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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU GELS BUSY.

internal Revenue Collector George
E. Work IS sending out from Parkers-
burg this week blanks to the various
manufacturing corporations which
they are to FIJI in and forward setting
forth their annual net income. The
blanks are to contain figures for the
year ending December slst, 1899,
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 IS
necessary cost Of maintenance and
operation, loss sustained and depre-
eiatiOn, 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 futhercred-
it of 200 is made, and upon the
result a tax of one per cent Is made.
For instance, in company making
81 900 in the year credit of $4,000
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

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 Cleye-
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 md probablyneve will.-Hunt-
IingtOn Herald Dispatch.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
HOGG DENIES
THAT He IS m RACE FOR ADJUIABI
GENERAL, BUT SUSPICION STILL
LNGERS.

DR.. c. C. HOgg, who has beenae-
cused of putting in his palpitating
bosom, the bee of West virginia's
notwithstanding has arrived
home from the other end of thestate
where it is said he has been in con-
ference with the powers that be-
Doc is one of the fellows who goaft-
er thing desired with considerable
vim and if he is after that Office
somebody viii know there has been
a fight put up for it, no matter who
wins out.
The doctor drifted 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 allayerse to sorlof
lisping the thing over. He has sad
died himself for a 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
DEATR CETEICgTEN Dos.

The veterinarian was bandaging
the leg Of a French poodle when the
telephone rang, 50 he asked the vis-
itor to take the message.
Please ten the doctor said a
woman at the other end of the wire,
that King Charles IS dead and We
would ike q 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 tOmsoolery," said the
veterinarian. ''but 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 should
lake no more pains than I shall for
that family tLat has lost dog. His
age and the date of death will be re-
corded and the disease that carried
him of viii be described in detail.
OF course the owners Ofvaiuable 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
HEAVEC THE LEAD.

The following interesting It'll
table of figures was published las
week, but on account off few wroni
figures is reproduced:
Fathom, 9 feet; feet are called t
lo4.
Quarter less Twain, lo9 feet.
Mark Twain, le feet.
Quarter Twain, Isl feet.
Half Twain, 5 feet.
Quarter less three, 161 feet.
Mark three, IS feet.
Quarter three, ls3 feet.
Half three, 81 feet.
Quarter less four, eel feet.
Mark four, "a feet.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
HELD FOR

Clarksburg, W. Va, Dec. &c.
Chas. Cunningham and Harry ThOne
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 Traders
saloon Christmas night. Both gave
bond.
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 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
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 viii 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 NAN DEAD.

Wheeling. W. Va, Dec. e9.-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
QUEER GRAFT
N EAYETE COUNTY
HOW TWO EELgRESSD EOnN
HEECD 4 HERCaAlT

Was Sam Novenslky. a prospeFoas
merchant. of Page, on the yisginian
Railway, in Fayette county, aeeeed
or blackmailed out of ss7 by two
stylish womenl 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 threatened recuF-
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. Noyensky 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, Noyensky told them
that if they had lost a 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
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 a 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 attractively apparel
ed strange ladies came into his store
and tried the same racket, claiming
to have lost ss7, 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
tothwart 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
DIXIE IS DIE FIRST
m AMERICAN SONCS. ACCORDING TO
GOVERNMENT Expert.
= Dnie''-The Greatest Song q

GAA SueAAeSsSAA-sS SA4AS AotSAASS VI ZIG
Southland. It says:
After long and laboriOus investiga-
ton, a learned government expert,
Aar. o. G. Senneck, who is no less
than chief OF the division of music OF
of the library of Congress, has dis
covered that Dixie is FIRST in
American songs in patriotic pOpu-
lartyo Everyone else learned long
ago, without making any inyestigs-
ton at all. from Manila to Porto
Rico, from Terra del Fuego 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 battle. Wherever
the SOutherner hears its familiar
notes it takes him back down
home, . and his mind turns to the
sEland of cotton. away down South
in Dixie. 4" It 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 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
yiolinist, 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-whatever 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 Ny cOun-
try It's of Thee Hail Columbia
and certainly has ''The star-span-
gled Banner" dashed to the mast.
1t is the liyeliest survival of the Con.
federacy and cannot be ignored or
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 of
the banjo, the strains of the fiddle
and the bow, the strum ofthe piano,
the blow of the bugle, the beat of
the drum, the whistle of the fife and
the swing and splendor of the full
brass band. When he hears it the old
veteran sees the lines in gray still
fling by, and the old Confederate
exclaims; And we go marching
on.n For Dixie" is the song OF
the dauntless heart, the song of the
south uneOnquered.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
lueried the young housewife

How do you ten bad eggf"
queried the young housewife.
Il never told any" replied the
grocer, ''but If I had anything to tell
a bad egg, I'd break It gently,
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Hawaii is Voting Oa liquor Question.

Honlulu, July 25 For the first
time in their history the people of
Hawaii are voting today for or
against liquor traffic IN the islands.
The question has been agitated here
for some time. The agitation began
when a bill was introduced into the
United States senate which was to
enact prohibition for the territory.
Many persons regarded this as an in
friugement of local government and
it was owing to an expression of this
feeling that finally congress by d
joint resolution submitted the ques
tion of prohibition to the people of
Hawaii to be voted upon.
The situation is rather complicated
and it is difficult to predict the re-
suit Of the special election with any
degree of certainty. Recently the
prohibition leaders have been con
ducting rather active campaign
and there has also been a good deal
oe campaigning in behalf of the
liquor Interests. Many persons who,
while favoring the principal Of pro-
hibition, feel at the same time that
if would not be practicable to do bet
ter than continue under the present
laws which are pronounced the best
license laws in existence anywhere.
The copper era., 1910-08-05
25O,O0O Acres of Arizona Oil Land.
[Arizona Democrat.)

Receiver Arnold of the local land
Office received notice of the with
drawal from entry of the following
described land:
TOwship 40, north range I, 8 a 8
west, and towship Al north, range T.,
g, 8, 10, IL, u and 13 west, of the Gila
aud Salt River base and meridian
lines, and township 43 south, range Is
aud 16 west, of the Salt Lake meridian
line.
This embraces, in round numbers,
$50, 900 acres, and is situated north of
the Colorado river in northwestern
Mohave county. This is the strip of
land that the state of Utah has been
for so long trying to have congress
take from Arizona and give to her.
The order was made OH July and
the land withdrawn will be known as
Petroleum Reserve No. l. The order
Withdrawing this land was issued as
the surface showing there indicates a
Ilrge'oil deposit.
There seems 20 be a long strip of
country having oil indications extend
ing from northern Utah as far south
as Yuma county in this territory,
At the present time there is a great
deal of activity in oil prospecting
along the Bill Williams river in
southern Mohave county. Several
companies have been formed to
exploit oil fields near Swansea.
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Smith Resigns From Head of Party

Prescott -Hoyal A. Smith tend
cred his resignation as chairman of
the territorial republican central
committee on the Goth inst, and
Albert NJ. Sames, of Douglas, was
elected his succestor at meeting of
the executive committee at the
Yavapai club.
Mr.. Sames has been a resident of
arizona for several years, and has
been prominently connected with the
republican party in the past. A
close friend of Mr.. Smith and a man
carrying much influence, his selec-
tion as chairman of the republican n
central committee created little sur
prise.
The new secretary is an attorney,
a graduate of the George Washing
ton university of Washington. He
is well known throughout Arizona
It is expected that Mr.. Sames will
Immediately form a closer organiza-
ton Of the party and take up the
work of campaign preceding the
election of delegates to the cQnsti-
tg,ionaI convention.
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Route fo7 the Post LObos Railroad by
AIOysius COll.

/ Douglas, Arizona, July-There has
b>en mucl speculation concern :ng
the route for the proposed railroad
from Tucson to Port Lobos, in the
Altar gold fields, and the right of
way is at last made known in the
articles Of Incorporate m which have
been from the field surveys, included
With other interesting data, now pub
lished.
The Incorporating named are
Arthur W. Edwards, Victor L. Mason.
Benjamin p. Cheney, William Nj.
Pryce, Geo &c w. Deitz, Benjamio
Goodrich aal William F. Staunton
and the company IS named the Ari
zoua, Mexico and Gulf of California
Railroad Company.
The incorporators subscribe S451 geo
of the capital stock of the company,
which is set down at $l3, 500, 900
divided into shares CT hundred dollars
each. This capitalization is an
noInced as sufficient to build the
road, buy what rights of way must be
purchased, and to supply motive
power and rolling stock. The direct
ors are Cheney, Mason, Staunton.
Pryce and Dietz The company is
organized under the laws of Arizona.
The new road will begin at a poin,
in Pima county, on the line of the
Arizona Southern, four miles north
west of Silver Bell Thence it viii
be, projected south and southwest
through Pima county to the inter
national boundary, which it will cross
at point twelve miles west of Sasabe.
Thence the lac viii round west and
southwest towards the Gulf of Cali
forna, following the gulf coast into
Port LObos. A branch will run from
a point eight miles north of Cholla
into Tucson, running easternly and
northeastern From point north
west Of Silver Bell another branch
will be projected in 4 northelly and
northeasternly direction through the
counties of Pima, Pinal aud Maricopa
to Phoenix.
The distance to be traversed by the
main line is Is miles, and the distance
to be traversed by the branches about
200 miles; 45O miles WILDE in the Re-
public of Mexico, and 275 miles in
Arizona, and the amount of capital |
subscribed represents a thousand !
dollars per mile. The head Office of
the road will be in Tucson, and a !
branch Office may be established in
New York or elsewhere. 1t has been
that the contract for build |
ing of the road has already been let
to contractors in New Jersey. The |
line will open rich mineral fields along |
its entire route, aad'59 give, it is under
stood, the Santa Fe an outlet to tide
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Arizona Skunk is Subject of Study.


Prof. Howard L. Simmons, who was
sent out by the department of the
interior to the desert parts of Ari-
zona to investigate the skunks of
these sections to find out if there is
any species of the hydrophobia
skunk here, has concluded his work.
After a close search of three
months he has found that this poison
Gus breed is missing among the
skunI1s of the desert. He is now in
the territory to see about the ex-
termination of the skunk populati tion
of Arizona, which the government is
soon to take up.
Prof Simmons stated that to his
knowledge there had been in the past
six weeks seven death in Arizona
from the bite of the hydrophobia
skunk and many more that had gone
to Los Angeles and other cities and
taken the Pasteur treatment for
bites. 1t is to end this danger that
the government will take a hand, as
t did with the prairie dog situation
in Kansas and other states.
In describing the poisonous skunk
Prof. Simmons said that it was much
smaller than the skunk found in Cali
tornia, aud it has a white striL {
across its back and on the sides, that
it is perfectly fearless and will crawl
in bed with a sleeping person and
take great deli ght in biting. Very
few persons bitten ever recover with
the PasIeur treatment.
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Relief Committee Has Hands Full.


Clothing Of all kinds, men :.
women's and children's, is needed
Immediately log the relief committee
engaged in aiding the Hood sufferers.
Any persons in Bisbee or outlying
districts having clothing in fairly
good state or repair that they wish
TO donate, will please send it to the
headquarters of the committee in
the central school bujlding at Bis
b e, or send word where it can be
called for. The need is immediate.
Distress growing out OF the storm
K becoming more manifest. Miss
Cummius, charity worker, in whose
hands is distribution of relief, being
be-ieged by numerous applicants.
As each applicant appeared his or
her name wds taken, questions asked
and told to return next day. In the
mean time the worthiness of the ap-
Iscant was undcr investigation. %
At 4 meeting hell jD,ntly between
the relief aud charity committees,
apportionmeut Of funds amounting to
500 was mad. among twenty-one
families. TGere are other families
- b. investigated befor further ap
p0rlioLment can he made
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Democrats Adopt Platform at Douglas

NcllNOT DeltJ
At an enthusiastic meeting of
Douglas democrats, the following
platform aud declaration of party
principals was adopted:
1--WE, the democratic club of the
city of Douglas, hereby declare the
following to be the principles for
which we stand at the forthcoming
constitutional election, aud pledge
our support to the candidates only
who will explicitly declare their
endorsement of such principles
"First. We declare ourselves in
favor of a safe aud sane, but at the
same time progressive constitution
"Second. Believing that this is
government by the people as well as
of the people, and that anything
which centers power more directly in
the voters themselves is a step in the
right direction, we demand that self
executing provisions for the initiative
and referendum on all amendments
t) the constitution and on legislative
enactment5 be placed in our cOnstitu
tion, aud that all candidates for the
Constitutional convention be asked to
declare their position on this question.
"Fhird. We believe that every
dollar of capital invested in the ter
ritory should be given every safeguard,
while at the same time insisting that
the private citizen should be fully pro-
tected against an undue exercise of
corporate power.
Fourth. We favor an employers
liability clause similar in general ma
ture to the federal railroads liability
act, but covering all employers of
labor"
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Good Work Being Done Says DR.. BuTtch.

Editor Record, Thatcher, Arizona.
Dear Sir:-I have noted with great
pleasure from time to time your
articles on the subject of sanitation.
Your paper is the pioneer in this
line in this country, and l desire to
commend the stand you have taken,
The problem of keeping clean, as
community as well as personally, is
one of the greatest that is before
the people today, and l am glad the
cause has so sincere an exyouent as
your paper.
The "deadly housedy' and the
equally dreaded mosquito have been
the cause of countless deaths, aud
the loss OF untold wealth through
sickness they have caused and conse-
quent loss of time and business, and
the newspaper which takes up the
cudgel against these pests is doing
the public more good than any one
subject you could take up. And their
pr -yentiOn is such a simple matter
that all public-spirited citizens should
be only too glad to cooperate in the
work for the common good.
l would like to write a long article
on this subject, but your own articles
are so good and comprehensive that
L yield the floor to YOU. However, l
hope that you will continue the good
work, sighting comments, from your
c ntemprUaries notwithstanding,
and that the work will result in much
benefit. Yours very truly,
T, a w BTTPTCrI
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Silver EeIt Chances Hands.

According to Globe advices, it is
reported that the sale of the Arizona
Silver Belt to the republican sgndi-
cate, headed by James T. Williams,
Jr., of Tucson, was effected Wednes-
day afternoon.
1t is currently reported that H. H.
Hiener will retire from the manage
ment of the paper, which will be
vested in H. &. Holdsworth, and that
the editorial management will be as
sumed by Leroy a Ladd. Mr.. Hiener
is said to be preparing to leave for
the coast Sunday, with view of locat
ino.in California.
The copper era., 1910-08-05
Board to Improve L. D. S. Academy.

At a meeting of the exeCu i've
board of the L. D. S. academy held
last week it was decided to let the
contract for putting in cement floors
in the three remaining rooms in the
basement. not cemented. These
rooms are the boys work shop and
store room, and the boiler room.
This will place the shop in a good
condition as it is we'll furnished.
The board also decided to take
steps to collect enough money to lift
the indebtedness on the new building.
50 that it can be dedicated sometime
this fall or winter.
The time of opening and closing
school was also taken up and this
year the academy will open Septem
Der and for registration and regU-
lar work will begin Monday, Septem-
Der 4 and close April 2l. This places
the opening two weeks later, and the
closing two weeks earlier, than has
been customary during the past years.