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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
CALIFORNIA STATE
REALTY FEDERATION

San Francisco, CAL, Oct. 1.-THE
largest and most enthusiastic meet
ing of the California State Realty
Federation ever held opened here to-
day at the Palace Hotel, with more
than one thousand members and WISH
tors in attendance. The convention,
the seventh of it's kind, will last three
days and will close on Friday, the
day before the COMMUNICATING exer-
cises for the Panama-Pacific interna-
tional exposition of 1915, at which
ceremony President Taft is to Off
ciate. There are a number of inn
portant subjects to be discussed at
the three business sessions of the
convention, but these sessions will
be short so as to give the members
an opportunity to avail themselves
of the numerous features of enter
tainment which the local realty men
have Hospitality provided for the
visitors from other cities. Tomorrow
there will be auto excursions and
banquet at the st. Francis Hotel
in the evening and on Friday steam
er trips in the bay and around the
peninsula, with an open-air dinner
among the redwoods at Venetia. 4,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
POINTS OUT NEGRO
WHO ATTACKED HER
Identifies Assailant as He Passes
Along Street With Police

West Chester, Pa, Oct. IL
"Father, there goes the negro who
attempted to assault me-" exclaimed
Annie McElhaney, the pretty fifteen
year-old school girl who was attack
ed Monday afternoon near Coates
vile by cOlored man, as Thomas
Hampton passed on an opposite side
of street here today in charge of
officers on his way to the courthouse
The negro was arrested yesterday
and Miss McElhaney, accompanied by
her father, came here today from
their home near Coatesville to en-
deavor to identify him. Later the
prisoner and the little girl faced each
other in the district attorneys office,
and she positively identified him as
her assailant. When the girl was
attacked on her way home from
school she put up a brave fight and
struck her assailant in the face with
her school books. Hampton's face is
bruised, and the authorities say he
received the marks in the struggle
with the girl.
The negro will be given a hearing
tomorrow, and will be rush
ed to trial.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
Watson { :---rs-l Sale

New York, Oct. 10.-Many show
horses of international celebrity are
listed to go under the hammer at the
dispersal sale of the stable OF United
States Senator C. w. Watson, begin
ming at one of the local sales stables
tonight. Senator Watson's stable of
housekeeping carriage horses is IA
nous on both sides of the Atlantic,
having won prizes at the London
shows as we'll as at the annual ex-
hibitions in Madison Square Garden.
Among the famous prize winners to
be sold are Ringing Bells, Kitty
Grey, and Norma, three chestnut
mares, each standing 14.3 hands,
representing the most perfect type
of the high-class carriage horses
The prominence of the horses to be
disposed Of has led to marked inter-
est in the occasion, and a number of
we'll known horsemen from various
parts of the country are here to at
teCd the sale.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
the OWNERS OF FARMS

There are, the census reports, six
million three hundred thousand-and-
odd farms in the United States, of
which almost four millions are oc-
cupied by the owners, while over two
and a quarter millions are occupied
by tenants. The proportion of farms
worked by tenants has risen very
slightly in the decade. Roughly, 1t
was over one-third and under two
fifths of the total number of farms
both the last census periods. There
are mortgages on one-third of the
farms worked by owners, and two
thirds are free of incumbrance.
There is a persistent superstition
that farm tenancy and farm mort
cages reflect an unprosperous condi-
ton; in fact, the tenant is often as
prosperous and Independent as the
owner, and the mort>~e often repre-
sents extension and improvement,
says a writer in the Saturday Post.
Nobody considers railroad I'M
prosperous because it occupies rent
ed Offices or issues hug mortgages
for new track and cars. The rail-
road mortgages itself because in that
way it can get capital on better
terms. A farmer who needs more
working capital does well to borrow
1t on mortgages because he can get
1t cheaper than on notes of hand.
Negroes or other non-white prop
rietors now own over one-seventh of
the farms. The number of these has
risen above nine hundred thousand.
Ten years ago non-whites owned only
an eighth of the farms. While the
total number of farms has increased
by six hundred thousand, one-half of
this increase is in farms of less than
fifty acres. Thus the average size
of the American farm has fallen from
a hundred and forty-six acres in 1900
to hundred and thirty-eight acres,
while the average value of an acre of
farmland has risen from fifteen dol
lars and half to thirty-two dollars
and half"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
THE TURK rs ALL BAD

The degeneracy of the Turk never
has been more clearly illustrated
than by his course during the present
war with Italy. Europeans and Am
orleans always have credited the
Turk with the possession of one vir-
tue-courage. History has sustained
this view. Hundreds of years ago
the followers of the prophet laid the
foundation for the Turkish reputa-
ton for bravery in battle, when they
had half of Europe at their feet. To-
day, instead of rushing to meet their
foes on the battlefield the Turks are
oeseeching the other powers to call
off Italy and put an end to the war.
The world will realize that there is
not left to the Turk one single vir-
tue.-Petersburg Index-Appeal.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM CHURCHVILLE

Churchville, Oct. 11,-Mrs. Lizzie
Collins is visiting her sons, Frank
and Joe, at Clifton Forge.
Mrs. J. H. Boward and daughter,
Alice, have returned from Char
lottesville where the latter under
went an operation for throat trouble.
She is now doing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Link and
Misses Clara and Mary Link of the
Salem neighborhood spent Sunday
with Mr.. S. Shumate.
Mr.. Clinton and Miss Bessie Bo-
ward and Miss Carletta Frye attend
ed the conference at Middlebrook last
week.
Quite a number of young folks
went to Chestnut Orchard Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Knicely and
Miss Maggie Christman, of Oak Hill.
spent Sunday at the home of Mr..
Henry Masincupp.
Mr.. Roy Haldeman spent Sunday
at the home of hiss mother on this
route.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13

are several more fine buildings we'll
on their may to completion. Moth
ing else perhaps so typifAes the true
spirit of Staunton and it's people as
the alacrity with which it RECEIVERS
from disaster.
Staunton is getting its fair share
of the benefits coming from an era of
prosperity which the whole South is
now enjoying. In the current issue,
the Manufacturers Record presents
what it is pleased to call "a Panor-
ma in Figures of the South's indus
trial and General Business Growth"
showing that the past year was real
ly phenomenal one for progress.
With all of our prosperity, how
ever, we are community where sue
cess has come through the effort of
the individual rather than through
concerted action on the part of al
of US working together. And it is
unpleasant to reflect, in view of our
individual achievements, what great
opportunities for our mutual adj
vancement we have neglected by not
now and then striving in unison for
the common good.
We are progressive here in Staun-
ton and SO naturally are prosperous,
but we are selfish. To realize the
truth of this assertion one has only
to recall how one by one movements
launched for the public good have
died lingering deaths of apathy, with
out having accomplished the pur-
poses for which they were organized.
Individually we people of Staun-
ton are successes, but as a commun-
ity we are failure. We can ac-
complish for ourselves in the smaller
way, but we are incapable = attain
ing the larger benefits through our
inability to work together. It is a
pity that this stumbling block is in
our path of progress. Let us once
acquire the proper kind of team
work and nothing on earth could
stop us.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
Government Troops in Mutt
ny Following the Behead-
ing of Four Prisoners
MISSIONARIES ARE IN DANGER
American and Japanese Cruisers
and Other Foreign Warships are
on Way to Hankow

Hankow, China, Oct. 1.-THE re-
volutionaries have won a notable
victory gaining possession of the city
of, Wu-Chang after a battle with
the loyal troops that began yester-
day and continued we'll into last
urer were burned, the military COM
mander was killed by a dynamite
bomb, and the viceroy himself es-
capped with his life only by his hasty
flight.
RevolutiOnists in Control
Among the foreigners known to
have been in Wu-Chang yesterday
are twenty-five American missionar-
les.
Communication with the city is al
most completely broken, and no
word as to the fate of the Americans
had been received at an early hour
today.
With the revolutionists in control
of great and important capital, it
is hard to estimate how fast or far
the movement will spread.
The officials are making every eff
fort to keep the disaffection out of
Honkow.
Five foreign gunboats are station
ed along the Yang-Tse-Kiang be-
tween the two cities, and foreign
volunteers are patrolling the for
eign quarter of Eankow.
night. Today the foreign residents
had not been mole3ted.
The revolutionary committee is
sued a pi defamation exhOrting its
followed not to harm the citizens of
other countries.
The fact that the wishes of the
committee have been respected thus
far, while reassuring to other ma
lions, is in itself sinister sign for
the government at Picking, as it in
dicates, that the rebellious movement
is now more thoroughly organized.
Revolutionists are today in undis-
puted possession of Wu-Chang.
The capture of the town was the
climax of a series of sudden develop
ments within the last twenty-four
hours, all of which came about as the
result of the tremendous feeling
aroused by the execution of four re-
bells in front of the viceroy's yamen
yesterday.
The troops proved to be disaffect-
ed, and within a few hours after the
first trouble developed, the entire
city was in an uproar.
Fires were started in every corner
OF the town, the headquarters of the
vlceroy and of the provincial treas
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
FUNERAL YESTERDAY
OF ARCHER HARTMAN

With many friends and relatives
in attendance the funeral of Mr..
Archer Hartman, who died at Hot
Springs, Va, on Sunday morning of
injuries received in a fall from his
horse the day before, was held yes
terday at 1890 O'Clock from Trinity
Episcopal church. Rev. Walter @.
Hullihen conducted the services. In
terment was in the Hartman mauso-
leum in Thornrose, cemetery.
The pallbearers were: Albert C.
Watson, of New York; Benoni Lock-
wook, R. S. Turk, Rudolph Bum
gardner, Charles Curry, DR.. J. B.
Catlett, and w. P. Eskridge. Hon
orary, W. B. McChesney, Hon. Ed
ward Echols, Ed Bell, Capt. H. M.
McIlhany, Capt. Thomas D. Ransom,
Judge S. H. Letcher, Lester Crane,
Hon. A. C. Gordon and A. w. Black
ley.
Those coming to Staunton for the
funeral were Albert c. Watson of
New York, Mr.. Harman's private Sc
cretary, Benoni Lockwood, of South
America, his attorney; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester Crane of Hartford, Conn.,,
Mrs. Mary Lee Hartman and Miss
Kate Lee Hartman and Miss Mott of
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Maitland of
London, Miss Elsie and Mr.. Glib
son Hartman of Tazewell, Mr.. VIM.
H. Hartman and family of Richmond,
Mr.. Arthur c.. Hartman, State Sena-
tor from Richmond, and Mrs. Albert
Hartman of Goshen, Mr.. Writ Ches-
terman of Richmond.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
SIX MONTHS RULE
GIVES MORE ROOM
Patients Can be Admitted to Ca
tawba Without Long Delay

Richmond, Va, Oct. 11.-Return-
ing to the city from the Catawba
Sanatorium, Health Commissioner
Williams announced today that I'M
der the provisions of the rule limit
ing the stay of patients at the sana-
forum to six months, removals and
changes at the sanatorium have be-
come so frequent that suitable pa
tients can now be admitted without
long delays.
while the six months rule in
volved necessary hardship to many
PATIENTS" said DR.. Williams, cit will
undoubtedly operate to give more
patients treatment at the sanator-
ium. Patients are now taking treat
ment in the conviction that their
stay will be limited and consequent
ly are generally ready to leave at
the end of six months. As a result
new patients can at once be received
to take the place of those who leave
the sanatorium.
''Of course this does not mean
that every suitable case applying for
admission can be received the day he
applies. At the same time, such cases
can generally be admitted with only
a short delay. This is especially true
at this time when, as it happens, a
number of patients are completing
their six months residence. Prospec-
tive patients who wish to apply for
admission should write the Resident
Physician, Catawba Sanatorium, Vir-
ginia, and get proper information
and admission blanks.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
TO PROBE RATES
ON EXPLOSIVES

Washington, Dot. 1.-THE inves-
tigation into the reasonableness of
the rules and regulations of express
companies for the transportation of
explosives, inflammables, and other
dangerous articles, which was order
ed by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission about two months ago was
begun here today. Complaint has
been made to the Commission that
the regulations are unreasonable and
unduly burdensome upon shippers.
The railway regulations were pre-
scribed by the commission itself, but
it is alleged that they not only work
hardship upon shippers, but that,
in certain instances, they are prac-
tically prohibitive of shipments. The
hearing opened today will include an
inquiry into the regulations of rail-
way lines in handling similar COM
modities.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
DOC" DOVE BACK
AT HOME AGAIN

Harrisonburg Daily News: With
the location and return to his home
of Israel (Doc) )Dove, a happiness
and contentment has again been re-
stored to the family at Orders, Va.
Mr.. Dove disappeared from his
home on September 10, leaving a
mysterious note concerning his in
tentiOns, and during the past three
weeks his family, relatives and
have been following clue after clue
trying to locate the missing man. He
has been traced from Harrisonburg
to Winchester and back to Stauntcn
several times, but only yesterday
morning was he definitely located
and taken to his home by his wife.
On Monday Chief of Police Dovel
received a message saying doc"
Dove was in Staunton. Mr.. Dovel
Immediately communicated with Mrs.
Dove and yesterday she was accom-
panied to Harrisonburg by George B.
Showalter, who has been aiding in
the search, where she took the early
morning train for Staunton. Arriv-
ing there she failed to locate her
husband and had returned to the B.
& o. railway station to return to her
home. Standing on the platform at
the station Mrs. Dove recognized her
husband, who had just returned to
Staunton over the C. & o. railway.
They boarded the B. & O. train and
passed through Harrisonburg yester-
day afternoon. They occupied a
seat in the rear coach and neither
moved from their seat during the
stay here, but continued conversing
with each other. They were not in
terrupted, but is was learned that
Mr.. Dove was anxious to return to
his home and team was waiting at
Broadway and as soon as they ar
rived at that place they were driven
to their home at Orders.
Israel Dove is man who has
conducted considerable business, and
while his motive in leaving his home
has not been learned, it is thought
that business affairs are worrying
him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
Entered at the Postoffice at Staunton
Va, as second class mail matter.
friday. October Is 1911
Will SON STANDS BY HIS iPRIN-
ClPlES

Woodrow Wilson is one public
man who tries to live up to his ideals.
He has advocated the nomination OF
candidates for all Offices by popular
vote; he forced the establishment OF
the primary system in New Jersey,
and he insists upon the enforcement
of the principle even against his own
immediate interests. AS rule, the
first thing a candidate for President
seeks is Endorsement by the State
convention of his party. This was
offered the Governor in the conven-
ton at Trenton, but was promptly de-
clined. Such a compliment was no
temptation to Wilson when he deem
ed it inconsistent with the legislation
he had supported.
Governor Wilson is refreshingly
frank; he has nothing to conceal and
speaks his mind without fear of criti-
cism or misinterpretation. He ask
ed his over-zealous friends not to
press the resolution presenting him
as a candidate for the Presidential
nomination. He does not conceal
his ambition, an ambition that any
man may honorably cherish. He
will welcome the Endorsement of his
State for the highest Office in the
gift of the American people, but he
wants it to come not through a con-
vention, but through the primaries by
vote of the people. That will be an
Endorsement we'll worth having, proof
of appreciation of his services, vote
of confidence that counts.-Balti-
more Sun.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
EDITORIAL JoTTlNcS

Lots of men follow the races, but
mighty few keep ahead of them
Philadelphia Record.
It is all right for man to be
proud of his ancestry, but contem-
plation of it ought not to prevent
him from getting out and hustling
for Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
Did the moths beat you to your
overcoat and fur cap?-Indianapolis
News.
With Maude Adams playing Chan
tecler and Bernhard assuming the
role of Hamlet, why shouldn't Maui
tell or Sothern take a try at Portia
or Juliet?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Maybe that Wall street praying
party will begin with fervent up
fittings to make the ticker give bet
ter news.-New York Press.
Kubelik has $235,OO insurance on
his fingers. The amount he carries on
his hair has not been announced
Nashville Tennessean.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
SENATOR EDWARD EcH0Ls

We are not a little surprised by
the information that Hon. Edward
Echols, State senator for Augusta
and Highland and Staunton district
and Democratic nominee for re-elec-
ton, is to have opposition from an
Independent candidate. At the same
time we hardly anticipate that the
intelligent electorate Of those coun-
ties and the city will think of displac-
ing such an able, experienced and in
corruptible man and valuable legisla-
tor by one identified with no party,
without experience and who, if by
any chance elected, would exert no
influence in the Senate.
Ed. Echols is one of the highest
and purest men we have ever known
in the public life of Virginia, being
clean through and through. Aside
from this fact, his long experience
and his prestige in the General AS
sembly give him an influence in shap-
ing legislation greater than that of
almost any other man in the body,
certainly greater than any new Sena-
tor could exert. He has been men,
Der or an officer of the Senate for
more than twenty years, and his re-
cord is without a blot. For four years
while he was lieutenant-governor
during the Tyler administration he
presided over the Senate and made
one of the best presiding officers that
body has had in our recollection. He
will in all probability be made presi-
dent pro tempore of the next Senate,
a post for which his ability, parlia-
mentary experience and judicial fair
ness and unfailing courtesy admir-
ably fit him. Not only that, but he
will receive committee assignments
which will lenable him to be peculiar
ly useful and valuable to his people
and to the entire State. We cannot
believe that there is any prospect of
Mr.. Echols being defeated and would
regard such a possibility as in the
nature of a public calamity.
Even if his Independent opponent
should by any chance win, he would
be isolated and impotent in legisla-
ton, man without party who
must flock by himself as an obstruc-
zionist or else tamely follow the lead
of the majority party without in
fluence in shaping it's legislative poll
cies, an obscure and valueless man.
Danville Register.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
MEET IN BUFFALO

Buffalo, N Y, Oct. 1O.-Every
phase of war practice will be dis
cussed by the military experts of the
regular army and militia, who have
assembled here from all over the
country for the annual meeting of
the National Guard Association of
the United States. The sessions will
continue three days. A delegation
will be appointed to urge upon Con-
gress the passage of the bill provid-
ing for federal pay for both officers
and enlisted men of the National
Guard. The guests of honor at the
convention include Major General
Leonard Wood, chief of staff, U. S.
A., Major General Frederick D.
Grant, commanding the Eastern d.
vision, and Governor John A. Dix.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
THOUSAND MEN WORK
IN AUSTIN'S RUINS

Austin, Pa, Oct. 1O.-Beginning
with today LOO men were employed
clearing away the ruins left by the
recent disastrous flood. The electric
light plant has been installed, and
work will be prosecuted day and
night, about three-fourths Of the
force working during the day.
Repairs to the Buffalo and Sus-
quehanna railroad are being rushed,
and trains will be running regularly
tomorrow. The relief committee an
nounced 1t was in position to take
care Of all who are In need.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
Police Chiefs T ak Shop

Waterloo, Ia, Oct. 1.-THE chiefs
of police of nearly every CITY in this
State are gathered here today to at
tend the annual convention OF the
Police Chiefs of Iowa, which opened
today for a session Of two days
Many matters of professional inter.
est to the heads of municipal police
departments are to be discussed dur
ing the meetings and the rest of the
time will be devoted to social pleas
ures provided by the citizens OF
Waterloo.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-13
OPEN CAMPAIGN FOR
LIFE IN THE OPEN

Richmond, Va, Oct. 11.-Co-
operating with the State Antituber-
culosis Association, the State De-
partment Of Health is preparing to
launch an aggressive campaign for
fresh air." The Department has in
press large edition of the Virginia
Health Bulletin, devoted to a dis
cussion of fresh air, its advantages
and benefits. This bulletin, which
will soon be ready for distribution
to those who desire it, will inaugur-
ate the campaign. 1t will be followed
by wide publicity during the Red
Cross seal campaign this winter.