Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 292, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1920 Page: 2 of 14
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THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1920
MdIURS
PAGETWO
WICHITA DAILY TIMES
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InOHE ***** P
ARJTP OKLA HOMA NE WS
INNAGE BEING
BUILT BY U. S.
SURE SHOOTING SAVES
LIFE OF PRISON GUARD
AND PREVENTS UPRISING
ffrom Enid and had decided to drive
down the Rock Island tracks. He
succeeded in doing so until his mu
chins stopped. He got out and walked
to Waukomis leaving the machine
-,. I there. A cut to the north concealed
M ALESTER, OKLA March 13.— the machine and It was demolished
PEOPLE SAVED BY
AMERICAN RELIEF
thor was "opinion this will prove fine wen
is successfully cleaned.
I. N. Farmer, five miles northeast of
Graham, drilling at 575 feet..
Texas Co., League survey, drilling at 025
ont.
Texas Co.,
Co.
We want a chance to explain to terr
mnousanu pespse su .........thousand people in Wichita Falls all
about Income Protection Insurance about Income Protection Insarin
Call 629. Eckrote insurance, 320 Com- Call 529. Eckrote-Insurance, 225 t’ m
merce Building 290-3te merce Building 29043 €
We want a chance to explain to ten
thousand people in Wichita Falls all
in. Hunt survey, ready to
t. B Hunt No. a rig on
X. Brooks, steaming up
Soc
GIRLS 1
Quick collection and “sure shooting train No 31
by W. H. Mayfioid, a guard ut the * 4_______
penitentiary "here, probably saved
his life and prevented an uprising at OKLAHOMA GAS COMPANY
Exceeds That of Any Other the state prison late yesterday. Dope CAME TAI KINC RACK
- - Fifty prisoners suddenly assaulted DUES DOME TALNINU DAUB
1 Mayfield in the brick plant where he -
was foreman Richard a Williams,I TULSA, OKLA., March 18.—In a
-serving five years on a burglary statement issued here late yesterday
charge and the leader off the blacks, afternoon, thee Oklahoma Natural.
I i WASHINGTON, March 18. — The knocked Mayfield down. The other Gas Company says that the continue
United States, naval experti Way, is negroes, started hurling bricks at ous, wilfull and vicious persecution
building more warship tonnage than I Mayfield as he lay prostrate. . Wil- and abuse heaped upon it this win-
any other nation. llama, retreating to a sate distan ’° ter during the time of low gas pres-
f Twelve super-dreadnaught. and six was about to hurl a brick when May; sure, makes it next to impossible for
great battle cruisers, aggregating field, from a crouching position, shot a public service corporation to do
$65,400 tons, ure under construction him through the head. The wound is business In Tul a.
in private and navy yards. They will believed to be mortal by the prison The statement added that it
carry a total of 153 sixteen inch rifles physician. . , 'perfectly willing to quit business in
and 24 fourteen inch rifles, and all will . Following the shooting the other Tulsa provided it be permitted to
have the new electric drive engines. , blacks were cowed Into submission either sell or remove its "disturbing
With the completion of this flees, and returned to work. t t system.” i , 1
probably in 1923, the United States • L i --------------------
will have a battle force of 19 super- HUDSON SPEEDSTER IS BEGINS MOVEMENT TO)
dreadnaughts and 6 battle cruisers In wurowrn a SPPREAD BUT WAR DEBT
the first line and 8 dreadnaughts and WRECKED BY A TRAIN BFFREADBUt WAN P
a number of smaller’battleships in the ----OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA. March
— second line. , I ENID. * OKLA., March 18.—Rock 18.—Beginning of a nation wide move
American naval men way, that Tsland trainmen yesterday reportedment to spread out the war debt and
among the worlds fighting craft the the total destruction of a Hudson j thereby reduce living costs was an
six battle cruisers and six of the new speedster early Wednesday morning nounced here today i
battleshtps- the Hou th Dakota, Mon 1 six miles from Enid toward Wauko- i Dorset Carter, resident of the fed, .
tana. North Carolina, Massachusetts, mis. According to statements, from oral reserve branch, is fath >r of the GIAHAM. TEX, March 18.—The fellow,
Indiana and Iowa—will be in a class the railroad men, a farmer living sir plan, which calls for issuan e of long ing is the report of the drilling activities
by themselves. The cruisers will have orthwest Waukomis had time bonds, by which all war debt in Young rounts: L
LX?..? knot, Aland | Parted" Rom" enl, n° "Ine" mominE* IXS be redainaed mar ,5.2tednarih 1 -
miles and n WI carry * sixteen 1-------------------------------—--~-----A- porno-----• Panhandle Refinin g°Co., McCluskey No. 1,
oti north 100-acre survey, near South Bend,
spodding In.
Denny & Co., Block 43, Stovall plantation.
James Tobin survey; timber or ground.
Texas Co., Arnold No. 3. survey 18. one-
half mile northeast of old well drilled sev.
eral years ago: drilling at 475 feet.
Roxana. W. E. McCharen, survey 1118,
one-Balf mile southwest of Donnell. No. 1,
100 feet.
Roxana, W. T Donnell, 11 miles south.
west of Graham; steady production DO bar-
1 rels.
| Mattie Gervis Oil Co., Steen No. 1. eight
miles north of Graham, drilling st 2800 feet,
standing 300 feet of oil in hole.
Merrill fill & Gas Co., Hunt No. 1, on
IT. K. & I. survey 2735, drilling at 3300
Neet.
ST. PAUL MINN March 18—--de brakam; 750
publkan leaders here today, basing fee: shot with 720 quarts nitroglycerine,
predictions on the results of county, bridged 2200 feet, oil rising 800 feet of top;
conventions in Minnesota yesterday, building tanks preparatory to drilling out
believed delegates to the national re-bridge.
publican convention will go triln 1 Southwestern Miami Oil Co.: MeKeen No.:
structed. Precinct primaries previ-ihMeowamet frnorhem: Meal
Moscow ously showed General Wood a favor- EmLNoWinue: drE at ' some
Moscow. March 12.Many radi- ite with Herbert Hoover and Go-5 SuethWeNrn Petroleum Co., Scott No. 1,
ernor Lowden In second place, 1 on Rudiso irrigation survey, drilling at
Fifty of 84 counties will have un- 2000 feet, showing oil and gas . ■
instructed dele gations to the state an Coe Donnell e. 1, on L A * No 1
convention Saturday. | 1212, 3185 feet drilling, showing oil and
Hoover will have 50° instructed 5, aneford Staler
votes. Wood 33 and Lowden. 17 Sev. :. 29: -de ad.......................
eral conventions, professedly favor- 1 1720, drilling at 2205 feet, strong showing
4— * - - - ------—1 —. —* .1„1.. i of oil. T I
........ u — Anna dan &.—Medweeney, B. F. Lindsey 1
st. Paul and Minneapolis county] "Immeros a: cenbam’so. 1-on T. E.1
Al, survey, $400, drilling at 3370 feet. 1
Texas €.. Graham No. 1. 3850 feet, make
ing about III barrels daily. i"’ :
Texas Co.. Arnold’ No. I, J4,#. Lee survey
+173, 4001 feet: tubing set, good f»r 230
barrels daily. , C .
Tevis Co J Norris No. 1. 2803 feet
T. xak Co., Blair-Hughes.No. 1, drilling
nt 5000 feet, on S. A. & M. G. Ry. Co J
survey, 262. 0 14
Arkansas Oil A Gas Co.,Teffery No. 1.
T. E & t to survey 330. drilling at 1709
Texas Ajax Oil Co.. Benson tract fivet
miles east of Olney, survey 1451, drilling at
1205 feet. Y
U’nion Oil Co. Whittenhurg Na. 1. ten
miles south of Graham. 3720 feet, shot with:
:»»> arts nitroglycerine: drilling out J
Nation at the Present Time
Say Naval Experts
DVINSK. March 16. — Thirty
thousand person, have been saved
from starvation here by the time-
ly arrival of an American Red
Cross relief unit from Warsaw,
When the Americans arrived with
the Polish army they found the
people dying by scores from hun-
ger. .
Soup kitchens have been re-
opened and are now feeding 17,-
oo0 children and 30,000 adults.
1s
The work Is being carried on un-
der the command of Mal. T. M.
Barber of Charleston, W. Va. and
Lieut. J. M. B. Evans of Beat-
mont, Tex.
IN OUR
"Texas Co., Judge sthinson. rig up
Humble OU & Production Co., Marshall
Ne. 1, drilling at 3300 feet.
Roxana. H. M. Ford No. 1, nine miles PHONE 178
south of Graham, rig on ground. ’
WESTERN GLASS & PAINT CO.
Wholesale and Retail
All Kinds Glass, Paint, Wall Paper and Picture Frames
WE INSTALL GLASS
713 NINTH STREET
Just received a fresh supply of New
York cheese and dill pickles. Don Top
Grocery. 2903tc
inch guns. They will be 874 feet long ~—CM
over all, 90 feet wide, will displace 33,- CON OF REPRESENTATIVE
Soil tons and have 180,000 horsepower. DUN CI RETARDENT A
The six super-dreadnaughts will be REEVES IS WOUNDED IN
even more powerful, each mounting In euanrA AT AUSTIN
its main battery, 12 sixteen-inch BHVUTING Al Aval IR
rifles. They will be 684 feet long 106 ---
lect broad and displace 43,000 tons. AUSTIN, March 18.—G. L. Reeves.
Their speed will be 23 knots and son of Representative Ice 11. Reeves
horsepower 60,000. of Sherman, was shot through the
These ships and the battle cruisers shoulder at the home of Dr Elton
are just now being gotten under way. Perry here late yesterday Physicians,
but most of the other battleships aresaid that Reeves will recover, and Dr ,
well on the road to completion. Perry has been placed under $50J
bond on a charge of atompt to mur-
der. Reeves told the police that the
shooting resulted from “family trou-
ble."
TREASURY OFFICIALS ARE
REQUESTED TO PRESENT
VIEWS OF DEPARTMENT
RADICALS DEPORTED BY
UNITED STATES REPORTED
SUFFERING PRIVATIONS
GOING
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Treas-
ury officials were called today to pre-
sent the department’s views to the
house ways and means committee on
increasing federal revenues to meet
losses as a result of the decision of who deported from the
Fense
* Secretary Houston in a letter tenth. Efforts are now being made by Alex.
-rinet wa-exp-ELEX to-rew-ne to rnder Herkmanaandi Emma Goldman mF Lowden, sent unimat ueted dele-
with the same percentage on large are hi distress and curator them I conventions also qualified as distri •
and small Incomes and providing pending permanent arrangements conventions and named, four dele-
for the repeal of the $2,000 exemp- Penains Pee I gates to the national convention, two
tion provision. Under such a plan, hal PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS 'Instructed for Wood. i
stated, the rate of taxation would he CONVENE AT DALLAS
reduced from the present rate of 227. ----F.1
1 per cent to approximately 17 per ten-. DALLAS, TEX March.......
The democratic members of the com-1 American Association of Petroleum
mittee, however, oppose such a plan. Geologists convened in fiftik, annual
on the grounds that it shifts the I convention here today with members
burden of taxation from large in- from virtually every state in the union
comes to the smaller ones, , in attendance. i
--------;-----Au The forenoon was devoted to geo-
. . N logical reports from the New Mexico
D"nA A W and northwestern Texas oil fields. Re-
Iroudest and AbOUD ports from Louisiana and Texas as *
whole occupied the afternoon session.
D* The convention will continue through
the Busiest Woman Saturday.___1 ____
. A. 1. STEFANSSON RESIGNS
in City of Chicago "ROM COMMISSION
J O OTTAWA, ONT., March 18.—Vilh-
er. has resigned from the government
jalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explor-
er, has resigned from the govern-:
mental commission inquiring Into the
possibilities of northern development i
for meat producing purposes, accord
Ing to an announcement by Arthur
Meighen, minister of the Interior,
Stefansson has sailed for England
and it is understood that the purpose
mothers, wives and sweethearts of of his trip is to seek to interest pri
: Chicago boys who served under the vate capital in the project.
general in France.
Mrs. Brem was the cause of the
, founding of the only soldiers'organ
I ration by women relatives of soldiers ._______________-
who fought overseas, she claims, the census bureau today announced the
organization, which hss become per following 1920 population figures:
manent U tha„"Klrst Hi vision Anvil.---Ashdown, Ark.. 2,052, increase since
, । Closing out sale of fine arborvitaes.
18.—The | shrubs, trees, roses, etcSpedime n
stock will be sold in a few days. Conic
quick. Those ‘Hanning landscapes
may avail themselves of the advice of
W. A. Walt "Stentle, a professional
landscape architect. Corner Eleventh
and Bluff streets. 292 1tp.
_____& Chenant. Donnell No.
1. three miles north of ENasville, survey
If you wish to exchange your old
furniture or stoves for new, we have
the goods. Ehlert Furniture Co.
Phone 314. 279 30te bridge
------------------. ... The Roxana Petroleum Co. has rigged up.
Just received a fresh supply of New on Grinde No. 1. under contract with North
York cheese and dill pickles. Bon Ton American to clean hole, which was drilled i
Grocery. T , 200-3te to depth of d.000 feet and had. 2.000.000 feet
Just received a fresh supply of New
CHICAGO. March 18.—Mrs, Mary
Oxford Brem was the proudest and
about, the busiest woman In Chicago
j eaterday.
For Mrs. Brem was the "C. 0.” in
<charge of preparations fo: the wel
come barrage given last night to Ma-
jor General C. P. Summerall, com-
mander of the First Division, by the
ANNOUNCE 'POPULATION
OF ARKANSAS TOWN
wAsHINGTON, March 18. — The
momauS ..- population figures:
-----Ashdown Ark.. 2.052, increase since
liary” and is composed of approxi- 1910, 805, or 64.6 per cent.
mnately 100 Chicago women whose -----------------------
< losest relatives were ‘first across. PARTIAL LIFTING OF
first to inflict casualties and the last I THE CHICAGO EMBARGO
to leave France." * , .: —- -
Major General Summerali came all CHICAGO, March 18,— Partial lift-!
the way from Camp Taylor, Ky., yes ing of the embargo on express ship j
terday just because Mrs. Brem wrote ments imposed as a result of a strike
him, as a mother whose son was un-of Chicago express workers was an
der him in "the fighting, a letter nounced today. The American Roll I
that must have reached th rough his way Express Company removed ire:
nillitary exterior. strictions on outgoing shipments,ex-
He was here for the party, danced ■ cept ordinary parcels, to Texas, Okla-
with the girls and left an impression homa and other southwestern points,
that "two star" officers ran be as and all through shipments from Bos
good fellows as regular “bucks.” ton. Philadelphia and Baltimore via
--------—--New York. T i
We want a chance to explain to ten --------5— ,
tkocand people in Wichita Falls nil SHORTAGE OF WATER f
about Income Protection Insurance. CAUSES POSTPONEMENT
T T 2, bekrote-insurance, 220Com- _ -----
merce Building. 290-3tc LYNDON, KAN, March 18.—Short-
-— --;—1— age of water here forced postpone."
Auto and tractor Insurance: J R. me nt until May 18 of the trial’of Rufe
Polk, 900 kighthstrect,P‘rone- 2746. King, alleged slayer of three Maple
----*--— —291-3tp Hill men. T 1
CHICAGO, March 18.—Partial lift
Js
THE BIG
1000 ACRE OIL
COMPANY
is now drilling
Only a limited amount of stock for sale
Big 1000 Acre Oil
Company
Central Stock Exchange Bldg.
—Handle your checking account. A4
—Pay you interest on savings. I .
—Keep your valuable papers.
—Issue letters of credit and traveler’s checks.
—Give you expert escrow service.
—Advise you on investment securities.
ity National Bank
: ' OF WICHITA FALLS "
Resources Over Sixteen Million Dollars
Somerville
Well
In edge of Texhoma
Field looks good for
150 to 300 barrels
at 1285 feet about 24
feet of oil sand. We
have offset acreage
and royalty, also
near up acreage all
around well. Also
close up acreage to
Pioneer well, Tex-
homa Field.
Attractive Prices.
See us quick
McAdams
& Luse
515 Seventh St., next
door to St James
Hotel
CRANE-WILLIS COMPANY
' REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
PHONE 2152
•208-210 CLINT, WOOD BUILDING- ______
RODGERS, GREEVER & OLTORF
REALTY COMPANY
RESIDENCE—BUSINESS PROPERTY—VACANT
LOTS—FARMS
PHONE 2264
"VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE”
Call on us before you buy—Then you will be satisfied (
816-20 NEW CITY NATIONAL BANK BLDG
THE OKLAHOMA GARAGE
605 Indiana st. under new management, keeps open
night and day to accomodate its patrons. We have also
put in a first class repair shop using nothing but high
class workmen. We guarantee all work and moderate
prices. Sales agent for
American Balanced Six, Ready for Immedi-
4
ate Delivery
MOBILE
JUST RECEIVED TWO CARLOADS
* GET YOURS TODAY
‘ COMFORT, POWER, DURABILITY
Salesroom 908 Ohio—Phone 828
Postoffice Next Door
KMAN & VON ALLMEN
Our Service Most Efficient
osing Out
Sale
LX,
Roses, Vines, Palms, Evergreens and Specimen
: Nursery Stock
The finest ever displayed in the city will be sacri-
ficed. Come quick. Sold out in a few days.
Dr. A. Walt Steinle, landscape architect will give ;
free advice and suggestions to those planning +
I landscape work.
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