The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 09, 1910, Image 7
JEFFRIES WELL LICKED,
JACK JOHNSON WINS HEAVY
WFK.1IT CILAMIMONKHII?.
old Time Champion Could Not Co-ne
Back ami Was No Match For tlu>
Big lilack Bruiser.
Reno. New, July 4.?John Arthur
Johnson, a Texas negro, son of an
American slave, tonight Is the first
and undisputed heavyweight cham?
pion pugilist of the world.
James J. Jeffries of California, wln
aer of S3 championship fights. the
man who never was brought to his
kneea before by a blow, tonight pass?
ed into history as a broken idol. He
met utter defeat at the hands of the
black champion In the ISth round.
While Jeffries was not actually
oounted out. he was saved only from
this crowning shame by his friends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fallen man again, and the towel was
brought into the ring from his cor?
ner. At the end of the 15th round
Referee Tex Rlckard raised the Magi
arm. and the great I t ffl I filed out
glum and silent.
JstTrles was dragged to his corner
bleeding from no?.e and mouth and a
denen eats on the face. He had a
black cloeed eye and swollen features
and be held his head In his hands
daxed
Johnson walked out of the ring
without a mark on his body except a
alight cut on his lip. which was the
opening of a wound suffered in train?
ing
Ring experts agree that it was not
even a championship fight. Jeffries
had a chance In the second round,
perhaps, but after the sixth it was
plain that he was weakened and out?
classed In every point. After the 11th
round it was hopeless.
It was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure
of a fighter to "come back" after
years of retirement.
The youth and the science of the
black mat. made Jeffr.es look like a
green man. The great Jeffries was
like a log. Johnson was like a black
panther.
Jeffries fought by instinct, it seem?
ed, showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart In every round,
hat he was only the shell of his old
self. The old power to take a terri?
ble beating and bore In until he land?
ed the knockout blow was gone.
After the third round Johnson
treated his opponent almost as a Joke.
He smiled and blocked plarfolty.
wart I lag ?tf the bear-like rushes of
Jeffries with a marvelous science, now
tucking a blow un i?-r Ms arm. again
plucking It out of the air mm a man 1
?lope a baseball. Out of the sea ol 1
opinions and arguments that bolster?
ed up this fight and made It the talk
of the world these plnacles of fact
have been caat up.
The fight was on the square. Of
that there was no doubt after the
first round.
There was no evidence or hint of
the "yellow streak" on the part of
Johnson.
Johnson proved himself so abso?
lutely Jeffries' master that experts
euch as W. Corbett. an Australian
?porting and ring expert, declared
that Tommy Burns had put up a bet?
ter fight against Johnson, and that
the black man was only playing with
the other man.
The end was swift and terrible. It
looked as though Johnson had been
holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time and now that he had
measured Jeffries In his weakness he
had determined to stop It quickly.
Jeffries had lost the power of de?
fense. A series of right and left up
parcuts ddMpgpgd at wVA host htm
staggering to the ropes. He turned
and fought back by Instinct, as
thought he were dying hard.
With the exception of a few fast
rounda the fight was tame. Jeffries
did not have the power In his punch
to hurt Johnson after he had received
blow after blow on the Jaw, and his
vital power was obblng. Hut even be?
fore this stage came. Jeffries could
not reach the black man. The blows,
almost all of them, landed with the
speed taken out of them. It was
like hitting a punching bag.
Tbe Jeffries crouch was in evidence
at times, but during most of the fight
Jeffrie* was f.oind standing straight
and working with sogsething of his
old aggressiveness.
The IMh round started with ?
clinch after Jeffrbsj had failed t-. land
on th?? body. Johnson then tore i.
snd before the npeetators were pro?
pored for the finish he had mal Jef>
fftgf down with lightning b tt and
right blows to tbe jaw. Jeffries reel*
gd and fell half way through the
pagsM on the west side of tb. flag),
Thosi near him saw that hi had k I
fggsM of his surroundings and lift
fsc? - :it the ring sld" were a blur (?
hin? Ills tine- had Come, He WS
feeling what he had caused others t
I*, um .i ly of hi yoatk and tar*
Johnson > over to tl no! and
dur
Ink.' -In
fool he was and how he was in for
the greatest heating of his life, now
ran forward with outstretched arms,
crying: "Oh Qod, don't hit him!"
Jeff painfully raised himself to his
feet. His Jaw had dropped, his eyes
were nearly shut and his face was
covered with hlood. With trembling
legs and yielding arms he tried to
put up a defense, but he could not
stop a terriffic right smash in the
Jaw followed by two left hooks. He
went down again. Jeffries' physician
and other friends jumped into the
ring.
"Stop it!" they cried. "Don't put
the old fellow out!"
Sam Merger, Jeffries' manager, ran
along the ring, calling to Hob Arm?
strong:
"Rring that towel! You know what
I mean, don't lot him get hit!"
From Johnson's comer his seconds
were calling to him to quirt. Then
the referee stopped (he timekeeper
and It was all over.
The soothing liquid! were applied
to the fallen champion's bruised face
but his heart was somrthing that
c ould not be reached. As soon as he
regained his senses of persons anc1
of the rapid fire of events that had
pushed him Into oblivion, he took his
head in his hands and groaned.
"I was too old to come back," he
said.
Corbett and Joe Choynski and
Brother Jack united in trying to
cheer the defeated man.
"It's all Off with you," said Cor?
bett, "but you did the best you
could."
There are no eyes so sharp as the
eyes of hatred.?Hillard.
HOWARDS MIST 1MT V
Berkeley County Man tr he
Por *? lie Mwlei
('olur* 'r? h'? v." ' . ? r
of his wife more t',ni * - i *ir>? *
J;?mes Kl\V'?ris m?'~t piv I
penalty In Berkelev unt
prcme Court renderln
which the Renten e - f \,
e:l upon Edwards Is iffirm
opinion is by <'hi?M histice
is ordered that a new day '
ed by the Berkeley county
the execution.
NOTICE.
r>? -day, the 19th day of July,
1 S? l * Supervisors of Reg ist ratio?
?ill their Books of Registration
t'r< m m. to 5 p. m. at Mayesvtlle,
S. C the purpose of Registering,
r >g and renewing lost certMl
tc*
T. D. DuBOSE,
S. J. WHITE,
W. B. DINKINS,
ir i BupVi Registration.
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TRUTH NUMBER 60
The great fortunes of this country have been made
by those who associate themselves in the
s development of a natural resource
AMILLION of dollars sounds like an enormous amount of money, yet a million has
been made time and again in the producing of oils and judicious investment in com?
panies in operation, and in this business sums of money are returned upon invest?
ments which it would take centuries of frugality to acquire. Oil stocks are the best invest?
ment of the day. Every wise investor will make money. California's greatest industry is
in its infancy. California National Crude Oil Company stock is considered the best of in?
vestments. Our management is first-class. Our location cannot be beaten.
MILLIONS PAID IN THE PAST
BILLIONS IN THE FUTURE
During the last ten years those oil
stocks listed on the California Oil
Exchange have paid dividends ag?
gregating about $25,000,000. Many
of the larger dividend-paying com?
panies, however, have never listed
their stocks, so that the total of the
dividends paid by California oil com?
panies in the past would, no doubt,
? -,.(.. tv,w crier.,,,?.,. gum of
$50.0^0.000.
A few yea?'? ago the I'nion Oli
Company of California was organised.
It then Wned i .i 111 Mrt pro?
perties iu ?*c oli fields ' Ventura
county. The beginning was small in?
deed. Ten years ago it Is said that a
controlling interest In the company
sold for $300,000. TODAY THE UN?
ION OIL COMPANY HAS ASSETS
VALUED AT ONE HUNDRED MIL?
LION DOLLARS. Consider the im?
mense possibilities of the industry
that will permit of such an enor?
mous growth In ten years! What
other argument need be offered as to
the opportunities of the oil Industry in
California? And what of the Asso?
ciated Oil Company ? Here too, we
tlnd an Instance of stupendous growth
within a few short years, and today
the Associated Oil Company owns as?
sets worth many, many millions?no
one can tell how much. Stock in
the Kern Oil Company originally sold
at 25 cents per share. It has since
paid dividends of $23.00 per share,
and Is now worth several times the
original price. From an oil publica?
tion we take the iollowing tlgures:
$260.00 Invested In stock of the New
York Oil Company has since been
worth $10.000.
$250.00 bought 2500 shares of Lu
eile Oil Co. stock. It Is today worth
its, tot.
$250.00 Invested in Home (?11 Com?
pany has since had a value Of $100,
000.
$250.00 Invented in Alcalde Oil
would since have brought $7 "?,000.
o.oti invested in stock of the
i'entral Oil Company grew to be
worth $45,000.
stock which sold only a few
months ago in th* Palmer <>il Com?
pany at li"> tents per share today is
i.rth $1.35 per share,
Block that two months ago In the
California National crude oil Com?
pany s? Id fot II cent, per share is
now selling at so cents.
Monte CrlatO, Peerless, Caribou, Fi?
nal. San Francisco and McKittrlck
and many, many others have made
tin- original stockholders enormous
profits, in facti a large portion of the
oil stocks listed In Ihe California OH
Rai hange are paying dividends stead?
ily.
Thus we see what has been accom?
plished. Vet it is conceded that con?
ditions are better f<>r going Into <'al
Ifnrnls "il investments now titan ever
before, and while the profits of the
pn ? huve Iteen very large, those o(
the future will be even greater.
Considering all of the above facts,
it must be conceded that the condi?
tions are remarkable, that the in?
vestment opportunities are unpre?
cedented, and whether you have one
hundred, one thousand, or one hun?
dred thousand dollars to invest, CAL?
IFORNIA OIL IS THE PLACE TO
PUT IT RIHGT NOW.
Such remarkable conditions, how?
ever, cannot continue. The Standard
Oil Company, first to see and appre?
ciate the situation, has recently been
purchasing enormous tracts of pros?
pective oil territory. Much proven
ground has also been purchased.
They are investing millions of dol?
lars today in California oil lands.
Other large corporations are doing
likewise. French and English syndi?
cates are buying heavily of California
oil lands. Individual citizens are
buying to the limit of their financial
ability. In a few years the condi?
tions will have changed entirely, but
truly the GREATEST INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES OF THIS GENE?
RATION WILL BE FOUND IN CAL?
IFORNIA OIL DURING THE COM?
ING ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS.
To make the most of these oppor?
tunities immediate and aggressive vc
tio.i Is absolutely necessary.
Let us adduce some actual fig?
ures as to what can be done. A* the
present moment we know of a partic?
ular 40-acre block of oil ground
which can be purchased for $2,000
per acre. There Is nothing uncertain
about this property. It has been
proven absolutely that, at a depth of
from 1,000 to 1,200 feet, the oil sands
will be encountered, which will show
a thickness of from 150 to 200 feet,
making the wells, when completed,
rrcm 1,200 to 1,400 feet deep. That
each Of these wells will produce from
100 to 300 barrels of oil per day is
VN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.
The wells will cost not more than
$ lo.ooo each, and can probably be
drilled for $7,000 each. The cost, of
forty acres at $2.000 per acre Is $80,
000, To drill twenty wells on this
ground, being one well to each two
acres, would coat not to exceed $200.?
000, and in all probability would cost
not more than $125,000. Taking the
highei figures, however, we find u
total investment of $280,000. Not
one of the wells will produce less
than io<) barrels of oil per day, and
s<.no- of them win produce 200 or
oven 300 barrels ,,er day, possibly
more. Taking the smallest figure,
only 100 barrels per day as the aver?
age, the production for one year
would amount to 36,500 barrels for
each well. Twenty wells would make
the yearly production 730,000 bar?
rels. This oil, after counting the cost
of production and incidental expen?
ses, should net 50 cents per barrel
(certainly not less). THE NET IN?
COME FROM THE PROPERTY
WOUD BE $365,000 PER YEAR,
$85,000 MORE EACH YEAR THAN
THE TOTAL INVESTMENT. The
wells may be depended to do practi?
cally as well for ten years as they do
the first year. The total income at
this rate for ten years would be $3,
650,000, from an investment of only
$280,000, and the wells would still
have a life of many valuable years,
leaving the holding at the end of ten
years worth several times the amount
of the original investment. The above
figures are based upon present prices.
It seems absolutely certain that with?
in a few years the price of oil will be
materially higher, in which event the
profits would be proportionately great
er.
Bear in mind that these figures
tell, not "what might be done," but
"what actually can be done without
possible doubt."
Do such profits appeal to you?
Perhaps you think these figures are
pretty high. Look here!
In the north end of the McKittrlck
district there are forty-two wells be?
longing to five companies which are
producing more than 20,000 barrels
of oil per month, being an average
of approximately 5,000 barrels of oil
per well each month, or a production
of 00,000 barrels of oil from each well
per year. This oil la selling at 60
cents per barrel, giving a gross in?
come of $36,000 per well per year.
This Is not what "might" or "can" be
done, but what ACTUALLY IS BE
ING DONE TODAY. We use this one
group of wells merely as an illustra?
tion. Many similar illustrations
might be given.
DO SUCH PROFITS APPEAL TO
YOU?
What, then, is the net result? What
Is the situation with reference to Cal?
ifornia oil investments today? Merely
this: It is possible now to buy AB?
SOLUTELY PROVEN OIL PROP?
ERTY, about the value of which
there can be no doubt, at a price that
will permit of the necessary drilling
expenditure, and pay a profit of from
50 per cent to 200 per cent per year
upon the investment for many, many
years to come. An investment which
at the end of twelve months begins
paying dividends of 50 to 200 per
cent per year enhances in value dur?
ing that time from 300 per cent to
1,500 per cent. Such records, many
of them, have been, are being, and
will be made in California oil. DO
SUCH PROFITS APPEAL TO YOUf
An investigation covering several
months' time, during which we have
gone into the matter very thorough?
ly, has disclosed to us the facts as
above set out. If you will take the
time to make a similar investigation
you will find them out for yourself.
We want you to thoroughly consider
these facts, and you cannot then fail
to appreciate the immense investment
opportunities of California oil. It is
upon these facts that we base our de?
claration that "THE GREATEST IN?
VESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF
THIS GENERATION ARE FOUND
TODAY IN CALIFORNIA OIL."
And the best buy in California oil
that we know of today is the stock
of the California National Crude Oil
Company at 80 cents per share. You
want it?so buy today.
California National Crude Oil Co. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK
I. W. HELLMAN ULDG., Los Angeles. Cal.
Gentlemen: Enclosed find- - -._Dollars
for which ph ase issue me-.Shares
of flic Treasury Stock of the above Corporation.
Name_
Address_
California National Crude Oil Company
I W. HKU.MW BUILDING, I
Angeles, (California.
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