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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-18
NEW. WAR VI. lakes !. 6.
To Be Applied the First of Next
June Are Expected to Bring
$500, 600. 600.
tc,orres nondence n As.Ia,ocintad -.

Correspondence OF Associated Press1
ROME, Dec. 18.-ItaIy's new war
taxes, to be applied beginning next
June, are expected to bring upwards
OF forty million dalIars. The heaviest
tax. apparently, is intended to fall on
manufacturers Of war supplies, to the
extent of sixty per cent on profits
earned over twenty per cent OF invest
ed capital. An additional tax of three
5tenths Of one per cent is levied on the
foreign companies doing business ii
Italy.
Another heavy tax falls on property
owners. "a direct tax 81 five per cent
apartment and tenement houses, or On
rented houses. "a small direct tax is
imposed on all soldiers and officers
who. though modified, do not form
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-18

typographf error. This year IN the
place where my name should be the
printer had nlsspelled 1t and IT read Y
cornelius Vanderbilt"
Doesn't the Joke remind you Of
Charlie Case2 Well it IL his. But.
anyway the new register shows that
New Workers. arc SO fond OF the me-
roprtis that they arc moving away.
There are 12.q00 Mares Of ar1stocrats
III the book Nearly nne-half or them
4re living Iii the country the year
round.
The others are living mostly in tho
fashionable apartment houses On the
East Side bounded By Fifdeth street,
Fifth avenue and Lexington avenue.
"A New YORK man haB presented a
$4,000 house TO bis wife for Christ
mas. OF course it Isl all right and a
llate thing to do. but 1T is embarrassing
for a lot Of citizens who have only.
$4,000.
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Miss Lobner obtained her final de-
lcree OF divorce from Edward "
Paine IN Superior Judge Glenn's
court. The legal lapse OF one year
since the interlocutory decree was
granted was Up only one day before.
she having secured her first decree iii
December, 1915, on the ground that
her husband was sullen and morose.
In obtaining the marriage license
in San Francisco HOLSTER gave his
age as 81. and Miss Lobner's as "a.
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open MEETING
WILDE Held in the Labor and
Trades Council Hall on
Monday Niqht.

There will be an open meeting or
tho Labor and Trades Council on
Third street Monday light. to which
the local council cordially invites all
laboTinE men and their wives. There
will be q special message at this
meeting to the unorgantzed laboring
man and his wife by ]. G. Probasco
with his theme Universal Brother
hood or Man"
Turn out and hear something bene-
pioneers OF organized Il bor. Adver-
tissment.
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steaders. waiting for some one "a
pick up a small-sized fortune.
H@ TT0Xraf7 IN File

M AITOWeU 10 ETIa-
On September d. 1915, Walsh fled
la homestead entry on the land. and,
.coincident with the act OF fling y
letter was received at the local Office
that the particular land was open
for settlement Walsh had tried to
file before that date, but his entry
was refused on the ground that the
land had not been restored. Walsh
insisted that the land was subject to
entry. but. as the register and receiv-
Ter had received no such information
he was not allowed to file at that
time But with the receipt of the
later information the entry of Walsh
was legal
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DAKOTA FATHER CHOOSES
DAUGHTERS TROUSSEAU

JAMESTOWN, N. d. Dec. is.
Gus Lieber. or Jamestown. went alone
to ST Paul, MINI, to select . #eddinG
trousseau for his daughter
You can't trust women in thesa
matters Lieber said. II came down
to make sure my daughter obtained
Ia good trousseau. Ny wife never
1rchased any of her own clothing.
Neither has my daughter X
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-18
I mo- GENTS WINS
FORTUNE FOR
IRI5.H'NIAN
GETS Valuable Homestead Land
for the Price of a Postage
Stamp.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 18.-IIow a
Wide-awalce young Irishman. by
keeping. his eyes open and spending
two cents for a postage stamp. won
a quarter section Of valuable home
stead land, came to light when Regis
ter Roche and Receiver Mitchell Of
the local land Office rendered a de-
cisiOn awarding Michael Walsh the
contest. which entities him to pos
session Of n part Of what was once
the estate or Marcus DAILY, the Mon
tana mining king. The tract is one
of the most fertile in the state and is
easily worth $16.O00
The land, an hours ride from Los
angeles, is at Homby Junction on the
Southern Pacific and on the line Of
the state highway leading from this
tcity. How others who have long been
watching this section should have
failed to seize the golden opportunity,
and how Walsh won it, in spite of the
fact that there was already a settler
in the tract, is a remarkable story.
There probably Will be q contest BY
the man who has lost the property.
but Walsh has won the first round OF
the battle, and possession IS nine
points Of the law, particularly when
1t Is backed UP by government land
officers auth orization.
Restored to Entry.
The land was withdrawn from ali
forms of public entry by proclama
ton or the president June IS, 1888,
and restored BY the same authority
June 8, 1915. The fact that it had
been restored by executive action
WAS published for five weeks in the
icO1umns OF the San Fernando Demo
Icrat, but no one CHANGED to see it.
There have recently been several hot
lily contested cases involving adjoin-
ling sections IF valuable land, but
this particular quarter-section was
mot attacked. because it was general
lily believed 1T had not been restored
Ito entry and was still a part of the
Santa Barbara national forest re-
serve The records show that the
land was originally patented to wv.
| II. Hunter, February III, 1898, after
Marcus DAILY had traded it for lieu
land script and reconveyed to the
Limited states in 1899 Hunter later
got rid Of it by taking lieu land
script.
Through some means yet not clear
Nv understood, Michael Walsh got 2
''hunch' that the land was open to
entry, a1though there was nothing in
THE local land Office to show It. He
wrote the general land office in
washington, investing a two cent
postage stamp in the enterprise, and
was informed that the land was open
ito entry and had been since juno s.,
E1915. Since that timeait had been
Eri ght under the eyes Of eager home
4 Y vi Il X . Z .
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part Of the active lighting troops. and
another tar Is imposed 6n men Who
perform no military duty because 81
1ll-health or other reasons.
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FISH AND OYSTERS

You can get nice Fresh Fish, Little
Neck Clans. Oysters in the shell.
cans or any old way. I am -ha.ndlinE.
n nice Tile Fish. something new.
Smithy's restaurant, Pike street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
THE WAITE MURDERS

HE MURDERS to which Dr. Arthur Warren Waite
 fesses cold booded in the extreme, deliberate and horrid than the Haines murder in Trumbu
 Waite is evidently dope fiend at least exceedingly shaky did the committing must have lost al which pursued wide open He could possibly escaped detection and detection did immediately follow.
 in as the be sanity the law will be entirely of touch with the snonnena.
 jury will Waite, committed his was either They will be told that at the time of the but now, that snust be acquitted
 Here is n wide loop Ehoe escape homicide. the light of modern penalties enforced their reform society either the punishment the Acri1ninal ssst
 Doubtless cold boeded criminal who acts with sanity accompsh his deserves be punished than Ea weak minded person deserves punishment But protection society involved is necessary final.
 IA person commits for particular purpose, ircumsances. The may the further killings by the same, criminal.
 insane, or weak minded person. lacks the very self restraint Having killed he likely to kill He effective inhibition against
 Thus he arranged to be reasonably Ling insane one
 should for acqutta in like that 1 that Waite weakened having turned tiger should be treated like tigers removed from the world permanently ncareerated The verdict of acquittal for insanity should not be permitted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
THE HOUSE OF AsTOR

The founder of the fortunes of the house of Astor was John Jacob Astor, who was born in Waldorf, Germany, in 17s3, and died in New York. March 29, 1848, just sixty-eight years ago today. He came to America at the age of twenty and started his career as a, dealer in musical instruments. He soon em parked in the fur business, in which he made a large fortune, which was greatly increased by investments in New York real estate. At his death he left a fortune of 20,000.000. The first of the Astors married Sarah Todd of New York in 1785- She gave him six children. The eldest, Mag dalon, married the Rev. John Bristed, and has a number of descendants. The eldest son, John Jacob, did not mar ny. The second daughter, Eliza, married Count Rumpff, but had no children. The second son, William Backhouse, had six children, and his descendants include Vincent Astor, William Waldorf Astor, recently creat- ed a baron of the British peerage, and the Chan1ers, Careys, Van A1ens and Wilson's. Dorothea, the youngest of the original Astor's offspring, married Walter Langdon, and numerous de scendants have divided her share of the family fortune.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
STRIKES AGAINST CoNscRIP1IoN

DESCRIPTION the United States, during NJ War, brought the famous draft riots New York
 the hands of mob three days British opposition to scription reached such The strikes skilled aborers far threatening to the British They the price the ruling group pay neglect cusomed to neglect from their and help from their many they follow they low the government
 So far furnishing concerned the patriotic But after they had generously given bodies to the nation they found the commodities ing up while their remained relatively stationary They of the to which the working class contributing they witnessed with apprehension the adoption that the virtual destruction of their
 The British workman is patriotic any had education years and he doesn't intend that the privileged shall grow fat profits while grows high prices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
INTERSTATE CRIME

:" NE WALDO e. MORSE, who goriously takes the title NJ Councillor in the American Academy of Jurispru- with Illinois to bring Gary spiracy charges Ohio statute.
 The councillor complains that "a who physical ought not tobe tried state has never been.'
 Without considering the merit of the it that the of it if Judge voice is physical motion to do thing phys the thing according the order cal
 With Federal constitution state theY committed any the place congress shall direct
 eonspires New York kill in it to take him to Texas but the proceeding such inter- state ought to be
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
COUNT VON
 OBERNDORFF

The rumor that the Bulgarians are
 growing restless under the Teutonic
 domination, and are threatening a re-
 volt, gains color from the fact that
 the Kaiser has sent a, new minister to
 Sofia in the person of Count Alfred von
 Oberndorff. The Count is known as a forceful, dominating sort of diplomat,
 one who believes in and practices ''big stick'' methods rather than suave and indirect ways of gaining his ends Prior to his appointment to Sofia he represented the Kaiser at Christiana, where he was very unpopular because of his public and jubi1ant expressions of delight and approval of the sinking of the Lusitania. Count Alfred comes of an ancient Bavarian family but he
 has only small fortune of his own- Americans are the principal cOntribu-
 tors to his support, his wife is Q
 member of the Astor family and has large realty holdings and other in
 vestments on this side of the Atlantic. The Countess is the daughter of the late Margaret Laura Carey, the grand
 daughter of William Backhouse Astor, the second son of the original John Jacob Astor. Her father was Baron M. de SteNrs. a Dutch diplomat, who was divorced by the Astor heiress after she had given him three children, the eldest being the Countess von Obern- dorff. Baron de Steurs was given the custody of the children after the di- vorce, and his former wife married again. Her second husband, named
 zborowsky, called himself Count" but it has been alleged that he was not entitled to that prefix. The Coun- tess Margaret Eugenia Victorine von Oberndorm inherited a large fortune from her mother, who was sister of the late John Jacob Astor, father of
 Vincent Astor, and of William Wa1-
 dorf Astor, who was recently elevated to the British peerage.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
German Socialists and War

Early this year Dr. Karl Liebknecht, long one of the ablest leaders of the German Social Democracy, was ex- pel1ed from the Socialist party flor continuous gross Sinfractions of party discipline.'' According to American socialists who have correspondents in Switzerland and Holland, however, this action did not have the unquali-
 fled approval of the rank and filel It is said that hundreds of thousands of German Socialists are inclined to up hold Dr. Liebknecht in his bold stand. However, this may be, it seems cer- ta;n that one of the results of the war has been to cause breach in the Ger man Social Democracy which may never be bridged. It would seem that pr. Liebknecht's crime, for which he was read out of the party by those now in power, consisted in being a. socialist. At no time has he faltered in his allegiance to those principles which were accepted by all Socialists prior to the great conflict, but which have seemingly lost their hold on the majority. When Dr. Liebknecht ex- posed the alleged rKrupp plot to fo- ment war scares, only a few years ago, he was hailed as a hero by his com rades. In protesting against the inn position of contributions upon the Bel gians, and denouncing the massacre and footing of the Armenians by the
 
 upon himself the wrath of his fellows and he is now listed on the Reichstag rolls as a man without party.
 In his repeated attacks upon the war party and his opposition to the voting of further credits for military purposes ,Dr. Liebknecht has demon Strated that he has inherited the bold and revolutionary blood of his father Wilhelm Liebknecht, whose name oc- cupies a notable niche in the Social istic hall of fame. This is the nine tieth anniversary of the birth of the elder Liebknecht, who was born at Giessen on March 29, 1926, and died at Charlottenburg in 1900. Wilhelm Liebknecht received an excellent ed ucadon, and was student when the revolutionary uprisings of 1S48 en- listed his sympathies. He took a prominent part in the insurrection and was condemned to death by the Prus- sian authorities. He fled to Switzer- land and then to England, where he lived for some years and carried on his revolutionary propaganda. Ventur- ing to return to Germany he was i'm prisoned, but upon his release he was elected to the Reichstag. In company with Herr Rebel, he was again irnpris- oned, and spent two years in the for tress of Hubertsburg. He was later chosen to represent Berlin in the Reichstag, and was made the editor of NofWaerts, the principal Socialist newspaper of the empire. As jour nalist, parliamentarian and writer he stood on an equality with Marx, En- gels, LassaIle, Rebel and other leading German democrats, and from his stu dent days until his death in 1900 he was the uncompromising foe of the Hohenzo1Iern dynasty and the rnilitar- ists. His son, pr. Karl .Liebknecht. inherited much of his ability and. it would now seem, much of his ldogged determination.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
George Davis, Spitballer,
 Is Studying To Be Lawyer

George Davis. the Harvard strong man and spitbaIler of the Braves, will pass his twenty-sixth milestone today. He was born on March 29, 1890, in the village of Lancaster, N. Y, 10 miles east of Buffalo. Davis is a graduate of Williams College and of late has been a law student at Harvard. He has brain and brawn and 8 wicked and bafhing splitter that ought to make him one of the star hurlers of the Tener circuit. If the young college pitcher lives up to past promise, he should be a valuable factor in the somewhat problematical pitching strength of the Stallings outfit.
 Davis legal shingle will bear the name of George A. Davis, Jr., as he is the son of a former state senator of that name. From his youth he had two great passions-books and base ball. It was happy combination, for his fondness for reading and study might have made him 9 physical molly codd1e except that the lure of the diamond attracted him to the open and enabled him to realize the ideal of a soQnd mind in a sound body. At Williams College Davis was something of a grind but he struck a happy medium between books and baseball, and developed into a fine athlete It was his sensational work
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

as twirler at Williams that first at tracted the attention of the mogu1s of the professional game.
 While still student at Williams Davis received several major league offers, and in 1912 he signed with the baseball world on fire, for his record stood three lost to one game won. The Peerless, after a manner of speaking, leader of the High1anders turned the rah-rah twir1er over to Jersey City soon after the team returned from the Bermuda training trip in 1913, Davis having in the meantime taken to him self a wife. He didn't stay long with the Skeeters, but was transferred to Rochester, and late in 1913 Stallings purchased his release
 Davis was used as a relief pitcher by Stallings until early in September, 1914. The veterans of the staff were then on the ragged edge from too much toll, and it was probably with some misgivings that the Miracle Man dispatched the young collegian to the box in a game against the hard-hit- ting Phillies.
 Seldom in baseball history has a young and comparatively inexperienc- ed hur1er acquitted himself so we'll That game ranks among the games classics, for Davis triumphed over all the heavy artilIerists of the Quaker City team, and gained a place in the hall of fame by twirling a no-hit game He passed five men, and two others got to the initial bag on errors. but not a, man scored, and the final count was seven to nothing. After that success Davis was used oftener, with a good measure of success
 Last season Davis count stood three and three in the record of games won
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
STOCK MARKET

New York, March 29-Opening- Coppers, motors and some of the war issues were the features of today s early trading on the stock exchange at gains ranging from fractions to a point Initial dealings in Kenne- colt, Shattuck-Arizona, Reading and Erie comprised individual trades of 1000 to 1,500 shares, the rails show ing slight recessions. Federal Smelt- ing preferred lost a point and Mer- cantile Marine preferred showed fur ther heaviness. U. s. Steel was un- changed at the outset but subsequent Iy made slight headway, while Cruci- ble Steel forfeited all of it's rise. Specialties, with few exceptions, made further improvement later.
 Noon-Activity increased after the first hour, but trading was restricted to Marine preferred, Crucible, Ameri- can Locomotive, Anaconda and Good rich, while U. s. Steel and other sea- soned shares fell into comparative ob- scurity. Steel was strong, however,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

That pr. Liebknecht's bold stand has not, been without it's influence is shown by recent votes in the Reich stag In the first parliamentary test Dr. Liebknecht stood absolutely alone in voting against the war credits. Last December twenty-one Socialists voted against the credit, while twenty others abstaining from inviting. Thus it has come about that of the 110 Socialists in the Reichstag, only ffty-nine gave support to the government by a grant of supplies
 Dr. Liebknecht and his followers demand the complete establishment of Belgian independence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

The matter of style in dress is really up to every woman herself. If one wishes to be slender, to appear slender, let her con sider clothes. The woman who thinks she must have a suit or dress made to order be- cause she is stout will find an assortment of fashionable attire here which will cer- tainly please her. The garments are de signed and made with the stout woman in mind. The various figures have been plan ned for her. large shoulders, large hips, large bust. Remember, one may be stout and stylish.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
$500 to S16.50
Baby Carriages
 and Go Carts Opri71oc 1inoc on Exhihition
Second floor.
and Go Cart

The very latest designs and the most approved inventions for the littlest one, who is generally ruler of the family. The models for 1916 are made with perfectly constructed springs, quiet wheels with correct tires and very stylish as to lines and finish.
 Upholstering in satin cretonnes, Bed ford cord and light tan corduroy. The reversible gears make it possible for the mother or nurse to face the child while wheeling the carriage. Pr~ces to please all patrons.
 $500, $500 and $19.75 Very artistic designs, $22.00 to $35.OO
 Fourth floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

and 1ost-not a remarkable perform ance, on sooth, for a no-hit hero. But this is another year, and the Boston fans are hoping that Davis will de- velop into a star before the season ends. Yet there seems to be some thing in the Boston atmosphere un- favorable to the continued success of pitchers, as proved by the slumps of Bill James, Vean Gregg, Smoky Joe'
 Wood, and other twirling stars who have succumbed to the Boston jinx.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

rising E to s5 B before the partial reversal of the second hour. Strength of coppers was accounted for by re- ports that the French government had placed a large order for the metal in the market Reading was the only rail to manifest more than ordinary activity. but was under pressure as were Union Pacific and Erie Anglo French f1ves were active and strong. Other bonds were steady.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
STRENUOUS DISCIPLE

McGRATH for four secretary to Theodore aD Roosevelt has imbbed the colonels theory of fear part" He mixed it with in back a York saloon day, MT. Lghe emerged from the uitha otherwise badly banged McGrath Powers got 30 days each.
 standing by his secretary having great ability But the compliment diminished by the circumstance that took i'm Lighte.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

Responding to the popular demand that it do something Congress is work ing hard, dropping all possible legis- Iation into it's numerous and capacious pigeon holes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29
Fascinating China

A new pattern from over the water in Booths Silicon is very. attractive. This China is an excellent paste, the center of the plates of a clear white and the border a distinct and regular black and white stripe overlaid with tiny red and purple florets Very unique and artistic. In the assortment are:
 Salad and Fruit Bowls, Plates in three sizes. Bouillon Cups. Coffee and Tea Cups. Fruit and Cereal Saucers. Teapots, Sugar and Creams A Breakfast Set for tray.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-29

tive person to silence him. Admiral Bradley Fiske has been gagged He says His shouting I gagged" is heard from Maine to California His voceraons keep people awake nights The to have been placed by Secretary Daniels How must suffer- seeking to do its duty in those powerful jaws Swept by cyclones and
 moOns the gaguly struggles to keep back the daily
 flood of words in which the admiral dcries everything hat has with the military it's conduct but