Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-06

now and preparations are being made
for quite lot of drilling down there
during the coming winter For some
time great quantities of tools and oil
well material of different kinds have
been shipped from this city to different
parts of Kentucky and there is much
more to follow. Quite a number of
tool dressers and drillers have left this
part of the oil country for that section.
and many more are contemplating
making the trip. as there are reasons
to believe .Aere will be plenty of en-
ploymenL town there during the win
ter. Dan Healy, one of the best known
contractors in. this field who has been
drilling for the South Penn and Carter
oil companies for long time, will ship
three strings of tools down there on
Monday, and will follow a few days
later with the crew to handle them.
He has contracts to drill number of
wells for Guffey g. Galley who have I'M
der lease at the present time about $50 =
600 acres. Other companies have
leased large tracts and they too, will
commence the development of their
property in a short time Already
there has been quite lot of oil de
veloped in some of the counties of
Kentucky, and there is every reason to
believe an immense field will be opened
up down there by spring. The ell is
OF very good quality, though not of
as high grade as the Pennsylvania and
West Virginia variety
There was a hot time in Diamond
street near ne old tannery. Friday
night. in which several persons were
mixed up. Sam Kincaid and man
named James Hissom. who lives across
the river, had some trouble over finan
cial matters short time ago. but
everything had apparently been settled
satisfactorily, Yesterday Hissom was
In town and he and Kincaid were to-
gether. They went to McSweeney's
blacksmith shop on the Diamond, and
while there Kineaid made some men
ton of the matter. Hissom shed his
coat and started after Kincaid The
latter knocked him down, and then
the blacksmiths in the shop took a
hand in the matter and all three went
after Kincaid, one with mattock, an
other with club, and the third had
an "edging" tool. Kincaid knocked his
man down a second time, and in doing
so was struck on the arm with the
nattock. The other two fellows tried
to get to<him with their weapons but
did not succeed. The one who had the
tool In his hand threw it and only
missed his intended victim by about
an inch. Had the tool hit Kincaid it
would have probably killed him. At
q inn or in fHa ,anIa cute i,
ties fnterfercd and now the matter
will be discussed in court. Kincaid
went before Squire Kirkland and swore
out warrants for his three assailants,
and they will have to answer to the
felonious charge OF assault and battery
with intent to kill. On the other
hand, the McSweeneys have swore out
a warrant for Kincaid and he will
have some matters to explain. The
indications are there will be an inter-
esting time in the Justices court.
This city will be one hundred years
old about May 1, 1902, and there has
been some little talk of a centennial
celebration in honor Of the event In
the early days Sistersville had a very
interesting history, and a monster
celebration could be arranged, and
shoul< be- The first settler of any
consequence of whom there is any
record was Charles Wells. He was
native of Maryland, v here he was born
IN 1876. He was married to Elizabeth
Owens, in Maryland, and before the
close of the century moved to Beth
any, Brooke county, Virginia, now
West Virginia, which place he repre-
scented in the Virginia Legislature in
1893. I'm 1902 he emigrated with part
OF his family which numbered twenty
two children, to this section from
Wellsville. He settled below where
the town stands and built a log resi-
dence. He also set up the first horse
mill in this vicinity, which ground
grain for the early settlers.
A few months after Mr.. Wells locat-
ed here, X. Grier opened the first store
in one of the rooms of the Wells house.
The population kept rapidly increasing
on account of the immigration from
the Eastern States, and it was not long
until William and Joshua Russell rent
ed another of the rooms in the Wells
residence and opened a merchants
shop.
All the high bottom lands on which
the town now stands was owned by
Charles Wells. But two years prior
to Wells coming here, James Jolly
started a lanyard on Tan Yard run,
near where it energies from the hills
southeast of Sistersville. and Henry
jolly ran a ferry across the Ohio river.
Among the other settlers were Robert
Green, who opened a earding machine,
with tread wheel, and Thomas Gregg,
who owned grist and saw mill.
Wells Landing" soon became one of
the best known ports along the Upper
Ohio valley, and it became centre for
the. scattered population to DO business.
1t was not long until the village be-
gan to assume a business like appear
ance and to show evidences of growth,
ana the Wells farm was converted into
a town, although not laid out until
after the owner, Charles Wells de-
cease. when the land fell into the hands
ofof Sarah and Delilah Wells, sisters,
after whom The place was named. The
ground was plotted in 1916 and orig
lnally contained sc lots on four streets
Thinning back from the liver and four
streets running parallel with il. The
two sisters joint proprietorship COLI
tinued to exist and Sistersville foar-
ished. The names of the streets run