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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-13

The late development of fine
flow of natural gas at the well that
is being bored by the Colfax Gas
Well Co., in the eastern limits of
this town, proves Colfax to be in
the gas field beyond any doubt.
This new well is about half mile
from the celebrated gas we'll locat-
ed on the Colfax court house
square, that has been flowing gas
and water for the past ten years,
and it shows that quite an extern
sive field of natural gas underlies
this immediate territory.
Mr.. G. w. Fouke, owner of the
Colfax press brick factory, which
has been furnishing the steam
power to bore the new well, which
is situated near his brick plant,
says that the gas flow lately de-
veloped is ample for the purpose
of running all kinds of-mills and
factories, and that it should be a
great inducement for enterprises
to locate at this point. He says
the clay of which he is making
brick is the very finest quality of
which thing and jug ware can be
made, aud that there is q vast
quantity of the clay in this vicini-
ty. Mr.. Fouke, beside owning the
press brick factory at Colfax, is
the president of bank at Texark-
ana. He has large interests in va
rious localities, and his opinion is
entitled to great weight.
The stockholders of the Colfax
Gas Well Co. held a meeting this
week and instructed their con-
struction committee to commune
cate with Mr.. Oscar Shanks rela-
tive to the cost of increasing the
diameter of their present piping
and digging the we'll deeper. The
present depth of the we'll is l450
feet, and it is the intention of
the company to increase the size
of the well and bore deeper.
1t is almost incredible that in
all the excitement about oil nc
we'll has ever been sunk in this
locality to greater depth than
the 1450 feet of the we'll above
designated. The well on the court
house square is only 1898 feet deep.
1t was dug in the spring of 1899,
for the purpose of securing for the
town Of Colfax a supply of drink
ing water, but was abandoned be-
cause the water was salty. This
was during the big excitement
about oil at Beaumont, Shreve-
port, and other places. If the oil
fever had been on here at the time
our first well was bored the peo-
pie of this locality would probably
have sunk a dozen wells. We re-
produce from the Colfax Chronicle
of May 20, 1899, an account of the
first finding of gas at this point,
as follows:
DOWN IN PLUTo's DOMAIN.
While boring the artesian well
in Colfax on last Thursday, Mr..
l.. b. Hart, the contractor, 1iscov-
cred free discharge of gas CON-
ing from the pipe, which had been
sank to a depth of $50 feet Upon
applying a match to the gas, il
leaped up in a flame eight or ten
feet high, and for an hour or more
CONSERVATION prevailed. All hands
set to work to put ont the flame,
but it was only extinguished after
couple of tons of wet earth had
been piled over and around the
pipe and il was smothered out.
Even after great mass of earth
and mud was piled over the jet,
the gas continued to burst out in
blue flames on all sides, jolting
and shaking the huge pile of earth
like it was big jelly, and for a
n while il looked like Old Nick
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-13
The Building of Model Roads
Practical Suggestions to Best Methods to Employ in
Getting Rid of Stumps and Clearing Them from
the Public Highways or the Farm.

Model roads for the planter to
haul the products of the farm to
town or the railroad station are
now being built in every State.
The movement has good start
in Louisiana, and whenever a mod
ell road is made in one section it
increases the values of the land
on each side and for some distance
beyond. This fact becomes known
to owners of land on unimproved
roads and they petition the police
jury to improve their road at once,
losing sight of the comparative
cost of the road, and are anxious
to pay the tax so as to get the
benefit.
Over in Ouachits parish they
are making as fine roads as in any
part of the country. Well drained
and ballasted with heavy bed grav-
ell that makes a perfect foundation
and smooth surface. A heavily
loaded team can trot without any
trouble.
Good roads are needed by orr
own people, and it is foregone
conclusion that the districts that
obtain model roads first will attract
to that particular locality the tide
of immigration now flowing to the
Southland. They will people the
hills and deserted valleys adding
untold wealth and prosperity to
State of Louisiana.
Good roads should be laid out
by engineers who understand the
many problems that confront the
road maker. Old roads naturally
follow the water courses and are
subject to overflow. Such roads
should be Strengthened and placed
higher up SO as to maintain al
average level that will avoid heavy
grades. Often new paths through
the timber are cut out to shorten
the distance. and the stumps| must
be removed before the foundation
of model road can be laid.
There are several ways of re-
moving stumps. One that every
farmer knows who has handled q
grubbing axe, is expensive and
back breaking. Another is 9
stump puller, but these are useless
on big stumps, and the last and
best way is to blow them ont with
Hercules Dynamite.
Blowing out stump with lit.
tie dynamite is such an easy thing
to do, and the expense involved &c
Insignificant when compared to thu
great benefit to the property, tina
q land owner having once tried j
is never satisfied until all of the
stumps are removed.
This not only applies to stumpl
in the road, but in the fields
They occupy large portion O
the field and prevent the use of
or are dangerous and destructive
to high-class farm machinery.
There is no true farmer owning
stump land who does not say h
himself, ''some day l am going t
clear out those old stumps," o
"when / have time I'm going to b.
up that old field" Perhaps hi
thinks, If he only had sonic on
"who knew how" he would &c
some dynamite and ''biow mp a fey
of the worst of those stumps.
But he does not need an expert
all he needs is common sense AM
a little book of instructions, whicl
is furnished free by, the DuPon
Powder Company, In Shreveport
1t is the easiest thin g iu the worl'
to bore a hole with a two-incl
auger with long handle four fee
under the stump. DgJt q fuse and
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
DECLARES WIFE FIRED AT HIM
Police Arrest Woman and Find Bronx
Jeweller Hiding Under Counter.

With her face flushed and her hands
trembling with excitement. Mrs. Attillio
Pennacchio. the young wife of Cesare
PennaCchio, Bronx jeweller, was taken
from her home No. 529 Morris avenue, to
the Bronx detective bureau on n charge
of felonious assault last evening. Her
husband, according to Detectives Repetto
and BUesser. had accused her of firing four
shots al him in his teweIry store under
their Morris avenue home, and the officers
had Captured her after chase that had
led them TO the roof of the house.
Neither the husband nor the wife would
make any statement as to the motive for
the alleged attack. but the police assert
that jealousy was the cause.
The detectives We're near the tewelry
store, when they heard revolver shots in
the Pennacchio home. They ran into the
store on the ground floor. No one was in
sight. but the sound OF some one running
up the stairs caused them to follow. The
officers. upon reaching the top floor, say
they saw Mrs. Pennaccho striving to reach
the scUttle. After inducing her to return TO
the store they found the husband crouch
ing under a counter. It was then that the
Jew auer charged his wife with attempting
his life
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
WAR ON STOVE co. ENDED
Boycott Lifted on Buck Products
. Plant To Be Unionized.
by Telegraph to The Tribune. J


St. Louis, Sept. THE four years war
between organized labor and the Buck s
Stove and Range Company was formally
ended tonight, when an agreement was
signed by representatives of both sides in
conference here. The agreement was word
ed so as not to furnish ammunition for the
suit in equity by c. ". Post. of Battle
Creek Mich. No terms as to wages or
hours are mentioned in the agreement, the
statement being made that the labor lead
ers are confident of the good faith of the
Buck company heads.
The liberal translation of the formal ar
ticles of peace is that the local unions will
unionize the plant. without opposition of
the controlling powers. The company will
resume work within thirty days. Mr.. Post
is minority stockholder. Neither he nor
his representatives were avowedly at the
conference
The agreement lifts the boycott off the
product of the Buck company and COM
mends il TO union men and union sympa
thfzers. The confidence of the labor lead
ers in the good will OF Frederick W. Garde-
ner, the majority stockholder of the Buck
companv, and his associates in the man
agement is emphasized and was reiterated
in a statement by Samuel Gompers, who
declared the agreement ends the contro-
versy.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
VICTIM OF HIS OWN PLAN
Davis, Shot for Burglar, Trying
to Gain Room by Fire Escape.

Samuel Davis, a carpenter, living at No
121 st. Mark Place. who was shot and
killed early yesterday morning as sup
posed burglar by John Guarrato, Of the
same address, was the victim of his own
plan TO get to mis- room when he found
that he had forgotten his keys.
The theory that Davis had climbed 70 the
roof and down the rear fire escape In an
attempt to get into his own apartment, be
cause he had forgotten his keys. was sug-
gested by Joseph Berkowitz, VINO lived on
the same floor with Davis, and who identi-
fed Davis as the husband OF his sister, she
having died some time ago. He said Davis
was an industrious man and rarely out OF
a job.
The Berkowitz explanation of the pres
ence of Davis on the fire escape at Guar
rato's window was supported by Patrolran
C'COnnell, who found nothing on the dead
man but a carpenters rule and pencil. and
also found the keys to his apartment in the
rocket of a coat in q closet in one Of his
rooms
Guarrato told Coroner Feinberg that he
found the man entering his room by OPEN
ing the window. Coroner Feinberg held
Guarrato in s., 900 bail for examination later
by Coroner Winterbottom.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
MRS. CRlPPEN NOT POISONED
Actress Lays Death of Friend to
Violent Temper of Husband.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Providence, Sept. 1.-According 10 state
ments made to-day by Mrs. Fred emmett.
an actress, who was an Intimate friend Of
DR.. HawIey H. Crippen and his wife, Belle
Elmore. the two were greatly attached to
each other. and, in her opinion, tnfatuatioD
for Ethel Glare Leneve, the doctors typist-
was rot the cause of Mrs. Crippens muir
der. Mrs. Girnett, VINO first directed the
authorities to the disappearance of Belle
Gilmore, said to-day:
I do not believe that Belle EImcre was
poisoned a. all. 1 have seen her under the
Influence of drugs, which, on inquiry. she
said her husband had given her 70 relieve
neuralgia pains I believe that Crippen
and 1 base my theory on my knowledge Of
the people and on the circumstances just
preceding the deed.
'On the night of January Il, when they
were entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Martinstti,
q quarrel ensued over getting cab in
which 10 take the visitors home. Belle
Elnore had an ungUvernable temper about
trivial matters, and I think when they were
left alone together she burst forth into a
TRADE which caused Dr. Crippen 20 strau-
gle her.
I know that Dr Crippen was fond Of
his wife-more fond of her than anybody
in the woTid-out I also know that she
was afraid of him when he had anything
at all TO drink. for in my own house she
pleaded with me not to give him a second
glass Of brandy, saying that she could not
go home with him if 1 did.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
IRON TRADE CONDITIONS.

ne iron age says
The reduction ia pig iron output in Au-
gust was insignificant. the coke and anthra-
cite furnaces producing 2.106.S41 tons,
against 2.14S,4i2 tons IN July. On September
243 furnaces were in blast. with q daily
capacity OF 66,+6S tons. against 253 furnaces
with 6S. 36S tons daily capacity on August L
Production on September l was at the rate
of about n. 900 tons a year for all kinds
of iron. charcoal iron included, whereas
the record outputs were 25,IS ,361 tons in
1907 and 25 795,471 tons III 1899 Our pig iron
production in August was smaller than in
any month since July. 1903. The list OF
active furnaces at the opening of this
month was 70 less than the maximum Of
3l3 reached February /. and the yearly rate
of production 900 tons less than
the February rate Of 81 $4,000 tons-a fall
ing off of % 5 per cent in seven months.
As 10 the condition of stocks definite in
formation Is lacking. In Western PennsyI-
vania the MahOning and Shenango valleys
and on the south shore of Lake Erie there
was an increase in August, an increase
also in Virginia, but a decrease in Ala
bama while the limited stocks in Eastern
PENNSYLVANIA remained about stationary.
The steel works companies lowered their
stocks somewhat. 1t would seem that there
Is still a call for curtailment in production
hopes on the activity in spots in the last
two weeks The prices realized We're not
encouraging but II is recalled that buying
movements have sometimes followed just
such cuts. The basis o. sales for 1911 *
the chief matter of moment now. Sellers
want from 80 cents to 81 advance from the
low level, but buyers are not ready to pay
an advance. In the Chicago district over
100 COO tons is involved in inquiries for 1911.
Several sales Of basic iron have been made.
including 10000 tons in Northern Ohio for
shipment TO Chicago and 5000 tons at
PHILADELPHIA. the latter a less than SIS.
In finished materials manufacturing and
consumption are in close relation Current
shipments in nearly all lines are up TO the
August rate. but new buying continues re
stricted.
some good export business in rails is un-
der negotiation and is expected to be closed
shortly. In other products also the export
trade Is quite satisfactory. The Grand
Trunk is in the market for 10000 tons OF
rails In structural work the chief new
item is 800 tons OF bridges for the Oregon
Trunk line. taken by the Pennsylvania
Steel Company.
''The Iron Trade Review says:
Piz, iron production for August shows a
continuation OF the decline in output which
has been taking place for several months
During the last month the output OF coke
and anthracite furnaces amounted to 2.lO2.-
372 tons. against lbs. l2+ tons In July. loss
OF 90 152 tons The daily average produc-
ton was So SIS tons. as compared with So
GIT tons in July. During the last month
eighteen stacks were blown out and eight
were blown in, making a net loss OF ten
stacks from the active list The total
number of furnaces In operation on Sep
temher 1 was "a. against 254 on Au-
gust l.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
He LOVED ONLY HER MONEY
So Alleges Young Woman in Suit
for Breach of Promise,

If the things that Miss Sarah Back, of
no. So Henry street, says in an affidavit
about Max korn are true. then he surely
IS an ungrateful young man, if nothing
more Deputy Sheriff Mcdonnell arrested
korn yesterday on a civil order of arrest
issued in q breach Of promise suit which
Miss Back has begun against him. He
was held in $4,000 bail.
Miss Back says in her complaint she
became acquainted with Korn last March
and that he at once ''professed great love
and affection" They became engaged to
be married. she says. and there was a
party, for which the young woman paid
so. Then Miss Back says Korn bor-
rowed 500 from her. And. incidentally,
she says she paid for the new suit that
he wore al the engagement party
But Korn changed his mind and told
Miss Back that as she had no more money
he would not marry her, and Al the same
time he told her that he was keeping COM
pany with another young woman. She
begged him to change his mind and save
her from humiliation. but Korn was OBJ
durate. Miss Back then demanded her
money, which he also refused to return.
telling her that she could recover moth
ing by suing.
4 don't care for your feelings" he said;
care to marry YOU now" And as for any
suit Korn said that for 10 cents he could
get to New Jersey and out of the juris-
dictiOn Of the court. Miss Back then
brought an action for breach of promise.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
HOFFITT HORSES SCORE
Win Three Running Races at the
South Side Fair.

The South Side fair came 20 a close after
four successful days Of tro-ting and run
ming al the Willow Brook Driving Park. at
Islip, Long Islard. yesterday. More than
three thousand spectators witnessed the
races. which were closely contested
William H Mcf7tt's horses carried of
FIRST nonors IN all OF the running events.
IN the four and a half furlong dash Mr,
Moffitts entry. Jack Cade. with Egan up,
and Love Watches. with Holmes in the
SADDLE. finished first and second, respec-
lively. c Thomass Mobility. with Hen
dersou riding was third
Mr M6ffitts cclors again came under the
wire q winner IN The six furlons dash,
when Royal Lady, ridden by Holmes, de-
feated Mrs A. G Blume's Melville, with
Il anklin up, by d head.
IN The c1e-miIe race Mir. Mofitt's Lawton
II Wiggins beat (. Thomas's Mobility after a
hard drive
IN the 2.22 jrot Prodigal Mac won in
straight heats from King Edward. +. r.
E.oybert's Kauawah Star won the Class u
pace in straight heats from Allie Mack.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
MORE GOLFERS IN HUNT
Texas Loses an Entry for the
Amateur Championship.

Four additional entries have been re-
ceived for the national amateur golf cham
nionshir tournament which will begin over
The links of the Country Club, OF Brookline,
on Monday morning. They are James R.
Hvde, of the South Shore Field Club, Bay
Shore. Long Island. r ". Small. of Brae
Burn: Oscar Woodward. Of Montclair. and
: c. Mabon of Ardsley. L. f Hunter, of
Midlothian. has withdrawn, thereby max
ing q net gain Of three and raising the total
to ia
If il had not been for irregular entries
the list would be even larger A case in
point was telegram from @. Y. Rotan, Of
Houston, Tex. who said: Enter me from
Texas AS that did not comply with the
conditions the committee found it impos-
sible TO accept the entry.
Otto Pfckhardt wanted to enter from the
Manhansett Golf Club, but as the organiza-
ton is no longer on the United States Golf
Association list Pickhardt's application was
rejected. He is taking a course at Column
bia and expects to play in the intercollegi-
ate championship tournament a Manches-
Ter. Mass. the week following the big fxt-
IRE.
Fred Herreshof, the metropolitan cham
Dion. left last night for Brookline, while
Charles n. Macdonald and James a. still
man will start to-day in an automobile
r. c. Watson, the secretary expects to
leave to-day. Several Westerners are also
on the way.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
MILLIONS FOR EXPOSITION
San Francisco Will Have S17,500,00 to
Bid for Panama-Paciic Exhibition.
LBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Sacramento. Cal. Sept. within an
hour after convening to-day the Senate
passed the two amendments TO the state
constitution which Will mean 10000 600 in
additional funds to the Panama Pacific
international exposition which San Fran
cisco plans TO hold in 1915 With the $780,
900 subscribed by the citizens of San Fran
cisco this will make $I7.500000 with which
the exposition city will make her bid to
Congress in December
The Assembly to-day passed all amend
ments TO the proposed amendments. and
will approve two measures themselves to-
morrow morning. BY the provisions of
these two amendments exposition funds
are to be increased both by direct tax and
by bonding the city of San Francisco. The
first amendment authorizes q special tax
levy for the entire state of 81 80 coo each
year for four years, making q total of
So Geo 600 for the exposition from the state
The second amendment permits San Fran
cisco to amend its charter and to vote
Spscial hOOd issue of S5.DG 600
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
Keogb Taxes Lead at Pool
Champion Srnothers Hueston in Second Nights
PLAY for Title

lowed it. although the young challenger de
INJURED.
a dazzling seven-bau combination by
which Keogh began the eleventh frame
following Hueston's break, electrified The
crowd It was superbly executed. and the
red ringer dropped into the corner pocket
al the head of the table while the Pyra mid
scattered so that Keogh picked off all OF
the fifteen balls
HuestOn was striving at this period, and
he managed 10 work in 4 daring bank shot
in the twelfth frame that was the begin
ming of his pocketing an even dozen balls.
The champion had struck his gait, how
ever. and II was Impossible for Hueston.
with all the artifce at his command, to
check him Combinations OF the most
marvellous description, IN which four. five
and six balls figured. We're coming along
IN easy fashion for keogh now. He was
as uethodiCal as ever No shot was hastily
played, and ne was almost fussy as to the
proper setting of the pyramid for each
frame That really was the key to his
success, for his class stood out like a
sore thumb every time he made the break.
It was the safest sort. and as Iueston
banged away at impossibiIities he spread
the balls for Keogh, so that the final
frames were a long sequence of triumphai
sessions at the table for him.
II was during this period that the cham
pion made his great runs. He more than
double discounted Hueston, for from the
seventeeth to the nineteenth frame he tai
lied a run OF 81 balls. The next three
frames tailed a run Of 81 all beautifully
certain position work. This was imme-
diately followed by another run of 81. 1t
was q record achievement for consecutive
runs. for while in the last ten frames
keogh was counting a total OF III balls,
Hueston was smothered. as he made only
%. Al the end Hueston was jawins the
balls at the pocket at every shot, for his
game seemed to have deserted him, The
deciding session of the match VIII be
played tonight
New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
Lawn ennis y Auomobing 4. Golf Il rackAthetcs Pool
BIG AUTO PURSE OFFERED
Drivers to Race Five Hundred
Niles for Prize of S25,10O.

Indianapolis. Sept. 7-Officials Of the Ind
annapolis Motor Speedway announced to-
Gay plans for an automobile race, to be
run on May 27, 1911. in which American
cars Will be pitted against the best of Eu-
rope for a purse of SIS 100. The contest. as
announced, will be at 500 miles and is to
be known as the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way 500-mile International Sweepstakes.
The purse offered is double any in the
history Of motor racing. and IS divided into
ten parts. The driver winning first place Will
earn $4,000, the largest prize ever offered to
a motor race winner: the second prize will
be So 900, and so on down to $500 for the
driver finishing tenth. In addition, tro-
Thy will be given for each position
Entries will be limited to cars showing a
record of at least seventy miles an hour,
The cars must be under 600 cubic inches
displacement and weigh at least 300
pounds American Automobile Association
rules will govern.