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. W. VA., FEBRUARY 24. 1898.
and tbe Development of YO^st Virginia's Resources
WHOLE NO. 1569
HE MORMONS.
They Were Exiled From
Illinois in 1845.
* historic*! nketohea *re written
, Xbjoiuji by ? Mormon minister
sr.ssssirrs-i
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St. George, Utah,
February 21. 1893.
dnesday April 15th, we
1 ten miles and camped in a
rrove. We named it Pleas
bint. Here we remained
il days and sent out parties
f corn and provisions of the
nrians, also to purchase
cows and oxen. My father
oe of the party. The set
ats are several miles South
rline of travel. On the af
3ii of the 17th in company
joe of our men I left camp
gone all night, the object
ihtint game, and near sun
we heard turkays flying
roost and on moving for
i few steps we saw them.
iwas a fine flock. They
it notice us and we there
ecided to leave them undis
lantil morning. We went
b to one side out of their
where we kindled up a hre,
ipper and passed the even
disoussing which afforded
ost pleasure to be in pur
r to be in possession.' Bo
te peep of day wo were at
ost and took stations near
other behind trees. We
i in silence until it was
enough to see to shoot.
Selected a turkey and fired
isametime. At the crack
r rifles my turkey fell. This
seemed to partially waken
there up. Our guns were
reloaded and fired, when a
d bird fell from the effects
'shot. The flock was now
letely aroused and with out
:hed necks peering in all
tioDs to discover what was
wtter, my companion be
discouraged at his first j
and had recovered his fire,
anded me his gun with the
rk. Blame the luckv take my
I can't hit anything, and he
all had left the roost I fired
in aud brought down the
to the ground. Being now
ssession of three fine tur
we lost no time in making
ray back to camp though
Md made us sweat before
>ing it where we were much
ilimented on our luck.
tday April 19th, the day |
Sue; the camp held meeting,
thing by Brigham Young
George A. Smith. In June
sached Council Bluffs. Iowa,
the 30th of the month
ain James Allen, of the
sd States army from Fort
enworlh, arrived at our
* and inquired for Brigham
him were five men and a
!*ge wagon, the captain rid
]|i a horse a little in advance
? men, his sword hanging
is side. The next day at 10
c's m. a meeting was call
tan captain Allen addressed
*?ple. lie stated that he
instructed byColonelKearney
also was instructed by the
Went of the United States
SK. Polk, to invite the
people to become volun
?in the service of the United
68 for one year to go and
'take California. He want
?e hundred men who could
march in ten days
[Join Colonel Kearney who
already on the march to
: ^e- Those who volunteer
receive pay and rations
"other allowances the same
. er s?ldier8 and at the end
* year be discharged sind
*Uthe arms, tents, campi
7* at)d all the camps
Wents thrown into the bar
gain. President Young address
ing Captain Allen said : You
shall have your battalion if it ha*
to be composed of our Elders.
H. W. Biglek,
St. George, Utah.
fCbntinuaL]
The Atlanta Constitution, one
of the leading Democratic papers
in the South says :
"IIow is the Democratic party
to survive if its pledges of tariff
and financial reform are not
promptly carried out ? 'Will the
mugwumps be able to lead it to
victory?"
Jerome Prunty, a railroad
watchman who was doing double
duty, was struck by a train and
killed, at Long Run, Doddridge
county. Md.. Wednesday night.
The West Virginia Legislature
closes to-day.
BEAOREGARD.
The Famous Confederate Gen
eral is dead.
Peter Gustavus Toutant Beau
regard who was in command of
the Confederates and conducted
the siege of Fort Sumpter. and
was afterwards active leader in
Vtrginia and other border states
died after a lingering illness at
his home in New Orleans on last
Mondav.
There Is now only one of the
full generals of the confederate
army left, that is General Kirby
Smith, who is now a professor in
the University of the South at
Sewanee, Tenn.
Mitchell and Corbett will fight
for the championship of the
world in December.
' Around Th* Board.
Mr. Henry G. Davis, president 1
of the Wost Virginia Central and j
Pittsburgh Railway Company. !
entertained a party of friends at
dinner at the Hotel Rennert last
night. Tabies were spread in
the private dining room ami j
covers were laid forfifteen guests. I
Those at the table were Unitod
Statos Senators Charles J. Fauik
ner and Johnson N. Camden, of
West Virginia; Governor Frank
Brown. Thomas W. Lanham. W
W. Taylor, president National
Union Bank; EM ward L. Hartlett,
Frederick W. Wood, piesident
Maryland Steel Company; John
Gill, president Mercantile Trust
and Deposit Company; C. H. La
trobe. L V. Baughman C. B.
Hart, editor Wheeling Intelligent
err; James B. Taney, editor
Wheeling Register; Buchanan
Schley, of Hagerstown, and C.
M. Hendley.?Baltimore Sun.
THE EARLY CLOSING
Movement Meeting With
Great Success.
ALMOST AN ASSURED FACT.
A few more names to be added
to the list, and all the principal
dry goods, grocery, clothing and
hardware stores will close at hall
past seven o'clock p. m., except
Saturday nights, after April 1st,
1893.Following is a partial list of
those who have signed the agree
ment.
E. R. Davis & Bro.
D. K. Reed & Co.
C. J. Lang.
Moaroe & Smith,
Geo. L. Boring, ,
W. P. Holden A Co.,
A. C. Rector & Bro..
Joseph Parril,
H. F- Criss,
W. Harrison,
Boughner & Sons,
M. A. Nusbaum,
Philip Adler,
W. Nusbaum, ag't,
' Will Thompson & Co..
B. P. Griffin,
B. F. Hornor,
John E. Harris,
David Davidson,
I. Nusbaum,
W. M. Osburn,
E. S. Davisson,
M. G, Holmes,
H. G. Post,
C. A. Clifford,
R. R. Barnett.
The less a man knows the more
tenacious he is of his opinion. An
intelligent individual always lis
tens to the argument and makes
up his mind after hearing all the
facts; but a fool, having no mind
to make up. don't want to be
troubled with facts or arguments;
indeed has no more use for them
than a toad has for a diamond
necklace.
Diphtheria is Aill raging at
Parkersburg. The deaths have
averaged two a day for two
weeks.
THE WORLD'S FAIB ELEG1BICAL BUILDING
A Hotel Exhibit
The question has been asked a
great many times, what are the
women of West Virginia doirg
for the "World's Fair.
It need not be asked any longer.
The thing is settled. The lady
managers have made a ten strike.
Read the following :
Cairo, W. Va., Feb. 28. ?Miss
Ida Hewitt, who is known as the
only female locomotive engineer
in the world, has been engaged
by the lady commissioners of the
World's Fair to run the first train
over the grounds on the opening
day of the exposition. She has
made all arrangements and will
leave here for Chicago about a
week before the date of opening.
Miss Hewitt has had an elaborate
and unique wardrobe prepared
for her own use during the Fair,
one of the notable costumes be
ing that of a Spanish girl of the
fourteenth century, which she
will wear on the engine during
her first trip. She is a pretty
girl of a pronounced brunette
type and the costume is wonder
fully becoming.
Miss He wilt will show the as
sembled nations of the earth how
to hold up her train at every
street crossing. j
?,
Tharejis strong opposition to
the ex'etTsion of the legislature
on the part of the opponents of
various measures, who do not be
lieve they should pass. If the
legislative session is to be ex
tended. it will probably be with
the understanding that a few
bills like the inquisitorial tax bill
will not be pressed. Otherwise
the opponents of these measures
will aim to bring the session to a
close.
The trial of Hugh O'Donnell
at Pittsburg on a charge of mur
der in connection with the Homo
stead strike terminated in a ver
dict for acquital. This ends the
Homestead trials until the March
term of the court, and it is con
sidered likely that the other
cases will stand over until June,
the men now in jail being mean
while admitted to bail.
Snrronndfd Br Friend*.
When it became known that
Governor IdcKinley would proba
bly lose every dollar he had,
several well known citizens pos
sessing abundant means, decided
to show tlieir friendship by ten
dering him sympathy of a sub
stantial character. When they
requested him to name the amount
he needed in the present emer
gency. the governor was visibly
affected, 'and for the tlrst time
nearly broke down. Ue declined
to name ajfiy amount, and ?10,000
was plac?L at his disposal as a
loan, to be repaid at his own con
venience, the gentlemen refusing
to accept anything from him as
security excepting his personal
obligation.
Similar action has been taken
by a number of wealthy men at
Cleveland, who will advance the
governor all he may desire on
the same terms. One of the men
here who offered the loan sa|d :
"Governor McKinley has al
ways kept out of speculation, re
fusing to invest in railroads,
mines or other corporations, and
is comparatively poor, while
other me:i in public life, taking
advantage of the opportunities
offered hav*e become millionaires
and had their reputations smirch
ed by being connected with ques
tionable schemes. The gover
nor has kept his skirts clear, his
reputition is untarnished and
when such a man gets into finan
cial trouble through no fault of
his own, it is a pleasure to tender
him substantial assistance."
Like attracts like and perhaps
that's how. Hoke Smith and
Col. BisscH got into the Cabinet,
since in adipose tissue they are
equal to the great Grover him
self.? Kr. .
Forty patriotic Democrats in
West Virginia are anxious to
serve their country abroad.
Thir'y-seveil or eight of them are
sure to bo disappointed. Then
there will be harmony lying
around in great hunks.?Intelli
gencer. ,<
No lmpartlallt; or Farorn Shown to
Any one, lint Juntlre donr to ill.
CLARKSBURG. W. Va., I
February 20. 1898. J
Mr. Stuart F. Heed, Mlitor Clarks
burg Telegram :
My Dear Friend:?In your
editorial of the 18th instant with
reference to the communication
received from Lost Creek you do
me injustice. I have done busi
ness In Clarksburg forty years
or more, and the oldest
citizens of Harrison county will
say that I always done everything
in my power for their benetit and
no farmer or person from tho
country ever called upon me for
a favor but I granted it, if it was
in my power to do so, and if I
should act in my official capacity
as a mayor of the town of Clarks
burg it would be on the side of
mercy in favor of persons from
the country, and I do not like the
impression to go out to the
country that they are treated un
justly. With reference to the
communication from Lost Creek
I will say, that it is void ot truth,
and in vindication of my police
officer Mr. Lyou. I must say. had
he not done as he did in the mat
ter after being informed of the
young man's transactions he
would not have done his duty,
and I most assuredly would have
preferred charges against him.
Yours very respectfully,
Samuel R. Steel.
Mayor of the Town of Clarksburg.
THE FIGHT OS.
Ed. Telegram In on<> of
your recent editorials you appi ir
to be trying to create a false
alarm about the "hoopskirt
panic." Now my dear sir, you
are sadly mistaken when you in
timate that the women of this
country have bad judgment The
very idea of your so-called states
men passing laws t? regulate our
"wearing apparel!" They ought
to be ashamed ! I should like to
know whose "funeral it Is" if we
do wear hoopskirts ? Not the
men's, I'm certain.
And then you go further and
talk about "paralyzing the affec
tions of our young men." What
?in Heaven's name what has a I
poor, innocent, insignificant
hoopskirt got to do with a young
man's affections ? I, for one.
would not give much for affec
tions that would be paralyzed by
a hoopskirt. '-Let genuine love
laugh at obstacles."
I am firmly convinced that too
much has already been said about
the impending hoopskirt The
men?including the newspaper
men?have made and are mak
ing a great deal too much fuss
about it If the women take a
notion to wear hoopskirts, they'll
wear 'em, and if they find out
the men are opposed to the
fashion they'll wear 'em any how
to show that the female sex be
longs to the great and growing
party of North American inde
pendents.
The discussion of the matter
in various legislatures is calcu
lated to work great harm. If
any laws are enacted against
hoopskirts, the women will put
'em on and defy police and con
stables. They'll get 'em as big
as sugar hogsheads and cause
the men to weep tears of woe at
the horrible spectacle. Don't
tall women wear big stripes run
ning up and down, and short wo
men wear 'em crossways ? Do
the majority of women care how
they look so long as they think
they are in the fashion?
It may be that we are in dan
ger of being struck by lightning
by having so much steel about
us but would that not keep the
lightning from striring the men?
Why do they kick about a thing
that moans protection to their
self-conceited selves.
Annie Rooney.
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? more GIRLS
Are Wanted In California
But West Virginia
HAS NONE TO SEND TO THE
HoMm stair.
California, rich to satiety in
Bold, in praia. in fruit. i? wine,
is now face to face with a famino
winch, if relief does not speedily
come, wil! leave hor blossoming
\ alloys and auriferious nioun
tains an uninhabited wilderness.
Wo refer, of course, to the fright
ul R'rlfamino. accounts of which
are beginning to come in. It ex
tends practically to the whole
Slate, as wo learn from the San
I-rancisco papers that there is a
'great scarcity of girls in every
madV" lHe Slat? ?XCept Ala
As yet we aro utterly in the
fatal fch 10 WhBt Hh- th?
ratal shortage in girls. Whether
the scarcity in girls had horn
coming upon the stricken po?pie
tor some timo or developed sud
donly we havo no idea. The
stock of girls in the rest of the
country so far as we aro able to
ascortaln; is normal.
*:!dTy thero is 00 danger
of this famine reaching our own
"sun-kissed hills" a - ? i
a i ? A resident
of Harrison' county. West Vir
ffinia surrounded by the protti
est girls in tho world can hardly
appreciate the horror* that
thmatpn #*m?. rttJ
But what shall bo s?id of a girl
famine involving a wholo State
88 lal'fe'? M California y Life
without girls is simply lingering
dissolution. ' Life without sun
light, without wator, without
food, is not what It ought to be,
but it is bliss compared to the
torture of existence without girls.
Yet to day a great sister State
lis crying out for girls in agony
of despair."
The evident reluctance with
*bich the Democratic party en
?rs upon the work of tariff re
vision and annihilation of Mc
Kinleyisia Is proof that its own
leaders doubt of sufficiency of
thoir commission on tho score
The events of the future as well
as those of the present will abun
dantly vindicate tho tariff policy
of the Republican party.
Birmingham is infested with
tramps who try to work a little
scheme by putting caustic om
their arms, thus making a sore
which presents a terrible appear
ance; then tho injured member ie
tied up and the tramp goes out
on a begging tour, stating, that
I he is disabled and cannot work.
? One of these would-be charity
subjects caused his own death
by this means.
Gov. McKinley's ringing
iocaration at the Lincoln banquet
in Columbus, Ohio, that "the de
feat of 1892 has not made Re
publican principles less true nor
our faith in their ultimate triumph
less firm, "will tind a hearty echo
* everir Republican breast.
W e have not revised our views,
nor reversed our lines," he as
serts. "We still do not believe
that Republican protection is a.
?fraud and a robery,' nor that it
is ?unconstitutional,' nor do we
believe that the tariff law of 1890
was or is the culminating atrocity
of class legislation, nor that
reciprocity is a ?sham.'" It
should be added that thero is no
positive evidence that the coun
try has condemned the present
tariff policy of the government
In spite of the Democratic claim
that the McKinloy act was au
"atrocity," Mr. Cleveland is in a
popular minority of nearlr
1,000,000.