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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
THE SCHOOL CENSUS FARCE.

For many years past as regularly as
the school enumeration of Wheeling has
been taken, the Register has had occa-
sion to point out the utter worthless
ness of the result. The present enum-
Grafton is worse than worthless, since,
coming upon top Of the regular census
these figures are sent abroad as accur-
ate N mislead the outside world into
the belief that Wheeling IS
retrograding in point Of population. The
school census is an institution that we
be abolished or for the sake of the city's
reputation abroad put on a business
basis and the enumeration made proper
ly and accurately.
According to the school enumeration
just completed there has been a net
decrease in population since 1900 of
206, while the same enumeration gives
a net decrease in youth for the same
period of 1902, The absurd discrep-
ancy OF these results in themselves is
sufficient to condemn the work. The
total population for the city is given for
1901 as 36,714, or 2,164 less than the
national census of 1900, which gave us
3S ,S78, and which was so conclusively
demonstrated to be below the actual
population that a strong effort was
made to have a recount, such as has
been demanded in many other cities
where similar gross inaccuracies and
discrepancies have been discovered.
Now for the school enumeration to go
2,164 below even the too low figures of
the national census of 1900 is a little
more than this prosperous and growing
city can stand with equanimity.
1t is within the province of the Board
of Trade to look into this matter and
protest against the dissemination
abroad of these false reports so derog-
atory to this city and its growing indus
trial interests. If the school enumera-
ton cannot be made efficient and accur-
ate 1t should be abolished. At best it is
a useless expenditure of money, while
at present it is positively detrimental
to the city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
EASY TRANSPORTATION


Responsible for the WORLDS Great
est PrOgress-Water Transporta-
tion Not to BE Despised.
WASHINGTON, April 19.-George
III. Anderson, Of the Pittsburg chamber
of commerce. was a witness before the
industrial commission this afternoon.
Mr.. Anderson estimated that within a
radius of sixty miles from Pittsburg
there are $50, 900 men employed in vari-
Gus industrial plants and that in that
area there is capital employed to the ex-
tent of $500. 600, 900. giving that section
"a career of prosperity on industrial
line unequelled in the worlds his
tory"
tbs career, Mr. Anderson said, had
begun upon the advent of the first rail-
road in 1852. He argued that the rail-
roads are the greatest factor in the
worlds progress, but that water trans
portation also should be encouraged.
What W want" he said. SIS cheap
transportation and o cheap labor
Yet he would not have rates so cheap
as to render them unstable. He ex-
pressed the opinion that there is not
so much unjust discrimination or I'M
due preference in favor of individuals
on the part of the railroad companies as
the newspapers charge and he contend
ed that no discrimination could long
be praeticed toward any community.
He advocated arbitration for the set
Element of strikes.
THE great factors of settlement of
labor difficulties" he said, "are concil-
iation, arbitration and mutual for
bearance."
The commission will not hear any
more witness until its May meeting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
HIGH TARIFF FALsEHOODS ABOUT
WOOL.

Our Fourteenth street contemporary.
which sometimes rushes in where
wiser people fear to tread, revlves d
controversy of the 1896 campaign and
concludes with this assertion: Yet the
farmer is getting 35 cents a pound Tor
what used to pay him Tin the free
wool a of 1S95-96-9D 10 cents when
he could sell it."
For the information of a large and
deeply Interested constituency OF wool
growing farmers in Pennsylvania:
West Virginia and Ohio, will the In
telligencer kindly tell where it got the
information that the farmer is getting
35 cents a pound for his wool?
Following are the quotations of the
leading grades of wool in which the
farmers of Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia and Ohio are interested, taken
from the current issue april 49, of the
American Wool and Cotton Reporter,
and it is important to bear in bind that
these prices are for the seaboard mar
kets and are a considerable per centage
higher than the prices received on the
farm:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
MUSICAL.

The sale Of seats for the orchestra
concert on Wednesday next so far ex-
ceeds the most sanguine a~nticipations.
Victor Herbert's famous orchestra and
Madam Zeisler are already assured OF
a large and appreciative audience, and
their coming visit is likely to make
musical history for Wheeling. Mr.. Her
bert has arranged a splenolu pro-
gramme, which should prove a delight
to the musicians as well as the general
public, and it his been limited that in
the event of encores, which are sure to
be demanded, the great composer-con-
ductor is likely to favor US with n or
two gems from the Fortune Teller
and Singing Girl" recently arranged
for orchesta numbers.
Madame Zeisler continues to carry
the musical centres by storm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
A A SNOW STORM.

MIDDLESBORO, KY, April ia
heavy snow storm has been raging
throughout Eastern Kentucky since
noon to-day and is still falling tonight.
Two days of heavy rain preceded the
snow storm and brought on freshets in
Powell's valley, which rendered twenty
families homeless in that section. AS
o as the water recedes they will be
able to return % their homes. There is
two inches of snow in Yellow Creek
valley and it is a half foot deep on the
mountains. The peach trees are in full
bloom and the fruit will probably be
killed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
IN THE JURY'S HANDS


II the Case of Captain Garrett p.
Ripley, Charged with Conspiracy
In the Gobel Murder
FRANKFORT, KY, April 19.-The
case of Captain Garnet D. Ripley, the
former militia officer charged with be-
ing an accessory before the fact in the
Goebel assassination, is now in the
hands of the jury. j.. T. ONeal made
the closing argument for the defense
to-day and was followed by Prosecut-
ing Attorney Franklin. The crowd in
attendance during the closing argu-
arguments taxed the capacity Of the
large court room to its full limit.
Mr.. O'Neal for the defense, argued
that Ripley's greatest crime was talk
ing too much and that by trying to
make himself over-important, he had
put himself under suspicion; but that
when the evidence was sifted there
was nothing connecting him with the
conspiracy.
MIR. Franklin, for the prosecution,
dwelt on the fact that the defendant
arrived here January 16, the date on
which the assassination, he claimed,
was decreed, and that he was not here
January 30, at the time Powers gave
Youtsey the key to the secretary of
states Office. Judge Cantrill ordered
the jury not to consider the case to-
night, but to take it UP in the jury
room tomorrow morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
NO OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

NEW YORK, April 19.-At the Office
Of j. P. Morgan & Co. this morning it
was stated that there was still no Off
cial announcement to be made concern
ing the control of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad by Great North
ern and Northern Pacific interests. In
financial circles the belief prevailed that
the important details of the deal were
settled on Thursday, when Robert
Bacon and Charles Steele, of the Nor
gan firm, were in Boston.
Arrangements for financing the
change of control have not yet been
completed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Great Lakes Towing Company Will
Make No Concessions to

Great Lakes Towing Company Will
Make No Concessions to Strikers.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 19.-The
officials of the Great Lakes Towing
Company declared to-day that they will
fight the pending strike OF the tug fire.
men and linemen at Lower Lake Erie
ports to a finish. The company will
not refuse the demands Of the strikers,
it is announced, but mas decided here
after to place but n fireman on each
tug instead of two, as has been custom
airy in the past. On the other hand the
strikers say that unless their demands
are granted shortly the strike will be-
come general at all ports on the great
lakes. They also intimate that the
l~ongshoremen may take up the fight.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
MAKE A NOTE OF THIS

Back of all these victories in foreign
lands stands the Republican policy of pro-
lection to American industries. Make a
note of it.-Cleveland Leader.
Protection from what?
We are already underselling the for
eigner on his own ground, right al
his factory doors in his own market
despite foreign tariffs. What fear Of
protection have we then in the Ameri-
can market?
The only thing that the Republican
policy of protection" stands back of
is the American trusts, which, under
cover Of that policy. extort from the
helpless American consumer from two
to three times the prices the same
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
H TRAIN MADE UP.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-The compo-
sition of the special train upon which the
President and his party will make the ten
thousand mile trip to the Pacific coast
and return has been determined. 1t will
consist Of an engine and seven cars, the
combination baggage and smoking car
Atlantic" the dining car "St. James
two compartment cars, each with seven
state rooms and two drawing rooms, the
"Omena'' and DIANA" two twelve sec
ton drawing room sleepers, the 'Pallon'
and 'Charmion,' and the private car
Olympia" which viii be occupied by
President and Mrs. Mckinley.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
HEALTH HINTS FROM JEFFRIEs.

HEALTH HINTS fftOM JET EN1ESs
Prof. James ]. Jeffries, the worlds
champion bruiser, appeared the other
day before the Missouri State Homeo-
pathic Institute in annual convention at
Kansas City and submitted to a cate
chism by the learned doctors as to his
methods of training and the effects on
his system Of diet and exercise, with
the following result:
How much do you sleep?"
About nine or ten hours said Jeffrles.
II never, let anybody break my sleep.
That's when I'm working hard. | can
doesn't make much difference. / can sleep
on a fence. Sleep is the best thing for
me; | have got to have my regular sleep
and l depend on that more than anything
else to keep me in the right shape"
DO you consider meat essential?' asked
the doctor.
much OF it. and most especially those who
are not working hard. | don't eat much
meat unless l am working hard. Some
times l go for a whole week without
DO you use any tobacco or liquor of
Not when I'm working" said the
fighter.
Does it make you sluggish"
Yes, a sort of loggy and lazy"
What kind of meat do you eat when
in training?"
Well" said the big pugilist, Il eat
steak and chops and chicken"
Amy milk"
No" he replied.
And not much water?"
D you know that l find that all my
thirst is here?" He put his hand to his
throat. $50 l a only a swallow or two
and spit the rest of the water out. If l
didn't do that l would drink three or four
glasses of water every time | am thirsty,
He ate a great many prunes and other
kinds of fruit when he was in training.
He said that he drank a great deal of
prune juice. .
The pugilist's pulse was found to be
e~ighty-two beats and regular, with EAR
teries open," like a boys.
Jeffries told them that he took a both
every morning, always a cold bath,
which, he said, makes a fellow feel good
all day"
Mr. Jeffries has to take the word OF
science for it that he has such a thing
as a stomach. The pile-driver fists OF
Prof. Sharkey and others have landed
fair in the pit of it without disturbing
the serenity of that organ.
Science PROBABLY has much less to
learn from Mr.. Jeffries than that young
giant has to learn from science as to the
correct physical life, but his testimony
adds emphasis to the already we'll es-
tablished truth that temperance, proper
rest, good, seasonable food and exercise
are the essentials to the Wen being OF
the physical man.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20

Comparing the mgr tarln organ S as
sertion that the farmer is getting 35
cents a pound for his wool with the
official quotations, we find a remark
able discrepancy. Instead of 35 cents,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio
wool is bringing, for the best grades of
washed, but q cents in the eastern
market and from that on down to II
cents-the prices ON the farm running
far below these figures.
Thus it is shown that after four
years q high tariff on wool the Ameri-
a farmer is getting about the same
prices, and in some instances actually
less, than during the free wool
period, although at that time ALL
prices were abnormally low because of
financial depression, which the tariff
trust organs delight to ascribe to the
slight reductions in the tariff made by
the Wilson bill, but which was really
worldwide. affecting Europe and
America alike. Now we are enjoying
unprecedented prosperity and there is
. high tariff On wool, as well as on most
everything else, yet the wool grower is
getting little if any more for his wool
than in times of worldwide panic and
when he had no tariff protection" at
all.
In trying to pull the wool over the
farmers eyes the trust organ only sue
ceeds in knocking away the scales and
revealing the s~elf-evident truth that
there is no tariff protection for the
farmer. 1t is all for the trusts. The
prices Of what the farmer has to sell
remain fixed in the free trade markets
OF the world, tariff or no tariff. The
tariff only raises erices on what the
farmer has to BUY and on such products
the protected trusts see to il that he
rs charged two or three prices thew
charge the foreigner in foreign mar
kets for the same goods. The farmer
stands all the burdens of protection
but he gets none of its benefits. The
latter are exclusively for those gentle
men who are in billion dollar COM
Dimes, live in million dollar mansions
in Fifth Avenue and sport palatial
ocean yachts. The horny handed farm
er is not in it except that he has to
pay the piper.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
Hon. A. w. Campbell.

Mr.. Campbell's repuolicanism was of
a high type. He was for principles, not
expediency; it was nearer a religion
with him than politics. He would not
compromise his principles for the sake
of success any more than he woul his
sense Of personal dignity. He always
carried into his political life a lofty
ideal of integrity in connection with his
public career. l believe he would have
been one of the first United States Sen
ators elected in 1868, after the forma-
ton of the new State of West Virginia
if he had been wiling to trim a little
to 1atter the legislature a little beyond
what he thought that body merited. l
believe he always felt more satisfaction
in the result than if it had been differ
ent, but costing him the sacrifice OF
what he valued more thai success. HE
always deserved more at the hands or
his party than he was willing to accept.
Mr.. Campbell was a man not only OF
education, as college educat1ons go, put
he was much more. He was ~broadened
and educated first by his profession;
next, by his wide acquaintance with
public men and public affairs, by dill
gent study in man directions, and, not
least, by extensive travel IN his own
and foreign countries. In addition to
this, he had a talent for affairs. lie
knew the iron business, In which for
many years he had extensive interests,
better than many of the professionals;
was a student of markets and of pollt-
ical economy, and knew more OF that
science than many who have wasted
vast cams of paper in writing o
that only befog the question and the
student.
He had a life long and intimate
friendship with Cash Clay, OF Ken
lucky. During the Fremont campaign,
or about that time, Clay visited Wheel
ing on his invitation, and made a pub
lie speech ON political issues. The city
was overwhelmingly Democratic, n
pro-slavery to Tie core. Inere Was
considerable talk among the rougher set
that Mr.. Clay would not be allowed to
make a BLACK Republican speech" But
he vas allowed. When he rose TO speak
Mr.. Clay took from his pocket a big
revolver, and laid it on the desk before
him. He had his say. He was not dis
turbed. Clay was a man atLer Camp
bells own heart."-From Prof. William
P. WIIley's THE Formation of West
Virginia.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20

The turning DOWN of the fake" hotels
by the Council Committee on Petitions
and "Reminiscences was only what the
people demanded at the polls and what
they confidently expected. Council is
thoroughly aware of public sentiment
on this subject, and to grant these OBJ
noxious places license now would be
an outrageous affront to the people and
to decency, which would not be toler-
ated and is not to be contemplated for
a moment. The fake" hotels are done
for in Wheeling.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
ROAD CRIPPLED
But Not Tied Up-Strike Has Not
stopped Tube Works.

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 19.-The
strike of the employees of the McKees-
port Connecting Railroad, inaugurated
last night, has in no way interfered
with operation Of the National Tube
Company's plant, and all departments
were running to-day. But few men are
out, and while the road is crippled, 1t
is in operation as usual. The line is
owned by the National Tube Company,
and connects the tube plant, National
rolling mill and Monongahels furnaces
with the Baltimore & Ohio and Lake
Erie roads.
No serious trouble is a~pprehended
and an early settlement is expected.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
ON HER HUSBANDS GRAVE.

PORT HURON, Mich, April 10
Mrs. Charles Moak was found lying
across her husbands grave in Lake Side
cemetery this morning in an uneon-
scious condition. 1t is presumed that
during the night Mrs. Moak, who had
been brooding over her husbands
death, went to the cemetery and cried
herself into a dose OF the grave, final
~ becoming completely unconscious
from the exposure. She is in a critical
condition.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
CROOKED
Did His Best to Break the Bank But
the Bank Was Too Strong for

PITTSBURG, Pa, April ia. ].
Schroth. a bookkeeper in the First Ma
tional Bank of Birmingham, this city,
was arrested late last night by u. S. Mar
shall Leonard, charged with the embez-
Element of s35, 600 of the bank funds.
He was released later on furnishing bail
In the sum of $4,000. The defalcation was
discovered by National Ban Examiner
Slack, who found a number of false en-
tries in the books. Mr.. Slack says the
bank is in excellent condition and will not
be affected. 1t has a capital stock of $780,
900, and undivided profits and surplus of
s206,0 00.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
Big Floating Debt.

Parkersburg Sentinel.
The next mayor, whoever he may be,
will nave no time for private undertake
ings if he does his duty toward the
taxpayers of Parkersburg.
A tremendous floating debt, said to
be anyhere from Sos, 900 to sS5, 900. is
one of the things to be met and dis
posed of. Already there is talk in the
air of injunctions and other proceed
ings through the courts to prevent the
payment of some of these debts because
they are Illegal. But debts honestly
made, whether strictly legal or not,
should be paid, though it is not neces-
sary to make any more of that kind.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
SHELTER DAMAGED BY FIRE.

BUTTE, Mont, April 19.-Fire at
the Heinz smelter to-day caused losses
estimated at 5000. 900. The boiler,
sampfing and engine rooms were en-
tirely destroyed. The smoke-stacks in
falling. damaged the big engines and
hurt one man. The ore chute and
tramway were damaged. The insur-
ance probably will amount to 500. 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
BECAUSE OF

MILTON, Cal. April 19.-John H.
Gorham. foreman of a copper mine to-
day shot and instantly killed Geo. B.
Mccarthy a prominent young man of
Copperopolis, and then blew himself to
pieces with giant powder. Jealousy Is
supposed to have been the cause.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
FLOOD OF C~oUNTERFEITS.

DETROIT, Mich, April ia News
special from Niles, Mich, says:
This section of the state is being
flooded with bogus S. gold pieces. The
coins, which are excellent counterfeits,
are turning up so often that business
men fear 10 accept any gold. Officers
are working on the matter but with no
result as yet.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
President schwab gave evidence ., h

President Schwab gave evidence OF his
worth to the United States Steel Cor
poration by his wisdom in saying the
right word at the right time and avert
Ing Wnat promised to be a disastrous
strike affecting the iron industry of the
entire country. In making reasonable
concessions to the men he added to the
esteem IN which they hold him and in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20

Philippi Plain-Dealer.
We should be greatly Obliged if some
good Republican journal would explain
just why it was so shameful in Mr..
Macrum to desert his post in the Pre-
toria consulate, and yet SO altogether
admirable for the young son of the
secretary to desert the same post.
True there were British prisoners at
Pretoria then, but there are Boer wo-
men and children prisoners there now.
Why should the United States consul
be required for the former and not for
the latter?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
Query.

To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-Kindly inform me through
your valuable paper who Helen Hunt
Jackson was and why she was buried
in Colorado. Oblige,
A READER
do you mean the poet, who wrote
under the initials H. H.? She was
Helen Maria Fiske, later Mrs. Jackson,
then Mrs. Hunt, and was born at Am
hurst, Mass, October Is, 1881, and died
at San Francisco August II, 1885. She
was a poet, novelist and miscellaneous
writer. In 1883 she was appointed a
special commissioner to examine into
the condition of the Mission Indians of
California. We do not know why she
was buried in Colorado.-Ed.)
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20

trusts charge the foreigner for the
same goods.
This is the point that the American
people are just now making a note
Of" and there is a popular storm brew
ing which will burst in the near future
on the policy of false pretenses and
protection to monopoly.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
WILL MEET IN r.

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, April 19.-
Secretary t. J.. Duffy, Of the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters, has
announced that the next annual con
vention of the brotherhood will be held
in East Liverpool in July. The votes
for the convention city have just been
counted.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
GEORGE COPPELL E A

NEW YORK, April 19.-Geo. Coppell,
senior partner of the firm of Maitland,
Coppell G. Co, president of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad Company, and a finan-
cier prominent in many railroads m 9TH
er corporations, died to-day at his home
in this city. He was 81 years old.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-20
Tyler County Coal.

Oh Review.
Some people are laughing at the idea
of Tyler county coal ever being placed
on the market. Before they are many
days older, they will wish they had
hustled for a few coal options instead
of standing on the street corners whin-
ing about it.