads with his dangerous
load facetious drillers used to shout plain
lively:
please, Mr.. Gallagher, don't let her go,''
Stealing nitro-glycerine would seem to be
as great an anomaly as breaking into Jail,
yet nitro-giycerine thieves were the pests
OF Gallaghers life. They would break into
his magazines at night and carry away
hundreds OF quarts at a time. His factory
where he manufactured the explosive was
near Olean. N. T., and stood upon level
These high banks are just the thing re-
marked the thoughtful Gallagher, .'for an
explosion will go straight up and merely
jolt the stars bit instead OF being de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
AMONG THE RECHABITEs.
Members of Local Tents Meet and
Elect Officers

The semi-annual election OF officers
among the twenty local tents OF the indie
pendent Order of Rechabftes occurred this
week.
Onward Tent had about seventy-five
members present and Initiated two candi-
dates. The names OF the officers elected
follow: Shepherd. Mrs Bessie B. Thomp-
son; past chief ruler. Mrs. May Cordsil
Rowe; chief ruler. Miss Mary W. Jackson;
deputy ruler. Miss Bessie Bowie; recording
secretary. Miss Amy L. Bickerton: imam
oiai secretary. Miss Mary Ford: treasurer.
Mrs. Mary A. Hessier: Leyite. Miss Elsie
Fowler; inside guard. Miss yirgie Thomp-
soni outside guard. william H Gray.
John b. Henderson Tent, No. 1858, IN
itiated q candidate. received q visitation
from Eagle Tent. No, 2. and elected the
following officers:
Shepherd. w. c. Van Matre; past chlof
ruler, Arthur 8. Woodland; chief ruler,
George A. Rinehart. deputy ruler, Thomas
=. Monahan; recording secretary. John l..
Bunch, financial secretary. George III.
Turnbuli; treasurer. Samuel A. Hessier, jr !;
{svits, william n. Gray; inside guard VIII
Gam H Ridgsiy. tr.; outside guard. henry
j. Cooper; chaplain. William H. Evans:
trustee, 0eorgo p Newton.
- loeteg e nxooking vs. read from Mira
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
To Gust the Celia Company.

Circuit Attorney Sager. acting for the
state OF Missouri. Instituted quo warranto
proceedings yesterday In the circuit court
at st. Louis against the Celia Commission
Company OF st. Louis to GUST that COM
pany from the state OF Missouri. The petit
ton asks that all the ccmpany's privileges
be nullined and that its property be for
feited to the state The company ever since
its organization II alleged to have violated
the laws Of Missouri and has perverted and
fnisused corporate authority. franchises
and privileges and has uniAwfully assumed
and nsnrped franchisss and privileges not
granted by the laws Of the state Tho coma
pany'e ofdcera are named hi tho direotofy
A. TITLES. vica prosfdnnf nm4 u ~ -
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valuable bark and left lying on the ground.
The territory was new but the well. which
was none other than the famous ''646, prov
ed to be phenomenal gusher. It reduced
the price of petroleum from 81 cents to 30.
and produced $1,000 barrels the first month.
The Allegheny and Bradford fields were
abandoned by thousands. producers SOLD
their small producing wells for what they
could get and stampeded to Cherrygroye
The town of Garfield, with population OF
5000 to 5000 was built In the wilderness In
less than a month. In three months the en-
tire field, which was three miles long by
half mile in breadth. had been drilled, one
well to every fve-acre lease. The territory
proved to be merely pool, els and other
marvels were soon producing little oil, and
Garfield, which went up like a rocket, came
down like the rockets stick To-Day IL Is
very insignificant place compared with its
former greatness.
Not all producers are "wildcatters" The
more conservative watch the operations OF
the daring, and, as soon as new field Is
discovered, lease much land as they can
in the vicinity and begin operations on
more certain basis.
King Of Wildcatters.
The king of "wildcatters" Is Col J. NJ
Guffey of Pittsburg. He and his partner.
John H. Galley, have discovered more new
oil fields than any other operators on earth
Guffey's name has long been a synonym for
the word luck in the oil country, and
emphasis that II Jim" Gufrey dropped out
of balloon above Amy Old Place." he
would land his feet in new oil field.
Col. Guffeys first success was the Mat
thews "gusher'' IN the Mcdonald oil field.
For many years this well held the record
as a producer. When the oil sand was
tapped the green fluid began pouring from
1t at the rate of 1000 barrels day, and
in a month 1t had produced about 800. 900
barrels of oil valued at $3.50. 600 When the
Mcdonald field had been satisfactorily de-
veloped Col. Guffey started the drill in
southeastern Kansas In 1898, opened the
Neodesha oil fields. built pipe lines and
partially constructed a refinery. The next
triumph of the Pittsburg Midas was the
Corsicana field in Texas, and when its wells
were in good working order he tempted for
tune in California and discovered the Co
lingo fields
In 1901 A F. Lucas. a Texan with wild
eating" proeliyities, was so confident there
was oil near Beaumont that he began drill
Ing When his well was about $50 feet deep
his funds were exhausted and he sought
the assistance of Guffey and Galley They
chose new location only a few hundred
feet from the Texans well, and In short
time struck the famous Lucas '.gusher,"
which astounded all oudom by spoutng
about $1,000 barrels of petroleum per day.
The tanks that had been erected were about
as useless as thmbies, so great was the
flood OF OIL lake of petroleum soon
formed near the well, and there 1t lay I'M
TIL many Sc, 00o-barrel iron tanks were built
for storage purposes The output OF the
by some Russian gushers. but their oil was
OF inferior quality.
Nitro-Glycerine Shooter.
Soon after oil Ia struck the nitro-glycerine
shooter usually makes his appearance. for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
Holding Up Aces.


When the adversary opens suit in which
you hold the ace, but no possibility OF ever
winning another trick. you had better not
play the Ace at once unless You are ready
to take enough tricks to make the game
without interruption. II your long suit
is not established. or. when fnesse must
be taken, you should hold up your Ace until
the adversary on your right has no more
OF the suit Then, II he gains the lead, he
cannot return the suit his partner has
opened but must lead another suit prob
ably to your advantage.
This holding up Of the ace In no trump
applies equally we'll when playing against
the dummy. The principle Is this: Hold
up the ace OF an adyersary's long suit until
the other adversary Is exhausted. SO that
should the short hand get the lead. he will
have no card Of his partners suit to lead
to him.
Suppose the dummy has long suit and
no sure re-entry, and you are playing
against him. Do not be in a hurry to play
your Ace OF his long suit. Wait and see
II you cannot block the whole suit by hold
fng on untiitthe dealer Is exhausted.
Or, X dummy has en- established suit
and hio only possible re-entry il q guarded
king or queen. should the dealer lead q
high card In the suit in which dummy has
the poss1ble re-4ntry. do not play your ace
until dummysn high card falls: than. hay
ing no re-entry. he established suit cannot
IA Aeciarsd trump hand ii i danssrous
mumDed. buk & "a II irunnpo - plax4d,
Ycn ~ - paAx - hand iIlEe -
~ r. r. ~ ~ q xsguae . ta1re nleIp
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s...BRIDGE TALKS.
one Of your smaller cards. thus adding /
the value OF your hand.
Written Hzpressly for tn. Star by MISS BESSII
i ALLEN Of MiIwsukes.
Al RisAts Rsssrvsl,

one of your smaller cards. thus adding to
the value of your hand
Eleven Rule in Playing Dummy.
In no trump there are many cases
where the Rule OF Eleven Is of value to
you when you are playing the dummy
For examples: II an Eight Is led and the
Ten lies in dummy, while You hold King
and Queen; subtracting eight from eleven
outside Of the leaders hand better than the
Eight, therefore. the Ten played from
dulnmy,s hand will win tho trick and Save
the King and Queen for dafenae aGadnst
that Euft. Or, II the positions are reversed
and the Ten lies Ia your own hand While
dummy holds the King and Queen, 81 =
not necessary to play either King ~
Queen. - your Tan must W1n thu tEick.
tia Nina Eight 81 Seven, Jour tlr1t thoua4k
should = g ~ tne a.ls e llssss 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
No. 12.
Playing Dummy in No Trumper.
No. 10.

Playing Dummy In a No Trumper.
If the adversary opens suit in which
you are able to win the lead either In the
dummy or your own hand. do not play
hastily; you should first consider care
fully the following points: Which Is the
longest and best suit for you to play for:
from which hand you can open that suit
to thu best advantage so az to make any
necessary finesse: and which hand IL the
more likely to need the high card OF the
adyersaryss suit later, AZ q re-entry with
which to make hts own suit
Should none Of these considerations seem
Important, it Ii usually b4tter to play
low ia dummy ana capture with your high
card Whatever card the third hand may
play. You win thus nnd out bow munh
he1p third hard can give hin pattu4k Alaa
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side of the leaders hand. and then. IL
possible. with your own and dummy's hold
ing take advantage of the situation.
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Nitro-GIycerine SHOOTER.

Soon after oil Ia struck the nitro glycerine
shooter usually makes his appearance. for
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
A "BLATHERsKITE" EXPOSED.

The republican party has been in power most of the
time in Oklahoma for II years. and what her school
laws9 White and blacks are forbidden to attend the
school and they don't The law prohibits white teacher
from teaching colored child colored teacher from
teaching white child, and they don't If you don t
believe this, ask your democratic brother w. r. Dalton
lie is from Oklahoma, knows the law aud will tell the
truth. The above laws not only favored by th.
democrats and republicans in Oklahoma but by the
groes themselves. And yet this batherskte would
down from Tulsa last Saturday night and try to excite
race prejudice by saying the republicans favor mixed
schools God knows the whites Indians and negroes in
Indian Territory are all having trouble enough without
lot of thn-skinned thick headed pinheads going over
the country exciting prejudice Haven't white
schools in every neighbobood surrounding Broken Ar
rowf Are the negro children trying to attend these
OF course not for the simple that the separate
school question has been settled in the territory, and
settled right, and there is longer issueBroken Ar
row Ledger.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
PLANNING STREET CARS"
Sapulpa Light Editor Lets Sarcasm
Get Best of Him Again.

Colonel F. Morris, formerly of Penn
sylvania, is figuring and talking Of
putting in street railway system in
this city. Mr.. Morris plans to pave
Dewey avenue and run cars to the
Moccasin track. ell also would put
in side lines to the ice plant and the
pumping station. Mr.. Morris told us
he would probably sell out his con-
fectionery store here and put in a
great oyster factory as soon as cool
weather sets in. He is desirous of
erecting a twelve story hotel to ac-
commodate his laborers in the oyster
plant and those he will employ in
the building of a large steel tank.
3OO feet high and 200 feet in diam
eter. This tank will be used in a.
new industry, that of holding de-
ceased mosquitoes while their bills
are being sawed off and their wings
clipped. AT present Mr.. Morris is
busy removing the chiggers that he
collected while attending the bridge.
picnic.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
CONSTITUTIONAL DELEGATE CONVENTIONS.

The Indian Territory Executive Committee at the
South McAleser meetings passed the following resolu
tions:
/. That Immediately after the election precincts are
laid of and announced by the Election Commissioner of
each Constitutional Delegate District in the Indian Terri
tory shall be the duty of the member of the Indian Ter
ritory Republican Executive Committee having urisdic-
ton over such Constitutional Delegate district to appoint
committee of not more than three Republicans residents
of such precinct to register all Republicans who are ent
tied to vote in any suuch precinct who desire partci-
pate in any convention to be called for the purpose of
nominating candidates for election to the constitutional
convention; that the committee appointed shall at
once give notice of the time and place of the holding of
their sessions, which shall be held at some convenient
place within the precinct, and all republicans who desire
To register for the purpose of participating in any nomin
ang convention, shall appear before such committee and
register their name, age, posoee address, ward street
number, township ct ceera as the ease may be- and shall
satisfy such committee that they are Republicans, resi-
dent of the precinct, entitled to vote therein and intend
to support the Republican nominees for the constitutional
convention.
2 The committee so appointed shall provide book
IN which shall be kept full and complete record of
the names, ct ceera of each Republican who shall regis
ter together with the age residence race ct cetera of
the person registering
3. The committee registration shall keep their re-
cords open for registaton until the day before the nom
mating convention is to be held and then shall certify
to the same, and Immediately after the nominating con
vention, deliver the to the chairman of the Indian
Territory Republican Executive Committee
t. The committee appointed shall have the power
To call convention Of the Republicans who have regis
tered to meet at some convenient place within the precinct
Tor the purpose of eectng delegates the convention to
be held IN the constitutional delegate district and one of
them shall call such precinct caucus or convention together
aud the basis of representation from each election pre-
cne to each Constitutional Delegate District convention
snail be one delegate for each and every twenty-five re-
publican voters registered therein or major fraction
thereof
D. That there shall be held in each of the Consttu-
honal Delegate Districts in the Indian Territory. on
Tuesday the ninth day of October 1906, at O'Clock, d
m' delegate convention for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the constitutional convention such con-
'enons to be composed of the delegates selected as before
provided from the election precincts and il shall be the
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
EAST GIVES GLAD HAND.
Continual Round of Pleasure for the
Democratic Leader.

New York, Sept Three cities
joined today in paying the final tri-
butes of continuous welcome accorded
to William j. Bryan since his arri-
val in New York Thursday from his
tour around the world. Returning
from Bridgeport this morning, Bryan,
after devoting a scant time to his per-
sonal business, was escorted to the Ma
tional Democratic Club, where an en-
thusiastic reception was accorded him
and where he spoke briefly. From
the club he was escorted by former
Senator James Smith, Jr., and other
prominent Democrats to Newark,
where he addressed an audience of 10,-
In Military park, and afterward held
an informal reception, shaking hands
with hundreds who crowded around
the speakers. Hailed with cheers as
he drove to the railroad station, Bry-
an hurried to Jersey City, where he
made three addresses and reviewed a
parad of Hudson county democracy,
and then he returned to New York
and finished the day with an inform
al dinner given in his honor by 200
working newspaper men Of the met
ropolis.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.

In Tulsa tomorrow will assemble a mammoth crowd
TO ftngy celebrate one of the greatest days on the
calendar Labor Day. One day in the year is apart
that the people might in festive array pay tribute to
Labor the uncrowned King
The laborers in the vineyard the hewers of wood
these are the who build the nation, The men of
Drawn and BRAIN who dig and delve, strive and
build these the architects of the countys future
Labor has been lifted from a condition of slavery to a
position of honor and dignity commanding the respect
meeting the demands of ALL and growing steadily greater
and powerful Labor has grown in dignity until to-
day it has universal respect, and lasting abiding
place in the esteem of public opinion is its just heritage
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
HAVE THIRTY CLOWNS
viii Be No Shortage of Clowns With
Hagenbeck' Circus.

"Have we clowns with our cir.
cusi" echoed Frank r. Tate at the
Hotel Robinson last night. "You.
can just wager we have; thirty of
them too. Why circus without any
clowns would not be a circus at all
to my notion"
Mr.. Tate is big bluff, hearty Mis-
sourian who, with Carl Hagenbeck-
John H. Havlin of theatrical fame-
and c. Lee Williams, owns the man.
moth Carl Hagenbeck circus which
will exhibit at Tulsa, Saturday, Sep
tember Is.
"Yes sir, and our clowns are dan
dies; some Of them just like the kind
we used to see years ago." contin--
ued Mr.. Tate. "In these modern
times showmen are beginning to
think that circuses don 7 need clowns.
| may be old fashioned and behind
the age, even if / do own part of the
biggest tented amusement enterprise
in the world, but ! stick to clowns
and I'll lay you cigar that every
father, and every son and daughter,
and the majority of the mothers in
this city agree with me that a circus,
must have clowns to be a circus.
~ have never forgotten my earlier
days and l never will especially the
days that marked the pasting of the
circus bills, the days that followed
and the big day of the show itself. I
always hunted for the pictures of the
clowns, | dreamed about them and
then when the circus arrived, | al
ways hunted them in the flesh the
first thing.
~ had a passion for clowns and
circuses in my boyhood days and
guess that's the reason | own part
of circus now. And let me tell you
when see show, which is not often
because | have interests that keep me
pretty close in st. Louis, | always
laugh at the antics of the ioeys,'
as we call the clowns, and when any
Of them are in danger of being
bounced by the general manager,
they always let me know and | stand
up for them, whether they are in the
right or not. just can't help it,"
And then Mr.. Tate told his audi
tors about the thousand and one won-
ders his big show contains. The IA
nous Hagenbeck circus has been
greatly enlarged since last season
and its owners now claim that it is,
the biggest in the country. 1t is car
ried on three trains of sixty cars.
gives performances in three rings, on
two stages and around wide hippo
irome track, carries 1000 employees.
500 horses, hundreds of rare wild ami
mails, Hindoo Mela, the Somersault
Of Death, and spreads tents that
covers twelve acres of ground.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02

ties. The girls were selected by the
readers of Colonel Watterson's paper
for their popularity, not for theil
beauty. Paris, however, looked them
over and gasped:
Kentucky peaches, ~ said Paris
"lemons. "
Mary Lear of Paint Lick, KY, q
sensible girl, talked some about Eu.
rope and European people. She laugh,
ed when the subject of their reception
in Paris was brought up.
at is true" said she," that we
were Missed by some i'll hammered
French persons. 1t seems that they
had sent word ahead that we were a
crowd of 'stunners. l will say for tn
French in particular and European
men in general, that they are about
the most low down, insolcnt, conceited
and disgusting set of men at large.
am talking now of the men with whom
we came in contact. No doubt there
are others. As for the French women,
they are fne."
Bessie Cox is another of the girls
whose impression of foreign men is
unfavorable. Said Miss Cox:
81 believk our mountaineers in
Kentucky, ignorant as they are, and
lawless in some instances, are better
types of decent men than those we
saw in France"
"When | get back to Mount Ster-
ling, Kentucky" declared Esther A.
Wilson, 81 am going to kiss the
ground"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-02
ITALIANS NARROW ESCAPE.
Unknown Russian Fired at Italy's Re
preventative In St. Petersburg.

Rome, Sept. ACCORDING to a
communication received here, while
the Italian ambassador at st. Peters
burg, Signor Melegaria, was in con-
versation in the drawing room of the
embassy, IN unknown person, appar-
entity intoxicated, was arrested by the
servants for firing a revolver which
contained six more cartridges. An
other man behind him, whose face was
half concealed by handkerchief, es-
capped. The communication says that
the Russian authorities Immediately
apologized for the affair. The govern
ment officials here attach no impor-
tance to the incident.