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Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
To Clear Up Oil Titles.

Senator Wilson of Union county in troduced a bill which is designed to clear up oil and gas land titles by providing that leases must execute re- leases of the land to their lessors when they have failed to prefOrm the work specified in the lease, or when they in tend to let the leases elapse:
 The trip of the committee to the Bonneville Tuberculosis Sanitorium was reflected yesterday by the intro duction in the senate of three measures by Senator Latimer, carrying out the recommenda tions made by Senator Me Graw as Senate chairman of the com mittee during the morning session. Sen ator Latimer's measures in clude ap- propriations for the maintenance of the institution S15,OO0 for the construction of a road to the institution from oBone- ile, and S31.000 for the construction of additional cottages to take care of the long waiting list of patients.
 A measure introduced by Senator Townsend at the morning session changes the procedure in regulating the practice of medicine and surgery by providing fo ra board of examiners of seven physicians, none of whom are to be connected with medical colleges. who will pass upon all applications for admission to the profession. The board would have power to. revoke licenses of physicians for "quackery" and other causes.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
DOES NOT WANT
 EXECUTIONS
SENATOR OWENS OPPOSES FEA- TURF OF HOUSE PENITEN.
 TIARY MEASURE. .

4 determined effort to prevent the execution of criminals by contract with Pulaski county officials was made in the Senate yesterday ny Senator Owens of Pulaski county, who offered two amendments to the bill by Representa-. tive Gates which. in addition to abol- ishing the Penitentiary Commission, provides for the abolishment of the walls for the care and execution of condemned criminals by contract with Pulaski county officials.
 Senator Owens offered his first amendment yesterday morning to the Gates bill, which, no wis pending in tue Senate Committee on Penitentiary, to eliminate Pulaski county officials from the section of the bill which pro vides for the execution of criminals.
 The original bill contemplated send ing all criminals here for execution and provided for a S1 a day maintenance lee to be pdlu io IOA such time as condemned men were held in death cells here. and for S25 fee upon their execution by electroeution. Senator Owens declared that Pulaski county did not want to engage in the business of executing criminals under contract, and offered an amendment at the morning session which made it ille- gal for Pulaski county officials to enter into such d contract. During the after noon session Senator Owens offered an amendment striking the section from the bill Senator Caldwell also opops- cd the section, declaring that it was en- tirely against public policy to let out, by contract. the execution of criminals. All amendments. together with the bill were referred to the Committee on Pen itentiary.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
PROHI MEN PRO-
 TECTED BY U. s.
FEDERAL COURT RELEASES OFFI. GERS ACCUSED OF ARKANSAS
 COUNTY SHOOTING.

The long arm of the fedarl govern. ment again intervened yesterday to prevent state prosecution of Roy Ste gall and John Hopper. federal prohibi- tion officers. who last October shot and killed Cecil Lacotts and P. c. Capps, young farmers of Arkansas county and members of highly respected families.
 Sheriff Pollard of Arkansas county came to Little Rock yesterday and ar rested Hopper and stegall on charges of murder
 As soon as he received news of the arrests of the officers, June P. Wooten, United States district attorney, prompt ly filed application for a writ of ha- beas corpus before Judge Jacob Tiieber in United States District Court. The writ was as promptly granted by Judge Trieber and the two officers were re- leased from custody on S10O0 bonds. Hearing on the writ will be held in the federal court here February 1.
 Tn earrests of the two officers yes terday was the result of an indictment recently returned by the Grand Jury of the Southern District Circuit Court of Arkansas county.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
GOV. M'RAE
 SCORES MOB
ASKS LEGISLATURE TO PROVIDE FOR PUNISHMENT OF COW.
 ARDLY OFFICERS.

Characterizing the lynchina of John Henry Lowery, in Mississippi county, as conspicuous disgrace" and as serting that officers who will not pro tect their prisoners should be removed from authority, Governor McRae yes terday sent special message to the house insisting that bill to fix N- sponsibility in such cases he drafted and considered at an early date. The governors message follows:
 Mob violence is an assault, first upon law and order and constituted government, and second. upon the life of the individual but no amount of philosophizing upon this subject will he regarded by the mob when once formed. Mobs do not reason: they have nosense of justice, no respect for God or man. We must devise methods of averting surrender to the mob spirit officers who will not protect their prisoners should be removed from au- thority An officer who permits . prisoner to be taken from his custody by self-constitnted avengers, sn0ul D. made to suffer for their connivaDce. The attorney general of the state, or any prosecuting attorney of any dis trict. might be empowered to proceed against such offending sheriff or oth- CT officer and statute promoting this should be enacted by the present Gen eral Assembly.
 .The lynching in Mississippi county
 yesterday will stand ont az conspic-
 uous disgrace to our state ln this particular case there was no suspicion that the courts could not or would not act promptly and properly This in- stance is fairly typical of the useless ness of illegal execution. There is no need to debate. the horrible angles of this situation. which is a subject for sober reflection upon the part of citi- zens who believe in laws and order and 
 who condemn anarchy in any form. T insist that your honorable body address itself to an early consideration of bill to fix responsibility specifi. cally upon any officer who nseiecfs his duty to protect the life of his D p-isCner, making as part of the penalty, forfelt ure of his office. and giving the attor- ney general or any prosecuting attorney authority to institute such action as may be necessary in any county in the state, recognizing that local authorities are usually intimidated by uhs prospect of a vengeance which might be as read ily launched against an officer as against helpless. criminal Ff-soner.
 Gazette.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
Business Declining.

Many railroads are in bad financial condition" said Samuel o. Dunn, ad- ,isory counsel to the Association of Railway Executives today. This is due to decline in business and failure of the rates to earn the revenue expec- ted. Railroads. during September, Oc- tober and November 1920, when they did their heaviest business. failed to earn the large net returns expected.
 The roads have made reductions in their forces. made necessary by the de cline in business They are operating as economically as possible. and they find no way out except to reduce the payroll. The 1917 payrooll of $1,7O0,- 0O0.OQ0 is today increased to S3.7O0.-
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
Hope for Reduction.

The committees meeting is held in accordance with a resolution adopted by the association on January ', The resolution brings to the attention of all member roads the necessity to ob- serve all rates of pay and working conditions as now established by the United States Railroad Labor Board until the same are changed by orderly proeess't Meanwhile, the subject was referred ro the Labor Committee for early consideration and report as to appropriate action in accord with the transportation act and in keeping with changing economic conditions. The Labor Committee, besides Gen eral Atterbury, is composed of w. q. Besler president, of the Centarl Rail road of New Jersey; H. F. Byron. pres ident Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul c. H. Markham, president Illinois Cen tral: N. D. Maher. president Norfolk and Western. and w. k. Scottt, presi- dent Southern Pacific lines in Texas and Louisiana.
 Failure in increased rates to earn the expected revenue, decrease in business, the present large payroll and high op- erat ting expenses were given as the req sons for probable action before the
 
 Railroad Labor Board to cut wages.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
ALL QUIET AT MODENA.

Wilson. Jan. 27.-Reports today from Modena. near the scene of the lynch ing last night of Henry Lowery, negro for the killing of 0 T. Craig, q planter and his daughter. Mrs. Max Bell Will liamson, indicated that conditions ill that neighborhood had auieted And no further disorder was anticipated. Tel ephone messages from Blytheville and Marion where several negroes were in jail charged with having aided Lowery to escape from Arkansas after the kill ing of Craig and Mrs. Williamson. Christmas Day, also reported the situa. tion quiet and that no attempt had been made to modest the prisoners.
 All last night rumors were current that mobs were being formed to take the accused negroes from the Marion and Blytheville jails, but the night passed without disorder at either town. So persistent were the reports of plan ned mob violence against the negores at Blytheville that sthe sheriff barri- eaded the jail at midnight and depu- ti2ed a posse of 50 men to stand guard about heprison enclosure.
 LOwery was burned to death on the banks of the Mississippi river. about a mile from the Craig plantation, the  scene of the killing of the planter and his daughter who were shot to death when they attempted to quiet Lowery. a tenant farmer. who was creating n disturbance on the Craig plantation. Two sons of the planter also were wounded.-Gazette
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
TWO FOX CEASES.

k. E. (Bunk) billiard of Rosston, brother of County Clerk Algia Dillard, brought his famous fox hounds up last night and was joined by the usual bunch of Prescott hunters, who started out on a merry chase. The result was, the capture of big fox.
 The party returned to the city late in the night, but this morning at day break found them again on the "traif'' which ended up in the capture of an other fox.
 In the language of an old darky, we used to know, we say that Prescott has the out "huntenest". bunch of fellows in the state.
 Does your ad apear in the Daily Picayune.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28

OOO GOO. and as result many roads are in bad financial conditions. BefiH- ming with November there has been decline in business until the freight business is less than two-thir res what it was fhree months ago. Apparently, there is no way out except to reduce wages. Gazette.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28

Bob" Meador of Bluff City, was a caller at this office today. Bob" says things are getting ready for the 'oil shoot at his berg. which is scheduled for an early date.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28
BLUE LAW IS DEFEATED

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 27.-The State Senate today by vote of 25 to kill ed the pending Sunday blue law bill to prohibit Sunday newspapers and trains as we'll as Sunday amusements.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28

Joe Boswell returned from business trip to Little Rock on No. 233 last evening.
Daily picayune., 1921-01-28

Instead of once a week, the Picay- une will come to you 6 times . week.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28

recorded in Grccnbricd was admit
cd TO record last week. 1t is a decd
made under Il general plan of rcor-
Sanization of the e.. 4 o. Ry., and
providing Il mOrtagC of S30.000.-
900 on The property of the road. II
will be put to record i'll all the
counties III Virginia and West Nir-
ginia thru which the road runs.
The deed covers 80 printed pages.
Maj. ii. ii. Harrison is survey
ing for a narrow guagc road from
Mothers Switch to the Sandstone
quarters below Anderson.
Spencer Il. Hill 4 prominent citi-
zen of Anderson, died there a few
days ago in his 68th year.
Married: On Jan. 10, SO, at the
home Of John keiscr on Anthony's
Greek, by Rev. W. +. Quin, VIM.
r. Holly and Miss Joanna Holsap-
pie.
On Jan. 16, 80, at the home Of
John I. Scott. on An:honys Greek,
by Rev. w. +. Quin. j. Edward
Brown and Miss Ella J. Scott.
On January q, '89, at the home
Of Rev. Alex Cooper, in Lewisburg,
by Rev. ID. E. Fricrson. Capt. c. B.
Buster, Clerk of the County Court,
Of Grccnbrier, and Miss Martha
Washington Cooper.
Died: On January II, '89, at the
home of A. Nc. Beard in Renick's
Valley, Miss Flora Boicc. aged II
years.
On January u, 80, at her home
in Fort Spring district, Mrs. Susan
Coffman, widow Of Jonas CoHman,
aged 50 years. She was daughter
of Jacob Cart.
Mr.. Bob Carr, Capt. Bob Carr,
Major Bob Carr, then Col. Rob Carr
and the Independent will make it
Gen. Bob Carr. if Bob will tell us
what he is or with what party he
does now or proposes hereafter 10
affiliate, has been chosen President
of the Senate. Bob McEldowney,
of the Wctzel Democrat, thinks that
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays Bob is a Republican, on
Tuesday S, Thursday S, and Satur-
days Democrat and on Sundays
a Greenback Labor Man. Gazing
with admiration Of Bob sitting up
in the scat of the President and
cudgclins his brain. in the effort to
determine how he got there, Bro.
McEldowney shoots off this:
Twinkle, twinkle, Robert Carr,
How we wonder what you are.
Sitting in the chair so high
Catching motions on the fly.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
RULED KING IN SUCCESSION
Three Sisters Of Noble Family Who
Became the Favorites Of Grsat
French Monarch.

King Louis NV of France fell in
love with three sisters, one after the
other. the daughters of the marquis
or Nesle. The first was not beauty.
hut she was clever woman and a
good dresser. Her reign ended after
three years. when her younger sister
appeared. The kings devotion to the
first sister was secret until Louis.
after indulging too heavily in cham
pnSrc. paid n call upon his wife, who
was SO disguised by his condition that
she ordered him to leave her pres
eace. He was bitterly angered. and a
few days later he publicly acknowl-
edged his devotion to Nine. de Aiailly.
Her younger sister. Pauline. came
to the palace with the firm intent of
winning the king from her sister.
She did. but died suddenly shortly
after her success. Then the third
sister, Marie Anne. the young
widow of the marquis of Tournelle,
the most able. the most >unscrupulous
and the most beautiful of the family,
appeared. Nine. de In TOurnelle, in
love with young nobleman, refused
to listen to the king. Louis sent his
rival to war, but thS young man came
back wounded. and 4 hero. A young
woman Of great beauty was instructed
to WOO the kings rival, which she did
so effectively that his passionate let
tiers to her We're sent to the king. who
promptly showed them to Nine. dc lR
Tournelle.
This crafty plot was successful,
and the ambitious favorite,- after in
Sisting that her sister should be sent
away, was given an official place at
court and the title of the duchess of
ChateaurouS. -.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
HOW TO SAVE A BILLION.

AT The beginning of the great war
IN IVA the army and navy were
costing the American pcoulc about
5000, 100000 year.
They arc now costing approxi-
malely five times that amount, and
there will be no reduction in taxes
while these excessive military ex-
penditurcs continue. The taxpayers
who are clamoring, for relief might
as well make UP their minds to that
first as last.
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss. former A.
american member Of the Supreme
War Council. told the House Com
Inittce on Naval Affairs the other
day that "our present form Of civ
ilization cannot stand the great
strain Of military preparation much
longer" This is the opinion OF
practically every student of the
economic situation There is not
responsible statesman anywhere
in the world who does Aot know
1t TO be true. The protests against
The excessive ornaments beuueaih-
cd by the war are universal, yet no
effective measures arc taken any
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
BIG RANCHES ONLY MEMORY,
Progress Of Civilization Has Done
Away With the Picturesque Life
OF tho Old West.

The big horse ranches have virtual
~ gone ont of existence with the
passing of the LGny y in Montana.
says the Christian Science Monitor.
The big cattle ranch long since sue
cunibed 10 the onward march of the
sheep ranger and the wired fence, and
II was felt to- be only II matter of
time before the horse ranch would
follow suit
In this connection 1t is interesting
10 recall the circumstance that
though the horse was unknown on
H." American continent when the Span
iards arrived, prehistoric evidences of
the animal have been discovered in
both North and South America. The
Indians. who had dOmesticatcd the
llama, the alpaca, and the dog, knew
nothing Of the horse, and were aston
ished by the sight Of the strange and
unfamiliar animals which the newcom-
ers rode. Yet, with their introduc-
ton by the white races, horses which
escaped soon ran wild and fiourished
on the same ranges where their an
Client cousins had apparently lived,
showing how well the country was
suited to their needs. There ure
few ranches today in the West where
the rug In the principal room may he
the hide Of wild horse, found In
Nevada or In Arizona CANYONS.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28

where TO cope with this evil which
Is throttling industry and produc-
ton by the tcnlaclcs of taxation.
Gen. Bliss gave it as his personal
opinion TO the House committee
that he would not diSarm a single
American soldier or lay up a single
American ship until all the great
powers had come to an agreement
Tor the limitation of armament.
But how is the agreement TO be
reached unless somebody makes a
start?
The duty Of taking the initiative
plainly rests with the United States
; which has refused to ratify the
Treaty Of Versailles, refused TO Join
the League of Nations, and refused
10 assume any responsibility for
guaranteeing the peace Of the world
! The United States to-day is the most
disturbing element among the great
powers. Ii has no foreign policy
that anybody is capable Of under
Standing. This absence of policy
is naturally Interpreted as the pos
slDle prelude TO programme Of
imperialism which might prove as
grave menace as the ambitions of
Germany under the Hohenzollerns.
To make a bad matter still worse
the manner in which the Senate
dealt with the treaty of peace has
loft every Foreign Office in a state
OF bewildcrmcnt. No other coun-
try makes its foreign affairs a foot
Dali OF party politics. and ii is al
ready apparent that no Government
VIII hencefOrth care to enter into
negotiations with the United States
unless ii first receives assurances
mat the Senate will not add insult
to injury.
Congress has assumed the respon
sibility for the foreign policy of tho
united States and has undertaken
10 make the President a messenger
boy. In those circumstances the
least that Congress can do is to out
line Its general policies. Unless it
shows that it is willing TO approve
inc imitation of armament, il can
hardly expect other Governments TO
take the first step, which, so far as
lney were concerned, would be q
step in the dark.
II the American people want re-
ilcf from war taxation. the place 10
bcSln is with their own Congress,
winch has power to pass both the
borah resolution and the Walsh
resolution, the one paving the way
10 negotiations with Great Britain
ana Japan for fivc-ycar naval holi-
day and the other authorizing the
president to appoint an American
member of the League of Nations
committee on Disarmament. Unless
thls Is done war taxation will con-
linue in spite of The glib promises
Oh polltlclanS, and the American
people wi! have thrown away The
opportunity to save 81 .0O0, 00O, 900
a year which will otherwise ne
wasted on an ovcrgrown military
establishment for which the coun-
try has no Legitimate need.-Ncw
York World.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
OF Greenhrier County, West virnlnla,
Revised January I. 1910.

OF Greenhrier County, West virulnls
Revised January I, 1919.
Judge Circuit Courts. H. Sharp
Prosecuting Attorneys. M. Austin.
County Commissioners-Thos. W
Shields. President: J. o. McClung AND
e. W. Sydenstricker.
Circuit Cierk-W. F.. Richardson
County Clcrk-Paul C. Hogsett.
Sheriff.. l.. GRAPHICAL; Deputies
5: ii. Mcdowell, J. w. Miller and
w. r. Hunt.
Surveyor--Jnmes W. RAIDER.
deputy surveyor G. Lake White.
White SULPHUR.
Assessor-E 3. Miller: Deputies. q N,
on uMoId " .susAId " AZ .uIMI9
once deputy. w. Crickenberger.
House Of Oelegateu--J. g. Thurmond snd
A b: c. Bray.
State Senator's. s. Lewis. Oah
Hill. and H. G. V!ncell.
Superintendent of SchooIs-L. O.
Haynes. of SmOot.
justices OF tbs Peace ~.
hewisM5"sg ~ ni a,t, R. Burde.te and
Fort Spring District-P. II. McGrats
and J. w. Fink.
White Sulphur District IN. A. Beck
ner, Caldwell and n. Leo Harper,
White Sulphur.
Ealing Spring pt3tr1ct-P II. Booths
and w. p. McKeever
"hdams6urg Districts. w. Gilkeson
Meadow Bun Di.trict-O. D. Ruck,n.s
and Renick Osborns
blue Sulphur District. l.. Sawyer,
and a. M. McNeer.
Constables-
Lewisburg nistfct-M. II. Gn,esp.s apt
Brice A. Wade D'
Fort Spring District
irish Corner District
Failing Spring District-R L col,,Ds
williamsburg District
Meadow Blur Distfict--H. c. Heaster.
Rluo SULPHUR District
White Sulphur DISTRICT. Z. Ayrss.
and J. q. Forren.
Overseers of the Poor
Lewisburg Nstrict-I. n. Cuunineha1
Fort Spring District-H n Conman.
Irish Corner-C. b. Beckner.
Anthonys Creek District
Ahthorys Creek pistriesEW g. wa
hIMMng Spring Distrfet-J. r. BRIGHT.
WMiamsb1rB Diatrict-F. L. Waiiaca
Ss saiehds p,iH .sacsa39n nsa TorTss swy,.
commissioners o. Aecounts-Jobn VI.
Arhucs!e r. IN: Arbuckie. samusy
Pr1cs and A. NJ. TressAl.H u.
Tinnes o. Holding covr.s.
Cfrcnit Court ,ooayenes on the
Third Tuesday in January. Second
Tuesday in May. Second Tuesday n
September.
The County Ccnrt convenea on the Fin,
tuesday In each o. the months OF January,
September. October. November and De- De-.
Tuesdays in August. ~ ~ '''
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
Tho Calm lcyaf

have seen the sea dashed into fury
and tossed into spray, and It's grand
eur moves the soul of the dullest man:
bat remember It IS not the pillows.
bat the calm level Of the sea, from
which all heights and depths are
measured. When the storm has passed.
and the hour of calm settles on the
ocean. when the sunlight bathes its
silooth surface, then the astronomer
and the surveyor take the level from
which to measure terrestrial heights
and depths. When the emotion OF the
hour has subsidized, we shall find that
calm level Of public opinion below the
storm, from which The thoughts OF a
mighty people are atS be measured,
nna by which their fsaaf action viii be
observation-disclosures A. Garfield.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1921-01-28
LIST OF DEEDS.

Following is list Of the deeds
Admitted to record by Paul E.. Hog
>ett, Clerk of the Grccnbricr Coun-
" Court from Jan. nth to Jan. 17th
1920:
+. ii. Jarrett ct TN TO James Jar
rett for l36a and 40 sd. poles i'll
LewiSburg district.
Il. NJ. AyrcS ct IN to J. +. Paul
for 10a and sop and SO Of ll3 III
White Sulphur district.
J. $. Davis ct uX to J. T.. Paul for
1.3Ila in White Sulphur district.
r. +. Blake ii uX 10 J. l.. Paul FOR
interest in 443a in White Sulphur
district.
+. p. Sydcnstrickcr 1t ux to
Ronccvcrtc Realty Co.. for No. s at
Ronccvcrte.
Ronccvertc Realty Co, TO +. e..
Baker for No. s at Ronccvcrtc.
G. w. Bowen Ct uN to Maggie A..
Waits for 25a in Fort Spring dis
trici.
II. A. Murrill ct Tx to Maggie A.
Watts for Nos. 81, %. 93, and ZIG
in Fort Spring district.
c. H. Thompson to NJ. a. Watts
for Nos. 81, %. 80, 100, 1Ol, 1902.
1913, 1O4, l05. 1l2 i'll Fort Spring
district.
Geo. w. Hughart ct uX A. X. Cal
lison for No. II III Meadow Bluff
district