The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-14

ty and promptness the next afternoon
80 just 10 hnu cut how this journalist
genius got hold OF the work aud labor o
hii the other fellows and without seemin
iaoor or worry to himself II was decide
py the correspondent OF the Times Demo
grst 70 nx up n littlc story about some
neTef woSa 9S1 never hspphea and While
was posted and was told not to use
STORY which would be sent TO them In tn
regular course by wire on the night OF Jul
ana which would announce the sale q
the remaining holdings OF the Hogg Swan
syndicate to the Buffalo OIL company Tn
9nicers OF both companies were consulte,
nN the Ilmes-DemOcrat correspondent an
they said that any story could I've scat on
20 long as u was not used They did no
know anything about the story furthe
than that their names were to be used
The details were worked up by the CORE
spondent OF the Times Democrat and n
living man saw the special or was cognl
sant OF the contents until II reached tn
operators hand in the Western Union tel
egraph office. And right here It may h'
well to say that the telegraph company
mas been very anxious to trace leakag'
and has not succeeded The escape ~
news after II reached them was due to tbs
courtesy of the manager In permitting cor
respondent TO go behind the railing ant
use the tables for writing their matter.
Last night at o'clock the correspondent
on the Times'Democrat filed at the tele
graph onice two pages Of typewrtten mat
ter The story recited thar the Biffalt
tlemen, had purchased from the HOGS
SwAyne syndicate all their remaining hold
ines on Spindle Ton Heights. paving there
for the sum of 81. 10000 cash. II wa,
announced that II was the purpose OF tht
Rrnalo company to organize a big syndi
cate of their own with foreign capital be
hind them and that they wculd procee,
at once with the drilling Of wells and tn
development OF the property hy buildini
tanks and pipe lines.
This morning the Galveston News ioomet
M with tho following item, really funny T.
those who were supposed &c know some
thing about the business of the Hogg
Swayrc people:
"A deal for land for the Spindle TOT
hill is reported TO nave been closed up 70
day, for which n couSidera ion OF 81 goo
Is said to have been made. The land 1
all that remaining unsold Of the Hogg
Swayne syndicate and was purchased b.
al oil company In this city. II Is probable
that thu land will be turned into an oil
company, in which a large English syndi
cate viii he Interested
II is now up 80 a newspaper writer T
explain to the telegraph office and to tn
manager OF the Hogy-SwaYne svndicat'
where he got his information. He say
that Il IS reported that the sale was made
The people most Interested want to know
whers the reporter got the figures he CAV
Ms the price paid, where he got the RAG
that an English company was lntorcstH,l y
The slle in fact, whoever said a WORD o.
the streets or elsewhere about the sale
And in tho meantime there has been on
nan barred from behind the railing OF "a
Telegraph Office and hr will have to writ
Ills spiff inst like the common herd, ava
ont In the cold cold world All this gof
to show that It Is frequently better 10 &c
scooped than to be cute.