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' Mhall Indifferent to oh which Advance* the Cause of Truth and Morality, or which Concerns ?OLUME 56 the Welfare of the Community In which we Live. LEWISBURG. WEST VIRGINIA. FRIDAY MORNING-. MAY 12, 1922 NUMBER 38 BLIZZARDS TRIAL \ concise description of what ? first federal troops found when fv entered the southern West rjtinia coal fields last September disperse the battling miners and ^ combined forces th'at opposed L, on the Logan county boarder k the feature of an otherwise Lolonons clay's testimony in Knit Court last Monday. Captain |,,i .1. Wilson, co,?nmande.r of die k: troops to enter the trouble ... ??ave the description as wit ks for the State in the trial of its that Willia^n Hlizzard was k|?v of ilrenSon. Testimony cf i other witnesses was mainly in rrofooralion of details of the lirli uiul limiting formerly told, btuin Wilson said he made it [ duty to learn what was in the mis of the miners, who, he de red. did not really know what [v -were lighting for. From the jnt of view of the regular ar,my leer he described the fighting as [co.mic opera war," but in relat j the activities of the company I commanded said he found Bliz |d highest in authority of the n hr met among the miners. ! long the other witnesses were utmit Creneral John H. Charnox, West Virginia, and a number of idents of towns close behind the fffuhir 15 mile line along which contending forccs met. laptnin Wilson said b'v reached jison with a company of 175 n September 2nd, and after Dwins out guards had confcr [ts with county officials and with ^zanl and other representatives lu- minors' union. He told the it lu* \v;is too busy to waste time |i anybody unless he were as ?il it whs tli'e "right party." He such assurance and Blizzard de vil if the captain and a squad men would accompany 'hi,m he ilil "bring the men down Xrom lint-" without bloodshed. i' lit*:rrd Blizzard give no orders said, but he saw tfhe result of u when he received the guns led in by the ,mirters, while zard told him the men on the nun to deliver up their arms.1 Zard tol dh'im the ,men on the wore organized in groups and jo was no one commander. \ his description of the "comic ra war." the officer said the frs went up in the hills after ikfast for an hour or two, cipe i for eomfabs or minor errands t up again and wasted thou ls of rounds of ammunition |e hitting nobody, der cross-examination th'e cap said Blizzard showed no an pisni toward the federal troops that "without him it would Mh'cii a ticklish job" to disarm leaking of his inquiries !>s t? causes of the disorder and at lf <f Ih'c men. Captain Wilson il was the general impression were "glad the game was up ?the federal troops "were coming Some of them said they would i been in I.ogan in three more ? l'lil from tile way it looked ?Jii it would have been three ^ before they advanced anolh They were obsessed, he with the thought that th'e lluijjs i.ogan were bent on destroy thi'ir homes and killing their and children, tind "thugs" (IiIimI was the predominant I along the line. When State s ?<\v asked who spread this >0}{anda" among the miners "n Wilson testified they got (,m their Unions.. Pamphlets '"harleston that he saw, eon ?I a good deal that was hn truth. expedition for salvaging the 11 "i a ;mh1 other ships that have to the hotto.in of the ocean in "st few years, will he under May 25th. The steamship Jy has been chartered by the IJ'iiii Salvaging company. N>.'itcs of gold that lies at the pi of the sea run into th'p mil <\ single passenger nlone de <1 *75.000 with the purser of ?uritnnia, while Madame An <le Page, wife of the medical 0v of the Belgian Red Cross, jnore than $100,000. ?roximately 70,000 men, wo* nul children arc homeless in sM>l>i and Louisiana as the of tin- Mississijypi river Hood f "lis number 10.000 are bc !''? sheltered and clothed by M <'.niss ;i u<l other organ iza it was utlicially announced, ("visions have been ,made to M" '(O.OOO persons who h'ave hulled ||K, refugee camps the f'Ot siiirl. 1'ly-oinht per cent of tlic land p:) 'v> nylion;i1 property. DOUBLE OUTRASE !? TEXAS. Three negroes were burned to death at the same stake at KirvinJ Texas, last Saturday by a mob of I 500 men following their alleged im-i plication in the criminal assault' and .murder of 17-year-old Eula Aw s ley, white girl, whose mutilat-j ed body was found there Tliurs da\ night. "Shap" Curry, the lirst negro burned, was taken from the cus-j tody of Freestone county ollicers as he was l>eing conveyed from Worthain to some point west. It is alleged that he confessed to the mob that he had assaulted and murdered the girl and that in his confession he implicated the two other negroes. .1. It. Yarney and Mose Jones. The mob divested the Sheriff1 of his keys to the Freestone county jail where Jones and Varney were being held as suspects. Hurrying to the jail, the mob unlocked the doors and took the two negroes in charge. All three negroes were then rushed to Kirvin, .the ho, me of the dead girl, and an iron stake driven into the ground on a squall square in the heart of the town. Wood was as cumulated and saturated with oil. Curry was burned first. Then Varney and Jones. There was some delay in burning the last two in as much as they steadfastly main tained their innocence. Third da gree methods failed to bring a con fession from them and they were finally cremated on the strength' of Curry's .testimony. After the third negro had been burned to a crisp, all three bodies were piled together and a mass of fuel and oij Hung over theju. This was ignited, the Haines soaring 25 to HO feet in the air. The mob rapidly dispersed and as day dawned there was only a few persons remaining to witness th'e aftermath of the triple cremation. BY WAY OF STOMACH. President Harding has sum.tnon cd fifteen of the lending railroad executives of t^'e country, it was announced at the executive oflices, to attend a dinner at the White House, May 20th, for the purpose of discussing the rate situation. It i.?^ understood that the President will ask the transportation chiefs to consider the possibility of ad justing freight rates downward as a voluntary matter, because the in terstate commerce conyuission jriqinbe.rship is said to have con cluded that it cannot legally com pel reductions to an extent satisfy thc sections of public and business sentiment. The administration, according ly, is said to have decided to resume i:gain the ^method of treating direct ly with the lailroad organizations J to consider what can be secured in the way of a satisfactory rate | policy. Similar conferences were iinl last summer and f;ill. i Two semi-judicial government | bodies have jurisdiction in railrond I regulation. The railroad labor j board, as well as the commerce commission, in the fixing of wajje rates which enter into operating expenses. President Harding, how ever. is said to have concluded, sis he did last fall, that the executive illicit be of some service in dealing with the problem, though not inter fering with the judicial standing of th'e two tribunals. MARRIED. Married in Washington. I). C. May 3. 1922, Virginia Pollock, of Huntington. W. Va., and James (i. Tilman, of Staunton, Virginia. The bride is a grand daughter of J. H. Pollock, near Alderson. They will reside at 207 K. Frederick St. Staunton, Virginia. On Wednesday. May 3, 1 922. at Asbury, W. Va., Mr. Willie P. Diem | and Miss (Virginia L. Hanger, were united in marriage by Rev. J. B. Grimes. This party was accompan ied by Messrs O. A. Mustain, Paul Kirby and Miss Mamie I)ic,m. Mr. Diem is a promising young man of Fort Spring and the bride is a daughter of Squire C. I>. Hanger, of Blaker Mills. We unite with the many friends of this very worthy couple, in wish ing them a long, happy and pros perous life together. A secret process for mnkinu cheap | or fertilizers lias been discovered,! imd Is intended for commercial use' nt the government's nitrate plants' at Muscle Shoals, Ala., W. 15. Mayo, j chief engineer for Henry Ford, told the Senate agricultural com mittee, when il began examination recently of the Kord modilied pro posal for purchase and lease of the Muscle Shoals properties. PRESBYTERIANS MEET When the 02nd general assem bly of the Presbyterian Church in the I'nited States, better known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, ?convenes in the First Presbyterian Church', of Charleston, on Thurs day morning. May 18. It will be the second general assembly of this Church that has met in the State of j West Virginia, and the lirst to be held in the synod of West Virginia. The (ieneral Assembly of 11)10 was held in l.ewisburg, but at that time l.ewisburg was a part of the Synod of Virginia, the Synod of West Vir ginia not having been erected until several years later. Each general assembly of this church is entirely separate from every general assem bly which precedes or follows, each one being dissolved when the docket has been cleared and ad journment of the linal session has been taken. During the few years of its his tory the synod of West Virginia has made rapid progress and occupies already a place in the front rank of the 17 synods of the assembly. In 1921 this synod was one of the two synods of the assembly to se cure pledges for the full quota ap portioned it for benevolences, in the every member canvass. Statistics presented to the gener al assembly of 1021, at St. Louis, Mo., showed that in the synod of West Virginia there are (Hi minis ters, two locentiates, 93 candidates for the ministry, 35X elders and 304 deacons. These statistics showed also, that during the year which' closed that the assembly there had been added to the church -1.131 members on profession of faith and 597 by certificates, giving a total churcli membership of 12,921, in cluding non-resident members. It ?is probable that reports to be sub inited to the general assembly next week will show the membership of the church has been increased by several hundred during the year just closed. ILLITERACY IN WEST YIBGIHIA Percentage of illiteracy in the State, G.4 per cent. Number illiterates 10 years old and over, 69,413. Native born illiterates, 43,573. Foreign born white illiterates, 14,548. Negro illiterates, 10,513 Male illiterates in State, 40,890. Female illiterates in state, 28,517. Illiterate males of voting age, 35,927. Females, voting agc,25,541. Rural illiteracy, GO, 155. Urban illiteracy, 9,258. lllitevarn In/ Counties. Pleasants, 21'.); Wirt. 240; Bitehie 219; Hampshire, 305; Calhoun, 37!); Upshur. 381; Doddridge, 388: .lack son. 398; Pendleton, 111; Morgan, 11 1; Tyler, 409; Monroe, 481; (Irani 499; (iiliner, 510; Hardy, 507; Web ster. 580; Lewis, 593; Summers, j i Wood. 070; Putnam, 710; Poca-j Ihontas, 720; Brooke, 720; ('.lay, 7 1 I; { I Harbour. 753; Tucker, 798: Miner id, 803; Nicholas, 8!?l ; Berkeley, 1952; Preston, <S8f>; Boone, 880; Tay I lor, 895; Mason, 912; Jefferson, 931, | Wyoming, 933; Wetzel, 952; Green brier, 977; Marshall, 1,013: Ran dolph, 1,017; Braxton, 1,120; Ohio, 1,218; Monongalia, 1,383; Wayne, 1,539: Lincoln, 1,501; Mingo, 2,094; Cabell. 2,333; Mercer, 2,344; Han cock, 2,845; Raleigh, 2,854; Har rison, 2,900; Marion. 2,933: Logan, 13,323; Favette,, 3390; Kanawha, 5 785; McDowell, 0,331. I m m ? W- VA, UNIVERSITY ALUMNI. General plans for Alumni Day at I West Virginia University, Saturday June 3rd, have been announced by I Senator Edgar B. Stewart, of Mor gantown, Chairman of the local committee on preparations for the ali^mni participation in comence men! exercises at the University I this year. The other members of this committee arc James B. More land, Mrs. James OfTutt Lakin, Mrs. J. M. Callahan and Joseph K. Buck hannon. Th'crc will ibe a short business session early Saturday afternoon, after which the alumni will attend the baseball game be tween the University and Grove City Saturday evening the University iradet band will give a concert from (5 to 7 o'clock. This will be follow ed by a buffet luncheon, general | "mix" and dance at Woman's Hall. The details of the whole program live been worked out in n unusually attractive .manner. Forty-five per cent of the popu lation in the United States inhab ited 11 per cent of the area of the United States. HONOR ASKED FOR ROWAN Tlit! Distinguished Service I iioss ?s being asked for the man who car ried the "Message to Garcia." The hero of Klbcrt Hubbard's fa mous story, which holds the world's record for circulation and transla tion into foreign language.; and whose name, by a trick of fate, but few can remember, while that of an insignificant Cuban insurgent gen eral has been immortalized by the title of the story, is Col. Andrew S. Mowan, I'. S. A., retired. Col. Uowan, (>o years of age, is now a resident oi' San Francisco. Me is a West Point graduate and served in the Army for Ml! years, retiring in I1M0 to engage in his torical writing. Col. Rowan's fr:?*nds in Californic feel that the man who. at the out break of the Spanish-American War in 185)8, took the "Message to Garcia," without asking where Gar cia was, or how he could be reach ed, who landed from an open boat at a dangerous and unfrequented spot on the Cuban coast, the first United States olliccr to reach Cuba after the declaration of war, fought his way into the interior until he reached General Garcia and deliv ered the message, should be given ofllcial recognition by his country. Henjce >.he\ have forwarded a recommendation to the War Depart Iment in Washington asking that it recommend to Congress that a dis tinguished Service Cross, the high est honor that the nation can be stow. be awarded Colonel Mowan Thus far, they point out. all that C.olonel liowan's exploit an Kihcrl ! Hubbard's account of it have done is to rescue Garcia's iityne from oh- 1 livion. I on the illrfated Lucitana, sunk by the Germans in May, 1915. The message to Garcia is a call to duty and has made Rowan famous. The message has been printed imore tynes and translated into more languages than any other thing ever written in the history of the world, excluding the Bible. MORGAN UNDER FIRE* Action of Governor E. F. Morgan in pardoning, unconditionally, Jack Nolle, a Wheeling murderer, from the State penitentiary at Mounds ville. lias raised a storm of criti cism in Wheeling. Attorney I). A. McKee. former prosecuting attorney of Ohio coun ty who pressed against Nolle a charge of lirst degree murder -for till' killing of f,ee "Hit/. Wheeling high school athlete in the fall of lliir>. virtually declared in a .state ment made pubile over his own sig nature. that Governor Morgan vio lated the law in pardoning Nolle without Nolle's application for pardon having been publisiied in this county. Prosecutor Carl G. Bachman de clared he had not been consulted about the Nolle pardon. Attorney Frank A. O'Brien, who defended Nolte in Ohio county criminal court, declared he had nothing to do with obtaining the pardon. Details of the Bit/, murder, for ten men on a, jury voted to hang Jack Nolle, were of a character not lit for public print. Col. Andrew S. Jlowun is ;i n:itive of West Virginia. having been horn in Monroe county, and is a son of the late Andrew Howan, of that county and a brother of John M. Howan, a lawyer of Union for years, but now of Charleston \V. Va. The message lo Garcia was written after supper one evening by the late Elbert Hubard, %\ho went down COST OF RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT, j It cost ,niore than $10,000,000 n day to run the Government of the I'nited States. The population is recorded at 110,000,000. This is I a fraction over 0 cents a day for j every man, woman and child, or | over $32.85 cents a year. Yet a ; large proportion of even 1he voters have no intelligent interest in -the running of the government. This does not include the cost of run ning the State Governments. COLLEGE PROFESSOR SHOT After threatening to shoot Dr. \Y. S. Cuvrcll, President of the t'niver university marshal, shot and killed i sity of South Carolina. IU*n Hale, Professor M. Goode Homes, of the faculty of the school of engineering nnd tiicn shot himself to death on hist Saturday. President Currell said that Marshal Hale enraged, i sisked a stenographer present t<>! leave, hegan shooting indiscrimatc - 1 ly about the treasurer's ollicc and j then shouting: "You are responsible | for this." pointed his pistol at the head <>f the President. NO EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE. Governor Morgan does not pro pose to assemble* the Legislature of West Virginia in extraordinary ses sion at an early date for the issu ance of additional millions of road bonds or for any other purpose, un less an emergency warranting such action .makes it imperative to call the lawmakers together, according to friends of the administration. The administration has no thought of an extra session ;it this time. it is said, for the follu'vmg reasons: First ? The regular h gislaiure meets next January. Second ? There is no speciiic in fcrn.atioii to impart to the legisla ture concerning the 'taxable values that would enable it to limit the tax levies of the State. Third ? The funds now in thci hands of the State Koad Commis-j sion are suflicicnt to enable that body to make substantial progress on the State's system of hard roads until the legislature assembles in regular session. Fourth ? The willingness of bond ing houses to enter into binding contracts to absorb future issues of road bonds at less than 5 per cent interest rate indicates their belief j that the presentt bond market will be maintained. Fifth' ? Issuance of bonds at this time means an increased tax rate, when there is a demand for de creased taxation. Sixth? -States and individuals' when given access to unlimited j itinds are apt to develop, conscious- 1 l\ or uncon.tciou.dy, an extravagant I attitude. ( Seventh-? Haste makes waste and! the development of the Stat*- road ? system should be continued pro- 1 gressively but not hastily. I While the Governor will make no j public statement in reference to the matter beyond the reiteration ' of what he said at Wheeling sO|mc weeks a?o, that he had no present intention of calling the Legislature in special session, members of the administration who have conferred with the executive says that the propaganda recently scattered ask ing for additional road bond issues has not convinced the Governor that the present situation is an qmergency within the meaning of of the constitution which confers upon him the preogrative of as sembling the Legislature. WOMEN IN ITALY. Now that Italy has temporarily settled her political difficulties by choosing a new premier, the wo men of this country arc preparing, to present her with a new prob lem. They have taken hope for their old demand for suffrage. For two years the hill presented by Mo* digliani. Socialist deputy, de.mand ing voles for the women of Italy, hsis been sleeping almost undis-j turbed in parliamentary (piarters. | The women of Italy now declare : .hat they have been patient more j than long enough and say that they will nt once organize ;i plan of act ion that will force parliament to j discuss a hill for national wrynan | suirragc. For this purpose they have called to Home one of their I most courageous leaders. Professors] Margherita Anona, of Milan, to con- 1 duct a conference of sull'rage lead-| ers. I EARLY DAYS !N CALIFORNIA. The wave of criminal activity which has swept over the larger cities of the country has extended to the California cattle ranges, and cattlemen throughout the State are organizing to battle a band of rust lers who have revived practices of the early West. At least such is the deduction made by F. F. Lcighton, attorney for the State Department of Agri culture, following disclosures at the trial of art alleged cattle thief in Visalia, when it was developed that one leather firm had purchased ?SI, 700 worth of hides from the "agents" of the rustlers. i'races of brands used by various cattle ranchers in California are said to have been discovered among the hides. One member of the band already has been convicted, another has confessed, and another is fac ing trial. One of the trio, "Syca more Mob," was arrested at a mo tion picture ranch by under sheriffs. From one cattle, man it i? learned that the cattle owners also are reverting to the practice of the old west "the law of the six-shoot er." The United States consumed 10, ."> IN. 1 ."? 1 ,001) pounds of sugar in 1021. Tills represents 28.4 per cent of world production. WE PAY AND RECEIVE. West Virginia contributed 8 per cent of the total revenues received by the Federal Government froim the States and obtained .1) peT cent of the total federal qrpendi lures made within the various States, ac cording to comparative figures ob tained for the fiscal year which ended last June 30. Total revenues received by th'e Federal Government from the 48 Stales of course, largely exceed the Federal expenditures made within ihe State*. the latter representing only about one-nflh of the former. For the liscal year 1JI2I, the reve nues received by tin Federal Gov crnincnt from the States totalled s,">,371,2."?0,7-ll, v. lule the Federal expenditures within the States totaled $1 ,G77,t>30,G79. An interesting feature of the com putative figures 's the fact that they show three-fourths of the States to be getting a higher percentage the total Federal expenditures among the States than the percent age of their individual coi;ir:bu tions to the total federal revenues. The diirerence, of course, Ls made up by the remaining 12 Stales which contribute a higher percent age to the total federal revenue than the percentage they rcceivc of the total amount of federal funds which are expended in the States. QUIN MORTON STRICKEN. Qnin Morton, one of the most widely known coal operators in th'e Stall* and in the Nation, is lying in St. I.ouke's Hospital, Chicago, recovering from a paralytic stroke. Holmes Morton, his son, who re turned Sunday from Chicago where he was at the bedside of his father for a week, reports that his father | is some better and that there are some hopes that he may be brought-. | home in a few weeks. He is in no immediate danger and has shown marked improvement difring the past few days. The elder Slortou ? was stricken about ten days ago i when he was in Chicago on a busi ness trip. The news of Mr. Morton's illness will be received with regret with his many friends in the State. He spent his early years in Greenbrier county. When he left the county several years ago, he entered the employment of a Coal Company at Turkey Knob, Fayette county. Since that ti,me he has been interested in many , mining projects in Kanawha and the lower part of Raleigh coun ty. He is, also, largely interested in th'e coal developments of West i e.rn Greenbrier county. His rise and progress in coal development, I after he left this county about thirty j years ago. was rapid. THREE BUILDINGS. The now St ilt' Capitol will be 1 ct .uiposcd of three i>uilding<?, ac | cording lo tentative plan*. i'be I main, or central building. fronting j on I in* Kanawha river, will prob ably house the I'-gisl iti\ e hulls, t!u- (ipvernor's olliees and one or two others. She plans proposed. ' Two buildings will Hank the cen tral part, if lii'e plans .mature, one j to he know.n as the Temple of Jus tice. housing- tin- Supreme Court land its library and the other would accouunodate Stale olliees. The material for the construction of the eapitol has not heen determ ined- There will he available for the construction approximately $9,500,000, including $0,500,000 ap ] propriation, insurance fro, in the old eapitol and the receipt of the sale I of its site. | CASH REGISTER HEAD DEAD* John II. Patterson, founder and chair, man of the hoard of directors j of the National Cash Register Com pany, Dayton, Ohio, died suddenly last Sunday aboard a train bound I for Atlantic City. | John Henry Patterson, who start ed life as a farm-hand near Dayton, Ohio, and established the biggest business of its kind in the world, on the land that he plowed as a boy, retired as president of the Nation al Cash Register Company on July 10, 1921. Upon retirement he was elected chairman of the board of directors, an honorary position. At the time of retirement, he was 77 years old, having been born on a farm December 13, I XII. Until a few years ago, in con nection with his brother, Mr. Pat terson was largely interested in coal lands in West Virginia. Nearly one-fourth of the land in Scotland has changed hands since the armistice, due to the changes in the owners' financial position brought about by the war.