Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
NEWS OF TWO STATES
B. AND o. MAKES SURVEY FOR
NEW LINE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
West Virginia Banker Made Super
visor of County Roads-Rail-
road Assessments.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, February 16. 1907.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has made preliminary surveys for q
new line between Jamestown and Somerset
to relieve the congestion OF the Somerset
and Cumberland branch. This is the result
of many requests of coal operators, includ-
ing the Merchants Coal Company of Bal
timore, of which Thomas T. Boswell Is
president. The Consolidation Coal Com
pany of Baltimore is arranging to open
mines on this branch. while the Somerset
Coal Company, which is controlled by tine
Consolidation Coal Company, is a heavy
shipper.
The proposed line, according to the first
survey, will be almost direct from Johns
town, traversing the southwestern end Of
Somerset county. The road will branch
from the present Somerset and Cambria
branch at Hogback tunnel md pass through
Boswell. Connors and other. small towns,
tapping the Jerome, Boswell and Quema-
honing coal fields, which are now connected
with the Somerset and Cambria branch by
poorly equipped branch lines with heavy
grades. 1t is claimed the development Of
this property has been retarded owing to
the inability of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road to handle the increased traffic, which,
in the main, passes through Cumberland,
special coal trains running from Quema-
honing junction to Cumberland.
The Somerset and Cambria branch has
been congeSted for years despite the i'm
provements made by the ,ilroad company
at enormous expense. 1t is a single track
line. The construction of this line is said to
be one of the principal improvements con-
templated by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company this year and the money
needed to construct the new road will be
included in the appropria ton list to be
handed down In the near future
The body of Mrs. Kate Crane, wife of Mr..
s. Fuller Crane, general agent of the South
States Mutual Life Insurance Company,
who died at st. JoSeph'S Hospital, ParkerS-
burg, w. Va, was taken to Oakland. Md,
where interment was made yesterday after
noon.
Old Resident Dead.
Mrs. Harriet Dent died yesterday at New
burg, w. Va, after a lingering Illness.
She was the wife of DR.. NJ. w. Dent, the
veteran physician and sur ION of Newburg,
who has been practicing for over fifty
years. She was aged sevenry-1ve years and
is survived by her husband, one son. NJ E.
Dent of Washington, D. c.. and a number
of grandchildren. Judge Marmaduke H.
Dent of Grafton, who was the democratic
nominee for Congress in the second West
Virginia district last fall, and w. r. D.
Dent of Grafton are nephewS.
Harry j. Williamson a well-known lum-
Der operator, died yesterday at Beverly, W.
Va. He also dealt extensively in stock.
He was brother of DR.. ]. NJ. Williamson
of Moundsville, w. Va.
The new council of KeySer, W. Va, Or
ganized and made the following appoint
ments: Town sergeant, James A. Sharp
less; chief of police F. G. Davis; night pa
trolman, John Batdorf; street commits
sioner, w. w. Long
The public schools at Paw Paw, W. Va,
are without either principal assistant.
c. o. Dawson resigned as principal after
inr he &c
and returned to his home at Clarksburg.
Two months of the term yet remain. C. NJ.
Fittro resigned as assistant several weeks
ago.
the mayor and city council of Grafton, W.
Va, to have the question of granting sa-
loon licenses placed on the ballot to be
voted at the municipal election in March.
years, and the raiding of speakeasies has
been frequent.
Supervisor Of Roads.
Mr.. William G. Brown, a wealthy banker
Of Kingwood, w. Va, is an enthusiastic
advocate Of good roads. The county court
Of Preston county has appointed him su-
pervisor of the pike from Kingwood to
Fairfax Manor on the road toward AL
brightsville He will give his personal at
tention to the making of a model road. The
distance is two miles Mr.. Brown was
the democratic candidate for Congress in
the second West Virginia district in 1896.
Mrs. Mary c. Scott, widow Of Rev. Rob
ert Scott, for forty years a resident OF
Randolph county, W. Va, Is dead at Bev-
erly. w. Va, from grip, aged eighty-five
years. She came with her husband to
West Virginia from Missouri.
AS the result of the decision of Judge
Charles w. Lynch at Weston, w. Va, up
holding the assessment of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad by the board of public
works, the railroad company will appeal,
but it is not yet known from which judicial
circuit. Judge Mason at Fairmont and
Judge Holt at Philippi have also decided
adversely to the railroad company.
Sheriff A. E. n. Means of Taylor county,
w. Va, has been appointed curator for
the estate of the late Adolphus Armstrong,
who died at Grafton, w. Va, possessed OF
property worth half million. 1t is not
thought that he left will. A complete
search has failed to reveal one. The cura-
tor will have charge until an administrator
is appointed. The friends of Mr.. Armstrong
are now looking up relatives, who will in
hert one of the largest estates in the his
tory of Taylor county. 1t is not known
that he left any immediate relatives, al
though it is stated that he has a sister liv-
ing in Ohio. 1t is learned that there will
be claimants for a share of the estate not
only from Taylor county, but from Lewis
and Harrison counties, w. Va.