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Show A NEW GAS DISCOVERY. A Kansas Reporter Visit Doniphan Lak and Hacks Up a Good Story. The confidence of The Globe in the reracity of Clark Drummond, Tip Young and L. H. Chamberlain having been badly bad-ly shaken by their statement that you could punch a hole in the ice at Doniphan Doni-phan lake and light the natural gaa which escaped through it, a reporter vis ited the lake last week for the purpose of un investigation and wag convinced of ihe truthfulness of their statement. Upon arriving there a bonfire was found, which Frank Brenner had starts ed by piling some brush over a white spot in the ice, puncturing the ice and touc'.iing a match to the fume. The entire en-tire lake was covered with spots, and they were opened, and the gas burned out of them until it became work instead of play. The illumination was kept up until after dark, when the effect was better. It takes about a minute to burn the gas out of a spot as big around as a washtub. The smaller the hole in the ice, the longer it takes the gas to escape. The flame shoots up fully a foot and looks exactly like gas coming out of a pipe with the burner removed. The gaa has no smell at least the investigating committee detected none. It is claimed that it is a vegetable gaa that is always found in newly formed lakes and is caused by the decomposition decomposi-tion of vegetable matter. It escapes without attracting attention as a usual thing, but is imprisoned when the water freezes. The gas at Doniphan lake was discovered by a boy who fell and broke the ice. He had a box of parlor matches in one of his pockets. They became ignited ig-nited and lit the gas. The boy's trousers were considerably disfigured. Atchison Globe. |