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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
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Editor West Virginian; 4AGpHiW
| have been reading in the TiffE
articles copied from the great Nj
Wallpapers and also noding assetg
to-. the dangers OF recal;to judges and
holding UP as an example the assasst
nation of the court officials OF Virginia
We would like to ask If the infl lSS
ence Of recall, caused the South; tc
secede? Did the influence of recall
cause Governor Gobel to be assassL
mated? Did the influence of recall
cause.-the midnight riders to apply, tRf
torch to Thea tobacco raisers off ND
lucky? Did the influence: ofiFeatp
cause the darkey to be burned at ks
stake? Did the influence OF redA4
cause the Hatfieids and McCoys to OH
initiate, themselves? We can't see
that recall had anything to do with
tllese,outrages. and we don't think that
the Times is scared about recall, but
the, name Of Teddy is what gives them
the, nightmare.
,,,.s, Respectfully,
49, ATEDDY MAN.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
6MouNrAln OUTLAWS

There have been ln;the whole his
tory or this country few such murder
Gus and desperate deeds as those Just
& diitntTfed by the BtueaRldge out
I III the Carroll county courthouse.
Resistance Of the law and open def
ailce of its officers have been frequent,
but rarely has such defiance gone to
The very limit, to the slaughter OF
Judge, sheriff; prosecuting attorney
and to the attempted murder Of other
court officials even of the Jurors who
sat in, the easefs It is a tragedy Of
appalling .atroctty, one that sends a
flame Of Indignation over the whole
country, one that tells OF savagery
Z and barbarism belonging to another
age, to an era when might made fright
and when desperate deeds were ap-
plauda ,fWhen resistance to authority
was approved and when, human life
was, rated as Of little value.
Mountain feuds have not been I'M
common tnfar southwest Virginia and
like chose OF Tennessee and Kentucky
dave been marked by frequent assas-
stnatlons and bloody battles, Women
and children shave been victims as
slyell as men, and not infrequently
have whole families been wiped out
before vengeance was satisfied. These
lhaye been carried on with utter con-
Tempt for the law. In fact, it would
.ibe counted a disgrace for any involved
lin. them to appeal to the law, He
would be branded a coward even by
stlose upon whose side he had been
sffghtilg and be cast out from
famong thens These ffeuds are open
warfare, witR5the rule to shoot on
sight and to show no mercy, For a
stimeit they have not'Beer frequent but
This cannot be accommodation Through
any greater respeetEfor the law but
at may be that the men. and. women OF
I'd newer generation have heSun=to see
The folly Of them and prefer to live
in peace rather than in constant, dan
ger from a. bullet shot from ambush.
~ Such numerous deeds are due. in a
majority OF cases to the Illicit distill-
ing OF whisky. The government has
sent It's agents at the peril Of their
Hives into these mountain Businesses
TO break up the practice. but it still
goes on, in spite of revenue agents
and detectives. Farmers who. are
counted fairly well-to-do engage in it,
hiding their stills in the thick under
brush. sometimes In caves, the ap-
proach to which is known only to the
mountaineers and is constantly guard
ed by armed men. A ready sale Is
found for the fiery liquor thus made
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
DIED Al HOSPITAL.

Scott Richie, who was injured in d
lumber camp about two weeks ago,
died yesterday afternoon at the MI
ners hospital. The aceidentSoccurred
In the camp Of the Cranberry Lumber
Co. at Garfield, this sGte, where the
deceased was employed. His right leg
was terribly crushed by a rolling log.
Deceased was aged SO years and is
survived by a wife and child. The re-
mains were taken IN charge by Under.
taker Musgrave and Sons and will be
taken to Redwood for interment.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
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Of handling, packing, shipping, check
Ing, accounting, etc.
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III;lI. AZ DAMON DAMON.
Gentle1sntIng 'Aas come! ~,
By RoY x. MoULToN. !.
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tlllus sagotg T. yqaer narplhSers' may
weeks and ,Failsd dtemaiIv hnt tba raaI
harhinger Ia SersNH+ba ono ~ w hi 10
even more certain than the boct heer
goat: The reai harht1par r 10 tSe s,cten..
list who beginssto talk of the tussock
moth and the necessity OF the latter's
immediate determination.
There are y lst AZ Ssravs IF kl,riIiS The
nestiferons hIsESA moth Ono pood
way Is 70 nh Nh 1SSisklv on tha 6ead
With n hammer utbiIS another a 10 eoad1
him q dose or naris. @raen boTore each
neaisso XII 81 Il Is ,,,,sF-SaIf NJ M
isEhesfde M. G1nastion mo idpa e that
when the scientists begin q write
Iaarnedlv of tba +rssock moth sn,ine
is here pror samuel Alexander 10
the one who warns IA against The moth
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
DIE0 0A GIRi...

i ] Z Q .
Mr.. Lawson Il. Williams, Of Farln.
Iingtpns Ear. pged citizen, died yesterday
while enroute from this city, sIs ple
Point, near 'BAtfatltvliie, wliel The
sided With his grand gdaighie irs
u: A A., Mqrrgelllk n ,,s
Mr., williams Who was n r daEs Of
age, had been In this city on sine
leaving for home on the u 6scIoels
car. Just before the car reashed Che
station where 10 would alteht HE lell
forward in the seat He swas tals
from the car and physicians sNmmoiis
ed, but Me had been extinct tor sew
eral minutes.
Deceased was one of bb O. oldest lres IA.
dents of Marion county, and wa
splendid citizehs Seven sons 9nd four
daughters survive, The remains were
taken to the MiTrell home and on
Wednesday funeral services VIII be
held at the Willow Tree cbatcli on
Duncard Run, at: 2 clock ReysS
Newton, OF Glorks burg 9giIt conduct
Ghe Y services and inteF11ent e'Ill he
made An the Martin eniete
ceased had been a member thei
,Baptistidenominatl Ion for many yea
Shurtlef and Welton,s openln
Wednesday, evening vs. i :. l \, "a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19

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and the profit is sufficient to encourage
them to keep up the business and to
risk chances OF discovery. Even when
caught in a government raid, the
chances OF conviction before sympa'
lthetic jury and with witnesses who
are probably engaged in the same bust
ness are ve-.y slim and when such CON
yfetton does occur the penalties are
not severe enough to prevent others
from taking a chance, Sometimes the
counterreiting OF coin is also carried
on by these mountaineers, who seem
to. connt,u theirinherent right TO make
money any way they can, law or no
Jaw.
Governor Mann has acted promptly
and In a manner so vigorous as to con.
vince tile country he will not rest until
every outlaw who took a hand in The
massacre at HillsvIlle Is brought to
punishment. Such policy is the only
one he can pursue and 1t must go to
the limit. There can be, there must
be, no mercy shoWn.to any member
of the Allen gang. They went into
that little mountain courtroom fully
armed and prepared for the bloody
deed. They acted with murderous,pre
meditation and did not hesitate until
their work was done. They they rode
back to their mountain hiding places
and prepared to add more murders
to their list by shooting down any who
might seek to take them alive. Cap
ture Of them all will be no easy task,
but Il must be done II 1t takes theI
whole police and military force of
Virginia to do It.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
ANNOUNCEMENT.

= You are authorized to announce
through the columns of the West Wiz,
ginian. that ! am a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Congress-
man from the First Congressional dis
StrIet, subject to the will Of the Re
publican voters in the State primary.
GEO IA. LAUGHLIN,
.Wheeling, w Va.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
ACCEPTS POSITION.

Nh o. H. Stout, who recently dis.
posed oflhis Interest III the Lyric The
StaFito Mr.. W.. Aldlnger, has taken
with8the 9, u. swlger Shoe
Company as nfaaSger, Mr.. Stout was
f6tlsrly identli ladewith this store, and
vii be glad again 10 welcome all his
friends.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19

Voice. Needless to say there are no
presidential possibilities in it.
/. One thing We never see any more
Is the good, old.fashloned buckwheat
cake which was brown on both sides.
II all the ioafers inthis country; had
to 50 to work there probably wouldn't
be enough work to 50 round. 'a'l
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19

When ultimate consumers rage
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19

shurtleR and welton's opening
"Wednesday evening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19

And tell him Of their urgent needs;
When fearful war besets the land
Until the nations great heart
,bleeds;
When hostile nations do enforce
+ Their policies and chosen creels;
When mighty trust magnates eRcioach
And satisfy Ftheir own pet gresdsg !,
When others fare forth tothe fray
Upon their ebampiig battle stee9s;
When, others do the hero act \
And|gather fame for valiant desds}
When others Win the Victories \
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
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OF whichs thankful nation reads
The statesman does his noble part,
For he sends out the garden seeds
Observations Of Old Car WhippIe.

Observations of Old Cap WhippIe. !.
There are too many fellers in this
world who make their dyspepsia thsEI'
religion. ,,,,i EW
Z There arc a lot Of good" mep Who
are not good forwergimuch elsel M
One sweetls solemn thought: There
are mo more poles to be discovered.
There is anew play called The Still,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-19
Memorial

oilcloth sleeve protectors; 2
Brown .porcelain doorknobs
iCrayon portraits.
Country butter
strickly fresh eggs
Hieh.wheeled baby cabs
Depot omnibuses
What.nots
Crlnoline
Hand-nointed neckties
-
Old Love Letters
Whom mn gat. core NJ dod
when she + good and mad,
And tbereis mo more To saw
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

slider butter a necessity-classes it with
automobiles and aeroplanes,' smiled the
mother OF the boycott
However, the main thing is that half a
dollar a pound does make 1t luxury for
many families and l do not see how the
dealers can say that natural causes have
brought such astounding rises in two weeks.
7 cannot see that drouth in Australia or
A heavy dew in Zanzibar or a killing frost
in Northern Labrador could have acted
with such skyward violence all of sud
den"
But the farmers, aren't they getting sky
prices, too?"
Farmers are willing and glad 20 sell
butter at 35 or 81 cents a pound. They
have told me so. ! called up big dairy
concern this morning, and they quoted their
best print butter at 81 cents. Tub butter
was 40 cents, and they said they had prac-
tcally none Of the lower grades on hand.
/ OF course | can't be sure, but II wouldn't
surprise me II they were secretly getting
rid Of some Of the lower grades for 49
/ cents a pound. The difference between
these prices and what the farmers are glad
TO get IS altogether too great 1t isn't 80
much the fault OF the middleman as II is
the middlemen We housewives wouldn' I
complain about furnishing a reasonable
/ profit for one middeman, but there are usu-
/ ally two and three of them that add their
/ commissions 10 the prices we have to pay
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

any Wall Street tricks in the butter trade.
There is always a time during June and
July. when the cows are out on pasture
and the milk is flowing free when butter
Is away down. 1t would be foolish to carry
storage butter over a year. because thC
flush time would surely come when he
could buy for less than he paid for what
he'd been holding and paying storage on all
that time. The butter would keep that long
easv enough. but by the time prices got
high enough for him 10 unload his supply
would he butter colored white elephant
that he couldn't turn loose. receiving in
ternaI injuries in his pockethook. II would
no a case Of financial butter fingers.
Mr.. Pratt couldn't say just no" nlu'h
hutter there was on deposit in New YORK.
bu, another commission man estimated IL
AT $500 sixty-pound tubs Of the best grades
with about ten times that much "f the
lower grades. incidentally. let 1t he under
stood that there is butter and butter-"itn
q world Of difference in between. tn" AF'
technical grades are specials. extras, lrsts'
seconds and thirds. Specials are what you
have yourself. while thirds are what tnrN
make the Jokes about. And you buy thirdS
now for what one ought to pay for specials.
Having patiently heard the butter mer-
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

tinents II YOU still nave any doubts snow
ING stubborn signs of life. there is the fact
that absolutely none of the butter has re-
turned TO its native shores for Weeks-not
even enough 10 cover one side of dWarled
oyster cracker Usually there is good
zeal called back home for our own USE
And what is the answer?
"Why." explained Mr.. Pratt, there are
a whole lot of answers. One OF the I'M
portant causes OF the present situation was
tho droutb last summer in New Zealand
and Australia. Those countries ordinarily
snpplv much butter for European break
fast rolls This year there was so little
butter produced that they are eating IL all
at home and drawing on Europe for more
Europe has TO call on US. or indulge IN an
! involuntary butter boycott. In adnltioh'
there was a drouth in the West during the
| last flush season that cut down the pro-
ductjon. The recent zero weather oln lts
share to make bad matters worse. "heh
! II Is cold the COWS give considerably less
milk
New York must not get the egoustica'
idea that II is the only city suffering from
hrtter famine. Here's letter from
dealer in Cincinnati. who says that butter
is several points higher there than II If
in New York. But as TO the boycott =
Mr.. Pratt interrupted himself with "ine
grin. -
"Why should we have lot of the SUN
sitting back on the ice waiting TO ne uh-
loaded when prices get so high that no
one but the Astors can buy il? We mid-
dlemen would rather have the prices mod
crate with the customers satisfied than
10 have 'em so high and the customers
kicking. One way or the other, there
wouldn't be much difference in our COM
missions II prices drop down. we sell
enough more butter to make the bulk OF
our commissions almost as large as when
Singer tower figures prevail.
"And take this straight from one who
has eaten butter all his life and made his
living handling It: 1t would require man
with superhuman shrewdness TO pull on
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

: The agitation is what counts. There are
many who are in the habit OF paying
/ grocery pills without looking at any OF
! the separate items TO see what outrageous
/ prices they pay. Now, when Il man gets
I his bill he's going TO notice that ne is pay
/ ing about twice what he ought to pay for
butter. He will also read that butter that
cost - cents a pound last summer was
put in storage and 2Ia cents storage paid
on II. II will strike him that the differ
cncc between 2Sis cents and n cents is
several notches too much. even II he has
bee, me almost price blind from the con-
tirusd high cost OF his living. Now
Slight pause here for further taps from
the emphatic pencil
The man may not decide to do without
butter completely. But he will SOC at least
that he is paying far too much. and he
more than likely will eat a great deal less
than he did before. when YOU figure these
bv tho hundreds Of thousands the market
is sure 10 feel the effects soon. Letters
pour in to me every day with urgent ap-
plications for membership and my tele-
phone bell doesn't have ten minutes To IT.
self all day long Many of the callers
chants side or the question. We turn 10
Mrs Julian Heath commander I'm chief of
tho butter boycott
Mrs Heath conducts her boycott CAM
paign from the top Of her dining table-a
rare example of the fitness Of things. There
are several reasons for this The first IL that
she hasn't room In her office up I'm the front
OF the house to TAX" care Of the letters
from new hoycottcrs that every postman
brings Also there are repeated confer
,ucos necessary for her boycott cabinet.
which Is composed of Mrs Emil Kuichng,
Mrs. George \ Coc. Mrs Josephine Red
ding. Mrs. Georg" Ayres and Mrs. VI A.
McaChcr
Mrs Heath rigidy practises the boycott
she so ardcntly breaches. There tx not IL
sign of the assailed butter on her sideboard
nor I'm the kitchen nor I'm the iceboX ad-
/ ioining the kitchen. She had a supply that
/ lasted up TO last Sunday--of course, II
would have been wauton oxtravagancc in
/ view Of its cost to throw that away. But
', when IT gave out she washed and polished
! the butter plate. and it has been upside
down ever since.
| And they say the boycott hasn't done
any good?' repeated Mrs. Heath. What
| are the quotations to-day"
She was tOld tlat DulltI was vi a ''uPl'
of points.
"Ah." triumphantly, "let that he their
answer"
But the dealers say" it was urged.
that a fcw thousand women can't expect
to make any difference when one con-
slders the rest Of the city
| Mr. Heath tapped an emphatic pencil
| on the dining room table that had been
the cradle Of the great butter boycott.
Perhaps the actual numbers do not"
| she said Il am the chairman Of the home
economies committee of the city Fedora
: ton Of Womcn's Clubs The Housewives
! League Is my own movement. Now, per-
haps every one Of the $1,000 women in the
| federation hasn't become a total abstainer
| from buttcr-she and her dependent house
! hold Mrs. William Grant Brown, presi-
/ dent Of the federation, favors the boycott.
I Now
] What If every one Of the 5000 doesn't
Danish the butter bowl from her table?
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

pledge themselves not 10 use any butter
until the inflated prices become something
like normal All of them aren't house
wives. either Here's letter l received
this morning"
And she placed the following succnct
note in evidence:
Dear Madam: NV family will abstain
from butter beginning at dinner to-day.
Butter Is not necessity. Armies are
maintained for years on no butter. Thank
ing YOU for your patriotic example.
III. B. SMITH"
you see. Mr.. Smith doesn't even con-
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
FASCINATION OF THE OBSCURE,

That man has been making that same
tariff speech for years and | don't under
stand It yet"
Certainly not replied senator sorshum'
that speech is like conundrum' After
you guess IT, it's no good any more. -
Washington Star.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
The Merchant Laughs at
Slurs on His Character
and Says It's All Due
to a Shortage.

There are other ways TO kill a dog be-
sides choking him on butter.-Old proNerO'
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-16
Notice Of Final Settlement.

In the County Court Of the State Of Ore.
gon for llarney County.
In the matter of Jason Bennett, De-
Ceas ed.
To all persons interested take notice
that the undersigned Executor OF the
last VIII and Testament and E,tate of
Jason Bennett, deceased, has filed his
fnal account, and that by order of the
County Court Of said llarney County,
Oregon, duly made and entered, Mon
day the sth day Of April at o'clock
p. m. at the Court House in Burns, Ore
gOn, has been appointed MS the time and
place for the hearing of objections to said
final account and for the settlement
thereof; all persons interested must file
their objections, il any, on or before said
appointed day.
Dated March 4th, 1919
|. l. PoUJApE, Executor
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1912-03-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Burns, ore, February go. 1912
Notice Is hereby given that T. nest r Dtyder.
of Riley, Oregon, who, on Apul 1 , 1897. made
Home .ieAd Entry No aUl Serial M Us1s2 for
El2Eia Section 10, Township p :, Range q r..
willamette Meridian. has hled notice on iuten-
ton To make Final Fiye-Iear Proof TO es-
tab ish claim 10 the land above described be
fore the kegiste- and Receiver, at Burns ore
gon. ON the nth day of April, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses
X. Z. Gryder. Lester Williams r. J. Williams
G- L. Hembree. all Of Riley, oregon.
WN. FAREE, Register