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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Hotel Endicott rraeedv.

New YORK, Feb. 26.-Nothing new
developed that would throw additional
light on the murder of Mrs. Maude
Hayes and the suicide Of Dentist Frank
lin l.. Caldwell at the Hotel Endicott
last night. Coroner's Physician O'Han-
Ion performed an autopsy on the bodies
OF Mrs. Hayes and DIR. Caldwell The
autopsies satisfied DIR. O'Hanlon that
Mrs. Hayes met her death at the hand
of Caldwell and that he killed himself.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Brabant Occupies jamestown.

STERKssPRUIr, Feb. 26.-Boer reports
say the British under General Brabant
have occupied Jamestown, Cape Colony
ARUNDEL, Feb. 26.-The Beers, under
British pressure, have evacuated their
positions in this neighborhood, retiring
northward. In the fighting hereabouts
their loss is thought to be considerable
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01

Charlton OH the charge OF attempting
to wreck the Burlington fast mail train
on the night of Nov. %, has been
granted new trial. Judge Eishei
berger's decision to that effect is said to
meet with general approval and it is
doubtful if the case ever comes up in
court again.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
schmidlapp a Multl-Millionaire.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 2S.-J. G. Schmid-
lapp is president Of the Union Savings
Bank and Trust company, the Export
Storage company, the Clifton Springs
Distilling company and Of other enter
prises in this city. He is connected
with very many industries here and in
Ohio and Kentucky, and is considered a
multi
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
irarm.r,s Wife Hnugs herself.

CLARION, L., Feb. 2s.-Mrs. Martin
Renegar, the wife of a well known
farmer living near here, committed sui
eide yesterday by hanging. Renegar
had sold out and had arranged to move
to Minnesota. He came to Clarion to
complete arrangements for q car, and
when he returned he found his wife
had hanged herself.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Responsible for u Death.

Fort DODGE, Ia, Feb. 24.-The grand
jury Of Humboldt county returned an
indictment against Frank Michaelek
and wife, charging them with being re-
sponsible for the death of Michael
Chess. Warrants We're Immediately is
sued and they were arrested. Bonds
were fixed at $1,000 each, which We're
furnished. They will be tried at the
April term of court.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Change In Fort Dodge Road.

FORT DODGE, Ia, Feb. 27.-A new
and important departure in the opera
ton of the Illinois Central has just been
made public here. On March l new
superintendent Of the Fort Dodge and
Omaha division will assume control
with Office at Fort Dodge. G. K. Dixon
of Cherokee will remain in charge of
the old division and Mr.. Clark of Clin-
ton will have charge of the division be-
tween Fort Dodge and Omaha.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Construction May Soon Begin.

Sioux CITY, Feb. 24.-There are per-
sistent rumors in railway circles in
Sioux CiJy that the work Of construction
OF the Omaha Northern will begin in
about 80 days. e. P. Reynolds, Jr., of
ANymore, Ntb.. is i'll Sioux City. He is
one OF the principal promoters of the
road, hnt lie declines to discuss the
matter
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Ministers Take a Hand.

SIOUX CITY, Feb. 2S.-The ministers
of Sioux City are to take hand in the
municipal campaign which is on. They
propose to put up and elect if possible a
mayor who shall be pledged to the en-
forcement of the Martin liquor law and
who will be a reform candidate in gen.
c,>o1
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
BREAK UP A. COLD IN A NIGHT

Or to quickly cure LaGrippe take
!" Weeks Break Up -A-Cold Tablets"
1 will cheerfully refund the pur-
chase price if it fails to cure; price,
25c. Nick Doffing & Company.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Census Supervisors Receive Instruction

Census Supervisors Receive Instructions.
DEs MONIES, Feb. 24.-The census
supervisors of Iowa, with those from
South Dakota, eastern Nebraska and
southern Minnesota, met here yesterday
with Assistant Director Frederick H.
Wines to receive instructions in their
work. Mr.. Wines explained the blank
which will be used and instructed them
in the detail of duties of enumerators
He says that in this group of states the
enumerators will be given about 1900
of pOpulatiOn each
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01

SIOUX FALLS, s. D., Feb. 27.-For the
first time this year the ground is COW
cred with snow, which, during the past
"a hours, has fallen to the depth Of two
or three inches.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Storm DELAYS Trains.

BURLINGTON, Ia., Feb. 2S.-A heavy
snow is falling, with prospects OF the
worst storm of the season. Trains are
already DELAYED.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
Shot with His own Revolver.

RED OAK, Ia, Feb, 2S.-Guy Whit
ney was shot and seriously injured by
the accidental discharge Of revolver
which fell from his pocket.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
New Trial For Essex.

OTTUMwA, Feb. 24.-Charles Essex,
q the young man who was convicted at
the present term of the district court at
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.
HE5sSEs


Our reputation
is the custom
er's safeguard.
1t has stood the
test Of years,
and is the best
ON m e nda-
tion that any
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01

SS Ss 81
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01

If Grip threatens use DR.. Miles Nervine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
A REPUTATION

for giving good, honest values on the
part Of the seller, gives confidence
to the wearer g & G e e & &
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
WISE DEPARTMENT
CHAs. +. KILGoRE. Editor.
Local and Otherwise.

Judge T. NJ. Anderson left Monday for
his home IN Bristol, after spending several
DAYS in this city. He will return in few
days to attend the District Convention
which convencs here on August LIST.
Mrs. Shcppe, of Rockingham county, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. &. !. kilgore,
at this place.
County court is in session this week.
There are no important eases to he tried.
and court will likely adjourn in few days.
Messrs. d. B. and b. l.. Weptz. II. C..
Mcdowell, Henry Taylor, j. N. Goodloe
and s. h. lessee were up from 'he Gap
Monday TO attend the Republican mass
meeting.
The contractors are at worx plastering
the new hotel
There will he two shows in town this
week, Clark and Teet's, and after them
comes the Big August mcetn'.
Judge Bond returned Saturday from his
western trip. lie attended the Kansas
CITY convention, and went from there to
Colorado to visit Judge Miller, whom he
reports nearly WELL lie returned by way
of Norfolk and attended the Bar Associ-
alton.
The little child Of Ira Gillian, who lives
near this place, died on last Saturday with
measles.
j. A. Hughes, A. NJ. Wears, T.. l.. Ad-
ington, Ed Pate and j, II, Steele, OF Coe-
burn, attended the mass-meeting Monday.
The committee on arrangements is max
ing extensive preparations to care tor
delegates and visitors attending the con-
yention We desire to call special atten-
ton to the notice they publish elsewhere
in this issue.
RI. KiIgore returned from Clintwood
Sunday
Lawrence Kelly, of Big Stone Gap, was
in town this week.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
Down the Kentucky on a Raft.

In the June Scribaers is an ac-
count of trip down the Kentucky
river on raft of logs by John Fox,
Jr. We copy an account of the
methods employed in logging and
rafting by the mountaineers;
AS early as the late days of August
the mountaineer goes logging in
order to cut the trees before the sap
rises, so that the logs can dry better
all winter and float better in the
spring. Before frost comes, on river
bank, hillside and mountain-top, the
cool morning air is resonant with
the ring of axes, the singing whistle
of big saws, the crash of giant popu-
lar and oak and chestnut dow
through the lesser growth under them
and the low boom that echoes through
the woods when the big tree strikes
the earth. All winter this goes on.
With the hammer Of the wood-pecke
in the early spring you hear the cries
OF ox-drivers shaking" the log
down the mountain side to the edge
of some steep cliff where. they are
tumbled pell.mell straight down to
the bank of the river or the bank Of
some little creek that runs into it.
1t takes eight yoke of oxen, some
times, to drag the heart of a monarch
to the chute, and there the logs are
''rafted" the mountaineer calls
the work: that is, they are rolled with
handspikes into the water and LASH
ed side by side with split saplings-
lengthwise in the broad Big Sandy,
broadside in the narrow Kentucky.
Every third or fourth log is a. popu-
lar, because that wood is bouyant and
will help float the chestnut and the
oak. At bow and stern huge long
Timber oar is rugged on a turning
stile, the raft is anchored to a tree
with cable of rope or grapevine and
there is patient wait for a eide. "
Some day in March or April--some-
times not until May-mist and clouds
loose the rain in torrents. the neigh
bors gather, the cable is slipped, and
the raft swings out the mouth Of the
creek on its way to the land of which,
to this day, the average mountaineer
anows hardly less than that land
knows Of him.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26

Cbamberlin ballroom in the alter
noon and notwithstanding that a de-
lioht(nI breeze was blowing without,
the spacious hall was well filled when
President Anderson called the session
Of the Bar Association TO order, and
presented Mr. K. L. Irvine, who read
"a paper on "rhe Lawyer OF the
Future." The writer delved into
the remote past to show the origin oil
the lawyer, and then expatiated upon
the glorious future for the legal lnn-
mary. Mr.. Irvine concluded, how
ever, that the coming era would be
one of speciallies, and that the sue
cessful lawyer of the future must
therefore, be specialist. Mr..
Irviue's paper was carefully prepared
and in some parts appeared some
what prophetic. lie was loudly ap,
plauded, and when he concluded
memorials to deceased members were
presented.-Richmond Dispatch, l9fh
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
FROM JASPER.

Correspondence II The Big Stone Gap Posr.
JAsrrR, Va, July 23-Miss Marr Smith,
of this place, is visiting her sister at
OrctOn.
Mrs. W. }, stophol, who has been very
i'll for some time with fever, is improving
rapidly
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Bledsoe, Of Oreton,
was visiting homefoIks at Jasper Sunday
Several Jasperites attended the circus
at DuIeld Friday.
Willie Mullins is very II at this writing
Rev. J. A. Spit4er preached at this place
last Sunday Rev. Splitter is an excellent
preacher.
Mr. Palmer has moved from Harvey 10
Jasper on account Of the scarcity OF water
at the former place.
". Jewell died last SATURDAY at ] | a.
m. leaving wife and four children, who
will return to their former home At Blue
field at an early date.
A boy, whose Bame your correspondent
did not learn, was recently run over by q
car causing him to lose three OF his toes
Albert Barton. Of this place left for
Tennes.ee 4 few days ago where he Is 20
be married
Willy Cocburn, of Big Stone Gap, aud
Miss Cizor Palmer, OF this place Nere
married hast week. MARY AND DoNA.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
FROM CRAB ORCHARD

Correspondence u The Rig Stone Gap Po.t.
CgaB uRcaARp, Va, July 24.--The Par
dee aud the Interstate Investment com
panies are here prospecting their coal and
coke locations again.
The writer has been on II trip TO Preach =
er and Looney mines, visited and attended
the Pine Grove church. The meeting VAS
held on The mountain Plateau between
Preacher and Looney creeks. The lille
village is halfway Detween Mnersville aud
Looney coal mines, beautifully located or
the Big Black mountain spur, resembling
the mountain resorts OF our savior While
he was here on earth around about Beth
leham Of Judea. We found peace aud
plenty, love aud fellowship ~ the ehurch
and among the people. IL is land How
ing with milk and honey. Elds. Hall aud
Legg preached to a large aud attentive
audience on the mouut overlooking the
beautiful VALLEYS below.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
BASE BALL.

About two hundred people, accom-
panied by the Big Stone Gap Band
went on a special excursion tram
from Big Stone Gap to Pennington
Gap last Saturday for the purpose OF
playing ball. When the party reach
ed the forest in which the game was
to be played, the potato patch, !, e.
the diamond, skirted by broom sedge
and swamp, was occupied by the
Jonesville second team and the Fen
nington second team, and our boys
had to wait until Jonesville made a
score of twenty and Pennington
twenty-One.
1t was nearly three o'clock When
the Big Stone boys went to the bat
and the Penningtons to the brush,
with the teams as below:
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
FROM TURKEY COVE.

Correspondence Of The Big Stone Gap Posr.
TrRKrY Cow, Va, July 90.-The Sun
day School is doing very good work. Inc
following are the officers and teachers:
J. =. Brahe, superintendent; Susan Barker,
secretary; John b. Napier, cholrister;
Lanunie Barker, teacher OF quarterly class;
Tylie WYATT, teacher Of lesson paper class !;
Josie WYATT, teacher of little people 8
class. The school has an enrolment OF
81, with an average attendance OF about
20.
1t is noised abroad that the Seminary
of the Cove will soon he wearing new
roof. She is now about 30 years old and
will soon he wearing her fourth roof.
1t is now understood that Prof. Peter
Marcum will he the principal teacher at
Turkey Cove this year. We hope the
trustees will exercise much prudence in
the selec ion of IA good assistant, as the
assistant will have the care and training
of the Younger children. That teacher
should be endowed with skill and tact.
Miss Sudie Stout, of Kentucky, and
granddaughter of John Reason, Sr., and
wife, is visiting her friends and sick
grandparents in the Cove.
Fred. n. Looney preached an excellent
sermon in the Cove on the 10Th inst.
God was certainly in that meeting.
Guy Gilmer, Of Roanoke, is in the Cove
visiting his friends.
Mrs. Susan, wife of John Reason, Sr.,
died at her home in the Cove the 10Th
inst Paralysis was the cause.
CORgEsPoNDErT.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
Total 81, 100000, 600


One billion dollars year, and the
south not half trying! Wait until it
comes into its full strength and the
figures will be almost beyond the
computation of man. Nor does the
above list begin to cover the ground,
embracing, as it does, only fifteen OF
the leading articles Of southern pro-
duce. 1t does not include rice, ponl-
try. cattle, horses, sheep, goats,
mules, wool, hides, fruits, vegetables,
lead, zinc, marble, oils, turpentine,
tar, lime, cement and various other
things too numerous to mention,
which would vastly increase these
figures. A still more significant
point is to be found in the fact that
these figures are made on a territory
which embraces only Is per cent Of
the arabic lands and mineral fields OF
the south, the remainder being yet
undeveloped.
Truly a marvellous country it is,
and marvellous its thirty-five years
progress from an ash-heap of ruins
to flower. garden of promise. No
other country has done or could have
done it. Another thirty-fve years
and the southerner of today will
not know the land of his birth.
Young man, come south!
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26

than sitting on the end OF railroad
tie IN the hot sun, but we doubt 1t.
Better late than never seeihen 10
be the motto os the Pennington people
who had charge OF that covering Tor
the grandstand.
We trust those Furnishing trees "'
the left of the grandstand will nave
grown large enough to afford little
shade by the next game down az
Pennington.
Some people who missed their am,
ner trying not to miss the train wou''
have appreciated cold lunch counter
more than lemonade and oranges or
even ice cream and cheese.
Somebody ought to have hau Il
kodak ready when John N. "oodioe
and Alec Anderson climbed that renee
near the depot trying to eaten 'ne
excursion train.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
FROM OLINGER.

Correspondence Of The Big Stone Gan Post.
OLlSere. Va, July 20.-olinger mourhs
the loss of sister Phoeba, vile OF /. peh'
Thompson. Sister Thompson was bora
Sept. -. 1867, and died July 49, l9oo'
Her husband being an odd Fellow She
by her own request was Inferred by ihat
noble fraternity, in the Slemp Grave l ara
July 18th. 1t is peculiar to noie mat she
was married to Bro. Thompson July ~,
1883. ~ yeais ago. The pall-bearers ei
the odd Fellows bore her lemans 10 the
church. where Rev. Wilson, II Big Stone
Gap. in language very fitting and approprI-
ate preached her funeral services Her
remains were then born 10 the grave o.
he, final rest. in which the Odd Fellow
Fraternity inferred her remains with Il
ceremony suited to The occasion. she
has left i'm bereavement husband ana
three little children, besides her many
friends.
She was a Christian lady OF The purest
tvpe. Today her soul scars in ecstacy III
its eternal home of rest, parlakIng OF Tue
ambrosia lruitage of God.
The husband his little daughter, ana
his two little boys, have our heart ic't
sympathies. CoEREs?oNphNI'
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
The Lawyer of the Future.

We clip the following paragraph
from our exchanges regarding the
address of Hon. II. 7. Irvine, before
the Virginia State Bar Association,
which met in annual session at Old
Point Comfort, Va, last week:
1T was at this juucture that Mr..
r. L. Irvine. brilliant young law
yer of Big Stone Gap, was introduced
and responded by reading the paper
entitled 1.-The Lawyer Of the Future"
Dir. Irvine treated his subject in a
very philosophical manner. He start
ed with aye lawyer Of the olden
time with comparison of the law
yer Of today and gave calculations
leading therefrom of what the lawyer
would be tomorrow. His address
met with the keenest interest from
the large audience that had assembl-
Herald, l9h
inst. w
! 1t was unusually warm III the
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-26
The game by innings was:
NOTES:

base hlts-Blanton.
2 base hits-Wentz, Chalkley .,
McColgan 3, Webb, Myers and Cecil.
The game was interesting and
we'll contested from the beginning to
the ell ling, but the poor grounds and
the need OF practice on the part OF
some of the Big Stone Gap boys al
lowed the score to run little higher
than it would otherwise have been.
The Pennington boys watched Cap
tain Gish and played balm fact
they had to or get licked on their own
patch. They played as for dear life
and then won only by some strange
errors by the visiting team. AS to
how our boys played, there is differ
ence of opinion. 1t 10 asserted by
some that the boys played, for the
most part the hardest game of the
season. while others seem to think
that they did not measure up to their
usual standard. Let that be as il
may, we still have the utmsst con-
fidence in our team and believe that
it is the best team in this entire Sec
tion of country, and that on a good
diamond it will beat any team that
can be mustered up, especially if the
choice of players be confaed to the
town after which the team is named
On Saturday no secret was made oil
the fact that Pennington played but
few home boys. No kick was made
against it. The Big Stone Gap boys
played, likewise, a couple Of men
who do not usually go with the team.
1t is pleasure to have Greed Blan-
tons COOL nature and CHEEKY manner
in the game, and Creed's sinewy
frame and keen eye do good SER
vice, too. Creed was borrowed to
play for our absent John Fox.
Fighter has good base ball material
in him, and plays good ball, though
he fingers by the trout streams Of
Kentucky, when he should be per-
spring on the practice field.
Well, well, let's get two best. out
of three. We can do it. because DIR.
Towards voice was raised only in
fear and trembling on Saturday, and
Captain Gish cut .bui one little antic.
AIessrs. Sewell and Noel were the
Play ball.
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Notice to Delegates to District
Convention.

The L. L N. X. r. Co. will give special
accommodations on the 3Ist day of July,
1900, for the benefit Of persons attending
the Republican District Convention TO
he hei1at Wise, Va, Oh the first day of
August, at one and one-third fare for the
round trip. Persons taking advantage of
this reduced fare will pay full fare to Nor
ton, Va, and call on the agent where
ticket is purchased for certificate, which
will when signed by the undersigned, en-
title the holder to a,retirn ticket at one
third fare.
The train will arrive at Norton at about
4 o'clock, p. NJ, and we hope to arrange to
get train 10 meet the delegates there
aud bring taem to Ramsey, a distance OF
one aud one-half miles, where they will
take the Gladeville Il. X. for Wise.
In the event this arrangement can not
be made, il will be necessary for the dele
gates to walk to Ramsay.
Please call on your nearest agent and
get schedule of train. Respectfully,
CHAs. T. KiLGORE,
I Chair. Com. on Arrangements.