Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-01-04


Life In This Sleepy Village too Slow
for up.t0 date Sports.
Special to the New DOMINION.
FAfRMoNT, Jan. "A most sensa-
tinnal discovery was made by the
Evening Times to-day. Ii is that the
outbreak OF lawlessness and crime in
this city and county has been due to
a deep laid conspiracy on the part OF
Morgantown people who are jealous OF
the lawabiding character OF the com
mnnty and the progress THAI II had
been making during the past few
years.
Investigation of the robbery OF
Tailor Ring which took place on the
street in the center Of town in which
he was ehoked aud robbed of $500
resulted in the arrest Of two promin-
ent Morgantown tailors who are
charged with the crime. They broke
down and confessed 10 the conspiracy.
1t has been shown that the stories
of thirty arrests for drunkenness In
one week published In the Fairmont
Times were true but that Morgantown
people had seduced the straight laced
Fairmonters into getting drunk hav-
ing imported the liquor from Nor
gantown speakeasy for that purpose.
The robberies of the old man ON
Main street in broad day light, and Of a
woman at the depot In day light with
a crowd around and the hundred other
robberies that have taken place were
committed by jealous hearted Nor
gantown people.
1t is also very plain that the gang
of drunken rowdies who wrecked a
house and assaulted a number OF eiti-
Gems were merely practicing up for
their Sunday street fight in Morgan
town which according to the Times
takes place each week In front of the
postotiiee Immediately after he Sal
walton Army gets through i6s services.
1t has also been eonelusiyely shown
that the big poker games which run
here every night in the week have
been instigated by Morgantown men
when the Fairmont boys have really
tried to stop playing.
The story that part OF the inn
mense stores OF liquor sold here every
day is consumed by Fairmout people
Is denounced as false In every partic-
uar. II was never known when a
Fairmont man took q drunk when he
was asleep. The further story that
drunken men are stacked up like logs
in one OF the saloons OF town Is also
denied
1t was also confessed that the Ten
or dozen disofderly houses In the
city are backed by M0rgant0wn cap
italists and that the Morgantown
police stand in with them and afford
them the protection under which they
are run. The cab drivers report that
no Fairmont young men ever patronize
them.
very interesting event la town
this week was the taking Of the pledge
by about $500 men on January lst
and Of its formal breaking within Is
minutes OF that time. A telephone
message from the Experiment Station
TO the effect that alcohol was food led
to the lapse FROM virtue.
Al noon to-day Fairmont man re-
turned In disgust from Morgantown.
He reported the town too utterly slow
for anything. Not single prize
fight had taken place down there dur
log the week, 1t was perfectly safe for
lady TO walk along the street with
out being insulted, there were no fall
len women in the city as the old fash
Toned ideas of pride and conceit made
the officers whoOp them out OF. town
as fast as introduced by up to date
Fairmont people who have made sew
eral heroic attempts along this line
only to meet with failure.
He said that there hadn't been
hold up In the town In two years and
that then a Eairmon6 man had to in
struct tine reubens there how To do it.
And as for murders the only excite
ment in this line known in the sleepy
old village Is to be found in accounts
sent down from Fairmont.
Another thing that he missed was
the utter absence Of the good hot
shows which are given so often in the
dear old city up at the head OF lack
water. The shows that come to Nor
gantown are too decent to be enj Dyed
by any but members of the Su nday
school or church. To real hot sport
they are dead slow.
A source of surprise to him at ter
living in real town where ballo ons
have to be used ID going from one
street to another was to see nice evel
lots and to discover that man co uld
buy place on which to build ho me.