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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11

IS not unlike that OF most other gold
helds., The chief mineral Of the assures
~ quartz, containing fragments and part
lhgs OF the rocks. In the auriferous slate
deposits irregular lentieal quartz string
ers are almost always present and the
states are generally siliciffed in varying
oegfees up to such hardness that they
VIII resist the scratching of a knife. 1t
IS OF course very difficult matter to say
Just what the value of the southern ores
IS In the placer gravels it is Impossible,
as no record has ever been kept. Com
pared with other gravel deposits. as
those of California. the extent is very linn
tied The virgin ground is undoubtedly
very rich and has
YIELDED HANDSOME RETURNS
even with the imperfection with which il
was worked. Many of the old failing
dumps have been washed over many
times. at a profit
The best known and most extensively
worked mining district of the southern
States is at Gold Hill, North Carolina.
at the junction of Cabarras Stanley and
Rowan counties. The country rock is
chloritic and agllaceous schist. with the
usual northeast and southwest strike. and
dipping TO the southwest For a distance
OF mile and a half along the strike
and Tor width of about 600 yards the
country Is impregnated with the gold
hearing pyrite. OF the great number of
mines that have at one time or another
been in working order. but few are now
working, and still less Of them are pro-
ductiye, principally for the reason that
they have been improperly worked. AT
the Oak Hill mine in which 1 am large
ly interested, we have nut in tn latest
improved machinery and from the first
day the mills We're operated the mine has
been on a paying basis. and as we &c
deeper into the deposit the ore is get
ting much richer. and it will be but a
short time until we have a mine that will
be bonanza in every sense of the word.
Northern capital and push is all that is
necessary to develop the gold fields of
the South. The people of the Carolina S
! mean the class of people who would go
into this business, are too slow and easy
going to hustle, and if left to themselves
would go on working the mines in the
same old way and getting nothing out
of them
Mr.. Hill and his colleagues. known as
the Oak Hill Mining Co. have a piece of
territory, comprising about forty acres.
and from the one mine which they are OPP
Grating they have taken enough pure
gold during the past six months to pay
for the machinery to double the capacity
of their plant from a five stamp to ten
stamp mill. The first assay made of the
deposit taken from their mine showed a
little less than so in pure gold to the ton,
and since that several assays have run
up to above s10o a ton In addition to the
gold there is a paying vein of silver and
quite a lot of fine copper
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
Woman and Her Child Shot While Sitting
at Home-NiIlain Fired Through Win


Special to the Register.
Toronto. Ohio, March 10.-Empire,
a small village three miles north OF
here, is all torn up over sensational
shooting affair that occurred there last
night. and which will result in the
loss of at least one life and probably
two. David Mccoy, young man, has
been a lover of Rosa Martin, aged 20,
for somt time past, but the course of
true love was marred by occasional
jars. Last night Mccoy called on the
young woman, but was refused admit
lance. whereupon he went home, Sc
cured a double barreled shotgun, and,
going to the woman's house, poked 1t
through a window, where the woman
was standing with her little child, aged
5 years, and pulled the trigger. A
deafening report followed, and the wo-
man and child both fell to the floor,
the woman with a large hole blown
through her thigh and the achild shot
through the lungs. The man escaped,
but to-day telephoned from Wellsville
asking how the wounded woman was.
a message was sent to Wellsvile i'm
mediately after his whereabouts was
known and he was arrested and
brought to Empire. The child will
die and the woman also, probably
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11

ture will write the history Of our
times. He fully chronicles our advent
into the world, briefly notes our upris-
ings and downsittings, and sorroWfully
records our exit.
sAs a creator of beauty he double
discounts Nine. Ayres, who processes
to increase feminine pulchritude only
in particular instances, while the
country editor, exercising plenary
power, beauties impartially all Wom-
en- whose names appear in his col
umns By touch of his magician
wand he converts paste into diamonds
glistened upon Beautys neck, and with
a skill of which ancient and ambitious
alchemists only dreamed, and with q
politeness which one Chesterfield
might have envied he transmutes
brass trinkets into golden jewels, When
worn by members of a subscriber
family. He is the greatest and most
Ingenious of manufacturers, for While
other manufacture perishable stuifs he
is engaged in manufacturing immortal
statemen out of raw-sometimes very
raw-materials, an industry when
even the Dingley tariff cannot protect.
He is
ITO our virtues very kind
And to our faults d little blind
1--WE are all more or less-generaiiy
more-his handiwork, and the creature
should not be ungrateful to his crea-
tor Without his generous and enthu-
siastic labors most of us would never
have been here, and, when he tires Of
us, most of US will return to private
life amid rural scenes propitious for
secret meditation and silent prayer.
Working night and day during the
campaign, when the election is over
and the time comes for the distribu-
ton of the loaves and fishes-now vul-
carly called 'pie'-by some strange
lapse of memory he is generally for
gotten
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11

allow us but very short time for the
delivery of the coal and offer large
bonus If we deliver it before the time
agreed upon.
Special arrangements have peeh
made by the government with the rail-
roads to have this coal rushed through
70 Key West as fast as it is mlned.
The trains conveying the coal VIII
carry no other merchandise, thus
avoiding the delay of stopping at in
termediate points to leave cars.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
Special Commissioners Sale
OF Valuable Fulton Real Estate
And Coal Property. -.

BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit
Court of Ohio County, State of West Viz
ginia, entered on the 18th day of Febru-
airy, A. u. 1898 in the cause i'll which
George j. Kleeh is plaintiff, and kathar-
inc kleeh and others are defendants, the
undersigned special Commissioners viii
sell at public auction, TO the highest bid
der. at thn front door of the Court House
Of Ohio County, on
SATURDAY, MARCH 26TII. 1898,
commencing at ten O'Clock a. M, the fol-
lowing described property: Lot No. =;
fronting 60 feet on the southerly side Of
the National or Cumberland road, and
running back Of even width therefron, 10
Wheeling Creek in the town Of Fulton,
County Of Ohio. State Of West Virginia
i'll what is called Daniel Steenrod's add-
ton to the City of Wheeling. in said
County and State. but the boundary lines
Of said lot are subject to the notifications
made BY the deed dated the 18th day OF
July. 1895, between Louisa Ioeckler and
Others and recorded III the office of the
Clerk of the County Court of said Ohio
County. in deed book No. 81. pages 5S4
TO SSS inclusive. Being the same lot con-
lifetime by John Ochsenkuhn ana wife by
deed dated the 3lst day of March, 1866.
and recorded in deed book No so, page
179, and being, the same property DEVISED
to the said George j. I<leen and Kath-
arine Kleeh by their father Otto kleeh.
by will dated March list 1871. and recorded
in will book No. A. pages COZ and sos.
Also twenty-three (23) acres of coal
more or less. along and adjoining the
National road. opposite what is known
al the Judge Thompson residence,
together with the following described sur
face land, IN connection with and part
Of said coal: Beginning at sugar tree
stump on edge of run. thence n. Sc, T. ca
poles to lower road: thence with the road
N. 1872. Il. 33l2 poles to a high stump 3
poles east of run. thence back s. 49,
w 80 poles down the run to the
beginning, containing one ID acre For
particular description of said coal lands
reference is here made to said decree
Said Fulton property will be offered as
a whole and in separate parcels and sold
in the manner in which 1t will bring the
greater price.
Terms of Sale--One-third of the pur-
chase money and as much more as the
purchaser may elect TO pay cash on day
Of sale, and the residue in two equal IN
stalments in nine and eighteen months.
with interest from day of sale. the prr-
chaser to give his notes for the deferred
payments, and the title to be retained
until all the purchase money is paid
&. "A. SCHAEFFER AND
A.. S. RILEY
Special Commissioners.
r. G. r. Henning- Clerk Of the Circuit
Court of Ohio County, do certify that the
above named Commissioners, have given
bond as required by said decree.
c. Fl. HENNINC
feb2iei Clerk.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH.

Nashville. Tenn, March 1O.-Mrs.
John l.. Driscoll was found dead in
her room at the Chamber of Commerce
building this afternoon while her hus-
band, in a dying condition, was seated
in a chair near her. The discovery
was made by physician, who receiv-
ed note from Driscoll asking him to
call at his room. stating that mis- wife
was dead and that he would be dead
when found. Morphine had Eeen TAX
en-, probably on account of ill-health.
Driscoll was a shorthand teacher.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
Congressman Clark's Tribute to the Hum
BILE Hero of Enligit ment
Congressional Record.

Il
Bile Hero of EnligLt y ment
Congressional Record.
Mr.. Clark, of Missouri, followed in a
characteristic plea for the country
editor in speech against the bill.
The great objection to this BILL" he
said, lis that it is detrimental to news
papers and diminishes the diffusion
Of information. Having once been a
country editor Ayself | entertain a
most kindly feeling for my old con-
feres. | am willing to make an aft
dayit that the eleven months | spent
editing a rural journal were the most
beneficial Of my life to myself and
perhaps to others. | am proud to
have belonged to the editorial guild.
| am unalterably opposed to anything
that will injure the country editor,
curtail his profits, circumscribe his
usefulness or place an additional thorn
in his pathway. The rural editor
God bless him-is the most persistent
of teachers Like charity as describ-
ed BY st. Paul in the thirteenth chap
ter Of the First Corinthians, he 'suf-
fereth long and is kind, he envieth
not himself is not pulled up. doth not
behave himself unseemly; seeketh not
his own; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
reioiceth in truth; beareth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
''He is the backbone Of every COM
munity. the promoter of every lauda-
bic enterprise, the worst underpaid la
borer in the vineyard Counting his
space as his capital, he gives pore to
charity. his means considered, than
any other member of society. He is a
power in politics, pillar of the
church. a leader in the crusade for bet
ter morals. He is prominently the
friend Of humanity Line upon line,
paragraph upon paragraph, day by
day. he is embalming in cold type the
facts from which the Herodotus, Taci-
tus. sismondi OF Macaulay Of the flu
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
RUSH COAL ORDERS.

Cleveland, Chic, March 10.-Kirk,
Woods & Co.. of this city, to-day clos
ed a contract with government officials
for $50 tons of coal to be rushed to
Key West.
The orders we received from gov
eminent Representatives were to rush
the coal forward with all possible
speed" said Mr.. Kirk to-day. They
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
LEGAL NOTICES
IT RUSTEES SALE.


RI RUSTEES SALE.
BY virtue of deed of trust made by
Harry c. Sweeney to the undersigned. az
trustee. dated March H. in the year 1888:
and recorded in the office of the clerk OF
the county court OF Ohio county, west
Virginia in Deed of Trust Book NO. g,
at folio 1913. ] will sell az public auction
to the highest and best bidder at the
north front door of the court house of SAD
county, in the city of Wheeling, W. Va,
on
SATURDAY, THE 2sTH DAY or
MARCH. A. p. 1888,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. M, the real
estate hereinafter mentioned ana &C.
scribed, being All Of the following prop
erty. situate on Wheeling Island, in the
said city Of Wheeling, that Is TO say: Lot
numbered twenty-seEen cd, fronting IN
Zane street in Daniel Zane S ADDITION 10
the said city of Wheeling.
TERMS OF SALE-One-third and 2s
much more a 5 the purchaser may elect 10
pay in cash on the day of sale, the balance
of the purchase money in two equal IN
stallments, payable respectively at one
and two years from the date of sale. with
interest from that day; for each CT
which deferred payments of the purchase
money the purchaser shall give his neSo-
table promssory note, bearing interest
secured by the title of the property sold
being retained until the payment in luli
of the same, or by deed OF trust on the
property sold to be drawn. acknowledge
and recorded at the expense OF the pur-
chaser.
GEORGE B. CALDWELL.
fe23ei Trustee.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11

NEGOTIATING FOR STEAMERS.

New York, March 1O.-C. A. Spreck-
els. Of the Hawaiian Commercial and
Sugar Company, is now in New York
negotiating for the Purchase of two
steamships to be engaged in the trade
with the Hawaiian islands.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11
NORMAL ASSOCIATION FORMED.

Toronto, O., March 10-At meet
ing here last night the Jefferson Coun-
ty Normal Association was formed,
and the following officers elected:
Charles E. oliver, superintendent
Mingo schools, president; j. H. Low
rig, superintendent Empire schools,
secretary; B. S. Harbourt, of the Tor
onto schools. treasurer. These men
are well known educators, and will es-
tablish a Normal College at Smith
field, this county, beginning Tuesday,
May 31st.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-11

THE PLACER DtIOS1 =.
H. the early SOS, the excitement in Cali
toruia distracted attention and interest
from the fields Of the South, and an era
of decreased population was the result.
BE gold deposits of the Carolinas for the
tne sake of convenience are divided into
Several belts. The eastern Carolina belt
comprises an area of about 800 square
Mi.os and the rocks are dioritic eruptives
enc chortic schists. The Carolina slate
po embraces an area of from eight 10
hity miles in width, extending in a south
western direction across the central por-
Non Of the northern State and into the
northern part OF the southern State,
Where ii appears to sink below the coastal
Fan and reappears again in Georgia.
-Ee isneous belt joins the slate belt on
Tie west and has a width of from fifteen
10 thirty miles The auriferous portion
embraces an area of about Loco square
mics. The Kings Mountain belt lies 10
'A' west of the igneous belt, extending
across the northern State The product
we points are widely scattered and con-
s,lute a small aggregate area. The
southern mountain belt begins in the
western par; Of the northern State on the
eastern TANKS Of the Blue Ridge ard ex-
"ads into the northwestern part Of the
southern State
rhe character Of the ores Of the belts
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08

ducivs to the best interests OF our coun-
try, especially when the campaign Is
fought as bitterly as this one has been.
BY the injection of grave national is
sues into the fight, notably the free ell
YER bugaboo. the contest has been
given an Importance in the thought OF
the patton that off year elections DO
not often possess. A republican maj c-
rity in congress is absolutely neces'
sary to the best interests of the nation
That will mean stability, and an earn
est desire to further the interests OF
genuine currency reform. A demo
cratic majority would mean discord and
certain weakening of the power for
good the administration now has
Mckinley needs strong, true, faitn1ul
men just now-not dsnagogues and
| clowns.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08
Mines and
Mining.
From the Yaqul Country

W. J. Larkin came in over the Sier-
ra Msdre line Saturday evening from
the Yaqui country, and will remain
here some time. He left Ell PasO in
February last in company with his
partner P. L. Alexander and four
others and has spent the entire time in
prospecting in the mountains about
two hundred miles southwest of Casas
Grandes. He found many promising
leads and some very good placer terri
tory and exhibits in evidence vial
with about half ounce of placer
gold. His visit here at this time is for
the purpose of making arrangements
to develop some of the best prospects.
The placers he found in the mountains
and he thinks they will lead to rich
deposits, but the great trouble is that
there is not water sufficient to sluice
the pay dirt, and this season there was
practically no rainy season. He and
his partners cut lumber with q
cross cut saw and carried it 20 miles
for their placer equipment, leaving
one man in the cnmp alone, at one
time for twenty-one days. But no trou-
BILE was experienced from the natives.
In fact they seemed to be anxious to
accommodate the prospectors and rem
dered assistance in every way possible.
Mr.. Lsrkin says that there is now a
good trail down into that region and
as there is plenty of game of all kinds
along the route, the expense OF living
is very light, and with the finest eli
mate in the world it makes q very en-
joyable trip for any one, though, OF
course one need not expect the accom-
modations of civilization.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For representative Goth legislature:
J.G. WEIGH, Endorsed.
For county Judge:
LII. DAVIS.
For district clerk:
S. C. CASTILLO
For county clerk:
C. E. KELLOGG.
For sheriff:
AL. MOVER.
For tax collector:
Alb. PUTNAM.
For tax assessor:
ED. MAUER.
For county treasurer:
r. b. BIAS.
For county superintendent of public in.
struction:
w. b. HAWKINS.
For county commissioner, Ell Pas
w. s. MCUTCHEON.
For justices Of the peace, Ell Paso:
s. o. LESSOR and w. H. ROBINSON.
For constable, Ell Psso:
j. M. KINNE.
For Justice of the peace, Towne:
WALTER DOWNS.
For constable, Towne:
AMOS GREEN.
For justice of the peace. Ysleta:
CHAS. KERBER.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08
Club Women and Club Work.

Everything is ready for the opening
of the fourth annual convention of the
New York state federation on Tuesday
next Nov. ~ There is every evidence
that the four days session will be full
of interest and profit to delegates and
club women. The programme, as has
been pointed out before in this depart
ment, is arranged on q new plan. There
are no papers or club reports aside
from the necessary short reports of Of
ficers and of the few standing commit
tees. There are to be no evening ses-
sions of business or q literary char
acter, the four evenings of the cOnven
ton being set apart for social pleas
ures. The five minute limit is to be
observed with every speaker In dis
cussion, it being the aim and hope of
the executive board of the federation
that large proportion OF the dele
gates and club women who will be
present will be heard.
The twenty topics for discussion are
pertinent and interesting, each in the
hands of leader especially qualified
of parliamentary law is Miss Anne
Rhodes, whose excellentpOints made at
the convention last year at Syracuse
will be rememb ered by all who heard
her; the chairman of civics Is Mrs. M.
E. Trautman, of New York, than
whom no woman is better qualified to
serve; chairman of musical clubs, Mrs.
Theodore Sutro, equally an expert In
that line of effort; chairman of
literature, Mr.. Chauncey Parsons, of
Hampstead, q woman of rare scholarly
attachments; chairman of art, Mrs.
Charles M. Dow, of jamestown, who
knows all about it; chairman of hos
pitfalls and medical schools, Mrs. J. H.
Burtis. of Brooklyn, whose practical
knowledge is exemplified in the
splendid memorial hospital for women,
with trainipg-schOOl attached, for
which her efforts are tndefatigable;
chairman of women in law, Mrs.
Edward A. Greeley, a graduate of the
women's law classes of New York, and
so on. Throughout the list each wo-
man is rarely we'll fitted for her
place.
A number of distinguished club wo-
men will be the guests of the hOstesses
of the federation. Mrs. Lowe, the
president of the general federation,
arrive on Wednesday, in time to be
present at Mrs. Helmuth's reception
on the evening of that day. Mrs.
Philip f. Moore, of ST. Louis, treasurer
of the general federation, and long pro-
minently identified with the work of
| the national organization, and Mrs.
Kendrick of Philadelphia, correspond
| ing secretary of the general federation,
have also accepted an invitation to be
present.-Harper's Bazaar.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08

WHILE FL Psso is moving ahead
aud every natural element seems to be
making for our municipal advance
ment, the thought occurs, what might
not this city accomplish with a decent
mayor and city council? What this
city needs now is a city administration
that will start in to enforce the law,
clean up the city, repair our streets,
adjust the sidewalk controversy, and
try it's best TO make of the city of Ell
Paso a well conducted, thoroughly
respectable town. AS it is at pres
emit, while there are many many
things to admire about the city,
and many things to be proud
of, the fact remains that the
present city administration has done
nothing whatever that could by any
stretch of the Imagination be twisted
into an effort to improve the city. We'do
not blame the police particularly.
They are acting under orders, and can
not be expected to run straight against
their superiors. But it is to the may
or and the city council we must look
for improvement, and from these
sources nothing has come.