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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01

W. Va. 1tlislthis company.s No. o on
this farm and II IS q Weir sand pro!
Queer. The first 20 hours after the
well was drilled into the pay II pro.
duced a little more than 400 barrels.
The location is inside the defined lin.
Its and in proximity to other good
wells in that district. sfTg,l
In the Jakes run development In
Clay district, Monongalia county, the
Carnegie Natural Gas Company has
drilled It's second test on the s. J..
Johnson farm into the gas sand and
has a fair gasser. In the same dis.
trict, ]. H. McDermott & CO., are
drilling tests on the II. A. Hoskins
and r. s. Eddy farms and have the
rig completed for test on the L. C.
Walls farm.
Light Wells at Spencer.
The salt and development at Spen.
Ger. Roane county, Is not furnishing
anything better than light bumpers,
and an occasional duster. Mayhue &
Co. have drilled their test on the F.
L. Linger lot through the sale and
have a 5:barrel pumper. Baker & Co.
have drilled well on the P. s. Crisis
far1a through the same formation aud
have a 15.barrel pumper. Cot & Heck
have drilled their well on the W.. W.
Argabright lot through the sand and
have duster..
In the salt sand development at
Rosedale, Birch district, Braxton coun.
ty, the, Crooked Fork Oil Company
has drilled Its test on the j. & B.. Rid.
er farm through the salt sand and has
a 15-barrel pumper. The South Penn
Oil Company's well on the F. "A. Van.
horn lot, completed during the early
part OF the week, is producing 20 bar.
rels day.
In Freemans Creek district, Lewis
county, the Reserve Gas Company has
drilled test on the ]. w. Norris farm
through the sand, and has a light
gasser. On Walnut ford, in the same
district. the Hope Natural Gas Com
pany Is drilling second test on the
s. P. Liggett farm.
Big Acreage Leased In Lewis County.
Near Grafton. Lewis county, w. Va,
H. II. Davis OF Washington, Pa, has
taken up block Of leases, $4,000
acres in all. and with the return OF
spring will begin his holdings. The
territory is practically new and there
Is room for pool inside of the ter
ritory under lease.
The Oil Market.
Pennsylvania =. ............$1.50
INDIANA ..............H .78
llllnolS - .....,......... .S4
Knnsna and 0kln homa An
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01
CURIOUS FACTS.

Iowa has nine cities under com.
mission government.
Canton suserane. Switzerland. has
5000 cows and 10000 goats.
Panama Imports l20 barrels Of beer
monthly from the United States.
The United States produced In 1913
about $500 tons of hemp.
Brazil received 19o.6S4 immigrants
last year, 69.0e3 OF them assisted by
the government and 7,l22 Of them
from Japan.
Motion pictures are being intro.
duced into the Spanish schools for
educational purposes, especially for
medical and geographical demonstra-
tions. 7
An English railway. in 1886, ran the
first smoking car.
South Carolina last year produced
mineral values at S464.160. ~
The worlds greatest wireless sta.
|. ton has been built in Italy. powerful
enough TO communicate with North
America when similar stations are
erected on this side OF the Atlantic.
From the speed at which earth.
quake waves travel through the earth
an English scientist has constructed
a theory that the world has dense
central core. which may be measured
In time
Little Gerald Emerson Murch. aged
5. of North Jay. Me-. picked up So bu.
shells OF potatoes one day and at an.
other time. Is bushels In five hours.
He likes the work so much that Il Is
difficult to persuade him to stop.
With an annual output Of 9S.00O.000
barrels, California now leads all other
States in the production OF petroleum.
Next In the order named comes Ok.
iahoma. Illinois. Texas, louisiana
West Virginia. Ohio, Pennsylvania
Wyoming, Kansas and Indiana.
Fruit canning is becoming popular
In South Africa.
California and Florida are increas'
ing shipments Of oranges to Canada.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01

The largest tree in the United
States is said to be the Mother of
the Forest,"a giant redwood in the
calayeras big tree grove in califor.
mia. 1t is supposed to contain 14o..
61s board feet of lumber.
To solve the servant question. house
wives Of .Maplewood. n. j.. have op.
ened a moving picture picture show,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01
Rendered Solo At
W. R. Riggs Funeral

In connection with the funeral ser.
vices yesterday Of Mr.. ". R. Riggs.
Rev. C. E. Goodwin, pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal church Of Man.
nington, and a close personal friend
Of the Rigs family, rendered effective.
~ sacred solo entitled Face to
Face." Rev. Goodwin has been closely
associated with the Riggs family for a
number Of years. aud he sang the solo
at the request of'members Of the fam.
f1y %ff safl-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01

because the absence Of such faeilitie.
Of pleasure has caused available help
to 80 to other cities.
Mrs, May VIII, aged 81, OF Bremen
ia the Oldest Sunday school teacher In
Maine. For the last rs years she has
been a member OF a Bremen church,
in which she has had q Sunday
school class most Of lifetime.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01
Oil and Gas
DEvELoPM ENTs WORK

DEVELOPMENTS WORK
: SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
The weekend of development work
in the Eastern fields was a slight i'm.
proyements over the first part, occas.
Toned by the Ohio Fuel Oil Company
drilling In % good producer. on the
Edward Gebharts farm located on Blue
Greek, Elk district, Kanawha county,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-01
Man 4 Feet Trounces
His 6-Foot Antagonist

MILWAUKEE,. Wis, Mar. John
Vogel. about four feet tall, was
charged with assault and battery on
Joseph Gruenwald, Jr.. who Is almost
six feet, In district court.
1t was testified Gruenwald slapped
VogelN vogel grabbed piece OF wood.
jumped up at Gruenwald, and struck
him on the head. Judge Page sus.
pended sentence ON payment Of costs.
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they know how to defend themselves

they know how to defend themselves
and have devised many kinds Of pro-
tective measures" Finally Captain
rERsEUs acknowledges that almost
fabulous skill is required to avoid
all the pitfalls, &C., get away from
torpedo destroyers and make a sue
cessfui attack Between the lines
n may read an apprehension (per-
haps this specialist may have access
to naval secrets) that the Admiralty
is losing submarines faster than It
can build and commission them.
Probably the Grand Admiral did
not mean to be taken literally when
he said that I'VE can torpedo almost
every British or allied ship that ap-
%proaches English or Scottish ports
and thereby cut off the greater part
Of Great Brltain's imports Of food
stuffs,' but he expected to play havoc
with British shipping and throw the
Government into a panic. The truth
is that Submarine warfare" has not
wen greatly embarrassed the British
Government.
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SOME PRESIDENTIAL PREF.
ERENCES.
Wants Root or Hughes, but Is willing
to Take Roosevelt.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: In
THE SUS under the caption Praise
In Albany" you make this astonishing
statement: Roots Speech Said to Make
Him Conspicuous for 1916 Campaign
In the name of heaven did II require
his last EFFORT on the part OF Elihu
Root TO make him n conspicuous figure
for any Office whatsoever in this coun-
try? | cannot imagine anything more
desirable for this country than its law
ing such a man as Mr.. Root for Pres!-
dent. That the exigencies of politics
viii ever allow such good fortune is
quite another matter.
Here is a man who has never played
TO the galleries. has never applied 20
any fund for assistance and certainly
has not been accused by any former
President OF the United States of lack
ing moral courage II Is a safe bet
that since both boys and men are known
by the company they keep, at least the
office Of Secretary of State would not
be occupied by any bunoon whomsoever
just FOR the payment OF n political obli-
cation, and the country would at least
be spared the humiliation Of having such
emissar!es as the prize fight manager OF
Jack Rose appointed as its representa-
tive because OF his being a deserving
Democrat.
Isn't II a fact that any American
who stands for election and gains Office
is the servant of the people. aud are any
such elected servants above criticism,
and II so, why? Isn't II a fact, as a
bully GOO ex-President of this country
said, there are things worse than war?
j. there "A man In the United States
foolish enough to believe in this year
nineteen hundred and fifteen that an
American travelling in m foreign coun-
Try on the face Of the globe is looked
upon with the same respect shown
Americans for at least two decades
minus the past three years?
Now, TO get back to a basis Of genuine
self-respect and dignity. let the Ameri-
can people select Mr., Root, and failing
this they have Justice Hughes, Myron
Z. Herrick and Theodore Roosevelt 70
fall back upon,
l would surely place the Colonel a,
the head OF the list, but he has had two
terms and u does seem to me that the
country needs such a man as either Mr..
Root or Justice Hughes. and failing to
secure either. that a clever. We'll trained
business man like Mr.. Herrlck would be
"A godscnd to this country IL elected
President and II one OF the other
three can succeed, by all means let us
have the mar who threw red tape out
Of the window and built the Panama
Canal and whose splendid courage and
direct methods are still keeping him
mighty close TO the hearts of the men
who are at least willing to fight and do
for this country. A. O.
NEW YORK, September 3
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WHERE M GAINS.
Results Appraised In a Somewhat Orig.
inal Way.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir:
While all good citizens should rejoice
at the diplomatic triumph scored by
the President whereby Germany came
to terms on essentials regarding sub
marining. 1t should not be forgotten that
Germany has by the very fact OF bend
ing and conceding dealt the United
States two very ~palpable blows.
First, n tremendous shock has been
given to preparedness and the hands Of
the pacihsts rave been much strength
ened. Already the five hundred millions
upon as excessive irrespective Of the
fact that as regards hattleships il would
be fully two years before they could be
completed. TIE money voted now could
not have had any complete influence IN
an immediate war with Germany and
Germany in two years will be glad not
to see ten American superdreadnOughts
ready for delivery.
The second blow dealt by Germany
is that by leaving our horizon clear in
her direction we can deal with England
and assert our rights Had we gone to
wal with Germany we should have had
to submit for an indefinite period to
England's wishes to the detrimsnt Of
Germany.
We need a very large navy. Alaska
Is separated from us by foreign terri
tory so is the Panama Canal. the
Philippines by the Pacific Ocean. A
large navy has no absolute size. II
should he as large as the enemy, real or
possible, makes us have II. f. II. f.
NEW YORK, September 3.
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Southwark the Course OF Empire
Takes Its Way.

The Hon. JOHN j. FITZGERALD has
been designated" by the Democrats
Of Kings county as one of their can
didates for Supreme Court Justice.
II Mr.. FITZGERALD Is elected to That
Office he will he succeeded in the Sixty
fourth Congress as chairman Of the
House Appropriations Committee by
SwAGER SHERLEY. Representative from
the Fifth Kentucky district.
In that event the last chairman or
any important committee OF the House
representing a Northern district will
have disappeared.
The election Of OSCAR UNDERWOOD
to the Senate would have made FRAN
CTS BURTON HARRISON Of New York
chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee Of the House had not Mr..
HARRISON been appointed Governor
General Of the Philippines.
Mr., UNDERWOOD will be succeeded
as chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee by CLAUDE KITcHIN, Rep
%resentative from the Second North
Carolina district.
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The Jewish Question in the "Terms
OF Peace"

We doubt If there are many self
respecting Jews who would not re
gard with mingled Indignation and
disgust an attempt on the part OF
any Of the belllgerent Powers 30 use
their race as a stool pigeon for dip.
lomatic advantage in the bargaining
over terms Of settlement.
The proposals published as coming
authoritatlvely but not oficially-and
which perhaps really do come tenta.
tively-from Germany mention among
other things alleged to be desired by
that Government the guarantee OF
equal rights and liberties for Jews by
all powers signing a peace.
1t would be an insult to the intelli'
gence of the Jewish people TO be used
with such obvious hypocrisy by a Gov
eminent which has 50 long discrmi'
mated against them.
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The Department OF State should lose
no time in revoking the passport is
sued to Captain JAMES FRANCIS JEWELL.
ARCHIBALD of New York and Washing
ton II 1t proves true that this Amer
lean citizen has misused his creden-
tials to cover the transmission Of docu-
ments OF messages from official repre-
sentatives of Germany or Austria in
this country to their Governments.
We have condemned the Germans for
fabricating our passports for the o
venience of their secret agents or mes
sengers, and we should be prompt and
severe in dealing with any American
who lends himself and his certificate
of citizenship for the same purpose.
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More than six weeks have passed
since President WILSON wrote to Sec
tary GARRISON and Secretary DANIELS
ON the subject of the national defence
and said that he would like 10 dis
cuss with each OF them his pro-
gramme 'at as early a time as 1t can
be made ready" We should say that
the publication Of the letters, appar'
emily for the purpose Of disclosing
that Mr.. WILSON was not committed
10 heavy expenditures. would have the
effect Of bringing together the Presi.
dent and the Secretaries in consulta.
ton without more delay.
1t is true that Congress will not
meet for three months, but the coun-
try would like 10 have plans and
specifications from the professional
associates of the two Secretaries
also their W conclusions. How are
members Of Congress in their dis
tricts to be instructed unless the
voters have a programme before
them? "The important thing now
aas Mr.. WILSON says, "is to know and
know fully what we need" He adds
that Congress will certainly wei,
come such advice and follow 1t to the
limit OF its opportunity" This 1.
somewhat vague and it Is not reas
surfing, for everybody knows that Con
gress has usually rejected the pro.
grammes Of the army and navy ex,
perts and made its own estimates and
appropriations. That of course Is the
province Of Congress.
All the more reason, then, that the
President and Mr.. GARRISON and Mr.
DANIELS should get together and give
the result of their deliberations tC
the country for Its information and
consideration. Congress should heal
from the country.
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dustry and persistent pursuit of an
idea that required so large a number

dustry and persistent pursuit Of an
idea that required so large a number
Of separate investigations.
The same number Of the Journal
records the death of another pioneer
whose persistent pursuit Of an idea
made possible the most stupendous
engineering work Of all time and has
led to the practical opening of the
hitherto u~nfriendly tropics to the
white races. CARLOS JOHN F1NLAY
discovered in 1880 that yellow fever
Is propagated by the mosquito and
that its exclusion by screening would
prevent the scourge. Unlike the Ia
mented EHRLIcH, who died In the
prime Of life and usefulness to man.
kind, DIR. FiNLAY departed In the full
ness Of years and renown
Whenever epoch making men like
these transformations investigators die
the thought obtrudes itself that the
lay public seriously lacks in recogni-
ton of the services to suffering hui
manity by physicians. An intelligent
medical reader may estimate these
achievements II they have been be
fore the profession for n considerable
period, but the lay reader Of news
papers is apt to pass them over In
search OF more sensational news than
the death Of these discoveries and
remain ignorant Of the fact that they
have made life possible for them I'M
der formerly impossible conditions or
have saved their lives under aflic-
tons that were hitherto %incurable.
If HINpENBuRG or JorFRE died head
lines would herald the news and CO.
pious editorial and other comment
would continue for days and months
with regard to their achievements In
killing men and wasting substance.
How many lay readers noted the
death Of REGINALD FITZ. who worked
out the pathology Of appendicitis, from
which was evolved a successful opera
ton that has saved thousands OF use.
full lives?
Will Germany perpetuate the men,
DRY Of ENRICH as 1t has done Of itS
Generals; will Cuba point out to
future generations that FINLAY has
made It possible for them to live and
prosper; will this country serve F1rz
as 1t has served MORTON? Is 1t the
primal savage surviving in man that
prompts him to exalt the destroyer?
1t Is high time for the public to begin
to exalt and build monuments to the
conservers OF life, and thereby fur.
Their emulation in the beneflcent di-
rection Of service to humanity.
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Our Drinking Water.

The State Of New York intends to
dump into MOhansic Lake the sewage
from the training school for boys at
Yorktown Heights and the State Hos
pital at Yorktown. The waters OF
Mohansic Lake flow into Croton lake,
and thence are conducted to this
town. where millions Of persons OF
all ages and conditions drink them
daily. This city has protested against
the contamination of its potable watet
supply, and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT has
Informed the State Health Depart
ment that
THE city OF New York canno enjoir
as a threatened nuisance the construc-
ton of sewage disposal plants for State
institutions on the Croton watershed
after the State Department OF Health
has approved the plans therefor.
Until their operation demonstrates
the plants to be ~nuisances the court is
without jurisdiction to intervene"
1t is not at all improbable that Mr.
WooDBURy's law Is sound. 1t remains
therefore only to speculate as to thl
number Of cases of illness and the
number Of deaths necessary to dem
onstrate the plants to be nuisances.'
Do these numbers run into the tens.
or into the hundreds. or into the
thousands? Would the previous phys.
zeal condition and environment OF
the victims be taken into consIdera'
ton In determining the evidential
value OF their Illnesses and deaths in
any inquisition that might be under.
taken?
If the experiment Of diluting our
drinking water with sewage is to be
conducted under State auspices, II
would only he fair to let us know IN
advance exactly how much poison We
must swallow before we shall be en-
titled to relief.
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A Serious Loss to Science.

The announcement that DR.. PAU
ENRICH, a benefactor Of humanity
has died, brings to the well wisher OF
his kind a pang of sorrow hardly less
poignant than II one OF his own flesh
and blood had been taken away.
His was a genius Of the first order
says truly that excellent representa-
tive Of medical men the Journal OF
the American Medical Association. 1;
was his fertile mind that evolved q
theory, and demonstrated it practi
cally, that the animal body is capable
Of producing "antl-bodies," II sea rched
for and scientifically utilized, that
protect 1t against the most fatal and
loathsome diseases. ENRICH ever
found 1t necessary to coin words FOL
diffusing a knowledge of his preciou.
discoveries. He also fulfilled the pre-
diction of HUXLEY that there would
come a time when 1t would become
possible to introduce into the human
body something that should find It,
way, like a %cunnlngly contrived tor
pedo, to some particular group of liv
ing malign elements in the body ant
explode them. The Journal has wei
said Of him:
paul ENRICH will Hive In the his
tory Of civilization as one OF the grea
investigators, genial, creative, fertile
sxcelling In that holiness OF the scien
tifc use OF the imagination which slon,
can extend beyond the obvious fact an
reveal the unknown n of the srsa
benefactors OF mankind
To the lay reader the discovery o
'T06' is rhe most familiar Of hi
achievements; Il monument to his In
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Won Tlrpitz.

Whether Grand Admiral Won TIR-
PITZ resigns his post or takes an in
definite vacation, his effacement will
be associated with the failure of the
submarine warfare for which he was
responsible. 1t has not produced the
results he counted on, and II has al
most caused a rupture of friendly re-
lations between Germany and the
United States.
There Is no doubt that the subma-
rine campaign has disappointed Ger
man naval and military men. Among
the experts Count Won REvENTLow
alone has any faith In It; he contin-
ues to rave about the submarine as
a destroyer Of the Allies merchant
shipping and will not admit that tho
Grand Admiral's plan Of starving
England Is impracticable. Captain
PERsEUs, an ADLER specialist who al
ways keeps his emotions under con.
troll, has no illusions about the mat
ter. In al article contributed to the
Berliner Tdgebiatt he draws atten-
ton to the fact that in the week
ended August 4 six British merchant
ships and nine trawlers were sunk ny
L boats, but that In the same time
from 1000 to 1,435 merchant ships
entered or sailed from British ports
(the English official total was 1889.
He goes IN to say:
mo small number OF submarines is
required to attack the 1900 ships, more
or less, which in a week leave or enter
British ports. According to Nduticus,
In May, 1914, we possessed twenty
eight completed submarines. There Is
no reason not to accept the figures u
this book. which are derived from official
sources. Now many people assume that
submarines being so small can be pro-
duced In n very short time, The mod.
ern high seas u boat, however. Is by
no means small. 1t displaces up to a
thousand and more tons. and is there
fore considerably larger than a torpedo
boat. 1t presents a combination OF the
most minute and complicated parapher-
MALTA; everything o. board has to be
set up with the utmost precision In the
smallest space. and It Is therefore clear
that the period for the construction OF
a u boat cannot be quite so short as
one would wish."
Furthermore, as Captain PERsEus
points out. the task Of commanding and
operating submarines Is not quickly
learned. AS for the British navaI
her who were to he 80 easily out
witted and overwhelmed, he says tina,