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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
COURT HOUSE BURNS
RECORDS ARE LOST
NCElDARY FIRE BURNS BUILDING At
HAlIN.

Huntington, W. Va, Nov. ls-
The Lincoln court house, located Al
Hamlin, so miles south of this city,
was completely destroyed by FIRE
early this morning. All the record.
Ofthe county and circuitc clerks Offices
were destroyed, including deed books.
esehold records and hundred of un.
recorded instruments. The ine
library of Prosecuting Attorney Steed,
located in the court house, perished.
The FIRE will vitally affect land titles
in Lincoln county, since there is not
the slightest vestige of record left.
The destruction of law and chaneery
records in the circuit clerks Office
viii materially affect anumber ofim-
pOrtant suits. Nothing was saved
from any of the Offices.
The FIRE is believed to have been Of
ineendiary origin. The destruction
of the land books will lead to almost
endless litigation and will jeapOrdize
hundreds of titles. Rival oil and gas
companies have been fighting for pos
session of large tracts of Liucoln
county lands and thousands of acres
are in litigation at present.
Huntington, W. Va, Nov. ae.-
After being trailed by bloOdbounds
for over thirty miles Joe and John
Adkins were arrested near Grifths-
vile, in Lincoln county, Saturday
night, on suspicion of being the part
les who applied the torch to the Lin
coin county court house, Friday morn
ing. Owing to the intense feeling
which prevails at Hamlin, the prison
ers were not taken.to Jail, but were
brought to Huntington Sunday for
safekeeping.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
ARSON IN JACKSON COUNTY.

On White Oak, in this county, a
dwelling house was destroyed by
what is supposed to be an incendiary
FIRE. Carney and Counts were sum-
moned with their bloodhOunds and
fastened to the scene. They claim
to have found trail which was pur,
sued to the residence of Lex Davis.
Warrents were sworn out out by a
Mr.. Harper, the owner of the prop,
erty destroyed, against Lex Davis,
his wife and one Charley Dixon, who
were taken before Squire Walker.
The hearing was confined until Sat
urday.-Ripley Mountyineer.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
LOOKING BACKYARD.

As We look backward on the year,
and on the years. why should we be
thankful: For life, its pleasures,
its enjOyments, its good; for its sOr,
rows and disapoIntments even, for
are they not often part of the minis
try of heaven to make US better For
friends, for parents, for wife, for
children, and for the Great Friend
who leaves not when Others some
times fail.
For the kindly fruits of the earth
which have come to US, the products
of our labor eonjoined with the bless
ing of God. For who of US, of him.
self alone, can make one ear ofcorn,
one leaf For our fathers who won
for US the right of self-government.
fof peace and the prospect of great
er peace must We as a nation give
thanks. A vide peace which will
forever brood over the three nations
on this continent giving an example
and inspiration to the less fayOrably
situated peoples of the old world, and
lifting them up We hope toits emula-
ton.
For the spirit of progress, for the
reform of old evils, for the pruning
of corruption from the body polite
We can. give thanks; not only for
good accomplished but 70, the augury
of greater and better thinks to come.
For our churches and our schools,
and for the millions of happy pure
homes which dot this continent. For
the fact that We are not nation of
the past, a decaying nation, but a
nation of the present and hefuture.
Far the great openings up of Ma
ture's wondrous secrets which seem
now to be coming upon US. For
larger, cleaner, healthier thought,
and for the old truth, old and even
new, that this God is our God for
ever and ever. He will beour guide
even unto death.-Tyler Star.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
THROUGH TRAINS A LOSING VENTURE.

Railroad men discuss the night
trains on the o. R. Division, which
became effective last Sunday at mid
night, are satisfied that it will be a
losing proposition from the start and
they have their doubts if it will be
maintained after it is given a fair
trial and it is found to be a losing
venture.
These men figure that the addition
al expense will be so great that the
travel will not justify it. They say
that it will neeessitate night tick
ct agent at this point and also one
at Point Pleasant. 1t will also ne
cessitate additional crews, and chose
men who reside here and had through
runs willbe compelled to move else
where.
The exact time of the arrival and
departure of the through trains has
not yet been definitely announced,
as it was expected to have further
conference during the week among
the officials before the schedule was
printed -Parkersburg Seminal.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

The suggestion of the Philadelphia
North-American, a Republican news
p .per of decided Independent predi-
lections, that President Taft appoint
a Democrat to fill the vacancy on the
supreme bench occasioned by the
death of Judge Peckham, because
the late Judge was of that political
faith and because the predomipance
of Republicans in the court would
preclude the possibility of the APP
pointment of Democrats affecting
the political complexion of the court
for many years, is a very timely and
logical one, and President Taft could
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
BOLD BURGLAR
ENTERS J. ". c. HESLOPS HOUSE LAST
FRIDAY NIGHT.

At about 1880 O'Clock last Friday
night, while Mr.. ]. W. C. Heslop
and family were up stairs, burglar
entered the house and proceeded to
ransack the drawers and closets on
the lower floors. While the family
heard the noise they thought it to
be their son, Mr. Robert Heslop, but
upon hearing an unusual noise as of
the rafting of silverwareM Mrs. Heslop
went to the head of the stairs and
called, when the robber Immediately
started up stairs toward her. Mr..
Heslop had secured his revolver and
its persuasive influence compelled
the thiefto back down the stairs aud
out at the front door. Officer Fogle-
song was telephoned and took up the
the search and found the gentlemen
on First street. He was taken back
to the Heslop residence where he
was at once identified and was locked
in Jail. He was taken before Justice
Edwards Tuesday and in default Of
81, 900 bond was remanded till court.
He gave his name as Thomas Foley.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
gR0VNsPEgIlE

Sarah J. Martin. wife Eof Preston
Martin, Of Arll, accrued pension due
her deceased husband at date of his
death, ss5.
Allen Thomas, Arlee. increase of
pension from se4 to $50 per month
from Oct. II, 1909.
Gideon H. Williams, of GaIlipolis,
increase of pension from SIC to SIT
per month from May 5, 1909.
james H. Ball, Ashton, balance
due from the United States ON ac-
count of the service OfJobn W. Ball,
ss.7s.
Sarah a, Plants ct al, minor Of
George W. Plants, deceased, $500,
and sl+ per month for the minor
George W. Plants. Jr.. until he ar
r1VeS 70 the age OF is years.
This was very difficult case and
was one upon which three different
pension attorneys had worked all of
whom had given it up as one which
could not be collected, but Mr. Brown
knowing it to be an honest one, said
he would go after it and get it, and
he did. Weeongratulate all.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
CHERRY CREEK
MINE DISASTER
80 MEN ENTRAPPED IN The St. PAUL
COAL MINE AT CHERRY, Ill.

Saturday, the 18th inst, at the
St. Paul Coal Mines, at cheey, H.,
an explosion occurred shortly after
le o'clock, noon, that shut up in
the bowels of the earth $40 men and
boys.
The supposed cause of the explo-
sion was that a careless miner had
thrown torch on bundle of hay
used to feed the mules stationed in
the mine. No attention was given
the smouldering hay for few min
utes. Then two miners threw the
burning mass on a cart and started
toward the main shaft, about $50
feet away. Before it was reached a
small explosion occurred and in a
few minutes the entrance to the vein
from the shaft was filed with smoke
and flames.
All hope was finally abandoned of
finding living soul in in the mine,
and even doubted that anything but
the bones of the entombed men would
even be recovered, therefore, like an
electric shock came the news last
Saturday that es men, who had
walled themselves in an apartment to
escape the FIRE and gasses, had been
found alive.
The troops were pOwerless to re-
strain the -madly excited pOpulace,
who broke through the guards and
crowded around the mouth of the
slope as the men were brought to the
surface.
The discovery that the men were
alive was most accidental. They
had been drinking seepage water and
pounding on the wall to make the
water drip down. The noise of the
pounding was heard by the rescuers
and the work of reaching them was
begun.
The live men were first discovered
by Supt. Powell of Braceville, Illinois.
When the men were reached some of
them were talking and jokeing and
apparently were partly demented
from terrible experience.
The men were found at 9 o'clock,
The relief corps, chopping its way
through the second vein toward the
south end, heard the cries that nerv-
ed them to superhuman strength,
Ahead of the rescuers was a pile of
debris that blocked their progress.
The cries come from behind it. They
Clipped it away with frenzied
strength, and there; in the tunnel
behind the pile, were the men, gaunt
soectres of those that went below
into thevein week ago.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
TOWN AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM ALL
PARTS OF THIS VICINITY.

John P. Austin, Sheriff, has rent
ed his farm and moved to town.
Mr.. shiaet delivered a fine piano
to the K. ofP's. at Buffalo last week.
Mrs. Hamilton Wise, of Kansas,
was struck by a street car and in
stantly killed. She was the daught-
er of Wilson Priddy, of Sloan.
Mr.. Dave Darst, of Henderson,
has moved his family TO Huntington,
where has employment at the C. &
o. car shops.
John H. Mckinney, of Flat Rock,
has moved his family to Charleston,
where he has employment for the
winter.
A few years ago there was not
stronger, healthier looking man in
Point Pleasant than Walker Wilson,
colOred, today he is mere skeleton
and no hopes for recovery.
Mrs. W. E. Ruttencutter, Ella
Hutchinson and Freda Gygax, of
Mason City, attended the Grand AS
sembly of Rebecka's at Wheeling last
week.
Did you ever stop to think how
many grocery stores there's in Point
Pleasant and North Point Pleasant,
said a travelling man the otherday.
Well there is just eighteen,-mOre
than any other town in the state.
Mr.. L. c. sOmeville left yester-
day afternoon after a pleasant visit
in the city, and will visit for several
days his daughter, who resides in
Philippi, before returning to his
home in Point Pleasant. Hunting
ton Herald-Dispatch.
Rev. Jasper Baker, of Gunville,
Mason county, drove through town
Sunday to pay his annual visit to his
mothers grave who was buried Is
years ago, on the farm of E. Stewart
near Foster Chapel. Rev. Baker has
missed but one year to see his moth
er's grave for the past Is years.
Ripley Mountaineer.
Earl Snyder, of Cincinnati, wire
less operator on the United States
steamship Montana, is the guest of
his aunts, Mrs. Minnie ROup and
Mrs. Henry Mees and his faneee,
Miss Lena Gibbs, at Mason City.
Andy Smith, the well known city
transfer man has a young horse which
is handsome and worth considerable
money. Saturday night some one
went into his stable and clipped its
tail of. Andy says he viii give se5.
90 reward for any information lead
ing to the guilty party.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
GOVERNMENT WINS
AGAINST STANDARD OIL cO-ITEOR
DERD DISSOLVED.

DA-AAhO OlSS0LtLD.
St. Paul, Mimi, Nov. eo.-The
Government wins its suit against the
Standard oaco. The United States
Circuit Court today held that the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey was an Illegal corporation and or
dered that it be dissolved. Thiscase
was heard in the United States Cir
cult Court at st. Louis on April /,
1909. by Circuit Judges sanborn,
vandeventer, Hook and Adams.
Judge Sanborn. of St. Paul, presid-
ing Judge, wrote the opinion and de-
cree in which all the judges concur
and sent them with the concurring
opinion of Judge Hook, to Judge
Adams at St. Louis, who fled them
and entered decree in that city this
morning.
The case was one Of the most no
table in the history of the nation on
account of the important industrial
and legal questions and the valuable
financial interests it involves.
Judge sanbOrn, in his decision,
says:
This suit was brought by the
United States to enjoin the Standard
Oil Company, New Jersey corpora
ton, and about seventy subsidiary
corporations and seven individual de-
PENDANTS from continuing an alleged
Illegal combination in restraint of
commerce among the several states,
in the District of Columbia, in the
territories and with foreign nations
in violation of the Sherman anti-trust
act of July 9, 1890. Congress has
power under the commerce clause of
the Constitution to regulate and re-
strict the use in commerce, of the
method of holding title to property,
and of every other instrumentality
employed in that commerce so far as
it may be necessary to do so in order
to prevent the restraint thereof de-
nounced by the Sherman antitrust
act. Seven defendants and the Stan
dard Oil Company of New Jersey
owned majority of the stock of 10
other corporations and those twenty
corporations controlled many other
corporations. Each of these corpor-
ations was engaged in some part of
the business of producing, buying
refining, transporting and selling pc
ttoleum and its products, and they
were conducting about 80 per cent of
the business of purchasing, refining,
transporting and selling petroleum
and its products in this country. Tie
Standard Oil Co. has prevented and
is still preventing competition in COM
merce among the states, and with
foreign nations in violation of the
antitrust act of 1890, and the Gov
ernment is entitled to an injunction
against the further continuance and
operation thereof. The decree en-
joined the seven individual defend
ants, the Standard Oil Co. and its
subsidiary corporations from continu-
ing to carry into effect the illegal
combination they formed, and forbids
them from continuing in interstate
commerce until they discontinue
their illegal combination.
The decree takes effect so days
from the date of its fling unless sus-
pended by appeal to the Supreme
Court.
St. Louis, Mo-, Nov. so.-The de-
cree of dissolution, in the Standard
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

not more fully demonstrate the fact
that he is the President of the whole
people and not slave to partisan
ship by carrying the aforesaid sugges-
ton into effect and appointing "a
Democrat of the requisite Judicial
qualifications to complete the mem
bership of that high tribunal. Graf
ton Leader.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

New York, Nov. so.-News Ofthe
order dissolving the Standard Oil Co.
caused an outbreak of liquidation on
the Stock Exchange and there were
general declines of anywhere from
OF points in the general list.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

New York, Nov. Cot is author
itatively announced by officers ofthe
Standard Oil Company that an ap-
peal viii be taken from the decision
of the United States Circuit Court, as
that had been the general under
standing between council on both
sides of the suit.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

St. Louis, Mo-, Nov. so.-The de-
cree of dissolution in the Standard
Oil case takes effect in so days, un-
less suspended by an appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24
Football -CALLIPOLIS vs.. MIDDLE
PORT.

On Thursday afternoon the Galli-
polls team win play Middleport and
quite bunch of sports from here
will go up to see the game.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-24

The Register is only. sl.oo a year.
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Examine the label on your paper.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
SEVERE SHOCK FOR
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
Chosen Speaker Opposes office
Holding by That Sex.

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-Maybe the
members of the Political Equality
league did not know that the speak
err they asked to open their session
would do SO by saying, Il do not
believe that women should hold
public office"
That is what the speaker, Prof.
Fl. l.. Willett of the University OF
Chicago, said, however.
THE business of woman" he
continued, lis to mould the thought
which will determine how public
offices, shall be filled. Women's
function lies in moulding the fam
lily and shaping the opinions of
her husband and children so that
they insist on electing the best
men to office.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. superin-
tendent of the Chicago schools"
he said, has most fortunately for
the community. fallen into a public
position, but 1t is one in which
the qualities Of parent, and par
tfcularly the mother, are demand
ed. 1t is unlike almost any other
public position"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
THE KEY TO BITTER ROO1 VALLEY
APPLE CROPS AND RICHES IS $4,000

vertising folders please copy,
Unless you have $4,000 or. can &C.
quire that sum at the end of five
years there is little use to read fur.
Their. This is not like the govern.
ment irrigation project, where land
sells for $34 an acre. The minimum
price of raw land (suitable for
orcharding) with water rights, in
the valley of the Bitter Root, is
$3.50 an acre. There is much raw
land held at $500 an acre, and land
with bearing trees sells for $10eS
an acre up. / saw one orchard OF
IA acres which had just sold for
$4,000.
Why such. tremendous prices?
Why not? If your trees are of the
right sort, there is every reason
why they should yield minimum
of $500 to the acre. A few years
Of that kind of yield convinces the
owner that his orchard is valuable.
Many orchards cannot be bought.
They are absolutely not on the
market From such the owners
have taken as much as $4,000 and
and $4,000 an acre in apples, cher
ries and other fruit.
Every year? A record of 25 years
has shown absolute immunity from
the killing frosts Of spring-an i'm
munity due apparently to the efact
that the valley is hemmed IN by
very high mountains. To the same
cause is credited the absence of
bugs and similar pests. Market con-
ditions are steady. There is always
demand for the perfect fruit
grown under these ideal conditions.
Sounds like the boom talk Of a
land agent? Yes, but 1t seems to
be all quite true.
Until Lake Como was tapped by
the big ditch company, whose work
was finished this summer, the
bench lands at the base Of the Bit
ter Root mountains were not avail
able. The big ditch,V as it is cali
ed, has brought 10000 acres under
water. and those acres are now be-
ing set out to fruit. siy
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
PLAY A
| VERY OLD FAVORITE

s BY general consent and popular
approval one Of the big favorite
Apaerican plays seems to be "In
Old Kentucky" 1t has lived long
insthei affections of playg6ers and
win live many years longer. unless
ak present indications are wrong.
1tS vogue is lasting. 1t was away
back in 1892 thatstIn Old Ken
lucky" was originally produced in
st. Paul in a summer stock en-
gtgement, and was so successful
that Jacob Lift, the proprietor of
the Company and of the theater
where the summer company was
playing, determined Ito put the
play out with a special production,
which he did the following fall,
and the piece was produced on an
elaborate scale at the Academy Of
Music, New York, and ran out the
Wear at that big playhouse.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
LITTLE FINGER Is
WORTH $4,000 SAYS
THE SUPREME COURT

OLYMPIA, Oct. 1.-THE supreme
court affirmed the $4,000 judgment
that Christian 0. Rood got against
the Seattle Electric Co. for losing
part Of his left hand in that COM
pany's mill at Georgetown. Rood
was carpenter and lost his little
finger and the last joint of his mid
die finger. In childhood he sus-
tanned the amputation of his ring
finger. The company claimed that
the amount Of the judgment was
excessive. The supreme court, h6w-
ever, says the man cannot now pick
nails, etc. with his left hand and
is also hampered In climbing lad
ders. The court does not believe
the amount is excessive and the
$4,000 must be paid at once.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
TEARS RESTORE
WOMAN'S SIGHT

CINCINNATI, Oct. 12.-Tears of
Joy flooding the eyes of Mrs. Marie
Gambia, 80, washed away thin,
milky curtain from her left eye to-
day, restoring sight that had been
lost for 35 years.
The recovery Of her son. Alonzo
c. Gambia, from long and critical
illness brought about change
where oculists had failed. Gambia
was i'll for months. For days he
was at the brink of death.
His suffering weighed on the
aged mother and when he at last
recovered, she wept for Joy with
the result that her eyesight was re-
stored.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
BY cILsoN GARDNER

HAMILTON, Mont, Oct. 12.-ln
previous articles l have told how II
is still possible for man with
$1,000 capital to acquire on govern
ment irrigation lands independence
and home. Ii
This article is for the man with
more capital than that, and has to
do with lands reclaimed by the big
private corporation. There is no
government irrigation in this valley
of the Bitter Root--a valley never
theless, among the most favored in
the world. Here are orchards, and
from here come those wonderful
red apples which you occasionally
see and often read about, and here
are those acres which yield those
fabulous sums-a thousand, fifteen
hundred, two thousand from a
single acre in single season.
Is 1t true? Oh, yes.
This article is for the man who
wants to know more about that
and who perhaps has dreamed of
leaving his city life and taking up
the leisure of the man who has an
income from O few hundred thriv-
ing trees, and who longs for out
door life-its relaxation, health
and the beauties of the mountains
and bright sunny skies.
Is it possible to get In on a prop
osition of that kind? How? How
much does it cost?
At the risk of seeming to pro-
mote the interests of the horde Of
land sharks who abound on every
side | shall attempt to give true
answers to a few questions of this
sort.
!, 1t is possible There is every rea-
son to believe that the orchard
dream" can come true. To the man
who visits the valley of the Bitter
Root 1t looks very real. The income
may not reach the big figures
quoted freely in the advertising
folders, but the income from 10
acres in proper orchard stock ought
to put the owner beyond all reach
of want. 1t is beyond the expert
mental stage. 1t is at the stage
where few thousands dollars in
vested now can hardly fail to solve
the problem of a ripe old age. (Ad
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
WHITE
COMING HERE

Word has been received by Will
liam Matthews that John 2. White
of Chicago will be in Spokane De
cember 13 to 20 and ~ to 81. Mr..
White is one Of the great orators
Of the country and is lecturing in
the interest bf political reforms
and advanced legislation. He will
be at the disposal of local advo-
Gates of progressive politics.
Arrangements will be made for
meetings during his stay in this
city. Apd general invitation will
be, extended to all who are inter-
ested in progressive government to
attnd his lectures.