Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Appeal to President May Be
Made for Imprisoned Boy.
TURKEY MEN HAVE PL Amt
Claim They Were Fooled Into Hold
ing Birds for Higher Prices, and
Lost Money Thereby.
TURKEY MEN HAVE PLANT
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| WINCHESTER, Va, December 81 1910.
A direct appeal to President Taft may
be made by people of Winchester who
have become interested in the case of
John Anderson, a white boy of about
fourteen years, who faces a long stay in
the city jail before he is to be tried in
the United States court for the western
district of Virginia on the charge of re-
moving brass handle and door plate
from one of the doors of the new post
Office building and selling them as junk.
The boy, who is an orphan. has con-
fessed, and, being unable to produce $1OO
bail, he was sent to Jail to await the &C
ton of the federal grand Jury at Harris
| onburg. a term Of court will be held in
Charlottesville January 9, and it was
hoped that Anderson would be given
Trial there at that time, but District At
torney Barnes Gillespie states that the
case will not be taken up until the court
meets in Harrisonburg next June. He
has been in Jail already two months, and
1t has been pointed out that the fact that
he is surrounded by hardened criminals
Is having bad effect upon him. Presi-
dent Taft will be appealed to to have the
boy sent to reform school before his.
criminal instincts are more fully devel-
oped.
Heirs to Contest Will.
Practically all the heirs of John Newton
Kitch. except one-Miss Virginia B.
Kitchen-have decided to contest the will
Of their late father. who was a prominent
and wealthy farmer of Frederick county.
The will as admitted to record leaves the
widow a life interest in farm, but an
other farm is left outright to Virginia b.
Kitchen, daughter, together with much
personality. and she is also made residu-
airy legatee. Some of the children We're
left S. and one was cut off with 81. A
number of lawyers have been retained by
the heirs, and the matter will be fought
out in the courts. They allege that Mr..
therefore, incapable Of executing legal
will.
Farmers in some sections Of the Cum
berland valley declare they lost large
sums Of money during the Christmas sea-
son by taking the advice Of rival COM
mission merchants who told them not to
sell their turkeys at prices that had
been offered, but to hold them, as they
would command higher prices few days
before Christmas. The price dropped in
the meantime. and now the farmers are
blaming the commission men. charging a
conspiracy. Turkey raisers in the vicin-
iH Of Winchester, however, sold to local
the farmers e-4est nothinee- $780,
Shot at From Ambush.
Thus far the authorities of Frederick
county have been unable to establish the
identity of the person who shot young
Ellis Reese from ambush one night last
week while he was walking from his
home into the village of White Hall to
call on friends. A bullet struck him,
lodging in his left arm. and was fiat
when removed by hospital surgeons here.
Young Reese, who is a son of Jacob
Reese, wealthy farmer and fruit grow
err was shot at about a. year ago. the
bullet that time passing through his hat.
Notwithstanding the heavy fall Of snow
several weeks ago. the water in the
Shenandoah river continues low and
many of the electrical plants which de-
pend upon the river to furnish generative
power are face to face with a crisis.
The snow has melted only gradually, and
soaked into the ground without running
into the creeks mat are branches of the
river. The plant of the Winchester and
Washington City Railway Company. sit
son county. w. Va, is furnishing about
1000 horsepower daily. while its auxil-
larry steam plant is turning out 800
horsepower
Explosion Injuries Trained Nurse.
Miss Laura Lockhart, trained nurse
employed at the Winchester Memorial
Hospital, is under the care of physicians
as the result of injuries sustained when
she was struck in the face by a metal
door hurled with great force from an
apparatus used for sterilizing surgical
instruments by steam.
William T. Gore, a well known resi-
dent Of Winchester, lies in a serious con-