The Depew Independent July 23, 1920 Another Depew Well Last Sunday the bit hit the pay in the Wilcox test in Section 34-16-8, at about 1800 feet. The well is making a million feet of gas and is good for 8 or 10 barrells of oil. They are drilling on down and if nothing else is encountered they will come back up and shoot this sand. This puts another feather in our cap. From Tulsa Daily World ANOTHER WILDCAT BY WILCOX H. F. Wilcox has a test that has all the earmarks of a wild cat well, in the shallow sound found around 1,500 feet, in his Amos No. 1 in the south west corner of the southeast of 34-16-8, about four miles west of Bristow. About 1,000,000 gas was encountered at the top of the sand and at one or two screws in it had more than doubled its gas production and was spraying oil. The well will be drilled in Monday. ----- Young Man Accidently Shot Another tragedy added to the "didn’t know it was loaded" list. Last Friday George Brown, of south of Depew was accidently shot by Noah Dotson, another farmer boy. The boys were playing with a shot gun when the later pointing it at the body of the Brown boy pulled the trigger, thinking that there were no loads in the gun. The Brown boy was brought to town where his wound was dressed. He is getting along alright but will probably be crippled for some time. ----- Colored Citizen Dies John Craig, a highly respected colored citizen of Depew died Thursday evening of typhoid fever. John Craig had lived here for the past ten or twelve years and was held in high esteem by his many acquaintances, both white and colored. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. W. Bailey and interment was in the colored cemetery east of town.

Man Killed On Crossing Wednesday’s fast mail train due through here at 9:05 was several hours late, passing through at 12:58 hit William Chandler, an old man living out four miles west of Depew, killing him instantly. He was driving across the tracks at the northwest corner of town on the Trail. He was about 50 years old. The body was embalmed by the P & H Hardware at Shamrock. A sister from Texas is expected to arrive today (Thursday.) ----- J. M. Bryden Sells Out Store A deal was made Monday whereby J. M. Bryden, the oldest merchant in Depew, disposed of his stock of dry goods and groceries, and rented his stone store building. Messers Werrell & Taylor of Bristow are the new proprietors. Mr. Bryden will devote all his time to his fine farms hereafter. Mr. Werrell has been with the Clarke Brothers store at Bristow for some time and has been in the mercantile business all his life. Both the gentlemen are young fellows and will be valuable additions to our business fraternity. They will enlarge the stock and carry a big line of supplies. We welcome them to our town. ----- Tractor Goes Through Bridge Monday evening a 10-ton Caterpillar tractor belonging to H. F. Wilcox, the oil man, went through the bridge across Little Deep Fork just north of Depew, mashing the driver of the truck so badly that he had to be taken to a hospital. Behind the tractor a trailer carried the water tank and the steel cable that is to be used in the Wilcox well in 31-16-8, one mile north of town. The bridge was inspected by several men who were with the truck when it passed through town, and pronounced alright, but when the tractor reached the centre of the bridge creened to the east and the tractor fell in the centre of the stream. The drive of the truck, thinking that the floor of the bridge was going through, jumped for one of the steel banisters, which permitted him to clear the tractor and kept it from falling on him and killing him instantly. As it was, the creek was up some and he was pinned under part of the steel, in the mud and water. The tractor was left partly hanging over the approach.