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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-12-03
HODGES.

The sudden and sad de ath OF Mr..
Willis Hodges which occurred at
.Shepherdstow ON last Tuesday even
Jog was shock to the community.
He had come 10 town ia the forenoon
and drove from here to the sale of Mr..
Byers near Swan Pond and from there
he went to Shepherdstowl, his former
home and where his mother, broth
er and sister live and drove to
his brothers grain elevator on the
southeast outskirts Of the town on the
line OF the Norfolk and Western
railroad. AS he was driving across
the tracks a shifting engine backing
several cars came suddenly upon him.
The buggy was brokeE to pieces and
bis body was run over and he was so
badly injured that death occurred in
less than half an hour.
The occurrence was sad ore indeed
as he leaves four little daughters the
oldest of whom is under eight years of
age and his wife was buried last Sdn-
day week, November. 20.
He was a son of the late G.. T,
Hodges, who for many years was en-
gagged in the gram business at Shop
herdstown and Kearneysvillei and
married Miss Eva, the daughter of
Mr. Samuel Miller about ten Wears
ago. He was for several years engag-
ed in stock buying and shipping and
was well known and very popular in
this and Jefferson county.
The funeral took place from his moth
er's home in Shepherdstownon Thurs
day morning and the remains were
buried by the side of his wife in Green
Hill cemetery IN this city.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-12-03

Mr.. Norman Elmer Pine, we'll
known young man about town and an
employe of the Kibourn Knitting
Machine Company, was, found dead
at bis home on Winchester avenue on
last Saturday morning. He had been
down town Ion Friday night and went
home about 1890 and went to bed. 1t
is supposed that he was taken sick
during the night and went down
stairs and took some medicine which
evidently had carsed his death. A bot
tie was found by him but there had
been water poured into it and it was
difficult to tell what had been it but
DR.. Oates who was called, upon NOV
ing the body discovered the fumes of
chloraform which it is supposed he
took by mistake for otter medicine
His aec was n years and be was very
popular among his acquaintance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Glad Hand and Banda.

In spite of the monotony of the travel,
the tunes and the Handwriting stunts,
President Taft is standing the continent
oircling trip remarkably well. By the time
he finishes the tour he will probably find
some difficulty in sleeping on a bed that
Is hitched to Mother Earth. In order to OBJ
tain real, restful slumber after he returns.
he Will perhaps be obliged to order a sec
ton of the Marine band to play Hail
to the Chief" under his window at 2 or 3
or 4 a. m. The brutal assassination of
Hail to the Chief" which the president
has been forced to hear so often on the
present trip. is a crime second only In
fiendishness to the daily murder Of 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner and the almost as
frequent massacre Of MY Country. IT'S
of Thee" One or more of these near melo-
dies is hurled at the president as he ar
rives, and is thrown after him as he flees
down the railroad track. II the poor presi-
dent survives the horns of the village band.
evades without scar the young woman
viii the bouquet and escapes with his life
and digestion from the banquet prepared
by the town caterer-who was. until a year
ago, the village undertaken. but. this here
place being so healthy that nobody ever
dies, he went broke"-if he is able to. de-
clare himself alive and tTavel-flt after all
these terrors of the wayside, he will be
doing well.
Life on the~Trnin.
As the presidential train made its way
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
U. S. COURT OF APPEALS
CRlTlCiSES MCPHERSON
Remarks Of Judge TO Jury Declared
to BE Beyond Legal Right
of Court.

ST. LOUIS, oct. SO-Because of remarks
made to a jury by Judge Smith Mcpherson
OF the United States district court at Kan
sas City the United States court OF appeals
In St. Louis today reversed and remanded
the case OF John F, Rudd. who had been
convicted OF conducting "a scheme 10 de-
fraud.
Rudd was accused Of using the mails IN
an effort to sell a spring lever, The rec
ords showed that after the evidence was
submitted Judge Mcpherson said TO the
jury:
N man with the slightest degree of In
~telIigence above insanity would say tina
this pump is practical. Any school boy
would know better.
This man either is guilty Of a crimina.
act or he IL an idiot. insane and foolish
The defendant claims to believes in his ma.
chine. II he does he is an idiot. crazy. II
he does not. he Is guilty"
The decision OF the court or appeals
written by Judge Hook. says
1t is the province OF a couftstos com
ment on facts and evidence, but his com
ments should be dispassiOnate ana GUARDED
In order that the jurors may be left fire.,
to exercise their Independent Judgment"
In the lower court Rud was fined $50
and sentenced 70 serve eleven months Il
jan
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

down the Pacific coast it took on and dis
charged huge cargoes Of fruit and local
committeeman The apples. pears, melons
and grapes were loaded into the baggage
car and the local committees swarmed all
over. The fruit spoiled rapidly, but the
committeeman never. They we're Just as
fresh when they got off as when they
swarmed aboard to push their way into
the presidents car. After learning that
nearly half a carload OF fine apples and
peaches had rotted in Utah. Mr.. Taft gave
was used by the party should be given to
the hospitals in the various cities visited.
AS sometimes one evil consumes another,
the danger Of decay in the fruit supply is
often prevented by the hungry committee
men. The number of local celebrities that
are sent on ahead to the state line or
some other convenient point to escort
the president into our town is by no
means guRged by the size Of the place that
the executive is favoring. quite the con-
trary. The larger the committee, the
smaller the town, would be nearer the
rule. Then there are the members Of the
governors staff In each state who must
come on board with the governor to help
along the official welcoming. They are
weighted down with gold lace and titles,
sabeTs and spurs, and, between their ef-
forts to uphold the dignity OF their jobs
and their attempts to climb into the first
automobiles in the parade, usually look
thoroughly miserable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
GAY ACCUSED OF SWINDLINe
Men Indicted In Omaha On Fake
WrestIinE Match Charge Held
at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Oct. sO,-Thomas Gay Of
streator, ILL.,. charged with swindling
James Tierney OF the same city out If
Il 1000 by means OF a fake wrestling match.
was arraigned before United States Com
missioner Foote here today. Gay is al
legged to be a member OF the gang against
which numerous indictments have been re-
turned at Omaha. He will be taken TO the
latter city for trial.
The fake match is alleged to have taken
place at New Orleans on January "a last,
between Cay and Harry Wright. Gay fell
to the mat, It Is charged, apparently SUI
fering from a hemorrhage. which In reality
is said to have been produced from a
cleverly concealed rubber vessel.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

engineering devices which have held the
river In its fixed bed and which make the
deep waterway.
I'VE have shown him ,this, and now we
are ready to ask him to extend the re-
vetments which do this work into every
bend on the Mississippi. and to carry this
deep waterway and the protection to farm
lands adjacent to II throughout the course
of the Mississippi
I'VE wish to go further than this i'm
provement, revetment and contraction, and
to see some broad general plan adopted
which shall cover the whole control of the
water in the river. shall lessen the floods
and give us a more general flow at low
water, and at the same time restrict the
channel. We believe that this work must
be carried on not pieoemeal by local divi-
sions and subject TO occasional appropria-
lions by congress, as has been done in the
past, nor do we believe that this work
should longer he subject TO the annual
argumen and ma~chinaflens of a rivers
and harbors committees
plans Are FessibIe.
Mr.. Kavanash saidts3 sEngfpeers have
surveyed the route and nave declared a
deep waterway feasible and sasx of ac-
complishmnht. The best civil engineers
have deolared IL inevitable he said. Chi
cage has spent sec, 900. 200 cutting the chan
mel through the rocky divide. and Illinois
Is spending S9O.O6o.OOO to step # by locks
down to the soft-bottom portion of the
Illinois river" the speaker declared. From
there to the gulf the way Is clear and the
plans are ready" ,-A1
Mr.. Kavanagh said: THE people viii no
longer tolerate the 'pork-barrer method Of
compelling government engineers TO allot
funds for river improvements, according to
congressional district, nor will they allow
the development Of the greatest of their
highways to depend upon uncertain appro-
p~riations."
The speaker said that when congress con-
venes this winter 1t will have to consider
seriously for the first time the great prob
lem Of the conservation OF water, which
President Roosevelt foresaw, and among
other things. the establishment OF some
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Telephone Connection Ordered.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. Oct. ~90-(Special.)
The Citizens Telephone company Of Cen
terville complained to the State Railroad
board that the managers of the Beresford
telephone system had refused TO permit a
connection being made with the lines Of
that system. The board fully investigated
the matter and at a meeting just held de-
cided that the complainant company had
a right to connect with the Berestord sys-
tenn. This case has attracted wide at
tention among the telephone men of the
state.
Orders were issued requiring the railway
companies to construct depot buildings at
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Graphing Hook
Catches Painter
James Donahue MiraOulously Saved
from Death While Falling from
Scaffolding in New York.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-Checked in his fall
from a scaffolding off which a fellow
worker had just pitched to death on the
stone abutment of the Williamsburg bridge
$50 feet below, James Donahue, a painter,
today in the sight Of thousands hung sus-
pended from a graphing hook at the end
of a long rope, which had caught in his
clothing as he fell.
Head downward, DOnahue swung in mid
air until persons on the bridge structure
above swung another rope to him. H
grasped II, pulled himself head-uppermost,
and then was drawn to safety. owen Fin
negan a painter, was the man killed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
SHAKEUP IN COAST
AND GEODETIC SURVEY
Acting superintendent Perkins Sus-
pended and Inspector Gilbert Re-
duced by Assistant McHarg.

WASHINGTON, oct. SO.-Frank Valley
Perkins, acting superintendent of the
United States coast and geodetic
survey was today suspended without
pay n John j. Gilbert, inspector
of photography and topography, reduced
from 50, 200 to $1,000 a year as the result of
charges OF administrative Irregularities.
The action was taken by Acting Secretary
Of Commerce and Labor McHarg. Their
cases will be passed upon later by Secre-
tary Nagel, now in the west,
Just on the evening of his retirement
from office Mr.. McHarg took action on
the charges against the two officials, Per-
klns was at the head of the survey, while
DR.. o. II. Tittman, the director. was In
Europe. DR.. Tittman left early in Septem
Der and has recently returned. The charges,
Acting Secretary McHarg said today, do
not in any way affect DR.. Tittman and
the two officials named are the only ones
against whom charges nave been made.
Perkins is charged with suppressing Off
cial correspondence and shielding employees
who ave been reported, also with having
refused to forward to the head OF the de-
partment Of and labor, charges
against the management of the survey and
with evading questions officially asked
him. A charge of inefficiency has been
made against Gilbert.
Reports of commanders of Coast and
Geodec In survey vessels having their
wives and families aboard them, some
practically living on the craft in violation
Of the regulations Of the department, and
Of irregular management and disposition OF
these boats figure in the cases. There
are also allegations of favoritism through
pigeon holing of reports against certain
employees in the bureau.
Mr.. Perkins left the office. for his home
early this afternoon. Director Tittman had
nothing to say.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

= DEPOSITS made on or before No
vember 10th in the SAVINGS
- DEPARTMENT of the UNITED
r STATES NATIONAL BANK will
draw interest from November 1st
Three per cent interest is paid on saw
inss deposits and compounded semi
annually. Funds may be withdrawn
at any time without notice.
The combined capital and surplus is
S1,200,000. The total assets are over S1S,-
100000. 1t is the Oldest bank in Nebraska,
established in 1856.
United States National Bank
NJ 7. BARLOW, Pres A. MlLLARD, Vee-Prss.
6. W. WAFFLE. Ves-Pres. ". E. RHOADES, Cashier.
NR CALDWELL, Vies.PrhS &C. HlVEaSTICK, AsS-CAshi F
RI ?. MORSMAN, AsStCashier.
OPEN ON SATURDAYS UNTIL OP.M
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
The Mission

OF those oorpusoIes In your blood
that have been called Little
Soldiers" ls to fight for you
against the disease germs that
constantly endanger your health.
These corpuscles are made
healthy and strong by the use Of
Hoods SarsaPaTllla.
This medicine lie q combination Of
more than 20 different remedial agents
in proportions and by a process known
only to ourselves and il has for thirty
years been constantly proving its worth.
No substitute, none "just-as-good."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

The Bee is the only paper ad-
mittsd TO thousands Of homes.
Women are the buyers. which ac-
counts. In part, for the remark
able returns 70 IA advertisers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
GERMAN MAKES FAST
TIME WITH AER0PLANE
Hans Grade Files Mile and Half In
Two Minutes and FOrty-Three
Seconds in German

J-oHANNIsBAL, Germany, Oct. @.-Hans
Grade, the German aviator. today won the
Lanse prize of $1,000 by flying two and
one-half kilometres "a little more than a
mile and a halD in two minutes and forty
three seconds. The competition was re-
strlcted to aeroplanes constructed in Ger
many by German builders propelled by
German made motors. After receiving the
prize, Grade made two more flights OF
about five minutes each in his mono
plane.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

Grover, Crandall and onaka. Following
negotiations between the board and the
proper officials Of the railway company
concerned it was agreed that a viaduct
should be constructed over the tracks of
the company at Bradley. in accordance
with a petition filed by the people of that
place. The board also ordered in stock
yards at Amherst. Marshall county. Var
ious matters not of general interest were
disposed of by the board during its meet
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

big central bureau, probably a department
Of public works, to undertake the entire
control Of our running water.
But" said he, the deep waterway must
not wait for this. In floods and in low
water a fo~urteen-foot channel can be easily
maintained"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Coming Mes.age TO Congress.


written 1t on the slopes of the Rockies, in
the alkali dust Of the intermountain states
and on the biushing fruit lands OF the
Pacific slope. BY the time the peregrinat-
ing White House rolls rolls into Washing
ton, on November 10. little will be lacking
from the document ave the executives
benedictIon for the lawmakers and a few
recommendations and him by members
Of his cabinet. Taken as a whole, the
present trip thus far might well be called
a try-out of the message. Mr.. Taft has
evolved 1t as he has proceeded. Each town
has been a paragraph and each state a
pag At Boston, where his 13OOO-tnile
tour began, he laid before the financially
Interested his ideas on currency and none
tary legislation. His sympathy for the
Aldrich central bank scheme was avowed,
and he expressed the hope that congress
would recognize the necessity of early ac-
ton along lines laid down by the monetary
commission which would result in our
adoption OF a financial system more ade-
quate to the needs or trade. From Boston
the president Travelled to Chicago, where
he gave the business men a look at the
paragraph of his message dealing with
labor and injunctions. He wished the anti
trust law 30 amended that labor unions
could not be unduly Disseminated against,
but at the same time demanded that they
understand the necessity OF obeying the
laws like all other classes; he also wanted
to carry out the pledges of the party plat
form In regard to injunctions. At Mil
waukee the president advocated postal
savings banks, and at Winona, in the heart
of the insurgent territory, he came out in
a resolute defense OF Tawney and
the tariff bill, and threw dow
the gauntlet to those who have charged
him with forgetting his promises of a
downward revision. In the winona
speech the president suggested that IL more
tariff revision is needed It will be we'll to
walt for communications OF the tariff
board on the subject. and in the same ad-
dress declared his intention Of ordering
the board to prepare a dictionary or CLOS
sary Of tariff terms and expressions for
the benefit of the people at large. The
presidents Des Moines speech was his
declaration of Intention to further amend
the interstate law for the pro-
lection of the shipper against the oppres-
slons of the carrier and to ask for more
law against the watering OF stock. Den
yer heard the presidents recommended
tions for the income tax amendment to
the constitution, to be put in force only
when the country faces grave financial
crises; Spokane listened with eager ears
to his conservation speech in which he
pledged himself TO continue the Roose-
welt policies, and Seattle heard with keen
disappointment that Mr.. Taft was dead
set" against granting home rule to Alaska.
In the same speech he came out strongly
for a ship subsidy and suggested that
congress use the 5000 900 or 5000, 900 profit
annually realized from the foreign mails
to start first aid to the vessel owners.
These, then, are the high points Of the
forthcoming message.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
Personal PARAGRAPHS

]. W. West has gone to Chicago.
Harry Bell claim agent OF the North
western, has gone to Chicago.
N. r. Hartman, superintendent OF tests
for the Hartman lines. has gone 70
Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-15
RAY QUITS SERVICE
OF THE ROCK ISLAND
Assistant General Passenger Agent
to Go With Advertising
Concern.

Hal S. Ray, assistant general pas
'enSer agent of the Rock Island-Frisco
iystem with headquarters in Chicago,
VIII resign Oct. 81. He will engage
II the advertising business represent
ing the Long-Critchfield concern in
New York. Mr.. Ray was born in
'ewett City, Conn, is 80 years old
and has been in railroad work IS
ears. starting in the Office of the
philadelphia passenger agent of the
;tuck Island read At one time he
cpresented the Rock Island in New
\ TX city as general eastern passen-
ger agent. Before coming to Chi
Tago, he was assistant general pas
'enger agent Of the Rock !sland-Fris-
81 system in st. Louis. His Office was
moved to Chicago about two years
go, where he retained the title but
was given charge CT advertising ex-
clusiy ely.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-15
PERSONAL POINTS.

Mrs. e. z. Taylor of Elgin is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. ] G. Hazard.
]. H. Rooney left yesterday for his
home at Saltwater after q visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J Osborn left last
night for an extended visit at Spokane
Mrs. l.. A. Schmidt and daughter
left last night for an extended visit at
Olympia, Wash.
Mrs. w. Squier of Chicago is visit
ing in this city with her daughter,
Mrs. F. II. Stuck.
Hon. E. W. Hurst went to Colfax
iowa, to join Mrs. Hurst, who has
been there for some time.
Mrs. Harriet CrCppeT-Johnston and
Miss Edna Carl left this morning TO.
Chicago, where they will remain sev-
eral days visiting with friends.
]. S. Theus, Martin Theus and Mrs.
Rosa Kruger left this morning for
EIgin, Iowa, to attend the funeral of
their brother-in-law. John Christian
who died suddenly at that place yes
terday.
Major c. S. Richie is expected home
tomorrow from Ann Arbor, Mich, to
which place he made a horse ride
from Detroit He will leave here
next Thursday for Boston, where he
will attend a meeting of engineers.
John Henderson will leave MondaT
morning FOR ST. Louis. He will be an
engineer on the Diamond JC steame:
Quincy which is one of the boats n
the presidential feet which leaves St.
Louis Oct. 25 for New Orleans.
Mr. and Mrs George Michaels are
expected to arrive in the city tonight
to spend Saturday and Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Michaels' parents, DR..
and Mrs. A H. McCandless. Tae
Young couple have been honeymoonins
for the mast two weeks at Lake Ge-
neva and at Lake Forest. They will
go from here either to Kansas CITY,
or to Chicago, just which they have
not decided.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-15
8IRNES SLATED FOR
CUSTOMS COLLECTOR
,W0UGinen Director Offered One of the
Most Important Posts in
Michigan.

Word received here says that c. ].
Byrnes 0f Ishpenning, Mich, one OF
The members Of the board of directors
If the Nj. w of A., who is now at the
head Office here, is slated for the posi-
ton of customs collector at one of the
most important Great Lakes ports,
Marquette Mich, city of 10000 peO-
pie. according to the census of 1900.
The position of collector for that
port was left vacant by the death last
week of Collector Smith and friends
of Mr. Byrnes are sure that he will re-
ceive the appointment at the hands OF
President Taft when the executive re-
turns from his cross country tour and
the next congress becomes a live body.
1t is said that the position means a
matter of about $1,000 per year to its
solder,
W6fd from Michigan is that Sen
ator William y. Smith stands for the
appointment of Mr. Byrnes and VIII
use his influence to secure the az
pointment for the we'll known and
popular Woodmen official.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-15
READY TO BEGIN ON
NEW SILVIS BUILDING
Ground to BE Broken at Once for
Rock Island Road Office
Quarters.

Ground is to be broken ar once 70:
the new office building to be erected
by the Rock Island road at SiIvis.
This is the word George w. Seidel.
Silvis superintendent CO motive power.
brings from Chicago. He returned
Wednesday evening, after two days
spent in conference with road officials
in the LaSalle street Offices The
George B Swift company mas the con-
tract Material will be shipped imme-
Giately. and rlans are to have the
structure completed and ready for oc-
cupancy by the first of the year.
Work on the building to be used as
q wood and pattern shop will not De
commenced till the Office structure is
completed. The men sent by the
Swift company win remain till both