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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
MIR. CLEMENS VS.. THE LAW.

we take the following from the col
umns of the Intelligencer:
In speaking of his demand for a re-
count. Chief Clemans said yesterday
afternoon:
Il have been approached by number
of election officers who have told me of
the counting of no less than III ballots
for Ritz that should not have been count
ed a all. 1t seems reasonable to suppose
that if I have heard directly of III irrcg-
ular ballots being counted for my oppo-
nent that there are -lany others, prob
ably enough to wipe out Ritz's majority.
of 261. These ballots were cast by Repub-
licans. who voted for all their party's
candidates except myself. but instead of
writing in Ritz's name. should have
been done, they scratched out all the
Democratic candidates names except
Ritz's. OF course. [ ADMIT THAT THE
INTENT OF THE VOTER WAS TO
VOTE FOR RITZ, but 1 am advised that
such ballots are legally bad, and [ am de-
termined to take up the matter, into the
courts if necessary. 1 feel disposed to do
this for the reason that [ have learned of
Republican election officers coming out of
the voting places and saying openly that
they did all in their power to bring about
my defeat
The capitals are the Registers and
to that portion of Chief Clemens state
ment we wish to call attention. He
has inadequate knowledge of the law
or has been poorly advised if he be-
lieves the votes in question are illegal.
Il admit" says Chief Clemans, that
the intent of the voter was to vote for
Ritz" This being true Ritz is entitled
to the votes SO cast according to the
law, which expressly says on this
point that only those ballots shall
be void from which it is M
POSSIBLE to determine the cleo
tors choice of candidates." It has
been thoroughly settled that where
the voters intention is plain the bal
lot shall be counted in accordance
Herewith. This is not only law but
justice, and has the repeated endorse
ment of the courts.
IL OhleI clemens is quoted rightly
in his organ he proposes to make an
effort to retain his office i'm opposition
to the plainly expressed will Of the
voters.
He will be foolish to attempt it. 1t
will be more becoming to make viz
tue of necessity and bow to the wishes
oSthe majority and law. These must
prevail and Chief Clemens will present
a sorry spectacle defying them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
M0UNDSVILLE.
Events Yesterday in the Marshall
County City.

County City.
Mrs Marlin McFadden is visiting friends
in Kittaning, Pa.
j. o. Pannen of Point Pleasant, is the
guest of friends here.
John salzer, Of Hannibal, O., was in
the city on business yesterday.
Misses Anna Griffith and Norma Scott
are visiting friends in Pittsburg.
Rev. and Mrs w, c. d. Bond are visit
ing their daughter in Parkersburg
and the negro thought he would prevent
other people from losing their coins.
Contractor VIM. Donley has begun work
on the foundation for the vault of the
First National Bank
An eight-year-old daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs. David Livingston, of Waymans
Ridge, died Sunday after an Illness of a
few hoars of membraneous Group,
The automatic scales on the platform
a the B. & O. depot were wrecked by
drunken negro on Sunday night. 1t was
said that the scales We're out of order,
The gospel meetings in progress in the
Christian church are most interesting.
There We're two accessions to the church
on Sunday The meetings will probably
continue all week
A marriage license was issued yester-
day evening to James Purtiman and
Blanche Logsdon of this city. hence it
is presumed that the efficient night police
man will shortly be married man.
John j., son of Mr. and Mrs. ]. J.
Heedy. of Fifth street, died yesterday
morning of an illness which was the re-
suit of whooping cough. He was five
years of age. Funeral to-day at p. m.
Mrs. John Long died at her home ON
Water street Sunday evening, after
short illness of typhoid fever. She was
about thirty-five years of age. The re-
mains will be taken to Powhatan for
burial at noon to-day.
A deed of assignment from Stiliwell
Bros to w. C. Mann, trustee. was left
for record with the county clerk yester-
day. 1t is not known what the assets
and liabilities are. The firm has been
conducting a grocery at 706 Lafayette
avenue for the past two years.
On Sunday night the congregation OF
Beth-Eden Baptist church voted 10 pur-
chase the lot at the corner of Baker ave-
nue. and Sixth street. The lot was the
property OF l.. B. Brock and the price
was $1,000. 1t has not yet been decided
when the new church will be built.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
NOT FOR THE PHILIPPINES RVT
FOR SUBSIDY

The activity of the ship subsidy
lobby for an extra session of Congress
reveals that the alleged necessity for
Philippine legislation, for a civil gov
eminent for the islands. a subject
Congress is not prepared to take up
and which probably could not be dealt
with in the limits of an extra session,
is simply blind for the ship sub
sidy grabbers who are anxious for such
extra session since it is certain their
Ubiquitous scheme to plumber can not
be passed at the present session.
Hence we find Senator Hanna in the
front rank urging an extra session
for the ostensible purpose of framing
civil government for the Philippines
to take the place of military rule. but
really to furnish more time to push
through his subsidy bill. Concerning
the Philippines government. Hanna
does not care rap. being better post
ed on his shipping trust scheme for
raldlng the treasury than on the deem
and intricate questions of government
tai ethics involved in the Philippines
situation. Hanna is cunning for the
treasury millions which he and his
millionaire associates desire In their
private business. The great problems
OF craftsmanship involved in the Phil
ippines matter do not bother him.
He never gave them attention and
knows little or nothing about them,
for there's little money in statesman
ship. dts hard dollars Senator Hanna
is after and he knows all about get
ting them. He knows also that his
subsidy scheme cannot become q Law
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
CONTRASTED WEDDINGS.
The Original VanderbiIts Were Nc
Guite SO luxurious.


Cutie SO Luxurious.
St Louis Republic.
When Alfred G. Vanderbilt led the
charming Miss Elsie French to the al
tar in Newport the other day, the pres
ent house of Vanderbilt stood in re-
markable contrast to that of former
days.
Society watched with interest the
rich accessories which the present head
Of the Vanderbilt family cast around
the ceremony that united him to Miss
French The wedding breakfast cost
so many thousands or dollars, the gifts
to the bridal party so many thousands
more and so on and so forth until the
climax of this royal wedding was
reached when the bride opened box
containing securities amounting to
s3,700,000, the gift of the groom. Pri
vate detectives guarded the mass of
valuable presents. The wedding over,
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt stepped aboard
a Pullman and are now travelling in
Canada-rich, happy, loving and with
no cloud on the future.
Entirely different was a wedding in
the Vanderbilt family little over a
century ago. In 1887 a young man be-
gan his work in life by farming a lit
tie patch Of land on Staten Island. Two
years later he had saved enough to buy
a ferry, which he ran between the ISL
and and the mainland. So successful
was he that he was able, to use his own
language, ''tO stay ashore and rest two
days out of the seven" His name was
John Vanderbilt.
But, as usually happens, the little
prosperity which he enjoyed brought
him a wife in the person of Phoebe
Hand, an orphan who worked for a
clergyman in the northern portion of
the island. Six months after becoming
acquainted they were married in the
meeting house. The bride, gowned in
homespun, was attended by two girls
in their working dresses. Before the
ceremony Phoebe's employer preached
a brief sermon to the audience of
twenty persons. Then the forty-fifth
Psalm was read, lie audience singing
- to the "Old windsor tune" When
the ceremony was finished, it is writ
ten that the bride kissed all present
with the greatest heartiness, her bride
groom last, as was fitting"
No Pullman train after that we'd
ding. The couple walked to their new
home on the neglected barrens of the
island. The house stood six feet off
the beach and had but three rooms-a
palace in the eyes of the hopeful bride
and groom. On the following Sunday,
as was the custom, the pastor preached
from the text chosen by the bride,
And Asa did that which was right in
the eyes Of the Lord his God" Then
their real life began. 1t was a hard
one, for the ferryboat earned but a
little more than a living for the in
creasing family. Their second child
was Cornelius Vanderbilt, the famous
old Commodore, founder of the Van
derbilt fortune.
John Vandenbilt's great great grand
/ sons wedding was a happy affair, but
who shall say that these two moderns
gain that Joy which comes from the
hard toll of each day and which was
the portion of the ancestors who lived
on the beach of Staten Island?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

than father to the thought. ais II it
were a conspiracy to misconstrue the
meaning of the Court to the popular
mind. That opinion concludes as
follows: I'VE are Of opinion, for the
reasons stated, that the Act of June
llC, 1900, is not in violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and
that this case comes within the pro-
visions of that act"
Instead of setting forth 'the di-
vorce between the flag and the Con-
stitution''' the court on the contrary
deeides their union. The opinion
sets forth the Constitution as ruling
the case Throughout. The flag is in
Cuba as the symbol of military con-
troll not of political jurisdiction, and
the Constitution permits it and
abides with it there as elsewhere. In
deed, the question of the mutual rela-
lions of the flag and Constitution was
not involved in the Nicely case and the
effort of the administration organs
to produce the contrary impression
and the belief that the Courts decision
set forth "the divorce between the
flag and the Constitution shows to
what dishonest lengths the advocates
of imperialism are willing to go in
their efforts to override the funda-
rIental law. 1t recalls the effort OF
the administration to propitiate the
Court itself through the indecent gift
of Office to the sons of justices, and
the effrontery of representatives Of
the administration in the Senate in
telling us in advance what the decis-
ion of the Court will be.
The Laughlin bill would be the en-
tering wedge for other schemes cur
failing the home rule of cities and
augmenting the power of the State
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
W. VA. SOLDIER DEAD.


Special to the Register.
q KEYSER, w Va. January 2S-Troy
2. Sliger whose death in the Philippines
has inst been made known here. was for
merly from Preston comfy. his father
residing near Terra Alta. lie was pri-
vate IN company G Of the Forty-fourth
regiment. He served in the Second West
Virginia regiment during the Spanish
American war. was mustered out and
came home but his martial inciinatiOns
were too much for him, and when Lieut..
w ]. White was a KinRWo0d recruiting
for the new regiment for the Philip
pines Sli~er. with a number OF his
friends, enlisted Sliger's remains will be
sent to Terra Alta for interment. He was
26 years old.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
DEAD AT AGE OF 108.
Mrs. Rachel Cunningham Has Lived
in Three Centuries.
specIal d the KegIster.

FAIRMONT, w. Va. January 2S-
Mrs. Rachel Cunningham died near
Monongah, in this county, yesterday, at
the advanced age Of almost one hundred
and eight years. She was born at Bunker
Hill. Va, now West Virginia February
s, 1893 and has seen a part OF the
eighteenth, all of the nineteenth and a
husband died about thirty years ago. He
followed soap making for a livelihood.
Since his death his aged wife has been
Basha Sturm. who has reached her 18th
making her home with her daughter Mrs.
Cunninghams deceased husband WAS n
soldier in the war OF 1872, and the widow
drew q pension of $i2 per .Inonth. She
was buried ia the Davis Ridge cemetery,
near Monongah. this morning
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

at least without ap extra session Of
Congress. So on totally false plea
he Is working up sentiment which
it is hoped will be strong enough to
warrant his right hand man in the
White House calling one
This is the milk of the extra session
cocoanut.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

WASHINGTON. p. c.. January e.
To-days statement OF the treasury ball
ances in the general fund. exclusive Of
the $3.50 .o0O.0po gold reserve IN the division
OF redemption, shows:
Available cash balance, 8I50.Ooo.ooo; gold,
so, 7si. go
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
EAT AND FORGET YOUR BAD
HABITS,

HABITS.
According to Prof. Herbert Hart In
the New York Journal, the victims of
the whiskey and tobacco habits have
a permanent and effective cure right
at hand every meal time. If they will
eat good nerve and brain forming
food, says the professor, they will
largely lose the desire for narcotic
or a stimulant. Il have positive proof
of the fact" says he, " in numerous
instances, that where excessive smok-
ing and drinking has been the daily
habit that by the simple change from
an innutritious to a more nutritious
and brain sustaining diet the patient
has gradually and almost unconscious
ly been enabled to reduce the number
of cigars or cigarettes and the num-
Der OF glasses of Whiskey from ten to
two per day, and that without any
prescription of prohibition, for the
simple reason that the increased
strength of body and brain enabled
him to so employ his time that he for
got all about the smoking or drink
ing"
The old prime necessity of first
catch your hare would seem to apply
here with peculiar force. First re-
store the observation-disclosures taste or
the stomach lining burned out by al
cohol and possibly the rest may be
not so hard.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Improved
Local Train Service Betwecn
Wheeling nnd Piftsbmrg.

The B. & o. r. r. Co. announces
that on and after Sunday. January goth
1901, the following Improvement will
be made in It's local train service be-
tween Wheeling and Pittsourg: Train
1o3 will leave Wheeling at 7:15 a. m,
instead OF 30 a. m, and train 1913 will
leave Wheeling at tbs p. m, instead
of 3:20 p. m, as heretofore. IN addI-
ton TO these changes, two new fast ex-
press trains win be inangurated be-
tween Wheeling and Pittsburg. Train
112 will leave Wheeling at 3:45 p. m.
arriving In Pittsbgrg at SEQ D. m.
Train Ill viii leave, Pittsburg at 1000
a. m. arriving In wheeling at 1915 p.
m Both trains will u daily and viii
have Pullman Parlor cars attached.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
MYsTERI0UsLY DISAPPEARED.
sneciai TO the Register.

Sneciai TO the Register
MORGANTOWN. w. Va. January 2s.--
Jesse Russell. OF Van Vorhis. near here,
has disappeared and no trace OF him
can be found He leaves wife and ono
Thursday, as no trace Of him has been
found since that time. There Is no APP
parent reason why he should have left.
as he was IN good circum Aances and had
no bad habits. He was a miller and
yidey known
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

Artist Bush's latest cartoon on the
ship subsidy fraud is especially effect
I've. Senator Hanna is represented
offering a pair of clutches labelled
"bountieS' and "subsidies2 to Uncle
Sam, sitting bound hand and foot by
obsolete navigation laws, who says:
81 don't need crutches-untie me. -
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
THE ORGANS AnE HASTY. Or

1t is rather coincidence that every
administration organ in the country
Ghould at the same time refer to the
Supreme Courts decision in the
Nicely case as "the divorce of the flag
end the Constitution" It looks as
II the wisH>bere were something more
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

Edward was proclaimed King some
more yesterday and sometime in the
future he. will be crowned King. Then
he will be really it. ,g, III fr:su
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

Swift Jersey justice does the bust
ness also for the fourth Bosscheiter
murderer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29
REGISTER AGENCIES.

WHERE THE REGISTER Can BE
PURCHASED OUT OF TOWN.
CHARLESTON. W. Va. - Richardson's
Book Store Capitol Street, opposite
postoffice. Hotel Ruffner News Stand. \
WASHINGTON, d. c. - Queen News
Stand National Hotel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

Wheeling is capable of attending to
it's own affairs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

We have enough of the beautiful
to last out the winter, thank you.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-29

The Laughlin bill would be the en-
tering wedge for other schemes cur
failing the home rule of cities and
augmenting the power of the State.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-20
HOUSE MEMORIAL NO. 4
To the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States in Con-
 eress Assembled.

We, your Memorialists, the Nine teenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully rep resent that the National Irrigation Congress, held in Phoenix. Arizona, on the Huh of December, A. D. 1896, unan- imously adopted the following:
 Whereas The Pima and Marieopa Indians, tribes numbering in the aggregate ten thousand souls, have been deprived of the waters used by them in irrigation before the advent of the white race in America, by settlers on the headwaters of the Gila river; and
 Whereas. Through the loss of such waters the lands once cultivated by these tribes have become barren and worthless, and the members of such tribes have become charge on the Government. and forced by the loss of their fields into lives of degrada- tion and penriry and
 Whereas, Such tribes have from the ear- Hest days been the friends and allies of the white race; and
 Whereas, The people of the United States have pledged themselves by solemn treaty to protect such tribes in their property and property rights; and
 whereas, The Government of the United States has and now is engaged in the ex- penditure of hundreds of thousands of dol lars for the construction of works of irriga- tion for the reclamation of lands belonging to other Indian tribes; therefore, be it
 Resolved, That this Congress do approve the proposed construction. under the plans of the U 5. Geological Survey. of the Buttes reservoir. in Pinal county, Arizona, recently reported, to again reclaim the lands of these tribes, believing that by so doing can the Government alone honorably redeem the broken pledges made by it to these people, and thus preserve from further want and degradation two of the surviving Indien tribes of the American continent that have always been the constant friends of the white race.
 Resolved, That we approve the proposed construction of such reservoir not only as just and philanthropic, but economical and good policy as in a comparatively shors time the expense of maintaining such In- dians as Government charges will far exceed the cost of the irrigation works required to make them self-supporting and self-re- specting community.
 Now, therefore, your Memorialists, the Nineteenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, desire to go on record as earnestly endorsing the above recommendations of the Sixth National Irrigation Congress for the following reasons:
 l.. The reservoir site referred to having been withdrawn iron entry by Government authorities, cannot now be utilized by any private corporation, and the Government therefore occupies
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-20

the indefensible position of doing noth- ing itself or allowing any cue else to improve this great natural reservoir site.
 2. We firmly believe that the inter ests of humanity dictate that the h. dians should be gathered on tho reser- vations, have lands allotted to them in seyeralty, aud that they be furnished with farming implements and an inex- haustible supply of water for irrigation of their lands, to the end that they may become self supporting. Ky this means will home life be furnished for the Indian and he will more rapidly advance iu civilization as conse- qnence. He will abandon his nomadic life; his children will be kept at home and educated in neigk borhood schools, instead of being sent to large Indian schools at a distance where they are kept Gas it would seeml for mere purposes of show. After being in- structed in the arts of civilization for a time they are returned to savagery to become more unhappy and diseon- tented than if they had never received the questionable advantages. We feel that the present policy of the Indian department is all wrong in this regard
 3. The Pima and Maricopa Indian reservation contains 350, 600 acres of as fertile land as lies within the bound aries of Arizona, and is admirably adapted for homes for these people, as well as the wandering Papagoes, whC are now compelled to prey upon ths herds of our farmers and ranchmen fol subsistence.
 4. The construction of a storag' reservoir at the Bnttss by the Govern ment offers plain business proposi ton for the correction of these evils
 Resolved. that the Secretary of tn, Territory be instructed to transmit copy of the foregoing Memorial to on Delegate and Delegate-elect in Con gress, and also copy each to tn President of the Senate and Speake of the House of Representatives.
The Florence tribune., 1901-07-20
THE CASA eRANog VALLEY.
Information for Those Seeking Homes
 In the Garden Spot of the West.

Pinal county was organized in 1875 from portions of Pima, Maricopa and Yayapai counties, and contains an area of $, ,s6e square miles, or S,4Sa,520 acres one-third of which could be made productive by a systematic storage of the surplus water now running to waste. Next to Maricopa it is the most important agricultural county in the Terri tory. It is traversed from east to west by the Southern Pacific railroad. and a branch of the great Santa Fe system is now ap- preaching from the north. The objective point of this road is connection with the Sonora road. of the same system. The Southern Pacific is also building in this direction from Tempe. and it is confidently believed that work win not cease until the Deer Creek coal fields are reached and con- nection is made with another branch oi that road running from Bowie to Globe and now completed to Fort Thomas.
 Thus it will be seen that Pinal county is the theater of railrond building at the pres. cnt time, and inside of year Florence, tht county seat, will be