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report made by him and his assistants.
This report was made to ]. w. Paul.
He has had 54 years experience in
mines. He had much experience in
gaseous mines. He worked In CASE
GUS mines in England. Had some ex-
perience with explosions. He came
to Monongah at the request Of Gov.
Harris, OF Ohio, to assist the mining
department here and to gain all possi-
BILE knowledge, SO that the State of
Ohio would be benefited in getting
better laws governing mining. The
report of Mr.. Harrison was read to the
jury by John T. Harris.
The machinery that furnished ven
tilation was equal to furnishing twice
as much air as was necessary. The
witness visited No. 8 pretty generally.
At No. G visited the main headings Of
No. 6 and the connection of the mines.
Found charred coal and dust. The ex-
animation started on Dec. 16, ten days
after the explosion. He had never
been in the mines previous to the ex.
plosion.
Ebenezer Jones, assistant mine in.
spector of the 4th district of the State
of Ohio. He was handed a report Of
the conditions of the mine as the In
spectors found it. His mining expe.
rience started in 1874. He has not
heard anything since making the re-
port that would cause him TO add to
or detract from the report. He had
never been in these mines prior to the
explosion.
w. H. Turner. of Cambridge, o., as
slstant mine inspector Of the 9Th dis
trict of Ohio. Has been mine inspec-
tor for eleven years. He was through
(co1slnuad On paae gour.l
see Mecray Livery for bob-sIed
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TWO MORE BODIES

Were Removed From No. 8 Mine
Last Night.
Two more bodies were taken from
No. s at Monongah last night One
an italian was identified by his check,
but the other had not been identified
this afternoon. Undertaken Musgrays
went to Monongah this afternoon and
the remains were inferred
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FIRE AT alllfNEARpLls.


MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 9.-The entire
fire department has been called to the
Hartman Furniture company's ware.
house. The building is raging fur
mace from second to seventh floor.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-09

Mecray Livery for sisIahts, Eight
.IsIshs, plenty o. horses.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-09

see Mecray Livery for bob-sIed
rides.
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public until the hour of the Heyyieei
SO If you want to know who i e
preach to.night 90 to the meetins
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are loyal to the Germans, even when
warning against their own people.
During my stay l have visited the bar
racks. The natives are allowed to have
THEN wives with them. They cook
for their husbands and their presence
keeps the soldiers in a good humor. This
same custom of allowing the women to
go with the army is common in British
East Africa and Uganda. save that there
the native soldiers and police live in
villages of huts which are put up for the
purpose.
Talk With the Governor General.
l met the governor general shortly after
landed here. He is the supreme ruler
Of the 100000 people who inhabit this
great German colony, and he has entire
control of German East Africa. He has
great building devoted to his offices and a
beautiful villa in a great park some dis
lance away. My first talk with him was
at the government house and l met him
later in the evening at his home and had
a chat with him.
The governor of German East Africa is
Baron Won Rechenberg. He was edu
Gated at the University of Berlin and after
graduation was made consul general at
Zanzibar. Later on he held a diplomatic
position in Russia and was then sent here
to be the ruler of this colony.
Baron Won kechenberg eXcels a
linguist He speaks seven languages
fuently and he has mastered some of the
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native tongues here. He can talk with
his subjects in Swahli and he understands
the African native about as well as any
man in this part of the world. He spends
a great deal of his time travelling over
the colony. He has just returned from
long safari about the slopes of Mount
kilimanjaro. he knows the coast lands
thoroughly, and he has made many trips
into the interior Our conversation was
held in English and it covered a variety
of subjects.
In talking of his colony, the governor
general said:
Few people appreciate the extent and
possibilities of German East Africa. This
country is about twice big as France
and it is far bigger than any country in
Europe except Russia. 1t is as thickly
populated as almost any part of Europe,
and the land is rich that without much
work the people have enough and to
spare. We have A large territory here
which will raise cotton, sugar cane and
kilimanjaro. l visited one coffee planta-
ton which had 100000 trees. The farm
ers tell me that the plants grow rapidly,
and that they yield fruit at earlier age
than in most other coffee regions. Two
or three pounds to the young tree is al.
ready common on that plantation and
some of the trees are yielding much more.
AS to sugar we are having successful eX-
perimentS on the low lands near the coast,
and planting some cotton which
produces excellent crops. So far our eX-
periments have been about the port of
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Sadani. We are using Egyptian seed
and out yield compares favorably with
that of Egypt We are also setting out
rubber trees as well as plantations or
vanilla and hemp"
Questions of Labor.
DO you think you will ever be able
to raise enough cotton to affect our crop
in the worlds markets?'' l asked.
Il doubt it," replied the governor gen.
eral You Americans need not worry
about that now, nor for a long time in
the future.
[ here asked the governor general as
to the native labor supply. saying l I'M
derstood the blacks made poor workmen.
Said he:
Our people are OF many different
tribes, and they are quite as different in
character as the peoples of other conti-
nents. We have some who are indus
trious and some who are lazy. <Some
tribes are intelligent, and others are far
down in the scale of barbarism. Some
are good for one thing, and some for
another. We have many Nasal about
Kilimanjaro. They are worth absolutely
nothing as tillers of the soil, but they
make excellent stock men. For long time
they were cattle thieves and their chief
business was robbing their neighbors. We
have now put them on a reservation
large enough to give them abundant pas
ture for their f1ocks and they are doing
quite we'll The Nasal make fine herds
men They understand stock and we use
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castle; but no great wastes for mine, not
if l knows it
We'll, you don't have to take them
wastes says |. unless you want EN-.
What I'd like to know is how were goin'
to get rid of him. If tn old man finds
him here when he gets back ther'll be tn
devil to pay
What's tn matter with keepin' him
here?' says Bill. We can hide him down
in TIL hold where tn old man won't See
him until that Eyetalian slop bucket
alongside is due TO sail. an then smuggle
him aboard of her. He'll be better off
there anyhow than upstate behind tn
bars.
"'What be them birds of his wuth?'
he inquiries. L know man VINO could
buy EN- if they were genuine
Genuine birds of paradise" l cries.
ashamed of Bills ignorance Why, you
loOney, Their amt no sech creatures.
They're extinct long ago. If Their ever
was any, which 1 don't believe
81 don't care what you calls en-
says Bill. They amt woodpeckers, or
English sparrers. be they? They're with
somethin'. enough anyhow to pay for our
trouble in hidin' him for day or two, l
guess
you're right there I says. Parrots
like them is worth dollar apiece, mebbe
two He'll make an awful row, though,
at partin' with EN-
LET him. says Bill unfeelinIy It's
either that or tn bug house for him.
whichever he pleases. Once We git him
aboard that Dago wash tub. lie can yell
all he likes: it amt nothn' to us what
he does. He'll be outer harms way at
any rate
II was jest startin' IN to tell him what
thought of the matter, when somebody
screams, Aw. quit yer k'ddin', quit yer
kiddin'. quit kiddin'.' 1 gives jump, an
so does Bill, an then we both of US bust
out latin. Blamed if it warnt one o.
them birds OF paradise. that had thawed
out mite, an was jest tryin' his voice
to find if It worked all right.
'Thunderation.' says Bill. Well have
to gag tn bunch of EN- if they're goin' to
squawk like that
Not down in TIL hold they won't. says
/. where it's good an dark. They'll be as
quiet mice
"An' then l proceeds to explain tn
game TO Merryvingia. lett'n' on as how
me an Bill was angels in disguise 2ppint-
ed special TO deliver i'm outcrn tn hands
of his enemies. an to say how providen-
shul it yas for i'm he had found us.
All you have to do / says to him. is
jest to lay low for a while till we contrives
to stumble on Il vehicle of escape for ye,
which we won't be long a-doin' Of: AN
then-caracoles.-yo do the great disap-
pearin' act in tn last chapter with red
fire burnin' on tn deck. an them bird
fanciers ye're so sot ag'inst hull down In
tn offin'. with tn wind outern their sails
an every seam leakin.'
Hope you handed it to i'm strong.
says Bill when l had finished. an Merry
viniga sOt Sapin' at me. AN that you
didn't say nothin' about tn sad partin' in
stor' for i'm
"'Trus me for that I says. I never
lets out a word. It'll be as complete a
s'prise party for i'm as ever was
We'll" he went on. 1T took a lot more
paluverin afore | convinces his r'yal nibs
of III wisdom of our plans: but he agrees
finally. an me an Bill pilots him down in
the hold an slows him away amidst a lot
OF empty lie barrels. In course we takes
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sources of the northern part OF thid
colony. Mr.. We'll told me that he wa]
about to take up concession OF timber
lands here which would keep his men bus
cutting for the next 100 years. He said 4
he intended to order saw mills and othe 4
lumber machinery from the United State
and that large part OF his market would
be the United States. where he 'eXpecte
To send certain furniture wood whici
is much like black walnut. The governor
general replied that Mr. Well had nod
received the concession as yet. and tina 4
there is no absolute surety that his plans
will be carried out. He continued:
Government of the Colony.
"As to our forests. they are OF great
extent. but SO far they have not been ex
plotted Some of the wood is fine and
they will ultimately have a fixed value in
the markets of Europe We have trees
which correspond to teak; some which are
like black walnut. and others which ard
soft as cedar All OF these woods ard
valuable and there should he a marked
for them in Europe and also along this
coast"
asked the governor general To tell md
something as to how the colony is mani
aged. 1t has governor general appoint
ed by the kaiser and nine administrators
one for each district. The administrators
aided by council Of three or five mend
bers, of which the administrator is pres |
dent. The members of this council ard
appointed by the governor and one Of
them must represent native interests
Justice is administered by supreme courts
and district and native courts The army
consists of the military and the police and
in 1t there are about 800 Germans and
300 natives.
The government is establishing schools
ha nd
has both European and native teachersl
There are a large number of mission
aries at work. botn Protestant and CATH
Ollie, and they also have their schools
There are 1000 pupils in the government
schools. and these schools include mani
ual training and schools for the govern1
ment service.
Many wagon roads are being laid Out
through different parts of German East
Africa, and there are caravan routes
throughout the interior.
So far the chief trading station ha
been Bagamoya. which lies on the coast
just opposite ZanZibar, which is on AN
island thirty-four miles across the chan-
mel From time immemorial the por;ers
have brought ivory and other goods, OF
their heads. from central Africa to tina;
port. and have shipped them to Zanzi-
bar. where all the steamers call. At thl
same time all goods sent to the interior
have been first brought to Zanzibar and
thence shipped inland via Bagamoya
Since the railroad from Oar es Salaani
has been built the caravans have beer
bringing their ivory. rubber and othel
products TO its western terminus and
they are now shipped from Oar Is
Salaam TO Europe. This diversion OF
trade will probably increase. and wheH
the railroad has been completed "a
Tabora almost all of the central trans
this way.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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them 10 take care of our cavalry horses.
There is another tribe about Kiliman-
Jaro that is almost purely agricultural,
the governor continued. The people live
in villages with little farms nearby. and
every one cultivates the soil Farther in
the Interior We have other tribes, some
devoted to farming and some to stock
rearing. We have others who make a bust
ness of transporting goods from place to
place on their heads, and OF hers who will
do almost any kind Of work. The best
of these natives live on the plateaus
of the interior and We are now build
ing railroad which will reach their
country and enable them to be brought
down to the coast. That part of the col
ony is thickly populated: and If We can
get laborers from there. it will be of great
advantage to our plantations along the In
dian ocean,
The conversation here turned To the rail-
road poss bilities of German East Africa
This country already has one line which
goes inland from the port of Tanga to the
slopes of Mount Kilimaniaro. where there
is high and healthy country being SET
tied by Germans.
Another New Railroad.
There is another road building from
Oar es Salaam westward toward Lake
Tanganyika. and this will probably also
be connected by road leading south
ward to Lake Nyassa. These reads will
will give an outlet from the interior to
the coast. The road to Tanganyika will
probably have branch running north
ward TO Mwanza, on Lake Victoria. and
1t will form a great trunk line. which
will connect with the Cape to Cairo sys-
+ tenn at Lake Tanganyika.
Said the governor general:
The line will first be built from here to
Morgoro. a distance of 100 miles 1t is
now open as far as Kingani about fifty
miles, and trains have been running over
parts of it for some years. We need the
extension of that road badly, and when
, it is completed it will be of incalculable
good to the colony"
But will the road pay, your excel
! lency?" | asked.
1T might not do so at first was the
reply. Il think it would pay in years to
come, and that even now it would be
profitable for the government to push its
construction. In the development of
great country like this we have to con-
slider how to increase the wealth of the
people and how to develop our resources.
This road would bring in outside capital,
and it would make the people so much
better off that we could levy more taxes.
We need means of rapid communication
with the most valuable of our provinces,
which are lying in the interior, and We
ought not to be compelled to send
large part of our exports and imports
over the Uganda railway and the British
steamers on Victoria NyanZa, and to pay
toll to the English therefor. When we
have railroad connection with Victoria
NyanZa the trade of the southern half
! of that lake will come down here to Oar
es Salaam, instead of going to Mombasa,
as it does now.
| here called the governor generals at
tention to a conversation which L had had
with Mr.. We'll, rich South African. WHO
has been prospecting as to the timber re-
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in ia or 'ez' or 'os,' like Garcia or We
lasquez or Campos. or any of them titles
"'Well known" cries he, scornful-like.
an lookin daggers at me. Well known!
1 sh'd say they was. My ancestors was
kings of Tarshish.'
oh no. thinks /, was they? I'll bet
it's a heap more likely they come from
Ethiopia; for he was one of tn blacklist
Cubians l ever lays eyes on.
You've quite a pedigree, | observes
oughter have kinfolks all 'roun' tn world
Any one here n New York you know
He jumps up like a shot when / asks
him that. Any one here in New York
know! he says. Caramba! hay muchos
muchos. There's my cousin, tn Dock of
York. an my uncle. tn Gran Alarmer of
Thibet, an my father-in-law. tn Shah of
Persia. At any moment I'm lookin' for
EN- to discover me. an make me give EN-
back tn birds of paradise
well, this is too many for me-. thinks
l; I'm goin' for help. You jest set there
for a moment. 1 says to him; Ill be right
! back; an out l starts to look for cop
But hadn't morn crossed tn gangplank
third mate aboard tn Gogoburn. though
he amt no real certifiket.
BILL says 1. theirs a party aboard
named Merryvingia. kind of Cuban, l
reck'n, an worse locoed thin a bedbug.
He's got some grass-colored paroQueets in
| a mouse trap that he says is birds of para
disc.
'Suffern' Moses.' gasps Bill, lets
have a squirt at him. So back We goes
an 1 hadn't morn opened tn galley door
when Merryvingia catches sight of Bill,
an let's loose yelp OF joy.
" 'Gracias a DiOs" he cries. 'Foun' at
| last, tn long-lost son of tn empress
dowager! An he makes glad rush for
| Bill. who promptly skips behind tn table,
| an picks up chair
- Cali him off, he yells. or I'll dash his
crazy head in
why. Bill says 1 sorrowfully. this
| amt no way to treat an OIL friend what &
| glad to see you He says you're tn long
! lost son of tn empress dowager an
reck'n you must be one of his relations.
e Relations be bowed. says Bill Mex
| him set down an behave himself. Why
amt he up in Bloomingdale l sh'd like to
know Std of chasn' aroun Scarin hon
est seamen an calm of EN- Names?
"'Sho, says l. he don't mean no harm
by it. He's quiet enough now; jest look
at him.. Merryvingia had Gained down
considerably when he found Bill warn't
exactly akin to thrown himself into his
arms. an stood there all kerfiumuxed up
gapin at i'm.
Well. Bill cools down lot when he
sees what little man it was as had
frightened him: an then he begins to
grin. watchin old Merryvingia blinkin'
across tn table at him with his beady
little eyes,
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man. an skips toward tn gangplanb
with TIL old man hotfoot after him.
"Merryvingia gifts there first. howsomf
ever. an boun's ashore. an while tn capl
ting is trying to yank loose a b'iyin pin ID
chuck after him, tn galley door opens. am
out comes Bill an tn birdman To Sc.
what tn rows about.
'There'll be somethin' dom now al
righ,' says l to myself. They didn't se4
who it was at first. an mistaken tn old
man for me. Skillins sings out: Have you
got EN-?
- Got what?' yells tn capting. Got thl
ID. rs do We mean. We impudent cod i
head. We long-legged land lubber I'd
hatchet-faced bank clerk? What i'm he'll
air ye doin aboard my ship anyway
sh'd like to know? An he goes on
a-callin' of him names till he gifts out OF
breath.
Don't stop says Skillin's admIrn'lJ
when he was through L likes to heal
you: it does me good. It's ben years now
sence I heerd anythins' fine as that
When I was cabin boy on tn Mary
Powell"
Bill Gladox.' breaks in tn old man in
a voice that made me glad | warn't m
Bills shoes. what is this party dom
aboard my ship at this hour of tn night :?
whisper. He's only a frien' of mine como
To buy some birds says Skillin 81
Bill gives a groan.
To buy some birds says tn capting|
buy birds?'
Yep. parrots they was. goes on Skill
Inns calmly. Green ones | blieve you
said they was. Mr. Gladox? Yer fond OF
parrots always was fond of EN-. pass
nately fond of EN-. most int'restin' fowls
shd say birds-I knows
Il was eXpectin' tn old man to throw Il
fit when he hears that" concluded al
cook; for in course he sees then how II
was Merryvingia happens to be aboard
But he don't do nothin' of tn kind. Instid
he gives a sort of grunt, an grabbin' Skill
Inns by tn arm, walks off To tn cabiiI
with i'm. leavin' Bill leanin' up az inst thI
deckhouse too ALFRED fiabbergasted III
move. Ben' as | amt quite sure what 4
goin' to happen To tn bird man. | follow
along after EN-. an peeks in az in throug |
tn winder. kinder expectn' mebbe I'll
capting is goin to lick tn stuftin' outerIj
i'm where it can be done quiet without
rasin' tn perice
But I'm away off'n my reck MIN lid
don't do nothin' of tn sort. Instid nd
gives Skillins a chair. an a seegar, AMI
then-an' sells him them birds of paradiseI
yessiree. sells i'm tn whole four of ent
for a five-dollar bill, I see SkI..lns givd
ii to him. An then he helps him off n til
ship with 'em as perlite can be- AMI
tells him he hopes he won't fall down
a-carryin' of 'em home. You oughter've
seed Bills face, I guess il warn't a bi I
more sprised-lookin thin mine be, how
somever.
"Th' next mornin' when / brings tn old
man his breakfast, he says to me- 'YolI
amt seed nothin of any parrots on board
have We, Sam
mo. sir says /, i amt
Well, If YOU was to- says he ver,I
solemn-lke. hopes you'll wiring theid
necks. It's a bird as l can't abide tat
sight Of
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Copyright. 1908. by Frank G.. Carpeute".l
Special Correspondence of The Star.

OAR ES SALAAM.
- TAND with me under the cocoanut
trees on the shores of this beau
tiful harbor and take a look at
~ the chief city of the kaiser's CO.
lonial empire. Germany has five
times as much territory on this con-
tinent as in Europe. and German East
Africa is the best of the whole. 1t is
twice as large Germany itself and Oar
es Salaam is its capital. The town is by
far the most beautiful of all those l have
yet visited on the shores of the Indian
ocean. 1t is as bright as a new pin and
it has every sign of prosperity and trade.
There are great warehouses along the
wharves, a German man-of-war lies in
the harbor. and a huge dry dock, suffi-
GENTLY large to hold any ship of this part
of the world, is on the edge of the shore.
There are craft of many kinds in the bay
and one of the large steamers of the Ger
man East Africa line has just come in
on its way down the coast.
Oar Els Salaam.
Turning to the city itself, one walks
through wide streets shaded by trees
and bordered with flowers. There are
great government buildings of old-fash-
toned German architecture, which have
been erected within the past few years,
away down here in the tropics. The gov
eminent house is far superior to anything
in British East Africa, and the great
white post office with its tiled floors
makes one feel as though he were in
Europe rather than in the wilds of the
black continent. There is a large Ger
man club. half dozen modern churches
and first class hotel, which is known as
The kaiSprhOf. There many stone
villas, the residence of the officials and
there are some fairly good business
blocks. The buildings are all new. clean
and artistic. Most of them were built
by the German government. after plans
by German architects, and the result is
one of the prettiest and most artistic
little towns of the world. Indeed, l know
OF no place which compares with this eX-