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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Huppert and Fisher Make Best
Scores on Local Range.
WILL GO TO CAMP HARRINGTON
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster
Sergeant of Huntington Rifles to
Try for Place on State Team tor
Camp Perry Shoot.

First Lieutenant G. II. Huppert ana
Quartermaster's Sergeant o. Il. Fisher
have been selected to represent the
ht ntington Rifles, Company c. Fourth
Infantry, Virginia Volunteers. at Camp
Harrington, Williamsburg. this month
to compete for positions on the VIZ
ginia militia rifle team, which WIZ
participate the national shoot at
Camp Perry. Ohio, on or about August
Is. The officers will leave this city
on July % and will remain at Camp
Harrington about ten days. Every
militia company in the State will be
Represented at the shoot ana the men
will engage in successive competitive
shoots each day. The men making
the highes. scores will be selected to
represent the State at Camp Perry.
Sergeant Fisher made the team last
year and MS showing at the nat -onai
meet was most creditable one.
Lieutenant Huppert and Sergeant
Fisher were selected to go 10 Camp
Harrison because they proved them
selves the best marksmen in the conf
pany at The recent competitive ssoc:S
held here. These shoots were held on
the Boulevard al the foot OF Chestnut
ayenue, the men firing out over the
water. The officers are contemplating
the establishment Of a regular range
there and il that should b done the
officers and men Of TIE company VIII
hold stated Shoots every month.
Following are the sores made at
the final and decisive shoot Of the
company fer the selection Of the team
to 90 to Camp Harrington:
Sergeant o. 3. Ffsher-369 in 900.
First Lieut. Hupper-S5S in 900.
Second Lieut. Narston-3i1 in eco.
sergeant Horton-311 in 900.
First Serg. Krause-30s IN 400.
Corporal Cherry-302 in 400.
The range was 600 yards.
A5out one hundred men will 90 10
Camp Harrington and Of that num-
her sixteen will be picked to compose
the Virginia team. Since last year the
Workmanship in the Virginia voiun-
teers is said TO have improved rapidly
and It IL expected that the Virginia
tear. will make a far better showing
at Camp Perry this year than It cid
in 1908.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
CLARA HALL SHOWS UP.
Woman Says That Hattie Elan Per-
suaded Her to Stay Away From Court.

Clara Hall again failed to appear
in the Corporation Court yesterday
morning for trial on the charge of
felcnious cutting. but after Judge Bar
ham had adjourned court fer the term
she appeared and told Attorney J..
Thomas Newsome. her counsel and
bondsman, that Hattie Elan, also col
ored, had persuaded her to remain
away from court. The Elan woman
later was arrested by Patrolmen Par
rish and Padgett and locked up at the
staten house On the charge of OBJ
structipg justice.
Clara was tried sometime ago and
sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary. but Judge Barham gave her
a new trial and she was released on
$500 bend. Attorney Newsome being
accepted as the bondsmar.
When the woman failed to show up
yesterday morning. Newsome became
very much worried and lie asked he
police to aid, him in finding the wom-
an
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
c. 8 0. Yard Engine Crashes Into
Coal Cars.
BAD SHAKING UP FOR THE GREW
Fireman Moore Starts for Hospital at
Clifton Forge, But Decides to Come
Home Again Upon Reaching Rich
mond-Ensine and Cars Damaged.

Chesapeake & Ohio switching en-
CINE No. 23S and one steel and three
wooden coal cars were damaged early
yesterday morning in smash-up on
the railway yard here. Engineer Har-
yey Morris and Fireman Moore es-
capped serious injury, but the fireman
had his back sprained and bruised. AT
first he thought he was seriously IN
iured and left the city on the early
morning train for the railway hospital
at Clifton Forge. but on reaching Rich
mend he decided that he wasn't hurt
so much after all and he returned 20
this city in the afternoon.
At the time of the accident, the
engine was showing q loaded steel
gondola to coal pier No. 10. 1t seems
that the crew thought that the engine
had an open track, but a switch lead
ing into the yard from pier No. was
open and the car and engine turned
into the spur track. Before the en-
CINE could be stopped the coal car
smashed into train Of coal-laden
wooden gondolas on the spur track
Truck or Engine ondSHeu'
The forward truck of the engine
was broken OF, the sill badly dam
aged and the number plate ON the
front of the boiler smashed. me
steel car was damaged TO some ex-
tent, while two of the wooden cars
were very badly damaged. Beth the
engineer and fireman were shaken up
and the latter's back was injured by
being struck by piece of board.
Immediately after the accident
wrecking crew was dispatched to the
scene and most of the wreck mad
been cleared away yesterday after
noon. The repairs to the engine and
cars will be made in the shops en-
the railway yard here.
Second Accident Occurs.
Several hours after this smash up,
another accident occurred on the rail-
way yard, a huge steam shovel that
was being drawn On a fiat car strik-
ing enc of the big steel girders ur-
der the Twenty street bridge,
twisting the girder and several OF the
steel beams so badly that they Will
have to be replaced. The repairs VIII
be made by the railway company.
The steam shovel was built at the
sh.pyard and it was being hauled down
the railway and toward the depot
and on the main passenger train
track. The shovel passed under the
Thirty-fourth and Twenty-elghth
streets bridges, but the clearance at
the Twenty fifth street bridge is not
as high as that Of either Of the otn-
ers. and the steel arm OF the shovel
struck the girder.
A third accident occurred on the
road north of this city later in the
day, an incoming passenger train strik-
ing a COW and killing it. When the
train arrived in this city the cow
catcher was covered with blood.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
CHILDREN FED; HORSE sTARvEs.
Bette Love. Aged Negroes. Has Trou-
bIes Of Her Own.

Bettie Love, the negro woman. who
was arrested here several days ago for
driving half-starved horse about the
city, explained to Justice Brown yes
terday morning that 1t was either a
case of starving her horse or her
children and she choose to- starve the
horse.
She says that she has house full
of young ones and is unable to make
more than enough to feed them. JUS
tice Brown warned the woman not
to come to town with the horse again
and then dismissed the case.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Calendar for Today.
THREE THOUSAND ARRESTS.
Police of Newport News Had Busy
Time During Past Fiscal Year.

Two thousand eight hundred and
ninety arrests wee made by Chief Rey-
nolds' finest during the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1909, according TO a
statement issued yesterday by the
chief. OF the total number of ar
rests there were 2.223 convictions.
which is an unusually large percen-
tage.
OF the total number arrested, 1,40i
were white and 1,4S3 were negroes.
A total Of 671 fines were paid for mis-
deameanor cases, POI being for the
State. Eighteen offenders were sent
to the reform school and nineteen
were committed 30 insane asylums.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Stevenson to Get Hearing.

Alex Stevenson. the young man,
who was arrested in the Corporation
Court room last week on the charge
of grand larceny, viii be given hear
ing in the police court this morning.
Stevenson is said to have been one
CT the men who robbed the yacht Lady
Evelyn here several years ago.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Carl Landon Still Lives.

Carl Landon. the machinist who cut
his throat from ear to ear early We'd
nesray morning was still alive at mid
night last night. While his condition
is vet critical, the chances now are
that the man will recover. The
patient is unable to take any kind
of food on account OF the cash in his
throat.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
rnr Cruelty to Animals.

L. r. Undertake. a well known
contractor. was summoned by PATROL
man Vellines yesterday to appear in
the police court this morning to
answer the charge Of cruelty to AMI
mails. Charles p. Eagle has been sum-
moned as witness in the case.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Try NJ. {. Gallagher Today.

The case Of VI. F. Gallagher. who is
alleged to have attempted suicide
Monday afternoon by Ieaping into sal
ter's creek. is set for hearing before
Justice Brown in the police court this
morning.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
CAS- EARe PAID TO HAMPTON.

Cheyne. who makes pictures : m
West Queen street. has decided to pay
the car fare Of the Newport News
people who really like artistic work
and want a good likeness Of them
selves. The car fare VIII be paid on
all orders G. r CHEYNE =
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
NOTICE.

Patrons OF the Newport News Light
and Water Company are Lereby re-
minded that water bills mast be paid
~ the 10th inst All delinquents
on the nth inst win have their sup
ply cut OF pursuant to notice given
all consumers. NEWPORT NEWS
LIGHT AND WATER COMPANY,
BY l. y. MANvIJI.E, Superintendent
Il
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Sailed.

Steamer Dorothy. (Br), Mcdonald
New York; indianapolis. (BrD. Cove,
Havana; Servian, (Gr.), Parry. Lon
don.
Schooners Elizabeth Palmer. Wolf
Sears9ort: Kate b. Ogden. Croker
Charleston; Mary Gurus, Simmons
Camden. Me
Barges George r. Skolfield. Boston;
Sagua. Chelsea; Upton. Boston: Whit
man. Boston; New Jersey. Providence
j. X. Dempsey. Providence.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
Marine Notes.

One foreign steamer loaded bunker
coal at this port yesterday, the Brit
ish steamer Servian, enroute from
Port Arthur to London which was sup
piled with $50 tons Of fuel by the
Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Com
pany.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09

Read Ncims g. Cos advertisement
cf dwelling Tor sale in For Sale
cclumn.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09

The four masted schooner Malcolm
Baxter. Jr.. Captain Pierce, which has
been at the shipyard from the past
week undergoing minor repairs TO hull
and the fitting of new stem piece,
to replace one which was broken by
a collision with a mud scow in Hamp-
ton Roads some days ago. left the yard
yesterday. the work on her having
been completed. and was towed TO the
coal piers. She will load cargo
of coal for Boston.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09

YES: 3 want al. viii take any MAR
KETABLE thing 10 market.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
SHIPPING REPORT.
Thursday July 8, 1909.
Arrived.
Arrived.

Steamer Servian. (Gr), Parry, Port
Arthur-to Chesapeake a Ohio Coal
Agency Company for bunker coal.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09
$4,000 Reward!

Wilkes-Bar pa.
June 20, 1909.
Prince 10 Cigar Co. Newport News,
Va
Gentlemen Please ship us at once
per Adj Ex. 1905 Prince 10 Cigars,
same as last shipment. Yours. &C.
j. X. C......-s..s
No. 1900. Academy street
$4,000 Reward IL the above letter -
not genuine.
There must be some merit IN our
Cigars when Pennsylvania orders
shipments from the South.
SMOKE PRINCE 10 CIGARS, SC.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09

The British steamer Administer
Captain Clark cleared through the
customs house yesterday Tor
Havana. Cuba. with a cargo
of 1900 tons of coal valued at
81 200 consigned from the Berwind-
White Coal Mining Company of this
city.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-09

The six-masted schooner Edward J.
Lawrence was hauled out of dry dock
No. 3. at the shipyard, yesterday after
having her hull below the waterline
cleaned and painted.
The Washington times., 1909-10-05
Short wills Not Unusual

There are several parallel cases to
that OF MI Pitcairn, formerly assistant
IN the president Of the Pennsylvania
railway, who. 81 was recently reported
left a fortune Of G3,oe.cO 10 his
widow in a will which contained only
twelve lines Of typcwriting Three
years ago Alphonse Henry Strauss left
A fortune Of E29622l in a will of forty
three words, bequeathing the whole OF
II 10 his wife. Thus the estate was dis
posed Of at the rate Of about &7,0oO per
word. Lord Mansfield found half a
sheet of note-paper ample for the dis
posal of his worldly possessions. Sir
James FitzjameS Stephens Will began
and ended in thir. cen words. A dozen
lines served to dispose of Lord Russell
of Kiilowen's estate Of nearly $1j0,000.
while Lord BTamptOn, who died two
wears ago. disposed OF his estate OF
nearly G142,O0O i'm 400 words The short
est will on record was that +. {. w.
'Tborne, OF Streatnam, who. on the back
mOther-C.- t. and thus disposed OF his
property bunting 20 $3.50. Another
iaCOniC will was that Of Robert Edles-
ton, who died in 1907. and whose win ran
thus: Il leave all that 7 am possessed
Of 20 my sisters, Marian and Frances
lCdlestOn, in equal shares an equally
brief attC~tatiOn clause reading. wit
messed In presence Of each other" with
the witnesses signature and date. As
a contrast one might mention the Will
Of the late Lord Grinuhorpe. in the
framing OF which no fever than II .O1O
Bush, a retired Gloucester engineer who
died last autumn worth CHASE, and
disposed Of it in a will containing 5000
words.-Tit-Bits.
The Washington times., 1909-10-05
SOME INTERESTING TRADE
BAROMETERS.

Many indications are given that the
business of the country is back to the
plane which IL attained in preceding
years. when high records were achiev-
ed. This is not true in all lines, of
course, but considering the business
situation as a whole, a high level has
been reached that compares favorabIy
with 1907
Bank clesrings and railway earnings
are generally looked on as the best
trade barometers. The iron and steel
industry invariably affords a good in.
dex to conditions Last weeks figures
as TO bank clearings and railway earn
ings are especially interesting. The fig
ures Oh the bank cIearings at all cities
for last week showed there had been a
gain of 22 per cent as compared with
the figures OF the corresponding week
year ago. When considered, together
with the weeks railway earnings.
which showed an increase of over IL
per cent, these figures become the more
impressive and show the tendency of
business and tradf to forge ahead all
along the line.
For weeks the iron and steel trade
has been expanding as it never has
done before, and there is no change in
the situation. The outlook now is that
the iron and steel business of 1910 will
smash al records of preceding years.
In some quarters the prediction is made
that the steel rail mills in 1910 will
produce 100000 tons. The year 1906
holds the record thus far The prOdue-
tion that year was slightly under
100000 tons.
Such facts as these in the business
The Washington times., 1909-10-05
UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES
FOR EDUCATION IN DISTRICT.

With the opening Of night schools in
the District, attention is once more
directed to the unsurpassed oppor-
tunities for obtaining a thorough edu-
cation in the National Capital.
This opening Of the night school is
an event that should be OF vital interest
TO thousands Of people In the very
nature of things we have in this city,
like every other city in the world, the
problem of educating the children who
through force of circumstances, are
compelled to contribute their mite to-
ward household expenses at a time
when they might reasonably be sup
posed TO be entering upon the most
fruitful period Of schooling. To the
best of its ability the District govern
ment is solving that problem by pro
viding night schools and installing
teachers thoroughly competent to carry
on the work left of in the day schools
The requirements of the business and
industrial world Are on a higher plane
today than ever before, and only the
men and women who measure up to
the new standards viii rise above the
rank Of private. With the educational
facilities at hand in the District Of Co
lumbia there is no reason why every
young man and young woman should
not be thoroughly equipped, even
though they have been compelled to
take up the battle of wages earlier in
life than their more fortunate neigh
bors. Their education will be limited
only by the amount of time they de
vote to il. If a young man starts with
the intention Of getting a university de
gree he can realize his ambition by per
sistent application TO the work ahead
of him. The District of Columbia offers
an excellent chance for education from
the very lowest 10 the very highest
grade. Parents who arc depending
upon their young children for fnancia
assistance should see 10 it that they
attend night school. Young men who
have only themselves to look out fol
should hesitate before passing up an op
portunity for higher education in order
that they may spend their evenings IL
manner Of no use TO themselves OF
any one else
The Washington times., 1909-10-05

hunted. The man or boy who takes
his gun on his shoulder these days
and fares forth on a shooting trip VIII
not go far until he runs into law OF
some sort which viii tend TO restrict
his activities. A recent bulletin Is
sued by the Biological Survey on the
game laws for 1909 sets forth in a
striking way the vast amount Of legis-
lation that has lately been added to the
statute books of the States for the pro
lection of game.
The game legislation enacted IN 1909
was, in some respects. more important
than that of any previous year. In the
various States and in Canada the total
number of new laws was 200 About
half of these were local measures. New
game codes were adopted in twelve
States. and commissions TO codify the
game laws were provided in Maryland,
California, and New Jersey. Protec-
ton of Inorganic birds was extended in
several States Among the notable
features of the years legislation were
certain provisions for game refugees and
parks; the protection accorded Hun
garian cartridges in q dozen or more
States, made necessary by large i'm
portations Of these birds ia the past
year; and the rapid increase in popu-
larity of the alien license, shown by
the doubling of the number of States
adopting this provision. The tendency
is TO give added protection to game in
the open season, to increase restrictions
on the export of game from States, to
increase restrictions on sale of game.
and to reduce materially the size of the
bag limit for each hunter.
On the face Of it, the great multi
pHcity Of legislation would seem to he
bent on driving the hunter out OF bust
ness. In reality, the system of thor
ough protection for game that is madu-
ally being evolved is insuring con-
tinuance of sport for the casual hunter
and making the operations of the pot
shooter more and more impossible.
The Washington times., 1909-10-05
IMPORTANCE OF THE WORK
OF MILITARY SURGEONS.

The eighteenth annual meeting of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States is being held this week
in Washington. and is bringing to-
gether the ahlcst medical talent in she
army, in the National Guard. and in
foreign armies, The meeting empha-
sizes the increasing attention which is
being given 20 medical and sanitary
science in the armies OF the civilized
world,
Ii is coming to be that the medical
corps Of an army Is the most important
part u il, The army Of the future that
eoadpets itself best in a campaign is
quite likely 20 De the army that has
the most effectively organized medical
corps, Al army may fight well and
vim battles and campaigns if its artil-
ierv - in some measure defective. if its
cavalry is not up TO the highest stand
ard, If its signal corps does not pos
sess the latest appliances. But the
army whose medical corps allows the
health Of the troops to be seriously
impaired is not likely to be the army
that will win victoriea- Every trained
soldier who is kept in health through
the enforcement Of right rules of sani-
tstion and hygiene is a trained man
added to the effective force of the army.
It has taken the world a long while
to learn this lesson of the value of the
enforcement of strict hygienic and
sanitary laws upon organized bodies
of men. In the Spanish war this coun
try failed lamentably in that respect.
The japanese. in the war in the far
East, set a splendid. example, and their
success was due in no small measure to
the effectiveness of their medical corps.
The United States, however, has
wrought out n system of sanitation in
the Panama Canal Zone that no coun-
try has ever surpassed, and Of which
the medical corps of the army may well
feel proud But there Is still much TO
be learned in this country in the way
Of medical organization in the army.
We have much to learn from what is
being done in foreign countries. For
example, we might well take leaf out
OF the japanese book in relation to
the large measure Of authority given
medical officers. No American army
win ever be kept in health unless that
is strictly exercised. For the
soldier who violates health rules there
should be punishment as in the ease Of
other infractions of discipline. Espe-
cially should this be true in time 81
actual war. and the military surgeons
can do nothing better than to seek 70
bring about state of things that viii
make the sanitary rules laid down by
the medical corps for the army recog-
nized from the highest officer to the
newest recruit as inexorable, binding
and certain to be followed by punish-
ment if not observed.
The Washington times., 1909-10-05
DOCTOR CRITICISES
MEDICAL METHODS
DR.. 6. E. Page Denounces Modern
Treatments, Particularly
Operations.

BOSTON. Mass. Oct 4.--Declaring
that the medical world has grievously
Numbered in advocating surgical treat
ment for appendicitis. and calling upon
the law to prt a stop 10 what he terms
are criminal operations" DR.. Charles
T. Page. one Of BostOn's well-known
physicians. has startled scientific circles
by his unqualified denunciatiOn of the
modern doctors methods.
He also declares that the germ theory.
upon which the medical science Of to-
day is bae@d is "a stupid fallscy," and
ne asserts that vaccination or the injec-
ton Of serum obtained from horses into
the human system is nothing less than
blood poisoning. while the Pasteur treat
meut FOR rabies in his opinion. means
subjectlng the patient 10 Two bites
instead Of one
DIR. Page is a graduate Of the Eclectic
Medical College. class Of 1881. but he
carefully explains that since leaving
college he has been unlearning much
that was taught him. and to this fact
he ascribes his rugged health az the age
Of seventy.