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Evening star., 1905-05-14
WEST VIRGINIA NOTES,

On account of the large number of people
that will participate in the banquet to be
given at Fairmont. w. Va. May o. in honor
of General Manager Fitzgerald Of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad the event will
be held in the Fairmont Opera House in
stead of a hotel Six hundred persons will
take part. including President Murray Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Governor
Dawson and Governor Warfield.
The will of James Clifford. the fire brick
expert. who died at. Mount Savage last Sat
urday night has been probated The es-
tate which includes real estate at Mount
Savage and Superior, Wis, is estimated to
be worth $4,000, and goes to the father,
Thomas Clifford. and the niece, Alice Pinks-
ton
]. Ford Twigg, near Flintstone, drove
through an unprotected bridge on which
the floor was being repaired, there having
been no obstruction to warn travellers. He
landed about ten feet in the creek and
was badly hurt His horse was injured and
his buggy wrecked.
Joseph -Spiker, wealthy retired farmer,
is dead at Loeb Lynn Heights, Garrett
county aged eighty-three years.
The United Mine Workers of America are
at work in the Georges Creek region pre-
pairing the men for next spring. when ali
joint agreements both in the hard and
soft coal region, expire. The United Mine
Workers are at work in all unorganZed as
well as organized regions, trying to line up
united effort to secure one general Joint
agreement with the operators of the entire
country next January.
Fire destroyed the barn of Janos Mearkle
at Clearville, with all the implements and
three horses The fire is supposed to have
started at the hen coop, where lime and
ashes had been sifted the day before Loss,
$1,000
Lewis Young. colored. of summersville.
Nicholas county. w. Va. Is claimed to be
the Oldest man in the United States. Rec
ords OF his birth, which have been secured.
show that he was born in Botetourt county.
Va. on August 16. 1856. making his age 119
years at his next birthday. Last summer
two men were hoeing corn In a field near
Summersville. and one man was over 100
years older than the other. The old man
was Lewis Young This patriarch Is about
to leave for Tuscaloosa, Iowa, to make his
home with his daughter. He was first mar4
ried at the age of twenty-five years, the
second time aged sixty-six years. the third
time aged ninety years. He survives his
third wife, who died last March. after liv-
ing with her twenty seven years He takes
his name from the first family that owned
later belonged to the
Rudesill family, and later the Prices, all Of
Virginia.
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VIRGINIA NOTES,

The colored people of Richmond without
regard to denomination are working to
erect monument to Rev. John Jasper the
celebrated pastor of the Sixth Mount Zion
Church Jasper won fame all over the
United States by his doctrine that the sun
moves while the earth stands still.
Cloyd Hale, a mulatto, was hanged at
Pulaski Va, yesterday for the murder of
John Hart, white man, whom he brutaIly
killed five weeks ago in a quarrel over the
barter of coat. On the gallows Hale de-
clared his fate a just one, and warned his
ace to let whisky alone and to keep out of
politics.
Rev ]. F.. Coleman, who has been supply
Ing the pulpitS Of several Episcopal churches
In Spottsylvapia county, has accepted a
charge in Loudoun county and will be sue
ceeded In the Spottsylvania work by Mr.
Frank Lee of the Theological Seminary
near Alexandria.
Two daughters of Henry Whitaker, aged
respectively ten and twelve years. were
drowned Friday in millpond at East Pu-
laski. The girls were wading in the shall
low part Of the pond and ventured out be-
yond their depth Their bodies were re-
covered.
A new bank has been organized at Chris
tiansburg by prominent citizens, who had
previously subscribed to the stock The
amount with which the bank will start will
be S35. 900. This will make the third bank
In the county.
Representative John H. Small of the first
North Carolina district will make the prin-
cipal address before the annual meeting of
the Norfolk North Carolina Association
next Saturday. The meeting will be held
at the Atlantic Hotel and banquet will
follow. There are now 100 members of this
association, which limits it's membership.
The great council of the Independent Or
der of Red Men of Virginia meets at
Petersburg Wednesday for a session Of
three days.
The Virginia Funeral Directors Associa-
ton of Virginia meets at Norfolk Wednes-
day for three days session. R. w. Baker
of Suffolk is president. Addresses will be
made by Mayor Riddick. Rev. DR.. Calvin
S. Blackwell and Dr. c. F. Newbill of Nor
folk and L. T. Christian of Richmond.
Rev. DR.. Paul Whitehead of Norfolk, DR..
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w. w. Blackwell, president of Randolph
Macon College. and Representative Carter
Glass of the sixth Virginia district, have
been appointed by the College of Southern
Bishops to represent the Methodists of Vir-
ginia at the interchurch conference on fed
Grafton to be held in New York November
1920, 1905.
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge president of the
Federation of Day Nurses. in answering
questions at the Virginia nurses conven-
ton, declared that the absolute limit of a
Ncman's capacity to take care of babies is
eight, and that she ought not to have more
than six.
Three white women have been sent to the
Virginia penitentiary within the past few
days. Mrs. Sallie Hannah. five years, in
LynchOurg, for attempting to poison the
family Of Hamilton Faulkner; Ella Foster,
a similar sentence, at the same place, for
infanticide and Beatrice Langhorne, one
year, MT Norfolk. for robbing Hugh Thomp-
son. n naval officer, off the United States
monitor Florida, of 500.
Judge William N. Portlock of the Norfolk
county circuit court has granted a tenn
porary injunction restraining the enforce
ment of ordinances passed by the Berkeley
town council, preventing citizens of that
town from making purchases on the street,
and placing license tax on Norfolk deiiv-
cry wagons twice the amount of the tax OH
been buying heavily in Norfolk, which Is
connected with Berkeley by ferry. The in
junction from the court was secured by
Norfolk merchants. The case is to be
heard June 10.
A meeting of the traffic agents, freight
and passenger, of the Seaboard Air Line
railway system through the north, east,
south and west, was held at the Hotel
Chamberlin Old Point Comfort, this week,
with an attendance of 100. The meeting
had for its object the drawing more closely
together the agents of the system. Ad-
dresses were made by President James NJ.
Barr and other prominent officials of the
Seaboard. 1t was decided to hold similar
meeting once each year in the future
Miss Virginia Lee and Lieut.. George Lee,
U. S. N, daughter and son Of the late Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, are here for the purpose of
experimenting the packing of the family
effects at the apartments occupied by Gen.
and Mrs. Lee at the Rochambeau building.
Mrs. Lee will hardly come to Norfolk, as
first expected.
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Prizes Awarded.

The annual contest for the Wallace prizes
for ex-tempore speaking was held Friday
evening at the Virginia Episcopal Theologi-
cal Seminary. near Alexandria, Va VIM.
Crosby Bell B. A., won the first prize and
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving won the second
The prizes consist OF the interest on q
fund of $1,000. two-thirds going to the
winner and one-third to the second.
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folk Academy of Music Senator Martin
has made several speeches during the week
and was given a great ovation at Lynch
burg, where he was introduced by United
States Senator Daniel, who declared that
Senator Martins service In the Senate was
as good as was ever rendered his consult
uents. Senator Martin made reply in a
quiet manner to the attacks made upon
him by Governor Montague, convincing his
audience of his strength as statesman
and representative of the people.
The week has been a very busy one for
nearly all of the candidates, though Gov
ernor Montague by reason OF illness mas
been unable to do any campaigning what
ever. Judge w. H. Mann. one of the three
candidates for the gubernatorial nominal
ton, has been spending the entire week
going through Accomac and Northampton
on the eastern shore He has gotten IN
scme good work and his friends there say
has made many votes for hlmseh anipas
the Accomac and Northampton farmers IN
general.
Lieut.. Gov Willard has been busy on
other matters most of the week, put Coii-
gresham Claude A. Swanson has gotten
in some good work in a number or the
south side courties. He was here Thurs
day. but not campaigning. he having come
to deliver the annual confederate memorial
day address in Berkley, where he was ac-
corded great reception by his friends and
admirers
Notes.
The campaign in Norfolk is becoming
warm and the candidates for municipal Of
flee are up night and day campaigning,
though the municipal election is a month
or more Off
During the week ]. Thompson Baird. Tor
over thirty years mayor Of Portsmouth,
has died, and there has been much specu-
lation as to who will succeed him. The
council elects a successor until January l.
1905. when the council appointee will be
succeeded by candidate to be elected In
November This candidate will be the
nominee of a democratic primary to be held
in June.
There have been a number of candidates
mentioned for the position, but it appears
that the list has dwindled to four. These
are DR.. Joseph Price, 0. L. Dashiell, Good
rich Hatton and J. Davis Reed. DR.. Grice
Is young practicing physician, Mr..
Dashiell is a merchant, Mr.. HattOn is
lawyer, who represented Portsmouth in the
late Virginia constitutional convention, and
Mr.. Reed Is business man. Mr.. Reed
says that he would accept the position at
the hands of the council for the unexpired
term, but that he would not enter the June
primary. C.. w. Walker and l.. c. Brn-
son were aspirants. but found that they
were barred from an election by the coun-
Gil by reason of the fact that both have
been members of the city council within
one year, and this makes them ineligible
for election except by the people
Mr.. Brinson ran in the last democratic
primary against the late Mayor Baird and
received quite large vote. He will likely
run IN the June primary for the office
Evening star., 1905-05-14
Green Acre Fellowship Association.

A special meeting of the members of the
Washington branch of the Green Acre Fell
lowship Association was held last Tues
day evening at the home of Mrs. Joseph II.
Moore, 1916 G street northwest, for the
purpose of outlining the next seasons S
work. Mrs. s. G. w. Benjamin presided,
and suggestions for future work were pre-
sented from several viewpoints. A COM
mittee was appointed to arrange and per-
feet the program for the meetings of the
Washington branch when the members
turn to the city from their summer vaca-
tions.
Evening star., 1905-05-14
Mr.. Carnegie's Gift.


Mr.. Andrew Carnegie. the philanthropist.
has presented a fine pipe organ to Peck Me-
mortal Church. The organ Is being built
and will be put in place at the church as
soon as completed. 1t is to cost 81 800 This,
in addition to other Improvements which
are contemplated. will greatly add to the
appearance of the church The new parish
hall. to the east of the church. has been al
most completed, and arrangements will
soon be made for It's dedication. The tower
on the main building Will soon be finished
also. Owing to the delay OF the contractors.
it is understood. the exercises In connection
with the dedication of the new auditorium
will be postponed for several months. The
new Improvements have been carried on
under the supervision of the pastor OF the
church. Rev. c. Alvin Smith.
Funeral services over the remains of Mrs.
Margaret A. Wetzel of Georgetown whose
death occurred last Wednesday, were con-
Quoted Friday at IL O'Clock from Oak Hill
chapel. Interment was in Oak Hill celne-
terry. Mrs. WetZel was for many years a
resident Of this section and was the eldest
daughter of the late David p. Shoemaker.
Vestrymen Chosen.
The following vestrymen have been elect
ed by the congregation Of Christ Episco-
pal Church Of Georgetown: NJ. ]. Adler.
William B. Orme. ]. H. Gordon. Benjamin
Miller. G. G. Boteler. H. s. Matthews, ID.
L. Wilson and w. A. Gordon. The vestry
elected the following as wardens: William
w. Wheatley, senior warden; Joseph II.
Bradley. Junior warden; DR.. Louis Mackau
and Frederick Duvall, assistant wardens.
Delegate to diocesan conclave, j. II. Cor
don; alternate, William B. Orme; registrar,
II. S. Matthews; treasurer, William b.
Orme.
The May meeting of the Georgetown .Y'
Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was held Monday evening at the res
idence of Miss Gossage. The superintend-
ent of the Soldiers and Sailors Union re-
ported meetings held at Fort Wash
tngton, Washington barracks and at Fort
Myer. Much good Is being accomplished
The Linthicums, Washingtons oldest
amateur club. presented Sydney Grundy's
three-act farce comedy, Snowfall" Thurs
day evening at the Linthicum Institute
Hall. The audience was large and most
enthusiastic in applauding the players
Miss Tretler as Mrs. Featherstone played
well the shrewd little wife that had her
husband guessing all the time; Miss Frost
appeared as the niece and the victim of all
the plots; Miss Likes as Penelope, the
maid; Mr.. Niemeyer carried the part of
Mr. Featherstone and Mr.. Swindells ap-
peared as Uncle John, with Mr. Staub as
Mr.. Prendergast. the young man who was
In the confidence of both husband and
wife; Mr.. Balinger played the man servant
After the play the floor was cleared and
dancing enjoyed until about II o'clock.
Evening star., 1905-05-14
JOINT POLITICAL MEETING.
Politicians of Second West Virginia
District in Conference.
Special Correspondence of The Star

CUMBERLAND, Md. May Is, 1905.
The subcommittees representing the re-
publican and democratic congressional COM
mittees of the second West Virginia dis
trict met here at the Queen City Hotel to-
Evening star., 1905-05-14

No. 16 engine company was summoned to
the junk shop of Edward Mullen 100 b
street northwest, yesterday afternoon. The
fire started from some unknown cause and
did about SO damage.
Evening star., 1905-05-14

Edward Spauldings grocery store. 1923 34th
street. Georgetown, Friday night and Sc
cured a lot of valuables part of which were
recovered, and later entered the house of
Sophie Goodrich and looted the kitchen Of
cooking utensils. The charges against the
youthful culprits are serious In the ex-
treme, and they will be giving a hearing in
Police Court Monday. They were placed In
a cell at the seventh nrecinct stai lion.
Evening star., 1905-05-14
Plan Ovation for Martin.

Arrangements have been made to give
Senator Martin great ovation when he
comes to Norfolk to speak on May Is. A
committee composed of leading business
fnen are completing arrangements for the
Injecting. which II to be held at the Nor
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Children Charged With Larceny.

Two colored youngsters. not quite ten
years Of age named Joseph Plimmins and
Leroy Harris, were arrested by Of1cer
Montgomery OF the seventh precinct late
yesterday afternoon, charged with petit
larceny and housebreaking. The two lads,
I = alleged. broke In the windows of Mr..
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they reach a layer of hard gravel and
then seven feet more.
The Old Pontoon.
About hundred yards from the
bridge, is another very different from
it's fellow. This is the old pontoon
bridge which has been standing for
eleven years and which was built by
the citizens of Chamberlain so that
the ranchmen in the great grass coun-
try beyond the Missouri could bring
their droves here for shipment to mar
ket. AS these droves often filled whole
trains, Chamberlain became familiar
name in the development Of stock.
growing. E5
This bridge has, no pretensions to
style as far as modern engineering is
concerned, but it is remarkably useful
1t is known as a pontOon, supported
by long row of boats. Just, before
the floods come, the bridge is unlocked
and put in a place Of safety. At other
times, the floating structure rises and
| falls with the stream. --s.
The majority Of Chamberlain s citi-
zens are overJoyed with the proposed
extension of the railroad, but there are
still a few Of the old timers, who eye
a railroad suspiciously and grumble of
emo range these days. These men
are by degrees moving across the
river, and their places are being taken
| hV newcomers
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be employed. This draw is nothing
more or less than an immense boat
which will form part Of the bridge
and will swing from the shore to the
standing bridge when necessary. This
will be used also to allow steamers to
pass up and down the river.
.Jutting from the standing bridge
will be huge pointed piers, which will
act as guards for the solid part of the
structure and will direct the ice, to
the opening. This boat will be 1876 feet
long and will be launched shortly.
AS the bridge now stands, that POT
ton over the west channel is already
completed and the one which is to
span the east channel is more than half
finished. Beyond the river some 200
men are busy with shovels, erecting
the, grade for the rails that will run
straight to the Black Hills.
The piles on which the bridge stands
are driven twenty seven feet into the
river bottom, not to bed rock, but to
something Just as substantial and net
as expensive. They are driven till
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and had his attention attracted by a
man on the eastern bank, who waved
his hand frantically.
"You have some lumber for me-, -
cried the man. "My name is ---,
and this is Chamberlain.
"Where is Chamberlain?' asked
Captain Eaglin.
''Here,'' yelled the man, pointing to
a strip of sand, barren, rocky hill
side, and rolling prairie reaching out
to the east.
The lumber was put ashore and on
that day was erected the first house. in
Chamberlain. In the years that fol
lowed Captain Eaglin left the river and
is now living in Sioux City. The Jose
phine was run ashore at Riverside park,
at Sioux City, and is slowly rusting
away, and Chamberlain has RAPIDLY
gone thru the stages Of an Indian trad
ing post and frontier town and is now
reckoned as a railroad center with a
future.
AS the country in this vicinity began
to be populated, it soon became appar-
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emit that the railroad would have to be
extended to meet the increasing de-
mands of commerce. A short time ago
the need became pressing, and the Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad began to
hurry the extension.
Bridge Ready in June.
j. F. Pinson, young engineer IN
the employ Of the company, who had
been at Kansas City, Mo-, was ordered
to construct bridge at once at Cham
berlain and three days later was on the
spot looking over the ground. This was
on April 1, and on April 4, $50 men
were at work. On April s the first pile
was driven and by June rs the bridge
will be ready to receive a train.
This haste naturally necessitated a
structure which, tho suitable for pres
ent purposes, is intended to last only
ten or twelve years. Except for small
portion there is no steel in it, lumber
alone being used. There are, in fact,
two bridges. One stretches from the
town of Chamberlain to American
island, in the middle of the stream, and
another from the west bank Of the
island to the west bank Of the river
Tracks will be laid on the island to
Join the two bridges.
This is the first wooden railroad
| bridge to be constructed over the Mis-
souri, river There is much soothing by
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SPANISH QUEENS GEMS
ENRICH STAMFORD "U'

New York, June 3.-Jewels originally
the property of Queen Isabella Of Spain,
valued at $1,ooo,0o0, it was learned to-
day, were left by Mrs. Leland Stanford,
who died under mysterious circum-
stances in Honolulu from arsenic pois-
oning recently. The gems were given
in her will to Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
versity of California. In few weeks
they will be sold and the proceeds will
go toward a library building for the
university, the cornerstone of which was
laid about ten days ago.
The Jewels are divided into five sets
and include some Of the most famous
diamonds in the world. Romance sur
rounds them, as they were taken from
Spain by Queen Isabella in her flight
in the early '3Os.
Mrs. Stanford paid 100000 for the
Jewels at a private sale.
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FIRST WOODEN RAILROAD
BRIDGE OVER THE lIISSOU72I|
Nyaukee Combany's Crossing at Chamberlain VIII Be
Ready for Trains in Jnne-Another Step IN
the Conquest Of the West.

some engineers who say a wooden
bridge viii not be able to withstand
the crush when the ice breaks or the
regular springtime floods come down;
They argue that substantial steel
structures have been unable, often. to
resist the ravages of the river and that
a wooden bridge will go with the first
onrush of the waters.
But as the reed can Withstand q
storm by bending to the wind, while
the sturdy oak is split asunder in it's
proud defiance, so is this bridge, ex-
pected to weather all the pranks OF the
big stream. No attempt. will be made
to fight the Missouri. While other rail,
road bridges, with their steel and
wrought iron pit strength against:
force, this one, in manner, takes of
it's cap to the "Big Muddy and will
open to allow the river to wend on its
way.
Big Boat Forms Draw.
In order to do this, "draw'' will
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AMERICAN COUNTESS .
SUES FOR A DIVORCE
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service. ~
Detroit, Mich, June 3.-Countess
Louise May Hecker de Szilassy, daugh-
ter of Colonel Frank j. Hecker of De
troit, ex-member Of the Panama canal
commission, has begun suit for di-
vorce from Count Guyla Hope Joseph
de Szilassy of Vienna, Austria.
Count de Szilassy was for many years
secretary Of the Austro- Hungarian lega-
ton at Washington, and it was while
on visit at the capital that Miss
Hecker met the count. They were mar
ried in 1898. The count took his bride
to Austria, where she remained year,
later coming to Detroit.
Tales of cruelty, never published,
were heard on all sides, but the coun-
tess, after a short stay in Detroit, re-
solved to go back to the count. She
soon returned to Detroit, however, and
has lived here ever since. Countess
Szilassy charges only non support in her
bill. She has one child.
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Special to The Journal.

special to The journal,
Chamberlain, S., D., June Sat
Chamberlain, on the bank across the
Missouri river, are now heard the clang
and the roar and the clash of building.
Immense steam pile drivers belch out
volumes of smoke which hang over the
town like a cloud, a sawmill on the
eastern a BANK t shrl dani and huns ana
medically spit out spurts Of steam. J..
All this is caused by the building of
the new bridge across the river by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
and the extending of its line to Rapid
City and the Pacific coast.
1t is another step in the white man s
victory over the st ubborn west, and his
tory. is repeating itself when the glory
of the conquest falls to railroad com
pany.
| Some twenty odd years ago, Captain
J. A. Eaglin, commanding the steam
boat Josephine, was plying up the river
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YANKEES TO SEE MANEuvERs,

Washington, June Sit is announced at
the war department that Lieutenant Cen
eral Chaffee, chief of staff, and Brigadier
Generals William Crozier and J. Franklin
Bell will represent the United States at
the maneuvers of the French troops. The
invitation to send United States army Of
fcers to that country was extended to-
Secretary Taft by the French ambassa.
f3rnIy