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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
4
Local editor discusses city dog collar and tagging rules, owner liability, and calls for better enforcement amid attacks on pedestrians. In state political notes, Charles W. Swisher is positioned for the Republican governor nomination with strong party support and statewide newspaper backing. The piece notes Preston County activity and Clarksburg financial stability as context.
An Evening Echo notes Wheeling considers free tags with dog tax enforcement and shooting of untagged dogs, while Clarksburg enforces a stringent city code taxing dogs four weeks old and older. The Wheeling Register supports the tag provision as protection, and Clarksburg’s ordinance details owner identification and tax levies.
Boise July 2 The state Board of pardons has commuted the sentence of Harry Orchard who was under sentence to hang next Friday for the murder of former Governor Steunenberg to imprisonment for life.
Epworth League of Ash Chapel church hosts a free admission celebration for all. Amusement and refreshments available on the grounds as J. Ro Mortis of Wheeling and TM M. V. B. George of Shirtey visit the city for business.
Eight prisoners were tried in peace court this morning by Acting Mayor Cole in the absence of Mayor Wood. Lizzie Crouser was fined 35 and costs, suspended on leaving town and not getting drunk again for a week.
A new section of Marshall county will be tested for oil and gas by the Scott Oil & Gas Company mainly composed of Moundsville businessmen. They have leased 2,300 acres at Round Bottom on the river three miles below the city. Machinery for the first well is on the ground and drilling will start soon. If needed the well will reach the Bt Injun sand. The test well will be sunk on the Hell farm on Butter Run. Harry Hall of New Martinsville holds the drilling contract.
Postmaster P. Elkins, brother of U S Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, suffered a paralysis stroke at his Columbia home. He is slightly better today after a period of illness.
Independent companies in the Wheeling district sign on to the Amalgamated association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers scales. The pact with American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate company was settled at the Pittsboro conference, and no trouble is anticipated.
The stogie industry reports a healthy state in Wheeling with shops and factories fully staffed, employing 1600 to 1800 people. John W. Carpenter visited from Salem after a business trip to Ohio. West Virginia Casualty Co. stockholders vote to dissolve the corporation and liquidate assets, paying debts, then distribute remaining funds pro rata to shareholders. The president, Ty B. Whason, orders publication of the notice and filing with the Virginia secretary of state.
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