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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20

Mr. Paul Dresser was a wonder at writing words
with the sentimental home association that fails
to touch the hearts of the people and wedding those
words to tuneful and appropriate music Even if you
never had the Wabash, but heard his song about
the effect of the moonlight ION the banks of the Wa
bash far away you onged to go there and look at the
thing for yourself regretted that you weren't born
there, that you could share the poet-composer's
homesckness for those picresquey described shores.
Nor were you apt to be dislusoned unless you heard
the ditty sung by the comedian who between each
verse had a habit of saying Have you the
wabash? It's just about that broad" making ges-
ture with his hands indicating that the Wabash WAS
about the width of brook
"The Banks of the Wabash"
Mr. Paul Dresser forty-seven years old when
he died few days ago. after illness of only three
days-heart failure induced by dropsy. rather sad
ending for man who really had done nice work of
It's kind. He came from the State through which
flows the Wabash and he lived there until he was
twenty years Old when he left home and went into a
patent medicine house While he was there he wrote
Paul Dressers Songster,' but it was not until he
gave up business and took to the stage, appearing
opposite to "Biy" Rice in n minstrel troupe in Chi
cago that he wrote his first hit, Il Believe It, for
Ny Mother Told Me So' words in every way typical
of the 'home and mother" style of songs he turned
out But "home and mother" are good old standbys
for song writers if they only know how TO work them
right and Paul Dresser did That first home and
mother song of his took him off the stage and
brought him East to New York, where he settled
down to the profession of writing At one time
it seemed if there wasn't popular singer in yaude
VILE minstrel troupe quartet in rural melodrama
that wasn't singing ION the Banks of the Wabash
with "weeps" in the audience.
Another wonderful ''home and mother" production
Of fDresser's-wonderful that is from the standpoint
of the popular song wrter-was Just Tell Ihem
That You Saw Me-" The words may he banal, but
in a popular audience they somehow never falied 10
make straight for the heart
Just tell them that you saw me,
And they will know the rest
lust tell them looking well, you know;
Just whisper, if you get chance,
To mother dear and say
That | love her l did long, long ago.
The song is in narrative form, and whatever you
may think of the words from literary standpoint
they fetch you every time. In fact, the charm OF
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20

Copyright, 1890. by William A. Pond & Co.

Harris was whistling. That was the genesis of
After the Ball" and it is a good example of what
few bars of music and a little rhyme will do toward
acceerating young into the rays of the popular
ImeLght.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
After the Ball.

There does not seem to be much association be-
tween Mr.. Charles X. Harris and the late Alexandra
Dumas. but cannot make a success without
being found fault with by those who haven't II Is,
perhaps surprising that the author and composer
Of After the Bali has been said to have gotten his
idea for the song from Alexandra Dumas Queen 5
Necklace" This stanza is quoted moving SINH
larity to MI Harris words and having suggested
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
The Story of marguerite"

In fact, the song is what musicians would call
well composed" 1t is ceyery harmouized, the mel
ody is simple, without being primitive introduction
and nerude reflect the character Of the 'romauza,"
and the voice part works up to an excellent climax
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
after the tragedy's over,
After the play is DONE
We must go home with the ladies,
Ennnlnd nnd not ono by nnp.n

"Afer the tragedy's over,
After the play is done,
We must go home with the ladies'
Coupled, and not one by one"
Aside from the fact that it is most unlikely that
Mr. Harris was familiar with the Queens Neck
lace" that the of the stanza just quoted is by
no unusual and that any writer OF verse
readily might drop into it there is little or no re-
semblance between the Dumas stanza and the lines
of After the Ball" with the familiar refrain;-
after the ball is over
After the break Of mora,
After the dancers leaving,
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching if you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanshed-after the ball"
Mr. Harris has composed Il great many more songs,
among them "SOmeWhere," would You CareY'
"Dreaming, Love, Of YOU" and THE Belle of the
Ball" but nothing of his later work has made the
same universal hit the song which first brought
him his reputation.
10 have a city named after them is not the lot of
common mOrt8ls. Musical composers, like artists
used to be named after cities This in the days of the
old Italian painters and the old Italian composers of
church music Since then it has not happened often.
if at ALL to any of the composers of serious music.
1t is notrecalled that there is city rejoicing the
name of Hadyn, Mozart Beethoven. But out in
down in Indiana" might be more ap
proprate to the occasion-there is a city named
Dresser 1t was named after the late Paul Dresser
when his great song hit "On the Banks of the Wa
bash," was at the height of its popularity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
All of Them Catchy.

"Dearien' the light of day in Mr.. Charles Dill
ngham's production of the musical farce Sergeant
Brue" in which Mr. Frank Daniels was the star.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
MIDWAY PACIFIC WILL
SOON BEGIN DRILLING
Los Angeles Company Plans Ex-
tenSive Operations in the
Buena Vista Hills

BAKERSFIELD, June 4.-The Mid
way Pacific Oil company, composed of
prominent men of Los Angeles and
New York, is preparing to operate on
an extensive scale in Midway and the
Buena Vista hill districts. The COM
pany has bought eighty acres in the
Midway field, consisting of the north
half of the northwest quareer of section
"a, 31-22, between the Brookshire and
Bear Creek and directly northwest
about one mile from thes big flowing
well of the Pioneer Midway. Material
has been ordered and is now on the
way for the first we'll on section "a,
which is conceded to be valuable ter
ritory.
In the Buena Vista hills district the
company has 800 acres under option,
the east half of the west half and the
west half of the east half of section
32, 1923, and is building four rigs. This
land while improved, is considered oil
land 1t is on the east slope of what
is generally called the Honolulu anti
cline, about three miles northwest of
the extensive operations of the Stand
ard Oil company and two miles west
by south from the Associated, which
has built a large camp and is prepar-
ing to run several strings of tools on
sections %, "a and 26 in the same
township.
The offices of the Midway-Pacific are
in the Crosse building, Los Angeles.
James L. Boyle, an oil operator, is
president Of the company; Don w.
Carlton, chief teller of the First Ma
tional bank, vice president and treas
urer, and Lester f. Scott, attorney,
secretary. The New York stockholders
are Amos II. Stevens deputy attorney
general of the state of new York, and
walter w. Griffith Of Lord & Thomas.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
OFFICIALS VISIT LAND
Of MIDWAY SECURITY
Eastern Oil Man and Army Officer
Become Interested in
the Game

Jack Poland, secretary of the Midway
Security Oil company, headed a party
that left last night for the Midway
field to look over the company's forty
acres, the southeast of the northwest
quarter of section 22-32-24, now being
developed.
Members of the party are stock
holders and investors who are interest
ed in the developments of the Midway
Security Oil company, now sinking it's
first we'll, which is down about $50
feet with an eighteen-inch stovepipe.
The party will be met at Maricopa
by Thomas S. Kingston, superintendent
of the Midway Security Oil company,
and w j. Schultz, a well known oil
operator who will show them the
gushers and producing oil wells of that
district in automobiles, after which
the party will be entertained by Mr.
Kingston in the bungalow of the Mid
way Security. Oil company.
In the party are Capt. Edward S.
Stone of the United States army; Carl
Doran, a local capitalist; Charles
Searle, oil land owner; E. w. Sullivan
of the Harris & Frank company, and
B. C. Criswell, an oil man from the
Pennsylvania fields, who was recently
attracted to the California fields.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
ROTARY TAPS OIL SANDS
NEAR BUENA VISTA LAKE
First Known Discovery in Terri
tory Is Made at Depth
of 1900 Feet

Due west of Buena Vista lake and at
the foot of the Elk hills on section 28-
31-24 the Midway Basin Oil company
has drilled with a rotary in quick time
to 1900 feet, encountering the first oil
sands ever found in this territory.
This discovery is important, as it was
looked upon as likely that the drill
would have to be driven down 1000 feet
or more before finding indications of
oil. On section 30-31-24 the American
Oilfelds and the Barnodon combina-
tions are preparing to prove up. They
have been busy laying a pipe line for
water supply from Buena Vista lake.
On section 32-21-24 the American Mid
way company is building rigs on the
four central quarter sections.
On the same section only short dis
tance away, the Boston Pacific has its
first we'll down 300 feet, is preparing to
spud in well No. 2 and has material on
the ground for other rigs. On section
22-31-24 there are four rigs up, but the
machinery is idle, some accident hay
ing stopped operations.
On section 20-31-24 the Midway Prov
ident Oil company has two rigs up on
it's center so, but its boiler and engine
and first string of tools have not yet
been delivered to the ground. On Sec
ton 1S-31-24 the Kern Midway Pc
troleum company has just started to
drill and was down 1856 feet at last re-
port. Section 16 shows nothing doing,
but this section was purchased out
right by the Standard Oil interests for
$1,000 an acre and Is being held by it as
an investment. 1t is reported its
geologist gave as his opinion after ex-
animation of the ground that oil would
surely be found at depth of about
100 feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
MT. DIABLO SALE
A LESSON IN OIL
Ten Years Ago Land Brought So
an kcre-Now Sells for
$1,500,00O
MAKES RAILROAD MEN RICH
Conductors Share Amounts to
$32,500; the Superintendent
and Dispatcher In on 1t
MAKES RAILROAD MEN RlCI

BAKERSFIELD, June 4.-The terms
of payment for the Mount Diablo
company's property in Midway, COM
prising all of section 26-32-23, sold last
week to an English syndicate, calls for
$4,000 down, which has been paid:
$240,0 600 as soon as abstract has been
completed. S250,000 in sixty days and
the balance in ninety DAYS and six
months, with interest at per cent on
the deferred payments, says the Cali
fornian. The Mount Diablo company
continues to draw the royalties on pro-
duction until the first payment Of
$3.50 900 is made: after that the royalties
go to the purchasing syndicate, which
takes over the property.
The company, which is capitalized
for 100000 shares, has $4,000 remaining
in the treasury, and has paid four
monthly dividends of 1 per cent. There
is $2S,000 in the bank and $61,250 due
from bonus payments on leases, one
eighty-acre lease having been sold for
a bonus of $1,000 an acre. All told the
company will be able to pay about 1925
a share when its affairs are wound up.
Section 26 was bought from the loca-
tors about ten years ago by J. w.
Jameson of Taft, for 50 an acre The
same men owned "a, which they COM
PEELED Jameson to take at 30 cents an
ace. in order to get 26. The entire
section is leased, and the Mount Diablo
company has a revenue of 5000 barrels
of oil a month from lessees. which is
constantly increasing. Jameson. who
was opposed TO the sale, says the pres
ent revenue affords an income of per
cent on the purchase price of $1,500000,
and that within a couple of years it
will pay 30 to 80 per cent. One of the
largest producing leases is the Mascot,
which has the entire northeast quarter
and is paying regular monthly divi-
dends. Several good wells have been
brought in on other leases in the past
two months.
The principal stockholders of the
Mount Diablo who will take down siz-
able fortunes from the sale, are J. w.
Jameson of Taft. James Briscoe of Ba-
kersfeld, c. E. Stoner, James Culling
ham and Secretary Potter. Frank
Blessington. a Southern Pacific con-
ductor, will get $32.500 for his 10000
shares, and F. M. Worthington, di-
vision superintendent, and A. A.
Jaynes chief dispatcher of the South
ern Pacific. will profit to the same
amount each.
The identity of the purchasers is
still a secret, they being represented
by an agent, Samuel Harris of San
Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
KERN STAR PREPARES
TO PUMP DEEP WELL

KERN RIVER, June 4.-The top wa
ter has been shut off in we'll No. 1 Of
the Kern Star, on the southeast quar-
ter of section 13, 2S-27, and the hole is
being cleaned out preparatory to pump
ing from the bottom. The we'll is 1865
feet deep and finished with 8-inch cas-
ing, which is perforated for 100 feet
from the bottom, all of the perforated
pipe, according to the management, be-
ing in oil sand.
When put on the pump this well will
be the deepest producing well in the
Kern river field. When drilling stopped
the hole was 1890 feet heep, at which
depth the S-inch casing appeared i'm
movable, although struggled with for
more than a month.
Then heaving sands gave another
months struggle before they were con-
trolled and plug formed in the bot
tom of the last string of casing, which
extended only to 1865 feet.
While the managers are confident
that more oil sand lies below the depth
to which the we'll was drilled, they are
satisfied that they have an excellent
well as it is.
1t is understood that well No. 2 will
be started before long.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
BROTHER FIGHTS BROTHER
FOR FLOWER GIRLS LOVE
Duel with Knives and Younger Is
Fatally Wounded

PARIS, June ALL the friendship
and fraternal affection that have ex-
listed between two brothers. aged re-
spectively 20 and %, vanished in the
presence of a charming flower girl,
and what is worse, their hatred ended
in what may be a fatal duel. They
had been living together and sharing
the same room until a-shOrt time ago,
when they happened to fall in love at
the same time with the same girl.
She was only II years of age, living
with her parents, and, of course, had
no idea of the terrible rivalry which
she had excited between the two
brothers. Two weeks ago the men
separated in mortal hatred for each
other. 1t was their misfortune to
meet again accidentally this week and
as a result of their quarrel they chal-
lenged one another to a duel, the
weapons being knives. 1t was to be
no stage duel, either, and the one or
the other was to be definitely disabled
from having any more pretensions to
the affection of the flower girl.
They met as they had agreed, and
the onslaught was terrible. Finally
the Younger brother fell down with a
deep wound in the abdomen. He was
carried to a hospital, but there is little
hope of saving him. The duel took
Mace in the room which the brothers
had shared together before their quar-
rel and behind closed doors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
CROWN ENGAGES NEW
MANAGER IN VENTURA
Company Buys Rotary Drill to
Exploit Holding in Mid
way Basin

The Crown Oil company has engaged
Henry Augustine as its field superin-
tendent in charge of operations on its
320-acre lease in Ventura, where one
well is down and four more are to be
put down.
In the opinion of Mr.. Augustine, who
comes direct from the service of the
American Oilfelds company and who
has successfully drilled wells for that
company in Midway, that Sespe district
in Ventura will develop flowing wells
of dollar oil by scientific drilling to
greater depth.
The Crown Oil company has con-
tracted for a rotary drill in order to
make quick time in developing its
valuable holding of 100 acres in the
Midway basin adjoining the Pyramid
and Honolulu Consolidated properties,
The fast time made by the latter COM
pany on section 24-32-24 adjoining, de-
termined the use of a rotary for Crown
Oil by its Midway superintendent, R.
w. HoWk.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
MIDWAY CENTRAL ADDS
TO McKITTRICK OUTPUT

McKITTRICK, June 4.-The Midway
Central Oil company has succeeded in
more than doubling the production of
two wells on the Royalty and Lessee
lease by inserting a second string of
tubing into the hole.
There is more or less water in these
wells and compressed air has been used
to force the liquid to the surface, using
a 31a-inch tubing. c. F. Whittier, gen
eral manager of the company, conceived
the idea of putting in a second string
to a point POO feet above the bottom of
the hole into the oil which rises to the
top of the water.
AS a result a solid stream of oil comes
through the two-inch on the pump, the
compressor raising the water through
the other string, one stream flowing to
the oil sump and the other to the water
sump.
The Associated and Cousins, adjoin
ing properties, are equipping their wells
with the same device
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
UNITED BUILDS FOUR
RIGS IN SECTION "a

TAFT, June 4.-The United Oil COM
pany is building four rigs on 2431-22'
three on 26, 31-22, and two on its 2lO-
acre tract, section 19, 3l-22, preparing
to run several strings of tools.
The production from its wells on sec
ton g. 1928, provides more than sutti-
cient money to take care of the month
ly dividend of per cent, amounting TO
The first dividend of the company
viii be disbursed June 10. Messrs.
Whittier, Campbell and Heddrick, the
latter treasurer and secretary of the
company, visited the different proper
ties this week, Mr.. Campbell spending
several days in the field.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
HEIR TO LARGE FORTUNE
DOES NOT KNOW THE GIVER
Dora Palmer Goes TO England to
Get Mysterious Legacy

NEW YORK, June 4.-Dora Palmer
of Oak street, East Orange, N. j., will
sail for England to qualify as heir un-
der a will whose makers name she
does not know and whose identity she
only suspects. She does not even know
the amount of the bequest she has
been told awaits her All she knows
positively is that she has been given
$3.50 to pay expenses and is to spend
some time visiting her maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Edgar Watson, in vii
lage on the outskirts of Hastings, Eng
land
What Miss Palmer suspects about
this journey of hers is as romantic as
anything the most fanciful novelist
ever devised. THOMAS Palmer her ia
ther, thinks as Miss Palmer does, and
they have woven a tale of schoolboy
lover of Mrs. Palmer who took a bro
ken heart to Australia after his sweet
heart had been lost to him and dulled
her memory in amassing a fortune.
Mrs. Palmer died five years ago.
She remem bered the suitor of her PIN
afore days all her life, it would seem,
but believed he had died long before,
and so she never said anything
about him to her children. Her nus
band knew all about him, however,
and it is his opinion that instead of dy-
ing in Australia he returned to Eng
land. made his sweetheart's daughter
his legatee and was gathered. to his
fathers.
Miss Palmer was much excited when
q letter came to her by express rev
days ago containing a $50 note ana
orders to proceed to England to claim
the legacy. The letter came from an
"agency" in New York, Miss Palmer
saws. and the anonymity of it all was
explained as being provision OF the
will. Miss Palmer lost no time IN
transferring a business she had IN
Newark and in getting ready for the
tourney.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
DOME WELL NO. 2 MAY
EMULATE PALMER NO. 2

SANTA MARIA, June 4.-Dome No.
2 is now on the pump. The manage
ment of this company profted by the
experience of the Palmer in handling
its No. 2, and after allowing a small
production of about $50 barrels a day
to be pumped from the well, decided to
change to heavy casing head and pre-
pare for a gusher. This has been ac-
comphshed, and the men are now
pumping out the water which was
forced into the hole to keep back the
oil while this work was going on.
From the fact that Dome No. and
Palmer No. 2 seem to be alike in nearly
every detail, the prediction that the
Dome will be a large producer SENS to
be founded on reliable grounds.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
GETS 45o-BARREL WELL

TAFT, June 4.-The Nevada Midway
Oil company has brought in a 45O
barrel we'll on the southeast quarter
Of the southwest quarter of section
26-32-23, the Mount Diablo section, re-
Gently sold to a British syndicate. The
we'll of the January, which was fin
ished two weeks ago, is producing fif-
teen barrels an hour, $50 barrels daily.
Harry Ramsey, a Nevada mining
man, residing in Berkeley, is president
of the Nevada Midway. The company
has a royalty lease.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
VICTOR, ORGANIZED IN
MARCH, HAS PRODUCTION

TAFT, June 4.-The Victor Oil COM
pany has brought in its second well on
the northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section 80, 1928, finished at
a depth of approximately 1000 feet in
240 feet of sand. C. II. Coffin, general
manager of the company, who visited
the property this Wek, says the COM
pany now has a production of 700 bar
rels daily from two wells, No. having
230 feet of sand. This is a remarkably
good record for development, as the
Victor was only organized March 30.
The Victor holdings on So adjoin the
Mount Diablo property, which an Eng
lish syndicate purchased last week for
$1500,0O0.
The company also owns 100 Glcres OF
land in sections 23 and "a, 28-19, Temp
lor district, and is now laying a water
line and making other preparations to
drill a test well.
p. S. Rischel of Los Angeles where
the offices of the company are located,
is president; G. II. Coffin, general man
ager and G. H. Coffin, jro secretary
and treasured. Mr.. Coffin drilled one
of the first wells in the city field.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
CALIFORNIA MIDWAY
CLAIMS 700 BARRELS
A DAY FROM WELL NO. |

The California Midway Oil company
reports that its well No. 1 continues to
produce an average of 200 barrels of oil
a day, and that the company delivered
$4,000 barrels to the Standard Oil COM
pany last month.
Wen No. is now down TO 1885 feet
and is making steady progress of about
10 feet day. OF this 1915 feet is 1212-
inch casing and it is intended to go clear
through the water stratum, which will
take it down about 1900 feet. with the
1O1A-inch.
In drilling well No. 3 boulders were
encountered at 500 feet, and the COM
pany was compelled to abandon the hole
and start on new location Thursday.
Drilling operations were also started on
well No. the same day.
A party of stockholders and directors,
including Frank Miller, Irving II. He'll
man. IL. A. Cole, II. B. Vandegrift and
NIessrs. Stewart and Edwards and a. t.
Jergins left Saturday night for visit
to the field.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
NEWS OF THE NAMES AND OIL FIELDS
HONOLULU GASSER SHOOTS
COLUMN OF GAS AND OIL

BAKERSFIELD, June 4.-Lwis Park
hurst returning from the West Side,
reports the big gasser of the Honolulu
on section 4-32-24 shooting column of
gas and oil high into the ar lie
passed within 100 feet of the well,
which is near the wagon road, and
could hear it "whistling" for some dis
tance as the auto approached.
The air was full of oil spray and his
hat and linen were stained with the
black specks, although the car was
protected by a top.
This well entered a gas stratum May
II at 225O feet, pronounced by j. A.
Pollard, field superintendent of the
Honolulu, to be the most phenomenal
he had ever-encountered. The pressure
exceeded 1000 pounds to the square inch.
The gas was under control, the we'll
being equipped with a blowout pre-
venter. The hole was drilled with a
rotary.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
PALLADIUM is READY

The Palladium Investment company
has completed it's rig on the 100 acres
it owns in section 19-36-23, and will be
gin drilling this week. At present work
is being held back because the stove
pipe casing has not yet arrived.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
STEADY INVESTMENT

Industrial Oil Co. at 30 cents per
share, paying - per cent per annum.
Production $1,000 barrels monthly. For
full information, 7O6 Story building,
Broadway and Sixth. Charles Victor
Hall, President Industrial Oil Co.