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CLARKSBURG, W. VA., 'THURSDAY,. FEBRUARY 1 <?, mi .1
TURNS 02V THE;GAS
TO TAKE HER LIFE
Mrs. May is Beijeved to Have
Attempted to Commi t
Suicide.
?Mrs. l.izzlc May, wife of Walter I
May, a bartender at the Anex sa
loon, evidently attempted to end her
life late Tuesday afternoon in their
rooms In'the Jacobs building.
About.5 o'clock that evening oc
cupants. of the building discovered
that gaa was escaping in large
quantity in the building, and they
locate^ it In a room, where they
Ifcutld Mrs. May unconscious. It ap
pears she had turned on the gaB.
A physician was summoned and
treatment by him brought Mrs. May
to normal condition a fqw hours
iater. She is a patient In St. Mary's
hospital, where she bu? about fully
recovered from the effects of the
?36.
What led up to the act Is not
ltnowti. She is 22 years of age and
they have one'ctiild.
HOFF ARRESTED
Today at Salem and Jailed for.
Shooting Miss Ada
Barker.
iCharlcs HolT, who is said to have
accidentally shot Miss ld,a Barker In
the head yesterdny afternoon at Sa
lem, was arrested today and jailed
ou a warrant Fnvorn out by David
Gain, chief of police. A hearing bo
f?re Justice 11. B. Davis began ntj
2:30 o'clock in the afternoton. Miss,
Bhrker Is till living. The bullet was
located but not removed.
HOME RULE
Is lo lie <ilven Ireland Declares Urll
hli Premier. j
LONDON, Feb. 1">.?During a pre
liminary home rule debate in the
House of Commons today Premier
Asqulth reiterated the declaration
that the government's first task after
the1 veto of tlio bill is disposed of
would be to carry out the policy of
full self-government for Ireland.
Is Celebrated at the Funeral
of Master Thomas Ed
ward Carskadon.
High requiem angels- mass was>
celebrated Wednesday morning at
the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception when the last rites were
performed over the body ot little
Thomas Carskadon, son of Mrs.
Mollie Carskadon. The service was
bcautlTul and Impressive and It was
attended by a large number of the
friends of the family. The body
was placed In a grave a: the Holy
Cross cemetery. Numerous floral
tokens gave s'.lenfbut generous ex
pression ot 'the love In which the
little fellow was held.
Thomas Edward Carskadon was
born March S. 1907, In Wheeling,
and died there Sunday morning,
February 12, 1911. He was a so:i
of Lynn .!. Carskadon, now de
ceased, and Mollle Clancy Carska
don.
Among those Trom out or the city
who attended the funeral are John
Carskadon, of Keyscr; Mr. and Mrs.
P. J. Gavin, and Miss Gertrude
Gavin, of Wheeling; and Wliram H.!
Sherry, of. Huntington.
DAY IS SET
> '
For Ileariiij^s or Little Hoys on Charge
of Committing Hurglary.
Arrangement# have been made to
try the boys who' committed burglary
Sunday night at the Pike News Com
pany's htore before Justice, Samuel W,'
Gordon Thursday. A warrant was
.v.vorn outagainst the boys, whoso I
names are Clarence Everhart and
Ralph Wigner, Tuesday afternoon in ]
Justice Samuel \V. Gordon's court by
K. .\i. Williams, of the Pike News'
Cor^any. The boys are still in Jail'
awaiting tfy'lr trials.
isyviiiii:>:ts cm ax<;is.
AMiCVNT, N\ Y., F( b. ?Senator (
Roosevelt, an insurgent leader,
changed his vote today from Shepiwrd
to John D. Kernan for United States
senator. flthpr Insurgents followed
su'A. The twenty-tlfth ballot was tak
en. There was no election.
COMPLAINT IS FILED
ABOUT COAL RATES
Kairmont Coal Operators Are
Said to Receive Bet
ter Rates.
Cl.VOl.Ni.VATI, O., I'd,. 15.?-Alles
ing rate discrimination by railroads
leading from the soft coal Holds of
West Virginia and western Pennsyl
vania, two petitions ror a readjust
ment will ho Hied with the Interstate.
Commerce Commission at Washington
today on behalf of the mine operators
of the Pittsburg district and the C?oul
Producers Association. <?f Connells
ville, Pa. It Is asserted in the peti
tion* that tin- roads have given pref
erential rates to the mine operators
and coke producers of the Fairmont,
Kanawha, New River and Pocahontas
districts. John \V. Uoileau. .oif Pitts
burg. appears as one complainant, and
the Coke Producers Association Is the
other complainant.
ENLISTMENT
Of Three Men in the Army l?c|?onils
Upon Final liMiininiitlou -Monday.
Sergeant Cameroy Herbert o? the
loial recruiting station has three
m. 11 awaiting linal examination by
l ieutenant C. K. Sn-artz, who will
arrive here from Parkersburg Mon
day morning. The men are Krtle
ll? Sutton and Walter A. Yeager,
?; ;li of Westun, and Clyde C. Sayers.
oif Tylersburg, Pa. Sutton desires
'> inter .he cavalry service of the
i-rmy suiil the other two are appli
cants for enlistment in the Infantry.
anOAGO <? HA IN' .MAKKKT,
?OHliaWK). Fflj. 1 5.?iVVhettt, ?1 3-fc;
torn, lg 1-2; oats, 31 3-8.
President is Astonished at
the Idea Advanced by
Champ Clark.
MOST UNFORTUNATE
Is What Taft Says About
What Democratic Leader
Said.
WASH't.VC.Tax, Fob. 13.?president
Tuft expressed astonishment today
that Representative Clark In his reci
procity speech yesterday. Infected tht
thought of annexation of Canada.
"It la meet unfortunate," said the
President. "The administration has
no such thought."
In the Senate the McCaii bill was
si; nt to the finance committee.
The House voted to increase the
salary of the chieif justice of the su
preme court from JlH.SOO.to J15.000.
and the salaries of the associate Judges
from $12,500 to }H,000.
Are Elected at a State Meeting
of the Anti-Tuberculor
sis Society.
CHARLESTON, Feb. Ju.?Import
ant business was transacted at a
state meeting of the Anti-Tuberculo
sis Society. The following officers
were elected:
President?Dr. M. V. Godby, Char
leston.
Vice President?First Congression
al district, C. O. Henry, Fairmont;
Second, Harry Fisher, Keyser; Third,
Mrs. Malcolm Jackson, Charleston;
Fourth, C. C. Sliowaltcr, Parkers
burg; Fifth, H. 0.-Hatfield, Eckman.
Secretary?Dr. Irene Bullard, Char
leston.
Treasurer?Alex Forman, Morgan
town.
Coirtmittete chairmanships, finance,
Alex Forman, education ntri puyic
ity, and press literature, Miss Irma
Slike, Charleston; legislature and en
forcement of laws, J. \V. McDonald,
Fairmont; lectures and public meet
ings, Dr. Wingerter, Wheeling; ex
hibits, Dr. Harriet B. Jones, Wheel
ing; factories, mines and workshops.
J. W. Paul, Pnrkersburg; hospitals,
sanitariums and dispensary, I/. V.
Cifltamings, Hinton; work among col
ored. the Rev. S. P. West, Clarksburg.
WOMAN AltKESTED.
S'PKinuCNiVil'lJL.E, O., Frill. 15?Mrs.
James .Mitchell was arrested today
charged with smuggling eighteen saws
to her hutl'.iand, conllnod in the coun
ty Jnil as one of the robbers of the
l'.cr?Hank at McKeesport, Pa.,
in January.
New Aero Iceboat Travels at
Speed of Seventy Miles an Hour
Photo Copyright by American Prune Association.
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WHEN American^ sturt to go any place they usually want to go In *
hurry. Speed is one of (he great considerations In all methods of
travel. Tills element Is one of the characteristics of the aero ice
boat invented by Charles J. Swain of Philadelphia. He has his
cm ft, which he has named Doodang, at Saranac lake, Xew Vork, and he has
been traveling over the frozen surface of that body of water-at fifty, sixty
antl even seventy miles an hour. The Doodang Is merely an automobile
mounted on skids instead of on wheels, sand It Is driven through the air by a
propeller very much like those used on aeroplanes. The propeller Is attached
lo a shaft which passes over the head of the chauffeur of the Iceboat The
engine that drives the craft has six cylinder* and can develop nitty or seventy,
five horsepower. When going at full speed Mr. 8w?ln says the craft will leap;
over holes In the lee and that rough places do not bother him materially. Tb?
Doodang is steered by means 'of n wheel which controls the front'runners up
tin.' wheel of an auto controls the front -wheels. ? .
ON THE COAST
Man Remembered Here Has
An Interesting and Long
Career.
Folio wins Is nn Interesting sketch
appearing In the Lus Angeles Sun
iay Times of a gentletaran, well
ciown here and a resident of
Claiko'.iurg shortly after the Civil
.var, w*ho3e death occurred In Los
Atfgtlea recently:
Captain of Indus.ry, Industrial and
commercial soldier ot fortune, pi
oneer in tho hewing of civic and po
I tlcal history In half a dozen west
ern states, founder of cities and of
e'ruat industrlfs, far-seeing prophet
)f the prosperity to follow, the trail
:o the great Southwest, there are
fow, oven of his business associates,
who realize all the loss means liy the
.leath in Los Angeles, a few days
igo, of Samuel Wilson Little.
ITp to (he very end of tils 29 years
of life Ills career was crowded to its
imlt with variety and vicissitudes
mch as seldom (all to the lot even
>f wanderers. His" own Influence
ind that of his assoc'ates was one ,
hat made Itself felt In a dozen
<tatcs and In territory most potentl
Uy rich in possibilities of any In
he country. The fortune that lie
left, large as It was, is inconsider
able Jn comparison to that which, at
)ne time and another, ho turned
Into channols or usefulness.
lUcli and INior Often.
A dozen times In hh life Little
knew allliienco and poverty to fol
low close upon 6uch otlier's heels.
He made fortune^ rapidly and spent
tliemi with no less speed In the de
velopment or great enterprises. Of
a large perspective, tilmself, ho ha
bitually dealt In big things. AVhen
a journeyman t'nmilth 011 a knocked
together rait on the Mississippi, he
was dreaming in terms of town
_:t?3. Stranded and flat Ibroke in
Cincinnati, with the wreck of hlB
glass manufacturing plant tuinlbllng
about h's ears, he merely cliuoke'led
it his less optimistic ipartner In tho
enterprise and told lijni to come on
to another place.
With that ?tartner, the late I). B.
Alexander, also of tills city. Little
spent practically all his life. A
stranger pair could scarcely be im
iglnod. Diametrically opposed in
every Hi In ? that makes up termpera
ment and constitution, they were
nevertheless *6 essential to oub an
other that nelMier could make a
success of nn enterprise without tile
other. Thny did not "get on" to
gether. but so much more conspicu
ous was their failure to get 011
separately that they were never
mpart for any length ot time during
their business caroers. Time and
again they separated, one or the
other buying out tho interests of the
other In some enterprise and, as
Dften, their Individual failures would
drive them together again.
Ill-Mutehrd Partners.
Little was bold, Alexander cau
tious. Little was aggressive, Alex
ander conservative. Little smashed
things, Alexander picked up the J
pieces. Little upset the apple cart if'
it was in his ,way, Alexander would
walk far around to avoid It. Little
would rove and wander In searoli of
the dollar, Alexander would insist on
staying in one place. Alone, Litt'.e
failed because of his ultra-vigorous
methods, and Alexander because of
his too great conservatism. To
gether they succeeded chiefly, ap
parently, Hiocause eaoh was a chock
on the other and complementary to
him.
Perhaps the greatest individual
stroke of their caroers was that by
which they founded a city and, in
cidentally, went broke doing It.
i'L<jter( when their predictions as t<?
their pet townslte came true, they
reaped the reward of their foresight
|?or rather. Little's foresight?ibut,
I there was a long time lietween.
I fllhey were running a little tin
jSliop at Greencaatle, ind.. at the
? time. Alexander generally stayed at
,honieytfiid minded the shop, Little
was lisnally out drumming uip husl
nea? and keeping Ills ears and cyos
opeft. A good deal of his time was
spent at the little hotel talking with
: people from the outside world, toofc
ung out "for bigger chances.
| One day he overheard a few scraps
of, a conversation between two rail
road men from Chicago, stranded at
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[Number Ones Are Raised
from Forty to Fifty
Dollars.
TWOS ALSO RAISED
Threes Remain as at Pres
ent?Other Business
Done.
CiIAKUEKrO.N\ Fol>. The Sen
ate today passed a bill rulsliig teach
eri' salaries as fololivr:
N'umber ones from J10 to,J50, num
ber-twos from $85 to J40 anil ntrmibo
threes remaining at $30.
A bill was also Introduced author
ising Increased levies for school pur*
poses. ,
The House concurred In the Seriate
amendments to a bill appropriating
$40,000 tor a state tuberculosis tunl
tarlumand the bill will go to the gov
ernor.
A resolution asking members . of
!ongress to favor the reciprocal agree
ment made with Canada, was adopt
ed.by a vote of twenty-two to eight.
The Senate passed bills Increasing
the. salaries of county superintendent*
abO reducing druggists' licenses' from
*25-to J2.
'AJter various efforts to amend and
kill the Jim Crow cur -Dill In the House
the bill wis ordered to Its third read
ing.
WINNER
Of Game at Parkersburg ic
Clarksburg Bowling
Team.
Olarkibsunj bowlers defeated the
MicComilck-qjmden five rit Parkers
burg Tuesday night. The ofliclul
scores were:
Two-Mcii Match.
Sllcott 100 108? 334
Stephenson 107 121? 288
rett>- US
Dretfbach Hi
287
Hlg Ouno.
Cliirluluirg?
Hartlett 132 158
Drake lf.G 161
Carson 144 147
Lieechmnn . ..
Fatty 203 1S?
DreBbat'h ... 172 >201
777
I'lirkcrMburg?
Sllcott 130
Dutton 100
Kennedy .... 152
Hastlnns .... 147
Camden 105
703
333 289 022
105? 307
105? 310
?330 017
170? 4,58
149? 400
? 261
105? 105
106? 55S
184? .W7
851 S34 2405
160 142? 447
17!t 175? 511
144 170? 400
139 142? 428
.154 175? 1?4
782 804 234'J
BinER RIVALS j
Are to Engage in a Basketball i
Game Here Next Sat- j
urday Night.
.
Saturday night at the armory 111
Glen Elk. tho local 'High school j
^basketball team will play the Fair
mont team.
Tills Is the first fcamo scheduled!
?for the year, and will l>e a fast one.'
The local team considers this thej
hardest game of the season, because
the teams have been bitter rivals for,
years. Last year the local team de
feated Fairmont on Its own'
Itoor. and tho Falrniontors have
been waiting eagerly to get hack at
them. Fairmont has won live out
or six games this season, and Is in
the lead for the pennant,
Tho home team expects to win out
both here and at Fairmont. During
tho week Coaoh, Reeves has been
putting the men through somo fast
work, with good results. The line
up Is not fully decided" upon, but the
flayers that now seem eligible are:
Oarrett C., Williams R. F., Hugill
or Hefner L. F., Jac:/bs R. G. and
[Harrison L. G.
I The game will- l>e .called promptly
at S p. m. and 2p cents admission
will be charged.
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TO ASK .FX>R WRIT.
' ? * ?it
Counsel for Charies I^ewis, mer
chant, sentenced to servo six years In
the .penitentiary'for the theft of wool,
| will apply at once to th4 state ?u
| preme court for n. writ nt error.
EXPERT TYPIST IN
A DEMONSTRATION 1
Succum'bs to Pneumonia
Fever of Only a Week's
Duration.
Soleu S. Cork died at the home of
his 1:10: her, Mrs. Julia A. Cork, on1
Davlshon's run, at 6:20 o'clock Wed
nesday morning. Death resulted
from pneumonia .fever of only eight
days' duration.
-Mr. "Cork was a ein of the late Lee
Cork. He was employed a number
?f years as butcher for the Central
Meat Market, operated by John P.
GAndy. lie had many Tr ends who!
learn of his death with .sadness. j
Resides his mother foiir brothers, |
tlirco sisters and a large nuirfber of
relatives survive. The brothers!
are llayden, James, Frederick and:
Harry Cork" and. the sisters Mrs.
Daisy beison. Mrs. Walter Bartlott
and Airs. Harry Mitoliell.
The funeral will be held. Friday,
afternoon at 2:30 o'chxsk kt the re3-|
iden.ee on the West Mlitortl turn-!
pike. Burial will be .la the family
cemetery. . j
Cuts Into Clothing Store and
Steal's Pennies from the
?Cash Register. ,
A burglar broko Into the renrurj
Godfrey's ciothlng store on West)
Piko street sometime Tuesday ntehtl
or Wednesday morning and stole j
about $1J50 in pennius from the cash i
register. Nothing else was taken so
far as kuown.
Tho storo is opposite the postof
fice and is the one 'formerly con
ducted ,1>y Jacob Ulocli., Entrance
was effected by cutting a hole In the
rear door, lifting a latch and re
moving two lioltif.
The police department was notified
when the burglary was discovered
and memibers of the department arc
now working on the case.
MIH'K PIN LKAUCjg
A meeting of duck pin experts will,
bo held at the Gore bowling alloys to-'
night at 8 o'clock to form the City j
Duck Pin league. All duck' pin play-1
ers'are Invited to attend.
On Typewriter Makes an Ex- '
cellenit Record of Speed
and Accuracy.
At a typewriter demqnMviulon held
at the West Virginia. iitisitYasn College
In tho Foriflyce ibullding on West Pike
"treot Wednesday mornlrig, Ml88 Erm?.
Kicr. an expert typist, gave an Inter
esting exhibition of speed and aceu- '
racy on the machine, writing at the s
rate of from 73 to 180 words a minute
while -maintaining absolute, accuracy.
Tho demonstration wits preceded
n;lth a talk by Frank M. ttvans, secre
tary of: the Smith-Premier Typewriter
Company, of Syracuse, N. Y., who
stated thnt one purpose of tho demon
stration was- to show the results thut
could he attained by perslBtent and;
intelligent effort, as well as the ra
pidity and reliability of tho machine.
He told the students that it was pos
sible for each of them "to attain ih<>
same degree 04 proficiency. He s'poloi
of the Importance ' Of punctuation..
spelling and other 'details pertaining 'I
to a utslness education, and said that
to succeed In business one must pos
sess good health, honesty, ablljty. In- '
illative, thorough knowledge of the
business one Is engaged In. tact, sin
cerlty, openmlnde.dness, Industry and
enthusiasm. ?
In makins the demonstration Miss
Ivier .flm copied unfamiliar matter
from a magazine for one minute, i
Ing a speed of 7:i words on the flr
test and 77 on the socond. The mat- ?
ter was quite difficult, containing a'.^J
nuiiiibor of long and difficult words.
Mt. Evans then dictated albout two
hundred words, of wl\lch she copied/
the tollowlng In one jMlitUth:
"We have come to this school today' 'M
to show the students how to write '
fust and at the same time to do much
Rood work an all must do to get and
to hold agood platjtjS Yooi will see
that Miss Kler holds her hinds over i
and near the keys atfB strikes them in
even time the . same as She would If ? '
she were striding tho keys of a piano, .
In this ug? or the business world the '
demand Is for, the 'hept In all lines of
work tind if. you do'your best while,
you arc In this school you will be able
to do your tiest when you take a
place." f ' 1 '
Miss Kler also wrote, the following
speed coutencc: "It Jn the duty of the
mi.n to do me a turn, arid it he can do
so he may," at tho rate of 180 words
a minute. ' Mr. Evans called attention
to the fact that .Miss Kler In her
training had been Impressed always'
with the Importance of accuracy, and
had never practiced merely for speed.
To demonstrate the Importance of
concentration he blindfolded the young
lady during orfc of the tests?but with- ...
out succeeding In distracting her at- ^
terition Worn her work,
(About one hundred witnessed the
demonstration Including the students.
POPE IS Oilu
. JiCJtME/ Feb.15.?(The Pop?
bit influenza. Audiences hjjiyo
suspended- He remmn<^l?18sB
convict m
PALMER IS BURNED
IN GAS EXPLvziuiv
County Court Grants Licenses
to Twenty-Two Liquor
Dealers.
?<*
cmniiiif-'trosN'. Si>. is.?Charles
ton fell otr the water wagon last even
ing when license was issued by the
county court to tiwcnty-two retail and
four wholesale saloons. The . Kana
wha hotel was granted th? Jirst lieense
and others quickly followed. Song
and prayer service* w.crc held in the
court rooms during the noon hour by
tho anti-saloon peo-plc. Charleston
has been "dry" *ince July I, 100U. The
crowds were very orderly.
GUARD COMES
Front Moumlsville lo Titkc Negro
Kurblsli to INmiti'iitlury.
?While attempting to adjust Ml de
tached gas plp<* In a bed rbom In lit#
Elk Bridge saloon .building- on North
Fourth street at 7:50 oVIock Wednes
day morning, aim D. PaPmer, a tvpil'
bartender, was seriously burned .
in an explosion caused Tjy leaking '
iras and live electric wires coming in 1
contact and the wooden partition wns
.forced twelve inches out of pi.ice Is? ?**
the concussion. Fire started amMhe
window curtains and other articles
were burned before tho 'blaze was ex?
languished ,by a bucket brigade. ?
iMr. palmer was burned all over tlto ,
face. ncak and hands-but his eyeit es- j
civped injury. At thu time of the ex
plosion lie was .standing on a step lad- ;
der several steps above the floor, and
Was knocked off by the explosion.
The full extent of his'Injuries has
not heeh 1 fully determined. He WAS;
taken ,to his home In the I'*!fth ward.
?
ItU.V OVER HY AETO.
William Furbish, tho tiogro wlio
was condomnod to dontli here InMt
[ week for' attacking Miw Flora Ang
Un, a white woman, Saturday eve
ning, DccerrVlior 24 last, nearlWestou
was taken to the state penitenti
ary at Moundsvlllo Wednesday
night. * Churnhyitartlh, .a guard of
pie" prison, for him on
tiie Short Line1 .train that , arrfved
Wedneidiy moon ' ain4
I,OS A'.MCaaiJES, Calif., FCb. li.?
Airs. Mary Lotilso Snyder, wife of a
stove manufacturer of 3!ausllon, 0.t ?
wbb run over today hy an automobile,
while She was crossing a street. 3he
was fatally injured. She li; 59 y**?". ?
old.
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CHARLESTON WET
When Electric'
Escaping Gas
in Contact.