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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-19
ANOTHER AWFUL
Mine HORROR
added TO LIST
FIRE PREVENTS
sEARCR FOR VICTIMS

PiTTs6uRe, Dec. 17.-an explosion
occurred at the oarr mine at eleven
Sthirty this morning. Four hundred
imen are entombcd. The mine is on
4 fire and It Is believed all are dead.
I, The Darr mine Is operated by the
.Pittsburs Coal Co., located at Jacobs
Creek, en- the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad.
OF the miners entombed hundred
arc Americans, the rest principally
Italians Immediately after the explo.
sioni smoke poured from the mouth Of
S;the mine, which Is Of the slope variety.
The mouth Of the mine was wrecked
and up to one o'clock rescuers were
unable to enter In search Of the en-.
ftombed men. The course ~ The ex.
plosion Is unknown.
WEST NEWTON, Dec. 1e.-Physl.
clans from this place wero engaged
and left Immediately for the Darr
mines. Many people from this viein-
ity are hurryino towards the Inflated
mine to assist In reseuins.
ii PORT ROYAL, Dec. 1s.-Several
years ago forty lives Of miners were
lost here. The mine is not far from
the Darr mine.
JACOBS CREEK, Dec. 1s.-The Du-
quesne Limited Of the 3. and o. rail-
road was wrecked at this place on
Christmas eve several years ago in
which sixty lives were lost. This
makes the third big disaster for this
small mining town Of late years. Up
Ito two fifteen the smoke was pour
ing out Of the mouth of the wrecked
pit. No rescuers have yet entered the
mine on that account. It Is believed
here that all the men entombed are
dead.
~ PITTSBuRG, Dec. 1s-Several Of.
rficiaIs Of the Plttsburg Coal Company,
doctors, newspaper men, officers and
mine workers left on the two.twenty
Baltimore and ohio train for the mine
disaster. They will reach there about
three-thirty.
A long distance message from the
Vice President Of the Pittsburg Coal
Company this afternoon states that
there were not more than 16o men In
Al
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-19

A long distance message from the
Vice President Of the Pittsburg Coal
Company this afternoon states that
there were not more than 16o men In
the Oarr mine, but the reports by the
United Press say there were 400 men
and there is scarcely hope that any
are alive.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Charles Watkins. Of Shinnston
is shopping in the city today.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-19

A NICE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
Water colors In scenery or heads.
We have them framed or Unframed
Globe Book Store. n
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LET US FRAME YOUR PICTURES.
100 mouldlnga to select from. Gilt,
Mahogany and WaInu. eYals-GIobe
Book store.
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tance. and from tho TACT that his head
missed two big rocks but by few
inches. He Is Mt his home on Cherry
avenue.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-19
Walker Caught
ABScoNDiNe BANKER OF CON
NEcTicuT ARRESTED BY DE.
TEcTiYES IN cALiFoR-
ar MIA.

LOS ANGELES. Cal, Dec. 19.-Pink.
erton detectives officially confirm the
capture of absconding Treasurer Walk.
er, Of the Savings Bank Of New Brit.
ain, Conn.,, near Ensenada, Lower Cal.
ifonia. Walker Is now en- route here
as O prisoner. He Is wanted in Con.
necticut for embezzling s620000. The
detectives say he drew a revolver and
showed fight, then tried suicide twice.
No money was found on him.
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AROUND THE WORLD.
BattIeship Fleet Will Return Via
the cusy canal

!. Battleship Fleet viii Return Via :,
!. the Suez Canal. >,
!. CHICAGO. Ill. Dec. 19.-The :;
; Tribune this morning prints a :,
!. wireless message from Louisi- :,
. ana quoting Admiral Evans as :;
: stating at ward room dinner :,
!. Monday night that the fleet :;
!. would return via Suez Canal. :,
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IN PORT ROYAL, Dec. ts.-severaI
years ago forty lives Of miners we're
.iost here. The mine is not far from
the oarr mine.
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/. !. Observation-Disclosures,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
JAYK1 WKER JOTS

Norton not only has a daily paper,
but 1t is also now city of the second
class Norton proposes to show the
other townG of northwestern Kansas.
There are twenty-five widows in
Jewell City, but none of them is OF
the grass variety. Grass widows usu-
ally don't stay widows long enough to
be counted.
Times are getting so hard on Wall
street that Mack Gretchen looks for
the Wall street folks to act like Kan
sas did a few years ago: Quit raising
corn and form parades mile long.
Paul Rich, representative from
Hamilton county, who trained with the
railroad crowd during the session of
the legislature, has written to the SYRIA
cuse News explaining that he "came
home SO quietly there was no chance
to get up a reception" for him.
One of Victor Murdock's stories:
"And who is that fellow gesticulating
over there?" asked Dante. THAT, "
said his Satanic Majesty, lis a new ar
rival from Kansas making a speech
against me. All the fellows from Kan
sas do that when they first arrive"
Mrs. Nerva Clark of Winfield saw
her 2year-old baby fall into thirty
after the child, slid down the pump
stalk, held her own head and the
baby'S above water until help arrived.
Her name should be spelled Merry
Seneca Tribune: A Sabetha girl was
enticed to go to Topeka by the high
wages, the city finish, the unknown.
She writes home: 81 get the wages;
no one knows me or cares. I seldom
see the mistress except at meal time,
Am all alone in an elegant house, for
the boss is rich. She was a country
girl and now gives course meals.
Nothing pleases. I change the table
five to eight times each meal with
nothing to eat; change aprons with
each course" Pathetically she finishes
in the words of the preacher, pray
for me- for am working for a fool"
Some of VIII Palmer's wisdom:
There is no grief of the mind or wound
of the heart that can not be cured if
time is the nurse and love is the doc
tor 49,. The penitentiary hardly
ever gets a boy who was trained to
spend his evenings at home. g.
When the devil can not trap a man
with money, whisky or calico he is
about out of bait You never
hear a man who was in Ander-
sonville prison whining around because
he has no appetite. If he didn't have
any he knows how he could get one.
An Italian proverb says:
Where the sun does not come, the
doctor does" That is why the doc
tor has such hard shedding in Kansas.
Alfalfa is such a swift grower
that it can make one crop before Kan
sas has time to change her mind
Be careful how you take up with
every fsm'' that comes along, espe-
cially rheumatism. Did you
ever drink maple sap out of a new tin
pan? If you were born in Kansas
that is one of the things you missed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

GFrom the Chicago News.l
Reform isn't always what 1t is preached
up to be.
All men are animals-and some of them
are car-seat hogs.
There's usually a wide gap between
promise and performance.
Some men go broke and some others
haven't enough to go broke on.
An egotist is the center of an admiring
crowd-and he's the crowd.
Even those who haven't an eye for
beauty appreciate a handsome income.
Among other things recently missed as
we journey through life is the last car.
This Is said to be the land of the free,
yet the owner of real estate has to pay
taxes on 1t,
A woman derives more satisfaction from
the things she suspects than from the
things she is sure of.
Your first crop of wild oats may prove a
failure, but that is not a good and suffi-
cient reason why you should sow an
other.
A woman who has been through the di-
vorce court three times says 1t is ever so
much ca sier to get husband than it is to
get rid of one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

"Going to the bug house, see," re-
marked a hippant person to a Law
renee girl, who was on an Asylum car
in Topeka. II am going towards the
chronological institution" replied the
daughter of the Kansas Athens with
due frigidity, but that is not neces-
sarily my destination"
~ y
We Judge that Mr.. Busse, the new
mayor of Chicago, has also failed to
find a hair-restorer that works.
=
The talk about a bible trust fur
nishes Bill Doolittle with another ex-
cuse for not reading it. Bill says he
won't have a thing to do with any
thing that is connected with trust.
Not he!
The Court of Public Opinion will
now consider the case of Roosevelt VS..
Hartman and will find the defendant
guilty as charged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04

before him, while the backs of the sit
ters were toward him. He lifted the
cover and stepped back.
The dozen BUNDLES had been hop
ping mad and calling each other names
for two days. The cover was no sooner
off than out they swarmed to get room
to square off. AS they caught sight
of the professor and the widow, how
ever, the Ratchet was instantly buried.
There was a wild swoop, followed by
wilder yells- Old seven-spot led in the
fray. He it was who lifted the pro-
fessor over the veranda rail and let
him drop among the hollyhocks, while
the rest were paying the widow atten-
tons. The professor ran, and was fol-
lowed: the widow shrieked, and was
stung again and again. 1t was not un-
til Hiram rushed out with smoke and
flame that she was rescued, and a
neighbor woman sent for to treat the
humps and bumps and put ,ler to bed.
The professor returned not. Old seven
spot wouldn't let him. No news came
from him as the hours of night wore
on, and Hiram wondered but next
morning the widow received a note.
reading:
MY dear child, please send my
satchel by bearer. I'm off after more
bones. The turtle, as meant to have
told you, is utterly without ambition"
wall" said Hiram to himself as ne
worked in the cornheld that day,
there was the professor and me and
the wilder and the whale and the bum
BILE bees. and if hain't come out top
o. the heap, who has ?"-(Copyright
1907, by E. c. Parcells)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.


[From the Atchison Globe.I
A woman never says she is hungry: she
says she feels faint.
A mans fishing enthusiasm wanes very
rapidly If the fish don't bite.
If you believe all the women say, you
can't believe word the men say.
The largest house is too small IL you
are living in it with one you dislike.
After girl passes 20 or Is she might
as well marry: she'll fade. anyway.
A woman demands that her husband be
perfect but runs along in the old human
way herself.
Every woman is of the opinion that
there never was man who had any sense
in passing things at the table.
Women should be as fertile in suggest
ing plans to help their husbands as they
are In raising money for the church.
How often you hear people say: II
didn't do it!" Which indicates that a
great many charges are made against
them.
When a woman can't think of anything
else that is mean to, say of another wo:
man: she says she loo looks as If she had
A boy misbehaved. He was led into
It by the boy next door" said his mother.
know DIV Better" The mother was right .Tb ~
boy next door was exactly four days old
er than her son.
1t is said that If you swallow a single
seed in eating watermelon. you will have
fits. There is nothing in 1t. We will bet
a boy can eat at,. all the seeds see IN water
vine, and never mind it.
Some sick people tell about their fills
so much we wonder what they would
talk about If they should happen to get
we'll.
You read a great deal in the funny pa.
pers about fathers going down stairs and
kicking young men out for remaining too
late with their daughters, but no such
thing ever happened All a father does
under such circumstances is to grumbls
to his wife.
We have noticed that most people speak
in mysterious way of rich and promi-
nent kin, but that when a wedding or q
arrive do not bring French maids, valetES
or come in motor cars They seem to be
Just like the rest of US plain people.
about? The writer Of this spent an hour
lately making up his list, and found he
had Il. How many have you? Make
many of them. The worst waste OF time
possible is to complain of things that can
not be helped.
Church White says that when he was
one evening. The first thing he did was
to FIRE two shots within few hundred.
feet of the police station. The. chief hur-
The policeman had fired two shots to
clear the alley" he had been instructed
to walk through the alley, and as it look
to clear it." He was at once discharged.
Lysander John Appleton yesterday tore
up the family album. tearing every pic
who has heard his Side Of the story. can
blame him. He was tired; everything had
gone wrong all day, and he was disheart-
pick up the album, and every picture in
some SO widely that they showed their
grins proved too much for Lysander John
and he sprang upon each picture ana
tore it up. .<- =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
ROOSEVELT VS.. HARTMAN.


The country is learning. The little
| diversion that has occurred this week
between President Roosevelt and Mr..
tional in its nature. The public has
learned several things from this cpl
sode. = sv
Mr.. Hartman appears to have had
the idea that he had contributed $780,
600 to the good cause OF Republican
success, and that therefore he ought to
have had something to say about Re
publican policies. He has not been al
lowed that privilege and he naturally
feels somewhat put out, particularly as
President Roosevelt seems inclined to
regulate Mr.. Hartman,
President Roosevelt, however, points
out that Mr.. Harriman's contribution
was to the New York state campaign
and not to the Republican national
campaign in 1904; hence and therefore,
Mr.. Hartman has no occasion for be-
lieving he is entitled to dictate the
policies Of the national administration.
Some people may think that there is
not sufficient difference between aid
ing in state campaign and financing
national campaign, but 1T has been
pointed out at the White House that
one reason why Mr.. Hartman was
anxious to aid in the New York state
campaign was in order to acquire a
seat in the United States senate for
himself
The question of veracity between the
president and Mr.. Hartman is raised
on some points. and the public will be
inclined to accept the presidents word
in most cases. As In a number of for
mer instances, the president does not
mince words in charaeterizing some of
Mr.. Harriman's statements. He prac-
tically calls Hartman a liar although
he does not expressly use that little
word.
The important point to be consider
ed, however, is that Mr.. Hartman
was not allowed to dictate the attitude
of the administration regarding rail-
road legislation. If he contributed his
$4,000 for the purpose of buying i'm
munity from government interference
with his schemes, he failed to land the
goods. be it said to the presidents
credit. II he made the contribution
for the purpose of buying seat in the
United States senate he also failed in
his object, owing. in part at least, to
President Roosevelt's refusal to send
Depew as ambassador to France, an
other refusal for which the president
is to be commended.
1t is therefore evident. both to the
public and also to Mr.. Hartman, that
he is not running President Roosevelt.
The president intends to see that the
railroads are regulated whether Har-
riman likes it or not.
1t does not seem probable that this
episode will help Mr.. Harriman's cause
at the White House. The railroad reg
ulation programme will be carried out
more determinedly than ever. But the
administration need expect no further
favors from Hartman. - 49, s-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
BOYS.

BOYS.
You kin ind EN-. bless their souls,
Out along the twisty bayou
In tn finest swimmiu' ho!es,
DOM all tn stunts that we did
When we used to run away
From our schools away back yonder-
Or was it just yesterday?
1t don't seem like way back yonder.
It seems more like just last week
When we'd start out, faces shinin
An rd,' our h hair &c combed Just as sleek
Till we turned the corner, then
1t would be a helter-skelter
For the Swimmin' hole again.
It's like breakin' colts to harness
Brlngin of a boy up right,
n, That his bride amt too tight:
Gentiin' him ma an 7 It taikin me- to - him,
Coin carefully an slow.
When you've got your colt well broken,
So he'll come when you shall call him,
So he'll brace himself an draw
For each pound that there is in him,
So he knows his home and stall,
Spite of all the care you give him
He'll be just a horse, that's all
But a boy-there amt no tellin'
What he won't be. guided right;
So when your boy plays at hockey,
Runs away or has a fight,
Then's the time to get close to him,
Not turn from him with a frown
Like the universe was crumpled
By his acts, and tumblin' down.
So when he comes home some evenin'
With his shirt on wrong side out,
And his collar soft and wilted
An his hair all tossed about,
Don't bear down too hard upon him
Like he'd done some fearful crime;
He's just been anticipatin'
OF the glad vacation time
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
Miss walsh Tries to Buy a Dog.

While Miss Walsh was rehearSing ner
new play ir Chicago recently, a rat ran
across the stage. There was some ex-
element among the feminine members
of the company, but Miss Walsh only
laughed; whereat the others looked UP
in surprise.
THAT is the first rat I have seen,' -
she said, ''since left New York. Then
1 had little experience with rat and
"a dog. Down at my home on Long
Island, the rats became such a nuisance
in my barn, and were so aggressive,
that I went to New York in search of a
terrier. 1 applied to a business ac-
Quaintance named King for information
as to where could find a shop provid-
ed with such animals. Mr.. King took
me to a dealer, and, after stating the
purpose of our visit, said to him that
we must see the dog tried before we
would purchase him.
That's easy replied the dealer, L
have rat pit back here; just step this
way
II began to get nervous" continued
Miss Walsh, but thought I would show
my grit and stay 1t out. The dealer
brought forth beautiful little terrier
and, when he had put him into the pit,
placed a fierce gray whiskered rat also
In the arena l felt myself grow sick
at heart as the adYersaries confronted
each other like two gladiators in
ancient Rome. Then suddenly, as 1
watched in a panic Of fear and disgust,
the dog took flight, pursued by the rat
Buy the rat, Miss Walsh quietly
suggested Mr.. King, buy the rat -
Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
HUMOR or THE DIP

Artist maintain. sir, that ought to
paint nature as see it.
Crit1e-Thats all right. Only I hope
Me-Up. p'''"' H. 'eA-
"Cholly wants to enter his fathers bank
''Doing what?"
"oh, I don't know. I suppose making
Courier-JournaL
do you read the fashion magazines7.'
Yes answered Miss Cayenne. They
often give such valuable hints on what
not to wear. "-Washington Star.
Lawyer-Your honor. want an inter-
Judge-What language does he speak?
LawyerLHe,s a railroad brakeman.-St.
Professor Hammers-why do you sup
pose the dog bowls so when I play the
Mr. KR PGs dog can not be taught to
Lawyer-What is your full name?
Witness-K: X. K Karl Benson.
Witness -Nothing-the minister who
christened me STANDARDIZATION Trans
cript.
"a saloonkeeper ought to be sure OF
making aIIng a good thing of his business
Because all his sales are bar gains
Baltimore American.
The captive trembled ostenta tiousIy
Hal" sneered the tyrant. MY very
glance makes thee quail! 1T does, IN
deed. sirI'' replied the hapless knight
And have only to remind your majes-
ty that by the wise laws which your ma
jesty hath designed to decree for the gov
ernor of this most fortunate realm II Is
now the closed season for quail" For the
brave Sir Lancelot. though first and fore
most warrior, did not scrupie in an
emergency to enjoy his nimble wit.-New
York World.
How, was the man killed ?" Inquired the
coroner, before viewing the body.
He wuZ shot in quarrel over game
O. cards, jedge, fer cheatin'," replied an
eye witness to the tragedy.
why, / was told that he committed
suicide; but 1 wanted to find out how he
1Hs did kill himself. jedge. but you
1T thought you said it was a quarrei7"
AN so 1t wuz. You see, 1t wuz this
way: Hank was the gol-derndest Teller
ter cheat an fight that ever wuz. He Jest
nachally couldn't hep cheatin' in a game
an he'd fight at the drop O. the hat.
Hank want no coward, if he did cheat
So when he seen"
Whom did he eheat?'
Himself. ledge. He wuz playin' soil
taire. Judge.