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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS,

THE wEE3IS STEAMBOAT CO.
fOIuiAC RIVER ROUTE
STEAMER POTOMAC.
On and after sunday, December "a, 1859. tae
steamyG Potomac Will leave 9Th street wharf
s'rgy Thursday at pm for Baltimore and river
1AIrdiuss- .
All river freight must be PREPAID
Baltimore freight solicited
Recommendations for passengers strictly FIRST
.r, STEPHENSON & BRO, Agents
-. de22-l2tf
Z 5. RANDALL's PUToMAC RIVER LINE
Steamer HARRY RANDALL will leave River
VIZ" wharf Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursda v, Mt
and all wharves far down as Lower Machodoc
Returning on Mondays and Wednesdays an I n m
and on fridays about $50 pm
uNIrED STATES MAIL ROUTE.
WASHINGTON. d q, TO GLYMOST Md
and intermediate landings
The new steamer ESTELLE RANDALL, daily
eIcept Sunday. $50 a. Returning aIout n m
Passenger accomnlC dations hrst-cIass. Freixht
Deceived intl :be hour Of sailing.
(. 5. RANDALL
Proprietor and Manager.
GET n CARPENTER, General Agent " Washington
WV NJ REARDON. Agent, Alexandria. seis-tf 20
STEAMER WAKEFIELD.
FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS
les Washington, DC. 18th Ferry Wharf
p ti'i&ys. N, for intermediate landings to Co.
iui Creek, Aben Leonardtcwn. Stones Howard
Tp,i tfslrum's. -
Wednesdays. m. for intermediate landings tn
G-truial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point Coltoa's
i'v"aTdtown, Abells Nouini Creek Coan and
A-p.uuliro rivers
Saturday,. an. for intermediate lapdinss tn
,''' mol Besch. BushHoOd. Rock Point Coltou's
H-n.tsi Creek
49, 81. slule IN effect August 81. 1899.
r-iET C. w RIDLEY. General Manager
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COUNTRY REAL ESTATE.

SOME VERY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY PLACES.
including two or three valuable stock farms oil
300 TO GOO acres. within easy reach of Washing
ton VIM b SAUNDERS & CO. 1407 St
InyI3-f
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ASlIINGTON. u. =. FOST OFFICE NOTICE
Sietild be read daily. as changes may occur al
any time.
FOREIGN MAILS forwarded TO the ports OF
sIiliES ia ly. and the schedule of cnsings is ar
rugged the pres iuI ion of their uninterrupted
overland transit For the week ending January Y
the last connecting closes Will lie made from this
Uiiisr. rs follows.
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CAMPBELL CARRINGTON. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Webster Law building. 505 D st. NV Washing
toa. u q Residence. No. Mount Vernon Flats
New York ave. and eth OF. NV. eela
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NORTH GERMAN LLOYD
FAST EXPRESS SERVICE
SOUTHAMPTON, BREMEN,
Sailing at 10 AN.
Lain. .....-.... Jan. % Saale Feb
Aller. Jun. 80 Lain. .....F Feb 2l
oEf.RiCHS Co, NO. BROADWAY n Y
Apply to (. b. DROOP 925 Pa ave
ap2itoJs2o Agent for Washington.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
THE PUERTO R1cAN 1NFAMY.

If anything was necessary to con-
denim the present Republican admins
tration at Washington in the eyes of
true Americans, the evidence has been
supplied in the Puerto Rico infamy.
Puerto Rico is now an integral part
of the United States. That it is under
the constitution as we'll as under the
flag, is a sentiment which forty-nine
out of fifty Americans will subscribe
to. By the fortunes of wal it has be-
come American and America. And yet
Congress, at the behest of a vacillating
President and a Subservient cabinet,
persists in attempting to treat the peo-
pie of the Island as colonists, separate
and apart from our body polite, deny
them the privileges of citizenship. in
the Republic and impose a tax on their
commerce, and this at a time when the
people are in want, and when the
storehouses at the Island ports are
bursting with products to which a
waiting market is closed.
The New York Herald well a y on
this point:
The island is there with its plantations.
its unemployed and famine stricken popu-
lation and its warehouses, in which two
years crops are rotting because we have
closed the markets in which they could be
sold. Rich in natural resources. with an
industrious population-rapidly being pau
perized and spoiled, however, by existing
conditions-and free from debt, Puerto
Rico could borrow without difficulty. If
Congress would bet lift the embargo from
its trade SO that if the status of the island
were defined new capital and enterprise
would flow In, and there are in the United
States thousands of men rich enough and
ready nough to lend in one hour more
money than the tariff would bring during
the entire period of its proposed duration,
while with the endorsement of the United
States the loan could be obtained ct 2la
per cent. The needs of the island" plea
won't do.
No wonder it is reported that the
Islanders are on the verge of revolt,
and that rioting is imminent. The sit
uation is cruel, outrageous, without
palliation, justice or reason. The peo-
pie of Puerto Rico deserve and are en-
titled to fair treatment. But fair
treatment is the thing they cannot
obtain at Washington.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
SISTERSvILLE.

SISTERSVILLE, March 29.-T. C..
Smith, a former employee of Chadder-
don & Young, teamsters and contrac-
tors, of this city, who some weeks ago
disappeared, it is charged, with several
| hundred dollars of the firms funds,
has been located in California, and will
be brought back for trial. Smith, it
is charged, obtained the money upon
a check made out to Chadderdon &
Young, by the Old Colony Oil Com
pany. He endorsed the check with the
firms name, per his own, and the
Peasants County Bank at ST. Marys,
cashed it. Smith was formerly super
intendent of Chadderdon & Young, at
St. Marys, and was well known to the
bank officials, who did not hesitate a
moment in counting out the coin for
the paper.
Miss Florence l.. Weld, of the Knoke
House, Water street, who has been
Visiting friends and relatives in Pitts
burg and Allegheny for several days,
returned home this afternoon.
l.. Lemon, Pittsburg manager of the
Postal Telegraph Gable Company, was
Ill LDG City On DuollCoo PCA dihAhS W
the proposed connection of the COM
pany's lines at Wheeling and Parkers-
burg. via. Sis%tersville. A conference
between Mr.. Lemon and A. c. Jackson,
President of the local Board of Trade,
with reference to the project will be
held later.
Henry Weiskettle, of Pittsburg,
branch store manager of the Oil Well
Supply Company, was a Sistersville
visitor yesterday on business bent.
Robert Mccormick, of this city, has
sold to S. l.. Frum 1873 acres of land
on Sancho, known as the Richard
Stealey farm, for $1,470 each, Mr.. Nc
Cormick reserving the oil and gas
rights thereon for a period of Is years.
D. A. Bartlett, a prominent operator
and producer, will shortly remove to
Marietta, Ohio, where he will make his
permanent residence. He has disposed
Of his Hill street property to c. w.
Grier, the druggist.
Mrs. F. F. Fisk, of Pittsburg, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. E. A. Durham,
of Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ". Thompson, of
Wheeling, who have been visiting Mrs.
d. A. Henderson,, returned home yes
terday.
Cashier Christ Henderson, at the
Ohio River Railroad Office, this city, is
confined to his room by illness.
Miss Lizzie Gaffney has returned to
her studies at Mont de Chantal, whence
she was called some days ago by the
serious illness of her grandmother,
who resides in this city.
Yr1,@,~1,n ne uyrnnnn
Thompson & Berlin, has gone to Scio,
Ohio, where he will look after the oil
interests of the firm in that field.
Mrs. Samuel Cox has ordered plans
and specifications for a handsome resi-
dence, which she proposes to erect at
the corner of Wells and Elizabeth
streets. ]. B. O'Neill, of Marietta, O.,
is the architect.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

the doctor, like the late Hon. A. ".
Campbell, carried his sovereignty UNI
der his hat and refused to do the bid
ding of the Scott-Elkins machine. was
bad enough, and a direct slap in the
face of every man who believes in
liberty of conscience and individual
action. But the election of ]. H. Dun
bar, Judge of the Criminal Court of
Fayette, to the vacancy, and of Sam
uel Carter, a Justice of the Peace, as
Secretary, caps the climax, and well
indicates the length to which the ma
chine is willing to go in the search
for men who will do its bidding with
out question.
Judge Dunbar should either indig-
nantly refuse this commission from
the political bosses of his party, or inn
mediately resign his seat upon the
Fayette county bench. ! The two Off
GERS are wholly incompatible.
The whole matter, as detailed in our
correspondence published elsewhere,
calls for the resentment of the people
of Fayette at the first opportunity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
March: Who said 'lamb?'"
Protect the CapitoI.

New York Sun.
There are rumors from Washington of a
scheme to procure more committee rooms
in the Capitol by altering the ground plan
of the existing structure: that is TO say,
by erecting aprons in what are now
deep recesses in the two fronts.
The United States Capitol IS one of the
most beautiful buildings on earth as it
now stands. The thrill which ii produces
in the heart OF every sensitive beholder is
not merely Of sentimental patriotism. 1t
would be easy to f1atten and vulgarize its
satisfactory proportions TO a degree of the
commonplace which not even the majestic
dome would redeem.
Better let well enough alone and gain
additional room for the committees in some
other way.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

On a Proposition Connected With the
Porto Rican Tariff BiIl-BiIl VIII
Probably Pass.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March ga
direct vote was taken by the Senate
to-day on the proposition to strike
from the Puerto Rican measure the
provision levying Is per cent of the
Dingley law duties on Puerto Rican
products. The proposition was defeat
ed by a vote of Is to 80. While the
vote is regarded as presaging the pas
sage of the pending measure, it is not
regarded as indicating the final vote
on the bill.
The feature of the debate to-day was
the speech of Mr.. Beverage, of Indi-
ana. While he advocated reciprocity
between the United States and Puerto
Rico he announced that if all efforts
to secure free trade should fail he
would support the pending bill. The
bill was under discussion throughout
the session, several important amend
ments being agreed to.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
THE GRANTING OF FRANCHISES.

THE GRANTING OF FRANCHISES.
Apropos of the pending contest in
Council between the existing Bell
Company, now enjoying, as it has for
many years. a very profitable public
franchise, obtained without a quid
pro quo to the people, and three new
companies aiming at competitive riv-
airy of the existing concern, it has
been suggested that. in the light Of
past sad experience, Council should
go very slow in the disposition of any
future grants of public utilities, ex-
cept upon a basis of a substantial and
equitable remuneration to the people.
Public franchises have long been rec
ognized as a valuable thing-outside
of Wheeling. Here, so far, we have
failed to appreciate the commercial
Importance of a right from the city
to a corporation, and owing to this
failure the city has conferred very
valuable gifts upon small combina-
tions of f~arsighted gentlemen, to their
great benefit, while the people, in
whom they belong, have gotten moth
ing in return, with but a single excep-
ton.
Gentlemen who come to Council with
neatly printed requests for rights to
do business see a good thing in the
enterprises. In ordinary business life
valuable rights and privileges are not
transferred without a proper consider
alton. No member of Council, acting
in his individual capacity, for himself
or for others who reposed trust in him.
would think of making a transfer of
anything having a value in dollars and
cents, present or prospective, without
@ proper consideration or evidence of
Indebtedness. And yet these same
gentlemen-members of a public body,
charged with the administration of
public affairs, and trustees for the peo-
ple-will calmly vote away, to any one
who asks for it, a right worth much
money to the people, and their action
is taken as a matter of course.
This has been the rule in the past.
The time has come to make a change.
There is no more reason why the peo-
pie as a whole should give up some
thing for nothing, than that an indi-
vidual should do so. Indeed, there is
less. for members of Council occupy
positions of trust, and act, not for
themselves, but in behalf of their fell
low citizens. They sit in power very
much in the capacity of public cur
ators, charged with responsible duties.
and responsible to those who elected
hem for their acts. Their personal
views and wishes and preferences really
amount to little. They must and
should do what will be for the BEN
Eft of the people, and when they fail
TO do this they fail in their duty.
Wheeling should long ago have
learned the lesson here meant to be
pointed out. Her experience has been
such that It should be utterly impos-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
A MATTER TO BE LOOKED AFrEr

A MATTER TO BE LOOKED AFTER.
The action of the County Commits
sioners in appointing a special Rail-
road Committee to act in conjunction
with a similar committee to be ap-
pointed by the Chamber of Commerce,
is a ~commendable one, and will meet
with universal approval.
The railroad and electric line pro-
jects in this immediate vicinity are
many and important. and there should
be a concerted and intelligent effort to
secure the speedy completion of each
and every line over the best routes
and by the best methods consistent
with the public good.
We have two rival companies and
projects for a road to the Pennsylvania
coal fields, the Benwood connecting
railroad, the reported sale of the Ter
minal to at least two companies, the
projected B. & O. improvements, the
rumor of a through Wabash line, in
connection with the Wheeling & Lake
Erie. a trolley line projected to Wells
burg, another suggested to Cameron, a
third to Cambridge, Ohio, and a fourth
to Mt. Pleasant and Cadiz. This is
a long list of enterprises, each and all
calculated to enhance the Importance
of Wheeling as a business and COM
mercial centre, and they are well
worth looking after. and aiding, if nee
essary. in whatever form aid may be
productive of results.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

sible for any Council to grant rights
to anybody without distinct and
adequate remuneration in return. Mu-
nicipal franchises are yearly growing
in value and those who secure them can
well afford to pay, either in cash or
public service, or in some form which
will shift a little of the load from
the shoulders of the public. This
proposition is reasonable, and it is
right. And going a step farther, there
appears to be no good eason why a
franchise should not be granted condi-
tionally, subject to revision as to COM
pensation, and the ordinance so franz
ed that the city-the people-may al
ways have command of the situation
and thus be prepared at any time to
enter into possession of rights leased
or given for a limited time to those
DESTROYS Of them. To be sure, this
woul be a radical change for Wheel
ing, but the system works SC well in
some other cities, that in the familiar
case of Glasgow, Scotland, for in
stance, the public utilities pay the en-
tire expenses of the municipal govern
ment, and no taxes are levied. And
Glasgow is not alone in this regard.
The literature of modern municipal
governments is full of precedents for
action, and the Councilman here in
Wheeling who puts his foot down and
demands and insists upon proper re-
s~trictions, some decided element of
city control, and an adequate payment
for privileges granted, will deserve
well Of the people.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
OIL NEWS.
Ohio County.

The Short Creek Oil and Gas Com
pany had a fishing job at its well on
Short Creek, Sunday. but the tools
were recovered. The showing of oil
found in the hurry up" sand has
greatly excited people in that section
of the county, and it is the general
expectation that a pool will be opened.
The Wheeling Oil and Gas Company
is spudding on its well near Triadel-
phia. The work has been delayed
somewhat by the departure of the con-
tractor for S~teubenville, where he had
an accident at another well he was
drilling.
COLUMBUS, O., March pa spe-
cial to the Dispatch the in
corporation at Charleston, w. Va, of
the Thomas Oil Company of Lorain,
Ohio, with a capital stock of 81 zoe, 600.
The incorporators are:
Hon. Chas. l.. KurtZ and Eli West,
of Columbus, James A. Davis, Fred +.
Thomas and Clayton Chapman, of FL
yria, are the incorporators. The
company has leases on sixty-seyen
thousand acres of ground and has fiji
ty-three producing wells. An organi-
cation will be effected at Cleveland,
tomorrow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Three war clouds loom up darkly
on the eastern horizon, and Russia
figures in each probability. The rela-
are such that a resort to arms may
come at any time; Russian aggression
on the Indian frontier is active, and
the Russo-Japanese situation is far
from a pacific one. This year of grace
1900 may be prolific of bloodshed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The "open door" complication in
China is going to get Uncle Sam into
more and serious trouble, if he don't
watch out" A part of the navy in the
Philippine waters has already gone to
China. A portion of the army may
soon follow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The first Presidential nomination has
been made. The victim is George
Francis Train, and the party is the
Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood of
California.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Chicago News.
First Imp-What do you suppose his Sa-
tanic majesty wouI do If he were to lose
his caudal appendage?
Second Imp-Oh, 1 suppose he would
visit one Of those Desplaines street barrel
houses where they retail a spirits.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The Intelligencer and other ultra adj
ministration organs are still smiling
and ~sneering at the Kentucky revela-
lions, but it is slowly dawning on them
that a gigantic and monstrous crime is
steadily being unearthed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
DELEGATE

AT a meeting of the Democratic State
Executive Committee of West Virginia.
held at Charleston, on the 18th day of jan
uary, 1900. it was ordered that the twelve
ginia is entitled in the next Democratic
National Convention Ito be held at Kansas
City, Mo, on the 4th day of July, 1900. to
nominate candidates for President and wee
as follows:
The Democrats in each county in the
State shall appoint at such time and place,
and in such manner as the Democratic Ex-
termine, Delegates to the Congressional
District Conventions to be held in each OF
the founr Congressional Districts OF the
State on the
10th Day of May, 1900,
at the following places:
In the First Congressional District, at
Clarksburg, in the County of Harrison; in
Charles Town, in the County of Jefferson:
in the Third Congressional District, at
Charleston, in the County of Kanawha; in
the Fourth Congressional District, at Point
Pleasant, in the County of Mason.
Each of said Congressional District Con-
yentions shall appoint one Delegate-at-
Large, and one alternate therefor, and two
District Delegates. and two a~lternates
West Virginia in said National Convention:
The basis of representation in each OF
said Congressional District Conventions
will be one vote for each one hundred
for w. j. Bryan for President, at the No
vember election of 1896, and each county
is requested TO appoint such number OF
Delegates to each Congressional District
Convention as is equal to the number OF
votes 1t may be entitled to by the above
basis of representation.
ADREW JOHNSTON, Chairman.
WILLIAM A. OHLEY. Secretary.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Three hundred and fifty banks seeking
incorporation in various parts of the coun-
try, and the applications still pouring in.
That looks as If the new finance bill met q
Gazette.
For public want" read private
want"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

And SO Macrum spared Secretary
Hay for the sake of the President"
This is interesting. If the Foreign At
fairs Committee would go into the
South African business in earnest, re-
suits would follow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

If Col. "Jeems' Caldwell enters the
Republican Gubernatorial fight there
may yet be fun, Notwithstanding the
unconditional capitalization of the late
Col. Freer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

1t is asserted from Washington that
the negotiations for the purchase of
the Danish West Indies for So, 500, 900
are in progress. More soldiers, more
ships, more Notifications, more com
plications, and eventually, more trou-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

General Wheeler, in his official re-
port on the Island of Guam, says there
are no snakes there. There must have
been a st. Patrick in the far eastern
seas, once upon a time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
DIED

DALLY-On Thursday, March 18th. at
$3.50 a.. m, Mrs. A. b. Daily, Sr., at Grafton
Pa. in her 18th year.
Funeral from family residence. Grafton,
Saturday, March 81, 1900. at 1920 a. m. In
terment at South Side cemetery, Pittsburg,
Pa.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
Long Live Lenry.

New York Tribune.
The country at large will regret that the
highly interesting Governor Of Guam feels
obliged to retire from his post. He has
added to the gayety of nations while doing
his work thoroughly and well.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The capture of Kronje and the death
of Joubert, removes the greatest Gen
erals of the Boer armies. But the war
will go on, nevertheless.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Remember. voter. that all five of the
Republican candidates must be elected to
insure better government Parkersburg
State Journal.
What sort of a gold brick game is
this? Republican Councilmen! Bet
ter government. Bless your soul,
we've been there. Results. Whew.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

General White says the date of the
British entrance into Pretoria de
ponds on the Beers" General White
is a close and careful observer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Immediately following the order of
the chief of the weather bureau that
his subordinates should not smoke
cigarettes came yesterdays snow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The spectacle of the Intelligencer
and Hon. Romeo H. Freer throwing
boquets at each other is one for gods
and men alike.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The Beers are lining up pretty well
for the third round.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

NEW YORK, March 2s.-standard Oil
stock. 527.
OIL CITY, Pa. March 29.-Credit bal
ances, $1.6S: certificates, no bids, offers or
sales. Runs, 1869 bbls; average, S7,3l1
bbls. Shipments. g., III bbis; average, 1854
hills.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Three hundred and thirty national
banks have been wrecked since the es-
adjustment of the National Banking
system in 1865.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

Why not an "open door, in Puerto
Rico as we'll as in China?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30

The leading item on the daily menu
card in Mafeking is horse meat a la
cart.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-30
WHAT BOSS RULE WHILE no.

The recent action of the Republican
bosses in Fayette county, in summar-
lily depriving DR.. J. ]. HaptonstAn from
membership in and chairman Of the
County Executive Committee because