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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Police Juror.

Hon. j. T. MANRY of Plain Dealing has author
lied US to announce his candidacy to become a
member of the Police Jury to represent Ward
Three, subject to nomination at the Democratic
primary election to be held January 18th next.
Mr.. L. NJ. BURKs of Rocky Mount has authorized
US to announce his candidacy to become member
of the Police Jury to represent Ward Five, subject
to nomination at the Democratic primary election
to be held January 25th next.
Mr.. M. C. WRIGHT of Plain Dealing has author
lied US to announce him candidate to succeed
himself as member of the Police Jury to repre-
sent Ward Three, subject to nomination at the
Democratic primary election to be held January
25th next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Coroner.

DR.. A. R. BUSH of Bossier City has authorized us
to announce his candidacy for the Office OF Coroner
for Bosser Parish, subject to nomination at the
Democratic primary election to be held January
25th next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
ANNOUNCER TENTS
r.
commissioned of Agriculture and immigration.

The Banner has been authorized to announce
Mr.. R. K. BoNEY, native of Madison Parish, as a
candidate for the Office of Commissioner OF Agri-
culture and immigration for the State OF Louisiana,
subject to nomination at the Democratic primary
election to be held January 18th, next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Representative.

Mr.. A. HoFFPAuIR of Ward Five has authorized
US to announce his candidacy to become one OF the
Representatives from Bossier Parish in the next
General Assembly, subject to nomination at the
coming Democratic primary election.
Hon. w. C. HUGHES of Hughes Spur has autho-
rized US to announce him as candidate to succeed
himself as one of the Representatives from Bossier
'n s s to M
January 25th next.
Mr.. EDWIN w. DORIAN of Benton has authorized
US to announce his candidacy to become one of the
Representatives from Bossier Parish in the next
General Assembly, subject to nomination at the
Democratic primary election to be held January
18th next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Sheriff.

Mr. J. F. ADA1R of Ward Five has authorized us
to announce his candidacy for the Office of Sheriff
for Bossier Parish, subject to nomination at the
Democratic primary election to be held during jan
uary, 1916.
Mr.. J. F. EDWARDS of Benton has authorized US
to announce him as candidate to succeed himself
as Sheriff for Bossier Parish, subject to nomina-
ton at the Democratic primary election to be held
January 25th next.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Clerk of Court.

Mr.. JAS M. HENDERSON, of Benton, who some
months ago elected by the voters OF this parish
to fill an unexpired term of the Office of Clerk of
Court, has authorized us to announce him as can
didate to succeed himself, subject to nomination at
the coming Democratic primary election.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-16
For Assessor.

Mr.. L. G. SMITH of Benton has authorized US
to announce his candidacy to succeed himself as
at the Democratic primary election to be held jan
uary 18th next.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
Department of the Interior Reyerses
Itself in Approving of the Sale Of
the T. B. Slick Gushing Property

something Ike two thousand acres
Of restricted Indian lands The Slick
Oil company, to whom the Slick hold
inFs have been transferred, now con-
trolls between ten and twelve thou
sand acres of commercial and re
stricted Indian leases. one half Of
the stock of the new company is held
by James Millikcn of St Louis. a
fourth by Joe Guffey and associates
of Pittsburgh Pa, and the remaining
one-fourth interest by the Okla ON
company a subsidiary Of the Tide,
water OIL company in which the
Standard Oil company is stock.
holder. Just why the Standard should
have a drag which Independent oper-
ators are barred from sharing is not
explained. 1t is rumored that the
filing of the mandamus suit here by
former Governor G. n. Haskell to
compel Secretary Lane to approve an
oil lease on the allotment of Anty
Reynolds. a full-blood Creek Indian
In Mcintosh county, and the approval
of the Devonian deal, may have re,
suited from the filing OF this suit.
which is admittedly a test case to de-
termine whether or not the secretary
of the interior possesses the authority
to refuse to approve a restricted In
dian lease to anyone holding in excess
OF 4.SO0 acres already.
No one objects to the approval OF
the Slick transfer, but what Is sauce
for the goose should also be sauce for
the gander. and all lessees should be
treated with equal fairness.
IL Governor Haskell loses out In his
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
tBy JOHN w. FLENNER.)

WASHINGTON. July 3l.-Surely
the interior department moves III
mysterious ways its wonders to per
form, as is evidenced by the recent
action i'm approving the transfer OF
the Oklahoma oil properties OF
Thomas B Slick to the Slick OIL com
pany, a deal involving about 81, 500,
900. a few months ago a deaf ear
was turned to the plea OF 10000 per
sons living in the oil fields to modify
the departmental regulations so as TO
permit the acquiring in excess of
$500 acres in restricted Indian leases,
and yet right on top of that refusal
comes the announcement of the ap-
proval Of the Slick transfer, in which
the Standard OIL company is inter
estcd as stODkhOlSer
The department makes no bones
about admitting that stockholders In
the Slick Oil company are interested
in companies holding greatly in ex-
cess Of $500 acres, and yet no cx-
planatiOn is made as to why some
operators should be treated as flesh
and some as fish A high department
official is authority for the state
ment that the department took the
position that the 4-S00 acre limitation
would not control in the Slick mat
ter, but at the same time ii is given
out that the approval Of the Slick
transfer Is not to be taken as a
precedent for further eyasions Of the
$500 acre rule.
1000 Restricted.
Among the Slick lease holdings was
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
STRONG PLEADER
FOR SUBLESSEES
A. Mitchell Palmer Urges
Strongly the Cause of
Usage Operators.
ATTACK NEW RULES
VIII Defeat the Purpose of
Regulation If They Are
Strictly Enforced.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Forner
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer Of
pennsylvania, who has turned down
an appointment upon the United
states court OF claims bench, and
who Is prominently mentioned as "A
successor to Robert Lansing as coun-
sellor of the state department, is rap
idly developing into one of the most
fought after attorneys praCtiCing be-
fore the interior department, espe-
cially in cases affecting the Oklaho-
ma oil industry.
Palmer was first brought into the
limellght as an oil attorney recently
when he, with Col. Bin Zevelcy of
Muskogee, successfully engineered the
deal whereby the interior depart
mem approved the transfer of the re-
striCted Indian lease holdings of Tom
J! Slick in the Gushing oil field to
the Slick Oil company. The transfer
involves the 4,S00-aCre limitation
placed by the department upon re-
stricted Indian oil leases. The Okla
Oil company, subsidiary of the Tide
water OIL company, I'm which the
Standard OIL company is said to own
AZ per cent of the stock, has one
fourth interest in the Slick oil com
Iany. The department with grim
tenacity, has all along refused to APP
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

and the incline was slippery. We
were all watching his progress, never
imagining, however, that there would
be an accident, when Smiths foot
went into the air and he lit some
where along the small Cf his back
and in n coastng position. And he
came all the way down hill, too, with
that twenty quart can of nitroglycer-
inc held up in the air with his right
hand. When he reached the bottom,
he got up, walked to the we'll, laid
down the can and started back up
the incline after another
Would Make n Fine Soldier.
THE exception | spoke of? That
was simply a little stunt in the bray
cry line that just shows what a fine
soldier Dan Duncan would make.
You know, Of course, that tho nitro
glyccrinc will freeze. AT such times
we put the cans in a water tank and
heat the water just sufficiently to
thaW out the explosive. This we were
doing, en- a lease in this field last
winter and we were fools e1ough to
get interested in a story that some
fellow was telling and forgot the fact
that the can of nitro was in the tank
with the water getting hotter all the
time. The water had reached the
boiling point when the boys happened
to remember; then there was an i'm
mediate scramble of all of us, except
ing Duncan, to a place of safety
Dan Duncan walked to that water
tank, turned off the heat and then
walked loisurely to join us over on
a hill, n safe distance away, There
was no explosion and DunCan's nerve
had saved the company's property
and perhaps a very destructive oil
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

field conflagration as well.
In war times, an oil field shooter
could be one of the most tcrrori2lng
departments of the army and navy.
Accustomed as he is to handling the
cans of nitroglyCerine, he could use
them with deadly effect against the
enemy. In my opinion he could de-
stroy battlcships, blow up forts, wipe
out regiments, explode lines of
trenches, tear down buildings, and in
fact, make war truly what old Gencr-
al TCcumSch Sherman said II was,
He could shoot the loads from sub
hurl them from parapcts, cross bow
them at approaching forces and at
tach them underneath fortress walls.
"And just to give a few examples
Of what the nitro has done In the oil
fields is sufficient in my opinion, to
back up my argument. In an Indiana
barn, in one of that states oil fields,
there had been some Of the nitro
stored. A little of It had leaked out;
seven years later this little exploded,
killing n boy ana girl, brother and
sister, who were pulling small wag-
on, carrying home the laundry
In the Illinois field, near west
field a team, attached to a nitro wag-
on, ran away; the driver jumped 10
save himself and ran in the other di-
roction; all they ever found Of the
outfit was one horse tail and the tire
off one OF the hind wheels.
In the NoWata field, a shot Of the
nitro In an oil well sent up a shower
of rock some Of them Of immense
size and on another occasion in the
same field, when an attempt was
made to shoot well, the casing and
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
From Waist to Knees. Could
Hardly Walk or Sleep.

MY husband was afflicted with burning
and itching on his body from his waist to
his knees In little while tho skin was
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

July |, last, when production was
flush, instead of at the expiration OF
the leases In June, 1913, the sub
lesseos were assured by the depart
| ment that they would be cared for
ana this assurance stimulated pro-
ductlon. AS a result the Banrsdall
on company alone spent $2,O0O,OOO
since then. Capital has been put in
by the millions
II am in sympathy with the pur-
pose Of the 4,SO0-acTe rule to pre-
vent monopoly. They have been opcr-
atlnE IN the Usage nation for 10 years
without the 4,SO0-aCre rule and yet
monopoly has not thrived there The
Barnsdall OIL company is not an OCto-
pus whose wings should be clipped.
The Standard Oil company is a cred
ltor of Barnsdall, who owes several
million dollars | knew too well the
principles that GUIDE the men at the
head of this administration to stultify
myself to ask anything to benefit the
Standard Oil company. | am in sym
pathy with any plan to stop that com
pany-heart and soul, and to the fin
sh. If Theodore Barnsdall is driven
out, the only people who Will profit
Will be the Standard, who holds his
property as collateral. ! have a hero
NOISHlppti admiration lOf BdIIS-
dali and | don't want the Standard
to get this field. No one in the oil
business is afraid of n N. Barnsdall
There has been no monopoly in the
Usage nation. II is not the past that
worries the department, but the flu
ture. To carry out that purpose, the
4S0O-aCTe rule should be construed
so that it would apply not to the pro-
ducing territory, but to future pro-
ducing territory Independents should
be encouraged by being given suffi-
cient acreage to fight monopoly. BY
this means big capital would under
stand IT would receive a real blow
over the heart"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

st,t";y ~, W., n'ti o'arS' the con
rdn ~. VI We lules SpeIls ueS'ruc-
ana Oh ,.iohte iac 3uu'oHscoS nave c4uluSs
"tho,i, ,S ,,e7 t'l"' a"oulu pe '"hslurreu
Th','1, '9o ivy ny ai1 l"clhk rum w men
is,! i','' liS'"'! ~ pu' ouI ol ouS-
inr,, n ~, 9.i'. i",I'lio''i"n Vi "istr1SS' IN
~, stry t'r 'tu l', Ils WIZ go uhuer 'he
.arh % an tllesc leases
on,,' "v ,oUV-"'lc rnle Sno"ld Apply
""'y "S Iutu,e dtNeiopH'Hl ana not
w. w. ~ p'op'IS %'l'"uS "e'eiopeu' harns-
20 600 acros no has nircad,, doToIn,,,I
ms aoeunod os ana ~ ~ na,,,o
priniiplee of tbo oeago raa"I,,i",,.
that II is tbe desire of tho donnrtn,,,t
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
Purpose IL Nullificr

OnG l,iUU-dtIt I'NlIlNlNu lIhldll
lease in the Five Civilized Tribes pro-
duces 25,000 more barrels of oil daily
than is produced on the entire $50, 900
acre Foster lease in the Usage nation.
The 4,S00-acre rule in the Usage de-
feats absolutely the purpose of the
original trainers of the rule. If the
purpose is to prevent monopoly, the
purpose is nullified. The rule closes
the door in the face of every inde-
pendent oil producer. Monopoly is
not controlled or is the price of oil
controlled by production, but as you
know. Mr.. Secretary, it's a question
Of transportation. Pipe line control IL
the key to the situation. Danger OF
monopoly lies in sitting pipe line
competition. This rule shuts the door
upon competition OF this character.
Sometime ago proposition was made
to build a pipe line from the Usage
field and yet there is was no encour-
agement under the restricted acreage
plan. In the Five Civilized Tribes the
rule holds down individuals To acre
age. but not to oil. one man can buy
the oil from so 4,s00-acre tract and
YOU have oil despite the 4,S0O-aere
rule You can't give real competition
this way to the octopus whose tenta-
cles reach out in many directions
The Old BugaboO
Secretary Lane Interrupted at this
juncture to ask Palmer If he repre-
sented the Electric oil d Gas Co.
Palmer denied this He then told
Of how the Barnsdall oil company had
organized it's entire property which
was about 10 be swept away from it,
He told of the building of water lines
and that if the company once started
pulling its wells, that the wells would
be gone forever. THAT means a loss
TO the Indians and loss to the land
itself" he said. If the Barnsdall
company shuts off its water, 1t means
a cessation of drilling in the entire
field. Barnsdall wouldn't cut off the
water supply of the smaller subles
sees, but necessity will require that he
do II as a matter Of self-preservation
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

suit in the supreme court of the Dis,
trict Of Columbia, which was brought
in the name of Anty Reynolds, who
had executed a lease to his land to
w. s. Mowris, a Tulsa oil operator. an
appeal viii be taken to the United
States supreme court. Oil operators
are watching with q great deal of in
terest the outcome of tins test case
to knock out the $500 acre restric>
tions imposed by the interior depart
ment. If turned down by the courts
the whole matter will be thrashed out
In congress this winter
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

Z,OUU Kc>trictcd.
Among the Slick lease holdings was
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

Boys we pay three cents per pound
for clean cotton rags-Wcrld office.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

DIR. Larkins. osteopo,nic physician.
third floor New Daniel building,-Ady.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
POSTUM HUNTERS WHIP.
FARMER AND HIS son
Hickory Switches Are Used by
Masked Raiders Armed
With ShotgunS.

Rockport. KY, March Pa
fresh outbreak of 'possum hunters
near here has caused intense excite
ment in the county. Thomas Til
ford. a wealthy farmer and his son,
Frederick, reported to the police
that regulators visited them at their
home in the county late Thursday
night and took them out into the
woods and whipped them with
hickory switches. All of the raiders
were masked, according to he elder
Tilford, and armed with shotguns,
Tilford said a warning posted on his
gate recently told of the intended
attack, but in as much as he had no
known enemies, he regarded the
note as a joke.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Mysterious Murder.

L ni-,i e.. X :. Mac, Is TIL
i Ia bod o. Geors- 3 l. u.y .as
T uud ~ he foo, Of ~ outside az
wav leading t. III rpa, tments e b
w ivan rarr-d Cor" Brim o. E,st
} fferson street, early "Wednesday
morning. bea ing marks that indIca'-
e & murder. Later in the morning
Edward Beasley. a tobacco auction
esr. OF AtlAutI. Ia, who was known
[ have been with Long Tuesday
night. was arrested on a charge of
murder. Bio NJ spots are said to
have been found on a pair OF tan
shoes he was wearing AZ the time of
his acres.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Hit By Limb.

NJ disonville. Ky, March 26.-Lee
Todd. a well-known f, rmer living in
rhe southern part OF the county. met
with an accident that will probably
cost him his life while at work on his
farm Several men were at work
cleaning new ground" and were
cutting down trees Mr.. Todd was
warning them to be careful. when
one of the big trees fell. a limb
striking him across the head. He has
been in a serious condition since.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Convicted of Night Riding.

Bly,heville, Ark March %. Mark
r 'aers. the first of q number Of
farmers t. he placed on trial on
charges of night riding. was convict
ed on three counts by a jury We'd.
nesdav. The charges against the
men are outgrowths of attempts of
a tald of masked men several months
ago to drive negroes from the coun-
try. Local authorities asserted sew
eraI Of those under indictment had
confessed nominating more thagl
100 persons.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Not SO Game.

A Fdx4.. g a-yesF-OA no J O. in
Newly TX VINO 'iaped VITA ifteen.
year-oid 'cIoe!g II intxll n
ton: ''She ssggesteai'. wss III e I"
We h ,Ve a. word OF c'i,icem for
the jaa 4 ping w.t7 IS, bar We
should like 10 pat q hand Oh his
shoulder aud say "Sonoy, its the
same Old Story that Adam told-'the
woman tempted nae AMI did eaf-
and there isn't anything garne about
that sort Of dodge. "-reun' ssesn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Nearly 10000 Taken.

According to figures given out by
General Kuzmanek. late commander
of Przemysl, the number of prison
ers surrendered to the Russians was
nine generals, ninety.three officers
of the general staff. $500 officers
and officials and III, 900 men. Dis
patches from the same place say
Is, 600 persons were found suffering
from typhus cholera, and work of
disinfecting the place is being ener-
getically undertaken.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27
Defeated in Maine.

Augusta. Me-. March 26.-Woman
suffrage failed to pass in the House
Although the vote in favor of the
resolution proposing to submit to
the voters of the State the question
of giving women the right to vote
was favored. S8 to 40, with one pair
and two absentees. it fell short Of
the two-thirds vote required.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-27

The Daited States, ia 1918, had
IG0,557 students ia 6lS commercial
schools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

pies of Europe; that each people with
common language and customs should
Rave political independence and place
in the sun" The struggle to attain
this end kept Europe in political tur--
MOL. France aspired for Alsace and
Lorraine. Italy for Trieste and the Tren-
tino, populated largely by Italians;
Serbia for Bosnia, Rumania for Tran
sylvania and Bessa-abia. Austria-Hun-
gary, within whose boundary is com
plexity of races with varying claims
and aspirations, was particularly men
aced by the growth of this idea, and 1T
was one phase of this agitation Ser
bias desire for Bosnia which brought
on the crisis. The same motive brought
in Montenegro and Italy and influenced
Russia and France to go to war.
The growth Of the national idea
was attended by the growth Of mill
tarism as a means for securing these
desires. The greatest standing armies
in history were built up, compulsory
military service became widespread,
and enormous navies were constructed.
Out of it all, with the mutual suspl-
cion engendered, grew the situation
which kept Europe in fear of war.
Armed 10 excess, the nations awaited
the war which finally came.