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Alaska forum., 1901-05-23

Hawkins, Oil 22 Little Minook Jr., commenced washing up last Monday.
 Lonie Iver>on and Laherty have returned from Big Minook. They have cut about 800 logs for the Panama market.
 Fisher is i'll from Little Minook. : He reports that Al. Lester and Cic- ero shovcled ill for one and a half hours ard cleaned up thirty-four ounces.
 T. Roberts returned to camp on Sunday last from the Troublesome country. He caclIed his supplies there and returned OH account ut snow blindness. MT. Roberts re ports a deep snow still on t.e ground ir that section. He will return when tue trails get Ill bett-r COndltion
 A new postoffice ruling has ju:t gore into effect, inrCslrg a fire ot $500 or o,e years implisonne..t on anyone who through careless ness CT otherwise takes mil not belonging to item from the office and fails to return 1t immediately. This applies tonewspapcrs as we'll as to letters and other valuable mail. People wien taking their mail should look at 1t before going / out of the building. It will only take moment and will save great deal of trouble. .--Wyoming Leader.
 Yukon Order Of Pioneers meets every first Saturday i'll each month.
 Miners Mutual Protective Association meets every alternate Wednesday night.
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Alaska forum., 1901-05-23
Alaska Forum, May. 223, 1901.
Clilled.

Clined.
 As is usual at this time Of year, numerous shortages i'll various kinds of provisions are apparent. It would be supposed that this could be remedied by paying lit tie attention to the experiences of the past.
 No mail has came dovu tie river for three or four weeks. It is sup posed that the ice above is i'll more rotten state than 1t is i'll this vicinity.
 The storekeepers are painting and cleaning up i'll general. They will soon be in shape for inspection.
 MINES AND MINERS.
 lack Welsh and three men ShOv- eled in a small dump on II Hoosier i'll four hours, cleaning up over $7oo.
 The McGraw boys, on Little Minook, are cleaning up a lot of fine gold. The nuggets are not so plentiful this year as i'll former >!eanups.
 McLaren and Johnson, 34 Big Minook. washed up small dump and are greatly elated over its prod uct. They Tad only about month $ work on the dump, hav- ing spent the major part of the winter ill prospecting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
TO BE FURTHER INUNDATED.

1t is announced by telegraph from
Washington that when Admiral Schley
reports to Secretary of the Navy Long
during the coming week. he will be in
formed that the Navy Department has
no further duties for him to perform,
and that he may go whittier he pleases
until October 9th, when he will be re-
tired Further he will receive a medal
for his participation in the Cuban nav
al campaign, bearing upon one side a
medallion of Admiral Sampson and on
the other a representation of the battle
of Santiago, with the battieship Oregon
conspicuous in the foreground and the
Brooklyn, Sehley's flagship, left out al
together. This is the reward meeted
out by the government for yalor and its
tribute to one of our ablest sailors
since the days of Perry, Paul Jones.
Farragut and Porter. Schley ought to
refuse to accept that medal as soon as
it is rendered.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
The wheeling whittier.

Parkersburg State Journal
Philadelphia has a man who claims that
he is the champion whittier of the world
He has issued a challenge to all the peo-
pie in the universe. who are expert in cut
ting things out of pine boards or poplar
sticks with jack knife. 1t is in skill.
not in the quantity of shavings produced.
this Philadelphia artist insists that he ex-
cells.
If the challenge issued by this Philadel-
phia chap were free-for-all, catch-as-
catch-can, in the whiting line, he would
have a formidable competitor in a West
Virginia man. A citizen of this State can
produce as big a pile of shayings scattered
over as much territory as any braggart
in Philadelphia. or in the whole United
States, or Europe. Asia or Africa When
it comes to whiting for magnitude, with
out regard to art, he is at the top of the
heap.
The gentleman who is meant resides in
Wheeling. BY whiting day and night for
forty years, and practicing law between
times, he has acquired great speed and
has made an honest livelihood He in
cludes the practice of law to do this last
His whiting II merely for hin own pleas
ure and the dedication Of his wife and
family and host o. friends- The litter also
pieases the geneFal public H 4 known
a. ~ adn1reks - n ~ De1nncrakic
p&x1y - csl lll I.
~ no1 ~ 615,1
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
Postal Matters.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 9.-New
postoffices have been established in West
Virginia at Hoover, Braxton county, John
b. Hoover, postmaster; Jeffrey, Boone
county, John p. Jeffery, postmaster;
Slatyfork, Pocehontas county, Luther D.
Sharp, postmaster; Odessa, Clay county,
Mark c. Kyle, postmaster; Settle, Mason
county, Alexander f. Scott, postma ster.
The postoffice at Weir, Kanawha county,
will be discontinued June 10; mail should
be sent to Jordan. Star service with box
delivery along the route has been estab-
lished between Peterstown, w. Va, and
Lurich Va.
The salary of the postmaster at Fair
mont, w. Va. has been increased from
$500 to $780,
Fourth-class postmasters appointed-J.
Chapman. Canterbury, Mingo county, vice
j. p. Reese, removed; Z. c. Badly, Ed
carton, Mingo county, vice J. T. Adams,
resigned; F. H. Alger, Hatfield, Mingo
county, vice j. E. Williams, resigned; o.
c. Moore, John, Monongalia county, vice
w. F. Moore, resigned; r. N. Snyder,
Jordan, Kanawha county, vice J. E. Mays.
resigned; W. A. Douglas, Highland, Ritch-
lie county, vice l.. c. May, resigned; M. H.
Waldron, Jaeger, Mcdowell county, vice
William Patrick, removed: Hezekiah H.
Pine, Scott Depot Putnam county, vice
G. T. Pine, resigned; ]. E. A. Renner,
Fraziers Bottom, Putnam county, vice
R. NICK. Frazier, dead; A. j. Mccoy,
Bradshaw, Mcdowell county, vice Isham
Hagerman, resigned C. F. Newton,
Swamrun, Upshur county, vice j. H. Bal
ley, removed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
Excuses Tor Knex.

New York World.
The Republican partisan organs
which venture to comment on the Adj
ministratlon's persistence in levying its
proclaimed" Philippine duties in face
OF the Supreme Courts DECISION are ner-
vously supplementing Knox's defiant
evasion plan with variety of excuses.
1t is hot in Washington in summer.
It is bad for business for Congress to
come together. The duties will be re-
funded If the Supreme Court finally SO
orders. Only an "impracticable" and a
"theorist'' would ask the President to
show oyer-Zeaf in complying with the
letter of the law. And SO on.
But neither these excuses nor the
Knox stroke of genius changes the facts.
There being no war, the President has
no right to legisiate for the Philip
pines under ''the war power" there be-
ing no provision in the Spooner amend
ment for the exercise of legislative pow
er by the President, the President has
no right to legislate, under the Spoon
er amendment.
In its decision the Supreme Court
spoke OF the possibility or Congress de-
laying legislation for a new territory,
and said:
1T is true the non-action of Con-
gress may occasion temporary incon-
venience."
But then the Supreme Court never
dreamed of Knox and his importation
into the Administration of the methods
of the law-defying, iaw-evading, law
juggling trusts and mOnopolies.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
MoUNDsvILLE.
News Notes of Interest From the Me.
trOpolis of Marshall County.

News Notes of Interest From the Me-
trOpolis of Marshall County.
Sylvy Scroggins was the guest of
friends at Glen Easton yesterday.
Miss Jean Marout, who is attending
school at Bellaire, spent Sunday with
her parents here.
Miss Florence Cats has accepted a
position as stenographer in Fairmont
and left for that place yesterday.
Miss Olive Ewing has accepted po-
sition in hospital at Rochester. Pa,
and left for that place yesterday.
Mrs. Friend Cox will entertain her
friends from 2 to Tuesday afternoon
at her palatial home in the Orchard.
Charles Riggs and son Lowman, who
are employed at Fairmont, spent yes
terday at their home on Fourth street.
Archdeacon B. M. Spur will deliv-
er the class address at the High school
commencement at McMechen to-mor-
row evening.
A number of Moundsville people
went up to Wheeling yesterday to see
the ball game between the ]. E. Doyles
and the Jack Arthurs on Tunnel Green.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
Pensions Granted.

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-Pensions have
been granted to the following West Vir-
ginians:
Increase-Fanrose Shipley, Shepherds
town, $40; Douglass Morrow, Wheeling, S.;
John ]. Cannon, Antioch IS; John II. Dom
nelly, Wheeling, S12; Nicholas King, Deer
Lick, s17; Thomas Scott. Parkersburg, 49,
Benjamin Barkhouse, Beech, $40; John
West. Wheeling, s.; Robert v. Warner,
Sistersville, S.: Aaron N. Spears, Wilson
burg, sl4
Renewal and Increase-John Groppe,
Wheeling, ST.; Peter II. Polling, Etam, $l2
Additional-Andrew J. Horton, st. Marys,
$12; Isaac H. Whealdon, Veranda, 81
Original--William Persinger. Lock Hav-
en- $40; William II. Dorton Morgantown,
Sc; Frederick T. Amos. Morris. Sc.
War With Spain acknowledgements E.
Park, Creston, s12; John L. Gill. Eva, IS;
John NJ. Derrick, Charleston, So; James j.
Eary, Anderson, Sc.
Original Wdows-Sarah Maulsby, West
Union, sl2;. Eleanor West, Winfield, S.;
Richards. Big Springs, Sc; Lucy A. Work
man. Hewitt, s.; Minors of Ulysses w.
Boggs. Heights, s12; Harriet r. Harter.
Bristol, S.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
IMPORTANT. IF TRUE.

If the news telegraphed from London
that Lord Kitchener and General Botha,
the Boer commander-in-chief, have
held protracted conference and agreed
upon terms of peace, and that the Eng
lish government has countermanded
large orders for horses and munitions
Of war in consequence, be true, it is
the most important and interesting
piece of intelligence coming over the
wires for many a day, for it promises
the speedy end Of one of the most cost
ly and desperate wars in recent history.
That both sides are willing to quit
appears to be reasonable conclusion.
England has lost much; the Beers have
practically lost everything but honor,
and as things have been going for half
a year past it is simply battle be-
tween two bull dogs, with no prospect
of victory for either. The war for half
a year has simply meant bloodshed,
suffering, sickness, the devastation of
farms and homes, misery to women and
children. and the expenditure of mil
lions Of money day after day and week
after week, with no tangible results,
and the world will agree that it is full
ly time to call halt upon some basis
mutually satisfactory.
There can be no doubt of these two
propositions: That England is willing
to agree to terms calculated to give
her political control of South Africa,
while conceding certain rights to the
Beers, and that the Beers are willing
to concede all they can without the loss
OF that honor which people value as
highly as individuals. Upon that basis
there ought to be an end to the present
strife, and if Botha and Kitchener have
come to that agreement they have both
served their countries we'll
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
THE HANGING QUESTION.

The Parkersburg State Journal is
worried because more people are not
hanged In West Virginia for the crime
of murder, and in expressing it's dissat-
isfaction reflects upon the Courts and
people of the State In words and fig
ures following, to-wit:
A striking commentary on the workings
of the law comes from the southern part
of this State Two years ago A. J. Manns
killed DIR. c. X. Harris in Mcdowell
county, and being tried for the murder,
was convicted and sentenced to death. On
his case being taken, to the Supreme Court
it was reversed Manns has just been
tried again and found guilty of involun-
tary. manslaughter and as punishment
fined the large sum of five dollars.
Possibly the Queerest part of this whole
peculiar matter is that there was not the
slightest effort made to show that Manns
did anything but kill Harris voluntarily.
The claim in his behalf was that he acted
in self defense.
1t is almost impossible to hang a man
any more in West Virginia, no matter how
f1ict the death penalty and when they do,
the courts find some technical obstacle in
the way
This is scarcely fair, either to the
Courts or 10 the juries. We believe
both do their duty as they understand
1t, and that the public have a justifiable
and increasing confidence in both the
cFimnal tribunals and the juries as
sembled before them. The State Jour-
nal should recoNect that it isn't al
ways necessary to hang man accused
OF murder, even If he has taken human
life, and In the very case it cites it adj
mlts there was a plea of self defense
that appears to have been good and
sufficient to the unbiased mind of the
Supreme Court, and afterwards to the
second jury in the Court below. This
surely ought to be sufficient. If we
discredit both Courts and juries, to what
otner tribunal shall be turn? Surely
not to that presided over by Judge
Lynch.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
WHEN THE DROP COMES.
When the Powder is Burned the Stick of the Rocket Drops
When Nerve Force is Withheld From Any Part Of the
Body That Part Sets Up Signals of Dstress-The Cry
Is for More Nerve Force Without it Collapse will Come,
Strength will Wane and the Subject Drop From the
Ranks.

the nerves and wear cut nerve tis-
sue Then again 1t - overwerk-
either of mind or muscle. Another
very prolific source 81 shattered
nerves IL the too free use of alec
hoifc or other stimuIants. some
people inherit . tendency t. nerve
troubles and very little spsets
them. Some people abuse them
selves into nervous collapse. In all
cases the one thing that must he
gained IL nerve force, and IL il the
woAderful influence of DIR. A. W.
Chase's Nerve Pills I'm restoring
this mysterfous force that accounts
tor their startling cures.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10

efves employ insnt u sexen hundred
Norkmen Ii III iinss 81 structural WORK.
More than q year Will be occupied IN
finishing this building, and an idea Of
its extent and magnificence may be
gained from the fact that the gateway
and lodge to the entrance of the grounds
will cost $3.50, 600, or more than any
building in the city Of wheeling. The
erection of such edifices distributes a
portion of the vast wealth recently ac-
cumulated by few among the people.
and yet, paradoxical as it may appear.
the rich man is no poorer for the ex-
penditure of his millions in this way,
for his property is worth the sum it
costs, and he comes out even. The ex-
travagance of the very rich often calls
forth adverse comment, but it really
ought to be encouraged, for If the man
of money held on to his income, the
plain ordinary people would soon have
nothing at ALL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
Sunday Coli is All Right.

New York World.
The Yonkers jury that tried Bank
er Benjamin Adams yesterday for the
fearful crime of playing golf on Sun
day, promptly found MIN mot guilty.
Yet the testimony of the policeman
who caught Mr.. Adams on the Sab
bath day in the act of knocking a
small ball about with a golf stick, with
a caddie in attendance, was not in any
way contradicted. And the law certain
ly defines that as an offense. The jury
were evidently aware Oh the fact, for
they added to their verdict of acquit-
tai this expression of opinion:
'They recommend that the law gov
erning the observance of the first day
of the week, commonly called Sun
day, be repealed or so amended that it
will not prohibit or interfere with the
innocent enjoyment of the people on
that day."
In thus finding Mr.. Adams not guilty
and recommending the law to mercy,
the Yonkers jury has driven one more
nail in the coffin of the melancholy
movement to revive the blue laws.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
ANOTHER YELP.

Secretary Clark, of the Industrial
Commission, opposes tariff revision be-
cause it would upset conditions" 1t
undoubtedly would; that's the reason
the big manufacturers and their Of
fetal friends don't want it. They
would rather keep on combining
and robbing the people, by compelling
them to pay profits upon wind and
water. Mr.. Clark says the trust is "a
national evolution" and goes on to
apologize for it and justify it by saying
that while it may have evils in its
train, it promises more good than evil"
He omits to point out, however, that
the evils he practically admits, are not
only present, but affect the great body
Of the people, while the good extends
no further than those directly interest
ed in the combines. AS the Register
has recently remarked, the entire trust
interests yelp whenever anybody sug-
gests revision of the tariff and cry
out in unison that the tariff has moth
ing whatever to do with business con-
solidation and corporation extortion.
II it has not, why do they object? Their
very protests prove the falsity of their
assertions, and aid in the conviction Of
the people that the tariff is the root OF
a great present evil, and one that prom
pressive in the near Tuture. Congress
has the power to throttle the trusts, If
it will only use it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
PUBLIC SALE.

BY virtue of the authority vested in me
by q deed of trust made by the Wellshura
= Mneeliing Raliwsy Company 10 me IS
in the year 1900. and recorded In the office
of the Clerk of the County Court 81
Brooke County, West Virginia. In Deed
will sell at public auctioif--,t the front
door of the Court House OF Brooke Coun-
ty, in the city OF Welsbura.
On the 2Sth day of June. A. ID. 1901.
oeginn.ng at ten O'Clock a, m. the follow
ing described real and personal property,
that is TO say:
J.. Two certain contiguous lots or parcelx
OF iand situated in the town OF Lazear-
Vilie. IN the county of Brooke, in the State
OF West Virginia. laid out sas town lots
ana designated on the general plat OF the
SAID town by the numbers loo and los,
reverence being had TO the record OF the
said plat in the office of the Clerk OF the
county Court OF Brooke County aforesaid,
In Deed Book numbered .. at page As.
z. All the rights, franchises and priv
lleges owned by the said Welisblirg IL
Wheeling Railway Company at the time
wnen II executed the said deed OF trust,
which the said company owned by virtue
of an ordinance passed by the Council 81
the city of Welsburg, in the State of West
Virginia, on the 18th day of July, in the
year 1888, entitled, AN ordinance granting
TO Alfred PAUL and ]. A Miller a fran
ehise to erect, maintain ana operate an
electric street railway on and over certain
streets in the city of Wellshurg West Vir-
the said Wellsburg & Wheeling Railway
Company. and also all rights franchises
and privileges which the said Railway
Company owned al the time OF the execti-
ton of the said deed of trust and which
II owned by virtue of an ordinance OF the
County Court of Brooke County aforesaid
passed on the Sth day of August, in the
year 1899. entitled: AN ordinance grant,
ing to Alfred PAUL and j. A. Miller, their
heirs and assigns the right to construct
and operate street railway over certain
roads and streets in Cross Creek District
in the county of Brooke" which Ordinances
was assigned to the said Railway Conn
pany.
8. Also the railroad. the power house
and the car barn of the said Railway COM
pany, and all of the cars motors, rolling
stock and equipment pertaining or he
longing to the said railroad and used In
connection herewith
All of the said property of every kind
will be sold together and as whole
Terms of Sale:-The purchase money is
to be paid in cash on the day OF sale
FRANK Z. MCCOY, Trustee
mys7ei
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10

central part of the city each afternoon
are literally filed with idle men and
boys. That to-day is one OF the most
striking sights in Caracas. Not one
Of them seems to have any means OF
livelihood, yet they are well dressed and
apparently well fed. They stand about
chatting and swinging their hardwood
canes and smoking the ever present Gig
arctic. Thousands of them there seem
to be, whole city full of men with
nothing to do.
Prices ON Diamond Basis.
Visit the business section. The stores
are deserted. Look in on the govern
ment banks of Venezuela Not a man
depositing or drawing out money. In
quire about the rate of exchange on
New York. 1t is per cent. You want
to buy gold; it will cost you per cent
You want much; it will cost you more
Merchants, in settling their accounts
theoretically in gold, take 25 per cent
in silver and Is per cent in gold. Yet
Venezuela is supposed to be on a gold
basis. In my stay in Venezuela for
three weeks I have received change in
gold only once. Silver everywhere. The
silver dollar is worth dollar, yet ii
has so cents worth Of silver in it. Sill
yer has been pouring into the country.
The officials confess to having had $780,
600 of it coined. Many believe that much
more than that has been sent here.
Venezuela" said friend the other
night, 'in the matter of prices is neither
on silver nor gold basis. it is on a
diamond basis"
Probably nowhere on earth except
in mining camps is living more expen-
sive. Most of the duties are simply
enormous. American cut sugar will
cost 80 cents pound. But that, they
say, is because the government protects
the native sugar. Flour is from $12 to
SIS barrel, and there is not Touring
mill in Venezuela to protect. Coal is
$24 ton.
At night Caracas puts on its gayest
smile and most stunning attire. Per-
haps it is one of the nights the mil
itary band is playing in the Plaza Boil
ivar. 1t is band for any country to
be proud of. Here the city gathers. You
will see the diplomats of the world here,
with their wives and their daughters.
You will see the diplomats of Venezu-
ella, for all Venezuelans are diplomats.
Handome Venezuela women, with black
lace mantillas over their pretty heads.
Perhaps bevy Of ravishing beauties,
from Maracaibo, with wonderful crea-
lions of Paris millinery. Everyone is
polite and smiling. The men invariably
doff their hats to one another. A
stranger Is treated with the utmost con-
sideration. If his antecedents are
known, he is received with open arms.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10
$40, 347, 800 s,s44, GOO s217, 1872, 400

Totals $40, 347 500 SIG, S44 GOO $217, 1872 400
1t is also suggested that the Havana
Commercial Company, capitalized at
$16,000,000 and which controls a con-
siderable number of the principal CT
gar manufactures at the Cuban capital
may be taken into the combine, and
that the ultimate capital will be in the
neighborhood of $225, 100000 or $780,,
100000. That this prediction is fairly
we'll founded will be assented to by
those who have been watching the
growth of the consolidation movement
in all industrial lines. The tendencies
are not only in that direction, but there
is a manifest increasing disposition on
the part Of producers of all sorts of
manufactured goods to get together.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10

Mr.. William Kratz. of No 45i Coal St,
wheeling, W. Va. says: when i got DIR.
a W .Chases Nerve Pills at the Logan
Drug Co.'S store I was run down weak
nervous, then. without appetite or energy.
l mad not taken the medicine long when
l began TO eat. digest my food and gain
weight My nerves grew steady physical
strength and energy returning and az
result l feel again in excellent health
| am very glad / heard OF the medicine,
and consider IL most excellent one
This Is the shape and design of the
genuine DR.. A w. Chasss Nerve Pills
All Others are limitations and dare not use
this de&gn.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10

Ex-Secretary Of State Foster admits
that the recent decisions by the SUI
preme Court may not be in accordance
with law, but defends them ON the gen.
eral ground that they were demanded
by the present situation of the govern
ment. This is probably about the
truth.