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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07
PHONE TRUST
ATTACKS HON
JNO. A. HOWARD J
Local Company p, 4 q, / 4 S!
Mentioned IA
Article


Advance copies OF an exhaustive 3atz
tack on the National Telephone and !
Telegraph Company, the new $25, 0,t}.-f
900 corporation headed by John IA
Howard. OF Wheeling. which ~ 81 hold
Ing corporation for the various stn,aesS
|'pendent lines which have pooled ttheif.
interests In a gfGantic merger that
promises serious rivalry to the Bell
System. are being mailed out to the
newspapers. Sc e Z N ls.s
This article is to be published IN the
United Suites Investor. OF Bnst1r1,t
Mass. and is signed by. p De Me ID dlri.s
who is said by the friends of the In,S
dependent lines to be an employ OF
tho Bell Company. :4i Y sE$si
Tho attack begins with the early
life or Mr. Howard and shows that
only a fow years ago he was q common
lahorer. a glass worker. and how fie
studied law. becnme prosecuting attor-
ney OF Ohio county. his rise IN the 4
business world. his traction! Invest.
mcnts and lastly his telephone promo.
:tion. y 81 s5s;. y III 49,
The article Is quite cnustfc one
and some think It is verginG closely:
on the lines Of libel. but II is not until
Ills telephone connections are reached !
that the vltriolic statements: nre made
Mr.. Howard Is given credit for his
great genius anu the article credits
him with being worth fully amtllions
dollars In his own right.
The Consolidated Telephone. q local
company, is mentioned In the article
and is listed Mt $4,000 along with tho
assets OF. the National Comp An
inspection of the Console dated sConpa'
ny reports this. morning by the West
irEininn shows that its assets are 9un.
derratcd about 100000 and 5as III &is
assessed by the Board OF Public sEgorlssi
for; taxable purposes at; $21 1853 sitfs
would seem that an attempt was made
10 bolittle the National resources.
Az comparison OF the number ~
phones owned by the Independ ents and
the Bell in the territory occupled by:
both would give the impression that
the rivalry Is one OF commanding Inns
portance. Z. a
In West VirEinin, nccordfng to- the
u. S. Census reports. the iIndepende dents
have 10000 phones and the Bell has !:
Is. 900: In the Wheeling district the!ss L
National has 5000 phones. as against
the Bells 2,2OO. while in their who'll
territory the National has 8 900 phones i
as compared with G,Ooo. Tor: tile Bell
In Marion county the valuation of
the Independent. lines, according to the
assessment OF the Board of Public
Works is $4,000 and the Bell sG2r 600 z
West Virginia has produced several
boys who began life Us common labor
ers. MS MIR. Howard Is said to have
done. who have attained enylableis
prpmincncr, and in fact most OF West
VirEinias big men started that way
and there will be few newspa pers pub
llsh the advertisement sent out under
the Eufse OF Il news item. n
49, = - -.-------. ---- IN /;
"rhc Writing on the Wall. e In
which Miss Olga Netnersole IisF to star:
for htc second season lis to be tprnelE
into a novel. The book Is an exposit
lion OF the tcnement-house evil IN New
York City. with n thrilling tragedy 70
|roInt its moral.
Let little "Wantad" worksforl lyou.& I
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07
CITY CLERK KILLED,

CHARLESTON, w. Va. AnE. T.
John ". Brady. ngedl G5. clerk OF this
city. was struck by a Chesapeake and
Ohio train at Cabin Creek Junction
yesterday and killed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07

Total different rcgularlys enroll
cd students not included in
Departments above ......... 5S2
Whole number OF students in all
,,cnart,ncnts S27
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07

nclasco will probably join the ranks
OF American managers In London. with
Frances Starr us his fret attraction.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07

.rrhe Writing on the Wall.'' in iln
which Miss Olga Netnersole Is to! star:
for htc second season lis to be itprne1I
into novel. The book lis an 4 exposi-,
.lon Of the tcnement-house evil IN New
York City. with n thrilling tragedy ~
point its moral. - Ss
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07

Continued Of Page sly.)
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07

Let little "Wantad" work3forl you.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-08-07
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Great Historical production
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-26

To thousands of loyal patrons the which
has attended this business From small beginning few
ago. has grown into the largest general merchandise
Mississippi Absolute satisfaction prices quality
goods and to the public the foundation
tuded To the best Of knowledge into adves
ing the effort state things fairly and honestly would
honest window display Results proven
this
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-26
Millinery Departfne

About 100 trimmed Has-stylish worth the 90
from 81 to $S; choice of the ot. Observation-Disclosures. CO(
About IS trimmed Hats the kind that usually d1 0S
retail for $S to $10 to clean the bunch choice y O(
Choice of all fall Trimmings Shapes
sortment, 80 per cent off the regular prices
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-26

3-oz lead blown Whisky Glasses,
the 7c kind; sale price ce.......................
Fancy pressed table Tumblers;
the sc kind; sale price. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Lead blown Tumbers always sell for 10c;
sale price OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
few odd sets of Wine and Water sets also big lot
Salts, Peppers, etc., at less than factory CO
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
M. DWIHT FORTNER
 IS A FUGITIVE
Former Pine Bluff Hotel Clerk, Who Married St. Louis Millionaire's Daughter, Charged With Forging Secured $11,0OO and Left tll. City.

Pine Bluff acquaintances of M. Dwight FOrtner, who was at one time a clerk at the old Hotel Trulock in this city, now the Hotel Jefferson, were startled yesterday to read a special from St. Louis telling of his alleged forgery. through which he secured $11 900. Fortner married a daughter of A. H. Handlan. the millionaire stove manufacturer. in St. Louis sev- eral years ago, after leaving Pine Blu6. He was night clerk at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock for about a year. He went to Little Rock in 1902. from Camden. where he had act ed as clerk at the Ouachita Hotel at that place. Fortner was popular here. He was but youth in the matter os years, but his manner was courtly and polished and he possessed the ability to make friends rapidly.
 When he first went to Little Rock Fortner acted as clerk to a lumber firm, which has siIo,e abandoned op- erations. His experience as hotel clerk enabled him to secure position in that capacity at the Hotel Marion. After about years stay at Little Rock. Fortner went to Memphis where he became room clerk at the newly
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
AUCTION" OF MEN.

Declaring it to be his purpose to 'impres SIS the condition of the poor" in and about New York upon the mem- bers of his congregation, minister of Flatbush, Long Island. held an "auc- lion" of human beings and sold them. as he called it, into slavery" This spectacle drew thousands to the affair, it was voted a great success, and the minister was congratulated upon his were fifty of the slaves" who had Deen selected because of their unusual need of shelter and sood. The min ister had conceived the affair as an appropriate way of celebrating tho Lincoln centennial.
 Undoubtedly there are today more men out of employment fin our large cities than usual. and 1t is encumbent
 
 sn the more prosperous to give them aid. But the poor we have always with us, and such "object lessons" as this blasphemy upon manhood enacted in the F1atbush church tends only to degrade and exaggerate an already deplorable condition. The men who were put upon the block" in mock celebration of the Lincoln anniversary were In need, but to add the humilia- ton of a public auction" of their bodies to their misery was a sorry way of exempIifying the Christ-like spirit of helping the poor.
 Of the fifty men subjected to the "sale" perhaps five were really victims of misfortune and were not vagrants through their own fault. Most of the others, If we estimate the ordinary run of the unemployed. were improvi- dent and perhaps unruly workmen who could not be depended on to hold Jobs If they were offered. The East seems congestej with unemployed men, while some parts of the Wsst and South are pleading for workers. The unmployed of the cities are generally unwilling to leave the urban environ
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

opened Gayoso Hotel. From there he went to St. Louis. first as room clerk at the Jefferson Hotel and later as chief clerk. His aptitude enabled him to rise from an obscure clerk receiv- Ing $4 a week at Camden to chief clerk at the Jefferson, commanding $15o a month and expenses, within the short span of three years.
 Fortner has many friends In Little Rock and they say that only pure nerve" enabled him to rise SO con- sistently. After he entered the real estate business little is known locally of his career.
 Fortner was about g years old when in Pine Bluff. His mother and sev- eral brothers and sisters live at Brinkley.
 The special says: The St. Louis circuit attorneys office has been asked for 8 warrant for the arrest of M. Dwight Fortner, formerly of Little Rock ani Memphis. real estate deal- CT, with offices In the Missouri Trust building, ,son-in-law of A. H. Handlan and brother-in-law of William J. Lemp, millionaire brewer. The formal charge Is forgery, preferred by Bryon w. Noser. teller of the St. Louis Union Trust Company; P. D. Cooke, assistant cashier of the Third Nation al Bank. and H. c. Pulley, manager of the Wainwright building. Fortner has been missing since last Thursday when he told his stenographer he was going to Chicago.
 The charge of forgery grows out of a real estate transaction. Fortner, as agent, tried to sell the Alice apart ments to F. A. Steer on behalf of c. H. Pulley, the owner, who was holding the property at $125,00o. Steer says Fortner represented to him that Pulley would sell for $1O5,000, and Steer gave Fortner a cashiers check for $12,000 as earnest money.
 The check read: Pay to the order of Henry c. Pulley $12,000 in part pay ment on land and improvements at northeast corner of Union and Vernon avenues, city block 2992. as per agree ment, February 10, 1909. F. A. Steer"
 Pulley says that he refused to ac- cept the check an dtold Fortner all negotiations were off. Tulley's name was endorsed on the check and Fort ner deposited 1t with the St. Louis Trust Company, obtaining bank treasurer's check for $11,000, which Commerce. Pulley denies having en- dorsed the check.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
Sumpter Will Make Race.

Judge O. H. Sumpter, who was un- seated in the senate this morning, stated this afternoon that he was al- ready candidate in the special elec- tion to determine who shall be the senator from Montgomery and Gar land counties.
 1t Is expected that Governor Don aghey will this afternoon appoint a senator to fill this vacancy and serve until the special election, which will be held within thirty days. Strong pressure is being brought upon him to secure the appointment of Judge Sumpter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Consistent and persistent golfers certainly lengthen their lives" writes Mir. Taft. There Is mention In The Expe dition of Humphrey Clinker"' of a brand of Scotch golfers in Edin- burgh, If we remember right, not a man of whom was under fourscore. They had been playing for genera tions, and not one of them even went to bed without the better part of a gallon of clnret" inside him. If the claret had been shut of, as 1t would be In these soberer times they might have lived to be 15O. t..-..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
PILES! PILES! PILES!

Williams Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleedings and Iitching Piles. It absorbs the tumors. allays itching at once. acts as poultice. gives instant relief. Williams Indian Pile Ointment Is prepared for Piles and itching of the private parts. Sold by druggists. mail soc and s1.00. Will Hams Mfg. Co.,. Props. Cleveland, O. Sold by McCammon & Sons.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

ment and go out into the country to work. When times are good in the cNies these improvident ones make good wages and spend everything. At the first Hull in the industrial world they begin to feel the bangs of want, and in a short time become profession al mendicants and serve for such re- proachful exhibitions as the "auction" at Flatbush.
 And while the people of New York and other large cities are confronted with the problem of the unemployed the steamships are hurrying to our shores from southern Europe with thousands of ignorant and pauper im- migrants to help swell the army of the idle. Human nature is slow to change. if 1t ever changes, and as long as there is charity to be extended there will be those eager to receive 1t. The problem is not easy of solution. but one thing Is quite apparent to any sane and sensible perBon-the method of the F1atbush minister Is lniser- able trAvesty upon decency, manhood and the Christian re!igion.-Kansas City Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

A little more Pacific coast war talk and Mir. Roosevelt may come to re- gret that he turned down that second elective term, after all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
ANOTHER ELECTION
 IN GARLAND COUNTY
Senate Solves. Greaves.Sumpter Mud. dle and Declares Vacancy In Gar. land COunty's SenatOrship-Sumpter Is a Candidate in Thirty Days.

LlLLle ftOCk ftD. ld.- ue ocAAdtV this morning settled the Sumpter- Greaves election contest, and in q manner most unexpected.
 It declared the senate seat of the thirty first district vacant and ordered the governor to call special cleo ton in that district to elect 8 senator.
 The solution of the problem was evolved by Senator Henderson, of Randolph county. and his resolution was adopted after considerable dis cussion by vote of IS to 13.
 Senator Sumpter (senator before the resolution was adopted) made his first speech from the senate floor. He fa- vored the resolution and asked the senate to send the question back 10 the people. He said:
 T have not spoken from the sen ate floor up to this time. have been reluctant to Io so, as have doubted tho propriety of such a proceeding.
 q have been here for thirty days and during that time I.have asked the senate committee to make thorough investigation of the matter. I have appealed to them to do 1t.
 ''Not a man on this floor can say that I have ever lobbied for my seat, or that have ever asked lingls senator to vote for me. I have only asked my friends to urge an investi- gation.
 II came here honestly believing that 1 was elected senator from the thirty first district. l received my certificate of election from the sec- retary of state. How then was I to have filed a contest with man when had already been notified of my elec- tion? How could I have designated q justice of the peace to take testimony showing my election?
 T have asked only for full ani fair investigation and an impartial hearing. Is there anything more could have done to get 1t? To put this matter before the senate ia It's true light?
 This resolution hes been a sur prise to me. But 1t is a pleasant one. I will say to those who predict 6 bitter fight In the special election that it can be no more bitter than the fights which have been waged there in the past four years. I was born and raised in Hot Springs and l do not fear to 80 before my people asking them to elect me again.
 ''1 have come before this bar under difficulties. asked an investigatiAp and offered to show that I was duly elected. This has been denied, and now l hope that this resolution will be adopted and the contest will be carried back to the people of the dis- trict for settlement. do not fear the result. It will be justice to my self and to my people,"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

The present tariff outlook gives the impression that Washington isn't go- ing to get it's usual amount of peaceful sleep this summer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

The epidemic of near-poetry that has broken out since MT. Taft in- vaded Dixie is enough in itself to break the Solid South.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Half a billion for the construction o6 the Panama Canal? They must be lining Culebra Cut with gold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Historian Ferrero says Marc An thonys alleged lmpassioned oration over the dead body of Caesar was the rankest sort of flake" This will in no wise Iampen sophomoric endeavor during the forth coming commence ment season. however.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

With every cash purchase you get a cash discount ticket of 2 per cent at Cleveland-Matthews Hardware Con- pany. They soon count up if saved and can be used as cash on future purchases.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Atlanta cannot abide blowhards, says the Constitution of that interest. ing city; "a blow hard" in Atlanta $ philosophy, be it known, being one who makes a point of blowing about Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Chat tanooga.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

When Taft becomes a guest of the Harvard Club 1t Is expected that no indelicate remarks about that boat race with Yale will be made.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Mir. Hearst's editorial interest in the gentlemen who headed the lnde- pence party national ticket has suf- fered the notable collapse.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
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Probably the reason Texas voted against prohibition was due to tie prevalence of rattlesnakeS and taran- p' VI 1 tulas In the state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
THE SUNDAY GRAPHIC

MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOL.
 LOWING PLACES: THE JEFFERSON HOTEL, 1l7 WEST BARAQUE STREET. EBAWELL & ANCRUM DRUG CO.,, 12O MAIN STREET. mASHER DRUG CO.,, 222 MAIN STREET. N \. ROSENBERG,S BOOK STORE. 121 WEST SECOND AVE. CENTRAL PHARMACY, SIXTH AND MAIN STREETS. ARLINGTON HOTEL, 305 EAST THIRD AVE.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

It Is understood that In the mind of Mir. Newberry, the secretary of the navy, n doubt Is beginning to arise as to just where he Is at
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

If Secretary Garfield really desires to retire to private life, he will have to dodge that governorship boom when he gets back to his native state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

We hope, too, that the concerted re buke the American press has handed Nevada may be sufficient to hold t for a while.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Chicago will spend $9.oOO,000 the coming year in the building of addi- tional schoolhouses. New York's school children are still on half time
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

President Roosevelt finds himself obliged to turn his attention from congress to the California legislature.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

The milliners are beginning to hay, Easter designs on the women.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

There seems to be disposition on the part of southern senators to leave the Crum matter to the new broom.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
.--Od|An.

"Fly me to sleep, dear mother" They are putting bedrooms in the big new German airships.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18

Talk of another war between Rus sia and Japan sounds like an effort to distract the attention of Mir. Hob- son.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-18
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1909-12-03
Corvicted by Thermometer

In connection with the death OF DR..
Whitelaw of Kirkintilloch, Scotland,
an interesting story is told Of his
early career. Being called up one
night he was walking along with the
messenger when he was set upon and
knocked down in a lonely part of the
road
His pockets were rifed and he was
left lying on the road severely in.
jured. One of the articles stolen was
a clinical thermometer with which he
had that evening taken the tempera-
ture of a patient. He remembered
the temperature registered. also that
he had not shaken down the mercury
before putting the thermometer back
in his pocket and he communicated
these facts 70 the police.
Some time afterward thermometer
registering the identical temperature
was discovered in a pawnshoP In
Glasgow and by this means the police
were enabled to track the doctors as
sailants and to arrest them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1909-12-03
A RIVAL TO CRAADERRIES
Good Jelly Made from the calyx Of
the RoseIe, a Tropical Newcomer.

! introduced several years ago into
California and Florida, the roselle de-
serves a wider cultivation than it now
enjoys. II is so simple and its re-
quirements so few that in the tropics
and subtrOpics 1t should be an indis-
pensable plant in the garden of every
family.
This fact, in view OF its peculiar
adaptability for jelly making, should
cause the roselle to become plant of
considerable Importance in the Unit
ed States at no distant date. The
roselle is probably the only plant in
cultivation in which the part utilized
for food is the calyx.
OF rather low nutritive value, the
thickened calyx possesses excellent
qualities for the manufacture OF jelly
and allied products. Preparations
made from II closely resemble in col
or and flavor those made. from he
cranberry. 1t is rather singular that
its season Of maturity also comedies
with that of the cranberry.
A strictly tropical plant, the roselle
is very sensitive to frosts, says Coun-
try Life in America. This, together
with its peculiar habit Of blooming
late in October. regardless Of the time
when the seed Is planted. has restrict-
ed It's cultivation to tropical and sub
tropical regions.
The roselle Is an annual, and con-
seGuently seed for planting must be
saved every autumn.
As usually planted-that is. in Feb
ruary and March-the roselle attains
height of from five to seven feet.
The large yellow flowers. each with Q
red eye. fade before the day is passed,
and the subsequent enlargement o.
the calyxes is then very rapid. In less
than three weeks they attain their full
size and are ready for picking.
The fruit is seen at present in local
markets only and is sold by the quart.
It's excellent qualities for making a
sauce so closely initiating in flavor
the cranberry as to deceive the very
elect are not we'll known by the pub
lie. or 1t would be a formidable rival
in the South TO that fruit. on which
transportation charges are necessarily
high owing to the great distances II
must be transported. The crisp and
juicy appearance OF the roselle Is di'
minished by being too long in the
hands OF the dealer. but this does not
indicate deterioration of its usefu.
qualities.
In preparing for cooking take the
nod between the thumb and forefnger
o! the left hand. stem end up; cut oil
the stem and the basal end OF the
eslyx to where the seed pod is united
with the calyx. when slight pressure
With the fingers holding the pod VIII
force out the seed pOd. After prepar-
ing this way the calyx may be used
ior making sauce, Jam, transparent,
bright red jelly and many other dishes.
The young stems also make good jel.
~. and for such use the plant can be
grown almost anywhere in the North
~ South