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ferent varieties of soft-shelled walnuts as far north as Maryland. MUST CREATE DEMAND Experts say that the California walnut is the finest in the world, and it 13 reasonable to expect that just as good nuts can be grown in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and a dozen other states. That there is a demand for walnuts may be judged from the fact that the government collects amounting to about $1,000,000 a year on them. If the consuming public in this country knew that the home product is better than the foreign, possibly the amount of importations would decrease, but even the dealers know little better. It is the jobber who knows, and his concern is solely to handle the goods which yield him the highest profit.

Let Americans ask or California walnuts and they will teach their groceryman to buy that kind. This year especially the consuls report that the foreign nuts: are about 25 per cent bad, on account o1 unfavorable weather during the ripenng season. The California walnut, like the California orange, is the best. this year that has been known for many seasons. ro TELL OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS Of all the distinguished gatherings which from time to time meet in Washington, probably none will have more important message to give the vorld than the American 4 Association or the Advancement of Science, which will hold its sixty-third meeting here, December 27-30.

At the same time thirty other affiliated societies will also hold their sessions. Many thousands of persons hold membership in these societies and many editors have made arrangements this year to get abstracts of the proceedings. Any who still wish to do so, as well as anyone who may wish to become a member of the association, should address the permanent secreary, Dr. L. O.

Howard, Smithsonian institution, Washington, D. C. CHARGED WITH PETTY LARCENY ARMONA OFFICER CAPTURED MAN WHO MAY FACE A MORE SERIOUS CHARGE Constable H- ndon of Armona brought to county jail one S. A. lewis whom he arrested in 'Armona Friday night on charge of petit larceny, the specific act.

being, that, Japanese and taking away a pair of pants, the article, being found in the buggy of Lewis by the officer. Lewis was also detected in the act of trying to open a money drawer in a Chinese noodle house in Armona, and was frightened away before he secured any money. He was taken before Justice Smith, who fixed his bail at $100, and as he could not furnish the necessary sureties, he went to jail. The fact that he entered a 1 building secure the trousers would make the crime burglary, and that charge may yet be preferred against It is said that Lewis' record has not been of the best, he having been an inmate of the reform school at lone for three years in his youth. With Lewis at Armona were two youths under the age of 21, and they were subjected to some good advice from Justice Smith, and they prom ised that they would never be found in such a predicament.

It is known that the boys had no hand in the crooked work, but had simply accompanied Lewis to Armona. HAS SETTLED WITH STATE County Treasurer L. C. Dunham has made his semi-annual settlement with the state, doing the business through a local bank instead of going to Sacramento as is usual with him. Business is rushing in his office, and as he did not wish to work a hardship on people at this time he did the business through the bank.

The figures submitted by him in connection with the settlement are as follows: Amount paid to the state, received from the state on account o' school funds, on account of orphanage fund, $150; on account of school bonds, $495.51. VALLEY LUMBER COMPANY MEN ENTERTAINED At Fresno Thursday night there was a gathering of the men engaged in conducting the several plants of the Valley Lumber Company, and Fred Prescott of Fresno was the host at a "stag dinner." The table was adorned with holly berries and a monster turkey occupied the place of honor before the host. Those present were E. M. Pre3cott, E.

E. Young, Nelson Dennis, George Cottrell, Robert N. Peterson, C. L. Hansen, H.

McHannah, F. J. Williams of Fresno, William Kendricks and Howard Thorpe of Fowler, H. A. Hansen of Selma, Arthur J.

Young and J. D. Berwick of Hanford and rl. E. Verbel of Kingsburg.

If you are troubled with chronic constipation, the mild and gentle fect of Chamberlain's Tablets makes them especially suited to your case. I For sale by all dealers. dw 50 le. deliver has it by-products. just is oil of barrels is flat, oil of been all contract on a in 45 of oper- con- at Pa- per drill- of is 32 13 HANFORD WEEKLY SENTINEL- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1911 PAGE FIVE ALL PARTIES SEEKING HARMONY INTERESTING GOSSIP--WALNUTS AND WINE FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL (Special to the Sentinel) Washington, D.

Dec. that the Republican National Committee has held its session 1 and decided about the convention, the country is breathing easier. Seemingly no one knew what dangerous and unexpecpected deveopments might occur when all of the big men comprising the committee got together and exchanged confidences about the chances of the party for success in the next campaign. It proved to be a pretty taxie meeting after all, and the most alarming thing about it was the specter of Bwana Tumbo which many of the committeemen thought they couid discern in the background, behind a pil lar or among the shadows of the corridors. SEEKING HARMONY The Republican leaders are industriously seeking harmony, and that most eminent of all pacifiers, Senator of Massachusetts, is passing bing syrup around very indusHe has not been able to admuch of it to the insurgents, latter would welcome some sician who could heal the rents in eir own ranks.

The Democratic insurgents are not entirely of one mind either, and they are anxious that someone should help them to make peace with honor with the various fan. tions of their party, although they would scorn to admit that they are even looking askance at the olive branch. Perhaps, as the Gridiron wits had it, anyone who bears the olive branch nowadays is a goose and not a dove. It seems a little early in the season to look for harmony. A RENUNCIATION Senator Newlands, who.

has been mentioned a good deal as a possible candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, announced recently that he had no desire to become a candidate; that what he was really anxious for was that congress shouid take up a legislative programme and saw wood until it should succeed in putting through some real, useful legistraco. To heads Was unlikely, but the statesman from Nevada is a real statesman, and he has made a record in congress which hardly needs any further embellishment. He could go into the convention and get a very flattering complimentary vote, and perhaps win the nomination, in case of a deadlock, but he is averse to playing politics of that kind. EXPOSITION LEGISLATION Not only the Pacific Coast, but the whole country is interested in the Panama expositions to be held in California in 1915. Congress has before it a resolution asking the President to extend to the nations of LatinAmerica invitations to attend and exhibit at the Panama-California International Exposition to be held in San Diego in 1915.

There is another re30lution providing for the appointment of a Government Exposition Commis sion. These matters came up recently before the Senate Committee on International Expositions, of which Senator Root is chairman, and action was deferred until January. Thera are some matters on which the position officials are to be asked to reach an agreement, and then it is expected that the senate will pass the resolutions and send them back to the house, which has already passed one of them and will accept any suggestions the senate will probably make. Meanwhile it is pleasing to learn that the San Diego Exposition is making excellent progress in the work of preparing the parklike setting and In constructing the buildings which will grace it. A FARMER -AT HEART Speaker Champ Clark is a farmer at heart, no matter what may be his vocation.

How he ever escaped the lure of the farm is a mystery, for there is nothing which is so sure to arouse his interest as the mention of some agricultural topic. But a few days ago the speaker was talking with two gentle. men from Southern California about the land of the orange, the lemon and eternal harvest time. The Californians, Dr. J.

Allen Osmun and Frederick A. Hazzard, happened to be growers of walnuts, the kind sold everywhere as English walnuts and which are grown- hardly at all in England. The speaker became attentive at once. "Do you think you could grow those in Missouri?" he asked. Dr.

Osmun replied that from what he knew of the climate of Missouri he believed that the English walnut could be grown there, as it can be grown in most of the states south of the Ohio river. The Department of Agriculture has devoted a good deal of attention to nut growing, and reports successful efforts to grow dif- Company. The main offices of the companies are in San Francisco. Well No. 3 of the Hondo Oil Company, operating on section 15, 31-22 in the Kern field, has been completed at 1000 feet and the flow is 200 barrels per day of 14 gravity oil.

Drilling will soon begin on well No. 4, the rig for which has been completed. The old American Midway well, on section 32, 32-24 in the Kern field, now known as the American Midway-Esperanza, is flowing 2,500 barrels of 20 gravity oil per day. The old well has been flowing for some time and is becoming a consistent producer. The old 1 Scott well on Eagle Creek, near Fellows, has been "cutting up" ever since it came back to life a couple of weeks ago.

The latest rampage was brought about when the controlling valve gave way from the pressure and the oil was shot into the air to a considerable distance and Heck's store in the immediate vicinity was given a fine, thick coating of the crude oil. During the month of November the Midway oil field produced 1,401,036 barrels of cil while the Sunset field brought forth 1,889.725 barrels. In the Midway field the production for November was about 25,000 barrels more than for October. In this field here are 155 wells being actively Trilled while 112 wells are idle with 558 wells producing. There were 15 completions during the month.

In the Sunset field there are 227 producing vells and 9 wells were completed during the month. The Coalinga oil fields, during the month of November produced 1,508,589 barrels of oil. This is nearly 47,000 barrels less than the October produc tion and this is accounted for in part by the fact that November is one day shorter than October. There were producing during the month a total of 755 wells. According to estimates the production from this field for Decemher will be 1,539,420 barrels and in case this figure hits the mark the proluction for the year, ending the first of January, will be 18,442,221 barrels.

This will be an increase of 741,471 barrels over the year 1910. Shipments 'rom the field last month were less by 14,000 barrels than those of the month before. (From Saturday's Daily) The Associated Oil Company ha: purchased a large tract of lane the Lost Hills for which it paid $1, 200,000. It is understood that tine company will begin active develop ment of this new territory at once. Five thousand dollars will be de roted toward placing a fine oil exhibi: the Pacific Land and Products ex position which will take place in Los Angeles next March.

'The Esperanza Consolidated Oil ompany is the latest company in the tern field to adopt electric driven trills and pumps. The San Joaquin cwer company will immediately intall fifteen motors for this company Well No. 2 of the Mays Oil Com any, operating in the Taft field, came the other day and the hills fo ailes around were liberally spraye ith oil, the well flowing about 150 varrels per hour for a number ours. The well has now settle 'own to a steady flow of 100 barrel: per day. The Bay City Oil Company, operat ng in "Kern county, has asked th courts to grant them an injunction against the Burks Oil Company, re straining the latter from withdrawing he casing from five wells on sectior 32-23, alleging that the withdraw el will result in water percolating the vil sands tapped by the wells, and will also allow the water to percolate the oil sands tapped by other compantes vells, and therefore do a great dea' of damage.

This complaint is backed the word of the county oil commis sioner. Considerable excitement was causd in oil circles recently when it was reported that a gusher had beer truck near Parkfield. The well in question did give signs of being usher as the gas blew out and the -il shot to the top of the derrick for ome little time. In a few days, how ver, the hole filled with salt water vhich will be pumped out and the ole driven deeper. A large number of people rushed into Parkfield dur.

ng the excitement and made minera' Mings. Oil men declare that an o' Held will be found on the Salinas side the mountain and while it has nof been located yet many believe that i' 13 near Parkfield. The strike made by the Standard Oil Company, on -section 28, 19-15 in he Coalinga field, under the brown shale, suggests the possibility that he Imperial company may strike the same sand on section 2, 19-15. The Imperial has considerable brown shale and for this reason the property was abandoned on old theory of the brown shale being under the oil sand. The Lorene Oil Company drilled into the brown shale in the northwest corner of section 12.

19-15 and abandoned the property temporarily. Charles Wilcox also drilled into the brown shale on section 2, 19-15 and immediately stopped. From present indications the Standard No. 80 has made an important discovery that makes the cther companies in that vicinity look good for another sand. The oil shows 40 degrees that is the top oil; and will no doubt be cut down a little as soon as the gas has worked off the top.

The Standard has been very anxious to secure light oil contracts and this discovery will be very welcome to them. Christmas Bells I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A chant sublime, Of peace on earth, good-will to men! But in despair I bowed my is no peace on earth," I said; For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men. Then pealed the bells more loud and deep, "God is not dead nor doth He sleep! The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!" -Henry W. Longfellow. THUGS HOLD UP COLORED MAN NEAR SANTA I FE DEPOT VICTIM WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED BY BLOWS ON THE HEAD-DRAG GED INTO VACANT LOT AND DID NOT RECOVER CONSCIOUSNESS UNTIL THIS MORNING Charley Green, a colored man, was the victim of thugs and hold-ups last night near the Santa Fe depot when his assailants clubbed him into insensibility before robbing him, indicting some very serious wounds upniany hourg.

Green came to this vicinity some time ago and went to work for the Santa Paula ranch. He evidently saved his money until he had a respectable pile and then he came to Hanford for a good time. Wednesday, he was arrested for drunkenness by the local officers and the next morning he paid a fine of $10 and was turned loose with plenty of change still upon his person. Last night Green decided to go to Bakersfield and had gone to the Santa Fe depot and had purchased a ticket. While waiting for a train a stranger approached him and started a conversation.

While they were talking the conversationalist's partner approached from the rear and hit Green over the top of the head wih such force as to cut the scalp for a distance of about four inches. The victim knew no more until he awakened this morning in a vacant lot back of the Santa Fe saloon, minus $40, and with a very sore head. He was taken to Dr. W. B.

Charles, and besides the wound upon the top of his head he has a gash two inches long Ju the right side of his forehead, which the doctor says looked as though: it had been inflicted with a knife. The officers say that Green had about $50 when he was turned loose after his arrest so it is likely that his story of losing $40 is true. No arrests have been made and so far as known the officers have no clew to the hold-ups. PRAISES FOR THE SENTINEL Edward W. Whitaker, a prominent attorney of Washington, D.

and an old-time friend and G. A. R. comrade of Col. Peter Van Valer of this city, has written a letter to Mr.

Van Valer acknowledging the receipt of copies of the Weekly Sentinel telling of Mr. Van Valer's recent accident, which laid him up for several days. Mr. Whitaker writes this endorsement of the Sentinel: "By the way, that paper, the Hanford Weekly Sentinel, is the finest specimen of a newspaper that I ever saw. The type and the whole makeup shows the result of genius that leaves the eastern papers in the shade." That is a pretty good boost, unsolicited.

Lost Hills Accident--Phillip Nota, a sheep herder employed by the Miller Lux interests near Lost Hills, was kicked in the stomach by his horse and be died -four hours later in the hospital where every thing possible had been done for him. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure them. Doan's Ointment cures itching, bleeding 07 protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. NEWS FROM THE OIL FIELDS (From Thursday's Dally.) The Mohawk Oil Company, operating in the Coalinga field on section 12.

20-15, hauled out new casing and it will be put the well and the same completed soon. The Pluto Oil Company, operating In the Coalinga field on section 19, 25- 19, is down 2,814 feet with well No 1. The bit has passed through ab 6412 feet of oyster shells and the has been cemented off. The Southwestern Oil Company, 0 erating on section 6, 21-15 in the Coalinga field, has its well No. 1 down 2.295 feet.

The water strata has been cemented off at this point and the well will be completed with casing. The Wilcos Oil Company, on sec tion 12, 20-15 in the Coalinga field, has well No. 1 down 4,350 feet with casing. It is expected to cement off the water strata by the first of the year. The well is at present in rich, sandy shale.

The Washington Oil Company, operating in the Coalinga held on sec21-14, will soon finish well No. 1 at 350 feet. The showing for a good well is of the best as all of the wells on the east line of this section have been good, small producing wells of about 20 gravity oil. The Vancouver-Coalinga Oil Company, on section 14, 20-15, has weil No. 1 down 3,970 feet.

The contracters, who are doing the drilling, have only thirty feet more to go on their contract. The present formation is a sandy, gray shale and the drilling is fine. The Azores Oil Company, on section 26, 21-15 in the Coalinga field, har well No. 1 down 4,410 feet, having passed through over feet of promising sand. The drillers pull back to 3,845 feet and cement off the water.

The bridge is now in, ready for the cement. The Coalinga Royal Oil Company, operating on section 8, 19-15, has drilled well No. 2 into the third oit sand with a bit in the hole. The wire line broke, making a fishing jot The strike made in No. 80 on the Standard property will induce this Trill deeper to catch the Standard sand which many claim is the old "Home sand." The Maricopa fleld is going to perience a great deal of new develop mient work soon after the new year 8 ushered in and already a large number of men have been put to work contracts throughout the field.

The Associated Company has taken on forty additional men to their force and the same will be set at work on sec tions 30 and 32. The Honolulu comvany has also secured an extra gang of 20 men for new work about to bet commenced. It is generally believed that the Maricopa field is about to anter unon the most important and actire development period of its existence, so far. INNOCENT PURCHASERS WILL BE PROTECTED It has been announced that all innocent purchasers, who have bought land from the Southern Pacific and the Oregon-California railroads for the purpose of building homes and who have since built up the land into agricultural producing land, will be exempt from the government suits which are being instituted for the regaining of possession of valuable oil lands which these railroads obtained from the government by fraudulently declaring the same to be non-mineral. All prosecutions, against the owners 0.

property now under cultivation, will be dropped at once so as to save the small farmers from bearing the expense of a test suit. While the agriculturist will be protected, other innocent purchasers who bought land from the railroads for the purpose of exploiting its oil bearing value may rot go free, while it is positively announced that the above mentioned railroads will certainly be prosecuted for fraud and if the suits are successful their land holdings will De forfeited to the government. (From Friday's Daily) The Standard Oil Company has ad vanced the price of-gasoline and bentine a quarter of a cent per gallon. The Rock Oil Company, on section 23, 31-22 in the Kern field, is getting ready to perforate its No. 5 producer at 2275 feet.

The Standard- Company, on section 18, 32-23 in the Kern field, is running ive strings of tools and four of these ire nearing completion. The California Midway Oil Comany, on section 32, 31-23 in the Kerr ield, is down 2305 feet with well No. and the rig has been erected on the tite of well No. 6. The Pluto Oil Company, operating the Coalinga field, has cemented the water off in its well and when the cement has hardened the sands will be tested out.

On section 28, 31-32 in the Kern field, the Mays Oil Company is down 3.000 feet with their No. 3 well. This well is located, near the California Amalgamated gusher and a good producer is expected. The Midway Petroleum and Gas Company, on section 14, 31-22 in the Kern field, has completed its No. well at a depth of 1600 feet and the same is producing an average of 100 barrels of 20 gravity oil per day.

Two new oil companies have been incorporated to do business in Kern county, These are known as the Natoma Oil Company and the Vulcan Oil (From Tuesday's Daily) The El Camino Oil Company, ating on the Maricopa is down nearly 1,900 feet with a inch cas- ing. A fine showing sand has been encountered although is be- it lieved that the principal sand will be struck about 700 feet further down. The Successus Oil Company, operating in the McKittrick field see- tion 26, 29-21, is down 320 feet. This depth was reached with an open hole and the inch casing is now being pout in. When is landed the 10 inch will be carried on.

The Black Jack Oil Company, Bakersfield, secured tract to 4,000 oil month to Floriston Pulp and the per Company of San Francisco, and the contract price is between cents barrel. The per to run for eight years. The members of the Independent Oil Producers' Agency realized for their October sales in excess of cents per barrel, which was cents 2 above the current price for daily deliveries at the well. Large earnings were made by the Associated, Union and Standard companies. A suit which has been filed in the United States circuit court San Francisco attacks the title of the S.

P. 6,000 acres of oil land in California though the specific case involves but 160 acres of oil land in Fresno conn- y. An interesting point is raised in his case aS to whether the words. mineral land, cover oil deposits. A shaft is down about 60 feet into the heart of the extinct Lakeview gusher and the progress of lowering SOME COUNTY STATISTICS WHAT THE RECORDED DEATHS AND BIRTHS SHOW FOR THE YEAR (From Saturday's Dally.) Up to the present time the number of marriage licenses which have been issued in this county since January 1st, 1911, is 181.

This number will be materially increased before 1912 arrives as the holiday season, with the exception of "brides' month" or June, holds the record for the tyingup. process, so the number provably of proacn licenses close to 200. There have been recorded during the year so far 108 deaths in the and this record will not be greatly increased during the few remaining days of this year. This is a very low death-rate as it represents about deaths to the 1000 population. There have been during the year 200 births in the county which, compared with the death rate, is a very good showing of the natural increase of population.

This natural increase amounts to one and twenty-four hundredths per cent of the total population of the county. NEW LAW HELPS SCHOOLS OF STATE Sacramento, Dec. Superintendent Di Public Instruction Edward Hyatt, who has returned from a throughout the southern part of the state, announced that data has been prepared in his office showing an increase at this time of 26,250 children attending the schools over the total attendance of last year. This increase has caused the employment of 875 more teachers than were engaged in the California schools last year. While it is not announced officially, the great increase in attendance is probably due largely to the new law which fixes apportionment of school money upon average daily attendlance, instead of the old school census.

PRESIDENT DISTRIBUTES PRESENTS Washington, "Dec. Taft today distributed presents to all o. the attaches of the White House. Each one nf the policemen who guard the White House was given a turkey and the President personally presentes each member of the secret service. i.

his employ, with a jeweled stick pin. Each employe of the executive mansion, other than the above, received five dollars in gold. BOUGHT FINE REO AUTO Lyman Bush has just sold a Reo five passenger- 30-horsepower auto to J. E. Scoggins, residing near Armone It is a fine machine and the purchase.

is well pleased. Mr. Bush has several orders in for Buicks, but the demand for those machines is so heavy that delays in delivery are being experienced. He will have one here Saturday, probably, to deliver to a Mr. Davis, residing north of town.

PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION FILED John H. Mattern filed a petition in the superior court Saturday asking for letters of administration in the estate of Bernhard Mattern, deceased. Walker Bell are attorneys for the petitioner. he shaft going slowly as the crater is filled with debris from the wrecked lerrick of the time when the well was wrought in. Pieces of the bull-wheel.

cables, timbers and pieces of casing ave been recovered and the shaft is being cribbed as it is sunk. Oil men of Bakersfield are predictng that the next oil excitement will near Jasper, Wyoming. Some Salt sake City and Denver companies are in that field and the oil is a ery high gravity, producing the pore valuable The ng is easy and the struck hallow depth, although up to the present time the producers have given ut but a few barrels each per day. While the Standard Oil Company vill neither confirm or deny the rumor hat a parallel pipe line will be laid rom the Kern fields to its refinery at oint Richmond, the fact that a great many camp supplies are being sent out to the stations along the line ends to the belief that the report true. The refinery has also been in reased in capacity and this also adds bor 1 to the report.

The world daily- produces 897,184 barrels of oil and the United States produces 64 per cent of the total. ('alfornia produces approximately 25 er cent of the world's production of troleum and she always holding ack the production as much as possiAt present there are 40.000,000 arrels of oil above ground in this tate which would last about eight nonths without further production. The S. W. Oil Company, operating the north McKittrick front on see'on 26.

29-21, has made a strike at 00 feet. 'The drill went into the tar and at this depth and the showing is good one. This is a shallower depth han it was expected wouid have to be Trilled to in order to get the oil and some of the operators maintain that he well will have to go down about '00 feet further before the real pay sand is reached. The British Consolidated Oil Comnany's holdings on sections 22 and 23. 12 23 in Kern county, have taken over by the Indian and Colonial Deelopment Company.

The property vas turned over to the purchaser the atter part of last week. The purchas1ng company is made up of London capitalists. The property already has producing wells and the new owners will proceed to put up new buildings and start a new campaign of drilling with the object in view of completing a well a month. LOST RINGS IN SLEEPING CAR Miss Florence Gamble, who returned from Stanford University to visit her parents over the holidays, had the misfortune to lose three rings on the trip. She prepared to leave the Pullman car on its arrival in Hanford, and inethe hurry left the rings in the dressing room of the car on the wash-stand.

Soon after leaving the car and the train had pul'ed out she realized the loss of the rings and telegraphed to the train crew at Huron, but the porter on the car and others state that they never received the dispatch, and never saw the lost rings. While but one of the rings was of great intrinsic value, the others were heirlooms and the loss is very much regretted. Attempts to locate the rings have yet been unavailing. A HANDSOME CALENDAR The H. G.

Lacey Co. has been distributing a very handsome calendar for 1912. It bears a beautiful picture in colors of the birthplace of George Washington, the scene being reproduced from the celebrated painting by Lowell. It is one of 'the prettiest calendars yet seen, and the Sentinel returns thanks for a copy..