Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1918, Page 4

i) Bos. NG neers z a) « A € ‘ 1 i PAGE FOUR | NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TODAY | By OTIS & COMPANY, First Floor Oil Exchange Building Open High Low Allis-Chalmers, Pfd. 293 293 293 American Can 2____ 2 443 44} 443 American Car & Fd = 863 869 86% American Locomotive ~ h 658 653 American Smelting — 765 763 American Sugar Anaconda - 683 683 Atchison _- = 853 854 Baldwin Locomotive Bethlehem Steel — Canadian Pacific Central Leather_ Colo. Fuel & Iron C. M. & St. P. Corn Products _ Chino Copper___ Crucible Steel __ Cuba Cane Sugar. riege so General Motors Gt. Northern, Pf. Gt.-Nor Ore. Ind. Alcohol Int. Merc. Mar._ Inspiration Copper- Kennecott Cop — Mex. Pet. mi Copper — Midvale Mo. Pacific = N. Y. N. H. & H. Ohio Cities Gas. Ray Consol Reading Republic Steel _ Sinclair Oil 5 31 Southern Pai Z 86 | Studebaker — = 494 Texas Company | Union Pacific l 111 824 FRIENDLY ACTIONS ARE PROPOSED TO GLEAR UP SALT GREEK STATUS Protest of dical Interests Leads to | ment, the operators should be care : : . ful that there is no “nigger in t! Correction of Government Aims |\,codpile” in the shape of a v in Shutdown {acknowledgement that the ment agents are virtually the own- Creek operators have brot the |¢ts of the wells. eee ee government agents out of their holes} | thru the concerted efforts of the| Midwest and other big firms, who] | refused to take the orders of the! | minor clerks of the land office. | Spe sistant Attorney Hen- ry y was hurriedly ordered to Loe! f | bring about a peace pact with the | perators as soon as the governmentj agents realized what a hole they had} gotten themselves into by their ur-| surpation of power and Mr. May is| now smoothing things over as quick-| ly as possible with the assertion that} everything will be looked into and} only friendly saits are planned by! the government to test out the_titles | of the Salt Creek field. i Had the operators quietly submit-| WORK, WARNING Able-Bodied Men Must Give Way! to Women and Others in In- | dustries Not Vital to Suc- | cess of the War The services of the Natrona Coun- ted and let the land office clerks ri and the attorney general's office |t¥ Council of Defense have been en- walk over them, everything would pee bli get a th eae o have been lovely for the govern-| 7° Pubic the late dr: aw of the J S. P| ory: py ment, and the total production of the| U- S- employment serv n regard | clerks, office] to men employed Salt Creek field would have been help, ticket sellers, attendants of shut down as it was conceded here|,.() epee t cay Ais aust. ? that nareuetie kinds and other employment where} the pipelines would women could be used to ad ms of the government wi “The gove mated. That this la amount! business in says the re coal cil would have been cut off! statement, “and if men employed in prey olleupply sofa cnenmanon, all non-essential enterprises do not; time of ne eed no gtecence tO! get out and into productive employ. who were suddenly in- ment, they are to be considered sl with great power and pro-| ers, and so treated by the government ceeded to see how far they could) There is to be no exception to this £0. rule and we are asked to lay this The word from Denver states that in a few days the operators hear of the plan to be decid and that the suits of the gov will be filed within two week: with this statement is another saying operators y go ahead and gain as before d that rnment will protect them in efforts to increase production. matter before the people in a straight from-the-shoulder manner, giving both employers and employes a chance to get ightened out. No able-bodied man in the country will be allowed to do work that women can do.’} may 1 upon BRITISH FLYERS | their It ld be well for all small op- erators to look earefully into any} DROP BOMBS ON t that the g rn B Rocka ney eeutiforMErares tatths| LBL ALR DOMES protection business, for the operat- ors cannot see where there is any need of protection. They were get- LONDON, Sept. rman air- ting along alright until the govern- dromes at Buhl, 25 miles southwest ment interferred. iof Karlsruhe, were bombed by Brit-| In signing up a protection agree-|ish independent air forces. | KIDNEYS WEAKENING? LOOK OUT! and bladder troubles don’t prepuration and ves. They grow! The good hou ou, slowly but steadily, under-| would almost z your health and with deadly as without her , until you fall a victim to|she quaintly is GOLD MEDAL disease: Haarlem Oil Capsules. Their use re-| Stop your troubles while there is|stores strength and is responsible in} time Don’t wait until little pains|a gr measure for the sturdy, ro-| become big ach Don't trifle with| bust health of the Hollanders. | disease. To avoid future suffering Do not delay. Go to your druggist | 1 n treatment with GOLD MEDAL |and insist on his supplyi you witl rlem Oil Capsules now. Take!a box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil} three or our eve: y until you feel|Capsules. Take them as directed,}| that you are entirely free from pain.|and if you are not isfied with re-| This well-known preparation has|sults your druggist will gladly refund| been one of the national remedies of| your money. Look for the name Holland for centuries. In 1696 the;GOLD MEDAL on the box and ac-| government of the Nederlands grant-|cept no other. In sealed boxes, | ed a special charter authorizing its | three sizes. Adv. | : 1 Kidney sale. | ewife of Holland oon be without food Real Dutch Drops,’ as | disappear of thems upon | Today’s Quotations | Furnished by OTIS & COMPANY., | Ground Floor Oil Exchange Bldg. | O_o aN na ee THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1918 MIDWEST GUSHER IS 700 BARRELS Will Settle Down to That Figure by Next Week is Belief of Local Interests | The big well of the Midwest is |now doing about 1000 barrels and it jlooks as tho the gusher will settle ni. “a \ ) NEW OIL WELL ~ EVERY 20 AS PRISON LABOR ADVOCATED AS BIG — FACTOR IN WINNING WAR, SHOULD BE UTILIZED, ASSERTS AUTHORITY [By Axsocinted Press] PITTSBURGH, Sept 26.—Prison labor as a factor in winning the war is being urged by Warden John Fran- vies of the Western Penitentiary, who is recognized authority on the management of penal institutions, and reclaiming recreant manhood. Mr. Francies has taken up the sub- ject with the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh, which body has called upon Congrpss to enact legislation time,” Mr. Francies recites, ow should have had twice that mar socks ready to send to our sok in France to keep them from free: the coming winter. We would } had them if this proposition of our |prisoners had been allowed to work on them. “What is true of socks is true of other supplies. There are buildings, which will permit 50,000 inmates of and machinery available to turn out y Cente 2 Glenrock Oil___ g/ Wind River Fy. , Young | Wind River Pet._ AL last winter by Bachelor & Kennedy | .01 | to develop lands in the Thornton) -76 | field, brot in their first well on their/ +80 | 1,422 acre tract near Neodesha,’ Wil- 2.60 |son county, Kansas,‘on August 29,/ 3.372 | with an initial flow of 75 barrels. Onj -008 | September 22 well No. 2 came in| 02 -03 | estimated at 80 barrels with 75,000 | Columbine - Cons. Royalty_- Elkkorn ao T. Williams_ Helea-Wyo. -- ook! 24 cubie feet of gas. | 20.00 21:00 The officials of the company are nat “"og | very enthusiastic as the second well| 110.00 112 0 was found to have a five-foot deeper} and than well No. 1, which would) ie ‘59, | naturally guarantee a better produc- | Out)-weat ‘014 “0g, tion. Well No. 3 on the Colony hold- Pahtfinder 5 ‘07 og |imgs will start drilling Friday and! Premier! 22 02 103 | from now on they expect to bring in Republic Pet. — 02 93 | @ new one about every 20 days. They Riverton Re. 10 12 | have one rig working and expect to| Shiloh _. 01 .014 | have another in the near future. | United Pet. 04 | Wyo. Blackfoot Western Ex.__-- saa AAIN ON FEET | | | | MAVERICK IE Ohio Well Good Producer and! company met this week to review) Carter Company Has Good [fhe work of ue menaenene to date a 2 ‘and arrange for decisive steps to- Holdings; Camps Are | wards drilling a well in the Richards | Models ficid this fall. | —_—_ | The directors were well satisfied | Maverick Springs field is coming/ with the way the company is show- along nicely and in spite of the water |im& up and especially pleased with holes duilledsiiecésin the increase in the number of former stockholders who have started paying , weeks the development now -appears up on back payments of their stock. | to be one of the most promising inj The Wyoming Co-operative com-;{ the state. pany has an offer of two tracts in} The Ohio h well that will the Richards field on which it may | Officials Take Up Prospective De-| velopment Program at Meet- | ing This Week the past few | sa nice Stock Bid Ask. j down to about 700 barrels per day $) Allen Gil___... 25 32 | by next week. ae 3 01 | : Thi ll was much exaggerated Fe ee or Colony Maps Out Intensive Pro- in the ee aiits thoi Yeeveral papers ah a mA “i7 | stam as Result of Two Strikes but is really a fine producer and Boston-Wyo. -14 i in Kansas Field will make a great addition to the Black Bear 08 +10 | Midwest production from Salt Creek. *|Big Indian ---_ -20 -25 aes fi The well never produced 10,000 bar- ;|Big Five —--__- .02 |» Colony Oil, the company organized | rels in any 24 hours nor anything mear that figure but for all that it is a fine well and the kind that stays around 500 barrels per day for years. The Midwest, the Franco-Wyoming and the Ohio companies are the three large companies in the Salt Creek field in production figures and re- ports from the head offices of these three companies can always be re- lied upon to give the facts in the case. The officials of the Midwest never claimed that their gusher would do over 600 barrels settled production and of course it is to the firm’s interest to give as bright an outlook as possible to the re- ports. However in the three com- panies named, the tendency is to be conservative in all reports so that no indiscreet statements will get out {that would hurt the standing of the! firm on the rebound. LETTER CARRIER JOINS STUDENTS’ TRAINING CORPS _ Walter C. Moore, city letter car- rier No. 2, has tendered his resig- ‘nation and will leave Casper Sep- | tember 29 for. Laramie where he will join the Students Amy Taining corps now being formed at the uni- versity. Mr. Moore has been empioyed in the postoffice for nearly a year, com- ing to Casper from his home in Penn- sylvania. He is a member of Com- pany D, Wyoming Home Guards, and since being in Casper has many friends who wish him success in his training at the university. Oo | Inthe Day’s News | °° O Denmark, one of the few European countries now at peace, will make |quantities of supplies and they ; jnot being used. There are 50,099 persons rotting in idleness in pr cells in this country because | have no employment. They are |generating morally, mental |physically, while their country an, ‘the people of Enrope need the work they would be glad to give. Some. |thing should be done to change this prisons in the country to engage in war work. According to the views of Mr. Francies the criminal is a patriot ac- cording to his lights. He will be glad to help win the war if allowed to do so. State laws passed to fit peace conditions prevent this, He holds that it should be possible to suspend these laws for war purposes during the continuance of the war bby act|condition of things.” of Congress. That it has not been done Mr. Francies thinks is due to —— an oversight rather than to the deter- | NEW WELL IN mination of anybody to refuse to} make use of the resourses of the pri-| FEW MILES OF soners’ labor. a, Mr. Francies expressed! # firm be® GRASS CREEK lief in the patriotism of labor and| of prison labor in making supplies The ‘Yellowstone Wyoming wel! “T am in possession of data which|located between the Cottonwood an; shows that 5 per cent of the prison|Grass creeks and within a few miles manufacture of socks, will turn out | and in the estimation of -its presj- 4,000,000 dozens of pairs in a year’s|dent will make a 200-barre! well, does not think it will oppose the use labor of the country, engaged on the|of the Grass Creek field, found oi Gates re Gone ™ FELLOW MOTORIST: F YOU have kept in touch with scientific progress in tire construction you know that Gates Hialf- Sole Tires are revolutionizing the tire business all over the United States. Car-owners have everywhere adopted them because do about 150 per day and commence operations, and the meet-|merry today in cclebrating of birthday ing was to determine the tract on|0f King Christian X., wha. has suc-| they give better tire service at only % the cost. the Carter Oil comy ny algo has which the well will*be drilled. The Carter! The Natrona Oil'Lands Association the field for| has offered the firm over 1,200 acres the axis on for a well and another body of land- both sides of the pe and well holders, in the Richards field have within the escarpment. placed one section at the disposal of The Carter rig that was destroyed the company. Definite action will be by a gas explosion and fire a few taken Friday ;@vening when the days ago will be finished today and) directors will again meet to deter- the tools will be jumping by the end H mine the course of action to be taken. of the week. | TS IE ye La The Carter and Ohio camps in the} At first, most people thot the leaf- Maverick field are two of the best/|lets were connected with the war examples of camp building to bejJoan, as a novel bit of advertising. found in the West. The new camps They have now learned to look for are really small cities with sewer, |them as bringing news of the outside walks and lighting system: world. some good producers the real cream of its holdings lie al | ceeded thus far in his efforts to keep his little kingdom neutral in the war. | During the six years he has occupied the throne King Christian has in- ¢reased the popularity he enjoyed among the Danish people as Crown |Prince. Like his father and grand- ‘father before him, he is a soldier, |sportsman, and a democrat, but with | little knowledge_of love of politics. In 1898 Christian married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwer- in, who is a sister of the Crown Prin- feess of Germany. The royal couple thave two sons, Prince Frederick, who is now in his 20th year, and Prince Knud, who is about a year younger. aot & What a pleasant surprise for father and the youngsters! A new Perfection Oil Heater to thaw out by—cheery warmth all the evening—any time you need it— in any room in blast for eight CHAMBERLAIN FURN CO. HOLMES HARDWARE Co. WEBEL COMMERCIAL CO. Conoco Safety Oil. Easy to fill, light and élean—good looking—long wearing. Sold by following dealers: RICHARDS & CUNNINGHAM CO. SCHULTE: HARDWARE Co. THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY (A Colorado Corporation) PERFECTION OIL HEATERS A riage ade Mark the house. 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