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OBCVLATIOX. J Daily Average K A J for Dec. 1916 J A Quality Newspaper tor the ESTABLISHED 1868. DREAM HIKl PRICF IIIMIIbV I I IlUb ft PETROLEUM Purchasing Agencies Post Price of $3.05 Per Barrel. 1!** Vv' * >V ALLOTHERGRADESUPTOO Much Oil Has Been Held in This State for the $3 Price. (By Associated Pres."' PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9?Tho long expected goal of the oil producer was reached and passed here today when at the opening o( the market It was announced that the principal purchasing agencies bad llttcd the price of Pennsylvania crude oil 10c a barrel to $3.05, the highest price In history. Other grades were advanced as follows: Mercer black, 8 cents to $2.40; Corning, 8 cents to $2.88; Cabell, 8 cents to $2.35; Somerset. 8 cents to $2.18, and Ragland,'3 cents to $1.00. .I JTheso are tho highest prices ever ^commanded by this grade of oil since -peculation In oil was stomped out by tho Standard Oil company and Its subsidiaries many years ago. They are due. refiners say, to the enormous demand for home consumption and the steadily Increasing demand from foreign countries. Producers have long been holding Ml iui 90.VU BC11111K umy us mucu US was absolutely necessary and It la now expected that they will market their holdings freely. Hundreds of thousands of barrels are saw to^bo above ground In West L,.It was1 also predicted that drilling would again bo actively resumed not only In new toh-itory but In old fields where veteran oil mob say that they have hopes of bringing In more paying DIVIDEND DECIMD Movement to Increase the Capital Stock Now Being Considered. - Twelvo thousand dollars iD dividends has been sent stockholders of the Fairmont Building and Loan as their annual dividend .>n stock In that concern. The dividend declared was 3J4 per cent, on the paid up stock atid 4 per cent, on the installment. There were 87 paid up stockholders and 1150 Instalment sharers. A meeting of tho stockholders will be called soon to consider having the capital stock of the company Incrcas, ed. The company Is capitalized for 8,000 shares and that number Is now practically exhaused and demands for stock continue to come in. : There will be a regular stockholders' meeting for tho olectton of a directing hoard on February G. Morglian Oil Co, to \ Develop its Leases N At the annual stockholders' meeling if the Morghan Oil and Oas company leld last night, steps were taken which wllh result In the Immediate development of the large leases held by the lompany lu the lower end of the state. The Company has two wells already completed near tVaverly and these will be put to pumping within the next ten days while other locations are being made. Smith Hood, Jr., manager and Dr. C. H. Nelll, president of the company, will be In Parkersburg and Marietta next wek in tbo interest of the company. HEALTH NOTICE 'There is. one case of infantile parlysis In the city- It is located on Carleton street. Eighth ward. The child's condition offers no hope for his recovery. Several children were oxposcd to the case and for this reason tho school ho attended has been closed. All children who attended the school must stay off .the street until 'She soiree of the contagion has not bo?i discovered The subsequent action of the Board of Health will bo determined entirolv bv dnvelomnrmts. -The bent things' to do to proven; your child from suffering if there Is ? spread of this disease Is, to keep the gjftwel* loose, keep the child on a care lul diet. Rpray the throat with llater l Jne. or Dobell's Solution and keep the ohtld drlnklng lots of water. |. BOARD OF HEALTH. Dy'DIt RAMAOE. TODAY'8 NEW8 TODAY OF OIL mi che ws BFFflBF HnilSF BIB ULI UIIL IIUUVIL Ullll I FOR HIS ACTIONS : Now Promises to Tell If the House Makes An Investigation. LEAK WAS SOOn IB i Prepared Traders for the Inevitable Crash He Declares. t By AflBOcln t c(l Prens? Washington, jan. 9.?continued I refusul of Thomas W. Lawson to an| swor categorical questions by the ' Houac rulea conunlttce. In the leak 1 inquiry today <aused the committee I to mitertalu a motion by Representative Bennett that he bo cited before I the bar of tho House for contempt. The I motion was held on the table for ac' tton I Mr. Lawson later promised the Houso Rules committee he would disclose the names of the cabinet offl! clals. tho Senator and the New York I banker whom he said a member of 1 Congress told him were engaged In a stock gambling partnership it tho House ordered an Investigation as a result of the Rules committee preliminary hearing. The line of examination then fumed to the stock exchange and Lawson's own operations particularly during thn mnnth of nopumltnr I OUT ?!<?? !(* > : which the "leak" occurred. Lawson , said that hud as the break on the ruar| knt was when the "leuk" came It. prob: ably would have been worse if there had been no "leak." "My opinion is that tho break was weeks in coming and that the "leak" gavo certain operators an opportunity j to prepare for, the crash." said Lawson. "They wore left in a position to know just what to do. It the market had broken without that preparaiton made possible by the "leak" the break would have been much rnoro disastrous to tho country. Wo don't have any bank or stock exchange failures accompanying this crash, so T think the "leak" wus really a good tiling in one way." Virgil I. Allen Dies in Clarksburg Virgil i. Allen, a resident of Center Point, Doddridge county, died today in St. Marys hospital in Clarksburg whore ho had been a patient for sev' eral days. He was formerly a student at the Normal school in this city and was well known. Mis wife who survives htm with two children, was formerly Miss Bird Meredith, a daughter of M. L. Meredith, of Meadowdale. ; near the city. The body will bo taken I to Center Point tomorrow where interj ment will he made. Funeral arrangej ments, however, have not been com| pletcd. ? INVENTED WORLD SERIES ORLANDO, Flu., Jail. !>.-William Chase Temple, credited with originating world's series liasehnll games, died today at his home at Winter Park. Flu., aged 55. .Mr. Temple owned the Pittsburgh National league in ! ! and 93. ? I City Hall Notes : Tho Street department will coniplete the connection between East Park avenue and the Speedway tomorrow. This will penult Fnlrinonters to ride in circles [or miles in the city withopt Butting off the paved road. All the city commissioners ieuve tonight tor various points in the United | States to inspect and learn all they can about bridges, bridge approaches and to enjoy a little outing besides. Tllcy ! will be accompanied by T. L. Burchinal. C. S. ltlggs. Shrewsbury Miller i and passlbty n lew others. David Deane has been appointed chief of police to sit at the desk while tho regular city police keep a lookout I for infantile paralysis and while Sod I'ltzcr chases drunks on Water street. Ilo will bo relieved from the position as soon aB Theodore Rolls finishes the Job of shipping oil to the pump station. The Weather ; West Vlrgliilu? f( <$ . Probably fair lo* night and Wodnos'^5, day not m u c h change In temner Local Readings F. P. Hall, Ob, Temperature at 8 a. m. today 47. oS$i ^3 " Yeaterday'g woa*-ther clear; tempI L erature, maximum ;i.; io?i:tn>im 27; precipitation none. Mliiiiii FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGIN MEN C' 1111.11, hhFI GEO. CARR DM1 WITH m1 White School is Closed by j Order ol' Health Authorities. MANY RUMORS AFLOAT There is But One Case a?d: No Others Are Under , Suspicion. A case of infantile paralysis devel-! ' oped in Fairmont this morning, George | t.arr. aged six years. o? 1021 Carcltou street, being the victim. Dr. C. L. 1 IJollnnd was the attending physician, 1 j pronounced It such and culled Dr. j Chesncy M. llumuge, oily physician, I ' who agreed with Dr. Holland's dlag- I ; nosis. As soon as it was ascertained I ! tor certain that the case was infan, tile paralysis, the White school was dismissed. Dora Carr, aged 11. a sisj.ler ol' the patient being at. the time in one of the classes. The school i will he closed until further notice. Several physicians in the city have requested Dr. ltnmago to close all the ] schools in the city but this, lie llguros. : Is not necessary at this time, j Carleton street and the section sur. rounding Hie home of the Carrs was | placed in quarantine this noon and will be I bus kept for sometime. The child will not recover the attending physicians think. Hut should he by ( the greatest fortune recover, the quarantine will last about eight weeks. Aftor the death of an infantile paraly- 1 sis victim the home iB quarantined f for three or four weeks. ( Little George Carr has been 111 since I lust .Saturday. He , did not attgjul . school yesterday or today. The 'entire ' upper part of the trunk of the body iB 1 paralyzed, tho child being able only 1 to breathe with the diaphragm, the ? muscles in the chest being useless. The hoy Is the son of Frank Carr. ' carpenter foreman for llolbert and 1 Spedden. A regular system has been outllaod ny which tne meinberB or the policy 1 department must patrol the section < in which the Carr's live to keep all ; children from ontorlng the limits. Any person over 10 years of age must lirst ' get permission from the policeman on ' duty under pain of arrest. There have been several rumors in 1 the city concerning the sproud of the disense. At noon today there were I supposed to be seven cases in the city.! This was not only not proven true but Iras been emphatically denied by j f all the physicians here. There is hut! i the one ease and no other even under i l suspicion. All efforts to prevent tlio 11 spread of the disease have been thus l far successful, the city authorities i working with the doctors in time to i 'keep all children awuy from the prcut- < I ises. I ' ( The Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the | I Monongahela railroad and the Moj nongnhelu Valley Traction company I stations will be closed to children under 1? years of age. All children that j attended the White school will have to I be kept In the house until the parents i are certain that there Is no chance for them to spread the disease. There, are cases of infantile paralysis at Grafton and at Klkins, the state authorities being In. charge of keep-'' i ing children front leaving both cities, i 1 CM SUPPLFHEBE ! AS COOS AS AOli; i Coal Operators So Agree at Annual Meeting Today. ( j Sixty coul operators, representing 1! tlio ontlre coal business In the Fairmont. district, arc in session in the , I Chamber of C'otnmorco rooms tills aft- , ornoon at the annual meeting of the i Central West Virginia Coal Operators' i Association . The meeting Is for the' I election of now officers autl directors 1 and various committees and boards ! ( who carry on the work of the usso-11 elation. ; t The question of car supply was (lis- ? cussed and it was agreed that (ho por-, > I contage of supply now being furnished , by the Baltimore and Ohio is equlta-1 t hie with that furnished the other divl-11 toons oi me system. The supply has, < 1 been averaging so per cent, since the ' first of the year and has one week run as high as S5. ~ ' * ! t WIFE MURDERER SENTENCED J OSSIPEE, X. H., Jan. 9.?Frederick , Small today was sentenced to be hang- > ed on January 16. 1918. for the murder 1 of his wife. Mrs. Florence A. Small, i at Mt. Vlow, on September 2R last ' i . ' - ,>J ' ist Virginia's Greatest Newsp ? JIA, TUESDAY EVENING 7 An no j.vv un rrissr sponsor for 1919 fligh School Sophomore; Class Made Selection This Morning. C. E. Hutchinson was chosen spon-j or for the sophomore class ot the j 'alrmout High school, which will be! he senior eluaa ot 1919, at u meeting ' it that class held this morning. This i? following out a custom which , raa been observed at the High school j or a number ot years, of having the 1 bird year class name a sponsor, this iponsor to serve as a guardian and ud Iser to the class through the remainler of the time up to Its graduation. The class chose Mr. Hutchinson ns , ts sponsor believing he represented i he klml of citizenship which would i lately guard the interests ot the class i hrough the years it remains as a body n the High school. Mr. Hutchinson s one of the prominent citizens ot the 1 lommimtty and Is active in the rcllgl-. lus. mural, civle and business life of he community. The class ot 1917 has as its sponsor V. Brooks.Fleming, Jr.. while the class if 191S chose E. B. Moore. germaTsteam rriifr imfs on IWkitatrll WVbV WIS' Desperate Fighting Reported in Valleys Leading to Interior Rumania BERLIN". Jan. 9.?Russians renewid tlioir attack yesterday on the northirn end of the Russo-Gallcian front tear the Gulf of Riga, today's report lays. Russian attacks on both sides >f the river A a were repulsed comiletely. ' Desperate fighting in the valleys ending into interior of oortherp Runania is reported iu today's war op 'ice communication. Notwithstanding letermined Russian resistance the ["outonic troops stortried defenses ou 30th sides of tno Kasino and Suchitzu ; ralioys. Field Marsha! von Mackenscn's ;roops have captured Rumanian town >f Galreaska uud taken more thuu 5,)0( prisoners. PARIS, Jan. it.?North ef the Oise iftor a lively bombardment last night he Germans attempted unsuccessfuly to raid u French trench north of libecourt. the war office announced oday. On the rest of the front calm irevalled during the night. < PETROGRAG Ja-. 9.?'The l!us-1 dans along .me sector of the front1 n Rumania have fallen hack without tindranco by the T-ih tonic forces to i tew positions along the line ot the ! hitna and Sereth rivev.s, the war of-1 'Ice announced today. On the hloldn-j .dan west frontier, attacks In the' 3ituz and Snehlt/a valleys st'o beattn off but the Rumanians were forced tack slightly in the Kasino valley. Farmer Ties Up a Dozen Towns 11 !> Associated I'] > CONNELESVILLE, Pa., Jan. 9?A; armor cutting down, n tree nt Iron 3ridge. four tniies from here, short] ircuited the high tension lines of the! iVest 1'cnn power plant and as a ro-i mlt a dozen or more towns in western 'cnnsvlvanla were without power for! tall' ait hour. Fred Mundor. 10, was jHdly injured in an explosion which nsaltod at the power Plant. Col, Cody's Life is Fast Ebbing Away (By Associated Press) DENVER, Jan. P. ? Col. William 2ody "Buffalo Bill" gradually waB trowing weaker today. Ills physician :liis morning predicted the. end within !4 hours. Col. Cody's system lias broken down, ho doctors said, and tood he partakes >r no lougcr prouucos lire lorcos. MYSTERY IN FARMER'S OEATH ! CLAY. W. Va.. Jan. 0.?Mystery sur ounds the finding of the body of Pres.on Tanner, a well-known farmer In he ashes of his home near Dink, Clay :ounty. lie Is known to have had tunic money in his home at the time ind the authorities arc working on the heory that he was murdered and his tome set on fire In an effort to cov:r tip the crime. THREE STEAMERS SUNK. LONDON. Jan. It?1The sinking of 3 itcamers of ISnlontri nationality, two if them vessels of more than 2,600 ons Is announced by Lloyd's shipping igency. They are the French steamsr Alpbonsc Consell. of 1691 tons, the British steamer, Lesbian of 2,666 tons ind the Japanese steamer Chinto Ma'U of 2,636 tons. A TOIW^ aper "JANUARY 9, 19177 ~ nnF Ri ? First Robin of 1917 Was Seen This Morning The first robin ot 1917 was seen ; this morning on tho Normal school i campus on Katrmont avenue by iMIss Elsie Wilson ot Locust avenue. The robin which "Doc" Shurtlcft bad trained to appear to him each New Years wook, and which always got Doc's name in the paper evidently died last summer. At all i. events ho has not turned up yet. j PAUL U i! KILLED III DHIOji Local B. & 0. Brakeman < Was Caught Under Wheels of Train. Paul Slieltmau, brakeman ut Ihe Baltimore and Ubio railroad, was run over and killed by a freight train at ( Barnesvllle,;ohio. at three o'clock this . morning. Both legs wero cut off. The , remains are being brought to the city this evening on Train No. 4 from Wheeling arriving here at 9: no p. m. | Sheltman was married, no children! and lived in the Monongahela Bank building flats on the East side. Mrs.I. Sheltman at the time of the accident was visiting in Bridgeport. O.. and ( was called to her husband who lived but a short time after being found , under the wheels of the car. Sheltman was found pinned under car iy members of the crew of .the train on which ho was braking, lie was sturted to the Bcllaire hospital , immediately hut was in such condi- I tlor. that he could not live. The man- . ncr in which Sheltman mot his death ' is unknown, at least no one at the local railroad ofilces could accouut. mWm NEEDED IN GUARD Blacksmiths Too Will Find Good Berths in Two , New Companies. 1 The Machine Gun company of the First Regiment will hold Its regular i drill at the armory this evening at t ieven o'clock. All the officers and men of the National Guard at Fairmont 1 are putting forth every effort to fill up this and the Headquarters company ' in order that the regiment may be rccoonUo.1 nt .. I u^uibvu **? ?* linn. focuu i i have been recognized by the War department but it la necessary to have nil the auxiliary troops as well us' the letter companies before tlio regiment us such can be accepted as a part of the federalized guard and the regimental officers recognized md paid under the new defense act. Men who are familiar with the handling of horses nnd mules are especially wanted for these new organizations as the Machine Gun company will have, when called into service, six/ :r.cn mules and four horses and the Headquarters company will have six-v teen horses. .Men who are good mechanics are also wanted and there is a place for n blacksmith In each company. The best time for a man wnc is contemplating joining a company to get in is when the company is being formed as everybody comes in on an even footing and has the same cnance to be appointed to one of the noncommissioned offices. Under the National Delensc act, these companies will bo required to meet for drill once n week and tlio men will be paid one dollar for each drill they attend. Vlfty dollars a year added to a man's regular income for an hour and a half's work one evening out cf the week comes in as a good bit ui help to most any 0110. All men who arc interested in Joining either of the nef companies should go to the armory on Jackson street tonight. The attention of the members of the Guard is alno called to the fact that they will he paid for any netv men they bring in. A. W. Snider's Funeral' to be Held Sunday? The funeral of A. W. Snider whose , death occurred on Sunday will take placo in the morning at eleven o'clock from St. John's church at Dasnetts- i vllle. Rev. C. E. Goodwin, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city of which church the deceased was a member will conduct the funeral services. Undertaker Eli Mus grave and Sons have charge 0f the interment. ULTIMATUM TO GREECE. < PIRAEUS. Jan. 9?The minister of ] Entente Lowers today banded to the I Greek government an ultimatum glv- I ing Greece 48 hours to comply with j the demands contained in note drawn . up by France, Great Britain and Rus- i sIb on December 3L i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE88. EALIZED munn rvrnnmro iinnrtL tAtnuiau AT NEW NORMAL Prominent Citizens Made Brief Congratulatory Addresses Today. representative men of the city ad-! Iressed the first chapel exercise held u the nce~ Normal school building this uurulng which enterlalnment w as at-1 ended by tho student body of the tchool and a large number of tho riends and patrons of the school. 1 I'rcsldcnt Joseph Hosier presided at , lie exercises this morning and Intro- i ' luced the speakers following the road-11 ng of the Hlblo and prayer by Mrs. N. It. C. Morrow, a member of the school, [acuity. The following men spolic briefly and I ntercstingly during tho morning; Mayor Anthony lJowou, Commission?rs Ira L Smith, A. L. Lehman und J. tValter Ilarnes, tho latter having at jne time been president of tho Fairnont Normal and is also an alumnus if the institution. Those gentlemen iffered congratulations to tho faculty, student body, and the state as well for he handsome structure the school is low occupying. Superintendent Otis 0. Wilson of , he city schools, and M. C. Lougli, who ilso at ono time presided at the head if this institution, also wade hrief congratulatory addresses. Charles W. ftobinsou also an alumuus. made a jriof and pleasing talk during the progress of the exercises. Following the chapel exercises the routine work of the school was taken up and will be continued until tlic close of school In June. The faculty ind student body as well are delighted with the now building and Its surroundings and will start off the work with renewed vigor. STILL ST SLAYER Of COLBERT GIRL Police, However, Cling to Theory That Lewis Was i Murderer. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. S. ? Alter lufistioninc a score of witnesses In an Dffort definitely to establish tile Identity of the murderer of Mazle Colbert In her apartments here on December 30 nnd the motive therefor. District Attorney Samuel P. Kotan tonight announced that nothing had been developed to cause him to change his opinion that Bernard \V. Lewis of Pittsburgh, was the girl's slayer. The police had considered the case virtually closed since Lewis commit-i led suicide last Thursday at a hotel in Atlantic City, contending that with other circumstantial evidence this act convinced them of his guilt. Relatives and friends of both Lewie and Miss Polbert, however, claimed that some of this evidence had been discounted by new Tacts and expressed the belief lhat the Pittsburghor hud no connection with the murder. Memeliers of the slain girl's family made a special appeal for a more thorough investigation and Mr. Rotan yesterday questioned Captain of Detectives Tate and virtually ell other detectives who havo been working on the mystery. Others examined Included olatlveB of Hiss Colbort, a police magistrate and several wealthy young nen known to have been friendly with Iter. The examination continued fot more than seven hours. Mr. Rotan said that in co-operation with the detective bureau he is working out several lines that have been Minimi ii)i huu mat inuy inruw sume ight on the mystery. He said there Is tome clothing stil to be Identified and ihat the police are trying to establish the. ownership of a nocktie found In the dead girl's apartments. , Relatives of Miss Colbert declared iast night* that the window shade cord found among Lewis' effects had been taken from the hotel room occupied by him in Philadelphia and had not been taken from the Colbert apartnents. They also claim that th<? marks m his hands were not made by teeth ib had been alleged by the police. Mayor Thomas B. Smith took a hand ' in the investigation yesterday. He invited newspaper representatives to a inference in his office and announc3d that ho would see that "Justice is ione in this case." jonu uoioeri, a nroiner 01 tnp neaa 5irl. declared that he la confident that Uswls did not kill his slater. His theory la that she was killed In a fight with i drunken lover. Germans Report Sinking of Transport (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Jan. 9?An official stateliest Issued today by the Ocrman admiralty announcing the sinking of a French armored cruiser Gaulols and Lhe British transport Ivernla. previous ly reported officially from Paris and Pondon says a German submarine on lanuary 8 tank/in vthie Mediterranean in armed and heavily laden transport steamer 0( about 6000 tona. TODAY SoB ] Clarksburg Representative Refuses to Talk About :|9 SOME LOCAL GUESSES I ???? ' v^asMi Figured That Useless Pipe Lines Could be' Used as Announcement that the Hope Natural Uas Company has entered the producora gau business on an enoromous scale, with millions of dollars of development in Marlon county, is expected by gas men following the purchase of 28,000 acres of gas coal In Barbour county in the name of H. C. Cooper, one of tbo Hopo officials located in Clarksburg, and several mysterious purchases in Marion coun iy recently, rno uuuuing or producer gas plants Ik expected to keep In opcr ntion the millions of dollars of equipment owned locally by the Hopo company. und which with the deplextlon of the natural supply rendered ntcIcbs for any Othor purpose. Mr Cooper, when talked to in Clark* burg this morning, refused' absolutely to talk for publication. "1 cannot say anything concerning the proposed producer gas development hy ray company, cither at largo or in Marlon county. Statements concerning that must come from J. B. Corrtns, head of tho company and located In Pittsburgh." said Mr. Cooper, It w/. Impossible to reach Mr. Corrlns today. , He did not deny, -however that his company was tlfe purchaser In his name of tho 2u,000 acres of Barbour ; county coal. \ j, The supply of natural gas for Industrial purposes lias beon so depleted that the gas operators are fearing legislative or othei public action pro liibltlng Its use for other than domes- ' tic purposes. They are also partlcu iurly afraid that action will be takoi; by the state prohibiting Its being pip cd beyond the state boundaries foi use in manufacturing plants of other utntoa It In nut lolna t lnn> nmr V. !*?mull ipUUilg IU1J Butu ? ictlon that the Hope Company will en:er the producer gas branch, it is be With the Hope concern as uroduccr gas makers local gas men figure thr jjlpa lines of the company coutd be us ed as reservoirs, oblivlatlng the necessity of building expensive storage (aL'llltlcs. It is estimated roughly that 100 miles of mains will hold 250 million cubic feet of gas when under pressure. The Hope mon are not the only ones of the big gas developers who are considering the building of producer plantB In the coal Holds of West Virginia and piping out the producer to to tho Pittsburgh and other industrial renters. According to reports In Charleston last week a representative or tho GulTey Interests In Pennsylvania is now at work on plans tbj. a big plant to be located In Pittsburgh. The Gulfey men own great tracts of West Virginia coal and will use it in the Pittsburgh plant, as Well as In plants which will bo built later inside the state llneB. -t , : /wj Keystone Troops Home From Bordei (By Aasocluted Press) S3 PITTSBU11GH, Jan. 9. ? The Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry made up of companies from the western Pennsylvania oil country, reached here today from El Paso, Texas. where it has been on duty since last July. The trains were stopped at a suburb lone enough to water horsea and the various companies were thon forwarded to their home stations. Officers said tlio men were in fine form but anxious to . FOR SALE I Corner lot Bellvlew addition. Terms reasonable. Answer R, West Virginian. '^8 ? ? . ? The Christmas 1. -tlH q?- ra-L _i ? savings V>IUD National Bank Is open for the enrollment ot 1*