The Southwest Mail from Nevada, Missouri • 6

THE SOLTHWEST MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 1914 szs 7r Oil LEASES ARE For Making Pure, Delicious Home-Baked Food. tbe threatened exodus. The Business Mens League hastily called a meeting of its executive committee and appointed a special investigating body with Harry B. Hawes as chairman. Tbe latter committee will meet to consider the preparation of a brief which It will ask tbe supreme courts leave to file as an argument for the arrest of judgment of the recent ouster decree against tbe lumber companies.

Leaving tbe state will not relieve the companies of the fines imposed, Attorney General Barker announced at Jefferson City. Tbe property of tbe companies in any state can be levied upon to satisfy the fines, Mr. Barker said. BEGIN NEW WEIL. BRjPmOES.

Baking Powder makes Fine and Wholesome Biscuit, Delicious Cake and Pastry No Alum No Lime Phosphate ir- i i i For Infants anJ Children. Kind You Have Always Bought For Over Thirty Years tmi ocnTAua eeiMNVi new vasa errv. FARMERS MUTUAL MADE RECORD, His Had Only Twenty-Two Assessments During Its Seventeen Years Existence. The annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company was- held at tho courthouse Sa'urday afternoon. The following cfficdrs were elected: President, A.

Halcomb; Vice-President, F. T. Lotton, Secreury, A. B. Davis; Treasurer, W.

H. Fowler; members of tbe board, Steve Heatherman, Tv Jones and W. H. Fowler. It was decided not to increase the rates.

The company has insurance dow in force to the amount of The net increase for the year 1913 was $131,153 CO. The company has all of its obligations paid and has a balance of $136 43 in the treasury. During tbe seventeen years of the companys existence it has only had twenty-two assessments. G. II.

RAIL DIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON G. N. Ha who tn ved to Bristow about two years ago from Iowa, died Friday afternoon, his death being due to paralysis. The deceased was 67 years of age and was a highly esteemed citizen. He is survived by a wife, five sons and three daughters.

Only one of his children has been at home recently. Four cf his sods living at Mason City, la one daughter living in New York and the other two in Washington. The funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon1 by Rev. Bewley. Interment was had at Marvin Chapel.

County Recorder Chatman issued marriage license Thursday evenirg to Orville Hoover and Miss Effie Wilt both of Cass county. ALCOHOL PER CENT. AXgefabLe PrcparalionfnrAs-' sirailaling theFootfamfRegula ting llte Stomadts andBowds cf Promoles DigeslionOteerftij ness and Rcst.Contalns neittur Opium norMiaeraLl Not Narcotic. SI tape of QhL IkSMILftlUlldl IsafAto Seed JbcStona jinatSetd fippmunt" lUCarkiwttSd Jhirm Sesd-Cf anted Apnfect Remedy for Consfiju-Hon Sour Stnmaeh.Dtantioei Worms ness andloss of Sleep. Facsimile Sijjnatutt of NEW YORK.

t-C ill i S' Exact Copy of Wrapper. UN SUCCESSFUL IN CLOSING SALOONS Coiteriteld, Jan. 3. Martial law ras declared here yesterday by Colonel K. Lawson, superintendent of the stato penitentiary.

Five members of the coast artillery backed up tho proclamation. This action followed a demand made by Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary to Governor West, for tbe resignation of members of the city council and other officials who are accused of violating an ordinance regulatiug sa'oons. When her demand was refused, the governor's representatives ordered Colonel Lawson to place the town under martial law. Then she boarded a train to return to the state capital. Colonel Lawson's small force began operations by raiding the saloons, of whicn they took charge.

The proprietors were given until 4 oclock tomorrow afternoon to ship their bar fixtures and liquors out of the county on penalty of confiscation. All of the city officials were placed under arrest and were held incommunicado, not being permitted to communicate with attorneys. Governor West received two weeks ago a protest signed by more than half the residents of Copper-field against alleged law violations by saloons here, one of which was owned by the mayor and another by a councilman. It was charged that liquor was being sold to minors and that closing hours were not observed. The governor called upon Mayor Stewart to close the saloons and be refused.

When Sheriff Rand also refused to act, Governor West sent Miss Hobbs to take charge of the situation. The forest service collected pounds of tree seed last year for use in reforestation work. The total area reforested was about 30, 000 acres. OUSTED LUMBER VUES WEI IEMGUBI Three Offices la St. Louis, oos In Kansas City Will Ba Vacated, New Establishments Near State Lines Will Take Care of Trade as Dsual.

St. Louis, Jan. 3. Three lumber companies that were ousted from the state by the Missouri supreme court on December 24 and fined a total of $110,000 for alleged violation of the anti-trust law, have prepared to close their St. Louis offices and reopen in East St.

Louis, Illinois. Rumors that other companies would take a similar policy, rather than pay the fines levied by the supreme court, were rife, but these stories had not been confirmed. It is understood that if the companies take all their assets out of the state the fines levied by tbe Missouri supreme court cannot be collected. Tbe three companies that were dismantling their offices were the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company audits two subsidiaries, the Bradley Lumber Company and the Co-lomalLumber and Timber Company. Tbe three companies together occupy an entire floor of a St.

Louis skyscraper. The offices were in process of dismantlement and R. W. Fullerton, secretary of one of the companies, said the companies would move to tne Illinois side of the river before Monday. The Chicago Lumber and Coal Company and the Bradiey company were ousted unconditionally and each was fined $50,000.

These fines wore to be paid, even though the ouster decrees were enforced. The Colonial Lumbur and Timber Company was ousted, but given the option of remaining in tbe state if it would pay a $10,000 line aud obey tLe anti-trust laws. Uuoer the rules of the supreme court the twenty-five companies chat woto ousted, conditionally or otherwise, can file a motion fur rehearing not later than Saturday night. This motion acts automatically as a stay of execution. Ten companies already have filed motions for a rehearing, among them three companies that were making preparations for a quick removal to the Illinois side.

Additional motions for a rehearing are expected to be filed. C. H. Smith, secretary of the Lumber Manufacturers Association said today he understood the companies that were given the option cf remaining in tbe state on payment of fines and on good behavior, would not leave, but would contest tho decree of tbe supreme court. Mr.

Fullorton said the offices of the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company in Kansas City, would be moved to Kansas City, and that the company would open for business there. We are leav'mg Missouri, he said, because we are law-abiding citizens. We are going because we were ordered by tbe supreme court to go. We dont want to go, and we will come back, if weare allowed to do so. the decree of ouster was issued we have bad invitations from New Orleans, Mobile, East St.

Louis and several other cities. So we are guing to East St. Louis and Kansas City, Kas. The Chicugo Lumber and Coal Company is a selling concern. Our only property in Missouri consists of office fixtures.

Wa are incorporated in Iowa. Tbe Bradley Lumber Company has a sawmill in Arkansas, but it is incorporated in Missouri. Vet the supreme court fines that company $50,900. The enforcement of this decree of ouster will make no actual difference in our business. Lumber will continue to be manufactured and we will continue to sell in Missouri.

We can do that under the interstate commerce clause of the federal constitution. We feel that we have been unfairly treated. The plans of the lumber companies to leave the state has been known but a few hours when business interests of St. Louis and Kansas City engaged counsel to take steps, if possible, to prevent Nearly All the Land Near Swartz Has Been Leased and the Residents are Now Waiting For tbar Resalts Another Well to be Drilled. A keen but agreeable competition for land leases out in the Swartz oil field has about closed as all land that can be leased has been secured by the oil men.

Thousands of acres of land have been leased and the excitement accompanying the preliminary steps toward the development of the oil field has about subsided and the residents of that section of tho county are now waiting for the actual drilling to be started in earnest. The only way tbp oil can be found so as to settle tl question as to whether oil exists is drilling wells to a sufficient depth 1o test the field. Some drilling has been done and one well near Swartz was shot but the charge of nitroglycerine used was too large and It is said the well was ruined. The drill is being moved to a point about one-half a mile east of the first well. Just how much drilling is going to be done and to what depth the wells will be drilled no cne s.ems to have any definite Information.

If the shallow wells pDve a paying Investment then many of these will be drilled. The cost of drilling shallow wells Is cot very great. In this district eomo of the oil men are afraid that the water will drown out the shallow well and are of the opinion that deep wells 1,500 to 2,000 feet should be drilled This would test the field and if oil is found at that depth it will be of liner quality and in larger quantities than the oil found in shallow wells. One oil man from the Casey, 111., oil field who bad 2,000 acres of land leased refused to drill unless he could secure unothcr thousutd aeros and this he f.iiid to accomplish for ail the land was either leased or could not bo leased tohe returned the leases he had and left. A gentleman who lives in the west part of the county who had leased bis land to an oil man was here Saturday and in a conversation with a Mail representative said that the Illinois oil man was of the opinion that a deep well should be drilled.

The expense of drilling a deep well is so great that oil operators hesitate about drilling them until developments give assurance of striking oil. This is where the shallow oil wells prove a great asset for if the shallow wells produce a reasonaole amount of oil then the deeper wells will be drilled. In some oil fields at the beginning of operations several of the oil men who have leases get together and drill one deep test well, each paying a portion of the cost. If the test well proves a success then they work Individually fur they know that oil can be found and they do not hesitate to take chances on getting a paying well. The preliminary steps In the Nevada oil district are rapidly nearing a close to be followed by actual developetnent.

It is hoped that the field will be thoroughly tested. REJECTS COM- JSSION RULE Atchison, Jan. 5. Commission form of government was defeated Saturday in a special electirn by a majority of 813 of the 2,865 votes cast. Not a single ward in the city gave a majority for the new rule.

This is the third attempt to change to commission form in Atchison and the most decisive defeat ever administered. The attempt to inaugurate the new rule scheme was regarded as a personal attack against Mayor C. C. Finney, whose term would have been cut in two by the change. L.

L. Higgins, W. H. Fowler, Tbos. Wilhite.

J. B. Rjberts and Geo. Davis all of Sheldon, were here Saturday to attend the meeting of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. Yesterday the oil well at Swarts, Mo that was expected to produce ten barrels of oil a day and possibly twenty-five, was abandoned, and the rilling rig was removed to a point three-fourths of a mile east, on the W.

R. Houston farm, where drilling was begun today. Says the Ft. Scott Tribute. To the many who bad expected the well on the George Brannon farm to be a paying one, this news comes as a disappointment which is somewhat softened, however, when it is learned that the well was not abandoned because of tbe lack of a paying deposit of oil but because of the fact that tbe charge of nitro-glycerine, with which it was shot a short time ago, was too large and resulted in almost entirely fi.ling up the hole.

If the stories to the fact That the well on the Brannon farm would yield about ten barrels a day had been false, it does not stand to reason that the operators would have removed to a point such a short distance away to put down another well. The new well is on the W. R. Houston farm, and it is thought a paying strata of oil sand will be encountered at about the same depth that they were struck on the Brannon farm, 163 feet. Id case the sand is not struck at this depth, however the operators say they will go on dowu much deeper, if necessary.

In tbe old well oil was struck at a depth of 163 feet, tbe strata of sand being of good thickness. There wert doubts in tbe minds of the operators but that the well would yielo at least ten barrels a day, even before it was shot, but of course it was expected that tbe setting off ol a charge of nitro-glycerine in it would greatly Increase the yield. Accordingly, sixty quarts of nitroglycerine were secured from Cha-aute, and this quantity of the explosive was discharged in the well, twenty quarts in tbe upper strata and forty quarts in the lower strata It was thought that this amount would be necessary to secure the desired results, but owing to tbe shallowness of the well, and the fact that tbe strata at this point were unusually soft, the amount of nitroglycerine proved to be an overcharge. The oil men from Casey, 111., who ire interested in the Swarts field, iccording to reports coming in are easing large areas of land in the of Garland. It is said that thoy have already leased several thousand acres, and that they are still leasing.

When a Garland man was asked this morning the general direction of the leases from Garland be said that the leases are beiDg made all around that town. It is expected that drilling will soon begin on these leases. LITTLE JUNE FORNEY DIED SUNDAY NIGHT. Death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs.

A. N. Forney Sunday night and laid its hands on their little daughter Jane aged four years. Just one week ago ail five of their little children were taken suddenly ill with scarlet fever and although everything possible was done to baffle the disease one of tbe children the daughter Jane, succumbed to it. The other children are very much better, in fact are out of danger.

The Forney home on North Washington street has been under quar-tine so the funeral of- the little daughter Jane could not be held at the home. Interment was had this afternoon at 2:30 oclock at Deepwood cometery. A prayer service was conducted by Rev. Levi Marshall pastor of the Christian church. In this sad hour of bereavement the sincere sympathy of many friends Is extended to Mr.

and Mrs. Forney. INSURANCE MEN TO MEET JIM 15-10 To the Editofs of Mail: Gentlemen. The Insurance Federation of Missouri has completed arrangements for its first annual convention, which will be held January 15th aud 16th at Excels ior Springs, Mo. This gathering of representatives of ail classes of insurance, including tne policyholders, will be one of the most important business gatherings of recent years, and the committee having the deiuils in charge respectfully ask such space in your va ued papers us your good judgment may dicato.

Insurance is a sol j-cl that appeals directly to ull of ti peuple of Missouri, whether icon- interests are on the farm or tn tie cities, and iu orile to con1 ve their interests, which vitally utlects so my, the Federation has been organized and placed on a substantial and permanent footing. Our purpose is not to antagonize the authorities of Missouri, or resist proper and reasonable regulation. On the contrary, we purpose to cooperate and work aiorg business lines with our state officials. Accordingly, we have invited the governor, IJou. Elliott W.

Major, aud the members of the commission recently appointed to suggest such revision and modification of our insurance laws as may be deemed advisable, to attend ulcI address the convention. Realizing that the policyholders interests is our interest, we propose in our work to have his assistance and support in the development aDd execution of plans that will rebound to the good of all. During the convention the headquarters of the Federation will be at the Elms Hotel. Any other information may be had by addressing O. P.

Rutledge, secretary, Pierce building, St. Louis, Mo. We know that the press of Missouri is interested in the welfare of the insurance business, and we thank you in advance for the kindly consideration we hope to receive at your hands. Very respectfully, D. D.

Thomas, President. O. P. Rutliuok, secretary. FORD TD SHARE PROFITS TEIill Dlstribate Ten Kiilion Dollars Annually to Ccmpenys Employes.

Detroit, Jan. 5. Tho Ford Motor Company has announced a profit sharing plan by which about ten million dollars, approximately half of the companys earnings are to be distributed to the employes annually. The company also announced a cutting off of one hour of the working day with no decrease in salary. Will Be Tried at tlie Ftbrurry Tens cr Circuit Court fir Assaultiog Brawnier.

3hcr IT Gr.y atd Deputy Sheriff rs went r.ut to the Lone Star tuhonlhousH neighborhood Sunday 1 end served the warrants charging five boys with assaulting Prof. W. E. Crawmer who teaches the Lore Star school. Tho tys against whom the camplaint is made are lierl Davis, Floyd Burnett, Hernia Bar-low, Djil Barlow aud xie All 'if th.

a' av i ftJr appeal lor tna( ih.i teim it Hie ill Lluit. 'the tro ible set ms to have le fm. Ind. Crawmer failing to give tie reboot an Xmas treat, Tio to.1 pruoj.nl il.d i.ot the utnuipung 10 take ileir ae.le out to a perd for a lucking Href Crawir.or stated ill it he thought tt.e boys were joking but when they had led him near the pord and attempted to tie his band-he thuught he had better release himself. It is alleged that Berl L'avis struck Crawmer inflicting a painful wound over his eje Prof.

Crawmer has been teaching school seventeen years and is one of the best teachers in the cjurty. It is reported that tho boys hao made threats that if irof. Crawmer did not give them a treat they would duck him. Friday evening wbon school had closed Frof. Craw-mer sat down to put on his overshoes and then the bovs took 1 toid of him uod led him out When near the pond he attempted to free himself and then one of the I oj struck him and after this blow was struck the boys left.

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W. Kramer broke the record for the Decembei tax collections which proves not only that be Is a tip-top officer but also that this vicinity is not anywhere near bark rnptcy regardless of the talk about close times. Last month Mr. Kramer collected $34,918.03. During December 1912 the' collect ions amounted to 133.749.-1L Last month the gain over December 1911 was 11163 94.

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