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WEATHER and Sunday; Monday cloudy and cooler, probably showers. CLtMAfE Bluefleld the ihost surnrnert happy. 6 ft Volume XXXIV. No. 217.

Bluefield, W. Va Sunday Morning, September 5, 1926. Pages. Price, Five GOOD AVE you noticed that all of the people who h'ave lived to great ages passed their lives in practically one place? Men and who reach ninety and yond generally have passed those' years in unchanging Climates. This Is not a startling discovery, for people are like trees or other are influenced by Climatic conditions, and thrive where they find the least resist- ence.

There are places, too, where living la easier. It Is on the same principle that cotton and wheat' come to greater perfection In certain life comes to greater perfection under certain conditions. Air pressure, heat and cold, storm and shine accelerate or interrupt human growth, happiness and longevity. I tt conversation recently it was said by a railroad man that there was little encouragement for railroad, to spend money in 1 providing depot facilities for passengers for that branch of the service was falling off since the development of motor vehicles. This is true, but there is still enough traffic to warrant the best of facilities and to make them a good investment.

Possibly more attention and betterments would have stayed the slump. But be that as It may, we are for the railroads. They made this largely today they are pfaylng an Indispensable role in keeping it on the economic, the political and social map. Stop the railroads, or seriously ple their business by introducing other and temporary modes of transportation, and you Invite the isplders to decorate American life with their webs. The gospel of the railway is the doctrine of all far-vlsionlng statesmen.

OME day the people of this section will find gold mines at home. They will see that we are wasting the wonderful blue grass that, grows so abundantly here. Instead fattening beef cattle and selling them for slaughtering, they will be kept for the manufacture of dairy products, and be productive for a number of years. Our present system is as silly and as "far around" as If we would cut down a tree to pick Its fruit. A recent report shows that dairy factories are increasing the wealth of Canada faster than its gold mines.

The value of dairy products is. gaining at the rate of twenty million a year, and the gold mines at five million a year. And panada must spend many months a year working hard to keep trom freezing to death, while 1 here, grass comes''earlier, stays the winters are moderate. We advantage but are dead to our opportunities; had a touch of the grouch, 'and we are not In apposition to either affirm or deny positively I his statement- regarding "what is wrong with the' times?" is what he ''They can't make a law that will help out. It's Impossible as long as ws think three times about automobiles, dancing and pleasures to once about'our callings.

The trouble is that to get these things the whole country Is and mortgaging their wages years ahead of their pay envelopes." We proteste dthat this was somwhat radical, but he started an argument to back it.up that caused us torun. NE ot the most important and most necessary things -in the training of a newspaper editor is the ability to know at once the relative values of news articles, Successful editors do know this, most of them Intuitively. Otherwise they would not be successful. The editor has got to know' the value of the news he handles. If he makes a mistake in his se lection ot "what to it has the same result as "not wanted" goods in a product is unsaleable.

Ability to select well inakes the popular, rjTHERE are very few of you who have, not seen moths that fluttered about the evening lamp. We i call them "millers." The name is said to grow out of the fact that their wlnga are cov- with a soft dust remindful of flour. Vernon Kellogg, writing Jn Natural History, tells us that beautiful colors and bizarre patterns of the butterflies' wings are made by this dust. All of these particles are little scales. The scales are from ono-350th to one-30th of an inch in length.

These scales are little sacks, and many of tho sacks are filled with granules of coloring matter. In the case of a large butterfly Sound In Brazil there are 165 rows of scales with 600 scales in each row on every square inch of wing surface. That makes 99,000 scales to the square inch, we learn what it Is that makes the blue and red, the white and yellow of the butterflies. To us It is an example of the importance of mlnuto and faithful attention to detail. Every immeasurable small partlole, so little that it cannot be seen except with a mlscroscope, has a part to play in making the butterfly beautiful.

Every bit of "ow- der, softer than flour, has form and color and consistency. Every piece is separate and belongs where it Is And so It Is in the we have to do. If we pay attention to the smallest detail many may not notice nor. remark it, but there will be a general Impression, and such an impression is never an accident. It is up by infinite and untiring attention to minute detail.

It is like beauty in the wings of the butterfly. fPHERB are persons who are not A happy unless they have something to worry about, and in order to be happy they often are forced to imagine causes for worry. Prof. J. Thorpe, organic chemistry there are too many graves and hooks in the world, foreseeinr a time "hen there shall be no room on the earth for the living because of cemeteries and (Tura to Pose Six.) TO BE mm 'lire Food Show Topped With Baby Shows and Public Marriage.

REAL SHOPPING CENTER LOCATED IN BUILDING Equipment is Latest and Most Modern Fixtures Give Rich Air to Concern Selling Everything a Family Desires. Senator McKintey Suffers a Relapse Marllnsvllle, Sept. 4. (ff). William B.

MeKlnley, veteran Illinois solon, who has been critically 111 here for the pnst few days, suffered a relapse tonight, his physician, 1)r. It. II. Egbert, announced." The aged who will reach his seventieth birthday tomorrow, has been fulling since 5 o'clock this evening and was delirious. The senator's poise liad risen to 118, his temperature to 102 and Ills respiration to 40, accord- Ing to Dr.

Egbert. His left lung wan showing more extensive Involvement. The senator's long sickness has gradually taken all his vitality. He was operated upon some time ago at Baltimore and a few days ago was brought here to recuperate. His condition has been serious ever since.

The formal opening of the United Supply Company's magnificent new store at Gary on Friday and Saturday will be a gala event in the sec. tion, according to advance Information on the occasion. First there will be the store enlarged and thoroughly departmentlzed, to Inspect and that alone will draw hundreds; then the pure food, show staged under the large canvass top in front of the in which twenty-five nationally known food manufacturers will display their wares; then the band concerts, the tennis games, the free food and the specials, Including a baby show for both colored and white; a marriage ceremony, and the special exhibition, titled "art gallery," that will climax the day and furnish a surprise. 'The celebration was designed by Claude M. Boughner, general manager of the United Supply Stores, to introduce to the public the 3 store at Gary thoroughly remodeled into a shopping center of the big city department store variety.

Everything from a monkey on a string to the most handsome furniture, is included In the stock, which would do credit to Fifth avenue shops. There are eight departments the roof of the large store uilding. Groceries, hardware, wine upplies, dry goods, notions, ladles' eady-to-wear, shoes, men's and boy's lothing, hats, overalls, furniture, lectrlc washers, ironers, irons and ther electric appliances, meats, andies and a huge soda fountain T.e among the The-, entrance the store specially attractive. HEAVY DAMAGE 10 CROPS IN SEVEN -WEST STATES icy, iu IB glass: Windows. ramed in copper, holding merchandise of quality, before a background highly polished cathedral oak.

copper marquise up with crystal panels and ornamental lights, gives a rich appearance to the long wide entrance. The first.floor of the store has a lock tile floor of a maroon color, and th'e fixtures are of mahogany marble base, having indirect ighting behind shiny plate glass. The departments are distinct and a purchaser can easily find the ar- Rain-Storms and Tornadoes Cause Flooding of Several Hundred Homes. CHILDREN ARE RESCUED FROM INUNDATED HOUSES TWO OF SHENANDOAH'S SURVIVORS TO SPEAK CITY OF FOUNDJPULT Collision Could Have Been Avoided by Action of Either Vessel. LICENSES TWO OFFICERS OF STEAMERS SUSPENDED Similar Action Would Have Been Taken Against Navigators of S-51 Had U-Boat Been Under Jurisdiction of This Service, Report Says.

Wheeling, W. Sept. 4 Two survivors of the -wrecked Shenandoah will be here Sunday as speakers at the memorial services plan- for I.lnsly Institute grounds in the afternoon. They aro J. Bruce Anderson, navigator of the dirigible, who wired from Plttsburg he would arrive Jn the morning, and Franklin Everett Masters, Mannington, Va.

aviation chief rigger on the ill-fated ship. Three naval planes from Anacosta Field, In charge of Lieutenant Palmer, enroute to Langln Field for the memorial ran into severe storms in the Pennsylvania mountains and had to turn back to their home station. They will return Sunday morning to join some twenty army and navy planes now parked at Langin Field rendy tor their part in the program. They will drop wreaths over the site of the wreck at Ava, Ohio, and give an exhibition for the crowds gathered here for the memorial. Many'Freak Happenings and Humorous Incidents Recorded, Along With Tales of Disaster and Toll of Three Dead Thus Par Reported.

icles wante'd. the extreme left wing tlie Chicago, Sept. 4 Damage to crops from rainstorms tornadoes which visited seven states during the week gained preeminence today, over property losses estimated at $550,000, the flooding of 300 homes at Hannibal, the closing ot a factory at that place where 1,800 men are employed, and the- toll of three dead. Freak happenings and humorous incidents were recorded, along with the saving from possible wreckage the JRo'cky Mountain, Limited and reported It In time for the train to detour. Crops In Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana and Missouri suffered from washouts, tornadoes and heavy r.alnfall generally.

Fifty percent of the Illinois corn crop was reported as Jn certain areas by rain and tornadoes. The crop was already considered as delayed due to inclement weather. The heaviest agriculture and industrial losses were reported from Jowa and Illinois, with Missouri next. Large amounts of small grain Boston. Sept.

4. The navigation of both the steamer City of Rome and the submarine S-51 contributed to the collision on September 25, 1925, which sank the submarine and cost the lives of thirty- three meo, the Boston inspectors of the United States steamboat inspection service decided today. The licenses of Captain John H. Diehl and TWrd Mate Timothy L. Dreyer, who were on the deck of the City of Rome on the night of the collision off Block Island, were suspended for nine months, beginning Sentember 15.

In the 3.000 word decision reviewing the law and the testimony be- f'-- the board, the inspectors wrote: "We are satisfied that, had the officers of the S-51 been under the j'-r- isdictipn of would have this been service, action taken against their licenses, had it been possible." Declaring that "it has frequently been the case that great 'lessons have been learned from great disasters." the board gave as Its opinion "that a need which had been apparent to navigators time Is emphasized in for this some case, Herbert Huddle's Name Had Been Mentioned in Grand Jury Hearing. SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS PAY VISIT TO THIS CITY REIMS FIRST TIME Found Four Years Ago Near Where Preacher and Choir Singer Were Slain. namely, that sea Koinsr vessels be required to carry range lights." Commenting on the evidence introduced at the trial ot Captain Diehl and Third Mate Dreyer and various charges of negligence and Inattention tn duty, the hoard found: "Collision could and should have avoided by the action of either vessel and such action within the limitation of and required by the rules." From the testimony presented the board found that Somerville, N. Sept. 4.

A man's blood-stained handkerchief, bearing tho initial, was found four years ago near where tho Rev. Edward W. Hall and his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, were shot to death', but it figured in the case for the first time today. Tno handkerchief was found by Thomas A.

Lyons, a retired bus owner of New Brunswick, N. according to Inspector John Underwood, one of Special Prosecutor Simpson's Investigators. Lyons was questioned at state police headquarters today and said he was returning from Red Bank about 12:30 the night of the murders. At he passed the Middlesex County Vocational School, on the outskirts of New Brunswick, he heard people arguing. He did not stop 'and later an automobile passed him at high speed.

He heard a man say, "I told you not to do that." Four or five days later he read of the murders. He talked to a New Brunswick policeman and they went Return to Wytheville With Commonwealth's Attorney. Not Known When Suspect Will Be Taken to the Wythe County Prison. Mother Governor Gore is Claimed by Death Clarksb'nrg, Vf. Sept.

4. Marietta Pnyrie Uogcrs eighty-four, motfter of (lov- fvnor Howard 31. Gorp, died at (Isill) o'clock this evening In the nil! family home at (lore, two miles from (his city, where she had lived for half a century. TIio governor's mother hud nn Invalid for live years, and It Is snld only lirr desire to see her son become governor kept her nllve at certain critical stages. Governor (lore was notified at Charleston by telephone and will arrive hpre tomorrow morning.

Mrs. (lore was founder and charter member of the first Woman's Christ Inn Temperance Union In West Virginia, and members of the local union will servo as pallbearers at, the t'miontl, which "111 be held at 1IM30 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Hcp7.lhnli Baptist, church. Interment will be made In the church cemetery. Herbert Huddle, believed to have been one ot the principal leaders of the mob that stormed the Wythe county Jail, Wytheville, on August 15 and lynched Raymond Bird, negro, was arrested hero yesterday by Chief of Police S. W.

Lewis, at the behest Heuser, commonwealth's of Wythe county, who Bluefield, accompanied by, some of the special investigators appointed by Governor Byrd to probe the lynching. Huddle, Is said to have come to something more than a week ago and who has since been living with a family on the north side, was arrested In the lobby of the Hotel Matz I early yesterday afternoon. Huddle, has a clean cut appearance. He is a comparatively young OR.PAULE. IS OF HE Accused of Administering Poison Tablets She Was in Hospital.

Motion of Prosecuting Attorney Counts Overruled by Judge McClintic. DECISION JUDGE TAFT MARYLAND CASE CITED Will Come to Bluefield Sufficiently Long Before January Term to Hear Evidence on Question of Truth of Statements in Petition. the ance. In the center of the store depart- uw market is found. White tile still in the fields are partial losses.

predominates over a refrigerated Tornadoes which accompanied the orty-ioot counter with huge cooling rainstorms In several sections did 'lifimlws In the rear. It is said $150,000 damage along the Kansas- he United Meat Market at Gary is Nebmska line near IV-rase Cits- he finest to be found in the state, Neb and damage south of and certainly it gives that appear- Joliet, 111., where hundreds of acres of corn were flattened. At Hannibal, where almost ments" 1 "6n "the" extreme! six inches of rain fell in twenty eft Is the men's shop, equipped in four hours, more than 300 homes 'ixtures to match the main room were flooded, a factory em- and giving an air of a smart Fifth joying persons was by avenue exclusive shop. --J In the of the building the of- Ice is located directly in front especially constructed windows. ew in design are the panes of lass in the windows.

They are ot lens type, and throw the light through the entire store. On the second floor will be found ladies' ready-to- vear department and a stork de- partmeft, dainty and attractive. The new store has many features flood, and fire and street departments worked without sleep to maintain a levee along a swollen stream. An undertaker.at Hannibal, failed to care for body, put a rowboat in his hearse and made the last part of his j'ourney in the boat in which the boiy was conveyed to the hearse. A home on the same Hannibal street was lifted bodily by the flood and deposited a block away.

Rescue workers braved water show i of the deck will be pointed out on the dates waist deep to res cue children from of the fornial opening, Probably the, fi oo a homes. most Interesting are the beauty par-j coa i ne near peorla stopped iors, located on the sec.ond floor, wor jt -when a landslide struck its Equipped with the most modern flx- ures and contraptions to make mi- ady more beautiful and presided over'by experts lu complexion hair dressing, two rooms are provld- buildlags. Water which covered the paved state road between Elgin and Hockford, 111., receded, leaving the road black with thousands of ed in the conventional white. One is nl for white to drive ro women. a aeauty parlor is the 'only one to be found of its type in the section.

The building is equipped with electric elevators and the most mod ern refrigerating plant in the sec Baseball league teams in Illinois found their closing schedules wrecked and half county fairs computed, losses from lack of attendance. tion. The store handles two car Five and a half inches of rain tell loads of meat a week 'and has a' at Sprnigfield, last night and plant that will freeze more than a today, compelling the closing of car load at a time. Then there Is a roads and the rerouting of the pav- cooling chamber for vegetables and ed highway to Chicago. Fifty motor (Turn to Page Kleven) (Turn to Page Two, Second Section) watch of the City of Rome until too late to be of any'value as a red light." The hoard found that when the compass of the submarine did not materially change, no attempt was made by the deck watch of the City of Rome to avoid the as provided for ifi the international rules.

Both Captain Diehl and Third Mate Dreyer shares in the responsibility for this failure, the board ruled. The board also held that Third Mate Dreyer was negligent in allowing the quartermaster to leave the pilot house thereby contributing to the collision. "The same, rule that applied to the navigation of the City of Rome as relates to the constant bearing of approaching vessel also applied to the S-M and chonlrt have indicated to her officers as well that the risk of collision the decision stated. The report is by Captain Herman T. Parker and Inspector John Stewart.

There are two appeals possible from their finding. The first is to the TJnitfid States supervising Inspector, fifth district, Boston, and the other to the supervising inspector general in the commerce department. Washington. Washington, Sent. (IP) The determination of a steamboat Inspecting board at Boston today that both the steamship City of Rome and the submarine S-51 were at fault in the collision which sank tho S-51 off Block Island last fall, disclosed a sharp disagreement between the inspecting board and a navy board of Inquiry.

In a preliminary report made soon after the disaster, which cost tho lives of thirty-three on the submarine, the navy borad that the City of Rome had not observed the navigation laws and that tho S-51 was In a position where she had the'right of way. The report contained no criticism of the S-51 officers and crew. Recently the naval board submitted its final report, based on an inspection of the hull of the S-51 since raised. This report was kepi secret, Indicating an intention on tho part of the government to press before tho civil courts tho question o' the responsibility of tho City of Rome for the disaster. rgument, and they found the hand- erchlef.

Lyons said he gave it to the of- cers, but it never had come to lent. The investigators will continue on Tuesday to check-the albl ot'Henry. te-venoy brother ot" Mrs. France" stevens widow of the mur- ered clergyman. Stevens declares he was fishing at night the couple were lain.

Witnesses, who It was said could support his storj', were un- ble to swear as to the date. I CONTINUANCE OF PROSPERITY IS MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE IN FALL ELECTIONS THAN PROHIBITION, SAYS MR. TILSON New York, Sept. 4. ot prosperity in this country la more important than the question of prohibition in the coming elections, Representative John Q.

Tilson, ot Connecticut, majority leader, of the house said Ho issued a statement giving expression of his views as eastern campaign director tor the Republican senatorial committee. "Those who to make prohibition the principal issue in the congressional campaign this fall," he said, "are permitting their, good sense to be obscured by a form of fanaticism which Is an outstanding characteristic of both the radical 'drys' and the radical 'wets'. I would say to such, a plague both your "No one can deny that prohibition is an Important question in which there is great public interest, but no one can rightfully claim that it is more important than all the -other questtpns that affect directly pur national prosperity." Representative Tilson asserted that "those who bear allegiance to the Democratic party nationally are as hopelessly divided on the questlon vi of prohibition as those -who make up the Republican party." Until one of the parties adopts prohibition as the principal Issue of a campaign, he said, it will "only make for confusion to attempt to force a relatively' minor matter into the foreground as a controllng issue." HOW PAUL SMITH'S GOT ITS NAME DISCLOSED Paul Smith's, hf. Sept 4. "Paul Smith's," the possessive date line carried by hundreds of presi dispatches reporting activities President Coolldge and the summei white, house, IB the name ot the ho tel which, with a few cottages cm houses, comprises the sole settle ment here, Years ago Paul Smith, a Ver monter, established a hunting lodge on the present hotel site.

As th flaca grew into a resort the nami of "Paul Smith's" was retained, thi apostrophe being used as part 0 the correct name of the hotel and settlement. President Coolldge today.racelvei Representative and Mrs. Bectrand H. Siiell, of Pottsdani, who aro to be week-end guests at White Pini camp. Snell is representatlvi from the thirty-first New York con gressional district and is a promt nent Republican leader ot th house.

James R. Sheffield, American ara baauaddr to Mexico, is to arrive her next week tor a discussion ot'Mexi can affairs and be is to be followec by Attorney General Sargeofc whore ha had heard the man, hut, according to Information obtained by a representative of The Telegraph, has quite reputation as a bad man in that section of Wythe county where the lynching Raymond Bird occurred. He is being held in the city jail. Commonwealth's Attorney Heuser and his party left Bluefleld late yesterday. It is not known when Huddle 'will be removed from Bluefleld to the Wythe county Jail.

The special grand jury which has ARRESTED IN NASHVILLE WHILE VISITING BROTHER itt11 te of Woman Who Died July 20 at Sequim, Exhumed Tuesday and Examination is Said to Disclosed Poison in Stomach, Naslvllle, Sept. 4 Dr. Paul K. Moore, charged with the of his wife in Port Angeles, leport Refusing to Accede to Spain's Petition Given Approval. GenevaS Sept 4.

The coun- 11 of the league nations touay looted to give Germany a seat on he council, and approved the spe- commission's report, which reuses to accede to Spain's petition or a similar seat. It was the opinion of delegates onlght that despite the refusal of i permanent seat, Spain will not vithdraw its official league membership. Primo De Riviera, however, replying to a joint telegram "rom Premier Brland and Sir Ausen Chamberlain, urging Spain to participate in the league work dur- ng the present session, announced "Spain must persist in her at- ot dignified 1 Statesmen here feel that tho premier would hesitate to throw the eague aside and thus lose what ooks like an absolute certainty that Spain will bo allowed a semi-per- manont scat. Tho special committee of tho world court conference today began a judicial study of the American reservations. Final acceptance of in some form Is generally believed to be a probability.

oa Bird who was riddled with- lead arrested by city detec- while he lay asleep iu the county jail and then his body tied to an automobile and dragged for several miles and strung up over a limb of a tree, near the placelwhere he was charged with having committed a crime upon a white yesterday-'uioraiag. Until September 16. When the grand jury reconvenes it is expected much evidence will be ready to be presented by the special investigators and the Wythe county officials. It was learned yesterday that Huddle's name had been prominently mentioned in all of the evidence yet presented before the special grand jury. It was further learned that a number of other people were closely questioned here yesterday by the Wythe county officials.

tonlgnl: nt ine holne 0 brother Moore a instructor in Hume-Fogg high school, Nashville. Dr. Moore, after his arrest, said his -wife was taken ill July 4, and at the liver. Dr, Moore, said to be one of the most prominent in the west, operates pfivute hbspital at Sequlm, Wash. He said that Ihcre had been no trouble between himself and his wife previous to her death but that they had planned a trip east 1 to se his relatives.

After her death he came on alone throe weeks ago and arrived at Culhoun, he visited brother, J. TV. Moore, he said. his He SEIZED BY RECEIVERS left there this morning. He said ho hud heard nothing of any investigation until informed ot It by Nash, vlllo detectives who had received 'j instructions late today to arrest him! I Charges ot "being a fugitive from I justice and for murder" were made Atlanta.

Sept. 4 against Dr. Moore upon request by ers for W. D. Manley, bankrupt and telegram of Sheriff J.

W. Piko, of oft-indlc-ted head of the defunct Bankers Trust today seized Manley's $12,000 automobile, Man- ami four officials of the bank meet federal federal mall mail fraud fraud charges, charges, and Orville A. Park, general coun- for issued a statement that T. R. Bennett, state superintendent of banks, was being made the "goat" in the situation, through the demand of the Fulton county grand jury that he be removed.

These were the developments today in tho situation growing out of the failure of the Bankers Trust and the consequent closing of a large chain of small banks. Mahley'B creditors, who Thursday obtained from his wife, who had been named guardian ad lltem, consent to order placing him in personal bankruptcy, that, three other high priced automobiles be seb.pjl but it was found they belonged to other persons, in his home country. Moore, a graduate of the University of Louisville and a native Kentucklan, was In the army during tltii World War Tor ypars. In 1(120, ho wont west and established his hospital at Sequim. Dr.

Moore's brother, who Is well known in Nashville through his long tenure as a teacher here In tho high school, said he believed the charges were the result of the professional jealousy and 111 feeling ot another doctor in tho Senuim hospital. Port Angeles, Sept. 4 A warrant charging Dr. Paul Moore, a physician of Sequim, Wash, with first degree murder In connection with the alleged poisoning of his wife, who died July 20, was issued hero today nnd a search instituted for Moore, who Is believed to be in Kentucky, The physician is accused of administering poison tablets to his wife while Bhe was In a hospital, attended by two other physicians, one ot to other persons, whom, Dr. H.

S. Jessup, became sus- HearingH in the Manley liank- plclous, too lute to save the woman's FONCK FLIGHT PLANE HASN'T BEEN PAID FOR Now York, Sept. 4. Sl- korksy, designer and builder of the Riant pla.no In which Captain Kene Fonck exnects to make his trans- Atlantic flight, said today the plane has not been paid for by its own- erti. the Argonauts.

Inc. Only $20,000 of the has -been paid, Sikorsky said. If the final payments are not made by the Argonauts, the Sikorsky company will assume tho financing of the flight, he said. Colonel H. E.

Hartney, vice president of the Argonauts, when Informed of Sikorsky's statements, said: "The Ai'Konautea have a -bill of sale for the plane and full title to it, dated April 2, 1926, except that before delivery IB made we must pay another OFFICERSTLECTED BY KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS At the regular meeting of the Bluefleld Council Knights of Columbus held on last Thursday night the following oelcers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand knight, A. M. Eckstein; deputy grand knight, J. J. Me- Auany; chancellor, J.

A. Cmldy: linanclal secretary, W. B. Dadosky; recording secretary, D. J.

Howe; treasurer, Clarence Evans; advocate, W. J. Bruch; warden, J. N. Laliue; inner guard.

Lewis Pastore; outer guard, Frank Caa.ni. osbl; trustee, P. Caosldy. ruptcy casa are to lie resumed before a referee on Monday. 0.

C. WOOD RECOVERING FROM SEVERE ILLNESS Kvansville, Sept. 4 Osborne C. Wood; son of General Leonard Wood, was recovering tonight from a severe Illness which sent him to a hospital from factory where ho has been working for $125 a month. Dr.

J. F. Wynn, attending tlje former army officer and Wall street plunger, tonight said the condition of the young man who was taken suddenly ill on Thursday, was much improved. life. Mooro mid his wife aro known to have disagreed over his friendship for Mrs.

William Kendall of Sequim. Tho physician and Mrs. Kendall disappeared shortly after the funeral of Mrs. Moore. William Kendall, husband of Mrs.

Kendall, who traced the physician's movements, declared he would file charges against Moore under the Mann act. Mrs. Kendall Is reported to he in Seattle. While hla wife was in the hospital recovering from an operation for a liver complaint performed by Dr. Will Taylor of this city, Moore is alleged to have given Mrs.

Harry B. T. O'Brien, a nurse, twenty-five (Turn to Page Two, Second Section) ANOTHER CHAPTER IN OKLAHOMA MINE DISASTER HISTORY CLOSED WHEN LAST OF SIXTEEN BODIES WAS BROUGHT OUT Tahona, Sept. 4. A NOTHER chapter in Oklahoma mine disaster history was closed here this afternoon wheu the last body was removed from the Superior Mining Company's mine No.

Si'J, where nlxteen men met death in an explosion yesterday morning. One or two bodies found near the eutrauc? to tho mine, which Indicated the men had attempted to work their way to safety. Most of the bodies, however, wero recovered under dirt and debris at the 7 1-2 west entry where the force of the explosion centered. A collection of mine gas and coal dust la believed to have caused the blast which occurred shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday when 148 miners went Into the workings. Many of those who escaped were slightly burned.

Individual funeral services' will be held tomorrow for the victims. The crowd of several thousand persons gathered at the mine entrance dispersed and weary rescue crows dropped their tdo'ls when the sixteenth body was brought out. Yirturjly all hope lor the entombed men was given up yesterday but the rescue work was pushed relentlessly on the bare chance that ot the victims wight bo found alive. The mine, oue of the biggest producers in eastern Oklahoma, is un-untonlzcd, and it believed tlujt each of the men killed had some company Insurance. Judge George W.

McCllhtlc, of the United States Court for the southern district of West Virginia, has overruled tho motion of Judge G. L. Counts, prosecuting attorney ot McDowell county, to remand the case of Ell Watklns, state prohibition officer, to the state' Court to answer all indictment charging him with the murder of Jim Harmon, near Welch, several mbnths ago. Judge McClintic rendered an opinion In tlj-j case on last Thursday at Charleston and has advised Judge Counts find Judge J. Frank Maynard, the latter special counsel for 'Watkins, of his decision.

Harman, it will be recalled, was shot and mortally wounded while Watklns, with Dave Scarberry and Federal Prohibition Agents Simmons and Lambert were raiding a still near Welch. Watklns was In- dieted by the McDowell county grand jury on a charge of murder. Because of his association with the federal enforcement officers and claiming to having been acting under their direction he asked that the case be removed from the state court to the United States court. On petition of Judge J. Frank May.nard, presented to Judge McClintic, at Charleston, the- case was removed from the jurisdiction of the court to the United States district court.

At. the June term ot the United States district court in Bluefleld. JudKe Counts, McDowell county Drosecutor, appeared in open court here and petitioned Judge McClintic to rescind his tormer order and transfer of the Watkina. case baclr to' county criminal trial. Judge McClintic then directed counsel for Watkins a.nd State's counsel to prepare petitions In the case.

It Is'the contention of tho McDowell county prosecutor that Watkius was not working under the direction of tho federal enforcement agents at the time-of the killing of Harman. that he was personally conducting the raid, and that in such cases the United States district court was without jurisdiction and could not remove the case from thn state court. The petition filed by Watklns' counsel claimed ho was under the direction and supervision of the federal agents at the of the Killing of Jim Harman, that the allegations' of tho petition filed by Judge Counts In the case did not disclose a state of facts, that the allegations set forth In the petition were contradictory, evasive, founded on hearsay and untrue, etc. JfcClintic has advised Counts that the sla'te of West Virginia has the to contest the facts in Watklns' petition and has set the January term of the district court in Bluefleld for the time at which he will hear the arguments, Judge McClintic'R letter to Counts, a copy of which was directed to Judge J. Frank Maynard and Hon.

Elliott Northcott, United States attorney, reads as follows: "In the case of tho State of West Virginia vs. L. Watkins. removed to tho district court of the United States tor tho southern district ot West Virginia, at Bluefleld, "I h'ave carefully examined the tlon filed by Watklns again.yand am of opinion that, under the decision of Judge Taft iu the Maryland case, and the subsequent decision of Judge Sopor, In tho name case, and tho other authorities on the biib- joct, that the petition, is good; and I overrule the motion made on ground that tho petition does- not show sufficient facts to keep the case in the district court. As stated above, I believe the petition In ItBRlt is sufficient.

prosecuting attorney of McDowell county, requests that opportunity ho given to contest- the legations of fact contained In the petition, I believe that the State of West Virginia is entitled to this opportunity to contest these facts, ''The term of this court begius at Huntington on the 21st day of September. I have to go to Huutinaton- 011 the 20th, so that is really a part of the term. "I have many engagements cpn- cernlng Important matters for the next two weeks, and 1 apprehend' that 1 will not be able to hear this matter during that time, However, 1 will arrange to go to Bluefleld some time sufficiently long before the next term court, to hear the evidence on the question of the truth of the statements contained in the petition. So that, if I arrive at a conclusion that the evidence bears out the petition, there will be sufficient time to have a trial of the case the term of to holden In Bluefleld In January This term of court will commence on the 18th ot January next. "As you know, the Charleston' term begins an the Kith day of veraber, and will continue or six weeks.

"Yours very M. M. P. TAWHSK Lafayette, Sept, i P. Lawler, sixty, known athletic trainer, di today after ness..