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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
MANY APPLY
FOR LICENSES

The time for making applications
for saloon licenses in this city has
expired. The city clerk has receiy-
cd 81 applications. The applicants
are Fred a.. Criss.. 316 West Pike
street james Boyle, 4O2 Sycamore
street; The George Wiedemann
Brewing Company, Oak street; Johu
r. Hickman and Charles II. Jones.
337 West Pike street; Heuber- To-
ledo Breweries Companies, 40 West
main street; james J. Connell, ,.312
West Pike street; Patrick J. CLANCY,
corner w. Pike and Fourth streets !;
Michael Burk. 22S East Pike street :
Joseph w. Latstetter, 327 West Pike
street Meshaek Frost, 100 North
Third street: John W. Duffy. 346-
34S West Main street; Frank Duffy,
121-l23 Fourth street; Raymond J.
Galley, Waldo hotel William +.
Griffith, 316 West Pike street; P. J..
Mcdonnell. Jr., 3O6 West Pike
street Annie G. Brennan, corner Of
Fourth and Nam, streets; Thomas
r. Kearns, Junction hotel: Davis &
Barrett, Manhattan cafe; Murray &
Harmon, North Fourth street; Glen
EIk Hotel Company, Glen Elk hotel /:
Crescent Liquor Company. Balti-
more street; t. B. Seely. West Pike
street: Michael DeForrest Sheridan,
West Pike street: Rock Bell. North
Fourth street; A. G. Cahill, Capital
! hotel Ernest 0nestehghle. North
Fourth street: Thomas S. Spillman,
Arlington hotel Patrick McGoyern,
East Pike street; Guy>R. Sinsel,
Traders hotel John D. Wentz, Nut
fer house. LLOYD Duff. Mefrop7lit'n
hotel: Jasper Brothers. B1ltimare
Street; A. L. sGqughan. West Pike
street; Frank Gsughsu. West Pike
street. Harvey W Williams, East
Pike street. and Hoster Brewing
Company. North Fifth street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
MILLION DOLLAR FORTUNE EACH COMING TO TWOC

Because Of the old Henry Baker
estate in Philadelphia two residents
Of Clarksburg are about TO come into
possession Of large fortunes. These
residents are a J Blrkett and Mrs.
Susan Henneghan.
The estate includes lands along
Chester river or canal in Philadel-
phia and some time ago the United
States Government undertook to
confscate some Of the land to widen
the river, under the impression that
the same was public property under
ninety-nine year lease. But heirs
Of Baker obtained an injunction
against the government, restraining
the Government from taking the
property. Condemnation proceed
ings followed and an award Of one
hundred and eight million dollars
was turned over to a commission to
distribute among the heirs. The
United States Supreme Court also
handed down a decision in the mat
Ter holding that the title was in the
heirs upon the expiration Of the long
lease.
The board Of commissioners was
then appointed to hunt up the heirs.
have them prove their claims and
distribute the money among them.
The board began its sittings at
'Johnstown, Pa, Feb. Is, and is still
sitting ehere. The sittings are be-
ing held there because most of the
heirs reside in that section.
Mr.. Burkett and Mrs. Henneghan
have fully established their heirship,
which is direct, and Attorney F. G.
Niger has made ont and mailed a
power Of attorney to their cousin in
.Iohnstown to collect their share Of
the money, which will be done at the
conclusion Of the commissions sit
tings.
Recently the Col. Phillips estate
in Philadelphia of three or four
hundred million dollars worth Of
property in Philadelphia came into
the possession of the heirs at the ex-
piration of a ninety-nine year lease.
and there have also been several
other similar cases disposed of in the
same way in Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Burkett and Mrs. Henneghan,
il is claimed. will Immediately come
into possession of about $4,000
each in cash, and on account of di-
rect heirship may receive still more.
In addition TO this the Baker es-
tate consists of large amount oil
valuable property in the very heart
of PHILADELPHIA. An estimate of the
worth of this property places it at
1892 100000, and the ninety-nine
rocr leasa on II will shortly expire.
This will be distributed among the
same heirs as above and Mr.. Burkett
and Mrs. Renneghan will receive
over one million dollars each. in ad-
dit;on TO the 100000 already noted.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03


Meridian. Miss, Mar. Thirteen
bodies have been recovered from the
,greckage Of the buildings caused by
last night storm and the search
goes on.
The dead identified are
,Niiiiam Nelson, former chef of
police,
Claude Williams, bookkeeper al
the Meyer Neville Hardware Co.
y. 7, larry, policeman
Mrs Ella Singleton and grand-
daughter
The bodies ofselght negroes were
found in different sections 81 the
city and await Identification.
Among the buildings DESTROYED
are the Meridian Cotton Oil mill
City electric power. station, the
Queen and Crescent freight depot
Lime Grocery company the q. M.
RUBBISH lumber yards, and the
Meyer Neville Hardware Company
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
Celebrated Birthd y

Among the pretty social functions
of the week was one by Mr.. and Mrs.
W.. G. Osborn at their home on West
Main street Tuesday. night in cele-
bration Of Mr. 0sborn's birthday.
A feature Of the evening was a very
delicious luncheon, served in grace
ful manner by the hostess. Covers
were laid for fifteen guests. The
felicitations and festivities of the
evening were most delightful and
all who were present wish for many
more returns Of the happy event.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
CONVENT ION
HALL is
PROJECTED

One of the crying needs of this
city for several years past is to be
remedied in the near future. A
plan is ON foot to erect in this city
in the near future large one-story,
steel frame, fire-proof building to be
used for roller skating, conventions,
large banquets and balls, for var
ious sorts of tournaments and ath-
letics, such as basket ball, volley
ball, indoor baseball, racquets, and
in fact this building will supply a
long felt want, for a ground floor
hall capable Of holding large crowds
of people,
Several sites have been consider
ed by the promoters, and two or
three especially desirable ones in the
heart of the city can be secured. The
necessary capital has almost all been
secured, and so sanguine are the pro-
moters that they think BY Monday
they will have sufficient sum sub
scribed. Work upon the building
win be begun at once, when the site
is determined upon.
! As the revival Of roller skating
has taken such hold upon the public,
the bhilding viii be constructed to
meet all the requirements of an up
todate skating rink. The flooring
will be laid to do double duty for d
rink and also ball room. A por-
table stage will be erected at one
end, which can be drawn out for use
when needed for speakings OF anna
teur performances. At this end will
also be a buffers pantry and kitchen
for use during banquets. AT the
entrance end will be the reception
room also, cloak and retiring rooms
for both ladies and gentlemen. Seats
win be constructed around the sides
and portable chairs will be used for
mass meetings.
In the SIMMER The building viii
be ventilated and cooled by an es-
pecial apparatus, which in the vim
ter will be converted into heating
device. This building will be COM
plete and modern in every respect
as the designers and builders are
putting up several others of a SINH
lar nature in various parts Of the
country. Outside of the other feat
lures just at this time when ther ollcr
skating craze has made its reap
pearance a revival of il here viii
furnish plenty of good amusement
before the warm weather sets IN.
The project is being heartily en-
couraged by the business men. and as
said before all that remains is to de-
termine upon one of the several
sites under consideration. But very
little Of the stock remains to be sub
scribed and by Monday that viii
have been snapped up, and by the
middle Of next week it is thought
the work of erecting the building
will be begun.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
YE ARE THE LIGHT
OF THE WORLD

EYE IL e Z Z
congregation that filed me alltii7
tortuut and the galleries gathered q
The Baptist church Inst night to see
the rendering Of q sionary enter
|tainment entitled ! e Are tle islght
Eof the World, gwen By the juniors
under the directionoi Mrs. McDanel
and Miss Hattie Kyle, with Mis-
Jessie Renshaw as pianist The
principal characters IN the exercise
weer as follows.
Christianity Katherine Race.
America--Bertha Bland.
American Representative Hazel
Smaller, Margaret Stewart Helen
Knox and Edna White.
Japan Ruth Pew
China Agnes Hood
Mexico Eva Bartiet
North American Indian Aiaf-
gperIte Israel.
- - al
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
BURGLARY COMMITTED
AT THE TRADERS

IN unknown party committed
burglary at the Traders hotel Friday
night. Some one broke into the
wine room in the basement, but the
discovery was not made until SAT-
'urday morning. The outside door
had been left unlocked and the burg
lar entered there without difficuih.
Inside he broke open two doors be-
fore getting into the vine room
So far as could be ascertained he
took none Of the bottled goods, but
may have drawn from some Of the
barrels. There is no clue.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
TELEPHONE IMPROVEMENTS
ARE TO Be MADE

James A. Connell, contract agent
for the Central District and Print
ing Company, otherwise known as
the Bell Telephone Company, is
here from Pittsburg arranging for
extensive improvements of the com
pany's lines and exchange. W. II.
Adkins, representing the Southern
Bell Telephone Company, is also
here with him from Atllnta. Ga, for
the same purpose. An entire new
exchange viii be installed. The
company has now $50 subscribers at
this exchange and the business has
greatly outgrown present facilities
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03

PRISONER WRIGHT
WAS TN CITY

Deputy Sheriff P. r. Parker, of
Marion counts. arrived in this city
Friday night, having in his custody
Frank Wright, of Mannington. who
was arrested on the charge of fur
nishing the poison which was used
in the sensational Payton murder
case. Wright was on his way back
TO Marion county from Charleston,
where on Thursday he appeared be-
fore the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Judge Mason refused Wright a writ
of habeas corpus, and the case was
taken to the Supreme Court Of APP
peals, which granted the writ.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
-FOUR DROWNED
IN Ohio RIVER

Steubenville, o., Mar. SIN a
collision with the Virginia, a large
steamer on the Ohio river, row boat
in which were four men was cap
sized at Mingo today, drowning
Joseph Seerb, agent for the Belmont
Brewing Company, George Maui,
broker and hacker, and Garbhart
Springer, brieklayer, while George
Vischnich, saloon keeper. viii die.
The men we're seining under the Wa
bash bridge.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03

SESSION OF
COUNCIL

The session Of council Friday
might was short and quite business
| like, the matters before the body be-
ing dispatched with ease and har-
mony throughout.
Attending the session were Mayor
Shields, Clerk Cole, Councilmen
McAnderw, Kearns, Anderson, Cork,
Ernst, Golf and Smith, and Street
Superintendent Doyle.
Fhe railroad gate ordinance was
referred to the city attorney TO as
certain whether it complies with the
statutes Of the State.
City Attorney Sperrv's notice 10
H. U. Crlmmit and Others to re-
move a building from the street
west Of Elk creek between Pike and
Main. streets by March Is, or the
city would proceed to remove il, was
read and noted.
Marion Graft was given permis-
sion to erect two-story house III
the j. ]. Denham addition on East
Pike street at acost OF 81, 800.
! J. J. Freeland was granted a per-
NIT to erect a two-story building on
the Osborn property on West Pike
street and to lay sewer to the
creek.
n. B. McCarty was granted per-
mission to erect four two-story
buildings on Mulberry street at a.
cost Of $500 and tire one-story
buildings on Factory street to cost
81, 900.
d. W Wells was granted permis-
sion to erect a one-story brick build-
ing on North Fourth street, costing
s1,5OO.
4 Charles o. Findlay was issued a
permit to erect a second story to his
luilding at 222 West Main street,
the, walls Of the same to be covered
With pressed steel.
ovMrs. ]. W. Thorn's application
iog permission to move two small
buildings and shoe shop on West
Pike street to other sites on that
street was granted.
The pool and billiard license of K.
C. Nicholson at the Traders hotel
vas transferred to ". n. Hicks.
Restaurant license was granted TO
4. Parsons on North Fourth street.
Bills were audited and allowed as
follows:
| q. III. West ...s..... II II
Williams & DAVIDSON Co.. 16 80
Mrs. +. ID. Smith ....- 8 0d
John Hickenbothani 8 80
Light & Heat Co. ISL lo
Willison q Dennison :. -. "a %
Gas & Electric Light Co. 484 81
Water works pay roll 49,. LOG 81
Street pay roll ....s ls2 6o
The following nominations made
lby r. R. Moore and Charles r
Holden. chairmen Of the Repubil-
can and Democratic committees, re-
spectively, TO act as commissioners
at the coming municipal election
were confirmed:
First ward-Nutter House-M.
N. Shnttleworth. v. l.. Highland
and Perry G. Williams.
Second ward -Curkendall house
~. o. Brooks, W. E. Smith and
Isaac J. Coston.
Third ward-Walker houseW
!, G. Osborn, R. A. Goodwin and
Amos Payne.
I Fourth ward-Ed Armstrong
ofice-S. F. Reed, s L. Bentley and
ID. r. Potter
Fifth ward-Council chamber
NJ. G. Sperry, S r. Core and r. 4
Garrett
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
PRAIRIE FIRE
DESTROYS PASTURE
(By Associated Press. J

Roswell, y. NJ, Mar. 3 Over a
million acres Of fine pasture lands
Ehaye been burned inca prairie fire
that Is still burning ina line fifteen
miles long. The Loss Is already a
million dollars A dozen big ranches
lost all their feed
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
ANNUAL MEETING OF
The TRAVELLERS

The annual meeting Of the United
Commercial Travellers viii be held
in the Smith hall on Main street at
! 80 o'clock tonight. Officers for
the ensuing year will be elected and
installed Several candidates VIII
be initiated and the evening viii end
inn smoLer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
Gordon End

FoFnrt Gordon. colored, was be-
fore Justice G. Il. Gordon Friday
night for assanlting and beating his
'son. Peter Gordon. The Justice
fined him five dollars and costs. He
paid the same and was given his lib
erts.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03

Memphis, Tenn, Mar. six
known dead and eleven unknown are
the results Of last nights tornado ai
Meridian, Mis-. Eight persons are
reported injured. Tie property los
viii reach q million dollars. The
city was left in total darkness
A dispatch received direct from
Meridian at noon says a conservative
estimate places the number Of peeT
pie killed in last nights tornado u
from twenty-five 10 fifty. while
those injured Will probably reach
one hunderd.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03
VICTIM DIES
FROM WOUNDS
lBy Associated Press

Springfield, O., Mar. S-AIark u.
Davis. the brakeman who was shot
|bv colored men "Wednesday night.
died ii 80 q. m. today. Davis re-
gained conseiousness shortly before
his death. but made no further
statement concerning the shooting
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03

n. L. Fitzhngh, the Bridgeport
merchant, was here Saturday look.
ling after business matters
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-03-03

Jesse G. lawson, Of Bridgeport.
spent saturday IN rne city on busi-
s1ess.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19
THE MCKINLEY PORTRAIT.
PAINTING OF M4RTYRED PRESI=
DENT HANGS IN THE WHITE
HOUSE..
Artist Murphy. Hitherto Unknown,
Paints This Portrait Without a
Sitting and from Photographs Only.

By Francis B, Gessner.
It is somewhat remarkable that the
portrait of President Mckinley that
now hangs in the White House was
painted by an humble and hitherto I'M
KNOWN artist in New York to whom
the President never accorded a sitting.
The lamented Mckinley did pose for
famous artists of Europe and the best
portrait painters of our own country,
yet it remained for Mr.. William d.
Murphy, of New York, to produce with
the aid only of photographs the one
portrait of Mckinley most acceptable
to the family and friends. More than
that, it was considered the most de-
sirable one to be hung on the historic
walls of the White House.
Mr.. Murphy has a modest little stu
dio at II East Sixteenth street, New
York, just off Union Square. He had
achieved some local fame as a pains
taking portrait painter, but had never
dreamed of having a picture hung in
the White House along with portraits
done by the most famous artists of sew
eraI generations. After the terrible
tragedy at Buffalo, Mr. Murphy made a
collection of the Presidents photo
graphs, together with information as
to coloring and aided by Mrs. Murphy,
who is also an artist, produced pic
ture in pastel. When the picture was
finished Mr.. Murphy made efforts to
have Abner Mckinley, the brother of
the President, see and criticise the
work. Finally the artist had an in
terview with Colonel Wilbur c. Brown,
Abner's business partner and who had
been very close to the beloved Chief
Executive. 1t was after much plead
ing that Colonel Brown consented to
bring Abner to the studio. Neither had
ever heard of Murphy. They had seen
hundred portraits of Mckinley, good,
bad and Indifferent, and were them
selves Indifferent, the more so because
they knew that this unknown artist
had never been given sitting. How
ever, his pleadings were so earnest
that they finally went to the studio.
The picture was unveiled and the
brother stood amazed and startled, as
if the dead had suddenly come to life.
Tears came to the eyes of Abner and
the eyes of Colonel Brown. They gazed
in silence for time, and then the
brother said, THAT is the best portrait
of dear viii that | have ever seen"
Colonel Brown said the same, and
both advised the artist to put the con-
ception in Oil and compete for the hon.
or of having it hung in the White
House. Mr.. Murphy did so, aided by
his wife, and it was chosen in prefer
ence to the hundred or more paintings
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19

is believed that he hardly ever
had case worthy the name. When
the war broke out he entered the vol
unteer army and rose rapidly to a high
position In August, 1898, when Ma
Mia fell. Mr. Smith was made Deputy
Provost of the city. Then he became a
of the commission which met
the agents of Aguinaldo at the begin
ming of the following year Later he
commanded the Island of Negros with
much success, and ultimately the De
partment of the Visayas. This was but
4 stepping stone for him to a place on
ia bench, and later promotion to a
commissionership.
Mr.. Smith has been successful as a
of the Philippine Commission,
being in charge of the educational sys-
tenn now being established in the
islands. He is close to Secretary Taft,
all of the Taft methods
of dealing with Philippine problems.
A rumor is current that were Secretary
Taft to become President of the United
States Smith would more than likely
become Secretary Of War.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19
REFORM MAINTAINING.
Ex-Attorney General Griggs an
Advocate of Deliberate LegiS-
latiOn.

John w Griggs, at one time Attorney
General during the Mckinley admins
tration, where he achieved fame for his
ability as an exponent of the law, and
later one of the strongest members OF
The Hague tribunal, has lately been
expounding to the people of New Jer-
sey a doctrine of real reform. 1t is
believed that he knows whereof he
States political life should know either
the need for reform or the difficulties
of achieving it better than he. Before
President Mckinley induced him to
become a member of his Cabinet Mr..
Griggs had earned his way to the head
of the New Jersey bar, served as men,
Der of the General Assembly and State
Senator, been elected president OF the
latter body, and met the responsible
ties of the goyernorship. He recently
spoke at a celebration on Forefathers'
Day in Orange, and laid this law down
mildly but clearly to the State politi-
clans in the name of the decent men or
the Commonwealth:
Publicity, no backstair legislation;
no passage of bills because some one
has o KID them beforehand; discus
sion of measures on the floor of the
House; real reasons to the public Civ
en- why measures are favored or pro-
posed, and return of the days when
legislative bodies were debating soeie-
ties and the public favored as much
with reason for voting as with elo-
quence."
Mr.. Griggs advocates reform in the
enactment of State legislation when he
says:
Rarely is bill read each of the
three constitutional times, except by IL
tie. 1t passes in accordance with de-
cision made previously somewhere else.
| do not say the influence is an improp-
er one, but that influence was felt in
the side rooms or On the back stairs
before the fate of a measure was de-
cided This method is a repression of
individuality, sinking rights into a
mere expression of some one else
views or wishes"
Reports from New Jersey seem to
show that legislation at Trenton is
practically in the same condition as
that which existed at Jefferson City
before Governor Folk washed the Mis-
souri, capital clean. The policy advo-
Gated by Mr.. Griggs has tendency to
break up the State organization" for
actual debate. The return of the legis-
latures to their old standing as delib-
erative bodies puts premium on in
dependent and personal individual
strengthened these qualities are the
death of Organization"
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-01-19

Ilosn slsficnlture and man
ual training in all the public schools,
SO that children shall be taught to
work with their hands and to force
from the soil the greatest possible
production, as they to-day learn in the
public schools of France, Denmark and
other of the older countries. The new
movement maintains that every school
should have a school garden, where ev-
cry child should be intelligently taught
to be a lover of nature and of the
country and trained toward the land as
a source of honorable livelihood, rath-
er than away from it.
Some of the work of the Department
of Agriculture shows the tremendous
need which exists for farm training.
Need for Farm Teaching.
To be a successful farmer to-day
means that a man must not be satisfied
to plant and reap as his father did be-
fore him, but that he must study the
conditions of his soil and climate, and
if necessary discard as Improbable
the crops which have been raised in
his locality from time immemorial and
substitute those which scientific ex-
periments have demonstrated are the
greatest money makers; he must study
the breeding of plants as he would the
breeding of animals; he must learn
how to fight and overcome the many
insects and other enemies of his crops
and live stock; in a word, he must de-
vote as much hard study and thought
to farming as he would to any other
chosen trade or profession which he
might elect to engage in, if he moved
into a city community. No young man
would expect to pass from the farm
into the city and make even bare liv-
ing unless he felt himself specially