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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1912-07-10
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vate Younger Yves the winner
in this contest, having removed
( the rosettes on his adversary's
helmet and loft shoulder by his
skillful use of the foils.
Corporal Crow and his four
men were the winners in the
wall scaling contest as opposed
to Corporal Bladen and his
four men. Two prizes of $500
and $500 were awarded in this
difficult contest.
In the reaching contest, the
participants were Trumpeter
Lamm, and Priyates j. w.
Davis, O. III. Davis and j. b.
Stewart. a cup was placed at
26 yards. revolver at 100 yards,
saber ut 125 yards, and each
competitor w as required to
stnrt ut scratch, pick up and
replace articles, and return to
scratch. Private j. B. Stew,
art won the fret prize of $500
md Private j. w. Davis the
second prize Of $500.
Sergeant Sense n N d eight
men and Corporal Grow and
eight men took part in the tug
of war in the afternoon, which
resulted in victory for Corpor-
al Crows team.
The horse show was, by UNI
animous consent, ths best we
have had in many yenrs. The
q b o W ing of gated saddle
horseE would hnve been cred
liable one in tho blue grass sec
tion Of Kentucky or Tazewell
county. Virginia.
There were fourteen entries
in the saddle ring and h o
Judges We're unable in the short
time allowed to examine the
horses as carefully as they
wished.
For various reasons IL was
decided not to have an entry
of double roadsters, but three
nice driving horses entered the
single roadsteTs contest. These
horses and prizes were as fol-
lows;
D.A sorrel owned by X. L.
Flanary, of Norton, and driven
by his sister, Mrs. Carrie Al
derson, and his law
DR.. j. w. Kelly, first prize,
blue ribbon and driving whip.
~ a claybank owned and
driven by Mrs. j. p. Wolfe, of
this place, second prize, red
ribbon. (3) A sorrell owned by
w. III. Roberts, of Wise, driven
by Robert Skeen, third prize,
white ribbon.
There were three entries in
the ladies' saddle ring, and the
prizes were awarded to the fol t.
lowing horses:
W A bay owned and ridden
by Miss Esther Esser, of Norton
Va, first prize, blue ribbon
and riding crop. i2) One of
Madame FRITZ Schetf's black
mares, ridden by Miss jose.
prime Kelly, aecond prize, red
ribbon. (3) "A sorrel owned by
VIC. Tucker, of Benhams, Ky,
ridden by Miss Qualls, third
prize, white ribbon.
The entries and prizes in the
gentiemen's saddle ring were
as follows,
% Greed Kelly riding the II.
7. Flanary horse which won
in single roadster, first prize,
blue ribbon and bride. (2) r.
ID. Baker, black marc, second
prize. red ribbon. (3) Bradley
Flanary riding w. II. Roberts
sorrel horse. third prize, white
ribbon.
Other entries were Or. j. a.
Gilmer, riding the w. NJ. Slemp
sorrel, Josephine Kelly, riding
a bay, Baxter sQualls, riding
the big brown belonging to w.
@. Tucker, Hamp Keller, of
Appalachins riding q black, w.
l.. Boggs, of Appalachia, rid
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scoring The features of the
game was the batting of Tag
CART for Keokce and the field
ing Of Wells for Stonega, and
the roofing of the Stonega fans.
Following ia the detailed
score of the game;
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Real Estate for Sale.

Ono Two story brick store
house. five coed rooms and hall
up stairs. One eight room
frame dwelling.
G. L. HAMBLEN,
Big Stone Gap, Va.
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dence in aud on the border of
Eastern Kentucky / kne "
many of the natives who, after
selling their lands or villega
properties to new corners, spent
the money obtained in building
fine homes and furnishing them
in style, sometimes exhaustipg
all the money that had been re-
ceived. Others went into mer-
chandising in which. beng
without experience, they lost all
they had. Altogether not 10
per cent. of the native popula-
tion in the newly developed
coal sections received any per-
manent value from such devel-
opment,
Personal and social efficiency
among them is a work to be ac-
complished BY education in the
schools, by literature, by do
monstrations of what can be
done on the now idle land, and
by modern road building. OF
course all civillizing agencies
must be used, but these are of
the fl t Importance. They
should have the best possible
school buildings, fully equipped
and we'll payed teachers; journ.
ais devoted to farming, cattle
n d sheep raising, poultry,
fruit growing and trucking,
and the State Agricultural De
partment should have two or
three demonstration farms III
these mountain counties and
hold farmers institutes in them
once or twice n year. Aud
when these things are done,
the second of the three ques.
tins stated i'll the beginning Of
this article will have been an
swered.
The effects of such work will
be highly beneficial to all the
people of Kentucky, both those
who do the work and those for
whom it is done.
As Business Field.
II will be interesting to OBJ.
serve how Kentucky manufac-
turers are going to handle the
question of supplying the ma
chinery and equipment wants
of the large mining companies
now entering the State. am
Informed that they do but little
business with the mines already
in Eastern Kentucky; and, un
less they make a close study of
the subject, Kentucky will fol :
low the example of Virginia
and West Virginia. 1t also will
be interesting to see if the
landowners in the bordering
Bluegrass counties allow the
Ohio and Michigan farmers TO
take the coalfield markets on
potatoes, cabbage, hay, corn,
oats, etc, rs has been done and
is now the case in the States
mentioned; and IL will be of
further interest to note if Louis
vile, Lexington and Winches-
ter jobbers and those in other
towns in Kentucky will meet
Baltimore and st. Louis in sue
cessful competition for the
commissary trade Of the coal
companies.
Finally, and in answer to the
third question, whatever part is
taken by Kentnckians in the de-
velopment of Kentucky's great
mountain section will, frat, be
determined by degree of infor-
nation they obtain of what can
be done; and, second, by train
ing for the work of doing it
Courier Journal.
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iSUucStS IiutuB LIS bOTy9r y
brown, Mr.. Reason and au-
Iother gentleman FIR o M Lee
whose name we were unable to
learn.
Judges were Captain Reweil,
| U. s. CD. Il. Bnllitt and James
Giliy.
Mine Rescue Contest.
a very important feature of
the Big Stone Gap celebration,
July 4th, was tho mine rescue
contest between the first aid
teams from Stonega, Roda and
Imboden plants, of the Stonega
Coke and Coal Company. The
prize for this contest was Il
silver cup put up by the Big
Stone Gap Athletic Association
as first prize, and fifteen dol
lars in cash to the second tenn.
The first prize was won by the
team from the imboden plant
and the second prize by the
team from the Stonega plant.
The referee of these contests
was Inspector Paul, of Pitts
burg, Pa, who is an expert in
the first aid work. Mr.. Paul
highly complimented the three
teams contrasting and stated
that they all made n very high
percentage considering the
limited time they had to do the
work in. Tho frat worl, of
these teams was demonstra-
ton of the use of the oxygen
helmet in gas or smoke, as two
men from each team equipped
with tho oxygen helmets went
into house filled with smoke
and remained in plain view of
the large crowd for n period of
five minutes. This house was
constructed principally of win
dows, which allowed the people
to have plain view during the
demonstration. They next
carried the men with n broken
back through the mine on an
improvised stretcher made of
overall jackets and augers.
They also gave n demonstra-
ton of how they bandaged and
took care of man with
broken leg, dislocated shoulder,
fractured skull, broken collar
bone and powder burns. They
also showed how they rescued
men from live wires and gave
artificial respiration. Il icy
wound up their demonstration
by showing how they rescue
man overcome by gas in low
vein Of coal.
We feel sure in stating that
there has been any amount of
lives saved in the coal mines
since the mine rescue and first
aid teams hive been organized
throughout the coal fields. AS
the miners are being taught
how to take care of all kinds of
injuries and bandnging so as TO
stop the flow of blood and to
bring the injured party TO the
outside with the least amount
of pain and worry to the in
jnred party.
We understand that all of
the plants of the Stonega Coke
Coke aud Coal Company have
first aid teams composed of diff
ferent classes of men around
their plants who are doing
wonderful LOT of good in case of
accidents, as the company's
chief physician, DIR. Bowyer,
and his able assistants, Drs.
Hagy, Cherry, Bell, Lee and
Tudor are all very much inter
ested in this work and assist in
instructing the men. We hope
to see in the near future all the
mines III the Appalachian coal
fields have first aid teams as it
will be a big benefit To the men
who work underground. and
will save many poor fellows
life and DC away with a lot of
suffering.
BASE BALL.
Decidedly the beat game of
baee ball played in thia county
for years was the game played
between Keokee and Stonega
for the championship of the
Coal Field League. This game
Twas won by Stopega by the
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
MRS. WILSON DOESN'T LIKE
CIGARETTE SMOKING

SEAGIRT, N. j., Aug. 13.-Mrs. FL
len A. Wilson, wife of Gov. Wilson,
today made public letter written by
her to an editor of the Ohio State
Journal denying the report sent out
by western news syndicate which
credits her with giving approval to
the habit of smoking cigarettes by
any woman.
The letter given out by Mrs. Wilson
today is as follows:
Dear sir: have just read copy
of the Journal with your editorial en-
titled: Smoking Women" and l beg
leave to Indignantly deny the state
ment that l approve of women smok-
ing cigarettes. The interview upon
which your editorial was based is a
pure invention. l intensely dislike
the cigarette smoking habit for man,
so my feeling on the subject that real
danger lies in being unjust and un-
kind in my judgment of those who
differ with me in this respect. But
certainly no woman in our household
ever has or ever will smoke quite
apart from extreme distaste it has bad
effect on the nerves."
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15

had Cowherd many thousand in the
lead for the Democratic nomination
for governor. Two or three days la
ter reports had it that perhaps Ma
jor had been nominated and was in the
lead by several thousand. Early re-
ports had Curtis in the lead for Unit
ed States senator on the popular vote
by 10000 and the situation very close
on the legislative districts which COLI
troll the nomination in that state. La
ter reports have Stubbs considerably
in the lead in the legislative districts
and very close on the popuiar vote.
These erroneous reports come from
the fact that usually the vote OF the
big cities is for one candidate and
the country vote for another When
this is the case the city vote is al
ways reported 20 headquarters first
and the country vote is several days
behind. In the meantime the vote
turned in show the city candidates
in the lead, bat gradually that re-
pc rted majority gives away to the
country majoritiss as they are s,owly
turned in from me various counties
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
ALLOTMENT OF COAL LAND
TO CITIES FAVORED

Secretary Fisher has plan to allot
government coal lands to cities, which
in turn may operate them under Ger.
tain regulations To supply municipal
needs as well as those of citizens.
AS first step in the plan, Secre-
tary Fisher has recommended that
congress pass bill granting $40
acres of coal land to the city of Grand
Junction, Colo.
Cities in Colorado, New Mexico,
Wyoming, Utah and Montana, Idaho
and other public land states, west of
the Missouri river, would be most vi
tally affected by Secretary Fishers
plan.
The general bill he offers would au.
thorize the secretary of the interior to
patent 640 acres of government land
for each city and 100 for each town
under conditions providing for prompt
and continuous development of the
coal, the prevention of any assignment
or transger of the land, the safeguard
ing of the health and safety of labor
ers minging or handling the coal, the
prevention of undue waste of mineral
resources and other restrictions.
The secretary believes that any
such patent should be safeguarded by
the provision that the title shall re-
vert to the government if any city or
town to which coal land shall be pat
ented shall at any time fail to per-
form any condition of the patent.
By retaining the title in its own
hands and properly conditioning the
lease, Secretary Fisher believes it will
be possible to protect the public from
extortion.
Upon the request of Representative
Taylor of Colorado, Secretary Fisher
has directed that the coal lands de-
sired by Grand Junction be held with
drawn from entry.-Pueblo Chieftain.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
RAILROAD AND OTHER TAXES

"Taxes are due" is the announce
ment being made to the various con-
Germs in Colorado that are under the
state board of equalization, among
which are the railroads. The Denver
4 Rio Grande railroad is the heaviest
taxpayer in the state or in any west
ern state, for that matter. This rail
road pays to the state treasurer more
than half a million dollars each year,
or, to be exact, $1,605 day or a
total of $5S5,S95 each year. This is
more than any railroad or manufac-
turing concern or other corporation
pays in any state in the west. The
Rio Grande has great many miles
of track in Colorado, and for this
reason is heavy taxpayer. In some
counties in the state the taxes re-
ceived from the Rio Grande railroad
is more than 40 per cent of the entire
tax of the county. This is true in
Chaffee county, and in Archuleta and
several other counties where taxable
property other than that owned by
the railroad is not plentiful.
The taxable value of all the prop
erty in the state in 1910 was $414,-
S85,770. On this amount the tax levy
of the state is made and the total
sum raised is the fund Colorado has
to spend for current expenses: The
tax levy in nearly every section of
this state has been increasing every
year for many years. This year the
Rio Grande railroad will pay more
than $4,000 more in taxes than it
paid ten years ago on the same prop
erty, the annual levy having been in
creased in the meantime.
Colorado has bonded indebtedness
of $1,120,3OO, which is comparatively
small, considering the fact that the
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
PRINTERS BASEBALL TOURNA.
MENT.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 13. Many
visitors are coming to Boston at the
end of this week to attend the fifth
annual tournament of the Printers
Baseball association. The tournament
will begin at the National league
grounds Monday afternoon and will
continue through the entire week. The
participants will include teams rep
resenting the union printers of Pitts
burgh, Chicago, indianapolis, Phila-
delphia, Cincinnati, Washington, st.
Louis, New York and Boston.
Many novel features have been ar
ranged for the entertainment Of the
visitors. One of those will be daily
paper of 16 pages, containing, among
other things, history of the Ma
tional Union Printers Baseball league.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
eigners down there are from this

eigners down there are from this
country.
1t is said that many people in Mex
leo look with disfavor upon the Amer
lean citizens there because of their
thrift. 1t must be remembered that
the people of the United States like
the people of England are noted for
thrift wherever you find them. This
naturally creates more or less jeal-
ousy and in time of revolution this
spirit manifests itself to the damage
of the Americans.
Many of our people own large herds
of cattle, sheep and horses and are
interested in the mining business In
that country. In times of peace they
are amply protected under the terms
of the treaty we have with Mexico,
but at this time the Mexican govern
| ment does not seem to be able to
protect our citizens and they haye
| sustained great losses. OF course, our
government will insist that the Next
| can government make all losses good
occasioned by the citizens of the Unit
ed States in that country.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
VIRGINIA TO HAVE FORAGE DAY

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 13.-To-
morrow is to be forage day" in Vir-
ginia, and in its observance the Old
Dominion will establish precedent
for other states to follow. Gov. Mann
has issued proclamation to the farm
ers of the state urging them to meet
in the court house towns of their va
rious counties and exchange views and
information on forage crops, with a
view to increasing the amount and
variety of the hay, grasses and 9TH
er forage crops raised in Virginia.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
COUPLE OF CRIPPLE CREEK
MINERS INSTANTLY KILLED

CRIPPLE CREEK, Aug. 13.-Ed-
ward Floyd and John Murphy, con-
tractors on the Gold Sovereign mine,
were killed last night on the sixth
level of that property by an explos-
ion by dynamite. Their bodies were
badly mangled.
Floyd and Murphy had just COM
pleted drilling round of holes and
were arranging to load them with dy-
Mantle, when the accident happened.
1t is believed that the explosion was
caused by one of the men dropping
a stick of dynamite or that in tamp-
ing one of the charges it exploded.
Floyd is survived by widom and
two chilrden. Murphy was unmarried.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
ARCHERS IN NATIONAL TOUR
NAMENT.

BOSTON, Mass. Aug. 13.-Begin-
ming today and continuing through
Friday of this week, Soldiers field,
the athletic ground of Harvard uni
versity, will be the mecca of the arch
ers in all parts of the country, the
knights and ladies of the bow meet
ing here to shoot in the twenty-fourth
annual tournament of the National
Archery association of the United
States.
The entry list this year eclipses all
previous records, while new arrange
ment of the program so as to give am
pie time for social entertainment is
expected to make the tournament the
most enjoyable in the history of the
association. Besides the honors of
winning the national championship
and range medals, many prizes have
been offered in the various contests.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
TONIGHT METEORS MAY BE
OBSERVED In NORTHEAST

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10. -
Astronomers at the United Sta.es ma
val observatory will be on the look
out late tonight for a series of me-
teoric showers in the northeastern,
part of the heavens in the constella-
tion perseus.
This display of heavenly fireworks
will be visible to the naked eye and
will continue throughout tonight and
Wednesday.
Tonight savants will explain that
this phenomenon is caused by the
earth passing through thickest por-
tion of the metoric particles known
as persues showers.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15

An egg today is better than a hen
tomorrow.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will
keep thee.
The rotten apple spoils its COM
panions.
Ere you remark another's sin
Bid your own conscience look
I within.
Strive to be the greatest man in
your country and you may be disap-
pointed; strive to be the best and you
may succeed.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave
them your purse open.
What signifies knowing the names
| if you know not the nature of things
AT the workman's house hunger
looks in. but dares not enter.
The worst wheel of the cart makes
the most noise.
He that pursues two hares at once
does not catch one and let the other
go.
| All opch luz may pIoNc CufoeJ
But pretended friend is worse.
As Franklin Would Write Today:
The first mistake in the printing
business is often the going into it.
Purchasing agents set prices and
fool printers accept them.
Run your business for a profit, not
to see the wheels go around.
Where's there work without profit,
there will be printer without credit.
A job paid for in advance is bet
ter than promise of lots of work,
when we get goinc"
Keep a cost syzte.n in your shop
and your shop will keep running at a
profit.
The job at loss eats the profit of
many others.
Before accusing another of price
cutting think of the last estimate in
which you made mistake.
To make a mistake is human, to
repeat the same mistake is worse, but
to sell below cost knowingly is the
height of folly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15

guard Of 36 soldiers conveying a pas
senger train were shot to death and
cut to pieces with machetes or burn
ed alive in an attack by band of
Seapatistas under Eufmio Neapata,
near Ticuman, ITO miles from this
city.
A rail was loosened in the track
and the train, running 40 kilometers
an hour, went into the ditch, although
rebel was not in sight when the
train left the rails, moment later
they swarmed by hundreds out of the
brush covered hills on either side of
the track and poured murderous ri
file fire into the overturned train.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
LA TOILETTE ON ROOSEVELT

1t would be wise for Mr.. Roose-
velt's followers to reflect upon Sem
ator La Follette's warning. No one
can doubt La Follette's genuineness;
no one can dispute it without reflect
ing on his own. If La Toilette be
personally ambitious, he at any rate,
keeps his personal ambition under
control, or else most expertly con-
cealed. Roosevelt does neither with
his. Roosevelt is doubtless the great
er Nimrod, but this is not the time
for Nimrods in American politics.
The men whose patriotic impulses he
is stirring now would do well for
their cause, which is not Roosevelt's
but is La Follette's, to listen atten-
lively to this much at least of what
La Toilette has to say about the OBJ
ject of their curious idolatry and the
thrilling dime-novel adventure he is
inviting them into:
while special interests have been
increasing their hold upon the ad-
ministrative side of the government
at Washington, progressive Republic
ans in many stanch Republican states
have wrested the control of govern
ment from these interests and have
enacted statutes restoring represen-
tative government to the people of
those states. The contest in
foany Of these states was severe and
protracted. Defeat was encountered
again and again. While Roosevelt
was president he offered no encour-
agement to the progressive Republic
ans who were struggling with the old
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
POOR RICHARDS PROVERBS.

Poor Richards proverbs brought
down to date. Written by Fletcher
Ford, president of the Baumgaurd
Publishing company, for the menu
program, used on the occasion of the
Franklin dinner of the Los Angeles
Printers board of trade.
Proverbs as Franklin Wrote Them:
The first mistake in public business
is the going into it.
Fools make feast and wise men eat
them.
Eat to live, not live to eat.
Where there's marriage without
love, there will be love without mar
riags.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
POPULIST NATIONAL CONVEN.
TION.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 13.--About
100 delegates from score Of states
were in their seats today when the
Peoples Party national convention
was called to order by James II. Fer
ris of Illinois, chairman of the ma
tional committee.
The convention will name a presi-
dental ticket and adopt platform
that will declare for the government
control of railroads and other public
utilities, the initiative, referendum
and recall and various other measures
of political reform.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15

state is new territory in which large
expenditures must be made within
few years time. Arizona has bond
ed Indebtedness of s3,055, ,275, and Ida
no of $2,257 900, each of these states
owing more than twice the bonded
debt of Colorado.
There are those who believe the
bonded Indebtedness of Colorado
should be increased and the tax levy
lowered.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-15
KANSAS CITY MAYOR TO
HOLD TOWN HALL MEETS.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 13.-
"Town hall" meetings to give citizens
an opportunity to confer with the city
fathers on the way to conduct NUM-
cipal affairs will be inaugurated by
Mayor Jost of this city.
The mayor will attend the meetings
and ask the people to question him
about his official problems and give
him advice concerning the same.