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OREGON'S GREATEST OURC H J WILL, BE MATH 0 AND GAS 1 Nl 11 Ji The price of crude oil has advanced 100 per cent in the last three years, and the demand is exceeding the supply, yet last year California produced moie revenue from oil than gold. The oil and gas field of Ontario, Or., shows indications of being the largest field in the United States. GOVERNMENT EXPERTS claim this field has one'of the largest sedimentary deposits in the world. MR. HIGGINS, the NOTED oil expert of Beaumont, Texas, predicted that this would be one of the LARGEST OIL- FIELDS IN THE UNITED STATES, and that he had only seen two fields in which there were so many indications of oil. Sixty water wells in Ontario and vicinity all produce NATURAL GAS, which has been analyzed and pronounced a very high grade petroleum gas and for seven years has been used for lighting and heating purposes at Ontario. At the present time there are four companies boring for oil and gas in this vicinity. The Associated Oil Company of California, the largest oil company in the west, after having this field thoroughly prospected by experts and geologists, is now negotiating for oil leases on lands around Ontario. THE ONTARIO CO-OPERATIVE , GAS AND OIL COMPANY Capital Stock 1,000,000 Shares; Par Value $1.00 Per Share, Fully Paid, Non-Assessable Organization The officers of the company are all well-known business men of Ontario, and it was the confidence the people here had in them that caused the landowners to lease up so much land with this company. The president of the com pany is David Wilson, the largest owner of real estate in Ontario, 'a,nd who founded the towns of Davenport and Harrington, in Washington, and built the California block in Tacoma. J. R. Blackaby, vice-president, is president of the Bank of Ontario, as well as the bank at Jordan Valley. V. E. Lees, treasurer, is a lawyer and tuiisidered the wealthiest man in Malheur county. The directors are A. F. Boyer, who is one of the leading merchants of Ontario; Dr. G. A. Pogue, mayor of Ontario, and A. L. Sproul, who is postmaster here. W. H. Doolittle of the real estate firm of Burbridge & Doolittle, is the secjriUaryfT here are no salaried officers in this company, and every dollar received from the sale of stock will be used for boring purposes. Nearly every business man in Ontario is a stockholder in this company, which was organized to bore for oil and gas, and not for stock-jobbing purposes. Ar rangements have been made for expert drillers and the heaviest of standard rigs for boring, and the company ex pects to bore four wells at once to a depth of 2,000 feet or more, and to thoroughly prospect our leases for oil and gas. OUR OFFER Commencing Wednesday, August 26, 100,000 shares of this stock will be offered the pub lic at seven and one half (7J) cents per share. Only the above amount of stock will be sold at this price. The heaviest drilling rig ever brought into the northwest, with 4,000 feet of cable, has already been purchased and will be installed within thirty days, AFTER WHICH NO STOCK WILL BE SOLD FOR LESS THAN FIFTEEN CENTS PER SHARE. Subscriptions will be received by the' secretary of the company in person up to and includ ing Saturday, August 29. Office open evenings from 7 to 8 p. m. W. H. DOOLITTLE, Secretary 319 Chamber of Commerce Building, Portland. Phone A-2727. Value of Holding's Our holdings consist of leases on 15,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Ontario, which is ten time3 the amount of land that any other companies have, and will make our stock worth ten times as much as stock in a company with only 1,500 acres, as the value is determined by the amount of oil land a company holds. The natural gas alone, without any oil would make our stock worth par $1 per share, but with the great amount of leases we have our stock should be worth from $5 to $10 per share if we strike both oil and gas, and we have every reason to believe that we will do so. Natural gas is one of the most valuable products we could have in this country, both for fuel. and power purposes, and throughout southern Oregon and Idaho the price of fuel is almost prohibitive, and every cubic foot of gas produced can be sold for commercial use at good prices. Recently an oil company in California with only 1,200 acres of'-land sold its holdings for over $2,000,000, and it is reported that the Standard Oil Company offered one company in the Coalinga oil fields in .California $20,000,000 for its holdings. LUG KIM . AGEJFJ1ERVES Xo Traditions Counted Sac red in These Days of Investigation. FAITH UNDISTURBED BY RADICAL DOUBT then not be amiss to say we live In a nervous age. "While there Is much In present day civilization to be deprecated I suppose we cun eay tnai it 18 lilglj ana refined. bclenee has won great triumphs. It has enlarged our. concootion of the unl verse and shrunken the girdle of the jpnrin. 11 nas made the earth transpar ent and hung pendant globes of fire In me earn cientns or space. Sometimes It has been bold and offensive and has aiiempiea 10 erase Hie word faith from us lexicon. Stride of Progress. "The age is one of rare progress. We are moving forward wltli rapid strides. Improvement Is the order of the age. The spirit of magnetism Is all uer- vaslve. We are fur removed from the old method of semaphore signaling. Wo can flash out with the suns rays over great distances tidings of victory or of defeat and by a subtle power under our Modern Science Has Not Improved Upon the Teachings of Jesus Christ in Regard to God, Says Dr. Young at First Methodist. Dr, Benja.mln F. Young, pastor of Taylor Street Methodist church, yester. day morning; took for his text: "The Rock of Ages. Isaiah xxvl, 4, speaking on the subject of. "The Old Faith In the New Age." He. said In part: "We live In a stirring age. The past decade has been the most wonderful of all the Rges. The strings of life are tense and vibrate with great rapidity Men are keyed up to the highest possible tension. It is sug gestive that chvslcians of today know of more nervous disorders than did the practitioners of other days. It would E , i, 1 BIT. $10.00 SET OF TEETH FOR Written Ooaraatae for 10 Tears. CMWII Any tooth In the mouth we rrown with solid gold, itk. wusrsnteed to be the K A ft beat for only CtUU Any Porcelain Crown made no mat ter what mey are called or how they are made Our price qq IBIDOXI Solid Gold Top. Solid inld Backs. Porcelain a ff Wonts, per tooth VvW Sollfl Ooid Teeth, JJk. Cla fift brio-re. rr tooth VVIU All other work earre pries pronor- FYe When Pistes r Bridges ara Oraereo. AsstelBt SwniWM. mi DDtm rmoss ATO OOVCS RBBIT1 Hwors I a. m. to I a. m. Wtll . pa us laya. control we can disturb tho ethereal waves so that we can communicate afar off with the ships at sea. I he spirit of analysis and crlt eism Is abroad. The auraola of tradition Is pierced and men count nothing sacred. The dissecting knife and table seem to be part of every scientific system. The radical doubt of Descartes seems to be ; the philosophy of many. In every ! i -n'm demonstration Is asked for. The ! line of the Intuitional In man Is often j denied. One Iirs said 'Its coat of arms j in mi Interrogation point rampant, abgve ! three bishops dormant, and its motto Is c.ucrv?" Sometimes this spirit is re vealed In modern literature. Some writers have been Impressed with the ! restlessness and tho materialism of the age. Already a .reaction is J o correctlv lnternret life the must be dropped Into Its deeper cur rents. "Yet we must face the fact that the questioning spirit Is ahrnad. That the spirit of scientific Investigation pos sesses men Is a hopeful sign not only for this age but for the oncoming one. inis mat 1 nave indicated Is seen In Carlyle and In Kmerson. In Morely aim in fTouue. it is Keen ana Dold in the rhetorlo of some of the leading ag nostics. It Is seen again In George ciiui ana 10.401a, wncre it is as gloomy as the Arctic night. In the covels of rnomas naray it is harsh and coarse and menacing and In the poetry of Mat thew Arnold It breathes a plaintive melody. , "Is there a more pathetic picture In literature than that which Mrs. Hum phrey Ward paints In "Robert Elsmere.' where she depicts him going blind to the dearest vision of his former faith In the poetry erf 'Omar.' admired by so many tedav, there lg the swing of utter carelessness and of godlessness. Inquiry Helpful to Church. "In this age of science and criticism this new age, what is to become of the Ttock of Ares.' the old faith? Sometimes a dashing magazine artlcie stirs us with Its dire predictions and we wonder if again stables sre to be I made of the cathedrals of France." But there has been conflict before. The discussions over the Copernlcan theory and the Ptolemaic system proved help ful to the church. "The common sense view of the crea tion and of geological science has su perseded some outworn theories and the stor of evolution has served to widen vision and to give men higher arid larger conceptions of Ood. In all of this the faith of the .Christian has been exslted for as men study and Investi gate the deeper Is the necessity for faith evtdenoed The Christian religion by what Is In herent In It Is destined to grip heart and life more and more. Thts new age Is to be shot through with Its princi ples, for that means the largest things for men. There Is po eytem which has such a helpful conception of God. The esthetic conceptions of Greece con stituted the flneet theolng-y of paganism. The conception of the far rest, was cold, speculative and hard to grasp. The pan theistic system had nothing of value for the average man Jeeut Chlst came wtth the loftiest view of God. He sf rinwed that G4 H4 ewmmualea'e with men. , that men could know htm and culI commune with the divine. He af firmed that a man did not lose his I Aim 1 1 f ihit e 11 ti mn Mtitil en a. lie nuns to rereai the father unto k lie was a revel t Inn of God. "New. trxvJra science kss not 1m- pnvvwd ayon the taenia ef Jeas Christ with rrepact Ood. Tea fea that ; stoakaa la rtc&t w a ar U U-, finite energy' or the 'unknowable' or merelv the 'supreme' do not wholly sat isfy either the heud or the heart. Jesus Christ says, 'Our Father who art In heav The declaration of the father hood of God is one of the noblest that ever fell from the lips of a teacher. The universe Is not a soulless cavern hut a temple In which we may com mune with God. Cannot Ba Dlsoarded. "The adaptability of religion to hu man need makes it Impossible for men to discard It. There is that In every man which makes It natural for him to turn to tho higher power upon which he Is dependent. Man has a religious nature. He must have something to fit Into It. The religion of the Christ Is best adapted to human need. There Is no other system so adjusted to his lntollectual and spiritual life. In this system there are themes in which his Imagination may dwell. "There are problems for head and truths for his heart. Men are subject to trial and suffering. Life Is full of complexibilltles which baffle one. This has Deen from tne Deginning, ana 11 is destined, as men are constituted, to be so to the end. Upon the darKer things of life Jesus Christ brought the clearer light of heaven. It was simply a note from the Christ music that the apostle struck when he said, 'These things work for us a fur more exceeding and eter nal weight of glory.' unbelief has always Deen unsatis factory. 'An Interrogation point Is not a good pillow ror an acning neart. Men do not get help for their struggles from a negation. Men do not get much at '0.rJt5J-SyiiroI't foin pessimism. i nere is not lead I mucn loriy inspiration 111 pimuu- pny or onopennauer. iue 1051c 01 some systems ends in despair. The logic of the Christian system leads to personal triumph ami to a vindication for the uuward struggles of the race. If I am In 'a godless universe the stars mock me and the musio of the spheres Is simply to lull me as I move to the ahyss life then would be a fraudu lent thing, chaos the governor of the world and necessity and--annihilation tht resultants. ','Religldn has a permanent and at tractive ideal. The world is no loftier Ideal for .men. lie is man as God meant man in some sense to be.' Ideals have changed with the ages. Biograph ical influences have not always been permanent or appealing. Says Eraer eon. 'Every hero becomes a bore at last.'- Here Is one who has never cMSeil to hold the minds of men. He roes have risen and fallen. Time has often brought different estimates to men. Jesus t nrisl lias ncici sway over the hearts of men for centuries and the years scm to add luster to hi t ariyie says of him: nal appetite of an Esau lies over against the spiritual vision of an Is aiah, the Dcuil sea depressions in the character of Judas close by the Her man heights of character of Jesus. "Modern Jerusalem Is not an attract ive city, although that portion outside the walls Is being built up after the western type. Two thirds of the popu lation are Impoverished, heart-broken Jews, walling bitterly the loss of tho gates of Zion. The Christian elements are ko saturated with gross supersti tion and so filled with sectarian hutred that Turkish soldiers are necessary to keep them from killing each other while, parading In religious rites. The city is under Mohammedan control. yet here are many imperishable associations. The Mount of Olive stands, Getlisenuino abides. Calvary is there outside the gate. And the devout pilgrim has his soul flooded with thougnts of great days and great experiences. Inseparable from this city, experiences 11. rough which came to him the best that he knows about God. "There are many Interesting side trips to be taken from Jet us.. lei. 1 : To Bethlehem, to Hebron, to J.-rleiio and the Dead 6?a. Hut the best of the priv ilege lies ahead In a horseback journey northward. One must needs pass through Samaria Into Galilee. Bo,li natural beautv and sarrid association increase northward. The real heart o the Holv Land Is the H'-a of Galilee Our richest memory Is of a Hutnlay by this strangely f aselna t ing like, so rlol in its associations with wir Lord's min istrv. Toward evenlnir tour of us clinibed the high, mountainous bluff near Masrdala. obt.V.ninir a point of van tage like Council Crest. A blue haze was risinir from the water and every where the shadows term deepening while upon our own spirits was failing the hush of approachine night. And as we sat there In the aloamlng. wordless and thnnrht. over p.11 that upon whl we were then looklrr as well as upon the memory of every sweet experience or mat never-to-Lic-r. rBOiten Dummy, came a mvsti''. mellowing radiance from the presence of him whom not having seen we love, w'.o m th ilavs of his flesh brought nnsri reriat-d heaven 1o ttie - n grn t f ,1 ra- and who. now "in the .lavs of -is spirit is everywhere the abiding, and In that hallowed spot, the at.-n,:rg Inspira tion of the reverent and . :-. ' : anred beholder." RELIGION OF PHKNIPFNTS. Dr. Dyott Says Denomination Should Not Hpuro In Choice. That the relin'ous b. :f rf presl- fame 1 dentlal candidates should not be con- t r M'.-.r.'e H nn.1 to his name r..,r j.,i....i nr.K..Mo .h.-v. siaereit in tne e.Ti,on melody, flowing In wild, native tones, executive was t ; - k look enntive the ravished souls of men 1 uress of Pr L;' e- and still modulatos and divinely leads ' morning sermon them.' Jean Paul Rlchter halls him as The mightiest among the holy and the holiest among the mighty, who lifted with his pierced hands empires off their hinges, turned the stream of time Into new channel, and stll governs all the ages' SB, with all the spirit of ma terialism which may he about us we shall come hacK to the Christian Ideal with the Christ emphasis upon the eter nal verities. It Is in the channels marked out by Jesus Christ that men and peoples sre to achieve noblest destiny. nd- ricr- ga r. t r C j e he -d crel- M . t ho.'.! BEAUTIES OF HOLY LAND. Dr. Ln crock Tells Etperleirre" at . First Prrabrtfrian Ohnrch. Attendants at tha First Presbyterian church tVa night were regaled with ex periences of traveling In the Holy Land by Dr. George Lucock. pastor of the First Presbyterian cbufch et ( k Park. 111. His lecture was-most Interesting and Instructive end In part was as fol lows: "The chosen land. Jig the chosen race. Is a composite of all d faces f f the Dig. wide world. Extremes of the physical world ara retx-odur-ed in Pal estine as the eageratd charaeterls Mcs of the human world appear In Is rael In that man all are featured There bare mountains shelter frnilful f altera. A 1 p f n e snews ara nl bors to trapteal a ads. . fsasrt draarlBMe s4e ar fed wl ik arairta XsrUUir. Zk aar- na tional church. .-: 1-h C took occasion t. .1;ff-r object to William H. Ta;'t Is a I'nltarlan "It Is currently rr .-rted lbly no doubt that s " i sentstlves of t'. trni church object to Mr T-ft's pott.h..' presidency of th l'ri'e.1 H'a"s .'p.-m the ground that t' ! n;. n ' r of te I'nltarlan church T"e ot;.-f n ,s ab surd A man s rel;g'i . t ..ef, or d nomlnationsl connection Hif.iM have nothing whatever t-n 00 wih the ones tlon. so long as h .hsr ;cr ! l-i, reproach, and he can -,'.' ,n t t - requirements of the l.:ghFt eff.-e o.r nation can off. r "Mr Taft is CVr"t'ii H is statesman. 1( 1 pK-rl,.; nl t fitted to a pre-mlrrt Jn-'w fr tv. office of president of tl ft !f,! Stt- His Christianity ha n"'r h.f. T- t" n challenged even t.pnr. a t-v! bi In hW endeavor to do r""! Vi re r he has Wn tn'trli' 1 '.'--l i tbose who are m.:i to mot r-r'h.-dox of the orthcHb "The f'reyht ttrian "-v-ir-h a h;-h stands 1n the front rar.k for sil 'at '. good am) true, ud Vr Teft a years ago on a most w-:rt o-. l n It was the r.atl-r.ai n"iirg rf the America Tract soety ir Wasfeirrton. D. C. According to the raMoir of tM evanrellcal aocletv. this meetirg ! he'd in Washtnrton. sd everr ya it Isvlt'e sntne rrr"Td ' M ' "f r " ef tbe orthaog churches to 4-i.ver ti en nual addreaa e vr hfre. this clety bad met under tha qsptcea ef tha Xulc. jLeiorsaed eiaroto. at wtich pra- Ident Roosevelt is a member, and Pres ident Roosevelt delivered the address. Then came the year for the Presbyter inn church and Mr. Taft delivered the address. The Presbyterian church than which there can be no better was honored in having Mr. Taft deliver that address. "Hut, after all. It Is not a question of Mr. Taft's religious belief, as to whether h Is fit to be president. The history and platform of his party, his statesmanship, his patriotism, his rec ord, his manliness and many other Qualifications are in the count. There fore, that which some of these breth ren of tho Methodist church have had to say should emphatically be repudi ated by all the churches, and by none, more than t tie most representative members both of the ministry and Ialty of tha Methodist Episcopal church. "I do not arraign the Methodist church. Some of the best people in 'h" world belong to that church. God for bid that I should stab the breast from which I nursed my early religious life. Rut I would denounce the claim of those who have objected to Mr. Taft - because ha Is a I'nltarlan. It Is either miserahle and narrow scctarlfl nlsm or political chicanery " NOT LIKE ANY OTHER HOOK. Defense of the Illhl Made by Dr. Slraton at White Temple. The pulpit of the Whlis Temple was filled yesterday by lr. John Roche ritratoh of Baltimore, Ir J Whltcnmh Brougher, the pastor, being absent. Dr. Straton spoke In the morning on the subject. "Is There a Living God?" At the evening service his subject was, "Is the Bible a Revelation From Heaven?" Ho said In part as follows: "It has been sought by some to lm augn the moral character of the God, pictured In the Old Testament, because of his stern Commands to the children of Israel to drive out utterly, or destroy, the idolatrous peoples In the Promised Land. But was It immoral for God to I give such commands to the cnlldien of Israel- is it immoiai ior tne surgeon I to amputate the putrid limb in order to save the life of the remainder of the I body? if It Is not, then it was not im j moral for God to cut off these l.iola- iious peopiea 111 uiuer mat ins cuopen nation might be saved from the pollu tion of contact with them, and thereby enabled to give the true religion unpol luted to the world. "The Biblo Is not 'Just like any other book'." As well say that a telescope Is Just like any other brass.' It is not. True It Is brass, but brass in a peculiar relation and shaped for a specltlo and unusual purpose. The telescope is not like anv other brass, and a man who uses It In the wrong way really abuses it, and at the same time denies himself a most uplifting and inspiring experi ence. He might be gazing with rapt vision and leaping heart upon the previ ously unseen glories of the midnight heavens. Tho critical attitude toward the Bible prevents many a soul from catching the visions of eternal glory. "Why fhls marvelous record? 'Thy word Is truth!' There is 'the reason find secret of It all. The hungry hearts and needy souls of the children of men have come to this blessed Book and found in it tho very bread ana water of life, and It is monstrous to suppose that a maze of myths or a cunningly devised tissue of errors, superstitions and lies could so have snipped the human race." ACCUSED PK03I0TEK CAUGHT AT HEW (United Press Leased Wire.) San Francisco. Aug. 24. Detective Sergeant T. J. Bailey left here todav tor Reno, Nev.. to bring hack John j. Lynch, the San Francisco mining pro moter, who was arrested Saturdav tn the Nevada, rltv on a . of mm. bezzling a $10,000 bond In... 'he Ocean Shore Railroad company. The offlcr win stop at .Sacramento to secure requi sition papers that have been Issued there for the accused maji. He also has In his possession an affidavit rom Police Judge Cabanlss stating that a warrant has been issued for Lynch'a arrest. URATTtlE CITY 3riLL DESTROYED BY FERE (?nec!al blnpntch to The Journal.) Canyon City, Or.. Aug. 24. Word has been received of the destruction by flra of the sawmill owned and operated by Charles K. Flack, ner PraJrio City. The fire occurred Saturday. Only a few weeks ago Mr. Flack's sawmill on Dixie . creek blow up. destroying the plant. The destruction of his other mill bfc. fire puts him out of buajhesa for the time being. The origin of the fire was not learned but Is supposed to hava been caused by a spark from the engine. Energy is well-nourished muscles plus well-nourished nerves. Uneeda Biscuit are the greatest energy-makers of all the wheat foods. In dust tight. moistun proof packages. Neper sold in bulk. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY i
