New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1917, Page 10

0T'S ATTITUDE MU 33.—Parltament was re- yesterday and = the expected Niations: regarding the conduct " were. presented in the Addréssing the deputies in the Interpellations, the pre- Ribot said: i that the. representa- ople desire some ex- .. These may be given pub- fc, like ourselves, has informed. Secret 2 be reserved for ihjects, proing the ‘ interpellations on offensive, it may -be said ‘Were some excessive hopes and @ errors of execution, but the re- btained should be neither “nor belittled. Never have Pproved more admirable. vernment has thought some ld be made, and it has & them. It has recognized the ‘commeand so as to velieve it of i pot concerned with -mili- erations. The minister of war ks fn co-operation with the ‘committee of the chamber. I panement of the discussion on int \untll the work of bringing this - co-operation has been to submarine warfare §ragnize), that, while the tonnage fi:’. _dininished, we must seek e on % and decisive means of with jsubmarines, ‘We shall thatisituation further on Fri- T to the food supply, we p to discuss it as soon as belleving that the country sufficiently informed.” the Russian situation, esalid it was necessary to us sophisms which e Testoration of “‘our being a question of Vhy Oklahoma Government Indian L annexation and which-also confused the question -of indemnities for ravages in the invaded pravinces. Should Demand Indemnity, “This" indemnity is a contribution which is\inflicted as a fine for wrong ‘done,” sald the premier. “It is a re- quirement whioch both law and equity demand. The same reparation should be required for all small nations which have been crushed, for Belgium, Serbia, Roumania and Montenegro, “No canquests and no covetousness —that, in substance, is what the Rus- sian government. declare. France re- plies that it could not oppress any nationality, even that of its enemies. It will call to itsyaid to defend the small nations, not\vengeance, but jus- tice. i “What France also wishes is a dur- able peace, but we do not wish mili- tary dispositions to endure which can destroy this durable peace when it is once made. If the German people comprehend this it would- make peace easier to attain. That is the view of Russia at the' moment when the United States is making preparations to enter the war. Now let Russia make her offendive and we will be [able to talk of peace, mot in an equivocal manner, but openly, and this peace, if they do not ask it of us, we will impose it, Mr. Ribat prefaced his reference to Russia by asking for a postponement of the debate, ‘because of conversa- tions to which the French government has been invited by the Russian gov- ernment.” 'We are following the development of the Russian revolution with the utmost care and sympathy,” he con- tinued. “The eminent and courageous statesmen of Russia were surrounded for a time by influences which ren- dered their action difficult, but the men of intelligence, who have now taken in hand declarations which give us complete satisfaction. They say that they wish a strong government, and they desire above all to establish in the army that severe discipline which i¢ an indispensable condition of the existence of the Russian natfon.” WIDELY KNOWN SHIPPER DEAD. Philadelphia, May 23.—Edward Sharwood, for forty years secretary of the Maritime Exchange and wide- ly known in shipping circles, died at Bryn Mawr today. He was 68 years old. " MAXIM HAS DEVICE 70 THWART U-BOATS Can Be Attached to Any Ship, Says Inventor New York, May 23.—Hudson Maxim announces that he has invented and perfected a device which will make all ships imune from the dangers of the submarine.. He says that torpedoes, even when fired at close range and striking their targets, would explode harmlessly against the hulls of their intended victims. The invention has not been submitted to the naval board. The inventor made the announce- ment at a luncheon given by the Ful- ton Street association of Brooklyn in the Hotel Bossert. He anplified his announcement at his: home in Lake Hopatcong. He asserted that the in- vention soon will be practically demonstrated by the government, which already had been advised of the details. : *“The invention is practical for every type of vessel,” he saild. “It can be applied within a few months at a com- paratively cheap price to the hulls of ships already constructed, but better still can be built in the hulls of vessels which are to be constructed. The only change necessary in vessels already built will be a slight enlargement in their beam. My device is of solid ma- terial and encircles the entire hull of the ship from the bow to the stern, It in no sense or manner resembles either a scréen or net. “While the device has not yet been tested by the government, I have per- fect confidence in it. I do not believe that any secrecy regarding this inven- tion is necessary. Germany does not care about an invention that will safe- guard shipping; it cares only for those things which will destroy. Therefore publicity will in no wise hurt the in- terests of this country or its allies, “As soon as the invention is pro- tected by registration I shall publish' in ‘a scientific magaszine a detalled plan of the invention. I do this with the intention or having the inventlon criticined an dimproved upon.' The only way to reach a climax in the efforts of the scientises trying to solve this world important problem is to en- courage competition. I believe that by letting every one know what my invention is that it may be improved upon or any posible defects remedied.” ‘AMATEURS MAKE HIT. “The Yankee Prince” Opens This Af- ternoon at Lyceum. Playing before & large and appro- ciative audience the dramatic cast of the Y. M. T. A. & B. soclety present- ed this afternoon for the first time, “The Yankee Prince,” and the work of the performers made a decided hit. The play, a typical° Cohan produc- tion, is one of the most tuneful that this versatile writer-actor-manager Tiks ever written, and the parts as- signed to the local thespians are cap- ably handled. ‘The opening evening performance will be held at 8:15 o'clock tonight and the show will be repeated again tomorrow evening at the same hour. The sale of tickets- indicates capacity houses at both night performances. OHIOAGO PLAYERS REGISTER. “White Sox” Will Be on Road on June 5. Chicago, May 23.—Members of the Chicago American League club who are subject to conscription under the army bill, passed by congress last |- week, went to the city clerk’s office in a body today for the purpose of res- istering. Although a majority of the players are not residents of Chicago, they de- cided to register here under the ab- sentee clause of the army bill, as the American League schedule will send them on the road on June 5, the day designated for registration by Pre. ident Wilsen. SCHOOL BOYS AS FARMERS. Dismissed Envoy to United States Among Those Elevated to Austrian House of Lords for Life. Vienna, Tuesday, May 23, via Berlin to London, May 23, 13:20 p. m.— Among the life members appointed to the Austrian house of lords by Em- peror Charles, in addition to Dr. Constantin Theodore Dumba, former ambassador at Washington, and Field Marshal Von Hoetzendorf, are Moriz Benekit, publisher of the Neue Frel Presse and Baron 8koda, director gen- eral of the arms and munition works bearing his name. All told, sixty new appointments to the upper chamber were anhounced. DR. VAN DYKE HOME. Former American Minister to Nether- lands Back on Home Sail. New York, May 23.—Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former American minister to 'l The Netherlands, arrived here late yesterday from Hngland. Dr. Van Dyke resigned his position in the dip- lomatic service last December and has since been in England and France. Dr. Van Dyke said he had but re- cently left a hospital in London, where he had suffered two months from a heavy cold contractéd on a visit to the Verdun front. “I have come to volunteer my ser- vices to my government to serve in ny way I can,” Dr. Van Dyk¢ said. “I will go to my home in Prihceton for a few days and then to Washing- ton to see Secretary Lansing.” IN MEMORY OF GENET. Services for First American- to Die Under Ol Glory. New York, May 28.—A memorial service for Edmond Charles Clinton Boston, May 23.—The state public | Genet, of Ossining, N. Y., first Amer- safety committee, in its effort to sup- ply labor to farms, has completed ar-, rangements for the employment of about ‘1,600 school boys at this work- Several groups already have gone from the cities to assist in planting large gardens. ican to fall while fighting under the Stars and Stripes in France, will be held next Sunday at Briarcliff on Hud- son. Y Genet was killed *“somewhere in France” April 19, while serving with the Lafayette escadrille. BEST INVESTMENT ON EARTH WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY: VALUES LIFE AT $475. But Judge of Probate Court Refuses to Allow Settiement. New Haven, May 28.—Is the life of & seventesn-year-old girl worth no more than $476? Judge Gilson of the probate court has decided that it is and that that amount does not compensate the parents for the loss of their daughter's life and services. He, therefore, yesterday in the pro- bate court refused to accept a set- tlement made by the Fidelity and Casualty company with Josephine Sonino, administratrix of the-estate of Louisa Maninchino, seventeen years old, who was killed oh Whalley ave-' nue on October 29 by the automobile : containing former / Police Commis- sloner James A. Murray, James A. Murray, Jr., and James E. McGann. Attorney David E. McCoy for the administratrix told the court yester- day that the mother would compro- mise the claim against the automobile owners for that amount, and the own- ers agreed to the compromise. Judge Gilson thought the amount was too little to settle for, in view of the fact that it had not been shown that the girl was negligent. .Anxmmorsmnx. Gray Fish and Sea Weeds Are De- lcious Too. New York, May 23.—Filet of shark, gray fish, various forms of edible sea weeds and a large array of practically unutilized American foods, ‘of the highest dietetic value are among the exhibit in the food and health exhibi- tion opened today at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibitions include sources of food supply and marketing, and dem- onstrations in cookery with especial reference to corn meal and its prod- ucts, butter substitutes .and other comestibles. b ] RELIEF FUND FOR MINISTERS. Detroit, Mich, May "28.—At the ses- sion of the General Synod of the Re- formed church- here yesterday a reso- lution was adopted providing for the raising of $1,000;000 -for ' ‘ministerial relief work and for home and foreign mission work. - Each- member of the church will "be -expected to pay ten lmu & year-for ministerial relief. 1d by the U. S. Government Offer OOMET PAYING LONG VISI?. Cambridge,” Mass., May 23—Addal- tional observations of Wolf’s comet by Professor Baranard of Yerkes obser- vatory indicate that it will be visible in the ‘morthern sky through small telescopes until September. Harvard college observatory announced today that Profesor Baranard on the even- ln! :! May 13 plsced the comet in hé following position:- Right ascen- slon, 21 hours, one minute, 1.87 sec- onds; declination, north 15 degrees, 43 minutes, 22.2 seconds- | SLATER DON'T WAITY Buy Your New Spring and Summer | BShess Now ! ‘have ‘to later. lool'ur—'w for the Whie i axd White - Buck Batrs Hish Cut ‘Lace_Boots, ith frory ssles and heels. E tow and hnln heels. ‘ers in two townships of the Heald- ton district have received over $%,- 500,000 cash for leases on their lands, according to T. D. Wagner, local realty dealer, who has just made an estimate of the amount of business done in a region where ‘wildoatting has been active and lease values soaring. These town- ships are three and. four in the south, embracing territory where the big Gypsy wells are and the operations about Milroy. “Farmers of this part of the country simply are growing wealth. out of oll leasing,” says Mr. Wag- ner, “An {llustration of their finan- cial conditions is found in the fact that prior to the first of last Au- sust I put out for a compay I represent an average of $10,000 a month in loans on farm lands, ‘whereas since that date I have had only one application for a farm loan and it amounted to $3,000. “The farmers do not need to bor- row money any more. The oil men are paying them all they need for expenses and a majority of them are putting a balance in the banks. Deposits have been growing by leaps in nearly every bank in four counties of southern Oklahoma for the last 12 months, These are the most prosperous times the farmers of this section have ever experi- enced.” other day sold 140 head of cows at $60 each. Another sold 400 head at $40 each. Cattlemen say that within the last week more than $25,000 worth of Mvestock has changed hands; some owners being willing to sell. any time at a profit while others are scrambling for stuff to feed on new pastures. COMING OIL AND GAS FIELDS © I8 IN THE SOUTHEAST. That the greatest part of the fu- ture oil and gas development in Oklahoma must be in the south- eastern part of the state, and that there is very little hope for Western Oklahoma along that line, is the opinion of Professor Charles N. Gould, formerly director of the Oklahoma. Geological Survey. He expressed the belief that south- eastern Oklahoma is as rich in these deposits as the northeastern part, already developed, and that it has been merely accidental that the development has proceeded ‘along the line that it has. “The propable oil field in Okla- homa,” says Prof. Qould, “coincides very closely with the coal flelds. It will be noted that the greater number of productive areas lie in the northeastern part of the State. ‘This is largely due to the fact that that development began at the Kansas line and has moved south- ‘ward, slowly and methodically, The first wells were drilled along the 96th meridian and the shallow fleld, so galled, further northeast. At the present time the develop- ment has progressed as far south | as Ml:lkom, Okmulgee and Henry- etta.” OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN PITTSBURG COUNTY. The oldest inhabitants of Pitts- burg County cannot remember when there were not fissures at various parts of the county from which gas had issued. In the southeastern part of . the 'county one stream is covered with a scum of black oil and the memory of man cannot run back to when this phenomenon was first observed. Geologists of the United States and Holland have declared that if there is anything in geology at all, one of the greatest oil pools in America is within a radius of 30 miles of McAlester. . HUGE'OIL DEAL BY LOCAL E. 7. ;Richards, of this city, has . ‘sold 210acres of:his oil land in the ' "Healdton fleld to the Cosden in- terests for ' $650,000. ‘He ¢ould have secured $75,000 m,:m_ 210 acres after the D ‘purchased an option on e property and before the deal [ was'claped. Hb has realized more ’ than .milllon doliars from this property including the royalties and i.the-aaleiprice. The royalties at the “time of the sale amounted to $35,- 00~ #month. Mr. Richards esti- % that if conditions in the oll nese remain as good as they The 6il districts have fairly gone mad because of the number of new wells that have come in, and - the price the product brings. Down at Tusla, Okiahoma, no one mentions a sum less than $1,000,000. The lobbies of the hotels there are said to resemble New York’s curb mar- ket in its maddest moments. STATEMENT OF GEOLOGISTS: Geologists are practically a unit in the belief that the real oil pool of the Oklahoma field will be found within thirty miles of McAlester, and prospectors are showing their faith by acquiring leases and by sinking wells in every part of the county. HALF MILLION FOR LEASES. The Prairie Oil and Gas Co., paid $600,000 for a lease of 320 acres in the new fleld being opened up north and west of “Augusta, ac- cording to the Augusta papers. ‘ape-now the,purchasers will, have } their money’ back within three OKLAHOMA BOY WILL BE RICH MAN, GETS $190 A DAY. Cushing, Okla., May 22.—Under date of Saturday, May 2, the Kan- sas' City Daily Star prints the fol- lowing story: “Running wild, free and irrespon- sible as a colt, oblivious to the events of the world as an Eskimo, in a four-room house on a rocky Oklahoma farm of 80 acres lives a ten-year-old. Afro-American boy who doesn’'t know that he is one of the richest boys in the state, and if he did, the fact would carry no significance to his brain. Little ‘Dan Tucker’ often sings for his supper, but he desn’t have to— he doesn’t have to do anything for his subsistence and probably never will. The month of March saw de- posited to his credited $12,000 and every day he makes not less than $190.” OKLAHOMA WELL MAKES MIL- LIONS IN SIXTY DAYS. Tulsa. Okla., May 1.—"Okla- homa’s greatest oil well” s the title that has been given to the Gypsy Oil Company's and Frank A. Gillespie’s well in the Jackson Bar- nett allottment in the heart of the world-famous - Cushing ofl pool. This well has produced more than half a million barrels of the high- est grade oil in the southwest, and has made its owners nearly $1,000,- 000 in sixty days. 8. E 3 yglr. Richards purchased this g s ?‘ in 1903, paying $10 and $12.50. PROSPERITY IN OKLAHOMA. ? % . In eighteen years Oklahoma has ’ been transformed from a cattle range and Indian hunting ground into a state equal in industrial wealth and agricultural resources to almost any of the 46 states in theé Union.. ' People can understand how the farm lands of Oklahoma were 80 quickly developed because they knew that thousands settled upon them in a single day, but the world has looked in wonder at the marvelous growth of the cities and towns. - Cities are founded upon industry and industries are supported by the land. Oklahoma is one great diver- sified farm and the .citles and towns are her supply stationa. The winters are short and never and the summers are: not vely warm. . The farmer can: break his soil for new crops when “the greater part of the country is under a blanket of snow, and he is #till able to work in his fields long ter ‘operations have been sus- ed in the north and east. Ok- Jghéma is well within the grain helt, and In greater part of her territory all of the. crops that can be grown in otheristates are pro- vided with ample moisture the growing gunn. ¥ CROP STATISTICS FROM ANNUAL REPORT OF PRES. GAULT. Following are some interesting agricultural statistics from the an- nual report for 1915 of Hon. F. M. Gault, president of the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture. Valuation of the leading crops in Okla- homa in 1915. Name BEEF TO DOLLARS. ‘With stock cows selling at sixty dollars a head, the cattle business in Pittsburg county is encouraging- ly thriving. One stock raiser the Special to THE WORLD. Ringling, Okla, June 5.—Since the first of last August land own- Oil production of Oklahoma by years, according to the records of the U. 8. Geological Survey, is as follows: Year 1881 1892 1894 1897 1898 1899 1901 1902 1908 1904 1905 1906 1909 1911 1913 1914 1915 1916 Value of the livestock in the State of Oklahoma in 1915 Total Number o all Live Stock 758,000 269,000 cees 494,000 1,119,000 76,000 11,420.000 Barrels 30 80 130 826 1,020 2,280 10,000 37,100 138,911 1,366,748 562, S A D O T oo ..$47,940,000.00 . $2,707,500.00 v eet 12,117,600.00 104,629.90 535,920.00 €8,040.09 2,300,100.00 . 5,051,000.00 . 38,640,000.00 . 1,757,840.00 . 74800.00 Total Value of all Iive Stock $ 61,898,000 25,821,000 25,688,000 39,613,000 319,000 11,644,000 $164,586,000 Horses . . Mules . Milch Cows .. Other Cattle 66,089,687 62,600,000 77,000,000 123,000,000 167,000,000 1,960,000.00 Sheep 6,432,000.00 Swine 8,612,000,00 3 827,000.00 e 0,000.00 Grand Total ..ccecevvcenee. 4,136,000 2,286,000.00 s Southeastern Oklahoma. Out right sale—You do not have to live on this land. No improvement required by the government. Chance of a Brdke i % v 4 é 2 3 -per acre. Direct from Uncle Sam on easy payments. Information free. WValuable grasing, timber and agricultural lands. AN in the famous Oklahoma oil belt. Close to live progresssive towns. No irrigation necessary. Forty-five inch rainfall. Exoellent railroad facilities. See the Oklahoma jana car, now in this city, and learn more about the opportunities in the Growing Golden West. Call at the car without delay, bring your friends and your family. See the extensive display of Oklahoma products, both mineral anl agricultural, as well as numerous, handsome, photographic views of Western Development; Maps, charts, plats, blue prints and geological surveys open to public inspection. Demonstrators on duty daily and Sunday from 9 to 12 a. m, 1 to 6§ p. m., and 7 to 9 at night—Remember—Opportunity wavers, but will not wait. Right now you have an opportunity that will not come again. ‘You must act now. NO CHARGE FOR ADMISSION | INFORMATION FREE " OKLAHOMA INDIAN LAND CAR IN N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. DEPOT (THREE D! (CHURCH STREET and R. R. ARCADE) o (THREE DAYS ONLY)- (estimate) 784,000,000 8. Governmest Indian Land Sale in lifetime to buy land at a few dollars !‘Ill"hu.t It E ues. &.t “:..l. be fiu '&‘. 1% to 3 DAYS ONLY)