Evening journal., 1907-01-07

there are over one hundred and FIVE mem
bers absolutely pledged to a Square Deal,
and the convention, after being in session
for several weeks, IS formulating G. con-
titution which will make forever impos-
sible in that state the criminal aggres-
sson which has cursed and ruined other
OIL fields. Under such conditions as these.
the big Tulsa refinery Uncle Sam No 3
Is worth ten times as much TO the stock
holders OF this company as it would have
been under other conditions. Investors
must admit the strong points Of such con-
dltlonS as they exist in the Central West
and must admit that the Uncle Sa-.
company Is uho organization OF The hour
In the arena at the right time, with a
path before It which is plain and a. sue
cess which is certain.
Just Question of Time.
II you doubt that this company Is not
pushing ahead every minute. hour and
day, come to Kansas City and we can
take you 70 two OF the largest iron works
IN the Missouri valley which have their
buildings tlsh their yards covered and
extra gangs OF worlSmen hammering out
Uncle Sam storage tanks to belt the band.
Besides these carload after carload has
been shipped during the past month into
the various states above named. Besides
thls Nhere are other firms working on tank
wagons, others making metal barrels,
others making merchants tanks. while
every day people are coming from ad-
joining states and looking over the Uncle
sam tuel OIL burners and going through
the fuel oil department at Goa North Sivfh
street, Kansas City Kas., leaving ordors
LOT petroleum stoves and heaters. IT will
ne Dut a question of Just a few months
until the Independent oil men will have
s..1 eie Se1tfal West covered and the uust
whipped TO standstill I'm the states
above mentioned. People don't want mo
trust made goods and the trust hirelines
Know IT. But IL takes time to comoi1fe
ulsulputing stations and get to where
t tle people can be supplied. Less tEan
Two years ago the trust threatened 10
itdVe the state OF Kansas In darkness III
tney passed the protective oil laws At
Lldt uine there was hardly an indenen-
usnt OH wagon In the state. In less In N
sixty days now independent oil e,ao,,,,g
will be patrolling every county i1 the
state where there Is "a trust wagon as
iast as these distributing stations ean te
completed. Reports are coming in daily
Ltvih an Uncle Sam distributing stations
that the trust Is having a hard time 10
Keep its men to do its dirty vorlr IL
several Kansas points where these hof-
air blowhards for the trust who are niid
50 much per 10 talk on the street corners.
ana put uD their sDiels on the trains a
year ago made their brags how they
would do up the independents. the trust
mas made as many as from three to five
changes IN the past year. and a q. eat
Hlahy OF their old standbys are quitting
them every month Kansans may have
their differences and fuss around among
themselves, but there IS one proposition
where all kansans practically stand to-
gether and that Is where tho interests
OF one part of Kansas are placed IN facp-
atdy by foreign thioving combine The
kansas oil fields practically reach from
Kansas City on the north clear Through
70 the Indian Territory line There are
good indications Of oil and gas right IN
hNnsaa City Several light wells has e
been found
There are good oil pools already dovei-
oped Ia Miami county and from there on
zigzagging IN "a distance of from twenty
hvc miles TO fifty miles wide clear through
TO the southern borders of the state Kan
sas pluck and determination and Eausas
hard earned money developed these oil
fields under the bait held out by the trust
OF Sl3S oil. Scores of close Kansas cor
poiations We're organized in this state and
developed good properties only to build
up their production to where their IN
vestment was "a good one and to receive
the blightng touch OF the criminal trust
as II showed its teeth when it boycptted
the entire Kansas oil fields after ham,
mering down the price 10 "a horsethiei
schedule of less than thirty cents por
barrel. There are a few imported trust
hirclings temporarily at the head of two
or three newspapers who have tried ia
cover up the facts and whitewash tho
trusts corrupt methods IN dealing will
one Of the largest Industries in Kansas