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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
COURT EEVERSES
SAW MILL CASE
Judge Brannon Writes Opin-
ion Affecting Question as
to Safety Appliances.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 16.-Holdlng
that because saw mill was not yet
completed, and therefore not in actual
operation, the owners were not re-
sponsibIe for injuries received by an
employee who assisted in connecting
steam pipes, the supreme court Of
appeals has reversed the Circuit court
of Raleigh county in the case OF
Whorley VS.. Raleigh Lumber Com
pany, In which the plaintiff received
verdict and Judgment for $4,000.
The Raleigh Lumber Company had
about completed new saw mill. 1t
was engaged in putting in its place
pipe of considerable length running
from the boiler to some part of the
saw mill for the conveyance Of steam.
and was adjusting and testing the
pipe. Steam was turned on into this
pipe, and it disclosed leak between
two sections of the pipe. The steam
was turned off, and George W. whor.
ley, workman who had been en-
ployed in the construction OF the mill,
was engaged at the point of leakage
in tightening up hange coupling
which was leaking, when an ell
burst at his feet, and large quantity
of steam, which had been turned on
again, escaped and badly burned
Whorley. In an action brought by
him against the lumber company he
recovered verdict and judgment for
$4,000. from which the lumber com
pany sued out writ of error.
! In the syllabus Of the opinion
written by Judge Brannon, the court
held that "a master does not owe to
his servant engaged in using appli-
ances furnished by the master in
building saw mill the same degree
Of care in furnishing safe appliances
as he would owe in case of a COM
pleted and operating mill.
IRc rule OF law Is not that mas
ter must furnish to his servant rea-
sonably safe machinery, appliances
or instrumentalities for work" con
tinues the syllabus. but it is that the
master must exercise reasonable care
and diligence to furnish reasonable
safe machinery, appliance and in
strumenatlitles, and that "in an ac-
tion by servant against master
for injury from a defect in an appli-
ance, machine or instrumentality fur
nished by the master, it is incumbent
on the servant to show such defect
and that the injury comes from it.
II it might have come from one or
another cause, for one OF which the
master is not liable, there can be nc
recovery. Recovery can not rest on
mere surmise or conjecture as to the
cause or source OF the injury"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
THIRTEEN C0NNGTS
From Marion County Are
Taken from Here to
State Prison.

Two guards from the penitentiary
at Moundsvllle took the following
thirteen Marion county convicts
from the county jail Saturday after.
noon to that institution;
Gerald X, Davis one year, ]. H,
McWllliams two years, Thomas P.
Robertson five years. Ewing shaffer
two years, Patsy Defazio two years,
Jesse Taylor three years. A. b.
Goodman two years, Dennis GIL
more FIVE years, Mike Nltosky Ave
years, Joe Hart two years, Jack
Henline two years and Arch Rankin
life.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
TEST WELLS DRILLING.

on Grass run. Tenmile district
the Kinch OIL Company is drilling
It's test on the T. S. Morris farm from
the Maxon to the lower sand. ON the
same stream, the Nashville Oil y
Gas Company is drilling IN the Maxon
sand at i'~ No. on the L. F. Fergu-
son farm. Treat and Rowland are
due in the sand at No. on the John
Harbert farm.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
TRAIN SHEDS
At the Passenger Station Are Fast
Nearing Completion.

The concrete piers for the new
train sheds at the passenger station
are all completed and the men
started to place the steel work Mon
day morning. II the weather continues
to stay as 1t is today, the men viii
have the steel work completed by
Wednesday, and + win be but short
time until the steel work is covered.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
COsTIY PROBE.

WASHINGTON, Dec, le.-It de.
veloped today that the Stanley Steel
investigating committee is costing the
country $4,000 a month while other
Investigating committees are costing
$4,000 n month.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
ELIOT IMPROVES.

COLOMBO, ceylon. Dec. 10
Charles W. Eliot, president of Har-
ward university who was recently
operated on here for appendicitis.
continues 10 improve.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

Members of the special grand jury
called for December 10, 1911.
Mr.. Jackson Arnold, Lost Creek,
w. va.
clarksburg, w Va, Dec. 5, ii.
Dear Sir p.
You no doubt ere this time have
been notified that you have been
drawn as a Grand Juryman on this
spec al jury to indite this gang that
have Sixty Two Thousand Dollars
of yours and my, as we'll as all the
rest of the taxpayers hard earned
dollars Of this county
II re indite the little thieves and
send them to the Penn. for steal
ing few chickens. or few
pounds of brass from the Ra lroad
Co., or some other petty offense,
why should we let the big danger
GUS thieves go unpublished? The
people all over this County are de
handing that this gang of thugs be
dealt with the same as other men
who violate the law. We have no
privileged class n this country;
under the Constitution, all men arc
born equal. These men got the
money and owned up to it by paying
back portion OF it, and not one
word so far has been offered in de-
NAL of getting the money, by any
of them. No doubt, as soon as you
get to Clarksburg next week, the
suckers of the gang will approach
you with lot Of smooth talk; tell
you what good fellows Denham
and the rest Of the gang are, anu
that they are going to give the
money back some time. | PERSONAL
ly know that the other Grand jury
was Influenced and sidetracked by
the suckers of the gang. AS soon
as they came to Town they were
hustled OFF to private offices for a
talk with this smooth gang: / hap
pened to be in an office when one of
the jurymen was brought in, and
overheard the conversation ana
know what am talking about.
How can law and order prevail IN
til such cutthroats are put down?
How jury OF intelligent men did
sidetrack this indictment when tho
guilty parties do not deny the crime
then the law-abiding citizens OF this
county can understand. Hence the
reason for demanding a new Jury
by the Judge and people in general.
! am writing you this letter to give
you some inside information that
YOU may know what you are up
against.
Yours respectfully yours,
A Taxpayer.
The letters have been made mat
ter Of record and diligent quest will
be made for the identity of those
who sent them. When discovered,
they will be severely punished.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

c, ]. Ryan, OF Fairmont, is in the
city an brief visit.
G. H. jenkins, of Falrmont, is
transacting bus here.
Charles Palmer, Of Morgautown,
is a city business visitor.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

intention to carry large and COM
plete stock and Mr.. Kearns will be in
eastern cities for week or more
buying goods for 1t.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

TT U E1IV ""VVF anu sewerage
board stating that the board had en-
ployed John Kessler and NJ. Neal as
operators at the filter plant at s75 a
month was accepted and filed.
! Claude f. Cutrlght's complaint
against Henry L. Martins COW stable
:an North Fifth street was referred to
the committee on sanitation.
( The street committee was author
lied to act in the matter of abating
damage TO the property of Mr.. and
sifs, A. W. Rapp on Sixth street ana
Traders alley caused by surface water
from the streets.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

c. E. Kuhn, Of Cameron, is a VS.
itor here,
George w. Strong. of Parkers-
burg, is business visitor in the
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
Yours respectfully yours,

a taxpayer
The letters have been made mat
ter Of record and dillgent quest Will
be made for the identity of those
who sent them. When discovered,
they will be severely punished.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21
To Influence the Special
Grand Jury into Finding
Indictments.
AN ACT OF OUTLAWS
Every Decent Citizen Should
Join in An Effort 10
Run Them Down.


Every dastardly method known to
human ingenuity. every trick at
command and every artifce Of which
hypocrites deyoting Their time
and attention day and night to
machinat ons to accomplish selfish
personal ends are capable were
employed and resorted to to
bring about ind ctments agains,
certain persons by the special
grand jury Just adjourned
Political pressure was brought
to bear upon it and every
manner of trying to bulldoze
the grand jury was resorted to, the
following anonymous letter as shown
by part OF the grand jury's report,
being a sample of the contemplate
methods used by the scoundrels:
To the presld ng Judge of the Grim
nal court of Harrison county, in
the state of West Virginia:
IWelVe OF our number are of the
venire regularly drawn on the 18th
day of December. 1911, for this
jury.
OF the twelve mentioned each OF
ten has rece we'd an anonymous let.
ter pertaining to the inquiry about
which we are now engaged. Six OF
the above mentioned letters, with
the envelopes in which they were
enclosed, are appended hereto.
The names of the ten of US who
have rece we'd the ten letters above
mentioned are signed below.
S. AUSTIN SMITH,
HUGH NJ. sHTNN,
WALTER E. FRUM,
SYLNANUs SMITH,
TRUMAN POST,
HOMER WOLFE,
L. c. RBEDBR,
LLOYD STOUT,
JACKSON ARNOLD,
I. L. DAWSON,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-21

city.
E. T. Ritchey, Of Parkersburg, is
visitor here.
Il, N. Goe, Of Weston, is city
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
He Didn't Know Them.

The late Rev. Horatio Stebbins OF
San Francisco was man of large
mind and noble powers, but more Ia
mtliar with the world of intellectual
and scholastic interests than with triv-
ial and timely things. His household
was blessed with charming daughter
who grew up tall and beautiful, COM
handing the admiration Of all who saw
her.
One day visitor said to the good
doctor: Doctor. your daughter grows
more charming day by day. Why.
she's a regular Gibson GIRL
''Ah, thank you, thank you.' replied
the doctor in his best manner. When
the visitor had gone, turning to his
wife the doctor asked. MY dear, who
are the Gfbsons ?"-San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
TOLSTOY WANTED BLOOD.
His Quarrel With Turseneff and the
Reconciliation That Followed,

Reconciliation That Followed.
Raymond Kecouly in, the Paris FL
caro- gives the following account Of
an early encounter bptween Tolstoy
and Turgenetf. which shows the Rus
sian sage in a different frame of mind
from the one in which he world has
since come to know him:
1t was on the estate OF his friend.
the poet Fet. near Yasnaya Turgeneff
was among the invited guests. The
hostess inquired after his daughter.
who was being reared in France
Turgeneff spoke highly of his Eng.
lish governess. With truly British
exactitude," he said "she requested
me to fix the sum which my daughter
might spend for charity. And now
she teaches her pupil to mend the
ragged clothes of the poor"
"And you consider that good
thing?' asked Tolstoy.
Certainly" replied the other. 1T
brings the benefactor into direct con-
tact with the persons whom he is
helping
ION my part. think that well
dressed child who handles dirty and
i'll smelling rags is playing a hypo.
critical and theatrical farce
~ must ask you not to speak in
this way" exclaimed Turgeneff, with
menacing looks.
why should not say what am
convinced is the truth?' remarked
Tolstoy
You think. then. that am educat-
ing my daughter badly" and, while
Fet was interceding, IF you will talk
in that way | shall box your ears"
Then he left the room, begging his
hosts to pardon his abrupt departure.
Tolstoy also went At the neighbor
ing station be wrote to Turgeneff de-
handing an apology, He ordered pis
tolls and tried to provoke his rival to a
duel. Turgeneh's answer. very digni
fed, brought the apology demanded
by Tolstoy He closed by saying that
he thought it best that two men with
such opposite tempers should hence
FORTH break off all relations Tolstoy
carried away by his anger lit was in
1861. declined to be satisfied with
such an answer He felt that he had
been gravely offended He demanded
reparation by arms. He therefore re
peated his provocations His friend
Fet, who attempted to pacify him.
succeeded only in drawing from him
this vigorous reply: II beg Of you
henceforth not to write to me any
more. | shall return your letters I'm
opened. the same as l do with Turge
nef's." After these occurrences Turge
nef returned to France, where he
passed the greater part of his time
Some months later on reflection, Toll
stoy regretted his violence. Seized
with remorse. he sent Turgeneff a let
ter asking his pardon. II find it ex-
ceedingly painful he wrote, Ito
think that ! have made an enemy Of
you.''
Turgenef forgave, as one may i'm
agine. but the complete and definitive
reconciliation took place much later.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
Doctors DIAGNOSIS onIv.

The pretty daughter of a physician
is engaged to a college student of
whom her father does not altogether
approve. His daughter is too young
to think of marriage, the doctor as
serts The college student is too
young to think of it likewise. 1t is
out of the question.
She explained all this to her lover
the other night
Father says" she summed it up,
father says, dear, that 1 will have to
give you up"
The young man sighed. 'Then it's
all over,' he murmured, with gloomy
interrogation. And the girl laughed
and blushed.
WELL" she said, well, you-you-
know that when the doctor gives you
up that's just, the time for you to take
more hope. Isn't it sometimes that
wayY-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
The Power Of Music.

A manufacturer who made his for
tune with his coat off," as he ex-
pressed it, was induced by his daugh-
tiers to attend Wagner concert. the
first he had ever attended.
The next day he happened to meet
On acquaintance who had seen him the
night before, who asked, 81 suppose
you enjoyed the concert last night,
Mr. Smith,
Eyes; it took me back to the days Of
my YOUTH the father said. with q
reminiscent smile.
"Ah, summer days in the country,
girl in lawn dress, birds singing, and
all that!" exclaimed his friend.
"No; the days when l worked in
boiler shop" replied the manufacturer.
Hartford Times.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
OLD ENGLISH HOUSES.
In the Days Of Wooden Huts, Thatchee
Roofs and Clay Floors.

In tho Days Of Wooden Huts, Thatched
Roofs and Clay Floors.
The habitations of English common
people for centuries consisted of a
wooden hut of one room, with the fire
built in the center. To this hut. if a
man increased in family and wealth, a
lean-to was added and later another
and another. The roofs were of thatch.
the beds of loose straw or straw beds
with holsters of the same laid on the
floor or perhaps eventually shut in by
shelf and ledge like the berths of
ship or by small closet.
The Saxon thane or knight built
more pretentious hail." large open
room like the Roman atrium with a
lofty roof matched or covered with
states or wooden shingles. In the cen
ter of the hard clay floor burned great
fires of dry wood whose thin acrid
smoke escaped from openings in the
roof, above the hearth or by the DOORS
windows and openings under the caves
of the thatch.
By day the "hearths1nen" and Wis
itors when not working or fighting sat
on long benches on either side of the
fire and. as John Hay puts it. "calmly
drinked and jawed" or, gathering at
long boards placed on trestles. regal
ed themselves on some sort of porridge
with fish and milk or meat and ale.
At night straw or rushes spread on
the floor formed beds for the entire
company in the earlier and ruder days.
when the "baser Sort were glad to
share their straw with the cows
Charles Winslow Hall in National
Magazine.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
SHE BOSSES A BOSS.
A Woman Whom John q. Rockefeller,
as a Rule, Meekly obeys.

ft -
The only person OH earth that John
D. Rockefeller takes orders from is a
woman, and that woman is not Mrs.
John d. Rockefeller She is his secre-
tary, Miss Adam. She is u clear cut.
precise, strong, vigorous woman, like
Katherine Harrison. who was Ell. Fl.
Rogers secretary for many years.
Miss Adam looks after the oil kings
correspondence, makes all of his en-
gagements and is his remembrance.
so that he forgets none Of them. She
goes through his mail every morning
and picks out the letters shea thinks
worth while for him to see. The rest
of them she either mentions to see if
she answers them without asking his
advice because she knows his wishes
so thoroughly.
Sometimes Mr.. Rockefeller, who is
getting to be quite mild and tolerant
sort of man, is inclined to follow the
suggestion of some of his correspond.
ents or to do as he is requested by an
VI a 1l1CllO A1SS AOdU
has been with him so long and knows
him so we'll and has his confidence so
absolutely that she does not hesitate
to take stand against him if she
does not believe in the wisdom of
what is suggested. Nine times out Of
ten the man of $50O,OOO,OOO bows to
her WILL
Before getting an interview with
Mr.. Rockefeller it is necessary to get
past Miss Adam. She is the most
coldly critical of any of the guardians
of the great and a man has to have
urgent business indeed and something
of the highest Importance to secure
him an audience with the oil king.
If there is one thing above all others
that Miss Adam regards with peculiar
antipathy it is newspaper man.
New York Press.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
Revenge on M. Theirs.

It was whim of M. Theirs. If we
may believe a French contemporary,
to be rather scornful of railways when
they were started. He is even thought
to have remarked that railways would
become as tickle in public favor as
fashions. 1t is rather amusing to hear
that the we'll known statue Of the
statesman in the place which was
named after him at st. Germain-en-
Laye, where he died. Is to be removed
because it will impede the laying Of
new tramway lines. The trans, IL not
the trains, have had revenge COM
plete enough. and the statue is to find
another position.-Westmins Ga.
xette.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
THEY LIKE PRISON LIFE.
A Glass of Persons In Japan Who Try
to Break Into Jail

Glass OF Persons In Japan Who Try
to Break Into Jail.
In Japan there are people who make
sham confessions in order to obtain
period of the comparative warmth and
comfort of Japanese prison The
Japan Mail says: 1.-THE police slang
of the capital has words to describe
and distinguish these persons MESH,
kui. or the rice criminal will steal
some small article from shop front
in such way as to be seen doing it.
He then makes bolt of it. pursued by
the master of the shop. or some faith
full kozo. but presently allows himself
to be caught and handed to the po
lice. He has to do time for his pre-
tended theft, but his rice is secured
for a period. and when that period has
elapsed he will allow himself to be
caught again.
1.-THE 'unandon,' or eel bowl criminal,
Is wilier than the one just mentioned
He does not actually commit crime.
such as will put him into the convict
side of the prison. but allows himself
W w AVNno AOOhAuS Ill Suspicious
places. underneath the broad verandas
of temple. or in the garden of pri-
vate house. he gets into prison all
right. but he secures the more generous
treatment of the house of detention.
which Is to the fare of the convict jail
what dish of cells is to bowl of
plain rice
1.-The 'kuruma' is criminal who
makes sham confession in order to
sneak free railway ride. The Asasi
tells of case connected with muir
der. known as the 'decapitated corpse
case which took place last year. A
man gave himself up to the police In
Sendai as the perpetrator Of the crime
he was brought to Tokyo and his story
investigated 1t was found to be a
pure fabrication"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
The "cat" For Murderers.


Magistrate Plowden, writing in the
London Times of Crippen and other
murderers, says:
II am convinced from such eXpe-
rience as l have had of criminal
courts, extending over many years.
that what man murderously inclined
really breads is not death, but pain.
'The specter of death, although it
can always be conjured up, is too re-
mote and shadowy to have much eff
feet on the nerves of man in
the enjoyment of full and vigorous
health. Not so with pain. There is
no imagination so dull that it cannot
take in the terrors of the cat and
believe if such punishment could be
made part of the sentence, even with
out abolishing capital punishment, the
deterrent effect would be unmistaka-
ble''
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
RusIE's TERRIFIC SPEED.
His Thunderbolt Delivery Terrorizsd
the eatters.

i. ~ = z 4.4l .
A veteran ball player who has bat
ted against nearly all Of the noted
pitchers in the last twenty years nam.
eel Amos Husie as the universal stand
ard of speed in shooting the ball across
the rubber.
There have been many fast pitch.
erS In baseball. and all of them in their
time when they cut loose for fair have
hatiled the best Of hitters with their
speed. but You will notice that when
fast pitchers are spoken of the one
remark is always made, Has he the
speed that Amos Rusie hady And,
think. 1t will be that way forever
~ long as great names are remember
ed or baseball is the nations game
Rusie will remain the champion speed
merchant. the one pitcher who could
send in the ball faster than any one
else that eyer lived When you say
fast as Rusie' you don't mean 1t.
either: you only wish to show that
your favorite pitcher is very speedy
boy.
words fail really to describe the
speed with which Rusie sent the ball.
He was man of great width. great
strength and the ability to put every
ounce Of his weight into the pitch.
Coupled with this he had set Of daz-
cling curves which were manufactured
with the same effort required to pro-
duce the speed. Some men can throw
straight ball with great force, but
have to slow up, in order to develop
curves. but Rusie drove in curved
ball with all of his tremendous power
Facing Rusie to tinlid man was
like going into battle must be to an
inexperienced soldier The distance
was shorter then Rusie had the
whole box to move around in instead
of being chained to a slab, and he
simply drove the ball at you with the
force of a cannon. | have stood up
to all the great pitchers of nearly
twenty years. have seen scores Of
them come and go. and none of them
inspired the terror in batsma us
heart that was put there by the
mighty Rusie. The ball was like a
white streak tearing past you without
time to balance yourself. figure the
course of the ball or take aim at it..
The fellows with the wide curve might
fool you into reaching out and missing
them, but you weren't reaching out at
Rusie-you simply swung at white
streak as it hurled past, and if you
took full arm swing the ball was
gone and in the catchers hands before
you had half finished the swinging
motion.
''The convincing proof of Rusies ter
rible speed was this: If any other
pitcher hit man the man swore,
limped a moment and went to first
If Rusie hit man the man retired
from the game and sometimes went
to the hospital. To be hit by Rusie
was worse than to have an ordinary
man smash you with rock New
York World.