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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27

fire broke out from the b. :.nd
20. railroad. near Aurora mines re,
Gently, which burned up about 200
panels Of fence, and spreading over
the fields in the immediate territory
l,creat d$Squite an alarm among the al.
S1 jag Sa citizens for the time being
by prompt united action, however
I they the succeeded in getting 1t stopped
with but little further loss Than thai
above noted, and the experience of a
temporary scare panic.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27
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Matthews, from near HOnlt.
was moved to the depot on Saturday
.tby lis neighbors,S en- route to new
mines being started above Grafton,
where he IS employed.
Frank Spencer and family we're
moved Friday afternoon, from King,
mont 10 Locust avenue, where they
take up their future residence with
Hen Hill was the first to get into
the city Saturday morning from
Mount Harmony, after the past two
days hard rain with El,ridge Carter
as a close second,
Roy Reeves, Of Union district, and
Miss Narcissa Heck, OF Winfield dis.
8triet,s were TO be married at the
bride home on Saturday evening.
Several -four young people were in.
Eyited tofg go out and join in the festiv.
yes Solathes occasion. Roy has the
means 10. making q good start IN
,s ne and MISS MISS Heck the energy and
plshs5 Keep 3thinss moving a later
rspoFsS nn 1llHc that the groom did
1sot ppeaar'8 anu mat me bride was
splflteas away u. from her her home leaving
.he sues guests guessing.
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27
Still In Demand.

Is s: Sample, the humane officer,
WAS vas 5scalled 10 Warrington on satur.
day 70 Investigate case of three
young children whom the father has
deserted on account of distorted fam.
Ivy relations. The mother likewise
because Of her reputedg conduct has
forfeited T her moral claims 10 exercise
over .sr Il hem en- the Eprerogatiyes Of exem.
iplar,ys motherhood. N
Resumed His Practice.
er b: Coz. after trip Of ses.
seFal weeks 70 New Y orks city, where
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27

Well Known Eye Specialist In City.
DIR. Frank, The eye specialist, is in
town, testing eyes and fitting glasses,
his specially. All kinds Of glasses
made to order on short notice at rea-
sonable prices. At the Marietta
Hotel.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27
Was 1t Nightmare or Booze?

Tom Barbee, after playing ten
nights in a bar room" from which he
had not fully recovered. made his way
out 10 Brady Meredith's for a lem.
porary sojourn a few days since.
During his stay, either from the ef.
fects OF nightmare or too much booze
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27

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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-27

Al ]. Matthews, from near Hoult.
was smovedgto the depot on Saturday
sby lis nelghbors,l en- route to new
mines being started above Grafton,
where he fs siamnloyel
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
PATERSON MAYOR MISSING
New Jersey OmcIaI Has Financial
Troubles and May Not
Return Home.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-According to state
ments tonight Mayor William II. Belcher
of Paterson, n. j., has not returned to his
home there, and there is considerable
speculation as to his whereabouts.
Allen NJ. Chalmers, his law partner, In
statement today, said that Mayor Belcher
had been found and that he would return
to Paterson this afternoon. This was later
modified to the effect that the mayor had
not come to Paterson, but was in New
York. Search here did not reveal him.
Late today Prosecutor Emley Of Paterson
began an investigation based on a state
ment concerning Mr.. Belcher's alleged in
debtedness to certain banks.
Mr. Alec, secretary of the Manchester
Building and Loan association, is credited
with statement tonight that his sigma
ture had been forged in certain transactions
by which money was raised from Pater-
son banking institutions on the stock books
Of the Building association.
Mr. Chalmers said today that the mayors 8
financial difficulties had all been adjusted
that Mayor Belcher owned something over
$4,000 and that $4,000 had been pledged
to aid him, and that the claims had all
been paid in cash by himself.
Tonight Mr.. Chalmers admitted that there
was possibility Mayor Belcher might not
return. He said that for a long time past
his partner had not been himself. The i'll
ness, coupled with his hard work as a
lawyer and a mayor, appeared to have worn
him out.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

Secretary of Agriculture Explains
Renann for the TrIn.

Secretary of Agriculture Explains
Reason for the Trip.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-Secretary Will
son today issued a statement relating to a
charge that his son and Private Secretary
Jasper Wilson, made a trip to Alaska about
a year and a half ago at the expense OF
the department. Secretary Wilson says the
trip was made at his instance and was for
the purpose of ascertaining the condition
Of the game there, delegations from Alaska
having protested against sending anybody
in there with permission to shoot and bring
out trophies The miners claimed that they
lived there in the winter; that the game
was resource which often stood between
them and starvation.
II wanted to know the real facts" says
the secretary. "and sent my private secre-
tary up there. He was a salaried officer
here. The department paid his actual
travelling expenses, Of course. I send men
all over the world for information Upon
receipt Of my private secretary's report I
shut down on the granting of permits to
everybody excepting persons representing
museums and other educational institu-
tions."
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
SUICIDE OF MONTANA MAN
Charles Reese of virginia city Kills
Himself Because of DIsnppoint-
ment In Love

VIRGINIA CITY. Mont. Aug 2.-Disap-
pointed in love. Charles Reese, aged 80
years, one OF the best known and most
highly respected men in southern Montana,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head in Virginia City ceme-
terry today Clasped in his hand. together
with a bunch Of violets plucked from a
nearby grave, was a photograph Of Miss
Ida Steffens, niece Of United States Senator
Shoup OF Idaho, the woman who is said to
have refused to become his wife. The body
was found near the grave Of Miss Steffens
sister, who in life was a close friend OF
Reese
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
CATHOLIC FORESTERS ELECT
Convention Refuses to Exclude Per-
sons Engaged in Liquor Tramc
from MembershiP.

BOSTON, Aug. 2-COntests for various Of
fees lent interest today 10 the session OF
the international convention Of the Catholic
order OF Foresters. All of the officers were
reelected, and the salary of High Chief
Ranger Thomas II. Cannon was raised from
5000 to $500.
The question Of amending the constitu-
tion so as to exclude from membership all
persons engaged In the liquor traffic was
taken up late this afternoon. The amend
ment was lost by vote Of s5 yeas to IS
nays. The evening session was OF a social
character. At tomorrow mornings session
the question Of excluding hremen from
membership will be taken up.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
STOLEN PAPERS RETURNED
Notes and Checks Taken from Safe of
Michigan Salt Company Sent TO
Detroit Detective.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug 2.-Lieutenant
Lally Of the local detective department
has received a mysterious package, which
contained checks, notes and other import
ant papers, aggregating in value about
$4,000 belonging to the Crystal Salt COM
pany of st. Clair, Mich. The offices of the
company were robbed several weeks ago
and the papers stolen. together with what
money could be located. 1t is supposed
that the burglars found themselves unable
to dispose of the valuable papers and de-
Gliding TO return them shipped them to
Lally. They have been sent to the firm in
st. Clair.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
DEMAND FOR LAND NOT HEAVY
Railroads and OmcIaIs Disappointed
by People Who Register for
UIntah Claims.

DENVER. Aug. 2,-The travel TO Grand
Junction and other points where registra-
ton OF applicants for homesteads in the
Uintah reservation is in progress does not
meet the expectations Of the railroads and
It is already evident that the clerical force
employed will have no difficulty in register
ing all applicants. The total number OF
registrations at all points Of the first day
was 5,5O7. Should the same rate be main
tained during the twelve days allowed for
registering there would be more than 5000
applicants for about 5000 homesteads in
cluded in the portion OF the reservation
opened to entry. However It is not now
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
MOB ATTACKS VICTOR LEE
New London 0OwR) Man PrOVOkes Ire
of Crowd by Sending Wife to
Asylum for Insane.

NEW LONDON, Aug. "A mob Of citi-
zens, believing that Victor Lee had mis-
treated his wife and had her sent to Mount
Pleasant insane asylum to secure her prop
erty, attacked him today in the street Lee
was rescued by policemen. Mrs. Lee was
taken to the asylum today, accompanied by
Lees parents On the return Of the par
ents to New London tonight, 400 citizens
met the elder Lees and showered them
with decayed eggs.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
FIRE RECORD.
storage warehouse In Kans

Storage Warehouse In Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2.-The d. A. Morr
Storage companys fOur-story brick build
ing at the southwest corner OF Fourteenth
street and Grand avenue in this city was
destroyed by fire tonight, causing a loss
estimated at 10000. About 100 families
had furniture stored with the company and
II is difficult 20 estimate the extent OF the
loss. The storage company did not carry
insurance on the furniture but II is be-
lieved that most Of the families had their
property insured. The cause OF the fire is
unknown One fireman was slightly hurt
by falling timbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

anticipated that the registrations will ex-
Ceed 10000.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 2.--The work OF
registration for Uintah lands at Grand
Junction, Colo, Price, Nernal and Provo,
Utah, has proceeded with ease and dis
patch. 1t has not been found necessary to
do anything in the way Of maintaining
line as there is a marked falling on as
compared with yesterdays crowd Todays
registration is lip.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
Postmasters and Rural Carriers
Named by the PostOmce
Department.
CFrom q stan Correspondentl

CFrom a stan Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, Aus. Especial Tele-
gram) )-Postmasters appointed: Nebraska
-Trumbull Clay county; oliver Busk, vice
Alice V. Fell, resigned. Iowa-wheeler-
wood. Cerro Gordo county; George L. Sut-
ton, vice William Anderson, resigned.
Rural carriers appointed: Nebraska
Osmond, route 2; Francis d. Farris car
rier; Sara +. Farris, substitute. Peters
burg, route 8: william S, Crabtree, car
rier; William J. Crabtree substitute. South
Dakota-Finley, route l; Byron A. Keith
carrier; Louis Benton substitute.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
FORESTERS MAKE CHANGES
Age of Admission Reduced TO sixteen
Years and Minimum of Policies
TO Twenty-Five Dollars.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Aug. 2-The
headquarters Of the Supreme Court Order Of
Foresters is to be established in Toronto
for the coming four years constitu-
tional provision prevents another meeting
of the supreme body in the United States
in 1911. At this afternoons session of the
Foresters 1t was decided TO reduce the
minimum age to 16 years. and the maxi
mum was made 90 years. A policy will be
issued as low as s25, while before, $500 was
the lowest.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

George w. Loomis. assistant to the gen
eraI manager of the Burlington, said Wed
nesday morning there was no trouble what
ever along the line OF the Burlington road
with the telegraph operators and that no
trouble was anticipated. The fact that
the Burlington is Hill line will have no
bearing on the present strike on the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern roads" he
said.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
BRYAN SEES Kew PROBLEM
Equitable Society Scandal Presents
Another Issue for COnsIdera-
tiOn of People.

FORT WAYNE. Ind, Aug. 2-while in
the city today William Jennings Bryan
said:
The Equitable Life Assurance society
muddle presents new political problem.
II indicates to the voters the extent to
which the people are being exploited by
high financiers." Lawson has done
great deal towards exposing IT, but his
opposition to municipal ownership Is all
wrong. / am going to Europe 70 study
financial conditions
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
Japs Refuse to Comment.
NEW DEPOT FOR CLEVELAND
Union Passenger station VIII he
Erected at Cost of Five
Million Dollars.

CLEVELAND. Aug 2-The Leader to-
morrow will say:
THE definite announcement Is made by
@. J. Grammer. vice president Of the Lake
Shore railroad, that Cleveland is 10 have a
10000 union depot. 100000 Of which
will be the share OF the New York Central
lines as a part OF the appropriation OF S4O,-
10000 for improvements 10 be made within
the next three or four years. Other New
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
OUTPUT OF PACKING HOUSES
Marketing of Hogs Fair for Time of
Year and in Excess of Last
Season.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 2-(special Tele-
gram.)-Price Current says the current
movement of hogs is in fair numbers for
the time of year and continues consider
ably in excess of the corresponding time
last year. Total western packing was $780,
900 compared with 10000 the preceding
week and 2S5,OOO last year. Since March
the total is 9,995,OOO against SS9O,OOO a year
ago. Prominent places compare as fol-
11y.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
FAIRBANKS CONFINED TO ROOM
vice President seized with sudden
Attack of Indigestion at
SnuIt ste Marie.

DETROIT, Mich. Aug. "A Tribune
special from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, says:
"Vice President Fairbanks was seized with
an acute attack of indigestion at the re-
ception tonight and had to be assisted from
the stand in the park. He walked TO the
Iroquois hotel and repaired to his room
Immediately. To all callers he sent word
that he would be unable to see anyone
until morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 2.-The World
News today says:
Owing to the action of Mayor Tom l..
Johnson i'm making the holding OF the
Grand Circuit meeting impossible here.
Cleveland loses the big inter-city matinee
race for the gold challenge cup. Chicago
will, in all probability, secure the event
The promoters of that city are making ef-
forts to land II. Lou Dillon and Major Del
mar, the worlds greatest trotters will APP
pear in connection with the matinee events.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

York Central improvements. work on which
has already been started, include the open
ing OF the Clearfield coal district by the
building Of new railway into It and the
double-tracking Of the Big Four railroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
MistraI Wins Yacht race.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. Aug. 2-The
Chicago Yacht club Mackinac race was
won by the schooner MistTal which arrived
At l245I6 o'clock this afternoon. Tho
schooner Hawthorn arrived second, at
42l :26 o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
EnEineers Take an EHcursIon.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 2-There was
no session Of the convention OF stationary
engineers, the delegates TO the national con-
ventin taking = trip to Mammoth cave.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
ONLY One operntor Out.

SEATTLE Wash, Aug, 2.-Up to noon to-
day only one telegraph operator had struck
on the Seattle division of the Northern Pa
cifc, but the division is affected by the tie
up of trains eastward To guard against
the possibility of trouble or vandalism,
the road has asked for deputy sheriffs at
Auburn, Lester and Palmer, all located on
the Pacific division Three Great Northern
operators stationed here went out, and on
the coast line reports show a number Of
others struck. All Great Northern CONNER
cial wires are silent.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
StriIxers' Headquartera in Helena.

HELENA, Mont, Aug. Fourth Vice
President Dermony of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers has opened headquarters here
for the purpose of taking charge Of the
strikers end of the controversy in Mon
tana. He says that members of the order
in the state have responded almost to the
man to President Perham's call and that
the railroads are having far more difficulty
in handling trains than they admit.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

BILLINGS, Mont, Aug. ALL Northern
Pacific operators between Forsythe and
Livingston are out except one at Columbus
Manager Sloan and General Agent Hoyt Of
Billings are holding down that office. The
strikers have established headquarters at
Billings and expect to have fifty men there
before night awaiting developments. Pas
senger trains are running on slow time, and
freight traffic is demoralized.
A special from Havre, Mont, says eight
operators on the Great Northern quit. Pas
senger trains are running on moderate
schedules and two stock trains held over
night went out this morning. Both COM
panies are said to have been scattering
men along their lines for two weeks in
anticipation of a strike
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
WITTE REACHES NEW YORK
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forces for more than six months. How
ever, even as the things stand, the Japa-
nese have not made such progress as Is
generally believed, in fact, they would have
to advance four times as much as they have
done in the last, year and half to reach
Russia proper, in which case alone they
might consider themselves in a position to
impose such conditions of peace.
But they are very far from this and the,
more they advance north the more the re-
spective conditions of the Russians and
Japanese will be reversed.
According to the Russian plenipotentiary
those who do not know Russia we'll oppose
to these reasons the spectre of internal
conditions of the empire, imagining all
kinds OF cataclysms, but even about this
they are mistaken. NJ. Witte did not wish
to discuss at this time the events in Russia.
affirming, however, that they have not the
character nor the gravity attributed to
| them. nor can they bring about the con-
sequences which have been supposed, partly
by those pTejudiced against Russia and
! partly by those ignorant of Russian inter-
! nal affairs. What is going in the Mus
| covite empire, he said. cannot have an
influence on its foreign policy and even
less on the continuation or cessation of the
| war.
NJ Witte indicated that he does
| not mean to say that he will
not make every possible effort to-
| wards peace, adding that he is favorable
| TO peace Russian and a man, hav-
! ing always worked to prevent war and un-
| derstanding that at present nearly the en-
| tire world desires the end of the conflict
! However, he feels that to reach this sub
| ject it is necessary that the Japanese
! should be prompted by the same feelings;
| that they should be convinced that for
! Russia It is desirable, but is not at all
! indispensable, and that consequently 1t
will never accept any condition which ap-
parently may offend its amour propre 4"
! NJ. Witte repeated that he will honestly
! do ell that his conscience may suggest to
! bring about If possible an agreement which
may be equally satisfactory to the inter
ested nations After having done this no
matter what the results may be, NJ. Witte
| feels that he will have accomplished his
duty.
JRps Refuse TO Comment.
At the headquarters OF the japanese
peace commissioners tonight no comment
was made upon the Associated Press in
! terview with NJ. Witte. Aimar Sato who
has met all interviewers since the Japan
! ese delegation arrived in New York, said
tonight that Baron Komura would make
no statement at this time and from a per-
sonal standpoint he (Sato) thought that to
make any statement or comment at all
| would be entering the controversy prema-
| turely.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
New Men Refuse to work.

MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. 2-No freight
except side tracked trains is being moved
over the Rocky mountain division OF the
Northern Pacific owing to the practically
complete tie-up OF the system by the tele-
graphers' strike. Eastbound passenger
train No. 4, due here at S45 a. m, did not
arrive until L35 p. m. All persons applying
for tickets were refused transportation and
told to pay their way on the train. During
the afternoon, however, an order was issued
to the division headquarters to sell all
tickets applied for. No wires are working
here except to Evaro Desmet and Garrison.
Local business at the Western Union Office
is being crowded by special messages to
Northern Pacific officials and in every in
stance where possible the long distance
telephone is being used for transmission OF
orders.
The men who were sent here in anticipa-
ton OF trouble have stated they were in
duced to come under misapprehension and
with one exception have refused to go to
work. Superintendent Gibson, of the Rocky
Mountain division is out somewhere on the
road but even the chief dispatcher at head
quarters has been unable to locate him.
All trains are being tagged in and out, but
are making slow time. Train crews admit
that the present condition is the most COM
plete tie-up ever known on the Northern
Pacific.
A special train carrying a party Of Chi
cago capitalists en- route TO visit mines in
western Montana did not arrive until 4:3O
p. m, though scheduled to be here for
side trip at a. m.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

fering with traffc in Lake Pontchartrain
and capturing schooners; that they have
stopped fishing in Lake Borgne and that
traffic in Lake Borgne canal has been in
terrupted.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
FIGHT TO A FINISH
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other freight trains are moving without
difficulty.
Arrangements are being made to supply
the places of the men who have gone out
PerishRbIe Freight AccumulRteE.
Immediate evidence Of the losses that the
public must suffer as the result OF the
telegraphers' strike appears today in the
accumulation of perishable freight at the
commission houses here
Fruit vegetables eggs. poultry, fish, per
ishable shipments of all sorts destined for
towns between St Paul and the state Of
Washington were refused today with few
exceptions by the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific roads and by the Great
Northern Pacific express companies. One
commission merchant said that he would
be able to get out carload lots destined
for North Dakota, Montana or Idaho, but
that the railroads had refused to take
from him any small shipments.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03
Conditions at other Points.
One Case Mt TexarIsnna.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Aug. "A special to
the Commercial Appeal from Texarkana
Ark, says that Jay Taylor, a young man
who arrived there Saturday from Louis
lana, was taken sick with fever in a hotel,
The patient was Immediately isolated at a
point two miles out of town, and the case
is under close observation. A shotgun quar-
antine was Immediately placed about the
hotel, none of the inmates being permitted
to leave. The building was thoroughly
fumigated.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-03

Both Captain Bostwick and General
Perilliat submitted reports to the result
of their Investigations Both dispatched
officers to the scene today, and they learned
enough to confirm the first reports OF the
invasion and the action Of the Mississippi
patrol boats in closing Louisiana waters
to Isouisiana fishermen. The Rigolet draw
bridge, ON which the Louisville q Nash
Vile railroad closes, it is contended here, is