The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-31
Ole WELLS ON FIRE
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS"
WORTH OF PROPERTYDE-
STROYED IN LOUI-
SIANA.
A Well Pouring Out Ten Thousand
Barrels a Day First to Take
Fire-Eight Lines ofstesm
Pipes Laid to Wells
Quench Firt5,
Other News.

Art*erp, Aug, 26.-The oil
tanks at Hobokai, three mites from
here, con aiming abou. 26,500,000
gallons of petroleum, are ablaze,
together with, all the sheds, wagons
and paraphernalia. The fire start
ed at the Rus:i.n Company's tanks
through the ignition of escaping
gas and the flames q i.kly 81 read
t, the Standard Oil Gompany's
tarks. A high wind famed the fire
and troops are assisting the fremen
to focalize the confagration.
The trems say that nothing
can be done except to allow the fire
to burn itself out. The estimates
of the losses run into mi i1ions of
francs.
Crowley, La, Aug, 26.-Tne
biggest fire in the bis,ory of the
Mamou oil fields is raging. Yes
terday Morse well No. 8 came in,
billing gusher, pouring out a vol
ume of oil at the rate of 1O,U0O bar.
yels day. The fire caught from a
spark emanating from friction, and
rapidly spread to other wells. Four
oil tanks, each of which had ca.
pacity of $4,000 barrels, caught and
burned. Two were full of oil and
two were empty. -Four standard
rigs, the property of the Merse Co.,
were also destroyed.
During the afternoon the fire was
confined to the Morse wells No. Z
and 8. Large lakes of oil, which
had formed when the Morse No. s
came in, caught fire.
A meeting of the employees of the
otber wells was held, the wells were
shut down and the forces Joined in
fighting the flames. Eight tines Of
st. AN pipes have already been laid
to the burnir 6 wells and more are
being prepared. The loss is now
placed at more than 100000.
| This afternoon the fire at Mamou
oil fields is still burning in the
| Morse wells No. 7 and s, aud al
work has beea abandoned by ordel
of the companies, and every work
man in the field is helping to make
arrangements to smother the fir,
steam. Tue first effort will h.
made tomorrow. The oil being
burned each hour is wurth $4,000
and the loss by Saturday mornin,
will amount to 5000, coo. The fir,
, cannot spread further.
: New York, Aug. 25.-New Yorl
e World: The old Greek joke abou
the boy who ruled Athens by rulin!
his mother, who ruled his father
W. 0 10 turn ruled Athens, has bee
/; r, viewed by a Baptist missionar
as sound principle of world power
rhe Rev. R. S. NJ" Arthur, in a,
a. dfess to the Michigan Baptist s
:. s,,nbly, described the yellow peri
Us the golden opportunity of th
/. wo:ld." If japan is victorious i
J. b war. be said, "Japan will lea
8 CHI na, Great Britain will lead ia
# pan and America will lead Grea
: b. tain. The rest Of Europe vii
follow easily" :
!. Nothing could mar this delecta
+ BILE programme except the refusa
/ of China to be led by Japan, or th
! refusal of Japan to be led by Grea
8 Britain, or the refusal of Great Brit
/ ain to be led by the United Statel
4 |or the refusal of the rest of Europ
9 to "follow easily"
g. 1t is very engaging picture
g nevertheless. 10 comparison wit
e the Macarthur big stick the Roose
8 velt big stick shrinks to the dimen
sions of a willow switch.