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Show FLASK OF OIL i CREATED A STIR i H Superintendent Hambaugh of the Guffey & Galey oil-bore at Farmlng-ton Farmlng-ton was in town during the day with I a flask of oil in his inside pocket. To the talent interested in the oil field he volunteered that It had been forwarded him from Montana as a sample of H , what that commonwealth had to offer the prospector. The explanation fell on a gathering of skeptics, however, and a few minutes later the street and HM atmosphere was dense with stories of Hi a strike in the Guffey & Galey well. HI Joe Bigger, custodian of neighboring HH I bores, from which eras h.i loner honn I gushing, said the oleaginous contents of the flask had been sweatted from oll-eand oll-eand Into which the drill at tho Guffey Guf-fey & Galey bore had been recently dropped. By another it was said that having tapped a spouter, Superintendent Superintend-ent Rambaugh had plugged up the bore and wired Mr. Galey to hasten at once to Inspect the youngster. This was the tenor of the talk excited by the flask of oil no matter what its origin. "While no one who has the pleasure of the superintendent's acquaintance Is prepared to Impeach his veracity, the street last night was prepared to uc-cuse uc-cuse him of attempting a ruse. Meanwhile Mean-while boring has been momentarily suspended sus-pended and the talent insists on bolng shown Its error. |