The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 6

PAGE SIX } viii wie Vay os. BORING WILL TELL TALE OF May Unearth One of Greatest Petroleum Pools in the World IT MAY NOT AND Process for Extracting Fluid) From Sands Has Been Perfected Edmonton, Alta., Feb. 28.—Claims and rumors that the entire Canadian Northwest is situated over one of t! greatest oil pools in the world, ing only for the driller’s bit to send it gushing to the surface, probably will be borne out or disproved this spring when drilling opefations he- gin in the Fort Norman district. the center of the potential oil section. Fowr drilling outfits have arrived here for work near Fort Norman .s8 soon as the ground is in condition, and extensiv ns in parts of Albert: tchewan also will be started in the sammer. Reports of oirs of oil far he- sath the surface ef the earth are not ned to any one- section of the yy but come | fj the entire ern ‘Ter ur west as Br h ing the whole of the Northwest with the oil fever. Canadi PICK WILLIAM C. (N.ME. A. Staff Special.) 1 Garden ‘City, 'L. 1,, eb. 2u.—‘You're YOURSELF FOR A WINNER— THEN WIN! TR Dean ‘Kerr of the University of Al-| through when you're dead, not before. herta de 1 recently that there is It makes no difference how old you enough of the “liquid gold” in’ the’ are, or how young, whether you're a Athabasca north of here, “to ripple or a jail pird, you've get to supply the 2 globe fur the next have money and you've got to have two centuries. and gave figures of the brains, and you've got a chance to get pie oil production iw this ¥ . both your heart stops beating.” ho had been compilediby the Can- _ So says William C. Durant, a man 59 years old, who started as a cigar the oil, salesman in Boston at 19 and in the y next succeeding $4 years piled up a - fortune of $134,000,000. “A man ‘said to me, ‘You're a nut | to go to work at five in the morning; what do you want to do, ruin your n- health?’ “He had-me wrong. Sometimes 'm at my desk at four A. M. If you do something out of the ordinary and ac- cumulate a bag full of money, you're a nut or a crook or both, sey the critics. Trouble is they're not critics, but nuts.” City Manager. esi developments in this connection prob- ably would be announced soon, The Canadian government has nounced that it is ta caution for the protec vesting public in Yhe development ot the potenti icld, and recently issued regulations for the disposal of any oii and natural that might ‘be found. The new re ions supercede Previous order: d are retroactive in| Durant quit selling cigars to become the Northwost Territories. | secretary of the City Water Board in They provide that an applicant may | Flint, Mich.. He was 21 then. He re- be sranted a prospecting permit for) organized the plant. So successful four square miles, such permit to .be} was he that the management of the effective for four years, within which| town was placed-#r tis hands. period an adequate drilling outfit must} be installed and sufficient prospecting | work done to demonstrate whether oil exists in commercial quantities. This feature of the regulation, it is said, was designed‘to prevent “wild- | catting,” fraud, and misrepresenta- | tion in the exploitation of the new; fields and to prevent, prospectors who fail to develop their holdings from} profiting through the detelopment of| producing..wells on adjoining claims. If oil is discovered on any claim, the lessee will. be allowed to take oui a 21-year lease for an area of »ne square’ mile, or an area not greater than one-fourth of his prospecting permit, the remaining three-fourths! to remain a government reservation | The maximum number of permita/ which may be taken out @ nor the aggregate area of all exceed 2,550 acres. As further protection against “wild- ‘When 24 he discovered that the two-wheel roadster had possibilities among farmers and began to manu- facture them. He called his product the Blue Ribbon Roadster and in three years was selling 100,000 each 123 months, t | Then came-automobiles and Henry Ford, Henry Ford said “I'll, win with- cut Wall Street.” durant said: “I'll go to Wall.Street.” He did. He in- corporated and sold stock. He started with the Buic! d tien became build- er of the Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmo- bile, Oakland, Scripps-Booth, G., M. C. trucks-and Samson tractors. Then he blossomed forth as head of tire Gen: eral Motors Corporation, He was worth $134,000,000. ‘Last fall theré was a crash. Wall Street took over: Durant’s interest in “eneral ‘Motors, the only . concern known as a billion dollar affair. “That's the end of Durant,” said many. Durant smiled at the “crash.” He catting,” a clause was inserted in the, had 91,000 persons on his pay roll and regulatio providing, that the mini-| hed menufacturing plants in 48 cities, ster of the interior may refuse an! He still has both, and in December application or cancel a permit or lease| last he started the ‘Durant Motors, if convinced that there is an attempt Inc., took cut a charter in Albany, to commit fraud, misrepresentation or | fd sold, one billion shares at Mo par evasion of the provisions of the regila-, Value. , tions. mr Reports issued by *! tres ttominion) piven Lake land ‘offices: in Kdmonton show that | Cuenige interest in oil claims’is not restricted)" ppe departme: interior a at to any section and that leases are he- See er aitaling tf oH ¢s honth, fitts OY BROLOEABIS: "fields at the opening of spring. Three ne month, fifty applications were) ich parties will leaye Ottawa as soon made to the office here, covering 8,600 | Se noes ‘3 ME haigor | meee e st. | a8 possible this year:to. undertake the acres in the ter ry under the juris-| traverse of .the Mac ie river for which the lessees paid § 3 to the | he bani arate oe Bea cit ehatiae zovernment for the rental of their! which yill b edo When. the righ olding: ba ins i ass - te Pits = begins in t pring. ane Hapa tA ot held } -If,expectations for the new oil fields the neicfilioch pe Bae Oba are borne out and a big strike is made he neighborhood of Irma, about 100) one of the greatest problems confront- district, in the Innisfree cae Bot is city lie the ¢ ‘and ing the operators: will be that of get- frank Ta ile the remainder’ ting the product of their wells to was in the Brazeau Forest Reserve, iarket west of here. A considerable number i va four or fiv. of claims also have been made, in the see cane aaa oa ie = northerh section, » const pipe line would be a_ difficult task, though physically possible, it is point- Led out. ¢ . Water transportation « | difficult. residents of the owing to the rapids between Mdmon- ton and Fort Simpscn,. on the water | Toute to, Fort. Norman, the center of the field. North of Simpson, however, the Mackenzie is navigable. There h been rumors of a_rail- ToCure aCold in One Day | Take . pct. with the northern = i ed at ‘Simpsow, and gy several companies nave’ announced @rove Ss their intention of building steamboats é } to ply the river between Fort Norman Laxative A and Simpson, which’ would afford an outlet to producing wells. A number | 0f scows also are under construction /EYES TURN |» ON HASKELL » Where are the famous Indian ati- letes of yesteryear? Where is the + fame of Carlisle? ‘ |. Look west of the Mississippi! Indians are being educated in the west. Haskell is edging up near the | prominence attained by Carlisle. i Cerlisle hasn’t been on the map muci, | since Jim Thorpe graduated: . Back in | the old days the school lent color j to the schedule ofall big eastern elev- | ens. Penn was “duck soup” for the | Indians. In the early nineties a Carlisle feot- RRR ESESSESEaEaEeaEEeaae™™ "ed not only ga the gridir:n but in, base: | man. ‘He is still his thirties. ‘Exendine, an old-time Indian’ star who made the All-Amertcan, is coach- ing football teams at Georgetown. Guyon still lives. But the eyes of the sport world are turned toward Haskell. DETROITER LAYS CLAIM Playing football in °S SYSTEM Y DURA} Remembered jn: Will for Saving | § troit, Mich., and not John W Affiwaukee, is. the real’ inheiitor “6f°@500,000, or more, said’ to have ‘heem.Jeft by. Miss Ada. Burlingame of Edinburgh, Scotland, to the man who $dyed her from drowning in the Mississipp! river 30 years ago, according to the story told by: Steen. Press dispatches .yeported Wagner to be’ the helr and that hie had. refused the bequest, saying His memory had been impaired: as theresult of a sun- > 7 stugke, and he could; not recall rescu- ing any woman. Steen, recalls the ad- venture, and is arrafiging to receive the money, he-says.. >) Following. a country-wide search for cee he was found’ in Detroit by faigents of the “Burlingame estate. ‘Steen says'he was assured he Is the tian named in” the woman's will, and that’ as soon as proper Identification | can be made, ‘steps “will be taken, to | ‘ niake clnini to.the*ngdney, With ‘the oa finde of: Steet Promise made to hin by Miss Burliigame when: he 1s said to have dived’ into. 30. feet. of wa- ter at the risk of hi’ own life has been fulfilled. $ 4 “ Y SOME Times 3 AM AT, THE OFFICE at aAM —; he ) winty overe.eup ONE HUNDRED. Te CI . Ne . “Sothing counts dut’ thought,” he says. “There's a way out of every-" thiag; a Way to do anything. Why-] “According to Steen,’ who now ts 60 oversiecep 10) per cent?, Why, over-| yenrs’ old, he and a chum were seeing cat 100 per cent? “Most do: “I can think when I'm refreshed, when !'malone. “At four or five in the morning, when the zero hour is past, energy, thought, visions are at their peak, if youve slept quietly and. without dreaming. 1 . “Train yourself to do that; you can! Conquer habit; conquer desire; make both gerve you. Smite all the time; even when a corn hurts. You're nev- er licked until ygu’re dead, and then you're not licked.” ‘Too Long to Sleep. Says a man lives to be a hundred, explains Durant. He sleeps 1-3 of that time. That is 33 years. That is} a long time to sleep. when all eternity is before you, he adds whimsically. “Work and thought never killed anyone,” .he says, “1 work because I like to do things.” “To what one thing, more than any. other, do you attribute your success,” 1 asked. 4 “I try to never make/the same mis- take twice,” he answered. ‘Durant is of medium height, with a slenderness which gives. the, impres-, ° " [?) ; f°) sion of a greater height than the meas- t i ( ——————y—ES—SE the country, making, ‘thelr way from city to city on‘ freight, trains, He was a robust young mfin;‘a good swimmer, and keen for adventure. “My pal and I had‘ just been shoved off\a freight train In the railway } yard said Steen. “The police were after us, and we were making our way toward the river'When we noticed, vay horse and*carriage coming us: ‘The carriage was over- and the only. occupant was into the river. My pal had thrown but one leg and could. not swim, but I dove in with my clothés on. T suc- ceeded in saving the woman, and al- most was drowned myself, “The woman asked me for my name and address, and [told her, but my:pal refused to give his name. She said she wanted to remember. me for what I dif? She gave me.$10, and my pal and I, who were. hungry, spent. most of 1tin a restaurants Ac: wane uring rod would,show; long of fea: ture and thinnish as to hair, he does}, not readily fit jnto any of the usual classifications ‘of men: He is full:of_ “pep,’ his eyes flash fire, he has the chaif next to his desk and in which you sit while Yalking to him nailed down so. you can’t hug: him or pat him on the knee while you, talk, and his slogan is: ~‘Don’t waste Sf time asking fool questions how, to do oa things, or how.I do them; go out, usa}, your brain, do things. . Forget ‘mis- |" takes.: ‘Forget fajlures, Forget every“ © thing excepting what%you're going to{* do now, and do it.” ‘ 4 Maybe you think you're_too young to make your big strike. Or maybe. you thing you're too old to try. Wake up-—at 4 in the morning, if necessary! Take a tip from William C. Dufant, who has made $124,000.00. “Youth | or age makes'no difference. You've got to have brains, and. you've got a chance to get both till. your heart stops beating. Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everytliing except “WeiGeT LeT-erR See The _ TOGIT OF $500,000]. j athletic sand in the army of tomor-| HAS HE NOT A LARGE CHEST 2 what you're going to-do now, and do YES, HE HAS A VERW LARGE it.” Today is your tucky day. -4 _ Cees? ine the “Middies. ‘The Admirals won' by a Does ve KEEPMONEY 1 big 20 It was the Indians’ first} ‘{|'' MIS CHEST ? ° —-~ if YCUR LUCKY DAY !8 TODAY! | i grid. effort. trounced the score. fan Then came Glenn Warner. Thence: forth Carlisle was always to be figur-| Next year the Indians | NO. MS CHEST WAS DE- Navy Academy by:a big: |; VEL-OPED Ear <<1V IN ( HIS CA-REER TS PARK HIS. MED-ALS ON. DID HE EYER WINAMED-AL? | NO AU HE NER GOT'ON ' HS CHEST WASA COLD. 3° sneer ee “ACRES OF NQtarding Plans to Mal: i (N. E. A. Staff Special.) | Washington, Feb, 25.—A complete inventory of all leftover. war materi- als in possession of the War Depart- ment. as cf March 4’ will be ordered j by the incoming’ seéretary of: war,| . This will be one of ‘tHe first acts of} ” the Harding administration. This inventory is planned not,only to show. the amcunt of these war left. dn the’ department's ; 1¥ armistice. pee The -sitnation, is described thus: “The wires are down ‘outlying: depots pedi Washington.” slated to become ‘the next secrétary of war. He his discussed this, in- ventory with ‘President-elect Hard- ing, who not: only Kas approved it but has suggested that the data be made public when completed, * ball team went to Annapolis to play Present war department officials! The Harding “administration plans . \ ARMY SUPPLIES AR vento-: of Surplis War- Materials nd Put Automobiles on Market and the central de- |{er, like so. mbck ORIOLE STAR’S CASE SIMILAR TO BABE'S (NUE. As Staff Speciah) Baltimore,” Mu.,.*Feb,:‘2i,—Jack Bentley, Oriole star right-hand éf, first baseman and: home. run*hit- ter, fauna ing an exact rallel ‘to the ‘problem: which. mgn- Hees ‘faced ‘in Babe Buth. " ) a a is: Baltimore's star pitch- But in ‘the 21 games he pitel last, season he battled only 28%. 7 _In the remainder of the games he’ hit an eveh 400 a8 first baseman. His segson’s average was 371. He also hit’ 20. home, run: \, ‘believes ‘Bent- “Manager Jack Dui ley would: hit. oyer and 380 or mere: home rans, yegularly a3 a fielder. ~ Managers: faced imilar. problem in Southpasy Babe Ruth... j A Be ox, pitcher’ Babe was Sa. Sox. one ‘of th leaders, of the. American Veague,’ But ee he pitched his ing was lighter. hig i He was such a tertific slugger that Harty “ne ‘used hiin in ‘the oo field and at first, base when he waai’t itching add: batting strength | fo 4 club. : ‘ In 1919, ‘the ‘Year he’ broke the world’s home -ryn, recofd, with 29, Babe only. worked, as a pitcher jn 20 games. b 2 Wher he ‘tame tothe Yanks. $125,000 "Miller Huggins, faced: ‘Bambino, | owe. the ‘su of 54 Ke rs fas pe , What will Bentley’ ; Bentley is as natu shitter s Babe... Hi is atar., Watch Bentley. ‘His lar to Babe’s. And he may be the man_ whois to supercede ‘Bambino’s swat throne. 2 G4 A), NOW ATHLETIC SAND NEW ARMY The army of the filura is “ta be built. on “sand.” .. This sand will bé the product ot Bthletics, ‘Live: examples of army sand are ‘Capa, Mapuutt ct Vamp Holabird, Md., and Spike Webb of the Navai Academy. Both are manufacturing mor? ath- letic sand. Captain Mabbutt is in charge of all athletics at his post. Webb is boxing instructor for cadets, They see a great future for the men who go through Uncle Sam’s trainiag schocls, Sed “It’s the aim of army and navy posts to bu‘ld up athletic teams rival- ing those of ‘the big colleges,” says Captain Mabbutt. “Im_a'téw years the teams ‘of Uncle Sam will trim the big-time. football elevens, baseball nines, track quads and boxers. : “When young fellows see the. ad- vanteges in army athleti¢ts they'll be glad to enlist.” Mabbutt weighs 285. He‘is 6 foot 6 inches tall. ‘Overseas ne was active in promoting boxing. He himself star- red on a football team. He's boxed both, Willard‘and Dempsey.. ‘i ‘Webb, also, taught the Yanks\how togbox overseas. i | joth «Webb and Mabutt:’ praise Wert Point's new system of hand- picking star athletes from other ¢ol- leget..is ptospective. army officers. » The.cadet school is robibng big col- lege .of,:stars but it is building army sand at the saine time. — iNext. fall Bo McMillin’ of Centre, Garbish of Washington and Jefferson, Benty Bo;nton of Williams and Bill Wood of Johns Hopkins are slated for West Point. ies These and other brilliants will put| row. pee EE Seber ees Wide Yawn Fractured ‘Fireman's Rib Allentown, Pa.—A’ sharp pain ‘in One|. side caught Mark Beitler, a member ‘of Rittersville fire company, when he in- dulged: in. wide yawn tn’ the: hote! house. ‘His enffeing Increased, so # Physician ‘was’ stinmoned and found ‘phe of Beltler's ‘tbs fractured. ‘= Unemployed-Will Not Shovel: Snow. * ‘New — York.—Notwithstanding. re ports of unemployment’ in New York city, 8 call for 8,000 snow shovelers paid $5.20 for an -elght-hour day, brought - comparatively little” re sponge. mae < Just one o fthe ‘places where'millions of ddilars worth of sur- plus war materials ‘and going to Waste—camp Jessup, Ga. | materials stored from coast to coast’. 5 = ‘ | but, al hi i ical eon- it they. have no accurate informa-jto send into the field experts. who dition. fo stiay tele physical a ied t they hs if the hundreds of "all | will: make thi inventories on the Former Senator-John J. Weeks: is lions ‘of doliats’ worth .” of supplies | grcund. . vein y ands at of, supplies are im- vast quantities properly stored.. Often these supplies are thrown to- gether in a great:-heap, helter-skel- with no. protection. Re ..The consequent depreciation - has itch: > also'a star first Beach i I Holabitd, | Indianapolis, e . by! highway commissioners’ through- « out the nation,,who are wiring thelr . congressmen and senators,” wv if that the’bill be enacted. fee In defense of the automobile wast- age army officials claim that when the armistice came the department found itself possessed of tnousands of trucks and autos “with no place to go.” Some had accumulated at ports, some were on the seas, some were en route to the seaboard. Because the equipment had to be removed from the ports‘ to make room for returning soldiers, it was found neécessaty to store it in any o way possible. ig * my officials also claim uncer- tainty as to the future size of: the army made it unwise to dispose of the motor ‘equipment. ‘ Thousands of the tractors , were shipped to the Texas bordet for open air ‘storage. with most of them ‘at El Paso and Galveston. oa Automobiles were shipped to Camp Jessup, Ga:, Fort Kill, Okla., Camp : id...and to Columbus O., Ind., and other places. to rot Thousands of cars were left in the- open. E fs Efforts will be made to dispose of all marketable automobiles early in % the jMext adminjstration. INU S, SAMOA Repérter“and Naval Officer Try .to Get Control of the Administr&tion. 000 MUP 1S CLEARED UP Governor, in. 1t! Health and Under Charges, Commits Suicide—is Com- pletely Absolved by Naval Court of Inquiry. —_ San Francisco-Ameeican : Samoa's beette-inspecting ‘chief of police is out of. jail, and the judge, who has seven. other jobs,:is again holding court, ac- cording to advices from Tuttlla. This change ‘hack to normal followed a na- val inquiry which resulted in dissipat- ing an attempt by a naval officer and a former newspaper reporter to con-, trol the naval administration of the American possession in the South Sené. ‘ In furtherance of this attempt, the naval officer,’Creed H. Boucher, Heu- f tenant: commander, and the ex-report- er,-Arthur A, Greene, enlisted the ‘support of Commander A} C. Kail, second’ in rank to Commander War- ren’ J. Terhune, governor. of the | island, The three filed charges against Terhune and-his ‘administration, and x CAPTAIN MABBUTT (TOP) AND| SPIKE WEBB, WHO ARE GROOM- ING ARMY AND NAVY BOXERS, Cutting a Watermeion in January. Peru, Ind.--Mrs, George W. ‘Cleven- ger ‘of Fogankport preserved a water. melon fast Atigust by ~covering: the}: end’ of the stem with paraffin ‘and on’ New Year's day she’ brought! tt to. Peru_for dinner at her sister® home. The melon had a good flavor and was solid and sound. cost. the government . hundreds. of millichs ‘of dollars and each-day this condition continues the loss ficreases Congressman C. Frank Reavis of} Nebraska has frequently called the attention of congress to the loss in. automobiles,. auto trucks, tractors, | imobile machine shcps and other mo- tor. equipment. : a The Nebraskan, who characterizes this situation as a. national scandal, has introduced a bill to compel the War Department to turn over’ to the Bureau of Good Roads of the Agricul- tural Department all motor equip-| ment which can be used in highway} construction. This equipment inj turn will be distributed among the 48 states. The Reavis bill has been endorsed 7 | Terhime, suffering: from ill -health, | of Greene, the court martial of Bou- \\to oppose the activities of Greene and \<vice president of the, American. Rank | ‘examipation revealed that he posed as | tty; publicly criticized the secretary | of the navy and the Presiden j thorities in Washington in violation ; that the answers would incriminate Ne: finally Kail tried to send.a wireless message to the navy department at - Washington, branding his superior as insane. - . Res Takes His Own Life. With the message in. front of him, committed ‘suicide. The pitiful. part of this tragedy developed when the naval court, of inquiry, already en route to Tutuila from Hawail, ab- solved Terhune’s. administration of all charges, recommended the deportation cher. and the removal of Kail from his post. . 7 Among the’ charges : filed against Terhune’s administration was- one that officials were drawing illegal sal- aries. J. .Hurkin ‘Mailo, ‘native: chief of police, and Judge A. N. Noble were é especial targets of Boucher, Greene and Kail. Aftér Commander Terhtne shot him- self Kall. became acting governor, and - he jailed Mailo on eharges that . the . chief of police had urged the natives Kail. Previously. Boucher. had alleged that irregwarities.of.the Terhune ad- ministration includedypaying Mailo as “beetle inspectof” as well as head of the police force, but that no beetles ‘ were cted. Judge Noble, who, besides being: dis- trict judge, was secretary to the com- mandant, registrar of titles, secretary of native affairs, judge of the probate court, ‘superintendent of education, as- ‘Boclate:meniber of ‘the high court and of Samoa, was charged: ty Boucher and. Greene «with “being instrumental in alleged misuse of funds and au- thority. Kail closed Noble's court when the former became ‘acting gov- ernar. ®: Board Site Eight Days. . ‘The board: of inquiry sat for eight days, Testimony revealed that Bou- / cher for 25. of. his. 85 days’. service, was under ‘suspension on. three “charges—carrying a pistol, attempting a’ mutiny: and falsehood. Boucher's & secret service man without author- 3 In. subordinately communicated with au- ” of regulations, and committed many ‘other breaches of naval regulations. Upon examinatien he declined to answer many questions on the ground himself. -He acknowledged that all charges he made were based upon hearsay and without - investigation. Tt wat revealed that documents, were \ stolen from naval officers, but an at- ‘ tempt to introduce. these. by Greene, b Y who’ acted as Boucher's -counsel,. was ‘ overruled by the board. ‘ The testimony revealed also that Greene ‘and Boucher created unrest among the natives in an effort to change the government and assume control for themselves. Their activt- tles resulted In organization of natives 3 into a “committee” which forwarded : an appeal to President: Wilson to’re- thove Governor Terhune, and the na- tive unrest was manifested by several fights with the American sailors. ‘Due to scarcity of rubber in Ger- | \ many, men wear boots of galvanized iron, BAT