Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-25
IN OCTOPUS THAT
IS REAL MODERN
HOW THE STATE BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION BALLS THINGS
UP As TO VALUES.
RESULTS weird and ABSURD
One, Two, Three and Even SIX Hun
dred Per Cent Increases Chalkcd
Up On Failing Concerns.

From the pages Of recent political
history, political spellbinders and
writer's have been conjuring gohllns
10 frighten voters into electing them
to office, the devil-fish, or octopus.
serving as an illustration more spe-
officially shivery and uncanny than
most Of the other spooks held before
our staring eyes. The appeals have
served the purposes of-the spell
binders splendldly, until the spell
binders have so completely secured
control of the legislative and executive
branches Of government that govern
ment has evoMJd the commercial
and industrial artopi from their re-
cesses and has itself grown into a
tencacled money-sucker more vora-
cious than its predecessor And here
in oklahoma property owners are
slowly verging into an undigesteo
anger that will surely strike at every
political organization alike.
The state board of equalization
has just concluded its adjustments of
levies for 1912, and the results are
certainly as weird and absurd as can
well be imagined to originate with
men supposed to have some knowl-
edge of business affairs.~LThe largely
increased values the board has at
tasched to oil and gas property foi
revenue-raising purposes are so glar-
ingly unjust as to leave no doubt what
ever that its members have deliber-
ately agreed to loot everything in sight
for their own political necessities ana
Advancement. The methods and man
ners of these political intriguers are
on a par with those of guerrillas and
buccaneers. so we might just as well
speak of them plainly and use plain
language.
ArdmOre Gas Company Case.
One corporation will be made the
first selection, because it explains
what we are trying to get at so clear
ly that other citations will be the
more readily understood. The Ard
more Gas company was organized and
IN the heart of the unleased portion
OF the Usage and will demonstrate to
a large degree whether or not oil
is to be found over there. 1t is on
one of the sections retained by the
Indian Territory Illuminating Oil q
Gas company in lieu of the lots turn
ed back which are located northwest
of Copan. A rig is on the ground
and Tom Graham of this city will
look after the drilling for his broth
er, VIM. Graham.
Sam Barr and his associates in the
Kansas Oil company were in Tulsa
yesterday and gave out the informa-
tion that they would begin drilling on
an extensive scale in the near future.
G. p. Pierce, with the Kansas City
Bolt and Nut Works, is in the city.
Elsewhere on this page will be found
a contribution from II. l.. Wood, best
known of all writers on matters per-
tanning to oil. 1t is the first and only
article he has written for any periodi-
cal in months, and his many friends
will be glad to hear an expression OF
his views on this, his favorite subject
but read 1t.
r. C. Huling Of Pittsburg, Pa, Is
looking over the Oklahoma field, ac-
companied by Thomas Chestnut.
This from the Daily Oklahoman of
yesterday:
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