Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 273, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 29, 1909 Page: 4 of 6
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dear track,
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the western half of the county. The
entire series of rocks exposed >n Den
ton county belong to the Cretaceous
t'niber sands supply most
wells in the eastern half
county.
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Duty.
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have no choice in the matter, but 1
must decide what to try to do If I
have one. Am I to remember first
that he is your husband?”
There was a silence,
say-—what can I say?
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sueh a
concern as a bonus a building" and
site. A plant as contemplated will
give employment to about 60 people
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teflfcy »C Ayer’s Hair Vl8or: iX’&attSlSg
— — —---‘---- A*k your doctor.
Awk your doctor.
Awk your doctor.
Awk your doctor.
•I’m sheriff of this ST
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unpleasantness,
dexter in the
may find
ily. to the northwest.
Oil. Both the Cretaceous and Ca’-
boniferous rocks, which you can
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through the processes of na I
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! ing of Banks seemed to Marion, in her
rate cover~'i small" piece”of" real a-- i ^stress to point an accusing linger at I
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1 felt herself powerless to prevent now
(Too much importance should not b- I
fl t t Jlf’ll J ft thia u’iwollail Maunholt
occur. It h very good evidence that
a bulge fa somewhere In the vicinity,
and systematic prospecting wit! de-
tect it. and eventually the paying
oil field.
We have made during the course
of these investigation* a careful
search for oil seeps, oil on wells, and
reversals of the normal dip of the
lodges of rock, which would point
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IB RBUURD AND CHRONICLE COMPANY.
Smith opened the door andTrteppinJK^
out on the porch talked with the
comer. In a moment he brought him Ugg
in. Dlcksle had seated herself on the ff||
sofa, McCloud stood in the doorway of TS
the dining room, and Whispering ! A
Smith laid one arm on the table as he ■
sat down beside it with his face above ®
the dark shade of the thmp. Before 1
him stood Wickwire. The half-light IS
threw him up Uli and dark, but It 1 g
showed the heavy shock of black hair ■
falling over bis forehead, and the i I
broad, thin face of a mountain man B
"He has just been telling me that I
^eagrue is loose,” Whispering Smith ■
explained, pleasantly. "Who fumed [1
th*' trick. Wickwire?" g
•Sheriff Coon and a deputy jailer H
started with Seagrue for Medicine
Bend this morning. Coming through
Horse Ej e canyon. M urray Sinclair and
Barney Hebstock got a clean drop OU W
them, took Seagrue, and they all rode W
off together. They didh’t make any
bones about it,# either. Th«U gang 1
has got lots of fiends over there, you
know They rode into Atlantic pijy
and stayed over an hour. Coon tracked
them there and got up a posse of six
men. The three were standing til
front of the bank when the a tieriff
rode into town Sinclair and Seagrue
got on their horses and starteAaff-
Rebstock went back to get an J® er
drink. When he came out of the *a- I
loon he gave the posse a gun-flght all 1
by himself, and wounded two men and 1
made his get-away "
Whispering Smith shook hl* head. I
and his .hand fell on the table kith |
a tire(L*%gh. ‘
murmf rfd, 'of
skate, flller-ta I
stale beer man, sneak, barnyard thief!Jl
Hit two men!” He turned to Mc loudiB
What kind of a wizard Is MurrayJ
clalr? What sort of red-blood J
doe* he throw into hl* gsng to
out a spirit like that? Murray sh W
clalr belongs to the race of empinM
builders. By heavens. It is pitifsrt ak
man like that should be out of a job? l
England. McCloud, needs him And
here he is holding up trains on the
mountain division!”
They are all up at Orovili*
the Williams Cache gang, celeb'i
continued Wickwire.
Whispering Smith looked
Arvythln« Injertous here?
Asvyttvfcw of merit Here?
W1M M etoo felHn* hair?
WIN It steotroy dandruff t
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( who had savagely defied accountablli- .
! ty and now. it seemed to her, was I
1 dragging her with him through the i
and dishonor into •
a
Commerce to better conditions of
Denon county, heartily endorses the
move, and suggests that to get the
greatest good, both for the county
as a whole and for Denton individ-
ually, a hearty co-operation of the
entire county is essential.. He be-
lieves the entire county should get
closer together. When asked what
he could suggest that would be of
benefit to the county, this gentle-
man unhesitatingly states that good
public roads are the biggest thing
for the entire county which we may
do at present. Mr. Rhoads is ,t j
large tax payer, but says that he is
not only willing to vote for a bond
issue, as that is the only way to
get <.ae roads, but he is also Willing
to donate $500 cash to permanent
public roads in his vicinity, and
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[citizens we, ire sending under sep.i
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Judge M. M. Brooks says positive-
ly that he is a candidate for gover-
nor of Texas. Judge Brooks is a
very strong friend of Senator Bai-
ley, and his .entering the arena will
doubtless prevent Senator Bailey
from taking any part In the cam-
paign, for Judge William Poindex-
ter did him noble service in his last
race before the people of Texas.—
Cleburne Enterprise.
Judge Poindexter s
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Nearly, a year ago a supposed oil
promoter from Pittsburg after inves-
tigating the couditions of the field
about Argyle tor oil leased several
hn.id;e-l acres for their mineral
rights and tried to lease more. Wh le
he agreed to
n a year or
which he was
a percentage of any oil
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RACK TALK.
The Sanger Courier last week cel-
P„.«vcd its tenth anniversary. The
Courier of today is a far superior
paivr to that of ten years ago and
both Editor Logsden and the public
of Saager are to be congratulated
upon the uniform excellence of the
paper, which compares favorably with
with many Texas papers published
in much larger towns.-—Record and
Chronicle.
The above, coming as it does, from
what We sincerely believe is the best
daily, published in a tow-y of Den
ton's s'ze, not only in Texas but any-
where else, is fully appreciated—
Sanger Courier.
'A'M. Mfr1**-
that
, . then
I paid $10 to $1& a visit to a lung
specialist in Spokane, who lid not
help me. Then I went to Califor-
nia, but without benefit. At last
1 used Dr. King's New Discovery,
which completely cured b-e and now
I am as well as ever.” For Lung
Trouble, F ••onchitis, Coughs and
Colds. Athnia. Croup an-' Whooping
•lough its supreme,
i rial bottle free.
F. Raley & Co.
IVKIYpuvesrfgaTtons.That nearly all of these : mean that ,oH -wquH
owner
wretchedness was upon them, and the
day went in one of those despairing |
and indecisive battles that each one [
within his own heart must fight at [
times with heaviness and doubt.
McCloud called her over the tele- j
worked up to the surface along the]
timber j slough of blood
good s which h* had plunged.
The wretched thought would return
For example,
well at the print
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t hen
th* O» taBleattow
z^ire mueh more conrtusiv
/g^rthy. |hd worth the fh
are t*o place* in Hr.
Wie's paatare where iff
\;t the rocks have been so dh t
; 4 as to ferm one of these buckles
or bulges. 6ue is exposed a
creek uot faf from the house in
which Mr. Bullard lives, and was
pointed out to Mr. Payne. The
bulging there Is dlstinift and easily
ope-i to view, la itself it i* hardly
pronounced enough to have aocumu-
lated any oil beneath it, but is an
evblence of disturbance ia this viefn-
Ity, and as auch is the best oil in-
dioations that have come to our no-
tice during the course of these inves
ligations. The second place Is on the
hill not far tfom the large reservoir
ln Mr. Payne's pasture, the hill o-»
which Mr. Payne has what he calls
"the wiglk.” It appears that here
we have a bulge on a rnuch larger
scale than in the preceediug case
While the exposure is not sufficient-
ly clear to prove with absolute cer-
tainty that a dome has formed,
there Is a question as to the true
it appears
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TUL8A. Okla,, June 29.—J. W.
Johnson, a building contractor, was
the first heat victim of the season
here. He Is a hospital in a critical
condition.
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Senator Bailey's behalf in the recent [ebrated
unpleasantness. But Judge
dexter in the gubernatorial
himself where
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to determine the nature of this m.'.
terial, and we herewith give it :<
our opinion that this material
tiot asphalt or crude oil, but is <-o.i
These upper cross timber sands un- |t‘2r' yn'/ been accumulate
derlie the whole of Deuton county,
anj supply most of the artesian wells
in the western half of the
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city limits, it will be a sad mistake
for the farmers for whose comfort
and convenience good roads
be more than to any other class of
It is a Question on which
the citizens of Denton and the citi-
zens of the rural part of Precinct
No. 1 should get together and
together.
speech was [
the strongest document produced in J
phone In the afternoon to say that he
was going west on the evening train
and would not lx- over tor
She wished he could have come, for
her loneliness began to be insupport-
able.
Toward sunset she put on her hat
and started for the post-office. In the
meantime, Dlcksle, at home,
called McCloud up and told him she
was coming down for the night. He
immediately canceled his phtns for
going west, and when Marion returned
at dusk she found him with Dicksie
at the cottage. The three had supper.
Afterward Dicksie and McCloud went
out for a walk, and Marton was alone
in the house when the shop door
opened and Whispering Smith walked
in. It was dusk.
"Don’t light the lamps. Marion," he
■aid, sitting down on a counter-stool
as he took off his hat. “I want to talk
to you just a minute, if you don’t
mind.. You know what has happened.
I am called on now to go after Sin-
clair. I have tried to avoid it, but my
hand has been forced. To-day I've
been placing horses. I am going te
ride to-night w)th the warrant. 1 have
given him a start of 24 hours, hoping
he may get out of the country. To
stay here means only death to him tn
the end, and, what is worse, the kill-
ing of more and innocent men. But
he won't lekve the country; do you
think he will?"
"Oh, I do not know! I am afraid he
will not."
"I do not think 1 have ever hesitated
before at any call of this kind; nor at
what such a call will probably some-
time mean; but this man I have
known since we were boys.”
"If I had never seen him!"
"That brings up another point that
has been worrying rae all day. 1
could not help kifowing what you have
had to go through in this country. It
is a tough country for my wbsmiM.
Your people and mine
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'Don't be au aid to say it—make my
path easier." (
‘Something like that, though there's
been little real doing. What this situ-
ation in which Sinclair Is now placed
may still mean to you I do not know,
but I would not add a straw to the
weight of your troubles. 1 came to-
night to ask a plain question. If he
doesn't leave the country 1 have got
meet him. Yoh know what, in all
here observed which only the open
ing of a number of 20-foot shafts
would definitely settle, we believe
that this vicinity is worthy of care-
ful prospecting and that the sinking
of a deep Well at th s point is not
undesirable.'’ Inasmuch as Mr. Payne
has been contemplating the slnk'ng
of a deep well at this point for ar-
tesian water, it would be well to en-
courage this undertaking and to
await results thereon before any
other move is made.
it should be stated that not
erywhere where these domes or an-
ticlines (bulges) actually exist
they manifest themselves at the sur-
face. The evience of the existence
of them may oftentimes be many
miles removed from the points
where geologists may be certain they
actually occur While at the point
mentioned above there is evidence
that one exists, and oil may be
found in close prox'm'ty thereto, the
ac.tual anticline . may extend for
many miles along a genet al Hue and
carry oil with it in places where
there are no surface indications,
and in places where the
would never suspect them
It should be further stated that jour
locality 18 ir a general region w here
these domes or anticlines are ap: io
occur.
We have also examined iut
reported oil seeps, etc.,
cinity, and particularly the reported |
next formation on the west consists [ outcrop of asphalt on the <
A Thrilling Rescue.
How Bert R. Lean, of Cheney,
Wash., was saved from a frightful
death is a story to thrill the worl 1.
"A hard coll." he writes, brought
on a desperate lung trouble
baffled an expert doctor here.
Yjjnr indications along this had she |lgtenPrt ,o hlni. had shP
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first timber sands to the west of you, and I
ihe lowe*-: there is found real asphalt that has
actually eoftie out of the
and has been accumulated by
pro* esses of nature. We are certain
that there is somewhere in the low-
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Individuals in Denton are ser-
iously considering the installation
of an overall and jumper factory in
Denton. Monday experts in this
line were in town and the matter
was thoroughly gone over. Such
plants invariably have proved -suc-
cessful in the South and for the
tost of the plant we know of noth-
ing that promises more and gives
employment to more people,
lene has recently offered c;
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muntb, delivered
month*, by mall (in advance)
year, by mail (in advance)
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is to )>ay for them, and the
way of paying for them is,
see It, a bond issue.
gives many new rights in ordering
a bond election. If any part of the
precinct doesn’t want good roads
that part can be omitted and the
remainder of the precinct can
vote the bonds and build the roads.
Of course that would be bad on that
part of the precinct, but they have
only thenxselvee to blame for it
Denton county cannot afford to fall
behind in the matter of good roads.
Denton county towns right now are
losing enough trade to Gainesville
and Fort Worth and Dallas and ev-
en McKinney without giving them
the additional advantage of good
road* tfie year round. it is a ques-
tion for the people themselves to
decide. If Denton city cannot help
- Precinet No. 1 to get good roads ft
w will be a sad mistake on the part of
Denton. If the farmer* of Precinct
No. 1 refuse to let Denton, widen
pay* something like half of the
taxes irf the precinct, pay its pro
rata for good roads, all outside the
This Will .merest Mothers-—Mother
Gray’s Sweet Powder* tor children, a
certain relief tor fever) .hness, head-
ache, bad stomach, teeth,ng dis or-
der-, move and regulate the bowels
and destroy worms. They break up
cold* in 24 hours. They are so pleas-
ant to the taste and harmless as
milk. Children like them. Over 10.-
0u9 testinwnials of cures. They nev-
er fail. mH by all druggists, 25c-
Ask today" Don't accept any substi-
tute.
TI I.SA BUILDING CONTRACTOR
IS THE FIRST HEAT VICTIM.
||THE COMMERCIAL CLUB|
By C. E. Srrtiges. ... • ----
Joel Rhoads, a Mg land tywner I‘Afferent rock farmatians have char-. toUhd_ In qu®ntitjLj)®ftpath
and farmer from Aubrey, in speak- acteristk dip to the southeast,
ing of the efforts of the Chamber of cross ng the county from west
east each formation disappears
neath the formation fount on
1 well
you dig a
X on the map
through shale,
ccoss timber sands,
limestone and clays
wi'-t of the lower
< -tc.
at X you
the same mate ial yon
ter H going from
across the county.
Lying beneath the Cretaceous
■rocks in your county you will find
the oil and coal bearing rocks which j spring
supply the oil and coal in
lack, \0u.1g countie-, etc.
also has an abundance of fine mater- ]dip in the opposite direction,
ial which lie would donate.
Rhoads points to uor special
tax which is an absolute
and of no benefit to the people who
pay it, and if the entire county vot-
ed a bond issue providing enough
money to build permanent roads we
could repeal the present special tax,
and the tax for(tha bond issue would
on4y be about twice the present tax.
1 we consider worth pros-
pecting. The indications there are
reasonably good, and we would ad-
vise your citizens to await results
on the deep well there before taking
independent action. Chances for oil
in the Carboniferous rocks below the
Cretaceous are likewise promising
The general conditions are favorable
lor the accumulation of the oil in
them. However, there are no sur-
face indications in Denton c?
which will guide the geologist
the ’oil pools” in these rocks. The
drill is the only expedient
chances equal for and against
finding of vommercfal oil You have
thus two chances for oil: One in the
Chetaceous rocks, the other in the
Carboniferous. It would take a well
two thousand feet deep to prove
up fully the possibilities of both dt
these group* of rocks.. On the
whole we regard your chances for
oil in this vicinity as favorable.
Misceilaneoue. The attention of
your citizens can be profitably di-
rected to tbe finding of good de-
posits of brick and pottery clays
road metal such as the low grade
iron ores found in this vicinity, de-
posits of glass sand, and to wells of
mineral water. All of these may
be present in quantities and in sit
uations that could be successfully
developed Respectfully submtted,
ALEXANDER DEUSSEN.
Consulting Geologist
Poln-
race
Judge
Looney found himself in the attor-
ney general's race. Looney
withdrawn to permit Col. Wynne
And we all remember
reason of this occurrence, if real
asphalt, it would mean that it lias
be laid at my door.” We ought to un-
derstand each other on that point
fairly before I start to-night."
j "Can you ask me whether you ought
; not to take every means to defend your
own life? or whether any ebnsidera-
i tlon ought to come before that? I
' think not. I Should he a wicked wom-
- an if I were, to wish evil to him.
wretched as he has made me I am
a wretched woman, whichever way I
turn But 1 should be less than hu-
man if I could say that to me your
be a cruel, cruel
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yiTe atDanton Twa*, under act of (Jongrwa. March 1, 187«.
ail subscription* to the Weekly z'*cord and Chronicle discontinued at ex
ptration
pushed ft toward him. "Then thia, I
c I guess, Gordon, belong* to you.”
Starting from a reverie. Whispering
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Women Who Are nvied.
Those attractive women who are
lovely in face, form a?id temper are
the envy of many, who might be like
‘ ‘t. slekly woman will be
irritable. Constipation
loisons show in pimples
tptfons and a wretch*
'or all snob Elec-
, ,wonder*. • They
regulate stomach, liver and kidney*,
purify the blood; give strong nerves,
bright eyes, pure breath, smooth,
velvety skin, lovely complexion.
Many charming women owe their
health avd beauty to them. 60c at J.
F. Raley A Co.
human probability, that will mean.
From such a meeting only one of us
can come back. Which shall it be?”
*Tm afraid 1 don't understand you
—do you ask me this question? How
can I know which it shall be? What
is it you mean?"
“1 mean I will not take his life in a
fight—if ft comes to that—if you
would rather he should-come back.”
A sob almost refused an answer to
him. ‘.‘How can you ask mb so
j rible a question?” ■
"it is a question that means a good
deal to me. of course, and 1 don't
I know just what ft means to yoiK that
is the point I am up against 1 may
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
anv erroneous reflection upon tbe character, reputation or standing
•M attention of the publishers.
(and
geological
on which the var
ions outcropping rocks are indicated.
The belt on the east, marked with
green color is the shale or clay belt
which gives rise to the prairie and
the black land in this portion of
the county. This formation is the
so-called Eagle For 1 Shale. This
's succeeded On the west by the
sandy lands of the lower cross tlm
bers, Argyle being situated in tbe
western edge and dose to the line
of this timber belt. The rocks in
the cross timbers consist of sands,
sandstones, clays and thi-j seams of
lignite. These cross timber
are known to geolog sts as
Woodbine or Dakota Sands.
Wick wire.
McCloud and Dickale m«t them at
the porch door. Marion, unnerved,
went directly to her room. Whigper
ing Smith (topped to apeak to Dlckaie
and McCloud interpoeed. "Bob Scott
telephoned the office juet now he had
a man from Oroville who wanted to
see you right away, Gordon," said he.
“I told him to send him over here. It
i* Wlckwlre.”
■'Wfckwlre," 1 ‘ _
Smith. "Wickwire has no business
here that 1 know of; no doubt it is
something ! ought to know of. And,
hy (he way. yon ought to aee th’s
man." he s»«d, tnrn’ng again to Dick
sic. "If M'Clovd tv’ls the ftory right
W'c%wi-« «■»-<■•■
L’K'..: - thn"‘v. m !•] rr .of ycu
the wreck at Snic'.y 1
a bad man. but whisky, you know,
beat* some decent men-” A foot*tep
fell on the porch. ‘There he come*
now, I reckon. Shall I let him in a
minute?” •
"Ob. I should like to see
do prospecting work
forfeit his leases for
0 pay 25c an acre and
..... -11 and gas
found, he ias so far do ie nothing ofjorigin of the peculiar phenomenon
tile kind.
in tne meantlnuja number of Ar-
gyle ettizeus deciuvk to have an in-
dependent investhgMroq^zttrtniB^ and
subscribed the funds for getting Pyof
Alex Deussen of the State Universi-
ty Geology school to come there and
make an investigation. Mr. Deussen
spent more than a week in that vi-
cinity.. His report, is such as would
be expected—-careful and conserva-
tive. I— t there is a lot between
the lines that sounds good to the
people interested, la addition to hio
geological facts pertaining to Dentou
county wil] be of general interest
and the greater part of the report
is included below:
Geology. Attached hereto
marked Exhibit A) is a
map of Denton.
, Whatever he may have done, thi*
| man is your husband; if his death
death would not
blow."
There was a moment of silence
"Dfcksie understood you to say that
you were in doubt as to whether you
ought to go away with him when he
asited you to go. That is why I was
unsettled in my mind.”
"The only reason why I doubted was
that I thought by going I might‘save
better live* than mine. I could will-
ingly give up my life to do that. But
to stain ft by going back to such a
mjn—God help me! ”
“I think I understand. If the unfor-
tunate should happen before 1 come
back I hope only this: That you will
not hate me because I am the man
on whom the responsibility has fallen.
I haven't sought ft. And If 1 should
not come back at all, it is only—
good-by.”
He saw her clasp her hands convul-
sively. "I will not say ft! I will pray
on my knees that you do come back.”
"Good-night, M ion. Some one 1*
at the cottage door.”
"It 1* probably Mr. McCloud and
Dicksie. 1 will let them in.”
_____,______ ________ at MfcOi
cowboy "Wlckwlre. you made * good
ride and I thank you. You are alt I
right. This Is the young lady and J
this is tbe man who had you sent to 4
the hospital from Smoky creek,” ha I
added, rising. “Ydu can thank them A
for picking you up. When you leave ■
here tell Bob Scott to meet me at th* >1
VHeklup with the horses at 11 o'clock, ja
will you?" He turned Jo Dlcksle in a !
gentle aside. “I am riding north to- 1
night—I wish you were going part
Dicksie looked at him intently ”Y<j^H
are worried over something, she
mured: "I can see it in your Isce-MBH
Nothing more than usual JI ttfrnMM
you know, on trouble—and Im aorfl^H
to say goodnight so early, but l.hav-M
a long ride ahead." He steppedjH
quietly past McCloud and out of the IB
door. /
Wlckwlre was thanktag Dick*!*, M
when unwillingly she let WhispertegJ
Smiths hand ftllp out of her ova*
shore wouldn't kaye_ been
night if you two hadn't picked me up,"M
laughed Wlckwlre. speaking roftlff UWH
Dicksie when she turned to him “I'fAl
knowed my friends a long time, hut ■■
reckon they all didn't know me.” ■■
‘I've known you longer than roall
think returned Dicksie with a
I've seen you at the raachhouse.
no* that we really do know eadlM
other, pleaae remember you are *AM
wats sure of a home at the ranch-
whenever you want one. .Mr Wtafc^H
and just as long as yon wag^H
cue. We never forget our friend*
the Crawling Stone.” '
If I may make soAold, I thank you VJ
kindly. And if you all will let me run jl
away now. 1 want to catch Mr Whig- V
pering Smith for just one niin ite.” ■
Wlckwlre overtook Srfilth tn
s'reet. Talk quick, YRckw ‘.re.* b*
said; “I'm in a hurry.
want?"
Partner. I've always plaj
with you.” it
So tar as I know. I
Why?” Z
I've got a favor to ask.'y
What la ft—money*' |
"No. partner, not money 1
You've always been more thi
with me. But *0 far I've haX
under cover; you asked nX
want to ask the privilege now
Ing out into the open. The I
so far as watching anybody g|
"Ye*.” 1
“There's nobody to-wateh ■
—they're all to chase, 1 reckl
The open is my kind of a fig
way. 1 want to ride out thia u
with you." . j
"How I* your arm?" 1
“My arm I* all right, ad
ought to be a place for me^
chase now that Ed Bank* la o
I want to cut looae up on th<
anyhow; if I'm a man I want 1
ft. and if I ain't I waat to kne
want to ride with you after
and Sinclair and Barney RebJ
Whispering Smith spoke
You mean. Wlckwlre, you war
killed " ’ T
Why. partner, if it's comity
I don't mind—yes.”
•What's the use, Wickwire?
If I m r. mau l want to km
i ain't, it's ilta* ®y friends kn
'■uiyhtravI'm fnmtjK to *
V .:h . '"!C cf / ft Must1
>■■■■■ • ■
o
bird only the other day. They]
I'm nothing but a damne l trad
say I have done you service—d
A show.** V
repeated Whtspertgg Whispering Smith stopped Mb
Ip tbe shadow of a tree andfc
'keenly at him. T'm too busy!
to say much, Wlckwlre," he sail
a moment “Yon go over to ur
and report to Bob ficott. If y(]
to take the chancea, it la up iff
and if Bob Scott is agreeable.D
you where I can—that’a all A
promise. . You will probal; I)
more than one chance to fietm f
( apudlne for “That Headache."
Out last night? Headache and ner
vous thi* morning Hicks' Capudlne
ju*t the thing to fit you for business.
Clears the head—(brace* the nerve*
Try it. At drug store*.
when '<)f ’ -----
marked ,ine round in
w II dig
into
tln’-j into
tou.id
cross
In other words, when you dig
pass through identically
encoun-
to west
Or take the
question of duty agatn." You are atone
Haven't I
any dnty toward you. perhaps? I
don’t know a woman’s heart. I used
to think I did, but I don't. My duty
to this company that I work for 1*
I only the duty of a servant. If I go.
another take* my place; ft means
nothing except taking one name off
the pay roll and putting another on.
U .* ’ W - ..... .ni.U T, .JU. —- V.. Wuuu Jaku >k!«
horror might not another day bring )
—what lives still closer to her, life be would cause you a pang, ft shall not
taken? Fc. t,/7L7ff —— — “ " '-----
' but she knew that Sinclair.
er cress t imbers real oil < r asphalt , begun, would not stop,
seeps, uni the locality in question Is whichever way her thoughts turned,
one. and we have thus far not been
able to see one In this vicinity. We
foun t mt a spr.ng on the Geter
pho,- son.e traces of gas, but this,
was so badly clogged with,
decajing vegetation that it Is by no
means certain that the gas did not
<ome from vegetation and not from
the sand. These two places were
the only ones that came to our no-
th e that approximated anything- ap-
strike with a drill here, are prolific j king real oil seeps, and the
oil bearers. However, this does not facts in regard to these are as In
mean that any veil put down n this ‘ titrated above,
vicinity will find oil. It is only i t
spot's where the conditions have beei.
favorable for the accumulation of
oil, and where it has not haq a t ; tlie!'e is evidence of sui it disturbance
opportunity to escape, that oil will i:1S might have formed a dome, and
actually be found. The conditions this region
that are necessary to such aceumu- -:-~
lation are set forth in Exhibit C
Where the conditions are such as set
forth In B. oil will not accumulate
Bfdng lighter than water, anty oil in
tho formation will gradually work its
way, upward on the water. an 1
appear at the surface as an oil seep
or an asphalt deposit such as is
found at St. Jo in Montague county
i-i the upper cross timber sands. So
long, therefore, as these Cretaceou-
rocks hold their normal dip to the
southeast oil will not be found, be-
cause all that was originally in the
rocks has been carried away 'by th.
water, and accumulated elsewhere.
Where the conditions are such as
are indicated in C the oil will be
trapped beneath these domes, bulges
(as they are called),
held there. These
one
Th« Tyler Courier tells a
iruth when its says:
Not long ago we were in a
West Texas city and being asked
:.ff by the editor of the leading pa-
per what we thought of
country, we replied, “If
country ever amounts to any-
thing you' will have to do
something with these lands be-
sides sell them.”
Much of the land in the West
and especially in the Panhandle, has
been bought at comparatively good
prices for speculative purposes
purely. Farmers from the North
where land is worth $100, $200 and
even $300 an acre, have come in
there, bought land that to them
seemed cheap at $8, $10 and $12 an
acre. Then they have gone back to
their homes and let their Texas land
lie out. benefiting the community 1
ib which they bought nothing and
hoping the “unearned increment 'j
-------froin—dre tmpTOVQnlent of other
nestrby landiv will lie stt ff(«■!«■»t - L
pay them interest on the invest-
ment. Interest, to them, is around
S per cent. Thi^ is no ' knock” aL
the West, but is a fact that far-
sighted Westerners have long since
seen themselves. High priced land
that is yielding no revenue and sup-
porting no families 1* a detriment to
the Western part of the state pnd
it cannot achieve the growth of
which it is capable until this non-
resident land is improved and
into cultivation.
■ - -—■—o———-----
Justice Precinct No. 1. Cooke
county, carried the $10y,b00 bond
issue for better roads by a vote of
nearly 3 to 1. ^Tarrant county, the
indications now are, will inevitably
vote for the $ 1,00^,000 road bond
issue when the election conies off
pallas county already has the best
state
is talking good
'‘. roads, already has a good -many.
Eten Collin, with a citizenship very
like unto Denton’s except possibly
more so, is urging' a road bond is-
sue. There is no county in Texas
that needs good roads worse than
Denton county. There is no “pre-
cln<!t in Denton county with worse
roads than Precinct No. 1. So far as
.our somewhat limited perception
goes the only way to ggf good roads
only
as we
This new law
! or anticlines
and will be held tKere.
. bulgev are always present in
’ form or another in every oil field
The problem of finding oil, there-
, fore, in your county resolves itself
' "into the proposition of being able
to find one of the bulges, a place
where tlie rocks have been disturb
ed and bowed up so a* to form i
trap for the oil beneath where ft has
had an opportunity to accumulale.
When the existence of one of these
1 bulges can be proved beyond doubt,
1 we can point with certainty to the
I ext*teace of oil
There are two method* by means
of which these bulges can be de
tocted. One. !s by actual obsfijva
tlon and measurement of the dip or
slope of such ledge* as are exposed;
the other ia seeking Tor trace* of
oft or gas on such artesian wells as
— have been drilled In your vicinity.
B If such traces of oil. gas. or asphalt
"What shall !
God help me.
how am 1 to answer a question like
that?"
“How am I to answer it?”
Her voice was low and pitiful when
her answer came. “You must dp your
duty.” . '
"What 1* my duty, then? To Serve
the paper that has been given to
me, I know—but not necessarily to de-
fend my life at the price of bis. The
play of a chance Iles ijrdeciding that:
tions made during the course of these ' were .1 real asphalt outcrop it | siblnty of this murder *as not upon; that, iw for you to say,
-----. .. 1 £ven putting aside this.painful. . ... . .
, doubt she bore the name of the man aB<J frtoa4< Uw
j weighed on her mind, and she asked ;
herself whether, after all, the respon- k~p\he Vtfv7ft\ww;
sihilftv of this murder was not nnnn . . ....
i her. Even putting aside this, painful .
In
to
be-
(I,., incline of the lower cross
east, beneath which it 1- embedded, sands, an! would be
and where it may be found in dig- vindications for the people living east. I
, <r « „ . 1 ... 1 nf vmt V’tinr i n rl L •*» f altum ♦ i _ ’
the upper qroflt |
■ might have been prevented. And what
Whispering Smith’s hand fell help-
lessly on tbe table. “Rode down to-
gether! For God’s sake, why didn’t
one of them stay at the house?”
‘■Sinclair rode out from behind the
barn and hit Wick wire in the arm be-
fore they saw him. Banka turned and
opened on him, and Wlckwlre ducked
for the creek. Sinclair put a soft bul-
let through Banks’ shoulder—tore ft
pretty bad, Gordon—and made hl* get-
away before -Wlckwire and I could J
reach the barn again. I got Ed on his
horse and back to Wickwire’s, and ’
we sent one of the boy* to Oroville for I
a doctor. After Banks fell out of the 1
saddle and wag helpless Sinclair talked
to him before I came up. 'You ought '
to have kept out of this, Ed.' he said. '
‘This is a railroad fight. Why didn’t '
they send the head of tbeir own gang :
after me?’—naming you.” Kennedy
nodded toward Whispering Smith.
"Naming me.”
"Banks says:
county, and will be a long time yet!’
I took the papers from his breast
pocket,” continued Kennedy. “You
can see where he was hit.” Kennedy
laid the sheriff's packet on, the table.
Bucks drew his chair forward and,
with his cigar between his fingers,
picked the packet up and opened it.
Kennedy went on: "Ed told Sinclair
if he couldn’t land him himself that
he knew a man who could and would
before he was a week older. He meant
you, Gordon, and the last thing Ed
told me was that he wanted you to
serve the pipers on Sinclair."
A silence fell on the company. One
of the documents passing under Bucks'
p j hand caught his eye and he opened ft.
in your ■ , was ,h<* warrant for Sinclair. He
i read it without comment, folded ft,
next formation on t ie west consists I outcrop of asphalt on the t h . ■■ ’ *n‘1’ looking at Whispering^ Smith,
of limestones and clays which form I P^ace. In regard to the latter a | pushed Jt towATd him. ---------
the prairie and the black land ol i have gone into the i ircumstam
• a., nt -nv,« this find meet c arefully, investisia'- *
ed the surroundings fully, and hav- : Smith reachsd for the warrant,
made refraction tests on the dis’iil- looked for a moment at the blood-
group. At the base of the vretaceous .material, here in the laboratory stained caption.
e < l In rlafortnisc > t b r> w a ■■» ,«)■'» I. ...... . • « • * -
lest anotner series of sands I
sandstones, which come to the sur I
face in Wise county, where they con- [
stitute the upper cross timbers, j
I there
J i tore.
county
with wa er, whereas the lower cross ,
tha ! pbalt in order that they may com
the [pare with the material in question
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