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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
OIL OPERATIONS.

Srec to the Register
WESTON, w. Va, May 10.-Outside
of the Lo. Mullady No. 1, which is do
ing about so barrels, there was moth
ing the past week to stimulate the oil
boom. We are anxiously looking for
ward to the opening of spring and good
roads.
The Reynolds No. IL, that was re-
ported dry in the Gordon, filled up
1900 feet from that formation yester-
day, while drilling to the 5th. The
packer blew out of the Thos. Lovett No.
at the Carbon Factory yesterday
morning, necessitating the closing
down of the factory for couple of
days until the well can blow off some
to be repacked. Ross Davissons ven
ture on the Alkire farm in the Fink
field will be ready to start spudding
the first of the week. If this test
proves good, it will make big extern
sion to this field.
The Southern Oil Company is drilling
four wells on the T. G. Smith farm in
the Beall's Mills development, north of
the Cox well. Their No. is about
due and they are ready for the inch
in the No. 3 and No. 4. The four wells
are offset by the South Penn and Guffy
& Gauly.
The Southern has made a location on
the Bridget Cummings farm and one
on the Cummings Bros. farm.
The following was Fridays run from
the Sand Fork field: Copley Heirs No.
L, rs bDls.; No. 2, 10 bbls.; No. 3, 120
bbls.; John Copley No. /, 5 bbls.; No.
3, % bbls.; Mulladys No. l, 80 bbls.;
No. 2, % bbls.; No. 5, so bbls.; No. 6,
s bbls.; No 8, 40 bbis.; Reynolds No. l,
40 bills; No. 4. 10 bbls.
The extension of the pipe line into
Braxton county to the Bennett well,
near Rosedale, has caused an influx of
the oil men into that county. Just what
this Bennett well is doing is not known
but it is known that the South Penn
is using every available means to save
the oil until the line gets there. They
have shipped a number of tanks to
that well from here by express, haul
ing them out from Sutton.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

Concert by Opera House Military
Band at Wheeling Park, this after
noon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

One cent per milo Buffalo and return
via the c., L Z w. Ay.. May 18th and
e9th.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

Photos at Brinkmier's Studio at less
than half price now.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
The Drummers' Exchange.

Meals and Lunches served at ;
hours, 1888 Main street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
Mozart Park to-day.

Concert, Mozart Park to-day.
Photos at Brinkmier's Studio at less
than half price now.
Concert by Opera House Military
Band at Wheeling Park, this after
noon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

Concert by Opera House Military
hand at wheeling Park. this after
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

Special to the Register.
PITTSBURG, Pa, May 1.-THE
Standard cut the price of credit bal
ances again to-day, SLOT as against
S1.10, the closing figures of the day be-
fore, being posted. This makes the
second cut of the week. The price for
Lima and Indiana was not disturbed.
North Lima remains at so cents and
South Lima and Indiana at Is cents.
There seems little hope now that the
decline will stop before it reaches a
dollar, and may probably go lower.
On the Ohio side, in the Keener sand
development near Graysville, Monroe
county, the Southern Oil Company has
drilled its No. on the Daniel LYMAN
farm through the sand and has a
buster. In the Macksburg field, in
Washington county, t. +. Davis has
completed his No. 5 on the Mary ohii-
ling farm and has a % barrel pro-
Queer in the Berea Grit. Hutchinson
Bros. have completed their No. on
the J. L. Hutchinson farm and have a
buster in the Berea. In the northwest
extension of the Scio field In Harrison
county, l.. A. Brenneman & Co. have
completed and shot their No. 4 On the
Hannah Ketner farm and have a 10
barrel pumper In the Bricker devei-
opment near Cadiz, Davis, johnson &
Co. have completed their No I on the
Snyder heirs farm and have 10 bar
rel pumper In the same development
the j. F. Wilson Oil Company has COM
pleted No. 8 on the F. C. Maxwell farm
and has a 20 barrel pumper Next
week the Pure Oil Company will begin
ditching preparatory to laying 6-inch
pipe line into the West Virginia fields.
The line will be about 100 miles in
length and will start from Piney Fork.
Wetzel county. and connect with the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
Special 10 the Register.

Special to the Register
PARKERSBURG. w. Va, May IL
Another test is TO be mace for oil on
the south side The South Side Oil
Company has made location and is
getting the machinery on the ground
for well only few hundred yards
from the city limits and few feet from
the well drilled ID some months ago,
ana in which some oil was found. Since
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12
DOWN CUSHIONS.

The first lot of these with such rush that MANY
disappointed in getting them. This lot just in like the
original, filled with cIean Odoress down feathers.
Fifty should be the price, but sell them 7Oc
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
A NEW JACK sONVILJE

Jacksonville rebuilt will be a handsorner
city than was Jacksonville before the fire
And it will be much more capable Of
resisting fire. 1t was largely constrnctea
oil highly infammable wood. 1t will be
constructed mostly of brick-at least In
the business section. If the City Council
mas not already done so it ought to make
the limits within which only brick build
lngs can be erected much larger than thew
were before the recent fire. 1t NAV he
hardship TO some to require that only
brick buildings shall be erected in large
section of the burned area, but what is
a hardship in this matter will prove In
the long run an advantage to all who are
interested. The insurance rates will be
less on brick buildings, and lots having
brick buildings upon them will be far
more valuable than if covered with frame
structures.
Pine lumber is so cheap that there is
great temptation to use it. MANY busi
ness men do not seem to care of what
the place in which they do business is
constructed whether of wood or brick or
steel. Their main idea is to get under
cover, but the people of a city are deep
ly interested in the matter because a
town built of brick gets lower insur
ance rate all around than one that is built
of wood.
Building in Jacksonville will be begun
at once, if it has not been already, and
therefore the authorities cannot act In
this matter too soon. If before the City
Council acts contracts should be made for
frame buildings a pressure would be
brought to bear on the City Council to
permit such buildings TO be erected.
wherever lot owners desired them. A firm
stand in this matter taken in the very
beginning of the upbullding of the city
Will save great deal of trouble and will
result in making Jacksonville a far more
beautiful city than it was, and will con-
tribute greatly to its prosperity. Those
who think they cannot get the money
with which to erect brick buildings will
manage to do so when they find they will
not be permitted to erect wooden build
ings, and eventually they will be glad
they were compelled to use brick as
building material.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
PERSONAL.

Joseph Hume who died in Berkeley,
Cal, the other day, was the pioneer sal
mon packer of the Pacific Coast He was
born fifty-sx years ago in Augusta, Me.
Ills father was younger son of the Earl
of Marchmont, in England Young Hume
server through the Civil War in Maine
regiment, receiving a bullet wound in the
leg and contracting the disease which
finally caused his death He went to Call
ifornia at the close of the conflict
Minister WI Ting-fang believes that
the easiest way to keep his countrymen
out of the United States is to impose an
educational test on all Chinese who wish
to land. He says that the Chinese to
whom the Exclusion act applies are ex-
ceedingly ignorant, being generally I'M
able to read or write their own language,
so that the means he suggests would be
effective In bG- ring out the undesirable
class at whom the present law is aimed.
The marriage is announced in France
Of the adopted son of the late Baron and
Baroness Hirsch, Baron Deforest, with
the beautiful Nine. Meuier, widow of AL
bert Menier, once well known on the
European turf. Baron Deforest is of Eng
llsh nationality and is a lieutenant in the
Norfolk Artillery (''The Prince of Wales
Own'). Nine. Menier, who is the daugh-
ter of the proprietor of the Paris daily,
THE Journal" was the center of a CAV
circle during her husbands short life.
He was the son of the King of Anti
cost. His life was organized for pleasure
on grand scale. His horses, his Jock
eys, his yachts, his motor cars were all
of the finest that money could procure;
his stables were almost unique in Europe.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
BRYAN.s ATTITUDE DISCUSSED.

There is considerable discussion, par
ticularly in Republican papers, as to what
Mr.. Bryan's attitude is likely to be an
the next national campaign, Dispatches
sent out from Lincoln, Mr. Bryan's home,
intimate that it is his purpose to insist
that the Democratic party in its next
national platform shall adopt practically
the platforms of 1896 and 1900, and that if
he is defeated in this purpose he win
lead a revolt against the regular ticket.
There is very little if any foundation
for talk of this sort. There is no doubt
of course that Mr.. Bryan is a firm be-
lever in everything in the platforms on
which he was a candidate for president
but he is a party man and will stand by
his party's action. In the last national
convention he had his way in respect to
the silver plank. although there are rea-
sons for thinking that the Judgment of
the convention was against him. Doubt
less he is still a believer in the free coin
age of silver and will be probably when
the next national convention meets, but
he is too much of a politician and a party
man to oppose his party if he fails to have
his way on that question. In fact he
said so much against boilers in the last
campaign that he could not consistently.
become a boiler himself
Unless existing conditions undergo
very great change there will be nothing
respecting silver in the next national
platform of the Democratic party. 1t is
pretty generally agreed that the party's
position on that question brought about
Its defeat at the last election. Unless the
party is anxious for another defeat it will
let the silver question rest, even though
Mr.. Bryan should insist upon giving it
a place in the platform.
Mr.. Bryan knows, however that it
would be mistake to bring forward that
question again, unless something Should
occur that would cause revolution in
public sentiment in respect to silver. 1t
would mean defeat, and the party will
not be willing in the next campaign TO
make an issue of question that has
twice caused its defeat and would likely
cause its defeat again.
1t looks as if an effort were being made
TO use. Mr.. Bryan to prevent the Demo-
Gratis from getting together. If that is
the case those who are back of the effort
VIII be disappointed. Mr.. Bryan is hav-
ing very little to say these DAYS in his
paper about the silver question. He seems
TO be willing to let it drop out of politics.
Just now he is more concerned about the
doings of the plutocrats and the trusts
than anything else.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
bright BITS.

His Great Anxiety Athlete-'Did-I
-break-it, Doctor?' Doctor-"I will be
plain with you. The arm is broken. the
collarbone crushed, the skull is frac-
tured-" Athlete-"No, no. no! The-did
-I-break-the-" "What?" "Record?'
Tit Bits,
-Mamma-"Tommy, the teacher tells
me that you do not behave well in school
and that you are sadly behind in your
studies" Tommy-'And you sat and lis
tened to herl Mamma, don't you know It
takes two persons to gossip?"-Boston
Transcript.
Amply Described. -Mrs. Goodsoul IAN
swering ring)-"What is it, little grip"
Mary-"Please, ma'am. we've lost our
Kitty. She left yesterday, and were
hunting her. We want to know if YOU
have seen a cat by the name of Minerva
go by your house. Puck.
Preparing for a Siege. wife-''The
last time l asked you to give me some
money you couldn't because the cashier
was sick-now you say it's the treasurer.
Husband-"I know 1.-THE caught IL from
the cashier. and now I'm afraid the sec
rotary will get it."-LAfe.
Easily Fixed.-"A man named John
Jones'" said the country editors assist
ant, writes to us to stop his paper. but
he doesn't give his address," We'll"
replied the editor, drop him a postal and
tell him we can't stop his paper unless
he gives us his address. "-PhiladeIphia
Press
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
A HAPPY TIME IN TEXAS.

Some of the Northern papers express
surprise that the President was given
such warm welcome in Texas. a state
which gave MIR. Bryan a plurality of
more than 900 votes. There is no oc-
casion for surprise. In the first place
| Mr.. Mckinley is personally very popular
! in all parts of the South. Ever since he
has been President it has been his one
/ great effort to remove whatever remained
of the bitter feeling engendered by the
1 Civil War He may have made some
| Objectionable appointments. but. at the
same time, he has taken other opportuni-
ties to show that he was sincere in his
efforts to serve the Southern people to
the best of his ability In the second
place Mr. Mckinley has the happy fac
ulty of saying the right thing on every
occasion. He has been particularly happy
in his speeches since he started on his
present trip across the continent. In the
next place the people of Texas are noted
for their hospitality. The President took
the trouble to visit their state and they
were determined that he should not re-
greet it. They like to make sky-scraping
and heart-touching speeches, and so does
the President In that respect they were
in close sympathy.
But above all the Texans, at this par
ticular time, are in a very happy frame
Of mind. They had an enormous cotton
crop which they were wise enough to sell
early in the season. 1t is roughly esti-
mated that the farmers got rid of pretty
nearly their entire crop at about ten
cents pound, and as they had above
100000 bales it can be readily seen that
they have something like $500 100000 dol
lars in their pockets. And their oil wells
are making them feel glad. They are be-
ginning to think the time is not distant
when their state will be the empire state
OF the Union. With cotton and oil and
wheat and cattle what is there TO hinder
her from forging to the front?
The Texans are prosperous. OF course
they do not attribute their prosperity to
the President, but he happens to be
President and his administration having
dealt successfully with some rather diff
cult problems, and having the confidence
OF the public in a marked degree, it was
but natural that they should extend
warm welcome to him. 1t may be that
they attribute a little of their prosper
ity to him. They are generous enough to
make almost any concession to such a
distinguished visitor. But whatever the
cause of the Presidents enthusiastic re-
ception, there is no question that it was
genuine-it was, in fact, a kind of a re-
ception that the President will remem-
Der as long as he lives, and will make
his heart thrill with pleasure whenever
he thinks of it, 80
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
WALL STREET FORTUNES

In all parts of the country where the
influence of Wall street is felt, however
slight, there are men and women engaged
in mental calculations as TO what they
could have made within the last two or
three months with a few thousand dollars,
or even with a few hundred dollars. Thew
see stories in the newspapers that this
person has made $4,000 or 100000 and that
person has made anywhere from $4,000
to $1,OO0OO0.
There may be foundation for these news
paper stories. No doubt some of them are
true, but the number is not large. 1t is
true, probably, that there are hundreds
and perhaps thousands, who have made
small sums. ranging from 81, 900 10 $4,000
but how many of them are there who viii
have anything to their credit when the
present period of speculation is over? Ii
is safe to say that the number will be
extremely small. As a rule those who
have made small winnings stay in the
market until the slump comes, and as they
hold their shares on margins they lose
everything when prices take a sudden
a downward movement the descent is gen
orally so rapid that the lambs cannot get
out in time to save anything. Their win
nings and their small original capital are
swept away before they have chance to
think what is best for them to do
Those who make money in Wall street
are the brokers and the operations whose
fol lie 10
make the market go the way they want It
to go. between certain limits. OF course
now and then big opera tors jump into the
market buy a few thousand shares of
certain stock, and sell out within a day
or two whenever there is a sufficient rise
to afford a fair profit. The number of
operators of this class. however, is not
large.
1t is the understanding that the upward
movement of Union Pacific, Baltimore
and Ohio, Atchison and number Of other
railroads, whose shares are now selling
for more than what is believed to be their
intrinsic value. has been the result of ef-
forts on the part of few great manipu-
lators of railway properties to complete
railway consultations. When they get
ready to step aside and let the market ind
its normal level there will. in all proba-
bility, be slump in prices. Then there
will be disappointment, distress and tears
among those who have been living from
day TO day on the hope of making for
tunes out of the narrow margins by which
they hold their shares.
A man who has millions and can afford
to lose a great deal of money without be-
ing seriously crippled i'm financial mat
ters. can afford to speculate in Wall
street. Those who have very little, will.
If they are wise, keep out of that street
They viii be better Off, and certainly
happier, II they never try to get rich by
gambling la stocks.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings-cIinton Lodge No "a, F. &

Meetings-Clinton Lodge No. 81. F. &
a. NJ.
Special Notices-Savannah Building
Supply Company; Andrew Hanley Com
pany; Saloon and Cafe for Sale; Ship No
tice, Patterson-D Downing Company, Con-
signees; Change of Schedule of Steamer
for Beaufort; Notice to Superior Court Ju-
rors; DO You Want to Make Money on
Real Estate, c. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer;
Ship Notice Strachan & Co, Consignees.
Business Notices-Popular Brands of CT
gars at C. Meritin's; Henry the Fourth
Cigars, j. H. Helmken; e. & w. Laun-
dry
The Cleveland wheeI-wm. & H. H.
baltimore.
Gas Stoves for Hot Weather-Mutual
Gas Light Company.
Legal Notices-Sylvia Titles VS. Charles
C. Titles. Libel for Divorce; Application
TO Sell Real Estate Minerva Williams. De-
ceased: Notice TO Debtors Estate Joseph
A. Roberts, Deceased; Application to Sch
Real Estate Mary A. Masters, Deceased;
Citation from Clerk of Ordinary of Chat
ham County.
observation-disclosures School for Boys
and Girls.
Auction Sales-Household Furniture. by
J. d. LaRoche, Auctioneer; Old Hoss
Sale, Central of Georgia Railway.
Hotel-The Cliff, No. scituate, Mass.
Cooking Ofl-wessons Cooking Oil.
Biscuit, Etc-National Biscuit Company.
Rice Etc.-At MINISTER'S.
Independent Early Closing-Foye &
Eckstein.
Portland Cement-C. NJ. Gilbert & Co.
Bargains in Art Goods-At Foye &
Eckstein's.
Pearline.-Jas Pyle & Son. New York.
Financial-Haight & F'reese Co. New
York
Postum Food Coffee-Postum Cereal Co.
White Cottolene--N K Fairbank Co.
Malt Nutrine-Anheuser Busch Brewing
Association.
sauce-Lea & PERKINS, Worcestershire
Sauce.
Mineral Water-Hunyadi Janos.
Medical-Cascarets: Worlds Dispensary
Preparations; b. B. B.; Castoria; stuart's
Gin and Buchu; r. r. r.; DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root Horsford's Acid Phosphate;
Abbey's Enervescent Salt; Heiskelrs
Ointment; Hostetters Stomach Bitters;
Munyon's Rheumatism Cure; Woman's
Friend.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale Lost; PERSONAL Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08

Victor Smith, in the New York Press,
contributes to the dispute over the orr
gin OF "Dixie's Land" and Dixie" as
applied to the South by expressing the
belief that Manhattan Island was the
original Dixie's Land. and that the fell
low who transferred 1t to the South took
poetic license IN the act, Notwithstanding
there is mighty little poetry in the
verses Of the song. According to Mr..
Smith, "Old man Dixie was slave
holder on Manhattan Island who removed
his negroes to the Southern States, where
they had to work harder and fare worse:
so they were always signing for their old
home, which they called 'Dixie's Land.
This version has at least the merit of
originality. How negroes not long over
from Africa could have sighed for the
cold climate Of Manhattan Island is not
clear. At all events. Dan Emmett's
"walk-around" song which makes Dixie
a land Of "smmon seeds and sandy bot
TOM" has immovably fixed the nick
name upon the South. Wherever Dlxle's
Land may have been before the War be-
tween the states. it is now In the cotton
belt
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08

New York is apparently in the midst
of a suicide epidemic. Between April 4
and May there were 1888 cases Of self
destruction in that city. one-third of the
number OF suicides used carbolic acid.
Shooting was the second favorite method.
More than one-thlrd of those who killed
themselves were of German origin. DR..
George F. shrady. editor OF the Medical
Record. commenting on the increase in
suicides, says there is imitation in self
destruction as in crime, and points out
that the law making attempted suicide
a crime has not proved a deterrent 1T
is an accepted fact" says he also. that
the percentage of self-destruetlon among
unmarried men is far greater than exists
in the ranks of their married brothers.
Again, the discrepancy between men and
women suicides is startling. For every
one woman who voluntarily seeks death.
no less than four men die by their own
hands.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-08

A Philadelphia Republican the other day
bid 500 for the privilege of making a
fifteen minutes speech at the dinner to
be given in honor of Senator Quay on
May IA. the money to be given to charity.
The Quay partisans really wanted him at
the dinner but they wouldn't agree to let
him speak. unless he would agree to a
revision OF his remarks by some of them.
The reason was the Republican In ques-
tion is an ardent anti-Quay man, and
they knew very well that he would load
his speech with dynamite to blow up the
big boss. Charity, therefore, will be de-
pr1ved of the $500. and the liberal Repub-
lican will not break bread with the
shaker of plum trees