The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

ors west of the Mississippi. Real es-
tate interests are almost as active as
oil.
I'm six years one man has made
$50. 900 and is still making. II
rains on an average of about once IN
three months, which IN conjunction
with the bone dry law has shared to
make the price of booze exceedingly
high. The prevailing price of boot
| logger brands is $1,000 a quart, and it
is purchase BILE only by initiates.
They bring it to Tulsa by way of
the automobile from Missouri, beca use
railways refuse to handle the stuff.
The men engaged in this traffic are
desperate characters, and this sort of
automobile is called a death car be-
cause the men are armed and brook
no interference.
Tulsa is WeIl-governed city. The
flotsam of earth usually swirls and
eddies where rolls the wealth of oil,
and one hears a variety of tongues
but, thank God, they are nearly all
EnSlish-speaking. There are few for
elgnerS. One patrolman interviewed
in West Tulsa gave his period of resi-
dence in the city as four months, three
of which had been as an officer. He
! was good one, too. Everything is
new. On every hand are mute evil
dences of unfinished business-nude
buildings, half-paved streets, ungraded
parks-and every block with a pile of
sand and crushed rock Only the
price You shall pay is complete and a
finished product.
/ Your morning shave costs twenty
cents, and a hair cut, forty cents.
ShamPoo-and you need one every
day-fifty.
''Water-such as they have-is not
good for drinking purposes. They get
IL from a meandering stream that
] staggers thru Oklahoma with the false
beard of river. The largest oil re-
f1nery in the world is here, and while
| it is a marvel of human ingenuity it
is only of five refineries. The major
portion of oil produced in this field is
| not refined at or near Tulsa. 1t is
! o1ped-piped, mind you, in the crude
form to the Atlantic seaboard, to
| the great lakes, and everywhere-eX-
cept Tulsa. The town is too busy pro-
ducing to pay much attention to re-
| filming and manufacturing the raw
product into a finished article, and
here is where they are falling down.
In the near future the need of fac
tories will be felt to take the place
of what some day will be a diminished
oil output. Generations yet to come
will be deprived of the fruits of a
natural heritage by reason of reckless
ness now rampant in the oil trade.
They will allow the northern and
! facture the by-products of petroleum
from the crude oil that should be done
within the borders of Oklahoma.
Tulsa is a real city. It's the big
gest town of its size in the world. 1t
| is ad-shouldered-it pulsates with
enough largeness and plenitude. Its
men and women are fine, typical
Americans, who mirror in character
the opulence of the country. They
applaud Dixie with vigor. but stand
erect and shout when America OF
the Star Splanged Banner is given.
| W. +, loo or~f af riNriT no
also. One Tulsan maintains a stray
child ranch on which are housed sew
eral hundred children. He also, from
his pin-money, pays the running ex-
penses of a home for aged women.
Some philanthropy that. This man
was an orphan in childhood, but his
millions did not turn his head. See
| America first but don't miss Tulsa"