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Blueftelb Covers Bluefield and the Coalfield Like a Blanket EVENING LEADER. Largest Circulation Between Roanoke and Columbus, O. VOL. 1. NO. 248. BLUEFIELD WEST VIRO TNI A, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17,1907.' PRICE TWO CENTS. CONTEST IS ON FOR FEDERAL JUDGESHIP. FORTY-FIX K APPLICANTS FOR - . FKDEKAL OFFICE NOT YET I CREATED. There Is friction In the Q. O. P. In West Virginia. It Is not the or dinary hitch, but “heap big troublo.” It Is the now federal Judicial dis trict soon to bo created in West Vlrgtnnla by congress. There nro forty-Avo ap'pRcanta for this position, but the renl contest will be between Judge J. M. Sanders of the State Supreme court and form er judge Harold A. Rltz, of tho elev enth Judicial district. Judge Rltz, It will be remembered, w-as an appointee of Governor Daw son to fill the vacancy occasioned by tho death of Judge Chambers. The appointment of Rltz roused tho wrath of tho Insurgents who -are particu larly strong In McDowell and Mer cer counties, and wrhen Judge Rltr was recommended they organized such a bolt that Judge Rltz Anally resigned In favor of I. C. Herndon, who was cloctod Judge of that dis trict. Judge Keller of the United States district court was then In fnlling health and It was j^omlsed Judge Ritz that he would be appointed to succeed Keller In tho event of his death or resignation. Rut Judge Keller Is recovering his health and now a new federal Ju lge shlp Is wanted. The Aght between Rltz and Sanders, w’o should say, from present Indications, will he a hot proposition when the contest gets fairly under way. BIDDLES FOR 3907 TO SOLVE What sort of a story will tho year Just started tell us? Will Russia’s second National Assembly, soon to convene, be as radical as that which, the czar dissolved In 1906, and If so, will ho also abolish It? The kaiser recently turned out the Reichstag be cause It refused to sanction his col-| onlal adventure. He Is decidedly anx ious at thlg moment to find out what will bo tho temper of tho cham ber which Is about to bo elected. Will tho deadlock on the education bill between Premier Campbell-Banner man’s liberal House of Commons and the tory House of Ix>rds force d new election, ns the torles wMsh? A re public has no business to have an entangling alliance with any church. What will bo the result of tho light between the French republic and the Vatican which tho republic’s sever ance of tho church connection has precipitated? Italy and Spain, which also have contests with the Vatican, havo an especial Interest in tho an swer to this query. Cuba’s fate—Independence or an nexation to the United States—will Ifrobably be determined by the events of 1967. Both countries havo a vital Interest In learning what tho next 12 months will say. Will tho United fltatos and Japan roach an adjust ment on the school Issue In San Francisco which will bo satisfactory to all parties In tho controversy? Probably they will, for the United States wants peaco and Jnpan Is forc ed by debt and poverty to make an especial effort to keep the peace. The coming 365 days will probably shape the Issues which will he paramount In the presidential canvass In the* Unttod States in 1908, and deter mine who win be the standard-benr er on each side. These aro questions of snifreme moment to us. and of con siderable Interest to tho rest of man kind.- T^slle’s Weekly. TO START THE CAMPAIGN. REPUBLICAN CLUBS ALHKADY PLANNING THE CON TEST OF 190H. Washington. Jnn. 16.—Plans for tho national campaign of 1908 al ready aro being formulated by Re publicans. A meetlug of tho execu tive committee of the National Lea gue of Republican Clubs was held In this city today to make ifreliml nary arrangements for tho opening of the campaign. Tho commltteo con sists of one member from each State. Today's meeting was called to or der by Qen. Edwin A. McAlpIn presi dent of tho league. Later tho dele gates were given a special reception at the Whlto House, the President ^tending to each of his callers a h rty greeting. MANAGER FOWLER ON “THE CLANSMAN" H.AVS NO NECRtfcKH WIUj REE THE IT,AY AND THEIIE WILL DR NO TROUBLE. Following tho protest of Dr. W 0. Cochrane, before (ho Bristol, Va.. council last night, ngnlnst "The Clansman" being allowed to come to Bristol, Dr. M. L. Fowler, mana ger of tho Harmellng theatre, statod to n Herald man: “I have my license paid In advance, and the city has the money for the samo. I feel that I should have the support of tho city authorities that Is accorded other licensed business houses, and I am not asking any spe cial favors or privileges. There will be no negroes In tho audlenco on the night of tho performance. Vory few negroes attend tho high class shows anyhow, and consequently I am at a loss to seo where they have any kick coming unless they think the white lf?oplo are degenerating and need the dictation of tho negroes to keep them from falling from graco. ‘Tho Clans man’ played In' New Orleans this sea son continuously for throe weeks and no trouble wag over talked of. It lias played throughout Texas, Oklahoma. Indian Territory, Kansas, and other western states, through to Tennessee. It was In Knoxville last season, and will be thero again this season, the night before It comes to Bristol. It Is only a play—no real kuklux, and I propose to see that everything In or derly and decent. "Nine-tenths of my patrons want tho play, and are cxtromoly anxious to rco It. I have many letters from leading citizens In the surrounding towns wanting to assist me, and got up petitions If necessary, to have 'The Clansman/ wanting Beats re served at once. "I anticipate no trouble whatever from tho negroes; and as there will ho so few ministers In the audlonco, T think that, with the regular house policeman, I will he able to handle the situation/’—Bristol Herald. Judge C. C. Cole of Des Moinos, la., for many years dean of the Drake university law school, who Is 8 2 years old and has been for 4 2 years a teacher of law has been granted a Carnegie pension of $1280 a year. Judge Colo wag graduated at the Harvard law school In 184 8, and Is highly esteemed In his city and state. Subscribe for the Evening leader. Tho Mnrk ofl The Mftrk of to makeWmoney ftgg Absolut# Reliability. Absolute Reliability. Is to save it.—Our Merchants will SAVE Many, Many Dollars in FREIGHT anrl Other ways during 1007 by favoring us with ALL Their Orders. And the consumer gets more than full value, for we handle Only the Best. Now Booking Orders.—Can fill them complete in a few days See our Samples before Buying. The Bluefield Dry Goods and Notion Company, Importers and Exclusive Jobbers. 1.500 CARS COAL HELD UP. HK Pill'll N THINKS llATLKOAHS WANT TO MAKK HATH HILL OIMOIS. Washington, Jan. 16.—Interesting information on tho car-shortage sit uation was developed today before tho House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. A coinmittoe appointed by the Na tional Iloclproral Demurrage Con vention, recently held at Chicago, made application to he heard in be half of legislation to correct the ex isting conditions. Members of the committee stated that there were now 1.R00 cars loaded with coal destin ed for tho Northwest tied up at St. Paul, which had been there for three weeks. Tho causo was stated to be "red tnpe and technicalities that coal shipped from the mines In West Vir ginia to the West in coal cars, wns not allowed to go beyond tho Missis sippi river in thoso cars; that when cars for re-shipment were nsked for In Chicago, neither coal cars nor box car« could he obtained. Chairman Hepburn, of tho com mittee expressed wonderment that the enr-shortngo conditions should bo como acute Just nfter the ruto bill had become operative. It looked, ho said, ns though sonic gentlemen woro expressing their dlsapitovnl of that mensuro by causing Inconvenlenco to shippers. BIO STICK GETS TOO HEAVY. N.MIT1I I IIINliS l ou rs Wild, COST $<(<1,000,000 A YEAR. Washington, Jan. 10.—Speaking on (ho Fortifications Appropriation bill In the llouso today, Mr. Smith, of Iowa, remarked that to man tho guns proposed to ho mounted by tho Taft board would tako more than r»r»,000 men, and this would cost $66, 000,000 a year. "It Is because of the rnpid growth of an Institution whk li Is ox] 'Mtslvo," remarked Mr. Smith, "not In what It costs to establish It, but what it costs to maintain It that I have al ways resisted too rapid progress in fort meat Ions. ! ant a hearty believer In the ‘big stick,' but I do not be lieve In carrying ;t stick so largo that we will be worn out with its mere weight and cannot wield It when tho hour of emergency comes." AN ENGLISH GENERAL’S TRIBUTE Field Marshnll Viscount Wolsoly, of the Hritish Army, who was an ob server with lice’s army during seve ral campaigns, wrote of the great commander: 'Kvery Incident In my visit to Gen eral Leo Is Indelibly stamped on rny memory. I have taken no gpoclnl trouble to remember all be said to me then and during subsequent conver sations, and yet It is still fresh In my recollection. Hut It Is natural It should ho so, for be was the ablost general, and to me seemed the great est man, I ever conversed with; and yet I have had the privilege of meet ing Von Moltke and F'rlnce DIs marck, and at last ujjon one occasion had a very long and Intensely In teresting vonversatlon with the lat ter. Goncral Leo was one of the few men who ever seriously Impres sed and awed mo with their natural, their Inherent greatness. Forty yoarg havo come nnd gone since our moot ing, yet the majesty of his manly bearing, the genial winning grace, tho swoetness of his smile nnd the Impressive dignity of his old-fashion ed style of address eomo bark to mo among the most cherished of my reco llections. Ills greatness mado me humble, and I never felt my own In dividual insignificance moro keenly than I did In hlg presence. Hlg was a beautiful character, and of him It might trouthfully bo written: 'In rtghteousnes he did Judge nnd make war.' " Laughingly simulating an attempt at suicide because a young woman said shn did not love him. Herbert Price killed himself with a gun he did not know was loadod. NOT GOING TO EUROPE MllS THAW'S MOTHER 1>KNIKS REPORT THAT R11K IS TO AVOIR TKTI EYING l*Y TAKING TRIP. Mrs. J. c. Holman, mother of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, when seen at her homo in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburg, last night, concerning a re port that she was going to Europt to avoid testifying at the trial of her son-in-law. Harty K. Thaw, said to the Associated Press: “I am not go ing to Europe, nor have I hnd any intention of going. Why a report should ho circulated that I Intend to go to Kuroifr* for the purposo of avoiding the Thaw trial 1 cannot un derstand. The report Is entirely without foundation." "Da you intend to gtvo testimony at the Thaw trial?" was asked of Mrs Holman. “1 have nothing to say," sho replied. LIGHTING PLANT ON NEW PRIVATE CAR. I*T,.\NT IN .nilFHKONVlIM; MARKS IIANPSOMK MOVINfl IIOMK FOR V. AND S. W. ItOAl). Ono of tho hanomost and most completely furnished private cars ever constructed In Jeffersonville was turned out by the local branch of tyw Amor lean Cnr and Foundry Com pany yosterday. It wan built for tho VliRlnla and Southwestern Unllway and has koiho entirely now featurea, ono of them being the lighting plant. The cnr 1» Illuminated by electrici ty. obtained |>v (ho axle lighting |>ro cokh, consistInt; of attachments to the axlos, extending to tho dynamos. It Is sixty-eight, foot long, ton foot wide, and la finished In quarter-sawed oak. Bvery apponrnneo Is of tho most modern design, and tho ontlro equip mont Is ui| to date. Many visitors saw' tho oar hoforo It was sent out, and It wag pronounced tho hand somost over turnod out from tho mammoth j/lant across tho rlvor. Loulsvlllo Herald. FAIRBANKS’ SON INDICTED PHAROR OF PRIUI UY COMES AS HEQVKfj TO FI/OFF.MFNT, Pittsburg, Jan. IG.—Frederic C. Fairbanks, *on of Vice-President Fair hanks, la under Indictment for false ly |A ocurlng a marriage license when his bride was not a resident of the county. Prosecutor Alban says the accused will bo extradited. Fairbanks and MIb8 Helen Scott, or Pittsburg, wore desperately In love with onch other and administered a mild shock to the city by eloping to Steubenville, Ohio, Inst fall and get ting married. Mr. Fairbanks secured paternal forglvencxH and blessing from both sides of the house. According to the Mtubenvlllo grand Jury, Mr. Fairbanks was unable to secure bis manage license until he disguised himself ns a w’orkngman. leaving Miss Scott In a Stubonvlllo hotel, Mr. Fairbanks Is said to have gone to another and thoro, with old clothes, artistically applied grease paint and ordinary grime on his hands and linger tips, materially al tered his Immacuflato appoaranry*. Then he hurried after bis license. In answer to the clerk’s Inquiry, Mr. Fairbanks Is alleged to have said: "My name Is Frederic C. Fairbanks I'm a workingman aTd^ ffcv* jlrv Adams county, f wish to marry Miss Helen CcoU, who also lives In Adams county." He had such a frank, Ingenuous manner and his make-ii|l was so per fect that the license was Issued with only tho routine questions, and half ftn hour Inter Miss Scoff was his bride. They passed the holidays In Washington, ft. ()., ns the guests of Vice-President Fairbanks and his wife and have Just returned to Springfield from tho visit. TO!'NO FAlllflAIVKft MTU UK MADE NO AFFIDAVIT SprlngfV'ld, O., Jan. 18.—F. c. Fairbanks said tonight: "I took no oath whatever In the probate court at Steubenville. I say this emphatically, as my memory In regard to this Is distinct. T answered their questions, hut. thoro was no affidavit and no oath administered." VOTE FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR BIG FAIR. REBUKES ROOSE VELT’S CRITICS BOOKKU T. WASHINGTON SAYS 1NTKMPK11ATN ATTACKS HVRB HACK. Cleveland, Jan. 16.—In a telegram to the Loader llookor T. Washing ton, of tho Tuokogoo Institute, gives his opinion of tho notions of such colorod people of tho North ns have engaged In intompornto criticism and nhuso of President Uoosovolt on account of his dismissal of tho col ored troops in tho Brownsville af fair. 'Wo cannot expect to win our bnt tlos In tho South or North by a policy of antagonism." Rays Washington. "Civilisation soon tiros of a raco ns anl Individual that con tmini I y whines and complains and,, likewise, tl^ curRlng or tho Chlof ifcvocutlvo." In making tIlls statement Washing ton says that he la merely roltorntlng a statement made nt a recent ban quet nt Charleston, W. V. Washington's statement wns In re sponse to n request from tho Lender for his views on Ihe subject rofer rod to. BIG PERSONAGE TURNED OUT Postmaster Wilcox turned to his personal messenger as ho drew on hln overcoat yesterday: "Taylor,” snhl ho, "If Theodore Rooiovolt romea In horo gut him out. I want him to understand that this 1h no lonflng placo for him or any of his kind." "Tea, sir." "Av*d," nddrd the Po*tmnstor nf tor a mnmont’B reflection, "put Tom Platt out too. Ho !h Rotting to bo a nuisance. Homembcr—out with both of them." "Tom ain’t bo had. Mr. PoRtmastor," hid Taylor gently. "It’a all Thoodoro. Tom ha* been serving the Govern ment irany a long year, and then along comes Theodore and mnkos all the fus. Tom Is ho old and feeblo ho can’t stand up for bln rights. All right, Mr. Postmnstor, I’ll put ’em out.” When the door banged abut Thoo dore Roosevelt walked In, with his one eye on the dlsapif-arlng form of the Postmaster. Theodore Ib yellow, one eyo Is gone, bo Ih ono oar, and be Ih tattooed as though he hod start od out as a plain spelling book and somegody tried to fllmplify him with a knife for a blue pencil. Theodore got under the radiator. "Now, Theodore, now,” bognn Johnson, but he bethought himself of tho big stick and concluded it would bo wlso to open the door. “Now, Theodore, scat,” said Taylor, poking with his big stick at Theo dore, who Bpat and spotterod. "You can talk till you are blue in tho faro, Theodore, 1»ut thoro ain't going to bo no withdrawing nmond mont to thla horo resolution. You rntH aro fired without honor by tho bo an, and you hnvo not to go. fioo?” Tho gig stick was too much for Theodore, and ho had to ran. Tom Hat waa waiting outaldo tho door, and aa aoon aa ho aaw Thoo doro coming out on tho run ho hob bled Inaldo. Tomo haa boon catching rata around tho Federal flulldlng alnro reconstruction, and ho wont resign. "F nm awfully aorry, Tom," aald Taylor, polite and tearful, "but tho pcojfo of this groat fltato says you got to go fv, you got to l>»»r old Tom, I’ll put a mouao In the ash bar rol for you every morning." Mr. Taylor took Tom tenderly In hla arms and carried him outaldo. Theodoro had gone up Park Row looking for a scrap with anybody, so Tom waa fairly well satisfied. .That'a all there Is to It. Theodoro Hooaevolt and Tom Platt can never again alt on the warm radiator In tho po&tmastor'* office. Theodoro tried to tear Secretary Murphy to pieces Saturday. That’s the reason both aro banished. DEAD ONES Tho Evening World Is trying to stir up tho "sleeping beauties" at Roanoke to go after factories, etc. Vo use. brother; you’ve got too many penny-chasers down there, and, besides, everything gravitates to ward £l,jc3:>ld those days. SLAPPED DECOLLETTE NECKS WlUIAM THAWH ItltOTIIMIt-IN* LAW IS KXl'KIiLKII FHOM PlTTSlIUllCJ CU1B. Pittsburg, Jnn. 1«.—Henry Collins, who married Miss nurd Thaw, has hwn ox lulled from the Pittsburg Club to which the wealthiest and most fashionable men In the city belong. The governors of the club, of which Harry K. Thaw Is a member, Inform ed Mr. Collin^ that they strongly dis approve of love-slaps given on tho necks nml shoulders of women In decollete gowns, particularly when the women nro the club’s guests. The club gave a dance a fow nights ago. Mr. Collins was there and en joyed himself extremely. Ho reap peared on tlio dancing floor nftor n prolonged absence. Approaching a young woman, he slai4>ed her shape ly shoulder. Angry and ashnmod. sho shrank from Mm. In tho Hnmo way ho showed his admiration for two or three othor women. When the husband of ono and the brother of another learned of Mr. Collins’ slaps, they told Collins that they woud break every bone In bis body If he did not leave tho clubhouse. He wcyit. The governors Immediately sus pended him temporarily, niul at a la ter mooting demanded IiIh reslgim tlon. Collins Ih a hrnther-tn-lnw of young William Tlmw, who went such a pnco In Now York rocontly (hat his nioth or applied to tho courts to doclaro him a habitual drunknrd. DANGER SIGNALS REMOVED. TIIOM.VS HTOCKTON ARIIK»T1SI»| ON A RKItlOUS CHARGE. Morgantown, W. Vn., Jan. 16.— Thomas Htockton, of Out-Crop, Pa., waa arrested here today by Baltimore and Ohio detectives on tho ehnrgo of removing danger signal lights from a high tresflo at Out-Crop one night last August, 15 minutes before the Pittsburg and Western flyer *. ’uo. Issue Taylor, a hrother-li I. w of Stockton, Is under arrest on the same charge, and three other men are wanted who are said to have been In hiding ready to rob tho train. Tho signals wero discovered missing by the watchman who flagged tho flyer. TRYING TO BE BETTER. Thore have been distinct attempts In the pnst. few days to Improve the sorvlro on tho Heston and Albany railroad, In Worcester, and at other important points along the line. It Is ni4>nrent that the management has been aroused, and men of force hnvo been detailed to unravel the myster ies of the delays to traffic. These men have moved <nrs like eyclenes since they have been «t the special work, and the result must he bettor trnln time for awhile at least. Included among those who will rend your want ad. nro prohnldy two thirds of the people to whom your propositions would appeal. Tho other third of them can prohnldy bo roaeh j °d by subsequent Insertions ft wouldn't pay for a merchant to advertise unless he could always make it pay you to read his adver tisements. M>:<j|SI,.vn UM WANTS MOUNTAIN STATIC WICIili IlKPIttCHKNTRD AT .1AMICNTOWN. Tho Staunton bill, carrying an ap propriation of $65,000 for a stnto display nt tho Jamestown exposition, passed the houBo, yesterday morning, and It Ih he I loved tho luousuro will ho promiJtly passed by tho senate. This moans that Wost Virginia will bo duly represented at tho Jamestown celebration. The only change In tho orlglual hill was an amendment requiring that $10 000 of tho appropriation ho devoted to the proper exhibition of the coal rosourcoe of tho state, also nn amendment asking $8,000 for the agricultural and horticultural *x Mbit. GREATER THAN FLOOD OF ’84. OHIO ItlVKIt ItltlCAKING OUT OP HANKS ANI> INUNDATING VALLKY. A flood worse than that of 1884 I* being prodlctod along tho valley of ilio Ohio and tta trlhutnrlea. All low IvlnK towns are making prepurutIoiih to get goods out of basements, and in Home cases they nro removing en I i*oly away from tlio vicinity of tho 1 river. Tho winter thus fur has been characterized by abnormal conditions of ruin. No heavy snows' have ful b’D, hut ruin, dny in und day out and at night. Tho earth Iiuh takon up all tho moisturo It could hold until like an ovor-Hnturatod sponge tho water ban flowed In rivulets that grew Into rivers, runs huvo grown into mill racos, and then swooping over tho narrow valleys down into tho greater stream until tho overtax ed banks, able t.o hold tholr weight of wator no longer, loosed tho hun gry current and lot It go with Its destructive, resistless, Insidious lap ping among the fields of tho valley and Iiouhoh of tho towns. Already much destruction has bocn done. A hlgj, stago of water will oxlst at all points along tho knnnwhn, hut fow places will ho Inundated should conditions become no worso than they aro now, say rlvermon. Charleston Is In no particular danger. Oowper wan not. writing about ad vortlalng, and yet ho Half!: Quick la • he aucccaalon of liiiniati ovonta. Tho caree of today aro aoldom tho caroe of tomorrow, and when wo lie down at night, wo may anfoly aay to moat of our troubled, "Ye have done your woiat, and wo Khali moot no moro." The dovclo^mont of want ndvortla In* rnakoa theao ttruer In our day than thoy wero whon Oowpor wrote fhom. Tho want ad columna ahow tho dally problema of tho city In courso of aolutlon. Ah "aklll |h ntrongor thnn afrength" hocatiHo aklll harnoanca »md driven atrongth- ho la an ad vortlaor atrongor than thla advortlsc mont. Hut ho uniat harncaa hla force of "publicity" nnd drlvo It on hie orranda with aklll and a firm hand. MIDWAY. You can’t hnvn monoy, until yon aavo It. ft won’t work for you, until you Invent It. You rnn’t Invent It any where an well aa at Midway. Lota 50 x 120 feet, price $326 »n $376. Beo diagram below. luefieldT7 stationer K/H OOK * * (X COMPANgJJ OFFICE SUPPLIES. Wo havo outdono nil previous efforts In tho solortlon of LABOR SAVING DEVICES f or tho ofllr.©. 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