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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

A well-broken horse will stand until
his owner adjusts the robe. takes up
the reins and gives him the word
to go.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Then there will be found forked
crotches which need strengthening and
can be nicely accomplished by boring
q small hole through each limb. insert
ing an iron bolt with washers upon
each end.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

Farmers' and stockmen's meetings.
college short courses and farmers In
stitutes are important educational op-
Dortunities at this season OF the year.
It will pay 70 make the most Of them
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

To make fall pigs do well they must
be provided with warm sleeping quar-
ters at night and filed with sunshine
during the day.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

1t is an advantage to raise turkeys.
not only for swelling your bank &C.
count, but also for the many injurious
insects they destroy.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

When the old turkey hens are set
take the same method with them as
with the hen mother and brood. and
take care to provide large coop.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-03-09

See that the poultry houses are
properly ventilated at night. To com
pei fowls to roost in a close, filthy
place is good way to have unhealthy
stock.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19

protest and back the officers of the city
in spite of the money back of this kind
of thing is as bad as Judas who be-
trayed an innocent man for a few
pieces of silver.
when public sentiment of our city
permits the stage of the most beautlful
playhouse we have, one supposed to be
dedicated to music and art and nothing
but the most wholesome recreation, TO
be filled with a noisome, tawdry re-
production of the part of Paris which
generations of unprincipled 'spenders
have produced we are certainly in the
way Of her whose steps take hold on
hell
THE same high-minded spirit which
has brought us to a fame among the
cities Of the earth as an ideal place for
a man to build a home, rear his fam
lily and live his life to the full will rise
in rebuke that will be heard in every
box office of that part of the theatrical
world where lust for gold has stltied
every ennoblng ambition. We can Pro-
test in no uncertain sound and make
it possible for the mayor and city Of
ficers to prevent such insults to the
moral ideals of the people who live
here from the insult of such presenta-
tions In the name of the drama.
"The magnet which lures thousands
here is the high tone the city has. If
ten years hence we are to lead the
cities Of the land in increase of pop
ulation we must maintain the stand
ards which lead the best kind Of fam
lilies to come here to live"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
CERTIFICATES DISAPPEAR;
CHINESE WANTS $4,000
Suit in Texas Shows Value Set
on Privilege to Enter the
United States
Especial to The HeraldO

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 1S.-It is worth
$4,000 to a Chinaman to be admitted
into the United States, according to the
contention in suits filed in the district
court here by two Chinese laborers,
Ng Lee and Ng Yoo. Alleging unlaw-
full seizure of certificates permitting
them to remain in this country, the
Chinese have brought action against
immigration officers, secret service op-
orators and officials of the customs
department. Each plaintiff asks dam
ages in the sum of $4,000 Each GER
tificate is valued at $4,000, and in ad-
dition to this amount each sues for
$4,000 for exemplary damages.
In their petition the Chinese state
that last September they were in pos
session of certificates which permitted
them to remain in the United States
as Chinese laborers; that they returned
to China, taking the certificates with
them, and that just before starting
back to the United States they mailed
the certificates in a registered letter to
June Lee, a fellow countryman in San
Antonio, to insure safe delivery.
When they arrived here and demand
ed of Lee their papers he handed them
the empty envelopes in which the cer-
tificates had been mailed from China.
The plaintiffs allege that the certifi-
Gates were unlawfully seized by fed
eral officers.
that $4,000 is a modest valuation. 1t
is a poor Chinese laborer who cannot
save $500 year. The average Chinese
remains in this country between twen-
ty-tive and thirty years, and then, with
his savings, goes back to the Celestial
empire a rich man in the eyes of his
countrymen.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
COMPANY LETS CONTRACT
FOR TWENTY-SiX DERRIcKS
Wealthy PhiIadeIphians Aid North
American Petroleum Project

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 1S.--A
contract has been let by the North
American Petroleum company for the
construction of twenty-siX standard
derricks, together with various camp
buildings, N the Kramer Barstow dis
trict, on the Mojave desert in this
county Work is to start at once Al
ready five carS of machinery and 25,-
600 feet of lumber with ten mules are
at Hawes. IN the Santa Fe tracks, five
miles south of the field.
Wealthy Philadelphia men are behind
the North American company and SO
pleased are the directors with the re-
port of their field engineers that tWen-
ty-six derricks will be built at once.
They will all be on section 10 of the
Hiawatha district. A local syndicate
owns all he school land for radius
of a number of miles about the field
of the North American company. The
first well is. to be put down within a
few miles of the Kramer Consolidated
well, from which tools lost since May
have Just been recovered. The Kramer
people claim that they have struck
high gravity oil.
r. c. Andre has the contract with
the North American company and the
agreement is on file in the county re-
corder'S office.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
WOMEN ALL OVER WORLD
REVOLT, PREACHER SAYS
No More Slavery to Man. De.
CIares Fellowship Minister
in Sermon

woman is in revolt the world over
declared Reynold E. Blight, minister
Of the Los Angeles Fellowship. in an
address at Blanchard hall yesterday
morning, speaking on the subject, rs
the Modern Woman a Slave or a
Queen?" "She is in rebellion against
the slavery Of ignorance, of economic
dependence upon man, of special dis
elimination and political disability.
Women demand not that man shall
worship them, but that they shall be
freed from the degrading tyrannies
that have hitherto prevented their
fullest intellectual and moral develop
ment Remove the absurd limitations
that artificial conventionality have
placed around her and give her free
dom for the fullest self-expression.
"The race has reached that stage OF
evolution where no step can be taken
without the cooperation of the sexes.
The stern masculine virtues of aggres-
siVeness and strength must be tenn
pered by the fem nine virtues of purity,
patience and ideality.
"The coming woman, emancipated
and self-reliant, shall have lost none
Of the splendid charm of trre femin-
nifty, but free, self-poised. brave and
tender shall work heart to heart W n
man in combating the evils that af-
feet society and shall help him re
mold the world nearer to the hearts
desire"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
NEW PALMER OIL WELL
INCREASES ITS OUTPUT

The Palmer Oil company's new wells,
Nos. 3B and Alb, continue to increase
in output as the sand clears. There
is a heavy gas pressure in both OF
them, more than 800 pounds to the
inch, and they are expected to soon
flow as much as well No. 2, which is
an 5000 barrel a day gusher. 1t in
variably takes some little time to get
a well flowing in the Cat canyon dis
trict.
All of the Palmer the Brooks and
the Dome wells have come in with
small output, and several of them have
been on the pump for couple Of
months before beginning to flow
Interest in the Santa Maria field is
now centered on the Palmer Junior No.
I we'll which is down about 5000 feet
and is expected to come in at any mo-
ment. The bringing in of this well
will prove a large area of Palmer ter
ritory in that vicinity. The drill has
already passed through one stratum
of pay sand Of sufficient thickness and
saturation to make a good well. 1t Is
believed that the lower pay streak VIII
be thicker and of higher saturation
than it is farther south in the big
Palmer wells.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
DANCING BENEFICIAL
DECLARES MINISTER
Rev. {. Stanton Hodgin Asserts
Puritanism Makes Life Mar
row and Starved

In his sermon on "The Enlargement
of Life at the First Unitarian church.
Rev. E. Stanton Hodgin said: Our
Puritan and Quaker ancestors tried to
purify life by eliminating all institu-
tions from which evil flowed. Dancing,
card playing. the theater and all forms
of amusement were thus placed under
the ban. Life under this regime be-
came thin and narrow and starved. We
now know that publication must come
through the enlargement of life rather
than through the narrowing of it. Our
young people must have plenty of
wholesome amusement and entertain
ment if life is to become virile and rich.
Nothing Is more essential than that
Young people should become well ac-
quainted with each other and under as
normal conditions as possible, before
they settle down into permanent life
relations together The influence of CO.
education is good as far as it goes, but
it needs to be supplemented by some
thing much more voluntary and elastic.
The church may well take upon itself
the work of affording this further op-
portunity. 1t should not only bring
young people together while warmed
by the religious and devotional senti-
ment, but should afford them oppor-
tunities to do some serious work and
study together in the quest of the
ideal: it should furnish them oppor-
tunities to work together in the cause
of social and civic betterment; IL
should give them their hours of spon-
taneous social life together The dance
is the most spontaneous and natural of
all forms of social activity and as a
means of social relaxation for a short
time after a period of serious work to-
gether it may be most beneficial. The
same is true of games and amuse-
ments. It is in coming together in
these various activities that they may
come to know each other as they real
ly are. BY carefully avoiding all excess
life becomes enlarged and enriched
and a maximum opportunity for good
is given with a minimum chance for
evil"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
MINING AND OIL
OAKLAND OIL PROMOTER |
HELD FOR COURT TRIAL
Or. C. Howard Merritt Accused
of Making False Represent
tationS to Sell Stock

% SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1S-Dr. .
Howard Merritt of Oakland, presloehl
of the Haiwee Pacific Oil compGhys.
has been held by Judge SamuelS OF
Oakland for trial before the superior
court in Alameda county, charged Win
making false representations concern-
ing the company. These representa-
tions were included in pamphlets when
were circulated for the purpose of sell
ing stock DR.. Merritts arrest was
the result of an investigation made by
State Mineralogist Aubury, who sent
agents to the land claimed by the
Haiwee Pacific Oil company and also
personally visited the wells of the
company.
Complaints, so Aubury testified at
the preliminary hearing, had been re-
ceiVed concerning the company ana
these led him to make the investiga-
ton. He saw both wells of the COM
pany, and there was no indication tnat
any commercial quantity of oil, II, IN
deed, any, had been produced. the
sand showed no discoloration such as
would be produced by oil.
Paul w. Prutzman, special represen-
tative of the California state mining
bureau, testified that he visited the
land claimed by the Haiwee Pacific
Oil company. He could not find any
thing to indicate the existence OF oil
in the surrounding country adjacent
to the two wells of the Haiwee Pacif1o
company. He saw no signs of any OIL
production from the wells.
DIR. Merritt presented no testimony
in his own behalf. His attorneys raised
the point that the company's office
was in Inyo county and that the Ala
media courts had no jurisdiction. Judge
Samuels said that it appeared that
enough had been done in Alameda
county to give jurisdiction, and he ac-
cordingly held Merritt for trial, fixing
the bond at $500.
The prosecution was brought under
the California act for the protection
of stockholders. For making misrep-
reservations concerning a corporation,
a penalty of Imprisonment for not more
than two years or a fine not exceeding
S500O or both, is provided.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
COUNTY HOSPITAL INMATES
TO HAVE CHRISTMAS CHEER
Christian Endeavor Society Plan
ming Work of Charity

The Christian Endeavor society Of
Los Angeles is planning to do work
of charity in providing Christmas
cheer to the inmates of the county hos
pital Wednesday of this week a
present will be given each patient at
the hospital. A Christmas tree will be
erected in the chapel and program
will be given from to o'clock.
Mrs. e. r. Hudson, superintendent OF
the hospital benevolent work, Will have
general charge of the gifts which will
include shoulder shawls and bed slip
Ders for the women and neckties, socks
and handkerchiefs for the men. Five
hundred patients will be cared for in
this way.
Mrs. F. P. Rossiter will have charge
of the program to be presented by the
Junior orchestras of the city and Miss
Margaret Jarman will give several
solos.
Gifts will be received by the En-
deavOrers at 215 o. r. Johnson build
ing and gratefully acknowledged.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
KRAMER ON THE PUMP

BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 1s.-Despite
contrary reports, the Santa Fe is said
to be rapidly pushing ahead the devel-
opment work on the new oil field at
IIa ives. nine miles south of Kramer, on
the Mojave desert, and only a day or
two ago a carload of drilling machinery
was unloaded there by the railroad. A
well versed oil man who came from
Hawes Friday said that the old well in
which the tools were lost some time
ago was now on the pump, the tools
having been recovered and that the
well is making a showing.
The work in the vicinity OF Kramer
is also steadily progressing, he said,
and a showing of oil is expected within
a short time
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
MRS. FRANCIS PIERCE DIES,
AGED NEARLY FOUR SCORE
Two Sons Prominent in Educa-
tionaI and Church Circles

Mrs. Francis Clark Pierce, wife of
the late James Washington Pierce, and
mother of Professor Edward T. Pierce,
many years the president of the State
Normal school here, and of the Rev.
c. C. Pierce, pastor of Memorial Bap-
tist church, died yesterday afternoon
following years of declining health.
She was 79 years old. Since the death
of her husband some years ago, she
had lived with her only daughter, Mrs.
Catherine Wheat, 1907 West Ninth,
where her death occurred
Mrs. Clark was born in Franklin,
New York, December 4, 1881. She was
married at an early age and lived
there until the close of the civil war,
in which Mr.. Pierce fought until the
close Later the family moved west
ward, coming to Los Angeles several
years ago, Beside Professor Pierce and
the Rev. c. c. Pierce. six other sons
survive. They are Herbert, Robert W.,
William H, NJ. A, Fred e. and c. W.,
all of whom live in Los Angeles.
Private funeral services will be held
at the residence Wednesday afternoon
at 1:9O o'clock Friends are invited to
call Tuesday and burial will take place
Tuesday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
GOLDEN RULE POLICE
ARREST LIVELY GHOST

CLEVELAND. sIt peaceful hour OF O'CLOCK
seventh precinct
the
not a be
his as
His STUCK
out
unnin around your oil
everybody
pnched I'll drinks
blooming hawkin,"
o
The patrol wagon
ghost
clad in night shirt
Who S as ked
The he doo
Wesley suffering from
being bundled up in blankets
him. 1t au
discovered he his bedroom
still stood around
That wasnt a home"
ghost You're
home"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
FRIENDS HONOR MINISTER
ON ElGHTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
Rev. S. {. Wishard breaches at
Highland Park Church

Celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday
anniversary, the Rev. S. r. Wishard
conducted special old folks service
Yesterday morning at the High and
Par Presbyterian church ana preac. d
an eloquent sermon.
Or Wishard, who has completed
hfty-thrce years in the a tive minis
try If the church, is well known in Los
Angeles. In preparation for the ser
vice autos were sent out to convey the
aged to the church. 1t was filled by
many friends of the clergyman from
all parts of the city.
DR.. Wishard served as a missionary
among the Mormons in Utah and since
retiring has devoted much of his time
to literary work, publishing two books
on religious themes. Three years ago,
at the age of 81, he went to China
alone to visit his daughter, who is a
missionary there with her husband.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
DETECTIVES ON HUNT FOR
GANG OF NEGRO F00TPADS
Dark Men Perpetrate Dark Deeds
in Dark Places

Holdups by negro footpads have be-
come so frequent during the past week
that the city detectives have received
orders to go to special lengths to round
up the colored robbers.
Several robberies on the streets by
negroes have occurred in East Los An
geles recently, and according to the
detectives, there are indications that
all tha work is being done by the same
gang. The capture of one negro. it
is believed, will be sufficient to secure
evidence that win lead to the arrest of
III the holdup men.
In each case the negroes have fol-
lowed their victim until he has
reached a dark, shaded spot. Here one
man rushed in front of the victim, or
dering him to stop and threatening
him with a revolver while the others in
tho gang went through his pockets. In
most of the robberes two negroes have
taken part, though in one instance
there were as many as four
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
CLERGY PENSION
FUND PROGRESSES
First Triennial Report of EpiSco-
pal Church Commission
Reaches L. A.
ENDEAvOR TO RAISE 5 MILLION
Result of Investigation Shows
Average Minister'S Salary
Is $500 a Year

The first triennial report of the five
million-dollar general clergy pension
fund commission of the Episcopal
church has reached Los Angeles and is
proving of special interest to the many
friends of the Rev. ]. j. Wilkins,
former dean and rector of St. PauPs
pro cathedral, who has served as sec
retary and general field agent toward
raising the fund.
The movement toward raising such q
pension fund was inaugurated in the
diocesan convention of the diocese of
Los Angeles in 1907 and presented as a
memorial from this diocese to the gen.
eral convention of the church which
met that year and which unanimously
indorsed the movement.
DR.. wilkins, then stationed in. Los
Angeles. was appointed secretary of the
movement, and in 1908 assumed the
work of raising the fund, toward which
a goodly sum has already been attained
and the work has been firmly estab-
lished.
The report says:
"The salary paid our average clergy
man is cruelty meager. This has been
disputed. 1t has recentlv been contend
ed that generally speaking, his income
is quite sufficient for his needs, and
that in the few instances it is not, the
discounts he sometimes receives on his
purchases and his opportunities for
truck gardening or farm tilling make
his earthly lot something to be envied
rather than deplored. But the last re-
port of the United States census bu-
reau on this subject effectualy shat
ters that absurd fiction. 1t shows, by
figures indisputable, that the average
annual salary paid to the clergy of this
church in cities of the first, second,
third and fourth class-in cities, that
is ranging in population from 25.Ovo
upward-is only $1242, and if it be only
of wealth and influence, it requires no
vivid imagination to conceive how
much more desperately small it must
be in the Indulgence of the frontier.
where clergy wear out their lives i'll
the loneliness of heart breaking
isolation, and in the islands OF the
sea. We know of an old and large dio-
cese in which the average salary is
only S665 per year. OF another that
pays four of her clergy $1,000 per an
mum. the remainder from $70O to $500.
"All this forces US. in the absence or
better, real information, to conclude
that the salary paid by this American
church, this church of notable wealth
and culture, to her average clergyman,
is. as the secretary of the general
clergy relief fund has published abroad,
not more than 500 per year. upon
which he and that unsalaried servant
of the church, his wife-must live
live like gentlefolk. Impossible! Yet
they are gentlefolk. and they do, some
how, live like gentlefolk-gentlefolk
who do not murmur. who make no
complaint"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
ORDERS RIG MATERIAL

The Santa Maria Midway Oil COM
pany has ordered the material and
power for development work on its 800
acres of the Tepesquet rancho, and will
soon spud in it's first well.
The Princess Oil company, on an ad-
joining holding, is down about 800 feet
in web No. l. and is making fine prog
ress. These properties are about two
miles from the Palmer well. and judg-
Ing from the log of the Princess are on
the same formation as the latter.
Albert II. Beach, president of the
Santa Maria Midway, recently received
an offer from an eastern syndicate for
the company's holdings, but after con-
sulting the directors refused. it is said.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
RAILROAD CUTOFF WILL
MAKE MAIN LINE A BRANCH
New Route to Connect Portland
with San Francisco

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Dec. 1S.-
According to the statement of julius
Kruttschnitt, director of operation and
maintenance of the Southern Pacific
and Union Pacific railroads, klamath
Falls will be on the main line from
Portland, Ore, to San francisco after
next July. He has announced that the
new cutoff" will be finished about
June 30.
That portion of the road between Eu-
gene, Ore, and Weed Cal, which is
now the main line, will be in the posi-
tion of branch or connecting link
between these two cities. Ashland,
MeG rd, Grants Pass and other grow
ing cities will not be on the main line.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
WOMEN AND MEN ROLL
NAKED IN SN0WBANK
TO REGAIN YOUTH

CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-Seven men
and three women. devoid of rail-
ment. wallowed and iolled in the
snow in a back YARD at Evanston
in the belief that thus they would
renew their youth. The youngest
was As, the Oldest So.
The women were separated from
the men by an eight-foot board
fence. over which they threw snow
balls at one another.
The institution where this took
place Is the Kosmos Physical Gull
ture sanitarium, and the "cure" is
known as the first aid to nature"
DR.. Henry e. Lane, who conducts
the sanitarium, had a similar place
on the north side until he was
forced to leave because of the criti-
cisms of his neighbors.
The snow cure is combined with
the sun cure. and in both treat
ments DR.. Lane insists on nudity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
JOHN S. WILLETTS, NOTED
POPULIST IN KANSAS, DEAD

TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 1S.-John S.
Willetts, the first Populist candidate
for governor of Kansas, who made a
close but unsuccessful Eace against
Governor Lyman u. Humphreys in
1890, when the Farmers Alliance was
gaining tremendous headway in Kan
sas, died suddenly at his home at Nc
Louth, Kas., this afternoon. Death
was due to heart disease.
The Populists always claimed that
Willetts was Counted out" in 1890
when he made the race for governor,
and these charges Of election fraud
helped in 1892 to bring about the cleo
ton Of Lorenzo d. Lewelling, the first
Populist governor the state ever had.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-19
RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED
AGAINST MOULIN ROUGE
CongregationaIists Favor Sup
preston of Performance

Following a sermon by the pastor,
the Rev. William Day, on the subject,
Am 1 My Brothers Keeper" at the
First Congregational church last night,
resolutions were passed by the congre-
CATION, voicing it's support in any, at
tempt by the mayor or any officials 10
prevent the performance of the "Mou-
lin Rouge" at the Auditorium this
week.
Following is a copy Of the resolu-
tions:
"Resolved. That we, the people of
the First Congregational church, do
promise to support the mayor and the
city officials in any attempt to sup
press the queen of the Moulin Rouge
and any other such theater perform
ances from being given in the city of
Los Angeles. This is in the interest OF
the true art as well as the good NOR
ais of the city"