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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES

1t o. lommendable in the indi-
vidual. in the churches. il the Sc
cret orders TO extend material help
10 those Immediately their Gwn. AID
we kacw enough to warrant the as
sertion that this i cheerfully and
literally done by the citizens. eaur-
ches, and orders OF Blueheld to
fully as lNge degree as in any
other community or city.
Outside of circle however. Of our
own individual connection. church
memberships and secret orders or
brotherhood members are many
worthy poor who very properly
have claim upon as when they get
20 laat point whore they cannot
altogether help themselves. u is
TO this class espec ally that the a
9wed Charities undertakes TO
minister
Because Of this tact mt A So
ated 3li.its subscriptions from
aEory direction realizing as IL does.
THAT taS funds ncscssar, to the
pro orw'o b. this work must come
from hose trdiy.dusl and organi-
lat.o.s nho are alra3d, doing Imi-
Jar work among their own wards
some orders and 5totherhoods vol.
contributed TO the work of
Pho" a oc alton last year and we
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02
PERSONAL

NJ r McCorkle or Richlands is
IN che city today on business
H. y. Mccormick of Roanoke IS a
business visitor in thu IT. today
j. 7. Bennett OF Covington is
Spending the day in the city.
r f Combs OF Huntington is n
the city today on busiEe $.
Or. l.. 5 McElrath of Norton is
visiting friends in the city
Mrs Wells of Chillcothe is visit
ing at the home OF Mrs. Harry Wei
Ter.
Geo w Williams Of Yukon w.
VS:r-ts-wisitlng relatives in the city.
r. NJ. Alan OF Narrows is visit
ing relatives in the city today.
j. w Webster, OF Norton /, a
b sirnss vi1itor in the city today
J. T.. Roberts ana ID. VI. Wells Of
HoHsStsr are spending the forenoon
fff~t'fe~~sty or business.
gEStxzkepfman left for Roanoke this
morning ION business.
iEdgar Weaver of Cambridge
Srtihgs. Pa, is visiting his son
Samuel on Higginbotham avenue.
3 6H W Wells a real estate man of
Richmond Is in the city today.
, iCMiss Josephine Wright left for
Hollins Institute this afternoon.
j. T. Thornton and e. L. Borden
left for Oakvlle this morning on a
jhpuIlhg trip.
r. Morgan returned last night
from Charlottesville where he has
beer to zee his, mother who has
bee" i'll. She is much improved.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02
PLEASES AUDIENCE.

The singing of Percy Reed pleas
ed Of the audiences at the Grand
last night This is not the first APP
Dearance of Mr.. Reed here. he hav-
ing been here with AL. G.. Field )
MINISTRIES several times. He has the
distinction of having sung in the Col
onial theatre il Cincinnati seven
teen weeHs. the marageme of that
theatre usually keeping illustrated
sorg singer only two weeks.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02
ARRESTED FOR
TRESPASS

Detective Pence of the Baldwin
agenly arrested VIM Stume last
night at Graham for trespasslng on
tho railroad.
Stlmp was riding the blind bag
gage on No. 3 when the train pull.
ed in. He was given thirty days on
the chain gang this morning by
Judge Crockett in police court.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02

his Office and all persons who .ny
their taxes promptly are entitled "a
2 IL per cent discount.
lO-26-6L J. r. AKERS.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-11-02
PASSENGERS DELAYED.

Passenger train No. 4. was de-
Iayed ten minutes this morning. at
The depot on account of cylinder
head blowing out.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
COOK STOCK
GOES UP

Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 22.-That tho
statement of Knud Rasmussen is q
valuable aid to the establishment Of
proof Of his discovery Of the North
Pole, was Dr.. Frederick A. Cooks
comment here yesterday. Rasmussen.s
statement was that Or. Cooks claim is
fully borne out by the information
which the Danish explorer secured
among the Eskimos.
pr Cook said Rasmussen's opinion
Is valuable because he is a half Eski.
mo himself, and speaks the Eskimo
language and understands the peonle
The statement is from a man who
has no occasion to defend me- said
Dr. Cook. He is not particularly a
friend of mine and he had no relation
70 our expedition. first met him At
North Star in 1907. He gathered his
Information from Eskimos before he
leard from me that | had discovered
he North Pole"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
SAM COOK
CONVICTED

IN the county court yesterday after
noon, Sam Cook, charged with viola
lating the prohibition law, was con
yicted and was sentenced to pay 4
fine Of $50 and spend thirty days in
jail.
the jury was out but short time
before a verdict was agreed upon.
Following the Cook case. John
Stateham was placed on trial charged
with selling liquor and before O'Clock
verdict of guilty was returned
stateham was charged with peddling
booze in the vicinity of Naples last
March. He was given the same SEN
tence that Cook drew
Judge Williams excused the Jury to.
day and the attention Of the court was
devoted to miscellaneous motions. jury
trials viii be resumed tomorrow.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22

OF tpffense attempted by said in
dletIf to be charged and alleged
agaiip said defendants; that the so
cailefert acts attempted to be set
forth ! as alleged against the de.
tehdal constitute acts to the effect
the ft of the alleged conspiracy
20 pe etrged and alleged against de-
iehdat that the indictment is dupli-
estlohf that II charges more than
ohe one IN the same count against
'he a7iants; that said indictment
aoes Rhow names Of officials OF
tiie dfment OF the interior and
the buf OF Indian affairs alleged BY
aaia ment to be in charge OF the
matter lchfauling and sale Of town
iots ahpther does ii show thai the
names faid officials are or ever
were u grand jury unknown; that
the Hu hnt does not set forth or
aiiege Pames OF persons or any
Of therb whom II is aIlaoed n
said inAent these defendants cor,
sp'Ted re lots scheduled nor does
IL suiIlfy describe said persons
O mat were unknown to the
IN
grand l'Rhat it does not set forth
Or deserpts to which conspiracy is
said 20 or that said lots were
70 the grRlry unknown; that there
y not hoa never has been an act
9 cohsr approved March !, 1901.
% rauiy efirm a treaty with Mus
sohee ahNek Indians; that the
grand JUN improperly drawn be-
cause y not drawn under the
ARKANSAS (which was in force i'm
tne ihuiaHitory at the time the {
crime WaHmitted, and that the ;
Jury was tdrawn from the sec {
tioh ol tl#e where the alleged s
crime was lifted; that the indict- /
ment ls the fifth and sixth
amendmehqhe constitution of the
United Sta Ahat neither Of said !
so-calied WIS alleged can consti-
tute a const
The DENT will he arepad or
Oct 2s.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
APPLICATION FOR OIL
and GAS FRANCHISE

AT the city council meeting yester
day afternoon, In behalf of the Wash,
ite Valley Oil & Gas Company. j. C.
smith asked for a franchise for the
same In this city.
Under the existing laws, a city coun.
Gil cannot grant franchise of any
kind, but must submit propositions of
this kind to the people.
The application OF Mr.. Smith was in
the form Of an ordinance calling a spe.
cial election at which the voters NAV
pass on the franchise. The ordinance
was referred to the ordinance commit.
tee, Of which Temple is chairman, and
the committee viii 90 over it with
MI Smith and report at the next meet.
ing.
IL Is understood that the Washita
Valley company has secured leases
and will prospect for oil and gas in
this vicinity.
To Repeal the Sunday Law.
BY a vote Of to 2, the council in
structed the city attorney to prepare
an ordinance repeating the ordinance
which forbids play houses and pool
halls from doing business on Sunday
Sullivan and Petty voted against the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
TAKES FAIR
YOUNG BRIDE

Hartford, Conn, Oct 22.-Despite
the fact that she is II years old Mrs
LUCINDA Treat Goddard had many love
atfalrs and succeeded in marrying a
man Of p. It was only last month
mat she became the bride of Charles
K. Goddard junior at the Yale law
school whom she calls Sonny In
an action brought by her son to make
MN his mothers conservator on The
grounds that she is mentally and
physically infirm, witnesses testified
that the aged woman had made love
to them and proposed marriage.
a boss painter testified that he had
the contract to paint Mrs. Goddard's
mouse last summer and that sNe paid
SO much attention to the painters that
Trey could scarcely work. John Nal.
lender paperhanger, testified that
MIS- Goddard proposed marriage and
Kissed him before all the painters.
Harold Chamberlain, good yoolr-
ing youth Of 20, testified that the aged
woman put her arms around him and
suggested marriage He was fright
aned and never went back.
Mrs Goddard met her present hus-
band when he was selling stockings
2 support himself while studying law.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22

See how it is done? You take a
throw and take your chances. The
other fellow takes a throw with load
ed dice and at the same time pushes
the drawer. It's dead easy, just like
CLOCK work. The shell game is easy
70 beat compared with this one.
Yearta and his force seized ma.
chine Of the above character at "66n
In raid last night, batteries. drawer.
metallic top and all complete. They
also took charge of roulette wheel
and layout, two poker tables, racks
and chips and other paraphernaIia
Carefully guarding all the exits. the
Officers entered the place, finding
about twentyeight men who were ar
rested, together with the proprietors.
lhere were no gambling devices in
sight when the officers made their
appearance. but after some investiga-
tion the articles were found carefully
hidden away part of it in holes under
the floor over which carpet was
spread. The whole outfit was taken
70 the court house.
The raid was made about o'cloeIx
" the undersheriff and Deputies Nor
is, Garner and Bryan.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
ten LIVES SNUFFED OUT
IN MINE EXPLOSION

McAlester Okla, Oct. 21.-Ten mer
are dead, tNt are injured and one is
missing as result of an explosion ir
mine No. 8, of the Rock Island Goa
Mining Company, near Hartshorne
yesterday. The bodies of the dead
were recovered late in the afternoon
Among them was Dan Hughes, the gas
man. The igniting of gas by lamps
carried by some of the men who are
supposed to have passed over the
dead line" is supposed to be the
cause of the disaster. 4
The dead are: John soils. Iobn
Domdroski, Joe zetto, James Totts
Fro Dresdo, Jack Jacobia, Joe say.
age, Dan Hughes; two unidentified.
The injured: William rFankson
probably fatally; Jim Johnson TRAINER
boy, slightly.
Missing: Tony Orlando.
by reason of the fall Of debris in
the entry where the explosion oc.
CURED, and the condition Of the air,
i was difficult to find the bodies and
u was late in the day before the last
one was recovered.
Dan Hughes was the gas man and
IRE boss, whose duty it was to visit
al the working places between mid
llgnt and 1880 in the morning when
ne men went to work. It was found
le had dead lined" entry to No. II
yesterday morning before the men
vent down into the mine The dead
me rs a barrel beyond which the
nen are warned not to go. 1t indicates
ne presence of gas in dangerous ouan-
tiles. 1t is supposed the miners 60
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
WANT ON
The ROLLS

Washington, Oct. 22.-Some eleven
thousand or more persons, whose
names are excluded by the commits.
sion to the Five Civilized Tribes and
the choctow-chickasaw citizenship
court from the rolls Of the Five Ciyi-
iized Tribes, are involved in a case
upon which argument was begun in
the United States supreme court YES.
terday. Frank Hagerman argued for
the appellants and Solicitor General
Bowers for the appellees.
The case is entitled, ]. f. Fleming
e. al, against Green McCurtain Dong.
las Fl. Johnston and all persons an
pearing with them on the citizenship
rolls Of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations, and all persons whose names
appear on the freedmen rolls Of such
nations and the secretary Of the in
terror.
The appellants charge the commits. /
sion to the Five Civilized Tribes and
the Choctaw-Chickasaw citizenship
court with fraud, bribery and mis-.
lakes Of law and Of fact in the dis.
'harge OF their respective duties The
question involved in this case is a
tremendous one.
for more than decade the work
= me agents Of congress has been
lccepted as final by all except the
iaimants in the Fleming case, who
eek to oyerturn everything that has
cen done.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
TY WANTS
$4,000 PER

Detroit Mich, Oct. 22.-Plans 70,
next season with the Tiger manage
ment will have to contain big finan
cial lee-way for both Ty Cobb and
Hugh Jennings, or the team which
lof three years has been American
league champion. will be without It's
leader and leading player. Ty Cobb
mas come to be the chief figura IN
baseball; not that he is hetfar
player than his rival Wagner, but be.
cause Of his youth. He went Ia IA.
trolt three years ago under a 80 ono
contract. II he doesn't get 100000
next year he will know the reason
why He realizes his Importance, and
ne states that he will hold for money
that is well up to the bounds Of that
Importance. He says that If Wagner
can draw $4,000, he can too o. staxI
in Georgia the summer.
Frank Navin, owner of the chamns
is coming to know that thera f.
counter-action in the financial success
OF leadership. With Cobb holding for
$4,000 contract, and Hugh Jennings
open to proposals from other bic
league owners, and with Sam Craw-
ford next best Tiger. looking with
eye on the contract to corne,
a goodly share of his world series
profits will so.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
"SEVEN COME LEVEN'
WALK UP YE SUCKERS

Walk right up, gentlemen, wall
right up.
Shoot till you shoot your head Of
II you want to, but you can beat thi.
game.
Seven come 'leven."
The safe-blower takes some chances
-he may be caught.
There's always a possibility that 4
hold-up man in dark alley may be
caught
But mere is an Internal machine that
VIII rob the sucker while he waits and
nell go away none the wiser. On the
contrary, the victim will feel that he
Is a good sport
Inc game is "klondike" or Grams
Just as you like, gentlemen, only II
must De played with dice. There
stands an innocent looking table with
crap layout on it, but in the drawer
underneath is an electrical outfit
mere is 16-cell dry battery and in
'rder TO magnetic the whole board
ne guy VINO is running the game has /
merely 70 push on the drawer. which |
ooks like 1t is just money receptacle
nd the thing is done
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
PRESENT DEMlRER
In TOWNLOT CASES

Ardmore. Okla. Oct 22.--Demurrers
filed by the defendants In the town
lot fraud cases yesterday allege TWEEN
H. reasons why the indictments should
be set aside Among the leading rea-
sons assigned are the following:
That the indictment does not state
facts sufficient to constitute a public
offense; that the court is without iur-
isdiction Of the subject matter Of the
alleged oifense; that the court Is
without jurisdiction as to these de-
PENDANTS or either Of them on account
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22

Ing to work in this entry ignored the
dead line and that an open lamp
carried by one of them ignited the
gas. The fact that Hughes was there.
aiso leads to the belief that he was
there arranging the air courses to
carry out the gas when the miners
Iired It by oyerstepping the line.
hughes was alive when taken out, but
never regained consciousness.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22

motion. Coffman strongly advocated
1t 1t will be remembered that an eff
fort to repeal the law few month.
ago failed on account OF the MAYORS
veto.
Other Business.
Bids for street cleaning were opened
put tney We're in such shape that it
was impossible to decided as to their
relative merits without doing some
careful fgurng, Acton was pontponed
III the next meeting.
Thecity engineer filed his progress
estimaf on the Sixth street paving
and ting same was approved.
"A rePiution was passed to make a
paymeH on the Sixth street paving
Inc ~ engineer filed his report on
the tot9 cost of the Colorado ave
mug pa Ing and the same was ap-
rosed.
y or ranance assessing Iowa avenue
lot payng purposes was passed.
4e 9mmittee reported that final |
s. Fmdt with city hall contractor
adeen made.
1erman present were Coffman.
Gr1 Hale, Sullivan. Pettyjohn and
TedIe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22
RECITAL
TONIGHT

The first entertainment in the apdi
torium of the new High School will
De the recital this evening. given hy
MISS Sheets, teacher of expression. and
MISS Smith, vocal music teacher. The
Glee Club viii also make their first
appearance The entire program L
an unusually entertaining one.
The object of the entertainment Il
% raise money for the High School
hprary fund and it is hoped that a
large audience will be present.
FOLLOWING is the program.
Juanlta' ........ Parks and Norton
Fishing" .......... porLs
Glee Club.
Chas, Robinson Overton Burnev
HARRIS cloud Garvin Chastain
:. W. McManis Sharman Owsley
Bernard Baird T. 9 Stavan
Within the Ring Of Singing Inn
Miss Sheets
Purple Eyes" John Luther ono
Miss Sheets
Orchard Cradle Song" . Denzo
Sing Mir Deiu Leid" ... Greene
Miss Smith
An Object Of Love" wilkins
Miss Sheets
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-22

MIS- J. G Shreve has returned from
two months trip including visits IN
Chicago and Nebraska, where she
studied hair work.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-09
Raise Mules and Horses

Although the very rich may continue
TO buy expensive automobiles, we shall
always find sale for a good horse in
this country, and so long as farm work
is hard and rough, nothing can beat the
mule.
II 1 could put back twenty years on
my life, I'D buy a pair of sound mares,
and try to raise a couple of mule colts
every year. They will sell as easily as
bag of cotton, and will cost less TO
make on a pasture with running water.
We own a hundred acres in Bermuda
pasture, and one of the prettiest little
rivulets running through it l ever saw.
We now live in Gainesville, but never
drive by that pasture and see that Ber-
muda meadow, that I do not reproach
myself. that we have been so short
sighted on the mule question.
Why shouldn't any farmer keep a brood
mare, when the mule colt will bring
him fifty dollars at weaving time, and
the mare will raise enough feed TO keep
her up all the year round, and do SER
vice for the family everywhere?
We must wake up. There are so many
things that we need and are not trying
to have In such matters as these.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-09
WHEAT MADE NEW
HIGH RECORD TODAY

CHICAGO, April S.-The pyrotechnic display
which characterized trading in the wheat pit
yesterday was entirely lacking at the opening
today and prices were inclined TO sag, owing
TO the quite general selling by commission
houses and trading houses. News of the day
was bullish, the Liverpool market being up
AaAd and exports for the week from Argen-
tina being estimated at approximately 100000
bushels less than for the previous week, but
the market received no substantial support
early in the session. The bull leaders were
apparently willing to rest on their laurels for
q tiHae 80 least. The market opened at de-
clines OF shade TO sc, compared with the
previous close, May being at N.20 to A.251R
first hour May sold off to H.24B and July
to LIS.
Later in the day prices were again raised
to new high record mark on a mild burst
up TO si.2eA and July to N.l2%a1. LIZA. All OF
the gain was lost shortly before the close on
renewed profit taking. May dropping to 81 4%
The close was easy, with May off &c at
N.24h. July down hc at sl.l1%4l.ll%.
Declines Of one cent or more in the May
and July delivery marked early trading in tho
corn pit
The low point for May was 66xc There was
slight recovery on buying by shorts, but the
market closed weak. with May off 7sc at 6slsc.
Selling pressure was general and the market
had very p0or support. Slow demand for the
cash grain and prospects for a big crop this
at the start were hGhc to 1Ac lower, May
being at @hc to SIC. and July at 66c to 66Ae.
Early I'm the day May declined to eshc and July
20 6sAc.
weakness I'm the oats market. May sold off to
545sc. after opening &c to hc lower, at 5ohsc to
55hc.
of grain, Trade OF small volume at the
start. Prices az the opening were unchanged
TO l2iSc lower.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-09
Ask Charter for Fitzgerald Road

A new railroad, which will traverse
one of the best territories of south Geor-
gia, giving Perry it's long-desired outlet,
and with st. Mary's and the coast as its
final terminals, will be built from Fitz-
gerald to Perry or Fort Valley. Appli-
cation for charter of the new road.
which will be known as the Fitzgerald
and Northwestern railroad, will be filed
in the immediate future.
The new line will pass through Ro-
chelle, Pine View, Grovania and Perry.
At Rochelle 1t will cross the lines of the
Seaboard at Pineview the Hawkinsvine
and Florida Southern; at Grovania, with
the Southern and Florida, and at Perry,
the Central of Georgia. If the road is
extended to Fort Valley 1t will connect
with the Southern railway and the Cen
trail of Georgia.
Work on the road will begin in the
next few months. 1t is the plan of the
promoters to eventually extend the road
southerly to St. Mary's on the coiast,
where ample hsrbor facilities viii give
extra desirable freight terminals.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-09
NOrcross Woman Ends Life in We'll

NORCROSS, Ga, April 6.-Mrs. Mary E.
Duncan, wife of Mr.. w. r. Duncan, who
lives four miles out Of Norcross, COM
mitted suicide last night by jumping in
a well while the rest of the family wera
at supper.
Mrs, Duncan left the dining room and
went to a front room, where the family
supposed she stopped. but she went out
and OFF to a well at a saw mill place some
two hundred yards from the house, where
she was found dead in the water.
She was 90 years of age and is survived
by her husband Mr.. w. r. Duncan; foui
daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Garner and Misses
Maggie Mamie and Ellen Duncan; two
sons, Mr.. John Duncan, Of Atlanta, and
Mr.. Henry Duncan, of Norcross; four
brothers, Messrs. B. o. Bolton, w. P. Boil
ton, B. r. Bolton and J. v. Bolton; one
sister, Mrs. Beatrice Singleton, all of Nor
cross
Mrs. Duncan has been in poor health
for some time. Her mind at times has
been wrong for a number OF years. The
family has had to keep a close watch
upon her. She had on former occasions
tried to end her life.
The funeral will be at Mount Carmel
Wednesday at IL q. m.