The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-03

bers absolutely pledged to a Square Deal
and the convention, after being in session
for several weeks, is formulating con-
stitution which will make forever impos-
sible in that state the criminal agrees
oil fields. Under such conditions as these,
the big Tulsa refinery Uncle Sam No. is
holders of this company as it would have
been under other conditions. Investors
ditions as thew exist f in p the Central west
and must admit that the Uncle Sam
Company is the organization of the hour,
path before it which is plain and a sue
cess which is certain.
just Question of Time.
If you doubt that this company is not
day. come. to Kansas City and We can
take you to two of the largest iron
and extra gangs of workmen hammering
out Uncle Sam storage tanks to beat
carload have been shipped during the past
month into the various, states above
firms working on tank wagons, others
making metal barrels. others making
merchants tanks, while every day peo-
and looking over the Uncle Sam fuel oil
burners and going through s the fuel oo oil
petroleum stoves and heaters. 1t will
until the Independent oil men will have
the Central West covered and the trust
whipped to a standstill in the states
above mentioned. People don't want the
know it. But it takes time to complete
distributing stations and get to where
the people can be supplied. Less than
two years ago the trust threatened to
they passed the protective oil laws. At
that time there was hardly an independ-
sixty days now independent oil wagons
Will be patroling every county in the state
these distributing stations can be COM
pleted. Reports are coming in daily from
all Uncle Sam distributing stations that
the trust is having a hard time to keep
its men to do its dirty work. In several
Kansas points where these hot-air blow
hards for the trust who are paid so much
per to talk on the street corners, and put
up their spells on the trains a year ago
the independents, the trust has made as
many as from three to five changes in
the past year, and great many of their
month. kansans may have their differ
en I AN ana Illus Iss aT0en1 a1hg hne
all rs stand practically
part of Kansas are placed in jeopardy
by foreign thieving combine. The Kan
sas oil fields practically reach from Kan
the Indian Territory line. There are good
indications of oil and gas right in Kan
sas City. Several light wells have been
found
There are good oil pools already devel-
oped in Miami county and from there on
zigzagging in a distance of from twenty
Ave to fifty miles wide clear through to
the southern borders of the state. Kansas
pluck and determination and Kansas hard
earned money developed these oil fields
under the bait held out by the trust of
81 IS oil. Scores of close Kansas corpora
lions were organized in this state and de-
veloped good properties only to build up
their production to where their invest
blghting touch of the criminal trust as it
showed its teeth when it boycotted the
av,ts L 0n oil folds "a m ri re .
of less than thirty cents per barrel. There
are a few imported trust hirelings tenn
porarily at the head of two or three news
papers who have tried to cover up the
facts and whitewash the trusts corrupt
methods of dealing with one of the largest
industries in Kansas and one which af
fects every farmer and every laborer and
professional man in the entire Kansas oil