Show a Coal Oil Craze Baxter Springs l Kansas 3Early this morning a report was circulated that men digging a well for J B Nayler in the western part of town had struck a flowing vein of petroleum at a depth of twentyone feet Several leading business busi-ness men at once went out and found that several barrels of crude material had already been raised to the surface Coal oil experts Cram the oil regions of Pennsylvania pronounce it genuine crude petroleum of extra good quality It is easily ignited by the flame of a match and is very combustible Great excitement excite-ment prevails and 10000 has been offered for a fifteenacre tract on which the well is situated There is a movement move-ment on foot for a company to purchase the ground and put in machinery at once |