Messenger (Newspaper) - April 15, 1910, Beckley, West Virginia VOL 1 VA FRIDAY APRIL 15 1910 NO 41 PROTEST TO of party preferences for I the This is as COMMITTEE will go farther to insure good local government than any other step that might have been taken APPEAL OF HON A A LILLY TO THE STATE EXECU TIVE COMMITTEE I Thaii Seventy Pages Giving Comprises More Grounds of Complaint in Detail to Committee Tallest Man Dead David Taylor of Clendenin died afc his home in that town last Sunday as the result of an j attack of typhoid fever aged about fifty three years Mr Taylor measured seven inches over six feet and had probably more friends than any other man in the county being of a tion which gathered about him many friends and a friend once REWARD OFFERED SIX MONTHS AFTER COMMISSION OF TRIPLE MURDER Local Authorities Handicapped By State Regulations and Criminals Permitted to Remain Unpunished in his request for a pri mary election but the friends of Congressman Hughes who are also in the main Scott supporters said no arid called a delegate convention for June 23rd at I j Welch in McDowell county is nothing to it as we see it the Scott people are sidestep ping the primary plan whereever it is possible to do so They dont want the people to have a hand in the selection of a United States senator They like ma goods the made by him was a friend all time The protest of Hon A A Lilly to the republican executive com of the state against the action taken by the Hughes fac tion of the congressional commit tee of this district at the Hun tington meeting and which was Hon M F Matheny was forwarded to state chairman The petition and brief cover more than seventy typewritten pages and after the usual preli sets forth that theac tion of the committee in creating John K Thompson of Putnam county chairman and B 0 Hol land of Logan county secretary oC said committee and giving that the capital has dwindled Shad INSURANCE COMPANY In Which West Virginians Are Interested Investigated The Consolidated Casualty Company a western institution in which a number of residents West Virginian Last October one of the most crimes in the history of the state was perpetrated in this when three members of i the Hood family were murdered I and their home burned in an ef the crime The county court offered a reward of ror the of the murderers which was kept until about month ago when no tice was received from the state authorities that the county had no right to offer or pay a reward f sr the purpose designated Now of this state are interested has been undergoing an investigation the stale with an offer of a by Auditor Darst the result of for the ing that it has been discovered s of the murderers who have Critically 111 M C Brackman is in Green brier county with his father who is critically ill at his home in that county NINE ARRESTED With Attempt to Dyna mite House At Whipple Nine formerly employ ed at the Whipple mines were given a hearing before Justice Staton at Glen Jean Saturday on from to less than was each of them authority to vote was illegal That but five of the and new officers elect ample time since the crime committed to have circum 000 The company has been rejn the globe half a dozen counties in the district were rep resented at the meeting held at of Louisville president Jr Walter the committee was without a Scherr Charleston general man quorum and with ager and W E Deegans Glen act Jean W Va one of the direct ed among them being G C Me That James McComas who participated as a member from Lincoln county is fiot a resident ors Mr Scherr will resign as deputy insurance commissioner in the auditors office to assume county the new position and his head county should have been quarters will be in Charleston sented ex officio by the county chairman That the same condition ap plies to the case of H B Work man who was permitted to rep resent Wayne county That A J Hearn as ter of Bluefield is ineligible to act as a member of the commit tee under the civil service rules That H D of Mc Dowell county was permitted to Steps have already been taken to the companies on a proper basis According to an unofficial statement the old officers are re sponsible for the condition of the company arid legal action will follow the report of the auditors Colored Man Killed Will Monroe a well known colored man of Nuttall was kil times Now comes the murder of Rob ert Cairnes at Eccles on March 30 coldblooded and inexcusable The r was arrested by private citizen and turned over to a man holding a the state as an officer of the county by whom he was escape Under the ruling of the state adminis tration the county authorities are not permitted to offer a re ward for the arrest of the mur derer and the state not only makes no visible effort in that di rection but the official who per mitted the murderer to escape has not been called upon to ac count any more than has the furnished the weapon with which the murder was com mitted the charge of having attempted to destroy the home of mine sup Lewis at Whipple on Friday night The evidence was KEEP OFF THE STREETS MAYOR LANDS BODY BLOW ON TOWN COW AND LIKE NUISANCES Livestock Will No Longer Be Permitted to Pasture in the Streets or Otherwise An noy Beckley Citizens Mayor Davis has announced that the law against permitting stock to run at large within the city limits is to be enforced to the letter which means that the musical decorative cow the frisky mule the the industrious porker will no longer be permitted to appear on the streets of the city except in charge of a authorized guar dian Doubtless Mayor Davis means well but it is going to be a lone some time for those of us who have been in the habit of dodg ing live stock on the street cross ings and sidewalks on our way to and from our domiciles or insufficient in the opinion of business or have ac Justice to warrant the holding j the habit of havingthe of the men accused for court Goddess of slumber induced all were released approach our downy couches Suspicion was cast upon the of a score men tone of them had been bv an number charged from the employ of each with Her own pe by superintendent Lew is for incompetency early Friday and the same night the attempt was made to house HOSPITAL NOTES W ap mi tU I J hold and vote upon the proxy of j T at Brown while to I n I Tr alight from a moving train He was struck by a mail crane and thrown beneath his body was terribly He was married and children mangled had four H M Cline of Wyoming county Five seperate charges of irre in the the alleged convention are cited and the state committee is re to set the entire proceedings and direct the call ing of a new committee meeting in accordance with the party regulations It is understood that the state committee will act upon the matj parity and Cranberry with at the earliest possible quarters at the latter place where eat and the friends of Mr Lilly he has moved his family He Considering the circumstances it looks as though the state au were hampering rather aiding the county authori i the cars where ties in the suppression of Superintendent at Cranberry P J Brennan has been which may be law but lacks a Progress of Patients at the Camp bell Hospital Horace Wiseman of Fitzpat rick whose left leg was amputat ed at the hip as the result of a saw mill accident is making sat progress toward re covery J Munsey of Beaver is re covering from the amputation of his right arm Wesley Wilkes and little daughter returned to their home on Monday Bennie Houchins of Daniels who has been at the hospital for whole lot of advancing justice ee M which is one of mecical treatment is which is one of the commodities badly needed in this section and one which ve would have more of if the local authorities were ted superintendent of the New not hampered by the state laws River mines at Pros Rushing Construction Five hundred Mamie Ellison of Blue Jay is convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever Will Attend Convention Rev W S Patterson of the Presbyterian church will leave work for x for Wright where he feel confident that their case is j was transferred from Sun where on the f th his sufficiently strong to reverse held a similar position j f i 11 Jon Sunday going from there to action taken at the Huntington Ul nP Charleston where he will attend the state Sunday School Conven nvei and which wll develop Kon to be in meeting j E Church South The Sensible Way j The Abject for next Sunday valuable morning at the M E Church It the coming election for the j South will be John the Baptist town of Princeton the good Evening preaching by Rev A j zans irrespective of party have j E Odell Presiding Elder This timber and mineral week jt n Machine Versus Primary Straws indicate the direction Big Wage Increase r TO SSC being the regular quarterly the breeze Hon A A Lilly of Raleigh county is a candidate for the nomination for congress Ellett formerly of Beckley as j ing communion will follow the their candidate for mayor andevening service other prominent citizens J MARTIN Pastor An advance in the pay of thou sands of employes of the various allied companies of the United States Steel Corporation equal to about 6 per cent is said to culiar ideas of harmony It is going to be an awful change but there is some conso lation in the fact that those of us located in the central portion of the city are not to be deprived of all the joys that have been least not solong as the pasture remains good on the court house lawn and the back fence is dedicated to the purpos es of a sidewalk along the rear of the court house property That is one spot where the arm of the city authorities is power less and where the live stock may roam at the passer by can be made to fully realize the fact that we have not yet emerged from the Inge stage Seriously speaking if the city authorities desire to suppress the nuisance of live stock running at large within the city limits and the indications are that such is the county authori j ties should not permit themsel ves tobe put in the position of being the chief offenders against the city ordinances by maintain ing a nuisance upon the county property in the business centre of the city Teachers Examination The teachers examination which opened in the public school building yesterday morning was probably the most largely attended of any institute yet held in Beckley the pleasant weather in the Fifth district and he was been decided upon and the fact schools have that the public all closed their terms no doubt contributing to the large attendance
