Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-03

to fifty stock holders could not be sum-
moned to the protection of Uncle Sam prop
critics by phone OF telegraph in a very few
hours. In other words like a sentry on
where, demanding square deal for Uncle
Sam oil, soliciting their neighbors to buy
II and demanding that the merchants ham
die the same and stand by a home Kansas
industry, and are putting up a knock-down
argument which the slick tongued trust
hlrelings simply cannot answer or over
come.
Shipped to Nebraska.
Several months ago Uncle Sam promised
to establish a main distributing station at
Omaha. Last week a deal was closed
through the First National bank Of Omaha
for fifteen-hundred dollar property abut-
ting the Missouri river and the Burlington
sldetrack. It's paid for. Warranty deed to
been closed in Falls City and Nebraska
City and tanks have been shipped Deals
are pending in Beatrice, wahoo, David
Columbus, Tecumseh, Blair and lincoln,
and 1t will be but a matter OF time until
from all OF these principal trade centers
Uncle Sam tank wagons, backed by the
strong antitrust sentiment in Nebraska,
will be practically reaching the entire oil
market of the Goldenrod state. As In Kan
I sas. Uncle Sam stock holders are every
where. There are over six hundred in the
state and nearly, two hundred thousand
Sam. These stockholders and their neigh
bors and friends can be depended upon and
any man of enterprise in the commercial
world knows what II Is to have home peo-
pie help them to sell their goods
Iowa.
Main distributing station for Iowa has
been purchased at Council Bluffs. Three
whole blocks, right at the end of the princi-
pal paved street in Council Bluffs, with
sidetrack Of three of the big railroads OF
Iowa running clear through the property
! from which connections 10 the other five
railroads of Council Bluffs the accessible
Also like the Nebraska Omaha site it is ac-
cessible for barges to unload oil from the
Missouri river. There is maximum freight
rate law and an INSTRUMENTATION law In
! Iowa and from Council Bluffs Uncle Sam
! company will soon spread out over the en-
/ tire state and especially the western and
northern parts.
Missouri.
Site has been purchased and tanks ship
ped to Joplin. Wagons are already in oper-
alton In Kansas City, Mo-, and Uncle Sam
has big distributing station at st. Joseph,
Mo- Deals are on foot for stations at JEFF
ferson City, Springfield, Chillicothe, Sedalia,
Boonville and st. Louis. Missouri, like Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois and Arkan-
sas, has been one Of the principal hackers
of this giant Independent organization,
There are over twelve hundred Missouri
stockholders and the sentiment of the peo-
pie OF Missouri in favor of Independent oil
Is deep rotted.' The Mssourisns are down
on the trust and you can depend on their
staying that way. The Uncle Sam COM
pany will have at least eighty distributing
stations in Missouri when IL finally gets Its
great work completed.
| Oklahoma.
| Sites have been secured and paid for and
tanks shipped to Hobart. Klnghsher, e
Reno, saltwater, Watonga, Perry and
Chandler. Deals are pending for Guthrie
Oklahoma City, Norman, Shawnee. Enid
Alya, Pawnee, sapulpa. Durant. South Nc
Alester Blackwell, Woodward Chickasha
and Anadarko With the great refinery In
the heart of the greatest oil field in OKLA
homa, practically in the center of the
new state, where the merchants and the
business men of Tulsa raised the money to
furnish the Uncle Sam company twelve
acres Of valuable land and other conces-
sions, and where public sentiment is 40
strong In favor OF q square deal and
against the criminal oil trust that in the
fall election after the trust had brazenly
made its talk that It would control the
constitutional convention, however, out of
one hundred and twelve delegates to the
constitutional convention there are over
one hundred and Ave members absolutely
pledged to square deal, and the con-