Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1919, Page 4

HOLDERS VOTE CAPITAL RAISE Western States Increased to $10.- 000,000 at Meeting Held | on Monday The stockholders of the Western State Oil & Land company yesterday author- ized the increase of capitalizattoyy from 1,000,000 shares at $1 a share par vajue to 10,000,000 shares with the same par value, besides authorizing an increase in the number of directors from three to five. H. C. Breitschneider, general manager of the Franco-Wyoming Oil|Gow Gulch company and a Casper man who !8/ pikhorn stationed here with the company, and] Great Wes " # tern Petrole! C. W. Burdick, were elected to the |Suniter ci hoard. Kinney About 734,204 shares of the outstand-| sutton Lake ing stock were represented at the meet-|Tance Creek Tk Local Oil Stocks e Ask $1.1 03 05 BS 47 Boston Burke Buck Creek Black Tail Columbine ’ 3 i l 3s | Lusk Royalty a : Hs purchase of the property of the! RAS bho he = {| Texas oil _. - 232.00 222.00 Cactus Petroleum company, a subsidiary | Vk Petroleum : yi) Sinelair On 42.87 42.62 of the Franco-Wyoming Oil company. | \yocher Oil 2 lee S. Steet - 104.87 105,26 This land secured Includes | VON vest Outwest - Picardy Riverton Refining ~ x pyalty & Prod. Corp. i | Sunset was ratified. acreage in the Lance Creek field, the Shannon field, and 160 acres on section 65 in the Salt Creek field aside from leases in other districts as yet un- proved in various parts of Wyoming. _ The Cactus Petroleum company will get $4,400,000 in,stock of the new Tom Bell F 80 capital for the properties turned over Gates Seer 21:92 to the Western States, and of this! Wind River Refining - 08 amount 3,000,000 shares will be return-! ed to the treasury by the Cactus com-| pany. [Rock River oy It is understood in Denver that as/Salt Creek - |Big Muday - Pilot Butte - soon as the board of directors meet, Mr Breitschneider will be e ed as presi! dent to succeed Newton Wilson. ne | has had charge of all Cactus proper} ties. The Western States company is also to become the prospecting company of the Midwest Refining company. ny of the wildcatting operations of the Midwest will be turned over to the Western Stat Je WILD BEASTS 1 PRESENT COMEDY RELIEF FOR ALASKAN DRAMA, {RIS ~— “GOME GACK’ Development Pla i Extens An unknown element in dramatic screen production, the introduction of animal ¢ - to relieve tension, hay heen successfully practiced in “Back to God's Co: "by James Oliver Cur- wood, adapted from his famous maga zine story, “Wapi, the Walrus,” which will be seen at the Iris theatre Wednes-| Whether late developments will — fur- day and Thursday. 4 {nish the incentive for a repetition of} Nelli Shipman, popula Am injthis flurry remains to be seen but cer-!- screen favorite, as Dolor Wheeler }tain it is that operators and holders Oakmin, Wellington Piayter and ]ulike have acquired new confidence in Charles Arling, other roles in the|the potential possibiliti cast, portray the rts with the aid|iure and the district promises a year j and support of tvo ¢ ni- ef great development on top of explora mals, consisting of bears, 9 nx. |tious which have borne rich fruits dur for, deer, mountain oons, por-| ing the pust 12 me pipes, gouts and other 1 beasts, The Lance be col ined to perfection by expert anina | sidered less than . for while trainers. Probably 27, 1917, it was not until Marek | no picture preduction ever released has a more unusual array of 1918, that oil was ¢ pd and | animal talent. Cost of the animals, months more until it was complet- altho great, was minor in comparison|ed. The rush that followed holds few to the cost in time and patience to in- with the result that despite duce them to develop an affection or acles and delay of deep drilling, hatred toward the various cast mem now 16 producing wells in the bers with whom they were to work. the total production of the field is { Crities have placed a high approval + 6,000 barrels a day—greater than | on “back to God's Country,” and the |ihe Bie Muddy—and pipe line connec: | local management prom it will be n made which provide! one of the most pleasing attractigns to market for all oil that ean | be seen at that theatre in severaljle sold. Four cnormous gas wells Sethe completed during the year supply fuel} epee | drilling in addition to light and lpower for camp purposes. A- gasoline | jextracting plant is in course of cen-| truction and will shortly increase the | revenuc of the field. The depressing jeifect of severdl water wells, altho not catircly overcome, is gradually being climinated by more favorable develop- ments and the field should hold its own uring the coming year os a leader in cevelopment work | When operations are in full swt ing! EPISCOPAL CHURCH NATION: jinere are more than twenty camps! WIDE CAMPAIGN TO EXTEND = j(some of them small towns) in the ie Ohio-Midwess modern little city Bere . picture show, pool halls field. The main GOOD INFLUENCE, Extension of church work among fes and heated and lighted | American Indians has. been announced |!'y gas. There are two schoolhouses, as one of the features of the work of {an artificial ice plant, large machine the nation-wide campaign of the Epis- shops ond ZBOnHIer, stupply. Sepots. copal chureh. Surveys of the dioceses |ThEre WHI be close to 3,000 people em- of Duluth and Fond du Lac, submitted ployed when operations begin in the in connection wth plans for the cam: |"DTiN& for outslde of actual drilling op- erations much of the work necessarily stops. wh i w paign, Lave revealed sume interesting | duta on the Chippewa Indians of Min- | nesoeta and the Oneida Indians of Wis- Ohio consin, both in the work already under | oil. way and in plans for its extension. Ohio West 3,666 | The Duluth survey, submitted by | oll. % Bishop James Low Morrison, requests | Obie -W. S.No. 5, 36-36-65, 3 $26,000 for educational work awong | Ce ea the Chippewas. It is proposed to es: Onipe 73 “i tablish an Indian Industrial sehool at | (jy i¢- 400— it White Fartb at a cost of $14,000. ABS | Opin 745. dae the diocese owns the buildings it will | onic. be necessary merely to equip thqo Buck Cr 3,405 with school apparatus and dormitory | —sqs. furnishings. A white clergymgy and | Buck Crock No. 4 uv Indian catechist are required, as (aoe well as a fund of $14,000 for running | Buck Crevk expenses. For the Cass Leake Sehvol oil. : for Indian Girls the sum of $6,000 fs Buck Creels usked of the nation-wide campaigy for |~ #5 3,708 the three years. Aid is asked toward 3 Busis Creek paying salaries of the elght Indian | oul. Bh. C. & Obiv—s: 3,473 zlergy men. » | oll. Wor the Oveidas in Fond du Luc dio | stidwest~ en » 3,343— Kas cese $26,000 is asked. This permits | Midwest 4,008-—oil. Midwest to ‘si ‘art Eight Wells. Lusk rig that the Midwest. Retin jng company will spyd in eight new remodeling of the Indian high schoo! | at Hobart, Wis., which the government | hus abandoned, as well as paying for teachers. and other. expenses. ‘The | Wells shortly after the first of the year school property bus reverted to the | Wille other operations under; way and se { Ibe wske |pending promise great development. Oneldas. Leaders of the tribe ysked | ri cy south of the No. 1, well,Jo Bly hop R. W. Weller to apply to the | pytion-wide campaign for funds with | ¥ well on section 4, which to continue the education werk liroienen company has a well practically Many of the Indian youths were sel |completed. The sgnd las been encoyn- euled only w half No. dicrs who icarned the value of belter, tered, and (here is more than 1,000 feet! n- | no the caving, bul the well completed until: arrang education in the war. A compreliensive jof oil plan for remodeling the plapt und con- | net be ts ne} tinuing the work wus submitted in the |e ln ade for curing for the initial ori | breduetion, CE aa ee The Texas Oil comp will imme SS mnenee dt ly begio drilling un ite holdings on somul ef this Cactus vupt xharl Co Boyle, of Burle'e garage han ¥ per od ceyrned from 2 short business: trip to} ell ce sect 4 . Texas hoidings lag ’ peer. syspended, 3 ee Today’s Markets by Wire : || Furnished Daily by Taylor & Clay, Grouad Floor Oil Exchange es et WYOMING CRUDE OIL MARKET LANGE GREEK FIELO STAGES BIG End of Year Finds District Attracting Attention Which Send Stocks Skyrocketing Last Spring; Great { ion of the Lance Creek field to the west and the} bringing im of two wells larger than any heretofore opened in that region brings the big Niobrara county district into the same prominence at the close of the year 1919 that it occupied | at its beginning when stocks were taking wing for the most spectacular climb in the history of Wyoming development. |section 27,° 36,65,- just north of its™big ‘drilling ‘Will/be resumed in a few be eh a -are mile from the Ohio the Cactus Pe-+ Cpergtions om the; iams, B. T.-- Western Exploration WY0-K8N8 w---n aenenenne 1.40 Wy.0-Tex Keo-Hurst New York Curb Stocks | Open Close Midwest Refining -r-$167.00 $169.00 lee Cominon - 1.50 | Midwest Preferred “.-,-- 1.50 Merritt -.--.- 18.75 | Glenrock: ol. 3.00 |Coaden -.---- 9,00 jOkrmulgee P. & R- 62 {Salt Creek Prod. Assn 48.25 i| Pret States 0. & L-.° 1.00 Prod. & Refiners, Com- 9,75 New York Stock Exchange Stocks - fexican Petroleum -$212.50 $213.00 4th i s ORIGINAL GAS WELL IN NEWLY Victory Loan ... outside of McKeesport, Pa. dry. Grass Creek - Sik Basin the ‘iinmense quantity wa: his wife; and son. ' DUTCH WOMEN T0 EIGHT FOR OWN SUFFRAGE AIGHT : Ideals and Ideas of Dutch Women| Change from Children, Kit- | chen and Church to De- mand Their Rights Associated P: THE SaGoE 1 By. MalleThe jdeals d ideas of Dutch women, for cen- ries confined to children, kitchen and | Hea nave undergone a change and \ the daughters ofthe land of windmills | and canalg are moxing 4 strong fight for: their. rights. Several great orsdnizations have been | formed ‘for improvement’ of the condi- tions of women. With the revision of | the Dutch constitution last year, wo- men obtained full suffrage and the’ re- | sult is that now there are women in not learne d AT END OF YEAR: ns Are Projected |pendiggs the comtgome ‘of the~ well on section 9. The Midwest is erecting a new rig on | Bas well, and drilling will be started | immediately. This company will start another ‘well soon, on section 25-36-65, ,also north. of the pioneer well. The Work of cementing off the water | nearly every’ town cour : in the wells of the Union Oil company, | Realizing, however, Unt the posse ated ‘on sections 22-35-65 and 35-31-|sion ofthe yote alone docs not d !67 Is progressing very rajidly, and | the lotiof women, the promoters of tne | now seeking to, bring | The Buek Creek and Ohio com-{about changes ‘in the laws and regu panies are making rapid preparations |tions which discriminate against the! to cement’ off the water in their wells |#ex econdmically and socially. | with water showing, south and west of | _ “According. to the Duteh law,” said | Mrs. Wijnandts Francken, leaders of the women's movement, * father ‘has; practically ‘all the about. the’ education of the children. He decides as to their’ future, consents to thelr iarriage and may send thi i wherever he likes. Of course,.this is of no importance whatever in a good mar. riage, where father und mothér — to. ether debate about such things, but this power, of the father muy easily be abused. IT know of several. cases in which the father deliberately took a ehild away and hid it from its moth Without the latter being able to do an: thing against this course, was on the side of the futher. “Another thorn in the flesh of. th Dutch woman is ‘that she must promi obedience to her husband in the vow of | jage. Now, please don’t think that women are ayerse to rule and order, They only want to'be the equals of their husbands, not their house. keeper: "As tbings dre now, a Dutch woman has to ‘suffer almost anything from: a! tyrant 1 nusband and nothing sho: of adultery or bodily ill usage can rid her pf his despotism. 7 ue of the greatest obstacles the: GEOLOGISTS OIL EXPERTS | | the pioneer well, and drilling: wilt be resumed on these wells at once. It is the general bellef of men in the field that several big producers will be brot. in thru these operations, ow- ing to the recent discoveries in this part of the field. Drilling operations have been aban- doned- in the east end of the field, ow- ing to the great depth at owhich oil might be encountered, and fear of salt water, Good ,Weather Brings Activity. The nice weather guring the past week has caused an unusual amount of activity among several of the large op- erators, and every available truck and team is working day and night to get material to the field. It is estimated that by spring at least 200 trucks will j be freightins out Pe Bgnrile of Manville and Lusk. ‘SHIFT MEN’ ASSOCIATION AIDS REFINERY EMPLOYES Men of the “Standard refinery here ure taken care of thru a Shift men's \association which has been in opera- tio for the last three years. Every member of the company is also a mem y of the Shift Men's association, the of the organization being to look r the health as well as care fer the ahd injured of the Standard com one of th the as the law | pany in Casper. The dues are $1 monthly and the em ploye receives $3 daily while sick or ,recovering from injuries. At present ecccce {the company has handled 144 cases of ‘kness and injury and th ion has $2,000 in the bank 4 | Don M, Lobdell, head of th ‘trial Welfare department of the Stand ard company, is secretary and treasur. fer of the haiti ces = SC ANGE FOR MONET 0 | reports ,that the )dViidwest will yae M ussocia fund. Indus ‘will be paid for +1500 HEAD bearing: the fol nee i Ttetint jo su Laas | | Taamyhee Bk Heldi, chapase ne erated Moat | wat a ae insta: \inonth by tp sue sanid after Jeng ry. Wath 5 , the trangrer por} 8 +) feedp icles i q HB pay el ae 3 ot aba $ 49 trsaesecanstones with us for fuiek sale, i Mame & FUNKHOUSER i fice: ‘Taylor & Chay DISCOVERED DISTRICT OWNERS—This well is located In the now famous Snake Hollow district, just | and treatments nearly It was ori ginally a 16-foot water well which went Digging two. feet deeper, the owner, Henry N. Groff got unique sign over the well states, gas h as been obtained fr "$100 1 Reward and’ Contract Bond a Specialty ‘Bell Agency as. As the it since 1899 but ith Mr. Groff are | d until rece RIVERTON LEGION POST — HOLDS FIRST MEETING of the} The recently organized post American Legion at Riverton held its | first meeting Tuesday, December 21,| . J. Kirch, secretary of the post No. 13 at Riverton who is in Casper today, {reports that there are | dpproximately | 65 members in the post. Mr. Kirch tormerly lived in Casper having made his home here for four and a half years, He was with the Casper Na-! | tional bank for a time. | |-- |women leaders have to overcome is the | conservatism of the old-fashioned men, who, especially in the rural di tricts, form a great part of the popula-| tion. But the women who are fighting! for the betterment of their sex hope in the end to succeed in conquering | ! this prejudice.% ————_— Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Neil have re | turned to’ Casper from Dveiiver, where | they spent Christmas, 2 J a of any, Descrip- tion Complete Line of Samples Expert Wark. done by Expert Workmen | Save Money and Time by Seeing J. B. PROVINSAL Fire Place P. 0. Box King 624 Phone 800 the recovery. of OF SHEEP lowing brands: ° ° * iN Emoryville Woman Lost Thirty- a wide circle of friends. “I had fallen off so much I was al- most a shadow of my former self,” she| continued, | striking of a clock would sometimes up- get me so I would tremble and shake | like a leaf. | get no rest at all and would have to lie | down for several hours 5 had no appetite and the sight or smell of anything to eat was so unpleasant; | to me I would go for without touching * a pounds and got so weak [ could hardly get about the house. terribly. and almost continually, sometimes I would he so digzy I I we and my boards. For the last year ev my could hardly stand it. h) : R Q- , g FASTED SEVERAL mw) . bkearatathaearherd ath atachadarhachathata DAYS AT A TIM Nine Pounds Before Health Restored by Tanlac ville for thriteen years and is known vo per Pharacy, in Alcova by the Mercantile Co., and in Salt Cree Salt Creek Drug Sture—aAav, “and I was so nervous the Night afier night [ would a I every days at a time bite. I lost 39 My head ached and thot} I also had rheumatism} suff as} Joint in fingers aghed and throbbed so I I took medicine ull the time but ould faint. ands at times were as Rubber Stamps We make all kinds of Rub- ber Stamps to order. We handle SEAL PRESSES, Numbering Machines, a I1 kinds of Daters and Office Supplies. | nothing gave me fad relief | worse Instead of a log le taking four bottles I am jn SE health. My nerves are so Stead ing ever startles-me and I slec), : ly for nine hours every night. get up I feel so refreshed ang ,; I never have to rest in the day any more. j time and eat heartily of every; | without any. bad. effeuts. afterway rheumatism is gone and my as supple as they ever wer, TUESDAY, DEC. 30, 1919 a better. z "One day a friend made me pror to get some Tanlac and the ye made me a tot better, r t Tam hungry nearly 4) ; ands | “1 now feel perfectly splendid since) ‘I feel go grateful to my frieng 'manlac restored me after a nervous to Tanlac I shall never be able tan. | breakdown,” said M Lela Pitts, of them for what they have don.) | 1302 Sixty-Fifth St. Emoryville, Calif, me.” for recently, Mrs. Pitts has lived in Emor Tanlac is sold in Casper ty tie ey, Ae K by spespeyneme Arwoms Seidity and ne Pp Ete Sam RY Sore eonom ; MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION + > Typewriter Repairing Our Repair Department is up-to-the-minute and we re- pair all makes of typewriters, Parts furnished. We handle used machines. CHEYENNE STAMP & NOVELTY WORKS e Cheyenne, 1920 AUTO < Should be New Rogulations effective for “A Wyoming Concern” 1814 Carey Avenue Wyoming. LICENSES ‘applied for now. the coming year. We will be glad to give you information regarding new ruk help you fill in your application card. NO CHARGE Row, KEMP.C O. 111 East Second Street Vhone 370 Whe HEARTBURN —a. Bot ny ‘Ong ime hing My are th POOP CO Ce CE CCo OE SOR O ESE OCO NE EooORE RECO REBOEROL EOL T7°S 200008: OUR PHONE NUMBER IS - 12 YELLOW PETITIFOSTLSITOOOGM: Lester Brokerage House Inc. 156 N. Wolcott Specializing in NEW YORK OIL 34 CAB CO. FOR MOTORS OR MOTOR REPAIRS It's a motor and it will work for you day and night, 24 hours a day, without stopping if need be. We have small as well as large motors, as you require. Also a full line of wir- ing, sockets, Jumps and all electrical supyies and acces sories. American Electric Co, DAY PHONE 1080 NIGHT PHONE 351-M Phose 1142 ap Televiane: #63 h \ \ TAYLOR & CLAY, Inc. STOCKS AND BONDS Duily telegraphic quotations from New York, Den- ver und other markets over our private wires. Place the convenient facilities of our office at your disposal to buy, sell or obtain the best markets and up- to-the-minute quotations. Information and quotations furnished upon request on Local Oils, New York Stocks, Liberty Bonds and other issues, Phone 203 Casper, Wyo. Ground Floor, Qi} Ex. Blds- T BOWL OF CHILT IN TOWN 20c at the CHILI KING LUNCH Grand Central Block. All kinds of aan na at. - Popular Prices. Quick Service, SL LLAAELPA PALS A Highest Quality Of ff ff fff N oe as Gee i ee, SRP ER OPERTITR PPP LLL LA dk MMP IT TIME MT MT 19, ‘ \