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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24
BLOODY WAR
THREATENED
Feared That Balkan Trouble VIII
Develop the Worst War in
History

Paris, Oct. 2l.-Now that war in the
Balkans has been formally begun the
French press insists upon the necessity
of complete accord among the Euro
pean powers.
The fear is expressed That should
coveteousness and antagonism develop
among the nations of Europe from the
opportunities for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT aris-
ing out of the trouble in the Balkan
peninsula the world may see the blood
lest war in history.
Frances efforts to bring about speedy
peace, therefore, it is pointed will be
welcomed by the other countries of
Europe. 1t is believed here that the
disposition in favor of peace in Vienna
and st. Petersburg Is for the moment
as satisfactory as possible but it is
argued that it would be mistake to
be over-optomistic.
The t'igoro is ofopinion that the dan
ger of European conflict Is merely re-
tarded and not suppressed. 1t believes
that the present war will be short, be-
cause the financial resorces of Turkey
and the Balkan states are limited and
because the Bulgarian frontier is such
short distance from Constantiople
For these reasons thedif1icuities result.
ing from the war should be expected
TO crop up five or six weeks from now
! and Frances duty, it urges, is absolute
fidelity to its allies and friends ant
incidentally TO prevent Russia anC
Great Britain from adopting opposing
policies in the serious crisis that hs'
now opened.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24
CRIPPLE GAVE
UP HIS LIFE
Newsboy OF Gray, Ind, Is Dead
After Giving Leg #
For Girl

Gary, Ind, Oct. 1S.-"I guess !
turned out to be some good after all =
sighed Bill Rugh this morning, then
he turned his face to the wall and died.
1t was Rugh who, few days ago,
submitted to the removal of awithered
leg that material might be provided
for a skin grating operation that saw
ed the life of a young woman he never
had seen. W.
Physicians said pneumonia was the
cause of Rugh death, but the ailnleiit
resulted directly frena his self-sacritiee,,
having been due to irritation of the
lungs 10y the ether that was given him
when his leg was cut off. .
Rugh has no relatives and since COM
ing to Gary, atramp, several years ago,
had made his living selling newspap-
pers on the streets.
The girl, Miss Ethel Smith, for whom
he sacrificed his leg and later his life,
had been horribly. burned in a motor
cycle accident. Ii is just two days
since her recovery advanced sufficiently
| to permit her removal from the hos.
pital in which Rugh aied-
The funeral was held here and practi.
caily all Gary and many from sur.
rounding towns ATTENDED. No build
ing was large enough TO accommodate
the crowd and the services were held
! in the street. -Four brass bands play.
ed funeral dirges, six uniformed police
men were pall-bearers, and fire de.
partment automobile was the funeral
ear, while company of tiremen car.
ried the flowers. Mavor T. +. Knots
and the councimen with barred heads
walked at the head OF the procession
which conveyed the cody to the rail!
way depot where it was put aboard 8
train for Rock Island, LII.
Many women werein the line, which
required more than sn hour 10 pass
the bier, which had been placed in tht
middle of the street.
Miss Smith was not able to attend
but her father and brothers were in
the audience.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24
KENTUCKY COUPLE ELOPE
TO WE'D IN This CITY
Young Bride Euded Parents Midnight, Ride to Cincinnati
Where They Had Their Plans Changed and They Came
to Newport Where the Nuptia Knot Was Tied.

An .elopement which occasioned
somewhere in the neighborhood of six
hundred miles of travel eliminated in
a marriage here Monday morning
when B. f. Cheely, young business
man of LaFollette, and Miss Doris l..
Mahan, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
B. Mahan, of Williamsburg, KY, were
united in the holy bond Of matrimouy
by Rev. J. w. O'Hara.
Mr.. Cheely's home is at Williams
burg, which is located just twelve miles
from Jellico, Tennessee and when
PARENTAL permission could not be Sc
cured, they decided to elope and on
Saturday night boarded the fast l.. &
N train which passes through Will
liamsburg at 1882 a. m and they made
their way to Cincinnati. They did
not make an effort to come into the
state of Tennessee by way of JellicO as
il would have been mpossible for them
to have eluded the parents of the
young lady who were watching her
closely, but she managed to escape from
her home and the midnight tram car
ried them to Cincinnati, but it Oc-
casioned them the loss of a whole
nights sleep. At Cincinnati their
plan was to make an effort to get mar
ried i'm COvington or Newport KY,
but there they found that the young
lady's age, it being less than nineteen,
prevented her being married and they
were advised tc go to Maryland from
that point and had made up their
minds to cross over to HagerstOwn,
Md, but there was leak somewhere
and friend at Williamsburg wired
them that they were TO be headed off
from getting into Maryland, SO they
back tracked through the state OF
Kentucky, but boarded the Carolina
Special which leaves Cincinnati early
in the night came through to Newport,
Newport being selected as it would
give the young lady ample time to get
her rest and recover from her al night
ride of the night before and this zap
pened to be the last stop within the
state of Tennessee, which has long been
a haven for eloping couples from
kentucky and Virginia.
Arriving here, they hired an auto.
mobile and were driven to the court
house where marriage license was is.
sued and then they were driven TO the
Baptist parsonage where Rev. J w
OHara made them one. They returned
to town in time to depart for Knox
vile on the $3.50 train. Asked whether
they were to return to Williamsburg
FLOR PARENTAL forgiveness they were
very emphatic in denying that either
would see the town for some line IN
the fnture. The young lady has Z
brother and numerous relatives and
friends in Knoxville. They will &C
direct 10 LaFollete where Mr.. Cheell
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24
RUN DOWN
BY TRAIN
Mrs. Amanda Reed, Aged rs
Years, is the One
Killed.
WILL REED In BAD SHAPE
Woman Had Been Under Arrest
at White Pine and Eluded Her
Captors and Was Making Her
Way Into Cooke County, and
Had Reached Rorex Siding
When They Were Run Down
By Fast Train.

Mrs. Amanda Reed, aged 25 years
was instantly killed and her husband,
Will Reed, probably fatally injured,
when they were struck by Southern
railway train at an early hour, Satur-
day morning at the Rorex siding, six
miles west of Newport. Reed with a
CHASTITY wound in his back, lay in a ditch
half filled with water for several hours
before his body was found.
There was considerable mystery at
tached to the accident, but it has de-
veloped that on Friday an inditment
was found against Mrs. Reed in the
Jefferson county court. She was be-
ing held under guard in White Pine,
when on some slight pretixt she was
able to excuse herself and. she and her
husband evidently decided that it
; would save them trouble to leave JEFF
ferson county and leave they did.
Nothing more was seen of them until
their bodies were found along the track
and it is presumed that they walked
from White Pine to that point and
that becoming tired sat down to rest,
or it being at such an early hour they
decided not to awaken their brother
who lives on the RoreX place. Just
what train struck them is not known,
but about $3.50 O. o'clock, a freight train
Which had bag of coffee TO throw off
at the RoreX siding slowed up and the
conductor espied the body OF the wo-
man lying beside the track. The train
was stopped and employees ON the
R0reN place were summoned TO make
an Identification and among these was
Bob Reed, who identified the bodies.
He had not seen his brother in some
time and could not tlgure why they
should have been in that vicinity. AT
first it was thought that Reed was
dead but he moaned and was lifted out
of the water and placed on the freight
and brought To Newport. The Caro-
lima Special was delayed a few min
utes because The freight train fingered
in The block. The freight came on TO
Yalu and permitted the Specia. to
pass, after which Reed was brought
to DIR. r.. c. Smiths office. The left
shoulder blade was shattered and
large sections of the bone were remov-
ed by Drs. Smith and Barnett. The
muscles were terribly lacerated and
after the operation the injured man
was in very weakened condition.
Passenger train No. II was stopped
at the RoreX siding and the body OI
the woman brought here and prepared
tor burial. NO inquest was neld. The
! woman has, three brothers, sam, Rob
ert andJ. Z. Large all of whom lives
near Newport, and one sister, Mrs
Jno. Hill, who lives near here.
Reeds aged mother came up or
train No II, Saturday, and although
f. In an unconscious condition Reed wa.
placed aboard train No IL, Saturday
ald taken to his mothers home nea1
, Wits.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24

1t has been estimated that the birds
in the United States save 500, ,G00, 600
worth of crops each year. The tree
tsparrows in Iowa eat 1866 pounds of
weed seed daily One full-tiedged robin
will eat Is feet of catapillar daily, or
about 4 1863 individuals month.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24

is associated with the Kentucky lum-
ber company.
They travel over two hundred miles
to Cincinnati, from Williamsburg.
then over three hundred To Newport
before getting married when they were
but twelve miles from the Tennessee
line when they started.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24
ATTEND GRAND LODGE

A number of Cooke county citizens
are al CIarksviile this week in attend
ance upon the grand lodge of the. Odd
Fellows which, il in session IN that
city. Among those in attendance from
this Comfy are County Court Clerk
John Holt, win Bible and rbad
Ellison of Parrottsville, Gus Ellison OF
Newport, w. c. l. Bryan of Del Rio
and NJ E. knight of Warrensburg.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24

: The Manila building inspection de-
partment is especially busy with the
amount OF building and alienation in
progress. Chief A. +. Fields saws that
the coming year should be a banner
one for construction in building.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-10-24

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The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
FOOLS THE BUNCH

N. ]. Sully and bride, former ly Bessie B. RawSon of Chi cago, arrived from the south on the Alameda last night, and what is more, Sully played cutie a trick on the bunch wal. ing for him. Of course every l.ody was looking to see him come down the gang plank with q broad smile on hls face and a lady on his arm. But no. he came down alone with half a dozen bundles in his arms, but no wife. Investigation re- vealed that fact thet he had sent hls better half down off the ship ahead of him. thus
 fooling us all.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
FINISHED WITHIN
 NEXT TWO WEEKS

Unless the weather gets worse even than it has been for the past two or three weeks. the new pipe line from the lake to the power house up the creek will be finished and the water turned in within the next ten days or two weeks, The actual construction work iS rapidly nearing completion an dthe installation of the pow erhouse machinery will be fin ished by that time. When com Pleted and in oueration the plant will be without superior in Alaska.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
RECOVERING
 FROM ATTACK

Herbert r. Taylor, the SkaS
 way agent of the Wells, Fargo Express Co. is slowly recover ing from the shock occasioned ly his being slugged with the broad of an axe in Skasway re gently when a bold robber made away with sl20o in paper mon- ey. So far no clues to the rob bers have been discovered. The Wells. Fargo Co. has offered 6 reward of sG0o Tor information that will lead le the arrest and conviction of the guilty. Tray cling auditor George J. Busch posted the reward notce in Skagway shortly after the as sault on Mr. Taylor was made.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
RETURNS FROM A
 VERY LONG TRIP

The lighthouse tender Col arrived down from the north Saturday after trip la<ting several months. Dur ing the voyage her log shows that she covered not less than i've thousand miles. as she N ent back and forth attending ta the work ol the district. ehr was as far to the Westward as Unimak Pass. where she sup pied the two light houses. In addition she supplied the Hin- chinbrook light. and installed five new acetylene lights on Prince William Sound.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
STRIKES OIL

The American Development Company at katalla has struck oil in their $50 foot well and ie barrels a day are being pro- duced. They are sinking a sec end well and the outlook for the district is excellent. The people of katalla are to be con- graduated on the success of this enterprise after so many years effort and eudeavor.
 This year upper Yukon river boats stuck to it longer than ever before.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
LEADING PORTLANDERS
 ARE IN TOWN

Dan Lindenberg and ], J. Rugge, both prominent citizens Of Portland City at the head of the canal, are local visitors. They report that development of the mining properties of their neighborhood is pro8res- sing finely, and that the year 1913 will witness the awaken. ing of the people of this region ta the mineral possibilities of that district. They state that there are now in the neighbcr- hood of fifty men engaged in prospecting and development work on the American s.de, which number will be mater- ially augmented next season.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
CHICKEN RANCH A SUCCESS

Capt. Forss. who is conduct ing q chicken ranch south of town. tells the Miner Man that the experiment is a success. His hens have laid goodly number of eggs every day since he received them from the south, while thf broilers he has raised cannot be beaten any where The question Of rais- ing feed Is Of course the hard one to solve. but the captain says he has cleared land enough this year to raise consider able quantity of fodder next year. when he intends to in crease the size Of his flock materially and go into the egg and chicken business on a large scale.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
TO OPEN UP PROPERTY

p. H. Decker, of the firm of Decker 0 West. owners of a group Of valuable mining claims on Mallard Bay, is a local visit or having arrived on q recent boat. He is on his way to dc the annual assessment work oa the property which carries high values i'll both copper and gold. MT. Decker informs the Miner man that his company plans to develop the property into the shipping class next year installing power to handle the work in a systematic man. Ter.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
ESTABLISHES a NEW
 COMMISSIONER DISTRICT

The District Court this morn ing established a new commls- >ioner's precinct at Craig lFish Egg on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. The newly appointed commissioner k Gran kitely. the well-known saw mill man who has operat- d at Craig. Copper Mountain and other West Coast towns for the past eight or ten years. The West Coast region Is bad ly in need of officers. as the scope of country is large and often the number Of people in that region reaches several thousands.
 The sentencing of Martin Johnson was continued over till Monday morning. Joe Soul "a was sentenced to six months at Juneau. JnO. Uolchuh, who l. charged with furnishing H. luor to natives was found gull- iy last night, and the case of Place and Adams postponed pending the recovery of one of inc witnesses. who is il. Jac- ob Peterson Is being tried to- dav while the case of Sam Ona, alias Sam Johnson. was set for fonr o'clock this afternoon-all "hooze" cases.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
FOUR BOATS ARE
 DUE TOMORROW

The Jefferson. Alameda. Ad- mIral Sampson and Princess Sophia are due up within the next twenty-four hours. All of them are supposed to have sail- cd on schedule except the Ala meda, which is reported by wireless to have left Seattle at 3:3O yesterday afternoon. This should bring her in tomorrow afternoon.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
REDcoATS TAKE THE TOWN

On board the Princess Sophia this morning was a detachment of Royal Northwest Mounted Pc lice on their way to the upper Yukon. where they will replace men of that body whose terms of enlistment have expired. The boys, strapping big fellows all of them, made a good show ing in their scarlet tunics, as they took in the different points of interest about the town.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
ANOTHER VOLCANIC
 DISTURBANCE

The crew of the Sampson trough the news this morning of another volcanic eruption in Westward Alaska. The partic
 llars were very meager, con- slsting r'erely of a wireless message from the little steam CT Dora, the boat which plys from Seward, west, stating that lhe vessel Lad been compelled ic anchor on account of the darkness resulting from an err uption. What volcano was act i've, or the probable damage done is all entirely probIematic as no further particulars were pnnnttfn1
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
WILL RUN UNTIL THE
 MIDDLE OF DECEMBER

There is every probability that the Ketchikan Power com pany will operate it's mill well into December this year if the weather permits. Orders now ia the office for fish boxes, and building lumber and the rounding out the yard stock will furnish work for close to six weeks longer.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
NEW SUPERINTENDENT
 MAKES GOOD RECORD

N. T. Hale. the ne wsuper- intendent of the North Pacific Trading and Packing Cos can nery at klawock, Is local wis itor on his way south to San Francisco. This Is Mir. Hale's frs year at klawock, where he succeeded Harry Swift. but in -plle Of that fact he succeeded in getting up 42.000 cases ot salmon this season.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
LOCAL YOUTH IS
 WINNING HONORS

Oliver Field, writes his peo- pie here from San Francisco where he i, attending school, that in d recent athletic meet ia that city. participated r. by tte diffe eent high schOb! stud cli. he had carried of first honors i'll the runrips high jump. In addition to this he was third in the mile run and was one of the winning reldy race team.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01

shade in favor of Wickersham. The vote was Wickersham 55O Gilmore 53o, Jennings 2SI, krauczunas I92, Harrais 96. total 1858. Wickersham car ried Valdez, Seldovia, por. Wells, Nizina, Knik, kennecott. Ellamar, Eyak, Copper Greek, Chtina, Afognak, and other smaller precincts. Gilmore car rled Gordova, LaTouche, Nush- agak, Valdez Reservation, Se- ward, Unalaska and Unga. Jen nings carried Katalla, kenai aud Sunrise. krauczunas carried Copper Center and Snoup Bay. 1t is noticeable that in all the Guggenheim strongholds, where Orr ran so strong, the vote was we'll up for Wicker sham.
 The Fourth
 Wickersham lacked but 37 votes of getting a majority of the entire vote in the Fourth division in which the delegate resides. His plurality over all the other candidates was enor- nous. The vote was aS follows Wickersham 1891, Krauczlnas 99S, Gilmore 3II, Iernmgs PSI, Harrais 157, scattering, i. Total 3l3o. The blg vote cen- ters went for Wickersham he carrying Fairbanks, Ruby end Iditarod. Kauczunas ran we'll on the creeks, the Socialists generally supporting him.
 This election saw S,229 vot. CTS at the polls. This figure was exceeded in the election Of 1908 and 1910.
 The 1910 vote was: Wick ersham Aa7a, Orr 3267, O'Con ner 1888, Scattering s. Total G2S2.
 In 1908 the vote was: Wick ersham 3S02, Chilberg 23Sa, Corson 2130, Ronon lO01, Cum 294, Total o62o.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
SOPHIA TO RETIRE
 FOR THE WINTER

The Princess Sophia: which has been alternating on the Southeastern Alaska run with the Princess May for the Can adian Pacific. Is now on her way north on the last trip Of the season, being due to arrive here tomorrow morning. The May will be continued on the run making two trips per month
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
WEST COAST POL
 ITiCIAN HERE

r. E. Butler, the Boss Tweed of the West Coast, was a local visitor yesterday on his way home from an electioneering trip to the northward. He is boosting the candidacy Of frank Thompson the candidate for the legislature from. the West Coast.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01

The official returns of the election of delegate from AL aska, held Aug. l3, 1912, were made public recently. The total vote was canvassed by act ing Governor w. l.. Diston and Collector of Customs, J. R. Will lis. Exclusive of 100 votes. which were thrown out be- cause of irregularities, the to- talS are as follows:
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
BUMPED THE WHARF

The fishing schooner Alice of Port Tawnsend arriving in from the banks last night with fish was in too much of q hurry 10 make landing and struck Strong's wharf head on. No evil resulted to the wharf, but the schooner stove up her bow q little.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
HY-AS kLOSH
 MUCk-A-MUCk

Jerry McGraw is in a new business these days putting up spiced herring. They are pack cd i'll stone jars, and afford a mighty tasty meal. Jerry knows how to fix them 90 that they demonstrate just how good herring can be.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01
The local agency oi the Alas


 son 50 far the inside route Is concerned. and that the same will be true of the Maripesa when she starts north again. This will leave the people of this region in the same old con dition again as far as mail and luslness facilities are concern ed. with but few boats, and those. if we may judge by past performances. usually in bum ches. As far as this paper cau see. and the Miner Man las talked with all the steamboat men of this neighborhood, there is no reason why the Ala meda and Maripo>a, or what ever boats are on the westward run should not continue to call in at this port all winter. The captains of those vessels lin their arguments to be all lowed to make the run from Seattle to Cordova direct, say that the channels from the Gulf of Georgia to DiXons entrance  are too crooked and dangerous for ships the size and speed of these vessels during the long. dark nights of the winter. This argument would be all well and good. ii it were not for one lining. and that Is that the Can
 adian companies. especially the Grand Trunk Pacific. are op- perating bigger and speedier iboats in these very channels. land operating them on a schc- dule that puts even the fast Iiime of the Naripo>a lnto thc shade.
 l One of two conclusions must result. either the American cap Itains are not as skillful as those lin command of the Canadian
 steamers. or they misrepresent
 lnatters in order to make their work easier.
 Southeastern Alaska l. grow lag in spite of all the difilcni- ties thrown III her way by aH- verse laws and dilltoFy trans Iportdtion companies. The past iyear has witnessed her going ahead in leaps and bounds. a1d during the year 1913 all past performances will be Jeff i:i the irear. The people are gong fc ipatronize those transPePtatleR Icompanies which give them the best service in ships and rates, iand If the Alaska Steamship
 company which now gets the Inon's share of the business be-
 cause 1t has been in ! position
 to handle it, allows that busi=
 ness to slip through its fingers linto the grasp of some other icpncern. as the Pacific Coast Steamship company has done ! in the past. then, like that com pany. it will have ID just cause ] for complaint. 4 Seattle ef- lficial of the Pacific Coast 5. 5. Co. told the Miner Man that for some reason this region had ">oured on his company. and he either did not seem to be able OF did not want t0 be, to |
 see the rason why. One has only to look at the antiquated, slow, uncomfortable vessels that company kept on the run
 until kind fate took them a- way io see the reason for the "souring" process.
 The business of the future will grow steadily, 1t must, the Alaska Steamship company is III a position to get large part Of that business, and whether ihey will or not will depend largely on the class Of service they give us.
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The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-01

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