Fight Over An Ohio Oil Well

Findlay, O., June 11.- A bloody battle between Henry Kutz and his three sons i and men employed by the Genessee üll Company was narrowly averted last evening at the farm of the former a few miles west of this city. The olí comoany holds a lease on the farm. but Kutz claims that the company had forfeited it by faillng to drill the stipulated wills. Yesterday the company attempted to enter the premises with rig timber for the purpose of drilling a well on a portion of the farm whlch had not been developed, but were met at the boundary line by Kutz and his sons wno were heavily armed and threatened' to shoot the first man who crossed the "ne. The oil men were unarmed and beat a hasty retreat. The Genesse company is Bendlng as many men as can colJect to the scène and has declared that the well will be drilled even at the cost of keeping the lease turrounded by an armed force until it s eompleted.