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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1917)
pl[^^=lBL====^=U=]I^^^IBr===3Eli ——.j_-=—]E5j| j General Race News | i—— sarsn "-"■wr ' -~^r—-;- SIBI --irmsl COLORED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN KILLED AT THE FRONT The first black Roman Catholic chaplain, with the Colonial troops in France has laid down his life for his men. The Abbe Gabriel Sane was born in 1869 and was converted to Christianity. He made his studies in Senegal, his native country, and was ordained priest in 1902. When he saw his compatriots leaving in great num bers for the war he asked his Bishop the favor of going with them, if only as infirmier or interpreter, for he spoke six different languages. Mons. Le Roy, chief military chaplain, who received him in France in 1916, ap pointed him chaplain to the Sene galese Tirailleurs, who received him with enthusiasm. All Christians and Mussulsmans, were equally devoted to him. He has just been kiled in Cham pagne by a bursting shell. His body was brought in by another mission ary, Dr. Letavin, of the Holy Ghost order, who had come from the furthest wilds of the Amazon, Brazil, to serve the armies of France. URGES PRESIDENT TO REMOVE RESTRICTIONS New York, N. Y.—“I know of no law that precludes the Negro citizen from enlisting in the Marine Corps or the artillery or any other branch, other than that unwritten law laid down by militarists in the United States of the German stripe.” This sentence is taken from a let ter written by Robert Lewis Waring of this city to President Wilson urg ing, on behalf of the 12,000,000 Ne groes in this country, that he remove all restrictions that prevent them from enlisting in any branch of the military service. Mr. Waring believes that the President, as commander-in chief of the Nation’s military forces, has the right, in time of war, to open all branches of that service to all American citizens. LTEUT.-COL. CHAS YOUNG IS ORDERED TO HOSPITAL Washington, D. C.—The friends of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young of the Tenth United States cavalry were surprised to learn that he had been ordered by the War Department to report to the commanding officer at Letterman general hospital, the Pres idio, San Francisco, Cal., for observa tion and treatment. The order bears the date of May 23. Details are lack ing. Until the order reached him Col onel Young had been stationed on the Mexican border and had been giving instructions to budding officers of the United States army at the training camps. PROMINENT PHILADEL PHIAN PASSES Philadelphia, Pa., June 22.—Hon. Harry W. Bass, a prominent lawyer and statesman, an ex-member of the legislature, a member of the Phila delphia bar, assistant city solicitor, died Saturday morning June 9, at his FIFTEENTH NEW YORK FULL New York, June 22.—In compliance with the general order issued by Ma jor General O’Ryan of the New York National Guard on June 8, in which he ordered all regiments of the Sixth division of this state to recruit to full war strength, it was found that the Fifteenth New York, the only reg iment of Color in the state, was also the only regiment up to standard, hav ing 200 more than the order called for. PROMINENT PHYSICIAN DEAD Louisville, Ky., June 22.—Dr. J. C. Gilliard, who has been ill for six years, and who recently died here, was cne of the highest Masons in Kentucky, and known all over the country. WINS IN SONG COMPETITION Brookline, Mass. — Miss Marita Odetta Bonner, a senior at the Brook ltne Higs School, won out in the con test to compose the class song. FIFTY-FOUR RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Dallas, Tex.—Monday evening, June 4. Fair Park Coliseum was packed at the annual graduating commencement exercises. Fifty-four young persons received their diplomas. home, 1426 Lombard street. He was ene of the best known men in the city and has always been active in Repub lican politics, having served two terms in the house of representatives from 1911. _ OIL Oil, from the investor’s standpoint, is the greatest of the world’s natural resources. Its annual production, ex pressed ii. dollars and cents, exceeds the return from any similar form of development, including the mining of copper, silver and gold, in the United States. Today the industry has reach ed so high a degree of efficiency that the production of crude petroleum ..mounts to well over 300,000,000 bar rels yearly, or practically 50 per cent more than the entire combined yield of all other countries of the world. To this enormous total the Mid-Con tinent Fields (Okla. and Kans.) con tribute more than one-third—that is over 100,000,000 barrels of marketed cil each year. Local statistics sur prise many who have visited this sec tion thinking that OIL is merely a “prospect.” Reports compiled during the space of twelve years (ending 1915) show that in the Mid-continent Fields 90 per cent of all the wells drilled have been producers of either cil or gas. Only 10 per cent of the total wells drilled have been failures. This is a remarkable record, compar ing with 22 per cent failures and 78 per cent successes for the whole Unit ed States. Fredonia — The Morgan Oil and Kenning Company of Kansas City, Mo, have made a location to drill upon their holdings southeast of Ben edict, in Wilson county, in the im mediate vicinity of the recent wells bought in by the Dixie Oil Company. Drilling will be started as soon as possible. The same company also made a lo cation on their holdings southwest of Fredonia, which in addition to the location previously made, makes in all approximately twelve wells, which will be drilled in this immediate vi cinity in the next few weeks. Wilson county is rapidly coming to the front and will undoubtedly be come one of the best counties in the state from a production standpoint, and were its possibilities advertised I as greatly as some of the other loca : lities in Kansas, derricks would be thicker in Wilson county than hair on a dog’s back. Oil and Gas News, April 5, 1917. Tulsa, Okla. i The Farmers Oil & Gas Co. A Home Company 612-613 Paxton Block, Omaha, Neb. Wells Now Drilling on Adjoining Leases THIS COMPANY IS VERY FORTUNATE INDEED, IN HAVING ADJOINING OUR LAND, MANY LEASES HELD BY BIG PRODUCERS. WE ARE CLOSE TO PRODUCING WELLS. IT IS PRAC TICALLY THE SAME AS IF MANY TESTS WERE BEING MADE ON OUR LAND, AND YET NO ONE SO CLOSE AS TO EFFECT THE VOLUME OF uUR WELLS. The Farmers Oil and Gas Company owns 160 acres of land in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It jjjlf also owns Lease on 40 acres in Butler County, Kansas, and lease on 600 acres in V\ ilson County, Kan- IS t sas There are large producing Oil and Gas Wells close to our holdings. 800 acres, all in the great L|i Mid-Continent Oil fields. Our plan is to sell these lots, out of this 160 acres which is blocked into lots j 400 square feet each, giving a Warranty Deed and an absolute Title forever to the purchaser of any lot tyi i or lots of which the deed participates in all wells drilled by the said Farmers Oil and Gas Company, 1111 on any of their lands or leases. Our holdings are in the heart of rich production. tjjs Positively never since the beginning of the present greatness of the Kansas Oil Field has the public ||Sj ever been offered an opportunity like this. The Company cannot undertake to do drilling unassisted by outside capital, and we will not ask people to invest their cash in stock certificates only. Instead Ut we will give each investor an actual deed to a piece of the land. The Company will drill (10) ten or j more wells with the money received from sale of lots and every lot owner will share in the profits j||j from the wells pro rata. I 111 SET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR NOW! 1 Success is not a question of age. You may be old or young. It is only a matter of seeing your opportunity and being ready for it. jjjj! BUY THESE LOTS NOW AT $10 PER LOT, AS THE PRICE WILL BE ADVANCED IN A jfj SHORT TIME TO $20 OR MORE. jjjjj ORDER FOR LOTS IN THE FARMERS OIL & GAS CO. jjjji | 613 Paxton Building. Omaha, Neb. jjjji J Gentlemen:—Enclosed please find $. jjjj I as payment in full for.lots at $10.00 each. fjjji s This Company reserves the right to refund all money received j|jj | in case lots have neen sold or advanced in price. |jh|