Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-30
TAZEWELL. VA, THURSDAY. JULY 80 1908
S. W. VIRGINIA
news ITEMS.
WHAT HAS RECENTLY IRANSPlREC
IN the COUNTIES OF THIS
SECTION.

The Democrats of Scott county held
convention at Gate City on last Satur-
day and selected delegates to represent
that county at the Congressional con-
vention to be held at Pulaski, Va, in
August. The delegates were instruct
ed to vote for E. M. Carter, of Gate
City, for the nomination, and he sipni-
fed his willingness to make the race if
selected as the party's standard bearer.
A dispatch sent out from Norton. Vir-
ginia, to the Lynchburg News on last
tuesday, states that Hon. R. P. Bruce
has signified his willingness to again
make the race for Congress on the Dem
ocratic ticket, in the event the nomina-
ton is rendered him by the Pulaski con-
vention. With the entry of Mr.. Bruce
into the contest, there are now three
candidates seeking the nomination. the
other two being E. M. Carter and Rev.
]. T. Frazier.
Clayton Sallings, aged twenty years.
and a member of a prominent Scott
county family, was murdered last Sun
day night at the home of a woman
named Gillian, near Hill Station, twelve
miles north of Gate City. Sailing and
some other young men had a difficulty
at the house early in the night. All
left but Sailing, and some time later he
was shot dead from the outside through
a window. The Gillian house has
borne bad reputation for some time.
Willie Wills, 16, son of w. H. Wills
OF Norton, Va, received internal inju-
ries In a baseball game Tuesday, which
will likely prove fatal. The injury was
occasioned by his colliding with another
player, which rendered him unconscious
and broke one rib. After recovering
consciousness he resumed his position in
the game without the extent of his in
jury being ascertained. After his re-
turn home, however, he lost conscious
ness, and physician was called. who
pronounced his condition dangerous in
the extreme.
Under the direction of Gunyon Miller,
special commissioner, applicants of
this region for participation in the four
million dollars which the United States
Government appropriated to pay to de-
scendants of the Cherokee Indians. were
examined at Bristol last week, and dis
tinct evidences of Indian blood were
manifest in many of the applicants.
There are about as, 200 applicants for
participation in this fund, and evidence
Is to be taken among them In the sever
al states in which they reside. The
judgment in favor of these people calls
for interest for period of seventy-fve
years upon the principal involved.
On Friday Of last week at her home
near Big Stone Gap, Va, while sup.
posedly temporarily insane, Mrs. Rachel
Price, wife of ]. H. Price, murdered
their five-year-old daughter by crush
ing her skull with an axe. After strik-
ing the blow, Mrs. Price took the child
and started toward Appalachia. She
had not gone far, however, when she
was met by two men, who, seeing the
condition OF the child, stopped the
woman and took her to her home. where
she collapsed. After regaining con-
sciousness she was taken by an officer
to Big Stone Gap for preliminary
hearing. She admits killing the child.
but gives no explanation of her act.
She has several children by a former
husband, but the one she killed is by her
present husband.