Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-01
the G. 81 o. INJUNCTION
A Case OF Great Interest to the State
Oil Gossip General News.
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A Case of Great Interest to the State
Oil Gossip General News.
Special to ise Register.
PARKERsBrRs, July 3l.-In the United
States District Court day or two ago.
Judge J. J. Jackson grasted temporary or
preliminary injunction N behalf Of the
Trustees Of the bondholders of the Chesa.
peake aud Ohio Railway Company re.
staining the Auditor Of State and the
sheriffs Of the several counties through
which the road runs, from levying or en-.
forcing the collection of the taxes claimed
BY the State to be- due from the Chss.
apeake and Ohio Railway Company. The
question involved and the principal points
upon which the injunction was granted by
the court, are the high rete Of assessment
90 claimed by plaintiffs of the property OF
the company which they represent as un.
lust and onerous, and the 10 per cent
penalty added to the amount Of taxes al
legged to be due. The latter poiut seems to
be the main question involved
This adds largely to the amount claimed
by the State, the whole matter having been
in litigation for FIVE or six years, gives the
C. & 0. grounds for asking that, ss the ques-
ton has been pending in the
courts that the penalty ought not TO be en-
forced against them. The constitutional
question of the right Of the State to collect
taxes from the C. a. o. railway having been
settled by the United States Supreme Court,
will not be involved in this case. Judge
Jackson has set the ca'e for hearing Sep.
tember lst, at Wheeling. The Trustees
will be represented by Judge James II.
Ferguson, attorney c. / o. Railway Com
pany, and the State by Hon. Alfred Cald-
we'll, Attorney General. The case will be
one OF great interest and vast importance to
West Virginia and will have grave consid'
eration by the Court and will lproyoke earnest
discussion by the attorneys interested in the
case. The sum involved amounts to nearly
100000, and in the results our whole peo'
pie are much interested, and the decision
will be looked for by the citizens OF West
Virginia,
The Stillwell Oil Company are now down
on their deep oil test well 1918 feet This
is supposed TO be within eighty feet Of the
third or deep oil rock where they expect to
strike oil in paying quantities. The results
are looked forward TO with great interest by
all who are interested in oil matters, and II
is hoped that the untiring efforts Of Messrs.
Tayenner, Wetherell and others will be re-
warded by q good strike Of oil.
Col. G. Il. Shattuck, Receiver Of the
West Virginia Oil and Land Company, re-
turned yesterday from Deer Park, where he
attended conference with other gentlemen
interested in the oil business.
The new pipe line with its attendant i'm.
provementsin in our city will probably involve
. circulation Of forty tkouand dollars
amongst our citizens during the next four
or FIVE months.
The friends of G. g.. Thompson, or
"Stun" as the bsys used TO call him,
will be pleased to know that he
will probably be o permanent resident OF
Parkersburg, having been rendered the So
perintendency of the Standard Oil Compa-
ny's interests here.
Rev. T. B. Hughes. Of the NJ. Z. church,
has returned from Volcano, where he con-
Quoted the dedication services Of Q new
church.
Col. T. P. Shallcross is here looking
after the case OF Bill McConnouehey,
charged With breaking into the postof6co OF
Kanswha Station short time ego.
Deputy Marshall J. Z. Remley returned
last night from jackson county, where ne
had gone to summon witnesses for the U. s.
grand jury:
Mrs. Judge J. J. jackson viii leave soon
for White Sulphur Springs.