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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26

products he found that he. was dis
eliminated against and that someone
was making a tremendous rakcof.
His friend on the Frisco board left
him to starvc but others took up the
work and the little refinery is now part
OF the big system owned by the Ohio
Cities Gas company and is being obcr
ated as the International refinery at
Gushing.
The Frisco was not the only road
that Disseminated. John Shell, who
drilled the first well in the Cleveland
pool, finding himself unable 10 get his
oil run asked permission OF ~ Broad.
way to be allowed to ship oil to Okla
homa City, which was readily granted.
The Katy agent at Cleveland told him
he would be glad to handle the freight
and that the rate would be IL cents per
hundred, although no rate had beer
scheduled
The next car shipped cost him 20
cents per hundred and the next p and
so on mp to y. and then the Prairie
cut loose from his. tanks and when he
protested and informed the company
that he had received permission from
headquarters, was politely told to go
10 the devil
Times Have Changed.
Times have changed. The indepcnd
ent refiners have done wonders and
when the time comes that the oil mc1
realize the necessity of giving the re-
finer an even break, there will be much
cheaper gasoline TO be had in Oklaho-
ma. As It is, the average premium is
oS cents per barrel for Gushing crude
and this includes Quay and the north
extension of Cushing also.
The first salesman who travelled in
Oklahoma talked only price, where
now the man who represents the in
dependent refiner is strong, in explain
ing that his gasoline is OF superior
quality
Oklahoma products are in demand
wherever oil is used, the gasoline OF
any given gravity is superior to any
made from Pennsylvania crude, and lu
brcating oil is likewise of the best.
The man who calls for Oklahoma In.
brcant gets more for his money and
better quality, |, has been tested re
pea,cdly and has the goods.
Like a Fairy Tale
The great refiners Of Oklahoma are
l.. Al a
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Daily Barrel
fnea,its

The company now owns something In
excess Of twenty thousand barrels OF
daily production.
Kansas City Is to be made the point
of tank car repairs for this entire or
ganiration and the steel framework is
rising for = large tank car repair shop
Tank cars could be manufactured N
this factory, but its capacity will be
needed for repair work. A large paint
shop adioins.
Will Bs an Industrial City.
A refinery on the Sinclair scale is an
industrial city In itself. Scattered
through this city OF steel and concrete
are three bath buildings, equipped with
shower baths for employees.
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SINCLAIR PLANT
IS 4 BUSY PLACE
Former Corn Field Is Now
Site Of l-500-Barel
Refinery.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sept IA
oorniield six months ago, the eighty
acre site OF the Sinclair refinery on the
Kansas side, has fairly sprouted steel
and concrete buildings huge steel tank,
and network of pipes, mostly under
ground, The refinery, only partly com.
pletcd, is refining from one thousand 20
fifteen hundred barrels OF oil a day
now. A force Of eight hundred work.
men still is employed on construction
which, by the first OF tho year, will re-
suit in completed plant costing in ex-
cess OF $l,WOOm and with 4 daily ca
paci,y of something more than six thou
sand barrels.
K J. Black, the refinery superintend-
cnt will not make q definite prediction
OF the refining capacity OF the plant rs
it will exist by 1918, but oil men who
have been out 10 Argentine say the
Sinclair plans have been enlarged, The
plant was listed originally 4, 5000 bar
rels.
Pipe Line Now In Operation.
OIL is FLOWING into Kansas City now
from the company's pipe line that tap,
the rich Kansas and Oklahoma fields
The line forks at Freeman, Mo. the
other fork being carried on toward Chi
cago, This part OF the line lacks bu,
a few weeks Of completion, and II |,
said that the Whiting refinery At Chi
cago will be In operation In Noyem
ber
Daily Barro
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
Yale and Jennings.

The Yale field is interesting from a
newspaper mans point OF view and for
|ths reason The first well at Quay
vas completed a, time when Gushing
~as still in Its glory and was reported
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
Education In Egypt.

CAIRO--A commission has been ap-
pointed by the Egyptian government to
study the question OF elementary edu-
cation for the masses in Egypt.
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Then Blackwell.

Blackwell development is the result
Of the keen foresight and good judg-
ment OF one of Blackwell's hardware
merchants, Mr. Nickery, who figured
that the sand should carry oil IT test
was made where the gas sands were
found high and the ties, on the Albert
farm In n-29-l east was the result
Previous to this, Messrs. Jones and
Buel had spent hundreds of thousands
OF dollars further north and east with.
out results but got back into the field
after Mr.. Vickety had insisted long
and often that this was the proper
place 10 drill a test
The history Of the Billings field Is
too recent TO need repeating here and
likewise, CARRIER, Both are Justly
credited to the geologists and bid fair
10 make great records in years to come
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-16

enemy. This young man was OF Ger
man ancestry and up to the finding OF
the discriminating documents was
thought to be a loyal citizen.
All wireless stations have been put out
of commission except those belonging to
the Government, yet the Secret Service
men know there is still leak some
where especially since the fact that
our fleet was going to England was
known in Germany before it was given
out to the general public in the United
States. This information. however.
may have leaked out in England.
Aliens.
The law forbidding aliens to have
weapons Of any kind in their homes
has brought out the fact that SOM OF
these homes were perfect arsenals,
guns and revolvers being plentiful.
Some of the aliens. either through fear
or honesty. brought the weapons to
the police. while others secreted them
and were sent to Jail for the period Of
the war.
The barred zone for the alien
brought out some queer facts for it
was discovered that there were hun
dreds of peaceful citizens who had
resided in this country for a quarter
of a century and had never become
American citizens partly from neglect.
or due to the fact that they enjoyed
all the blessings and privileges of the
country without being naturalized.
Many of them found themselves in a
precarious situation for they are al
lowed to live and move in certain
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OF his business. After the slip has
been made out a messenger accom-
pan1es the visitor to the room of the
person whom he wishes to see and
arter the business is. transacted the
stub of the slip must be left with the
o1ncers as the visitor leaves. No lott
ering in corridors is permitted All
employees must have passes and enter
ana leave through the main entrance
Naturally the White House grounds
are closed to the public and a few
soldiers are On guard about the place,
although the police take charge of
guard duty there. The President Is
always accompanied by Secret Service
men, but the vigil has been increased
since the declaration of war. Cranks
abound everywhere and the capital
| city is always infested with more or
less OF them who are an especial men
ace at this period
Our country is the melting pot and
men OF many nationalities hold posi-
ions In the departments, and while
II Is generally taken for granted that
| they are all loyal to the United States.
there Is no telling when the call of
the blood of some foreign nation may
crop out and state secrets given to
enemies. Only short time ago the
secretary to the Commandant of a
Navy Yard in one of our Pacific Ocean
possessions was arrested when it was
round that he had plans of the various
| positions of guns at the forts on the
island and various other information
! tnat might have been useful to the
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time.
I'm our work here we in no way
wish to advocate conservation by dry
ing as superior to that by canning, or
to take the place Of canning when
that can be done. Canning Is the
ideal way of preserving fruits and
vegetables from every point OF view.
The housewife has the canning opera
ton well in hand much more quickly
than that of evaporation. and the re-
suits in canning have been proven
admirable in every way.
where it Is not practicable to can.
however, either through scarcity or
high cost of containers, or through
the superabundance of products, then
the process of drying has it's proper
place in the dom este scheme OF to-
day. Probably the most promising
vegetable to dry is sweet corn, which
is better than the canned product in
the opinion of most people who have
tried both methods. There is already
a fair-sized Industry all over the
United States, and one can buy dried
sweet corn as a common market
staple.
Corn is very easily dried and there
are many simple methods Of prepar-
ing it. One of the easiest and best is
to partly dry young sweet corn in the
sun, then complete the process in the
oven, or in the evaporation on top of
the oven.
SUN Drying Not Always Possible.
Satisfactory drying of vegetables
and fruits in the sun can only be done
in very dry hot weather, so that sun
drying is not applicable to most OF
the early vegetables. If the weather
is cool or damp the products simply
spoil. When they are dried in the
sun the process should be completed
in low oven at lao degrees Fahren-
heit to kill any insect larvae.
when dried the products should be
stored in a dry place, in tin or glass
containers. or in some of the new air
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zones only during the term of war,
and should they violate this rule they
will be interned in Jail. The leader
of a well-known orchestra was one Of
this class, and it was only after the
greatest difficulty that he obtained
permission to continue his work. A
number of merchants are compelled
to move in a limited area at present
and have suffered the loss of trade.
the people of this country having come
to the conclusion that when man
lives here and makes his living off
our people he should become citi-
zen. The old idea of Am erica for
Americans is returning.
When the war broke out there was
rush for naturalization papers. but
only few were admitted to citizen
ship, as it was found that several
spies were trying by this means to in
gratiate themselves into the good
graces of citizens from whom they
could obtain Information valuable. to
Germany.
The United States Secret Service has
not been asleep and they have taken
hundreds of spies. Neither the names
of these people nor the nature of their
offense is given to the press as the
officers feel that the news may warn
others upon whose cases they are
working and spoil the plans of the
officers in rounding them up. Only
recently two of these officers went to
the home of a New York official with
a demand to be allowed to<search the
trunks of one of the maids. The girl
had been employed in the home eight
years and was. regarded as model
servant. They had talked freely about
the war in her presence and had
never observed her paying any atten-
ton to their conversation. They
wanted to vouch for her and let the
matter drop. but the officers were in
sistent and when the trunks were
searched three bombs were found.
each one bearing instructions as to
the time and place to use them. The
girl was promptly arrested.
Rounding Up Spies.
In another city two attractive hair
dressers were suspected and their ac-
tons watched until finally the visit of
a well-known German to their esta b.
lishment confirmed the suspicious of
the officers. Plans of waterworks.
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tight containers now on the market.
The dried vegetables. should be ex
amined from time to time, and if af-
Efected by insect depredations or by
mould they must be reheated in the
oven at temperature of 40 degrees
Fahrenheit, or rejected. as their con-
dition indicates"
There are several Inexpensive and
practical vegetable and fruit evap-
orators on the market, and the States
Relations Service of the Department
of Agriculture gives specifications for
one which it has used extensively in
its demonstration work in the South.
DR.. David Fairchild chief of the di-
vision of Foreign Seed and Plant In
PRODUCTION. has also designed and
| made very sim-ie and satisfactory
evaporation which may be suspended
above the cook stove. The trays in
the simple rack are made like win
dow screen frames and covered with
galvanized wire netting.
Equally as great care should be
given to the selection and prepara-
ton of vegetables for drying as for
canning. To secure a fine quality of
dried products much depends upon
having the vegetables absolutely fresh.
young, tender and perfectly clean
Wash all vegetables and >clean well.
If steel knives are used in pairing and
cutting have them clean and bright,
SO as not to discolcr the vegetables.
AS all vegetables are cut in thin pieces
for drying a simple and inexpensive
vegetable s1icer may be purchased
which will prove great time saver.
THE States Relations Service adj
vises the blanching of all vegetables
which are to be dried after they have
been cleaned and prepared The
blanch gives more thorough clean
ing, and it also removes the strong
odor and flavor from certain vege-
tables and softens and 1oosens the
| fiber. This allows the. moisture in
the vegetable to evaporate more
quickly and uniformly. 1t also quickly
lcoagulates the albuminous matter in
the vegetables which helps to hold in
1.-The natural f1avors.
Branching consists in plunging the
vegetable into boiling water for a
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Uncle Sans Fight Against Plotters. Spies and
Anti Conscriptionists In His Conflict
With German Autocracv
Copyright 1917. By The International Syndicate.


German farmer declared that he in
tended to cross forbidden bridge.
The man on guard warned him sew
eral times and finally shot when the
man started to cross the bridge. The
intruder was instantly killed. When
his body was searched no weapons OF
any kind were found. and the reason
for his wanting to cross will ALWAYS
remain a mystery.
In one of the eastern cities a young
girl, who was walking with a. soldier
along a railroad track in the forbid
den zone. was shot and instantly
killed by a sentry when the pair had
failed to halt at his command. This
led to an order forbidding the visits
of women to the camps unless thew
were armed with permits. Several
people have been wounded for falling
to obey orders and hundreds of SUI
spicious characters found loiterinp
near barred zones have been arrested.
while many of these people are in
nocent and are simply wandering
about through idle curiosity" said a
prominent army officer, 1--WE are TAX
ing no chances. People who would
blow up bridges and tunnels generally
care nothing for their own lives and
must be stopped before they have a
chance to carry out their nefarious
schemes. 1t seems hard for people
who have walked about so freely to
suddenly realize that some of their
freedom must be limited for the good
of the country. The actual fighting is
so far away that it seems difficult to
realiz. that we are really at war"
The abuttments of bridges are
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bridges and munition plants. q code
book and part of a wireless packed
in suitcase were found. The hair
dressers and their accomplice are now
spending some time in Jail.
In all our possessions the German
spy system has been at work. Down
at Panama the Government took no
chances with Germans and shortly
after war was declared they cleared
the hotel and cottages on Taboga is
land of Americans and promptly In
termed all German residents there.
They then stopped all boats rum .ng
! to the island except the ones carry
ing supplies which were operated by
| the Government. In Hawaii and the
PHILIPPINES German suspects were in
| termed and guards set at work guard
F ing public utilities.
Men and women in all the walks of
life have been engaged as spies by the
Willhelmstrasse office. for they en-
ploy all kinds and conditions of mon
and women in their spy system which
| like the military system is run with
German efficiency This spy system
never sleeps. but like the octopus
reaches out its tentacles and draws in
anybody it can use. Money is spent
| freely where important objects are to
be gained. The agents of the German
Government have tried to foment'
strikes all over the country, especially
/, in shipyards and munition factories
and to raise all sorts of dissension be-
tween capital and labor. OF course,
some of the plotters are merely cranks
who have an exaggerated idea of their
ability to set the world right. hut the
majority are bona fde allies of the
Central Powers and the. plots have
| been traced to Germans of every sta
ton of life. There was evidence dis
covered which connected the former
German Arnba ssador with conspira-
cy to foment trouble for US in Mexico
at the time he was giving US assur-
ances of Germany's high regard for
this country. The United States has
SO far been rather lenient in
its dealings with these plotters by sim
! ply sending them to prison. but as
! treason to our country is punishable
by death an example may soon be
made Of some of these detestable crea-
lures who are trying to hinder Uncle
Sam in his fight for civilization.
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lows:
"All varieties of string beans can be
dried. Wash and string the beans
carefully. The very young and ten.
der string bean can be dried whole.
Those that are full grown should be
cut in n to inch lengths with 'vege-
table slieer or a sharp knife. It is
better to cut beans than snap them.
They are then put in a bag OF. cheese
cloth, or in a wire basket and blancheA
in boiling water for 6 to 10 minutes.
depending on the maturity of the
bean. Remove surface moisture ao-
cording to directions gircr above
Young string beans dry hours. more
matured beans 8 hours. Begin drying
at a temperature of ITO degrees
Fahrenheit and raise Temperature
gradually to 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
| Wax beans are dried in the same
manner as the green string beans Z
Different kinds of beans. after ma
turing and drying on the vines. can
be treated as follows: Shell. wash
and spread in thin layers on the trays
Of the drier and heat 10 minutes.
beginning at $50 degrees Fahrenheit.
gradually raising the temperature to
$50 degrees Fahrenheit This high
temperature will destroy all insect
eggs which might be on the beans
Cowpeas or any field pea can be treat
ed in the same way Cool and store
carefully. The drying of fruits is, in
a general way similar to that Of vege-
IIta bles 5fS Z.
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short time. wire basket or cheese
cloth being used for this After
blanching for few minutes. instruc-
tons advise that they be drained we'll
to remove surface moisture by plac-
or by exposing to the sun and air for
a short time.
Time Required For Drying Varies.
The vegetable thus prepared is
spread in a thin layer on the trays
Of the drier. The temperature of the
drier should be r. Their low : preven4
scorching the product. For most veg
etables. after surface moisture is re-
moved. begin driving at a temperature
Of 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Increase
temperature gradually from 10 de-
grees to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. and
complete drying IN 2 or hours. The
time required for drying vegetables
varies, however. 1t can easily be de-
termined bv a little experience. The
materials should be stirred or turned
several times duricr the driving in orr
der to secure uniform product.
It is important sto know the tenn
peraturc of the heat in the drier. and
this, cannot be determined very accur-
ately except by using a thermometer.
Inexpensive oven thermome ters are
found on the market. If a thermo-
meter is not used the greatest care
should be given to the regulation of
the heat. The temperature in the
drier rises rather quickly and the
product may scorch unless close at
tentfon is given.
To Dry String Rears u
The directions given by the Office
of States Relations Service for drying
green string beans applies to most of
the summer vegetables. Tt is as fol-
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guarded by soldiers in patrol boats,
who forbid strange boatmen to go near
the bridge supports. Men who are on
guard at the bridge of a well-known
railroad which links the north and the
south and which forms an important
link in the transportation of war ma
terial. are camped on an island in
the middle of a river.
At several places in the east the
guards have. been fired upon from
ambush and one or two have been
killed while number have been
wounded. Some States have seen fit
to exchange militiamen for guard
duty, their officers proceeding upon
the theory that it is easier for sol
der to refuse to allow stranger to
pass than to refuse an acquaintance
and by sending them to a. strange
city they are surer of their work.
Public Utilities.
All sorts of plots have been I'M
earthed and plans for destroying pub
lie utilities have been found among
them. City waterworks had to be
guarded with the strictest rules as a
plot was discovered part of which
was the poisoning of city water sup
| ply. Munition plants and shipyards
are other vulnerable points for the
plotter and many nnaccountable ex-
| plosions have occurred in the plants
of the former.
+, Public buildings, especially those
belonging to the Federal Governments,
have been closely guarded by soldiers,
who pace up and down at the en-
frances and refuse permission to all
who do not possess duly signed passes
Even certain entrances to the New
York subway are guarded lest some
of the armories might be blown UP
/ from underground.
/ In Washington.
In Washington soldiers are to be
found walking to and fro in every de.
i partmert. The War and Navy Build
ing is closed to all who cannot posi-
lively state their business. This must
be done in writing telling who the
visitor wishes to see and the nature
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trio fans. This is wholly satisfactory
in dry weather; IL the weather is moist
we dry them by means of small
gas heater, as damp air is fatal to the
process of drying"
Peas. beans, potatoes. cucumbers,
cabbage, tomatoes and onions were
among the vegetables Of the season
on those shelves. A tray of beets
was close at hand and a, morseI yield
ed a sweet, nutty beet taste, imme-
t1iately proving the retention Of both
nutrition and flavor. A glass jar close
by contained a few slices which had
been soaked in preparation for cook
ing and they looked like nothing else
than slices of fresh boiled beets.
The Scheme Still In It's Infancy. /
The visitor was enthusiastic over
the dried garden products so entic-
ingly arrayed on the shelves Of the
new evaporators, with the finished
product neatly put by on the shelves
of the big laboratory In snug little
alright containers Of waxed paper
and pasteboard. The scientist was re-
served in his statements regarding
the full value Of this process of con-
serving the fruits of the garden, for
although drying certain fruits and
vegetables Is an old, tried and tested
process. Mr.. Gore regards the drying
of every garden product as general
means Of conservation yet in its in
fancy.
IT think that drying garden produce
should not be carried on so long as
the householder can buy tin or glass
cans and put away the surplus in that
manner" said he. THE main intent
of our experimentation is to supply
a process of conserving garden prod
ucts in the events Of a tin-c search
ty. which certainly threatens at this