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obtaining the assistance he needed, he
had approached several parties with a
view to getting them to take the road
over
Among these parties was the South
ern Railway and the Seaboard Air
Line. Botn rejected the proposition.
1t was thought at one time that the
deal with the Seaboard Air Line had
been successfully negotiated, but it
fell through. When the New York
brokers came to the rescue of the South
and Western the two roads realized
that there was after all something val
liable in the defunct corporation. Ger
tain New York brokers, acting through
the Maryland Trust Company, OF Balti-
more, which had recovered from the
Mexican trouble, purchased a block
of the Clinchfeld Corporation stock
and began an action in the Federal
Court before Judge Goff, sitting at
Clarksburg to set aside the sale OF the
Clinchfeld property to the northern
bankers, alleging among other things,
fraud and lack of authority. 1t is
asserted that in the course Of the litiga-
ton resulting ii was brought clearly
out that the real influence inspiring
the suit was the Southern Railway,
which had rejected the original offer of
the South and Western, and with
which the latter has since came into
sharp contact in its efforts to get
through North Carolina to southport.
Mr.. Carter came out of the litigation
a clear winner, the decision of
Judge Golf being handed down in
Richmond.
The difficulties of the South and
Western were not over, however, 1t
will be noted that by the time the New
York interests had purchased the prop
erty the two years within which, under
the charter, the thirty miles of road
had to be IN operation, had expired,
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
THE we'll" HAS BEEN LIFTED.
At Last The Immortal J. N. Sees the Lie

At Last the Immortal ]. N. Sees the Light
Of His Returning Mental Equilibrium.
Who in this region that remembers
back fifteen years does not recall the
Immortal j. Mp" says the Bristol
Courier.
That strange piece of humanity, new
or at rest, but always on the go, pranc.
ing briskly up and down the avenues
of this old world, riding on trains free
of charge, because as a means of get
ting rid Of him some Of the railway Of
ficials were generous enough to make
his passes good until the "veil" might
be lifted, or until by the hand of death
the long-haired old man might be
transplanted to trains celestial.
Since -. NJ" was in Bristol fifteen
years ago, he has meandered over much
of the broad expanse of country en-
braced between the great oceans; and
now, broken in health and frail in
body, but with return of his long de-
throned reason, he has turned up at
the gate Of the old home, and has been
welcomed by the few relatives still
living.
About the homecoming of this globe
trotter, the Cincinnati Enquirer prints
the following touching reference in the
form of special from Tiffin, Ohio;
81. N. Free, better known as the
Immortal j. N, has returned home
from his ceaseless wanderings up and
down the face of the earth for the first
time in ten years. Last Saturday he
arrived, unheralded, in the little vii
lage of McCutchenville, and went to
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15

ard the PROVISION had been complied
with In November, 1904, the State
Corporation Commission amended and
extended the charter. The right of
the commission to do this was prompt
~ attacked by a corporation chartered
as the Virginia and Southwestern Rail-
way Company, which is officered and
controlled by the owners of the Vir-
ginia and thwestern Company.
Judge Price, of the Hastings Court
of Bristol, held that the commission
did not have the authority to grant the
charter amendment and extension,
because, as he held, the charter was
liable to forfeiture to the State of Vir-
ginia for failure to complete the thirty
miles Of road by April, 1904, aud the
commission was practically remitting
a forfeiture which the Legislature
alone could do. The Court of Appea 8
reversed Judge Price on the ground
| that he had no jurisdiction In the mat
ter. While the South and Western
was thus satisfied that the action of the
Corporation Commission was proper,
it deemed it advisable to remove any
doubt that might still exist in the
minds of any person about the validity
of its charter and of its acts, and there.
fore applied to the Legislature in the
bill above referred to offered by Judge
Phlegar to remove that doubt by remit
ting any right the commission might
have to enforce the forfeiture.
NOT TO MAKE FIGHT HERE.
Now enters the question of the Vir-
ginia and Southwestern, which attack
ed the validity CT the courts. The rep
resentatives Of this road have been in
Richmond recently, but decided not tc
make fight in the Legislature,
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to those enjoyed by the Pocahontas
fields through the Norfolk and Western.

to those enjoyed by the Pocahontas
fields through the Norfolk and Western,
running to Norfolk. At the present
time the Clinch Valley lands are very
little developed, and the necessary use
of the Norfolk and Western, interested
in rival line, to get to the seaboard,
has been handicap. The South and
Western furthermore, it is held, by
striking for Southport instead Of Nor
folk, is gaining tremendous advant-
age. Southport is 700 miles below
Norfolk aud nearly half that distance
to the sonth of the dreaded Hatteras.
Ships that now brave Hatteras to go to
Norfolk to get coal can get the Clinch
Valley coal at Southport without hav-
/ ing to pass Hatteraa and stand in dan
ger of shipwreck, certainly no small
induoement
At least Sl2, 900, 900, and probably
more, will be required to build the
South aud Western road. Unlimited
capital, however, is said to be behind
the company The construction is now
being pushed with two or three thou
sand men at work on the southside OF
the Blue Ridge, in North Carolina.
The Virginia end of it is also being
rushed. The road will be very costly,
and the construction of it is in some
respects remarkable engineering feat.
Mountains have to be tunneled and
gotten round in some manner. Here
and there it has been necessary to &C
by very circuitous routes on account Of
the impossibility of cutting through
the hills or tunneling. In one place,
about forty-three miles of road will
have to be built to go distance OF
about twenty-five miles. In North
| Carolina the road is fighting With the
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15

The Virginia and Southwestern, O
new concern, if the road is ever built,
will practically be an extension of the
Virginia and Southwestern, an older
concern with road in operation, from
Inman, Va, to Toms Creek, where
the parties who control the Virginia and
Southwestern own large coal lands.
The ins and outs of the situation are
rather com plicated and difficult Of un-
derstanding to one not familiar with
the ground, but apparently, through
its connection with the Southern and
Norfolk and Western, the Virginia and
Southwestern, owned by the Virginia
and Southwestern, after reaching
Toms Greek will be able to distribute
the coal from this field and reach the
Atlantic seaboard by way of Norfolk.
Meanwhile the rival South and Western
with the Clinch Valley lands behind it
is striking out in the other direction,
with Southport, s. c., as the objective.
1t is something like race to the sea-
board with this difference, that while
the South and Western is working at
full speed and the Virginia and South
eastern has not began its task.
"This release granted in the bill
passed by the senate today, said Judge
Phlegar last night discussing the mat
ter, "assures the building of the South
and Western road as soon as the work
can be accomplished and in no way i'm
pairs the right or power of the Virginia
and Southeastern to build its road if it
80 desires.
WHAT 1T MEANS.
The development of the vast coal
lands of Southwest Virginia is the i'm.
portant fact behind the whole matter,
so far as the public is concerned. BY
securing an outlet ON the Atlantic sea-
board the South and Western will fur
nish to the Clinch Valley fields advant'
ages for development certainly equal
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
How,s Thisy

We offer one hundred dollars reward forany
case of catarrh that can not be cured by Hail S
Cstarrh Cure. +. J CHEEY & Co.. Toledo. o
We, the undersigned, have known f. ]. Che.
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and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm, WEST & TRUAx,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
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Hairs Family pills are the best.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
LAST OF THE IMMORTAL" ]. N.
Now He RepOSeS in County POOrhOuse-
New Story of How He Lost His
MENTAL POjSe''


Mental POiSe.''
Bucyrus, Ohio, February 10. When
the doors of the Crawford county poor
house closed the other day behind ].
N. Free, the Immortal J. NJ" the
curtain was rung down on one of the
most unique and interesting characters
this county has ever known. There
are few people in the country, at least
in the middlt west, who have not seen
or heard of the Immortal J. N"
Eighty years ago Jacob Newman
Free was born in Tifiin, Ohio, the
eldest son of Presbyterian minister.
Half century ago he became known
as the Immortal ]. NJ" and ever
since he has been living as the birds
live, but in much greater condition
Of luxury. When he was admitted to
the county infrmary the other day he
proudly displayed to the officials of the
institution an old pocktbook containing
more than 100 slips of paper reading
"Good for ]. NJ" being life passes
signed by officials of the leading rail
roads Of the country. By means of
these passes ~. N" travelled where
ever he pleased. He visited every
state and territory and in every city of
more than 1900 inhabitants he had
friends. He claims, and his claim is
generally believed, that he knows
more people than any other living
man. Everywhere he went he stayed
at the best hotels and for half a century
no landlord was bold enough to even
present him with bill.
In his youth, ~. N. was an infant
phenomenon. AT 4 years of age he
read almost almost all Of the Bible, and
during his teens he acquired reading
and speaking knowledge of no less than
thirteen languages. During the gold
craze Of 40 he went west and started q
stage line. Within two years hi
accumulated fortune OF $5O,0O0. A
partner robbed him and ~. N" thel
returned to Ohio and began the stud,
of law.
Within few years he was prominen
at the bar in Cincinnati. One day, s.
| the story goes, he was defending
murderer, in whose innocence b
strongly believed. Asa result of hi
eloquence the man was acquitted. Th
same day his client confessed he wa
guilty. -. N" rushed back to th
court room and started to explain, bu
the strain and excitement had been to
much for him. He was stricken wit
apopIexy. Within a short time b
} recovered his physical health, bu
never his mental poise.
He became the Immortal J. N.
and started on the wandering Iii
J which he has followed for fifty year!
He was the apostle of Pressure,
mysterious force which but for hil
would crush out of existence all th
, inhabitants of the United States. II
, was we'll acquainted with Presider
, Lincoln, and numbered many distir
: guished men among his friends.
During the war he even started OF
, to find Jefferson Davis and save th
Union by putting the "pressure" o
! the leader of the Confederacy. H
, got we'll within the Confederate line
when he was arrested and given thirt
minutes to leave the country. y. N.
says he still has twenty-nine and
half minutes OF the time coming
him,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
CLOUD LIFTED
FROM RAILROAD
Bill Relieving Road Of Posi-
bic Forfeiture Of Charter
Passes the Senate.
The MeaSuTeleSS Wealth of Clinch Valley
Brought III Touch With Seaport by
South and Western Railway.
Now on Solid Basis.

Richmond, Va Times Dispatch, Feb IL
Relieved finally and for all time of
the overhanging danger Of forfeiture of
its charter, the South and Western
Railway, under a bill unanimously
passed in the Senate yesterday aud at
once communicated to the House of
Delegates, which will unquestionably
take similar action, will proceed forth
with, at the cost OF millions of dollars,
to complete its line connecting the vast
Clinch Valley coal fields Of Virginia
with seaboard outlet on the coast of
North Carolina.
After a career OF some fifteen years,
checkered by losses and litigation and
exploited at scme length in Federal
and State courts, the company is again
on firm financial footing and backed
by powerful array of Northern capi-
tai, is prepared, without further delay,
to push on with the work begun more
than full decade ago. In fact, opera
tlons are already under way, and with
two thousand men or more at work,
the line is creeping across and beneath
the mountains of North Carolina on its
way to the sea, and reaching out at
the Virginia end as we'll, accomplish
ing an engineering feat of no small
moment and at the same time slowly
but surely opening the way to an
important development Of a great sec
ton of this State. But among the
other difficulties it has had to face, the
company has been confronted with this
possible forfeiture of its charter, be-
cause financial embarrassments at a
critical time prevented it from meeting g
the conditions of the original grant OF
incorporation,
The threat has been made by rival
corporation, and while the attack was
|repelled, doubt still existed, suffi.
GENTLY serious to frighten capital
away. With view to removing the
complication beyond all question and
with a thoroughness that will effec.
tually prevent further movement
against the road from this direction the
bill passed yesterday out of its order
was introduced.
"The road" declared Judge Phlegar,
of Montgomery, vice president Of the
South and Western, in explaining the
measure to the Senate, of'whicn he is 6
member, sis preparing to issue bonds
and spend large sums in completing
the line. But capital is timid, will moi
accept the opinions of attorneys and
will be satisfied with nothing less than
an act of the General Assembly remov.
ing this doubt. The bill does not pre-.
vent or in any manner interfere with the
construction of the rival road. The
attorneys of this road have been here
and have informed me after consulta
ton that they had decided not to make
fight. SO far as have been able tC
learn they are now making no opposi
ton. With this bill enacted the Soutt
and Western will simply go on with
the work it has begun and any othel
road can build a line that desires
one"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
Afraid of Strong Medicines.

Many people suffer for years from
rheumatic pains, and prefer to do SC
rather than take the strong medicines
usually given for rheumatism, mol
knowing that quick relief from pair
may be had simply by applying Cham
berlain'E Pain Balm and without taking
any medicine internally. For sale by
H. O. Miller.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
INTERESTING HISTORY.


Behind the bill, which was passed
Immediately after the explanation by
Judge Phlegar, all the senators present
voting in the affirmation, lies history
interesting OF itself apart from the fact
that is connected with so important o
matter as the opening and develop
ment Of vast coal lands in Virginia.
This history had its beginnings more
than twenty five years ago, and in fact
had its roots in events even further
back.
But for all practical and present pur-
poses, the trials and successes of the
South and Western may be said to
have begun when the old Three
C's road Cincinnati, Columbus and
Charleston secured its charter back
somewhere about 1880. Setting out to
build road from the Northwest to the
Southern seaboard, with Charleston,
S. c., as the objective point, the Three
C's graded extensively along the Clinch
River in Virginia and to some extent
also in Tennessee. But the road was
caught heavily in the panic in which
Barring Brothers, the great English
frm, went to the wall. As result OF
this embarrassment, the Three C's was
sold ont and was purchased by the
Ohio River and Charleston Railway
Company.
FORTY MILES IN OPERATION.
Under the new management about
forty miles of the road were put into
operation from Johnson City, Tenn
Some time after this, George L. Garter
and others secured control of the line
along with the old grades Of the Three
C's, and set out to build road t
Southport. which is at the mouth o
Cape Fear, on the Atlantic seabOard
TAKE ROAD OVER.
Before Mr.. Carter had succeeded il
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15

Southern for locations. In Scott coun-
ty, Va, a contract has been let and
work has begun on a 4,2OO foot tunnel.
It is expected that the entire road will
be complete in about two years.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-02-15
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Alaska forum., 1906-06-23
PARTY POLITICS BROUGHT K INTO LOCAL SITUATION

THE call issued the past week over the signatures of republican, democrats non -partisons, socialists and one local federal loffice-holder, states that a meet ing of all republicans in the precinct is to be held Monday, June 25, at A. B. hall at , o'clock p. m. All republicans ''can conveniently do so" are invited to attend. The notice is that three dele- gates will be chosen to represent Rampant at the Republic an convention.
 The manner in which the proxies of delegates from this camp have been used and the methods employed to en- compass the choice of delegates favor able to a certain federal clique, has aroused many protests. The manner and methods used next Monday after noon will determine whether the rank and file of Rampant republicans will tolerate any repetition of former evils complained of - should the attempt be made.
Alaska forum., 1906-06-23

THE deputy marshal at Cleary City recently arrested as insane man whom had "been roaming aimlessly about the town making it his business to destroy seats and benches with a pocket knife. 7. In the cool of the evening, when the mosquitoes have gone to bed, numbers of Ramparters suffering from this form of mania can be seen along Front street busily engaged with jack knives on all exposed wood work.
Alaska forum., 1906-06-23

RAMPART is rapidly filling up with miners from the upper country who are drawn here by the excellent showing of our diggings. The present scarcity of water for mining operations may force some who are dependent on immediate employment to move on, but number have signified their intention to remain and prospect the. coming fall and win ter.
Alaska forum., 1906-06-23

THOMAS GALE, the miner, and the miners candidate for congressional del- egate. is also the choice of the Fair banks republicans and democrats. In response to a telegram from Nome de- mocrats asking the Fairbanks demo- crats to join them in a proposition, the Fairbanks diciples of Thomas Jef- ferson, wired back: ''Cale is our pro- position.
Alaska forum., 1906-06-23
SATURDAY, JUNE 23 1906.
IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING
 FOR THE ENTIRE DISTRICT

IE commenting upon the summers work outlined by the Alaska road com mission, the Panama Teller has the fol- lowing sensible statement. regarding the Rampart-Chena wagon road:
 The most important of the contem- plated roads, from an Alaskan stand point at least, is the one to be built from Cinema to Rampant. twill open up and make accessible a large country be- tween the Tanana and the Yukon, that has never yet been prospected and at the extreme points of which very rich deposits have been mined for number of years. Different government geo. logical parties have explored and map ped out that portion of virgin ground They have examined the formation and expressed themselves as possessed with the hope that, judging from result of their studies of many placer mining camps in Alaska, it is simply matter of prospecting until big. flourishing camp will-be established in the country thru which the proposed road will lead. They especially call the miners atten- tion to the prospecting of the high benches" Many old timers, both in the Rampant camp and here have their eye on the new country and few are even now putting in their time surface prospecting.
Alaska forum., 1906-06-23

ANOTHER prisoner, one Kelly, has escaped from the Tanana jail, accord ing to the Press. This break makes the second this month, and the third prisoner at large. It has been stated that the limb of the law at the lower camp might occasionally let prisoner escape. but he is never known to let a dollar get by him. Tribute is even lev jed on prostitution.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-03-05
CHASED A DEER.

During a chase, a few days ago,
after the deer which escaped from the
Geological Garden recently, by the
fox hounds of Arthur aud Harry
Handy, sons Of Representative jacob
Handy of BrandyWine hundred, one OF
the dogs was run down and killed by
a train near Bellevue and the remain
der of the pack was nearly drowned.
The two boys we're Oft fox hunting
when the dogs struck the trail Of the
deer. The animal made for the river,
with the dogs in close pursuit. Wheu
the tracks OF the z b. & W. railroad
we're reached the deer ran down the
tracks in front OF a freight train. Then
dogs followed It, Five Of the dogs
escaped injury, but one was run down
and killed. When the deer took &c
the water the remainder of the pack
plunged in. The two boys had TO get
wet IN order to get .he dogs back to
land. The deer went ashore at Gordon
Heights and is thought 10 be IN the
woods near there.