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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
MANY PEOPLE
WERE AT CHURCH
EXCELLENT SERVICES WERE
HELD YESTERDAY BOTH
MORNING AND EVEN
ING.

Yesterday at the First Presbyterian
church a series OF meetings was COM
menced which will continue through
the week and as long as interest Is
maintained. on Sunday morning
Rev. stoetzer occupied the pulpit and
last evening Rev. NJ. L. Rankin, the
blind evangelist occupied the pulpit.
Services will be conducted each even
ing at 1880 o'clock. to which the pub
lie is invited. Rev. Rankin is man
OF unusual power.
At the N. E. South Church.
The seating capacity of the NJ. E.
South Church was taxed to the utmost
last evening by the large congregation
which gathered for the evening SER
vice. Rev. R. T. Webb occupied the
pulpit and delivered an excellent SER
mon, taking for his text. St. John 10:
9, II am the door" At the close of
his service several signIfied their de,
sire for the prayers of the Christian
people on their behalf. Service to-
night at the usual hour.
Two Services Held.
Separate services were held last
evening by the NJ. E. and NJ. P. con-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Hello Concerns Wont Form
Trust Say Telephone Men

eliminated for all time at this weeks
meeting. Within the last few years
the independent telephone concerns
all over North America have made
such great progress that they have
now fully achieved the state of indie
pendence which they once only claim
ed. For years the Bell company wae.
ed an unceasing warfare on the indie
pendents. and the latter fought back
as vigorously as they could. Now the
old concern is proffering concessions,
but these will undoubtedly be refused.
Plans for the further development
Of the independent telephone industry,
the importance of legislation. the eff
feet OF the recent financial furry on
the telephone industry. the methods
of financing telephone companies and
many other matters of Importance to
the Independents will come up for
consideration during the sessions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20

CHICAGO. Jan. 2o.-That there is
no probability of any combination be-
Ing erected with the Bell Telephone
trust" is the unqualified declaration
Of the officers and members Of the
National Independent Telephone as.
socIation. who arrived here to-day in
large numbers for the annual conven-
ton of the organization. Men repre-.
sentIng many millions OF dollars in.
vested in "hello" plants in various
parts of the United States and Cana
da are here. The convention will be
held in close touch with the National
Electrical exposition, now in progress
at the Coliseum.
According to President Theodore
Gary. Of Kacon, Missouri. the posi-.
bilities of cooperation with the old
Bell company, which were considered
1T the convention last year, will be
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20

gregations. on account of the large
congregation which was expected.
Rev. Davis, of Mt. Lake Park, Md,
again occupied the pulpit at the NJ. e.
Church and continued ms theme, "op-
portunities." which he had followed
during the week.
At the Temple. the pastor, Rev.
BroomReld. occupied the pulpit, the
subject of his sermon being, Peter,
plate and the Roman centurians'
Testimony for Christ" Tonight the
congregations will again unite for the
usual meetings at 1880 o'clock.
At the Central Christian Church.
A large congregation was present at
the Sunday night service at the Cen.
tral Christian Church. A song SER
vice opened the service. Homer L.
Simmons, of Wheeling is director of
the choir and the congregational sing
ing and last night showed the effects of
his training. Mr.. Simmons sang an
impressive solo, Some one is Pray
ing for you" Rev Willison as usual
occupied the pulpit and his subject
for a powerful sermon was "The Pow
er of Jesus Christ" Services will be
held as usual tonight at 1880 o'clock.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Conspiracy
Unearthed At
Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRo, Jan. co. Brazil
ion police have discovered an anarch-
ist plot here having as its object the
destruction OF part of the American
feet now lying in the harbor. The con-
spiracy. while entering in Rio Janelro
and Petropoplls has ramifications in
Saopaulo and Minas Goraes. Jean
Fedher, who resided in Petropolis. was
the chief conspIrator, although, 1t is
understood that foreign anarchists
are involved in the plot. Fedher is
believed to be known to the police,
and officers have been sent to that
place for the purpose of apprehending
him.
One of the detectives who was well
acquainted with Fedher, having serv-
ed on the police force at Petropolis for
some time, returned from that place
to-day after having made investiga-
tions there, and had long conference
/ with the chief of police at Rio ia
metro. The latter let 1t be understood
later that the saopaulo police are on
the track of the arch conspirator and
expect to arrest him soon.
In nm official note which the chief
of police sent to the correspondent of
the Associated Press he says:
Aethenitus Warned.
Some time before the arrival OF
the American fleet at Rio Janeiro the
Brazilian government received from
Washington and Paris advices that an
archists of different nationalities in
tended to damage one or several of
the heads of the American fleet. The
names and addresses of the consplra-
tors were indicated by information
which the police here had received
previously from France and Germany.
"The police of this district are work
ing with the police of saopaulo and
Minas Geraes and / am sure every
precautIon will be exercised and the
most rigorous vigilance observed both
on land and at sea to prevent any In
Jury being done.r
The chief of police said that he did
not feel he should go into any further
detailsi with regard to the conspiracy.
but he authorized the statement that
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Department Surprised.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 20. -
Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury, chief
of the bureau of navigation of the
navy department, was greatly surpris-
ed to learn through the Associated
Press dispatch OF the discovery of an
anarchist plot in Rio De Janeiro, the
object of which is the destruction of
part Of Rear Admiral Evans battle
ship fleet. 1t was the first intimation
the admiral had had of such plot.
'T cannot believe It. 1t seems pre-
posterous," said Admiral Pillsbury. 1t
was he said on a par with the rumor
having its origin in Paris, OF an at.
tempt to destroy the battleships, Con-
necticut and Missouri. He said that
It would be a strange thing II the an
archsts should go so far as Brazil,
bent on the destruction of the Pacific
bound feet, when they probably could
carry out their plot with much great
er ease in this country. No advices
were received at the navy department
from Rear Admiral Evans to-day and
Rear Admiral Pillsburq expressed the
opinion that he would have notified
this government II he had been Off
cially informed of the existence of a
plot at Rio. Admiral Pillsbury did not
know anything relative to the rumor
4k,t 5n,J-ol E,,opo Mill Iaoyo %baro
earlier than the appointed time.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Very Clever
ARE PARKERsRuRe ELKs AND
ARE BOOSTERS FOR THEIR
CITY.

Postmaster A. Howard Fleming. AS
.sistant Postmaster Wilbur H. Brand,
Superintendent of Mails Harry L. En-.
gle and Stamp Clerk C. w. Paxson
who recently returned from Parkers-
burg where they attended United
states Court are loud in their praises
for the royal manner in which they
were entertained at the Elks' Home
while in Parkersburg. Exhalted Rul-
er McGregor. Steward Drennen, H.
Smoot, Judge Smith, Postmaster
Frank Smith, and Assistant Postmas-
ter Henry Harnish tried to outdo each
other in providing the best that could
be had. The Elks Home in Parkers-
burg is the best in the State. Col.
Brand says that Parkersburgers are
the best boosters in the world and
that man cannot visit that city with.
out having better feeling for Its peo-
pie on account of their hospItableness.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
$4,000 FIRE
AT GLARKSBURG
SUNDAY MORNING
Several Buildings
Were Destroyed

CLARKSBURG. W. Va, Jan. 30
The worst confagration that has ever
visited this city resulted early Sun
day morning in the total demolition Of
the Jameson block in the Glen Elk
addition, near the eSBaltimore and Ohio
station and will put number OF firms
which occupied the building out Of
business for a short time at least.
The fire. the origin of which has not
been determined, was discovered Sun
day morning about o'clock and be-
fore the fire department could get to
it it had gained such headway that
practically the only thing that could
be done was to save the adjoining
buildings, and their attention was
turned to this work.
The fire started in the basement Of
the Jameson building. which is oc-
cupied by soft drink establishment.
and spread rapidly to the other floors,
with the result that practically none
of the goods OF the occupants of the
other floors could be removed from
the burning building. In the rooms
on the top floors of the building there
were a number OF families, and these
all were aroused as soon as the fire
was discovered. and they got out with.
out injury but none of them were
able to save more of their belongings
than they could carry in their flight
to safety.
Loss and Insurance.
Following is list of the losses and
the amount of insurance:
JAMESON building. owned by W. w.
Jameson, of Salem, loss. $4,000; In
surance, $4,000.
Clarksburg Wholesale Confectionery
Company; Loss, $4,000; insurance,
s2,5OO.
Cocoa Cola plant, loss. $4,000; part
ly covered by insurance.
]. T. Martins heirs; loss. $4,000; no
insurance.
Glen Elk Produce Company; loss
$4,000; partly covered by insurance.
There were about six people living
and having offices on the top floors ol
the building, and their losses will
amount to about s2,5OO, and most of
them had a small amount of insurance.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Miss Hodges
RETURNED MISSIONARY FROM
JAPAN WILL, SPEAK AT CA
TAW5A AND MONTANA.

Miss Olive Hodges, returned mis-.
sionary from Japan. and well known
in church circles, will speak at Cataw.
ba church on Saturday evening Of
this week, at Z o'clock, and on Sunday
at 1O:3O a. m. She will speak on Sun
day evening at o'clock at the Mon.
tana NJ. P. Church. Miss Hodges has
a number of curios picked up in diff
ferent parts of Japan which she will
exhibit at the meetings.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Anarchist Plot To Blow Up The American
Fleet Was Frustrated by Brazlians

the plot was organized by Fedher, and
he added that the people of the Unit
ed States could rest easy as all of the
consplrators had taken refuge in the
Interior.
The police of saopaulo have sent
word that they are on the track of the
malefactors, who they declare, will
not be able to come to Rio Janeiro.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
EVELYN CALLED
10 STAND AS THE
FIRST WITNESS
The Wife Tells
Story OF Her Life

NEW YORK, Jan. 20. - Evelyn
Thaw was the first witness called to
the stand to-day. jerome at once re-
newed the motion that the public be
excluded from the court room. Judge
bowling ruled that the reporters be
admitted. Rev. DR.. Aked, John D.
Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church pastor, was given a seat close
to the witness stand. A lengthy con-
ference of Thaw's attorneys followed,
when 1t was announced that Evelyn
would finish her testimony before the
elder Mrs. Thaw or Mrs. Morehouse
would be called.
after the story was told to Harry
he would bite his nails, talk inco-
herently and sob wildly. Then hs
would sit for hours with his head
buried in his hands never saying a
word. Harry urged me to marry him
saving was. not responsible, that
had been the victim of the unprinci-
pied scoundrel.
Littleton at once plunged lntn
Eyelyn's examination. In response to
his questions she said: "In the Paris
Hotel in 1903 | confessed to Harry that
4 could not marry him because of the
wrongs OF Stamford White. Harry
asked me II 1t was White that was
standing between our marriage and |
answered yes. told him first met
stamford White when introduced by
my girl friends. met him a couple
OF times and finally went with him In
n cab, He took me to house on West
Twenty-fourth street. We were alone.
but while at luncheon another woman
came in. White showed me through
the house. There were a couple Of
rooms hung with draperies and sketch
es. He had big velvet swing In one
room and all the seats were lounging
velvet seats. Then he asked me to
come to dinner he was arranging
for after the show. I agreed to go.
Then he took me to his rooms in Mad
ison Square Tower" Here the wit
ness gave vivid description of the
tower rooms luxuriousness. Il told
Harry that White invited me to a
supper party and when I got there he
was alone. l asked him where tho
Others were and he said they had not
come. Supper was served on a table
for four. He showed me a room lined
with mirrors, also a secret stairway
which led from the upper to the lower
floor. Then he showed me a finely
furnished bedroom and when l sat
down he poured out glass of wine.
He insisted that drink. took lit
tie Of It and knew no more for some
time. When came to myself, my
clothing had been taken from me. l
screamed and White came over and
told me not to worry. l hurriedly
dressed and went back to the hotel.
/ told Harry about White kneellng
!. down to me and saying everything
would be all right; said I must not
tell my mother as everybody does
these things. I asked him If certain
people l knew did those things. He
laughed and said, yes" During her
recital the witness voice broke several
times and tears rolled down her
cheeks.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
ANOTHER Big LlsT

Another big list of subserib
ers is going to set the Benefit 81
the big magazine ofEer 10 start
with the February number The
list is growing each day only
a few days remain nov 81 this
month to get your name In. 80 II
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Murder Trial
BEGAN THIS MORNING = NINE
cHINAMEN CHARGED WITH
HOMICIDE,
HOMICIDE.

BOSTON, Jan. 2O.-Nine Cinnamon
simultaneously charged with murder
were placed on trial here this morn
ing. The trial results from a war last
summer when a gang of celectials
walked through Chinatown shooting
promiscuously at every Chinaman they
met. AS a result three were killed
and scores wounded.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
ADVERTISING 1T
$3.50 A PAG
DOES
An Object Z esson
For Our Merchants

For Our Merchants
The Sunday papers yesterday that
were scattered broadcast throuEhout
this section Of the State were crowd:
ed, as usual to the chases With is:
play advertising. especially the Riti
burg papers. What the great city ol
Pittsburg has grown 20 be only On,
phasizes the Importance Of the push
and enterprise from which It attained
its growth. The merchants are enter.
prising-THEY ARE ADvERTIs sERs
Yesterday in conyersation with asreps
resentntive of one OF Pittsburss lead
ing papers we were informed that the
Sunday papers received for space "
the Sunday editions s1.9s per inclIl pt
about $2So.OO per page. Does 4 pay
1t most assuredly does or this lavish
expenditure would not be kept N
from dag to day and year to year
Just for the sake Of appearance.
And so 1t Is with the wheeling spn.
day papers. Full page adyertisements
are the rule. Much business. We afe
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
EDWARDS Found Not Guilty.

CLARKsBURG, w. Va, Jan. 20
Richard L. Edwards, an insurance
agent employed by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, who has
been on trial here for the embezzle-
ment of $500, was found not guilty by
the jury early Sunday morning, after
it had been out for a number of hours.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
Mother and 4
Girls Killed
BRUTAL MURDER ON A RANCH IN
MONTANA COMES TO
LIGHT.
tBy United Press.)

LEWISTON, Mont, Jan, 2O.-News
was received here to-day of the bru-
tai murder of widow, Mrs. Sluter,
and her four daughters. the eldest a
little over fourteen, who ran a ranch.
Some time Sunday all were killed and
the house set afire. Posses have gone
to the scene.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20

Congressman Hubbard was a pas
senger on No. going East last even
ing.
Hon. c. L. Topping spent Saturday
might in Fairmont.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20

Mrs. Bert Martin, who underwent
an operation for appendicitis at Cooks
Hospital two weeks ago, is recovering
rapidly. ~
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20

Hon. John ]. Cornwell was a distin
yuished visitor in town yesterday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-20
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ELECTRIC THEATRE.

Mondays-"Go, Little Cabin.Boy.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-05-08

American Desert, that had existed on
the maps and frightened ordinary sober
men away A little courage, a little
experiment, and To- the desert became
a myth; the once burning sands became
fruitful soil; the once cheerless river,
unshaded by tree for 500 miles, be-
came a mighty power for the building
of homes and industries Now, lands
are in demand at ten, twenty times the
price at which they first brought only
out Of compassion.
All of this progress is real mot ephem-
eral, not fictitious. but founded on the
proven productiveness and so perma-
nence of the country.
The Salmon River project is the con
tinuation of the Twin Falls irrigation
system. same people, same quality of
land, same matchless climate linked by
the same electric railroad system, trib-
utary to the same markets. The oppor-
iunities for big profits are even better,
for the pioneer work is already done,
and the land market already made.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-05-08
A Marvel of Land Selling
Why $4,000 Buyers Have Sought Homes In Irrigated Ida
no, And How Lands Sell For $1,000 An Acre

Through the herculean efforts of the
Twin Falls companies, practically every
acre of the original Twin Falls segre-
cation of land has been sold. The
greater part of the acreage of the
North Side segregation is also sold, and
the demand for land seems to have only
fairly begun 1t is not clever advertis-
ing alone that has brought more than
$4,000 letters of inquiry for lands in
this section, to the Twin Falls COM
panies. The demand is founded on rea-
son and experience. The SHOWS will
never cease to fall on the high noun
tains: the rivers will not dry up or blow
away; the rainfall or the water flow on
the land, is comfortable; there is no
drought one year and flood the next.
The crops are not subject to the eXigen-
cies of bad weather such as is common
in sections where destructive storms
are the rule during the growing and
the harvest season. Irrigated prod
uets. being more uniform because of
the controlled supply of moisture, are
worth more money than those grown
under rainfall conditions. All these
factors enter into the values of irrigated
lands, and all these have been consid-
cred by the buying public in thus seek
ing to acquire homes in irrigated Idaho.
From the people who consider all these
things. come the settlers of the irri /
gated lands and women of judg- {
ment. most of them with some little
means. and with progressive ideas. 1t
Is golden citizenship; no other state
under the sun has so high an average I
ritizenry as the irrigated sections where
the land has been settled up as it is
Under the Twin Falls systems.