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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-05-25
For Treasurer.

announce myself as candidate for
~. Office Of Treasurer Of Big Stone Gap
az the 1oming Spring election. and solicit
'he support Of my friends Of both narfjes
And IT elected promise TO perform the
ability.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-05-25

! hereby announce myself as eandi-
Sate Tor the Ogfiee OF Treasurer OF Big
'.S"e Gap at the coming spring election,
~aa RESPECTFULLY solicit the support Of the
WI. cAsxEs.
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The Green Seal tn at Stands
For quality
Gfeen Seal Liqaid PaInt. For 81. -
At >. !" keily's Drug Ssera.
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Real Estate for Sale.


II you desire to bav property in hi
stone Cap consult a. before buyinr. We
can furnish you most aRything You want.
SS'oVo.--A nice store house, and DWELLING
adjoining. In Plat D. One third
essh, balance in one ane two Years.
This j. a bargain.
f'lVo.-A nice six room dwelling and
siorehouse. together with three
lots, near the Extract Works.
SooV-ou-A two story storchouse and
dwelling ,nearDummy line, Tn Plat D
Town Lots.
We offer for sale the following town lots
al very reasonable prices.
Lot Jo,hiock m. Plat I iots667 AGA
=. y Lots 4 no. BIS, Pi: LotG. B I93
3 Lot Is, III. p 3: Lot ;. Il "a p n,
LOT ~. 3 rs. p 3: Lot Z. B i23, p. 3. Lot
OF these lots
Sulphur Spring Lots.
Lot A, b. p Lot q b ,. Lo,.sxs
p; Lots so 4 no. n. An seven Of
these lots for $4,000, or separately for
s25 90 each.
II you want to buy or sell property Of
anY kind. call and see as.
Wise Real Estate Co., Inc,
BIG STONE GAP. VA.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-05-25
For Sergeant

Io Tna CirirESs o. Bic Srose Car.
wish 10 announce myself a candidate
Tor Iowa Sergeant for the coming Sprjpg
election. II elected promise 20 perform
dulles Of said osice 20 the best Of nv sbil.
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SWIFT & COMPANY.

we are row hsndling the old
Unstable swifts Beef. Fresh ship
1eh.s twice week. Oae pound Of
wit. wits Is better than two pounds Of
=. any other. handled BY Our compe-
"'ors. as they kill sheir own stock
'hone or call on as for prices.
Yours Cor business.
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Yours Respectfully,
r n. BRrASr.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-05-25
Highland Technical Institute,
Big Stone Gap, Va.

This Is growing school Though only four months Old
ready wei hed with fine class of young women all of
whom than satisfied earnest enthusiastic workers
The plan OF the Institute broad take several
Grafton,
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A School Of Business

having actual practice classes in Shorthand Type writing Book
keeping etc. and thorough instructions TO
found IN the higher grade institutions. All methods Of
education discarded and all students thoroughly drilled in
the fundamentals of education and TAUGHT TO THINK
Daily lectures given in Christian Ethics right ideas of
life and duty are made prominent.
Habits Of care economy and thrift regularly nculcaed The
student is carefully studied and helped every TO establish
strong character Business who looking forward to
poyng either young invited our
officers or teachers We only are thorough
equipped, of clean personal believed to be honest
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
This department proving very are given
in piano. VIOLIN and vonceo reasonable rates The
instruction thorough and upodate. taken in
forming the musical habits Of young pupils Daily
chorus singing given without charge.
Industrial Training.
is the aim Of this school develop several branches for me-
hanca training IL expected that working shop will
be operation by the first of September already instruction
given IN different branches Of printing expected that i'm
tins number of students viii be enabled after acquiring the
necessary skill, TO earn toward their education
For futher particulars, address
HIGHLAND TECHNICAL INSTITTE
Big Stone Gap, Va.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
SUPREME COURT RULES
THAT H0CH MUST HANG
FEBRUARY 20 Is DATE SET FOR
EXECUTION
Condemned Man Becomes Greatly Ex-
cited When He Is Informed His
Last Hope Is Gone-Later He
Accepts His Fate Calmly
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.--The state SUI
preme court today affirmed the verdict
of the lower court which condemned
Johann Hook to death for the murder
of his wife, Mrs. Marie Welcker Hoch
and the date of the execution has been
set for February 23.
The first news of the action of the
court was reported by a telephone mes
sage from Assistant States Attorney
Barnett, who Is in Springfield. He
communicated the information to
State Attorney Healy. A messenger
was sent to Hoch with the news and
found him in the visitors cage of the
jail talking with the last of his many
wives, Mrs Fischer Hoch, the sister
of the woman for whose murder he
was sentenced to death. When he re-
ceived the news Hoch became greatly
excited. and pressing his face against
the wire netting he shouted: you are
lara liar 1t is not true. 1 do
not believe it,
He soon became more composed and
asked for a verification of the re-
port. When the messenger came back
the second time Hoch took it very
quietly. He did not betray the slight
est emotion and said in his ordinary
tone: 81 have nothing to say-nothing
at all. If 1t must come, then it must.
have nothing more to say
The specific charge against Hoch and
on which he was convicted was the
killing of his wife by the administers
tion of arsenic. He fled from the city
and was arrested in New York and
brought back to Chicago. He was
placed on trial April 10 and convicted
May 20. Sentence of death was passed
on him June 3, the date of June % be-
ing set for his execution. Gov. Deneen
granted him reprieve until July rs
and a second reprieve until August 20.
Before the arrival of this day, how
ever, the supreme court granted him
u supersedeas to allow of the consd-
GRAFTON of his case. The action of the
court today destroyed his last hope un-
less Gov. Deneen interferes
Hoch has always denied that he
killed his wife by arsenic or otherwise.
He has admitted that he committed
bigamy repeatedly, but asserts that all
of his wives who died expired of nat
Gral causes.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
HOT STUFF SAYS
ANNA OF DINNER
ACTRESS TELLS OF AFFAIR IN
PlTTSBURG
Says Friek Was Present and Many
Of the Guests We're Drunk
and Were Excessively
Noisy
Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS. Dec. 15.-Anna Held, when
told today that William E. Corey. pres
ident of the American steel trust, had
threatened to make revelations involv-
ing actions by prominent Plttsburg
men, which took place at banquet at
which Miss Held sang, unless these
men ceased criticising Corey. spoke
freely of her experience on that oc-
casion. She said: "Ycs, there was
a dinner given by Mr.. Frick at the
Duquesne club, Plttsburg. I was
asked to sing at the dinner and con-
sented
when 1 arrived there, which was
late in the evening, many of the guests
were drunk. They were excessivly
noisy. | sang Won't You Come and
Play With Me-
"One man removed his coat and
shouted, Certainly | left the din
ner. Before I got away my clothing
was slightly torn. / cannot remember
the name of the man who took his coat
off-Frick was there l saw him. The
dinner was hot stuff"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
STRANGER MANGLED BY
TRAIN AT PASADENA
BYsTANDERs HEAR SCREAM AND
FIND DEAD BODY
Victim Believed to Be Edward Wilson.
Mystery Surrounds the Manner in
Which He Fell Beneath the Wheels.
May Have Lived at Tulare
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Dec. ia midde-aged
man with papers I'm his pocket
indicating that his name was Edward
Wilson was run over and killed near
the Green street crossing in this city
by the Santa Fe eastbound limited this
evening. The body was mangled the
right foot being entirely severed.
AS the limited was pulling out of the
station some of the people on the plat
form heard some one on the train
shouting at the top of his voice, the
screams ceasing in a moment. officer
Schultz and some others ran up the
track after the train, which was in
creasing its speed and which soon dis
appeared around n curve. At the foot
of Green street they came upon the
body of man lying on the rails and
bearing the appearance of having been
dragged for some distance under the
train. The man was dead. Ives e. War
ren's ambulance was called and the
body removed to the undertaking
rooms, where an examination was
made.
1t was the body of n man probably
45 years of age, neatly but rather
roughly dressed. In his purse he had
15 cents in change and in anothe,
pocket he had a Wells-Fargo express
draft for $25, payable to Ed Wilson
This was dated at Tulare. There was
also a first-class ticket over the Santa
Fe from Los Angeles to San Bernar-
dino, unused. A receipt for clothing
bought on December 13 of Hotalings
in this city was also on his person,
indicating that he had been in Pasa-
dena recently.
Just how the accident occurred can
not be determined as yet. The coroner's
inquest of tomorrow may clear up the
mystery. but the chances are small
1t is believed by some that the man
must have attempted to get on the
train here just as it was starting and
that by mistake he got on in front of
the baggage car. Then, it is thought
he tried to correct his blunder and
slipped under the car, clinging to the
end of the car until he fell. Others
think that he must have been in hid
ing under the car and was Jared loose
This would account for the fact that
the ticket was unused, but would not
give n reason for his having a ticket
in his possession and then stealing a
ride.
The man has not been identified as a
resident of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
FIGHTING
AT RIGA
Troops and Peasants
in Conflict
Machine Guns Used to
Now Men Down
RevoIutionaries Conducting Military
Operations Against Country Es.
tates, Which Are Garrisoned
by Armed Retainers
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. IL, evening,
via Eydtkuhnen, Dec. 15.-It seems to
be beyond question that bloody col
lisions have occurred between troops
and the united peasantry and workmen
in the streets Of Riga durin,; which
machine guns were used. The situa-
ton is most serious in the country,
which is practically abandoned to the
revolutionary bands owing to the con-
centration of the troops in the cities
and towns. Against some of the
estates, where the landlords, aided by
few faithful adherents, are attempt
ing to protect their property, the revo-
lutionists are conducting regular mill
tary operations. They reduced the gar
rison of the estate of Baron Won Loewis
to submission after a majority of the
defenders had been killed and plum
dered and burned the buildings and
carried off the baron. The survivors
were made prisoners.
The law and order elements are now
the principal hope of averting the
catacylsm which the revolutionary par
ties are striving for. Upon the early
convocation of the national assembly,
the pressure for which is constantly in
creasing, it is generally believed that
Premier Witte will dispense with the
services of Interior Minister Durnovo,
against whom all classes have risen,
and appoint M. Guchkoff, a prominent
member of the Moscow zemstvo, who
is said to be ready to .ccept the office
as his successor.
The outbreak of the mutinous spirit
in the Manchurian army is partly at
tributable to the failure to pay and
properly feed the troops. The latter
problem is especially difficult. owing
to the impossibi, of forwarding ade-
uuate provisions from Russia on ac-
count of the practical paralysis of the
railway to Siberia. compelling the pur-
chase of supplies from the Chinese, for
which adequate funds are not avail
able.
The authorities llurriedly forwarded
$12, ,00O 900 to the army in Manchuria.
The reports from the provinces indf-
cate that the country generally re-
mains close to the boiling point. The
situation in the Caucasus is again Sc
rious. The Tartars and Armenians are
numbering each other as OF yore AT
Elizabethpol there has been savage
exhibition of race hatred. From Kahr-
koff an agent of the New York Life
Insurance company, who fled, brings
the story of the establishment of a
republic there. He says the military
forces have gone over to the revolu-
tionists and that the latter have full
possession of the city.
The Associated Press has received a
private and reliable report from Mos
COW saying that the authorities there
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
LITTLE GIRL PRISONER
OF THE INDIANS DIES
CAPTURED BY THE SAVAGES OF
NORTHERN CANADA
She Is Finally Rescued, but Falls
Victim to Decoction With Which
They Had Painted Her Body to
Disguise Her
By Associated Press.

SEATTLE, Dec. 15.--A special to the
Post Intelligencer from Vancouver, Il.
c., says: A tragedy of the woods ended
today in the death of a pretty little girl
3 years old. For more than year
she had been living with the half
civilized Indians that inhabit the al
most impenetrable forests OF Northern
Canada. From village to village the
police hunted and trailed her. With
the instinct born of the forest the In
dlans passed her from village to VIII
lage. and at last as "A more effectual
method of Disgusting her painted her
little body with concoction of roots
and herbs which stained her skin to
the dusky brown of the natives. She
was at last located by the police and
aiken to the home of the Children's
Aid society in Vancouver
But the concoction with which she
had been painted had poisoned her.
Doctors worked Intellectually and she
died last night.
The child was the daughter of
Scotchman and quarter breed Indian
girl. The girl gave the child into the
keeping of her distant Indian relatives
i'm order to be free of II. The baby
was very fair and was first seen by
hunters In "a village of Alert bay They
reported the matters. to the authorities,
who investigated the case, finally res
cuing the baby.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
MASKED MEN ROB A
SALOON IN PORTLAND
SHOOT TWO PERSONS WHO TRY
TO ESCAPE
Highwaymen Line the Occupants Up
and One Keeps Guard While the
other Secures $t25 In Cash From
the Till
BY Associated Press.

PORTLAND. Ore, Dec. 15.--One of
i'm this city occurred this evening short
ly after o'clock, when two masked
men entered the barroom of the Cen
tennial hotel at 4S1 Sherlock avenue in
North Portland and help up the bar
tender and fifteen men who were drink
ing in the place. Two men who at
tempted to escape were shot by the
robbers, one perhaps fatally. The
visitors in the place were startled by
the command Hold up your hands"
and turning saw two masked men
standing i'm the doorway with leveled
revolvers. The robbers lined the vis-
ltors up behind the barroom stove and
one of them proceeded to rob the till
while the other kept guard.
Thomas Fleming, an aged sailor, and
S. i. Roush attempted to escape from
the room, but both were shot in the
arm. Fleming, however. kept on going
and got outside the place. No attempt
was made to rob the visitors. and when
the men who went to the till had Sc
cured it's contents, amounting to $125
both backed out
At the entrance, however. Fleming
lay in wait armed with heavy club
He dealt one of the robbers a glancing
blow on the head but his aim was in
accurate and he did little to impede
escape and for his pains was shot in
the abdomen, receiving a serious and
perhaps fatal wound. The robbers
escaped. leaving no clue as to their
identity.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
VICTIM Of THE
LAND SW|NOLERS
EASTERN MAN BOUGHT MANY
BOGUS CERTIFICATES
r. n. Goddard Of Wisconsin Arrives in
Salem With Fraudulent Deed
to Seven Thousand
Acres
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SALEM, Ore, Dec. 15.-R. II. Cod
dard, son of Hiram Goddard, banker
and timberman of La Crosse, Wis.,
arrived here today from the east to
make an investigation of numerous
fraudulent certificates of sale which
his father holds for Oregon school
lands. Goddard brought with him GER
tificates covering 1000 acres of land
nearly all the paper being fraudulent
Goddard also has with him certificates
covering 1000 acres of ground which S.
A. d. Puter, now a. fugitive from
justice, sold to II. a. Salzer of La
Crosse, through Chicago attorney, for
$4,000. In a previous transaction with
Salzer the swlndler sold about $4,000
Just how much of the fraudulent paper
was purchased by Goddard and Salzer
has not been ascertained, but 1t is
thought that most Of the paper now in
Goddard's possession is forged.
r. II. Goddard expressed great sur
prise when informed that Kay Mckay
who was arrested in Seattle I'm CON
nection with the land frauds, had been
released on instructions from his father.
Further developments are expected
within a few days.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
GOES ABROAD TO SEEK BARD
E. o. Gerberding Has Left for Belgium
to Search for Missing
Youth
Special to The Herald.

opcNidl ~ AAO ii'i"iu.
VENTURA, Dec. 15-E. o. Gerberd-
ing of Hueneme has gone to Brussels
Belgium, to assist in the search for
Albert Bard son of the late Cephas
l.. Bard and nephew of Hon. Il. II.
Bard, who disappeared from that
place a few weeks ago. Young Bard
Is fine violinist and carries with him
splendid instrument. from which he
Is said to be seldom separated.
Word was sent Mr.. Gerberding, who
is a relative of Bard. that the violin
had been found in Brussels, but the
whereabouts of it's player is II mys-
terry. and foul play is feared. The
relatives in Hueneme and Los Angeles
are much worried and perplexed over
the affair, and anxiously await news
from Mr.. Gerberding.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
PFISTER NOT GUILTY
Prominent Milwaukee Man Acquitted
Of Charge Of Larceny as
Bailee
BY Assoclated Press

BY Associated Press
MtLWAUKE EE. Wis. Dec. 15.-Judge
Brace, In the municipal court today
decided that Charles f. Pfster was
not guilty of larceny MS bailee. as
charged i'm the indictment returned
on August 4 by the grand jury. The
decision was on "a motion to dismiss
the defendant after the state had
rested its case.
The charge against Mr.. Pnster was
that of larceny as bailcc of $4,000
belonging to the Wisconsin Rendering
company. He acted as stakeholder In
nm effort by that company to obtain
a garbage contract In Milwaukee.
$4,000 being placed I'm his hands. II was
charged that he did not account for
$4,000 OF this.
Mr.. Pfister Is one OF the most prom
inent business men in Milwaukee. He
is connected with various enterprises
including tannery, bank. hotel
and is the proprietor of the Milwaukee
Sentinel. Mr.. Pfster Is we'll known
throughout the country. He has
figured very prominently in politics
for many years, and was the leader
of the so-called stalwart faction of
the Republican party of Wisconsin
The charge against Mr.. Pfster was
looked upon by many persons as an
outgrowth of political strife.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
AUTOMOBILE VICTIM DIES
Mrs. Adelaide M. Preston Succumbs
to Injuries in Hospital at San
Dieuo
Special to The Herald.

Special 10 The Herald.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 15.-Mrs. Adelaide
NJ Preston, who was knocked from her
wheel and fatally injured in collision
with an automobile owned by Miss
Jarecki of Erie, Pa, died this evening
at Agnew sanitarum from concussion
of the brain. She was unconscious from
last night about midnight, but was
thought to be improving up to that
time.
Mrs. Preston's home is in Charlotte,
Mich, and she was here with a brother
and a sister to spend the winter. She
was 6S years of age and leaves grown
children. The body will be sent east
for burial.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
TELLS OF ACCOMPLICE
Man Who Wrecked Southport Bank
duplicates New York
Broker
By Associated Press.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 15.-Ol-
yer r. Sherwood. who, as cashier of
the Southport National bank, wrecked
that institution by misuse of 100000 of
it's funds, and who has served two years
of a ten years sentence, made some
sensational disclosures while witness
yesterday in an action brought against
him by creditor of the defunct bank.
In his testimony, for the first time he
made the claim that he had an an
accompice in wrecking the bank and
told story Of how this was brought
about. 1t had previously been shown
that Sherwood had furnished the money
for friends to own millinery stores in
New York city, and his own admis-
sions were in effect description of his
conversion of bank securities into cash
to give to those friends and to support
himself in high living.
Sherwood today said that the secur-
tiles which he hypothecated were
turned into cash by a New York broker
named A. r. Sprecht, who also advised
him to go to some country from which
he could not be extradited.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
ON HAMM0ND'S TRACK
Helena Police Have Information of
Man Accused of Killing
His Wife
BY Associated Press.

by AsEOCIdleU IItSB
HELENA, Mont, Dec. 15.--It is re-
ported here that John Hammond
wanted in Albany, N. Y, and charged
with killing his wife and locking her
body in a trunk. has been seen at
or near Forsyth, Rosebud county. Ad-
vices to that effect have been wired
the New York authorities. 1t is re-
ported that on Nov. 80 Hammond was
seen in Missoula, but all efforts to
locate him proved fruitless.
Young Strong, the Albany bog who
came west with Hammond, deserted
him at Missoula, after learning of the
charges against him. Strong came
here and told the story of their sem
sational trip across the continent. The
authorities have tried in vain to find
Hammond near Missoula.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
CARNEGIE TAKES A HAND
Tries to Force Corey to Return to
His Wife

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.--During Andrew
Carnegie's annual dinner to his former
business associates tonight at his home
IN Fifth avenue it leaked out that Car
negie had had a personal controversy,
which became almost a quarrel, last
Tuesday evening with William Ellis
Corey, president of the United States
Corporation.
The subject matter was Corey's asso-
citation with Mabelle Gilman, the
actress, and his casting # of his wife.
II is declared that Carnegie tried to in
duce Corey to throw over Miss Gilman
and become reconciled with Mrs. Corey.
Corey was obdurate, and finally Car
negie exclaimed: "Then, Corey, If you
persist in this course l will exert all
my influence to have you ousted from
the steel trust To which Corey, SO
goes report, replied in substance: This
is none of your affair; L shall do as 1
like in my personal life. Stories you
hear are not all true"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-16
MANAGES TERRIBLE CRIME
Kills His Child, His Wife's Brother
and Fatally Wounds
Woman
Ry Associated Press.

Guy, released from the Newburg in
sane asylum after thirty-siX months
confinement, and finding his wife with
an 1S-months-old baby, today killed
the baby, his wife's brother and IA
tally wounded a woman to whose
house Mrs. Guy had fled. The latter
escaped. The sight of the baby ap-
parently renewed Guys maniacal
frenzy and he procured a revolver.
He talked freely of his crime and
expressed no regret, except that Of
falling TO kill his wife.