fttprntm.. 7 RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, GHIEF I f f' ll' Seek to Recover Oil Now Wasted Bureau of Mines Survey in Cali fornia Shows 2,359,100 Barrels Could Be Saved. WOULD BE WORTH $3,500,000 One Company Saya Lost Between Well nd Storage Tank Is 40,000 Barrel Monthly Oil Lost in Seepago Along the Ditches. Wellington. The gront demand for (petroleum, resulting ehlelly from the Increase of oil-burning devices mid end motor-driven vehicles, forces pro ducers to take advantage of every opportunity to Increase Us production by seeking new sources of supply, and, what 1b more Important, to use new methods for saving moro of the oil brought to the surfuco than has ttecn retained heretofore. As In other kinds of mining, It Is thought possible that a large uddltlonal recovery can be obtained nt a profit by working over the wastes In certain Ileitis and Jby using more economical methods of production In the future, says A. It. Elliott, nsslstnnt petroleum engineer, bureau of mines. A survey of tho oil districts of Cali fornia was made by tho bureau In order to ascertain whether tho visible musses of wasted oll-benring sands would be a profitable source of supply. Prom the data collected It Is estimated that 2,350,100 barrels of oil valued at more than $3,1)00,000, could be ob tained from tho sandpllcs about pro ducing wells and from tho outerop plngs in the vicinity of the Ileitis. Also, many times that amount of oil scat tered over yearly the total oil-producing urea might bo recovered from eepnge. Wasted Through Seepage. A paper Issued by the bureau of mines In 1014 said: "It is probable that 10 or 15 per cent of the total gross production of the state has been wasted through seepago or evapora tion." This represents a loss of 15, 000,000 bnrrels of oil yearly. I'robably , one-quarter to one-half of this1 amount seeps into the ground. As n possible means of recovering n large amount of nil from these wastes, tho following should be considered, ays Mr. Elliott: (1) Recovering oil left In the sand that It produced with the oil; (2) reclaiming the oil that seeps Into the ground through waste In production; and (3) mining and treating the material In oll-hearlng outcrops and asphalt beds that occur In certain sections of tho state. In the early days of a productive field, the rush of gas Into n new well frequently sucks nil and snnd with It n large quantities. Oftentimes ade quate means of holding In the well nrn not available, and the oil Is per- Long Chain of Family Grandmothers Broken Arkndelphla, Ark. A chain of grandmothers without parallel, In this section, at least, has been broken by the passing of Mrs. Emollne KUzu Idles, Si. Before her death, two small children of Mrs. Kllzn Hanson, her great-granddaughter, had six living grandmothers of whom two were great-great-grandmothers, two were front-grand mothers mid two were Just plain grandmothers. The oldest of tho Hanson children Is 3V6 years of age. Thus there were at one time Ave living generations with less than seventy-two years separating the youngest from the eldest. The Hanson children had he side their six grandmothers, nine uncles, four great uncles, two great-great uncles, four great aunts, two great-great aunts and forty second cousins, but no first cousins. Town That Follows Nature's Path 8W?ttUWWW i W Knoxvllle, Pn., n miner's colony on tho outskirts of Pittsburgh, Is n town built along the lino of tho lenst resistance, tho houses being built In rows to follow the course of tho hill. Tbero nre about one thousand houses In tho group, nil of one design. This photograph of tho "windlug town" was made roui u uear-by bill. - mltt'Ml to How "wild" until the gas pressure diminishes enough to enable controlling the well. This may re quire days or even months, says Mr. Klllott. There being no commercial use for this oil-saturated sand, It Is removed from the Immediate vicinity of tho well or othenvl.se disposed of as valueless. Throughout many of tho oil districts of California, particularly In tho San 'oaquln valley, a noticeable feature Is the large cone-shaped mounds near each of the wells where sand Is pro duced with the oil. Sand Rises With Oil. In wells where the sand Is loose and fine-grained and agitated by n high gas pressure, naturally u greater amount rises to the surface with tho oil. In the Sunset field, wells with high gas pressure have produced moro than 5,100 tons of snnd In two to four years, representing nearly two-thirds of their gross production. In tho Midway field there Is n well producing about 500 tons n month nnd wells near It with an output nearly as large. In the Kerno Itlver nnd West Sldo Conl lugs fields tho oil is of heavy gravity nnd, with the aid of an agitator such ns air, largo amounts of snnd aro lift ed to tho surface. Kuch well yields ten to twenty-llvo bnrrels of oil dally; tho proportion of sand carried with It varies between 20 nnd CO per cent, and probnbly nverages 40 per cent of tho cross production. The nmoiint of sand per well, becnuso of the small oil pro duction, Is small, but owing to tho great number of wells In these dis tricts the aggregate amount Is large. Whore wells produce only n small amount of sand the so-called dnnd boxes aro frequently used. Tho sand hox Is n long, narrow, open trough cHsed nt the ends nnd fitted with baffles running crosswise to tho flow. The oil flown slowly over tho sharp barrios, the sand and emulsion settle Is Hard Place to Get an Education United States Has Surprising Number of Illiterates, Say Con . gressional Investigators. PAINT DISTURBING PICTURE Millions of Immigrants In Country Can Neither Speak Nor Read English Committee Finds American Teachers Are Incompetent Washington, D. C The United States of America Is one of the hard est places In tho civilized world In which to get n good education, In tho opinion of a committee of the house which has been investigating the ques tion. A fourth of the men of fighting age In the United States aro Illiterates, many children never get adequate schooling, mnny of the teachers nre In comitetent. There are millions of Im migrants In tho country who can nei ther speak nor read Kngllsh, and many negro children never see the Insldo of n schoolroom. Thousands of schools are closed because no teacher can be obtained for the miserable salaries of fered. This disturbing picture of educa tion in America Is contained In tho report of the house committee on edu cation on the Towner bill, and abun dant proof of Its truth Is contained In the hearings which were hold In con nect Inn with the bill. This report Is surely one of tho most startling Indictments of our civ ilization which has ever Issued from Capitol hill. Facts Which Convinced Them. Here, brlelly, are some ..of the facts which brought tho congressmen to this frame of mind: to the bottom of tho box and tire shov eled out as often as necessary. Also In the districts that produce heavy gravity oils, a convenient wny of separating the sand and oil Is to penult the oil to flow through long open dlU'hes to reservoirs, whero the free oil Is removed by n suction pump. Evidently, great quantities of oil can he wasted through seepage along tho ditches and nrotind the reservoir. If sniiu accurate method could be used to compare the amount of oil ns It came fiotn the well with the amount actually recovered, the difference would bo sur prisingly large. It Is reported that the loss between the well and the Held storage tank of one large producing company Is approximately 40.000 bar rels a month. Other companies report n proportionate amount. - Works of Art, Stolen by German Army, Reappear London. Numerous works of art, heirlooms mid Jewels stolen during the war by the Germans in occupied territory arc gradu ally coming to light and In many enses finding their way back to their owners. Tho Rumanian papers publish the story of n cache of stolen works of art which the police have found In the Transylvania homo of tho fnthcr of n onetlmo Hungarian ofllcer. Ninety-two well known paint ings, eight vases nnd two onyx clocks were found at tho homo of a mlno manager, who said they hnd been given him by his son on his return from tho war. Tho son was an olllcer in tho Hungarian artillery, and had fought on the Cunihrnl front. Tho objets d'art were found to have been taken from the chateau of the I'rlnce du Chi may, near Cambral, nnd wero returned to their owner. Some of the pictures, Including works of Joseph Merger, Millet and Van der Heist had been hacked out of their frames and badly damaged. - According to tho census of 1010. there were In this country 5.500,000 persons ten years of age or older who could not read or write, and tho com mittee does not believe that conditions have Improved since then. In ndditlon to these, there were 3,500.000 persons who could not read or wrlto Kngllsh, making a total of 0,000,000 In the land of the free who were uo more qunllfied to exercise tho right of the franchise than so many Australian bushmen. The surgeon general's report showed that of the men called to servlco be tween the nges of twenty-one nnd thirty-one, nenrly 25 per cent wero practi cally Illiterate. This means that a fourth of the young manhood of the country, which Is Its main reliance In peace and In war. Is to all Intents nnd purposes In a state of barbarism. For mer Secretary of the Interior Lnne es timates that tho annual cost of Illit eracy to the United States Is $325,500, 000. Tho director of tho burenu of mines states that If all of tho miners could read and speak Kngllsh n thou sand lives n yenr would bo saved. The coriimlttee emphatically refutes the Idea that Illiteracy Is confined to the South, nnd to out-of-the-wny sec tions. It shows that while Georgia has 83,000 Illiterates. New York has 100,000. and that Pennsylvania has moro of them than Alabuma. Neither does tho Idea hold good that tho II literates are chlelly negroes. Thero nro n million moro whlto Illiterates tlinn colored. Of the 15,000,000 foreign-born In tho United Stntes, tho committee says that 5 000,000 cannot read or write Kngllsh, and Hint 2.000,000 cannot read or wrlto any language. Luck Decides Education. Tho committee says that getlng nn education In the United States Is largely a matter of luck, that tho op portunlty Is not equal. "In the South n Inrge number of the negro children never see the Insldo nf n schoolliouso," It asserts, "in tho North there Is hardly a city that has adequate school facilities for all Its children." The committee finds that In physlcnl education our schools havo failed even worse than In mental educa tion, Tho "provost marshal gonernl's re port revealed tho startling fnct that moro than one-third of the men ex amined for military service In tho Into war wero disqualified by reason or physical disability," It reports. "It also stated that 00 per cent or these young men could have qualified had they been taught the simplest rules or hygiene and health. It was Ignorance," gross Ignorance, that In the vast majority or cases was tho cause of their Incoin lietonce." Tho committee finds that American teachers are utterly Incompetent, that 100,000 or them nre less than 20, years old, that 30.000 of them have no edu cation beyond tho eighth grade, that 1200,000 of them have less than n high school education, nnd tliut 300,000 of them havo no professional training whatever. It finds that tho average salary paid teachers In this country Is less than the wages paid scrub wom en or ditch diggers." Frederic J. Has kin In Chicago Dally News, NEWS OF STATE TERSELY TOLD Recent Happenings in Nebraska Given in Brief Items For Busy Readers. I'rnlrlo hay ly helling nt Callaway Tor S.-, M ton. An oil well Is being sunk on tho Hamilton farm near Itlue Spring. Mrs. T. K. Pullet or Callaway died suddenly nt a hospital In (Srnnd Island. The ItiiiTiilo county fair will be held ut Kearney August :I0 to September '2 The district convention of the state Klwanls clubs will be held In Omaha April II. Levels are being tnken for Arapa hoe's lirst paving project and a sew age system. The Ord schools are arranging an extenslvo oxhlblt of school and In dustrial work. Miss Helen Tracy of Pawnee City Is dead or blood poisoning caused by u carbuncle on the lip. Drs. .7. Jones nnd K. (i. Cressman have been appointed members of the pension bonrd at Hastings. Rev. W. C. Kelley or tho M. K. church at Geneva has accepted a call to the pastorate at Cambridge. Fifteen automobiles were wholly or partially destroyed In u lire ut Omaha, originating In a clothes closet. Hovlvnl meetings are In progress at the Christian church at Hurwcll under leadership of I lev. A. S. Hoove. Hev. W. P. HIeronynius, A. B., Co liifnbus, O,, bus accepted the call to the presidency of Hebron academy. The site for the new city hall nt Ord Is still up In the air. A number or locations are under consideration. Mrs. Mollle Mead, wire or Ktl Mead, chief of the Hastings lire department, committed suicide by taking poison. Albert Huberts, n 1." year old Wy moro lad, had his right leg broken, when he was thrown from hi horse. Fire caused by defective wiring damaged the First M. K. church at Chndron to the extent of several hun dred dollars. A round-up of Cage e unty nutoino Mlo owners who have failed to take out their 1021 licenses Is being mad by state agents. Citizens or the Hastings neighbor hood have organized the Adams coun ty agricultural society, and will have a ralr the coming fall. The question of a municipal swim ming pool, which lins been agitated for some time by the Ord Community club, Is still before tho people. Tho Alnsley city council will not grant a license to an open pool ball, consequently thero nre several such places In town run as clubs. L. A. Morris of Aurora burned his hand severely when n can of roof cement he was opening caught on lire from spontaneous combustion. Three Upland youths who spent tho night In Jail at Mlnden pleaded guilty to the charge of selling liquor and paid f I ties of $100 and costs each. The 50th anniversary of the round ing of the First Congregational church at Crete was celebrated last week by a banquet In the church basement. A broken knee cap was sustained by Henry Dickmnn of Plymouth, when hi hor.se ran away and kicked him through the dash board or his buggy. Maurice Wilson, Pawnee City high school student, was badly burned on the hand and about the face when the gasoline tank In his automobile ex ploded. The home of William .7. Duffln, tbreo miles west of Oreeley, burned to tho ground, tho Hro starting from lard rendering in tho oven of the kitch en range. Owing to providence of smnll pox In thnt place, the Wyinoro city health authorities have recommended to the school board that all school children bo vaccinated. The pool hall nt Harrison, operated by Frank IUerbower, was entered by htirs-lurs and tho cash register robbed of $.",0. All of jewelry on a punch board card was also taken. At the declamatory contest In the McCook high school, eleven pupils tool: part. MKs Agnes Duncan was chosen to represent McCook high In tho dis trict contest In Arapahoe. Mrs". Wallace Pitt, residing near Harrison, recently .gave birth to her eighteenth child. This was the first girl, the remainder being boys. Klevon are living. Mr.. Pitt holds the record family In western Nebraska. John Ilerg, a farmer living near Florence, was shot nnd Instantly killed when he walked Into a gun trap which he had set In his hen coop. From the funds or the Havenna Hod Cross and Canteen Workers that place will bo presented with u large bronze tablet, with tho names or all world war men who enlisted from there. The (Srnnd Island chamber of com merce lias made appropriation for the purchnse of u loving cup to be given to tho American Legion basketball team winning the state championship In the state contest to bo held In that city March 21 and 22. Osceola Is taking under considera tion the advisability of Installing u municipal electric light and Ice plant. Two hundred fires In Nebraska dur ing December and January cost two lives nnd did nenrly $2"0,(X)0 worth of damage, according to tho March bul letin of State Fire Marshal C. K. Hart rord. Karly steps will 'ho taken to liuve work commence on tho extenslvo Im provement of tho municipal water works system In Itedllold, In accord ance with the result of a special elec tion a few days ago, when bonds of $123,000 wero voted for the purpobe. Tho golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs, O. S. Wallace Was celebrated ut their homo In Kxetcr last week. Several acres or spring grain havo already been planted In the vicinity or Callaway, and the ground Is said to be in excellent shape. A mother nnd daughter banquet was held at the Methodist church at Fair bury one evening lam week, plates be ing laid for over 200. A movement ha been started nt Tiivlor to vote bonds In the sum of S.'l.",0O. ut the spring election, for the erection of u now school building. Quick woik tat the part or the local lire departmeiit saved the Burlington depot of Morrill when tire bloke out under the floor or the freight room. Cnpr. A. M. Trimble. 82, died Mid. ilonly nt his home In Lincoln. Captain Trimble at one time was department commander or the (S A. H. In Ne hraskn. Henry Koenlg dropped dead at the farm of hi brother near Coluinbu. He had Just left tho house to do tho milking when overcome by an attack or apoplexy. A slipping tackle, hoisting stone cornice on the new Goring court house, let a block of stone fall, and Herman Soreroserl, a workman, had his right hand badly crushed. Tho Wheat Growers' Association of America will soon begin a campaign to get farmers to contract to sell their wheat through the association for llvo years In Phelps county. To Sallii" county went the honor of topping nil other counties In the Unit ed States In tl Hotter Sire, Hotter i.ie mock' campaign for the quarter ending January 1, 1021. Ir. C. C. Cone has recently stocked his farm on the Republican river in the north part or Furnas county with pheasants, which were received from the state game warden. Fire or undetermined origin totally destroyed the Catholic church at Kmerson. Hut few of the furnishings were saved. It Is thought that a short circuit or detective Hue caused tho blaze. "P.eer Is dead, and can never como back in Nebraska," said United States District Attorney T. C. Allen, when questioned as to the legality of brew. Ing beer under the recent Palmer de cision. Nil. Creek ha made arrangements to buy electric power for lighting and power of the city of Tecuuiseh. a transmission line will be built tho eight and one-half miles between the two town. Tho large statue of Abraham Lin coln presented to the Nebraska City high school by the class of 1020, has arrived nnd will soon be placed In po sition. The Maine Is .seven feet and two Inches in height. D. K. Thompson or Lincoln, now in California, is the first Individual In the state to donate a carload of corn to the Nebraska Farm Huron u federa tion for the gift-corn project to iu Hove suffering In Kurope and China. Secretary of State D. M. Anisberrv, who sulVered a slight stroke of paralysis a few weeks ago, Is fast gaining strength, but his physicians have recommended that he remain quiet and leave his duties alone for a while. Dr. H. L. Paine, a resident of Lin coin for forty-two y-rs and at ono time candidate for governor of Nebras ka on the prohibtion ticket, died Sun day in bis rooms In u Lincoln hotel following n stroke of paralysis sulVer ed last week. While fending a -lower driven sau sage machine In his butcher shop nt Havennu. Joe Suierda slipped, nnd In trying to right himself stuck his right imnil into the blades which lacerated and maimed the fingers so that it was necessary to iimpututc them. Despite the unfavorable eondltl-ns of last fall, the farmers of the Upper Loup country have on hand a lingo number or fat cattle ready for market In the near future. The amount of corn and hay on hand Is surprising for the time if year, farmers say. Miss Uuth filasser, deputy county clerk, was painfully hurt when the automobile In which she was riding with her father nnd two sisters skid ded on u sleet covered road near O. coin and landed upside down In a ditch, pinning tho occupants under neath. Fontenelle chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, will pur chase an expensive memorial tablet bearing the names .of cns.s county sol diers who made the supreme sacrllico In the lute war. The tablet will bo placed In (he Cass county court housu at Plattsmoiith. Several deaths from scarlet fever have been reported nt Grand Isl.iud. In order to encourage poultry nn Ing and the marketing of "a hciwr quality of products, several of tho large produce companies of the suite have agreed to pay a premium for hlgh-grado eggs. Kggs that measure up to the quality outlined by the State College of Agriculture as Nebraska Kxtra Firsts will command a prlco within 5 cents or the New York price for Fresh Gathered Kxtra Firsts, on the day of delivery at Grand Island, Crete, Omaha, Lincoln and other cen tral points. If tho plan of tho government to publish the names nf slackers who dodged the draft Is carried out, tho names of 17(1 on the Gage county black list will be given to tho pullle, according to Deputy County Clerk J. 0. Kmory, who served ns executive head of the exemption board. A two-car shipment of 1,205-pouml steers which Pete Cliuissen or Bloom field shipped to South Omaha hiPt week, sold at i?0.00. top for the day on full loads. The cattle were bought as calves u yqtji and a half ago, and hnd been on feed tlvo and a half mouths. JOSEPH A. YORK, welMcnowa buiineit men of Portland, Me., who ssys he faels twenty years younger and has fained sixteen pounds on (our bottles ol Tanlao. Deolares he can now eat three square meals day. r" s v AjPjFx' " ' -. ?vvESL "1 am now uble to eat three squur meals a day for Uio first time In two years," won, the emphatic statement made recently by Joseph A. Yorlw well-known business man and highly;, respected citizen of Portland, Maine. "I am now slxty-nlno years of age, and In nil my life 1 have never run across a medicine that I consider In m class with Tnnlac. 1 have Just fin ished my fourth bottle nnd this medi cine has benefited me even beyond niyj greatest hopes. Besides gaining six teen pounds In weight, I have been built up and strengthened until I feel all of twenty years younger. "For tho pnst two years I havo been in n miserably run-down condition, nnd was compelled a short time nfo to give up all Idea of business as .1 was tco wenk to look after anything. I was nervous, worn-out, hnd no appe tite, and suffered most nil the tlflo with Indigestion. Some days I would tat scarcely anything; In fact I was afraid to eat becnuso I know I would suffer afterward. Sometimes I had such severe cramping pains after ent lng that I would almost die. My nerves were nil unstrung and the lenst thing would worry me nnd I never, could get n good night's sound sleep. In fnct I Just lost Interest In every thing nnd was greutly discouraged over my condition. "The ordinary treatment failed to do me any good, and as I hnd read so mnny statements from peoplo I know here In Portlnnd who had been bene fited by Tanluc, I decided to give It a trial. And now I know for myself whnt It will do, for I havo slinplyi taken a new lease on life. I am nowi able to look after my work ns usual, nnd never felt better In my life. I am able to eat three hearty meals n day, and everything ngrees with mo per-' fectly. I eat nnythlng I wnnt and never feel a tonch of Indigestion, r never thought there was u medicinal that could do mo so much good, and am only too glad to have the facta about my case given to tho public." Tonlac Is sold by leading drugglatK everywhere. Adv. Motors Drive Out Horses. The rapidity with which automobiles nre superseding horse-drawn vehicles, has been proved by an experiment ut a popular point of the state highway, nt Rurllngnnie, California, somo 1(J miles from San Francisco and one of the main arteries leading Into the city. Keeping check ut u given point from ii a. m. to 8 p. in., It showed that 11 horse-drawn vehicles ngnlifst 10,581 uiotor-drlven vehicles passed In the 14 hours. Last year a much greater num ber of horse-druwn vehicles was shown in u similar experiment. "Cold In the Head" Is an ncuto attack of Nasal Catarrh. h ?"bicc ? froriuent "coldn in Uio Jie.n.'J . wl" flnd thnt tho uso of HALL'S JARUI.1 MEDICINE will build , ip the bystem, cleanse tho Wood and render them less liable to colds. Repeated ut tncks of Acnto Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. IIALIVS CATARRH MEDICINE Is nu?J "'"'"iyy nd acts throin-l, tho Jiiood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys tem, thus reducing the Inllammatlon wid restoring normal conditions. All DruKRlRts. Circulars freo. F. J. Cheney & Co., Tolrdo, Ohio. How Dates Grow. Tho Arabs live almost entirely on this fruit when crossing the desert. Tho date Is tho fruit of the date-palm, which grows best in Persia, Palestine, Arabia, and tho North of Africa. Tho tcm reaches a height of 50 feet to 70 feet and throws on a niagiilllcent crown or largo leaves and a number or spadlces. In the female plant the bear hunches of dates weighing from 20 to 25 pounds. Important to Mothers Examine curcfully every bottlo of CASTOHIA, that famous old remedy for Infanta and children, and sec that It Bears the r Signature In DSC for Ovr !tll Viinru Children Cry for Fletcher's Custoria Impossible. "Hoes your husband give you all the money you ask for?" "Oh, no) he's not rich enough." Thero Is nothing moro satisfactory after a day of hard work than n lino full of snowy whlto clothes. For such results uso Itcd Cross Hnll Blue. The world stands aside for tho ma who knows whither he Is going. f u fl A k