Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.
Relief at Winchester When
Grand Jury Adjourns.
BLACK HANDLERS AT WORK
Destroy Property With Dynamite
Near Harrisonburg.
DRANK LIQUOR ON TRAIN
Young Men From "Dry" Towns Ar
rested at Neutrality-suspicious.
in Need of Rain.
BLACK HANDLERS AT WORK
DRANK LIQUOR ON TRAIN
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


WINCHESTER, Va. July %. 1911.
The grand jury of the corporation court
of Winchester has been formally dis
charged. after having before it over 100
witnesses in alleged liquor cases and tax
book investigations. Several indictments
were found against clubs for dispensing
beer, but in view of the fact that no in
toxicants We're sold the charges will not
be pressed.
In certain circles there was much
anxiety as to what the grand jury would
do when 1t examined the books Of Com
missioner of Revenue ]. E. Correll, and
when written report was made that the
jury found no evidence Of fraud in the
returns made to the commissioner by tax
payers many felt much relieved. for there
had been predictions that the jury would
probably indict some who had heretofore
neglected to list their property correctly.
The official warnings sent out by the au-
thoritieS that the grand jury would scru-
tinize the property return books had the
desired effect of prompting practically all
taxpayers to make correct returns for
the first time in many years, resulting in
a large increase.
Home for Winchester Elks.
ViHCHSSlSt lAOuSc, NO. OOb, d. ~.
Elks. has bought large three-story brick
building from DR.. Robert w. Baker of
Washington, which was formerly occupied
by the post office, and after making ex-
tensive improvements the Elks will oc-
cupy the same.
Upon returning from trip of inspec-
ton. H. F. Byrd president Of the Valley
Turnpike Company, the historic highway
between Winchester and Staunton. stated
today that the board Of directors had de-
cided to spend more money this fall i'm
proving the road than ever before Con-
tractors have been asked to furnish bids
for resurfacing the entire stretch Of
ninety-two miles. A large steam roller is
already at work.
Black Handlers are said to be at work
in the vicinity of Harrisonburg with dyna-
mite, and the people are much alarmed,
as there is no telling where the deSpera-
does will appear the next time. A day or
two ago six sticks of dynamite We're found
under the building Of an ice and cold
storage company, and about the same
time some of the same stuff was explod-
ed on the premises of E. Z. Henkel, doing
much damage to his property. During the
night road-making machinery and We
hicles were torn to pieces by the vandals
and scattered for miles over roads and
fields. Fences were also torn down and
cattle turned loose upon the public roads
Apples in Need of Rain.
Although occasional showers have fall
en- during the past week, there has been
no rain of consequence for some time in
the lower Shenandoah valley, and farm
ers and fruit men in town today declared
that the absence of rain is serious
menace to growing crops. Millions of
fall apples now on the trees in the large
commercial orchards of Frederick county
are not maturing as rapidly as expected,
and other crops are also suffering from
lack of moisture
Several young men from Winchester
and Martinsburg, which are now dry"
towns. were taken off Cumberland Val
ley railroad train upon its arrival the
other evening at MartinsburS from Ha-
gerstown, where they had spent the day
drinking. They were charged with drink
ing liquor on the train and were forth
with arrested. They were sent to Jail
until they could pay their fines. The pen
atty is from S. to 500.
The Northwestern grade, extending
from Winchester to the West Virginia
state line, which is already one of the
best sections of the new route mapped
out by The Star recently from Washing
ton to Aurora, w. Va, Is to be thorough
ly overhauled as soon as the final details
can be arranged jointly by the super
authorities. There is much heavy traf-
fic on the road, and both the county and
the state will appropriate funds sufficient
to make the road practically new from
Winchester to the vicinity of Capon
bridge.
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