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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-24

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THEY'RE ROUGH ON RATS.

Men Who Hunt Four-Footed Pests-Sev-
eral Professionals in Chicago - How
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urally it is the favorite resort for the four
footed guest. The trap set for him here Is
a square wire contrivance divided into two
compartments. The rat enters through q
funnel-shaped opening at one end and Is
suddenly dropped from lettering platform
into the further compartment. 1t is not
hurt any, but there is no chance for il to get
out until the store room man comes around
Then Mr.. Rat is taken out TO be killed
straightway or is saved for dogs amuse-
ment.
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Tramp Ito woman who has given him
loaf of stale breadl Now, if you'll show
me the way 10 the wood-shed I'll get the
axe and
why, YOU dear old fellow, you mustn't
think Of cutting wood; your too weak
"Oh, didn't want the axe for that. ]
lust thought that I'd like TO cut of a chunk
of this pread-if I've got strength enough"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-24

ATS in the Garden
City arc without
number. If, says the
Chicago Herald, the
pied piper by whose
seductive music a
haot affbaeaop;poolc
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

Totals. ...............27,1 100 sG2l 500 s5Gi,952
The Alton men do NOT at this writing con
cede that the consolidation is complete as to
them, but admit that it is to be. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul also stands
upon a somewhat separate footing. but as
the rexe-Morgan-Vande party virtu-
ally control its management, it will in no way
antagonize the combination, and may, there
fore, be included. Some minor lines are yet
to be annexed; so the total capital will be
very near 500, 900, 900 and the debts nearly
as much.
j. Pierpont Morgan is credited with having
engineered this great deal, and this is but the
browning act of his experience in organizing
and consolidation. The actual cash paid is
reported at $4,000 900, much of the stock, of
course remaining in the hands of the present
holders. OF this cash the Vanderbilts fur
nished the larger part from their private
meansn-that is, without sale of other stocks
or drawing on their corporation treasury
In short, it was simply some little means they
had laid by out of their private incomes. The
rest comes from Boston men, who own stock
in the Union Pacific.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

Beginning at the left the tools shown are: Sand
pump 1arr, drill, round reaiher' dril stem' pipe
'o"e'' 'e"''''' 'oipei 'e.e"'
tohisnment that ~,ooV barrels had Deeh pro-
uuceu-ah Ill NIUE district Oh rehhsyl wanna
IN 1910 the yielu was v'ooV'oVo barrels men
the great bradford neid was opened, ana the
next year tne yieid was lo'ooo,ooo barrels
Thence the increase was ABOUT o,oooooo
year ana III 1857 America astollisned the
word WIN .otai yie'a OF i''o',i" barrels
"hat "iid freaks did fortune play III those
years IN many nome "ha1 must nave
been the sudden elevations "heh litusViiie
sprang at one bound from country hamlet
10 a city OF lo'ooO or more when vi Clty
sprang up IN the wilderness ana when thou-
sands OF acres, worth scarcely three years
taxes suddenly became OF immense value
what lavish display by the suddenly rich;
what gorgeous plumage ana gaudy lewelry;
what 'ho-turr, as we say IN faris (lilnolsl,
by ladies' VINO mad been iotch up IN
cabin and hoed corn oarefooted, but must
now make the tower OF furrup, cos pa had
struck oil. Ana now fast the satirists and
caricaturists ana slang makers followed the
movements OF the newly rlch' Our language
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
THE BIG RAILROAD COMBINE.
Map Showing the Extent of the Wander
hilt- Union Pncific Chain.

'Consolidation" is the order of the day.
Each succeeding combination of capital
strikes the public with astonishment as ex-
ceeding all that have gone before it, and now
there is a combination of combinations in
railroad management which utterly dwarfs
everything ever known in corporate power.
and makes such affairs as the British East
India company, the Oriental and the great
est French enterprises seem mere bucket
shop business in comparison.
This new aggregation has been named "the
Pacific Vanderbilt Chain" OF the first de
tails given out some points have since been
denied, but as the final contamination is GER
tain the public may soon contemplate cor
porate entity, a national company, or a CO.
lossal "trust''-call it what you will-which
owns and controls $1,000 miles of railroad
and Sl,1S6, 642, 600 in debts and capital
Nearly twelve hundred million dollarsl The
mere words and figures dazzle the eye of a
common capitalist The germ of this CON
solidation SO to speak, was in the New York
Central, but while it was adding line after
line to its western connections, two other
combinations were forming in the west-now
all are consolidated and the figures stand a.
follows. In the columns giving the bonded
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

and no wonder for "Number 646n yielded
1900 barrels day from the start, and what
was more, it proved that a new field was to
be opened, and that hundreds of new wells
would soon be flowing. Crude petroleum,
which had been selling at eighty-fve cents a
barrel, declined rapidly to forty-nine cents
figure which, for time, stopped produc-
ton on all but the big flowing wells
Shooting n WELL" or "torpedoing" is a
ticklish business The nitro-g lycerine- enough
of 1t to blow up n regment-must he poured
intoa canister which looks like a section of a
water spout, and the same lowered very gent
ly to the bottom of the well, so fixed with
trigger attachment that it will in due time
explode. This blows out the loose sand and
loosens the sand rock in which is the petro-
leum, and so the oil flows again But if any
thing sets off the nitro-gycerine prematurely,
either in the hands of the "shooter' or be-
fore he can get away from the mouth of the
well, then "Good-by, john" Cases have oc-
cured in which a single finger was the only
remnant ever found. And at least one case
in which a teamster, wagon and two mules,
transporting the pesky stuff, were suddenly
Overwhelmingly so to speak, for not a
trace of either was ever found not even a
splinter of the wagon. 1t was supposed that
the man drove too hard against big stone
there was terrific explosion, cloud of dust,
hole in the ground and nothing more.
A blazing well is a sublime, an awful sight.
OF course there are many ways in which so
inflammable n substance may take fire, and
formerly such a calamity was irremediable;
but Yankee ingenuity has found remedies.
Qui. recently some brilliant triumphs over
the fire are reported, the operators having
rugged immense derricks and swung a mann
moth "cap" over the mouth of the well, then
lowered it and smothered out the fire.
Thirty years of practical work and daily
experience with the fluid have not destroyed
have scarcely lessened, the romanc6 of oil
Still it excites the iveliest interest, still it in
flames the Imagination; and now the devel
| opment and control of natural gas have
come to heighten the wonder of mans tri
umph over nature. That puny man SHOULD
bore deep into the earth for hidden power,
and harness the Internal elements to the cal
of progress is indeed a matter to swell til,
heart with pride and hope, to add proof t.
the theory that mind will eventually contro
all matter and strengthen faith in the divin,
origin of the intellect and the Immortality o
the soul. The cut of the Pittsburg well i
| from Frank Leslie's
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

the last day of August Mr.. Drake was recog-
nized in Titusville as success, for it was
known that early that the well would yield
at least twenty barrels day. 1t soon rose
to twenty-five, then gradually declined; but
the problem was solved, ''boring for oily was
soon to be a rage. Like most great discov-
erers, Mr.. Drake got no benefit from it. In
1869 he was so poor that the oil operators
made up for him purse of $1,000. Like
James Marshall, who discovered gold in
Capt. Suffers mill race in California, he was
long forgotten In 1873 the legislature of
Pennsylvania granted pension of $1,000 a
year to Mr. Drake and wife during the life
Of either. In 1870 he located in Bethlehem,
Penn, where on the 9th of November 1881,
he died
Many columns like this would be required
o trace the development of the new industry,
70 relate how the Seneca oil for rheuma-
ism" became the great illumination, how
amps were invented to suit it, and how
Kindly the people took to it until, in
hree or four years, ''star candles" became OBJ
plete and tallow one was exhibited as a
specimen of the Eight of other days" Equally
interesting is the development of the tools
for boring and pumping, shooting wells
and other parts of the business. 1t has also
its amusing features; there are scouts
on the lookout to discover the condition or
prospects of new well, guards to prevent
intrusion, and explorers and spectators de-
tectives, for the manipulators of the stock
market often have a vital interest in knowing
all about new well or a newly developing
district.
"Wildcattersn are those who take the risk
of sinking wells in unknown territory, and
when they do 'strike oil, it is often of the
utmost Importance to the scouts" to learn
the exact character of the new well. 1t was
in 1882 that the most memorable contest be-
tween these two classes took place. Cherry
Grove was primeval wilderness in Warren
county, and the politicians at the county seat
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

always knew without waiting for the returns
just how the township had gone, for it con-
tanned but fourteen voters. Four men early
in 1882 set up a derrick in that wilderness
and began to bore, and soon alarming reports
reached those who were 'long Of oil stocks"
that is, those who held much oil and there
fore wanted the price to go up. So the woods
were soon full of scouts"
The owners surrounded the derrick with
high board fence, and had several guards,
who at night kept up random firing into
the woods to scare away the scouts" Never
theless, one daring young man crept past the
guards and lay hidden for seventeen hours in
side the derrick, gaining the all important
knowledge that Number GAG" was flowing
well His fortune was made, and so was that
of his employers, for they ''sold short" and
in few days prices fell so greatly as to in
volve total loss of $50 ,0O0, 900 to the hold
ers 1t was "Black Friday" to the bulls"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

of the court house." Only thirty years ago
was the first oil well in America or the world
opened, and twice already has the business
declined till men said it was at an end, and
revived again only to be greater than ever.
In these thirty years at least $50, 600
nave been invested in it, at least 40 900 wells
nave been bored at a cost of 800 100000, and
the cash receipts for the products have slight
y exceeded $500 900! Verify a great
American industry.
But it is far from being exclusively Amer
ican. Indeed, the idea of using the oil of the
rocks first came from Asia. and the greatest
oil basin in the world is thought to be in one
If Russia's late acquisitions. And the great
rsst strike in oil annals was bya Russian COM
pany at Baku. where well was opened last
year which spouted column 225 feet high
and yielded 1000 tons per day for some
time. In America. even at the lowest prices
yet known, it would make milliouaires; in
Asia it bankrupted the projectors. The
rates for transportation did not Justify their
shipping the crude petroleum, they mad no
facilities for refining it and had opay heavy
damages to adjacent land owners.
The phenomena attendant on the Baku
spouter exceeded all previously known in the
business. The Russian official speaks of the
preliminary birth throeS of the monster, in
which stones were hurled to great distance.
Then came the roar of the escaping gas,
which could be heard several miles and rem
dered the atmosphere almost insupportable,
and after that the fine sand and then the oil.
Sand and dust continued to he produced dur
ing all the gusher's vigorous PERIOD, and,
drifting into neighboring dwellings and gar
dens, did much damage. The oil formed
great lakes sufficient to float large vessels, but
for reasons given above the product was al
most total loss. For want of a pipe line to
the Black sea uncounted millions of gallons
sunk into the soil, but the owners mt last man
aged to place an immense cap on the mouth
of the well, and its further gushing awaits n
more favorable season.
As was stated above, $50, 100000 or more
| have been invested in American wells pipe
lines, etc, and about $500, 100000 worth of
| product secured; but all the figures are fas-
cinating In 1859 the papers noted with as
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
Wives of tho Czars.

The Grand Duchess Serge Of Russia, Prin-
cess Elizabeth of Hesse, has been writing the
biographies of the Russian expresses of the
present century, the wives of Alexander /,
Nicolas and Alexander III. The wives of the
earlier emperors had certainly more exciting
times, but it would be difficult TO give their
entire biographies without being given a
lengthy vacation from court duties, TO be
spent in Siberia. -Pittsburg Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

The best remedy for sleeplessness is to wet
half towel, apply it to the back of the neck,
pressing it up towards the base of the brain,
and fasten the dry half Of the towel over, so
as to prevent too rapid exhalation. The eff
feet is prompt and pleasant, cooling the
brain and bringing on sweet slumber Warm
water is better than cold To all suffering
from overwork, excitement or anxiety, this
remedy will prove boon.-Hall's Journal of
Health.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
They Are Much Talked OF.

The portraits given here are of two people
who have been talked and written Of
good deal of late-Prince Murat, who was to
have married Miss Mary Gwendoline Cald-
well, and Miss Huntington, nee Prentice, who
did marry Prince Hatzfeldt. Prince Murat
is credited with having broken off the mar
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
Best Cough Cure.

For all diseases of the Throat and
Lungs, no remedy is so safe, speedy, and
certain as Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
An indispensable family medicine.
81 find Ayers Cherry Pectoral an
invaluable remedy for colds, coughs,
and other ailments of the throat and
lungs. - NJ. S. Randall, 20i Broadway,
Albany, n. Y.
81 have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral
for bronchitis and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
LIGHT FROM THE ROCKS.
1.-THE ROCKS POURED ME OUT Rlv-
ERS OF OlL."-JOB.

Thousands of Barrels Per Day-Startling
Facts In the Production, Sale aud Trans
port of Oil--Anclent Methods - T.. L.
Drake the First to "Strike Oil" By Boring.
"a great gusher-l,0 900 barrels of oil per
day"
Such is the report on the new oil well just
opened near Pttsburg, Pa.-"within five miles
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

The export trade has far outgrown (by per-
centages) that in any other product. In the
campaign of 'si the people learned with
arlazement that in one dozen years the
United States had exported more wheat than
in all previous years since the Pilgrims
landed: but of petroleum the increase in
twenty years was from 100000 to 506 o00090
gallons per year-the latter in lSS3-and its
value at point of product S44, 100000. But
the amount produced or exported was but a
trifle to the amount sold--the former could
happen but once to a barrel, but it might be
sold any number of times. So in 1888. which
ranks as the last very speculative year, the
sales at four coil exchanges" were:
Barrels
Oil City Exchange ... ..............1S sci .O9S 900
New York City Exchange. $4,000
Bradford Exchange. ................ 1Yi2,lllOO
Pittsburg Exchange ................ PCS, $4,000
Total Observation-Disclosures. 60Ji,263,OOO
The first vein of oil struck by boring was
at Titusville, Pa, on Aug %, 1883, and the
man who did the work. who inaugurated this
great industry, was an unsung hero, Col. f.
l.. Drake He read of the ancient methods
of collecting rock oil in Persia and other
lands of the orient saw the American meth
cd of digging pits for it to seep into, and af-
tti lpuS Slull vi lue SuDJeCJ tollClutle'l lnuJ
its storage place was in the rocks and that it
must be bored or dug for. He did it, made a
success and established new and peculiarly
American ndustry-for this he deserves, and
oil men say shall have monument.
Edwin l.. Drake was born March 90 1919,
in Greenvile, Green county, n. j. In early
manhood he located near Ann Arhor, Mich,
on a farm, but later became a dry goods
clerk in New York city. The i'll health of
his wife drove him to change his residence,
and he followed various pursuits, till in 1856
he became manager for little oil company.
He found the people using the "Seneca oil, "
as they called it, for a medicine, and after
many discouragements he succeeded, on the
23d day of March, 1858, in organizing what
was called the Seneca Oil company" He
was their local agent with a salary of 81 ,0OC
a year and commenced drilling. The pain
full details of his discouragements need not be
set forth again and again the company de
clared they would do no more; but again
he persuaded them to resume.
On the 25th of August, 1859, they "strucl
oil :" on the 2sth they Withdrew the drills, ant
the next day they drew up a tin pipe section
full of oil. There was an excitement Or
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15

THE vANDERBILT-UN PACIFIC CHAIN.
debt and share capital only millions and thou
sands are given, three ciphers 1000 being
omitted:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
Lung Disc asses,

for which 1 believe it to be the greatest
medicine in the world. James Miller,
Caraway, n. c.
"My wife had distressing cough,
with pains in the side and breast. We
tried various medicines, but none did
her any good until 1 got bottle of
Ayers Cherry Pectoral which has cured
her. A neighbor, Mrs. Glenn, had the
measles, and the cough was relieved by
the use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral. 1
have no hesitation in recommending
this medicine. - Robert Horton, Fore
man Headlight, Morrillton, Ark.
ayers Cherry Pectoral cured me OF
a severe cold which had settled on my
lungs. My wife says the Pectoral helps
her more than any other medicine she
ever used" -Enos Clark, Mt. Liberty,
Kansas.
Ayers Cherry Pectora|,
PREPARED BY
Or. ]. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price o.; six bottles, IS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
KENDALL'S SPAWN cure
KENDaLL'S SPAWN CURE
KENDALL'S SPAWN cunE,

Price 81 per bottle, SIX bottles for s5 All Drrr
Csts have get IL for you 1t will be seut
~ any address receipt of price by the pro, re-
tors. DR. D. j. kendall Co.. Enosbureh Fails. W.
SOLD BY All DRUGGISTS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-15
DR.. k6nnedy's Favorite Remedy:

DIR. DAVID KENNEDY, RONDOUT, n. r.
~ o. per bottle Biz for a. By al druggists. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26

business he said everybody West seemed to
have enough to do, and If the boys"
would hold rates the roads could now make
a little money.
George w. Abbott, auditor of the Louis-
vile. New Albany IL Chicago road, was In
the city yesterday on official business. lie
reports the earnings of the system now to
be very satisfactory. Especially IN the
passenger department are large gains IN
earnings shown. This year an increase OF
from $1,000 running up to $1,000 a month
has been shown over corresponding months
last year.
Engine No. 2O6, on the Big Four. which.
about Il month ago. was transferred from
the ST. Louis division TO the Cincinnati d.
vision, and which. on its first trip east over
he road. was wrecked and considerably
broken MP, came out of the Brlghtwood
shops yesterday, rebuilt in hrst-class style
and remembered 2S5. The vestIbule train.
as well. on the Big Four. which was wrecked
on Its first trip east over the CINCINNATI Oh
vision. has been fully repaired at Bright
wood. and Will to-day go into service ,
Steps will probably be soon taken to
build two short link which would connect
the three divisions of the Terre Haute ~
Peoria road which are now connected for
train service by using portions of other
roads. This has been one of the troubles
which this road has had to labor under, 1t
being dependent on other roads for its con-
Meeting links. The T. II. g. p. is now work
ing very nicely WITH LILO fduQdiid, duu
both roads are prOfiting by such friendly
traffic relations, which gives the I. III. d p.
a good Eastern outlet.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
is said to be making new friends who are
ready to aid it by good words or capital.
The company has got its extension to Lex
ington, KY, in full operation. n has a
line eighty miles in length against ninety
five BY the Louisville q Nashville. 1t is
not to be wondered at that the latter looks
| upon its young rival with jealousy At
| the Chesapeake, Ohio g. Southwestern,
giving it a direct route from Chicago TO
the seaboard- At Benign the L.. MA Il
G. connects with the Cincinnati Southern,
giving il a through line to Chattanooga and
other Southern points.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26
The Court Record.

SUPERIOR COURT
Room l-Hon. Napoleon b. Taylor, Judge.
Thomas j. Southern VS.. Brooks Oil Com
pany; account. On trial by court.
Room 2-Hon. Daniel Wait Howe. Judge.
David l.. Whittier VS.. Artemus N. Had
ley: suit on account. Dismissed and costs
paid.
Della Briggs VS.. William H. Hammons ct
al; to quiet title and damages. Plaintiff
dismissed suit and paid costs.
John G. Grimm VS.. John II. Gutknecht
ct al. Verdict for plaintiff for 500.
Mary A. Scarry We. Horace +. Bennett; re-
plevin. On trial by jury.
Neso Suits Filed.
William /. Roach VS.. David +. Richard
son ct al; foreclosure of mechanics lien.
to quiet title and satisfy mortgage.
Elizabeth Ray VS.. Daniel Ray; divorce.
Allegation. failure to provide and cruelty.
William /. Roach VS.. Jane NJ. Jennings ct
al; foreclosure of mechanics lien.
Jesse Parish VS.. Oliver z. Smith; on con-
tract. Demand, $500.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Hon. Livingston Rowland, Judge.
In the matter of the alleged insanity of
Jonah Lemon. On trial by jury.
John Hooker ct al. VS.. Samuel Bruce ct
al; to quiet title. Finding for Nichols.
Ner Suit Filed.
Milton A. Niedlyer VS.. w. H. Jordan: on
account. Demand, S211.S0.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Hon. William Irwin. Judge.
State VS.. Armistead Gaylor; burglary.
On trial by court.
State VS.. Samuel Howarton; manslaugh-
ter. Sentenced to ten years in State prison.