Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-28
H0GE TAKES THEOATH
THE NBW DISTRICT ATTORNEY FORMALLY
ASSUMES HIS OFFICIAL DUTIES.
Al Impressive Scene in the District Court Room
EaDawhG Valley ImprOVsnsnt-A Strong
Argument for the Development Of
Its Riches.
SpeesGl TsIegrGm 10 As Register.

SpeefGl Iste0rua 70 Tie Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., January 27.-
Hon. John Blair Hoge, who was confirmed
by the Senate yesterday, for the position
of U. S. Attorney for the District, has
assumed the responsibilities of his Office,
being sworn in to-day. As soon as he re-
ceived his commission he proceeded to the
District Attorneys Office in the Court
House and was received by Mr.. Worthiug-
ton, the outgoing official, whom he sue
ceeds, The Judges having been informed of
Mr.. Hoges presence, rem lined in the consul
tstiOn room. AT lis O'Clock Judge Hoge
was accompanied to the consultation room
by Mr.. Worthington and was warmly greet
ed by Chief Justice Bingham and Judges
James and Montgomery.
In o few minutes thereafter the court
was reconyened, and on motion of Mr..
Worthington, Mr.. Hoge was admitted to
the bar of the District and at once took the
oath of Office. Then in a very impressive
manner the oath of office as District Attor-
nsy was administered to Mr.. Hoge by
Chief Justice Bingham, who attested it.
The Criminal Court was then convened by
Judge Montgomery and Mr.. Worthington
formally presented the new District At
torney to the court. Mr.. Worthington ex-
pressed the hope that Mr.. Hoge's relations
to the court would be as pleasant as his
own had been. Mr.. Hoge then held quite
a reception, Mr. Worthington introduced
the members Of the bar and OF the press
and the officers of the court.
To representative he said that this was
\ DAY FOR GOOD FEELING,
heads, aud that he would recommission
the present force of the Office, that the
wheels of justice should roll right on. II
is hoped, however, that Judge Hoge, who
has always been regarded as a good Demo
crat, has not already turned Mug
Wump," and that he does not intend 10
retain all the Republican subordinates in
the District Attorneys office.
THE KANAwHA VALLEY.
George T. Stearns, of New York, Presi-
dent Of the American improvement Com
pany, to-day made an argument before the
| River and HarbOr Committee, favoring the
speedy completion by the United States
Government of the system of locks and
dams upon the Kauawha river, in West
Virginia, upon which some So 0O0, 900 has
already been expended. Mr.. Stearns based
his argument upon the fact that the ka-
nawha river had the possibility of sending
! 10 market Larger tonnage than any other
river in the country.
The products of the great Appalachian
basin, territory which he claimed was
| larver, and in natural resources Ticher
than the Empire of Great Britain and
Germany, and which by projected railroad
developments, which he represented would
be available for distribution upon the in
land waters of the country being system
of %, 900 miles; that was
THE GREAT TREASURE HOUSE
OF the American people, that from its
stores the great Mississippi Valley, which
in the lifetime of child now breathing
would number 100, 600, 600 people would
be furnished with the fundamental ueces-
sitieS, iron, coal and timber, better in
quality and cheaper in price than
from any other quarter, and that true
craftsmanship required upon the part of
the government the opening of this great
artery ofinlsnd transportation.
Mr. Stearns claimed that by the con-
struction OF the proposed lines of railway
or by similar instrumentalities, Chicago
had been made the largest soft wood timber
market of the world. SO Charleston would
become the great hard wood market of the
world, it being the fact that the forests Of
the west flank of the Alleghenies constitu-
ted the finest growth OF deciduous woods
in the temperate zone.