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munitions to double my expectations

munitions to double my expectations,
though we walked into the center Of
the main street of the town and gave
them an invitation to fight. The firing
was begun, and fierce battle resulted.
ut was a rousing victory for my
men, as we only lost two to Jones'
four-with two dangerously wounded.
Leaving Hindman, we started on
our return home. Two days later my
men We're REINFORCED by twelve men
and new supply of munitions
1--WE Went into Knott county and got
on the track of Jones and his men,
following them to Mallet Fork of Bea-
yer, where battle resulted.
My loss was four instead of six, as
claimed by the opposing forces. They
lost three killed and one wounded
Jones' men followed us lnawares into
Letcher county, and at daybreak the
following morning opened fire upon us
from a high bluff overlooking the
mouth of Boone's Fork We were sta
toned below. A fierce battle followed.
Two of my men We're wounded. The
following day one of my men, Roscoe
Mccoy, a great fighter, was assassinat-
ed while riding along the public road
on Rockhouse creek, near where Bill
Cook was killed year before.
"On Jan. 10 we met again on Rock
house creek, near where Mccoy was
ambushed. In the battle there I com
manded forty brave men: Jones thir-
ty. Neither of us have ever told our
losses, but they were great.
The next battle was fought on
Carr's Fork creek, in Knott county.
Jones lost three men; lost two.
"For five years longer occasional bat
ties We're fought in the two counties
until the last battle on Carr's Fork in
May, 1889, when peace agreement
was reached by Clabe and 1. In this
battle we lost two men each and shook
hands"
Here Wright hesitated and when
queried about the probable renewal OF
the feud said:
mo, we are at peace and will never
clash again. Why, Clabe and 1 are
the best of friends. He visits me in
my home, and go to see him often"
"How many men have you killed p
was asked.
81 am credited with having killed
eighteen during my career, but l have
never killed that number, not by a lot
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No man has poked more or better fun
at knights and lords than w. s. Gill
bert, author Of "Pinafore." Now King
Edward has made him one of the
bunch in spite of himself.
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WOMEN TO PLAY BALL.
University Summer School to Teach
Them Essentials of Baseball.


A course in baseball for women is
one of the latest novelties in univer-
sity curriculum. This course. which is
given for the first time this year in
any university, is being conducted by
the department of physical training
of the New York university summer
school and was introduced to meet a
big demand on the part of women to
learn the essentials of the national
game, for women and girls. are no
longer content to let the men and
boys mOnopoliZe this game and are
beginning not merely to have desire
to know why Il batter is out on the
third strike, but also to play the game
themselves. In fact, a special adapta-
ton of baseball is already being play
ed by thousands of girls, who have
regular teams and interclass and inter-
school series. The game as played by
the girls is known as indoor baseball
and is played with large ball and is
less violent in it's demands. The rules,
however, are much the same, and the
girls who play the indoor game can go
to the outdoor game and understand
the niceties Of hunts and stealing and
doubles as we'll as their little brothers
who are no less ardent fans.
The university summer school, there
fore, In its courses for women teachers
of physical training and playground
directors has instituted special train
ing which will enable the women to
| coach indoor teams. Some of the wo-
men teachers. however, explained that
they would like to learn something of
the outdoor regular game because they
could in this way help boys at their
Fairgrounds who could not get men to
coach their mines. In consequence
many of these women teachers are be-
ing taken out on the university dias
mond and taught the theory of stand
| ing at the bat, of handling grounders
and Of playing the different positions.
The women of course do not actually
| play the outdoor game. When asked if
| she could teach pitching one of the
women replied: II have learned the
| theory of making Il ball curve, and l
can show this to my boys. But for
! women with their unaccustomed Shout
ders actual pitching is an impossible
ity Still think that it will help my
playground for me to know how ball
| ought to be played, even if can't play
it expertly myself And by being able
| to talk intelligently about their pet
games I get into much closer touch
with Them
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A Manly Sport

The curse of professionalism has not
yet settled down upon college boating
in this country. 1t remains sport for
sports sake and for the individual,
runs its course with the college career.
The men row few races and then
have done with college rowing, for 9TH
ers come to the front to represent their
college. The annual races on the Hud-
son are democratic in the true sporting
sense. Seven colleges were represent
ed this year-Columbia Pennsylvania,
Syracuse, Wisconsin, Georgetown, Cor
nell and Annapolis.
The annual races on the Hudson
compete in national interest with the
Yale Harvard race at New London
Attention centers each year upon the
work of some new crew or new crews,
and the honors pass from college to
college and from section to section.
Perhaps these contests will lead to the
establishing of a crew picked from the
colleges according to some standard
which will give it unique character
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LIKE HARRY ORCHARD
Kentucky Feudist Calmly Tells
History Of His Crimes.
KILLED A MAN AT FIFTEEN.
Shot Two More When He Was Seven
teen-He Is Credited With Eighteen
Homicides, but Modestly DiscIaims
That Recore-Now Detective.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune has just visited
the interesting home of John w.
Wright, the celebrated mountain Ken
lucky detective, fighter and leader in
the Wright faction of the Jones Wright
feud, which ragged during the eighties
in I.etcher and Knott counties.
John Wright lives in snug and COM
Portable little mountain cabin back on
the headwaters of Elkhorn creek with
wife and two children. He receives
his sustenance from the proceeds Of a
300 acre mountain farm and OCCASION
ally captures fugitive from justice,
bringing in a handsome reward.
Wright possesses tall figure of
square build. He has an even temper,
a smiling countenance and is the type
of a man to whom children are uncon-
sciously attracted.
When asked to tell the story of his
life he readily consented, beginning as
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AS BOY, GIRL HANGS HERSELF
Had Been Arrested For Offering Bad
Check In a Missouri Bank.

SnSSN IN UISSouTi Dark.
Miss Pearl Silence, sixteen years old,
committed suicide near Aurora, Mo-,
by hanging herself after an attempt to
cash worthless check.
Dressed in boys clothing, the girl APP
peared in the Citizens bank in Ava
and presented check for $40, purport-
ing to have been signed by p. A. John
son. The cashier telephoned to Mr..
Johnson, who declared the check a
forgery. Miss Silence was arrested
and released on bond, furnished by her
grandfather.
On the way to the girls home Miss
Silence, who was riding horseback, dis.
appeared. Her grandfather was walk.
ing, and she rode ahead and was lost
to sight. Her body was found later
hanging from an oak tree.
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Stricken Blind Walking Wire.

Stricken suddenly blind while walk
ing wire rope stretched across South
Boulevard canyon at Ell Dorado
Springs, Colo, Ivy Baldwin finished in
safety the last fifty feet of the most
perilous walk ever undertaken by any
man. The wire was stretched $50 feet
above the ground, and from end to end
was $50 feet in length. The greatest
previous high walk was that of Blon.
din across Niagara falls on wire.
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follows: II was born about sixty years
ago in hut on the famous old Joel
Wright farm, on the extreme headwa-
tiers of the Kentucky river. and up to
the age of fifteen attended the dis
trict schools, three miles down the riv-.
err had an old rifle and enjoyed my
self shooting game of all kinds, which
| abounds in that section. was consid-
cred the best shot in the county and
won all the big things in the shooting
matches. common in that day At
length an attempt was made to debar
me from participating in the matches.
OF course l protested, and Floyd Hall,
relative of the late Talt Hall, and
had an alteration. Several shots were
exchanged.
by and by we met, Hall and l, on
the public road. The old grudge was
revived. We opened fire and fired all
most simultaneously. l got the best of
| him, and Hall died with bullet
through his head. This was in March,
1862.
In the spring of 1868, I was arrest
ed by the Confederates under COM
mand of General John II. Morgan near
Pound Gap, and l was made prison
err. at first l was taken to Richmond.
Va, and put in prison. Later l was
transferred to Camp Douglas, Ill.,, on
the present site of the city of Chicago.
THE hardships of prison life were
terrible At length more dead than
alive, Dec. 4, 1863, climbed over the
high walls that encircled the prison,
hustled myself away as fast as my
legs could take me, and at daylight the
next morning was far from the scene.
was never recaptured.
"In Camp Douglas 1 met Talt Hall,
afterward one of the most noted feud
fighters in the history of eastern Ken
lucky, and union of brotherly love
was made between us. which lasted
until saw him executed at Wise, Va,
in 1893 for the murder Of Amos Hyl-
| ton.
SIN all things Hall was my friend.
In 1865 / was en- route to Prestons-
burg, KY. when l came upon two
horse thieves. In less time than it
takes to tell it l did them both and
took the horses, returning them to the
owners. Upon my return 1 was fired
upon from ambush. having close call.
''In 1867 | went to Hawkins county,
Tenn, and engaged in selling moon
shine whisky in defiance Of the law.
During my two years stay there
killed two men, but did it in self de-
| Tense.
Leaving Tennessee, 1 went to the
west, locating in Taylor county, Tex
| During my sojourn in Texas I became
infatuated with young girl barely
sixteen, and because her father was
abusing me killed him and his son.
II then returned to Kentucky There
were no events Of note then until in the
early seventies, when bitter warfare
was engendered between Clabe Jones
of Knott county and myself My
friends Joined me, likewise his friends
the Dranghans, Sloans, Joneses and
Combses.
"On the morning of July 10, 1882,
myself and twenty men, brave as ever
lived and good fighters set out afoot
for. Hindman, Knott county, Clabe
jones' stronghold.
"They were provided with guns and
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-24

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Kodol is a compound of Vegetable acids
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you eat. makes your food do you good.
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appeared against Mrs Bertha Waschaw
Of ID Rock street.
"Why?" asked Magistrate O'Reilly.
Because she hit me on the right
eye"
81 don't see any marks,' commented
the magistrate.
Mrs. Kores replied that she had evil
dence in plenty, and with quick move
ment extracted the eye from the socket
Gust look at that, your honor; it's
cracked
Mrs. Kores showed the magistrate a
glass eye, very much the worse for
wear 1t was cracked.
Examination set down for Friday;
charge assault" said the magistrate as
he paroled Mrs. Waschaw.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-24

The historic Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, long the political headquarters
Of Tom Platt and some others, must
yield to the march of improvement and
disappear. But a lot of things that
We're started by confabs in it's cor
ridors will keep going on for decades
to come.
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socIETY's PET FLOWER.
Women Of Smart Set In Rivalry Over
Cultivation of Dahlias.

Whatever the shortcomings of the
-Four Hundred the members of this
overadvertised body cannot be charged
with neglect of flowers, says the New
York Press. 1t is a hopeful sign in
woman to find her fond of flowers and
women of the Four Hundred seldom
have been seen in a happier light than
at present, when they are engaged in
rivalry over the cultivation of dahlias.
The dahlia is a common plant in Eu-
rope, in many parts growing wild. 1t
is a rarer plant in the United States,
and as it belongs almost exclusively in
the dollhouse it has been developed to
beauty not approached in the most
favorite spot abroad. There is some
doubt as to the one who receives the
credit for the sudden growth in popu-
larity Of the plant. The Vanderbilt
Conservatives are now stocked with it.
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt has marked the
dahlia as her favorite flower, and so
with Mrs. Clarence Mackay. Mrs Har-
~ Payne Whitney is another lover Of
the dahlia, chiefly because Of its rain
bow tints and its rare value for decor
ative purposes.
Mrs. Mackay seems to have the lead
in the friendly rivalry just now, for
she has dozen plants Of truly surpass-
ing beauty. The hearts of the flowers
are of variegated brown, with the long,
soft, golden petals tapering off to
white. The secret of the variety be
longs alone to Mrs. Mackay and the
Mackay horticultural, and the Mackay
country place in Roslyn finds an adorn-
ment even more alluring than the dab
liza effects in the Vanderbilt and Whit
ney homes.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-24

London doctors assert that eggs as
articles Of diet are not worth their
sost Evidently American doctors are
n league with the great American hen.
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TAKES EYE OUT in COURT
Mrs. kores Accuses Her Sister, in law
Of Cracking 1t.

"What want is the law on my sis.
ter-hl-law," said Mrs. Sarah Kores of
81 Rock street, in the Manhattan ave
nue. police court, Brooklyn, when she
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
GOOD OIL WELL
ON ROCK CAMP
Sheridan Griffin and Mr.. Baird Are
Largely Interested in Hundred
Barrel Well.

An oil well said to be good for
one hundred barrels a day was drill
ed seven feet in the Gordon sand on
the John Henderson farm near Wal
lace, w. Va, Monday afternoon. The
well is on Rock Camp run. W. f.
Baird, of uniontown, Pa, and sheri-
dan iR. Griffin. of this city, are large
ly interested in 1t. 1t is said to e
good one and is expected to be
much better when drilled to far
Their depth as the best pay in .ha;
locality Is about thirteen feet In the
sand. The well is located northeast
of the Judge Con production and ad.
joins his development. This mean,
much for the development of thai
section as 1t opens up large amount
of territory that looks gilt-edge now
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
BOY SERIOUSLY
HURT At MINES
Falls From Mine Car and Wheel
Passes Over Him-Isrought
to Local Hospital.

Samuel wark, fourteen-years-old.
son of ozo wark. a foreign miner Of
Dola, was seriously injured at the
Short Line Coal company's mine AZ
that place Monday evening when he
body just below the abdomen. He
now at the Kessler hospital in this
city where his injuries are being
treated.
The boy was riding on the front
of a mine car and fell of under the
wheels. one of which passed over his
body Just below the obdoomen. He
sustained very bad wound the flesh
being torn and lacerated consider
ably. His condition is quite seriou.
and the physicians at the hospital are
unable to say whether he Will recov-
er or not.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
DIVORCE CASES
ARE NUMEROUS
On the Docket for the Present Term
of the Circuit Court of
Harrison County.

The docket of the circuit court at
this term has peculiar feature.
There are forty-one chancery causes,
and of these one-thlrd-fourteen in
number-are divorce cases. They
are as follows:
Reuben F. Teel against Amanda
S. Teel. Earl c. Frum against Carrie
G. Frum. Mary Felegy against Andy
Felegy. Eva Thomas against Frank
Thomas. William j. Hun against
Ruhama Hun. Matte v. Powell
against Charles e. Powell, Flora F..
Wilson against Jehu D. Wilson,
Thomas vossler against Alice voss-
Ter, Gertrude Nestor against Charles
Edwin Nestor. Monroe stutler
against Ella stutler. Ode Louise
Frickholm against Gust v. Frick-
holm. William E. Jackson against
Minnie T. Jackson, and Mildred
Catherine Hutchinson against John
w. Hutchinson.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
STRONG CHARGE IS
GIVEN GRAND JURY

able detail the many other statutes
the law requires him to bring to the
attention of the grand jury. and the
charge throughout was character
istically careful and full.
Judge Lynch, in speaking of the
Sunday Law, gave Mayor Harmer's
administration hard slap. He de-
clared that from the large number
OF drunken men seen on the streets
on Sundays. there must be Sunday
selling.
The suit of Anna Hardman
against Henry Bramer was dismissed.
D. G. Louchery's suit against Har-
vey v. Warner was dismissed.
Also the suit of w. H. Mckee
against W. Brent Maxwell was dis
missed.
Charles Harvey gave bond of
$1,000 for the next term of court.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
PAT HINES
SHOT AND KILLED
Man Who Played with ST. Louis
Baseball Team Victim Of
Barroom Brawl. M
ny Associated pre.e. 1

ST. LOUIS. No.. March 12-Pat-
rick ]. Hines. who two seasons ago
pitched for the st. Louis American
baseball team. and who signed with
milwaukee for the coming season. was
shot and killed this morning in the
saloon of Harry v. Grover. Louis
w. Richardson. bartender, was ar
rested charged with the killing.
Richardson declared Hines refused
TO pay for some beer he ordered and
attacked him and that he shot in
self defense.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
Armstrong ESTATE
UP IN COURT
County Court Holds Special Meeting
TO Hear Claims sof the VAR
ious Applicants.

GRAFTON, March l1s-The coun-
.ty court held a special meeting yes
.terday to hear argument. on the ap-
;pointment of an administrator for
the large estate OF the late Aiolphus
Armstrong. The three petitioners for
the place appeared in court by at
torney. John IL. Heemer and Hon.
Ira E. Robinson were the represen-
tatives of Harry Kunst. Sidney H.
sommerville and Charles P. Guard
appeared in behalf Of Eugene Com
merville, and Judge NJ. H. Dent rep
resented A. E. N. Means. In, order
to give all ample time to properly
present their claims the conrt ad-
journed to meet again Friday, the
18th, when further argument upon
the appointment will be heard and
the administrator will be selected.
At the same time It is proposed to
appoint committee for Miss Louisa
Butcher, the heiress.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
POsTMAsTERs
ARE AGREED ON
At a Conference Held Between the
President and Indiana's United
States Senators.
fRy Annotated presn.l-

WASHINGTON. d. c., March 12--
The following appointments OF
Indiana postmasters were agreed on
as the result of a conference between
the President and Senators Heming-
way and Beveridge today: Robert
Carl White. at Muncie; Henry l..
Dehority. at Anderson: F. e. Form
shell, at Elwood. All these Offices
are in the district formerly repre-
scented by Representative cromere.
wso was succeeded by a Democrat.
cromer is candidate for the post
mastership at Muncle.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

InaRe Just reoaivedlfrom the. quar-
rses Of Vermont and Massachusetts.
bought for cash from the rmanufac-
turers direct. the finest and best line
M granite and marble monuments
ever shown in ,Clarksbnrg. 1 will
guarantee better work, better prices.
and the very latest designs in monu-
ments than any marble man In West
Virginia. We do all our work with
lipneumatic TOOLS" much better than
" be done by the old way. Come
ii and see our stock. Wells Marble
Works. 40 North Fifth street.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
BUSTER FOUND.

In the Wallace district. this
county. the South Penn OIL company
has drilled its test on the o. S. Ritter
farm Al feet into the stray and has
developed no oil or gas. In tie
same district. the Wallace OIL & Gas
company has drilled No. 2 on the
David Wright farm IS feet in the
same formation and has developed
no oil or gas.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
LOCAL PRODUCE
market PRICES
What Has to Be Paid for Table
Things in the
City.

The following retail prices prevail
in the local produce market:
Eggs, zoe dozen.
Country butter. s5c lib.
Creamery butter, 40c lb.
Irish potatoes. soc bu.
Sweet potatoes, 4oc peck.
Apples. 4Oc peck.
oranberries. 10c ct.
Celery. &c stalk.
Lettuce, zoe lii.
Cabbage, sc Id.
Green onions. &c bunch.
Radishes, &c bunch.
Turnips. 25c peck.
Parsnips, soc peck.
Country onions. ACC peck.
Chicken. zoe Id. dressed; 15c lib.
addressed.
Turkeys. .2sc lb. dressed; lac lb.
addressed.
Oysters. 20 and soc at.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
HARD RAINS
FOR MARCH
Fan Very Much Out .of, the, Ordinary
fer the Month of
March.

Not for many years, perhaps. lhas
there been such hard rains In Har-
Tison county as fell Tuesday night
and "Wednesday. 1T rained inces-
sanity throughout the night and at
times torrents simply poured down,
accompanied by electrical -sterms.
Resulting from the rains the river
creeks and streams of the county
generally are quite high and stiii
rising.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
PREVAILING PRICES IN
LOCAL GRAIN MARKET
What Corn. Wheat. Oats and Hay
Arc Bought and Sold
For Here.

The following prrces are prevailing
in the local grain market:
Corn. new yellow. wholesale.
SEX; retail, s5.
Corn. new white. wholesale.
54A; retail, 671h.
Wheat, No. spring. wholesale.
s2A; retail. 800.
Wheat. No. red winter. whole
sale, 50; retail. 80.
Oats. No. 2 white. wholesale.
40; retail. SIS.
Hay. No. / Timothy. wholesale.
s1s.25; retail, s2l.o0.