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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
TROOPS ARE Sent ROME
ALL rs QUIET IN THE STRIKE RE-
GIoN AND SOLDIERS ARE
LEAVING.
It Is Believed That Troops Have Been
Given Splendid Drilling and Are
Ready For Any Emergency.

Charleston 800 officers and
men of the West Virginia National
Guard We're made happy when they
heartily : responded to the order to
break camp and make ready for their
journey home. The other companies
which have been relieved of further
duty in the strike zone unless they
should be called out later, are COM
panies H and /, of Huntington, E of
Parkersburg, D OF Spencer, all of the
Second Infantry, and Co. F, Martins
burg, of the First Infantry. These men
have been on duty in the field since
the 26th of July, and all have proved
been thanked by the officers of the
provisional regiment to which they
were attached, and each of them has
been given aVthorough training as 4
soldier in the field. The experience
they have had has made them highly
desirable for regular service, in event
the country needs more practiced men,
and should the Mexican trouble de-
mand the call for more men than are
ready for service in the regulsr army,
it is almost certain that the noun.
taineers will receive the call
There Is no immediate danger, it is
believed, Of any serious outbreak in
the strike territory, but no one can
tell just what will develop during the
next few days. A good many resi-.
dents of Boomer have surrendered
their guns, but many other arms are
retained in that vicinity. !.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Controlling the Mississippi.

Regarding some method for mitigat-
ing the Mississippi river floods, the
Scientific American says: The pres
ent outbreak Of the river will serve
to direct attention to a proposed meth
cd of control which we are inclined to
think will prove to be the ultimate so
luton of the problem We refer to the
plan of providing storage reservoirs in
the upper reaches of the river, in
which the flood waters due to spring
rains and the melting OF the SHOWS,
could be impounded, to be released in
a dry season for the purpose OF main
tanning the river at a navigable depth. 2
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Files Suit For Certificate.

Suit has been fled in the circuit
court of Franklin county to secure a
mandatory injunction compelling M.
G. Clay to issue license and certifi-
cate to the American Mutual Life In
surance Co., Of Carrollton, recently or
gained The petitioners are ]. F..
Jett, r. L. VaIlandingham, J. P. Wheel
er, James Gayle, ]. F. Butt, J. P. Mon
ohan, J. T. McDemint, F. M. Golden.
M. L. Downs, T. H. Forbes, James Cos
lee, o. X. Moore, Noah s. Gayle and
H. M. Stringfellow. At the insurance
department 1t was stated that accord
ing to their construction the company
had not complied with the require
ments of the law, that the company
either have guaranty capital of $780,
900 or have received on insurance pol
icies written by it 100000 in premi-
ums.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Planning For County Institutes.

Commissioner of Agriculture ]. w.
Newman announced his first list of
county farmers Institutes. w. Meek,
of Paintsville, and H. G. Black, of
Trimbie county, will start making ar
rangements in the towns already Sc
lected, and then will tour the state as
pertaining conditions in each county
and reporting whether there is local
interest sufficient to warrant the state
In spending the money for an insti-
tute. The dates announced are: Car
rollton, October 16 and II; Milton, Oc-
tober Is and 10; Sebree, October 81
and %; Princeton, October 20 and "a;
Bayou, Livingston county, October 25
and 26; Fountain, Monroe county, Oc-
tober 81 and November /; Burlington,
October Is and IT; Alexandria, Octo-
Der IS and 10; Flat Gap, Johnson coun-
ty, October Fl and %; Pikeville, Octo-
Der % and "a.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
New Charters Are Issued.

The following charters were issued
by the secretary Of state:
The Kentucky Mines Co., OF Cincin-
natl, Ohio; to buy and sell coal and
other fuel; authorized capital $4,000;
subscribed and paid $1,000. Incorpor-
ators Allan Smith. George Stugard,
Laura Schultz. Alfred G. Cassatt and
R. P. Ernst, all OF Cincinnati.
Eastern Kentucky Mines Co. head
quarters, purposes, incorporators and
capital same as In the foregoing.
PARIS Run Coal Co.. OF Moundsyille,
w. Va, to operate coal mines In Mar
shall county, w. Va. Authorized cap
ital, 500 900. Incorporators: H. w.
Hunter and G. H. Hunter, of Mounds
vile; David Levy, Blanche Levy and
Ben H. Levy, all of Wheeling
City Automobile Co., Of Morgantown,
w. Va, to manufacture, buy and sell
automobiles, and automobile SUPPLIES,
operate garage. Authorized capital,
$4,000. Incorporators: ]. Leonard
Gates, s. s. bearing, N. B. Yost, Mar
garet Smith and Cora B. bearing. all
Of Morgantown.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Bankers Close State Meeting.

AS the closing event Of the
most successful convention in the
history of the Kentucky Bankers AS
sociations, John E. Bucking, Of the
Paintsyille National Bank, Paintsyille,
was elected president. The meeting
| at the Hotel Henry Watterson, in
Louisville, closed Immediately after
the election.
The other officers elected were:
Arch B. Davis, of Louisville, secretary,
and Henry d. Ormsby, of Louisville,
treasurer. The Executive Committee,
named for a period Of three years, is
as follows: H. c. Sharp, Maysville;
Matt NJ. Waller, Morganfield, and w.
c. Montgomery; ElizaDetntowlI
A new set of bylaws, drafted to con-
form more closely to those of the
American Bankers Association, was
adopted. This is the work Of the COM
mittee appointed at Lexington last
year, and no radical changes were
made from the old laws.
Several interesting speeches were
made at the closing session. James A.
Walker, of the Corn Exchange Ma
tional Bank of Chicago. was the first
speaker
]. W. Newman, Commissioner of
Agriculture, asked the bankers to in
terest themselves in the agricultural
interests of the state.
E. s. Clarke, of Falmouth, spoke on
the subject, Are Savings Banks
Profitable to the Interior Banks?" He
said that in his judgment they were
very profitable. He cited the expert
ence of several banks which increased
their deposits largely through the es-
tablishment of savings department.
Mr.. Clark also urged the giving OF
better accommodations to the farmers.
He declared the banks owe to it the
farmer to loan him the money to get
his own crop ready for market.
The final address of the day was
made by J. E. Buckingham. He spoke
on THE Trials of Interior Bankers
He declared the greatest trouble in
country bank is the salary of the
banker, and the fact that he must
educate whole communities in banking
methods. The city banker, he de-
clared, deals with clientele already
educated.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Each County to Send Three.

Three representatives of each coun-
ty will be official guests Of the state
when the aboretum is planted back of
the Capitol November 8. One of them
will cast a spadeful of dirt on the
roots OF the tree designed for his coun-
ty. This will be the formal act Of
planting, which will be completed by
experts under the direction Of the De-
partment of Forestry. Gov McCreary
and Attorney General Garnett, who
originated the idea, probably will
speak. Forester J. e. Barton, State
Entomologist H. Garman and H. F.
Hellenmeyer, of Lexington, went over
the ground with Road Commissioner
r. c. Terrell and Custodian Thomas
Wizard and noted the location of the
trees.
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afioat, although moments considcra-
ton would bring to remembrance the
fact Of the complete divorce between
church and state in France. The sub.
ject is brought prominently into no
tice by petition signed by great
number of the mothers or widows or
the sailors who were victims ef the
accident on the Gioire or the Liberte.
The petitioners are to be found in the
Midi. Brittany. Var and Finisterre.
and they pray the senate for the reap
pointmeDt Of chaplains on warships
London Globe.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10

not=so much hope for their getting on.
With US, the classes are more shut up
than there. 1t wants far more enter
prise than you would think for Rus
sian to make himself
Then, too, modern Russian litera-
ture has a depressing influence. We
have many authors Of tremendous tai
ent; but they are all sad. They have
none of the joy of life. We have still
a lot Of eastern fatalism in our psy-
chology. We Russians do not value hui
man life so high as the English, for
instance, who not only drag poor
devil whose life is one long burden
out Of the river, but put him to prison
for trying to end things.
"One cannot help admiring the cour-
age of the very poor, who are content
to toll and suffer for years. with no
prospect of anything better. Can we
wonder that some of them break down
and take fate into their own hands?
In general, too much Is made of Rus
sian suicides. We are young people.
finding our way to the light. There
must be a number of discouraged
ones"
The truth is that people in Russia
60 into despair over things which
would not trouble an Anglo-Saxon
much.
Sometimes Russian suicides are or
dered by the family, a regiment. or
other institution. The case of young
Captain Sergius Hurko Of the Hussars
is an example. The young man was
wild, played high and ran into debt.
He determined to retrieve his fortunes
at Monte Carlo-and failed. AS it
happened, an old general he had
known from childhood was staying at
the same hotel, and had won huge
sums. Hurko entered his bedroom,
gagged him, and stole the money. But
the victim had bitten his hand, and
though Hurko made off for Petersburg
at once, he was recognized as the
thief. His family disowned him, and
he had hint from his regiment that
the best thing he could do was to dis
appear He did so, the prison au-
eGuOllClC0 SlS SOAAVSJ oAASS
Of poison to his cell.
Old Baron Observation-Disclosures
relation, by the way to the young wo-
man who ended her life in cham
payne, was governor of the Baltic
provinces. He had wild son named
Sacha After paying Sacha,s debts
many times, he grew tired. When
the son made an application for
money one day, the father sent him a
revolver, telling him to shoot himself.
The son, who was making merry in
some town in central Russia, ordered
supper, invited all his boon COM
panions, arranged sleigh expedition
afterward, returned to his rooms, and
shot himself with his fathers present.
He left note saying: 7 should have
done it long ago, but knew it would
afford my father pleasure, SO put 1t
off till his revolver came. Now, at
least, all the world knows he ordered
me to commit suicide"
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Objection Raised TO Lease.

Lease Of ninety acres for military
company ground and rifle range near
Frankfort for period of ten years
made by Gov. Wilson of the Todd es-
tate, is in question, and Gov. McCreary
is of the opinion that the state is not
bound by The lease. He ordered the
rent for 1912 paid, because the ques-
ton had not been raised before, but
Miss Mary Todd, representing the es-
tate, and Col. J. Tandy Ellis, acting
adjutant general, have entered into
negotiations looking to a compromise.
The state now has no use for the
ground as it is not large enough for
the purpose, 1t is said. Gov. McCreary
was of the opinion that his predecos-
sor could not tie up two succeeding adj
ministrations by the lease, which
would run until 1919. The annual
rental was $500, and the taxes amount
ing to about $40.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Insects Call Means a Death.

There is superstition connected
with the death watch which, like most
superstitions, is based upon the the
ory Of probabilities The death watch
is usually heard in the spring Of the
year and a superstition runs to the ef-
feet that some one In the house will
die within the year. Persons who are
superstitious are never very strict in
the Interpretation of the predictions
and therefore. whenever a person dies
in the house or out of II. in the same
room where the death watch was
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
E,aures on Coal shlpmenta.


The State Mining Department fur
nishes the following statement of the
coal shipments over the Virginian rail
road for the month of August;
Tons.
Gulf smokeless Coal Co., Tams 3o,754
Pemberton Coal & Coke Co, At
finity ..................... 4,24s
Pemberton Coal & Coke Co,
Big Stick ..............,... 1884
Winding Gulf Colliery Co,
Winding Gulf 1885
Bailey Wood Coal Co, Wood
bay Observation-Disclosures. 1s,4sS
p. Z. White Coal Co.. Glen
White $780,. .k............. 1861
70, e. White Coal Co., Stotes-
bury ................... 1870
Slab Fork Coal Co., Slab Fork. 3o,5S9
MacAlpin Coal Company, Mac
Alpln .....-............, 23,097
Gulf Coal Co., Patterson. ..... 1878
sLynwin Coal Co., Goodwin. -. 10,204
New River Galleries Co., Ec-
Giles ....... $3.50
Loup Creek Colliery Co., Page. 27,342
White Oak Railway Co., via
Biship ................ .... 25,541
l-anawha, Glen Jean and e.
R. R, via Pax. 63,157
Long Branch Coal Co.. Burgess 1878
337 .366
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Reflects All Old Officers.

The Kentucky State Historical So
ciety at its annual meeting reelected
all the old officers as follows: Gov
J. B. McCreary, president; H. v. Nc.
Chesney, vice president; w. w Long
moor, second vice president; Miss Sal
lie Jackson, third vice president; Mrs
Jennie c. Morton, regent and treas
urer. Otto A. Rothers, of Louisville
was elected an assistant to obtain rec
ords and historical relics in South.
western Kentucky.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Report for September.

The report OF the state auditor and
the state treasurer for the month or
September shows balance in all
funds, including the invested portion
of the irreducible school fund OF ST.
589,715.12, divided among the several
funds as follows: State fund. balance
September 80, $1,132,7SS.77; general
school fund, balance September 80,
$456, 926.35; the school fund, balance
September 80. $26,SOO; invested in
bonds, ETC., s973,2Oo The heaviest ex-
penditure was from the general school
fund, being s254,e73.Se, while Silt
981.71 was distributed from the state
fund.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
First Time For Mason County.

The Rev. Charles Arthur CoakweII,
pastor Of the Mays Lick Methodist
church, made formal application for
naturalization papers before Circuit
Clerk James B. Key. CoakweH gives
his age as &c. married and native OF
Canada. He declared his intention to
become citizen Of the United States
at Ironton, o.. two years ago. This is
the first application for citizenship pa
pers ever made In Mason county 80
far as known by the oficials.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
chestnuts Are Late.

Despite the fact that autumn is here
and there have already been a few
slight frosts, up to recently there
were no chestnuts in the local mar
kets. But happily this condition does
not exist because Of scarcity of the
popular little nut. Farmers state
that the chestnuts are very plentiful
this year, and this, contrary to the
fact that West Virginia's trees are
supposed to be failing fast under the
chestnut blight, which as played such
havoc with the Pennsylvania trees.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Prehistoric Burial Ground

An interesting find, from an arch
aelogical point Of view has been made
in the showyard of the Highland an
Agricultural Society at Cupar, Fife
shire, Scotland. Some excavations
were being made in connection with
the erection Of a stand. when the
Vorkmen engaged came upon a num-
Der OF stone collins containing human
skeletons. The shape of the collins
gave evidence Of great antiquity. but
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
State Debt Is Decreased.

Outstanding Understanding state
warrants were decreased 100000 by
the call made by the state treasurer
for their redemption in September.
The outstanding warrants amounted to
5000, 92716 October /. The balance
in the state treasury was $483, 812.81.
The balance in the sinking fund was
$54, 776.49 and in the school fund s452.-
1851. The deficit in the general ex-
penditure fund was $23,112.81.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
conferrlna on pay Increase.

In the middle of the summer the
general committee of the Brotherhood
of Railway Firemen on the Norfolk
and Western met in Roanoke, but the
action of the committee was not given
out. At that time 1t was intimated
the committee would have a confer
ence in October with the officials Of
the Norfolk and Western with view
of securing an increase in pay. The
committee is now at Roanoke and it Is
understood that the committee is hold.
ing preliminary session In advance
af xoing before the officials.
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heard, or across the Atlantic, SO that
there be some kind of a relationship.
or even acquaintance, between the
person who hears the omen and the
person dying, the event is sure. to be
connected with the prophetic sounds
OF the insect.
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were allowed to remain as discovered.
This is the second occasion that hui
man remains have been found since
the work of erection of the showyard
commenced. All over Fife, and espe-
cially In the north of the county,
traces of stone collins and prehistoric
interments have been found. The cof-
fins which have been discovered may
be prehistoric or may have been pIac-
ed in the burial ground in connection
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10

ed and rewarded eight or ten appren-
tices, and at the present time has an
other under her care. She long since
discarded the igIoo. or native hut,
underground. in which she was born,
and is now comfortably housed near
Nome IN q cabin of logs. She speaks
seven or eight Indian languages. and
this has enabled her to be OF consid-
cradle service as an Interpreter.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Poets Hope.

Cheer up. DEAR said the poets
wife. looking at him over his evening
paper. there are good times coming. 1
What is it now?" inquired the poor
poet.
Here's piece about an old manu-
script poem Of Shakespeare's selling
the other day for s2,000."-C Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Mai. Harris Succeeds womack.

Under Instructions from Gov. Nc
Creary. Col. T. Tandy Ellis, Acting Ad-
jutant General appointed Maj. Abner
Harris of Louisville, as Compiler of
the Confederate and Spanish-American
War records, to succeed Maj. Joseph
M. Womack, whose term was extended
by contemporaneous order until Oc-
tober Is, when his successor will take
charge. Maj. Womack was appointed
a year ago by Gov. Wilson. The Office
pays 500 month.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Renort of State Banks.

For the first time since 1909 COM
plete report of the conditions of the
states 473 banks was made out by the
state banking department. This state
ment is as of the close of business Of
September 4. tits as complete as that
made by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency in regard to national banks and
contains all the information desired by
the banking interests and investors.
The department required the banks to
make their reports balance to penny.
This information is available to any
one interested.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
UphoIds the Circuit Court.

1t is within the province of the
Board of Commissioners of the Camp
bell County Courthouse, which is a
continuing body, to build fireproof
vault in the clerks Office in the court
house and to levy a tax sufficient to
cover the cost, according to the Court
OF Appeals, in affirming the Campbell
Circuit Court in the case of Frank
Shreine against the commissioners,
Commissioner Clay delivering the
opinion. Shreine sought to restrain
the board from constructing the vault,
but lost in all courts.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Mai. Leathers Appointed.

Gov. McCreary appointed John H.
feathers, of Louisville, member Of
the Kentucky commission to the Get
tysburg celebration at Gettysburg,
July ]. 2 and 3, 1913. He succeeds the
late Green r. Keller, of Carlisle.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-10
Time TO Quit.

THE kentry is going plumb to pot
See here, Peleg. II you don't stoy
going around with such a long face
the barber Is going 10 charge you en-
ira fer shaving you"
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Bad News

Hospital Nurse treading) Here's
an article in the papers saying The
appendix serves a useful purpose aft
er all.
Surgeon (hastily) --Oh, cut 1t out!
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Another Good OIL Well.

Another good oil well was struck In
the heart Of the Pinch oil field by the
Kanawha and Ohio Oil Co., headquar-
tiers In this city. This find is No. / on
the ]. L. Kalig farm. The initial flow
was $50 barrels in "a hours. Other
wells are being drilled In the vinicity
and activity will continue indefinitely.
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sole purpose is the encouragement

sporting suicides
among its members.
With headquarters
in st. Petersburg
and quickly growing
branches in Moscow,
Odessa. Krakow,
and Vladivostock,
this club meets reg
ularly to plan the
self-inficted death
of its members.
These suicides are
80 far removed from
the ordinary affairs
that result from
hunger, unrequited
affection, jealousy,
poverty or despair,
that one of the con-
ditions OF member
ship is that no mem
Der shall kill him
self for any of these
vulgar reasons.
This club is but
one of the manifes-
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with the old Parish Church OF Supar,
which was In existence in the twelfth
century or even earlier.
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Game Warden Al. G. Scott, of Henry
county, who participated with Execu-
tive Agent ]. @. Ward, of the Game
and Fish Commission in the raid
down the Kentucky river few weeks
ago, has been appointed special OIL
Ger under the department, and he will
be sent to any point in the state
wherever the department wishes to
make a special investigation.
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Suicide Bureau a Success

the work. according to General Booth.
has been successful beyond highest
expectations London Chronicle.
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viii Hold Examination.

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an examina-
ton at Bluefield. Charleston, Clarks-
burg, Fairmont Huntington, Martins
burg, Parkersburg and Wheeling,
on October 10. 1912, in order to
provide a register of the eliigibles
from which to make certification for
filling vacancies as they may occur in
positions requiring the qualifications
of stenography. typewriting in the
Federal classified civil service In the
vicinity Of the places Of examination.
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Very Appropriate.
Miss Louise Crabtree has been APP
pointed stenographer in the ONCE Of
the state forester.