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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-08-27
DEATH SENTENCEOF
NEGRO HAS BEEN
COMMITTED
BY GOV. SWANSON OF NEGRO
CHARGED WITH SERIOUS
CRIME.

Richmond. Aug. 26.-Governor
Swanson today commuted the death
sentence OF Joseph Thomas. alias
John Wright. to life Imprisonment In
tho penitentiary.
Wright is the negro who was con-
victed of criminal assault on Miss
Mabel Risley in Alexandria county.
while she was in company with her
flance, Forrest Gooding. The negro
first beat and disabled Gooding.
After the assault Gooding and
Miss Risley were married.
The governor has had the case in
hand for about two weeks and dur
ing that time has given it extensive
and profound consideration. His an
nouncement this morning will cause
some surprise. inasmuch as no com
mutation was expected the public
at large.
PROMISES A SENSATION.
The case as It now stands is not
lacking in dramatic interest. That
there will be certa ensctionaI dis
closures connected With evidence
adduced in the trial of the negro
was announced this afternoon by
Attorney James +. Clement of
Alexandria, who has been workjne
hard in the behalf of the c1ndemno
man since his alleged ident llcation.
Thomas had been sentenced to
hang next Friday. In order TO en-
sure safe delivery OF the official pa
pers in the case, special messen-
ger will be delegated TO bear them
to the Alexandria county Jail I'm or
der that the sheriff may receive the
commutation notice before Friday.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

A. Philadelphia
philadelphia 4. Cincinnati 3.
At New York
First game New York 8 pitts
burg g.
Second game New York 2. Pitts
burg o.
At Boston
First game Boston /: Chicago 3.
second game Boston / Chicago
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Prominent
Scientist Expires
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CALLED.
But TOO LATE.

London, Aug 27.-The Earl Of
Dunmore. one of The most prominent
advocates Of Christian Science i'm
ENGLAND, died today before medical
assistance. which was summoned.
cOuld arrive
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Track Tramp
WANTED FOR THE TOO COMMON
HEINOUS CRIME.

Miller, Ind. Aug. 27.-The tramp
who a saulted at Murdock the nino-
year-old girl. Ella Schrader, IS sur
rounded in swamp near here. H4
was trailed by bloodhounds All night.
and his capture is expected IN a few
hours
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VRGTN'1 s." NTT LEAGUE
YestnrdaY'a l,nanIfa.

ffFt"rdaY's I'"4Ultq.
Danvllle poanOlr n
Norfolk % Richmond 2
Lynchburg b Portsmouth 2.
Where Th,y Play Today.
Roanoke at Dluyille
Portsb Iuth at Lynchburg.
Richmond at Norfolk
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Caught in
West Virginia

Logan w. va. Aug. 2G James
Arthur Kemp wanted in Washing
ton D. O. whore Doc was chief clerk
Iu fhe Washington police depart
ment vas caught here today and IS
held ON an embczzIcment charge dll
the arrival of the authorities. whet
he sin Doe taken back for trial
Kemp is locked up in The Logan
iau
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FANDOM.

Bramwell and Bluefield will get
at It again Thur lay for seven games
(maybe).
With Midi n out OF the game
with a broken shoulder Manager
Kelly is scouting for new recruit
and Is expecting Adams, Of Dorches-
ter. today.
II nothing unexpected happens we
will have seven games OF ball. start
ing Thursday and playing here al
ternately.
Barr pitched a nO-hit game against
Bonno Saturday, winning by the
Hcore Of 20 T.
Honhorst will handle the pellet for
the locals This afternoon.
Why dom romc~ne how AfidklF
how they 0nnrnciate him2
Bramwell refused II let Duean
umpire yoHcrlaJ thot's mighty
clammy.
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wa binstOu ID Co. Aug 2G-A
dispatch BIAS been received 20 police
hoalmaror from Logan W. va.
stating chat James Arthur Kemp.
the ab condins chief clerk Of the
Washington police department. was
arrested here yesterday Kemp dis
appeared July 5tb the examination
.of his accounts disclosed a shortage
Of abou, $4,000 An off, left for
Logan tonight TO bring emp here
TO meet be charge Element.
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Summary--Two base hits-.Ander-
son. Struck out--tBy Mclaughlin.
3; by Reese, Z. Hit by pitched ball
BY Mclaughlin, /: by Reese. o,
Base on balls-Off Mclaughlin, O.:
of Reese. 4 Stolen bases-Taylor.
Grimes. = Reese. O'Neil. Beck
EFT. Pr ed ball--T. Manley. Um-
pire. Lyons. Time. 1:45. Attend
ancC. 500.
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MILLIONAIRE PACKER mrs

Chicago. Aug 27.-4Nelson Nor
ris. the millionaire packer. died to.
day
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How they stand
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Detroit
Detroit Z: Washington 4.
At Cleveland
Cleveland 3: Boston 3.
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MONITOR PULVERIZED
lakes the best rolls and cakes.
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7 elegraphers
Use Threats

THE COMPANIES PROFESS TO
PAY LITTLE or 40 ATTENTION
Sew York Aug 27 Although
the local Tc'ouapber Union issued
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The Daily Leader, tho best Ad-
yOr'ising Medium. Try Il and bald
up business.
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During Clearance Sale

Other goods reduced in proportion.
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Ashland 30 900 900 o %
Bluefeld 20 2 Ola 0O1 sS
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
JOE PREGENT
Returns Home We'll Satisfied.

c. J. Closscn of Paonia passed thru
Delta Tuesday enroute to his home
after three weeks trip to the Hood
River country in Oregon and the
Yakima valley in Washington. While
that section was not visited with de-
structive frosts and will have good
fruit crop. Mr.. Clossen says he comes
back to Delta county satisfied to re-
main. He says those sections are tre-
mendously doomed and in the Yakima
country land sells for from 5000 to $1,000
per acre. Everybody is selling real
estate and boosting with all their
might While those are undoubtedly
good fruit sections, according to MIR.
Clossen they do not have the climate
and numerous other advantages to be
h ad in Delta county.
He comes home agreeing that there
are others but fully convinced that we
are 1T.
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
COVER CROPS.

To- H. continued next week
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
at! Doesn't it help you in govern

that! Doesn't it help you in govern
ing?"
"Sometimes, laughed Miss Glen.
81 don't always take hold so gently,
you know
"We were talking about manual
training" said Sophronia, gathering
her crumbs neatly into paper napkin.
manual fiddlesticks"' said Miss Glen
bluntly. My mother had nine children
and she taught every one of US to cook
and sew. Why don't the mothers now
a-days do the same thing and keep
themselycs out of mischief?'
MY mother taught me to read; but
it hadn occurred to me before, to
count that an argument against teach
ing reading in the Schools said Hor-
tensia pIacidly.
"Some Of those who know how best,
won't take the trouble; and some don't
REALLY know how said Sophronia
earnestly.
Don t know how, in this town of
good house-keepers?" said Miss Glen.
"No, said Hortensia, " if they knew
everything, why were Miss Autmon s
classes So popular in the Short Course
last winter? 1t isn't considered enough,
in these days, you know. that you
should send the children off to school
full-filled; you are expected to know
that the system of each one has re-
ceived proper nourishment-an that is
quite different NATTER
Tn H. continued next week
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24

Since the conditions which Aist in
the frult-growing regions of Colorado
are SO widely different from those which
obtain in the eastern states, why should
we thin II necessary to go to the east
ern orchard man for our system of cul-
tlvatior. We have already found that
many things which are suitable to the
East ar not applicable to Colorado; and
we bellcvc that the time is fast ap-
proachlng when we will still find it de-
sirable to greatly modify our system of
cultivatlO
The growing Of cover crops in the or
chard is now largely practiced in the
East, and with good results. But their
method could not be entirely adopted
here, s. II does not seem unreasonable
to suppose that system of cultivation
which may be entirely different from
that practiced in any other region will
soon b. worked out by the arid horti-
culturist.
1t is apparent to all that the one
thing most needed in our soils is decay
ing veg etable matter. This material is
very sooa exhausted because of the ac-
tlon of our intense sun. But this is
something We must learn to counteract
if We are to maintain the fertility of
our orchard lands indefinitely. The best
way to secure this decaying vegetable
matter is by blowing under some form
of green manure. Just what this crop
sha be, and how il shall be handled,
remains to be determined by expert
mont. A number of people in various
! localities have been turning under green
crops in their orchards for several
years and with good results. The pos
Sibrlties along this line are all before
us. and we believe that in the near fu-
( turc great strides in this direction will
/ be made.
! cover crops do great many things
for the orchardst which need not be
mentioned here But two of the i'm
| portant features may we'll be mentioned.
| First, the covering TO the ground in the
winter time, even though slight. great
/ ~ lASNShtS ~ AioSN " VIC
roots of trees. This has been definitely
determined by experiment. In some
portions Of our state this would be an
| important item. But in an abnormal
season, like the present. which fortu
natcly is of rare occurrence, if the or
chard man had some other means of
income besides the product OF his or
chard, he would certainly be in luck.
| Why not then combine a small amount
of stock-feeding with ruitgrowing, as
advocated by Professor Cottrell, of the
| Agricultural College. and in this way
have an additional revenue. and at the
same time, build up the fertility of the
soil as well as have good way of dis
posing of waste fruits? With this sys-
TEN some green crops, possibly peas,
might be grown in the orchard which
could be fed to hogs. and the stubble
and manure returned to the land. There
is said to be an increasing demand for
hogs, and we believe that this subject
should receive careful consideration at
the hands of our fruit-growcrs.
W. PADDOCK.
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
Some Land Bargains.

l20 acres 2,s miles west of Delta :;
red soil; good fruit or beet land. $50
per acre.
10 acre orchard; 500 bearing 9-year
old apple trees; good water right; ~
miles south of Delta: 81. 500. See Sam
Farmer Of the Uncompahgre Real Es-
tate Co.
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
Business For Sale.

On account of i'll health l desire to
sell my business, consisting of good
stock of millinery, ladies' furnishings
and notions, all necessary fixtures, and
good will of business. Apply to Mrs.
NJ. +. Robinson. Delta, Colo. If.
The Delta independent., 1907-05-24
.ET US MAKE YOU A pAIR

to go with that coat and vest
which show no signs of wear.
We will make them of fabric
that is as distinguished for its
wearing qualities as for its
beauty of pattern. We will fit
you in style which no factory
made garments can hope to
equal. Come in and be meas
ured.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
REVIVAL STOPPED DIVORCE
Husband and Wife Were Reunited ut
the Altar i'll the Revival Meet
ings at Aberdeen.

An Aberdeen gentleman who was
in the city today said that he wit
messed a scene at the revival meet
ings being held in that city, the like
of which he had never heard of be-
fore-in the reunion of a husband
and wife as they approached the al
tar for repentance.
The incident happened Sunday
evening after the evangelist had de-
liyered an especially strong sermon
that moved many to repentance. The
evangelist had finished his sermon
and asked those who wanted to be
saved to come forward. Among
those who responded was a man who
sat in the rear of the hall and as he
walked forward and was near the
front a woman leading a little child
met him in the aisle. The gentle
man said there was a moments hes
itation, as if the husband knew not
what course to pursue, but with the
step that he had already taken to-
ward a religious life, he forgot the
differences that existed between him
self and wife. Immediately he turned
and lifted the little child into his
arms and the wife was clasped to his
breast-a reunited family. The
husband and wife had separated and
proceedings had been started for a
divorce, which, however, ended when
they knelt at the altar together. The
incident, the gentleman said, had a
great effect OF the audience and
many were moved to tears by the
simple and affecting scene.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
Senator Burton's Good Service.

Cleveland Leader: Senator Bur-
ton has served a very good end. I'm
willingly and unwittingly he has
done his country a service. For he
has proved the fallacy of the opin-
ion which has been steadily gaining
strength that it is impossible to pun
ish wrongdcing in high places. Bur-
ton made the best possible fight. All
the elasticities and interstices of the
law were %sedulously sought. But
there was no stretch great enough,
and no hole big enough for the es-
cape Of Burton. He has paid the
penalty and once more stands a free
man, theoretically without stigma.
His example may deter emulation of
his course. At any rate it has taught
all America that the law is not the
plaything of the men of wealth and
the men of high political power
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
DINING GAR PURE FuoD
,ss,es >.,a'ya le 90 a. Washington
srs,vvs fu,erv~,s er rhs
ntnia. Gar system

CAt1saso Tribune The American
Association OF pinins car Snpefin-
~teuaents has appointed . obbytst To
represent it ut Washington, tearing
that the entorcemeut Of the pure
food laws may prove fatal TO the dim
Ing car business, That is 4 partial
admission OF the need OF govern
ment regulation OF dining cars,
Travellers have suspected at times
that the perishable foods served in
dining cars. other than fruits We're
preserved by chemicals. If there is
any ground for the suspicion it is
time the practice a stopped, There
is nothing about the motion OF a
railroad train which makes drugs
any less Injurious there than in "a
hotel. The argument that a passen-
ger is not on a train long enough
to be injured by the minute quantity
of p~reservatives which he absorbs is
not applicable to the thousands of
mel whose business compels them to
spend a large part OF their time in
travelling. Many commercial travel
ers eat more meals On trains and in
railway restaurants under the same
management than they do in their
own homes.
1t is Just as easy to carry ice in a
dining car as it is to put it in a ho-
tel refrigerator. 1t is not necessary
to carry a large stock of milk or any
thing else on one run, and it is al
ways possible to replenish the stock
if careful calculations of the amount
needed prove erroneous. A large
part of the soups and cold meats are
canned, but at the prices paid trav-
elers are entitled to the best quality,
and under the new law it is always
possible for the dining cars to be
provided with pure food.
To gain public confidence the dim
ing car superintendent ought to call
back their lobbyist and advertise OF
every railway folder and every bill
of fare used the fact that all articles
served are guaranteed to be prepared
in conformity with the laws of the
United States and are free from any
thing injurious. 1t will pay them
much better than to wriggle away
from the law and thereby suggest
their lack of innocence. 1t does not
necessarily follow that their goods
are bad because they do not want
them Investigated, but they must
confess that it is suspicious.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
An Endorsement

A brides mother presented her
with a check on Christmas day. With
a feeling of the utmost Importance,
she took it down to the bank in
which her husband had opened an
account for her. The cashier took
the check, then handed it back DO
litely, saying:
will you please indorse it, Ma
damp
Endorse it?' repeated the bride,
puzzled.
Yes, across the back, you know
replied the man, too busy to notice
her bewilderment.
The bride carried the check to a
desk, laid it face downward, and nib
bled the end of a pen thoughtfully.
Then inspiration came, and she
wrote triumphantly across the back:
For Fanny, from mother.
Christmas, 1906" Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12

ny avsirse= IL lis raSser sam
ge.as fyaa&aees fans mas III
~ thn uuu49as address thai an eS
esatfle Frisco e-esssHtan riAds 10 u
wang couple that he e=. aaoat 20
MARI
I.ss0rse. the olergetran negan
rgen Che eott,,ai OF my heact / con-
gsatalate Nou ON the Wise step VOW
are about q take 1t Was sad Indeed
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
Found a Burglar Trust.

Saying he believed burglars who
have been operating in New York
City for months had organized a
trust, with funds for defense and a
corps of lawyers to aid them to free
dom, Magistrate House held two men
for trial in $4,000 bail each on a
charge of burglary. One, who was
charged with felonious assault for
attacking a policeman with a re-
%volver, was held in $10,O 600 bail adj
d%itional. Jacob Frey and Philip
Harvey We're the prisoners. They
were arrested Saturday afternoon in
an apartment house. Before the
prisoners were arraigned a man APP
preached a policeman in Morrisania
court and told him to tell the magis-
trate he was prepared to give $4,000
bail for each man. Magistrate
House quickly set the bal, at S1O,-
600 for each charge. The man who
was willing to give $4,000 security
left the court room in a hurry. Mag
istrate House explained afterward
that he had set the bail at $4,000
because of the announcement that
the man was ready to give $4,000
bail.
II believe there is what might be
called a burglar proof he said, "for
it almost always happens that when
apparently experienced burglars are
arrested some inc mysteriously APP
pears in court to furnish bonds for
them.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12

The state of Illinois doesn't know
what to do with the case Of E. HI.
Hartman. Its attorney general has
been carrying On al investigation
concerning the bonding of the Chi
cago & Alton road, whereby an i'm
mense sum of money was raised for
the purpose of constructing another
line Of road. This investigation de-
veloped the fact that while the
money was raised on the bonds the
road was never built, and rs a re-
suit Of the profit Mr.. Hartman, it is
alleged, cleaned up Over %s24,000,-
900. To make any move in the mat
ter would be in the nature of in
Turing the innocent b%ondholders
who purchased the bonds in good
faith. That is said to be one of the
,nne inanciering tricks of the man
Who is DESTROYS of defeating Presi-
49, 80 ~ H HEAT
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12

Through the pen of Mr.. G. E.
Holmes, of Sioux Falls, the Argus
Leader proposes to educate its read
ers on the birds of South Dakota.
Mr.. Holmes will present a series of
articles on the feathered tribe and
the first; two installments indicate
that his knowledge of birds covers
q large Mr.. Holmes is show
ing that the birds of the state are
really valuable in many ways, and
that some Of the most despised can
be done away with the least.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
Southern Scrambled Eggs
Latest Thing in Constitutions.

New York Tribune: 1t is more
than a decade since any state in this
country has had to make a constitu-
ton out of hand. Oklahoma, enjoys,
therefore, the great advantage of be
ing able to avail herself of the latest
theories Of what a constitution onght
to be. When we read of a few of
the provisions incorporated into the
still incomplete instrument of Okla
homan we realize how far back in
the misty past the fathers of the
American Constitution were. They
were mere tyros abecedarians in the
art Of making the fundamental law
of government. The modern consti-
tuition maker has ideas they never
dreamed of. They laid down a few
of the general principles of govern
ment and were quite content, but
the constitution makers of today are
alive to the problems of the hour and
are ready to solve them all in detail
in the fundamental law. They leave
nothing to legislation that can pos
sibly be put into the constitution.
They will start the state right with
all the brightest and best Of modern
notions. If there is a bit of expert
mental legislation popular in a large
part of the country they put it into
the constitution so as to be strictly
up to date.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
A Joker in the Game.

New York Tribune: 1t is hard to
frame a wise law, as the citizens of
Fort Dodge, Ia, will soon learn to
their sorrow. Those good people
have just taken to themselves an or
dinance according to which "all able
bodied persons between the ages of
25 and as years whose mental and
physical ~propensities are normal
must marry within two months of
date or else be fined. We suspect
some insanity expert was hired to
insert the "joker'' in this measure.
The Joker is there, and it is wor-
thy of a psychological expert; it is
the proviso about citizens sof nor
NAL, mental and physical %propensl-
ties" The city fathers, in their un-
tutored way, did not observe that
this clause exempts everybody. A
Fort Dodge benedict may escape the
law merely by seeking to comply
with it; his relatives will then enter
the plea of abnormality in his behalf.
And any court in Iowa will rule that
a man who is willing to wed within
sixty days of first notice is as alb
normal as a March strawberry.
Probably the city fathers didn't ex-
pect the law to work a as a hint to
certain backward friends of their
eldest daughters.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
Frankness of a Preacher.

Jack London, before setting out on
his world tour in a small boat, was
the guest of honor at a dinner in
San Francisco.
MY friends have been very frank
with me about this tour" Mr.. Lon
don said at dinner. "They have told
me that l am a poor sailor, that 1
know nothing of navigation, that l
won't get anywhere near around the
world, that I'll be wrecked, that l am
a fool, and so on.
"Frankness is a good thing, but