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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

G. P. Phillips and I. Baer OF Will
burton have returned home after a
visit of several days to the oil fields.
These gentlemen own some acreage
in sections Is and 16 in Is and 3w,
and it is their intention to do drill.
ing during the summer months. They
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Tom Wilson, Jr, with the Gypsy
con pary, has been here several days,
visiting with the company's represent,
atiyc in the Healdton field, R. W.
Coe. These two young men have re
Gently gone over the entire field, and
have compiled a report for their com
pany Mr.. Wilson left today for
Tulsa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

l.. c. Hivick. who owns LOO acres
IN leases about six miles east of Law
ton has received a favorable report
from his drilling there. At a depth
of SO2 feet the drill went into the
sand and went out of it at SS1, max
ing 70 feet of sand. What the well
will make is not known. Reports
from the Lawton field indicate that
the sands found there are hard and
not very prolific. The chances are
that shooting will be required to in
crease the production.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Crystal company, Apple 4 Franklin
No. 3, in section s. has reached the
first sand and it made so good a
showinG that deeper drilling will not
be don, at this time.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

p D. @. Messenger Service delivers
your packages right now" Phone 1862
21.tt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

The G. W. Strawn well in the south
part OF 1888 is making 400 barrels
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27
OIL and GAS NEWS |

from the fourth sand, found at
depth of 1850 feet. An earthen tank
is being built now to care for the pro-
ductiOn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Writ Franklin, president of the Ard
more Producers association, has re-
turned from trip to Washington.
The producers here are of the opin-
ion that good results will come OF Mr.
Franklln's visit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Crystal No. on the Keck lease in
section is in the first sand, and VIII
be drilled deeper to the second sand
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

A heavy rain fell in the fields yes
terday. Parties from there last night
found difficulty in getting into town.
The rain was much heavier there
than il was here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

l.. d. Mason will sell you goods on
credit. Exchange new for old.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Bull Head No. 3 on the west line
OF section 4 is on the sand and is
showing for fair well This com
panv now has five producing wells.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27
R|NGL|NG CON.
TRACT ALL RIGHT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE u

termed a mistake which is in no wise
serious and which can be easily cor
rected at this time, in fact, it must
be corrected and by Ringing himself,
in order to be consistent and that
is this: When the time was extended
TO Dec. 81, 1915 for completion OF the
road. they failed to change the date
ON the last half of the bonus notes to
make them read in accordance WIN
the above dates, but instead they read
pavable on or before the 3lst day OF
December, 1914, yet the terms OF the
contract specifically state that the last
half of the bonus is not due and pay
able before the road is completed TO
the Rock Island railroad and trains
operating thereon, so this mistake IN
itself will cut no figure in the fnal
payment of the notes.
The makers of these notes find on
the other hand that they have anoth-
er year in which to pay the balance OF
their donation which is an item ap-
preciated by many of the signers.
That is the status of the whole mat
ter. the committee have done nothing
not called for in the contract, neither
we're they guilty of letting any one
slim ANYTHING over on them. They Sc
cured the right of way in the city,
have worked hard to collect the money
to pay for the same, and last night
submitted the following report made
by an auditing committee, showing the
amount of money collected and what
it was used for.
Following is a summary of their
report:
Total receipts as per state
ment --------9l 9l i'o5o' o
Total expenditures, as per
statement ---- 17,S4Z91
Balance cash on hand ----S ~l49.4'
Amount collected on bonus
notes, at the First Natl
Bank --$ S,9275C
Amount collected on bonus
notes at the Guaranty
State Bank ---- S,6625C
$ 12,59OOC
Amount applied on note at
First National Bank -12, ,46O.5E
Total cash on hand First
National Bank ---------- 44'
Total cash on hand Guar
anty State Bank ------- l2o'o,
s 12,59OO(
Balance due First National
Bank on note ----------S 4,loo.n
Total amounts notes given
bonus committee ------- 16,SlS,H
Total amount bonus notes
not collected as per list
on this date - 4,S97.5C
Total amount collected lZ'o9o'o'
The above statement is correct.
GSignedl ED. SANDLlN,
[Signedl Z. f. CHIVERS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Luther b. Smith has returned from
a visit to Memphis, Tenn. While in
that city he interested several par
ties in some acreage south of the
.Bynum well and it is probable that
the Teunesseeans will enter this part
of the country with the drill.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Mrs. NJ. w. Shriyer has returned
from brief visit with home folks
an Tulsa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

The big gas well in section ., which
is the property of the Wrightsman Il
Foster company is being drilled deep
er to the oil sand and was spraying
oil nicely yesterday, and promised to
be a good well.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27
Child Cross? Feverish? Sick?

A cross, peevish listless child, with
coated tongue. pale, doesn't sleep;
eats sometimes very little, then again
ravenously; stomach sour; breath fe-
It'd; pains in stomach, with diarrhoea;
grinds teeth while asleep, and starts
up with terror-al! suggest a Worm
that eXpels worms,
and almost every child has them.
Kickapoo Worm Killer is needed. Get
box today. Start at once. You
don't have to coax, as Kickapoo
Worm Killer is a candy confection.
FXpels the worms. the cause Of your
child's trouble. 2jc., at your drug
gist.
For quick delivery-P D. Q. Mes
senger Service. Phone 1862. 27ts
De Wits HANDMADE SC CIGAR.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

The Blair well near Mannsyille is
at depth of about 500 feet and is
shut down The Ruswood well, also
near Mannsyille, is at 4 similar depth,
and is temporarily shut down.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

Gust Dixon of the Manhattan com
pany came in from Cornish last night.
Contractor c. NJ. Hapgood was IN
the city last night from the helds.
Ed Sheegog of Chickasha, who has
holdings in the field, is here on
business trip.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

are in no hurry until the production
of the field is better cared for.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

One of the biggest lawsuits involv.
ing title to lands in the field was
called in district court yesterday. The
style of the suit is Tom Lowery VS.
,Westheimer & Daube, and is SUI !:
brought to cancel a deed to $50 acres
of land in the field. The larger pOr
tion of the land in question lies in
section 4, which section is producins
more oil now than any other section
in the Healdton field Judge ]. c
Thompson represents Westheimer 4
Daube in the litigation, George S.
Ramsey of Muskogee represents Guns
burg a Forman, who hold a lease to
a portion of the land and Tom Lowery
is represented by b. 7. Hainer Of
Tulsa and W. A. Ledbetter and A. C..
Cruce of Oklahoma City When the
case was called yesterday, defendants
asked for continuance, which was
granted, and it is stated that a spec
ial term of court will be held, at
which time the case will be called
for trial Application was made to-
day for the appointment of a receiver,
and in the trial of the receiver Ques-
tion, the merits of the case will be
pretty we'll gone into.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

The Safe well, which is drilling
southwest of town, pulled in the rig
late yesterday eyenin. The cable was
carrying a heavy load of casing when
a crash was heard and the drillers
and helpers made quick run for
safety. John S. owens, president OF
the company, was standing under he
rig VIXEN the crash came and made
a narrow escape. This well is close
to town and has many visitors, Ind
the driler has frequently requested
visitors to keep away from the rig,
and some of them have gone away
angry, but since the crash came, they
will understand that the driller was
looking out for their protection. The
well will be shut down for the bal
ance of the week for rig repairs.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27

De Wits HANDMADE Sc CIGAR
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

the building lockout and indeed of all recent labor troubles in England Is that the men themselves are far more determined than their leaders. Three times the leaders have fixed up a com promise agreement with the bosses. but each time the men have repudiated it by constantly increasing majorities. Three months ago they rejected the compromise by bare majority. A cou- ple of weeks ago they voted down a much more favorable agreement which was strongly urged on them by their own leaders by a vote of to 1.
 Far more serious than the building dispute is the threatened railway la- bor war which seems to be unavoid- able and which is due in about six months. In 1911 there was national railway strike in England which was settled by the intervention of Lloyd George. now chancellor of the ex- chequer, and then president of the Board of Trade. He worked out an elaborate system of. cancellation boards by which all future disputes were to be settled and persuaded the companies and the men to sign an agreement for four years. The scheme looked excel lent on paper but like good many of Loyd-Georges schemes 1t failed to work as well expected. In less than year the men were in revolt and there were some sectional strikes. The men declared that the companies man. aged to work the conciliation boards in their own interests and that the conditions were worse than ever. The leaders however. persuaded them to stick to the agreement promising them complete new deal when the agree ment expires.
 That takes place in a few months and last week the railway unions held a convention at Swansea. in Wales. and agreed on their new programme which they declare they will enforce with out the slightest abatement on the ex- piration of the present agreement It may be stated, too, that they are in a much tetter position to enforce it than they were in 1911. Then there
 were half dozen railway unions, en- zine drivers. firemen. porters. etc, all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

pute about wages. That was soon ad- justed satisfactorily without a strike. and all seemed to be well when the London Building Employers Federation demand ed that the unions should deposit cash guarantees to be forfeited if they went on strike within a certain number of years. The unions refused point blank to do so, and the employers then de- manded that the men give the guaran- tees individually by allowing a certain sum to be deducted from their wages each week, until the required guarantee for each man had accumulated in the employers hands. This sum varied in the different trades from about s7.5O to $26. The men rejected this demand and the employers locked them out. Over 20, GOO men have been idle for six months and practically all building work has been stopped.
 Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost by both masters and men and the public has suffered severely Great steel frame buildings like the new gov ernment stationery office in Whitehall, the new Australian government office in the Strand. and Lyons new hotel near Piccadilly Circus have been literally rust ing away, for the employers were not able even to get men to put coat of protecting paint over the exposed girders. l was told, the other day, that it was feared that much of this iron work will have to be taken down and rebuilt when peace is arranged
 In the meantime peace seems as far off as ever. The Employers federation this week decided on national lock- out of all the building workmen in England. The object of this is to cut off the supplies of the idle workmen in London who are being supported by their comrades throughout the coun- try. If the national lockout comes off it will involve 2000o0 men and may not even then effect it's purposes, for the builders have promises of support if it is needed from the miners, railway men and other workmen. This in turn might involve them in fight with their employers who sympathize strongly with the London building mas ters. .8
 One of the msot seri6pf Veatures ot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
JAPANESE LEARNING
 TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Five hundred teachers of English have been gathered in Tokio for their second conference in the history of the country. says the report. Of the total about 5 per cent are foreigners-English and American men and women, says the Lou isville Courier-Journal. The entire pro- ceedings of the conference are conducted in English. and as the programme takes about 10 days the proficiency of the par ticipants will be understood to some ex- tent.
 !. As matter of fact. few people in the west understand the extent to which the study of English in Japan is being car ried. The first of these conferences was held at Kloto last year, and was fairly we'll attended. but this year the organ izers have every reason to be gratihed. One of the features is the annual dinner of the teachers. On this occasion at the present conference Baron Kikuchi, the president of the Imperial university, pre- sided. On his right was the Rt- Rev. Cicfl, Anglican bishop of South Tokio, and on his left MT. ]. Russell Kennedy. the two foreigners selected as speakers for the evening.
 The bishop an Oxford man. interested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
By JOHN S. STEELE

being organized separately Last year they were all amalgamated in the Ma tional Union of Railwaymen. Then the unions controlled only about 50 per cent of the men employed in British railways. Today the national union claims to control over so per cent and vigorous membership campaign Is being carried on in all the railway cen- ters. The demands agreed on at Swan sea are as follows;
 An eight hour day of AS hours week for all railwaymen.
 A guaranteed working day and week. independent of Sunday duty.
 An immediate increase of s1.25 per week for every. man in all grades of the service, including bonus and piece rates.
 Complete recognition of the Nation al Union of Railwaymen.
 Already the railway managers de- clare that these demands spell ruin and are totally out of the question. It is only fair to say that the figures made public by the managers and the men differ widely, but in any case the granting of these demands would ep tail an. enormously heavy burden on the lines which are already far from prosperous. The managers declare that to grant the demands would en- tail an additional expense of about $165, 100000 year and as the amount of profit available for ordinary divi- dends is only $S5.00o.Oo0 they declare that 1t would mean absolute ruin to some roads cutting down the prefer ence dividend on others and defaulting on the bond interest for some.
 Now there is no doubt that these figures are exaggerated. They are obtained by taking the total number of railway em- ployes. which is about 05o0o0, and apply ing the new conditions to all. ]. H. Thcmas, M. F.. the railway union secre- taryf points out, however, that this total includes thousands of boys. clerks and men in executive positions who would rot be affected at all. He also denies that the shorter hours of labor would not involve anything like the extra stat which the managers gay 1t would but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

of life. Tho Agricultural l.aborers' union has been formed and has spread like wild fire through the counties. A suc- oessiul strike took place in yorkshire in the spring and at present the men of Helis ms Bympstead, in Essex. have re- fused to make their masters nay unless they get what they call Kings Wages. Kings wages are the rate paid by the King on his Sandrngham estate-so week and a cottagc-and some of the farmers, it may be said. are not at all pleased with the King for setting this stancard Tho usual rate of pay is about $50 week. and out of this the laborer usually has to pay 30 cents or so for his cottage.
 In good many places the laborers have succeeded without a strike for emigration has hit the countryside even harder than the towns. There is an actual scarcity of skilled tarm hands In all rarts of England and even the sup ply of travelling Irish harvesters has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

declares that they could be obtained in most of the big centers by readjust- ment of duties. He puts the number of men affected at 47o,Oo0. and declares that 900 would cover the whole cost of the desired reforms
 It is stated that the average wages of railway men in England is now only s6.25 week. The average hours Of work are 5S a week, so that the unions de- mand amounts to an average of s5o a week for 10 hours less work.
 Even if Mir Thomas figures are taken to be correct, and they probably err on the low side as much as those of the railway managers do on the high side. it Is hard to see how the companies can yield. The total divisable net profits of the railways are less than $230.0o0,000 a year, so that to take away from them, say $so0o0. .0oO-to strike a balance between the two estimates would meas cut of more than a third. Something might be done by an increase in rates, but the rates now are nearly as high as the traf- fic can bear and both freight and pas sengers traffic are showing serious de cline in the face of motor competition.
 It looks then as if there must be 2 fight and 1t will be serious one. for it will involve far more than the railway men. Within week of the stoppage of the railways the mines must close and all sorts of industries dependent on coal sor power must shut down. During the railway strike in 1911 some of the London newspapers even were on the verge of having to suspend publication because of the lack of ccal to generste the electricity which runs their presses. and when that difficulty was overcome, because of the impossibility of getting white paper into London Manufacturing plants all over the country were closed, and 1t is feared that this time the damage will be much more widespread.
 One of the most interesting features of the labor unrest is the revolt of the agricultural laborer. Untouched by tho spirit of revolt since the days of John Ball and Jack Straw, Hodge. as the Eng]ish farm worker is called. is now demanding modern wages and conditions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

falleR off now that times are more pros- porous at home.
 The situation in England at present is undoubtedly serious one. British indus try has been organized on low wages and while on its present basis 1t is prosperous there is not margin enough to give the workers the conditions which they now demand. British workmen are no longer content to live in the miserable conditions which their fathers and srandfaihe had to put up with They know that Canada. the United States, Australia South Af- rica, and the other new lands within the empire are crying for men and offernN wages and conditions which spoil affIu- cnce compared with those at home. Their friends and relatives wno have emigrated have opened their eyes to a new. standard of comfort and the spread of education las also erected a healthy unrest. They are determined to have more and they declare that if the British employers. as their businesses are orga nized at present, cannot give it to them. they must re- organize or get out. :. #
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

the Japanese teachers of English with spirited speech on Thrng, the great headmaster of Uppingham, and on the education that made men. MT. Kennedy spoke tn clean journalism and the wholesome newspaper as an aid in edu- cation. Other speakers were Japanese professors from the universities. The rapid spread of the study of English is as strik- ing as t is interesting. Tn the secondary schools alone in Japan there are upwards of 1c0, COO boys and girls studying English as part of their course. Boys in these schools must study English seven hours in each week for five years and the girls at least half Nthat time. It Is safe to say that within few generations English will be spoken almost universally in Japan, for it must be remembered that Japan can claim the largest percentage of school attendance of any country iA the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

(Copyright, 1914, by Gurus broWn). -ONDON, July 25.-(Special)-Not for many years has the labor
 situation in England been so It5&kI serious as it is at present. There is hardly an industry that is not affected by strikes and plans are being made by the trade unions for a com bined assault on capital next year which, if it comes off, will surpass in magni- tude. anything ever known in the history of this country.
 This unrest has been a normal condi- tion for the last three or four years and it now seems to be reaching It's ci- max. It began with the improvement in trade following the cycle of bad years which closed about four years ago. In the period immediately preceding this improvement labor decidedly had the worst of 1t. There was not work enough to go round and vast armies of unem- ployed which filled the English cities made anything like a demand for more wages or better conditions lmposslple' When trade improved and unemployed were gradually absorbed and in addition to this the emigration campaigns con ducted by Canada and Australia drained the country of much of it's surplus labor. The result of both these factors Is seen now. for in number of trades there is an actual shortage of skilled men and the men who are left. feeling their mower. are determined to secure a greater share in the good things of life than the British workingman has ever received peIore.
 In spite of the good times which they have been enjoying. however, British em- ployers are not disposed to give the men what they want without a fight They declare that to do so would be ruin ous to them financially and more than that would mean turning over the con- duct of their business to the labor unions, and the British employer when he makes up his mind on what he calls a ques- ton of principle is likely to put up a much more stubborn fight than on mere question of wages.
 An example of that has been seen in the London building trade lockout which has been going on now for six mpnths- It began in a comparatively trivial dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
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the Louisville Herald.

rrom the Loufsvil1e Herald.
 Whats the trouble with d nr motot carg' f>
 Something wroiiss -sFx h the carbu- retar. replied Mir. ChuEgins.
 How do you known
 Because the carburetor Is the only thing about the machine that haven't had repaired within the last thre3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

The same conditions of tenure prevail upon mots of the large Bolivian farms. The Indians give two or three days of each week to the owner of the land, and they are allowed the remaining days for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

Notwithstanding these hard conditions the Indians are attached to their mas ters. They will work for them for lit tie or nothing rather than for for