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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-13
MAYOR ARNETT
RECEIVES | MANY
OFFERS | OF AID
Coal G oinpany
Officials ak

| - +.'-S SsAAA
Mayor Arnett received the follow
Ing letter from the "Hub" at Wheel
ing yesterday: fs
We have to-day expressed In your
care three packages. express charges
prepaid, the contents. chlIdren's cloth.
Ing. for the benefit OF the mine suf
ferers. We hope that it will afford
some little relief to those who have
met with such terrible loss and ex.
pressing our slncerest sympathy AMI
thanking your committee for distrib.
utins these goods, etc, We remain,
Respectfully yours, =
THE HUD.
The goods came Inst evening anil
will be distributed with great care.
DR.. J. C. Duncan. of Cameron, has
offered two houses, rent free. to Mo-
nongah sufferers. as the following let.
Ter shows:
CAMERON. W. VA.
December II. 1907.
Mayor Of Fairmont:
have two small houses OF two AMI
three rooms each that will let some
poor woman thnt has one or two chill.
dren have to live In two or three
months free Of rent to help them along
till spring. If they are able and will.
ing to work they can get lots of com.
mon work such us washing to do to
help them along. You will please let
me hear from yon II there Is that
would accept the offer.
Yours respectfully.
J7c. DUNCAN Md
The funeral Of ]. H. Mort will take
place this afternoon ut three O'Clock.
The deceased was member OF Marion
Lodge No. q. R. p. : He leaves wife
and four children. The remains were
taken across the, river in a boat. In.
iernlent at Maple Grove cemetery.
The remains Of ]. w. Miller were
buried in sWoodiawu cemetery last
night after dark, The remains were
brought down on the seven O'Clock car.
The funeral was under the direction
OF the Improved Order OF Red Men.
Miller leaves a wife and two children,
The rc~plns oS Jcss Severe were
buried this afternoon at two O'Clock
Mt Woodlnwn cemetery. The bodv
was brought down last night on the
seven o'clock car. The improved Or
der Of Red Men had charge OF the fu.
neral.
BENJAMIN Hartzell. Of sbepherds.
town, sent his check for four dollars
to the relief committee for the Monon.
gah sufferers.
In speaking OF the difficulties that
the searching parties had to encoun.
ter Mr.. T. n Wheelwr,rht said.
"The difficulties the rescue uarties
have undergone cannot be realized or
appreciated nv thoso outs,de tbc
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Meeting Of Union Relief Association.
There will be n meeting Of the Union
Relief Association Saturday at 3 p.
M, in the NJ. P. Temple. AS full u
report Of committee as possible is re.
questel.
MRS. F. E. NICHOLS. Pres.
MRS! +. 7, WEBB. Sec.
Fnirmont aormsla winter term be.
gins Jan; 2. t2;ta.st
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iI!RI|. WATSON VI
TALKS OF REAL
Heroes OF
DISASTER
] C:,soroners Jury
Meets Wednesday

4 Y
Mr.. G. W. Watson was asked this
morning II he had any statement Il
give out. He said that there was notf
ing newAIn The situation. He said thai
there had been great deal said abou,
the officials Of the Coal Company ami
about the State Representatives bu.
little had been said about those whom
he thought were the real heroes In
this great calamity. the men who made
up the searching parties. These men
came in from many places in thr
State iand volunteered their services
without tliiakiHg OF getting their
names in print. They did not stop TO
Inquire nor did they seem to care
!; whether their names were on the pay
roll or not. The one thing that they
were bent on was to get the entomb,
ed men out and no sacrifice seemed
too great for these men to make.
These were the real heroes, the bur.
den bearers.
lr. Watson said that the rumor this
morning that the mines were on fire
proved to be untrue when the work.
4ers had made thorough investiga.
;tion OF the matter. It was found that
7soRIe OF the aftenlamp coming In GOA,
tact with the good air caused n p".
-culiar. otur and that was the rouuda.
,ttion for the report that the mines were
on fire. The work stopped for awhile
because It was the workers who made
the investigation.
Two forces Of men are at work
clearing up falls where It is thought
dead miners may be entombed. The
number In each force Is forty.Hve AMI
they are working eight hour shifts.
The men are only making search for
the miners. Mine Inspector ]. w. Paul
gave orders that the mines should
not be disturbed except where il was
necessary to get body. 1t is thought
that very few bodies renIain under the
falls. The debris is still very loose
and the men can be located by the
odor. General Manager Lee l.. Malone,
who has been through the mines, gave
it as. his opinion that there are not
more than four or five more bodies to
be found.
s cou,, oy ,,,ujrv
Tho coroner.s court vii, ,;re,v cor,
yene nm Wednesday morr,nr c,ron,
or F. 9 Amos and prov at,v soo,,
G. Lowe went !, Moroncob ,his or,or,
noon nj tb.oo ,.c,orr - oonr,- r,,,,
stnte Mine Insroctor w Dan, IN
regard to tho tI,ne Of hordtn, tho In
ouest , comn,o,e corr =, tho loot,
NOM or ,ne yy,,rossa, a,,.,n. ,.,
,Jence boforo tho oororo. ,o.o,ho,
with tho vor,,,c, ., ,ho ;,,r,. n.,u =,
de,tvcrod m ,ho. s,o,o mfno ,rsraa,a.
Tho coroner has mower 10 .rr,,,,or -,
10 comre, tho ,,,o,d,roo or ans. ,,.,,
uesses That be ,,os,ros :, ,,r, n,ro,,
bcrore him n c;yo ,o.,,mon,. ro,n,,,..
tbo ,nouis;,,on ,nl sonn,,,;ao,,o.a +" ,,, ",
ba made 10 ,ho c,rcuIt cnnr, "
4 ls not nmovn a, .s,s ] ,,,',.
. 2
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eCgOten aud twenty-five cont book,
~ s and loc each at ChIlsof's. Wat
son Hotel nldg. II
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ute Cath and aatIi Nicto c. %, S. oD,
which is as follows:
"Whoever being n director, man
ager. or public officer of any body cor
porate or public company, shall make,
circulate or publish. or concur In max
ing. circulating. or publishing any
written statement or account which he
shall know to be false in any material
particular. with Intent to deceive or
dcfraud any member, Shareholder or
creditor Of such body corporate or pub
lie company, or with intent to induce
any person to become q shareholder
or partner therein. or to intrust or ad-
vance any property TO such body cor
porate or public company. or to enter
into any security for the benefit there
OF, shall be guilty of misdemeanor
and being convicted thereof shall pc
liable at the discretion of the court TO
any OF the punishments which tho court
may award, as hereinbefore last mem
toned
Under this statute tho difficulty Is
met by making it Il crime to issue a
false prospectus. Some of our courts
have held that the issuing OF false
prospectus is q scheme to defraud with
lin section $3.50 OF the United States re-
vised statutes. Other courts. however,
llOlu IO llc COAlIdIS, pul ~
judicial Interpretation or by legislation.
ut Is absolutely essential that the issu-
ing of a false prospectus be made q
crime before 1t is possible to deal er-
fectively with the largest class OF
swindlers that now prey upon the pub
llic
While the United States government
cannot directly prosecute sch emes to
defraud. got, If the mails are used In
the furtherance >of the scheme, the
government can act. sAs most of these
schemes contemplate the use of mails.
lit is possible for the government to
proceed against them under sections
l5aS0 and 5440 OF the United States re-
vised statutes. Section $3.50 provides
| that whoever deyises a scheme to do
, fraud, and promotes 1t by opening cor
,respondence through the mails. shall
| be guilty OF q lnisdenlennor;,} section
$40 provides that If two or more con-
spire to commit the offense denounced
| In section 54S0. they shall receive
| still greater punishment.
| Acting under the authority given BY
these two sections. the Post Office De-
Ipartment and the United States district
attorneys Office for the Northern Dis
trict of Illinois have for years waged
la vigorous and relentless war against
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The aIoyai. Of hoy ncnder..

"I'einE Boy" has It's disadvantages
In Worcester. MasH.. where tho direct
ors OF the public Library have barred
the books OF Horatfo Alger. .Ir., from
their shelves ms ",ntrutltful" and "tno
sensational" for soung readers. M
more shall tic Ragged Dicks and
'rattered Toms I've permitted to con-
taminate the innocence OF budding
minds. Why. indeed. should boys geek
the companlonship Of those ''unde-
sirabics." along with that OF Tom Saw.
ycrs and Huek Firms. the Gavrochea
and other gnltlins OF Juvenile fiction
when they may associate with Little
Lord Fauntlerey and Eollo?
IL they cannot have Alger thcro nr1
compensations, though not in oliver
Optic" or Dc Mile. nor yet In that
story OF Bad Boy" or whose homo
the citizens Of Portsmouth. n. H..
have made a literary shrine. nut nice
little Worcester Iads aspiring To ac-
aduire merit ut the library may ask for
the works or Louisa NJ. Alcott and
Mrs. whitney without "a blush. They
VIII find much moral uplifting IN tho
tales or r. s. Arthur and In Mary
Howltts stories for the young. What
prudent mother will prefer to have
Her son make ~ chum OF "Rebecea."
when lie can have Marta Edgewortll's
kosatnund ana l.HcY Tor ptaShiateS!
Algrr was - Clergyman. az was
Chnrlcs Kingsley, WHOSE "WestwarI
Ho' has recent. been barred from :.
village library In England. But the
point OF View of pastora study may
differ from that of a library. In tho
case of Alger the correctional meaa-
ures are applied rather late. At his
death eight years ago the poison OF
his works had courscd through eight
hundred thousand youthful minds.
WHO can say how many crime waves
they gave All initial impulse?--New
York World.
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was at Panama Mr.. Wallace who
was then the chief engineer, told me
that the rock taken out of Culebra
would be 100000 cubic yards. and
az l figured 1t then. 1T would Just
eupR ditch three feet wide aud three
feet deep and long enough to go two
times around this 25.0o0-milc globe
with 10000 mile or ditch to spare
This great ditch OF suez, however.
was SO made that the dirt and sand
taken out could be thrown. on the
banks and left there. that of the Guile
bra cut has to DO carried by cars some
miles away. and tho greater part of
the material is rock rather than sa,ld.
1t Is so hard that most of 1t has TO be
blasted out. and it requires heavy ma
chinerS 10 handle it.
The Suez canal was excapated nj
most by hand. Twenty thousand and
more OF tho Egyptian fellahs were en-
ployed upon it at time, and they
scoupcd much Of the dirt in their
hands aud carried it away in baskets.
They were paid fran 10 to Is cents
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.,o.t of Mar Horses.

From the earliest times the horse
has been a potent factor In war. and
to-day his education IL delicate and
serious mpttcr. undertaken at great
expense BY all the nations OF the
world. Germany needs a million horses
TO put her colossal forces in tho field:
France requires probably threc-quar
ters OF million; and even Great
Britain has needed as many MS two
hundred aud thirty thousand--in her
serious predicamen. lit South Africa
while she was fighting the Beers. Al
though England In peace time mounts
only two-thirds OF her cavalry. her
horse bin amounts TO about four hun
dred Thousand dollars yesr--a figure
which may be multiplied by four or
five for the German army In most
countries omnibus. farm, aud domestin
horses arc registered MS being avail
able in time OF war for miscellaneous
service, and for this anything from
thirty thousand dollars TO bno hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars year
may be paid by military nation.
France spends upward of six hum
bred thousand dollars a year ON horses
for her srent armies. Az 81 genera.
ruler the recruits are five years old
and cost two hundred dollars cach,--
The Circle
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Kind We're conducted in great numbers
in chicagostlurlns tho latter 'e0's and
up intosthe. iirst few years of tho pres
ent century. and millions of dollars
thus obtained from the crcdulous.
There was weak point, however,
in schemes OF this nature. Wien the
swindicr was hailed into court he
could show no effort to conduct a real
business. The defense was always
that this was not q crime, but only n
failure to carry out q contract; but
the courts held that Il contract other
wise legal, IL used in connection with
scheme to defraud. could not avail
as a defense.
of modern swindling was taken TO
meet this difficulty. The swindler
would actually make a pretense of
CARVING on q real business. and thon
simply wear out his victim by various
conditions and annpyances. The
scheme in its present form is a clever
advance over all those previously
used. a swindler to-day Is connected
In some way With corporation of
some kind, and, whatever part lie may
take, his profits are derived ultimately
from people who purchase the secnri-
ties Of these corporations! In order to
avoid danger, the corporation will
have something. If it is a mining
corporation, it will actually llavo some
place that 1t calls q mine and 1t will
be making some show OF operating 1t:
II it Is an oil company or any other
Kind of fake corporation, there will
be some slow OF activity. Under this
scheme, the victim has his share Of
stock. and the mine or the oil we'll,
or the plantation, or. whatever 1t is,
IS there; and, according to the swind-
Ter, all the stakeholder has to do Ia to
wait until the property Is developed"
This tends to keep the victim from,
prosecuting, for, of course q ,,rosecu-
ton would destroy tho value or the
business, and 1t affords defense in
court.
Another scheme allied to this was
one In which number of clever swim
dlers cleaned up a largo amount OF
money. A man would advertise that
he had ample capital to invest in the
securities OF corporations provided q
competent examiner, after thorough in-
| vestigation. makes a favorable report
upon the proposition. Tho victim Is
| lod to choose as the examiner con-
| federate OF the man with capital. The
examiner will receive $500 to $1,000 fol-
making the examination, according tc
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the association to redonble rs efforts;
for proper. enforcement and amend.
ment Of these laws as a part OF It's
general national campaign. In the
Northwest, the coast States and
throughout the Middle West 1t Is in.
tended to institute similar campaigns
IN response to the appeals Of oranges
and organizations OF orchardists which.
have come from every section.
II The extent OF this movement WI re 9
from our members and friends" said
William butcher. president Of the as a.,
ISOLATION, at tts headquarters, 14l
Broadway, to-day. 1--WE have had an
,pnnsually hard campnign ~ forty State to
Legislatures, and increased expense IN
securing. reserves for the national
water fowl, increased, educational and md
to report detieit OF Of some som . $4,000 on
this account at our annHal meeting
this. month. The National Association
of Audubon Societies Is planning more
extended usefulness than ever for next
geaf howeyer and A. reiyins for ,, sap-
moro Of Whom 1t very much nsSds,"
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sllovcls gouging the earth out of the
Culcbra cut ana have travelled in n
canoe down that part of It which is
to run through tho bed Of the Chegrcs
river. hnse also gone through tho
Snez canal at three different times and
have made notes of its construction.
The two undertakings are vitality
different. The Suoz Canal is little
more than great ditch through
the desert and although II Is
Just about twice as long as
that planned for Panama it does
not compare with the latter in it's me-
ehanical difficulties. The ground here
Is comparatively level. That of the
Panama route i. UP hill and down. it
goes right arross the backbone of tile
Andes, and we shall have to take out
Of Che eight or ten miles Of the Guile
bra cut as much e;sr;li and rock as the
Egyptians lifted in their whole 100
miles at Suez.
The amount cxeavated here was
loo.ooo,ooo cpbic vas-ds. or Just about
ipo.poV, geo ,ons OF dead weight. While
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practically built. BY the original con-
cession witt, Said Pasha slic was to re.
ceiYc 10 per cont or the net profits for
tile entire term of the concession,
which was i,inety-ti inc years. But after
lsmail Pasl,n was deposed the Egyp-
tan government, finding itself without
money or credit: sold this claim on the
profits TO the credit foncler of France
for II little more than $4,000, 900. ind
the only interest 1t now has in the
canal is In the trade which the slips
passing through bring TO the country
Had Egypt retained that Ia per cent
lit would have received last year more
than s2.00O.0O0 out OF tho tolls, and
within few years 1t could have re-
couped itself for all 1smal Pashas ex-
travagances. During tho term OF the
CONCESSION it Gould easily have REPAID
Its debt to Turky. and could have made
Itself the richest country of the world.
AS 1t IL. tho caral. with all It's property
becomes the possession OF Egypt In
1868. when the canal receipts at the
present ratio of increase Will be so
enormous as TO make this little coun-
try with its comparatively small
population about the richest OF ali
tile world.
The Suez Cnnnl by Moonlight.
spent all of last night on tho suez
canal. 1t was the afternoon when our
ship left Port Said. and as night fell
we were in tho heart of the Iibyan
desert. The air was clear and the
scenes were weird but beautiful. The
star of the tropics, brighter by far
than our stars lat home. made the
heavens Respondent, and great round
moon of burning copper turned the
famous waterway into stream OF
molten silver. We could look out over
the silent desert as we plowed our way
through and now and then sec "A cara
van of long ungainIy camels, with their
ghost like riders bobbing up and down
under the moon. Our own pathway
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NEW YORK. October 19.---As tho re-
suit of recent appeals from farmers
orchardists cotton growers and ranch
men In every section OF the country, n
widespread campaign is being insil-
tuted In this city for the protection OF
every American species OF insect-eatIng
bird During the coming year renewed
efforts viii DO put forth. n every state IT
ton OF Audubon Societies. which will
head the moysment 70 ob,ain prhT ,rGs
as we'll as better enforcement OF such
exssinK laws az the Avaubon ,s waGka nn
the statute books. If sufficient support
q forthsesmlng from IN The asrara nes In
which the birds hold in check. II is
hoped 70 make this great economic eco
RESOLUTIONS calling upon the govern
1ment and state Legisla,urss 70 To-. CO.
opera. IN ths Aua an wowk ,hrnush-
mously passed. by the Information
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day al tile start. and boys under twelve
got only s cents. After a time they
were not puid at all. The Khedlvc
agreed to furnish, them. and they work
ed for the French under the lash just
avs the Hebrews did for the Egyptians
| in the days Of Pharaoh ages ago. Our
steam siiosels are estimated to he
equal to- the work of 500 men. We
have some which will lift five wagon
loads of earth n minute. gouging 1t
out of the hills and dropping
| IL on TO the cars. When the
canal construction is In fun
play we shall have one hundred such
shovels III operation both night ana
day. They will be equal to IL force of
$4,000 men. and VIC shall be able to
handle our excavation more cheap1y
than the French did that of Suez. This
VIII be so. Notwithstanding our native
labor VIII DO paid from ten to twenty
and more times as much as the French
paid the Egyptians.
Such Americans as ;irc working at
Panama are getting more money than
they can make in the United states.
and the native carpenters. painters and
m;vsons are receiving more per hour
Than the Egyptians received per day.
With the present canal- dredging ma
chfnerS and steam sllovels this work
at Suez could probably be reproduced
at one-half Its actual cost. and the
actual cost was probably quad
rupled through tho money spent in
graft extrava sence and high interest
RACES by the French and Egyptians in
connection with it. When Isinail
Pasha was forced from the throne he
left Egypt III debt TO the amount of
s5oo.0o0,o0o. the most OF which was
directly or indirectly caused by the
canal.
what Egypt Gets.
One would think that Egypt ought
of way through her country and the
canal which her money and her people
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the size of the business whose sscuti-
ties are to he marketed; then, after
getting the money, he Will make the OK
animation and return an unfavurable
report, which releases the first swim
dlcr of his obligation to take The
bonds under the contract. Then, of
course. the two divide the fee for the
examination between them. This
scheme and ono or two others very
closely allied in principle wore -four
fishing until they fell into the hands
OF the Federal authorities here in
Chicago.
This latter scheme. 1t will be OBJ
served, is more dangerous than Tie
selling of worthless stocks and bonds
to the public, for the reason tnut 1t
can be proved that the swind1ar was
not in the position to purchase these
bonds even ii favorable report had
been made In the case OF thesa cor
porations which exist in large numbers,
and who arc robbng the people of tho
country of millions every year. it IS
very difficult to secure conviction of
their promoters In majority Of cases.
When they arc arrested and brought
into court. they are ready to show
that they were really carrying on some
kind OF business, ana that they have
been simply unfortunate, that expecta-
lions had not been realized, and that
a business failure Is not crime. The
great difficulty is to prove criminal
intent.
In tho past both our State and Fed
eral courts have so interpreted the
law against schemes to defraud that
they have been able to suppress or
curb these schemes, whatever form
they took. Just what is to be the at
titude OF the courts towards the
swindler who poses as promoter,
land whether they are to so interpret
tho law that 1t can deal adequately
with this form OF fraud. is .at the
present time uncertain, as the courts
differ widely upon the subject Some
OF our courts are now holding that
even IL a promoter does issue false
prospectus, and thereby induce people
to invest In tho securities Of a COR
poration, that this does not constitute
u scheme to defraud, and that 1t must
appear beyond oil reasonable doubt
that tho defendant intended to put tho
money thus obtained into his pocket
ana not into the business.
The difficulty of making this proof
has already been indicated. In Eng
!, land this difficulty was mot by a stat