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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
sIsTERsvLLE NEWS.
The Local Happenings of the Hustling OIL
Town - Another Forgery - Everything
Ready for the Chicken Fight.

The Local Happenings of the HustlinS OIL
Town - Another Forgery - Everything
Ready for the Chicken right
Sistersville, November 21.-This town
scenes to be a Mecca for sharpers lately =:
In the last few weeks quite NUMBER ol
forger:es have been committed mere
and so far none Of the criminals nave
been caught The last one came to hghO
to-day. A few days ago man named
John Linon had a check cashed az BOY
er's store supposed to have been drawn
bv A. c. Ruby. the liyeryman. II mas
turned out to be a forgery, and the for
ger has escaped.
All the arrangements for the COOKING
maine to be held here on
Thangggiving,h have been completed, and
the affair promises to be one OF the
greatest Of the kind in this section OF the
countrv for a long time. The local
fanciers have a fine lot Of birds and
are confident that they will be able TO
carry off the honors against all comers.
Henry NJ. Brillis went to Wheeling
this morning.
Miss Nettie Garrison, Of New Martins
Vile. who has been the guest OF friends
in the city for a couple of days, left for
home to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. Pomeroy and
daughter. Mss Cora, left this morning
for Warrington.
Misses NJ. T. and T. NJ. Wells very
pleasantly entertained a number OF
young friends at dinner to-day.
Captain and Mrs. B. T. Burns, of Newl
Martinsville. who have been visiting
their daughter, Mrs. James f. France,
of Ra!nland avenue, returned home to-
day.
An effort VIII be made by the mer-
chants to have the Ohio River Railroad
run accommodation trains from this city
to the new oil fields in the south at
Eureka and Wayerly.
James A. Reilly and company pre-
sented the German Soldier" at the
Opera House last night, and the Broom
Maker" tonight.
The First National Bank VIII be
ready for business about December l,
and will occupy temporary quarters
where the Miller Pipe Line Offices are
now located. S. B. Pyle, Representative
from this section in the House Of Dele
gates, will be the cashier.
DR.. G.. B. West went to Wheeling this
morning on business.
H. L. Kerr, local representative Of the
McGhie & Moore Telephone Company,
left this evening for Chicago on busi-
ness.
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Special to the Register.

Sistersville. w. Va. November 21.-
J. T. Jones & Co. are still fishing on the
Minerva Mckay well. 1t was report
ed this afternoon that the third string
of tools had been lost in the hole, and
the chances are that the well will never
be cleaned out. 1t will probably be
necessary to abandon the hole and start
a new one.
Since the news of the cOnsummation
of the deal between the National Tran
sit Company and the Mellon Pipe Line
Company was sent out the operators in
this field have been pretty blue, being
of the opinion that the recent rise was
only for the purpose of squeezing these
people and getting them out of the bus
mess. They also thought that the mar
ket price of the greasy stuff would again
take a drop. Such a thing was evil
IDENTIFY not the intention of the octopus
for the reason that at noon to-day the
price of credit balances went up an
other notch, and the quotations closed
at S155. It seems that the Standard IS
ignoring the oil exchange altogether
this time and is going on its own hook.
Heretofore, the quotations for credit
balances have always been below that
given on exchange for certificates, but
this time credit balances are ahead.
The River Gas Company, a division
of the Standard, has started a rig on
the NJ. Williamson farm, 1000 feet
south of the Hunter farm well.
West of the defined territory, in the
Waverly field a party Of Parkersburg-
ers will drill a wildcat well on the Joe
Fisher farm.
Moore & Co. have a bad fishing job
on the No. at the Zipf farm.
The Henry Oil Company's No. on
the Henry Hoffman farm, is expected
in tomorrow if they have no bad luck.
Moore & Co.'S we'll on the Hays farm,
one of the most important out in the
Middle Island territory, which was eX-
pected in to-day, was delayed for some
reason and will not reach the sand be-
fore tomorrow afternoon.
The John J. Bartlett farm of $50
acres. in Williams district, has been
leased to NJ. f. Noll, G. C. Best and A.
J. Richards, of Marietta, and they will
put down a we'll at once.
A gusher has been struck on the
Baker farm, near Rising Sun. Oil is
sp0uting high over the derrick and all
efforts TO shut the we'll in are Of no
avail The flow is estimated at 1000
barrels a day. The well is owned by
the Sun Oil Company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22

Those who never read the advertise
ments in their newspapers miss more
than they presume. Jonathan Kenison,
of Bolan, Worth county, Ia, who has
been troubled with rheumatism in his
hack arms and shoulders, read an
item in his paper about how a promi-
nent German citizen Of TT. Madison
had been cured. He procured the
same medicine, and TO. use his own
words: 1t cured me right up" He
also saws: "a neighbOr and his wife
we're both sick in bed with rheuma-
tism. Their boy was over to my house
and said they were so bad that he had
to do the cooking. l told him OF
Cbemberlain's Pain Balm, and how it
had cured me. He procured bottle
Of il and it cured them up in a week"
20 cent bottles for sale by Charles R.
Goetze. viii w. Irwin, John Klari, VIM.
p. Williams, c. Menkemeller, VIM. II.
Hague H. c. Stewart, A. E. Scheele, J.
Coleman. c Schnepf, VIM. Menke-
meller. Wheeling, W. Va Bowie &
Co., Bridgeport. 3. F. Peabody & Son.
Benwocd.
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THE CASE OF B. B. NELSON.
The Wounded Man Still Unconscious-Ths
DIarlowe Girl Seriously Ill

lIarlowe Girl Seriously Ill
There was no change, yesterday in
the condition OF B. b. Nelson, the But
Ter oil man, who attempted suicide
Tuesday night. He was still uncon-
scious, and it appears hardly possible
that he can ultimately recover. Chief
Bennett yesterday received a telegram
from Keystone, Ind, to the effect that
Nelson's people had removed from
there some time ago, and it was not
known where they had gone. This ap-
pears to destroy all hope Of getting
word to his relatives.
Yesterday morning word was sent
from the Refuge Home to police head
quarters that Gertie NARROW, the girl
who was with Nelson when he made
the attempt on his life, was very ill
from the effects of the shooting upon
her nervous system. Two physicians
were sent to see her, and last evening
it was stated that her condition was no
better. The girl is almost distracted
from the combined effects of her drink
ing previous to the shooting, loss Of
sleep and the shock of the effort made
by Nelson to kill himself, in her pres
ence, and the consequences may yet be
serious. The girl has no money and
no friends here. Her original home
was in Altoona, but she had been in
Pittsburg for quite a while. She orig
inally went there with another girl,
both having some money, but this was
soon spent, and from sheer necessity,
as much as anything else, she drifted
into a life of shame.
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Special to the Register.

Ellenboro, w. Va, November 21.-
Yesterday afternoon the Barnsdall &
MallQsy well. on Whisky run, was clean
ed out and successfully shot with forty
quarts Of niro-glycerine. 1t IS not an
oil producing well, but shows up to be
a big gasser. The owners have sold
the well TO the Mountain State Gas
Company. who will at once connect it
with their main line that supplies Park
ersburg and Marietta.
Drilling on the Nesbitt we'll is pro
crossing. but the contractors are hav-
ing considerable trouble with caves, but
hope to be rid of this trouble when they
get in the 614-inch casing, which Will
be put in to-day.
It is said that operators are not salts
fed with the test well on Plum run,
and two more wells have been located
in that section.
The well on the Rymer farm is being
pushed towards completion, but VIII
not be in for two or three weeks.
AT Cairo, the well being drilled two
hundred yards from the good producer
ON the Wanlas farm, is the centre of
attraction and is expected in this week.
The production in this field hold up
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22

Chicago, November 21.-Some Of the
troubles Of Judge Robert Seaman, of
New York, and the husband of Nellie
BLY,, were aired before Chancellor
Leeeming in this city to-day. Judge
Seaman has been disputing with L. B.
Bisbee, a lawyer Of this city, over the
proceeds Of some business transactions
Several years ago The two men entered
into an agreement to purchase the
claims against the estate of B. F. Allen,
Of Des Moines, Iowa, who was President
of the Cook County National Bank, Of
this city, when the institution went to
the wall in 1881. Seaman supplied at
different times an aggregate Of $4,000
to buy up the claims, and they have re-'
turned a handsome profit to the pur-
chasers. He is now suing Bisbee for
an accounting and for the money he in
vested in buying claims. Blsbee admits
having received the money, but in hts
testimony before the Chancellor to-day,
claimed as an offset that he, in 1885,
went to New York at the instance OF
Judge Seaman and rendered such valu-
able services to that gentleman in sett-
ling affairs between him and woman
named Ernie Sanderson, who claimed to
be the common law wife of Seaman,
that the latter agreed to discharge
Bisbee from all indebtedness provided
the lawyer would make no claim against
him for legal services. Bisbee took
Seaman's attorneys entirely By surprise
this afternoon when he sprung the
Sanderson story. He says that the
woman is still living in New York.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22

well, and much work will be done dur
ing the winter.
Refs Bros. & Co., of Chicago, incor-
porated with S1,O00,O00 capital, are
securing the Whisky run territory and
the country north of this place, picking
up leases. This company has never
operated in West Virginia, but has large
interests in Southern Kansas and In
dian Territory.
Two or three important test wells ara
drilling near Rutherford, on the line
of the c. & K. V. railroad. that will, II
good producers, open up an extension
of the Cairo field.
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ARRESTED on SUSPICION.
to the Register

Special 10 tne RegiSter.
Woodsfield, O., November 21-Wed-
nesday evening Sheriff Keyser receiv-
ed a telegram about eight o'clock from
Lewisville that three men had been
seen entering cave near town to come
and arrest them. The sheriff and sew
eral men went out on the local, but they
had them arrested when they arrived.
They searched them and found two re-
volvers and one razor. They will have
their trial tomorrow.
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The River.

There were 2 feet 3 inches of water
in the channel last night. Falling.
Unless there is a rise soon the boats
now running will be forced to go to
bank
Pittsburg, Pa, November 21.-River
2 $40 feet and stationary at the dam;
weather cloudy and cool.
Oil City, Pa, November H.-River 8
inches and stationary. Weather, clear
and cold.
Morgantown, w. Va, November 21.-
River feet 2 inches and stationary.
Weather, clear and cold.
Warren, Pa, November H.-River
seven-tenths of foot and falling.
Weather cool with light snow.
Greensboro, Pa, November 21.-
River 6 feet 10 inches and stationary.
Weather. fair and cold.
Special to the Register.
Parkersburg, w. Va. November 21.-
River 2 feet and stationary; weather
fair and cool.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
THE WRONG MAN
Strung Up by an Angry Texas Mob
One of the Ever-PreS9nt Dangers OF
Mob Vengeance.

Bryan. Texas. November 21.-Rev. ].
2. Horne, of Madison county, to-day
brought news Of The lynching Of negro
in a remote part of that county last
Tuesday night. He was accused or rid
ing a horse over a little white girl in
the road. infiicting serious injuries on
her. Later developments 90 to show
that the mob got hold of the wrong
negro and the guilty one has made his
escape.
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Special to the Register.

Salem. w. Va, November 21.-The
Salem Oil and Gas Company met last
night and completed its organization
and elected officers. The capital stock
has been increased to S5000OO. Drill
ing will commence within thirty days.
A well will be put down within a half
mile of the corporation limits.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
ON A GRAY HORSE.

Denver, Col, November 21.-A special
to the News from Butte, Col, near
Pueblo, says that Francis Schlatter.
''the healer" who left Denver mysteri-
ously and Unexpectedly last week,
passed through that town yesterday,
riding south, on a gray horse.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
rtnrnnmeter Record.

Mr.. c. Schnepf, the Opera House
druggist. made the following observa-
tions of the temperature yesterday: a.
m. 2S; a. m, 30; Il m, 80; p. M, 30;
Weather changeabie
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22

If your children are subject to Group
watch for The first symptoms of the dis
.ease- -boarseness. If Chamberlain s
Couch Remedy is given as soon as the
child becomes hOarss Ii viii prevent the
attack. Even after the croupy cough
has appeared the attack can always be
prevented by giving this remedy. II is
also invaluable for colds and whoOping
couch
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
The HUSBAND OF N.LLY BY.
A Strong Intimation That the Old Man
Was Once Rather Gay.

An Old Love Affair, in Which Com
mon Law Wife Figures Promi-
nently, Comes to the Front in Chi
cago-The Alleged Valuable Ser
vices of Mr.. Bisbee Evidently For
gotten.
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Wnnther Indications.

Washington, November 21.-For west
Virginia: Increasing cloudiness dur
ing the day, followed by rain Or snow;
warmer Friday and much colder Satur-
day. southeasterly winds.
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IN THEIR PLAYHOUSE.
Two Boys Killed and Two Others seri-
ousIy Hurt.

Louisville, KY, November 21.-Six
boys who were digging a cave at Twen-
ty-eighth and Grayson streets this
evening, were buried by a cave-in of the
bank. Two were dead when reached;
two others were badly injured and two
escaped unhurt. The boys had been at
work several days in a steep embank-
ment in Grayson street, and were just
completing their playhouse when the
earth gave way burylng all of them.
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HATER.Y AAD eureka
Are the Fields Toward Which >
Grease Hunters Now " = IS
,,NNo&SH''

The Great w qs~Wss'sS. y. NJ. Ham
NETT Ferm\ Changed the
COur Sc OF Ole6genOus Thoughtful
Is in Territory Abandoned as Dry
Years AgO-SOmething About the
Excitement at Waverly-NO Such
GusheIs There as the One Found
at Eureka.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22

A "cow case" was the attraction
on the boards at Justice Fitzpatricks,
last evening.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-22
Special to the Register.

Sistersville, W Va, November 21.-
Lewis No. s, of the Deep Run OIL Com
pany, was drilled IN the Big Injun this
afternoon and is showing for $50 bar
rels a day. 1t is in defined territory
in Dog Skin.
Oil City, Pa, November 21.-Opened,
s1.51: highest. $1.621a; lowest, SL5O;
closed, S1.5S; sales, 5000; clearances,
$4,000; runs, $1,000; shipments, 1OS,75S.
New York, November 21.-Petroleum
strong at S158 bid.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-20
OAKLAND RUNAWAYS CAUGHT HERE
Leila Bowen and Walter Emery in the
City Jail.
Lizzie Early, Who Ran Away With
Them, Repented and Gave
Them Away.

Leila Bowen, the runaway Oakland
girl, and her abductor, Walter Emery,
who disappeared from Oakland to-
gether on the 4th of this month, were
arrested in this city last night by Off
GERS Talbot and Rutherford.
The whereabouts of the pair had re-
manned mystery to the girls parents
until day or two ago, when a girl
named Lizzie Early informed them that
they were in Sacramento. She had been
with them all the time, but at last the
novelty of the adventure had worn
off, so far as the Early girl was con-
cerned, and she cut loose from the COM
bination and returned to Oakland.
Leila Bowen is a pretty blonde of 10
years, but looks much older She was at
tending school in Oakland, and on the
afternoon she disappeared she left her
home after lunch with her schoolbooks
under her arm, as usual but did not return
to her home. The next day her father
notified the police of Oakland and San
Francisco, and ever since a steady
search had been kept up.
A day or two after her disappearance
it was discovered that young Emery,
with whom the girl was known to be
well acquainted, had also dropped out
Of sight, and subsequently it became
/ known that they had gone together. The
girls father heard they had taken pas
sage on a steamer for Oregon, and ne
went thither in search of them, but soon
discovered he was on a false trail.
Then it was thought they were hiding
IL San Francisco, and a search of all
the lodging houses was made, but with
out gaining the slightest clew to the run
Always. Then it was, just as the girls
father was about to abandon all hope
OF finding his hayward daughter, that
Lizzie Early, who had been in COM
pany with the pair, deserted them and
told where they were.
Mr.. Bowen came here yesterday for
his daughter, and fearing she or her
companion might see and recognize him
first, he shaved off his flowing beard.
The change in his appearance made
him look like a reconstructed POpunst,
but his disguise was complete.
The runaWays were located in house
on the southeast cornner of Sixth and
G streets, and there Bowen and Officers
Talbot and Rutherford found them.
The culprits were dumbfounded, and
the scene between father and daughter
was quite an animated one.
The girl and her paramour were taken
TO the police station and locked up for
the night This morning Bowen will
take his daughter home. and an Oak
land officer will come here for Emery,
against whom charges of forgery have
been made in Oakland, the alleged vic
tim being his own brother, a clergyman.
They have been in this city ever since
they left Oakland.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-20
LAWS
OBEY THEM.

Don't worry, fret or fume about little
things.
When you are pale, anemic or blood
less take joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla
moderately.
When your feet get wet in the rain keep
in motion until you can take off the
shoes.
The moderate use of everything
even joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla-
tends to longevity.
After the theater a ball or party
don't fill your stomach with food and
then retire.
portion of joys Vegetable Sarsapa-
rilla.
If your skin is dry, parched and fam
ing, use joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla.
+*%
If you want to be rid of dandruff
wash the head with carbolic soap and
use joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla.
If you are suffering from fever and
ague take hot baths and use joys Veg
etable Sarsaparilla.
Constipation leads to many severe
disorders. joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla
will cure you of constipation. Try it.
%*+
faded, overworked people recover
their spirits when joys Vegetable Sar-
saparilla is used.
Yes it will do for you to take JOY S
Vegetable Sarsaparilla now.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-20
ADJUSTMENTS.

Daniel Sully and his select company of
players will appear at the Metropolitan
Theater December 23d in "a Day in
June" December Oath in Daddy No
lan," and December 25th in "a Social
Lion" The box sheet will open for res
erVation OF seats Tomorrow, Saturday
morning. Sully has been playing very
successful engagement at the Column bla
Theater san Francisco. His DAY in
June" is "a comedy-drama full of fun, but
through which there is a pervadiDg senti-
ment OF kindness and generosity. 1t
abounds in various complications, both
humorous and dramatic, and deals. as do
nearly all comedy-dramas. with love and
a touch of villainy.
His Social Lionr ia also a new play
in which MIR. Sully ex cels in portraying
the rugged, hearty, honest, fun-loving
freshman. Spontaneity, consistency and
| naturalness-all artistic elements-are
seen in his work. The Irish race has
been so often caricatured upon the stage
that OIL the occasion OF Mr. Sully's first
visit to one OF the larger cities of the Far
W est committee was appointed by the
Irish societies of the place to witness the
first performance and report as TO lis
merits.
Their verdict was. LET every Irish
man go and see Daniel Sully."
At the Clunie Opers-house this evening
the double bill of chsste comedy and
roaring farce, both excellently played by
the Eldridge- Hallett stock company.
The preparations at the Clunie Opera
house for the Christmas spectacle, 1.-The
Crystal Slipper" are nearly complete.
The drama is the old, old loved story of
| Cinderella, around which for even the
most mature OF us there clusters some OF
the sweetest sentiment OF our lives, be-
cause OF the memory of childhood and its
delight in the story and fortunes of the
! little house-sweep who sat neglected in
the chimney corner ashes until the good
larry came, decked her in gorgeous robes
and sent her to the Princes ball In u
coach and four cOnjuTed out OF the strang-
est OF raw material. The scenery pre-
pared at the opera-house tor the piece is
the best ever shown there, in all prob
ability. The transformation scene is
something dazZllngly beautiful and won
derfuily puZZ4lng. No pains or expense
have been spared 10 make the production
exceptional in spectacular dramatic an
nails In the history OF the house.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-20

ture until men and women can jump
bitches like dogs and climb trees like
cats. In other words, he thinks that
we are cultivating our mental faculties
to the detriment of physical well being.
Perhaps he is right as to neglect of
physical culture and he may not be
far wrong in the belief that climbing
trees and jumping bitches would be as
useful as some of the isms and ologies
we wreck our brains over.
THE OAKLAND EXPOSITION.
Oakland Times: If any person doubts
womens ability to make a success of
any undertaking in which they embark
with enthusiasm, will have it dispelled
by noting the success of the exposition.
The men who took hold of the venture
seem to have soon realized that they
had awakened strong opposition or
else created a spirit of Indifference,
which, to overcome, they had to call in
the women. The latter rallied to the
support Of the exposition and worked
with a zeal and in a way that brought
the undertaking to success. While few
of the men may lay claim to the credit,
yet the general public and also those
who have given attention to the enter
prise recognize in the women those who
gave 1t life and instilled spirit of cour-
age and confidence into the men.
INDIGNANT SOUTH CAROLINANS.
Los Angeles Times: There is an in
dignant protest against the new Con
stitution" of South Carolina. and the
people of that State, who have had no
opportunity to vote upon its adoption or
rejection, propose to test it's legality.
The outcome ought not to be very
doubtful. There should be some way of
defeating the contamination of so grave
crime as the Acknowledgement of half
the voters of State.
A REMARKABLE EVENT.
Los Angeles Herald Yesterday was a
notable day in Los Angeles County
Il witnessed the occurrence of a strange
and rare event. The full amount of a
forfeited official bond, with cost of col
lection and interest to date, was paid
into the county treasury. After long and
weary waiting and strenuous contest
on the part of the bondsmen, the defal-
cation of Ell Hammond, former Tax
Collector, has been made good, and as
far as anything the levanting official
did, the county is whole again The
successful collection of the amount
involved, sol 16S 80. shows that Wig
orous effort on the part of the legal Off
Ger of the county can give force and
effect to official bonds.