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DEMOCRATS NAME
THEIR CANDIDATE
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS UNANI.
MOUSLY CHOSEN AS SPEAK.
Err OF HOUSE TODAY.
Caucus Held at Washington and Mis-
sissippi Man Selected as Leader of
the Minority Senator Warren
Recommends Adams for Register
of the Lander Land Office.

Washington, d. c.. Nov. S0.-At a
caucus today of the democratic mem
bers of the house, John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi was nominated for
speaker by reclamation.
, 1907-11-30
Down With Rheumatism.

Otis Thayel. division engineer for
the Wyoming division, is confined to
his bed with a severe attack of rheu'
matism and will be taken to Salt Lake
as soon as he is able to travel, where
he will undergo treatment.
, 1907-11-30
Adams for REGISTER,

Washington, d. c., Nov. 30.-Sen-
ator Warren has recommended to the
secretary of the interior that William
T. Adams be reappointed register of
the United States land Office at Lam
der, Wyo.
, 1907-11-30
TaIesmen for Pettibone jury.

Boise, Idaho, Nov. 30.-Sherif Shad
Hodgin today finished summoning a
hundred talesmen for the trial OF
George A PeLtibone, which will be re-
sumed Monday. The list includes ma
ny farmers from all parts of Ada
county.
, 1907-11-30
Kentucky Fued Killing.

Whitesburg, KY, Nov. 30.-John Mil
Ter, leader of a faction of feudists, was
shot and killed early today, and Andy
and Merrill Jones, members of another
faction, were mortally wounded.
, 1907-11-30
Bank President Found Dead.

Yankton, S. D., Nov. GOV. H. Nc
Way. president of the First National
bank, was found dead in bed this
morning. Apoplexy is given as the
cause. He was 6S years old and prom
inent in the financial and political his
tory of South Dakota.
, 1907-11-30
LARGE Sum of Money Gone.

st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 30.-The an
nouncement of a reward of $3.50 today
disclosed the information that two
packages containing $5,S75, received
at the railway depot at East
st. Louis for the Pacific Express com
pany have disappeared.
Money Clerk Missing.
Thomas A. j. O'Connor, the money
, 1907-11-30
Mondeijs at capitaI,

Washington, ID. c., Nov. 3O.-Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming reached
here yesterday with his family and has
taken quarters at the Congress Hall
hotel for the winter.
, 1907-11-30

|PELTs PRESENTED
FOR STATE BOUNTY.
Fred c. Bath, Johnnie Pulcher AMI
Floyd Hixson each presented three
coyote pelts to the county clerk for
bounty this afternoon.
, 1907-11-30

Has Taken Mahoney House.
". q. McCarty, travelling engineer
for this district Of the Wyoming d.
vision, who has been transferred from
Rawlins to this city, has rented the
, 1907-11-30
LIGHTS WERE Y

FOX HOUR.
By the bursting of an elbow in the
steam pipes at the electric light plant
late yesterday afternoon, n circuit
was crippled for fifty minutes. This
was the circuit supplying many of the
motors in the business district. No
one was hurt. The elbow was a new
one. just recently installed.
, 1907-11-30

The Republican is the only paper in
Laramie that prints all the news and
reaches all the people.
, 1907-11-30
Gettinu More Cash.

NNks'fS SeS's
In commenting on this fact Score
tary Cortelyou said that his informa-
ton was that the New York banks
were daily increasing their cash pay
ments and that the banks in all the
great money centers were gradually
getting back to normal conditions.
Reserve Banks Meeting Drafts.
In nearly all sections of the country
reserve banks were meeting drafts
sent by their interior correspondents
on account of internal revenue and
other government receipts, evidence OF
which is shown in yesterdays treasury
statement, which shows customs re.
ceipts to have been s1.336,45O and in,
ternal revenue receipts S1,657,251
which are larger than ever under nor
NAL conditions.
Boston Banks Helping.
The Boston banks were, he said
materially assisting in this movement
1t is the opinion of treasury official:
that conditions are rapidly approach
ing normal and that the critical stag;
in the situation everywhere seems t.
have been fully PASSED.
, 1907-11-30
Midwife Convicted.

Chicago, H., Nov. 30.-"Dr." Lucy
Hakenow, almost sixty years old, was
found guilty of murder today in Judge
Chetlain's court and sentenced to TWEEN
ty years in the pe%nitentiary. She was
tried on a charge of causing the death
of Mrs. Anna Horavitch by an illegal
operation.
Caused Thousand Deaths.
1t was stated in the closing argument
for the state that Mrs. Hagenow had
practiced as a midwife in the United
States, most of the time in Chicago, for
t%hirty-five years and had been the
cause of a thousand deaths.
Dying Statement Read.
The dying statement of Miss Lola
Madison, a sister of Mrs. Bradley
who killed Senator Brown, was used al
the trial and was instrumental in bring
ing about a conviction.
, 1907-11-30

Tra~lnFnaster at Cheyenne.
Trainmaster Let's left this morning
for Cheyenne to meet Superintendent
Anderson on business connected with
the Wyoming division.
, 1907-11-30
COUNSEL. FOR GOVERNMENT
BRADLEY CASE MAKES I'M
FASHIONED PLEA TO
THAT BODY TODAY.

Ordinary Mind Involved Instead Of
Brilliant Mind of Annie Bradley
Young Chicago Woman in Illegal
Operation.
, 1907-11-30
Will Resume Monday.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 30.-A re-
port reached the treasury department
yesterday that the Chicago banks
would resume currency payment next
Monday.
, 1907-11-30
Walker Acquitted.

Rockport, Ind. Nov. 30.-John P.
Walker, former city and county treas
urer, charged with the embezzlement
of $63 900 of county funds, was acquit-
ted last evening.
, 1907-11-30
URGED To DISREGARD
SEX IN ITS VERDICT

clerk at the depot, is missing and the
express company caused a warrant to
be issued charging him with grand lar
ceny.
, 1907-11-30

Washington, Nov. 3O.-Passionate Or
atory marked the proceedings today in
the trial of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley,
charged with shooting and killing for
mer Senator Brown of Utah in this
city last December. The court room
the crowd.
Mrs. Bradley Interested.
Mrs. Bradley was fully alive to the
Importance of the proceedings. Assist
ant District Attorney Turner opened
for the government INT was followed
by Mr.. Wells of counsel for the defense.
Should Disregard Sex.
Mr.. Turner urged the jury to consid-
er the cast on the same basis as If a
man were on trial and as If it were an
ordinary mind involved instead of the
brilliont mind Of Mrs. Bradley. SYM
pathy and passion should not be consid,
cred.
Attorney Breaks Down.
Mr.. Turner shortly after he began
his argument broke down with emotion
and the proceedings were temporarily
interrupted. He soon regained his
composure and resumed his argument.
A Dangerous Woman.
He characterized as dangerous a wo.
man who considered the man not her
husband moro sacred to her than does
the wife herself. Turner said that ev-
en- a horse doctor could have discerned
that Mrs. Bradley was not suffering
from toxic insanity when she shot
Brown
Deliberately Planned Act.
He concluded at 1910 with the state
ment that Mrs. B%radley's act was that
of a sane person deliberately planned.
Not On Unwritten Law.
Robert Wells, opening for the de-
tense, told the jury the defense had not
submitted it's case on the unwritten
law, but the law of the land, which
safeguarded a defenseless woman.
Wells argument vas so impressive
that Mrs. Bradley nearly tainted.
She Wanted to Hear.
Judge Powers, one of her lawyers,
sought to divert her mind by talking
to her, but she brushed him away and
listened closely to what Wells was
saying. Wells concluded at 12:45 AMI
court adjourned until Monday.
, 1907-11-30
DEATH OF
A PIONEER
JOHN THODE SUCCUMBS AT HOME
IN RAWLiNS AT EARLY
HOUR THIS MORNING.
Senator Johnson, Who Was Early
Friend and Close Neighbor of De-
ceased, Notified by Telegram and
Will Attend Funeral - Laramie
Pastor to Conduct Services.

Hon. j. w. johnson, a lifelong friend
of the deceased, was today notified of
the death at Rawlins of John Thode,
one of the pioneer railroad men and
ranchmen of Carbon county, which
occurred at Rawlins early today. Mr..
Johnson was asked to notify other
friends here. The death came as a
surprise to Mr.. Johnson, who did not
know that his old friend was seriously
i'll.
Were Strong Friends.
Mr.. Thode came from Germany, and
in 1874. when Mr.. Johnson went to
Carbon county as a ranchman near
Carbon, he found that gentleman in
charge of the section as foreman for
the railroad company. They lived near
together for years and the acquaint-
anceship grew into strong friendship,
which was not broken until death
came to the elder max this morning.
Both gentlemen had grown wealthy,
Mr.. Thode organizing the Thode Cattle
company, the late John w. Conner Of
this city having been his business as
~sociate in that great undertaking.
Was Strong Factor.
The Thode company was n of the
earliest and strongest cattle concerns
of those days and is yet a powerful
factor in the cattle business of the
state. The sons are taking the place
of the older members of the company,
the Conner interest being held by
Mrs. Fannie Conner as executriX of the
estate of her late husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson and perhaps
others here will 90 to Rawlins to at
tend the funeral of their old friend.
The date had no been fixed when the
telegram came this morning.
, 1907-11-30

Daily Republican, so cents a month.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04
NAME FIRST NEGRO MAJOR.

For the first time IN the history of
the United States army a negro is to
have the rank of major. The lucky
negro is Rev. w. T. Anderson, of
Cleveland, who has been chaplain of
the Tenth Cavalry, colored, for ten
years, with the rank of captain. At
the end of decade of service a chaplain
is either retired or allowed to take the
commission of major. Anderson has
been allowed to take the higher rank.
Politics of the deepest nature is in
the appointment and promotion. The
commission is given Anderson at the
request of Ralph Tyler, the Ohio negro
recently appointed by the President to
the position of auditor for the Navy
Department, succeeding white man.
The appointment Of Anderson is made
by the President for the purpose of
lining up the negroes for Burton, who
is the candidate for the mayoralty of
Cleveland against Mayor Tom Johnson.
The appointment is also believed to
be in the nature of bid for the favor
of the negro voters of Ohio, whose
affections have been quite effectually
alienated by Senator Foraker, owing to
his fight against the President and Sec
retary Taft because of the order dis
missing the battalion of the Twenty
fifth Infantry as a result of the shooting
up of Brownsville.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04
THE CRAB AND Ills CURIOUS E1AUNTS.
Some Interesting Inside History of This Great
Virginia Industry.
HOW THEY GROW FROM SOFT TO HARD.

Hampton has been known generally
among Virginians and somewhat at
large as centre of the crab industry,
and right well she maintains her reputa-
tion. But she must admit successful
rivalry to another section of the prolific
Chesapeake, though in this latter Mary
land shares probably larger results than
does Virginia. / refer to the locality of
the Sounds-Pocomoke and Tangier-
arms of Chesapeake bay, lying, the one
wholly and the other largely within the
Virginia lines, on the northeast border,
but worked and harvested mostly by
citizens of Maryland.
The ''soft crab" is a growing crab
which> must periodically burst its non
growing shell, shedding like snake,
and much larger when emerging from
its cast off shed. Within a few hours
the soft skin hardens an6 it has once
again a hard shell, which in turn must
be cast off. Although hard coat re-
turns after few hours when in salt
water, yet if taken from the water, or
even placed in brackish water, they will
remain soft for days and until their
death in such environment. The younger
the crab the faster it grows, and the
more frequently it must shed. When
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

One thousand unmarried women are
coming to New York on the steamship
Baltic from Liverpool, and according to
a cable MESA, e, hundreds are coming
on other steamers which have sailed
already.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

ferred it should strike the dealer. If
ne had thought never to see the buyer
again, he would have fc-roited his pay
rather than take thosa ti's.
Home Life lie.
Though generally possessing ready
cash and credit, for oystering comes in
when grabbing goes out, the home life
of this people is simple. Every man
owns neat and usually small home,
with truck patch attached.
This patch furnishes diversion, but is
for the most part left to the women
and children to work. The toiler of the
sea, as a rule, abhors land and its till
ing. The home is the only necessary
utensil when marriage is achieved,
which is usually early in life. The BOY
first Graves a craft, and the youth gets
1t and becomes a captain" When
the money comes in, and he goes
acourtin', when a neat little house of
two or three rooms is going up on some
iot-often in a marsh-the gossips say
John and Mary will be married soon.
The parson gets his fee, and friends
are invited on honeymoon "sail."
How To catch Them.
ln catching the crab the "scrape, +"
an iron-framed thing, with bag to bot
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

tom and rear made from twine, is
thrown into the water and the rope
paid out" AS the boat sails slowly
ahead the crabs are scraped from the
shallow bottoms into the bag. Then
the scrape is hauled in and the contents
dumped on board. The scrape is
again thrown overheard on the opposite
side, the sailing being uninterrupted,
The man and boy (the usual crew of
the skiffs) quickly pick out '-peeler," :"
"bus'ner," jimmy" and soft crab,
having box for each, and the small
ones and grass they return 10 the
water. The eye is trained and sure, so
that at glance the stage of crab s
life is taken in. The ''peeler," or one
soon to shed into a soft crab, is known
by faint, small, red tinge around his
i'm, and he is afterwards put in float
to proceed with his metamorphosis.
No gloves are necessary-eXcept for
greenies-for the eoert crabber
quickly secures betweoa , fingers even
the fierce jimmy Whnc swapping at
everything in sight aad imaginable,
catching him by the rear fins. Thus
secured the belligerent fellow may snap
away, but he cannot reach back with
his muscular claws. The hold of big
hard crab is almost as tenacious and
fully as painful as the turtles bite. -
Richmond Times Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

for danger, and with deXterous dip of
the net the baby crab is secured. The
inexperienced eye could not have seen
the mite even had it been unprotected
by the leaf. As many as ten dozen of
these have been packed for shipment in
an ordinary cigar box, with dead and
damp field grass or secs (sea grass),
covering and below, the midgets bring
ing as much as $2.5 a dozen. A dozen
would hardly make a good mouthful,
but the epicures North must have the
first, and we are very willing to supply
their cravings-when the season is
propitious.
Mysteries I'M Oived.
This is only passing extract from
unwritten "crabology." The subject is
one that the wisest heads as yet-or
probably ever will-know but little
about. Nothing in the sea under mans
close ken retains stubbornly unsolved
so many secrets of life as the crab. Of
course, good deal is known about them,
but this has mostly been written of, and
it is my purpose only to give here some
practical phases little known. I was
to tell you of mans industry and wealth
as dependent upon che crab.
Crisfeld Md, just across the Vir-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

ginia water border, on Tangier Sound,
is probably the largest crab centre in
America, if not in the world. 1t has
more than seventy houses dealing in
crabs, and some of these ship each as
many as 500 dozens of soft crabs in
day, to say nothing of the thousands OF
barrels of hard crabs. The latter are
shipped in the shell or are picked and
canned. Prices for the hard ones run
from 75 cents abarrelup, while the soft
species bring at times as low as half a
cent apiece, and range as high as 81. so
a dozen at the opening of the season in
the spring. Too large or too small, the
soft crab does not bring the best price,
except in the case of the first caught,
which are small ones. The thumbnail
size at the beginning of the season may
be worth 81. so dozen, while one as
large as your hand little later is worth
but 25 cents a dozen. The big soft crab
is abundant only in summer Nearly
matured, it sheds seldom, requiring
warmth of water to effect the change.
A giant fellow is worth no more than
half-grown one, and is not desired by
the first-class cafes. A Crisfield house
that ships thirty dozen a day to the
Waldorf-Astoria, getting fancy price,
exercises great care in selecting uniform
sizes and consistency of skin. A "paper-
shell' is worth nothing-it is passing
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

Three days are the limit of a mos
quito's life; but he contrives to make
that do, all right.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

until the market becomes normal. Big
catches in these sounds will sometimes
glut the Northern markets, and it is
then prices tumble, and the crabber
goes on strike. Though he may be able
to catch double the quantity, he will
not work when the price is half cent,
and it is a general decree among them
that they would rather catch 200 day
at one cent than SOC at half cent
curious kind of professional ethics,
though bound by no organization Of any
kind except that to certain extent as
a class they live defensively and aggres-
sively, as though every mans hand"
was against them. Naturally they are
a rough sort, though possessing many
good traits, and superstition is rife
among them. AS a buyer you must
get rid of any two-dollar bills that may
be in your money box. In this section
the banks are troubled when that de-
nomination is sent them from the
Treasury. They are at a discount.
The crabber believes that to accept a
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

into "hard shell"-thcugh if caught
an hour earlier might have been num-
bered among the fancy price fellows.
Not only are hard crabs picked and
common industry-at Girls
field, but one house there, the Tangier
Packing Company, has got on to the
secret of canning the soft ones, a secret
known by but few houses in the United
States. This house makes daily ship
ment to San Francisco, and Californians
regale themselves upon soft crabs from
the Chesapeake bay. Clam chowder is
another industry engaged in here. But
the claiming and canning features,
while secondary to the soft crab industry,
are in themselves prolific of wide dis
course and cannot be given space in
this article.
Scrapping with Virginia Police
Boats.
The fleet of soft-crabbers in the
sounos of Virginia and Maryland number
during the months of June, July, August
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04
GIVES A PERFECT SKIN.
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to the Beauty of Women.

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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

two-dollsr bill will bring him bad luck.
An uninitiated buyer on one occasion,
in paying a crabber the S3S due him,
handed out nineteen two-dollar bills
from his till. The big, hardened son of
the sea quickly Strengthened up and
quietly asked if he had any more money
in the box. When queried why" he
replied that he preferred coming an
other day for his pay. The roll of two
dollar Williams feazed him, and he was
braced ready for any calamity, but pre-
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

named gre in constant clash with the
Maryland crabbers, giving and receiving
the fire from rifles, at long range
because Of the deep draught of the
steamers. the poacher always fleeing
across the line at sight of the naval
police, who sends after him desultory
fire, sometimes returned 10y the fugitive.
Only once Of late has fatality re-
suited trom thus patrolling, when a
Maryland crabber was killed by fire of
the Virginia police. though naturally
there are many hairbreadth escapes.
Occasionally the Virginia steamers have
use for their one-pound Hotchkiss guns,
when the poachers get behind grassy
hummocks, lying fat in the water ard
obscured by few inches of turf and
its tail growth of vegetation, as they
Gre on the police. It is then the big
gun is brought to hear on them, and
sometimes, when solid shot does not
1islodge them, canister is necessary.
Frequently retreat is so precipitous the
poachers forsake their boats and fee.
wading. while the boats are secured by
a launch. from the steamer and confs-
Gated by Virginia.
Use 90 &C boat used for the most
part (here displayedD is a sailing "skiff, -
light, flat-bottomed and speedy, equip-
ped with a scrape and a hand-net. A
few larger boats, sloops and even "bug-
eyes, with two or three scrapes,
handled by crew of two or three men
and boys, work on the Grabbing bottoms.
but they must keep in three feet or
more depth, while the broader area OF
the soft crab habitat usually ranges in
depth from two to eighteen inches.
Besides the sailing fleet, which uses
''scrapes, or small toothless dredges.
hundreds Of men and boys ply the hand
net in the shoalest waters. A "sailer'
will catch as many as thousand soft
crabs and peelers day at the height of
the season, not to mention several bar
rels of hard crabs that might be termed
in the light of a by-product. The true
by-product, however, is the shell of the
picked hard crab, which is cleaned, and
skipped in barrels TO the marts and used
largely by lunch vendors and cafes for
holding the cooked crab meat, or deviled
crab, handed out to customers.
One Cent Each.
The ruling price in midseason a crab
ber gets-and he demands a no less
SUMS one cent apiece for his soft
catch. and Crisfield regulates prices
for maryland and Virginia, at least.
When the price falls from one cent to
half cent the independent waterfarer
ties up his boat and refuses to work
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04
A HERO in BLACK.

A negro on the Eastern Shore of Vir-
ginia attempted to assault a white girl,
but was driven off by another negro
named George Rayfeld, and the girl
was rescued. This story teaches that
there are negroes and negroes. Some
bad and some good. 1t is unfair to
judge whole race by the deviltry of
the meanest. All honor to George Ray
field. He has gained the respect and
good will of the white race by his act
of gallantry and has set noble exam
pie. If all negro men were like him
there would be no race problem in the
South.-Times-Dispatch.
Harry Williams, the negro who at
tempted to assault a white girl near
Onancock, has been captured, and
after a preliminary hearing, has
been sent to the grand jury.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04
IRV1NGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1907.

and September probably 500 SAIL OF
those II the industry Maryland furnishes
a majority. because on the border Vir-
ginia is sparsely settled, low and marshy.
Yet there is about three -fourths of the
best grabbing area of these sounds
within Virginia jurisdiction. The laws
of each State prohibit residents of the
other from operating within it's confines,
and this gives rise to numerous border
wars and hereditary hard feelings. The
Virginia police boats during the months
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-10-04

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