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The Exploits of Elaine
A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama
" HBy ARTHUR B. REEVE I "
I The Well-Know* NocdM mnd tkt II ***
II Cnator of th* "Craig Kennedy" Storia ||
Presented in GoDsbqnrtiaa With the Pstke Pliyers sad the Eclectic Film Coabpsay
Copyright, 19U. by the Bt»r Company. AH Foreign Blghta Raaeryd.
I/UNXUTUED
SYNOPSIS.
The New York police are mystified by a
Mrtea of murder* and other crimes. The
principal clue to the criminal la the warn
ing latter which la aent the victims, signed
With a "clutching hand." The latest vlc
tlm of the mysterious assaialn Is Taylor
Dodge, the Insurance president. His
daughter Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy,
the famous scientific detective, to try to
Unravel the myßtery. What Kennedy ac
compllshoa Is told by his friend Jameson,
a newspaper man. Enraged at the deter
mined effort which Elaine and Craig Ken
tißdy are making to put an end to his
•ertmea. the Clutching Hand, as this
•trange criminal la known, resorts to all
sorts of'the most diabolical schemea to
put them out of the way. Each chapter
of the story telle of a new plot against
their lives and of the way the groat de
tective uses all his skill to save this pret
ty girl and himself from death.
THIRTEENTH EPISODE
THE DEVIL WORSHIPERS.
. Elaine was seated in the drawing
P'oora with Aunt Josephine one after
noon, when her lawyer, Perry Ben
toett, dropped in unexpectedly.
He had hardly greeted them when
ithe butler, Jennings, In his usual im
jjpaislve manner announced that Aunt
(Josephine was wanted on the tele-
PIMHM.
I No sooner were Blaine and Bennett
flone than Elaine, turning to him, ex
laimed:
■ "Last night I dreamed that father
(came to me and told me that if I
iwould give up Kennedy and put my
krust In you, I would find the Clutch
dng Hand. I don't know what to think
icf it."
Bennett, who had. been listening In
jtently, moved over nearer to Elaine
|MDd bent over her.
"Elaine," he said in a low tone, his
fe«markable eyes looking straight Into
|ber own, "you must know that I love
prou. Then give me the right to pro
rtect you. It was your father's dearest
jwish, I believe, that we should marry.
{Let me share your dangers and J
iewear that sooner or later there will
fbe an end to the Clutching Hand.
iOive me your answer, Elaine," he
lorged, "and make me the happiest
Bnan in all the world."
Elaine listened, and not unsvmpa
(thetically, as Bennett continued to
{plead for her answer.
"Wait a little while —until tomor
row," she replied finally.
"Let It be as you wish, then,"
•greed Bennett quietly.
He took her hand and kissed it pas
sionately.
j An instant later Aunt Josephine re
turned. Elaine, unstrung by what
had happened, excused herself and
•went into the library.
Involuntarily, her mind traveled
back over the rapid succession ol
events of the past few weeks and
:the part that she had thought, at
;least, Kennedy had come to play in
her life.
Then she thought of their recent
misunderstanding. Might there not
be some simple explanation of It, aft
er all, which she had missed? What
■should she do?
She solved the problem by taking
Tip the telephone and asking for Ken
•nedy's number.
• *•••••
I was chatting with Craig in his
'laboratory, and, at the same time,
|was watching him in his experimental
iwork. Just as a call came on the tele
phone, he was pouring some nltro
hydrochloric acid Into a test tube to
'complete a reaction.
The telephone tinkled and he laid
down the bottle of acid on his desk,
"while he moved a few steps to answer
ithe call.
Whoever the speaker was, Cratg
i seemed deeply interested, and, not
(knowing who was talking on the wire,
!I was eager to learn whether it was
•anyone connected with the case of
the Clutching Hand.
"Yes, this is Mr. Kennedy," I heard
;Craig say.
I moved over toward him and whis
pered eagerly, "Is there anything
inew?"
A little impatient at being interrupt'
ed, Kennedy waved me off. It oc
'curred to me that he might need a
pad and pencil to make a note of
tome information, and I reached over
'the desk for them.
As I did so my arm Inadvertently
iatriick the bottle of acid, knocking it
over on the top of the desk. Its con
sents streamed out saturating the tele
phone wires before I could prevent It
In trying to right the bottle my hand
came in contact with the acid which
burned like liquid fire, and I cried out
In pain.
Craig hastily laid down the re
. ceiver, seized me and rushed me to
the back of the laboratory, where he
drenched my hand with a neutraliz
ing liquid.
He t>ound up the wounds caused by
- the acid, which proved to be slight,
after all, and then returned to the tele
phone.
To his evident annoyance, he dis
covered that the acid had burned
through the wires and cut off all con
nection.
, At the other end of the line, Elaine
was listening impatiently for a re
' sponqe to her first eager words of in
quiry. She was astonished to find,
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In Motion Pictures, Victoria Theatre, Saturday, May 15
READ THE STORY IN THE STAR-INDEPENDENT EVERY WEEK-
at last, that Kennedy had apparently
left the telephone without any expla
nation or apology.
"Why—he rang ofT," she exclaimed
angrily to herself, as she hung up the
receiver and left the room.
In the center of a devious and wind
ing way, quite unknown to all except
those who knew the Innermost secrets
of the Chinese quarter, and even un
known to the police, there was a dingy
tenement house, apparently inhabited
by hard-working Chinamen, but in re
ality the headquarters of the notori
ous devil worshipers, a sect of satan
lsts, banned even in the Celestial em
pire.
The followers of the cult comprised
some of the most dangerous Chinese
criminals, thugs and assassins, be
sidea a number of dangerous charac
ters who belonged to various Chinese
secret societies. At the head of this
formidable organization was Long Sin,
the high priest of the devil god, and
Long Sin had, as we know, already
joined forces with the notorious
Clutching Hand.
The room in which the uncanny rites
of the devil worshipers were conduct
ed was a large apartment decorated In
Chinese style, with highly colored por
traits of some of the devil deities and
costly silken hangings. Beside a large
dais depended a huge Chinese gong.
On the dais Itself stood, or rather
sat, an ugly figure covered with some
sort of metallic plating. It almost
seemed to be the mummy of a China
man covered with gold leaf.
Into this room came Long Sin at
tired in an elaborate silken robe. He
advanced and kotowed before the
dais with its strange figure, and laid
down an offering before it.
This performance was witnessed by
twenty or thirty Chinamen who knelt
in the rear of the room.
At the same time an aged Chinaman
carrying a prayer wheel entered the
place and, after prostrating himself
devoutly, placed the machine on a
sort of low stool or tabourette and
began turning it slowly, muttering.
A few moments later Long Sin, who
had been bowing before the metallic
figure in deepest reverence, suddenly
sprang to his feet. His glazed eye and
excited manner indicated that he had
received a message from the lips of
the strange god.
The worshipers who had prostrated
themselves, in awe at the sight of their
high priest in the unholy frenzy, all
rose to their feet and crowded for
ward.
Long Sin struck several blows on
the resounding gong and then raised
his voice in solemn tones.
"Ksing Chau, the Terrible, demands
a consort. She is to be foreign—fair
of face and with golden hair."
•••, • * • •
At the same time, in a room of the
adjoining house, the Clutching Hand
himself was busily engaged in mak
ing the most elaborate preparations
for some nefarious scheme which his
fertile mind had evolved.
The room had been fitted up as a
medium's seance parlor.
Two of the Clutching Hand's most
trusted confederates and a hard-faced
woman of middle age, dressed in plain
black, were putting the finishing
touches to this apartment, when their
chief entered.
Clutching Hand gazed about the
room, now and then giving an order
or two to make more effective the
setting for the purpose which he had
in mind.
Finally he nodded In approval and
stepped over to the fireplace where
logs were burning brightly in a grate.
Pressing a spring in the mantelpiece,
the master criminal effected an Instant
transformation. The logs in the fire
place, still burning, disappeared imme
diately through the bottom of the brick
tiling and a metal sheet covered them.
An aperture opened at the back, as If
by magic.
Through this opening Clutching
Hand made his way quickly and dis
appeared.
Emerging on the other side of the
peculiar fireplace, Clutching Hand
pushed aside a curtain which barred
,the way and looked into the Chinese
temple, taking up a position behind
the metallic figure on the dais.
The Chinamen had by this time fin
ished their devotions, if such they
might be called, and the last one was
leaving, while Long Sin stood alone
on the dais.
The noise of the departing satanlsta
had scarcely died away when Clutch
ing Hand stepped out.
"Follow me," he ordered hoarsely,
seizing Long Sin by the arm and lead
ing him away.
They passed through the passage
way of the fireplace and, having en
tered ihe seance room, Clutching Hand
began briefly explaining the purpose
of the preparations that had been
made. Long Sin wagged his head in
voluble approval.
• ••••••
Elaine was standing in the library
gazing sadly at Kennedy's portrait,
thinking over recent events and above
all the rebuff over-tie telephone which
she supposed she had received.
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HARRISBTTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 191§.
Jennings entered with a'card on a
salver. Blaine took It and. saw with
surprise the name of her caller:
MADAME BAVETBKY,
Medium.
Beneath engraved name were
the words written In Ink: "I have a
message from the spirit of your fa
ther." r
"Yes, I will see her," cried Elaine
eagerly, in response to the butler's In
quiry.
She followed Jennings into the ad
joining room and there found herself
face to face with the hard-featured
woman who had only a few moments
before left the Clutching Hand.
Blaine looked rather than spoke her
inquiry.
"Your father, my dear£ purred the
medium, with a great pretence of sup
pressed excitement, "appeared to me
the other night from the spirit world.
I was in a trance and he asked me to
deliver a message to you."
"What was the message?" asked
Blaine breathlessly, now aroused to
intense interest.
"I must go into a trance again to get
it," replied the Insinuating Savetsky,
"and If you like I can try It at once,
provided we can be left alone long
enough."
Seated in her chair, the medium
muttered wildly for a few moments,
rolled her eyes and with some con
vulsive movement* pretended to go in
to a trance.
Suddenly the curtains were pulled
aside and Aunt Josephine and Ben
nett, who had just come in, entered.
"I can do nothing here," exclaimed
Savetsky, starting up and looking
about severely. "You must come to
my seance chamber where we shall
cot be Interrupted."
"I will," said Elaine, vexed at the
intrusion at that moment. "I must
have that message—l must."
"What's all this, Elaine?" demanded
Aurit Josephine.
Hurriedly, Elaine poured forth to
her aunt and Bennett the story of the
medium's visit and the promised mes
eage from her father in the other
world.
Aunt Josephine, who was not one
easily to be imposed on, strongly ob
jected to Elaine's proposal to accom
pany Savetsky to the seance chamber,
but Elaine would not be denied.
"It might be safe for Elaine to go,"
Bennett finally suggested to Aunt Jo
sephine, "if you and I accompanied
her."
A few moments later, in the Dodge
car, Elaine, the medium and hef two
escorts started for the Chinese quar
ters.
At the house the medium opened the
door with her key and ushered in her
three visitors.
Entering the room, the medium at
once prepared for the seance by pull
ing down the window shades.
Suddenly an indistinct face was seen
to be peering through the black cur
tains. A voice, deep, sepulchral, was
heard in slow and solemn tones.
"I am Eeko—the spirit of Taylor
Dodge. I will give no message until
one named Josephine leaves the
room."
No sooner had the words been ut
tered than the medium came writhing
out of her trance.
"What happened?" she asked, look
ing at Elaine.
Elaine reported the spirit's words.
"We can get nothing if your aunt
stays here," Savetsky added, insisting
Elaine la Hurried Through the Hid
den Passage In the Fireplace.
that Aunt Josephine must go. "Your
father cannot speak while she is pres
ent."
Aunt Josephine, annoyed by what
had heard, indignantly refused to
go and was deaf to all Elaine's plead
ing*.
"I think it will be all right," finally
acquiesced Bennett, seeing how bent
Elaine was on securing the message.
"I'll stay and protect her."
Aunt Josephine finally agreed. "Very
well, then," she protested, marching
out of the room In a high state of
indignation.
She had scarcely left the house,
however, when she began to suspect
that all was not as it ought to be. In
fact, the idea had no sooner occurred
to her than she decided to call on
Kennedy and she ordered' the chauf
feur to take her as quickly as possible
to the laboratory.
• •*••••
Kennedy had not been in the labo
ratory all the day after my experi
ence with the acid, and I was impa
tiently awaiting his arrival At last
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properties in the big oil districts, where
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The authorized capitalization of The
Uncle Sam Oil Company is three hun
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and fifty million shares of this stock
is owned by over 14,000 red-blooded
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there came a knock at the door and I
opened It hurriedly. There was a mes
senger boy who handed me a note. I
tore it open. It was from Kennedy
and read: "I shall probably be away
for two or three days. Call up Elaine
and tell her to beware of a certain
Madame Savetsky."
I was still puzzling over the note
and was just about to call up Elaine
when the speaking tube was blown
and to my surprise I found that it was
Aunt Josephine who had called.
"Where is Mr. Kennedy?" she asked,
greatly agitated.
"He has gone away for a few days,"
I "spiled blankly. "Is there anything
I'can do?"
She was very excited and hastily re
lated what had happened at the parlor
of the medium.
"What was her name?" I cried anx
iously.
"Madame Savetaky," she replied, to
my surprise.
Astounded, I picked up Craig's note
from the desk and handed It to hei
without a word. 8h« read it with
breathless eagerness.
"Come back there with me, please,"
she begged, almost frantic with fear
now. "Something terrible may have
happened."
• • • * • «
To Be Continued
Thousands Visit Revivalist
Lancaster, Pa., May 12.—Nearly
2,000 members of the choir of the re
cent Stough evangelistic campaign here,
and trail hitters, occupying two spe
cial Reading Railroad trains, left early
last evening to attend the Stough
meeting at Reading last night. They
took to Evangelist Stough a purse of
money and a wreath of flower*.
The pipe lines of the Uncle Sam Oil
Company havtj been exempted from
common carrier liability bv the Su
preme Court of the United States in a
recent decision. All along our exempt
ed pipe lines arfe scores of oil producing
properties that can now be purchased
for about 25 cents on the dollar of their
actual value to us.
In an effort to steal control of the
rich Osage oil and gas fields, the great
eat oil and gas field uuder one owner
ship in the world, the Oil and Gas
Monopoly has brought about a crisis in
the Oklahoma-Kansas oil fields. It has
done this to try and secure a Monopoly
on the bidding- for this great area of
oil and gas lands. The Uncle Sam Oil
Company, backed by its independent
a.rmv ot ! investors, and its already big
properties and splendjd business, is
winning out in spite of everything nud
everybody. People, especially in Kan
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Red, White and Blue tank wagons and
automobile trucks can be seen daily
delivering to the people good oil at rea
sonable prices, in competition with the
rich Oil Monopoly, are among the citi
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left in the Treasury for sale.
The Uncle Sam Oil Company during
the past five months has completed
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with two of its refineries in two States
and has added ono substantial block of
leases on Ranch Creek in Pawnee
County, Oklahoma, and has just drilled
a very important test well thereon. It.
now has a completed pipe line through
the oil fields for 151 MILES.
The Company has three big leases in
Pawnee County, a part of which are
right in line with the great Boston Oil
Pool in Osage County on the north and
the big Cushing gushers in Creek Coun
ty on the south. A part of one of our
great leases is only seven miles from
a 4,500-barrel well drilled in a few days
ago in the north end of the Cushing
field.
It is the determination of the organ
izers and stockholders of The Uncle
Sam Oil Company to get control of at
least one million acres of oil and gas
leases in the rich Oklahoma oil fields,
and it is demanding that this great
Osage lease, that has been proven in
the Federal Court was honorably se
cured, shall bo validated either by the
Secretary of the Interior or by Con
gress, with a provision written in the
lease that shall authorize the Utility or
Corporation Commissioners to fix the
price for which tho oil and gas from
this big Government Indian Lease shall
be sold to the people.
The Oil Trust Crowd seeks through
their corrupt and secret methods to
donate large sums to Presidential Cam
paigns and then control Cabinet offi
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then secure this great Osage Lease (the
richest Plum in the entire Oil 'World),
delivered to the Oil and Gas Monopoly
without this provision to protect the
general public written in the lease.
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make back many, many millions off the
people of the Missouri Valloy. But the
fight of The Uncle Sam Oil Company
has educated the voters in the 150,000
domestic gas consuming houses in Okla
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people are watching the secret, silent
Oil Trust monster that still seeks to
control the Government and then steiil
from the Indian tribes and also rob the
public by extortionate prices.
There is a new day dawning and The
Uncle Sam Oil Company is winning, and
the Oil Trust gang is on the run from
its Ludlow murderers in Colorado to its
Interior Department thieves in the
Osage and its big banker-schemers in
Washington.
The stock of The Uncle Sam Oil Com
pany would be sure to advance fifty
times in a few years by securing JUS
TICE in its Osage Lease fight. The
Company is driving ahead all along the
line. You hav# read the advertisements
of this Company in this paper-during
the past ninety days and this is to
notify you that this is your last chance
to secure the stock at the old price.
Every remittance not started to the
UNCLE SAM WANTB HELP
Civil Service Examinations to Be Held
In This City
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
announces the following open competi
tive examinations to be held "in this
city. Persons who meet the require
ments and desire any of the examina
tions should apply to the secretary,
Third civil service district, Philadel
phia, or the local secretary:
Organic chemist, male, $ 1,800-
$2,500, June 8; technologist in sugar
beet seed investigations, male, SI,BOO,
June 8; junior zoologist, male, $1,400,
Jnue 9; junior pharmacologist, male,
$1,200-$1,500, June 9; assistant, men;
teacher, men and women; industrial
teacher, men, $1,200 to $3,000, An
gust 18-19.
RAT POISON IN CORNMEAL
Marietta Family Becomes Violently 111
After Eating Cakes
Marietta, May 12. —The family of
Samuel Albright, residing near this
place, were poisoned yesterday and nar
rowly escaped death. The family had
been troubled with rats and mice and
poison was placed in the cupboard in
some cornmeal. Catherine, tho 10-year
old daughter, cleaned the cupboard and,
not knowing that tho poison was in the
cornmeal, emptied into the large sack.
Mrs. Albright made some cakes for
supper, of which all ate heartily, and
in a short time the family became vio
lently ill. The only thing that saved
their lives, it is said, was that they
got an overdose of the poison. Some
are still confined to bed as a result.
58 Pipefitters on Strike
Marcus Hook, Pa., May 12. —Fifty-
eight pipefitters and helpers at the Gen
eral Chemical Company's plant went
on strike yosterday afternoon for an
increase in pay. The fitters ask an in
crease from 27 to 35 cents an hour
and the helpers frsm 20 to 25 cents an
hour.
Company on th<* old price on or before
MONDAY, May 24th, will be returned.
At that time the stock still left in the
Treasury will be ADVANCED IN
PRICE FIFTY PER CENT. Other ad
vances are sure to follow. The Com
pany is gaining and it is bound to go
ahead and succeed on big dignified
baais.
If you want to get into a position
that has every indication of accom
plishing splendid success, and in a few
years increase in value from twenty
to fifty times, or possibly a hundred
times, attach your check or draft pay
able to The Uncle Sam Oil Company
under the special offer that follows,
OR WRITE QUICK FORTHWITH
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION,
for if you do not get your remittance
started bv MONDAY, May 2 4th, this
stock will cost you FIFTY PER CENT,
more if you are able to get it at all.
Time will be money to you in this
transaction and let the Company hear
from you forthwith. We value our
combined properties, including exempt
ed pipe line and established trade and
trade name at Four Million Dollars.
There is a provision in the Charter
that protects ths Company from Oil
Trust control. Any month a new well
may open a great oil pool that by drill
ing other wells can soon pour out mil
lions and make the largo stockholders
rich. On one of our big leases in Paw
nee County we have one of the deepest
producing wells in that district. It is
2,812 feet deep. In a shut down a few
days last fall this well filled up and
flowed out over the top. The next
location around this deep well (over
one-half mile deep) may be a five to
ten thousand barrel well. There are
very few opportunities left where the
moderate investor can invest a few
hundred or a few thousand dollars and
secure a real bargain investment op
portunity. This stock should now sell
for FIVE CENTS per share. It is OF
FERED at a bargain investment offer
to raise now capital quick so our Com
pany can take advantage of the many
opportunities in the oil fields along
our completed pipe line. We can in
crease our capacities several times
without increasing our general expenses
over ten per cent.
The winning of the Osage Lease or
the striking of a 2,000 to 5,000-barrel
well on some "of our many properties
should drive this stock up 20 to 25
times this offer to you in a few hours.
Your remittance many be small, but
combined with a thousand more, will
enable The- Uncle Sam Oil Company
to push ahead on a big basis. We re
fined through two of our refineries over
one thousand barrels per day for every
working day during the niotith ending
April 10. We should reach forty to
forty-five thousand barrels per month
in a few weeks, and with sufficient
capital can in a few months refine and
market three thousand barrels daily at.
each refinery or a total of nine thousand
barrels per day. With the great Osage
SPECIAL STOCK OFFER
To the. Uncle Sam Oil Company, Kansas City, Kansas.
amouS n designated'b e ioX: mittanCe ' tock 88 advertised W X °PP°'ite the
(Name of Remitter.)
(Street, City and State Address.)
Respectfully submitted,
THE UNCLE SAM OIL CO.
By H. H. TUCKEB, JB., Pre«.
(Address all letters to the Company.)
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
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death at the shop of the S. Morgan mitted suicide at 'his home here vester-
Smith Company here. Before he could day by inhaling gas. Wis wife iliscov
escape one foot was pinned, fast, and erod his body on her return from shop
with a slide of a fe# inches more his /ping,
life would have been crushed out
against a wall.
Retaining presence of mind, he press- What Is the Best Remedy For
ed one hand against the huge block of fnnetinatinn?
metal, which was so evenly balanced <ru; • "r*| .. K
that he swung it away with ease. His a question aaked.us many time*
foot was badly smashed. each day. The answer la
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Como, Italy, May 12.—The trial of We guarantee them to be satisfactory
Porter Charlton, who was extradited to you. Sold only by us 10 cents,
from the United States on tho charge '
of having murdered his wife on June George A. Gorgas
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fNo account too large.
None too small.
Union Trust Co. of Penna.
Lease saved the Company will build a
new big direct pipe line from the heart
of the Osage Nation to Kansas City,
and in a few years be on the map as
one of the great, concerns of the Middle
West. This Company is gaining. Its
friends are legion. Come and join a
real live army and grow rich with ua.
Do not delay until the stock is ad
vanced to even three or four times the
special offer to you. Secure the stock
now. When the advfence starts on May
24 it may never stop until it reaches
20 to 25 times this special offer herein.
This Company is on the map and doing
business and will be growing in value
while voir sleep. Wake up and head the
hour of opportunity so that your re
mittance is started at once or bv
MONDAY, MAY 24TH. FOR REF
ERENCES YOU CAN WRITE TO
EITHER OF THE BTG MERCANTILE
AGENCIES or we will be glad to send
you further particulars, but do not
wait too long. Remember MONDAY,
MAY 24T11, will soon arrive and after
that date the price of stock will be
fifty per cent, higher and other ad
vances may occur every ten or fifteen '
days as progress justifies until the *
price reaches at least five times this
offer still in your reach at the old
price. When you buy this stock you
will own your proportionate interest in
all the present combined properties and
in all the company secures and de
velops in the future. The Company is
controlled by a Board of 21 Directors,
all of whom are large stockholders,
soveral owning from two hundred
thousand to two million shares each.
The stock sold a few years ago as high
fts twenty cents per share and was
beaten down in value by the persecu
tion of the Oil and Gas Trust and its
henchmen. Now The Uncle Sam Oil
Company has beaten off this persecu
tion and is winning one victory after
another. In other words, The Uncle
Sam Oil Company is COMING BACK.
Get in now and win with us and re
member this is your last opportunity
until the price is nearly doubled. Oil
is cash. Therefore The Uncle Ham Oil
Company can prosper even when other
business is depressed. If you havo
lost on other investments make it back
on this advancing oil stock that is sure
to snon boom in value on a solid basis.
The stock is non-assessable, aud the
cash payment, together with your
agreement to remain loyal to the com
pany, is accepted by the Company as
full payment, if the Company approves
you as a stockholder. It wants none
but loyaJ, patriotic, libertv-loving citi
zens as its stockholders, and therefore
reserves the right to approve or reject
any subscription to its stock. If you
should not be approved your money
will be promptly returned to you. If
you are approved your stock will be
issued full paid in consideration* of
your payment and your agreement to
remain loyal to the Company, which
agreement is contained in the certifi
cate of stock. Special offer is as fol
lows: