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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-29
IDENTIFIED
Are the oesperadoes Who Terrorized
Italian Camp In Randolph
County.

ELKINs. w. Va. July 2s.-The
sheriff's posse that left here on a spe-
cial yesterday to quell the riot at
Gladly, returned empty handed yes
terday. The white men had made
good their escape. However, the des-
peradoes, 1t was learned, are ]. Nc
caffrey, Floyd and Sid Ryder, wanted
for dynamiting hotel at Cranberry,
and for trying to murder a United
States marshal. o'Neil in the hos
pital here will be arrested as soon
as he leaves that institution.
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PERSONAL


Daua Miller has been in Morgan
,5~a Tor few days,
Miss Carolyn Abbitchio, Of La
rrobe, Pa. is the guest OF Mrs. John
Rock
Mrs Hart Daniels is in Warrington.
de guest Of her mother. Mrs Hulda
Newell.
Misses Amy and Addies Eiiason re-
burned this morning from weeks
visit to Atlantic City. Ii
Miss Anna Teasdale left this morn
Ing for a. visit to friends at New
Cumberland and East Liverpool.
krorasy E. r. Morgan went to
falrview today in the capacity Of
special commissioner In the sale OF
snne real estate.
Mrs. Howard Ogden and three chill
dren left this morning for Chicago,
where they will be the guests Of
friends Tor few weeks.
4
Mrx NJ A. Carlow. OF Morgantown,
who has been in the city since yes.
terday, left to-day for visit to
friends near Parkersburg.
Miss Mary Conway has returned
1om Warrington where she had been
she guest of her grandmother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Atha, for few weeks.
Miss Mayme Hoard, who has been
I guest at the home of DR.. E. w.
Howard for the past two weeks, return
Cd on Friday to her home at Hoard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Reinheimer spent
yesterday In Morgantown with their
daughter, Miss Clara Reinheimer, who
was student in the w. v. U. summer
school.
Mrs. E. w. Howard and daughter,
Mary Katharyn, went to PIT. Marion
this morning to spend few days with
relatives. Miss Dorothy Howard has
Seen in PIT Marion for the past week.
Miss Mary Kaufman. who had been
Z he guest OF Miss Elizabeth Watson
for the past month, left yesterday af.
ttrnoon for her home in Des Moines,
Iowa. Miss Watson accompanied her
as far as Warrington.
Mrs. Melissa Conway and daugh.
ter, Miss Mary Conway. who have
been the guests Of friends in the city
during the past week, have gone to
AIannIngton where they will be the
guests Of Capt. A. n. Prichard for a
few days. They are en- route home
from an extended visit to Boston and
other eastern cities.
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Glen Barnes was a Wheeling visitor
yesterday.
c. H. Parks. Of Grafton, is i visitor
in the city.
Miss Ruth Johns is the guest of
friends in Warrington.
Miss Matte Huffman, Of Grafton,
is the guest Of Miss Mary Russell.
Secretary of State c. w. swisher
and Senator JOS. McDermott came
up from Morgantown at noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank EVAN win leave
tomorrow for a two weeks visit at
Mr.. Evans home In Morristown, o.
Miss Virginia Boring. of clarksburg,
is visiting at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. N. A. Fletcher, In the Second
ward.
Mrs. Mary Hamilton went to Be.
lington yesterday. where she will be
the guest OF her son, DR.. z. Mendel
Hamilton.
Miss Laura Kester. who has been
the guest OF Mrs. o. F. Jenkins for the
past week, will return Monday to her
home In Clarksburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Roberts, who
have been visiting friends in the city,
viii leave tomorrow for their home
at Cape Charles, Va.
Mrs. George Bonafield has return.
ed TO her home near Morgantown at.
ter a weeks visit with Mrs. Susan
Upton, on Jefferson street.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawks and children
who have been the guests of Mr.. VIII
Fleming for the past week will leave
Monday for their home in Muncie
Indiana.
Miss Clara Reinheimer. and Miss
Clara May Reinheimer returned to
day from Morgantown where they
had been attending the University
SuinmSi oSnooi.
Attorney w. s. Meredith leaves for
Atlantic City today. He will be alb
sent from three to four weeks. As
before stated, Mrs. Meredith preceded
him some days ago.
Mrs. Harvey Shane has returned
from a months visit in Colorado. She
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Har.
vey while in Denver. She reports q
most delightful trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Doak and chill.
dren left for their home in Washing
ton, Pa. this afternoon, after having
paid short visit to Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
G. Lough. Mr.. and Mrs. Doak were
on their way home from a visit with
relatives in Barbour county.
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HouLT.

Captain Effie Keller, of the Saliva.
ton Army. from Chicago, is visiting
her mother here.
Miss Halle satterfeld, Of coifax.
is also visiting Mrs. Keller.
Jesse Durr is on the sick list. We
understand he has typhoid fever.
George Hartley is hauling in Ium-
Der to Hoult. He says It is for the
bridge contractors. Some people
thought he was going to build himself
"a house, as from all outward appear.
ance, at least, they thought he would
need one soon.
Farmers have been taking advan.
tage OF the nice weather of the last
few days to get up their hay. Much
of the hay this year will be Of infe.
rior quality, especially clover, from
being let stand too long, the wet
weather making It difficult to get ii
harvested sooner.
This is an ideal corn season, how.
ever, and corn is looking fine.
Major Seibert and Captain Callard
were up at the lock one day this week
and incidentally one person is hap
pier and another is sadder, we under.
stand, but wiser with that wisdom
that comes of sad, sad experience.
We understand that Aft Richmond's
boat will not be for sale.
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NOTICE.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
The undersigned trustee, for NJ.
Kate Ebert gives notice to her cred
itors to present their respective ac-
counts duly probated on or before the
18th day of August, 1905, as he ex
poets to pay dividends at that time.
Address NJ. ]. LANTZ,
Trustee.
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81 notice." said the talkative Gus.
toner, that ones beard grows faster
in hot weather than it does in cold.
What makes It do that?"
Nature" answered the taciturn
barber.-Chicago Tribune.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-29
FIRST WARD NOTES

q T. u ~
The brick work Is lust completed on
the new addition to the Miners Hos
pital, and is being followed up by the
carpenters pushing 1t to completion.
The subscribers to the West vir-
ginian. in Winfield district, are filing
complaints by reason OF irregular
mail service, SO that at various times,
and frequently, their paper does not
reach them. and they want it each
day.
Mrs. Charley Meredith, of Diamond
street. and Miss Della Harr, gradu-
ate nurse from the City Hospital have
gone to Valley Falls on q visit with
Lum Mason and family of that place
for few days.
Little Creek ovsrnowed.
A great influx Of people from the
regions round about gathered at the
home of Ebert Moran, on Little
Creek. yesterday, to Join with him in
an overflow Of joy on the anniversary
Of his S5th birthday. The constant
streams of humanity, composed Of
his children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren, began to flow In from
different directions at s o'clock A. NJ,
and continued until noon or later,
with the addition of a few special
friends, numbering so adults, besides
babies galore. A great feast was
spread about one o'clock to which am
pie Justice was done in honor of the
occasion. because every one felt he
must do his Individual part in the
celebration, and some who felt that
they had failed in the first instance
made second effort on this part OF
the programme, in order to preserve
their reputation. 1t was great day,
enjoyed by all present, the friends in.
vited and Mr.. Moran himself, who is
well preserved in body and mind, and
in the best of health. Many did not
feel SO well following the noon hour,
when they did extra duty, but this was
only from temporary exhaustion, and
in the evening all retired feeling glad
that they had been there, and hoping
to be invited back again next year.
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Lady A-Here comes that dreadful
man who sat next me at dinner. He
hasn't the manners of pig.
Mrs. BLOW funny! thought he
had.-Punch.
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discern the separate notes OF which It
was composed, especially one deep. bell
like bay
L remembered that I had heard this
bay when we sat in the boat upon the
river and saw that poor noble done to
death for the crime of loving the
Khania. AS the hunt passed US then. 1
observed that It burst from the throat
OF the leading hound, huge brute. red
in color. with a coal black ear, fangs
that cleaned like ivory. and a mouth
which looked like hot oven 1 even
knew the name of the beast. for after
ward the Khan, whose peculiar Joy it
was, had pointed fl out 10 me. He cali
cd IT Master. because no dog in the pack
dared night 1t, and told me it could kin
an armed man alone.
Now. as fits baying warned M Master
was not half mile away!
The coming Of the moonlight on
abled US to gaIlop faster. especially as
here the ground was smooth, being
covered with a short. dry turf, and for
the next two hours we gained upon the
pack. Yes. IL was only two hours. or
perhaps less. but II seemed a score
or centuries The slopes OF the peak
were now not more than ten miles
ahead, but our horses were giving ont
at last They had borne us nobly. moor
beasts, though We were no light
weights. yet their strength had it's
limits. The sweat ran from them.
their sides painted like bellows. thew
breathed in gasps, they stumbled. and
would scarcely answer to the fiOgginx
OF our spear shafts. Their gallop sank
TO Joiting eanter. and j thought that
soon they smtist come 10 dead stop
rise, from which the ground, that was
sorinkled with bush and rocks. sIoped
downward to where. some miles below
US the river ran, bounding the enor-
nous Hanks Of the mountain. When
we had Travelled a little way down this
slope we We're Obliged to turn in or
der TO pass between two heaps of rock.
which brought US side on to its brow.
And there, CROSSING ii not more than
three hundred yards away, we saw the
pack. They We're fewer of them now;
doubtless MANY had fallen out of the
hunt, but many still remained More
over not far behind them rode the
Khan. though his second mount was
gone. or more probably he was riding
1t. having galloped the first TO a stand
still
our poor horses saw them also, and
the sight lent them wings, for all the
while they knew that they We're run
ming for their lives. This we could
tell from the way they quivered when
ever the baying came near to them,
not as horses trembIe with the pleas
urable excitement Of the hunt, but in
an extremity OF terror. as 1 have often
seen them do when a proving tiger
rcars close to their camp. On they
went rs though they We're fresh from
the stable. nor did they fail again until
another four miles or so were covered
and the river was but little way
ahead. for we could hear the rush OF
it's waters.
Then slowly but surely the pack
overlook us. We passed clunp OF
bush. but when we had gone a oouple
of hundred yards or so across the
open plain beyond, feeling that tba
h9-ses were utterly spent. 1 sLfg
II Ssp;
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~ =. !, Q&S Qhanksqipino Dap Gentlemen

that he was, rearing Truly, the an
nual feeding of Stuffy Pete was
nothing national in its character.
such as the Magma Charta or jam
for breakfast was in England. But
it was a step. 1t was almost feudal.
1t showed, at least, that custom
was not impossible to New Y
aheml-America
The old gentleman was thin and
tall and sixty He was dressed all
in black, and wore the old-fashioned
kind of glasses that won't stay on
your nose. His hair was whittier and
thinner than it had been last year.
and he seemed to make more use of
his big, knobby cane with the crook
ed handle.
AS his established benefactor came
up, Stuffy wheezed and shuddered
like some woman's over-fat pug
when a street dog bristles up at him.
He would have aown, but all the
skill of santos-Dumont could not
have separated him from his bench.
Well had the pyrmidons of the two
old ladies done their work.
"Good-morning, said the old ger
tleman. Il am glad to perceive tat
the yicissitudes of another year have
spared you to move in health about
the beautiful world. For that HESS
ing alone this day Of thanksgiving
is we'll proclaimed TO each of US. IL
you viii come with me, my man,
I will provide you with a dinner that
should make your physical being
accord with the mental
That is what the old gentleman
said every time. Every Thanksgiv-
ing Day for nine years. The words
themselves almost formed an insti-
tuition. Nothing could be compared
with them except the Declaration of
Independence Always before they
had been music in stuffy's ears. But
now he looked up at the old gentle
mans face with fearful agony in his
own. The fine snow almost sizzled
when it fell upon his perspiring
brow. But the old gentleman SILVER.
ed little and turned his back to the
wind.
Stuffy had always wondered why
the old gentleman spoke his speech
rather sadly. He did not knew that
It was because he was wishing every
time that he had son to succeed
him. A son who would, come there
after he was gone-a son who would
stand, proud and strong before some
subsequent Stuffy. and say: I'm
memory of my father Then it
would be an institution.
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table with holiday food-and Stuffy.
with a sigh that was mistaken for
hunger's expression. raised knife
and fork and carved for himself q
crown of imperishable bay.
No more valiant hero ever fought
his way through the ranks of an
enemy. Turkey. chops. soups. vege-
tables, pies disappeared before him
as fast as they could be served.
Gorged 70 the uttermost when he
entered the restaurant, The smell OF
food had almost caused him to less
his honor as gentleman, but he raj
lied like true knight He saw the
look OF beneficent happiness on the
old gentlenlan's face-a happier look
than even the fuschias and the orin-
=thoptera amphrisius had ever
brought TO ie-and he lad not the
heart 20 see It wans.
In an hour stuffy leaned back with
a battle won.
''Thankee kindly. sir" he pulled
like lesky steam pipe; ~thankee
kindly for hearty meal.
Then he arose heavily with glazed
eyes and started toward the kitchen.
A waiter turned him about like a
top, and pointed him toward the
door. The old gentleman carefully
counted out s130 IN silver change,
leaving three niclxeIs for the waiter.
They parted as they did each year
at the door. the old gentleman going
south, Staffy north.
Around the first corner Stuffy
turned, and stood for ons minute.
Then he seemed 70 puff cut his rags
SIS an owl puffs out his feathers. and
fell to the sidewalk like a sunstrick-
en- horse.
When the ambulance came the
young surgeon and the driver cursed
softly at his weight. There was no
smell Of whisky to justify a trans
fer TO the patrol wagon. SO Stuffy
and his two dinners went to the hos
pital. There they stretched him on
bed and began to test him for
strange diseases, with the hope OF
getting a chance at some problem
with the bare steel
And 10. an hour later another am
bulance brought the old gentleman.
And they laid him on another bed
and spoke Of appendicitis, for he
looked good for the bill.
But pretty soon one Of the young
doctors met one of the young nurses
whose eyes he liked, and stopped to
chat with her about the cases.
That nice old gentleman over
there, now" he said, you wouldn't
think that was a case Of almost star
walton. Proud old family, | guess.
He told me he hadn't eaten a thing
for three days"
Copyright, 1908. by Press Publishing Com
Pany. New York Worsd.)
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ZFSFTA TIE FUEsTEIER EIIsyToEsY o. ~STTF

cur horses and feared lest they might
fall in the uncertain light.
A while before dawn the moon sank
behind the mountain. and the gloom
grew so dense that we were forced to
stop. which We did. holding the horses
by their brides, and letting them Craze
little on some young corn. Then the
SKY turned gray, the light faded from
the column Of smoke that was our
guide, the dawn came, blushing red
upon the vast SHOWS of the distant peak.
and shooting its arrows through the
loop above the pillar. We let the horses
drink from channel that watered the
corn, and, mounting them, rode onward
slowly.
Now with the shadows of the night
a weight OF fear seemed TO be lifted of
our hearts. and we grew hopeful, ave.
almost joyous. That hated city was be-
hind US. Behind us were the Khania.
with her surging. doom-driven passions
and her stormy loneliness, the wizard
ries Of her horney-eyed mentor. so old
in years and secret sin, and the madness
of that strange being, half devil half
martyr, at once cruel and a coward
the Khan. her husband. and his polluted
court In front lay the fire, the snow
and the mystery they hid, sought for
so many empty years. Now we would
solve 1t, or we would die. So we pressed
forward Joyfully TO meet our fate.
For many hours our ROAD ran devious
ly through cultivated land. where the
peasants at their labor laid down their
tools and gathered into knots to watch
Us pass, and quaint. hat-roofed villages,
whence the women snatched up their
children and fed at the sight Of us.
ihey believed us to be lords from the
court who came to work them some
harIn IN person or in property. and their
eerror told us how the country smarted
beneath the rod OF the oppressor. BY
midday although the peak seemed TO
De nut little nearer, the character of
the land had changed Now il sloped
gently upward, and therefore could not
be irrigated.
Evidently. all this great district was
dependent on the fall of timely rains.
which mao not come that spring. There
ioie' aithough the population was still
tense and every rod OF the land was nm
'der the pillow or spade. the erons -
falling. 1t was pitiful TO see the &c.,
uneared corn already turning yeIiov, he,
cause OF the lack OF moisture. the hass,s
searching the starved pastures for food
and the poor husbandmen wandertne
about their fields or striving to hoe the
iron soil.
Here the people seemed to know us
as the two foreigners whose coming
had been noised abroad. and, the fear az
famine having made them bold. thew
shouted AT US as we went by 10 give
them back the rain which we had stolen
or so we understood their wordg. Even
the women and the children in the VII
lagos Frustrated themselves before US.
pointing first 10 the mountain and then
10 the hard blue sky, and crying to US
70 send them rain, Once, indeed. we
were threatened By mob OF peasants
armed with spades and reaping hooks.
VINO seemed inclined to bar our path. SO
that we were obliged TO put our horses
20 a gallop and pass through them with
rush. AS we went forward the co,If,-
Try grew even more arid and its inhab-
'tahts more scarce. TIL we saw no men
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appear that unless we reached some
place whittier ne did NOT dare 10 fol-
low, before him-that Is, the slopes OF
the peak many miles away. he must run
Us down. There remained the chance.
also. that the dogs would tire and re-
fuse to pursue the chase
This, however, seemed scarcely proba-
bic. for they were extraordinarily swift
and strong. and so savage that when
once they had scented blood, in which
doubtless our horses hoofs were steeped
they would fan dead from exhaustion
sooner than abandon the trail. Indeed.
both the Khania and Simbri had often
told US as much Another chance-tbev
might lose the scent. but seeing its ma
ture, again this was not probable. Even
an English pack viii carry the tran
Of red herring breast high without a
fault for hours. and here was something
stronger cunning compound of which
the teltale odor would hold for DAYS.
a last chance II we were forced 10
abandon cur horses we. their riders
might possibly escape. could we find any
place to hide in on that great plain. If
not. We should be seen as well as scent
ed. and then
NO. the odds were all against US but
so they had often been before: mean
while, we had three miles start and
perhaps help would come to US from the
mountain, some help unforeseen. So We
set our teeth and sped away like arrows
while the light lasted.
Very soon il failed. and while the
moon was hidden behind the mountains
the night grew dark
Now the hounds gained on us. for in
me gloom. which to them was nothing.
we aid not dare to ride full speed. fear
ing lest our horses should stumble and
iaine themselves. or fail. Then It was
Tor the second time since we had dweit
IN this land OF Kaloon that OF a sudden
the hre f1amed upon the peak. When We
had seen it before, il had anneares =,
hash across the heavens in one eyaat
lighthouse ray. concentrated throueh
the loop above the pillar. and there this
hishpaiso the ray ran far above us like
d lance OF fire. But now that we wera
nearer 10 lts fount we found oursel,1es
Dathed IN a soft, mysterious radiance
IKE that Of the phosphorescence on a
summer sea, reflected downward ner-
maps from the clouds and massv rocl,
rooi OF the column loop and diffused bv
the SHOWS beneath.
This unearthIy gIimmer. faint a. 8,
was helped us much; indeed. but for !,
we must have been overtaken. for here
lhe ground was rough, full of holes
also made by burrowing marmots. Tim,
IA our extremity help did come TO ps
from the mountain. until at length the
moon rose when as quickly as they bao
appeared the volcanic fires vanished
ieaNihg behind them nothing but the ac-
customed pillar OF dull red smoke.
II Is a commonplace to speak of the
music or mounds at chase. but often
have wondered how that music 80.
In the ears of the deer or the fov -.
Tor its life. Now when we 6Iled ~
place OF the quarry. It was mv/destinv
to solve this problem. and assert with
confidence that the progeny of earth car
produce no more hideous noise. II had
come near TO US. and in the desolate ii.
lencs OF the night the hellgsb harmoniea
~ u SaluIne seemed tesSss<s- M ] SEESa
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It is the one day thai Is purely
American. Yes, a day of celebra-
ton. exclusively American. But
Just a little historical depression.
IN the year 1923 or 1923 John sebas-
tian Cabot or Sir Walter Raleigh
shipped a flock of turkeys from
America to Her Majesty the Queen
Of England. Don't like to suggest
that anything English has crept into
our national holiday; but we got
hold Of cold storage turkey last
Thanksgiving that-but perhaps it
really wasn't one of the same,
And now for the story, which is to
prove to you that we have traditions
on this side Of the ocean that are
becoming older at a much rapider
rate than those of England are
thanks to our git-up and enterprise.
Stuffy Pete took his seat on the
third bench to the right as you enter
Union Square from the east. at the
walk opposite the fountain. Every
Thanksgiving Day for nine years
he had taken his seat there promptly
at O'Clock. For. every time he had