The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-20
HOW THE OIL
BEANS WERE SPILLED

BEANS WERE SPILLED
(By One Of the Insiders in the Tulsa
World)
New York, Sept 2O.-To escape
Gpngestive chill brought on by the
uncertainty attending war taxes, |
! was compelled to seek the wids of
New Jersey During my absence the
OIL market went up Just as | expected
1t would, but not quite so soon.
Everything was fixed at 26 Broadway
to put up the crude market but the
| Sinclair people spilled the beans when
sam Fitzpatrick was looking out the
window and the Texas company also
J peat the old reliable Prairie to the bar.
1 rier, Twas awful, kid believe me.
the way the Prairie was caught nap.
ping
You see, Chairman Bedford and
several of his conferes on the petroleum
committee were proceeding in an order.
/ ly' premeditated way to tilt tie ante
with the sanction Of the government. to
patriotically induce the producers to
do a little more drilling. Neither the
Sinclair people nor the Texas company
were sitting just right, as we figured
here in Broadway to do the fitting
and their move was a plumb sunrise
ana got the game all twisted put OF
course, after taking a long sauint at
the cyards, the Prairie had to STAY.
Ihese country fellows always manage.
somehow to. mess up things.
HOllered Police.
Those durn fool fellows down at
Ardmore made a mighty bad break
by hollering police, and Bob Williams
turned in a call for the reserves at
/ Washington. Washington. of course
when a general alarm came in. had 10
pull the raid. The Magnolia soon as
II got the tip, hiked her up 10 cents
and then a dime, looking as innocen;
as Billy Sunday 1t just shows how
carefully the play had been worked ont
Tor within fortyeight hours after Gov.
ernor Williams wired Washington the
district attorney for Oklahoma got in.
/ structions. and about fifteen minutes
later the Magnolia had the board mark
ed up Somebody at Washington or 2e
Broadway must have sent wireless 10
Dallas
The twenty-five cent raise In Pennsvl
vania, that is another thing. again. YOU
understand-just high spading. They
might increase the production east of
the Mississippi river thirty.five or thir
ty'sIX barrels a day by running night
towers but raise Of 81 a barrel won't
get any more crude in those fields. ant
don't affect any government require
ments or contracts.
Too Big Gap.
IL has always seemed to me that ii
/ was running things low down II
Broadway ] wouldn't make such a bil
gap between Pennsylvania and Okla
homa crude II gets "a lot OF then
western fellows thinking and talkin,
and makes the players nervous. Duk,
Center and Tidioute producers are al
right anyway and don't TIT any lack
pots or holler for the police. so what
the use Of buying them soda pop an,
making The western fellows sweelci
the kitty every time they hold as ZOO.
as lacks' There's nothing 10 IL. ah
sulute-iy not Fifty cents "a barrel il
as much difference n price as ther
ought to Doe between Pennsylvania AMI
oklahoma, and fifty cents barrel i
as much difference as there ought d
Dee between Oklahoma crude ana that ~
Texas and California.
President Bedford is Just about IN
srtoothest guy that ever sat at IN
head OF the mahogany table at 2
Broadway by and large. and that's ~
ldrcam. but just as long as he keeps
dollar and a half barrel differenc
between Pennsylvania and Oklahom
those J. W. VS. of the Healdton fiel
, .lre goinc 10 keep having the old hous
pulled And reckon it's all right nj tina
, because ia hate to sit In their own gam
unless / had my gotch-eared cayuse sac
died and ready TO 20 right now fror
the alley House rules in the sag,
brush country are quite some differen
from those in South Broadway. an
' there amt any use trying to chang
the house rules As Tar as / hay
ever been able To see the guys in leggin
and spurs play just as square gam
as the guys IN evenin clothes.
sam Lost the Game.
! 10 sure is funny the way sam Fit
y patrick let the game get away an
= let the Magnolia and the Carter TAX
= the play. ! can't figure Il out whctho
il is prohibition. or progressive pol
tics, or Verdigrs malaria, but IL
"a cinch there's something wroni
kansas climate is out Of whack som
, way but the Prairie ought to NOV
!, 10 some other climate. II II isn't a
! ready too late The management ma
have something 20 do with it dlon
: with the malaria Perhaps 26 Broa,
A day may have something up It's slecv
y but since the dissolution pipe lir
Il W..cs are not working clear through.
4 It has sortor trickiei out throug
n kcyhole that the powers that 3
n at Washington are not inclined
/ view with appreciation any serious q
II rrtn1ge iu the urigp OF rrl1p oil The