Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-13

! interchanged remarks about 1t; when
about twenty miles on the road there
was evidence of increased rainfall, then
one member" says to the other,
1--WE will have to change all our dis
patches and il will take until one o'clock
tonight to do it,"
Sheriff Karr, who is an old plainsman,
having been here when buffalo roamed
over the country, says that the centre
of this rainfall must have been more
than fifty miles from the ''C'' headquar-
| tiers.
The western border Of the o. rancho,
where the writer has been since last
April, is only two miles from the ''C'
| heada uarters. Now, II all the rains
that the Dyrenforth dispatches desbribe
as widespread" ''the whole region
drenched and soaked" Extended over
a space OF over a thousand square
miles," "with the point OF explosion as
the practical CENTER" &c.-realiy did
occur, does not IT seem little strange
| that not even spriJv;Le fell on the
ranch all the time they were there?
Yet, such was the case. There were
good rains on the ranch, however,
on August 31st and September ISL,
three days after the party had lett the
| country.
The false reports sent out have been
referred to as "Dyrenforth dispatches
because they were sent out Dy mem
Der of the party, aud If Gen. Dyrenforth
didn't know their contents before tney
were sent, he did afterward Wnen ne
read the papers brought to the ranch,
and he didn't then and hasn't yet cor
rected them.
While getting check cashed, from
newspaper, in the Midland BANK, the
correspondent remarked boastingly that
sit was hard to keep the run OF MS
checks as he was correspondent OF only
twenty-three newspapers" From this
one can have an idea OF the
number OF fakes that have
been sent broadcast over the land. lie
closed his series with four-column
general round up article in the New
York Weekly World, of September 9sn'
in which he proceeds to "bunch up his
previous false statements, and signs MS
immortal name, n. A. Jennings. This
article is a tissue OF falsehoodS from De-
ginning TO end and describes thunder
storms that never occurred IN most
realistic manner.
Everybody in Midland-bankers and
merchants, hotel men and livery men,
LAWYERS, doctors and even the women
and children-own cattle; they were
doubly interested in the rainmaking eX-
periment because they owned cattle
themselves and because au abundance
of grass means a plentiful supply OF
money in circulation.
For obvious and pecuniary reasons,
the people of Midland were prepared to
give the rain makers credit for any
thing they might have done, but
they were not prepared" TO en-
dorse the lying statements sent out oy
the Dyrenforth party representing this
country as second Sahara, which was
done in order to make any rain that
might fall during their stay, appear all
the more miranuiouS, or to give them
any credit for bringing much-needed
moisture when they didn't do it,
In this day Of great progresses, people
are not content TO sit on the graves OF
past ages, and if the writer has any bias
at all, it is in the direction of override
lief in the great possibilities OF the
future, that are to be obtained as the
result of scientific Investigations, and
especially is this so when bearing In
mind the wonderful advances made In
his own profession in the last quarter OF
q century. 1t would be unwise and un-
fair to condemn the theory of producing
artificial rain fall, until the means had
been exhausted to demonstrate its prac-
ticability and it is equally as unwise
and unfair for the Dyrenforth outfit to
fool away the peoples money in their
bungling work and then lie about the
results. w. X. CURTIS, On. d.