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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-04-04

Lately starved In London because
he could not digest his food. Early
use of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
would have saved him They
strengthen the stomach, aid diges-
ton, promote assimilation, improve
appetite. Price csc. Money back
If not satisfied. Sold by D. A.
Henderson,, druggist.
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WOoDSFIELD, o.


A deal of some Importance has
Just been consummated, which
brings new oil company into ex.
istence, although some of the gen
tlemen who are connected with 1t
are well known to the oil fraternity.
The members IF he company are
J. 7. Harvt Of New Martinsville,
w. Va, F. d. Miserer, J. w. Nor.
ris and J. w. Alderton, of Woods
field, and the property that they
own consists of more than three
hundred acres, all of which has
proven to be productive. There
are on the property about fifteen
producing wells and two gas wells,
and consists of what Is known as
the Hooks oil property on Jackson
Ridge, and the Gray and Jones
properties In the Jackson Ridge ex.
tension. There Is room on this
property for a large number of new
wells and 1t Is the intention of the
company to develop 1t In the near
future. Some of the gentlemen
connected with the company are
men of long experience In the oil
business and will make It success.
The we'll drilled by Decker on
the Christian Diehl farm, at Decker
Station has been plugged on &C.
count of loss OF tools. The rig will
be moved and drilling commenced
Immediately.
The destructive wind storm Sun.
day and the severe cold weather
since has checked operations In the
oil fields. A number of rigs were
damaged by the heavy wind.
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BELLS
Challenge
Orchestra.

]. A. Arnold, leader, with
a repertoire Of the very lat
est concert and dance music, Is
prepared to furnish music for any
occasion, satisfaction guaranteed.
Theatricals a specially. Address
all communications to
Gro. F. BELL, Manager,
Phone 1863. no Catherine st.
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TIKI OIL MARKET.

Lacy ... 80
Two years ago today the price
for Pennsylvania oil was ST IS per
barrel. On April 5th, 1900 big
we'll came In the Gaines field In
Togo, county, N. Y. that made a
sensational start bat soon fzzled
out and 1t was on the scare of that
well that credit balances were
dumped. The Gaines field after
one short year Is now thing ofthe
past, the wells nearly all being
pulled out and abandoned. The
production and stocks of Pennsyl-
vania oil two years ago was about
$1,000 barrels daily more than 1t Is
at present while the stocks were
considerably higher. The stocks
of both Pennsylvania and Ohio oils
are now within million and half
barrels of being as low as they were
| In 1895 when the furry In certifi-
Gates put prices to s. 60 per barrel.
Since that time the price of two
years ago or SIG per barrel is the
highest which "the markets of the
world" have justified. During the
period In which the oil producers
have been robbed the Standard Oil
company has paid 48 per cent per
annum In dividends and now the
price is kept so low that 1t Is a
hopeless undertaking except In a
few instances to keep even with the
game. There Is no possible chance
of making profit and very little
hope of being able to pay debts con-
tracted while drilling at present
prices.
The monthly report of the Der
rick shows that there was a de.
crease In rigs and drilling wells dur
Ing the month of March In Penn.
sylvania fields and only slight In
crease In the Ohio fields. It Is evil.
dent, that producers have discov-
cred the hopelessness of trying to
make both ends meet under exist
Ing conditions. It would seem by
far the wisest policy to conserve
holdings of territory until such
time as the entire proceeds do not
60 to the hardware trusts and other
supply dealers The new production
of 5000 or 1000 barrels last month
Is not sufficient to stop the decline
In the daily average of Pennsylva-
MA production and there seems to
be little or no territory In sight
from which an increased production
can be expected.
There Is no encouragement to
drill because 1t Is impossible to keep
even at present prices.
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Baltimore & Ohio R. R.

OMulnOlH U UnlO n. D.
Ohio River Division.
Time Table In effect Nov. II, Ioo1.
lEASr BOUND.
,as A: M. Accommodation
Sally except For Wheeling and intermediate
Sunday. points.
s:ss A. NJ. Pittsburg Express
Daily. Fer New Martinsville, Mound
Vile, Wheeling, Pittsburg Frank
lin, OIL City, Tltusville and Infer
mediate points. Runs eoiid t.
Pittsbsrg, daily except Sunday
Daily to wheeling.
ts:ro p. n. Accommodation
Caily except For New Martinsville and Inter
Sunday. mediate points.
"a. p. a.. New York Express
Daily, For New Martinsvil1e, Mounds
Vile, wheeling, Pittsburg, Buns
10, Washington, Baltimore, Pniia
deaphia, New York and oil points
North and Fast. Runs solid &c
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
4;s8 P. N. Accommodation
points.
e:1s P. N. Ohio Valley Express
gaily except For New Martinsvil!e, Mounds
sunday. willie, Benwooa, wheeling, Pitts
burg, Buffalo. Baltimore, Wash
ingfon, New York and oil points
North and East. Runs solid &c
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
ca:A p n. Accommodation
Daily. For New Martinsville and In
terme date points
WEST BOUND.
o.}iy e except For ParEersburg and inserme.
Sunday diate points.
q;2I A. ID. Accommodation
Daily For Parkersburg and interme
6iate points.
fIrS A. M. Ohio Valley Express
Oaily except For st. Marys, Marietta, Park.
Sunday. ersburg, Ravenswood, Milwood,
PomerOy, PIT. Pleasant, Charles
ton, Gallipolis, Huntington, Ken.
ova, Ironton, Portsmouth, Cincin.
natl and ali points South an6
West. Runs solid to Cincinnati
Parlor car.
P. M Kenova Express
<ailv For St. Marys, Marietta, Park
ersbarg Ravenswood. Nilwood
Pomeroy PIT. Pleasant, Charles
ton, Gallipolis, Huntingdon Ken
ova and principal intermediate
points. Par1or car.
STA P, M. Accommodation
Daily except For Parkersburg, Pt. Pleasap
Sunday. and intermediate points.
Sal p, M. Accommodation
Daily. For Parkersburg and interms
date points.
s:7S p. M. Express
ally except For Friendly st Marys, Waiver
Sunday. ", Marietta and ParkersburS
d. B. MARTIN,
Main Pass. Traffic.
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SYCAMORE VALLEY, MONROE CO

SYCAMORE VALLEY, MONROE Co o.
Kochert & Smith are having bad
luck on their Martin we'll. They
have about twenty joints of casing
In the hole. They are talking of
moving their rig.
The boiler and engine for Ander.
son No. 2 were hauled In last week.
They will commence drilling this
this week or next.
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AN AWFUL FATE.
Hotel at sam Angelo, Tex, Burns
One Man, Three Women and
Three Children Perish.

San Angelo, Tex, Aug. 11.-A fire
discovered in the Landon hotel at two
o'clock Sunday morning by the night
clerk destroyed the structure entire
lv. burning seven people to crisp
and doing a property damage of $751;
900. The dead are: Mrs. Landon,
wife of the proprietor of the hotel;
Ed Hcndrick, of Waco, Tex; Mrs.
Fowler, of Houston, Tex, and her
grandson; Mrs. Schulimpsky, of
Houston, and two sons. All of the
bodies that have been recovered are
fearfully charred and in no condition
to be moved except in blankets.
When he clerk discovered the flames
the interior of the dining-room was
a gulf of flame and he could not get
through. He rushed up the main
stairway, kicking in doors, calling
out at the top of his voice and max
ing noise in every way in his power.
Most of the guests were aroused by
this means and by the discharge of
firearms. as some of the first guests
got out. There were Is people in the
house. and all of them got out safely
with The exception of the seven
named and three others who have not
vet been located, but who are be-
lieved to be safe. The seven women
and children got out on small bal
cony and were appealed to to jump
into blankets which were being held
for them, but they failed to do so,
and delayed until the gallery fell
back into the flames which were lick
ing up the big frame house. In addi
ton to the hotel, three stables and
half a dozen stores were burned, only
the greatest effort preventing the
whole of the business section of the
town from being DESTROYED.
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WOULD SELL THE PHILIPPINES TO JAPAN

mission in the Eighteenth infantry
of the regular army. His commission
was dated May IA, and on May 30, two
years later, came his promotion to a
captaincy. He held a captains COM
mission in the Twenty-eighth infantry
until the close of the war, and with the
reorganization and reduction of the
regular esta blishment he was trans
ferred to the Twenty-seventh infantry
and was later transferred again to
the Ninth infantry. On January 90
1888, came another promotion when
he was made a major in the Eighth
infantry, which he held until January
/, 1888, when he was promoted to lieu
tenant colonel of the Seventh infantry
On July 4, 1892, he was placed in com
mand of the Twenty ffth infantry, with
the rank of colonel, and this command
he continued to hold until the breaking
out of the war with Spain, when he
was commissioned brigadier general
of volunteers, and served as such
throughout that conflict.
He is a native Of Ohio, and has an
honorable career in connection with
the long years of Indian warfare in
the west, which followed the close of
the civil war. He is now brigadie1
general in the regular establishment,
and is nearing the retiring age.
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RIVER TO BE ABANDONED.
The Government Will Likely Give Up
Effort to Keep the Cham
mel NavigabIe.

Sioux City, Ia, Aug. 11.-Beaten in
IFS efforts to control the treacherous
stream the United States is about to
abandon the Missouri river to its fate
and give it up as means of transpor-
tation. Railroads have grabbed the
fate. and steamboat business has
dwindled until it is evident congress
thinks the expense of dredging shift
ing sandbars, pulling snags and try
ing to hold the restless river in fixed
channel is not justified by the volume
of business and will surrender. Capt.
H. NJ. Chittenden. chief of United
States engineers for the Missouri river,
who replaced the Missouri river COM
mission. believes the career of the Mis-
souri, as a means of transportation is
at an end. The abandonment of the
Missouri is foreshadowed in his an
nual report. The millions spent in
an effort to make the Missouri a per-
manent canal for comm cree have been
washed away like the fertile acres
along the treacherous stream. 1t is
of no use and the government evident
lv wants to give it up. That the Mis-
souri, river cannot be kept open for
traffic without snagging was recog-
nized by congress. For the upper Mis-
souri, river an estimate of $4,000 a
year was made in 1890. Since that time
1916, LA has been spent to keep the
INNER channel clear.
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TRADE OF THE KoNGo FREE STATE IN 1901

fact that the river fleet of the Free
State was not enlarged during last
wear. AS to the decline in the impor-
tation of alcohols (from 1,305,876
quarts in 1900 to TIT quarts in 190D,
this is in accordance with the desire
of the Free State, which, by it's new
fiscal legislation, has raised the duty
enormously. The decrease in the spe-
cial import trade may be considered as
temporary; in fact, the construction
of the railways destined for the Upper
Congo will call for large quantity OF
goods of all kinds, as well as for an i'm
crease in the river feet for their trans
portation.
In the transit trade, the statistics
for 1901 show falling off of S684,386,
principally in goods destined for the
neighboring colonies Of the Upper Con-
90. 1t is interesting to note that in
the special import trade, Belgium
holds the first place, the figures
amounting to $3,226,22G, out of a total
of $4,458,698
GEORGE r. LINCOLN.
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in a position to give the government
the services of an expert upon the
subject.
Admiral Walkers connection with
the navy dates from October 5, 1850,
when he was appointed as cadet to
the naval academy at Annapolis, from
which he graduated in 1856. During
the civil war he served in the block
aiding squadron and in the naval cam
paigns of the Mississippi river as
lieutenant commander. He played
conspicuous part in the capture of
New Orleans and in the operations
against Vicksburg. In the Mississippi
river campaign he commanded the
ironclad Baron de Kalb, and later
commanded the naval battery at
tached to the Fifteenth Army corps
in the siege of Vicksburg. He was
promoted to the rank of commander
July rs, 1866; captain June 25, 1877;
commodore February, 1889, and rear
admiral in January, 1894. He was re-
tired for age in 1897 and has since
served on the canal commission.
He is a native of New Hampshire,
being born in Hillsborough, that
state, March 20, 1885, but removed to
Iowa at an early age, and was APP
pointed to the navy from the Hawk
eve state.
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you will have all the essential facts
for the laying of odds.
If there is any one place in the
city better than another to watch
the constant attempt to solve the
street car problem it is on State
street, between Randolph and Madi
son. For two blocks of that distance
the cars on three tracks are loading
and unloading a continued stream of
contestants. Just to look at them as
they get off the cars is sufficient to
enable the close observer to pick the
winners or to distinguish those who
have been left at the post. Watch the
feeble steps of the old lady as she
picks her way to the sidewalk and
you can tell whether she has rode
downtown in a seat, or whether she
has had to take her chances with the
field and failed, to take first, second
or third money. Look for the frown
or smile on the face of the we'll
dressed, fashionable shopper and you
will know whether to call on the
bool1maker to cash your checks or
not.
Five thousand street cars enter the
downtown or business districts of
Chicago every day. They come from
north, south and west, and every car
brings it's quota of contestants in
this race. Every car pours into the
little section of the city, less than a
mile square, crowd of people who
must at some time during the day be
carried back to their homes again.
The cars that come and go in the
mornings and evenings are always
crowded to the roof, and for this
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Men Who Are Helping to Make
the History of the Day.
HEAD OF THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY

T. Oxnard stepped into the beet
sugar business at time when the
experiments in California were all
but failures, and by his persistent
energy has developed the industry
in that state until the California fac
tories are producing annually sugar
and by-products valued at 100000,
and is paying to the farmers of that
state for beets used more than ST.
500, 900 annually In his California
factories there is invested the neat
little sum of 1O,139,519, which is
practically one-half of all the CAPT
tai invested in the industry in the
United States. He gives employment
to more than 1000 people, and pays
in wages each year more than $780,
600.
Mr.. Oxnard has beautiful home
at Oxnard, California, where he lives
in princely style when in that state
though much of his time is spent
at his business headquarters in New
York city, where he can be in closer
touch with the financial interests
connected with the industry in which
he is interested to such large ex-
tent.
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Chicago she has that much chance
of some gallant giving her the seat
he has won; for an old lady it is safe
to lay even odds she cannot push so
hard to get into the car and to the
seats before they are filled, but her
chances Of winning are evened up by
her chance of securing the seat
workingman or woman has secured
before her; shop girl has about one
chance in three of running some
where in the one, two, three order.
She is too weak after day behind
the counter to fight for an equal
chance in the running, but is favored
occasionally by philanthropist. And
so the handicapping might go on in
definitely, or at least through all
classes of society, but there is one
class that it is always safe to figure
among the 'also rams" That is the
society woman, the member of lone
of our best families" who has been
downtown shopping and chooses to
ride home in the street cars instead
of sending for a carriage. The au
dience has usually departed before
she passes under the wire.
This is Chicago's street car prob
lem. 1t is a growing problem. 1t is
problem that grows with the
growth of the city, and the city sets
rapid pace. 1t is the biggest thing
in all the big city. 1t is one of the
few things with which Chicago is not
madly in love.
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The Official Bulletin of the Kongo
Free State publishes the following sta
tistics of commerce during the year
1901:
The general commerce, comprising
both imports and exports, amounted
to SIS, 1894, 526, in which grand total the
special commerce of the Free State,
which comprises only the products of
it's territory exported and the foreign
merchandise consumed in the country,
amounted to $14,2O2, $50, divided as fol-
lows: Imports, $4,458,69S; exports,
SO, 744261. The last figures exceed the
exports for 1900 by $500, 421, showing
the steady progress of deportation, par
ticularly in rubber, copal gum and cof-
fee. The figures for the special i'm
port trade have slightly declined, the
decrease being in two important
classes of merchandise, viz, railway
and river navigation material and alco-
hols. The importation of railway and
river navigation material has natural
" decreased, owing to the completion
of the Mayumbe railway and to the
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has in his realm. The beginnings OF
his fortune came from the tea bust
ness. He purchased estates in Ceylon
and has kept constantly adding to his
holdings there until to-day he is prob
ably the largest tea grower in the
world. 1t is due to his efforts that the
price of a good quality of tea has been
reduced to a point within xhe reach
of the poorer people. In this country
he is known in a business way because
of his connection with the packing in
dustry in Chicago and his line of re-
frigerator cars. SO great have his in
terests in these two industries be-
come that he has at times seriously
considered removing to the United
States, and it is only love for his ma
tive land that keeps him in Great
Britain.
Queen Victoria made Sir Thomas a
knight in 1898, in recognition of his
widespread philanthrophies and his
notable benefactions to English work
lngmen. His new honors come as a
mark of personal favor from King Ed.
ward, who has for years considered
him one of his closest friends.
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with less crowd
ing The difference is in the length of
the haul. In few cities in the world
do the patrons of street ears get
so much for their nickels as in Chi
cago; in few cities are the COM
panies more generous with their
transfers.
Five cents invested in a street car
ride in the city by the lake will give
anyone a kaleidoscope view of the
town that embraces all it's attrac-
tions from the sky-scraping build
ing in the business district to the
cultivated wheat and corn fields in
the suburbs.
To the poor man these long street
car lines with but one fare to pay
for a II to 15-mile ride are a boon
that makes life in the city worth
the living. Five cents will take him
into a far country He may live
among the smoke-begrimedf factories.
and for six days out of every seven
have to breathe the foul air of the
tenement districts, but on the sew
enth he can, for five cents, get into
a veritable fairyland of unfenced
woods and green fields.
In invading these farming suburbs
the street car companies are but an
ticipating by year or two the
growth of the city. A few months
more and Chicago will have expand
ed to take them in in fact as they are
now in name. Already the real es-
tate men are advertising choice cor
ner lots on every farm, and homes
on the installment plan will soon
follow
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FOR CHINESE JEWS.
A Boston Hebrew Society Is Working
to Get Them Back in the
Old Faith.

A letter much discussed by Hebrews
in this city was recently received by
those interested in the work of the So
nese Jews, reports the Boston Globe.
Some time ago it was learned that in
the heart of China there was a colony
that some time or other had been
Jews. This discovery led to the estab-
fishing of a society that has for it's
members leading Hebrews in Europe
and America.
The letter is dated Shanghai, April
10, and is signed by S. j. Soloman, sec
rotary of the organization. 1t tells of
the work done up to date and gives an
account of eight Chinese Jews who ar
rived in Shanghai on March 10. These
people are the ones selected by their
community to learn the laws of their
forefathers and teach it to the others
at home.
The secretary writes: "Soon after
their arrival house was taken for
them and a teacher engaged to teach
them Hebrew, and he has been giving
them lessons regularly. The Jews of
Kaifengfu are the descendants of
seven clans, and those eight who are
now here are the descendants of four
of them.
There knowledge of religion was
gradually dwindling down, and when
the TAPPING rebellion came, the last of
their teachers were killed, and that
put an end to all knowledge of religion
among them.
"The food which followed during
the twenty-first reign of the Emperor
Tao Kwang broke them down com
pletely and they now are in a helpless
condition. They have no teacher, no
house of worship and no one observes
any religious rites at all.
''Their synagogue was destroyed
many years ago, and a stone is now
standing to mark the place. Three or
four of the eldest among the eight are
shortly to return to Kaifengfu, posi-
bly, with one or more teachers, and
gradually they will be converted back
to the faith of their forefathers."