The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1902-07-18

10 miles above here, camps are u
. aud q force OF men at work, and
does not seem that 1t Will be lon
until the c. II 0. system will pas
\ through the "Breaksn Of Sandy
The distance from Whitehouse t
the Breaks Is 81 mlIes.-Enquir
err.
, John Edward Keyton, younl
, man from Morgan county, had |
narrow escape from death a
Ceredo. He was crossing tn,
CA o. bridge over Twelvepolt
creek near the place when a trair
approached from both east anC
west. In his haste to get off the
bridge he fell about % feet, alight-
ing on a wire fence on the east
side OF Twelvepole. He had an arm
broken, finger cut and other in
lJurirs about his body. He was
taken TO Nose Copley's home
where he, boarded. Dir. Hopkins
who attended him thinks he will
recover.-Gatlettsburg Daily Press
The Tri-state Chautauqua closed
Friday night with high school
oratorical contest. The con-
testants We're: Miss Rosela Can
non, lronton, Ohio; Miss Lucy
Lowry, OF Catlettsburg, Ky; Miss
Emma Withrow, OF Charleston,
W. Va; Homer Reckard, Of Hunt
ington, w. Va; and George n.
Gadsby, Of Ceredo, w. Va. The
first prize, S25, was awarded Miss
Withrow, the Charleston young
lady, and the second prize, $l5,
went to Miss Cannon, OF Ironton.
Catlettsburg showed her loyalty
to her contestant and the DEL
egates from that city presented
Miss Lowry with S25 in gold.
Wallis Estep, ten-year-old boy,
son OF c. Estep, prosperous farm
er living on Mine Fork OF Paint
creek, about ten miles from Sal
yersville, was shot by II. c. Jen-
kins,agod about twenty-three years.
The ball entered the hip, ranging
toward the knee. jenkins was
calling on young Estep's sister and
went 10 the house to see her. He
asked the boy to leave and the boy
Refused. jenkins chased him
around the house two or three
times and through the house, and
as he went to 90 out at the door
and across the fence jenkins fired.
The boy is not expected to live.
jenkins was arrested and IL now
in the custody OF the officers.
An important conference of men
who are financially Interested in
the development Of coal properties
along the Big Sandy River In East
ern Kentucky was held at the
Grand Hotel Wednesday morning.
The parties to the conference We're
John &C. MAYA OF Paintsville, !
KY, j X. Thomas, Of Charleston, |
VIVA. Attorney +. S. Jouett, OF
Winchester, Ky, and W. f. Hite,
of Huntington, VIVA. The com.
pany represented by these men
owns valuable coal lands in the
section and according to Mr.. Mayo
is arranging for extensive improve
ments in its coking plant.-Cln.
Times Star
SaIyersville, Ky, July l4.-Jack
Collinsworth, who killed Pierce
Patton, County Assessor, on the
10th of February last, who has
been at large ever since, and for
whose arrest Gov. Beckham offer.
ed reward OF 5000, and Magoflln
county reward of $50, was arrest
ed by Galloway Howard and c. d.
Sublet, OF this place, and lodged in
jail. He had his examining trial
aud vas allowed bail in the sum OF
$4,000 which he failed to give. Pat
ton was carrying the United States
mail from Salyersville to Prestons. {
burg and was shot while on the {
road about six miles above this
place.
We are reliably informed that
has been entered into by
The neirs OF the late w. IL. White,
10 develop the "Bowling silver {
nine" on Ellingtons' Bear Creek, a
Boyd county. II is Well known by 5
he older people in the East Fork
'onntry that back in the los old
nan Bowling made silver half !.
lollars that passed current and he ,
claimed the "mine" was located
IN his farm, now the lands OF
Whites heirs. In the life time OF =
Squire White he spent considera- !
Sic time in trying to locate the u
nlne, and, in making search found
pair OF "moldsp supposed to have b
n On used by Bowling. The new a
as We understand, are n
PRACTICAL mon and feel confident of "
uccess-in fact they are to begin !,
operations in thirty days.-Ash. !,
and Daily Independent.
Richmond, Va, July ll.-Gar. "
leld Potter, of Kentucky, one of u
he desperate outlaws who has, for {
year, been terrorizing East Ken.
ucky and Southwestern Virginia, h
vas accidentally killed in Dickson q,
'ounty yesterday. The father who n
ives in Kentucky, came for the n