The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-21
SUIT FOR A LARGE SUM
Has Been Filed Against the llOgg'
Swsyne Syndicate.
fNGllsHMtN ARE THE PLAINTIFFS
Ansee That . Deposit OF One hundrCd
Thousand Dollars Was Not Returned
TO Then, ms Per Contract.

Beaumont. Texas, February Ca suit
for 100000 has been hled In the United
States circuit court by Texas Oil Fields
limited, against the Hogs .swayne syndicate.
The petition alleges that on August ls.
1909, a contract was entered into between
plaintiff and defendant and ons Alfred
Stuart: that upon certain terms and ccndi.
lions defendant agreed TO sell 20 plaintiu
certain lands. properties mining rign@,
privileges and premises, together with AZ
the plant pipes, castings, valves ntuhgs'
dsrricks, chhttels and enecta, ngnts, priv.
leges and RppurtenRnces In or upon saiu |
premises or appertaIning TO them tine tuii
benefit Of all pending contracts ana ARree
ments to which the syndicate was or might |
be entitled In connection with the pipe hne |
Of the business, provided that the contracts
for the pipe line and storage OF pipe line |
alone should together cover az least AOoo,. |
600 barrels of oil for q year at 5 cents per |
barrel pipe charges; that the contract OF |
sale and purchase was 90 embrace all prop |
erty set forth In the third schedule OF the
contract being pipe line, tanks ana pumping
station already completed and the refinery
70 be completed; also the property set forth
IN the general description Of the first soc
ton, including pipe line. tanks and lands
that by the contract It was agreed between
plaintiff and defendant that the considera-
ton for the sale Of said premises uncludlng
the lease holds II any that might he called
Tor unQeF lOe OpIQul HnOula DC Nh1 SUN VI
1850, 900; that It was further agreed that In
event the contract was not completed on
or before December 81, 1902, II such failure
| happened through act or default OF ayndi-
/ cate plaintiff might reseind contract and the
syndicate should thereupon refund the de
! post Of 10000 with the interest or divi
| dends earned on such deposit; that st was
| further agreed that as an equivalent for
| the deposit Of 100000 plaintiff had deposited
with defendant the deeds of three oil bear.
Ing well properties on Spindle Top, recently
| purchased by Noble Rowan from William L.
| Campbell and $50, 1850; plainum further al
! leGes that Eve OF defendants wells did not
| como up TO the standard and requirements
OF the contract; that plaintiff gave notice
that Il desired TO and did Tescind the con.
tract and demanded return OF the deposit
but Notwithstanding that the same has long
since been due defendants have failed and
refused to pay plaintiff prsys for Judgment
against defendant for the 10000 amounting
TO 100000 with legal interest thereon az g
per cent per annum since date OF contract
or for tho recovery OF the title deeds to the
property bearing the three oil wells, the
S SsnO0'" 10 = NOBLE rowan ana the '''.
: About q o'clock this morning a small tank
OF oil situated IN block p Of the Gladys
City tract Spindle Top Heights, caught
IRE and before 1t was consumed another
small tank caught and was also destroyed
oAh wv utlAl'hN Nttt nNTUtu 10 tue SIhAlN
also Tho property destroyed is said Il
: be that Of the Gladys City Oh company
I ~
Captain Curry WAS asked 10 give out some
facts IN regard to the cold wenther Tuesday
r morning. He always knows exactly what
I "a doing in this line and he started ont by
! saying that the Thermometer registered OF
that morning about 20 above zero Nc
said
This was the coolest weather Of the
winter. ON December 20 the thermomete
. vent down TO 30 and once before then
e had reported 10 me a thin coating OF ic
e Last winter there was a whole weel
h in December when the register went below
8. and we had several sharp turns Of ice /
n Is hard to say whether there VIII be an.
more weather as cold as that Of yesterda.
e. this winter, but II is hardly probable"
=. Tue rain this winter has been somethin
. extraordinary. The average rainfall PEI
. annum in Bee umout Is thlrty-six inches blu
! In NoveIub Der alone there was twenty tire
inches, and the winter has run conslderabl
l above the annual fan inside Of thre,
y months 1t has been damaging TO the cit
! The severe freeze OF Tuesday is consid
cred 70 have been beneficial for the heait
of the community and alec 70 have bee
q. good for the farmer The only damage =
far reported has been 10 stock. II
thought that this may run as high as 500
I
likely that any one man lost over 500
~
= Mr.. s. W. white who ia heavily intel
1 ested in the Sutherland Springs propert
At a point about thirty miles from San AZ
/, tonic, stated 10 The Post correspondent Il
>. day that ALessrs. John r. Gilbert, Geors
:. W Carroll, Will Carroll, Monroe Caro-
and Meager Hecht were all tntereSte
. 81 10 the new prospective field and that me
think II Will turn out TO be unite lara
one. They have ordered tho drilling re
.. shipped from Elntpn. In. there aud will .
:. once proceed TO boring deep we'll. Nh
- shallow wells that are not over 100 te'
d. \ deep have made dne showines Mr., Whii
: = seems 10 think that II IL question 9
hut short time until that held VIII tal
. It's place along with the CordCana field,
80 not 10 become productive az Spinal
-. Top and Sour Lake
~
The reports coming from the various an
rounding heds arr OF as good tone as eve
The Port Arthur Sour Lake, Saratoga Al
all the rest arc showing MP in excess Of q
d. expectations and the production Of oil
" Texas for the latter part q lSS ana :
ar 1904 will certainly make the state RAJ
nj high az compared WITH those old timers IN
I'M have been producing IN the East for hf
at, years.
At peculiar condition exists on the b
'ss with regard to leaky pipe line There
ho one there the owner OF w1idh ia unknoF
ar, ana yet n has been leaking for "A mont
M There is also a tank here from which
isSs has been mysteriously disappearing. and
100 is asserted that several thousand barr
he have found a way out Of ~ no atIeat NJ
n has been paid 20 II heretofore and the pr
,nO ability Is that the oil belongs to some NJ
resident and likewise the pipe line.