Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1923, Page 8

\GE sper ter ice sin anc ; q tT e a © it d t € « t 1 1 PAGE EIGHT CARRIER PROJECTS ‘Production Test of Midwest's Big Well Said to Justify | Salt Cre Pipeline; Illinois Company Completing ek Line Prospects of the early construction of a new oil pipe line for central Wyoming is contain ed in the report that the Mid- svest Refining company is making arrangements for laying such a carrier from the Notches dome in Natrona county to either Powder River, located o the Chicago & Northwestern. fhiles in length. The Notches dome was proved for Jerge oil production by completion ty the Midwest Refining company’s Crowe well No. 2 which {s now shut fn following a 12-day test which show average of nearly 400 barrels Ten 500-barrel tanks were with oi! Vv. A. Miller, president of the Illin n two railroads, or to Lox, on The line will be about eight ols Pipeline company, is tn Casper to remain until the completion of the Tilincis company's new eight-inch carrier from Salt Creek to Illco, west of Casper, which will soon be running ol. Other officials of the company wil be in Casper when the line is put in use. It will deliver crude to railroad for the Ohio, Carter Kasoming and Continental Producing companies. ‘Another Increase Shown in aeteey Average Oil Pipeline Runs = Daily average gross ptpeline runs from fields in the Rocky Mountain ‘region showed an increase of 1,140 iarrels of crude a day during the Nveek ended April 14 as compared With the week ended April 7. Datiy uns for the last period averaged over 328,000 barrels. The daily average Jor the many different fields follow "Fields Apr.14 Apr.7 Balt Creek — 5 98,580 Rig Muddy - 5 4,510 | Lance Creek 380 650 Pilot Butte 110 115 | cat | Kevin-Sunburst Lander |---| 600 635 Lost Soldier 8,175 2,140 tock River 4,690 4,535 ass Creek 4,320 Hamilton Dome — 300 Elk Basin - 1,985 Greybull, etc. 210 Osage Ferris Creek — Miscellaneous - Totals _ 126,985 Parco Refinery Additions Assured, Officials State Confirmation of reports that the Producers & Refiners corporation will Breatly enlarge its refinery at Parco, Wyo., by improvements and Additions to be carried out as soon as materials can be secured was se- cured from officials of the compas, recently stopped in Rawlins on spection trip to the refinery. ruction of a pipeline from the field to connect with the new 8 & Refiners new line from Soldier district to Parco will Brovide a much larger supply of frude of! SPpitching, for ithe new line from Salt Creek will begin at once. Ma- chines for this purpose haye been moved to Salt Creek by the Harrison & White Ditching company. Pipeline runs from the Lost Soldier and Ferris field districts of southern Wyoming reached a high point of over 10,000 barrels a day during the last week, including the crude being delivered through the Producers & Refiners new line to Parco. The rest of the oil was run to Fort Steele where the grehter part of it was loaded out in tank cars and some was placed in storage through lack of transportation facilities. pugar Company Earnings | 4 | Are Detailed in Report | S}DENVER, Colo., April 23.—The an- ers have already received $7 per ton Rual report of the Great Western Sugar company and {ts subsidiary Companies fof the fiscal year endod Rebruary 28, 1923, showing a net in &pme for all companies of $6,879,113. 7P was mailed to stockholders of the epmpany today. The profits included eturns on sugar and by-products ffom the 1921 crop unsold at the Ppenins of the fiscal year March 1 i: “In submitting the report, W. L. Petrikin, president, stated that under Yast season's sliding scale contract fbr beets the farmers had received in fddition to the guaranteed initial Payment two subsequent payments “and it {s hoped that returns from the unsold sugar may make further payments possible.” that beet grow in Colorado and Nebraska, and $7.50 Per ton in the Montana district of the company where a higher sugar con tent in the raw material made the higher payment possible. Of the 1922 crop, mated the pre dent's report, there were harvested 982,000 tons from an area of 177,0 acres, the crop showing an average sugar content of 14.8 per cent at slid ing time, giving a total production of granulated sugar of 500,349,600 pounds. ‘This {s not all the sugar covered in the annual statement, however, the holdover from the pre vious crop entering into the showlrig on the balance sbeet. Refined sugar and by-products on hand on February 28, 1923, amounting gp $14,276,338.51, were brought over under assets at the opening of the current fiscal year. Market Gossip and Briefs On Operations in Oil Fields Texas Enters Powell. POWELL, Wyo.—That the Texas © compa plans entering the Powell field as a competitor in the fle of gasoline to the Mutual, and G@ntinental is indicated when it is| fearned that they have made applica- tion to the ratiroad company for al right-of-way site, similar to the one] flow held by the Continental O11 com-! fieny. The Mutual Ol] company has miso ma plication for a similar Gite, but it s not given out as to ust what use these companies expect t@ make of the locations on the right GFway Sinclair Consolidated Earnings. | ear 1ge of the Sinclair Con- Bolidated Of corporation for 19 totaled $30,943,794 as compared with $10,785,313 in 1921. This does not In- Glude undistributed surplus earnings of foreign or domestic subsidiary | companies, such as 8! nd Sinclair Crude Lincoln County Test. air Pipe Line} ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.—F. B. Kart ompanied by an aaaistant a& ft Rock Springs, driving a car and a truck, merer where th @tpurt on thelr way y will make fheir headquarters during the time they are drilling on a location just north of the Matthews ranch, ni filles north of K Hved and ang tog made tc , Gap, from which place hauled to the location. it will be The Camera has been informed that drilling oper- | ations will be pushed as fast weather and roads will permit. K!-Rop-O Syndicate has the lease. as Syndicate Sells Interosts. Schuster Bros. of Jollet, Tl, have purchased a three-fourths Interest in 320 acres of Salt Creek land from the Mosher-Salt Creek syndicate for a consideration said to be in excess of $200,000. One 200 barrel well has been completed on the lease. Bolton Orcek Deep Test. Kinney Coastal Ol company down 2,475 fest with its deep well of Casper. This ts the only operation under way in the field at present. Spudding Gallup Well. The Prodcuers and Refiners cor-| poration is spudding tn its test well three miles from Gallup, N. M. The in to go to a depth of 8,000 fret ess ofl] or gas be found in paying juantities at shallower depth. akota sandstone ia expected around 1,000 to 1,200 feet. is test a Barnh Bernhardt anf Wien Terry prove that men aro not alone tn re-| tnining their vigor in old age, The krent French actress was ® when she died {val je three years young The| {n the Bolton Creek field south | Tho! New York Stocks Allied Chemical & Dye —__.. 13% Allis Chalmers -_. 48% American Beet Sugar -____ 44B American Can -_--.___. 96 American Car & Foundry --.. 117 B American Hide & Leather pfd - 57% American International Corp. - 52% American Locomotive -. American Smelting & Ret, 64% American Sugar —_ 80 American Sumatra Tobacco 29% American T, and T. 122 American Tobacco - 153 American Woolen - 95% Anaconda Copper - 43% Atchison -- - 102% Atl, Gulf & West Indies - 25 Baldwin Locomotive ~ 138 Baltimore and Oh{o 51% Bethlehem Steel B — 64% Canadian Pacific 157 Central Leather 34 Chandler Motors 69% Chesapeake and Ohio -. 69% Chicago, Mit and St. Paul 23 Chicago, R. I. and Pac, 83 Chino Copper --- - 27% Colorado Fuel and Iron - 30 Corn Products 130 Crucible Steel 79% Erle ---- — 11% Famous Players Lasky 86% General Asphalt - 45% General Electrio 178% General Motors 16% Goodrich Co. -. 36% Great Northern pf@. —-______ 73% Illinois Central ---—______ 112 Inspiration Copper —_—-__ 38 International Harvester - 88% Int. Mer. Marine pfd. - 35% International Paper - 44 Invincible Of --- - 15 Kelly Springtiel4 Tire - 58 Kennecott Copper Loutsvitle and Nashville — 40% - 140 Mexican Petroleum - - 260B Miam! Copper 2934 Middle States O! 11% Midvale Steel 32% Misscurt Pacific 16% 93% 19 11 Northern Pacific 74% Oklahoma Prod. and Ref. 2% Pacific O1 - 39% Pan American Petroleum m1% Pennsylvania -. 45% People's Gas - 89 Pure) Of gee — eae ee reer 6% Ray Consolidated Copper 15% Reading ----. -------—.- 16% Rep. Iron and Steel 62 Royal Dutch, N. ¥. - 50% Sdars Roebuck - abu Sinclair Con Oil -. Southern Pacific Southern Railway - 33% Standard Of! of N. J. - 38% Studebaker Corporation 21% Tennessee Copper -. Texas Co. - Texas and Pacifio - Tobacco Products -. Transcontinenta! Of —. Union Pacific United Reta!l Stores Ss. United States Steel Utah Copper Westinghouse Eléctria Willys Overland - American Zinc, Lead and Sm. - Butte and Superior Cala Petroleum Montana Power Shattuck Arizona -. Chicago and Northwestern Maxwell Motors B -. Consolidated Gas - Great Northern Ore American Linseed Oil - Cosden - Buckeye 88 89 112 113 67 68 linols 165 166 Indiana 98 99 Nat. Tran. 2% 25% N.Y. Tran. 129 132 Nor. Pipe 107 108 Ohio O11 T0%S 771 Prairie Oil 213 215 Prairie Pipe 108 109 Solar Ref. 190 195 Sou, Pipe - 108 110 3. O, Kan. 46 47% 8.0; Ky. = 95 96 S. O. Neb. — 235 245 8. 0. N. ¥. - 42% 43 8, 0. Ohio —--—- 295 300 Vacuum ---——--—-—- 48 48% s. P. on - 155 159 8, O. Ind - 61% 62 WHITE HOUSE IS PICKETED WASHINGTON, April 23.—Picket- | ing of the White House in behalf of amnesty for imprisoned war law vio- | lators was resumed today, a delega- tion representing the world war vet | erans appearing at the White House gates with an American flag and amnesty [Mppeal. They said they | would continue their appeal until ac- tion is taken by the president. pa AS wth take Casey | Sugar NEW YORK, April 23—Cuban Rew mugar today wold at a new high reo- ord sinco 1920, with a sale of 10,000 | age to an operator for may ship- {mont at 6% cents, cost and freight, } equal to 8,28 deliverd. Raw futures also touched new high records and one local refiner aGvanced list prices * f'ne granulated ten points to 9.70 $< Try Tribune Ciaamified for Neeuite ‘ Che Casper Daily Cribure Oil Securities Black Stone Salt Creek 24 . 26 Chappell - 43 45 Columbine} “15 az Consolidated Royalty 1.46 1.49 Capital Pete a 00% Cow Gulch - 01 02 Domino _ 15 “18 E'khorn - .05 06 ©. T. Wilt “18 17 Frantz 5 Gates Kinney Jupiter a Kinney ---—-- 4 29 Lance Creek Royalty .03 04 Lusk Royalty — 201 102 Mike Henry .-----__ .01 02 Mountain & Gulf -__ 1.49 1.52 Outwest — 00% 00% New York “15 AT Ret Bank 13 a4 Pieardy — an 4.04 108 Royalty & Producers — .09 10 Sunset __ 03 Tom Bell Royalty — 02 Western Exploration — 4.00 Wyo-Kans. -.. 75 Western Oil Flelds_ “80 Western States -__— 27 Y on Crude Market Rock Creek Salt Creek Lance Creek Cat Creek Osage --- Big Muddy Muie Creek Hemilton - Grass Creek Torchlight Elk Basin Greybull Sunburst - Livestock Chicago Prices. CHICAGO, April 23.—(U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture.) togs—Re- ceipts, 54,000; light weight, 5c to 10c lower; butchers, uneven, 10c to 2 lower; bulk 160 to 210 pound aver ages, $8.15@8.25; top, $3.30; bulk 2 to 325 pound butchers, $7.65@8.10; packing sows, 10c to 15c¢ lower, $6.40 @6.50; pigs, weak to 25c lower; de- lrable 100 to 18 Opounders, $7.00@ 0; heavy weight hogs, $7.50@8.00 medium, $7.85@8.25; lght, $7.90@ ; Ught light, $7.00@8.20; packing smooth, $6.40@7.00; packing rough, $6.00@6.50; killing pigs, $6.50@7.65. Cattle—Receipts, 22,000; fairly ac tive; beef steers, about steady; kill- ing quality, rather plain; run in cludes liberal supply half fat lMght yearlings; choice yearlings and heavy steers, comparatively scarce; top ma- tured steers, early, $10.15; several loads, $9.75@10.00; bulk beef steers and yearlings, $8.25@9.50; best long yearlings, early, $9.65; bulls, 10c higher; veal calves, tending lower; other class: stead: bulk bologna bulls, $5.10@5.25; bulk stockers and feeders, $6.50@7.50; canners and cut- ters, $3.25@4.25; beef cows and heif- ers, $5.75@7.75. Sheep — Recelpts, strong to 25c higher; clipped, 70 to 80 pound lambs shippers and packers, $11.75@12 mostly 25¢ higher; no wooled lambs sold early; bidding $14.60; held higher; clipped yearlings, $10.00; few early sales of sheep all wethers. 19,000; — slow, several loads to Omaha Quotations. Omaha, Neb., April 23.—(U. 8. De- partment of Agriculture.)—Hogs—Re- celpts, 8,500; market slow, mostly 10@15c lower; big packers holding back; packing sows, $6.25@6.35; bulk butchers, $7.35@7.50; top, $7.60. Cattle—Receipts, 9,000; beef steers, slow; good grades, steady; others, weak to 10@15c lower; top load, $9.25; some held higher; she stock, bulls and veals, steady; bulk she stock, $5.25@ 7.50; bulk canners and cutters, $3.50 @4. bulk bolognas, $4.25@4.60; veal top, $10.00; stockers and feeders, unchanged; few feeding steers, around $7.75. Bheep — Receipts, lambs, steady to easier; bulk lght lambs, $14.00@14.10; best held at $14.85; fed clipped lambs and sheep, firm; early sales desirable weight clipped lambs, $11.25@11.40; heavies, $9.75; best wooled ewes, $9.00; fed clipped, $7.90; feeders, steady. 13,000; + wooled Denver Prices DENVER, Colo. April 23.—Cattle receipts 2,200; market steady to 150 higher; beet steers $7@9.25; cows and helfers $4.50@8; calves $4.50@12.50; stockors and feeders $6,50@8. Hogs receipts 1,160; market Se to 100 higher; top $7.75; bulk $7.40@7.60; Pigs $6 to $6.25. Bheep receipts 3,600; market steady to strong; lambs $12@13.85; feeder lambs $18@18.60; ewes $6@8.50, Potatoes CHICAGO, April 23.—Potatoes dull; receipts 196 cara; total U. 8, ship menta $9.43; Wisconsin sacked round whites mostly §1.25 cwt; few fancy $1,858 owt; poorer 1.15 cwt; Minne- soty sacked Red River Ohtow $1.15 owt; Minnesota mncked whites $1.10 @$1.13 cwt; Idaho sacked russets $2,002.28 ewt; Montana sacked mostly 81,75@$1,85 ewt Michigan racked rov $1.85 cwt; ditto, bulk $1 runsetn Stocks -: AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED STOGKS RALLY, THEN DECLINE Early Improvement Is Lost in Sharp Drop Caused by Heavy Selling. NEW YORK, April 23.—Prices in today’s opening of the stock market here were irregular with a majority of the stocks showing a slight ten- dency upward. A gain of two points by Kinney company, was the only outstanding change in the early trading. gar and oll shares were in fair demand. Cuba cane sugar preferred, American Sugar and Pan- American and the ““B” stock showed moderate advances. Subsequent dealings showed a more uniform tendency upward with the demand covering @ varied list of shares, Gains of a point or more were recorded by American Wate! works, Phillips Petroleum, Corn Prod- ucts, Jones Tea, American Linseed and Pan-American. Stocks which were recently under pressure re bounded sharply and the oil issues wero indifferent to the announcement of further cuts in gasoline and kero- sene prices. Railroad shares were rather quiet but prices held well with she exception of Canadian Pacifc which declined one point. Foreign exchanges opened trregular. Demand sterling was quoted around $4.65 and the French francs at 6.67% cents, an advance of two points. After opening with a slightly ris active selling movement lauched by ing tendency prices gave way on an professioal traders on the announce. ment of a cut of 10c a barrel in Mid continent crude ofl. Prices of the oil steel and motor shares dropped quick ly and their heaviness was commun. {cated to the remainder of the list with the exception g! the sugar group which was sustained %y further rise to record figures in prices for the raw, refined ang sugar futures. A portion of the list ruled between one and two points below Saturday's final figures. Losses of two points were recorded by Bethlehem Stecl Iron Products, duPont, Mack Truck, and the Adams and Wells Fargo Ex. press shar “Soo dropped 4% points, Vanadium Steel three. Call money opened at 4% per cent. Selling of influential shares, many of which touched their lowest prices for the current decline, and a drop in United States Steel to 104%, ap proximately its lowest figure of the year, accentuateq the weaknses of the general market. American Car was forced down 4% points, Mack Truck 3 and Baldwin, American Can Graineg - Calif, Petroleum, Associated Dry Goods, Stromberg Carburetor, Beech nut, White Motor and Willys Over. Jand preferred 2 each. Subsequent bidding up of the equipment shares, especiafy American Locomotive, caused partial recoveries. a Butter and Eggs CHICAGO, April 28.—Butter high- er; creamery extras 41; standards extra firsts 40@40%; firsts 39@ seconds 38@38%4. receipts 68, 120 cases; ordinary firsts 24% 25@25%; storage firsts 39%; Eggs lowe firsts 26% @26; @25; miscellaneous Pack extras 28; storage pack 271%. nd whites #1.23¢ | DAUGHERTY Io GIVEN SCORING {Continued from Page One.) there was “an unconscious waste of material and labor,” declaring it was “bitter frony that the men who bullt the camps at a time when enough skilled laborers were impossible to find,” now were accused of fraud ‘“‘be- cause they produced results with the second and third and fourth rate men available.” Testimony on which the indict- ments were based, he anid, was given by “hand picked witnesses,” Boy Uses Gun To Recover Property Roy Sparks, an il-year-old youth who resides af 915 Midwest avenue, took the law {fi Ais own hands Satur. day when he attempteq to get back into his own hands certain bicycles parts which had been taken by an erstwhile friend. Roy went after the equipment and when the other youth refused to give them up, the Sparks boy went home and got a gun. “Now will you give them up?” he asked, according to the report he threatened to shoot the other fellow. Young Sparks will have to answer to Judgb John A. Murray for the inct- dent. SWAN UNDERREAMERS. ’ AT YOUR SUPPLY STORE WHEAT PRICES CLOSE STEADY Last Quotations Show Frac- tional Increase Over Open- ing Prices. CHICAGO, April 28.—Rains in Ne- braska and other parts of the winter crop belt gave a downward tendency to wheat prices today during the early dealings. Lower quotations at Liverpool counted also as a bearish factor. On the other hand, smallness of the amount of wheat on ocean passage was a stendying influence, and so likewise was gossip that fce conditions would delay until May & or later the water route arrival of grain at Montreal. Opening prices, which ranged from one cent decline to %o advance, with May $1.24 to $1.24% and July $1.21% to $1.22, were followed by a moderate setback all around and then something of « reaction. Corn and oats declined with wheat. After opening unchanged to %c lower; May 77%c, the corn market sagged a little more and then rallied somewhat. Oats started unchanged to %c off, May 44%c, and later underwent a little further decline. Provisions were easter in line with hog values. Open High Low Close T Wheat— May ~ 124 1.25% 1.28% 1.24% July 1.23 1.21% 1.22% Sept 1.20% 1.19% 1.20% Corn— May 19% 17% 78% July 81% 80 © 81% Sept 81% 80% 81% Oats— May 45 AA 44 July 451% 45% 45K 45H Sept — 44% 44% 44 44% Lard— May -----11.06 11.05 11.00 11.02 July ——---11.80 11.82 11.25 11.27 Ribs— May 60 9.60 9.55 9.55 yuly 9.92 9.92 5 8.85 Fe NEWS BRIEFS SAN FRANCISCO.—A__ bandit wearing a white handkerchief over his face, entered the Clift, a down- town hotel today and robbed Miss Margaret McDades, the auditor, and Miss Lina Lund, the cashier, of $6,000 in currency and $5,000 in checks belonging to the hotel. FORT WORTH, Tex. —Three hundred state officials, business men, shippers and railroad execu- tives attended today's hearing be- fore Commissioner Henry Clay Hall of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission on the proposed rail mer- gers in the southwest. Consolida- tion of the Fort Worth and Denver with the Santa Fe, chief project in the southwest, was opposed by the Texans. PARIS.—Daily shipments of fuel from the Ruhr by the French have reached nearly 15,000 tons, accord- ing to official figures. On April 20, it is announced, 9,740 tons of coke and 5,200 tons of coal were sent to France and Belgium. WASHINGTON.— The state of Nebraska, through its department of trade and commerce, was held up by the supreme court today to have jurisdiction over the assets of the Lion Bonding and Security company. The decrees of the lower federal courts in Minnesota were reversed. The case involved a dis- put between federal and state offi- cials, both of whom had claimed prior rights in bankruptcy proceed- ings against the company. ——e SHIPS CRASH AT SEA, ONE IS DAMAGED SEATTLE, Wash., April 33.—The coast guard cutter Snohomish today took in tow the Barkentine Mary Winkelman, damaged in a collision with the ofl tanker La Purtsima off Slip Point, eastern entrance to Clal- lam Bay, in the strait of Juan de Fuca. The Mary Winkelman wis re- ported to be badly damaged and leak- ing. The La Purisima was not damaged according to a message from the Snohomish, and proceeded to sea when the outter arrived. The tanker {s bound from Seattle to California ports, The Mary Winkelman suf fered the loss of her headgear, The Barkentine, which is of 582 tons net burden, {s owned by the Charles Nel- son Line, The collision occurred in a dense fog. wireless messages said. The Mary Winkelman will be tow- ed to Port Angeles, Setter ent BOMBERS REACH TEXAS, BAN ANTONIO, Tex. April 24 The four Martin bombing planes manned by officers of the United States marine corpa who are making © cross-country fight from fan Diego, California, to Quantion Va, landed an:wly at Kely ol d shortly after 10 eolook this pierning, The marine corpe officers wil probably continue BrRivce Fort THE PIPE FOLLOWS thetr flight with the big battle planes Tuseda ae only a few minor repaire are necessary, The squadron is com: mauded by Majoy R, 8. Gleger. French Repubiic, 88 —--. French Republic, 7s - Kingdom of Belgium, 7%s Kingdom of Belgium, 6s Kingdom of Norway, és — U. K. of G. B. & L.. 5% U. K. of G. B. & L., 6%, 193 American Sugar 6s American Tel and el. ov 68 American Tel, and Tel. Armour and Co., 4% Baltimore and Ohio cv. Bethlehem Steel ref., Bethlehem Steel p. m. 5s Canadian Pacific deb., 58 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ref., Goodyear Tire, 8s, 1931 ¢. Goodyear Tire 8, 1941 —. Grand Trunk Ry of Can. Grand Trunk Ry. of Can. Great Northern 7s A_.. Great Northern 5 1s B Mo. Kan. and Texas new aaj. Bfissouri Pacific gen.. 43 -. Montana Power 5s A - New York Central deb., 68 Northern Pacific pr. lien 4s Oregon Short Line ref., 4s Pacific Gas and Electric 5s Penn. R. R. Gen., 649 ---- Penn. R. R. Gen. Reading gen., 4s Sinclair Ot! Co., Standard Of of Cal., deb Union Pacific first 48 - U. 8. Rubber, 74s U. S. Rubber, be Utah Power and Light 56 Westinghouse Electric 7s Visual Education Made Subject Of Illinois Research of Memphis, CHAMPAIGN, Ils., April 23.—Dr. F. D. McClusky, of the bureau of ed- ucational research of the University of Illinois, today started a two ‘months’ national ‘yvestigation in ual education with the support of Will H. Hays, special commissioner ot the motion picture producers. Mr. Hays recently gave the National Education association $5,000 for re- search {n visual education and $3,800 of that sum has been allocated to Dr. McClusky for his inquiry. Dr. McClusky will go to Washing- ton, D. C., before mapping out his it- inerary. © proposes to visit the cen- ters where films and slides are made und study the problems connected with the work. A report of the investigation will be made to the convention of the Na tional Education association in Oak land, Callfornia, next July. Memphis Bishop Is Decorated By Patriarch NEW YORK, April 28. — The tn- signia of a Knight of the Holy Sep- julchre for Bishop Thomas F. Gailor Tennessea, has been brought here from Jerusalem by Bishop James Henry Darlington ct (Harrisburg, who arrived yesterday. The insignia, Bishop Darlington ex- plained, contains a splinter from the cross on which Christ was crucified. Production Of Oats Greater WASHINGTON, April 23.— World Wats production {s larger this year than last, the department of agricul- ture announced today. Production in the northern hemisphere in 1922 and Yin the southern hemisphere in 1922 423 amounts to $3,233,02.000 bushels, ‘or eight per cent more than the pre- ‘vious year in the same countries, in spite of 5 per cent less acreage. The crop is about 3 per cent less than the average production in the per- twar period 109-18, while acreage is 7 per cent larger. — RAIL MERGER SOUGHT WASHINGTON, April 23.—App'ica- tion was made to the interstate com- merce commission today by the Van Sweringen interests of Cleveland for authority to carry out their an- nounced plan of consolidating the New York, Chicago and St. Louis ratl- road with other carriers which they now control, The consolidated sys tem would operate 639 miles of line between Buffalo and Chicago, St. Dom, of Can., 6148 per cent notea, 1920 ----__ Chicago, Malwaukee and St. Paul ccv., 448 ——-—-. MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1923. 101 98% 04% 100% 100% 97% 114% ts A 105% 90% 107 86% GAS EXPLOSION KILLS SOLBIER EL PASO, Tex., April 23.—One s dier is dead and another reported dying in William Beaumont hospital here as the resolt of a poisonous gas explosion last night in the seventh / cavalry’s bladksmith shop at Fort Bliss. The dead man is private Morris Pousky, 23, a horse shotr. The man in the hospital is private Martin B. Sihultz, 25. Both were commended today by commanding officers for heroism, de- clared to have saved Fort Bliss from possible destructio: Many Appeals Thrown Out By Supreme Court WASHINGTON, April 23.—A long lst of appeals taking exception to the rulings of lower courts were thrown out today by the supreme court. Among the questions which the court announced it would not review was this: The legality of the expressed condl- tions in the contracts of some insur ance companies that the policy issued shall not become effective until de- livery to the person insured “in his life time” as raised in a case brought from Washington state by the New York Life Insurance company on a policy issued to William E. Billings. = WAN UNDERREAMERS $ ) AT. YOUR SUPPLY:STORE BRivpcerortTt ‘LOSE’NO CUTTERS” fi: servant problems get your goat, The chance for new ones seems remote, Here's the answer—make a note— write CLASSY FIED The Want Ad “Pag” It is soft WASH YOUR HAIR HILL CREST WATER Hard Water kills hair. Phone 1151 426 East Second St. and pure,