El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-28
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TEXAS.
CHARACTER OF THE WE'LL.

TEXAS.
CHARACTER OF THE WE'LL.
DIR. William B. Phillips. professor of
field geology in the State University at
Austin, whose experience in the oil
regions of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia makes him an expert in that line,
paid a visit to the big oil well at
Beaumont. He says that no one can
yet say how extensive the oil field
about Beaumont will prove to be; that
while the big Lucas gusher is world
beater in point of production. it's last
ing quality cannot be foretold. IF the
immense flow of the Lucas well is due
to gas pressure it may soon peter out. y
DIR. Phillips said. But the flow indi-
Gates that gas is not behind it, and il
this theory is correct the pressure may
be due to gravitation. If it should be
gravitation, the life of the well will
depend entirely UPON the extent of the
oil reservoir or stream. The fact that
the we'll is located within twenty miles
of the seacoast gives strength to the
theory that the pressure back OF the
wonderful flow in this well is hydros-
tatic. or salt water. If this is true
the flow will last until the salt water
forces all the oil out of the reservoir
which event will be marked by sea wa
ter rising to sea level in the WELL
EASTERN TEXAS EARTHQUAKE.
A dispatch from Sulphur Springs
Hopkins county, says that on the 23d
inst the citizens of that town were
startled by an explosion at IL a. M,
which was located as occurring lit
tie northwest of the city. Many tele-
phone inquiries as to the cause of it
i'll
one seemed to know what caused the
noise and accompanying shaking of
the earth. A dispatch from Green Vile.
Hunt county, says that the explosions
and trembling of the earth were also
heard and felt there. Residences were
shaken and the sound was a rumbling
one, unlike anything ever heard there
before and it is believed that it was a
genuine earthquake. Dispatches from
other towns in that section say that
all felt and heard it and in some in
stances the plaster was Jared from
the ceiling of houses.
OBJECTED TO VACCINATION.
Sheriff Clark, of Tarrant county, and
posse with bloodhounds have been
securing the timber on Village creek,
ten miles east of Fort Worth for sew
eral days in an effort to capture a
negro. He is wanted for waylaying
and firing on a white man named Tom
Haney. Haney, while working under
instructions from the county health Of
ficer attempted to force vaccination on
the negro, who resisted and fight en-
sued. The negro went and bought a
Winchester rifle and hid himself in
the underbrush where he knew Haney
would pass and when he did the
fv-a1 Of hi n do0nr, hrrf
missed every time. The negro then
escaped and at last report had not been
captured.
MOVING STEADILY AHEAD.
The San Antonio Express grows en-
thusiastic over the progress with which
the Lone Star state is moving forward.
1t says, They are pushing the rice
and tobacco industry in southeast Tex
as, the early vegetable and fruit in
dustry in southwest Texas and en-
larging the cereal crops in north Texas.
In Central Texas there is an indus
trial movement of promising proper
lions, in addition to progressive and
diversified farming, and in west Texas
mineral resources are being developed,
while the live stock industry is being
conducted upon improved principles
and with more prosperous results. Tex
as is moving ahead steadily and surely.
WHILE BEING ARRESTED.
John English, of Dallas, was killed
while being arrested near Kemp and
James Hunter has been arrested c,iarg-
ed with the killing. English travelled
through the country selling drugs and
medicines and Hunter claims he at
tempted to assault his wife. Hunter
swOre out a warrant for the arrest of
English on that charge and went with
the sheriff to arrest him. He was
found and while the sheriff was read
ing the warrant English was shot twice
in the left ide of the chest and lived
only about five minutes. The body of
English was shipped to his home in
Dallas. He was forty years of age and
leaves a wife and six children.
SCALDED TO DEATH.
A 16-months-old child of J. r. Adams
who lives six miles from Tyler met
a horrible death. The child's mother
was washing clothes and had big
kettle full of boiling water sitting on
a fire and in running past the kettle it
stumbled and fell headforemost into
the boiling water. The child's flesh
was literally boiled and it lived only a
short time
NEW MEXICO.