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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
RAILROAD MAN
SHOT BY BURGLARS
sLooDHouNps SUCCEED in CAP.
TURING ONE OF THE DEs-
PERATE CHARACTERS.

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, July 81
II. o. Goodbar, prominent railroad
man, was shot and mortally wounded
by burglars in a rear room at his
home at three o'clock this morning.
Goodbar had q, shot gun In his hand
and was searching for the burglars,
having heard them enter his home.
The robbers sprang upon him, re-
iieved him Of his gun and then fired
the contents of both barrels into his
body. Bloodhounds were put on trail
and one robber. Sam Anderson. has
been captured.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08

Z
KuSrENJI. Roumania, July S.-one
of the things asked by the mutineers
as a condition Of their surrender is
that they shall be furnished with Rou-
manIan passports and shall not be ex-
traditfo to Russia.
The local authorities are awaiting
Instructions from Bucharest, the cap
itai. before making final terms with
the mutineers. IN the meantime, the
torpedo boat ard one of the launches
from the Kniaz PotemkIn are taking
the soundings at the entrance to the
harbor to find a channel through
which the battleship may pass. The
captain Of the Port is preparing berth
where the battleship and torpedo boat
may lie in the harbor. Both the Kniaz
PotenlSin and torpedo boat are now
flying The Russian naval flag.
The greatest excitement prevails
here. the people sympathize with the
mutineers and make some demonstra.
tion In their favor.
KUsTENJI, Roumania, July s.-A
deputation from the mutinous battle.
ship Knlaz Potemkin, which arrived
here at midnight, rowed ashore this
morning to treat with the authorities
here for the surrender of the battle.
ship and the torpedo boat which has
accompanied her on her ptiatlcal
cruise of the Black Sea.
The delegation was received by the
general commanding the district, the
commander Of the Black Sea division
and the Port captain. The mutineers
offered to surrender the Potemkin and
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
THRgg more VICTIMS
OF the Vivian Mine Disaster Pasa
Away-Death List Increased
to Five.

BLuEFIELD, W. va. July S..
Three more victims of the explosion
in the mine Of the Tidewater Coal 4
Coke Company have died. making the
death list five. They are Dominick
Sodmiile. Antonio Lochie and Jamselo
Esadoli. Franco Travisit and Romeo
Antonio. it is reported. cannot live.
The explosion caused comparatively
no fire or accumulation Of gas. The
shaft has been pronounced clear by
the State inspectors and the miners
have resumed work.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
SECRETARY WILSON BELIEVES
HIM GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT
IN OFFICE.
HOLMES CANNOT BE PROSE
cuTEo AS NO STATUTE COW
Frs HIS CASE.

WASHINGTON, July s.--Secretary
OF Agriculture Wilson this morning.
formally dismissed Edwin s. Holmes.
associate stntistician from the service
on the ground that he had furnished
advance Information of government
cotton reports to spectators and that
he manipulated the figures Of the re-
ports for speculative purposes.
The report Of the investigation BY
the secret service shows that Holmes.
on at least one occasion, received s7s.-
900 from firm of brokers, presnma.
bly, for this advance informatlon,S al.
though the transaction was disguised
as being In payment for the sale OF
Western Mining stock which, 1t is
said, was practically worthless Sec.
retary Wilson communicated yester-
day with the United States District
Attorney for the District of Columbia,
for the purpose of ascertaining wheth.
er or not Holmes could be prosecuted,
but learned that there was no statute
covering his case.
WASHINGTON. July SIN addl
tion to discharging Associate Stats.
tician Holmes, as a result of the inves
tigation of the charges preferred by
Richard cheatham of the Southern
Cotton Growers Association. Sec
retary Wilson to-day promulgated
Ian order which will snrronnf
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
THE knlAz poremklN
Arrived at kusteniI, Roumania. Last
Night, Safe and Sound.
(By PublIsheras Pmss.)

LONDON. July 6.-The correspond
ent Of the Evening Standard at Kust-
emil Roumania, wirez that the mutt
nous Russian battleship, Kniaz Foten-
kin arrived there at midnight The
Poet captain boarded the vessel for a
conference with her crew.
Throughout the night the Poteml<In
exchanged fash signals with the Rus
sian gunboat Psesuope which was III
side the harbor, and which so far has
remained loyal to the government
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
SONS TRAIN KILLS.
Farmer Meets Awful oeath-Rur
Down BY Ohio River Train.

PARKERsBuRG, w. Va, July s.
A. A. McDougai was struck yester.
day by a north bound Ohio River
passenger train near his home, four
miles below here. and received iuju.
ries which resulted in his death soon
afterwards. Mr.. McDougaI was sixty.
seven years. old. and a prominent
farmer. He is survived by the fol.
lowing children: Mrs. w. s. Keever.
Mrs. Carol McMechen. Walter s.,
Newman and s. E. McDougal, of this
city, Mrs. A. B. coffman. OF Pitts.
burg. and Misses Alice and Bernadine,
of Washington, Pa. Newman McDou.
gal, a son of the deceased. was a
brakeman on the train by which his
father was struck.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
HERDS OF ELKS
ARE RUSHING INTO BUFFALO
FROM ALL POINTS OF THE
COMPASS.

BUFFALO, N. Y. July s.-Every
train is rushing herds of Elks into
Buffalo. The grand reunion begins
on Monday. Last night the gorgeous
electric arches and main street tow.
er were flashed into being for the first
time for the benefit of the grand Off.
GERS assembled at the Iroquois Hotel.
The effect was most. charming.
Buffalo is decorated as never be-
fore, Main street being completely
transformed.
Tomorrow the Elks will come in
thousands. and costumed in varied
styles and hues.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
EDWIN S. HOLMES COT HIS
WALKING PAPERS THIS MORNING

the collection and compilation
OF government statistics regarding
speculative crops with additional safe
guards as to accuracy, and win pro
vent advance information reaching
the public. The bureau OF statistics
VII be Thoroughly re.organizcd, re-
ports from field agents OF the Depart
ment Nillremain sealed in the custody
OF the secretary, or acting secretary
of agriculture. until ssse day the ON.
cial report Is to be made up.
In this copncction MIR. Wilson makes
the following announcement: There
win never be at any time in the pos.
session o; the bureau Of statistics or
of any one Office OF the department
except while the compilation Of tho
official report Is being made. complete
Information from the crops OF all the
cotton States. Texas and Georgia.
two Of the largest cotton producing
States will he separated from the
group Of reports from townships and
counties. Hereafter there will be
three general special field agents. In
stead Of one assigned to the work OF
collecting statistics for the cotton crop
reports. These agents will have no
Communication with each other. and
will report on different groups Of
States.
There will pc no more opportunity
for advance Information on reports OF
speculative crops
"fn the report OF tine secret service,
Edwin S. Holmes, former associate sta
tistlcian, is the only departmental en-
ploye Implicated and have dIsmiss-
ed him from the service OF the Depart
lment;
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
The MUTINEERS ASK NO BE
TRANSPORTED TO ROUMANIA

her torpedo boat consort on the same
terms offered by the Roumania author
tiles ON Monday when the battleship
put into this harbor.
The deputation was informed that
the terms offered on Monday were
still ito be given them but the Rou-
manian ofhcers asked that the breech
blocks from the guns on the Potemkin
should be surrendered as a pledge Of
good faith on the part of the mutt
neers.f
After hearing the offer Of the Rou
manian oficials the deputation re.
turned to the vessel to consult Will,
their comrades.
TITS expected that the vessel will be
formally surrendered within an hour
or two
The mutineers appear to be anxious
that no harm shall come to the vessel,
but they do not want her handed over
to the Russian government. They OF.
fered to present the vessel to Rou-
mania but the tender was not accept
ed by the authorities.
The vessel will probably be ordered
to come into the inner harbor as soon
as the surrender has been arranged
for.
Two sailors from the vessel who
rowed ashore with the delegation
which came to treat for the surrender
deserted as soon as they reached the
quay.
RouMANIA, July s.-The terms
which the Roumanian officials offered
to the crew of the Kniaz Potemkin
where the battleship arrived there on
Monday and which the mutineers to.
day asked should again be extended
tosthem were: That all the mutineers
should come ashore unarmed and
surrender to the Navy Department
which would take charge of the Rus.
sian vessels, and that the mutineers
would be regarded as deserters from
a foreign country during their stay
in Roumania. In case they accepted
these terms the Roumanian authori
ties promised to furnish supplies to
the Russians and said they would be
given liberty to go where they
pleased.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
SUCCESSOR TO HOLMES.
Victor Il. olmstead Has Been Ap.
pointed Associate statistieian.
(By Publishers, Press.l !

WASHINGTON, D. G.. July s.
Victor H. olmstead has been ap-
pointed associate statistician of the
Department of Agriculture to succeed
Edwin s. Holmes. discharged. olm.
stead. for some time past, held the
position of chief of the division of
Domestic Crop Reports, was former
ly assistant statistician of the De-
partment. and also assistant director
of the censuses of Cuba and the Phil.
ippines.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
GOOD SHOWING IS made
BY LOCAL POSTOFFICE

ven, where he spent his Is days va,
cation.
This morning the local civil ser.
vice examiners held county exami.
nation for rural carriers. There
were six applicants examined, viz:
Howard L. Martin and Claude L.
Wood, of Worthington; and Dallie H.
Grim, Arthur F. Martin, Ellis A. Dun
can AMI Bert L. Efaw. of Warrington
district.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
LEFT FOR AMERICA.
mikado's Chief PIeniposentiary Sail
ed on Steamer Minnesota To-Day.
(By Publishers' Press.l \

WASHINGTON. D.. c.. July 81.
Cable advices to the State Depart
ment from Minister Griscom, at To
kio, states. that Baron Komura, Min
lister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and
chief plenipotentiary in the peace ne.
gotiations between Japan and Russia,
sailed for the United States this
morning on the steamer Minnesota.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
The KNIAz. POTEMk|N HAS SURRENDERED
TIE B. AND O. BRIDGE
CONTRACT LET

tainty that work will commence with
in the next two weeks.
The contract is an immense. one
when 1t is known tina. over $4,000
yards of dirt and stone will have to
be excavated for the piers and abut-
ments. Besides 10000 yards of ma.
sonry will have to be built. The
piers and abutments are to be built
of concrete.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
Fined For Ban Playing.

Police court was nearly failure
this morning, the. only offender being
a man who gave his name as Ed.
Jones. He was fined $3.50 for playing
bali on jackson street near the Pres.
byterian church last evening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
Residence For sale.

For sale cheap a FIVE roomed house
house, located on corner near pro-
posed new High School building. City
water and gas. Terms reasonable. In
quire at the West virginian office. x
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-07-08
THE MuTiNous VESSEL HAULED
DOWN ITS FLAG JUST AFTER
NOON TODAY.
GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
AMONG THE pEoPLE WHO
sYMPATHIzE WITH THE
MuTiNEERs.

(By Publishers press.)
KusTENJI, Roumanls, July a.-The
Kniaz Potemkin surrendered to the
authorities here at one o'clock this at.
-terncon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11
AsBENT-MINDED PROFESSOR.

Oliver Peebles Jenkins of Stanford university is head professor of the de partment of zoology. He is scientist, and therefore deep thinker. and con seauently often preoccupied and ab- sent-minded. His most recent adven- ture attributable to his absent-minded propensities Is at present furnishing much amusement for the faculty.
 He was reading one evening after dinner when his wife approached and, touching him on the shoulder, remark ed softly: '0liver. Mir and Mrs Bran ner are coming over this evening, SO just go up stairs and put on your oth- er coat"
 The quiet little professor compiled without a muTInur. An hour later. when the visitors had been in the house some time. the hostess excused herself for a moment and slipped up stairs to see what detained Dr Jen- kins. She found him in bed. calmly sleeping.
 ooh. to be sure. the Branners." he said when she awakened him. I'll be right down. I guess I was q little absent-minded. I must have forgot ten what I came for when removed my coat. for I kept right on undress ing and went to bed-"-San Francisco Chronicle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

The committee on economy at the government printing office is at last getting to work. Representative Lan- dis of Indiana has been appointed chairman of a subcommittee consist ing also of Senator German and Rep resentative Perkins Of New York to do the actual work of Investigating and to report to the main committee. The work of the committee will not be to look for grafters, though if any graft is uncovered in the course of the investigation it will be reported to the proper authorities, that is to say if the politics and personality of the grafters admits of such course. The real object of the committee, how ever, is to put some check on the pub lication of tons and tons of useless documents that are annually turned out from the big printery. There is enough of this work, if properly checked, to largely reduce the deficit in the treasury, but h there is stop put to the generous use of the govern mnet presses by private and semi-pri- vate interests, there is sure to be biz howl.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11
CHINESE STUDENTS IN JAPAN.

There is one item which political economists are apt to leave out of con sideration when casting up the balance of trade of the island empire of Japan, and that Is the sum expended by the Chinese students there. According to the latest report, the total number of such students has reached 1850, and allowing an average expenditure of thirty yen each per mensem, not in- cluding the travelling expenses to and fro in Japanese boats. Japan has al- ready some half a million yen to her credit.
 The students hail from nearly all parts of China. The majority are sup ported by the provincial governments. but the number of those educated at their own expense is increasing rapidly. 4 few are attached to the legation, and a dozen or so have their expenses de frayed from the public funds of their native places. Another interesting and encouraging fact is the presence of fe- male students, though the number is insignificant compared with the num- Der of men. In contrast with those who proceed to Europe and America, nearly all the Chinese students in the empire of the rising sun are grown men and accomplished scholars in their own language. very few being under 2O. while 1t is not uncommon to meet with men over 90 years of age-men who were they compelled to acquire an education through the vehicle of English would be forever debarred from success.
 The movement is of too recent date to enable us 10 make a just or correct estimate of it's results. At the same time there is growing hesitation on the part of officials and parents to send young men to Japan as in many cases the students have become converts tO extreme radicalism and red republican ism. whose motto is China for the Chinese preaching revolution or open ly fOmenting seditiOn. This is the nat. ural reaction to centuries of an Oppres- sive and oppressive policy on the part of the government. and it may, per haps. after some fifty years or more lead to the establishment of a eonsti. tuti0nal government
 Whatever may be said against his radical ideas and crude ways of exc cutting them. the Chinese student iI Japan is one that believes he has q purposa in this world. that he has cer 1 tain duties to perform toward his coun try. that loves liberty and hates tyran nv. and that hopes himself 10 be thu Washington of China. His sentiments and ideals are admirable. and knOwl -z-.- s.,7 -,--,o-f1-7aa vr-fTf lead him int . the right path of realizing them. II 1 he is anything he is patriotic.-A Chi naman in the Shanghai East Of Asia.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

The old scheme of a floating muse um for the exploitation of United States products is being again revised The project is in the hands of com pany and is said to have met with the approval of the president. The scheme is to fit up a vessel as a floating mu- scum with samples of American pro ducts of all sorts, to make her a reg ular commercial museum and to send her to visit all the countries of the globe where there is any opening for the lines of American products that she carries. The scheme looks well enough on paper, but there are about seven thousand practical difficulties in putting it into operation. One of the many troubles is that the exhibit would only be available at the sea ports of the countries visited and an- other Is that a good many of the ex- hlbits would be out of date before it had half completed its itinerary. But the scheme is proceeding and il is proposed 10 make a world tour of 1t. covering altogether about 6O.OOO miles and winding up at Portland, Oregon. or San Francisco.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

illustrating the prodigious waste fulness incidental to the publication of government documents, Charley Lan- dis, chairman of the house committee on printing, tells of a member of con- gress who received his quota of books on irrigation, handsomely bound and profusely illustrated. None of his con- stituents having an interest in irriga- ton he did not care to load the mails with the documents and offered to give them to anyone who would haul them away. Having sought in vain for a recipient he finally employed porter to carry them off and destroy them. Nor is this an extreme case" says a Washington writer, flor I remember enc instance where member of con- gross, retiring from the political arena, found to his amazcment that he had more than 30,OOO bound valumes of one kind and another to his credit in the house folding room. They had never been drawn by him and conse- quently had been accumulating during his term of office."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11
HOW LONG SHOULD MAN LIvEi

Against cold, heat and famine the white corpuscles are powerless, but they Intervene for the protection of the7 organism in the case alike of a razor scratch or a stroke of apoplexy. They also struggle against the mi crobes of putrefaction. When the human body is invaded by such lethal microbes the phagocytes rush to it's defense and in so far as lies in their capacity, they not only kill, but swal- low and digest, the hostile germs. This warfare is taking place inces- sently in the pores of the skin and Of the digestive tube, in the spongy walls of the mouth and nostrils and throat and lungs-whereyer, indeed, the attacking microbes seek to find an entrance. For once that we are pro tected by spoon administered medi- Cine we are protected a thousand times by the power of an innumerable army of microscopic bodyguards. Pro- lessor Metehnikofrs latest researches have shown that 1t should be possible to avail ourselves of our knowledge of the struggle between microbes and phagocytes as to be able to arm the body for great length of time against old age itself. He believes that man does not now live the natural span of life. but that the score of years now allotted to the stage of middle age" should and will be at no distant day extended to three or four score years. -Harper's Weekly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

It looks a little queer even under a republican administration. from which a good many queer things can Do ex- pected. to see a cabinet officer issuing campaign addresses from a desk In his department. says our Washington cor respondent. It was said when Secre- tary Bonaparte took the portfolio of the navy that he was not a machine politician and that he was not at all in sympathy with campaigns carried on along party lines But according to his letter issued from the department in connection with the Maryland state election it looks as though he not only was a pretty good party man. but that he knew the value of his position im a machine fight. Of course letter is sued by the secretary of the navy Is going to attract a lot of attention not only in Maryland. but throughout the rest of the country as well Secretary Bonapzrte knows that and he probably thinks that be wi1 XII several birls
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

with one letter, making his position on the negro question an issue in all of the border line states. He will proba- bly, succeed, though 1t may not be in just the way he would wish. He says that the people of Maryland are being appealed to by the democratic party on the score of race prejudice. He cites the fact that there have been no large number of negro appointments made by the republican mayor of Bal timore as proof that there would be none made If the republican party were victorious throughout the state. This is sophistry Secretary Bonaparte knows it as well as do all residents of Maryland and other states that have large negro population and where the republican party covets political power. It is probably quite true that there would be no attempt to force negro teachers on white schools if the repub- lican party won the state. There are probably not many negro teachers who would want to try drawing a salary on that sort of a job in Maryland At the same time people in Maryland and in the other border states are heartily in favor of the disfranchisement of 'il- literates" If this means that there will be no more negroes than whites disfranchised, then 1t is only proof that the bulk of the undesirable voting element is in the ranks of the republ- can party. The republicans would never stand a chance to win the state without the aid of the negro vote, and as Maryland is by tradition a white mans state it is only natural that the clean citizens want to keep it so. Sec retary Bonaparte's letter will do good work in calling attention to the fight that is going on and perhaps it is just as well that he had a chance to issue It from the cabinet room.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11
HEARD IN PASSING

Some wise man now steps forward with a dust that will kill mosquitoes. Probably it is to be thrown into their eyes.
 The lay mind should have no diff culty in grasping the fact that the egg crop is one of the largest and most important in the country. .
 "The time is ripe for the great Amercian play" says a theatrcial au- thority. This is calculated to make OUT native playwrights mad enough to buy a castle in Europe and leave America to her fate.
 Germany does not want our manu- factured articles, but it is sending over a commission to learn something of the methods we employ in raising big crops. Germany has queer ideas of the fitness of things.
 The solar system keeps chasing right along, apparently in blissful ig- norance of the fact that the college professors have just determined that 1t has been operating on faulty pro- gram since the power was first turned on.
 Some particular people are finding fault with Rudyard Kipling because bis rhymes occasionally show imper- fections. If the critics keep on they will drive the last of the poets back to his telegraphic desk or some other practical occupation.