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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-20
EXCURSION TO ruAnAous eLrS.


The Social wheel club members 70
20 pharnoh's on Sunday via Ttnh Con-
trail line at 1926 a. m. 30 cents round
trip Bicycles carried free. Various
points on Utah Central Railway offer
inviting picnic grounds. Cheap rates
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-20
tugl,ad's Supplies.

The heaviest supplies OF goods Tor
England were drawn for the English
market during 1876. according 20 the
London Fruit Gruwer which says. in
respect 10 potaotora we md that the
largest quantity came from France.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

The colored vote throughout the
country Is breaking away from the g. O.
p. Finally, tired of quarter of a CEN
fury of false pretense and unfulfilled
promises, the colored citizen seems de-
termined to vote according to the die
tates Of his best judgment, in view Of
the issues of the campaign, and not
out of gratitude for something that oc-
Cured more than quarter of century
ago. The white man has forgotten the
Gead and buried issues of the war, and
the coored man refuses longer to be
tied down by them to the support of
a set of latter-day politicians, to whom
he owes nothing and who care nothing
for him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
TAX RIDDEN.

The Charleston Tribune says that weeds
are growing in the streets in the heart
of that city. No better reason could be
urged even by the enemies of the place
for the removal of the Capitol. When a
State capital becomes the abiding place
of the rag weeds, and the public thorough
fares are turned out to COW pasture it is
time to think of real town for the Cap
itol building.-Parkersburg Sentinel.
We have not been .disposed to believe
the rumors afioat that some of the prin-
ring to remove the Capitol from Charles
ton, but our faith begins to weaken
Charleston Gazette.
The fact of the matter is that Charles
ton and Kanawha county are ailing, and
to considerable extent. While it is
true that the capital city is over-built,
recent building booms having gotten
ahead of the business needs of the town
in these times of Mckinley prosperity,
with the result of many idle store
rooms, the chief ailment with Kanawha
county and incidentally the city is
OVER TAXATION. Our contemporary,
the Charleston Gazette, itself, points
out this fact and gives the figures to
prove it. The political hog combine
down there have simply taxed the coun-
ty and city well nigh to death, and
property owners, in many instances, are
on the verge Of throwing up their
hands. For example, glance at the
tax tickets this year shows that in the
city of Charleston, the. hog combine has
put on special tax Of ten cent : extra.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
A BUSY TOWN.
Minpo junction Booming The Htna
standard Improvements.

Mingo junction Booming - me htna-
Standard Improvements.
Special to the Register.
Mingo Junction, o., October 23.-By
reason of the vast improvements at the
re6rganiTed Aetra- otandGIc Iron anu
Steel Company, Mongo Junction is per-
haps the busiest town In the manufac-
turing district of the upper Ohio valley.
About 100000 have been expended by
the company, and further extensive I'M
provements are contemplated. A new
steel plant has been erected and IS
equipped with the most ponderous en-
gines and rolling machinery ever seen
in the Ohio valley; the engine alone
being 5000 horse power, and all other
machinery in proportion. The first
cost of the engine was $4,000, and a
large force Of skilled workmen were
six weeks placing it ready for opera
ton. Six ten-ton ladies have been pur-
chased for use in the new plant.
Everything is of the most improved
pattern and the steel plant will take
the molten iron directly from the blast
furnace, thus doing away with inter-
mediate and expensive work of pro-
ducing pig iron.
An ELECTRIC HSAC plant Will LUZ HlsH
power for four gigantic electric cranes
with a combined lifting capacity of
fifty tons. New pumps are being placed
to supply the large amount of water
that will be needed. Tracks have been
relaid with heavier rails and more pow
erful switching engines purchased;
also newly improved metal cars to
handle refuse Stag.
A finish mill 400 feet in length will
complete the product as ordered.
Improvements at the furnace are
likewise extensive, and made to insure
a greatly increased product.
A large amount of acreage property
below Mingo has been sold to the Act
na-Standard within the last few days,
and it is stated that other mills and
furnaces will be erected in the very
near future.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

Besides the most thorough and COM
plete tables of comparison of Republi-
can and Democratic management of
State finances. there is presented in this
mornings Register the ordinance
bounding and describing the different
voting precincts in the several districts
and giving the location of the polling
places, with which voters must famil-
iarize themselves. Also there is pub
lished the Congressional vote of two
years ago in all the districts of the
State, which will be found useful and
handy for purposes of comparison.
Cut it out and save it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

II y 6is1fict u d u ~ h2vs
added twenty centa n 1nother district
Of the county they have added a extra
|of sixty cents. III fAct. the taxes In
some instances almost equal the rent Of
property.
No wonder. as is alleged, the weeds
are growing in the streets Of Charles
ton! They will continue to grow there
so long as the present gang of politi-
clans continue to hold the county in
their grip.
There are other counties in the
State where the people are ring-ridden
as they are in Charleston, and one Of
them is our own county of Ohio.
Let the business men of Wheeling
look at their tax bills for this year,
and make comparison with former
years. In many instances they will find
a startling difference. Many are the
complaints made to the Register by
business men On this score, and many
a deep and heartfelt malediction has
been pronounced upon the county ring,
responsible for the outrage and injustice
to taxpayers.
Business men and property owners
should look over their tax bills before
voting, next month. and then, regard
less of party, go to the polls and vote
down tho county RING Tho rim oSfprs
imagine they are safe behind the in
famous gerrymander, by which they
hope to defeat the will of the people
OF this county, but let the taxpayers
combine against them, and the ring
will be defeated, despite the gerryman-
der. Then, and not until then, may
we hope for better things, or lower
tex rate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
MORE ALGERISM

Occasionally the "Whitewash Board"
stumbles upon the truth in spite of it
self. In the hospital at Fort McPher-
son only two witnesses were examined,
but one of those disclosed a startling
lack of efficiency in the quartermaster
department. Major Blair B. Taylor
testified that acquisitions for supplies
made last May were attended to only
recently. During the intervening months
when the hospital was crowded with
sufferers and suitable cots and cloth
ing were most needed they were
not to be had and were not forthcom-
ing until the need for them had almost
passed.
This was entirely due to gross care
lessness or gross inefficiency in the
quartermaster department, and is the
results of appointing untried and in
experienced men-political favorites
and sons Of somebodies-to important
and responsible positions which they
were entirely unfit to fill.
The case was well stated in letter
from Camp Cuba Libre from Capt. w.
S. Monroe, of Parkersburg, an extract
from which appeared in the Register
the other day. This young West Vir-
sinia soldier said in private letter to
his father:
4
to contend with here is the incompetency
of many of the officers of the quarter
master and commissary departments. 1t
is burning shame that a government
that takes such good care of its soldiers
in other respects should jeopardze the
health and lives of their soldiers by APP
pointing incompetent civilians to such
important staff positions in the commits
sary, quartermaster and surgeon-general S
departments. When the men get sick,
great complaint is made in many regi-
ments that the men do not get good treat
ment, and when they are well, they are
not properly fed, but often have to go
for days without rations, on account of
some incompetent official. We had a lit
tie taste of that ourselves this week,
when we ran short of nearly everything
and could not get more in spite of the
efforts of Colonel Petit, simply because
some officials did not know their bust
ness
This is the disinterested testimony
of a soldier and goes Tar toward ac-
counting for the terrible fact that
nearly ten men died in peace camps on
our own soil of starvation and neg
lected disease to one in actual war.
That is the practical result of Alger-
ism, which the "Whitewash Board is
trying to conceal from the people be-
fore the election.
The people know enough, however,
to render a proper verdict at the polls.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
YEARLY REPORT
OF the Steamers Inspected In Pittsburg
Aggregate 1873.

Of the steamers inspected IN flLLSDuTS
Aggregate 1853.
Washington October 22.-The annual
report of Supervising Inspector General
of Steamboats, Dumont shows that dur
ing 1897 there were inspected at Pitts
burg 1913 steamers Of gross tonnage of
26,9S2 tons. The inspection at Wheel
ing numbered 66 steamers, with gross
tonnage of 1927.
The total number of accidents to
steamships resulting in loss of life dur
ing the year was 81; lives lost, 2S3, an
increase over the previous year of 1O0
Of the lives lost "a were passengers,
and SO crew. The estimated number of
passengers carried on vessels inspected,
is 650,OOO,G00. General Dumont recon-
mends' the passage of the Senate bill
authorizing the inspector general in
cases of emergency to appoint inspectors
without reference to the civil service
commission.
The following were to-day appointed
storekeepers and gaugers in the Pitts
burg internal revenue district: Her.
schel Merritt Willis c. Rankin, James
M. Bral, John A. Wilson, William H.
S. McAdoo. James P. Mcmahon, and
Frank p Cable.
Pittsburg, Pa, October 23.-The
amount of coal now On its way to Gin
cinnati on the present rise in the Ohio
aggregates about 1000 900 bushels, re-
quiring $50 barges and rs coal boats to
carry it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
A MAGNIFICENT CAMPAIGN DOC.
UMENT.

This morning the Register is en-
abled to present unquestionably the
most effective campaign document
ever published in West Virginia
1t is thorough, complete and
accurate comparison Of Republican
and Democratic management of the
finances of this State and leaves
no stone unturned, no question
unanswered in that connection. The
figures given are indisputable because
official; they are taken right from the
records at the State Capitol and were
secured only after much labor and in
the face of myriad of petty obstacles
raised to prevent the truth of gross
mismanagement and waste from being
presented to the people before the COM
ing election. So many and so numer-
Gus were these obstacles that although
the work was begun several weeks ago
it has only just been completed
But it is complete and it is most
convincing. 1t is entirely without par
tisan coloring. The figures are left to
speak for themselves. It is simply a
copy of the official record as made by
Democratic and by Republican State
Legislatures.
This document is precious as the
only complete record of its kind ever
presented to the people OF this State,
ard is not only valuable in this CAM
paign as an infalljhle guide to the
voter at the polls but will be useful
for future reference not only to the
people, but to the coming Legislature.
showing as it does tho exact financial
status Of the State, inslnding every
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
ArARI<S FROM ROVE

Pittsburg-River 10 feet 3 inches and
falling at the dam: Clear and cool
Warren-River feet. Weather cloudy
Greensboro-River 10 feet inches and
falling. Weather cloudy and cool
Oil City-River feet inches and ris-
ing. Weather partly cloudy and cool.
Morgantown-River Is feet 3 inches and
falling. Weather clear and warmer
Steubenvillee-River IL feet nches ana
rising. Weather clear and cold.
Brownsville-River II feet 10 inches and
falling.
The marks on the wharf at midnight
showed 10 feet, rising fast.
The water coming up yesterday kept
the ferrymen going, moving their floats
with the rise.
The rise coming out of the upper
rivers will allow all the lower river
boats to resume. This will bring the
upper river boats, which have been
running on the lower river as low water
packets, back into upper river trades.
The steamboat explosion, which oc-
Cured to the Rescue, near Elizabeth,
Friday, killed one man, Captain Charles
n. Seidell, and injured thirteen OF the
crew.
The Urania will give the fastest tri-
weekly boat service of any Of the local
tri-weekly boats, covering twice the dis
lance of any tri-weekly packet. She
connects at Wheeling with the I. nj.
Bayne for Steubeneville, and at Gallipo-
lis with Cincinnati packets.
Every boat in yesterday reported
that they never had such trips for
freight The Virginia was compelled to
leave some unperishable freight at
Pittsburg to be picked UP by the Key
stone State.
The river at 10 o'clock last night
was rising eight inches to the hour.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
PALAVER AND PLATTITUDES

TAL v "A ~
Our Fourteenth street contemporary
makes the startling accusation that the
Register suppressed" the following
gem of oratory from Mr.. McKinley's
Pullman car remarks at Chicago. Read
this weighty utterance, which Partisan
Pecksniff accuses the Register of sup
pressing" for base political purposes:
81 thank you, my fellow citizens, for
you on the evidences of returning pros
perity everywhere. Great applause)
What you want-what we all wants.
business prosperity. When you have that
you have something to do, when You have
it not then you are idle. There are few
empieS now on the sidetrack. Great
laughter, and applause) And there are
plause) The more you see the freight car
the oftener you see the pay car" Gap
plause)
And this bit of empty. inane platti-
tude, crowded out because the least i'm
portant of the Registers lengthy and
accurate account of the Presidents trip
Old Hypocrisy has the brass mounted
gall to charge was purposely suppress
ed." Is Peecksniff entering his drivel-
ing dotage?
'The more you see the freight car
the oftener you see the pay car" So
norously sang Major Mckinley. hunting
about for something to tickle the ears
of his hearers and leave pleasant i'm
preston. 1t is catchy enough remark,
but apropos to what? Has the pay-car,
or the freight car, either, been especial
ly prominent on the railroads this year?
Had any of those railroaders had
his wages raised, as promised by
Mr.. Mckinley and the Hanna
spelbinders two years ago? Had
Mr.. Mckinley tried to support his
pleasant plattitude with facts
and figures from the railroads
annual reports for this year
he would have found himself
in quandary, and minus the necessary
facts. According to the earnings of
the roads this year, with few exceptions,
there have been fewer freight cars, and
more "empties" seen by the men than
the year before, and hence, according
to Mr. McKinley's plattitudinous logic,
the less the pay-car has been seen in
this year of Mckinley prosperity"
during which it is a fact that the rail-
roads have suffered together with bust
ness in general.
1t is notorious and a. prominent fac
tor at present in Wall street, that the
situation in the railroad world would
be black, indeed, were it not for this
years enormous, Heaven-sent crops.
Handling these enormous crops will
give the great carriers plenty to do, and
maybe increase their earnings. And
this good fortune, which even Partisan
Pecksniff will hardly say is due to a
Republican administration, or to any
thing but Divine Providence, is all that
stands between several roads and bank
ruptcy.
The President is proficient in the art
of uttering pleasing, but inane and
meaningless plattitudes. They sound
well, sometimes big, but when one
comes to sift them down to the rock
bottom of hard fact, it is found there
is nothing in them but empty sounS.
Even Major Mckinley. smooth-tongued
as he is, cam hardly talk down hard
facts
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

49,. $500
= " have nd, X = unimpeaeh-
able testimony became entirely ON
cial. There is no surmise, no calcula-
ton, no inference about 1t. It is hard
ofncial facts and figures direct from
the State records themselves. and may
be relied upon as impartially true, and
absolutely accurate. Nothing is with
held: nothing colored an iota.
From this record the voter may read
and see beyond any question which
political party has best and most
faithfully and honestly served the peo-
pie and the State Of West Virginia,
whether the Democratic party or the
Republican party. The whole record is
there and 1t speaks most eloquently of
Democratic faithfulness, efficiency,
honesty and economy and OF Republi-
can official incompetence, extravaganza
and waste of public funds.
Examine the record before you vote
and then vote for the best interests OF
the State and Of yourself as a tax
payer! Every voters duty is made
plain.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

II IN BovS1Sf ~ GnloneI Cllnrles
4. a IdwolI. two military oratorS. blow
lo16 6orns oxer Me1kincy prosperity.
Il the prosperity Ne now have II Nc
Kinley prosperity. It is . disgrace to
Mckinley.
We wonder II these mighty trumpe-
tiers Of Republican glory are aware of
the fact that they are not fooling the
people q little bit? Do they not know
that their ''ta-ra-ra-boom de-ay.' is a
chestnut and only provokes disgust?
Do they not know that there is a
mighty big and mighty independent
vote that voted Republican in 1896 that
will not vote Republican in 1898? II
they don't they don't know much.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
PREPARING FOR TROOPS.

Cherbourg, France, October 23.-Or-
ders have been received at the military
and naval arsenals here to prepare for
the arrival Of q larg body of troops to-
morrow. The barracks are being hur-
riediy put In order for their reception.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

Republican managers are obtaining
furloughs for Republican volunteer SOL
diers who live in doubtful States But
are those slick managers so dead sure
these soldiers after their experience will
support the politicians responsible for
Alger?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
BIG RISE On.
Thirty Feet Of Water Expected Here
BY Riyermen.


BUSHELS OF COAL WENT OUT OF
PITTSBURG YESTERDAY FOR I'M
MEDIATE USE-ANNUAL REPORT
OF STEAMBOATS, INSPECTED IN
PITISBURG FOR 1Ss7-LOCAL RIv-
Err NEWS.
The river men, and especially tow
beat men, were very agreeably sur
prlsed, yesterday, by the rise caused by
recent rains in the headwaters of both
upper rivers. While good barge stage
OF seven or eight feet was expected,
fifteen or more will result at Pittsburg.
A riverman stated yesterday, that from
the looks of things above, that even
without any more rain the water might
reach thirty feet at this point. A ship
ment of coal out of Pittsburg yesterday
for immediate use, amounted to over
10000 bushels. The fleet started to
pass this point sometime yesterday at
ternoon. The boats and their respect
i've tows, are as follows: Enterprise, Z
barges, fats; Pacific No. 2, 10 barges,
8 flats; Advance, 2 barges, fats; Belle
MCGOWAN, barges, l fiat; Sam Brown,
6 barges; Samuel Clarke, 5 barges, 3
flats, making a total of IS barges, and
IA fats, carrying an estimated total of
585. 600 bushels.
On the first sign of a fall there will
be a grand rush to get the tows out
of Pittsburg. 1t is estimated that the
total of the bushels of coal to go out
on this rise will reach into the mil
lions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

Anglo-French war talk is boosting
the price of wheat. A big European
war would do much to help Mckinley
prosperity out of the hole.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
ANNOUNCEMENT.


Ohio County--Wheeling, October rs.
Brooke County-October q.
Hancock County-October IS.
Marshall County-October 20.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

To-day's Register is veritable en-
cyclopedia of political facts and figures.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
YESTERDAYS DEPARTURES.
Pittsburg, keystone State.
Cincinnati, Virginia.
SiSterSyille, Leroy.
TO-DAY'S BOATS.

Gallipolis, Urania, 10 a. m.
Parkersburg, H. K. Bedford, II p. m.
Steubenville, T. M. Bayne, 2:3O p. m.
Sistersville, Ruth, $3.50 p. IN.
Darlington, Leroy, $3.50 p. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

No West Virginia voter can afford to
be without copy Of to-day's Register.