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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
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aEPUBLICAN EVIDENCE THAT
MIR. GLASSCoCK Is AS OBJEC-
tTioNABLE As-SMR. swIsHER
IN ONE RESPECTS-ELIxINs'
ATTORNEY.

q Tho Scherr people and indepen-
dent Republicans. are finding more
cause for self-congranlation daily
l.. Mr.. Elkins' kindness in giving
them Collector Glasscock az a com
promise (see Webster cadidate
for governor And the Democrats
certainly owe much to the blindness
OF Republican newspapers and
speakers. 1t is from such papers as
the Wheeling lntelligencer. Park
ersburg state Journal and Morgan
town Post; from such men as Con-
,gressman William PaIllster Hub
bard, Presley w. Morris, u. Taylor
Ninson and others. the people OF
, the state have learned of the crook
.sdness. OF the Republican state ma
chine. and the spirity OF absolute
d minatiCn exercised by Senator Ell
kins.
And so nicely does Mr.. Glass-
c.ck.s rcord lit n pre-nomination
dilcourse upon his public services
and political affiliations, that It
seems TO have been written by the
Mnd o. prophet who foresaw the
polite eXige ency which res tied In
his selection b. the Elkins commit
tee as a gubernatorial candidate.
Mr.. .Giasscock, be l. known. was,
prior to the Charleston convention
and up until he succeeded Mr..
Sw sher on the Elkins ticket, an ar
dent supporter OF his predecessor
under the crown OF thorns. In an
article written by Hon. George C.
Baker. Of Morgantown, a Republi-
can of state wide prominence. and
ene OF the strongest supporters OF
the sainted Dawson tax laws, pub
lished IN the Morgantown Chronicle
one of the stronssst Republican pa
pcrs n The state. Mr. GlasScock's )
connection with the homination OF
swisher, his relations with Elkins
AMI his mania for, ,oface are clearly
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
GOMPERS'
REPLY KEEN
SAYS TAFT ATTACKS, NOT HIM,
But woRKERs-DENIEs DE.
. LIVERY OF VOTES.

Samuel Gompers president OF the
American Federation OF Labor. is
sued a Statement. In which william
II. Taft, Republican candidate for
the Presidency. is bitterly arraign-
ed, because of the latter's charge
in a speech at Denver Friday night,
that the labor leader was Lying to
his followers"
1T is quite evident that Candi-
date Taft is losing his temper. as
well as his manners and his dig
nifty" asserts Mr.. Gompers. "He
cannot meet the truth and the JUS
tlce of labor's contention as regards
his injunctions, his party's refus-
al in congress TO accord the relief
from discriminating decisions
against the workers in the injunc-
tion abuse. and from the Sherman
antitrust law. under which the
voluntary organizations of the work
ing people are now held as trusts
SAYS ISSUES ARE AVOIDED
81 assert he cannot meet these
issues and he therefore, undertakes
to resort to the we'll known policy
of the pettifogger, who has a bad
case, thai is, by abusing the other
side.
THE working people of the coun
try know that Nj. Taft's 'ridicule
and raSping sarcasm are not aimed
at me, but at them, for there Ia
not one thought l have expressed
or one step which have taken but
what had initiative in the rank and
file of Americas toiling masses. un-
organized as well as organized.
But Mr.. Taft, departing from
his lighter vein of attack, ACCUSES
me of lying. In what have | lied in
regard TO any matter, at least. IN
regard to Judge Taft? Those who
know me will attest my dependable
ity and my veracity. Judge Taft
IS the first respectable man to ques-
tdon either"
REITERATES FORMER STAND.
The labor leader reiterates much
which he has previously said in ed
itorials and on the platform about
the failure of the Chicago conven-
tion to grant the demand of labor
and also the attitude Of the Re
publican congress toward the labor
element.
"In so stating, have / been lying
or have ! told the TRUTH" inquiries
Mr.. Gcmpers.
Did not Candidate Taft read. or
did not some one tell him, that
neither my colleagues nor myself
have, either by word or action. as
sumed tnat we had the right or the
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
ASSASS|NATED
GRECIAN PRINCE REPoRTEp \
VICTIM ~ OLUTION.

Cons;c nSinopin, Oct. IA repo I
that Prince 'ocnan;ine, OF Grss;i.
was ass lssinated While watching a.
my maEoehvers, W.T.. circulated 2 , e
today auc is imHo, sible to We ~
the STD The .rliKe aspec. al
the sit lat.Gl is - III. lessene1 20
day despite the fact that the minis
ter OF war continued to transport
machine guns and munitions OF war
toward the frontier. Excuse FOR this
Is that 1t is a defensive measure
and not one OF aggression. Unless
the Bulgarian army crosses -he
frontier and invades Turkish terri
tory war is not imminent. 1t is ev-
ident from the trend of events that
Turkey is anxiously awaiting the ac-
tion OF the powers. Germany Is
the cynosure of European eyes by
reason OF her attitude of friendli-
ness toward Austrla-Hungaria while
the latter empire Is acquiring Turk
ish territory by casual annexation.
Today Austria-Hungarla rule has
begun in Bosnia and Herzegovina
and results this may provoke are
large.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07

:..... CANDIDATE

set forth This article was pub
lished Sunday. March 22. when the
Scherr-Swasher embroilment was in
Its incipiency. and At time when
his accidental selection for the gov
ernorship was not foreshadowed.
Mr.. Glasscock was then collector OF
the internal revenue. 90 office pay
ing $4,000 per year. Senator Ell
kins' saiaried attorney. as he is 20
day; attorney for the Union Utility
Company, as he. is today. enjoying
generally lucrative practice. as he
IL today. while supposedly in the
government. service. Mr. Baker
could not have written this article
to be used as campaign docu-
ment against Elkins and Glasscock.
Neither could he. had he beer gifted
with the spirit OF prophecy, have
written better or more powerful
one for the advantage OF the Dem
ocra5ic party. That Mr.. Bakers
charge that Glasscock is Elklns'
salaried attorney is true. everybody
knows. since Il is fact OF record
In dozen courts. That he was an
ardent supporter OF Swisher for tho
nomination for governor is shown
In the utterances OF his paper, the
Morgantown Post. and In his action
In going to the Swisher convention
and. though not a delegate to any
convention attempting to cast the
vote OF Monongalia county for
Swisher. Mr.. Bakers article Civ
Ing the true inwardness OF the Ell
kIns-Swisher G GTasscock alliance fol-
lows:
Next TO the freedom of our per-
sons. Is the freedom OF speech in this
land. and the right to be heard in
our public papers when great inter
ests OF our state are invciya3.
Therefore. take IL, that we people
OF West Virginia have the right 20
express ourselves upon the position
which Collector OF Internal Revenue
Glasscock has taken with references
to the Morgan-own Post, in not per-
mitting our citizens to be heart.
therein. az in the days OF yore. when
Henry Morgan, tife frieIfd OF. the
people, was the editor OF the paper,
and when more recently Robert
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07

ACCIDEN rs

New York, Oct. Two bad ac-
c,dents occurred today at danger.
Gus 'Si' turn on the VANDERBILT
Cup course near Jericho. l.. l., dur
ing practice spins for the eimina
ton trial next Saturday. one car
caught fire and another plung q
over on its side into the shrubbery
beside the road
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
FOREMAN
Of JURY
LIFE LONG FRIEND OF MUIR
DERED .NrAN--DEFENsE on
JEcTs TO HIS ACTING ON rnn
CASE.

Now York, Oct. John r. No
lntyre, chief counsel for tho do
Tense In the Hams case, announced
today that he had sent to District
Attorney Darrin, OF Queens coun-
~, n written protest against eAa
consideration OF testimony in taat
case by tho grand jury OF which wu
w lliams, Jr, OF Long Island C,ty.
~ foreman. Mr.. Mcintyre says hm
protest vas based on the fac. that
Mr.. Williams was life long frienA
or VIM. IL. Annis. who was killed
by Captain Hams.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
MONNETT REPLIES TO
STANDARD OIL ATTORNEY

Kansas City. Mo-. Oct. 7.-yrsuK
5. Monnett. former attorney gsusr.
al o. Ohio, makes tart reply 70
s. u. Tclle, The Cleveland. Ohls.
Standard OIL attorney, who asssrts
that Monnett failed TO prove tAsh
"A standard on brlbe had been ob
fered him. Monnett brands tAs
the statement as "a pack OF malt
cious lies" lie says that no sas
supposed Standard oil was simple
enough TO call lts directors tosstA-
er 90 order bribery.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
NIGHT OPERATOR
ROBBED AND KILLED

Waycross, Ga, oct IA. H.
O'Nesl. night operator OF the At
lantic Coast Line at Nanhunta. was
assassiRsted this morning by rob
bers, who rined the cash drawer.
It 10 supposed the tragedy occurred
about two O'Clock, but II was first
discovered when the crew OF a train
entered the ofnce at 9 a. m. and
found O'Nesl dying with two bull
lets in his hoad.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
LAKES TO GULF
DEEPWATER WAY CONVENTION
TO III ADDRESSED by TAFT
AND BRYAN.

Chicago, oct. with the OPEN
inz OF the third annual convention
OF she Lakes to Gulf Deepwat T
Way Association with presidential
candidate w. 4 Taft and William J.
Bryan as the central hsures. Chica-
go this morning held within its
gates sho biggest function Of ma
tonai Importance that has come to
the city since the Republican na-
tonal convention.
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To THE PUBLIC

report Is being circulated In
some quarters to tho effect that We
arc tonGuct;ns stock brokerage
or BUCKET SHOP business: We are
NOT doing It, az we arc STRICT
LY LEGITIMATE HAY, GRAIN.
FEED. PRODUCE and GENERAL.
MERCHANDISE brokerage concern.
doing business on brokerage or
commission pasis; We do not deal In
STOCKS or OPTIONS as we arc nos
operating n GAMBLING business.
We do receive the hourly queta-
fions on Chicago grain, but this 10
for th" posting OF COR Gust omers
as wei as ourselves We DO s,s
take any trades on margins; xs
make sales and deliver the CON.
modify II you are IN doubt apo ,t
o, ~! be pleased {, nave you cs',
a. !CDm 27 X. e. NJ building ssd
w thn convince you that the above
'tai"rents arc fac,s. or call up tas
man1GCr OF the Weston Unios ssa
ne VII tell you shat oIr quots,i2.s
~" received as above stated; tsst
We do not have private wire
(Which IL necessary IN the BUCR-
ET SHOP business); that we do not
receive quotations on Stocks. bonds
cotton, etc. f~'~i tScm: NOR DO
WE RECEIVE THEM FROM ANY
OTHER SOURCE.
Yours truly,
STEELE e. MARLEY co.
by +. VI. Turner, Mgr.
October 6, 1908.
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LUTHERAN CHAPEL SERVICE

The young people have a meeting
this evening. subject OF talk. THE
Lords Supper" Public invited.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07

USEA MONITOR PULvERIZED.
The -four Of quality. cat all storss)
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07

Miss Marguerite Shonts and her
father. Theodore u. Shonts, head
o' the traction trust. New York.
Miss Shonts. on her recent arrival
from abroad was greeted with the
news that her father had been az
tackled with serious ailment and
was said to have collapsed at his
desa. He is now convalescent
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07

Srs. Jeanette Strong. a pretty
widow Of New Orloans, who de
clares all men are deee.vers. Mrs.
strong arrived to this Conclusion af-
ter an embarrassing situation in a
restaurant IN Staten 31sland. She
was dining with John ~ Maftln. a
prominent business man OF New
York. wso she says po8ed as Wild
owcr TIE meal was interrupted
by tho arrival of Mrs Martin who
broke up the party.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-07
Yours truly

STEELE e. MARLEY co.
by r. VI. Turner. Mgr.
october 6, 1908.
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Continued on page three.)
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Miners Quit Work.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 81. - Two
hundred and fifty thousand picks
dropped from the hands of as many
bituminous coal miners of the United
States this evening not to be used
again until a wage settlement has
been reached and a scale adopted be-
tween the United Mine Workers Of
America and the various operators OF
the various fields.
Tomorrow morning $50, 900 men will
be idle and thousands OF coal mines
Of the country will be deserted. The
situation, however, does not indica ate
o prolonged strike. An open winter
has left large stocks Of coal on hand
and the differences between miners
and operators are very slight. 1t is
practically agreed that the present
wage scale will be continued. Some
policies in connection with the charge
of national officers of the miners
organizations and local differences
between operators and miners have
resulted in temporary suspension from
work until a new scale is agreed to
either by districts or individual mines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
A Ghost Under the Sea.

The story is told of a diver who saw
two ghosts full fathom five under
the surface. He had gone down to the
wreck of a large steamer and was
crossing the main saloon when two
gray shapes of enormou size came
stumbling toward him. He did not
wait to make notes for the Psychical
society. but gave the danger signal and
was Mt once pulled up. Told in the
cheerful light Of day, 1t seemed rather
a lame story, and another diver went
down to see what he could make Of It
Toward him also came the shamblinG
gray shapes. He stood irresolute for d
moment and then, going boldly for
ward. struck his Ratchet through-a
mirror! The ghosts were only a din
reflection Of his own legs, much en-
larged, Of course, as everything is thai
a diver sees through the great fronta
| eye Of his helmet.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Peculiar and Pertinent.

The rubber tip on the end of lead
pencils made its inventor rich.
One million dollars was made by
the inventor of the gimlet-pointed
screw.
The Vatican contains a thousand
rooms and covers thirteen acres of
ground.
In the vicinity of Lonoke, Ark ans as,
about 5000 acres of prairie land were
planted to rice and the yield was about
1900, 900 bushels of rice, valued at
$500, 900.
In Germany the vaccination of cat.
tie against blackleg, q fatal disease,
is becoming general and very effec-
tive, as only three losses in five years
are reported.
C~hartreuse, the right to the name OF
which the Carthusian monks have Just
successfully contested, like many 9TH
err we'll known liquors, was first made
in a monastery as cordial for the sick.
1t is said to be a most complex pro.
duct, resulting from the maceration
and distillation of balm leaves and
tips as a principal ingredient.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Pray Declines Populist Honor.

Congressman Pray. who was one OF
the Montana republican victims OF a
populist joke by being named as an
altern ate to the national convention
of the peoples party, has declined
the honor. The Butte Inter Mountain
says Peter Breen, who some time ago
sent announcements of their selection
as altern ates to the national populist
convention to Senators Carter and
Dixon and Congressman Pray, has
heard from the last of his victims,
Mr.. Pray having written his ''regrets"
at not being able to accept. The
letter to Mr.. Breen reads as follows:
81 am 10 receipt Of your communica-
ton of the twelfth instant, with an in.
closure containing the minutes OF your
convention and the names OF the
delegates and alternates to national
convention.
"While l an not insensible to the
distinguished honor that you and
Judge Clancy have more than heap
ed upon me, yet, in-as.much AZ your
national convention is set for q date
on which congress- will be in full
swing, you will readily understand
that it will be impossible for me to
attend and discharge the trust in
accordance with the ARRANGEMENTS
made by yourself and the judge"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
WOULD COST MILLIONS,
Valuation Of Railroad Property
Would Be Expensive Work.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-The sen.
ate committee on interstate commerce
yesterday received a letter from Chair.
man Knapp. of the interstate com.
mission. giving the commissions
estimate Of the La Toilette bill for an
official valuation of railway property
In the main Mr.. Knapp quotes from
the SUGGESTIONS made by Henry C.
Adams, statistician for the commits.
sion. In regard to q similar bill re.
ferred to him q year ago and from the
last annual report Of the commission,
and then adds:
"As to the time likely to be required
for performing the work OF valu alton
and its probable expense we are o.
the opinion that the estimate of Mr..
Adams in his letter of 1906, is too con
servative and we understand that be
ts now OF the same opinion.
"While We are unable to form az
altogether confident Judgment We
think it not unlikely that three year:
ts necessary to complete the pro
posed valuation and that the total ex'
pense would perhaps not be less than
%, 900 900. At the same time We have
no reason to believe that these limit:
would be materially exceeded"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Hooded Snakes.

The hoods of snakes were unques-
tionably intended by nature to act as
weapons Of intimidation, for when sud
denly opened. as they are during the
excitement of Il contest. these give
their III an apparent and formida-
bic enlargement. But the hoods which
have been so useful mt some period In
snake history have now become so en-
larged as to tend toward the extinction
Of their owners. just as the override
velopment in the tusks of prehistoric
animals led straight to their destruc'
ton. During Il fight the hooded snake
in the act of striking his foe suffers
from the o~utstretched and weighty
| hood-he overbalanccs himself and top
| pies forward. His assailant. the mon
| goose and some birds specially, seize:
| him when PROSTATE and. ripping III
the back of the neck. speedily dis
patches him.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Employment for Thousands.

CHICAGO, March 3l.-In the next
sixty days the railroads OF the United
States will have to find between 25O,.
600 and 800, 900 men t mend their
tracks and roadbeds, and another
large army to 60 into their shops and
repair their cars and locomotives.
The railroads centering in Chicago
alone will. between tomorrow and June
l, require more than 100, 900 laborers.
Work will start in tomorrow on the
roads which are best favored by eli
matte conditions. and will be increased
rapidly until June /, when renewal
and repair work will be in full swing
on every railroad in the country
The average number of men needed by
each of the large Chicago systems is
5000. and the wages offered are to be
about the same as last year, wher
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, March 3l.-If a bill
passed by the senate today becomes a
law, it will be unlawful for any ad.
vertiser to announce that his wares
are guaranteed by the government
of the United States under the pure
food law" The bill is intended to
prevent the misleading statement that
under the pure food law articles are
guaranteed as to the purity of char.
acter.
The prospect became bright today
that the Postal Savings bank bill will
be reported favorably by the commit.
tee on postofices to the ate this
week. 1t will be a composite of the
many features of the bills presented
by Senator Carter and others. Sena.
tor Bourne of the committee, believe:
the bill will pass the sen ate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08

cultivate the lands upon which they
entered and desire title.
The incompetence OF many of these
special agents, and their Indifference
to the rights of the settler, are the
subject of comment by the Great Falls
Tribune in these remarks:
The practice in the past has been for
special agents of the land department
to drive in a buggy over land taken
up by the settler under the desert land
law and to have the entry suspended
and the land contested on the ground
that it was ~non.desert in character.
The testimony of dozens of neighbors
and old.time residents that the land
would not provide paying crops with
out irrigation, backed by the admitted
fact that the settler had spent in good
faith large sums of money to bring
water on the land to irrigate it, was
cast aside at Washington as OF no
weight against the opinion of q few
greenhorns, not farmers, sent out from
Washington and who never saw the
land except for az hour or two. 1t Is
fair to say that the local land Office
endeavored to fairly decide these ques.
tions on their merits and according to
the preponderance of evidence. But
again and again they we're reversed at
Washington, apparently IN the theory
that every person in the west was a
liar and in q conspiracy to rob the
government OF its land by fraud, and
the testimony Of their own hired agents
was to be taken as outweighing all
other witnesses or proof in the case.
As these hired agents were given to
understand that the more contests
brought the better proof OF their abil.
ity and industry vas on file at Wash.
ington, they did their best to file con.
tests on the very least color OF evi.
dence, and often without any just or
reasonable cause at all.
AS long as they were invariably sus-
tanned at Washington, regardless Of
the proofs or facts in the case, their
industry was stimulated, and contests
multiplied. The recent decisions,
however, would seem to indicate re-
turning reason at Washington, and
the turning down of the special agents
testimony when contradicted by the
evidence of men who had lived in the
vicinity of the land for years will have
a salutary effect in curling their per.
nicious activity.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
Chicago Robbed Of Millions.

CHICAGO, March 3l.-The Chicago
city council decided last night to take
q hand in the investigation of graft in
the water department. The aldermen
adopted a resolution directing that
all evidence of the misconduct of the
departments employees be cent to the
council committee on water.
superintendent McCourt of the water
bureau gave out an estimate that the
city has been defrauded of about 49,.
500, 900 in water taxes in the last II
years. The exact amount will be de.
termined by the investigation OF the
books Of the Office, which will be com
pleted in q few days. He estimated
that the city had lost s5,OOO.0 O(
through the tampering with meters,
o., 900, 900 from the corrupt and in
correct assessment OF frontage rate:
and 81, 500, 900 in stolen material ani
tools,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-08
SQUARE DEAL FOR SETTLERS

Some recent decisions by the federal
authorities at Washington, in connec-
ton with land contest cases from this
district, encourage the belief that the
settlers will receive q square deal. In
most of these cases the right of the
settler to patent for his land has been
challenged by special agents OF the
government, who alleged that failure
to comply with all the provisions of
the law should prevent acquisition Of
title by the settler.
There is nothing political in these
land contest matters. They were q
feature of the Sparks management O
the general land Office under the Cleve'
land administration, when every set
tier was regarded as a land grabber,
and wholesale suspensions Of entrie:
were made. In more recent years, IN
der a republican administration,
large number of actual cases of fraut
have been detected and the offender.
prosecuted, and in the diligent search
for other violations Of the law, man!
innocent and worthy settlers have suf
fered embarrassment and injustice
A liberal Interpretation of the law an.
fair treatment in every respect ar
due to settlers who have demonstrated
their honest purpose to reclaim an