The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-14
OIL and GAS NEWS

st1sussfEsnzas -
abandoned as a dry hole at 1880 feet.
This is the farthest southwest test on
the Holman farm.
Cruce-Smith No. 8, in the southwest
portion OF 5-4-3, had a sand from 112O
to ll46 and is being tubed. The sand
was found here 100 feet deeper than
In the other wells on the same farm.
}, L. Mildren, with the Carter Oil
Company, has moved his family from
the Rhoades farm in the southeast eX-
tension to Ardmore Mr. Mildren spent
last week for his company in the north
Texas fields.
Louis Boyd and party were visit.
ors yesterday to Healdton.
Mr., and Mrs Al NJ. Rice and their
guests, the Rev and Mrs. James Ken.
dall and Mrs. Carl Jeffries visited
Healdton and the fields yesterday.
r. L. Ream, of Wapsnucka. has
made arrangements to purchase rig
timbers from big concern which has
81 townships of timber in Choctaw and
McCurtain counties and he is putting
IN yard at Healdton and will sell
rig timbers exclusively.
d. G. Fitzgerald had as his guests
on a TRIP to the fields yesterday Mr.
ana Mrs. Sam W. Gladney and Mrs
Giadney's mother from Sherman. Tex
'has. W. Clay has returned from a
business trip to the Choctaw and
Cherokee nations.
I, F. Maloney left here today for
OHahoma City and from there he will
leave for Kentucky where he win drill
some OIL tests on a large acreage he
owns in that state.
OH and Gas journal: The famors
Tommy Atkins case. involving mas.
session Of a Cushing allotment eaid
10 De worth S3,OOOOeO, is on trial in
Ine United States Court at Muskogee
ne tease is at present being operated
Dy Charles Page, of Tulsa. The claim.
ants are the Creek Indian tribe
through its attorney and ]. Garfield
Buell. and others. Page claims owner.
snip under an original allotment and
buell and the government contend
that this allotment was illegal because
no such person as Tommy Atkins ever
lived Buell. also claims that his lease
holds under an allotment of the same
tract subsequently made to Quentin
Garrett.
The government flatly contends that
all allotments are void and that title
to the land vests in the Creek tribe.
This is the third trial of the case on
one or another of its angles II has
Deem pending for more than four years.
TO SELL LAND TO MAGNOLIA.
OIL and Gas Journal. The park board
OF Houston, Texas, has recommended
to the commissioner that the of.
fer of the Magnolia Petroleum Co. of
$4,000 for SO acres contained in what
Is known locally as Refinery Park. be-
accepted by the city. The refinery
viii use the land for extensions 10 its
plant
Oil and Gas journal: w. b. Hassctt.
of Tulsa, general manager OF the ln.
ternational Refining Company. Is con
fined to his home with a severe ease
10. grippe Mrs. Hassett who is stin
in Philadelphia hospital conyalcscing
from an operation Is improving steadi-
ly
oil and Gas Journal: j. Edgar Pew
.oi Tulsa, general manager of the Car.
ter Oil Company, MidContinent di-
vision, has gone to New York for
general consultation of all the heads
OF departments
on and Gas Journal: Harry II.
Rogers. of Tulsa, member OF the legis.
lature. and general counsel for the
McMan Oil company, is in Washington
interesting himself in the surplus
profits. tax bill which is being con.
siderea by committees Of the house
and senate. He is showing the mem.
bers that the taxes on some oil lease
sales, under the terms OF the proposed
bill, viii run over Sl,OOO,OOO, and that
no other business transactions are
taxed in anything like that proper.
ton.