The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-23

West Virginia is very generous with
her bounty. Score Of impccunious in
competents are literally provided fol-
and there is room for more.
If railway ticket agents and Post
masters were paid according to the
foolish questions they have TO answer
they would soon be millionaires.
In some parts of the country the
apple crop is very heavy and some peo-
pie think they will be sold as low as
$1.00 per barrel We regard this a:
doubtful.
IN the Mt. Morris district, Greene
county, the CHARTERS Oil Company
has completed its No. IL on the Nose
Core farm and has a producer good fol
Is barrels a day.
The South Penn Oil Company has
completed its No. on the Uriah
Taught farm, in the old Jakes Run
development in Monongalia county,
and has 25-barrel producer.
THERE is movement on foot
among a number of the churches OF
Parkersburg to secure Dwight l..
Moody, the noted evangelist, for a
series of meetings in that city this
fall.
THE visit of President Mckinley to
Pittsburg on the return Of the tenth
regiment will attract additional thous-
ands to the city on that occasion.
No doubt Morgantown will be largely
represented.
Mr.. WALLACE has six fine horses
in training on the Waynesburg fair
grounds some Of which give promise
Of making famous records. We hope
that they will earn fortune for their
genial owner.
THE street paving is well along and
the present contract will be finished
soon. The South end of Spruce and
court square on Walnut viii complete
it after the present place they are
working on is finished.
IT is said that there is not a plant
in the state which makes the fire
brick that is used in building coke
ovens. Some OF the brick yards here
ought to see If they cannot meet the
great and growing demand for this
product.
WE are indebted to Deacon Brown,
of the Argus, for an invitation to at
tend the reunion of the Brown family
to be held in Hon. VIM. G.. Browns
grove at Kingwood on the Goth. The
Browns have delightful meetings on
these occasions.
THE Junior Order is making extern
sive preparations for the state council
that will meet here in September. A
cheap rate has been given by the rail-
road and all other arrangements to
accommodate large number of peo-
pie have been made. The occasion
will be a red letter day for the order.
FAIRMoNT is to have new depot
at last. The city council has accept
ed the offer of the railroad for addi-
tional ground and the company has
agreed to begin the erection of the
building within ninety days. Fair
mont is entitled to a new depot and
every body will be glad to know that
it is to be built.
AN arrangement has been made be-
tween the B. & O. and the M. & X.
for track connection at the present
depot where the present driveway now
is. Though the contract has not
been signed this will most likely be
the arrangement and an extra track
will also be put down on the lower
side.
If there is another State in the
Union in which more mines are being
opened, more railroads constructed
and projected, more saw mills Install
ed, more banks organized and being
more oil and gas wells
than has been the case this
year and is still going on in West Vir-
ginia, it would be interesting to know
where it is.
EVERYONE who has anything posi-
tive in his character or ANYTHING
in his course of conduct will
lave enemies. A man without foes
is cipher in life, one without infu-
ence, always keeping out of the way
of harm but doing and little good.
Woe unto you when all men speak
well of you. y
The supreme court has decided
that the completion of non pro
ductive oil or gas well does not vest
title in the lessee under a lease
which does not require him to put
down more than one well. The
court held that the contract was at
an end as to both parties as soon as
the first well was abandoned as I'M
THE Uniontown News Standard
has seen the hand writing on the wall
and recent issue Of that paper says
that southwark the course of the coke
oven takes its way. This section is.
beginning to feel the influence of the
movement and it will not be many
years until the hopes that we have
been entertaining for so long will be
realized in their fullness and we will
be in the heart of great coking
country.
II has been asserted in many quarters
that exhausted gas fields would yield
a new supply after a rest of few
years. This theory has been exploded
entirely by recent experiment in In
diana. A field there that had been
carefully guarded and every condition
possible to assist accumulation had
been observed utterly failed to produce
any gas. The only way to do is to
husband what we already have and
not hope to get new supply.
THE News Standard says the cur
few ordinance is still in force there
but the inference is that it is dead
letter. The paper says: But there
are sections where the boys take no
heed of the ordinance. They are
found where the police are not liable
to be and of course are always on the
lookout for the officers. Throughout
the east end the boys are keeping up
their usual record for staying out af-
ter the limit, while in various other
places they have no hesitancy in evad
ing the law.
Miss PORTER of Chicago, who is
summering at Mt. Lake Park Hotel,
was the victim Of the deadly cigarette
a day or two Hgo and may lose her
life. She had walked to one of the
springs in the Park with young man
who smokes cigarettes. When they
reached the spring they sat down
in the grass. The young man
having finished his smoke, threw his
cigarette in the dry grass. Before