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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19
Wildcats Shutting Down.

ITS back to old Virginny" for scores
OF drillers and tool dressers and many
of the wildcat wells are shut down
until after the holidays The most Of
the men who work about oil wells in
this country came here from the east,
and it will be several years before
southern Oklahoma will have its crop
of native-born field workers. The lar
ger portion of these men have fami-
lies still in the east, and where work
Is not urgent they shut down their
tools and leave for home 10 spend the
holiday season But in the fields,
where drilling is active, the men stick
to their work and the holiday season
does not interfere materially with de-
velopment work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

The we'll being drilled by Daniel
Waite and associates of Duluth, Mimi.
on the Roy NJ. Johnson acreage in
Marshall county located in the south
east corner of the southwest quarter
of section %, township south, range
3 east, at about two hundred feet
struck a sand making a little oil and
about two million feet of gas The
well has been shut down until the
owners can be acquainted with the
facts This well is located on what
biologists for the biggest companies
in the state say is one of the largest
INFESTED anticlines in Oklahoma.
There was big competition among the
big companies in leasing up this struc-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

ure, Cosden 4 company securing the
largest amount, about nine thousand
acres, followed by the Prairie, the
Gypsy. the Carter and the Mid-Co
Petroleum company Acreage near
were several wells drilled at that time,
the well as long ago as two months,
sold for fifty dollars per acre. This
well is located in the gas territory
southwest of Kingston, which was
opened up several years ago. There
which encountered about five million
feet of gas at 4SO feet which today
hold their initial volume and srock
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19
THE DAILY ARDMOREITE

went into an oil sand, which they
penetrated to a depth of 202O feet,
when the well began to flow, and Il
is conservatively estimated that a
producer OF from 15O to 200 barrels
has been brought in. 1t is stated on
good authority that they are drilling
ahead and expect to get the deep gas
sand which they missed. The first
well that the Gypsy company drilled
in the Fox field was on the w, b.
johnson farm in 2S-2 3, just south of
the Matte Morris No. l. In this well
"a heavy gas sand was drilled into at
a depth of 1897 feet
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

You know Grandma would dearly
love a picture Of the little ones. And
how about your other relatives2
Twelve Photographs for twelve
friends. Fondville's Photo Studio.
11f.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

pressure showing big sand is being
drawn from. The bringing in Of a
well in that locality would be of Inn
mense advantage to Ardmore, as well
as to Marshall county
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Fort Ring Oil company No. in the
southeast quarter of 24-4-3 has the
tools in the hole at SIC feet A rig
is being built for No well to be To-
Gated west of No. ..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

in the southeast extension to Heald-
ton. His No. l we'll, located in the
northwest corner of the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter of
23.4-3 has been spudded in.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Fred A. Chapman 6r Tulsa is here
and has begun activities on his lease
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Carter-Love Oil company No. 3 in
section 15-4-S is making flows now
every two hours and the we'll is max
ing more oil than when it was first
drilled in. This company is now drill
ing its No 3 well on the Easley &
Nichols tract in the same section.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19
OIL and GAS NEWS

west corner of 1912 have begun drill
ing. The well was at a depth of 100
feet yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Gunsburg & Southwestern Petrol
cum company are building rig in the
south half of the southwest of the
northeast OF 24-4-3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19
A Correction.

In yesterdays Ardmoreite ii was
stated that the Fitz Oil company had
made a new location in 1888 This
should have read 1888.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Carter Oil company No. l Pugh
in the southwets corner of 1912
drilled into salt water at 1880 feet.
The drill is now in shale at 1900 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

The Pat Murphy well in section 20
1p-2w in Garvin county, near Homer.
has been drilled to depth of APP
proximately 1000 feet. The drilling
contract has been completed and
whether deeper drilling will be done
is not known. Experienced oil men
look with favor upon the country be
tween the Athey well in the Graham
district and the Murphy well in the
Homer district, and if the next big
field in the southern portion of the
state is found here many men of the
fraternity will not be surprised
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

The stock of the oil fraternity of
Ardmore took a sudden jump upward
this morning when a telegram from
the Magnolia Petroleum company post
ed an advance on Healdton crude of
ten cents, making Healdton oil worth
60 cents. With this encouraging news
came word of the Gypsy strike at
2O2O feet on the Matte Morris No
in 2S-2-3 of well that Is reported
to be good for $50 to 200 barrels. That
big field will be opened in the Fox
district is now beyond question and
many local people who have tracts
of acreage in this section are making
arrangements for immediate develop
ment. The Gypsy people are show
ing their confidence in that they are
now moving steel storage to their we'll
Many people left here this morning to
inspect the new well.
Matte Morris No. |, 2S-23 drilled
1 hrOuph a can rock ot about rO1O feet
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-19

Matte Morris No. l, 2S-2.3 drilled
through a cap rock at about 2O1O feet,
Evening journal., 1916-11-27


extent to which State lines should
be preserved in the popular vote, is
go ing TO be discussed in the broadest
way with view to the reform Of the
conspicuous evils Of the present sys-
TEN.
The two man d fsculties recognized
by many of the gentlemen interv ew-
ed by the World should be plainly
stated and constantly kept In mind.
They are incidental, however, and not
fundamental; for it must be remem-
bered that the spne conStimtional
power Of amendment that IS compe-
tent to do away with the clumsy
archaic now dangerous system orig
inally established is likew Sc compe-
tent to deal with and d spose OF any
thing that stands in the way of a
comprehensive reform.
There is no doubt, in the first place
that the institution of a direct and
national ponualr vote for Pres dent
will be complicated by the quest on
Of woman suffrage. At present the
Constitution provides that the elec-
tors of the President shall be "ap-
pointed by each state "in such man
ner as the Leg g'slature thereof NAV
direct" By the laws Of consider
erable number OF the States of the
Union women vote now for Pre'd-
Dental electors; under the direct sys-
tenn proposed they would vote direct
~ for President. On direct national
vote for President states grant 'ng
woman suffrage would exercise an IN
fluence in the choice much greater
in proportion to their population thar
in the case of States where woman
suffrage did not yet obta n. Even il
the form of the amendment left thC
qualification Of the Pres Dental vot
er within the control OF the State Gas
Section of Article 1. now leaves i
with regard to Representatives Il
Congress) the disadvantage to States
Withholding woman suffrage woulr
be so enormous as to hasten the da'
OF a I'm form franchise Throughout
the nation. at least for President ant
Vice President This fact VII not b,
blnked at by anybody considering tn
reform from any po'nt Of view.
The second consp cious Difficulty
or embarrassment VIII oh invites tn
thoughts OF the Worlds correspon
dents is of a different kind. It con
Germs no existing constitutional .
statutory obstacle to q n0tiOnalize
+ Federal elect on bv poplar vote hu
an existing violation OF the Constitu
tion Itself Ex-President Taft, f0
eXamnle. re1lies as follows to tn
W0rld's INQUIRY:
"I think an attempt 10 elect
President directly by popular vot
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
PARTTSANsHTP ABOvE SERVICE.

NJ OWN f. SWEET, of Michigan has been appointed
II Assistant Secretary OF Commerce. This is Mr..
Sweets second round in this job. He drafted by
the Democrats OF Michigan to for Governor after
the nominated in their primary had positively re-
fused to make the race Mr. Sweet resigned his place
in the Department of Commerce. but it was accommo-
datngly kept for him and he now returns to it.
Whether the public service has suffered because Of
Mr. Sweets absence for months in little jour
ney into tho world of politics is probably proper sub
ect for discussion especially his chief Secretary
Redheld has not been inactive in the Wilson campaign.
It is evident that the Democrats will not lack for can
didaes for important Office long the administra-
ton is willing to order men out from the departments
10 nll UP the party ticket
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

would be very unwise. The
pecul'ar electoral situation in the
South IS a suficient objection. if there
were no others"
The peculiar electoral situation IN
the South. to which Mr.. Taft thus
delicately refers. is the continual ds-
regard by Congress. with the tacit ac-
quiescence of a good part OF the cleo
torate. of the plain requirements or
this provision in the Fourteenth
Amendment:
when the r ght to vote at any
election for the choice of electors ior
President and Vice President Of the
United States, Representatives IN
Congress, the executive and Judicial
officers OF a State, or the members OF
the Legislature thereof, is denied 10
any of the male inhabitants OF sucn
State. being twenty-one years Of age
and citizens Of the I'm ted States, or
in any way abridged. except for par
ticipation in rebellion or other crime
the basis of representation therein
shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number Of such male cit
liens shall bear to the whole number
OF male cit zens twenty-one years oi
age in such State
We call the attention Of Southern
Democrats, the others apprehensive
as TO the effect Of direct election OF
Pres dent upon the matter OF the sup.
pressed negro vote and the ignored
requirement Of reduced representa-
ton on that account, to a circum
stance which. we IN nix, has been gen
orally overlooked.
ANY amendment abOlishing th'
present system of Presidential cleo
tors and SUBSTITUTE ng the direct pop
ular vote will have to be accompanied
bv an amendment OF the word mr. o
this Fourteenth Amendment; mas
much as the Fourteenth Amendmen
as IL now stands specifically wen
tions electors for President and VIC
Pres dent" The method Of direct vet
cannot be accomplished wit"ou
changing at the same tine wha
would be the cOntrad ctOry provisio
OF the Fourteenth Amendment.
If that relic of reconstruction rs L
be overhauied in any particular tn
whole question OF the anomalous sit
uation referred to by eX-Presiden
Taft WI be raised anew.
Is il not better that it should b
thus ra sed anew and squarelv face
a~d eauitablv and reasonably re
solved on its merits, as an incidcn
% a wholesome change for the ma
TONS good. in order that the anoma'
and disgrace OF an nullif'ed consti
tutional requirement NAV be remove
, from the nations fundamental law?
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
rom the Dover State News.

From the Dover State News.
At the session OF the New Castle
County Court of General Sess ons
last week, the Grand Jury Of 1916
subm tied its final reort in which it
suggested that the State of Delaware
adopt "one of the more advanced and
humane" methods of executing GRIM
inals condemned to cap tai punish
ment, instead OF resorting to the gal
lows, the present custom. II seems TO
us that there can be no humane"
method Of executing human beings.
The best method is to abolish ent rely
the method OF capital punishment,
and make the extreme penalty life m
prisonment Nothing is gained by
taking one mans life as punishment
for the death Of another wh ie 10
sentence him TO life time Of Pennance
will not only be punishment but will
keep another mans hands clean Of
human blood The Grand Jury's re-
port. however. Is at least a step In
the ght direction.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
AMFND-NOT END.

TT is limited that the Republican legislators in New
York and other States are considering the
repeal OF their direct primary laws. On this subject
the advice IL Mr. Punch to those contemplating matr
mony is pertinent: Don't"
The direct primary with all it's faults represents
grant of power to the people, who are tenacious Of
their rights even If the machinery for securing those
rights be not perfect
1T should be ended amended was Lord Rose
bery's dictum mooted question once under dis
cussion in the British Parliament The direct pr-
mary laws however much they require amendment,
should not be ended.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
A SMELLING DEFICIT.

TOR a considerable time prior TO election the deficit
in the Federal treasury had been increasing at tho
rate OF about 100000 day. The Republican press
gave this considerable publicity with the result that
by some means the increase checked for a week
or Two before election day.
With the election over, however. the deficit began
piling up again In the two days between November
and November H. the deficit increased from SS8l4OOOO
to $S7 1923 OOO or than $4O000OO
This change recalls the fact that just before the
close OF the year June 80 last the Treasury De
parment able to bring in unusually large receipts
which made good showing for the administration at
the close or tho fiscal year
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

lie disk. The disk was Of the thinness
of tissue and it warped with the
81 ghtest movement of his fingers.
Placing Il to his temple for a mo-
ment. he returned II TO the table with
a frown. One Of his wives peered
in at the window, letting the physcho
motor on her Sky Rocket idle, to fnd
out the incidents Of the night before.
Il have just received a bdl from
the Western Continent Tropical Heat
Foundation Incorporated and Limit
ed, and think il is an outrage" said
the man. Last week / had some
friends at the house, but we used only
three breezes from the Antilles and
two Zephyrs from Florida and nave
not been home since, so ! can't under
stand why these items Of two hours
Of Mexican ozone and three hours OF
Californ a noon atmosphere should
be charged in my account"
Possibly it is a mistake his wife
suggested.
ut can't be- he replied The bills
are rendered automatically. These
little SKIS, you see, have accurately
recorded upon them the amount Of
each kind Of air delivered through
the company's trunk tubes. The diff
ferent temperatures and different
scents and odors all have their own
distinct rate Of vibration, and that
/ little instrument over the register on
the wall automatically records an
accurate account on the thin disks,
which give up their secret when the
d SIX is placed to the temple with the
subconscious thoughts keyed to re-
ceive wave lengths OF three-s 'Wteenths
millimeter which emanate from the
aluminium record"
At that height in the air the noises
OF the turmoil below were lost in the
ether, but a slight purr'ng could be
heard like that of a humming bird,
lowering over a flower. Il was b s
wife. starting for her summer home,
in the United States OF Mexico. and
a few minutes later. as she lowered
over the br liant lights OF Vera Cruz
she was thinking how silly IL was to
live in New York in modern times.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
THE HOT AIR PIPE LINE
Farmer Murphy's Dream, Spu the Inevitable Conclusion.
(From the New Sun.

thought wave of one-fourth millime-
ter the exact potentiality required to
set automatically in motion apparatus
which turned on a flow of balmy
trop cal air. As the soothing atmos-
phere, laden with the scent Of orange
blossoms and other tropical flowers,
filled the room he removed his siiken
~ubber coat. revealing a gorgeous one
piece costume woven of SPIDER web
hing. The texture scintillated under
the soft glow OF the rad'um arc that
was to illum nate his quarters until
an earthquake or some artificial agen,
removed II.
From a synthetic worry table inlaid
with gold he picked up a small metal
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
With The PaTagrapherS

Soft drinks going up after January 1? But how
can they go up IL they don't go down?-Memphis
Commercial Appeal
Man who stole a meal in Milwaukee convicted
on the testimony OF three witnesses, who heard
him eating it--Detroit Free Press.
The United States is now making nearly all Of its
dive stuns This is what the magazine editors call
local color.-San Francisco Bulletin
Another reason why wouldn't care to patrOnize
n lady barber is because she hasn't any idea how a
dun razor hurts.-Galveston (TeX) News
Isn't it the irony OF fate that Carranza should need
a new issue of currency just when paper is so ex-
pensive?-Southern Lumberman (Nashville)
The ministers to feel aggrieved that people
90 TO sleep in church. when they ought TO feel pleased
that their parishioners show such confidence that the
sermon is all right.-Nebraska Press CNebraska
City)
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

By means Of leaflets. issued by the Consumers
League and enclosed by Of the grocers in their
packages the housewife is being urged to Help the
Grocer and Confectoner by early orders not only at
Christmas season but also before Thanksgiving and
other holidays, and all Saturdays. Attention is
called TO the fact that all staples and many holiday
eoods-includng candy-"may be ordered early and,
when not perishable delivered early" Late orders
and later deliveries overwork. and, sometimes,
hungry, clerks and delivery boys. There are only
twenty-six shopping days before Christmas Buy your
holiday goods now!
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGE.

A NALYsIs Of the vote by which President Wilson
n has been reelected discloses some interesting
facts.
Ont Of the 5st presidential electors 1876 elected
from the Southern states which invariably go Demo
cratic regardless who the candidates are or what
platforms they stand There are, therefore, 400
electors from States where there is real expression
upon the issues involved in the campaign Out of those
4O5. Mr. Hughes has 255. while Mr. Wilson has only
30.
In the States where there a real political con-
test President Wilson received only 81 per cent Of
the electoral Vote.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
GEMS OF THOUGHT

dislike an eye that twinkles like star.-Long-
fellow.
An equal doom clipped Times blest wings Of peace.
-Petrach.
All great men have been inspired by great belief
Campbell
:-.-:-:
There is. however limit at which patience ceases
be a virtue.-Burke.
:--.-.-.
There are no points OF the. compass on the chart
OF true patriotism---Winthrop.
What is it but sort of rack that forces to say
what they have mind to.-Cowley.
We promise according TO hopes and perform
according TO fears-La Rochefoucauld
s-.-.---
Il is not enough morely to possess virtue, IL 1t
were art; it should be practised.-Cicero.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

It was the snappy morning Of De-
Sember %, 1850 Paquale Worthhg-
ton Smith Won Glucken steppen from
his aluminium Sky Rocket, the latest
model flyer OF 300 thought wave
power, to the aerial landing of the
e ghty-seventh, floor Of the De Luxe
Apartments, at 1897 Broadway, the
new residential section in the heart
Of New Yorks business district. II
had become chilled by the halfhou
ride from the dance at the Empero'
William Hotel, m'dway on the or
Engl sh Channel monolithc c viaduct
erected from Calais TO Dover, to eel
ebrate the conquest by the Germans
Entering his room, he sent out a
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
aCONrE ON. BOYs!v

THE President has been invited to visit Colorado
1 and Utah. but he has declined--for the present
though he says he is extremely grateful to the two
States for their support.
Now since Mohomet may not so to the mountains.
there Is absolutely why the mountains should
not go 20 Mahomet.
So we counsel the deserving Democrats" OF Utah
and Colorado to make the pilgrimage to Washington
and to carry with them the certified claims of their
demands for Office.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

On the first day OF November the denct in the Fed
eral Treasury amounted in round numbers to s76OOO
for the first four months of the fiscal year Last
year the deficit for the period $36O0OOO0 On
the seventh OF November the people fit to re-
elect Mr. Wilson they thought he has kept
out of war" We wonder what they think OF his rec
ord in getting us into debt
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
When it comes on the
table roasting hot you're
going to take some pride
in ntellingtheinvitedg guests
that THIS year the
THANKSGIVING DIN
NER was no bother at all.

I'VE just had big Gas Range put in the
kitchen" sad the mis- ress. 20 that I've been
wanting for long time. You see every time we
have the family at home, it takes big range to
prepare all the good things that we feel you
ought to have. Especially iS this true about
Thanksgiving me when pies have to be baked
and big turkey needs good deal of room.
Father went down to the Gas Office the first of
the week and had them send up an oriole. It's
BIRD all right, because would have been LOST
without it on day like this"
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
CHURCH BAZAAR.

A church bazaar will be given in
Emmanuel p E. parish house, Thurs
day, December Z, from O'Clock 10 5
O'Clock and from Z to 10 O'Clock. for
the benefit OF the church building
fund. Bread cakes, toys and miscei.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
sNoTHPR CHANGE COMING.

rVNHERE is quite general feeling among men in
public life that President Wilson will find occasion
within the next few months 10 his attitude
the tariff question and out for adequate pro
tectve tariff. It is expected that he will base his
change OF attitude upon the assertion that the has
brought about unusual conditions which require the
adoption Of policies which he has condemned in the
past
The appointment Of tariff commission will make
IL easy for him to do this. It is probable that the
taria commission viii submit some sort of report
showing the danger Of foreign competition at the close
Of the war, and, using this basis. President Will
and his party will change their attitude and enact
tariff law that will provide all the protection de-
sired by the South and much OF the protection de
sired by the North Democrats deem necessary in
order to strengthen their position before the country
for The Congressional campaign Of 1918
Evening journal., 1916-11-27

Democrats in the District OF Columbia do not vote.
but most of them hold Office So they all turned out
the other night ugged torches burned red fire. pa
saded and yelled themselves hoarst for the President
who reviewed the procession. The next morning we
understand many the paraders filed demands for in
creases of salary.
Evening journal., 1916-11-27
A Great Question Now Before the Country

(From the New York SUM-