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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
EXPLOSION OF GAS
ENTOMBS COAL MINERS

Mahoney City, Pa, Aug. 3-Twenty
men were entombed in the Knicker.
booker mine today by an explosion Of
gas. Two men, badly hurt, have been
taken from the mine. The others are
believed to be in the gangway. which
is closed and filled with deadly gas.
Scores of workmen are Drawing the
deadly gas to reach the entombed vic
tins.
The latest reports from Knicker.
booker are that five men were i'm.
prisoned in mine there by an explo-
sion of gas. Three have been rescued
and these are in a serious condition
and the other two are probably dead.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
LAWYERS CALL
ON CANDIDATE TAFT

Hot Springs, Va, Aug. 3.--About
thirty members of the Virginia Bar
Association called on Candidate W. H.
Taft this morning and exchanged fe-
licitations. Judge Taft will address the
association on Thursday. There was
universal comment by the callers on
the splendid physical appearance OF
the candidate.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
BRYAN's SPEECH OF
ACCEPTANCE TO BE SHORT

Fairview, Lincoln, Aug, 3.-Con.
trary to expectations the acceptance
speech of William J. Bryan, accepting
the nomination of the Democratic ma
tional convention for president Of the
United States, will be short. He stated
today by actual count that It would
contain $500 words He reserves a
more elaborate treatment of the issues
of the campaign for special speeches
he intends to make.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
MACK coNFERs WITH
MURPHY AND CONNORS

New York. Aug. 3.-An important
conference to outline the plan Of cam
paign in New York state was held this
morning by Norman e. Mack, chair.
man Of the Democratic National COM
mittee, with Charles F. Murphy, lead
er of Tammany Hall, and w. ]. Con-
nors, chairman of the Democratic state
central committee. Mack will leave for
Chicago tonight and remain there two
weeks.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
CROPS BURNING UP;
PRICES SENT SOARING

Chicago, Aug. 3-Scoroching weather
throughout the corn belt and the Da-
kotas and Minnesota threw the board
of trade into wild excitement today
and sent the prices Of wheat and corn
soaring. Both advanced nearly three
cents a buahel.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
GERMAN EMPERoR's CHIEF
POLITICAL ADVISOR DEAD

Berlin, Aug. 3.-Dr. Frederick X
Won Lucanus, chief of Emperor VIII.
liams so-called civil cabinet, died here
today. He was reputed to be a man
Of extraordinary judgment and had
great political influence at court.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
HIGHWAYMEN MURDER
STREET CAR MOTORMAN

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 3.-Frank L.
Brown, a motorman was murdered and
Conductor Windsor robbed at an early
hour today by four highwaymen, who
held up an electric car in the outskirts
Of the city.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
TRAIN LOAD OF SUPPLIES
Is SENT FROM SPOKANE

Spokane, Wash Aug. 3.-Loaded
with provisions, clothing and bedding,
a special train left over the Spokane
international railroad today for Fer
ME, British Columbia, to aid the desti-
|tute.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-03
TRAINS CARRIED PANIC
STRICKEN PEOPLE TO SAFETY

Spokane, Wash, Aug. "a special
train from Fernie, British Columbia,
to the Spokane Review says that a fire
100 square miles in extent has com.
pletely destroyed that city and a mum.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24

The Telegram is delivered In clarks-
burg and vicinity by our regular
carriers. Complaints regarding ir-
regular service Will be Immediately
Investigated ana corrected.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24


and men Is received with pleasure
not only s. ne men Immediately al
fected but BY the many others VINO
also feel The results Of the sseady
work and wages 81 that number. 81
workingmen clarksburg merch-
ants and business men are glad over
the increase IN trade il win mean.
but this feeling Is not 10y any means
the uppermost for All are glad to-
know that the miners who have been
Temporarily deprived Of work VIII
have the opportunity Of steady em-
ployment.
The fact that The Fairmont Coal
Company has received large contracts
that enable It to operate its mines
also indicates an increase OF trade
and better business conditions gem
orally. The partial suspension OF
operations, however. was not an ex-
traordinary occurrence as such
things are expected at some time
during the year with large industrial
concerns operating upon the extern
siye scale that the Fairmont Coal
Company does and a temporary par
tial suspension OF work for short
period of time does not necessarily
mean that the whole country is go-
ing to eternal smash.
The temporary suspension of work
by the Fairmont Coal Company has
been SO managed and the division of
labor so arranged that no suffering
nor want resulted from II. And the
resumption of operations in full will
come rather in the nature of a SUR
plus than the filling of a want for
the coal company viii very likely
ind itself short Of the requisite
number of men to man its mines to
the full capacity as It has In the
past.
But whatever tho past, its pros
perity and its depression; it is the
present and the future that most
concern US all, and the announce
ment that the immediate future and
months beyond that are to be peri
cd of industrial activity with so
many diggers of the black diamond,
which brings fair wages to all en-
gagged in 1t is marked by rejoicing
among all in the region, whether en-
gagged in mining or not.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
swEnr MELODY FLOUR. /,
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF HOUSE
AND LOT IN NoRTHVIEW

By virtue of the authority vested In
the undersigned Special Commission
er by a decree of the circuit court OF
Harrison county entered on the 21stI
day of January. 1908. and engrossed
in chancery Order Book Number; 30,
al. Page 3S7, in the chancery cause of
Parmelius A. Taught versus Lena
Gustella corbin, ct. al. we will, on
Saturday, April is, 1908, Z.
at 4 o'clock p. m, at the front door
of the court house OF said county,
sell at public outcry, to the highest
and best bidder therefor, two certain
lots or parcels OF land situated at
Northview, and being numbers 1S and
IL. of Section 81. OF said addition, al
plat of which is OF record in the Of
flee Of the clerk of the county court
of said county in Deed Book Number
80, at Page IS: and being the same
lots or parcels OF land which were
conveyed to the said Lena GustellaI
Corbin by Richard L. Barnes and
wife, by deed bearing date on the
22nd day OF October. 1902, which
deed is of record in said office In
Deed Book No. 13S. at Page 245, to
which deed and plat and the papers
in this cause, reference is here made
for fun and complete descrition of
said lots,
Terms Of sale:-one-third or sol
much more as purchaser may elect
to pay, cash in hand upon the day of
sale. and the residue upon a credit Of
6 and IL months from said date, TAX
ing from the purchaser interest bear
ing notes with approved personal Sc
curity. and retaining vendors lien
on the property sold as further Sc
curity.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24


cause q bad roads and those with
whom they do business also feel tie
bad effects Good roads would OBJ
yiate tbs situation with both livery
man and patron.
Suppose the reader reilects a mo-
nleut upon the way the transfer man
Is iniurjousIy affected by bad roads.
He has deliveries to, make from the
railroad station 70 suburban or other
county points with good roads the
tFip would be made quickly and in
absolute safety with bad roads It
takes a long time to make the trip
and Il IS done with hazardous out
look. Heyuns the risk Of injury Of
death TO both himself and his team.
Besides wagons break down, teams
stan and his time Is all taken up in
getting through to the objective
point. He counts himself lucky. II
he gets there with the load in time
to return by the light Of day. with
good roads he might make three or
four trips q day. Is not the trans
fer man vitality interested in good
.roads2 Some may say he ought to
pay tax for using the roads, but
that cost to him would but revert to
the man he serves to pay.
One more interest win be all for
this day the Telegram will allude to.
1t is the interest of the dead, or rath-
er the relatives and friends of the
dead. There are the four cemeteries
in and near the city. At times roads
leading to them are virtually impas-
sable and yet the dead must be con-
veyed over them to the cemeteries
for burial. When the roads are
muddy funeral carriages go down into
deep holes and up again, then strike
bowlders and are jostled. The liy-
ing cortege following undergoes the
same sort Of ride and dead and alive
alike are victims of a condition of
roads that should not exist in pro
gressiye communities. The under
taker is affected, the cemetery owners
are affected, the bodies Of the dead
are affected. the friends OF the dead
are affected. and thus is the cemetery
interest vital one.
There are numerous other inter
ests just as vastly concerned in the
question of good roads, but suffice 1t
for today to say that those already
pointed out ought to prove sufficient
to impress upon the county court the
urgent necessity of action looking to
good roads as supplanting the miser-
able ones the county has now.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
Flood Control in River in Bohemia

In view of the conference Of gov
ernors at the White House next
month on natural resources and
waterways, report which United
States Consul Charles B. Harris, Of
Reichenberg, Bohemia, has just
made, is of timely interest. 1t re-
lates to successful methods of pre-
venting destructive floods on the
river Gorlitz-Neisse. The desired
result has been accomplished by a
combination of forestry, and stor-
age reservoirs for storm water. In
view of the fact that similar methods
are being considered In this country
particularly in the Appalachian
region-the matter is of more than
ordinary interest at this time and
particularly so because the White
House conference is expected to take
up same question.
Formerly the floods Of the Cor
litz-Neisse were very destructive.
Heavy rains poured upon the noun
tains. and the valleys were quickly
Inundated. Protective measures be-
gan by utilizing forests to the great
est extent practicable, and this was
supplemented by six storage reser-
voirs to catch the excess run of in
time of storm. The entire cost of
the dams was little more than dauble
the amount OF; damage caused by the
single food of 1897. One Of the
principal functions OF the forest
cover, aside from its own capacity
for storing water, is to check the
washing Of the soil, and thereby pre-
vent the filling of the storage reser-
goirs with silt.S
Since the dams were completed
the floods, have been controlled.
The impounded water furnishes
abundant water power for manufac-
turing plants in the valley, and the
income from that source will go far
toward meeting the cost and ex-
penses.
Plans very similar have been dis
cussed in this country for the con-
troll OF floods, particularly in the
Mississippi and the Ohio, by pro-
tecting the forests on the head wa
tiers. and by the construction of res
ervoirs. 1t is expected such plans
will be materially forwarded at the
White House conference.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
More About Our RondIs.

In the subject of good roads, as
the Telegram in series of editor
ials has said, every resident of the
county ought to be vitality inter
ested. There seems no real ne
cessity to further impress this fact
so far as the general public is con-
cerned, for every human being alive
II impressed aud knows that good
roads are essential to what is known
in civic life as progress and advance
ment.
However, there can he no harm in
dwelling on the subject. by particu-
larizing some,, There are. so many
interests affected that it should be
made even clearer that good roads
would advance not only the partic-
ular interests but the general. inter
ests in about the same high proper
tion.
clarksburg is the county seat
and the center of population is taken
as the basis Of the argument, al
though 1t holds Just as good at any
and all points in the county. Ex-
tending from the, city in all direc-
tons are public highways. They
are avenues Of commerce, or, at
least should be. and would be il
they were serviceable. Therefore
the pertinent part Is to make them
such. 3;
Some may ask what is there to in
terest the general public in good
roads, or why should the public JUS
tify or urge action that will convert
our roads from channels or mud and
ruts into smooth surface, substantial
driyeways. not alone for the pleasure
driving but for actual and impera-
tive use in the conveyance of. COM
nodities, which. go 10 make up the
business OF the community and are
essential to the life and happiness
and comfort of our people?
1t is not amiss here to name just
a few more of the interests affected
by roads, interests which are dam
aged and sometimes destroyed by
bad roads but conserved and adj
vanced by good thoroughfares. So
with the gentle readers patience.
the Telegram essays to mention Just
few'of the many Interests al This.
time, and will recite the Others la
ter.
already the effect of the wholesale
merchant, the retail merchant and
the consumer has been pointed out.
Permit this newspaper to mention
the liveryman. The wear and tear on
his harness and vehicles and the
hardship; even to the extent or tor
ture, his steeds undergo on bad
roads, the additional feed necessary,
the extra livery work to keep the
horses in some sort Of serviceable
condition, all these and others are
against him. 1t is costly to him to
have bad roads. Business and 9TH
er persons who have occasion. as is
Of common usage, are harassed, de-
layed, vexed and interfered with be-
:
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
MELVIN G. sPERRY,
CLARENCE B. sPERRY,
Special Comm

Spectal commissioners.
State of West Virginia. County OF
Harrison, to-wit:
I. Homer w. Williams. clerk Of
the circuit court of said county, do
certify that Melvin c. sperry and
Clarence B. sperry, the above named
special commissioners, have executed
bond before me. as required by the
decree in said cause, according 20
law.
Gwen under my hand this the gath
day of March, 1908.
HOMER w. WILLIAMS,
Clerk
The sale OF the above property is
continued to Saturday. May 9, 1908.
CLARENCE B. SPERRY,
MELVIN G. sPERRY,
Special Commissioners
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
Resumption welcomed.

The news that the Fairmont Coal
Company will resume operations in
full at all Of its coal mines in this
region May Is. which will provide
steady employment for seven thous-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1908.
An Evening Echo.

Human life is made up of COM
paratiye tribes; 1t is the repetition of
little acts which constitutes not only
the sum OF human character, but
which constitutes the character Of
nati6ns.-smiles.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24

SWEET MELODY FLOUR.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24
SWEET MELODY FLOUR.
MILLINERY oPENING

There win be a millinery opening
at Carriers store (up-stairs) at Marsh-
Vile, beginning April 90 All hats
are cheap and up-to-date. A pres
ent given away with each hat. All
are invited to attend.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24

The Daily Telegram can be found ON
sale at
Pike News Stand. $500. Pike Street
Rone's News Stand /. Pike Street.
Jaclson's News Stand. :. Glcn Elk.
Waldo Hotel. ....... ). News Stand.
TRADERS Hotel. i. ...... News Stand.
Empire News Stand :. Empire Bldg.
Hardesty's News Stand. East Main st.
Butchers News Stand, 49,. Grafton.
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-24

Western Office, Marquette Building,
Chicago. Western Advertising Rep
'resentatives. Williams and Anderson,
Marquette Building. Chicago.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-12
First Press in West,

The first printing press in the United
States west of the Mississippi was set
up at Santa Fe early in the last cen
tury. History does not disclose the date
or its origin or its ownership. But there
are extant printed proclamations dated
1871 and having the Santa Fe imprint.
antedating by fourteen years the first
newspaper, Ell Crepusculo, prophetical
ly name the dawn, which was first
published in 1885 at Taos and was in
the main a periodical tract to make
propaganda for the peculiar religious
and moral ideas of Padre Martinez.
The first English newspaper in New
Mexico appeared in ls47, shortly after
the occupation of Santa Fe by General
kearney. They were the Santa Fe Re-
publican and the Santa Fe New Mex
lean, both published at Santa Fe.-
Santa Fe New Mexican.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-12
IN MIS- s O U RI

The Northeast Missouri Dental Clul
met at Moberly in the Commercial
Club rooms this week.
The General Committee of Foreign
Missions of the Methodist Episcopa
Church met in st. Louis at the Lindel
Avenue Church this week. The com
mittee appropriated $l,5OO,OOO for for
eign missions for the year.
The Missouri Conference of Charities
and Correction will hold its ninth annual
session at Fulton, Nov. 10 and 20. GOV
ernor Folk is president of the State
Board and DIR. p f. Williams of Full
ton, president of the conference.
The "Old Guard Flag" of 1852 has
been presented to the Missouri Historical
Society of st. Louis by it's former owner
Henry I. Mott. That historical society
is not connected with the State His
torical Society which is at the Univer-
sity.
The report of the State Auditor for
the month of October gives the expenses
of the state as 1886, 1887, and the re-
ceipts for the same time as $267 ,72l So
At the same time the State Treasurer
reports a balance of 81 $l,5l3,lll.22. OF
the receipts for the month, a farm of
eleven acres, which is owned by the
State, and which is situated near the
penitentiary, contributed $2,S24.
The farmers of Missouri will be able
to get their seed for the next sowing
tested free as soon as the agrOnOmy de-
partment of the State University can
fit up a laboratory. The farmer has
only to obtain samples from the mer-
chants and send them to the laboratory.
The seeds are carefully examined, COM
pared with other types, then germinated.
so that the farmer can be certain of good
seed.
DIR. A. T. Still, founder of the science
of OsteOpathy and of the American
School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, has
invented a furnace that it is claimed,
will consume the smoke of bituminous
coal, and save both fuel and filth. 1t is
a plan of concentrating the heat so that
the carbon in the smoke is consumed.
1t will it is stated. clear a chimney of
smoke in two minutes whereas the usual
chimney smokes for ten or fifteen min
ltes in starting.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-12
For Better Board.

| To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
Certain notable personages around the
University have expressed strong de-
sire to start a crusade for cheaper board
What is really needed in Columbia is a
crusade for better board. There are a
few good boarding houses but they can
be counted on one hand. 1t is not the
place either where the visitors would eX-
pect to see the boarders fare the best
that they are they get the most to eat
or that the food is selected with the
most skill.
Mental workers require more special
food than other laborers. The average
age Of the University student decreases
rather than increases. During the period
of growth well planned, we'll prepared
food is essential to the youth. Raw
food is high in Columbia but even that
fact does not justify the average domi-
tory or boarding house fare. Corn meal
served as a cereal and fried the same
morning is neither satisfying or pala
table breakfast, yet this is a fair sample
of the brains sometimes involved in the
preparation of a menu.
Where in Columbia is good meat SER
we'd! Day after day beef so scrawny
that it has to be boiled long enough
to dissolve the connective tissue. This
answers the hOusekeepers purpose so
that no one can say there was not meat
but still no one Overeats.
How many boarding houses use soup
bone and not dried peas in their soup?
How many places serve soggy biscuits
three times day? Eggs are in most
places an unheard of article.
There should be an inspector autho
rized by the University to see that the
food is kept up to the standard. The
student this year have not begun to
howl but in another month listen to
what they have to say.
1t is probable that large percent of
he nervous breakdOwns in this univer-
'ity come from an underfed condition |
'ather than excessive mental strain. |
who are unable to pay suffi-
.ient board or themselves earn enough to
,ay for suitable food ought not to be
ldmitted to the University as the Uni
ersity is then responsible for their un-
Ter fed condition. NJ.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-12
A Big Public Telescope.

The only genuinely public observatory
in the world is at Zurich, Switzerland.
1t Is open every evening to the public,
and during the last six months was
visited by no fewer than twenty-five
thousand people. The telescope, which
is mounted in an entirely new and in
genious way, is seventeen feet six inches
long and weighs fourteen tons. Its OBJ
ject glass is twelve inches in diameter.
Attached to the instrument is a project
ing screen upon which objects in the
heavens are thrown for the benefit of
those waiting to get peep through the
telescope itself.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-12
DOGS MAIZE
GOLF CADDIES

If Oxford pa ever achieves any
particular degree of fame, it probably
will be as the birthplace of the caddy
hounds, a new breed of dogs, which
promises to revOlutionize present golf
ing methods. These dogs will per-
form all the duties of a caddy on the
golf green.
The breeder is Frank Duburow, a
rural mail carrier, who breeds fox
hounds and beagles.
Knowing that golf balls were often
lost because the caddies did not fol-
low their flight, he trained fox hounds
to chase balls and locate them.
The only difficulty found was to
keep them from picking up the ball
and retrieving it. This defect was
remedied and the players were delight
ed with the intelligence of the animals.
Duburow found that his work was
not done, however, for caddy was
still necessary to carry the clubs about.
He took two dogs, half-bred collies and
fox hounds, and trained them for a
month, when they would do all that his
fox hounds had done and in addition
carry the caddy bag strapped to their
backs.-Philadelphia North American.