Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1913 — John Priest and Sons Strike It Rich in Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

John Priest and Sons Strike It Rich in Oklahoma.

Lafayette JoumaL Roy and. Harry Priest, sons of John Priest, the genial traveling passenger agent of the Monon railroad, recently purchased 1,675 acres of oil and coal lands in Haskell and Latimer counties, Oklahoma. Soon after their purchase, a well on an adjoining lot produced 1,500 barrels of oil in one day. As John Priest holds an interest with his sons in the odl lands, Thoe, Grant, president of one of the large oil companies in Tulsa, Okla.. made a trip to this city to see Mr. Priest. He made a flattering offer for a lease on the land based upon cash and royalty. v Provisions of the newly ratified seventeenth amendment to the federal constitution _were put into practice Tuesday for the first time, when voters of Georgia east direct ballots In the election of a United States senator.