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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
WHY FACTORY
FAILED TO CONE

G. a. Curl, Of Beaver Falls, Pa.
writes as follows TO the Telegram,
explaining why this city failed to
land the proposed big furniture fac
tory he was interested in:
From information that has
reached me / would like to state
Just why Clarksburg failed to get
the table factory. 1t can be stated
in few words Awe could not sell the
stock. All bnt $4,000 Of the stock
was sold. Counting promises the
amount would be less than 81, 300
j only count actual subscriptions.
I'm. view Of the fact that some
of the sllrewdest business men
.Clarlsburg has, subscribed for
stock, should have been proof that
my proposition to build such a plant
was worthy of more immediate sup
port.
"Mr. Smiley and Mr.. Mcclure
willingly gave considerable Of their
time in the effort to give Clarksburg
an industry, they knew by personal
Investigation, would be a big thing
TO the city and stockholders. How
ever, they could not, do all the
work of a Board Of Trade as they
had their own affairs to attend to
and neither could / afford TO wait
longer, After I had spent three
weeks soliciting stock among
strangers the balance of stock un-
sold-and not closing the matter, j
decided 10 leave. All told ] spent
over three months and fully $3.50 in
the endeayor to locate such a plant
there and ] trust there will be no
more criticisms in regard to the
matter and that above statement
will at least be appreciated bythose
who subscribed for stock.
CAS- to my -patent-opinion recent
ly given by expert furniture men
is to the effect that have even a
hetter table Than the best patent on
the market that clears 100000 a
year for its besides regular
profit. on manufacturing table. j
simply. make this statement so that
the reader can Judge whether Mr..
Smiley and the men who spbscrib-
ed for stock fneR what they were
doing. / have capital in the. furni5
ture country now interested in pat
ent.
Il want to thank every one for
courtesy extended me and state
that | am sorry that I am not
citizen of your hustling little city"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
.C0UNTERFE|TER
TO 60 TO PEN

United States Deputy Marshal z.
ID. Hupp will take George Means
from the county jail here Friday to
the penitentiary at Moundsville, to
serve two years, the sentence impos-
ed on him by Judge A. G. Dayton
at the recent term Of federal court
upon his confession of counterfeit-
ing. His confederate, John NJ.
Haugcr, will be tried at the October
term OF federal court in Clarksburg.
They operated in Preston county and
were discovered at it at Corinth,
where Hauger was arrested. Their
moulds and other outfit we're found
buried under hangers house at
Corinth.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
CLAIM TO BE
FROM THIS CITY

PaFkersburg, May 3-A man
from Clarksburg, who gave his name
as Kirkpatrick, called at police head
quarters last night and asked the as
sistance Of the officers to help him
locate a man named Frank Lips
comb, who he said had gone south
with 800 belonging to him.
The officers finally located the
man, but as Kirkpatrick protested
against them arrcsting him, he was
not brought to police headquarters.
The two men were left in the lower
end Of the city arguing 1. matter.
An hour later the two made their
way up to the city bailding and by
that time Lipscomb had become so
drunk that he could hardly walk.
An officer placed him under arrest
on charge Of drunkenness and
when searched about $50 were found
in his pockets.
hlfkpatrlck still refused to bring
Ia charge against him and he was
sent below until this morning, at
which time he was before the
recorder for drunkenness. It is
believed that both men are gamblers,
as they seemed to know the gamb-
ling fraternity of this city as well as
Clarksburg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
POLICE COURT WAS
LIGHT AGAIN TODAY

Clerk Cole held police court this
He had two put-ups and
two in the flesh. One was a plain
drunk who forgot to bring his $3.50
along and was sent up for three
days. The other was Curt Myers,
the colored dope fend from Fair
mont. It's no use sending him to
Jail. He gets fat on the fare over
there. His fine this morning was
$4,000 and costs, but this was sus-
pended providing he would promise
to leave town at once. If he fails
to do this then he will be locked up
and plans devised to rid the city Of
his presence.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Major Poisoned

Major. a large English bull ter
rier belonging to Hon. John Bag
sci, was poisoned at an early hour
Thursday morning. Some iais2
|creant gave him dose of strychnine.
Fortunately, it was discovered in
time and an antidote was given him,
which il SENS nov viii pull him
through an right. Major is quite
a fayorite with the family. He was
Just seven years old today Mr.
Basel is justly indignant that any
one should attempt to lSill him.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
COKE SAYS HE'LL
LEAVE TONIGHT

The telephone bell rang in the
city Offices shortly after noon today.
Chief Scott answered and then
motioned for Acting Mayor Cole.
.sAh'm Coke 2 said a voice at the
other end of the wire. Clock here,
Mistalf Will, if you'll just let me
liaYe till evenin' to hop out o
town. you shu' will be obligin' me.
Yon see, SIistah Will, All don't
want to go till All sells that shoe
slime STAN II you'll let me Ah'll
come over right now and try to sell
it and then, honest to Gawd, Ah'll
cit right way" He was granted
the reprieye. Cooke is Curt
Myers, the dope fiend, who was or
dered out of the city this morning.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
LARGE AMOUNT
FROM The FAIR

The Catholic fair held Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday nights was
the most successful from every
standpoint that has ever occurred
in Centennial hall. The financial
feature was especially successful.
The aggregate sum cleared was
S1,13O and goes to the fund for the
proposed boys school. Those who
had charge of the fair are much
gratified over the results.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
MARSH WILL
APPEAL CASE

Judge A. G. Dayton has granted
. stay Of execution Of 30 days in
the case Of Selda Marsh, sentenced
70 eighteen months in the peniten-
tiary for raising a two-dollar bill to
twenty dollars and attempting to
pass it. The stay is for the purpose
Of giving an opportunity to appeal
the case 10 the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals at Richmond.
He was to have been taken from the
county Jail to Moundsville Friday.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
A Busy Constable

Constable Lee Coffman IS about
the busiest man in like Office IN
West Virginia. Since the second
day Of last January Coffman has
served ninety-seyen warrants. Al
great many of these have been on.
serious charges and it takes time and
patience TO take desperate man,
hence it is seen that he has been
kept mighty busy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
RECEIVERS REASON

Mary Martin, colored. was releas-
e' from the county Jail Wednesday
2 Z, ght BY Judge Lynch's instructions.
? ie had been confined several weeks
2. an insanity charge and for sew
el y days her mental condition was
y = that she had no personal con-
T'l II and persisted in being nude all
q time. Lately she become ration
az and the Judge ordered her re-
e 'sed. She went to Wilsonburg to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
TWO REGITALS
ARE TO Be GIVEN

Miss Cora Atkinson's music class
viii give recitals in Gofr Methodist
ehurc hthe evenings Of Nav Is and
=, beginning at s:15 o'clock. No
admission will be charged and the
general public is cordially invited.
Forty pupils viii take part in the
rendition of the programs for the
two nights. These recitals are
events in local musical circles that
arc locked forward to with much
expectancy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
H, re At Last

The management of the Nickelo-
deon have a real live picture for the
balance Of this week, "The Evil
Doers Sad End" "The Wonderful
Traction Engine. ssThe Bill Post
ers Troubles" These pictures are
nothing but fun from start to finish
and win please the ladies and child
rem. So 60 and have a good laugh,
The pictures win change again next
Monday
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
EAGLES DISGLAIM
ANY CONNECTION

\ report has been circulated on
the streets for the past few DAYS that
has it that the Fraternal Order of
Eagles is bringing the street car
nival which is scheduled to exhibit
here next week. Officers Of the or
der want it distinctly understood
that the carnival will not be under
the auspices Of the lodge and fur
thermore that they have not the
slightest thing to do with it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
MARRIED IN GRAFTON

Announcement is made of the
marriage at the Sherwood hotel in
Grafton at $500 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon of Mr. Charles f. Powell,
an employe at the State Reform
School at Pruntytown. and Miss
Matte Y. Brooks. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Brooks, of
Clarksburg, by Rev. II. c. Howard.
They will reside in Grafton.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Showalter Gaming

State Commander c. C. Showalter
of the Knights Of the Maccabees will
he here from Parkersburg FRIDAY
night and attend the review of the
local tent. It is desired that there
be a good attendance. Mr.. Sbowal-
fer was to have been here last Fri
day but was detained at home on
account of sickness.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
STRIKE
May Be
ORDERED.
tBy Associated Press. ]

SCRANTON, Pa, May 3Iohn
Mitchell was today chosen president
of . convention oil $40 delegates
representing the districts Of the an
thracite coal field. Feeling is strong
that d strike willebe ordered, Many
delegates are instructed to follow
the advice Of Mitchell, which may
result in calling for a referendum
vote Of the locals.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
REPORTS Of BOODLING
TO BE INVESTIGATED
lBy Associated Press

Marietta o May sensation
was created here today, when Judge
Jones instructed the grand jury 10
thoroughly investigate the reports Of
fboodfing at the Republican county
convention held last Tuesday. This
convention renominated him. a.
large number Of the delegates to the
convention have been subpoened to
testify
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
convicts Begin Sentence

United States Deputy Marshal E.
D. Hupp Wednesday night took
Lemmons and Swiger 10 the Taylor
county jail to serve terms for vio-
latine the internal revenue laws.
They we're sentenced at the term Of
federal court just closed in Glarks-
burg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
U. S, COURT ADJOURNs

The term Of federal court was adj
iourncd sine die Wednesday evening
after a non-suit had been taken in
the case of Nancy Randolph
against the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Company over a strip Of land
in Salem.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
lBy Associated Press. !

SAN FRANCISCO, May
The laundry in the rear of the main
general hospital at Preside took
fire early today and was totally de-
'stroyed. The flames were eS-
|tinguished before they reached the
main building in which were about.
a thousand patients.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
GHILTONS BUY
CHARLESTON GAZETTE
(By Associated Press, J

CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 3
The Daily Gazette was bought by
The law firm, Chiffon, McCorkle &
Chiffon and Editor Byrne is ar
range a new paper which will be
published weekly.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Operated On

Newton Talbot, Of Glen Falls.
was operated on at tn. City hospital
Wednesday evening, and is dong
nicely this morning. The opera-
lion was successful and he is on the
road to speedy recovery.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Company Chartered

The secretary Of state has chart
cred the Lumberport Industrial Co.
to deal in stocks and bonds and g
forth.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
STRIKE CONTINUES
ON THE LAKES
lBy Assoclatea Press. D

CLEVELAND, o., May 3 So
far as could be learned today there
was no disposition ON the part Of
either Of the parties to take ang step
toward ending the marine strike,
which has resulted in an almost
total paralysis Of commerce ON the
Great Lakes.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
EPWORTH LEAGUE SOCIAL

The following program will be
rendered at the Golf N. E. church
Friday evening, May 4:
Piano solo. -. Miss Ionia Smith
Solo .... Miss Blanche Hurscy
Violin Solo ..... Mr.. Haubrich
Reading ...... Miss Lillian Harris
Solo. !. Miss Mabel Ruttencutter
Conundrums.
Refreshments
Everybody is cordially invited 10
be present.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Social Dance

Prof. Blake viii give a social
dance at the Elkbridge dance hall
tonight. You are invited to attend.
Music win be furnished by Crows
orchestra
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
Liquor Dealers Meeting

The Retail Liquor Dealers asso-
ciation viii hold a meeting tomorrow
afternoon at 2 O'Clock in tho Corner
saloon. All are requested to be
there. q
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03
PUPILS TO GIVE
MUSICAL AT WALDO

The pupils of Mrs. Homer Jack
son will render a musicale in the as
scmbly room Of the Waldo hotel on
Saturday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
The musicale will be a public one
and no admission will be charged.
No special invitations have been sent
out and all friends are invited.
The following program will be
executed:
Swing Song ........... Ferber
Merle Williams
The HAPPY Farmer. 49,. Schumam
Margaret Coffman
THE Cavalry Charge ....... Webb
yonda Griffin
Hunting Song .,..,. De Stuth
Margaret Brooks
sScherZando ....z.. .......- Schytte
Mabel Smith
Eyentidc Hite
Genevieye Harrison
Air de Ballet. -. Zimmerman
Mr.. Britton GLENN
Romance Pabst
Miss Caddie Drummond
Yalse Arabesque .......... Locke
Mildred Lamberd
Mazurka ............ Sapellnikoff
Miss Morgan
The Butterfly ....... Grieg
yalse Caprice Newland
Miss Siers
To the Spring ......... Gricg
Miss Musgrave
Caprice .... Gottchalk
Misses Renshaw and Musgraye
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-03

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24
e O mn 8 H. c t 8
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When my brother reached the third story
ne was making for his room in rather an un-
presentable condition, and asked his host what
on earth he kept in his bath tubs,
Looking in the bath room, there sat Goggles,
as much surprised as the old gentleman, ana
not at all relishing being reused from his hrst
nap by a hot bath. | took charge OF him and
put him in a box in the kitchen. !, -,
80 far as / know, the guest in the third
story slept well. But l was aroused during
the night by queer sound on the stairway.
A dull tbud would be followed by long
silence. Then another thud! thudl Too lazy
to get up, turned over and went to sleep
again.
The next morning, as 1 was going down
stairs, Jane hailed me with the remark:
Here's this plague of baste agin, ma am
What'll do wild ii" ~
And there on the stairs sat Mahmoud, NJ
head out, and blinking his eyes as IT TO say,
I've been turned out of my room, ana nave
had bad night of il"
The strange noises on the stairs were ac-
counted for now. Mahmoud had escaped
from his quarters, perhaps about the time tnaS
such fuss had been raised over Gogges. ne
had probably spent the night in trying to
get downstairs, feat attended with SO much
difficulty that he had not accomplished 1t Dy
morning. 80
He was sent to share Goggles box till his
masters return. At breakfast the old gen
tleman said little, and soon after took his
departure.
Later, 1 heard an exclamation from Jane,
who was cleaning in the third story. Ascend
ing to Toms room found SIX caterpiiiars
crawling over the bed.
In few hours Tom came back and took
charge of his live stock himself once more,
and relieved me from great respons,piity'
At tea, that night, my brother said:
"My son, was deeply mortified that such
a thing should have happened to guest
in nv house. am afraid we will never be
able to induce him to visit US again; :,
Tom listened with such a grave face that
we all thought he was deeply impressed. At
last he burst into laugh and said:
".My, how funny the old chap must must. have ave
looked! / should have laughed myself into
fits if I'd seen him! He killed two OF my
caterpilars, though, and nearly scalded Cog
giles. 1 am sorry, he ever came this time.
and don't care if he never does come agaie-r.
So that lecture was entirely lost.
Goggles did recover from the effects OF
his hot bath, and takes cold ones now with
Tom Mahmoud still wanders around in the
most mysterious manner, and was last found
by mamma under the baby's pillow.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

Most children would have been too fright
ened TO venture within reach of those great
white teeth and terrible claws, but little Rosie
seemed as happy and undisturbed if she
had only been playing with doll.
She put her plump, wee arm over the thick,
yellow neck, and tried to draw down the huge,
striped head to plate of rice and sugar which
she had placed for her grim pet.
Good Timour," she lisped, in broken Hin
.doostanee, ''eat 90 dinner-nice dinner for
'oo"
But the beast seemed restless and excited
and instead of eating threw up his head and
snuffed the air uneasily.
The truth was that the thieves, after plum
dering two rooms had just reached the door
of that in which Rosie and her panther were
and the watchful brute scented them, although
large screen before the doorway kept him
from seeing them.
Meanwhile the two rogues, being prevented
by the screen from seeing whether any one
was in the room, were doubling whether To
venture in or not, when the question was sud
denly settled for Them
With one bound the panther overthrew the
screen, and came like a thunderbolt upon tbe
dismayed robbers, dashng one to the floor.
while he pinned the other against the wall
Rosie stood amazed for moment, and then.
todding up to the furious beast, gave its
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

ut is time" said the first, in a sharp, hiss
ing whisper
Let us prepare" answered the other.
Their next proceedings would have been
still more puzzling to any one who had watch
ed them. They laid aside all their clothes ex-
cept the white cotton waistcloth, in one side
OF which was stuck broad-blad knife; and
then they proceeded to smear their bare skins
with OIL making themselves as slippery as eels
from head to foot.
This done, they crept stealthily toward the
officers house, which they had planned to rob
while the servants were taking their MONDAY
nap-beng, in fact, nothing else than pair
of expert native thieves loSi
Noiselessly they entered the courtyard, and,
picking their way through the slumbering fig
ures of the outdoor servants stole softly into
the house.
But although almost everybody belonging 10
that house was asleep, there was one person in
it who was very wide awake indeed, and that
was little Rosie, the majors youngest child
little, bright-eyed fairy who was rosy by
nature as well as by name, the burning sun
of India having done nothing to spoil her color
as yet. Not only was the little girl awake, but
she was at play-and that, too, with very
strange companion, for her playmate was moth
ing less than huge Rohilcund panther!
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24
WELL GUARDED a Story Of notbern lps

broad. tawny back an indignant slap with her
fat little hand.
Naughty Timour!" cried she, reproyingly.
What 90. knock down poor man for? Let
him lionel"
But the panther, tame though he was (for
he had been the pet of the whole household
ever since he was a cub), seemed inclined to
be disobedient for once. Whether it was that
the evil faces and long knives Of the two
thieves looked suspicious in his eyes, or. that
the plundering instinct in his own blood
made him quick to detect robber, he was
evidently bent upon giving these prowling fel-
lows a severe lesson.
He pressed his paw more firmly upon the
chest of the fallen man, and appeared so
strongly disposed to take a good bite out of
the other one that the wretch, thinking his
last hour was come, howled for mercy like
whipped dog.
But before Rosie could make up her tiny
mind how to deal with this unexpected mu-
tiny on the part of her favorite, three or four
native. servants, reused from their midday
sleep by the panther's roar, came bursting in.
to the room headed by Rosies eldest brother,
with his doublebarreled gun in his hand. The
robbers were bound hand and foot, and packed
off to prison that very afternoon, while the
four-footed policeman who had caught them
was loaded with commentators and caresses
by the whole family.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24


kgStIJ very delicate, and had to be taken
from school. The doctor said
Throw aside all books for year, and let
the boy run in the open air all hne days, ana
on bad ones amuse himself as best he can in
doors"
SO the third story was given up to Tom,
who had a work shop up there, next his bed
room, and reigned supreme.
For while he worked very diligently with
q scroll saw. But at length, the house being
literally overaowing with brackets, book
shelves and the like, he seemed to turn his
attention to natural history, which he pur-
sued after practical fashion of his own.
small terrapin had his headquarters un-
der the bureau. More than a dozen different
cocoons, in branches of trees, were stuck
around his looking glass.
Six curious beetles lived in wire house
constructed by their owner. One day the
servant, on opening the door, was confronted
BY swarm Of locusts just ready to fly. They
had been put there in the chrysalis state that
Tom might watch them come out.
Great was his wrath, on is return, to find
them out and gone-for Jane informed him
that she'd clean no room with such sting
ing varmints" in it. So she had opened the
window and put them out.
Once Tom went to his grandmothers for a
few days, and before he started he came to
me and said:
"Auntie. please feed Mahmoud (the terra
pinl with a piece of meat and cabbage leaf
each day. Give Goggles "a frog that had his
quarters in the third-story bath room the
bugs and worms that you'll find in the box
in the back yard. The beetles have enough,
and can get on till | come back. tell you
because mamma would never take the trouble,
and Jane hasn't half sense anyhow"
Flattered by this mark of confidence / did
my best with my troublesome charges.
Several visitors came unexpectedly one af-
ternoon, and an old gentleman, a friend of
Toms father, was put in the third-story to
sleep. l was out for walk, and when | re-
turned, was told that this guest had retired.
All at once the pets came into my mind !;
but, as no one else seemed to have thought
of them, 1 remained quiet and trusted TO
luck
>, While we were all laughing and talking on
the porch, fearful yell came from the house.
so that-at least one would suppose-some one
was being murdered. My brother rushed up