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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-06

Miss OLDUN (playfully)-"I'm older than you think l am.' Miss Caustiquc-"l doubt it.n-TitcBits.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-06

THE HosrEss-"Oh, yes! Her people were as poor as church mice; but since her mar riage to wealthy John Gotmore she has it easy" The Visitor-"Easy. should say so! Why. she hasn't a single thing to do all day but sit and worry. .n-Puck.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-06

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" are al effectual remedy for all Bronchial Affections
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-02-06

WHY Time glides so swiftly All history shows, That the reason of this Is by cycle he goes.
 Harlem Life.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
Henry Launder.

Henry Launder was born at Zanes.
vile, Ohio, February 6, 1928, and en-
tered into eternal life March 90, 1896.
His exit from this present life was an
exemplifcation of the words of the
Psalmist, mark the perfect man, and
behold the upright, for the end of that
man is peace" On January 8, 1S4S, he
was united in marriage at Marietta,
Ohio, to Miss Susan R. Robinson, who
from that date until his death faithful
ly shared with him the joys and sor-
rows, the tolls and hardships of life's
uneven journey, and who with five
sons and two daughters survive him,
one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Snyder, hav-
ing preceded him into the heavenly
city. Mr.. Launder was faithful hus-
band, an honored father and a tender
was spent in Ohio. He came to Iowa
in November, 1865 and located in Adair
county, where he lived till his death.
About nine years previous to his death
he united with the NJ. M. church, of
which he was faithful and consistent
member He served the community in
which he lived in various ways, his
services as school director being most
conspicuous. He remained conscious
until the last, and as death drew near,
like Jacob of old, he blessed those of
his grandchildren present and exhort-
ed them to lives of uprightness and
usefulness. His funeral was conduct
ed by his pastor, Rev. Woodward, who
selected as a text, Though / walk
through the valley of the shadow of
death l will fear no evil" The re.
mains were laid to rest in the Orient
cemetery March "a, 1896 -[Greenfeld
Transcript
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
Electric BItters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen.
orally needed, when the languid ex-
hausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of a tonic and alternative is felt.
A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal
bilious fevers No medicine will act
more surely in counteracting and free
ing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric
Bitters. SOC and sL0O per bottle at
Styer's Drug Store.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
A Drop of Water.

From the Worlds Progress.
Water that is now in the ocean and
in the river has been many times in the
sky. The history of single drop
taken out of a glass of water is really
a romantic one. No traveller has eyer
accomplished such distances in his life.
That particle may have reflected the
palm trees of coral islands and have
caught the sun ray in the arch that
spans cloud clearing away from the
valleys of Cumberland or California.
1t may have been carried by the gull
stream from the shores of Florida or OF
Cuba, to be turned into crystal of ice
beside the precipices of Spitzbergen.
1t may have lowered oyer the streets
of London and have formed a part oi
the murky fog and have glistened on
the young grass blade of April in Irish
fields. 1t has been lifted up to heaven
and sailed in great wool pack clouds
across the sky, forming part Of cloud
mountain echoing with thunder. Il
has hung in a feecy veil many mile,
above the earth at the close of long
seasons of still weather. 1t has de
scended many times over in showers tc
refresh the earth, and has sparkled
and bubbled in messy fountains il
every country in Europe. And it hal
returned to its native skies, having ac
compllshed its purpose, to be stored
once again with electricity to give i
new life producing qualities and equiv
it as heayen's messenger to earth once
| more.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
OIL at Crooked Tree.

WATERFORD, April 21.-Hearing that
new we'll had been drilled at Crooked
Tree, we took our pencil, mounted a
cart Sunday morning (sorry to go on
the Lords Day. and hastened to the
scene of the strike. The well is located
on P. B. Ellison's farm east OF the
Caldwell-Marietta road, near the site of
the old Briggs school-house, in which
we taught school in the 7O's. When we
arrived in sight of the 'gusher' we
noticed the hillsides covered with peo-
pie, watching Worral and Clymes drill
ing her in. The sand was reached
Thursday evening about dark and it
began to flow at intervals of 80 minutes
until over 200 barrels of oil had foated
down the run to Duck Creek. Tankage
is now supplied and the owners Dunn,
Vaughn & Williams are sure of pro-
duction of at least 125 barrels. The
well is shallow. only 654 feet deep.
Ellison was offered $1,000 for his royal
ty in this new we'll and refused $4,000
for the right to the rest of his farm.
Three new rigs will be commenced this
week near the gusher.
The interesting part of the story is
that this well opens up new field;
q of a mile east of this we'll is a row of
dry holes, running north and south,
and this pool is cut off from the Dexter
field, according to the evidence of the
best operators. The wells on the
south of this were dry holes, that is,
those on the Boone and Hutchins farms
showed very little oil.
This field is extending the line of
shallow wells to the northeast, and if
continued in that direction it will strike
Olive Green about two miles north of
Keiths P. o. A test we'll has been
drilled at that place with no show of
sand. On the Garien farm Oh Big Run
three miles southwest of this new we'll,
drilling will be commenced today.
c. T. S.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
Cheap Excursion to Buffalo BiiPs
Wild West and Congress OF
Rough Riders of the World

1t is not more than once or twice in
lifetime when community SO sit
uated as the ore in which we live is
placed upon level with the greatest
centers of the world, such as London,
Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid,
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago, in respect to one of the really
most important features of life. Re-
ference is made in this instance to
amusements. The greatness of civilized
development can be measured by the
diversions of the people. In the cities
named above it is unanimously agreed
that the greatest of all the worlds
amusement exhibitions is Buffalo Bills
Wild West and Congress of Rough
Riders of the World. This was the
sensation of all Europe for five years.
1t was the one distinctive feature at
the Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1898.
1t was the one great attraction in New
York in 1894 Last year it was exhibit
ed in over 100 of the principal cities of
the East. This year it will tour the
Western states, and will exhibit at
Parkersburg on nesday, April 30.
The management states positively and
without any reservation that it will be
the same exhibition, man for man and
horse for horse, that has made it the
most marvellous exhibition of any kind
in all history. Excursion trains will
be run from here on all lines of travel,
and especially low rates will be made
for the round trip. This is one exhibit
tion that can be conscientiously en-
dorsed, and its announcements may be
relied upon implicitly. It'is well worth
a days journey to see. 1t would re-
quire column to enumerate its details
and its fame is so great that it is un-
necessary to do so, even.were the space
available.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21

A one-hundred barrel oil we'll was
developed on Cats Creek, Macksburg
field on Friday. Before the flow could
be stopped about 500 barrels of the oil
was lost. R. w. Zahnizer and A. B.
Clark of this city haye each a one-six-
teenth interest in this well.-Cam-
bridge Sun. -.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
PETITION FILED.
The Lowell Church Quarrel Goes Into
Court.


The Lowell Church Quarrel Goes Into
Court
In Common Pleas Court Monday the
petition in the matter of the division
in the Lowell Christian church, men
toned recently in the Leader, was
filed by Nye & Follett, attorneys for
the plaintiffs. The arties bringing
the suit are Rev. Kile, George Dixon
and c. L. Merritt the defendants
named being d. w. Sprague and Her.
man Viking.
The petition alleges that Rev. Kile is
and has been the Elder of said church,
sustaining to the congregation the re-
lation ordinarily indicated by the term
pastor or preacher; that George Dixon
and C. T.. Merritt are and have been
Trusteesin charge of the property and
for the management OF said church;
that upon the erection Of the church
edifice several years ago Rev. Kile,
George Dixon and L. G.. Allison were
chosen Trustees, Merritt being subse-
quentIy elected to FIJI the vacancy
caused by Allison's death; that in Oc-
tober, 1895, some members of the con-
gregation, for no reason stated to or
known to the plaintiffs, objected to
Rey. Kile continuing to preach in the
church, and that a number. in the
minority as regards the entire congre-
cation, absented themselves from the
church during the services and assum-
ed to appoint D. W.. Sprague and Her
man Viking Trustees and began a
movement for the organization of an
other church; that they held services
in private houses took subscriptions
for new building ana endeavored to
purchase property for the same; that
they never interfered with plaintiffs
until Sunday, March goth. when they
came to church in body and objected
to Rev. Kile preaching; that they then
locked the door, with a new paddock
and nailed the windows, but plaintiffs
caused the distractions to be removed
and held services April 5th; that the
building was locked in like manner
the second and third time.
The prayer of the petition is that de-
PENDANTS may be restrained and en-
joined from further hindrance to plain
tiff in conducting services in the
church.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
NOTES OF THE LArESTFASHIONs


Shot silks have lost none of their
prestige.
Spider-web brecades are new and
striking.
White duck suits are made with the
belted coat.
Very pointed toes are seen on the new
Oxfords.
All shades of green will be in vogue
for the spring.
The spring neckties are in the most
pronounced plaids.
Most women take kindly to the skirt
with decorated seams. y.
Ribbons figure largely as trimming
on all imported costumes.
Rose pink and turquoise blue figure
largely in the summer organdies.
Linen homespuns will be made into
cool and serviceable outing dresses.
Black satin duchesse skirts will con-
tinue to be in style throughout The
summer.
Black serge tailor gowns are being
ordered by some of the best-dressed
women
Turbans will be the first millinery
forms to be seen on the streets after
Easter.
House gowns Of cotton crepe make
q hostess look picturesque at trifing
expense.
White satin sashes ON linen gowns
will be distinctively elegant when sum
.mer days arrive.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21

MCKINLEY is doing fairly well in II
Enois. In the state convention to con-.
vene the Goth inst. 545 have been in.
county and 125nin Cook county, al
though uninstructed, have declared in
his favor. This gives Mckinley 7s9
out of the 1885 delegates, without ad-
mitting the claims of the Mckinley
managers to the 104 more delegates in
Cook county yet to be elected. If H.
linois declares for Mckinley receiver
will be needed for the presidential
trust Ohio State journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
For President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
OF the United States.
Announcements.
FOR SHERIFF.

FOR SHERIFF..
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce thename
OF George A. Shapley, OF Grandview. as can
didate for the ONCE of Sherin, subject to the
will Of Convention. HIS FRIENDS.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please state in the Leader
that Christopher j. Pfaff, of Adams township,
will be candidate before the county conven-
tion for the Office OF Sheriff. VOTERS.
EDITOR LEADER: Will you kindly an.
nounce that the undersigned will be candi-
date for the office Of Sheriff, subject to the will
of the Republican convention to be held in
May. JOHN S. MCCALIIsTER.
EDITOR LEADER: - Please announce in
your paper that the undersigned will be a
candidate for the office of Sheriff Of Washing
ton County, subject to the will Of the Republi-
can County convention to be held May Goth.
CHARLES PAPE.
EDITOR LEADER:-Please announce that the
undersigned will be candidate for Sheriff,
subject to the will OF the Republican county
convention May 26th ROSCOE WoLCTT.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
EaIrvIew heights.

Stehles Addition-25 acres, plated. easy Of
access by trolley or otherwise. Lots 80 by l5o
feet, streets so feet wide.
Can at room s, Law Building to see plat,
learn prices and terms.
J. D. PAYNE. Special Agt.,
r. STEHLE. Marietta, o.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
The Isle of Cuba,

England and Australia are the only
islands that exceed Cuba in natural re
sources, and the former would not bt
an exception if it were not for the
riches of her prodigious deposits OF
coal and iron. Under all the disad
vantages that misgovernment can in
hict, and with vast share of her soil
untouched, Cuba produces, when not
wasted by war, about one hundred
million dollars worth of sugar and
tobacco annually, and there is a
prodigal luxuriance of fruits and for
ests, while her mountains are reser-
voirs of minerals, and her rivers and
shores swarm with fish. There is no
more exquisite feature in any land
scape than the royal palms, and the
orange trees, never touched with frost,
are loaded with golden spheres, and
the clusters of bananas cling under
feathery foliage, while the green CO.
coanuts hang high, each containing a
quart of pure, sweet water; and where
the soil is not deep, dark red it is so
black that it shines as if oiled. Around
the coral shores is the snowy surf of
seas matchless in color, and over all
the exalted arch of the sky, with a
delicate tint of indigo, spotted with
stars that are strangely brilliant, and
the procession of the consultations
moves with unutterable majesty; and
one sees the all-searching beauty of
the armament, and finds new meaning
in Paul's line with the divine inner
light in it that tells that the stars diff
fer in glory, and in Byron's that gives
the glorious image of wonanhood:
She walks in beauty like the night OF cloudless
climes and starry skies.
The geographical position of Cuba is
that of Guardian of the Gates of the
American Mediterranean. Glance at
the map and see how she is posed be-
tween Florida and Yucatan, and that
her Southern shore contronts the Carib-
bean Sea, whose waters famous in his
toIy, are storied with romance, from
the days of the Caribs with their brave
canoes, and the adventurous discover
ers who plowed the sea with lofty
prows driven by the trade-winds, the
Spanish galleons, too, freighted with
the gold and silver of the New World,
and pirates whose heroism gave a
glamour to their crimes; and the giant
fieets of England and France that with
the contending thunders of the broad.
sides of their liners disputed the com
mand of the ocean that held the in
comparable Indies, until at last (April
12. 1881 the British Admiral Rodney
avenged Yorktown at Gaudaloupe, and
Froude says, tore the Leeward Islands
from the French, and saved Gibraltar
and Hastings Indian Empire to the
English.
1t was from Cuba that Cortez and De.
Soto set forth to the conquest of Mexico
and the discovery of the Mississippi
and in Havana that the Pakenham ex,
petition that attempted to possess
Louisiana, in 1915, paused to recuper.
ate after the slaughter before New
Orleans. Halstead, in the April
Review Of Reviews.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
Homo Seekers, Excursion.

The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
will on April 7th and 2lst, and May 5th sell
one fare plus two dollars for round trip, to
points West. South Southeast and East
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
IN rAe OIL F.slps.

The Racer well No. s, at Sand HILL
was expected in last night or this
morning, and is being watched with
much interest. 1t is locaied but q
short distance from the famous Scot,
we'll.
PARKERsBuRG, w. Va, April IA
splendid shallow we'll was struck Sat.
urday morning on Frank Hanes's farm
at Waverly in the Cow Run sand. The
we'll is flowing at the rate of about &C
barrels day now, and is adjoining the
famous Smith and Cooper farms.
A Wheeling company who have under
lease the large farm of 0. P. Durham,
at Valley Mills, will put down awell at
once on the lease. The we'll has been
located and work on the rig will com.
mence next week. The we'll will be
considerably ahead of sdevelo ophents
and its location has caused ssgreat
deal of'interest to be manifested by To-
cal operators and land OWNERSHIP that
locality
The South Fork Oil Company. of this
city, who are drilling well on j. w.
Huffmans farm, on the sonth fork of
Lee creek, are now ready for the boil
er and engine to be placed in position,
and it will be done at once.
Z we'll has been located very close to
Chesterville, this county, by Joseph
Sibley, about fourteen miles from this
city in southeasterly direction, and is
being drilled by Dotson Bros.
Several wells are due in to-day in the
vicinity of tie Johana Drake we'll, and
they are being closely watched by oil
men. Kelley and Kennedy have one
adjoining the Drake we'll; opposite the
Drake, across the county road, Dayis &
Athey have one well due in to. morrow,
Drake No. 2 is due this evening.
The large oil interests owned by w.
T.. Harris, near Pennsboro, have been
disposed of by that gentleman, and he
will seek territory in the Wood county
fields.
The Park Bros. well at Burning
Springs came in duster Friday.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21
OIL Lands.

Tor blocks ranging from l2s to 300 acres
each near Big Run and Briscoe wells that I
want drilled.
Also for sale farm Of LIS acres on Ohio
River miles north OF Parkersburg. farm OF
100 acres on Ohio River miles north OF Park
ersburg, both tracts garden and melon land.
Also the New Port and Vancluse Ferry, Fran
chise. boats and 81 acres land on W. Va. side
all upon reasonable terms. Address,
s. s. STONE, Vienna, w. Va, on o. r. r.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-21

On account of the Methodist Episcopal
Church General Conference at Cleveland, o.,
May LIST to 3lst, the G. & M Ry. win sell tickets
from all ticket stations to Cleveland, o., at
rate OF one fare for the round trip. Tickets
viii be sold and good going only on April Goth
and ooth, May LIST and 18th, and not good re-
turning after ave days from date Of sale.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1896-11-12
AN ESSAY ON "srovEPIPEs."
nm OF Head Covering with Neither
Excuse Nor Explanation.

Form of Head Covering with Neither
Excuse Nor Explanation
The tall, cylindrical hat is, perhaps.
the most hideous, the most uncomfort-
able, the most inconvenient, the most
perishable and the most tenacious of
all articles Of headgear known to his
tory, says the London Daily News. Our
male ancestors wore odd and unhand-
some things; shoes whose prolonged
tips were attached to the knees, rufus
about four feet in diameter, tights of
incredible tightness and 50 forth, but
these foolish fashions never lasted long.
Men wearied Ct them. But the tall hat
sits as tight and eternally as Theseus
on the human skull. Like the corset
on woman, and far less excusably, II
seems to be a permanent institution.
True, we are more emancipated than
our sires, who played golf and even
cricket in orthodox hats. Advanced
thinkers wear Devastating caps, round
cloth caps, socialist or bible reader
fiat-shaped soft black felt things, and
the Tyrolean or Monte Carlo hat, which
q lady described as more brigand than
socialist In the country tall hats are
little worn now, except by elderly ply
sicians and solicitors. Thus, there are
seeming tokens Of the decline Of the
tall hat, but it holds its own firmly in
London and Paris. An eminent states
man wears his mostly in his hand, to
cool his intellectual brow; still, he
wears 1t. Few persons who do not pos
itively pose as enemies Of society" or
friends of the people" terms curl
ously interchangeable have the cour-
age to wear other headgear In town,
even at Lords. Yet no mortal has a
good word for the tall hat, except doc
tors who carry stethoscopes in theirs.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1896-11-12
Costly Bottle OF Champagne

Some years ago Mr.. Gladstone had
met a possible claimant for civil list
pension whom he believed to be in SUI
fciently poor circumstances, and had
almost decided to grant it, when he re-
ceived an invitation to dinner with the
person in question. This raised some
doubt In his mind. On the one hand,
should a civil list pensioner be able to
AFFORD to entertain? On the other
hand, 1t might only be a dinner OF
herbs, and 1t seemed hard to deprive
public benefactor Of a pension because
he was ready to share his crust and
water. Knowing that in any case there
would be a feast of reason and a now OF
soul. Mr.. Gladstone accepted the invita-
ton. and on the way propounded to
his companion the following text:
mo champagne. pension; champagne,
no pension." There was champagne,
and the host lost his pension. 1t was
the dearest bottle Of wine on record,
for II cost the purchaser f1oo year
London News.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1896-11-12
VIM PROVE nEsrRucrIvr

sesiai Gun Designed to Drop sAsus Ia
side FORT OF an Eneny's vessel
Experiments are now being tried
with view Of combining torpedo boats
and aerial machines In hostile opera
tions against ships or forts. A boat
has been designed to dive under water
and fire torpedo into a battle-ship
hull The proposed aerial gun will
send a shell Of explosives through the
air and drop 1t on an enemy's deck or
into fort. II the combination Of these
two machines should prove successful,
the craft viii be the most wonderful en-
CINE Of destruction in modern warfare.
The aerial gun Is to be placed In the
how and to be operated as follows: The
boat, for instance, Is moving along the
surface at q nfteen-knot speed. At the
word Of command her petroleum fires
are put out, the electric engine started.
the smokestack and air-shaft drawn
inside the vessel and covered over. She
10 made to sink by admitting water to
her tanks. At the same moment two
horizontal rudders at the stern, and
Inclined upward, cause the eighty-five
loot steel cigar-shaped craft to dive
like porpoise. She runs, ordinarily,
either three or thirty feet under the
surface, but she Is built to stand the
pressure Of depth OF seventy feet.
She has a constant tendency to rise,
but Is kept below by the horizontal
rudders on her stern. Should she &C
cidentally sink, there are automatic
arrangements, governed by the outside
water pressure that empty the water
tanks and compel the vessel to rise to
the surface. The effect OF the FIRE Of
this machine In the more appalling
because 1t can be delivered without Civ
Ing the slightest sign to the enemy.
When approaching an enemy the YES
sci rises to within three feet of the
surface, and q revolving looking glass
Is raised above the water. This re-
fleets down into the boat through q
tube all the surroundings. When the
range of a hostile fort Is obtained the
bow OF the boat IL allowed to come on
level with the surface Of the water,
barely exposing the mouth OF the aerial
gun. The body Of the gun is inside
the boat The pneumatic pressure
sends q load Of destruction into the air
and down into the fort. The boat
drops back into the depths Of the sea,
and the enemy cannot tell whence the
shot comes. There is no smoke; moth
Ing in sight but few ripples on the
water.-Pittsburg Dispatch.