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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Gets $4,000 For Lease.

Dericks began to go up all around
his property. Wells were sunk with
in few hundred yards of his land.
These wells began to pay. That there
was oil on his land, or in his land,
or under his land, which it might be,
oil men were willing to gamble on,
and he soon leased his tract for $780,
900 retaining one-eighth royalty.
Wells are going down on his property
now, and when they come in, his
wealth will be untold.
During his three years in the oil
game, Mr.. Hawkins has acquired con-
siderable knowledge of the game, as
we'll as considerable experience with
the rules of the game. In answer to
question, "Do you think it a good
thing for people in this vicinity to
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
BLUFF ARKANSAS
world just what is going on down

world just what is going on down
here in Texas.
Desdemona is being held back a
bit because of the lack of pipe line
facilities, but this is only Temporal
ry for Desdemona is soon to be serv-
ed by four pipe lines. The Magno-
liza now has a line running to Cor
sicana the Humble completed a
line into the field from Comyn: the
+ Prairie has line headed that way
and an Independent company is go
ing to have line of small capacity
! into the field within a short time.
Storage Needed.
AT the present time the Desdemona
field needs storage and needs it bad.
There are to many big wells jammed
togther and too much oil standing in
flow tanks crammed down upon the
drilling sites. l stood on the bank of
an earthen tank, containing some of
$4,000 barrels of oil and within a
distance of 100 feet watched two wells
the Wagner and Beaver Valley flow
ing about 5000 barrels of oil into the
steel tanks which were Overlooking
and running into earthern cisterns.
l saw the great Hubble Ellison well.
A man on the property told me it
was doing around 5000 barrels and
Hammond's Jones' No. came in Fri
that he believed it could do better,
if it was allowed to run at will. Jake
day night of last week for better
than 1000 barrels, but these are
only a few of the many. They are
coming fast and furious and to keep
with fhny, vxyo,x1J LII
dozen boys and an adding machine.
1t has oft been said that the coun-
try where now is the wonder oil
fields of Ranger and Desdemona is
the country that God forgot. Up
and until within the last two years
we might say it was not the country
that God forgot, but the country
that man overlooked The crops out
there this year are wonderful and
wealth is rolling into the pockets of
those who are lucky enough to win
one or two of those sand hills.
Graveyard Smeared With Oil.
Gushing petroleum is no respector
of persons neither does it bear rev.
erence for the dead.
On the Terry tract at Desdemona
is marble checkered country bury
ing ground. In that little cemetery
reposes the bodies of many of the
pioneers of West Texas. Slabs of
granite and marble mark last resting
place of many, while there are other
graves that go unmarked. Perhaps
when these graves were new-made a
small white board inscribed with pen
Gil was used as Identification, but
the rays of the blasting sun and
rains have washed and decayed these
marks of Identification away.
The Wagner gusher came in and
blew out thru the top of the derrick
A spray Of oil from this we'll settled
over the burying ground, the trees
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
PLAYFUL PLAYLETS
By Harry Boone, In Fort
Worth Record.
"DANGER IN OIL"

Scene-Lobby of prominent hotel.
aracters-Harassed Reporter,
Cigar Girl, Mob of Men chasing
around with maps in their hands,
leases protruding from pockets and
the light of battle in their eyes.
Opening scene shows H. R. leaning
negligently on counter, pulling the
cork of a package of chewing gum.
H. R.-Any excitement today,
C. G.-Girlie? Where do you get
that stuff? (Fluffs hair, turns to
customer and nlurmurs, "Fresh
thing.")
H. r .-Pardon, m'amselle; no Of
Tense meant. Listen: l gotta have
some news. Any excitement today?
c. G.-(mollified)- Excitement :?
Sure! Plenty Of excitement. Can't
you see all them guys runnin' 'roun'
out there with their maps an leases
an things?
H. R.-Sure, l do; they're all
smokin' amt they? And when
they're smoking that means good
business for you, don't it?
C. G.-Yes, but you don't see the
danger. Honest t. goodness, l hear
so much oil talk and see so much oil
stuff an ev'rything that it wouldn't
surprise me durn bit to see a riggin'
push right up through the tile out
there any minute and start gushin'
a string of oil that would flood US out
toot sweet.
H. R.-Go on, &c on; tell me all
quickly, l pray thee. :,
C. G.-Well, with all that oil
floatin' 'roun' here you see, the next
thing you know they'll be putin up
signs that SEE no smokin' is allowed
an no matches struck m ev'rything,
and then whatll become of the cigar
stan business, I'd like to know?
GAS the curtain slowly descends,
business of white-robed ambulance
attendants sweeping up remains of
H. R. and depcsiting them on
stretcher; slow music; C. G. laughing
eleefully.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
NITRO, PRODUCES
WEALTH FOR GAME
OIL OPERATORS
Used Explosives as Last Resort,
and Have Become FabulOusly
Rich.

Nitro Produces-20-2 - 80 -
Out in the Cadoo district Of Ste
phens county dozens of oil smeared
derricks stand as monuments to wells
that owners and drillers once were
ready to desert because they believ-
ed them to be "dry" But before
deserving their prospects one more
effort was made to find the oil that
they were confident laid in great
pool at the bottom of these holes and
they resorted to nitroglycerin. A
few hundred quarts of this terrible
explosive have made these operators
very rich and they have made mil
lionaires out of land owners that
once were considered to be land poor.
The Mid-Kansas drilled the Carey
we'll that has made Old Man Carey
one of the richest men in West Tex
as. This we'll was once feared to be
dry or, perhaps, oil in paying quaint
ties could not be had Three shots
Of nitroglycerin changed the condi-
ton of that we'll and it changed the
financial standing of the man who
owns the land on which the we'll is
located. Nitrcglycerin has worked
WoHoCIo III oCSPllCilS COuiiCy CilOuSH
most dangerous thing to handle,
yet it has become exceedingly pop
ular in that section of Texas.
Rumors have had it that the Coody
well was dry. Nitroglycerin has
made a substantial producer out Of
this once "dry" hole. And so the
story goes about we'll after well in
that immediate territory. Today,
within radius Of five miles sur
rounding the little town of Caddo,
also New Caddoo, there is not dry
hole. About every other derrick in
the field has been most thoroughly
and completely oiled. Stephens
county has become a great oil pro-
ducer. It ranks among the top
notchers of North Central Texas
fields with total daily production
of 10000 barrels.-Texas Oil Critic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Az DERRICKS
UP IN SIGHT
OF DESDEM0NA
Bringing in of Gushers Causes
Rush to Field-Terry Family
Get Millions.
(By Garfield Crawford, in Texas Oil
Critic)


The hand of man works miracles.
can prove this and do it mighty
quick and / do not need to go out
of my way in the slightest to con-
vince the most skeptical.
-Four months ago | visited the
Desdemona oil field, which is snug
g!ed down in the hand hills at the
corner post of Comanche, Eastland
Erath counties. l thought then
that truly Desdemona was a great
field and would be much greater. At
that time the field boasted of fifty
two derricks and about twenty IN
course of construction. At that time
the little town of Desdemona had
not been molested and the few stores
that were there, linked with a couple
of small restaurants and two or
three offices comprised the town.
Just outside of the town the Magno-
liza company had a little settlement all
its own.
Now the scene has changed. The
town is being moved to make room
for derricks, boilers and oil tanks.
The lumber yard has moved and any
number of small shacks have been
skidded to other lots and more are
yet to go. The town is moving onto
reservation on the Genoway farm
and in a course of another month or
six weeks Desdemna will have new
location
And the reason for all this is oil.
Tremendous wells of high grade oil
are being brought in down in that
field almost daily--I might safely
say daily for the two days l was
there two competitions were made
and two more good wells were added
to the fast growing production of
that section of the great North Cen
trail Texas oil belt. Desdemona is
truly a wonder.
The West Texas chamber of COM
merce has been taking moving pic
lures of the Ranger and Desdemona
fields, which includes the Stephens
county fields and these pictures,
are to be shown all over the United
States maybe Canada. These pic
lures will do much to prove to the
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
TWO NEW WELLS IN
DESDEMONA FIELD

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 3.-Op-
orators in the Desdemona field are
showing confident interest in
both the Brown we'll of the Mary
Elizabeth Oil company and the Lacy
well of the Writ Franklin company,
ON opposite sides of the Desdemona
'area. The Mary Elizabeth well is
just little north of the Brown well
of the Comanche Home Oil company
which is making 800 barrels. 1t has
good showing of oil at about the
same depth as the Comanche Home
well.
The Writ Franklin Lacy we'll is
several miles to the west and across
on the western edge of the BESIDE
mona pool. Operators were ex-
pressing confidence that this would
also prove good producer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
DIALY FIELD AVERAGES.

Production in the Wichita Falls
district averaged $4,000 barrels, a
falling off to a little more than 5000
barrels. Bad weather prevailing dur
ing the week is assigned as the cause
of the drop. Daily averages from
the various fields of the district were
Electra, 1000.
Burkburnett, $1,000.
Iowa Park, 600.
Petrola 500.
Holiday 200.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

and the glass for blocks around.
Then came the Beaver Valley well
and it added second spray. uBt there
are to be no more oil wells in close
proximity to the little grave yard for
Grandma Terry has set her foot
down and she refuses to lease any
more acreage close up to the grassy
mound where sleeps the body of her
pioneer husband. Grandma Terry
and her children and their children
are preparing to move to Stephen
vile. They have millions. The oil
wells on their farm have made them
extremely rich.@
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

didn't buy stock Standard
Mo.or .aa 1t was the investor that had
looking life
that got If you his kind tie You can do it nv
mailing in the clipping below. - 49, ~ -" w - "y
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
WELL lNCREASps

reported from BurkbI,nnss
we'll of the Waur;ks' N
No o.: | had increased i, i
1000 barrels with a "
hole: Indications arr
the best we'll in the MAJ
sion Of he field. This y
ported e The latter part N
be flowing about 5000 h
rels. 1t has been on ii
about two weeks. :
The Falcon well, which,
the same company, is j
top of the sand and the /
being moved in and Ind
expected this we'll will h
the latter part Of this !
well is of particular mil
of its location east and \
of the Texas Chief well. |
ten or twelve feet in The }
dications point to a gou|
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Because of the congsd
freight yards at Wiehila
ders have been sent out /,
lot shipments until Aud
August 1st it is hoped i
of the cars now on sidinu
loaded to permit Of adj
mentS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
THEATRICAL MAcr,,

", Fort Worth, re,,,
" ". Considine, famous ras,,
theatrical TT circles, ''' 1st. |
New W York after s srl'
in I, the Texas oil fjp I1gsAt]
He is enthusiast '
look for the North l1t Ta,e' 's
predicts a wonderful feI''l
this section of the s,,ll
Considine and hi, '' '1l'
purchased a big I hloo y |!
county c., acreage on w v,Sia !
plate extensive dey plo,
a few weeks in New s'v W
Will return to Fort wy :,
expects to maintain '' Y
office. ''''' .
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Another $4,000 barrels we'll has
been brought in in the Tampico fields.
The new producer is the property Of
the Island Oil and Refining company
and is near Panuco.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
OIL 81

Inv est, with the w.,
he said this; sarloas
all "9 ef TIT it i i. the best /
OF OF, the holdings p Son \
pay pay you, but It ' is A NJ
t u are some ~ ! es|
Throughout the con gtafta
play the game ii is ba,'l
h no your stock . Isy y
on ooo any of your ~
goes e up, and thst'ss' I q
II nI.:y you sit down ., 'h''
play a waiting ga MI M
a good chance to e@ Ios,, y
put into it as yo Ipse y
amount , to much v wS,aa y
vast number Of s s,,ga |
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
LOCAL man MADE
RICH BY OIL
GIVES ADVICE
Best Plan for Investors is to Buy
Stock in Many Companies,
Says Hawkins.

Three years ago, J. L. Hawkins left
Pine Bluff with a deed to a 749acre
tract of Texas land, and a belief in
the future. Several days ago, he re-
turned to Pine Bluff for visit with
relatives. He returned wealthy
man, and with stronger belief in
the future-of oil and oil lands.
Mr.. Hawkins was born in Cleveland
county 40 years ago. Twenty one
years ago, he moved to a farm a
short distance from Pine Bluff, where
he engaged in the business of farm
ing. About four years ago, he bought
the Clements wagon yard on Barra-
que and Olive street, and conducted
this for few months when he be-
came discontinued, and decided to join
his brothers J. F. and J.. H. Hawkins,
who resided near German, Texas.
From them, he purchased TAO acres
of enthusiastically for the purpose Of
further pursuing the pursuit of agri-
ture For this land, he paved $11 an
acre.
The land was rather barren sort
of waste, according to his ideas of
agricultural lands, and he was just
about to conclude that his brothers
film -flammed. hi mon the deal, when
it was discovered that under the SUM-
baked crust fthis Texas land there
was oil.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
CHOSE WRONG MAN

Broad meaning of "S;nn Fein" is
ireland for the Irish" President of
Irish republic" is a man named de
Valera-who was born in America, of
a Spanish father and Irish mother.
The Irish republic must be bad off
when it has to come to America and
pick man for president who is half
Spanish. If the Sim Fem republic
has already run out presidential tim
Der before it has got started, what is
it going to do later on? That kind of
hyphenism will never make Ireland
free or strong. Ireland must show
that she is equal to the duty of govern
ing herself; she must prove that she
has resources within herself which
give her standing as a nation on the
principle of self-determination. What
would the world have thought of the
American colonies if they had chosen
a foreigner for their first president?
There are many people all over the
world who would like to see Ireland
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17

Anent the controversy between Mrs.
Hugh Kelley and N. G.. Abbott on the
Irish question, Frank Dilnot at the
close of a long article in The Outlook
comes to the following conclusion:
1t seems to Home Rule Englishmen
that the fervent national spirit of
Ireland would be able to find adequate
expression in a form of self-govern-
ment approximating that enjoyed by
the individual states of the union or
overseas peoples like the Canadians.
There are good friends of Irelandwho
see nothing for that country but bank
ruptcy if the web of business, finan-
cial, and political affiliations with
Britain were shattered by absolute
separation. Be that so or not, no
British government could acquiesce in
the secession of Ireland any more
than the North could acquiesce in the
secession of the Southern States from
the Union
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
13 DISABLED SOLDIERS
ENROLLED IN UNIVERSITY

The number Of disabled soldiers
sent to the University of Wisconsin
for re-education has recently increased
to Is. OF the four just enrolled, one
is specializing in dairy farming and
animal husbandry, one in food inspec
ton, one in dairying, and one in SAM
tary engineering.
Of the 13, ten are studying agricul-
ture, one medicine, one commerce, and
one engineering. Only two are from
Wisconsin,. Each receives $65 per
month, paid partly by the bureau OF
war risk, and partly bu the federal
board of vocational education.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17

faculties every inch. Develop your
power of seeing clearly and thinking
straight and being able to handle
masses of facts. Let us have no more
of what used to be heard so much in
the past, and which I think has been
diminished of late years, the feeling
that college is a good place to have
good time, if you don't do anything
And he fortifes this bit of advice by
reminding his hearers OF a principle
long. recognized by moralists, namely,
that happiness is not to be had by aim
ing at it. 1t is by-product of other
things in life. '"The most thankless
thing to hunt is happiness. You never
get it by hunting it.
President Lowell also sees a peeul-
lar moral peril in the present hour.
The war was a great moral effort, and
such period of effort may be fol-
lowed by period of moral lassitude.
After the Napoleonic wars came the
beginning of the industrial system,
with the exploitation of labor, and
other evils. After the American civil
war. it was only a few years before
the Tweed ring in New York was a
sign of the general corruption in Amer
lean politics. Remember that the
world must be built up again" Presi-
dent Lowell said, "and it looks as if
there was an opportunity to make the
world better than it has ever been be-
FORE" So he babe the young men not
to get caught in the recedng tide of
the war, but to look forward.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
EARLY PORTAGE HAD
MODERN SAMSON

From the days OF Hercules and
Samsont to the Shadows Of recent
times the world has always been in
terested in men of gigantic size or
phenomenal strength. In the Wiscon-
sin Historical, Society publications.
Satterlee Clark describes some amaz-
ing feats of strength performed by
Pierre Paquette Of Portage, one OF the
noted traders of early Wisconsin.
not remarkably large, Pa
quette had muscles of iron, He could
lay Clark Ca man of athletic training(
across his lap as easily as though he
were a year-old infant. He would
sometimes place himself under a
horse, grasp it's hind legs in his arms,
and lift the animal completely off the.
ground. On one occasion Clark saw
him lift without apparent eXertion a
pile driver weighing $3.50 pounds, and
swing it back and forth for minute.
But even Paguette was no match for
King Alcohol. While intoxicated he
was killed in a brawl with an Indian,
still in the prime of life. The village.
of Poynette preserves his name in
slightly modified form.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17

Ella Wheeler Wilcox had a great
time in London, SO Hayden Church
writes, trying TO get a bath. She
rented very dressy apartment, with
a double back action self-folding
bath tub but she couldn't work it,
on account of a telephone which was
in the way. She wrote plea to the
controller, enclosing a copy of Il Did
Not Come Home Clean" which is an
unusual literary feat, a parody of her
own poem, Soldiers. Come Home
Clean" fiery appeal for spiritual
cleanliness. Here is one of the verses
that Mr.. Controller got:
This is the song for a woman,
AS she crosses the seas of storm,
To the lands afar, where bath tubs are,
And water that runs and is warm,
o, turn on the faucet fully,
The hot, hot faucet, l mean!
And fill up my tub for grand old
scrub,
For I have not come home clean.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
INTELLECTUAL CLASS IN GkR-
MANY AT SEA

The ~intellectuals in Germany are
adrift. says writer there.
Socialism, which for sixty years
lured the imagination Of the German
intellectual, has been proved imprac-
teal Today's Intellectual, broaden
ing in a spiritual vacuum, has repudl-
ated the communist fantasies.
yesterday I was socialist" SAID
Herr Friedlander in Berlin. To-day l
am nothing. With NOSE of the intel
1ectuals in Germany I am adrift. When
think Of socialism I look at Philip
Scheidemann and the present SOCIAL
;st government. A conservative | can
never be. Reaction is impossible to
me and yet there is only one kind OF
radicalism in the world today-that is
the radicalism to be found on the out
law side Of the barricads throwing
hand grenades at government troops
Never was the world so without IN
tellectual guidance as it is today. I'm
less the worlds thinkers step into the
breach, bolshevism is sure to usurp
the entire radical tendencies OF the
race and bring on a world war between
the worker and the exploiting classes. =
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17

Better working conditions and CO.
operative backing of each individual
that will eliminate the poison of worry
and fear, form the big antidote for
the increasing menace of death.
And if old age generally begins at
II, the quicker we rid this world of
child labor and give all city children
places to play and exercise, just that
much sooner can we shove old age
aside until it does not begin until Is
later 20-and finally, when we get our
Industrial world near perfection, no
one will break down until old age
comes naturally, as the Creator in
tended.
We cannot ali be like Numas de
Cagna, native of Bengal, the Oldest
man in recorded history, who died in
1856 at the age of $40, but we can at
least give this generation of young
sters and the ones to follow fighting
chance.-Madison Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
PORTAGE INDIAN
DIES in BATTLE

In one of the battles at Argonne
Woods, Foster Dekorra, Indian of Port
age, fell mortally wounded.
He was hit in the afternoon and
died the following morning. Dekorra
was one of the leaders of the Winnie
bagoes i'll Portage, Mansion and Ad-
Inns and had made his home with
his tribesmen at all these places.
When we entered the war his two.
toys enlisted and as Dekorra did not
want TO stay at home, he asked an
officer at Camp Douglas if the father
could go along with his boys. He
came just within the age limit and
was accepted.
He went to the front with Co. D. of
Mauston, fighting alongside the Port
age boys. He was killed in action
but his two sons escaped and are
coming home with the boys of the 30
nd.
Charles White Eagle, one of the
Winnebagoes who had been at thu
front with the Portage and Mansion
boys, came. home today and told the
Portage folks of Fosters death. White
Eagle says Dekorra was shot only a
short distance from him.
Fifteen Winnebagoes enlisted in the.
Portage and Mansion companies and
all who survive wear the gold in
sigma of gallantry in action.-Port-
age Register.