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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
SALOONS IN MANILA.
statement of the Division of Insular
Affairs Concerning Iicensrx

statement of the Division of InmIar
Affairs Concerning Licenses,
WASHINGTON, D. c., November 40
The division of insular affairs has pub-
llshed statement relative to the LIQUOR
traffic of ManEl. 1t shows that the
American authorities have increased
the license fee from 81 for each saloon
to 5000 for saloons of the first class.
$3.50 for those of the second class: 500
for The third class and $50 for the last
class, selling only beer and light wine
and located outside of the business dis
trict. The sale of the native drink
vino, has been forbidden to soldiers.
as 1t is most harmful in its effects upon
them. There were only 1876 licenses
outstanding on June 80 last, a decrease
or 90 since the American licenses began.
lhe bar rooms are more orderly aud
Keepers more careful in sales to drunk
en- persons and in observing the OPEN
ing and closing hours No discharged
American soldier holds a license. Span
iards hold 66 licenses; Americans, %:
Fflipinos, %; negroes, .; Chinese. s.;
Japanese. 8, and persons of unknown
nationality, q.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
DE VETS VICTORY.

The Boer success at De Vets Dorp
where four hundred English soldiers
with two guns were compelled to sur
render to General De Wet, shows pref
ty conclusively that the Dutch are still
able to fight, and, what is more i'm
portant, that upon occasion they can
muster considerable forces. De Wet
has repeatedly demonstrated that he is
an able general and a commander not
to be despised. The English are and
have been making desperate efforts to
capture him, but so far without sue
cess. He appears to have successfully
evaded the relieving forces after his
victory, and will turn up in some other
locality, there to strike another blow.
That the war is not yet considered over
by Lord Roberts is amply shown by
his late request for twenty thousand
reinforcements. three thousand of
which were promptly allowed and Or
dered to the Cape. To send seventeen
thousand additional men, however,
would be a very serious drain upon
Engands home garrisOns of trained
and seasoned troops. The Beers will
be spurred on to renewed efforts by
this victory, and extensive raids and
desultoTy fighting are to be expected
i,, frl+I 10 r
summer is now coming on and the
weather will soon be fine throughout
the entire country.
De Vets Dorp is a railway crossing
in the southern part of the Orange
River Free State. and therefore posi-
ton Of considerable strategical import
ance, which makes its loss to the Eng
lish, although abandoned by the Beers,
q matter OF moment, since it is likely
that a considerable amount Of supplies
was accumulated there for shipment
in four directions. as occasion mig9t
require. The town is thirty miles
southeast Of Bloamfontein. twenty miles
northwest OF Wepener. and eighteen
miles northwest OF the Caledon river.
Cpe railroad runs northwest and south
east from Bloemfontcin to Wepener,
and the other almost north and south
from 5mithEeld to junction with the
line running from Smithfeld on the
a1uth to Winburg or the north De Wet
appears to have gone west or north
west, either in the direction of Bloem-
foIteiI or the Modder river country,
as the case may be. That he will be
heard from again and shortly is pretty
certain, especially as it is reported that
many farmers who had laid down their
arms are rejoining his command.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
Our SUPREME JUDGE.

The current issue of the West vir
ginia Bar devotes considerable space to
some eminently proper comments upon
the manner of nominating and electing
Judges of the Supreme Court, and in
cidentally calls attention to the fact
that West Virginia pays her Judges
the smallest salary of any State in the
Union, printing III connection there
with a table of the salaries paid in all
the States, 1t has long been recognize
ca that the compensation of $4,000 al
lowed by the State is too small to at
tract the best legal talent to the bench,
but the main portion of the Bars crit
icism applies to the method of nomina-
ton and election, and it takes stand
in favor of a separate Judicial Conven-
ton as one means of removing the
selection of candidates for Judges from
the turmoil of active politics. Pursu-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
AFTER FORTY YEARS
In Service of the Baltimore a Ohio
Joseph West Retires With Honor.

IN service Oh the bHitfmOre a. OntO,
Joseph West Retires With Honor.
Special to the Register.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, November
30.-Mr. Joseph West, of this city, the
second oldest engineer in service on the
B. & o. yrailrpadsshas been awarded
gold medal, retired from active SER
vice and placed on the pension list of
the Baltimore & Ohio Relief Associa-
ton. There has only been one gold
medal to veteran engineers awarded
before this, and that was to Mr.. VIM.
Blackwell, also of this city, who is still
in active service. Mr. West began his
career with the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road in 1S47 as a freight conductor
After serving several years in this
capacity he fired one of the old grass
hopper engines, and after serving due
time he was promoted to engineer and
was given a Ross Winans cog-wheel
engine. He has been constantly in
service excepting two years during the
civil war, when he was travelling
engineer. lie has had charge OF and
run every class of engine the B. & 0.
road has ever had. During his fifty
three years of service he has never
received an injury serious enough to
cause him to lose any time and has
never had a wreck of any consequence.
Two other prominent railroad men of
this city have been placed an the re-
tired list with a pension, MIR. Conrad
Hammann and Mr.. John Johnson, both
of whom have been faithful engineers
on the B. & o. railroad since about the
beginning of the civil war.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
Liquor Selling In Maine.

Boston Herald.
The report that the election OF
sheriff in Cumberland county, Maine,
pledged to prosecute parties engaged
in the sale OF splrituous liquors. has
had the effect to lessen this sale very
much in advance, is not confirmed by
the latest advices. A correspondent OF
the New York Evening Post, writing
from Portland, states that the sale stlll
goes on in that city, though less openly
than before this admonition from the
voters. The cities Of the State outside
Cum oerland county do not seem TO
have been affected by 1t al all. fd Ban
gor, it is reported that the liquor sa-
looms are as wide open as ever. and In
Biddeford the liquor consumption was
never greater In Lewiston, Belfast.
Waterville. Gardiner, Halowell Au-
gusta and Rocklasd there are open
bars. The rest OF the State Is disposed
to regard the victory for prohibition in
Cumberland county as purely local.
The test in the latter locality Will come
in earnest when the sheriff elected for
the next term undertakes 10 enforce
the liquor law, and .he outcome of his
action in city like Portland will be
watched with not little curiosity.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
THE VAR TAX PROBLEM.

After rather an exhaustive study OF
the war tax prc5lem the Boston Herald
concludes that
Certainly, there is nothing in the
present outlook that would Justify Con-
gress IN going back 10 the old and re-
iatiVely easy tax conditions OF the re-
cent pest; and this fact is so clearly
realized that, apparently, there is dan
ger that Congress will err on the side
OF too much moderation. and not re-
duce the surplus revenue OF the trcas-
ury to a point that would encourage
congressional economy rather than
possible Congressional extravaganza
mat s exactly the situation. It may
be pretty safely assumed that Congress
viii not reduce these extraordinary
taxes to point that would encour-
age Congressional economy" On the
contrary, although there will be an
effort made 70 cut off some of these
once war taxes, levied for war pur-
poses. there will be marked hostility
to the momevent, and an inclination to
maintain them Indefinitely for the SIM
pie sake of providing for the clamor-
3ngs OF Congressman and Senators for
appropriations and to meet the ever
increasing tendency of the government
to pursue a policy Of extravaganza
rather than economy
There would appear to be no reason
why the war taxes could not be almost
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
WICKED PARKERSBURG.

There are surface indications that
Parkersburg is becoming a bad town.
The press, irrespective of party, COM
ments caustically upon the doin's or
rather lack of doin's of the police
force, the general city fund is over
drawn twenty thousand dollars, in vio-
lation of law, and we understand that
Vice is Rearing It's Head in various
portions of the Wood county metrOpo-
lis, and there is talk of Public Puri1-
cation, and Investigations, and Awful
Things like that, while Council is Said
to be Awakening to What is Going On.
We can believe a good deal OF what we
hear about Parkersburg, but the last
asscrtive clause of the sentence last
above written rather stumps us and
inclines us to disbelief. The average
Council seldom awakens to anything.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
BOTH CASES AGAINST HER.

Special to the Register.
MARTINsBURG, W. Va. November
30.-Mrs. Sadie Lemen, who was ar
rested at Bunker Hill. this county, a
few days ago, for horse whipping ia
cob Johnson, prominent farmer and
lumber dealer, was brought before the
magistrate in this city, who, upon hear
ing the case, required the accused to
give bond for her good behavior, and
that she pay the costs, which was done
Immediately following, Johnson
brought suit for damages in the same
court against Mrs. Lemen which was
decided by the Judge yesterday by
giving a verdict of one dollar damages
and requiring the defendant to pay the
cOSte
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
TO THE PENITENTIARY.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
FAIRMONT. w. Va, November 30
George Campbell and Albert Thomas,
negroes, who shot Detective Lilly and
Henry Downry, B. & o. employees, at
this place on August il. were sentenced
to-day. Campbell was given five and
'homas ten years in the penitentiary
They confessed of having committed
the deed. They were taken to Wheel
ing after the shooting and kept until
to-day. Downry, who was the most
seriously injured of the two, has re-
covered
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
A SPLENDID MEETING.

That was a magnificent gathering of
the business men and manufacturers of
Wheeling and vicinity which assembled
at the Opera House last evening to re-
ceive the reports of the committees and
adopt a constitution and bylaws. The
address by Mr.. S. A. Thompson, late of
Duluth, the new secretary of the Board
Of Trade, was feature. The auditor
ium was filled with our representative
citizens, and the greatest enthusiasm
was manifested throughout the meet
ing. Mr. Thompson made an earnest,
conservative and altogether admirable
address, in the course Of which he i'm
pressed upon his hearers the great value
of an united and steady effort for the
betterment of existing conditions and
the increase in our commerce and man
ufactures, and used as a smile that
familiar old saw, "a long pun, a strong
pull and a pull altogether" as being
about what was needed. In other
words, there must be a singleness of
purpose and a determination upon the
part of all to accomplish that purpose.
He was careful also, to remind his
hearers that immediate results could
not 0e expected. A mushroom growth
was neither possible nor desirable.
What was rather desired was a steady
advancement along solid and substan-
tial lines.
The audience evidenced the liveliest
interest on the part of our people. Let
that interest not only be. maintained
bit increased, if possiblen
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

The Grand Duke Michael, the brother
and successor of the present Car, is
magnificent specimen of physical man
hood He can tear in pieces two packs
of cards laid together. or double UP a
silver dollar with the thumb and fin
gers of one hand, and, like Marshal
SAKE, can straighten QUE horseshoe
with his hands And his will is said
to be as strong as his muscles
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
SMALLPOX AT CHARLESTON.
Victim of the Disease wanders Abou
Town. Till Picked In nv an Officer.

Victim of the Disease Wandera About
Town. Till Picked Up ny an Officer.
SPECIAL TO the Register
CHARLESTON, w Va, November
3O.-The people of this city are very
much excited over genuire case or
smallpox, which appeared Gre this
morning. Paul Hundley. a deck hand
on the steamer Little Kanawha. run
ming between Charleston and Pittsburg,
got on the boat here his morning feel
ing III, and wandered over the city,
not knowing what was wrong with him
I'll special policeman discovered that
ne had smallpox. 1t was at once re-
ported to the health officer and the
man was taken to the pest house, but
before this could be done, hundreds OF
people were exposed TO the disease.
Mayor Floyd issued a proclamation this
afternoon urging everybody to be. vac
einated at once.
Governor Atkinson received a dis
patch to-day from DR.. Flowers. OF
harrisburg, informing him that his
1.-THE Governor's) telegram to the Uni
tea States surgeon general brought the
expert, c. f. Billings, to that place.
Inc cases he examined in Clarkshurg.
Wilsonburg and Wallace. he pro-
nounced genuine cases of smallpox
and he is comforting with the health
authorities of Clarksburg and Harri-
son county as to the best means OF
stamping out the epidemic
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
ing this important subject. the Bar

az = cAttS -~-Ak>C- >e~%~S - ', <>~--
says:
Under our system of voting anybody
no matter what jackass-who is nonlr
mated in convention by the majority party
will be elected judge. His name is printed
on the general ticket. which Is ydrd
long, and Is voted wholesale. because II Is
a Democratic or Republican ticket. the
names or merits of the judicial nominees
are never known or considered by the
voter. We venture the assertion that
there is not one in thousand voters
at the last election who knew that re
was voting for a judge, or can now tels
who he voted for.
The judicial separate convention Wi.
largely correct this. 1t VIII be attended
by men who have al interest and care
for the int egrity of the bench, and VINO
are more or less acquainted with the
character of the men who are candldatta
for nomination. Unetncss of personal
or professional nature will have Il harder
run ana a smaller chance in such con-
vertion than among a lot OF log-rcIliAg
politicians.
The Bar has taken up a topic of the
utmost importance, and we hope that
from consideration of the subject some
important changes can be made before
the people are again called upon to vote
for Judges.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
A HANDSOME WEDDING.

Special to the Register.
MARTINSBURG, W. Va, November
30.-Mr. William l. Baxter, promi-
nent business man of Richmond, Va,
and Miss Lucille Chrisman, the young
est daughter of ex-Sherin Geo. A. Chris
man, were married at the residence OF
the brides sister, Mrs w w Ramer,
in this city yesterday evening. Rev.
Wilson Chrisman, brother OF the bride,
performed the ceremony and was as
sisted by Rev. John S. Douglass, pas
tor of the Episcopal Church in this
city. The bride and groom left imme-
diately after the ceremony for Rich
mond, their future home.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
CAR CONTINUES TO IMPROVE

LIVADIA, European Russia, Novem-
Der 30-The Improvement in the con-
dition of the Gar continues, as shown
by the following bulletin issued by
his physicians this morning:
The car passed an excellent day
yesterday and he slept very well last
night. His majesty's condition is very
satisfactory. At O'Clock yesterday
evening his temperature was 97.5;
pulse so. This morning his tempera-
ture was 1914; pulse e.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
r,.E PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The first draft of the message Oh
President Mckinley to Congress has
gone to the printer. and the st. LOUIS
Reoublic's correspondent at Washing
ton thus outlines the document:
The philippines are to be held by the
United States as a part of its territory,
to be governed along lines similar to
those laid down for Porto Rico, and
stems for the creation of a stable form
Of government are recommended. Cur
colonial policy in general is extensively
treated.
AS to China, there will be renewal
of the pledge of this country to oppose
all schemes of territorial conquest, and
the powers will be warned that we
shall insist upon the open door in the
Orient.
AS to Cuba, there will be promise
that the island will be turned over to
the Cubans soon" with the declara-
ton that the people are fast learning
the principle of self-government.
AS to the Isthmian canal, the Presi-
dent will insist that as a preliminary
the Clay -Bulwer treaty must be re-
pealed or the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
ratified.
An elastic army will be urged, with
a minimum of about $1,000 and a max
mum of 100000. AS to the navy, the
recommendations for an increase made
by Secretary Long will be endorsed.
The removal of a portion Of the war
taxes will be recommended in general
terms.
AS to the trusts Congress will be
asked to enact such legislation as will
make a proper discrimination between
what is. useful and what is injurious,
while the impossibility of securing uni
form State legislation will be referred
to.
AS to the Alaska boundary question,
it will be insisted that the present
agreement with Great Britain is but
temporary and in no manner prejudices
American rights or claims.
The late financial legislation will be
commended
The President Will recommend the
laying Of a cable between our Pacific
coast and the Philippines.
Unless the Porte grants DR.. Norton's
exequatur before the opening of the
session Mr.. Mckinley will declare our
relations with Turkey to be extremely
unsatisfactory.
He will say t was impossible fo-
this country to interfere in the Boec
war, and the matter OF the proposal
acquisition Of the Danish West Indies
is said to be still il allegiance
The foregoing. it is asserted, is con-
else summary OF the To- thcoming mes-
sage. The forecast arpc5r5 to he along
administrative lines at tla very least.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
HystericnI Gamblers in Skirts,

Springfield, Mass. Republican.
A feature of the failure of several
brokerage houses in New York city has
been the crowds of women besieging
the offices of the broken concerns and
Historically calling for their money.
The Safeguarding mania in recent
years has come to number women
among its victims by the hundreds in
the large cities. Many brokerage estab-
ismesfs-classing bucket shops as such
advertise themselves as special pa
irons of this class of gambling custom.
1t is very shocking to old-fashioned no
tions, and yet is it any more indicative
of decentralization in the race for wealth
than the spectacle afforded by the stock
gamblers of the other sex?
Modern end Medieval Barons.
Washington Times.
The trusts only represent history in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01


totally subtracted from the public bur-
den without seriously interfering with
the tendency TO spend lavishly the mon
ey annually taken from the people.
There is an admitted surplus OF sSl ,O0O,-
600 for the fiscal year ending 1900, even
with the costly Philippine war on our
hands, and there is no reason to an
ticipate less surplus for the fiscal
year 1901. Why, then, continue to ex-
tort unnecessary cash from reluctant
public? The Herald, in its concluding
paragraph. favors the retention of the
war taxes for the reason that they are
easily collected" and spread out the
any method that could be devised
That is a pure excuse. A system
might very easily be devised that
would spread out the burden of taxa
ton even more generally, and result in
an increased reyenue-but that would
not justify the imposition of such a
tax. we might go 10 the extreme VI
Spain in Cuba and exact stamp for
every name registered at hotel, for
every restaurant bill paid, for every
quart of milk sold, for every pound of
butter bought, for every birth, and for
every death, and every coffin sold and
every grave dug, and every hat or pair
of shoes purchased. That would
spread the burden of taxation" if
that is to be the one essential. but it
will be difficult to bring the people to
regard it as a blessing.
From fifty to seyenty-fve per cent.
of the war taxes should be abolisne
at the coming session OF Congress, an
coincidently there should be at least
a pretense of economy in public affairs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

boilers, and modern machine details.
which. in connection with his experience,
will equip him for still further advance
ment.
The apprentice machinist who remains
in the machine shop, and applies to his
everyday work the knowledge Of life
times IF experience" acquired through
this course, viii receive the benfits OF the
demand for men Of experience and techni-
cal education, Or II, on the other hand, he
first secures knowledge as craftsman
and then supplements the experience
gained with such knowledge, he can soon
quality as . machine designer. and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
A Good Work.

West Virginia Bar
Judge 7. J. Hugus, of the Criminal
Court of Ohio county. is the author of
a Digest Of the decisions of the Supreme
Court of West Virginia in criminal
cases. The covers volumes to AZ of
the Reports.
1t is very conveniently arranged
digest, giving the man topic in black
letter head, with all the decisions Under
that topic given in the form of the
syllabi, and the topics running in al
phabetical order
1t will be very great convenience
and labor saving work for the practical
lawyer. We have no doubt they will all
want it, because it is too good a thing
not to have
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

Edward Everett Hale says journalism
is 'the biggest druggery" he knows Of,
and that mo man of common sense or
brains would go into it." And yet,
somehow, quite a number of them do.
Mr.. Hale's chief objection appears to
be the amount of work involved on a
newspaper. Well-it isn't play, by
any means.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

Four Philadelphia electric light COM
panies made bids, a few days ago, for
lighting the park drives, and by a
curious coincidence each bid named
Sill per light per year. There had
evidently been an agreement between
the companies. Why don't Philadel-
phia build an electric plant and light
the parks for less than hal Sill?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01

steadily advance TO the position Of me
chanical engineer.
The Register offers grand opportuni-
ty TO thoroughly master this course
through Its offer OF free tuition as a re-
suit of the voting contest now in pro-
gress and TO end at midnight. February
10th. Send in your coupons. and have
your friends do so for YOU
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
nritsin's WORT In south Africa.

Boston Globe
Who can set bounds to the duration OF
a guerrilla war carried on by an intel
ligent and home-loying people. who
have been shorn OF military Organiza-
ton, but with whom the kind Of war
fare they have been thrown back upon
really puts them AZ their best? The
British have a herculoan job on their
hands. The coats % still pressing the
South African farmers will be stagger-
ing. The sympathy Of the world is evil
IDENTITY with them, and the wild shouts
of sympathy among the French popu-
lace doubtless found an echo round the
world.