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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-09-19
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Two wells were required on each
tract, insuring a program of 81
wells. Most of the leases were IS
sued arond the first Of the year.
BY spring there was an over-pro-
duction and drilling curtailment
elsewhere in the field. June saw q
price cut. Buyers refused to make
any new connections. AS a result
operators who drilled on tribal
lands were unable to market the
oil. Under pro-ration, an operator
who was allowed 100 barrels per
day could produce that amount
from one we'll or two wells or any
other number OF wells. Additional
drilling accordingly, only increased
the over-production of the field
with resultant further threat to the
price structure. AS early as June,
operators petitioned for relief I'M
der the drilling program. There was
no action until August. Then, as
stated. the operators met with the
tribal council and everyone thought
the matter settled. With the extern
sion of four months in which wells
are to be "drilIed" commenc-
Su-OpSTdlOTS VIII nave 10 prepare
to drill their wells during Febru-
airy, March and April. That means
that they should drill now, during
open fall weather.
Following are the approval dates
of the leases of tribal lands:
Dan milestone. Dec %, 1885.
John Marshal. &c. %, 1885.
Texas company Is leases) Jan.
3. 1885.
B. v. Hole, Jan. go, 1885.
A. y. Wilkinson, Jan. 8, 1886
r. e. Lee g leases) Jan. "a,
1885.
Allotted leases which come under
the same rule OF extension follow:
A. e. Wilkinson and Peter Pot
ter. Dec. %, 1885.
Nadeau Bros. Nov. Is, 1885.
Dan MILESTONE. Jan. 81, 1886.
A. e. wilkinson, Jan. 8, 1895.
A. E. Wilkinson, Dec. 28, 1885.
The others are all dated in the
spring so that the four months ex-
tension provides adequate time for
completion Of wells in good weather
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-09-19
DEALING ON STEINER7

It Is reported there is a deal on
for the Jake Steiner mine on Cur
rent gulch, near Sheridan, Mont N.
Victor of Los Angeles, Calf, recent
ly visited and sampled the property
which has been running a small
mill at a profit for several years.
New ore has recently been opened
in the mine, it is understood. H.
B. Cheney is operating the mill.
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

King Solomon. Edwin C. Hill
Feeble, indeed. but still just about
the toughest vital quadruped
strain on the market.
The Australian story doesn't
mean that the rabbits will take
the country, but they get a size
able patch of it-possibly more
than MusSolini got in Ethiopia
as the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research throws up
the sponge.
Thomas Austin was mellow
old EngliShman who wanted his
estate to remind him Of his ances-
tral acres in England. So, in 1859,
he had "a rabbits shipped from
Liverpool.
He loosed 13 of them in his
beautiful Barwon Park. Six years
late, he killed 10000 and there
was many more left.
In 20 years they had spread
north and east through Victoria
and New South Wales.
The government organized a de-
fensive war. Pasteur, the great
scientist, was engaged to find ways
to check the plague, as rabbits
devastated fields and ruined farms.
Weasels and mongooseS were
imported. Farmers made home
made poison gas by burning sui
phur and gum leaves in tin con-
tainer, looSing the gas in the
burrows.
AMAZING FECUNDITY
Trapping, poisoning, fumigatmg
and digging went on for years on
the scale of a good-Sized war. Rab-
bits were killed by the millions,
but their amazing fecundity won
every decision.
The rabbits were lured out by
the thousands by carrots and
apples on which there was no
poison. After this had gone on
for few days, midnight workers
would dose the bait with Strych-
nine. At dawn, the bunnieS would
flop in windroWs.
Hundreds of thousands were
killed in this way-and millions
came to their funeral.
During these years, many Aus
tralians got rich shipping rabbit
fur and meat abroad. About 9 per
cent of felt hats are made from
rabbit fur.
More than 1OO,0OO,OOO skins a
year are used for fur substitutes
and trimmings. A pound of rabbit
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

they organize annual motorcycle
rodeos, round up the rabbits for
scores of miles and, with uproar
and dust, close in on a large desert
area and kill them by the thou
sands again without any notice
able drop in the birth rate.
Every once in a while, Wash
ington State appeals to the Fed
eral Government. But j. Edgar
Hoover and his G-men can't do
anything against interstate rack
eteers like these.
Jack rabbits have figured in
some quite important New Deal
goings-on. After that shelter belt
of trees, from Canada to Mexico,
was projected, 10000 acres were
planted.
Out in Colorado. courSing rab-
bits with greyhoundS is still fine
sport, and one which discloSeS,
incidentally, that it is not by
fecundity and speed alone that
the rabbit survives. Although he
looks dumb, he is pretty smart at
times.
A NEAT TRICK
He is such a clever dodger that
it takes four or five greyhounds
to catch him, although they have
the edge on speed. Any old COW
wrangler will tell you that a wise
old jack rabbit will usually out
smart any two greyhoundS.
He works a neat trick of
stringing along close to a barb
wire fence at top speed and then
pulling a lightning dive through
the fence, frequently hanging one
of the hounds on the wire.
Colorado has made progress in
exterminating rabbits, but it is
not altogether a two-legged tri-
umph.
Coyotes are the shrewdest and
cleverest enemies of the jack rab,
bit. A lazy, insolent- looking CO
vote, Looping along, doesn't look
as if he were going anywhere, but
he is, and going a lot faster
than it may appear.
He is just about even up with
the jack on speed, but it takes two
coyotes to catch a rabbit and they
work a trick which shows how
much smarter they are than the
hounds.
One coyote hides behind Mex.
lean amolo bush or a clump OF
bunch grass. The other flusheS a
jack and begins a casual, tanta'
lizing chase, not too hurried, main
ly concentrated on keeping the
outer arc of the run-around and
working the jack down to a
shorter radius.
In time, the coyote will tool the
jack right by the soap bush, where
the other nails him.
Old timers in the West, who
have watched this performance
time and again, tell me that the
two coyotes always divided the
prey evenly, and then start over
again, putting in a full day shift
at it.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

COppery stems breaCnlng
warmth of sprawling petals,
sweet as sun-drenched flesh e.
almost one could see a savage
energy Surging through that wild
lovelinesS.
Suddenly, to my horror, I dis
covered a change. The great
blooms we're whiting. In the brief
space between two glimpSeS their
sheen had passed, their color
dimmed. Death had set in!
"An' why not" said the old gar
dener, with you letting the poor
crathers choke to death!"
But I cut their stems first"
LIFE CUT OFF
Then, with a snort of contempt,
I was shown the futility of stem
cutting such as mine. Roses, it
seemed, had their circulatory Sys-
TENS as we'll as mortalS-and
could be smothered as surely. A
cut rose wilted before it's time be-
cause a bubble of air had sealed
it's pithy stem, shutting off both
water and oxygen. One had to get
rid of that bubble-fix things so
it couldn't return-and at the
same time give the "poor crather
it's chance"
AS he spoke, his gnarled old
hands were very buSy-reaching
deep into the jar, shipping the
end of each stem. Almost in
Stantly there was the miracle OF
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
That Tea Party

The "Boston Tea Party demand for inclusion of
national representation plank for the District in the
Democratic platform would be more impressive if the
delegation making the plea in Philadelphia more
truly representative of the voters of Washington.
It is well to bear in mind that those who petition
ing the platform committee for votes for Washington did
little or nothing to further the bill which would have
insured members Of the Democratic party in the District
fair chance to vote for the members of the delegation
LkeUise it is yell to remember that several of the
members of the delegation make little pretence
to being regular citizens of the of the District but
hare gained political preference because they haze
maintained and utilized UOting residences in other
States.
Under the circumstances it would not be at all
prising the Democratic platform committee gave the
delegation Just about as much consideration given
similarly selected delegation which presented similar
plea at the recent Cleveland convention of the Repub
ican party.
For many years now groups from Washington have
been going to the party conventions with national rep
resentation planks.
None of these groups has achieved any conspicuous
success.
Also for many years, groups have been urging Con-
gress to submit to the country proposed amendment
to the Constitution giving the District representation in
Congress and voice in the selection Of the President
and Vice President.
The persistence of these groups is admirable and their
effort is unquestionably sincere.
THE PERSISTENCE AND THE SINCERE EFFORT
WOULD PROBABLY PAY BETTER DIVIDENDS,
HOWEVER, IF THE GROUPS WOULD ADOPT THE
LESS PRETENTI0US BUT MORE PRACTICAL OBJ
JECTIVE OF WINNING FOR DISTRICT RESIDENTS
SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL OVER THEIR
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Such an objective could be obtained without consti
tutional amendment
1t uUOud GLLOIU the citys people to participate in
the administration of their local government through
selection of their officials and IUOULd not pre-
cEude the obtaining ultimately of national repre-
SentGtiOn.
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

Iproof-perfume and color flowing
back in a radiant tide.
Many a time since, watching
some human thing sicken and wilt,
I've thought of that wise old man
who saved my Choking" roses.
For life can become sealed in a
soul as well as in flower. Sealed
often in ways the spirit itself does
not suspect. Some early failure or
fear. some hidden humiliation
=. or a clogging bubble of hate
that cuts off the spirits food and
| air.
MUST CUT DEEP
Often you've seen the thing
start and work its tragedy before
your eyes. Perhaps in your own
life seen a nature that had started
to flower richly suddenly become
dimmed by some small habit
which seemed too trivial to note.
conc cit >. .laziness. spite. &.
greed. grief. they were such
petty bubbles when they began!
More quirks of personality. but
they walled off life as surely as
though they had been bands OF
steel.
And when it happens? Any wise
parent, priest or doctor knows the
answer. Cut. Cut deep and sure.
Not just random like"-hurling
shallow criticism or spiteful sneer,
then leaving the hurt spirit to
founder in a greater loneliness
and isolation than it knew before.
Make it a thoroughly healing job,
as my old gardener had done. He
had not only removed the air
bubble, but he returned life while
he did so.
Cut get rid of that bubble
and while you're doing 1t
"give the poor crather its
chance"
Maybe, if we but knew it, there's
such healing mercy in many a
wound which the Greatest Gar.
dener gives and which we-Sealed
off by our own stupidity and pain
cry out against at the time. Is
He giving his poor, hurt "crathers,
perhaps, a chance to breathe and
be free again?
copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

4clothed and fresh from the hands
of the barber, the tailor, the haber-
dasher and the valet.
He is most "alluring," when his
Adams apple and his neck are
hidden under a white linen collar,
and his collar-boneS and peeling
shoulders are camouflaged in flat
tering blue serge with a nice, well
fitting coat. He is most "demoral.
izing" in a boiled shirt and fault
less evening clothes, or possibly in
a mess jacket.
There are very few Johnny
Weismullers on the average bath.
ing beach, and Tarzan, himself.
is the only man who could look
like the answer to a maidenS
prayer, in a pair Of bathing
trunks.
If anything could discourage a
girl from getting married, it
would be the vision Of a lot of
men lolling around the beach in
topless bathing suits. And the
great shock of a romantic girls
life is her first sight of her
Dream Man in all the brutal
frankneSs of his swim suit.
The human form may be "di-
vine"-but so are the hippopota-
mus-form and the kangaroo-form.
Yet they have no sex appeal!
And if any man is Dangerous"
to a woman, it is in a moment
when she has forgotten what he
looks like in a bathing suit. Men
are like Salads-most of their
charm is in the dressing.
copyright. 1886, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
Daily COnstitutiOnals
BY Max BernS

these truths to be Set-eVldent-
that all men are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness"
One of the basic principles OF
our Constitution, written II years
later by Washington, Madison.
Franklin and others, is that I'VE
the people" have certain inalien-
able rights given us not by gov
ernment but by our Creator. Un.
der our Constitution, the Govern
ment does not confer these rights
upon us and cannot take them
from us.
We perpetuate the rights pro-
claimed on July 4, 1776, by emu
merating them in our ConStitu-
tion in Article I, Section 9, and
in the Bill of Rights (first ten
amendmentS)
TOMORROW: CONSENT OF THE
GOVERNED'O
(Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
Marry-GO-ROund
Bu Helen ROlULGIld

This is the solemn and egregi-
Gus moment, when the reformerS
and moralists begin to worry
about the shocking dangers Of
the new bathing-Suits for women
and topless bathing-SuitS for men.
AS for the latter, the only
dangers" we can see in them are
the danger of a painful case Of
sunburn for the man, and pain
full case of diSillusionment for
any woman who may have had
any romantic dreams about him.
Just how perilously anuring a
masculine bathing-Suit MIGHT
be is hard to imagine. But it is
safe to assume that no mere
bathing suit will ever make a
Temptation" out of the male
form divine, unless it reaches
from the red line around his
neck all the way down to his
ankles. And especially over his
knees and elbows!
If there is any time when man
has no "IT," that time is when he
is wearing a topless bathing-sult.
And the moralists can save them
selves any flutter of anxiety over
the danger to the morale Of the
poor, weak women who are forced
to gaze upon him.
That is probably one of the rea-
sons why so many girls wear dark
goggles on the beach. They want
to think of their men as Princes
Charming, with plenty of sex-ap-
peal.
For a man is most attractive to
women when he is ALL COVERED
UP! When he is groomed and
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

ate every living thing on the
island and then died of starvation.
A few years later their bones were
found in shipload quantities on
the island.
Western American farmers have
fought rabbits as a ruinous pest
for many decades.
On Smith Island, in Puget
Sound, they ate everything but
the lighthouse. They caused whole
counties to be abandoned in Idaho.
The battle against the prairie
scooters is annually renewed in
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico,
Wyoming, Nebraska, and other
rabbit States.
Near San Bernardino, Calf,
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

the records are the eloquent and
expressive words of the North
Carolinian
But, the record does him scant
justice. Those who were denied
seeing him missed the best closing
act of the Big Show.
Majestically he rose to his feet,
his spectacles swinging noncha-
lantly in the fingers of his left
hand, his right arm extended. His
face was red with eXertion before
he really started. A few phrases
thundered to the galleries. He
slipped his finger inside his tie
and unbuttoned his collar.
'Let me have a glass of water,
son." he pleaded of a page.
Then ne was off. AS he prowled
to and fro in the aisles, his col
leagues moTed out of his way. One
Senator VINO had the temerity to
sit within reach of the failing
fist and rapier thruSts of the fore
finger lodged, grinned, Shrank
back, held his ears and finally
arose, holding his face where a
blow had whizzed past, to ask:
"Mr. President, is the Sena-
tor speaking under the Marquis
of Queenberry ruleS?"
Hardly a moment passed that
he was not interrupted by rival
orators with facetiouS questions
and broad humored suggestions.
Bob Reynolds just took them in
his stride. For there was nothing
of vicious nature in them.
Not that afternoon-but the
night before. Well!
THE NIGHT BEFORE
The night before the Senate
was tired. Its members showed it.
First in their appearance and Sec
ondly in their remarks.
Said Senator William H.. King
3D. of Utah:
"Members Of the House and
the Senate are eagerly awaiting
the hour of adjournment, and
undoubtedly the country will be
greatly relieved when this SeS-
sion of Congress is ended"
From general outbursts Of i'm
patience the tone became more
personal. Said Senator Kenneth
Mcclellan CD of Tennessee, Of
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
YOU KNOW THAT A CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTOR" is
ONE WHOSE PRINCIPLES FORBID HIM TO FIGHT IN
WARS; THE VETERAN DEMOCRAT ABOVE is A "CON-
SCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR" TO THE NEW DEAL PRO-
FESSOR'S WAR ON CONINION-SENSE ANERICANISM.

Former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York leads veteran
Democrats who have become conscientious obctor to the
New Deal.
With four other veteran Democrats cambridge Colby
James A. Reed Joseph B. Ely and Daniel F. Cohalan-A
Smith directs simple plea to the conscience of Democratic
delegates in Philadelphia renominate Franklin Roosevelt
Democratic candidate:
"YOu mast, aboUe all, put end to the campaign,
under full suing, buy the Presidency by the
of funds-generOusy giUen by the people of the
United States to alleUiate Want and Distress largely
caused by the incompetence of public serUants-and
there is other Way do this you n1ust-uring the
continuance of such help otherwise helpless millions
of AmercanS-saUe the honor of the country by pre-
Uentng the dispensers of these public funds from
ercing the Uoers for whOm the money has been appro
Priated not bribe but national necessity
"We beg to subscribe ourselves MEN GUho Wiu
main faithful to Democratic ideals and traditions
OOeLL as to our country"
Others faithful to Democratic ideals and traditions will
join these conscientious objectors to the New Deal
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
Greatest Show on Earth
Bu Frank Miller Smith

Senator Homer T. Bone (D) Of
Washington.
"The Senator is engaged in a
fiIibuster before crowded gal
Ieries. He is undertaking to
read before the occupants of the
galleries, 1 believe in a facetiouS
manner-I think the Senator in
tends to be facetiOus II the
charges of some miscreant of
whom probably not one in the
gallery ever heard of. 1t is un.
becoming, ungra ciOuS, improper
and wholly out of place in a
body of this kind"
A little further along in the
debate Senator Daniel Hastings
of Delaware refused to yield to
Senator Matthew M. Neely (DO Of
West Virginia, with this remark:
"After I have said something
to interest the Senator, if he
wants me to yield, 1 will yield,
but not just now"
To which Senator Neely re-
torted:
"The Senator does not expect
me to wait until he says some
thing interesting before / inter.
rupt him, does he?"
ANYTHING GOES
At the end of that night ses-
sion, however, the tension in the
air was dissipated.
Just to show they had no hard
feelings toward the world a group
of the newspaper men and Senator
Bennett Champ Clark CD of Mis-
souri, congregated in front of the
Capitol in the wee small hours
and sang the old songs, the ones
that anyone can bear down on.
And bear down they did, for you
could hear them all over the Sen.
ate wing.
Maybe these kinds Of antics
were a bit confusing to some of
the taxpayers. But it was ad-
journment week. And anything
goes in the closing hours.
Take, for instance, the pitiable
plight of Representative Usher L.
Burdick, North Dakota, who left
the House during that hectic night
session and hied himself along
with Representative Charles South
of Texas to his office.
Representative Burdick tried the
door. It was locked. He looked
in his right hand coat pocket. No
key. He looked in the left hand
coat pocket. No key. He looked
in the pants pockets. No key.
Just then he Spied his good
friend, Representative John S. Nc
Groarty of California coming down
the hall. He looked at McGroarty
and South. He looked at the tran
som over his door.
"Hey," he shouted, "Come
here, John. Now you two fel-
lows -"
It was so apparent to all that
he was taking a long chance on
getting stuck that a secretary down
the corridor persuaded him to de-
sist long enough to summon the
superintendent of the building,
who obliged with pass key.
The Seventy-fourth is gone. Long
live the King! The King is dead.
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

meat has seven more calorleS LQan
a pound of beefsteak. The AnzacS
hated it and never ate it.
So every resource Of money,
science and ingenuity was mobi-
lized against the enemy, so far
with the rabbits winning.
It is estimated that the Aus
tralian loss from the rabbit devas-
tations is more than $500, 200, 900.
Such fecuhdity is natures an
swer to those who disturb her
checks and balances. But it can
be stupid, as well as persistent.
In 1923, an American gunboat
dropped three rabbits on Lisian-
sky Island, of the Hawaiian group.
The rabbits, multiplying rapidly,
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

bourne. Guns,
poiSonS, G as,
dogs and ma
tional ra b b t
rodeos all have
failed. The Aus
tralian ia C k S
seem to be the
Scriptural meek
who will in
herit the earth.
THE comics
are ut a
feeble folk yet
m a ke thei r
houses in the
rocks" wrot e
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

room b 90 t h S
now that Con-
gress has gone
away.
They're still
chuckling over
the exhibition
afforded the
galleries during
the evening of
a d j o urnment
by Senator Bob
("Nothin' could
be finer than
to be in North
Carolina") Rey-
nolds. Duly in
SCri bed in
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

Someone had
sent me a huge
Sheaf of yellow
roses such a
riot of lush life
and 81 n g n g
colorS that the
whole ou S e
seemed quick
ened. For an
hour I kept 60
ing b ack to
them . CIV
ing myself up
to the wonder
of them. The
thrusting vigor
of tn e thick,
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

MANS INALIENABLE RIGHTS
What do the Declaration Of
independence and our COnStitu-
tiOn say about the rights Of
man?
After royal tyranny robbed our
forefathers of liberty, freedom and
other rights, jefferson, speaking
for the people in the Declaration
Of Independence said; 1--WE hold
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

Alice found bottle the table (Which certainly wasn't
here before" said Aice). 1t labeled, Drink Me-
beautifully printed in large letters
"In look first she said, "and if it's marked POISON
However, this bottle not labeled POISON and finding
very nice-it had mixed flavor of cherry tart custard
pineapple turkey taffy and butered toasshe
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
By Nelson Harding

finished it off.
What curious feelingw said Alice II must be shutting
up like telescope! And it was; she only 10
inches high!
She felt about this for it might end said Alice
to herself 'by my going out altogether like candle.
wonder what I'd be like then?'-ALce in Wonderland.
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
SINE DIE

It's all over but the shouting.
And there's been plenty of that
over the bridge tables and tap
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

Australia has given up its fight
to exterminate rabbits, according
to a news dispatch from Mel
The Washington times., 1936-06-24
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

There's a queer trick about
some flowers-a gardener told
mo nnnn
The Washington times., 1936-06-24

"We beg to subscribe ourselves as MEN uUhO uUi
UOeu as to our country"