Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-25
TIE PRINCIPAL EVENTS
Socially and Otherwise in the HuStling
Oil Metropolis.
What the People in SistersviIle, the
Center Of the Largest Oil Field in
the Country, Are Doing Every
Day-NOtes and Personals.

the Country, Are Doing Every
Day-Notes and Personals.
Special to the Register.
Sistersyille, August 24.-The morals
of Sistersyille seem TO be on the wane.
Yesterday mention was made OF a
couple Old enough to be grandparents
! being up before the Mayor for unlaw-
| full cohabitatiOn. This morning a case
| infinitely worse was aired in the Police
/ Court. For some time past there has
been q white woman named Dora
| Franklin in the city, who came here
! from Bellaire. In some way she be-
came infatuated with a big, burly
coon" here called Jumbo who is
employed at a hotel as porter. The
! police got onto the affair and some
! days ago ordered the woman out of the
I city. She left at the time but in few
! days returned and since then she and
the negro have been having high times
together on q small boat, moored just
/ above town. The police learned that
! the woman was in the city again and
/ that she and the coon" were spending
/ a great deal OF time together and last
/ night they were pulled and the woman
/ was locked up, friend Of the coon put
/ ting up security for his appearance.
| When they were brought before the
Mayor this morning they were given a
terrific scorching, the coon was fined
/ So and costs, amounting to $3.50, and
the woman was told 10 get out of the
! town and stay out or she would be sent
I 70 ~ 80
Miss Ella Kinney. of this city, has
returned from a pleasant visit with
friends in New Martinsviile. MIR.
! and Mrs. Chas. Inglefield, who have
been visiting in the city Tor several
days, left to-day for their home in
Pittsburg . Dr. Z. l. Marsh went to
Wheeling to-day on business. Rich
ard VI. Jennings, the genial and DOpu-
lar manager Of the Kanawha Oil Co.,
left this morning for his home in Pitts
burg, where he will spend Sunday.
The action of the city authorities in
giving the suspicious characters about
the city notice to leave has had a good
effect already. Ii has been noticed
during the last couple of days that at
least q half dozen OF the slick and light
fingered gentry here have shaken the
( dust of this hustling city from their
shoes and departed, it is hoped, never
TO return. There is always a gang of
crooks Of all kinds infesting an oil
town and Sistersville has been no eX-
ceptiOn to the rule These people make
it a business to hang around the gam
bling rooms and saloons and when they
see a man with a roll they always make
an effort to get il in some way and, and
they always manage TO get il, too.
There have been frequent instances in
this city where people have been held
up and their valuables taken from
them by force Then, too, this city has
been infested for some time with a
gang Of petty thieves, who have been
reaping good harvest. The action Of
the Mayor and police in thus trying TO
rid the town of this very undesirable
element is meeting with the hearty en-
dorsement of an the good citizens and
they viii be very materially asserted
if necessary. There are still quite q
number of suspicious characters in the
citv and if they do not vanish within
the next few days it is the intention of
the CIV authorities to arrest them and
send them all TO Jail.
Mr.. 81 rr Hollis, well known in this
city. has ing been N business here for
several 4. ears, has bought the famous
AIllvaus saloon in Wheeling. and af-
ter q tho ough renovation has opened it !
TO the d Dlic. The place is open night
and dayl and at any time Mr.. Hollis Will |
be please5 10 see any Of his SisJersville !
friends. | you attend the Wheeling |
Far this ear go around and hunt up |
MIR. Hollis. who will show you a good |
time.
The intelligence was received in the !
city to-day that the application Of |
for q supersedeas in the case recently de- /
c.ded against him by Judge Jacobs. had |
been granted. Dolanattherecen session o. |
the Circuit Court, was indicted by the |
grand jury for selling liquor illegally, |
three times, and was sentenced by Judge |
Jacobs TO pay a fine of $1C0 and costs in |
each indictment and undergo an impris- !
onment of thirty days in the county !
iliI in each case Tn addition to this the /
Judge ordered D0lan'S house to be |
closed up as a nuisance. Dolan immedi- |
a1ely applied to the Supreme Court for |
tAe supersededs. and before his place IS |
closed the papers will be served on the |
Circuit Court.
The town is much Queter now than It |
has been atany time during the summer. !
The recent black eyes received by the |
two big pools from which so much was
expected has had the effect OF driving
quite a number of people out of the
town. 7 don't want IL understood that
the town is dead 1t is not by any
means. There IS still o large amount of
business being transacted here, and u
merchants are not cOmpiaing very much
although they admit that they are not
doing the business now that they did
several weeks ago. The lethargy into
which the town has Teceded will prob
ably not last a great while, for the rea-
son that. as has been the case before, !
there will be a new pool opened up be-
fore n great while when business viii
be just as good as it ever was.
Miss Edwards. a charming and ac-
c0mplished young lady of Benwo0d ar
rived I'm the city this evening, and viii
be the guest of friends for several weeks
Harry Benedict eft this evening an
business Trip to Wheeling Fred.
Wfclzersham. Of New Marinsv.l,e. IS the
quest of friends in the city....H. A. and
M. A. Steel. sons Of Mr. and Mrs w. J.
Steel. who have been visiting their par
ents for several weeks left to-day for
pit-shrrg and Oil Civ. resDfctivelv.