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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
This Is NOT a Wild Cat

1t is as near a certainty as can be found in oil
every chance and hazard of possible loss is elimin-
ated. Big profits are as certain as can be.
The discovery of oil in such large quantities.,
over so large an area, Immediately entailed and
made necessary vast expenditures of money (ready
CASH if the property of the company was to be
speedily developed to it's maximum, its great re-
sources properly conserved and the interests of it's
stockholders fully protected.
Adverse financial conditions throughout the
country generally made it quite impossible to quick
ly assemble the huge sum necessary to carry on,
at once, the broad and costly campaign of develop
ment.
In this situation, HOGAN OIL
sought the aid and cooperation of MUTUAL OIL
COMPANY, a ($30,00O, 000) complete entity oil
company with large and experienced organization
to assume the tremendous financial outlay neces-
sary to handle the lease in proper manner. Careful
examination of the lease, with three completed
flowing wells on its extreme borders producing 500
barrels per day, assured Mutual Oil Company OF
its very great value, and it took over a one-half
interest in the entire property and assumed the
management and operation under agreement for
continuous and extensive development without
shutdown or delay.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
Troop of cavalry leaving for hike inland, headed by regimental band.

quartering and eating the other half
If their ~parasols were not needed
they would be balanced on the head.
The men were, likewise, set against
using their hands for carrying any
thing. They usually used a sort of
yoke, made of hard wood, and carried
their burdens fastened to each end.
We were quartered for a time near
I a sugar warehouse, and many the
time I've noticed native men fill a
basket with sugar and fasten it on
one end of his yoke and fill the other
basket with rocks to make them
balance.
The caribou or water buffalo was
used nearly exclusively in hauling the
loads, which were placed in a two
wheeled cart, the wheels of which
were solid discs of hardwood with a
fixed axle. The drivers usually rode
the caribou, using a jerk line fastened
to a ring in the animals nose as a
control.
These animals worked very we'll for
a time, but let them get the scent of
water and travelling ceased for sew
eral hours while they wallowed in the
mud. These rests suited the native
drivers very well as they were never
very work brittle. There were a few
small, scrawny ponies that were used
to pull carramettas, or light, two
wheeled buggies. 1t took the ma
some time to get owe their Won
derment at the "grande cabalios"
(large horses) of the American cav
airy, and more especially the mules.
Their mode of c~ultivating the soil
was as ancient as that of their travel.
The rice paddles were diked during
the dry season and as soon as they be-
came soaked, after the rains Started,
they were plowed with the ancient
one shovel one-handled pillow we used
to see pictured in u Sunday school
papers, with the driver and caribou
wading knee deep in the mud and
water. The rice was then broad
casted IN the water and left to find
it's own seed bed.
Natives easily Influenced
Due to their utter ignorance, the
natives were easily influenced. I re-
call when Judge William H. Taft,
then civil governor of the islands,
came to Batangas to inaugurate a
civil government for that province,
was in the extreme southern
part of the island of Louzon. The
people were apparently very anxious
for a chance to begin governing
themselves and worked for several
days erecting a huge welcome arch at
the intersection of the two princi-
pal streets. 1t was handsome affair,
built of green bamboos, dashed to-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05

not granted civil government at thai
time, nor while I vas on the islands
Beginning Education
1t was shortly after this that two
American women, government teach
ers, came to open schools. Their ex-
~periences were varied, indeed, indeed.
After arranging for school rooms, it
was announced>in the church, the only
advertising medium for the natives,
that school would open the following
day. 1t was the honest intention of
the teachers to do so, but when they
viewed the assembled children the
next day, they decided to delay sew
eral days, as only about one out of
every 10 children wore any clothes
at all. The youngsters at that time
seldom thought of clothes until they
were about 10 or IL years of age.
The teachers began making dresses
for the girls and trousers and coats
for the boys and forbade them coming
to school without them. 1t was anus
ing to see the children going to school
with their clothes rolled up under
wall and don them and proceed to
school. The reverse would happen as
soon as they were out of sight of the
school room.
Guerilla Warfare
Most of our fighting was of the
guerilla variety. Small rowing bands
of -insurrectos, carrying arms of every
make, from the flintlock to the
modern Mauser. Often we would
capture ammunition, the shells of
which were home made of strips of
tin wound around in the shape of a
shell and match heads were used for
Military orders were issued
against the possession or sale of any
but safety matches.
Small cannon were sometimes used
by these bands against us. These
were made by wrapping wire closely
around a large joint of bamboo and
putting in a charge of lead slugs. AS
a rule these cannon were as danger
Gus for those behind it as those in
front.
In southern Louzon, the craftiest
leader and the hardest to capture
vas General Mu1var, the 'head hunt
er." His followers were holder than
most, and I have known them to come
into a g~arrisoned town, lie in wait for
a lone soldier, sever his head and get
away so quietly nothing would be
known of the affair until the head
less body would be found.
One morning we found notices
posted all over Batangas, written in
Spanish and English, offering
rewards for the heads of American
soldiers. The rewards varied accord
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05

to keep body and soul together.
The only scaVengers known Wer
razor back hogs. Disease was ran
pant in every portion of the archi
pelago. 1t was NO uncommon sigh
to see groups of naked children play
ing in the dusty roadway who's
bodies we're absolutely raw will
smallpox. The wells were shallow
and the water was infected with ty
phoid germs. I have noted as many
as % funerals during a single day
in the rainy season; and this reminds
me of their methods of burial.
In each native cemetery there
were graves and vaults, the latter
constructed in the adobe walls that
surrounded the cemetery grounds.
The natives were very devout church
attendants and the high and low
alike were buried with church SER
vices. The only difference in class
appeared later when the poorer
classes failed to pay the grave rent.
In that event the bodies we're dug up,
thrown on the bone pile, and the
grave rented to another. The bodies
were wrapped in a rattan covering
and carried to the cemetery on a
tray on the shoulders of four men.
The tray was then returned to the
church for the next corpse.
From the standpoint of vegetation,
the islands are most wonderful. The
palm, cocoanut and banana trees and
the endless variety of ferns that grow
in wanton abandonment are indeed
beautiful in the extreme. The large
variety of fruits, combined with rice
and fish, furnished a varied diet for
those whose constitutions could stand
the malaria attacks likely to follow
a too bounteous meal of such rations.
The soldiers were ever tempted by a
sight of fruit baskets loaded with
oranges, bananas, sicos, breadfruit,
pineapples, mangoes, but most of
these were tabooed by the post sur
geon as too dangerous a diet. When
we felt too lazy to go out and gather
the fruit for ourselves, we could al
ways buy it from the fruit vendors
cheaper than we could steal it-or-
anges 20 for a penny; bananas at
about the same price, pineapples, a
cent each.
The principal industry of the is
lands was the culture of sugar cane,
rice, hemp and tobacco. Of these
crops the latter was something you
had to get used to-"
Never will I forget my first ex-
perience with a native cigar. The to-
bacco in those days had no artificial
curing-simply sun dried and rolled
into big, black cigars or hand shredd-
ed and made into cigarettes. I fired
up three cigars before I came to the
conclusion that the first was not
packed with hair and tar rope. But
after the second or third coating of
my mouth had peeled off, 1 really
liked the flavor. The tobacco chew
ers experienced about the same diff
ficulty, but finally t~oughened their
mouths to the native weed.
N~inety-nine out of every hundred
native men, and children
smoked, and it was a queer sight for
us to see a woman walking down the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
Estimate of Possible Income

These statements and figures are not exagger-
ated guesses, or hopeful forecasts; they are very
reasonable and fair expectations; we believe they
Will be fully realized on. Experience on the lease,
SO far, justifies more optimistic assertions.
Three completed wells now produce 900 barrels
per day. There is room on the lease for 1872 wells,
allowing ten acres to each we'll. When all are
drilled in, as they are contracted to be, they
should, at least, produce 100 barrels per day on
an average-the field average of all wells drilled
TO date is lat barrelS-or a total of 10, 200 barrels
per day, $4,000 barrels per month, or 6,912,000
barrels per year, of which amount Al per cent, or
2~,833,92O barrels, will be the property of Hogan
OIL Company and its stockholders. Crude oil is
now lower in price than since the pre-war period.
Competent judges %prophesy that before three years
Keyin-Sunburst oil will be selling at the well for
$500 per barrel. During the entire life of this
field 1T should sell at not less than So. 90 per barrel,
on an average, and if it does average this reason
able price, it will mean, in dollar value of oil for
Hogan Oil Company's equity, $5,667, $40, or more
than two times the entire par value of its stock
each year. An opportunity for big profit in an
investment so safeguarded as to make loss i'm
possiblei
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
OFFICERS

SENATOR Il. S. HOGAN, President
FRED Il. HOGAN, Vice-President
RAY M. HART, Hart-AIbin Co., Billings,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Make All Remittances to HOGAN OIL
Care of Stanton Trust & Savings Bank,
Great Falls
= = = = - :
!. TRUST & SAVINGS
GREAT L MONTANA.
hereby subscribe for
/. shares of the capital stock of the OIL
Ga Montana Corporation), of the par
value of s1.00 per share, and enclose you herewith
therefor. Please mail certificate to
DDRES
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
WHEN MONTANA SOLDIERS CROSSED THE
PACIFIC TO FIGHT IM THE PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS AGAINST AGW1MALDO'S BANDS

gether with rattan, and covered with
beautiful flowers of every hue. In
the four stages were built
from which little girls were to show
er flowers on Judge Taft as he rode
under.
The night before the ceremony the
town was attacked by instructors
the welcome arch riddled with bull
lets. A number of the attackers
were captured and among them we're
some wha had worked hard erecting
the arch. Needless to say they were
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05

street putting at a black cigar about
eight inches long and as big around
as a corn cob, followed by a naked
pickaninny about six years old smok-
ing a cigarette.
Empty Handed
One seldom, if ever, saw a native
woman carry anything in her hand.
Everything was placed on the head. 1t
vas no uncommon sight to see one
eating an orange while out strolling.
After it was peeled one-half would be
placed on her head while she was
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
BY Aubrey S. Petit

TEW Americans of today realize
II the conditions that confronted
4 the soldiers who were sent to the
Philippine Islands during the Span
ish-American wal and for a number
of years after, while the islands were
being cleared of the murderous in
surrecto bands that infested nearly
every part of them. We found the
Islands inhabited by a ragged, illit-
crate, pock-marked people, whose
only thought was to get enough food
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
Reason We Offer Stock to Public
Why sell stock-if SO good?

Why sell stock-if so good?
In acquiring this large lease, Senator Hogan
and his numerous associates committed themselves,
as individuals, to an expenditure of one-half mil
lion dollars ($500, 0O0). This when it was 'Wild
Cat and not Sure Shot" or proven production.
1t is to reimburse them for this outlay. and relieve
them of part of this great burden that a limited
amount is now for the first time offered to his
friends and the public of Montana, to whom he is
so well and f~avorably known.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
CHILDREN CRY
FOR 'CASTORIA'
ESPECIALLY PREPARED FOR IN.
FANTS AND CHILDREN
OF ALL AGES

Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has
been in use for over 80 years to re-
heVe babies and children of Consti-
patton, Flatulency, Wind Collie and
Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness aris-
Ing therefrom, and, by regulating the
Stomach and bowels, aids the assimi-
lation of Food; giving natural sleep
without opiates.
The genuine bears signature of
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
One Well Per Week.

is to be completed by Mutual Oil Company on this
lease, and one and a half million dollars are to be
expended on wells, tanks and other necessary
equipment.
Contract with Mutual Oil Co. provides for con-
tinuous operation and recovery of oil, as well as
purchase of all oil produced each month for account
of Hogan Oil Company.
One Fifty-five Thousand barrel storage tank is
already completed, large headquarters camp estab-
lished, and nine strings of tools actively employed
in drilling out the lease.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
Tremendous Development Campaign by
Mutual Oil Company

G OIL COMPANY acquired this valuable
lease in the pioneer days of Kelvin at a cash cost
of nearly one-half million of dollars, and began its
development campaign.
HOGAN NO. 1 WE'LL came in October %, 1922,
flowing at the rate of 528 barrels; today, after
eight months, it freely flows 365 barrels, showing
its permanency. Two additional wells bring pres
ent daily production up to 900 barrels per day.
About July 10 the fourth well will be in, and with
in thirty days
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05
Price of Stock

Stock, both preferred and common, as the pur-
chaser may elect, is offered at IS cents per share,
par being $1.00. Certificates will be mailed out
Immediately upon receipt of full amount by Stanton
Trust and Savings Bank, of Great Falls, Montana,
Registrars for Hogan Oil Company.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-05

This very advantageous contract and valuable
business connection means steady production on a
large scale, immediate market for every barrel of
our oil, and BIG, QUICK DIVIDENDS for HOGAN
OIL p stockholders.
Evening star., 1923-02-02
COCO DECLINES TO ACT
IN THREAT TO MAYOR

d. -ue Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La. February .
ATTORNEY General A. V. Coco said that
his office could take no official cog
l;zance OF the threatening letter re-
ceiycd several days ago by Mayor
Robert l.. Dade of Mer Rouge. in
Which the mayor was warned to leave
hat town within ten days or be
.Iled.
Mr.. Coco said the identity of the
author Of the communication had not
Leen learned and intimated that 1t
might have been the work Of crank
or Joker. and declared that until such
time ~ an attempt was made to put
tho threat into execution his office
would he unable to act.
it was learned that the TRANSCRIPT
ing Of testimony taken at the Bastrop
open hearing will be completed before
March | and that Mr.. Coco would be
ready to present the states case when
the new Morehouse grand jury con-
venes at Bastrop next month.
IT was stated that the investigation
~ the grand jury would be secret
members Of the jury being cautioned
lot to relate Information as to the
testimony given by any additional
witnesses who may be called. 1t was
said this course would be pursued to
prevent leaks, some of, which at the
recent hearing. it was declared, en-
barrassed the states investigation.
Evening star., 1923-02-02
STUDIOUS GERMAN YOUTH
ENFORCES CENSORSHIP

Bv ;hs Associated Press.
DUSSELDORF, February 2.-The
Germans havo established an arbi-
trary censorship at Cologne, which Is
being exercised by the employe of
tae telegraph Office who receives the
dispatches OF the newspaper CORES
pondents.
"I have the honor to inform you
on behalf of my director that some
OF your colleagues coming from the
}suhr have been sending dispatches
obtaining matter derogatory to the
dignity OF the German empire said
~ scolarly-looking youth to the cor
respondent as he deposited dispatches
with him.
such dispatches" the youth con-
'!nued, will not be sent. They will
la destroyed"
The correspondent mildly objected.
lie said he was under the impression
that Cologne was part of the German
republic He touched lightly upon
the question of the honesty of accept
ing money for dispatches and then
ronsigning them to the waste paper
basket, but, standing rigidly at at
tantion, the youth was adamant, re-
peating, at is the order of my di-
rector.
The particular dispatch the cores
,rondent desired to file. however,
found favor in the censor's eyes.
There is no French censor in either
pIeSseldorf or Essen.
Evening star., 1923-02-02

About 76 dozen shirts are in
cluded in this group, odds and ends.
all from our regular stock, and all
exceptional in quality and pattern.
Woven madras, Russian Cords and
silk stripes comprise the majority
of the materials. All sizes from
1917 to Il.
Evening star., 1923-02-02
BREAD UP IN PARIS.

PARIS. February 2.-The price of
bread in Paris was increased l sou,
to l franc IS centimes per kilo, ef-
fective last Monday by order Of the
prefect of Paris. The city of Bor-
ieaux has made a similar increase
and other cities in various depart
,nents will follow suit. The increase
I.ere was granted after an expert in
vestigatiou Of costs to bakers in
1naking bread. A campaign to keep
down the price Of wheat -four and
fhus prevent speculation has been be-
EIn b. the minister Of agriculture.
Evening star., 1923-02-02

aspersion cast against the American
Federation of Labor in an alleged
statement from the Office Of the intel
ligence officer at Vancouver barracks,
Washington, that the organization
is hostile to the government and
seeking it's overthrow" Officials OF
the A. F. OF l. were urged to demand
an inquiry.
Evening star., 1923-02-02
THYSSEN PLEA DISMISSED.

BY the Associated Press.
MAYENCE. February . (via Ber-
lin).--The court of appeals Of the
general staff of the French army has
dismissed the appeal of the six Ruhr
industrialists, including Fritz Thys-
sen. who recently were convicted by
urt-martialed Of disobeying the or
derS of the occupation officials and
fined
Evening star., 1923-02-02
WANTS RHINELAND FREED
OF ALL ALLIED TROOPS
Trades and Labor Council Asks
U. S. to Use Good Offices to
Effect Withdrawal.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February o-The Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council claim
ing 500. 900 members, last night voted
to urge the government TO use its
good offices to secure the Immediate
withdrawal of all allied troops from
the Rhineland." Settlement of the
reparations question on u more
equitable basis in order that harmo-
Nous international relations may be
established" also was adopted.
A third resolution condemned "the
Evening star., 1923-02-02
MUSSOLINI DENIES AIM
TO INVADE HUNGARY
Reiterates That Italy Will Take
No Part in Measures
in Ruhr.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, February a.-Premier Mus
solini at q cabinet council has reiter-
ted that Italy was taking no part in
the Franco Belgian political and mil
itary measures in the Ruhr. and. al
invasion of Hungarian territory, said
these gave him an opportunity TO
affirm that Italy did not intend to
take any course which might extend
the conflict and constitute breach of
existing treaties.
The Washington times., 1923-07-13

Little Willie had been sent, to
the store for tho groceries. There
was Is cents In change left over,
and Willie was sure. according to
his arithmeticai prowess. that the
grocer had made a mistake. 81
he bought Is cents worth of jelly
beans.
However, on his way home no
conscientiousiy sat down to do
the sum over again, and. much
to his amazernent. found that thu
grocer was right. SO, being an
honest little gentleman at heart,
the jelly beans remained in his
back pocket untouched.
Later he was slowly placing
the basket of groceries upon tho
kitchen table when the hlow fell.
We'll, Willie," said his eco.
nomical mother. "where Is the
is cents changer"
Willie gulred.
MA" he asked slowly, do you
like jelly beans7"
''No. don't think I do" re.
piled mn.
We'll. you're going to-" said
Willie.
The Washington times., 1923-07-13
Merchant
TailOrs
WRITE in behalf of the men

= WRITE in behalf of the men
of this country who save
u coupons. Not that they fol-
low the primitive instinct of ac-
emulation in this connection OF
their own volition, but you, your.
self, know the fate of the man
who, returning home at eventidc.
greets his wife with naught but
a kiss. What she wants Is
coupons.
Really, it seems that can
get a hundred or more coupons
passed to me over the counter
every week. But they never seem
to reach their destination zen
masse." They can't keep to.
gether somehow. Maybe it's be.
cause they lack community spirit.
but I'm prone to think it's because
have no place to carry them.
You see in my inside coat pocket.
for instance, I keep transfers and
when put coupons in these
pockets they are invariably pulled
out and handed to the conductor
on the trolleys without noticing.
OF course he Immediately thinks
1 am trying to put something over
on him and gets sore right away.
have had many a narrow escape
this way.
Now, also am a salesman by
profession. and int 1y inside coat
pocket I keep my contract blanks.
You see, I get my prospects all
warmed up to the point of closure
and put the finishing touches on
my powerful sales talk by saying:
Now, Mr.. Jones, there you are
sign right on the dotted line"
And in goes my hand automatic
ally to the inside coat pocket and
out it comes in a snappy articulate
fashion clasping one Of those ex-
asperating coupons. The prospect
let's out a howl and laughs off the
sale.
In my vest pocket I keep my
change and my cigarette case. OF
course can keep them in my
watch pocket, but then it's almost
impossible to get the watch out
and one must keep that dentist ap-
pointment. AS for my side trouser
pockets-well that's where I keep
my handkerchief, and in my back
pocket I keep my bill fold. That
pocket is always crowded.
It's up to you, merchant tailors
of America, to devise a coupon
pocket, and am sure the body OK
men who devised the gathered
pants can meet and overcome this
couponderous problem: shear off.
Sew long.-Judge.
The Washington times., 1923-07-13

OF course the story of the lazy
negro who guided his mule simply
b. saying gee" and "haw," Is
we'll known. but a man In a
small town who was making q
purchase in store found a lazier
person. AS he cano out of the
store he noted that a tramp was
leaning on a wheel OF his buggy.
AS the man got into his wagon,
he asked the tramp. who was
still leaning, what he wanted.
I'm Just waitin' for you to start
30 the wheel will light my MATCH"
was the reply.
The Washington times., 1923-07-13

It was a fairish sized town in
the hinterland Of Pennsylvania.
An ancient farm wagon drove Up
to the leading furrier's and a
Woman alighted. bearing one of
the last extart specimens Of seal.
akin jacques. she wished to have
1t stored. and the ciork asked the
usual questions-narae, address.
valuation.
He learned that sho was Title
Wenz. r. r. D.. Route 4: the last
question seemed to puzzle hcr,
but only for a moment. Then,
with shy smile she murmured,
Pennsylvania Dutch"