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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-03-09
John Bull Protests
Drive Oh Rhine:
RailDepot Seized
British Authorities Object to
French Occupation Of Ter
rilories Between Bridge
heads on Legal Grounds.

London. March S-Cpl--lt has been
reported that the British government
has formally protested on legal
grounds against the French occupa-
ton OF territories between the Rhine
hridgeheads. II is learned authorlta.
lively. however. that no formal pro
test has been made. but only verbal
representations through diplomatic
chanhels. pointing out the difficulties
created for the British authorities in
the Rhineland.
\ letter from the Colsene Chamber
Of Commerce to Colonel Josiah Web
wood. member OF the house OF com-
mons. suggests 10 the British govern
ment certain concessions. which
might be obtained from the French
and Belgian governments for the pur.
pose Of facilitating British trade and
preventing grave losses to British
manufacturers and merchants.
Union Men Defy French.
Berlin. March s--Acoordlng 10 the
Berlin newspapers. all the German
trades unions IN the Rnhr have re-
fused the demand of the occupation
authorities To hand over 10 them list
OF trade union memberships.
The newspaper Gennania reports
that the French have occupied the
station Of Hamm. an important juno
ton of the main railroad line between
Essen and Berlin.
Arrest Denied.
An official dispatch received from
Munich denies that Count Bothmer.
former president OF the Bayarian roy.
alist party. was arrested Ia Munich
Wednesday when is other persons
were taken into custody IN connection
with an alleged plan 10 carry cut a
coup d'e;at.
The dispatch says Il Is siso untrue
that the censpirators were endeavor.
ing to separate Bavaria from the
reich with tho support of hostile
power.
II Is true the dispatch oontin.
ues. they had contact with nationals
Of such a power apparently regarding
the naturalization OF Bavaria certain
in the event OF northern Germany
turning bolshovist.'
The message concludes hy asserting
that no important person or organ.
ixation was behind the proposed
s'nutsch" F"
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-03-09
The Weather

FerrVs>f.
Friday fair and warmer
Nlonfiy Te,np~ratasrs
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
KILLAM IS ELECTED
Well-known Oil Man Will Manage Pipe
Line Another Year.

Laredo, Tex, Feb. 3.-The stock.
holders of the Tcxpata Pipeline Com
pany met in Laredo last week and elect
ed new board of directors and new
set of officers for the ensuing year. Di-
rectOrs chosen were: Colon Schott, o.
W. Killam, Robert Hinnant, George
NJ. Schott and w. L. Killam. The fol.
lowing officers were elected: o. W.
Killam, president; Colon Schott, vice
president; w. II. Killam, secretary.
treasurer. o. W. Killam also was Sc
lected to serve as general manager.
The retiring board made a report OF
the activities for the last year which
showed a healthy financial condition
with dividends of . per cent being paid
every second month. A 5000-barrel re-
ceiving and pumping plant is being conf
pleted in the Aviator Field by the COM
pany and the work outlined for the COM
ing year will keep the officers busy.
The organization of the Texpata
Pipeline Company was the first big step
forward toward the quick growth Of
the oil business in this territory. At
the time it began operations. there was
not enough production to justify pipe
line but the vision of o. W. KilIam was
soon in evidence and the field has
steadily expanded from a few cars of
oil month 10 J45 cars month. Total
shipments up TO Thursday night were
AIS cars of oil which is a good record
when the many shut downs during
January are taken into consideration.
The entire field has been almost par
alyzed for lack of water and very few
wells have been brought in. Even in
face of this, January shipments will
show a large increase over Deem
her,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
OIL COMPETITION KEEN
Salt Water in Mexican Fields Cause
Price Advances,

Tulsa, Okla, Feb. S.-Recent adj
Ivances in the prices posted for Mid
Continent crude oils. are attributed bv
prominent oil men here TO salt water
IN the Mexican light oil fields, and TO a
blood of low gravity crude in the fields
Iof Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas, de.
'Yeloping a many-cOrnered contest on the
part of the major purchasing Companies
for high grade production in the three
States.
Il. The increase of 10 cents posted YES
c.iIay by the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company. the largest purchaser in the
|nid-Continent field. and met by other
concerns, brings the price for high
Grade crude of a gravity of IL degrees
bnd over, to $40 a barrel. with n
minimum of S1.30 for below % de.
frees gravity. Yesterdays advance was
he fourth since November 90. when
II cent boost was made. the same ad.
||ance being posted January IS, then
|fgain on January 81.
There is the keenest competition
mong the purchasing companies for
bigh grade crude, but even low grade
Production finds a good market.
4 Broadening of demand through the
rowth Of operations of small independ-
mt refineries has brought competition
the Mid-Continent field 10 the high
st pitch in years. IL is said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
SUN OIL COMPANY
ACQUIRES LEASES
I'm ZAPATA COUNTY
Many Other Large Concerns
Secure Holdings in
Same Vicinity.

Miranda City, Tex, Feb. 3.-The
Sun Oil Company, one of the large CON-
panies, has ACQUIRED a lease in the
Ell Grullo Grant, Zapata county, adj
joining the old Webb-Zapata shallow
field. The Ell Grulo Grant adjoins
the Charco Rendo Grant on which there
are now twenty wells producing high
grade oil at shallow depth. The same
men who discovered the Webb-Zapata
field also drilled a test well in the
center of Share No. /, L Grullo, and
discovered oil and gas at the same
depth as in the Charco Redondo.
Other companies obtaining properties
in Share No. l, are Crimmins Geason
Operating Company, Fairbanks Alaskan
Interests and Oil Developers Company.
The Empire Gas and Fuel Company,
owns lease on property to the west.
j. X. Hughes is drilling in the Vella
tract adjoining on the North and Pan
oco Production Company is drilling in
Survey 617 about 300 yards from north
line of FL Grullo Grant.
California interests have contracted
to drill about. midway between the ].
X. Hughes well and Panuco Production
Company's well. The pool recently dis
covered by the Pippin well in Survey
231, Jim Hogg county, is about mid
way between the Miranda Oil field and
Webb-Zapata Oil field, and there are
many rumors in regard to the route of
the pipe line that will tap this terri
tory. Whether or not it will connect
the Webb-Zapata field with the Pip
pin well and then on TO Hebbronville,
or connect with Miranda field and
Texpata pipe line there, is not yet
known. There is another report which
is that a pipe line will connect with
the present pipe line at Jennings gas
field. Whether or not one or more of
these routes is taken, the fact re-
mains that the Sun Oil Company and
other companies have secured very valu-
able leases. rs same are in line Of
production and development.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
WOMEN TO MEET
San Angelo Will Entertain $50 Mem
bers Of Association.

San Angelo, Tex, Feb. S.-0ne hun
dred and fifty women, from 81 Counties
comprising the Sixth District Congress
Of the Mothers and Parent-Teachers'
Association of Texas, are expected here
April IL and is for the annual confrr-
ence.
Mrs. s. n. n. Mars Of Austin. wife
OF the state superintendent of public
instruction and state president Of tie
association, has advised Mrs. Z. G.. Me-
Glasson, third vice president, of tie
the acceptance Of San Angeles invita-
ton, rendered through the yariasls
Mothers and Parent-Teachers' Assuc.a-
tions, the board of city development. the
Kiwanis Club and Mayor b. II. Yancy.
The Sixth District officers are: Pres
ident, Mrs. Mark A. Turner, Canutillo;
first, second and third vice presidents,
respectively, Mrs. ]. f. Hartford Of
Post, Mrs. +. o. Neidemeir Of Van
Horn and Mrs. P. c. McGlasson Of San
Angelo; corresponding secretary, Miss
Louise Dietrich Of FL Paso: recording
secretary, Mrs. II. B. Ross of Del Rio;
treasurer, Mrs. Walter L. Booth Of
Sweetwater.
Mrs. Thomas n. Head Is chairman
Of the local committee which will make
arrangements for the conference.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
ORCHESTRA ON TOUR
"Jimmie's Joys" Leave University for
Forty Weeks of Vaudeville.

Austin, Tex, Feb. S,-"Jimmie's Joys
the populR. student orchestra of the
University of Texas, withdrew from
school on January 80, in order to begin
their forty weeks engagement with the
Keith-Orpheum vaudeville circuit. The
first performance will be given in Dial.
las. The orchestra was organized pri-
marily to assist the boys to earn their
expenses while attending school. Their
music has been in great demand. not
only, among all student organizations,
but in various cities of the state. They
will rctuCn to the university at the
close of their vaudeville tour.
The following students are members
of the orchestra: Jimmie Maleney, of
Commerce. manager and clarinet player !;
Smith Ballew, of Dallas. banjoist :;
Dick Hamel, Of Los Angeles, Cal,
drums; Coils Bradt of Austin. saxa !;
phone; Jack Brown, of Austin. from
bone; and Lynn Harrell, Of Greenville,
nianist.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
MEET In LINCOLN
kanoks Stockholders Reflect Officers
for Another Year.

Lincoln. Neb. Feb. 3.-The annual
meeting Of the stockholders nf the Kan.
Okla Petroleum Company was held al
the company's offices here recently. All
officers and directors were reelected for
another year. The Kanoka Company
has extensive holdings in the Miranda
field near Laredo. Texas.
Directors of the Kanoka Company
are: Clinton r. Lee, w. w. Day,
and Charles Olson, of Lincoln; H. I.
Clarke Jr., of Omaha, and Philip A.
Tomek of David City, Neb.: II. A.
Reese, of San Barnardino, Cal, and
Ira G. Lee, of Miranda City, Tex.
Clinton r. Lee is president OF the com
pany and z. F. Schramm, chief geolo-
gist.
The Kanoka Oil Company has been
one of the largest producers of oil in
the Miranda field for the last eight
months. They have completed four
good wells in til Schott section, two of
which have made as high as $500 bar
rels day.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
MONARCH OIL GETS
I200-BARREL WELL
IN THE GULF COAST
Slight Decline in Daily Pro.
duction Recorded
During Week.

Houston, Tex. Feb. S.-Once more
the Hull field was the outstanding pool
in the Texas Gulf Coast the last week,
first in point of decline in daily pro.
duction and second in point of field de.
velopment. Due TO a decline in pro.
duction at some of the late big com.
pletlons, the daily average output of the
field is off 10000 barrels a day. This
large decline had its effect in the total
Gulf Coast figures.
During the past week the Monarch
Oil and Refining Company completed its
No. Abel, work-over, for 1900 bar
rels of 26 gravity oil at 2510 feet in
second sand. This test had been
drilled TO 204S feet where production
was expected in a sand that had been
productive in other wells. 1t did not
test out right and was shut down for
some time. When drilled to the second
sand, 1t came in for a nice production.
The daily average production of the
Texas Gulf Coast fields last week was
around l04,0T0 barrels against 1l02S0
barrels, the preceding week, according
to estimates compiled by the Oil Week
ly. Sour Lake was up little, as was
West Columbia, but the decrease at
Hull was too much for the district.
Developments are expected almost
daily in the Big Creek district near
Richmond, where the Gulf Production
Company has a we'll already in a prom.
Using sand that should furnish a pro-
Queer shortly. 1t is No. 3 Wheat.
Other competitions in the Gulf Coast
were without special interest and along
the usual line, most of them being work
overs. Producers of the Gulf Coast
these days are paying more attention
TO restoring production in old wells
than to drilling new ones.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
CONSERVATION
AMONG SILVER
NINE OWNERS
Mexican Industry Will Suf-
fer When Americans
Market Silver.
MEXICAN LABOR CHEAP
Big Producers Can Still
Make a Good
Profit.

Mexico City, Feb. 2-The announce
ment that the United States is about
to complete the purchase of $270,00
| 600 worth of silver bullion as author.
lied by the Pittman law, thereby abol
ishing the dollar-an-Ounce price which
that law established for silver produced
in the states. is causing much constern.
| alton among the Mexican silver pro,
! ducers. With the United States con
Stunning its own SILVER product the Mex.
lea. producers have had a full field in
the silver markets of the world and the
demand has kept the price per ounce
up to Il standard where the extraction
| of the metal has been very profitable
The Indian and Chinese markets have
taken all that Mexico could produce
the demand being greater than the sup
ply.
Industry Is Booming.
With the United States out of the
world market, it being the largest pro-
ducer in the world, next to Mexico, the
Mexican silver mining industry has re-
ceive1 so much encouragement that the
activity in preparing mines of that
metal for production has been intense.
Now the local producers and those
who are on the eve of going into pro-
duction are at loss to predict what the
future situation will be. as the produc-
ton of the United States will naturally
enter the general world market rs soon
as that country has completed its pur-
chaseS authorized under the Pittman
law. 1t is generally believed that the
effect will be TO lower the price of the
White metal to a point where the small
er operators will have to shut down
for an indefinite period. awaiting the
rise in the market naturally induced by
lack of supply.
While these conditions exist, IL is
true that Mexico can sell silver at a
lower price than the miners Of the
United States and still realize a rea-
sonable profit, this being due to the
lower cost of producing the metal ia
Mexico. the mining labor here being but
fraction of the costs reigning in the
northern republic.
Because of this Mexican silver min
ing will still be profitable industry
IN the world market because the pro-
ducers in the United States will be I'M
able 10 operate at profit in the strict
ly silver producing mines. But the fact
that much of the silver of the United
States is by-prOduCt in mines of other
metals and produced under costs
charged to the metals mined, puts those
operators in a position TO compete with
the Mexican product, no matter how
cheaply labor and other production
costs mas be secured.
Little Producers 10 Suffer.
Existing conditions give Mexico the
advantage in the silver market, but it
cannot be denied that throwing the i'm
mense production Of the North Amer
lean mines into the general market
promises an effect that will materially
influence the market price and the pro-
ducers south of the Rio Grande unable
to continue on a small margin are fac
ing serious condition.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
River Has Underground "Cut-Off"
Guadalupe in Flood Times Flows Through Cavern
-Four Miles Long.

An underground passage which is
four and one-half miles long, ana
which has never been explored in, its
! entirety, was entered by J. +. Wat
xins and Edgar Harold recently. who
tell Of thrilling experiences with moe
casins and of the danger to explorers
from n sudden rise in the river. The
cavern is located on the Guadal,.9e
river below Renters crossing. on an
old road between New Braunfels and
Blanco, in Comal county.
The river makes a horseshoe bend
and the underground passage connects
the river at the gap where the river
would flow if it were Strengthened.
Water runs through this short cut be-
meath the surface as long as the level
of the river is high enough for the
water TO pour into the mouth. When
the water is low the mouth of the cav
ern is too high to catch the stream
and in periods of drought this passage
way becomes dry.
In such periods, when the Guadalupe
is dry, there will come sudden rise.
Being much shorter than the regular
river channel, the cave passage will
carry the flood waters to the lower
river half-hour before the crest comes
around on the regular course
When sudden rises come and the
pressure Mt the upper end of the un-
derground passage is high and the low
er mouth is still open, the main body
of water not having reached it by the
regular course, stream of water, four
feet in diameter gushes out. Blind
fish are sometimes carried out of the
cave by the onruShing waters. When
the flood has rounded the bend, how
ever, the mouth of the cave passage is
covered
Exploration Is Dangerous.
Until there is n door at the upper
end of the passage il will never be safe
TO explore the passageway. Mr.. Wat
kins said. Up to the present time, but
n half-mile each way has been explored.
Bottles have been dropped into the
mouth of the passageway when water
was flowing through it and it takes
the bottle about "A hours to come out
of the lower end. Were explorers 60
ing into the cave with the purpose of
coming out at the other end. sudden
rise might come, Mr.. Watkins said.
and drown the party in the cave. In
TO this menace, he said, there
are dangerous assures in the cave
across which, it is said, it is almost
impossible to pass.
Having fished in the vicinity of this
passage" Mr.. Watkins
said, Il. with n companion, Edgar Har-
old. became curious to see the inside
of it. We induced boy living nearby
TO guide us. We started in, crawling
along slowly over the rocks and slip
perry bottom. Only at rare intervals
could we stand. Our naked bodies
rubbed against crickpts and bats hang
ing on the slimp walls, who were blind
ID by our candles.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
To Teach Fire Prevention.

Mercedes, Tex, Feb. 3.-Mrs. Annie
W, Poulson, inspector in the fire pre-
vention department of the State Fire
Insurance Commission, was in Mercedes
making arrangements for the teach
ing Of fire prevention in the local
schools. While prevention has been
taught TO some extent in the past, it
is the intention TO cover the subject
thoroughly. 1t will be taught in all
grades, from the third through the
high school. Mrs. Poulson stated her
intention of giving Mercedes schools a
favorable report 10 the state commits
sion, which report will result in a 3
per cent reduction in the key rate of
the city.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
HUNTER LOSES LIFE
Find Youth Dead With Gun Lying by
His Side-Is Accidental.

OueO. Tex, Feb. S.-Pedro Salinas,
is. Mexican youth. residing with his
fathers family on the c. 4. Schlinke
farm, near CuerO, went out 10 hunt
rabbits Wednesday evening. Wher he
failed TO return home search was
instituted and his dead body was
found. with the gun by his side. Ac-
cording to the inquest of Justice Arthur
LeSage. the youth came to his death
from accidental wounds. selfinflicted.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
STATE TO PAY OFF
Call Issued For Warrants Up TO
No. $1,000.

Austin, Tex. Feb. 3.-There being
S2J6.595 in the state treasury to the
credit of the general revenue fund,
State Treasurer c. V. Terrell, Friday,
issued another call for registered war
rants.
Warrants against the general revenue
fund NJ TO and including 21.60O will
be paid upon presentation to the treas
ury department.
The deficit in the state treasury is
still nearly S3.000.000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

to drill in in the Aviator field for the
last two weeks or more which have
been waiting for water. Water lines
have been run to wells on the east
side of the escarpment and a number
Of water wells are being drilled to re-
lieve the situation.
The J. w. Quigg No. . was spudded
in last week by Joe OlSan, drilling
contractor. This well is located in
Block 40 of Los Ojuelos Grant and
is an offset TO the Quigg No. l which
came in just before the New Year and
is making around $50 barrels daily,
probably the, best well in the lower
part of the field.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
ELECT FOR 1923
All Grayburg Officers Reelected at
Stockholders Meeting.

At meeting of stockholders Of the
Grayburg Oil Company all directors
were reelected for another year.. The
directors then reelected the old officers,
DIR. +. L. Thompson is president Of the
Grayburg Oil Company; ]. S. Young,
vice president; and E. Palmer, secre-
tary. treasurer.
The Grayburg Oil Company is en-
gagged in both the production and refin-
ing of crude oil, having large number
Of shallow wells in the Somerset field
and a refinery in San Antonio. The
company recently built a pipe line from
Somerset to its refinery here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
WILL BUILD LEVEE
Medcans VIII Protect Cotton Lands
Along Rio Grande.

San Benito, Tex, Feb. s.-The In
ternational boundary commission, from
its headquarters at FL Paso, has grant
ed to the La Feria irrigation district
the right to build levee on the Mex
lean side Of the Rio Grands for pro-
lection. opposite the La Feria pump
ing plant.
For several years the current Of the
stream has been on the Mexican side.
causing sand bar to form in front Of
the La Feria plant. Permission TO drive
piling and construct a levee will cause
the current to flow towards the Amer
lean side and remove the bar.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
Crosses Sea to
Attend Meeting
of Stockholders

Laredo, Tex, Feb. 3.-Jacob Klee,
a stockholder and officer in several
oil concerns operating in the Mi
rando field, has come all the way
from Germany to attend the annual
meeting of Miranda, Schott and Kill
lam-Condren stockholders. Mr.. Klee
lives in Cincinnati but has spent the
last several months with relatives
in Germany. Shortly. after his ar
rival here he was taken for an in
spectiOn trip of the Miranda district.
He expressed great surprise at the
proportions which the field has
reached.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
MEET in LAREDO
stockholders Of Miranda Company
Make Plans for Year.

Laredo. Tex, Feb. 3.-Stockholders
L the Miranda Oil Company met in
IaiSdo last week. Officers were elect
for 1923 and plans made for develop
fent during the coming year.
The Miranda Company has a board
II rfsne directors. three new ones be-
hg added each year. The three d.
hctors chosen at the meeting here last
Ieek are George Behlen and Charles
h. Merrill of Cincinnati. Ohio and
|ohnrt Hinnant of Hpbbronville. Texas.
|uSrie following Officers were elected
olnn Schott. president: A. r. Gates.
fee president; q. W. Killam. score
ry-treasurer and general manager.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
Elect Bank Officers.

Alice, Tex, Feb. Sat the annual
meeting of the stockholders and di-
rectOrs Of the Citizens State Bank, held
January 80. the old officers were re-
elected as follows: o. Z. Cannon,
president; G.. c. Bachman. active vice
president: A. Wayne Wood. vice nresi-
dent; +. I. Cannon. cashier: +. Z.
Cannon, assistant cashier.