The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-15
Hutton Gas Company Steals March
81 Mrs. Morrison, Resorting to Still
Hours of Night to Lay Water and
Gas Lines Across Her Lots, Contra
81 to Notices Posted Not to Do So.
Battle Royal to Follow.

Strenuous has become life of late
ut Wilsonburg, famed for so many
years for its quietude and peace, and
even tenor of its ways, but the pros
pect Of turning the town into an ac-
tive oil center, with big oil wells
running and gas wells flowing fast
and burning brightly does not meet
q very warm welcome among some
VI the residents of the town.
Shortly ago james II. Morrison
held the Hope Natural Gas Com
sny up In its operations to develop
llis farm for gas, by getting tenn
iorary iniunction restraining the
company from going ahead with the
drilling of well it had begun.
Judge Charles w. Lynch granted the
Function on the representation that
le lease had expired.
And now comes another furry in
he same sort of business and this
Time The shades of darkness are re
sorted rs to accomplish certain ends.
AIRS Morrison claims the ownership
Of Two lots in the graveyard there
and has lots between the drug stores.
The old Junior order lot is near the
Morrison lot and the Hutton Gas
Company proposes to drill gas well
there to supply the new lamp black
factory near Wilsonburg and other
patrons with gas.
The road leading to the JUNO
lot winds around up the hill toward
the cemetery and through the Nor
rison holdings. AT first objection
was made to the teams going through
the lots with material for the well
but it is stated that was adjusted
But not so as to the matter of layin,
pipe and water lines, as shown BY
notices posted on the Morrison lots
Monday afternoon to the effect thai
no such lines should be laid through
the property.
But march was stolen on tho
owners at midnight Monday night
Contractors, Wilson and Carter
slipped quietly out to Wilsonburg on
the last street car out and by prev
ious orders seven teams with a num-
Der of men and lot of two-inch
pipe were in Maxwell's barn il
waiting, not having the slightest
idea Of what they would be required
to do. J. II. Irving, the transfer
man. went out with Wilson and Car
ter and took number of men with
him.
They went to the Morrison prop
ertv at the hour of midnight, when
the whole neighborhood was in th'
arms of Morpheus and began to lay
pipe both for water and gas and
worked diligently until nearly seven
o'clock a. M, when they succeeded
IN completing the lines to the coun-
.tv road, where they are to be con-
nected with other lines of the COM
pany. They laid at least half mile
Of pipe line in that time, there being
in ali Z loads of 20 joints each.
Mrs. Morrison was greatly sur
5prised Tuesday morning, when she
discovered that pipe lines had been
strung across her lots and properly
iointed, although not buried. She
Immediately came to the city to con.
suit her lawyer, and proceedings of
a legal nature are likely to arise at
once from the incident.
The Hutton Gas Company is said
to feel somewhat elated over the fact
fiat while iniunctions are being re-
ortd to in other instances it sue
eeeded in laying its pipe lines with
ont Inolestation or resort to law.
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