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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14

Large forces of grade labor
erS employed by contractors on
the Holston River railway are
pushing the work from Moe
casin Gap toward the Southern
railway connection at Persia.
Tenn, on the Rogersville e
branch of the Southern system.
Yesterday dirt was broken on
the grade of the new line at
OposSom Greek. five miles south
of MOccasin Gap. j. Clark ar
rived IN the city yesterday af-
ternoon, after having made a
trip over the proposed route.
In conversation with Courier
representative he said:
1.-The railway construction
forces are active at severa
points on the new railway be-
tween Persia and the Y. q 5.
w. connection at Moccasin
Gap. The prospects are that
labOrers wills be found in suffi-
cient numbers TO enable the con
tractors 10 finish the new line
through Hawkins county in a
few months. The prices of real
estate along this road have
been steadily on the increase
since the first survey was
started !"
The Holston River road is
racing with the s. & w. TO gain
an entrance to the coal fields of
Southwest Virginia. it is back
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
SLENP SAYS HH Will NOT QUIT
Believes Party VIII Return Him 70 Con.
grcss Had Wanted 90 Retire.


grcss Had Wanted 90 Retire.
Washington. June There
ls no doubt that Representative
0lcmp. cf the Ninth Virginia
District. viii accep. the nomi-
nation for another term i'm Con-
gress lf DO lis made. For a long
time there has been "a story on
The rounds that Colonel Slemp
would not accept The seat again
under amy conditions. having
become tired of the m0notony
of congressional life There
have also been stories t0 the eff
feet that he wanted his SON.
bascomn Slemp. now Republi
can State Chairman. 90 receive
Che nomination and succeed to
his place as the Representative
from the Ninth District.
Heretofore Colonel Siemp has
not talked freely with the news
I paper men concerning his fu-
ture political aspirations. and
only "a crumb could be picked
I Iup here and there Indicating
his views On thcmatter of being
hls own successor IN the Six
tieth Congress.
To-day, however. Col. Slemp
declared without amy reserva-
tion that he would gladly ac-
cept the nomination % the next
/ Congress should DO be rendered
him bv the convention that
meets at Marion 0n the 20th.
4 lie said also that while for a
time he felt that ne might like
/ 20 retire from Congress and de-
vote himself private pursuits.
thot such AN lGea had now been
4 entirely aba an a on q q and he
would certainly not fail 90 take
the nomination s h @ II ! a il be-
/ rendered him He believes also
that he viii nOt be overlooked
in the matter when the time
/ comes TO choose nis successor.
lie rs now more hopeful of
/ being has own successor than al
any time since The question Of
supplanting him with some one
else arose. Without boastinp
/ of has own prospects. he thinks
that his services 20 the Repub.
+ hcan party of the State will en-
sure his success IN the matter OF
another term at the Marion
/ meeting.
Il VIII certainly accept the
nomination for another term in
/ Congress if the Republicans
wish me 20 represent The Ninth
/ District, but this is a matter en-.
tirely for them to settle, said
} Colonel Slemp.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
WILL NOMINATE BY CONVENTION.
Ninth District DemOciats viii Hold a
Convention in Bristol Next Mouth.

Ninth District Demociats viii Hold a
Convention in Bristol Next MouIh.
Prof. w. ID. Smith. prominent
as a member of the Ninth Nir-
ginia District Executive Com
mittee, was i'm Brisol Wednes-
day.
Ii is learned that this commit
tee is very soon 20 get together
for the purpose of fixing the
time for nominating candidate
for Congress 90 oppose Col.
Slemp. who will be the nominee
by the Republicans ON the goth
inst.
The Democratic Committee
had decided 60 track the party IS
recognized system of no M l.
mating 10y holding a primary.
bat the primary plan is unpopu-
lar in the Ninth District. and
for this reason not "a candidate
filed notification with the COM
mittce. To was provided that
nm the event this should happen
the committee would call con
vention To be held I'M this city
tits understood that this con-
vention will bc held some time
next month. Bristol Courier.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
GREAT WEALTH
OF COAL FIELDS
In Cumberland Gap Region OF Tennes.
see Report Made BY Experts.

see Report Made BY Experts.
Washington, June Walled
ia by mountain from the outside
world. the coal field of Cumber-
land Gap, KY, was entirely un-
known 20 fame until sixteen
years ago. lt lies in basin
ninety miles long by fifteen to
twenty miles wide and contains
coal beds from five TO seven feet
thick. The coal is of high
grade and the beds are in work
able situation. This fields now
connected with Louisville and
Cincinnati by the Cumberland
Valley branch of the Louis
Vile x Nashville railroad. and
with Knoxville by the Southern
railroad, but previous 20 1892
no protector bad tunneled its
girdle of mountains. Sine e
communication has been estab-
llshed with the markets of the
world the coal output of the
neld mas grown TO ,UOO, 900 tons
9 year. The geology and re-
Sources are now described by
Messrs. George II. Ashley and
Leonidas G. Glenn of the United
States Geological Survey in a
recent pu b Ii C a ii on that is
known officially as Professional
Paper No. 49, The work was
done in cooperation with the
State Geological Department OF
Kentucky, of which Mr.. G.. j
Norwood is curator, and the re.
port is published for general
distribution.
The development OF the coal
is confined TO the western part
OF the field studied, mainly tc
the west of Middlesboro, in
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING
OF ihc County School Board OF Scott
County, Held al Gate City.
Nav 20. 1890

way ~ ifuu.
We feel that the time has
.come when we can no longer
.aiiord IN any degree to neglect
Che professional training of our
teachers Com petition is SO
great that only skilled labor
now is sure of success in any
field of life Our citizens are
asking more and more that
those whom they employ shall
oe experts, trained and skilled
workmen; that those into whose
hands they entrust their child
rem shall know something of
cnild nature, shall know some
lalng of how TO impart what
tney know SO as 10 best develop
The child.
feellng as we do, that the
profession of teaching ranks
high with the professions of
law. medicine, &c, and that il
Is only through a thorough
knowledge of these subjects
targht by the best methods that
we can obtain the very best re-
suits; and feeling also that it
lies To great degree within the
power of the District Trustees
and the County Superintend
enis TO inspire the teachers
under them desire for the
training which shall best fit
them for their work, and feel
ing that this aid can best be
Mao through our State Normals
Planned 10 meet our needs bv
our state Board of Education.
~ view of the foregoing the
county School Board of Scott
county hereby instructs the
instruct Boards respectively to
pay higher wages TO those at
ending the State Normal az
Dig stone Gap than those teach
l7 holding the same grade OF
*OeFtihcate who do not attend
aHI the County School Board
" scott County further directs
anu instructs the District School
boards in employing teachers,
O.ner things being equal, to
e"e the preference TO those
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
Very truly yours

P %. County State.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

The annual expenditure for
the support of public schools i'm
Virginia, exceeds two million
dollars. More than two thirds
of this money is expended. on
your order for the pay of teach
ers. Since zthfs. responsibility
Tor the wise Use OF this fund
rests largely with YOU. tits evi-
dens that your most important
duty IS that of employing teach
ers. superintendent examine
teachers, but district boards put
them TO work.
Every year, many applicants
for the position of teacher ar
peal to you and zealously press
their claims. Keenly aware Of
your responsibility. YOU should
carefully consider the needs of
the schools. and endeavor to
select teachers who will do the
work. OF course. all personal
considerations should be laid
aside. =" No favoritism or nepo-
tism in any form should inhu-
encc your Judgment OF a teach
er's fitness. You should en-
deavor TO engage only faithful
and efficient teachers, and 90
exclude those incompetent and
inefficient. High character and
La thorough knowledge Of the
subjects taught are indispensi-
bic; 20 bee successful, the teacher
must be- progressive; not 90 ad-
vance is Co 20 backwards. IL fol-
lows. therefore. that the active
and progressive teaching ele-
ment should be preferred i'm our
schools 10 is this element. as
.a rule. that attends Summer
Normals, reads professional lit
erature. and is alive TO every
agency for Improvement.
To encourage tea hers 90
avail themselves of these 0pp0r-
tunities Superiutendents and
Trustees are authorized by the
State Board 10 give special en-
cOuragement. We tn fore
earnestly urge the Superinteu-
dents I'm the Clinch Valley
counties TO use all proper means
20 see that their teachers are
present at the Big Stone Gap
Normal.
The State Board of Education
encourages District Boards. In
employing teachers. 10 give
/ preference. other things being
equal. 90 those who show "a pro
gressive spirit by attending
normal schools
The people pay the taxes for
maintaining the schools and
they earnestly look 90 school
Trustees and Superintendents
for such an administration of
the public school system as will
bring the best results
AS superintendent and Trus.
tees of the Clinch Valley coun.
ties let Us use every effort tC
make the Big Stone Gap Nor.
NAL "A full and rounded success
Let the County superintendent,
and Trustees feel personally re-.
sponsible for the presence OF
the teachers under their super
/ vision.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
FIRE AT DuFFIsLD.
Steele Bros. Store and Three Dwellings
DESTROYED.

Quite "a destructive fire oc-
CURED at Dunieli about eight
O'Clock last Thursday evening.
when the store of j II. Steele ~
Bro. and the dwelling of Ino.
Sproles. Clay Trussby and John
Roberts were all DESTROYED.
The fire originated I'm Steele's
store, 10 is thought from lamp
exploding Mr.. Steele left the
lamp burning and went To- the
postoilice When the tire was
discovered il had gained such
headway that none of the goods
could be saved. We under
stand the stock was valued at
over 81 800 on which insurance
TO the amount of $500 was car
ried.
We are sorry 20 hear of the
losses of these excellent Young
men.
The dwellings DESTROYED were
rather cheap buildings from
which all the furnishings were
saved Gate City Herald.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14

Claiborne county. Tenn. In this
part OF the field exploration has
shown thirteen Goals of work
oble thickness and quality. OF
these, eight coal beds at present
are commercially mined. Near
" all of these beds have one or
more parting. The coal OF the
eastern part Of the field has
been little tested, and knowl
edge of it Is derived largely
from natural exposures. a few
small country banks. and a
small number of facings. Near
Harlan, IN the eastern part of
the field. one solid four foot coal
has been shown 20 have an area
of over 100 square miles. OF
the Goals above this from one TO
three are locally workable and
may be exploited over large
area in that part OF the district.
Between the Harlan district
and the Middlesboro distric {
from one 90 three workable
Goals underlie most Of the area.
The Harlan coal. as q rule. is
not SO badly split mp with part
ings as The Goals above Mid
dlesb0r0.
I'm character these Cumber-
land Goals compare well with
the Westmoriand gas Goals of
Pennsylvania som e. of the
Goals at Niddlesboro are sue
cessfully coked. and doubtless
most of the Goals of this area
are of the same character. being
as free from moisture. ash. aud
sulphur as Che best of the Appa-
iachian Goals.
The illustrations consist of
forty Photographic plats and
thirteen figures. T. pecially
worthy of mention is q detached
economic map of part of the
Cumberland Gap coal field.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
PAY YOUR TAXES.

All taxes in Wise county
Virginia, for the year 1908, are
due and should be paid before
june 10, at which time they
Will be returned delinquent.
Please call upon the Deputy
Treasurer for your District and
lift your tax ticket without de-
lay. X. p. BARRON,
May 10, 1906. st. Treasurer.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
THE CATALOGUE.

10 insure your getting a cata-
loOue enroll at once. The cata
logue will give full information
about the Normal.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14

The Normal is for genuine
good work and not for show or
pretense. Select the mum Der of
studies YOU want and fin out
the following blank and seud it
in DO this at once The pur-
pose of 10 is 90 enable the Con-
ductor TO make up a program
So that no time will be lost.
Mr R H. Sheppe. Conduc-
tor State Summer Iustute.
Big Stone Gap, Va.
Dear Sir.
I desire 90 study the following
branches at the Big Stone Gap
Normal.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-06-14
About the Normal.

v ho attend the Nomal above
mentioned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
BUYING HUMAN HAIR.

In the fail of the year. after the
harNe est has been gathered, 1t is GUS
tomary in France to hold agricultural
and amusement.
The farmers meet their customers
and each other, sell their crops and
calves and colts and buy whatever is
necessary, while their wives and their
daughters take advantage of the op-
portunity to get acquainted and to
spend their share of the proceeds for
dress goods, household articles and
whatever else they may need or fancy.
The entire communication and
women. boys and girls-are thus
brought together once year. The
wholesale dealers in human hair send
agents called "coupeurs" to these an
nual gatherings to buy the tresses of
the young women and girls.
They take with them trunks full OF
dress goods. fichues, feather boas
jewelry of all kinds and other orna-
ments and set up stands in Consplcu-
Gus places 10 await their victims. The
practice is ceturies old and the terms
] dhu llltlllOuS ny WHICH lllt lIdut IL
carried on are well known to the
country people.
| For six months or a year in ad
varce the Elrls consider and discuss
| whether they shall sell their hair ol
| rot, ana conieCtures as TO what the!
1 can get for it; and if they refuse tC
| sell ono season many of them promis
/ the ''coupeur' that they will trade
with him the ueXt year.
These fairs are most common il
Brittany, Avergne. Limoges and othe
par.r Of central France. from whicl
I the largest supply of human hair i
derived. Between fairs the coupe
urs' go about the country from hous
to house and visit the villages. tempt
ing the women to be shorn.-Willian
f. Curtes in Record-Herald.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
MONUMENT TO CLEVELAND.

In OREGON is reared perhaps the
most imperishable monument ever
erected TO the public service of Gro
yer Cleveland.
This monument is the Cascade for
est reserve which was largely Cleve-
lands conception and handiwork.
At time when corporations were
enjoying a saturnana OF plundering
in the public domain, it seemed suici-
dal for public man to dare to ques-
tion their highhanded methods. Back
in the early nineties when the money
power closed up every avenue of trade
and commerce and wilfully and with
malicious forethought caused a panic
in financial circles in order to cast
discredit on Cleveland and his admin
istration, 1t was a bold stroke to sug-
gest a forest reserve into which the
hand OF the plunderers may not be
thrust.
But Cleveland created this reserve
at that time and although he was op-
posed by the Oregon delegation in
congress, the reserve still stands.
Later developments in the reserve
prove why the Oregon delegation op-
posed IT, The reasons are recorded
in the testimony Of the federal court
records AT Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
NEW MEAT INSPECTION LAW.

The national meat inspection law is
almost revolutionary, whether as re-
CARDS trade methods under its far
reaching provisions or as regards the
general extension which it exemplfies
of governmental power under the ma
tional constitution, says the Omaha
Bee.
In the latter aspect national meat
inspection. the same as the pure food
law, is a sweeping employment of au-
thority under the constitutional grant
of power to regulate commerce be-
tween the states and with foreign
countries hardly dreamed of a gener-
alton ago, but which in changed indus
trial conditions and correspondingly
changed popular conceptions is now
universally viewed as valid and de-
manded as necessary.
The new law not merely prescribes
conditions covering the whole process
of Inspecting, naming, branding and
labelling packed and canned meat pro-
ducts, but also establishes standards
for determining the health Of live ami
mails and the wholesomeness of meats,
including exclusive control over sani-
tation and cleanliness in slaughter and
preparation of meat and all derivative
foods.
The requirements We're designed to
be such as unfailingly to exclude from
tran sportation from one state to an
other or to any foreign country all
meat or meat products which are un-
clean and unhealthy or which by false
| label or composition might deceive
consumers, aiming thus to protect the
public also against the prevailing trade
custom of fraud in weight quality and
origin of the goods.
And between enactment of the law
early last summer and its going into
effect the executive departments
which are clothed with vast discretion-
airy powers as to regulations, have
made absolutely certain that the law
in all its rigor is to be strictly enforc-
ed, requiring such extensive and thor
oughgoing changes that a nrge num-
Der of slaughtering and packing es-
adjustments have not been disposed
or able to make them in time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09

great country living inland from the
coast have been forced to pay freight
rates on eastern shipments to the coast
and then back to their home points,
although the shipments stopped at the
home points and were not hauled to
the coast terminal and back.
Here is a concrete illustration of the
system which has been in operation,
Suppose Ukiah should be designated
IS terminal point ny the Pendleton,
UEiah Stage company, and that ON all
shipments from Fendleton to Pilot
Rock the company should charge fun
rates to ubiah and then in addition
charge the local rate back from
Ukiah to Pilot Rock.
Instead Of paying only from Pendle-
ton to Pilot Rock, Pendleton people
would pay for the entire length of the
system to Ukiah and then back to Pilot
Rock.
This is Just what has been done by
people of the interior of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, under the
beautiful system of private owner
ship.
Instead Of paying on freight ship
ments from Chicago to Pendleton, the
consumers of this county and in fact
of this entire inland empire country
have paid full rates to Portland and
then in addition have paid the loca
rate back to pendleton.
The reason for this was that by
some of the niceties of commercial
manipulation Portland was designated
! on the tariff sheets as termina
point, and Pendleton was not so des
! ignated.
If the government owned and op
Grated the railroads would such dis
elimination be permitted? Are ther
such discriminating practices in tn
postoffice department or in posta
rates?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
TIE HEARST CAMPAIGN.

II William Randolph Hearst is not
elected governor of New York, he will
give that old hothed of rottenness
such shaking up and such series
of sensational awakemngs, that his
camraign will do almost as much good
as though he were elected.
Never in the history Of New York,
the home of political surprises, has
there been such a startling disregard
for the political boss. the ward heeler,
the ward thug. the wand boodler, the
ward bully as in the Hearst cam
paign.
He has broken loose from all the old
gangs. H has cut loose from all the
fixed political programs, He has start
cd ont single-handed and alone to defy
the entire combination of corruption
lists. boodlers and vote buyers, and
from Buffalo to the Bowery, his splen-
did independence and fearless defi-
ance of Tammany and its minions
have caused the old warhorses to sit
up and wonder.
Hearst is a power in the land. He
has an audience estimated at 1000, 900
daily readers and while he is spectac-
ular to a degree, vet he is giving his
audience what it demands. If with
his spectacular stage play. he gives
the people some genuine assistance ii
busting" trusts. and in overthrowinG
dirty political gangs 10th republican
and democratic, his mission will beal
splendid fruit.
If he is defeated in New York, dem
ocrats, members of his own party viii
be responsible. There are enough o
them in the Empire State to elect him
but his opponent. Hughes, is an ex
cellent type of man and has made ;
national reputation in his insurance
investigations. But the Hearst cam
paign will tax even the popularity O
Hughes.
Anyway. whether Hearst is electe
or not. his campaign will improve con
ditions in New York.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
WISDOM.

O., ,,,,,- - Iy-l.l,,, l,.l.l,,r,
'"S N'"lV' i"'' w 'H"oII'' h'l"SNIIS
l'"u
N' eNe'! 'eNse uia' '.ileS t"e way
iie' "'oN was "'s"' he' S'eP was
ii'r s'aice more oeau'liul man day
CT .,.-.,
'''e 9'''o'e '''e '"'A' III" s'r"'sht up
st,r,, rose S',ors..rs ,n,o, .no ,.o,,,,,,
Years
IHefe SledIl Il, great floods, strange
ooro'l BLOWS
Anu i'e'+ors lIashed among the
'pi'ereS
'"' N'laI "'arNei tnere snoula pass.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
THE TORCH.

The God of the Great Endeavor gave
me torch to bear.
1 lifted it high above me in the dark
and murky air
And straightway, with loud hosannas,
the crowd acclaimed its light
And followed me as carried my torch
through the starless night;
Till mad with the peoples praises
and drunken with vanity
1 forgot twas the torch that drew
them and fancied they followed
me.
But slowly my arm grew weary up
holding the shining load
And my tired feet went stumbling
over the hilly road
And I fell with the torch beneath me.
In a moment the flame was
out!
Then, 10! from the throng a stripping
sprang forth with a mighty
shout,
Caught up the torch as 1t smoldered
and lifted 1t high again
Till, famed by the winds of heaven,
1t fired the souls of men.
And as I lay in darkness, the feet OF
the trampling crowd
Passed over and far beyond me, its
peans proclaimed aloud,
While I learned, In the deeping shad-
ows, the glorious verify:
'Tis the torch that the people follow
whoever the bearer be!
Elizabeth r. Finley.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-09
NO MOOD FOR STATISTICS.

A reporter one day asked John AS
tor If 1t was true that he had 81 au-
tomobiles, five chanffeurs 33 horses,
As carriages-but here Mr.. Astor in
terrupted.
statistics are always dry and stu
pid. They are even irritating" he
said. "In your work you should avoid
them. By way Of warning to you, let
me tell you of the adventure of
certain statistical temperance advo-
cate.
This temperance advocate, walk
ing in the suburbs, found a man lying
full length on the path with flushed
face and tousled hair. He stopped
beside the man, touched him with his
foot to rouse him, and said In voice
full OF gentle reproach.
my friend, did you ever pause to