The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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BURNING GAS WELL
TURNS NIGHT TO DAY
Coast
Country Lighted for
Aroupd By Flames.
Miles
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The following description of a
rning gas well in the southern
coast country is from the Aransas
Pass Progress:
“The monster Guffey gasser at
White Point, which refused to be
harnessed, caught fire Monday night
and is a raging, snorting, blazing de-
mon that makes the description of
Dante's Inferno appear weak and
puny. The giant geysers in Yellow-
stone* Park periodically spout water
and steam; famous volcanoes of the
world have long periods between
their eruptions, but the White Point
gasser gives a continuous perform^
ance which makes it one of the new
wonders of the world worth going
many miles to see. The force of the
eruptions has for odd.out many joints
of casing and the mud and rock have
accumulated around the top until it
creates the appearance of the crater
of a huge volcano. From the center
of this crater lurid flames are shoot-
ing skyward, which illuminates the
country for miles around. Parties
fram Aransas Pass, who visited the
well last night, said that the illumina-
tion waB sufficient to permit the read-
ing of a newspaper more than half a
mile away.
“Over a. year ago the first big gas
well was brought in at White Point
with a tremendous pressure and a
volume of gas estimated at 50,000,000
cubic feet. Fourteen hundred feet of
drill stem was blown out, the botfom
joint landing 700 feet from the well.
The heavy pipe curled up like wire.;
the derrick fell into the crater and
was ground to pieces; the heavy
machinery was swallowed
BRITISH LINER BROUGHT INTO AMERICAN
WATERS BY MYSTERIOUS GERMAN RAIDER
seen again. All the casing verted German merchantman with a
dril
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blew out,N a -torrent of water came
with the gas and a crater was formed
•over 300 feet Across and many open-
ings spouted $;as and water 70b yards
from the will. After losing gas
worth million* of dollars, 'the well
choked down, so that now only a few
million feet of gas is escaping.”
Nbrfolk, Va., Feb. 1.—Given up for
lost days ago, the British passenger
liner Appam, playing in the West
African trade, appeared like an ap-
paration in Hampton Roads today
flying the German naval ensign and
with her ship’s company under guard
of a Germah?‘prize crew. They brought
word of a mysterious German com-
merce raider, the Moewe, which now
roams the seas, and had on board the
crews of seven British merchantmen
and Admiralty transports captured by
the Moewe before she seized the Ap-
pam and sarted her across the At-
lantic for an American . port with
Lieut. Hans Berg of the German naval
reserve and twenty-two men in charge.
The Appam now lies off Old Point
Comfort under the guns of Fortress
Monroe waiting for the State Depart-
ment at Washington to determine her
status—whether she is a man of war
subject to internment or a German
prize. By tomorrow the customs au-
thorities here hope to have orders to
send the ship either to Norfolk or
Newport News, where the anxiously
waiting British civilians will be put
ashore.
According to the story told with
great reserve by Lieutenant Berg to
Collector Hamilton when he formally
reported his presence In American
waters late today, the Moewe cap-
tured the Appam bound from Dakar,
French West Africa,' for Liverpool
sifter a brief show of resistance on
Jan. 16 sixty miles north of the Ma-
deria Islands. On board the Moewe
then were the crews of five vessels
previously captured, all of whom 'were
transferred to the Appam.
From all reports the raider is a. eon-
away at the time, in charge of the
prize crew, steamed hurriedly back
to the ^cene and rescued four mem-
bers of the crew of the sinking Clan
McTavish, who were struggling in
the water.
Later under orders from the com-
mander of the raider, Lieutenant
Berg headed his prize for an Ameri-
can port and parted company with
the Moewe. Nothing has been seen
or heard of the raider since and the
Appam steamed across the ocean on
an uneventful voyage, reaching the
Virginia capes at 5:45 this morning.
On board the Appam all told are
452 persons—the prize crew of twen-
ty-three, twenty German civilians who
were on their way to England for in-
ternment, 138 seamen captured with
the British shpis, 116 passengers on
the Appam and the Appam’s crew of
155.
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battery of gun* of fairly large caliber.
On Jan. 17 she engaged in battle an
armed Australian trader, the Clan
McTavish, which *he sank after an
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exciting combat with a loss of fifteen
men killed on the Clan McTavish.
The Appam, which was ten miles
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LARDER IS SHORT
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The “Let-Texas-Feed-Herself” cam-
paign starts off with some very dis-
agreeable facts to face. There are in
Texas 92,000 farms which have no
cows, and a farm without cows is no
farm at all. It means a farm whose
occupants are poorly fed because of
the lack of milk and butter, a tat
that is not supplied with the wt
some food of which both milk aw
butter are ingredients, and a family
treasury depleted of the money which
cows bring to the thrifty |i(|u«lgife.
It also means a farm without the gar-
den th*t barnlot manure would make
possible. . « .. ■
The cows on eaoh ^ these 92,000
farms would in food value., be
$9,200,000 to the opCApanta o''
farm, and realize" enough ^money to.
pay the taxes on the farms.—Houston
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Sulphur Springs Gasette and Dallas
Semi-Weekly News, $1.7*—a splendid
combination.
WILSON DECLARES HE CANNOT AGREE
WftH “PEACE-AT-ANY-PBICE’* PEOPLE
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Wilson
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 1.—Presi-
dent Wilson arrived in. Des Moines at
6:50 p. m. Bight thousand persons
waving American flags greeted him
at the coliseum. The thousand others
were turned away for want of room.
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. The audience rose and cheered wildly
as the President came into view
The President and Mrs.
were met at the station by a crowd
which packed the sidewalks all the
way to the hotel. The progress' of
the President was marked by cheers.
A closed automobile was used by The
President, for the temperature was
near zero. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
were wrapped in furs.
At the hotel the President and Mrs.
Wilson shook bands with members of
the reception committee and then
dined privately in their suite before
leaving for the coliseum, where the
President spdke. *
Shortly before reaching Des Moines
the President spoke briefly at New:
ton, Iowa, urging the people to sup-
port his preparedness program and?
telling them the, difficulty of keeping
the United 8tates out of the European
war.
Receives Great, Applause.
"Whenever international law is
violated by one or the other belliger-
ents,” the President said, in begin-
ning his speech here, “America is
called upon to register a ‘voice of
protest, of insistence.’
“Do you want the situation to be
such that all the President can do is
to write messages?” he asked. “If
these breaches of international law
which are in danger of occurring
daily should Couch the very honor of
the United States, do you wish to do
nothing about it? Do you wish ^ to
have ail the world say the flag of
the United States can be stained
with Impunity?”
••Why, to ask the question is to an-
swer it.
“I know there is not a man or a
pylln the hearing of my voice
who would wish peace at the expense
of the honor of the country.”
The President's address was punc-
tuated with thunderous* applause. Re
spoke slowly and gravely, with em-
phatic gestures. A declaration ‘that
the United States wanted peace drew
a quick response and his assertion
that the self-respect of the Nation
must be preserved, elicited another
great demonstration.
The President said he. was trying
to weigh carefully every word he said.
He reiterated that he had been
charged daily to keep the country
out of war and also to uphold its
honor.
. “And many a night when it has
seemed impossible for me to sleep,”
he said, “because of the apparently
inextricable difficulties into which
our international relations were drift-
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ing, I have said to myself:
“ ‘I wonder if the people of the
United States know fully what that
mandate means to them?’- And then
sleep has come, because I knew there
was not a community in America that
would not stand behind me in main-
taining the honor of the United
States.
“The difficulty of keeping America
at peace during this Titanic struggle
across the sea can not be' disclosed
now, perhaps it never can be disclos-
ed, how anxious and how difficult this
task has been.
“But my heart has been~~m it. I
have not grudged a single burden
that has been placed upon me with
that end in view. For I know that
not only my own heart, but the heart
of All America, was in the cause of
peace.”
America Not an Ostrich.
There are men in America who ac-
tually are preaching war, the Presi-
dent asserted—men who want the
United States to have entangling al-
liances abroad. He said he did not
thi^k theirs was the voice of Ameri-
ca, which he declared to be for peace.
He added that others go further than
he in advocating peace.
“The preach the doctrine of peace
at any price,” he added. Many in
the audience shouted, “Never! Never.”
He said these men did not know
the circumstances of the world.
“America cannot be an ostrich,
with its head in the sand,” be said.
The President asserted he hoped that
if this war had no other result it
would create an international tribun-
al to settle questions which caused
war. His declaration that he had
found the people of the Middle West
for preparedness drew long applause.
“Some one who does not know our
fellow citizens as well as he ought to
know them told me there was a cer-
tain degree of indifference and
lethargy in the Middle West with re-
gard to the defense of the Nation,”
he declared. “I said I did not believe
it, but was going out to see. I have
seen what I expected to see: Great
bodies of serious men and women
coming together to show their interest
in the object of my visit.”
THE SENSATION THAT
‘CYCLONE” DAVIS FELT
Fort Worth Record:
Mrs. Cyclone Davis should give a
necktie party now that Mr. Cyclone
has adopted the collar habit. The tie-
less man should not be permitted to
wander down the aisles of the house
of representatives. The story is told
that Cyclone ence succumbed to the
dress suit habit and was the cynosure
of all eyes—for one evening. An ad-
miring friend asked him to describe
the sensation while he was in captivi-
ty. ‘‘I felt the world like a jackass
dressed up In buggy harness,” said
the Whispering Willow of East Texas.
This was his first and last full dress
performance.
GUN BARREL LOST.
Lost on the. Sherley road, between
Joe Minor’s and Jack Cawthron’s,
Saturday, January 22nd, barrel to
automatic shot gun. Finder will please
leave at the Gazette office.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916, newspaper, February 4, 1916; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816302/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.