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WATER DESPITE
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i Serious Outbreak of Ty ?
phoid Fever at Dakota
Mine.
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People Persist in Using the
Water in Spite of the
Authorities.
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I Members of the state health board
who are spending some time in this
I county investigating the infantile parI
alysis situation and health conditions
generally report the existence of an
epidemic of typhoid fever at Dakota
j Mines a few miles down ihe river,
where some fourteen or fifteen cases
of typhoid fever are said to exist.
County officials have so iar failed
to cope with the situation and officials
* of the Jamison Coal company, which
company owns the Dakota mines, aski
ed that the state health authorities
take the situation in hand.
i Analysis of the water of several
^ springs used by the residents in thac
^ I thorn fr* hf?
milling 10WI1 U?IO Duunru
J impure and the springs have been
; closed and the residents forbidden to
!use water from them.
j In spite of the warning and the fact
that the springs were boarded up manypeople
persist in using the springs for
f their drinking water.
Several cases of the disease have
been traced to a woman who keeps a
boarding house at Dakota mines who
i was herself a victim of the disease.
The woman failed to consult a physician
and kept on her feet serving
meals to her boarders several of whom
developed the disease also.
Dr. Harold B. Wood, of the state
health department, is spending today
I , a-: Dakota mines. The officials of the
* . Jamison company are co-operating
with county and state health officials
lr, every way possible and will spare
no trouble or expense to bring about
a better condition at the down river
hamlet.
Dr. W. H. Weirich, of the state health
department, spent Saturday looking
into a whooping cough epidemic in
and near Shinnston. There are said to
be a large number of cases of the disease
in that section of the state.
Ull ADMITS
CMjEHUP
Ambassador Kuehlmann Sue I
, ceeds Foreign Minister
!* \ ... Zimmerman.
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(By Associated Press)
4ERUN, Aug. 6?Official announcei
Kent was made today that five ministers
of state Including Foreign Secretary
Zimmerman and four secretaries
of state including Finance Minister
Lentze and Interior Minister Von
Loebell had resigned their offices.
Dr. Richard Von Kuehlmann the German
ambassador to Turkey has been
appointed secretary for foreign affairs
in succession to Dr. Zimmerman.
[ KERENSKY READY
FIR AJIEW EFFORT
Constitutional Democrats
Agree to Work With Him
> for Russia.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 6. ?M. Kerensky's
cabinet is practically complete.
Tbe Constitutional Democrats have
agreed to participate and tbe list of
members who will form the new ministry
has been agreed on. However, as
regards several members the choice
M - was not definite as the candidates are
absent from Petrograd.
Alexander F. Kerensky becomes
rPremier and minister or war and ma* |
rlne in the new cabinet
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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thus
Patient Reached the Hospital
Before That Stage
Developed.
SERUM IS INJECTED
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Toys Arrive at Hospital and
the Little Patients are I
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Happy.
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Yesterday a case, ot infantile para
lysis was admitted to the Traction
Park hospital before the onset of
noi-nloeie and If la hnnofl that this
yill III J OIJ, <b ? KJ 11U f WV? v?<uv >.....
little victim, will be spared paralysis
entrely. Serum was administered
at once, and Dr. Noe said this morning
that the little patient Is responding
to the treatment in a way that is
most encouraging.
This patient is Paul Adamovich.
aged three years and six months, ot
Monongah. Another case, also admitted
Sunday, Is Mary Riggi, three
years old. of Water street, Monongah.
There are now IS patients in ihe
hospital and all are doing well. The
toys brought with the money donated
by Senator Watson have arrived and
the little folks, in spite of their ill
ness, are having a fine time.
Yesterday Drs. Reidy, the local
health officer, Weirlch, of the State
Health Department, and Noe, the
physician in charge of the hospital
made a house to house canvas of East
Monongah to find out, if possible, if
there was any truth in the rumor that
cases of the Infection were . being
concealed there. They found two
suspected cases, which will be kept
under observation, and that is all.
Middleton Just beyond Monongah
was also visited and canvassed with
the assistance ot Dr. Barr, the Middleton
physician. No cases were found
there, but the children of the town
were found crowded around the station
and the pafents were notified
that this must not be permitted.
The situation is very satisfactory
from every angle and it is getting better
every day in spite of the occasion
al new cases. From the very first
Dr. Noe has had splendid cooperation
from the Consolidation Coal company's
physician and now the foreign
population of the district is beginning!
to see the object and value of the
work he has> undertaken and is giving
aid in many ways.
GERMANSCQNTiNUE
USELESS CHARGES
Two Made Last Night Resulted
Onlv in German
Casualties.
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(By Associated Press)
Yesterday's tremendous cannonade
on the Flanders front was followed
last night by two Gorman attempts
to shake the British from their hold
on important sections of newly won j
ground. Neither of these met with j
any success whatever. !
London reports the first allack was j
launched in the Hollebeke region. The j
Germans did not even succeed here
in reaching the British lines. Later
the Germans again laid down a barrage
at Westhoek and the infantry
tried to push in under its cover. They
met with no more success however
than they did at Holledeck.
On the French front aside from the
Flanders area there was considerable
activity on the part of Germans. They
made attacks in the region of Bot ille
at Avocourt wood and in Alsace the
French guns were able to cope vith
the situation in each case, Paris annonnces.
This Colored Gent
In Serious Trouble
The Department of Justice has written
to City Clerk Albert Kehn concerning
the registration of Edward Chaplin,
colored, who claims that he registered
in Fairmont on June fifth. City Clerk
Kern has investigated and found that
there was no man by this name registered
In Fairmont. Chaplin claims that
he left his registration, card In the
hands of Fred Jenkins with whom he
Is employed.
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Above. In two c^imn picture, Mrs.
"Jack" Be Saulles, slayer of her husband
in a dispute over their child.
Below, reading downward, Evelyn
Nesbit, Nan Patterson, Mrs. Gertrude
Gibson Patterson, and Madame Caillaux,
other beautiful women whose
eyes have conquered murder juries.
Tax Delinquents
Reported to Board
Commissioner of Finance J. tValter
Barnes submitted the personal property
and real estate delinquent lists
to the Board ot Affairs this morning.
Mr. Barnes reported that this year the
personal properly delinquent list was
something like $3,000. Last year the
delinquent list tor personal property
reached the $5,000 nark.
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est Virginia's Greatest News]
VIRGINIA. MONDAY EVE
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Famous Chilean Heiress to
Face Trial for Killing
Football Star.
NEW YORK, August 6.?The old,
tense duel between a beautiful woman's
eyes and "twelve good men and
true" will be fought out again when
Mrs. "Jack" De Saulles faces the jury
in her trial for the murder of her husband
at Westbury, L. I., August 3.
But this silent contest of glances
between the handsome Chilean woman
who as Bianca Errazuriz-Vergara
won international fame as the
richest and most beautiful heiress of
South-Amerca, and an American murder
trial jury, will be more dramatic
than any in American court annals,
except perhaps the Thaw case scenes
iu which Evelyn Nesbit battled under
the cross-examination of the merciless
Jerome.
For Evelyn Nesbit's life was not at
stake. Mrs. De Saulles' life is.
In the presence of witnesses she
shot the famous Yale quarter-backcaptain
.former United States minisi
TTriiciniv and socially Dromi
nent,. at his summer home In a frenzy
of desperation when he refused to let
her take their son with her.
Expert criminologists have always
attributed Harry Thaw's escape from
the electric-chair more to Evelyn Nesbit's
dramatic revelation of her life
story than to the technical defense of
emotional insanity. The beautiful
woman won.
This is the almost unfailing record
of murder trial history.
Three juries failed to convict Nan
Patterson, whose feminine charms
had won her a place in the original
Floradora sextet, of the murder of
Caesar Young, a New York bookmaker.
When Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Pattersoh
killed her consumptive husband
at Denver the odds were all
against her. The rich man upon
whose assistance she relied was slow
in coming forward. But within two
months she was freed by the first
upon which she turned the battery of
her glances, and a Chicago lawyer,
brother of the murdered man, said:
"in my opinion the verdict means
that a pretty woman can commit murder
and get away with it. I know
from my practice that conviction of a
woman criminal is almost impossible."
Madame Caillaux, wife of the
French minister of finance, frankly
admitted her guilt in the slaying of
Gaston Calmette .editor of the Paris
Firaeo. and gave her reasons. The
French court, not less gallant than
American juries, freed her.
How far may a woman go to keep
her child? That is the question Mrs.
He Saulles' eyes will ask of the jury.
Ruined honor was Evelyn Nesbit's
weapon. Protecting her husband was
Madame Caillaux's trump card.
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Mrs. John L.Jones
Dies This Afternoon
Mrs. John L. Jones aged 82, a highly
respected woman of this community
died today at noon at the homo of her
son Thomas IC. Jones at 408 Gaston
avenue after a lingering illness with
hardening of tbe arteries end other
complications. Mrs. Jones had been
in declining health since May 16 or this
> ear.
She resided the greater part of her
life on Davis Ridge but since the
death of ber husband In 1912 she had
spent the greater part of the time In
this city with her son.
She lias a consistent member of the
Vethodibt Episcopal church oa Davis
Ridge end was well and favorably
known ir that community.
The bod> was prepared for burial
by undertaker E. Musgravc and son.
No funeia! arrangements have been
made at this time.
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NING, AUGUST 6,1917.
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SENATE m Bill
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Reported to the Senate This
Mornin? by Chairman
Simmons. i
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DEBATE BEMUEK:
Is the Largest Tax Budget '
in the History of the i
American People.
WASHINGTON, Aug. G.-The war
tax bill finally revised ' to meet
latest estimates was favorably reported
today by the Senate finance
commission, it proposes to raise
$2,005,970,000 by taxation.
The revised bill proposed $1,876,000
dollars in new taxes. No provisions
for additional bonds to be considered
later by the House are made in the
Senate bill.
Chairman Simmons nlans fn rail nn
the revised bill for debate the latter
part of the week and hopes for its
final enactment by congress early
next month.
Most of the new taxes proposed
under the revised bill for war expenses
for the present fiscal year
would come from incomes war expense
profits, liquor and tobacco
taxes.
The majority report was submitted
by Chairman Simmons, who explained
that the commitee's revision of the
House bill was on the principle of
raising revenues with the least burden
upon the public. A substitute report
with a substitute bill is expected
from Senator LaFollette; Senators
Gore and Thomas also plan a separate
report.
Senator Simmons' report that a
flexible scientific war tax superstructure
had ben constructed by the Senate
Committee for the imposition of
war taxes?the largest tax budget in
American history?as well as for future
tax increases declared probable.
Income, war profits, liquor and tobacco
tax increases, the majority report
pointed out, form the nucleus of
the revised bill.
In a general statement for the committee,
Senator Simmons said:
"It has at all stages acted with a
keen sense of the extreme importance
of its action in its effect nnnn the
country and the successful prosecution
of the war. Nor was it unmindful
that those who will have to pay
these exactions will also have to furnish
the larger part of the money to
purchase the bonds for expenditures
not provided for by taxation and also
as we may be called upon to loan to
foreign governments engaged with us
in war against Germany.
"Your committee was profoundly
impressed with the expediency and
necesity of broadening and developing
and developing our system of
special taxation so as to present a scientific
scheme, logically constructed;
to provide a superstructure sufficiently
strong and flexible to meet not
only our present but our future war
needs, and so adjusted as to distribute
equitably the necessary burdens
of taxation and safeguard the activities
of the nation by imposing no tax
which would not leave the tax payer
a reasonably compensatory return
from his investment.
"The basis of the system proposed i
i by your committee is the income and
war profits taxes, internal revenue
taxes upon whisky and tobacco, and
certain moderate subsidiary Wvies in
the nature of excise taxes. The system
presented Is in form much the i
same as that in the House, but it has, 1
it is believed, been systematized, co- 1
ordinated and made more consistent.
"As the result of these changes it
is estimated that about two-thirds of
the additional revenue expected will i
come from the income and war profits :
taxes. In fixing the rates upon in- 1
comes and excess profits your com- ]
mlttee kept constantly in mind the <
fact that the amount of revenue derived
from these sources would de- (
pend upon the prosperity and activity
of business, and that to impose i
taxes which would tend to discourage |
enterprise and dampen these activities
would tend to defeat the legislative
purpose. Moreover, it thought
that if the rates upon incomes and
excess profits were fixed at the highest
level there might be but little
margin left for further Increases in
rates."
The report defends the elimination
" lt-J T -/-.of eiu.Jl<vna
U1 ine BU-UttilCU UCUiuuk DUI-IUACO v/u
Incomes of over 40,000 added In the
Houee, designed to raise $66,000,000,
as follows:
"In view of the fact that In addition
to the large Increase In the normal
tax and surtaxes upon Incomes,
the bill provides for a largd Increase
In the war prollflte tax of corporations
and partnerships and Includes
individuals In the scope of that tax,
and in view of the probability that it
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TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
iTHI!
[WO MORE WANT 10
DRIVE FOR RED CROSS
Four Applications For Post
in France Have Been
Made Here.
Am a recruiting station the Falrnont
Red Cross Is a great success,
hast Wednesday there was printed
in The West Virginian a little story
;o the effect that the Red Cross needid
truck drivers and mechanics for
wrvice in France and that applicailons
for the jobs would be received
it the local Red Cross headquarters
in the City building.
At the time the Red Cross was
temporarily dispossessed as the local
draft board was using the rooms.
Bright and early Saturday morning,
the day the ladies got back, two men
offered themselves for these jobs and
Ihis morning two more appeared.
Today's volunteers are C. R. Hunter,
of 320 Gaston avenue, and Jack
IV. Heintnelman, of 830 Gaston avenue.
The applications have been forwarded
to the Red Cross headquarters.
CITY TO BUY 1,200
MORE WATER METERS
Order to That Effect Entered
by Board of Affairs
Today.
Water Commissioner Ira Smith this
morning put before the Board of Affairs
the proposition of adding 1,200
more meters to the Fairmont water
lines. During the hot summer
months it is an almost Impossible
task to Impress upon the minds pf a
large number of Fairmont people the
necessity of economy in the use of
water. The Board of Affairs believes
that with most of the water metered,
the big burden of encouraging
water economy will be disposed of.
Vfv Cmith Ihia mnpnlnc rgirofvorl I
permission from the Board of Affairs
to confer with the Commissioner of
Finance, J. Walter Barnes and make
the necessary provision of the meters.
WILL INVESTIGATE
GARBAGE DISPOSAL!
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Dr. Ramage Gets PermisI
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sron 10 investigate incineration
Specifications.
The Board of Affairs this morning
granted City Health Officer Cheeney
JI. Ramage permission to take definite
steps toward purchasing an incinerator
for the City of Fairmont in
which all the city's garbago win be
burned. It is the plan of the Health
Officer to confer with a representative
of a company making Incinerators
just as soon as possible and to
then recommend to the Board of Affairs
that immediate action be taken
toward a purchase.
Dr. Ramage reports that an incinerator
sufficient to handle all the
city's garbage will cost about $5,000.
Many of the cities in other parts of
the state now have them In operation
and in every instance they are provnga
decided success. The $5,000 in
elnerator will Dave a capacity 01 several
thousand tons, sufficient to care
for the city for over ten years.
The incinerator is absolutely odor-J
less and no fuel is needed in Its operation.
In some places cities have
placed their incinerators just on the
outsde of school houses, as there is
positively no odor coming from their j
operation.
City Hall Notes
Many calls are received at the police
station each day from different
sections of the city asking that their
garbage be hauled away. Mayor
Bowen 1b urging the boaru ui nunmi
to dispose of this Inconvenience by
immediately brdering another truck for
garbage collection and putting It into
service.
At the regular weekly meeting of
the Board of Affairs this morning a
building permit was granted to Hugh J
W. Scott to construct a building on i
Columbia street. W. H. Knight was
granted permission to build a residence
costing about $850 on Palatine
avenue. The Standard Garage through
C. M. Ritchie, was granted permission
to Install a gasoline pump on Madison
str^t.
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| Germans Are Plannfnf to jl
Get Out of the
Country.
THEY 11G0 ID JAVA j
Acting President Will Take
Decisive Action Against
Disturbers.
(By Associated Press)
PEKING, Thursday, Aug. S (delayed.)?Acting
President Feng Koo- /,;?
Chang, today approved the unanimous
decision reached at a special meeting ,1
o( the Chineso cabinet to declare wa$
on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
The ministers of the Entente powers jj|
probably will meet at the Chinese foreign
office Saturday to dlscuse the
Chinese declaration of war which is
expected to bo Issued next week.
Prominent Germans In Peking are
conferring with the Dutch minister to . jS
China with the object of making ar- |
rnngements to go to Java.
The Spanish minister will probably
take over the interests of AuBtra-Hun- '' 3
gary. '-V.al
Premier Tuan Chi Jul and hla political
followers Insist that Feng Koo
Chang as vice president automatically
became president when Li Yuan Hung m M
declined to resume office.
. Parliamentarians are assembling at
Canton and are preparing to organtza jv
a military government with the sanction
of parliament and to elect a prestActing
President Feng Koo Chang
has asked for liberal appropriations to ^ '
be used in suppressing the southern fl
military element. .<- ' '
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Two Men Were Killed and
Two Injured in Oklaho- , ^ |
ma Last Night.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aufl.
The center of the uprising of armed m
bands of objectors to the selective
draft which for nearly a week haa
spread terror through four central * '3
southern Oklahoma line counties >^3|
changed today from Seminole county
to Hughes county, where two men
were killed and two were injured last
Shortly after midnight Ed Balock. , .*9
an objector was shot to death near t ;
Holdcnvilte, two members of tpe s J
posse which his band encountered S
were wounded. Later J. F. Moose, d
of Okemah. was shot end killed as
he drove a motor car toward Holdenzille.
He apparently was unaware ,. =
of conditions that had resulted in a
cordon of armed citizens being
thrown around the town. He was
killed when he did not heed or hear . ja
an order to stop. Jack Paige had been
carried off by the raslsters and a '' heavy
reinforcement of posse men
started to his rescue. It developed
that Paige had not been captured and
it was expected that the posse which f' g
went to his aid wOUld Ctt|)lUr8 U1U? .
More than 200 members of the Tarlous
bands mostly of the poor tenant H
farmer class with a number of negroes
and a few Indians had been placed
under arrest today and It wag annoonoed
that with the exception of two
bands one comparatively small It Was
believed the section had been cleared
I or the organization of the male oosr
New York Harbor 1 j?B
U-Boat Net Closed
New York. Aug. 6.?A report that
a l'-both had been sighted near the
trans Atlantic lane off this port cans- .
ed the War Department authorities :
to close the gate In the net protecting , , tjg
the harbor mouth here at one o'clock' ' , ?
this morning. The gate opened again .
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