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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
GOOD BYE.

The time is past,
The hours have swiftly flown
must awav.
The end at last,
The weeks TO months have grown
Seems but a day.
How comes it so?
Must every one away
Or only me?
IT'S hard to go,
Ills hard good bye" to say
Yet 1T must be.
Goodbye old home,
Goodbye to every friend
The minutes fly.
The oceans foam
Will soon my way attend
Dear ones good bye.
Dennis A. O'Brien.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
KILLED IN A WRECK.
FIREMAN EDWARD MURPHY MEETS
A VIOLENT DEATH.
Passenger kngiae DeraiIsa Last Nah,
ON the Baltimore q Ohio Near

Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
No. Al, due in Hagerstown from Bal
timore at 40 D. M. Friday night, was
wrecked at the Funkstown crossing
two miles south of Hagerstown.
Fireman Edward Murphy. of Bal
timore was killed, being caught under
the engine when it left the track and
rolled down forty foot embankment.
Engineman Ephriam Provace. of
Baltimore. was pitched about fifteen
feet and landed in some brier bushes.
He escaped with few scratches and
slightly injured wrist.
The other members of the crew es-
capped injury as did also the uassen-
gers.
The wreck was caused bv a portion
of the top of box car, standing on the
siding at that point. being blown off
during the wind storm Friday evening
and falling On the main track.
Mr.. Murphy was GA years of age.
and had been in the emplov of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad for forty
years.
THE FUNERAL.
The BODY of Mr.. Edward Harrison
Murphy. of Baltimore, the locomotive
fireman who was killed in the wreck
on the Washington county branch Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad on
Friday evening, was taken to North
Mountain Monday and was buried
in the family lot at that place. The
funeral services were conducted at his
late residence in Baltimore.
Mr. Murphy was a native of this
county. having been born here on
September 2, 1913. For more than 30
years he has been on the railroad and
for the past IL years had. been on the
Washington county branch of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad. He was a
veteran of the Civil war, having
served in Company +, of the First
Maryland Infantry, of the U. S. Vol
unteers. He served throughout the
war and was in the battles of Gettys-
burg. Antietam and the skirmishes
throughout this county.
He is survived by a widow, Mrs.
Albert johnson, of this county. He
will be remembered by many of the old.
er residents of this coantv.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
BAND CONCERT POSTPONED.
win Play Tuesday Evening Instead of
Friday, ms Usual.

Friday, AS Usual.
The regular Friday night concert of
the City band will be postponed I'M
til Tuesday evening of next week, on
account of the state meeting of the
Jr. 0. U. A. M, which will be in
session in Martinsburg at that time.
The meeting will attract a number of
visitors to this city. and it is the de-
sire of those in charge of the enter.
tainment OF the guests to afford them
every opportunity possible for an en-
ioyable time. The City band consent
ed to change the date of its regular
concert to meet the wishes Of the
entertainment committee, and the
visitors win be entertained from z to
8 O'Clock with a splendid musical pro-
gram.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
NEW OIL FIELD.
Big Gusher Drilled In Near M lton. This
state

Six miles southwest of Milton, w.
Va, Saturday afternoon, the Cabell Oil
and Gas Company struck oil at a
depth Of 1900 feet. The well ia now
flowing at the rate of 800 barrels per
day, and opens an entirely new field
in the State. There is great interest
over the strike, and leases are being
taken at fabulous prices.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
THURMAN DIVORCE CASE.


Plafntir Secures Counsel Fees. AIimony
aad Expenses.
In the Circuit Court at Winchester.
Judge T. W. Harrison signed de-
cree awarding to Mrs Olive Thurman.
who is seeking Q divorce from her
husband, Gen. Charles Thurman, e400
counsel fees. $500 court expenses and
$40 per month alimony. dating from
June 30. the dav the divorce petition
was entered.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05
WANT INJUNCTION DISSOLVED.
Judge Faulkner Hears Arguments i'm
Railroad Crossing Case.

Judge +. Boyd Faulkner heard ar
guments by counsel to dissolve the in
junction recently obtained by the Ber-
kelley County court to prevent the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad from erect
ing any but an overhead bridge at a
crossing near Cherry Run. The mat
ter was .aken under advisement and
Judge Faulkner will solve the problem
and hand down his decision in few
dave.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05

TRINITY M. r. CHURCH, SouTH--W est
Martin street. Preaching, II o. m. and
p. m; Sunday school. 0.15 a. IT.. al ass
= p. m; weekly prayer service, Wednes.
day . m. official meeting on Monday
after third Sunday, 8 p. m. Seats free
Rev. y. ID. Harris. Pastor.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-09-05

FIRST BAPTIST CHuRcH--w eKi1g
Street. hServicee every Sund s, y
lay scool $50. young men q prAvs r
meeting 1890, and preaching ii 90 q. n
Young peoples union 800, and preach
ing 6.30 p. m. Prayer meeting ever
Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock. Rev
/. y. Dunaway, Pastor; F. s. Emmcr
superintendent Of Sunday School.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
A LOST FRACTION OF TIME

II one grain Of sand on the shore
Of the ocean were lost. and scientists
were 10 spread years in trying to find
IT, they would be attempting n task
resembling that 10 which the leading
astronomers Of England and France are
now devotiug themselves. One-Eix-
teenth OF a second is missing. and no one
can tell where it has gone. Between
the suns time, as recorded at Green
wich and as understood at Paris. there
is that brief and seemingly unimportant
discrepancy. No expense is being spared
TO trace the missing fraction. A special
building has been erected at Paris. cost
ly Instruments installed. a CORPS OF
mathematicians engaged. and a process
that may take years 10 complete has
been commenced.
The inaCcuraCy is more Important
than viii appear to the lay mind. Lon
gitude is calculated on the basis q,
Greenwich time. It determines the
boundaries OF many countries. A slight
variation of time may change the na-
tionality Of thousands Of people The
pursuit of the missing fraction of q
second is therefore of world wide i'm
portance. When IL is found not a grain
Of the sands or time viii be missing.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
PURPOSED STATE TAX ON
TEXAS OIL COMPANIES
To the Editor Of The Washington Times:

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
The oil companies in the Beaumont.
Tex, fields, object to the proposed
State tax on their gross receipts This
does seem like a clumsy way OF reaching
these properties. Is not there q simpler
method?
While the one proposed would be more
effective than the present one of try
ing to tax the individual stockholders
on their cooperative holdings, and thus
missing 90 per cent of il. a more simple.
direct. and effective WY would be TO
deduct the value OF all work done on the
oil plants from the market value of the
companies stocks. This would discover
the exact value of the natural resources
which they monopolize.
Levy the tax on that Why tax their
capital at alI2 >. tax on capital (stored
up labor operates as discouragement
to industry.
The tax above proposed would not be
open to that objection. No matter what
improvements were made IN the oil in
dustry the companies would not be
peaalized. They will pay taxes only
on the natural bounties to which all
the people, Of Texas have the same
natural right as themselve.
a. FREELAND.
Mt Pleasant, Tenn, March 2s. 1903.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
PROPOSED RAILROAD IN
THE THREE AMERICAS

To the Editor OF The Washington Times:
Accepted IL the light OF its true and
full meaning as I understand it. the
plain and wholesome prediction of the
present prime minister OF Spain. Senor
silvela, in Madrid, last week. as very
Opportunely quoted in The Times Of The
2lst instant. that the United States, in
friendly and mutual cooperation With
all the other New World republics. will
not only cut the proposed ship canal
across the American isthmus. but VIII
also construct. at a comparatively early
dax an immensely elongated Iongitud-
inal railway through the three Ameri-
cas-. from Bering Strait to the Strait of
Magellan. is. considering the eminent
and influential source whence it sprang.
certainly one OF the most important and
Propitious OF modern prophecies per-
tGiuing to affairs purely secular.
Evidently enough is it. and as graft
fying as evident. that this vigorous and
healthful voice OF promise, from a far
famed peninsula OF southern Europe. Is
not a gloom generated groan OF grief
from old Spain, but a harmonious and
magnetic outburst of youthful melody
and music from Young Spain; materially
helping to bring again into the most
fiial and fraternal relationship all the
children OF our cis-Atlantic and trans
Atlantic netherlands.
All honor to this prescient and pro-
gressive Spaniard, Senor Silvela, a fe-
!iCiJOus and far-sighted factor Of the
twentieth century. whose acumen and
prominence are now manifestly so hand
somely and so happily blended in Ue-
half OF both the Eastern and the West
crn Hemisphere
Dwelling longer on this same subject,
an intercOntinentaI railway from north
western Alaska to southeastern Pata-
gOnia. l may here say something more,
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
What Fast Trains Mean.

In taking of its twenty-hour train
from Chicago 10 New York in favor OF
the increased freighting OF coal and 9TH
er commodities the management of the
Pennsylvania company suggested TO the
travelling public at what cost TO general
traffic the traveller was enabled 70 make
that distance in that time. For with a
train averaging fifty miles an hour over
the mixed single and double tracks OF
the line. 81 has been estimated that the
movement OF this train kept out OF serv-
ice full fifty miles OF tracks for the fun
twenty hours Of The run. This means
that for perhaps eight miles behind the
train and forty-two miles ahead of ii
every minute OF its run all other trains
operating on this main line are slowing
down. stopping, side-tracling. oPamoving
out again upon the line TO gain mo-
meutum and pursue their several
courses. Fifty miles an hour, including
stops. is notable speed 10 be maintained
for 1000 miles. To get such train
through on time would be a company
pride In any case the passenger train
with the mails has the right OF the
track. and all freight trains are sec
ondary TO IL in the matter OF taking the
sidinEs. but in the special case of such
a train as this trainmen on the line have
a disposition 70 take IL more seriously
than its great speed would seem 10 de-
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
STATUE PROPOSED TO
GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS
&C. A. R. Men Would Place 1t In Rotunda of the
Capitol

The movement to place q statue Of
Gen. George II. Thomas in the rotunda
Of the Capitol. which has been on foot
only a short tirle. meets with general
approval. The members Of the G. \. R.
OF this city are the instigators and are
workins hard to procure an appropria-
tion from Congress with which to obtain
a bronze or marble statue OF the popular
Union general.
Within the past two weeks ten posts
of the Department Of the Potomac. q,
a. R.. have had their regular meetings,
and Colonel Goodell, who is 10 be cred
tied with having been the originator Of
the project. has made brief addresses
at each one and been heartily congrat-
uiated for his good work. for most Of
the hoary- headed veterans, even though
they did not serve directly under Gen
eral Thomas, revere his name and be-
lieve he was one of the greatest gen
erals and best soldiers the Northern
army had.
These ten posts have taken the matter
up, and tho agitation is spreading like
wildflre. There are seventeen posts of
the Department of the Potomac. and the
other seven commands Will hold their
meetings next week. when Colonel Good
ell viii make further addresses in re-
gard TO securing the Thomas statue.
Last week a meeting Of Wilson Post. No.
II, was held at Soldiers Home and
everyone promised to support the move.
Among those who are members Of VIII
son Post and attended the meeting were
several men who were with General
Thomas when he virtually began the
civil war in 1851 with an enga cement or
skirmish at Failing Waters. Va. At
that time General Thomas was Junior
major of the Second United States Cav
airy and in General Patterson's com
mand.
There is a law which permits every
State in the Union 20 place statues OF
two of her sons, of which she may feel
Justly proud, in Statuary Hall at the
Capitol The States are limited 90 two,
The Washington times., 1903-03-30

but the Government may besides place
a statue in the rotunda Of the Capitol,
where Jefferson. Grant. Lincoln, and
Baker now stand, whenever It chooses.
Opposite the pedestal on which the
Grant statue stands. there is vacancy,
and this Is where the G. a. r.. veterans
wish to place the statue of their be-
loved General Thomas Congress has
been asked to make an appropriation
for the statue
At the last G. a. r. encampment.
Comrade Gooden and several friends
visited the Capitol and noticed the va
cancy and also noted that General
Thomas was not there. \ meeting was
called on the SPOT, and a committee of
twelve. of which Colonel GoodelI was
chairman, was selected to wait upon
Senators Elkins and Scott Of West Vir-
ginia. in order 10 enlist their support
and induce them to introduce a bill IN
Congress asking for the appropriation.
Senator Scott was IN EgyIt, but Senator
EIkins received the committee cordially
and promised his hearty support Sena-
tor Cullom was also waited upon. as
was Senator Dolliver and a number OF
others. Without exception they agreed
that General Thomas 81 ould have n
statue and although the movement was
started a little too late for action at
the last session of Congress, II is fair
10 presume that It will be among che
first appropriations made By the Fifty
eighth Congress.
The statue OF General Thomas in
Thomas Circle has been the subject Of
much unfavorabIe comment. because
many persons have noted the fact that
there is too much horse and too little
man about it.
In the rotunda OF the Capitol there
stands a statue Of General Grant. which
was placed there by the G. A r. vet
Grams Of the entire country, over 90 COO
men contributing. Should Congress fail
TO make the appropriation the Thomas
statue may be erected by popular sub
scription from the veterans.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
HYATTSVILLE NOTES.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, March sO-The
city council held its regular monthly
meeting Saturday night, the mayor and
every member present. The report OF
the treasurer showed receipts, 81, ,22s. .7s;
expenditures. -, 1870; balance, s79s.SS.
brick sidewalk was ordered laid on
Columbia Avenue. abutting property 70
pay half the expense Repairs to side
walks we're ordered on Schley and Mary
land Avenues.
A proposition from Painter g. Dutton
TO erect a Best lamp in front Of their
store IL the council would maintain it
was accepted. The petition Of J. VI. Ad-
ans, Melrose Avenue extended, for the
extension of water main $50 feet SO
that water could be introduced on his
premises was read and laid over until
the next meeting.
complaint that boys were shooting
within hearing Of his residence was re-
ceived from w. @. Lyon, but any amend
ment relating TO the ordinance relating
20 the discharge Of firearms on streets
and public places was deemed inexpe-
dent
Councilman Maloney moved that the
fine OF 80 and costs recently Imposed by
Justice OF the Peace Arthur Carr upon
George ". Sakers, for violation Of the
building regulations in the erection OF
a chimney In a frame house. be remitted
and that the chimney be allowed to
stand. The council. being in doubt as
TO its power to remit fines, adopted the
latter part Of the motion.
which was adopted, fixing the rates Of
water rents al So a year, and $3.50 for
each additional faucet, payable semi
annually IN advance.
According 10 instructions, City Attor-
ney Rogers submitted an opinion that
an Affirmative vote OF the citizens was
not required under the terms OF he
charter TO enable the Legislature 10 en-
power the council TO issue bonds for
street Improvement. This settles the
agitation for a vote on the question at
the ensuing May election.
At the Presbyterian Church yesterday
the Rev S. Ward Righter preached an
instructive sermon on Unsatisfactory
Christian Experiences" At the Pinck-
ney Memorial the Rev c. 81. MAYO
preached on The Power OF Love in
Guiding Mems lives" At ST. Jerome's.
Father Tower continued his sermons
on "Matrimony." At the Baptist Church
the Rev. J. W Rawles preached an in
teresting sermon on Weighed and
Found Wanting" There was no preach
ing al the Methodist Church. the pas
tor, the Rev ". l.. Woolf, being absent
at fredericksburg Va, attending the
annual conference. Il Is expected a new
pastor viii be installed next Sunday,
Mr.. Woolf having served the full limit.
At BASEBALL game az the Maryland
Agricultural College Saturday afternoon
betewen the college team and that OF
The Episcopal High School OF AIexan-
dris, the latter won by a score Of to s.
Frances whiting has gone for a fort
nights visit TO relatives at cuipeper. Va.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
Arranging WOrk of Fngineers.

The general committee OF adjustment
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers from the divisions of the Sea
board Air Line was in conference at
Portsmouth. Va. with Vice President
and Ganeral Manager Barr and General
Superintendent Huger. OF that system,
in relation to allotment OF territory, lie
overs, details OF runs. and other matters
connected with the routine OF the trans
portation department Of the road The
conference was held at the request OF
Mr.. Barr. and is said 10 have no sig
niheance other than that stated. Moth
ing was given out in regard 10 what
had been done. The members OF the
committee IN conference were: Chair
man +. II. Pelzer ard w. f. Owens. OF
Abbeville. s. c., third division: ". p.
Watson, Orlando. Fla. sixth division:
J. VI. Ashley. Savannah, fourth division
II. c. Morton, Americus, Ca, fifth di-
vision; George ". Pillow, Hamlet, y. c..
second division: E A Muse, Raleigh.
y. c., second division. and E. B. Clark.
OF Portsmouth, first division.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
LIGHT ON THE RELATION
Or THE TARIFF TO TRUSTS

To the Editor OF The Washington Times:
The following clipping from the ''Bos-
ton News Bureau of the 25th inst.
throws light on the question of the tar
in and the trusts;
The acquisition OF a majority interest
in the stock of the Clarion Steel Com
pany by the United States steel Corpor-
alton. which purchased it from the Cru
chile Steel Company of America. will be
of incalculable benefit to the American
Tin Plate Company.
1t practically cuts of the independent
tin plate manufacturers Of the country
from their source of supply and raises
with them the pressing question OF
where they are to get billets for the
manufacture of block tin plates.
For months they have been almost
wholly dependent upon the Cruciblc
Steel Company and have been utilizing
the surplus billet production OF the
Cldirton company in making lively com
petition for the American Tin Plate
Company.
TO stop the main source OF the in
dependents billet supply and thereby
check competitions ba,ore it got too
strong we're the impelling motives ac-
tuoting the corporation"
In order TO enable the steel trust 10
accomplish the results mentioned in
this item our Congress has placed a
prohibitory duty upon steel biuets. Thus
we have an answer to the question so
often asked as to the relation OF the
tariff TO trusts. TARIFF REFORM.
New York. March %. 1903
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
KIPLING'S CURE FoE
WRITER'S CRAMP

Perhaps Rudyard Kipling and the
charming young girl in the amusing
anecdote that follows were not think
ing of the same part of the human
anatomy.
At an evening party in London some
time back. a gushing girl was intro
duced TO the great poet.
''Oh. Mr.. Kiplingi" she said. Now,
please do tell me, I've been thinking
of taking up writing. but I'm so afraid
OF that dreadful writer's cramp one
hears so much about-did you ever have
ft2'
7 did madam"
And what did you take for it?"
'Beefsteak."
Just fancy. But how did you apply
it?'
"GrilleG and internally" said Rudyard
Kipling, gravely. 4 can't answer for
it's being a panacea. but il cured the
kind Of cramp I had all rightt'-An-
swers.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
NO MORE DEAD FISH
IN THE TIDAL BASIN
Plenty, However, in Canal
Near Seventeenth Street.
PERCH, SUNFISH, CATFISH
Fungus Growth on Some OF the SPeci-
mems That Puzzles the Scientists.
Others Not Affected at All.

No further finds OF dead fish have
been made in the tidal basin. and the
experts Of the Fish Commission are
more convinced than ever that the black
bass recently seen floating there were
simply those which died during the win
ter and were brought down by the
spring foods.
But a new source OF dead FISH has
been located in the canal at Seventeenth
Street. Hundreds Of small yellow perch
with some white perch. sunfsh. and cat
fsh are taken from the water at that
point.
Cause of Death a Mystery.
What is causing the perch to die so
rapidly is a mystery. The most natural
presumption is that the sewage is
killing the fish. but on those taken from
the water there is fungus growth at
taching to the giils which is puzzling the
scientists. Mr.. Marsh has obtai0ed a
number of the defunct perch and ex-
animation showed that while some had
their gills literally covered with
whitish growth. others were not affected
at all, and still others had only traces
OF lne GlSedSe.
Cultures have been taken from the
fish in order TO learn whether it was
the fungus that killed the FISH or wheth-
er the fungus was bred after the FISH
became sick from the sewage.
II will be a week before Dr.. Marsh can
tell just what the trouble is In the
meantime he is quite certain that the
black bass found IN the tidal basin had
no connection whatever with the yellow
perch dying in the canal. as not a bass
has been seen dead in the canal.
Remedy Suggested
Should there be some virulent disease
at work among the canal perch, the only
remedy that can be suggested for its
control is 10 stretch fine net across
the canal below the point Of danger for
the dual purpose Of preventing infected
fish from going to their healthy breth-
ren lower down and of preventing sound
fish from running into danger.
An interesting point about fish dis
eases mentioned by DR.. Marsh yester-
day was that tuberculosis has been dis
covered among European fish and is
doing much damage. So far, the fish OF
this country have escaped this malady.
tuberculosis has also been detected
among European turtles, but the Ameri-
can hardbacks show no signs OF becom-
ing consumptive.
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
Notes and Personals.

A Berlin dispatch says that the Hart
mann Machine Works at Chemnitz have
received m order for twenty locomotives
for the Canadian Pacific. This is the
first time that a contract for locomo-
tives has gone from Eorth America 10
Germany.
1t is announced that the contract for
five miles Of the track of The Seaboard
between Rockmart and Atlanta has been
awarded to Casey &. Co. contractors.
John T. Griffin has been appointed road
foreman Of engines on the Birmingham
division Of the Southern, with head
quarters in BIRMINGHAM
The Washington times., 1903-03-30
NEWS OF RAILROADS
AND OF RAILROAD MEN

Punta Gorda. and runs through a por-
ton of Florida which is especially de-
voted TO the raising of early vegetables.
1t is 396 miles in length
1t was also decided at the board
meeting that about forty miles Of aew
track be constructed, Of which twenty
miles will be built in Decatur county,
Georgia. and the balance in the neigh
borhOod OF Punta Gorda. The stock OF
the Florida Southern is LIS. GOO
BY this purchase and extension the
Atlantic Coast Lines mileage will be
increased $50 miles.