Show I I WELL ELLINS WINS RAGE j WIH ITU MORTGAGE Gusher Is Brought In on Night Before Kansan Was to Lose Farm Far Mt AUGUSTA Ran Kan an Aug Aug- 27 Wednes 41 lay day August 3 was a red loiter letter loler day In In the ho life of Lawrence Thirty Thirty- five years ears n ago o ho mowed moved to Duter count county and settled ette on a farm far fAn near near Lon Leon He lie farmed this thi almost able ablo lant land It I was vas JIl hilly and rocky Jd tho the lean lenn years followed one after th thee other for Craig Ho ito mortgaged his farm and hi his hiR lm Im and In this wa way vay managed to scrape scrape- through from year to year cor Oils Oil on was discovered In Butler Duter county All Allaround Allaround l around his hi farm ho he 8 saw W derricks going uL up To tho the south was as tho the big Fox Fox- lox Bush ush field to tho tile north tho the Eldorado and west the Douglas and am Augusta s but no oil 01 was found fount on his Iris land Thursday August 4 tho the mortgage on nn his farm fan was to be foreclosed The night of ot August 3 tho l sensation of tho summer In South Butler Buter county's counts oil 01 business was brought In on the tho the farm of ot L Lawrence Craig The oil 01 up over th the tho derrick and c caught th the th drillers without Tho rich black fluid fund flowed nowel over the It I continued in this wn va way all 1 night and tile the next ln day and b by that time Carthage wRt A. secured and th the tho well wel continues to 0 o give forth several o hundred barrels barres a aday aday al day l of ot tho the highest grade grade of crude all aUr The Tho first oil 01 was found at nt 2783 2785 27 test feet and tho the drillers went on down to 28 2802 When ben the thc news of tho well wel reached the tho town mon men drove to the scene scone b by scores cores neighbors congratulated Crali Craig and thon then incidentally grabbed lenses leases el on all al available acreage Crl Craig Is not a yet et yet bUhe buhe bU but buthe he will wil have a comfortable Income fo for foi I th the tho remainder of his life a and the family Is moving to the city where their children can obtain tIre tho best education education edu edu- cation and reap the harvest of the Iho years of hard labor on the tho rocky farm which was fast slipping away from thu father V |