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GAS STRUCK
IN OIL WELL
At Depth of 600
Feet
ON FIRE SEVERAL TIMES
das Rising Through 300 Feet of
Water Makes Noise Like
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A flow of gas has been en
countered in the Grizzly oil well
at a depth of about 600 feet.
j The gas is inflammable and was
I set on fire several times Tues
day at the surface of the well.
One man who set it on' fire had
his whiskers singed, the flames
leaping as high as his heatl.
The gas flow is strong enough
to swing the cable in the drill
hole. There is about 300 feet of
' water in the hole and the escap
ing gas causes the water to bub
ble and boil so that the sound
can be heard by the workmen.
The drill is now working in a ;
hard black shale, where progress j
is slow. Mr. Kate, the driller, I
thinks that when this formation
is pierced that it will show up
something of importance, either
in the way of oil or a strong flow
of gas. The last hundred feet o
the well has baen made since
work was resumed a short time
ago. Several times the hole has
bee.n dry, the water having been
cased out, but this has again
seeped in, and the only way it
can be kept out successfully, is
said to be by inserting a smaller
casing and using cement, there
by reducing the size of the hole,
which is an undesirable feature.
The hole is now 8 inches in di
ameter at the bottom and it is
not desired to make it smaller if
it can be avoided.
The announcement of the strik
ing of the gas flow has aroused
great interest among local people
in the developments that may be
expected from the Grizzly well
Socialist County Convention
The Socialist County Convention for
Crook County, State of Oregon, is
hereby called to meet at the Circuit
Court room at rrineville, Oregon, on
Saturday, September 17, 1910, at 1
o'clock P. M. for the purpose of nom
inating candidates for all the county
offices to be filled at the next treneral
election, and for the transaction of
Buch other business as may come be-
iore saiu convention, litis will bo a
mass convention and all persons in
to be identified with the Socialist
movement will be entitled to a voice in
the proceedings of the convention.
Done by order of the Socialist Coun
ty Central Committee, August 1, 1910.
J. H. Homey, Chairman, J. H. bmith,
Secretary.
A Bpeaker of national reputation will
address the convention. alo
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MADRAS, - - OREGON
MAN THOUGHT
HE WAS SHOT
Struck A Fence
Gun Went Off
grand jury. The boy's home is
at Grants Pass, and it is sup
posed he had started to go there
with the horse and saddle which
he had borrowed.
BLACKSMITH HELD UP
BY TWO MEN
YOUTH "BORROWS" HORSE
Blacksmith Is Held Up Wounds
One of Assailants By
Biting Finger
Nick Ruyke, an Austrian labor
er, got full of near-whiskey Sat
urday evening and was behaving
.witb unbecoming activity in one
of the joints near the moving
picture show, when Officer Wes
ton went after him. Ruyke fled
with Weston in pursuit and the
Austrian went headlong into a
barbwire fence. As he fell, a
revolver which he had in the
front pocket of his trousers went
off, and the frightened man
thought the officer had shot him.
He hurt his knee on the fence
and this fact added to his belief.
He heard the shot, felt the pain,
and as the powder set fire to his
pants, he, thought he had been
shot and killed and was already
being consumed by the everlast
ing fires of the lower regions.
, Weston you shoot me. What
foryou shoot me," howled the
fellow as he rolled over and.over.
'unable to- rise. Four men picked
Ruyke up and carried him into a
saloon where he continued to rail
at Weston for shooting him. In
the neighborhood of a hundred
men had gathered around by
Lthis time. Dr. Snook was hur
ried in and as soon as he had a
chance to examine the man it
was discovered that he wasp't
shot at all. The only damage
was a smouldering fire in his
clothes. Then such a roar of
laughter went up as is seldom
ever heard, and the incident has
made fun for the town ever
since.
Ruyke refused to walk to jail.
If you want me to go to jail
you have to carry me," he said.
He was dragged to the lockup,
and had a hearing in the Record
er's Court Monday morning on a
charge of carrying concealed
weapons. He was fined $22, and
after being taken to jail, paid
the fine. Then he was brought
up on a charge of assault with
intent to kill, but this charge
failed to stick for want of ev
idence. Ruyke was said to be
attempting to get into the saloon
where he had quarreled with
some comparions about paying
for some beer, and it was claimed
that he had a pistol in his hand
and was threatening to shoot,
when Weston arrived and chased
liim into the barb wire fence.
Joe Johannson, the blacksmith
employed in Tucker & Culp's
shop, was held up by two men
near the flour mill last Saturday
night and relieved of $2.50 and
his watch. One of the men hit
Johannson on the head with
something and knocked him
down then one of his assailants
clapped his hand, over the
victim's mouth while the other
went through his pockets. Jo
hannson got one of the fingers
of the holdup's hand in his mouth
and bit with all his might, and
the man screamed with pain and
cried, ''He's biting me," then
Johannson was released. Jo
hannson says his mouth was full
of blood and he knows that the
finger was bitten to the bone.
The man with a sore hand is now
liable to be under investigation
should he show up soon.
Johannson had been to Porter
& Clarkson's camp visiting with
a friend and was returning home
when he was "stuck up." For
the benefit of those who don't
know him, it may be said that
Johannson doesn't get drunk.
BIG IMPETUS
TO FARMING
Railroads Bring
Cash Market
SAGEBRUSH WILL ALL GO
Land Too Valuable To Be Left
Uncultivated Grain Yield Is
Surprise to Harvester Man
METOLUS WELL IS
- NOW 868 FEET DEEP
BOY BOUND OVER
FOR HORSE STEALING
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Howard Hilkey, a youth 17
ears old, is in jail at Prineville
under $500 bonds, on a charge of
liorse stealing. Hilkey had been
orking with O'Kelley's thresh
ing crew at Culver. He wejit
to Jim Read's place Friday
morning and borrowed a mare
and saddle to ride to Madras.
He came to Madras but on the
return kept going south. Read
got track of him Saturday and
the telephone headed him off at
Bend where the officers took him
in. He had a hearing at Prine
ville and was bound over to the
(Special by Shortest Wireless on Earth.)
Metolus Well, Sept. 15.
Our well is8G8feetudeep, . and
while we have not lost any of
the water that we found at 677
feet, it is a fact that we have
not found any more. The for
mation that we are now in is
hard, and if we keep on pound
ing we will find the center of
tne eartn, or more water, or
gas. Metolus.
The above dispatch is the
latest authoritative information
we have received from the drill
ing operations at the railroad di
vision point, south of town.
The formation which the bit is
cutting now is so hard that only
about five feet a day can be
made in it.
NEW ROAD GRANTED
BY COUNTY COURT
The new county road from the
corner of the William Harper
place on Agency Plain westerly
down the left fork of Nigger
Brown Canyon about 4 and 1-2
miles to a junction with the
Warmspring road near the Ed.
Campbell place, was allowed by
the county court last Friday.
This is known as the Gard Road
and the estimated cost of build
ing it is $3000. Of this sum, a
part is to be subscribed by
the farmers on Agency Plain and
a subscription paper for the
same is now in circulation, sev
eral hundred dollars haying tyeen
signed for already. The re
mainder of the expense is to be
borne by the county. The 'max
imum grade on the new route
will be 7 per cent.
FOR SALE A good three-year-old,
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Prairie. slt
That the completion of the"
railroad to Madras will crive to
grain farming in this section a far
greater impetus than the people
residing here realize is the be
lief expressed by " W. A. Hunt. "
special salesman for the Holt
Manufacturing Co., who has
been here the past two weeks''
taking orders for combined har
vesters.
"My work for many vears."
said he yesterday, "has taken
me into the grain regions, many
of which I have seen before
transportation was supplied, and
again after railroads have been
built into them. It makes all
the difference in the world.
With the railroad station and the
grain warehouses right at the
farmer's door, every bushel of
wheat means just so much cash,,,
to him. There is always ther
ready cash market, the market
of the whole world.
With this condition it doesn'
take a farmer long to see that the
thing to do is to raise every,
bushel of grain possible, and the
way the sage brush will come off
of this country and every avail
able acre put under cultivation . ,
will be a surprise to the residents
here within the next few years.
Since I have been here I notice
there is a great acreage of land
that will raise fine grain, that
has not yet been cleared, it
will be different in a very short
time.
"And look, too, at the grain ,
yield you get here. I hear of no
wheat in this section this year
that is not above 20 pushels per
acre, and some as high as 30.
In a number of good wheat
countries 15 bushels is all that is
expected. It isn't likely that
land capable of producing so
nearly its price every year will
be allowed to remain idle.
"Heretofore the market has
been local. The freight to Shan-
jko has ranged from 20 to 25
cents per bushel, with another
11 cents to Portland, all of which
came out of the grower. A nor
mal freight rate from here to
Portland on the new roads ought
not to be far from 10 cents per
bushel. All this difference goes
into the grower's pocket."
An interesting film shown at the picture
show this week was that entitled Through
the Hood River Valley," and 'Salmon
Fishing Along the Columbia River,"
The pictures show apple orchards, the
gathering, packing, etc., and in the Ashing
pictures the fishermen may be seen lay
ing out and hauling in their nets from
which are taken the great salmon. There
is a show every ivght.
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