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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-08-13
HIGHwAYMEN
GET RICH HAUL
Rob the Stage Out Of Mogol-
Ion and Get $40, 900 Gold
Bullion; Kill Driver and
Escape.
SOME OF
THEIR 0

Silver City, n. NJ, Aug. 6.-Higbwsy.
men AT 2:3O o'clock this morning held
np the Merriott private express stage
from MoRollon, stole twelve bars of
gold bullion valued ut 100000, killed
the stage driver, Jose Dominguez, aud
escaped.
Posses are today in hot pursuit Of the
robbers. II IL believed they made for
the wild country to the southwest ia
the hope of reaching Old Mexico.
This stage was late In arriving ut
Glenwood, about ten miles down the
mountain from Mogollon and Driver
Jack House. who was To relieve Domin.
guez, started out to learn what was
the matter. When he arrived on the
scene he found the stage standing along
the road, the driver dead in the ditch.
The presumption Is that the ronoers
shot Dominguez In the back. They
then cut the telephone wires. II is
thought that the robbers were recOg
niled by the driver and that is the
reason they killed him without making
an effort To capture him.
The robbery occurred nj the same
spot where the holdup Of Thursday II
week ngo occurred. 1t il one mile out
Of Mogollon, right at the top Of the
hill.
Immediately on the discovery of the
robbery Driver House drove into Glen.
dale, unhiiching his horse from his
wagon, and notified the people there.
The news was brought here and Charles
W. Msrriott, who has the mail contract,
organized n posse. The posse nj =
O'Clock this morning started for the
mountains in pursuit of the robbers.
Another posse vas organized at Mo.
gollon aud Glendale and these joined in
the pursuit.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
UNCONVENTIONAL SCHOOLS.

The state board of education is
taking steps for the recognition of
those denOminational schools, which
desire to have their graduates given
certificates to teach without further
examination. A committee consist
ing of Prof. J. n. Deahl. of the Uni
versity, and supt. C. R, Murray, of
the Williamson schools, was appoint
ed to formulate basis of COMPARE
son between the denominational and
normal schools, so that when the
former give course equal to the
normal schools, proper recognition
can be given.
Examinations for teachers will be
held at Charleston and Williamson
January 2S and go.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
SEVERE WEATHER ON QUAILS.

The local sportsmen are consider
ably concerned about the quails du-
ring the severe weather that has pre-
vailed for the past two weeks, as
these are the most helpless birds of
any during snow storms. A covey
will huddle up together until they are
entirely covered, and never make an
effort, like other winter birds, to
hustle for shelter or for sustenance,
while the snow is on the ground
whole coveys are frequently found
lying together starved or frozen to
death. The farmers frequently en-
counter them and take them to shelf
cred places during the severe winter
season, otherwise they would be al.
most entirely annihilated.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
SHIP BY RAIL INSTEAD OF RIVER.

1t has been announced that the
U. S. Steel Corporation has. bought
the holdings of the Monongahela
Consolidated Coal Company which
operates mines along the MOnOnga-
hela river and ships its products by
river to Southern markets.
1t is said that the new owners viii
stop the river shipments and send
their output to the lakes via the Car
negie road. This action was taken
to have tonnage for the ore cars IN
returning to the lakes. 1t viii leave
the Southern market open nearly
entirely to the Kanawha coal field.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
STATE CONVENTION
OF THE D. A. R.
ANNUAL STATE MEETING TO BE HELD
AT WARRINGTON.

With two hundred delegates at
tending, the annual state convention
of the Daughters of the Revolution
will open for three days session in
Warrington on January 18th. The
meeting promises to be one of the
most successful ever held and will be
attended by number of Wheeling
delegates. A very interesting pro-
gram for the convention is now be-
ing arranged by the Warrington
branch who are making special ar
rangements for the comfort of the
visiting delegates. At the closing
day of the convention officers for the
ensuing year will be elected and a
banquet held.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU GETS BUSY.
InternaI Revenue collector Georg.

internal Revenue Collector George
f. Work is sending out from Parkers-
burg this week blanks to the various
manufacturing corporations which
they are to fill in and forward setting
forth their annual net income. The
blanks are to contain figures for the
year ending December slst, 1909,
and must be in the hands of the col
lector of the district properly filed
out and certified prior to March lst
next. Deductions from the total in
come are allowed by law, such as
necessary cost of maintenance and
operation, loss sustained and depre-
citation, interest on bounded indebted
ness and taxation an bonded indebted
ness and taxes paid, etc. From the
gross receipts the reductions are made
and on the net income futher cred
it of 900 is made, and upon the
result tax of one per cent Is made.
For instance, in a company making
81, 900 in the year credit ofs5,ooo
would be made, and the one per
cent tax made on the remaining S.
600, or $50.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
DEATH RECALLS A ROMANCE FULL OF
PATHOS.

Parkersburg. W. Va, Jan. H.
Tolbert o. Bullock, one ofthe prom
inent attorneys of this section of the
state, dropped dead here. He was a
stepson of the late Governor Authur
l. BOFeman, West virginia's first a-
ecutive, and was widely known in Ie-
gal and social circles throughout the
State.
There is romance both pretty and
pathetic in the life of Tolbert Bull
lock, and one with which Parkers-
burgs society circles are perfectly
familiar. Several years age when the
decedent was young man he fell IN
love with one of Parkersburg's most
prominent society girls, who return
ed his affection and they became en-.
gagged. Attic time of their engage
ment young Bullock drank considera-
bic and his fiancee told him he must
give up drink or her and he tried
hard to throw off the habit. For a
time it looked as though he would
succeed and that the future was des-
tined to be happy series of years,
but each time, the call of the cup
that cheers was answered until finally
the girl told him she could see only
unhappiness in store for both of them
and gave him back the signal of her
loves surrender, but told him she
would never marry another man so
long as he lived and he gave her the
same promise. Both kept those
promises and death found him true
to the troth he had plighted in his
boyhood, and to the girl he loved be-
yond all other things in life. She
has kept her promise also.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
SOUTHERN INVENTORS.

The following patents were issued
this week to Southern inventors re,
ported by D. Swift & Co., Patent
Lawyers, Washington, D. c.
Kentucky-E. Moraweck, Louis
vile, surgical forceps.
Tennessee-w. B. Peak, Pinhook
Landing. Obstetrical bed. L. Stowe,
Knoxville, ironing board; ]. C. Tas-
set, Nashville, boiler tube expander.
West viaginia-T. A. J. Hen
bricks, Board Tree, railway tie plate.
Copies of any of the above patents
will be sent to any of our readers
upon the receipt of ten cents by D.
Swift & Co., Washington, D. c.,
our special patent correspondents.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
TURNING A NEW LEAF.

The custom of swearing off, and
turning a new leaf has become
one about which many jokes are
cracked, yet the principle back of it
is a sound one. 1t is well to halt
amid the rush of life's complexities
and have little self-introspection.
That life is poor indeed which has no
purpose and no purposeful life can be
progressive without some time spent
in serious contemplation. So it is
good to improve the relaxation ofthe
holiday season by taking stock of
the advance or failure made during
the year, which for better or worse,
has gone forever beyond our power
to change.
If we have failed to measure to
the standard set at its beginning
there is no wiser course than to re-
solve to try again.
Our character is the only possess
ion we have which we carry beyond
the grave with us. What we build
there will be our only source ofhap,
piness and wealth in the Great Be,
yond! So surely as the sun shines,
truth and virtue are the same there
as here. Naked, our souls mus,
surely stand some day in the beating
light ofjudgment. Unthinking with
out purpose or plan will find little t.
stand on there.
So let the first day of the new
year be the mile stone By which yor
compute the progress you have made
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
TERESA new One
A BASEBALL PUZZLER THAT IS SIMPLE
ENOUGH WHEN FIGURED OUT.

Bill Clymer, the manager of the
Columbus (ohiO) club, while in New
York recently, sprung baseball
question that had the gang about the
Waldorf Woody for an hour or more.
Maybe you fans would like to figure
on it. Here it is:
There are three men on bases and
none out. The batter hits the ball.
1t is not a safe hit and there is no
error made. Still three runs score
and there are two assists and put
out on the play. Can you figure it
out?
After everybody had give up. ely
mer explained that that the batter
hit a drive up against tie fence
which scored the three men. But
in turning first he failed to touch the
bag. The right fielder threw to the
second baseman, who, in turn, re-
layed the ball to first, and the UNI
pire called the batter out. As he
did not reach the first base, his drive
could not go as hit, but as there
were none out the three runs count
ed. The right fielder and second
baseman get assists and the FIRST
baseman gets putout.
We will have to take off our hats
to Bill Clymer. There is no trick
about it. 1t is straight legitimate
play.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
WEST VIRGINIA GAS
FOR new YORK CITY
LITTLE MOUlEAIN FIELDS TO SUPPLY
NATIONS METROPOLIS.

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. sl.-The gas
fields of West Virginia and of west
ern Pennsylvania are to be called on
by the Standard Oil Company to sup
ply light and heat for Greater New
York and Philadelphia. 1t came out
here today that for many months the
Peoples Gas Company, of Pittsbdrg,
the Standard Oil cOmpany's prinei-
pal gas company, has been getting
rights of way and franchises through
different towns, between Pittsburg
and Philadelphia, following the line
of the Pennsylvania railroad. Johns
town, on the western slope of the
Allegheny mountains, has been Sc
cured by the new pipe line people
and the mountains will be crossed at
that point, the rights of way having
been already secured. Holidays
burg, Bellwood and Tyrone, on the
eastern side of the mountains, have
already given up franchise to the
Standard people, the understanding
being that eo-inch main, at a cost
of $4,000 per mile, is to be run
through to New York.
Gas will be supplied to New York
and Philadelphia at so cents per
thousand feet. The cost at Pitts
burg is now 81! cents per thousand
feet. The Hope Natural Gas Com
pany and the Reliance Gas Company,
which are the principal field compa-
mics of the Standard, will be looked
on to produce most of the gas for
New York pipes and their production
in West Virginia will be doubled.
According to information here today
the Standard will spend SIS, 900, 900
on the new scheme.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
HOGG DENIES
THAT He IS IN RACE FOR ADJUTINT
GENERAL, BUT SUSPICION STILL
LNGERS.

DR.. C. C. Hogg, who has been ac-
cused of putting in his palpitating
bosom, the bee of West virginia's
Adjutant-G eneralship has arrived
home from the other end of the state
where it is said he has been in con-
ference with the powers that be.
Doc is one of the fellows who go aft
er a thing desired with considerable
vim and if he is after that Office,
somebody will know there has been
fight put up for it, no matter who
wins out.
The doctor drfted in Thursday
evening, clam and smiling but when
the subject was preached to him,
wanted to know where such foolish
idea got loose but the look in his
eyes told that the subject was
mighty pleasant sounding one and
that he wasn't at all ayerse to sort of
lisping the thing over. He has sad
died himself for race against Major
Cramer, of Parkersburg, and Col.
Pratt, of Charleston, who has been
the Adjutant Generals Office since
N. S. Burlew, became the main pis-
ton in the machinery of the militia
Huntington Herald Dispatch.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05

One of the most interesting char
acters who ever made Huntington
his home has passed away-ex-police-
man Henry Childers, who for many
years was an active member of the
local police force. childers was a
policeman on the night Grover cleve-
land FIRST became President and that
night was generally acknowledged to
be the busiest any police department
IN Huntington had ever known.
Huntington never knew another like
him and probably never will.-Hunt.
ington Herald Dispatch.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
HEAVING THE LEAD.
banquet held.

The following interesting It'll,
table of figures was published las
week, but on account ola few wron!
figures is reproduced:
Fathom, feet; feet are called t,
lo!.
Quarter less Twain, 1ol feet.
Mark Twain, le feet.
Quarter Twain, IS! feet.
Half Twain, Is feet.
Quarter less three, l6l feet.
Mark three, IS feet.
Quarter three, lsl feet.
Half three, 81 feet.
Quarter less four, as! feet.
Mark four, "a feet.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
DEATH CERTIFICATES FOR DOGS.

The veterinarian was bandasing
the leg of French poodle when the
telephone rang, SO he asked the Wis
itor to take the message.
Please tell the DOCTOR" said a
woman at the other end of the wire,
THAT King Charles is dead and We
would like a death certificate right
away"
The visitor transmitted the news
of royalty demise, then added some
thing about the ''tOmfoolery of get
ting death certificate for dog"
1t may be tomfoolery,' y said the
veterinarian. ''but a lot of people
with pet cats and dogs are guilty of
it. If real King Charles was dead
and was making out certificate to
file with the board of health l should
take no more pains than I shall for
that family that has lost dog. His
age and the date of death will be re-
corded and the disease that carried
him of will be described in detail.
OF course the owners valuable ami
mails are most likely to ask for death
certificate, but very often the posses
sor of an ugly little cur that has crept
into his affections wants one too
New York Sun.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
HELD FOR ADEATH.

Clarksburg, W. Va, Dec. 90
Chas. Cunningham and Harry ThOrne
were held here for the grand jury,
resulting from the verdict of the cor,
nor's jury, which inquired into the
death of Geo. BOalo, who died in the
county Jail, from a fractured skull,
after being elected from the Trader.
saloon Christmas night. Both gave
bond.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
ANDREW JACKSON NOT DEAD.


Andrew Jackson was a great
man," says Senator Aldrich, but
he is dead
The Senator from Rhode Island is
mistaken. Andrew Jackson is not
dead; but the United States Bank is
dead.
When Senator AIdrich introduces
his bill for the creation of a central
bank of issue he will find that Old
Hickory is still on guard and will
have to be reckoned with.-New
York World.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
PROMINENT MAN DEAD.

Wheeling, W. Va, Dec. a9.-N.
E. Whitaker, former member and
President of the West Virginia Com
mission to the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, head of the Whitaker
Glessner Company, the second larg-
est Independent iron works of this
district, and largely interested in
other corporations, died here last
night of pneumonia, aged II years.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
A FOOLISH QUESTION.

A reader of the New York World
writes to that paper to ask whether
it is propre for young man to send
candy to girl whom he has met but
once. What a question! Why,
most young men begin handing a girl
taffy as soon as they are introduced
to her.-washington Post.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
MARRIED At POINT pleasant.

Clifford L. ohlinger, son of Philip
ohlinger and wife, of Lincoln Hill,
and Miss Eva L. BOrham, of Racine.
took out marriage license at Point
Pleasant last week, and We suppose,
ere this, have been united in the
bonds of holy wedlock.-Pomeroy
Tribune-Telegaph.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
QUEER GRAFT
IN FAYETTE COUNTY
HOW TWO WELL-DRESSED WOMEN
HECED A MERCHANT.

Was Sam NOvensky, prosperous
merchant, of Page, on the yirginian
Railway, in Fayette county, feeced
or blackmailed out of ss7 by two
stylish wOmena He doesn't know
himself just how their little game
would be classed, but he is minus
the 81 large round dollars just the
same and is trying to figure out how
he can prevent a threatened recur-
renee of the manipulation of the new
scheme which he says some pretty
and attractive crooks have originated.
1t seems from Mr.. Noyenski's ac-
count of the new game that two sty-
lishly dressed and pretty young la
dies came into his store at Page
three days ago and asked to look at
some silk shirt waists. He was alone
in the store when they came in, all
the clerks being at dinner. When
they requested to see his line of shirt
waists he turned to the shelves and
was taking down several of the arti-
cles, when one of the young women
Indignantly demanded of him that he
return her purse which she claimed
she had laid down on the counter
where he was placing the waists on
display. Novensky told her he had
not seen it, but it must be on the
floor or the counter. He looked for
it but it was no where to be found.
Her companion, he claims, here spoke
up and told the alleged loser that she
saw the merchant takeit. Complete
ly nonplussed, Novensky told them
that if they had lost pocketbook it
must have been somewhere else, as it
was not in his store. The women
next threatened to have him arrested
and created such a scene that the
merchant thought it best, as he is a
newcomer in the community, to set
tie with them as their evidence was
two to one, and then perhaps the
pocketbook had gotten mislaid in his
store and would turn up later, so he
paid them the sS7. and they immedi-
ately left. While Page is small
town, he had never seen the women
before, nor has he ever caught sight
of them since.
Novensky was much worried over
the loss of his money, and yesterday
when two other attractiveIy apparel
ed strange ladies came into his store
and tried the same racket, claiming
to have lost se7, he closed his store
and went to Charleston by the first
train to consult some friends in re-
gard to the proper course to pursue
to thwart any further attempts by the
alleged blackmailers.
1t is thought there that well or
gained gang of crooks are passing
through the coal towns of that Sec
ton, and working" the territory as
they go, as other crooked deals some
what similar have deem reported from
the same section of Fayette.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05

How do you tell bad eggf"
queried the young housewife.
Il never told any," replied the
grocer, but If 1 had anything to tell
a bad egg, I'd break it gently"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
DIXIE IS THE FIRST
IN AMERICAN SONGS. ACCORDING TO
GOVERNMENT EXPERT.

SAA SSeAAe-~S~AA@sS S'AAS 'S'@NS VI SA>
Southland. 1t says:
After long and labOrious inyestiga.
ton, learned government expert,
Mr.. o. G. Senneck, who is no les.
than chief OF the division of music o.
of the library of Congress, has dis.
covered that Dixie" is first II
American songs in patriotic popu.
larity Everyone else learned long
ago, without making any investiga-
ton at all. from Manila to Porto
Rico, from Terra del Fueso to the
north pole, the strains of Dixie
blood to leap and the lips to cheer.
To the people of the South dix
ie' was consecrated by the men who
followed Lee and Jackson and who
sang have burst forth and have caus-
ed the Dixie around the camp
fires and charged to its thrilling
strains in many a battle. Wherever
the Southerner hears its familiar
notes it takes him back down
home,' and his mind turns to the
land of cotton, away down South
in Dixie 1t is his own song. 1t
belongs to him as the Marseillaise'
belongs to the French or THE
Watch Along the Rhine to the
Germans.
But the very air of Dixie" is so
inspiring that it appeals to every
man with blood in his veins, and
though he may not know a line of
the words and may have no senti-
ment about it such as Southerners
have, it sets his feet to dancing and
carries him along with its dash and
swing.
Though the words and the tune
were written by Dan Emmett for the
old negro Ministries, the strains of
Dixie" must have been born in the
longing and memory of some forgot
ten exile for his home. Edouurd
Remenyle, the famous Hungarian
violinist, was fascinated by Dixie, >
and for years he made a study of it
hunting for its origin. He said he
found traces of it in the songs sung
by the negroes along the Mississippi
and that it was to be counted among
the folk-songs in which most of the
universal music has had its origin.
Whoever was its author-and the
authorship has been disputed ever
since it was written-whateyer its
origin, it is one of the great airs Of
the world and is as universal in its
appeal as the famous hymn of ROuget
de Isle.
Songs may come and songs may
go, but Dixie" goes on forever. 1t
runs away with Yankee Doodle, .
drives Marching Through Georgia
back to the woods, gives MY Coun-
try It's of Thee Hail Columbia
and certainly has THE Star-Span.
gled Banner" lashed to the mast.
1t is the liyeHest survival of the Con.
federacy and cannot be ignored OF
suppressed. Gathering together its
forces in the south, it has invaded
the north, overrun the continent and
made all the world sit up and listen.
Dixie has in it The tinkle o.
the banjo, the strains of the fiddle
and the bow, the strum ofthe piano,
the blow of the busle, the beat o.
the drum, the whistle of the fife anc
the swing and splendor of the full
brass band. When he hears it the ole
veteran sees the lines an gray still
fling by, and the old COnfederat,
exclaims: "And we go marchin.
on" For Dixie" is the song o
the dauntless heart, the song of tn,
south unconquered.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05

The supremest JOY of this season
consisted in making little childen
happy.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-01-24
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR

Every piece new. not a GAR
ment carried over rs. wei,
made, GOOD material. and
beautifully trimmed with dam
y aces and elllr0ldarias.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16

None OF the smartest shirt waists is made with the
stn collar and cuffs, They I have the collars ami
attached hand embroidered and with in hlet
or other nserngs such cluny and baby Irish This.
together with the coored crocheted buttons give them
a distinction and make them quite dressy enough for
any afternoon occasion.
number OF blouses shown made up of alloYer
embroderies Eyelet designs good In these but
English open effects better The greatest changes
all in the coored tues. and these will pro-
until the weather The silk tulies
have been much abandoned account OF their fraty