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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-11
Six weeks more Of school.

Parkersburg Presbytery con-
yenes tomorrow evening in the
First Presbyterian church In tins
city. The meeting is public, and
all are invited to attend.
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07


II puriies the blood and cures nervous
ness, irritability and sleeplessness by
curing the diseases in which they
originate.
uFor three years suffered untold agony
writes Mrs H. R White. of Stanstead, Stanstead
Co., Quebec. III would have spells of trembling
and Being sick at my stomach, pain in right side
all the time; then it would work up into my
stomach and-such distress II is impossible to
describe wrote to the Worlds Dispensary,
Medical Association, stating my case to them,
and they very promptly answered and told me
what to do. took eight bottles of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and five walls OF
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Thanks to DR..
Pierce and his medicine ann we'll woman
to-day. DR.. Pierce's medicines also cured my
mother of liver complaint from which she has
been sufferer for fifteen years. We highly
recommend these medicines to all suffering
people"
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, book containing 1908 pages,
is given away. Send Fl one-cent stamps
for expense of mailing only, for the book
in paper covers, or 81 stamps for the
volume bound in cloth. Address Dr..
R. v. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07
Local News

Thos. Bradley, of the firm Of
Chadderdon & Bradley, contract
teamsters, returned this morning
from a business trip to Pine
Grove.
|, Mrs. Cunningham, of Sardis,
TO-, who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. w. l.. Knapp, of
East street, returned to her home
last evening.
Special display of beautiful cut
flowers at the office of the Gates
Transfer company Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. 5,5-3t
The Virginia and Lorena are
! due here about noon Sunday from
Pittsburg. The formers destina-
ton will be Cincinnati and the
latter's GAINESVILLE.
! The Greenland passed down to-
day about l o'clock on her way
! from Pittsburg to Charleston.
The Greenland is an elegant side
wheeler, but she is not speedy.
Mrs. S. G.. Pyle, of Middle
bourne, passed through the city
! this morning on her way home
from the Wheeling City hospital,
where she has been receiving
! treatment.
WANTED-At once; young
man for dining room work; white
man preferred; good wages. Mrs.
M. B. ST. Clair, Elk Hotel, Jack
sonburg, w. Va. 5,6-3t*
D. Courtney, of the Carter Oil
! company, sold his fine combina-
| ton driving and saddle horse yes
terday to a gentleman in Mead
vile, Pa. Mr.. Courtney received
5000 for the animal.
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Many improvements are going
on in different parts OF the city.
Our citizens are unusually enter
prising this spring, which fact we
are pleased to note. Quite a num-
Der have already reprinted and
remodeled their homes and places
of business.
A week from today is the date
fixed by Mayor Lynn Kirkland for
all residents throughout the city
to clean up their premises. This
! is in accordance with a move
ment all over the State, and it is
to be hoped each and every cltl-
zen will comply with the request
of Mayor Kirkland and thereby
get rid of all the litter and refuse
that may have accumulated about
their premises. The movement on
the part of our efficient Mayor is
a highly commendable one.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07
Roller Top Desks.

You can buy cheaply construct
ed and poorly finished desks al
most anywhere, but if you want
a real, substantial, handsome
roller top desk, you will find them
only at McCoy's Book store. Spe-
ciai closing out prices given at
this store on all desks in stock
and also desk chairs. Drop IN and
get bargain. o,o-ot
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07

impaired, W b en-
there is a dull,
sluggish feeling,
with nervousness,
irritability a n d
sic eples n e s $.
Every day that
the Sc symptoms
are neglected in
creases the liabil-
ity to ply 81 C al
collapse.
DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery cures
diseases OF the
stomach and other
organs of diges-
k;o,, aud nutrition
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07
Mr.. Joseph Peminville, of Still

Mr.. Joseph Peminville, of Still
water, Mimi, after having spent
over $4,000 with the best doctors
for stomach trouble, without re-
lief, was advised by his druggist
Mr.. Alex Richard, to try a box
of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver TABLETS. He did so, and is
a well man today. If troubled
with Indigestion, bad taste in the
mouth, lack of appetite or constl-
patton, give these Tablets a trial,
and you are certain to be more
than pleased with the result. For
sale at 25 cents per box by Hill
Brothers.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07

Miss w. E. Mohney, a popular
young lady of New Kensington,
Pa, who has been spending the
winter with her aunt, Mrs. 1. Il.
Summerville, left for her home
this morning. Miss Mohney is
quite an attractive young lady
and a most pleasant girl to meet,
and won a host of friends while
here who will be sorry to hear OF
her leaving and hope to have her
return soon again. Miss Mohney
will resume her former position In
a confectionery store this summer
where her many friends will wei
come her return.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Cart
land were in the city yesterday,
the guests of Mrs. Sallie Sayers
and Miss Eva Nesbitt. In the ev-
ening they were Informally enter;
tanned at cards at Mrs. Sayers
home, followed by an ice cream
and strawberry supper served al
the Cutler & Pomeroy parlors.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07

the Marietta College farm at
Newell's Run, O.
Peasants County.
Proper, Browse & Campbell
have again struck it rich in the
French Creek field. They drilled
in their test on the King farm on
Monday, and have a producer
good for $50 barrels a day from
the Injun sand. This makes their
third deep adventure in that field
and all have been good wells, but
this is by far the best well ever
encountered in that section in the
deep formation. The report gone
out about the find has caused a
rush of oil men here this week,
and more evidences Of activity is
to be seen than for a long time.
The Central Oil company has
completed another well on the j.
B. Reynolds in the same vicinity,
Smith Brothers have pooled
their oil properties and formed a
stock company with a paid up
capital of $4,000, which is held
by them exclusively none being
for sale.
French & company are drilling
at a test on the Tom Campbell
farm.
Borcher & Ruch were slightly
delayed at their No. Z Standiford
on the island by breaking the
stem when forty feet off the sand
yesterday. The break will be
mendedt today and the well will
be drilled in Monday afternoon.
Barnsdall has drilled No. Fl on
the Cochran estate at Eureka, and
has nice producer from the Cow
Run sand.
G. II. Vaughn has been trans
ferred from the National Supply
company's store here to the Mari
eta house.
In the Ben's Run district the
South Penn Oil company has drill
ed it's test on the j. A. & 81. Mar
tin farm 80 feet into the Big Injun
sand and has developed no oil or
gas.
In the sape district, the South
Penn Oil company has completed
it's test on the M. L. Bogard farm
through the Big Injun sand, and
has a buster.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07
Out OF Plumb.

When the wall is out of plumb the
building is more or less unsafe, and the
higher the wall is carried out of the per-
pendicular the greater the danger OF col
lapse. It's about so with the health it
is out of plumb when the digestion 10
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Hannocks.

-. Are you ready for new ham
mockY You can get the real
things in this line at Mccoy S
Book store. 5,5-3t
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Typewriter Desks.

Do you need real, finely built
up-to-date typewriting deskf You
can get them at McCoy's Book
store. o'o-os
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-07

Kore Queen and others drilled
in a 15-barrel well yesterday on
the Marietta College farm at
Newell s Run, O.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
oVERREAcHED THEMSELVES.

In their efforts to get revenge, the
two members of the board OF
commissioners of Silver Bow county
seem to have overplayed themselves
when they ordered the county attorney
to institute criminal proceedings
against Mr.. White foreman of the
grand jury that indicted them. Instead
OF having appropriated to his own use
the large sum of money they say he
did, 1t appears that the board of edu-
cation of which he was a member
simply ordered it's transfer from one
fund to another, something frequently
done by public administrative bodies,
and, then, on top of this, as shown
by the records of the board, MI. White
happened not to be present at the
meeting at which the transfer was or
dered. If the two gentlemen are
really in earnest and desire to see
some one punished for an act they
profess to believe to have been wrong.
fully committed they will now order
the public prosecutor to bring pro-
ceedings against the trustees who &C.
tually committed it. Mr.. White seems
to have clearly proved an alibi.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
UNION SAYS MINE IS SAFE
GEBo MINERS CONSIDER THEM.
SELVES IN NO DANGER.
Men Take the Ground That Mine Is
In Good Condition and Are Anx-
ious to Work.

Red Lodge, Dec. 18.-FrOm an I'M
expected source has come q con.
domination of the action OF State Coal
Mine Inspector Howard E. WEIGH in
closing the Gebo mines by injunction.
The local union of miners at Geho has
taken the matter up and has express
ed itself in a series of resolutions,
which were telephoned to Red Lodge
yesterday evening. The resolutions
condemning the inspectors action and
outline of the unions position are as
follows:
Whereas, Members of this union
have been informed of an action insti-
tuted by the state coal mine inspector
to shut down the Gebo mine on the
ground that said mine is unsafe and
dangerous and that the ventilation in
said mine is not sufficient for the
men at work therein, we desire to
enter earnest protest against the &C.
ton of said coal mine inspector and
to express condemnation of the man.
ner in which he seeks to close down
the mine at this time. We have made
no complaint to the mine inspector as
to the condition of the mine, and we
believe the mine to be perfectly safe
IN every respect, and we are entirely
satisfied to continue work therein and
give h owner an opportunity to rem
edy the conditions complained of by
the inspector, the construction of a
manway; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the miners and mem
bers of local union No. Ito, United
Mine Workers of America, Gebo,
Mont, That We unanimously join in
signing an affidavit to be presented
to the Honorable Frank Henry. Judge
OF the Sixth judicial district OF the
state of Montana, that we believe the
mine at Gebo to be safe and ventilated
sufhciently, as required by law, and as
good as prevailing in other mines, and
that we be allowed by the honorable
court to continue work in the mine.
and urgently request that the iniunc-
ton be dissolved.
Local union No. LILO, United Mine
Workers of America.
J.. R. KIRBY, President.
GEORGE H. REDFERN.
Secretary"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
DECREASED POPULAR VOTE.

Kansas City Star: A very notable
aspect of the recent election is the
falling off in the total vote OF the
country. For five national elections,
beginning with that OF 1880, there had
been a qu%adrennial gain of more thar
100000, on the average. In 1900 only
$4,000 votes were added to the popu-
lar vote of 1896. This small gain
was accounted for in two a The
exceptionally large vote of 1896, when
there was a positive dread on the one
hand that Bryan might be elected and
great enthusiasm for him on the part
OF his W following on the other.
There was little fear four years later
that Mckinley would not be reflect.
ed, and there was not the same in.
ducement for a full vote.
This year the falling off of more
than 40O,O 600 votes in the total for the
country, as compared with 1900, must
be accounted for by the great popu-
larity of Roosevelt and the consequent
assurance of his election and the ex-
IRENE indifference to Parker. AL
though Roosevelt had a plurality OF
more than two and one-half millions,
which was more than three times
that of the record-breaking plurality
OF Mckinley four years ago, his vote
was only about 1876, 900 more than that
of Mckinley.
There is no telling, therefore,
whether the falling off in the popular
vote this year vas wholly due to the
unusually large stay-at-home demo-
cratic vote. If the truth were known
it might be seen that there was ever
a considerable stay.at-home 'republi-
can vote. The republican gain must
been largely helped by the votes
of independent democrats, for it is a
fact that tens of thousands of aemo-
Gratis voted for the president. On the
other hand, the campaign was not a
vigorous one; it was one-sided from
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

the list of fatalities is not large. but
with the Great Falls Tribune training
its t~hirteen-inch guns in the direction
or the Butte Miner and the Anaconda
Standard there is no telling what the
carnage will be. The casus belli is
the much discussed initiative and ref.
erendum.
The Tribune insists that the other
two are opposed to everything and
anything that will take the great cor
porations out of politics and make
them harmless as far as thwarting
the will of the people is concerned.
While they insisted and demanded OF
Governor Toole that he the
legislature in extra session for the
purpose of passing the "tair trial.
bill, a law held by the supreme court
to have been enacted in a manner at
variance with the constitution, and
did so when no more than thirty
eight per cent of the legal voters of
the state petitioned for the session,
the Tribune says they make light OF
the fact that forty per cent of the
people two years ago petitioned the
legislature to submit a vote on a con-
stitutional amendment for initiative
legislation. The one was an express
sion of public sentiment, because they
were deeply Interested, says the Great
Falls paper, while the other was the
demand of political blatherskites and
demagogues," to use the language OF
the Miner.
OF course, it lis no fight of the re-
publicans, but the Tribune is not so
very far off when it says that it's west
side contemporaries do not want the
proposed constitutional amendment.
Evidence of this was furnished during
campaign. Neither one had any
thing to say in commentator of the
plang of the platform which commit
ted their party to the initiative and
neither did they grow
over the matter Of the
primary election law. Should the un-
likely happen at the forthcoming ses-
sion of the legislature and legisla-
ion in that respect fail it is safe to
say that neither the Miner nor Stan
lard would go into mourning. The
interests with whach they are closely
Identified do not lean that way.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

and affords the finest OF pasture for
STOCK. The fortunate holders of home
steads will be able to secure this for
range for their cattle, horses and
| sheep.
h formal opening of these lands
will occur some time during the sum.
mer of 1905, and the system of draw
ing adopted by the land department.
which will open an office in Billings.
will be followed.
Without doubt an immense crowd OF
prospective settlers from all over the
union will come to Billings next year,
in anticipation of the great event, as it
is recognized that to secure a home.
stead on this favored spot will be a
fortunate event. This drawing, oc-
curing at the same time as the COM
pletion of the big canal to irrigate
$4,000 acres of the Billings Heights
Will make Billings a veritable mecca
OF the land-hungry population of the
United States.
(Note.-The correspondent is in err
ror in stating that the coded portion
OF the reservation will be open for set.
tlement in the summer of 1905. The
lands will be ready for settlement in
19O6.-Editor.)
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
Tuesday, December 20, 1904.
AN ACCEPTABLE CANDIDATE.

Believing that the southern BART O.
the state is entitled to the honor
the Dillon Tribune has placed A. j.
Bennett of Madison county in nomi.
nation for speaker of the house, and
having nominated him is doing it's
utmost to create a sentiment favor
able to him. While %conceding that
gentleman's fitness for the position,
the republicans of the central part OF
the state believe that southern Mon
tana should be willing to let the honor
go to some other section, inasmuch as
1t was given the speakership two
years ago, when former Governor B.,
r. White filled the chair. AS their
man the men of Fergus county have
put Willis Hedges forward and ask
favorable consideration of him. The
county is always reliably republican
and SO far has been very modest in
its demands for recognition of the
substantial sort.
To The Gazette it would seem that
1.-The candidacy of Mr.. Hedges is one
all parts of the state could give
nearly support to. He has had con-
siderable experience as a legislator
and during at least one session OF the
Legislature was leader on the floor OF
his party, which, although in the min
Orlty, yet under his able and agrees
sive leadership made itself felt as a
power that was not to be ignored.
Silver Bow and Lewis and Clarke
having given so poor an account OF
in the recent election, will
mot be able to muster enough strength
to make really dangerous the candi-
dacy of any n man they might like
to see fill the position. With north
ern and eastern Montana united on
Mr.. Hedges he should find little diff
sfculty in securing the honor to which
he is avewedly aspiring. Already he
has received hearty promise of sup
port and with the new friends he is
bound to make it looks very much as
though he would succeed. He GER
tainly is qualified in every respect
and it would be paying a graceful
compliment to central Montana to !
elect him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
OUGHT TO BE REPEALED.

Minneapolis Journal: We do not
know under what conditions the old
law prohibiting the expectation OF
spruce timber, or the product of it,
from Alaska, was adopted, but it ap-
pears that there is such a law which
stands in the way Oh the Importation
OF wood pulp, or pulp wood, from
Alaska, and that it is 10 be repealed
by a provision of the forestry bill in
troduced by Congressman Tawney.
Mr.. Tawney is doing a good thing.
On the islands of the southern Alas
ka archipelago there are hundreds OF
thousands of acres of fine spruce tim
Der adapted to the manufacture OF
wood pulp. The importation of this
wood pulp ought to stimulate the pa
per industry on the Pacific coast, and
in the interior, now that the sup
ply in the United States is becoming
scarce. 1t would be interesting to
know under what conditions that old
law was enacted, and whether it was
for the benefit of the paper trust. The
opening of such a vast supply of pulp
wood will naturally create an oppor-
tunity for the establishment of new
industries on the Pacific
coast, and in the long run the repeal
Of this law ought to operate to the
of all consumers of paper.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
GUARD THE CROSSINGS.

Were the city council to take action
compelling the stationing of watch.
men at the railroad crossings after
dark it would receive the thanks of a
large portion of the citizens. Not.
withstanding that the only two cross
ings which afford means OF commune
cato between the north and south
sides are much used at night, espec-
tally during the earlier hours, no pre-
tense lis made by the railroad COM
pany to guard the safety of those who
have occasion to go back and forth
Only a few evenings ago an accident
occurred at one of the crossings
which resulted in great loss to a man
who can ill afford it. Not only did
he lose in property, but narrowly es-
capped death or at least painful and
serious injury. The railroad officials
may say that the danger is greatly
exaggerated or does not exist at all
and that their s~ubordinates have
strict orders to exercise all possible
care and precaution to prevent acci-
dents, but they are not there to see
that those orders are obeyed. Switch
Ing is done at greater speed than is
compatible with public safety and the
strings of car switched are not al
ways preceded by the locomotives
with their headlights to give warning
OF their approach, and many a person
is compelled to run for life to escape
being crushed by cars that suddenly
emerge from the darkness and rush
across the streets.
! If it is not deemed necessary to
keep watcnmen at the crossings all
night, provision should be made to
have them stationed there until a rea-
sonable hour, say 9 or 10 o'clock.
when the greater number of those
who are compelled to travel between
the two sides will have gon home.
Because thus far no one has been
KILLED or frightfully mangled is no
guarantee that it will not happen.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20
Utah.Arizona Bill.

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator
Kearns yesterday introduced a bill
providing for the annexation to Utah
of all that portion of Arizona lying
north of the Colorado river. The por-
square miles. 1t is north of the grand
canyon and on that account inaccess-
ible to the authorities of Arizona. 1t
is said it now forms a haven for crimi-
nails.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

the beginning, and there is abundant
reason to believe that a good many re-
publlcans as well as democrats re-
NAMED away from the polls because
they felt absolutely certain that their
mar would be elected. The one posi-
tive showing is the unpopularity OF
Parker and the auspices under which
he made the race.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

once it was thought that a gentle,
man named Alva Adams had beer
elected governor of Colorado, but that
was before the supreme court of that
state became busy and undertook re-
vision OF the returns. Now it ~
as though Peabody were to be re.
tanned in the seat to which Adams as.
pires. 1t mas be that the democrats
overdid the matter, but only to this
degree do they seem to be any more
guilty than the republicans. Fraud
and dishonesty were practiced by both
parties, particularly in Denver, and
the situation that is unfolding itself
in the Centennial state is one not cal
culated to cause those outside to place
a very high value on citizenship as
exercised there. Political surgery OF
the heroic kind could be practiced
with excellent results to both parties.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

Much to the bodily comfort and sat
isfaction of Mr.. Lawson, Colonel Green
concluded to return to New York with
out the added establishment of a
fifth notch to his famous pistol. Thus
has Boston culture won another nota-
Bile victory over the rudeness and lack
OF polish of the southwest.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-20

After having been in existence for
something like a year for the very
laudable purpose of unearthing
crimes and bringing criminals to JUS
tlce, the late grand jury at Butte
seems to have given p%rovocation for
the empanelling of a second one to
Investigate the acts of the first. How
ever, it appears as not quite reasonable
that a court should be found with
nerve sufficient to try the experiment.
With the example before it there is
no telling what the second one might
do.