Show PAWNED ALL BUT HIS BED driller of wildcat wells strikes oil when poverty stricken butler pa carrying away article after article to be pawned until nothing remained of his cifes furniture except a rickety old bedstead the efforts of harry N hoffman were finally rewarded and naw no w lie he la Is the owner of an oil well that will make the famous gusher of spotty mcbryde look small hoffman drilled in the gusher on the mary ma ry B dodds lot at mcbride within a stones throw of tile the place where spotty mcbryde made his fort fortune une had bonman Ilof finan been compelled to raise another no ther ten dollars he would have failed the well is spouting oil halt half way up the derrick at times and it Is believed that when it Is confined it will be good for barrels a day for years hoffman has been wild in the butler field without sue cess lie ho has been so unlucky in all his ventures that the time came when it was impossible for him to sink a hole for himself and finally his friends refused to advance him any money recently lie he secured a lease on the dodds lot and then began ft a struggle to raise the funds ho he has won out and has some leases on adjoining properties which will likely make him a millionaire |