House staff has days returning straugers, Of } lana have biog reruried. One of the urned gifts was a Christmas tree a hima se Roosevelt children, which came accom- panied by a box Tuli of decorations. “If a total stranger to the president sends him a Christmas present it Is likely that he is after something.” eb served an official at the White House. “To accept such gifts would not oanly be very bad taste on the part of the CAPITAL SURPLUS We solicit. your Banking business, and will pay you three per cent lauterest per annum for money left on Certificate of Deposit or Sav- ings Account the department of savings is a special feature of this Bank, and all deposits, wheth- er lurge or small, draw the seme rate of interest MN. H. SAWTELLE, Cashier. -. The Valley Record Fm S “All the wews that's ft to print.” WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1906 bs —— | WAVERLY Frank E Wood, Representative News and advertising matter may be left at Gregg's Racket Store, Wav~ erly. After 12 o'clock noon call the main office at Sayre, both phones ER Miss Christie Plerce of Elmira day Was A. Unge- mira El- spent Christmas at Hon. J home by B. Fiovd is confiened to his iliness, Mr. and Mrs A | David were in Elmira yesterday Decker and son, Stanchcliff of Brook- of Mrs. F. A Bell Miss Elizabeth Iyn, is the guest John Handrick Is spending a few days with his parents at Great Bend Robert Templeton of Smithfield, was calling on Waverly [riends this morn- ing. Miss Helen Manning of Canton was visiting Waverly 0 day. Pa iends yester- Miss Maud Eilis left today for a visit at Allentown, Pa and New York city. Floyd Bartholomew visiting his uncle, F mew. of Cortland is rank Barthoio Dr. E C. Rutnser will leave Wav? erly tomorrow after spending the pas’ week here Samuel Carew of Morris Run the guests of his sister, Mrs LaRlew vesferday end M: Albert L are \ ting "AS H.-P The Rev of Spencer of Mrs Esq. ivermore the home Bel! at son, F A Livermore's The Shriners distributed gbout 160 baskets each containing sufficient io gredients io make a fine dinner last Monday Christmas and wife, who have the home of 1. F their E. Tracy Sweet been visiting at Shoemaker, Faq returns homes at Scranton today to Mr. and Mrs. H B Ingham enter- tained a large party of friends at their home vesterday Guests were present from Binghamton, Owego and Towanda. Mr. and Mrs. John H Murray tertained a large party of friends thelr home yesterday Guests present from New York city kers. en- at were Yonu- Towanda, Nevada and Waverly sian smells Received Xmas Gifts, Waverly—A well known young man who resides {nu Waverly received two boxes yesterday, sud visions of fine Christinas gifts, the remembrances of _sdmiring friends floated before his vistons, He opened them and found that one of them contained the Iike- ness of a human being who has only present In this vale of tears for # few short days. The other box contained a bottle partly filled with milk. He thinks it is a great com- bination, but isn't shouting It from ERIE TRAIN KILLS MAN ger and Is Ran Down. Waveriy—This morning when the west hound Erie passenger train that jeaves Waverly at 8:35 a m. was about two miles west of Owego it struck a man who was walking on the track. He was hurled to one side, and thrown into a ditch The train was stopped immediately, and backed to the place where the man lay. The only mark was on the side of his head that was badly crushed, and he died almost immediately Who the man was could not be ascertained by any of the train crew. The body was pinced on board the train and taken back to Owego F. & A XM. WILL DEDICATE NEW TEMPLE TONIGHT. Fine Program Prepared—Service In Charge of ble Grand Sealer Warden. Waverly—The Masonic lodge of this place will dedicate their new temple that has just been completed at the corner of Waverly and Elizabeth streets this evening. Right Worthy, Charles Smith of Oneonta, Grand Sen- ior Warden of the grand lodge, will have charge of the services. Many out of town guests will very likely he presnt WAVERLY MASONS WILL GIVE A NEW YEARS RECEPTION. ll te Attend. Ou will be a reception Waverly there New Years uight al the new Masonic Temple, and an invitation Is extended to the public to attend. Tick- ets for dancing can be procured from member of commmitiee an the All the Waverly a fine Christmas merchants report trade Many sa) that it is the best in the history of their business, and surpassed highest expectations Free! Free! Mrs. A. C. Trainor, Colchester, was all run down. Bloodine is a body builder and system tonic of won- derful merit, and if you have not tried it, you should today. The greatest system Tonic in the world Sick Kidneys are positively cured by Bloodine. Sold by C. M. Drigss. Sayre. Cawelcome Step In Dancing. CHICAGO, Dec. 24 —~Hugless danc ing and waterless swimming are to be taught in the Chicago public schools The 270000 pupils will balance for ward and back, trip through the rliyth. mical steps of the stately mazurka, glide gracefully into waltzes and two steps, trip through polkas or dash over the floor in an old fashioned galop But they will tap, glide and dash alone. No youthful arm will be al lowed to belt the girlish waist, and they won't even know that they are dancing, because in the curriculum the hugless daocing Is catalogued as “fan cy steps’ Moral Training Neglected. CHICAGO, Dec. 24. — In England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the United States there has been a steadily growing Impression that the | schools are not being as well utilized as they might be for the purpose of moral training and development of citizenship the whole matter was held in London last autumn resulting in the organiza tion of the International Association For the Promotion of Moral Training In the Public Schools ratafl Explosion In Gas Werks. CHICAGO, Dec. 24 —-An explosion and fire at the plant of the Northwest ern Gas Light and Coke company at Evanston, a suburb, resulted in the death of Isaac Terry and the serious injury of three other men, all work men tmployed by the gas company The fire oceurred In a pit where tar, coke and oll were stored. Terry was thrown into the pit hy the explosion ind burned to death. Nig Fire at Nacogdoches, Tex. NACOGDOCHES, Tex. Dec. 24 Fire that started in the second story of the FE. A. Rlount building, fronting on the public square, caused a loss of uw oy. The fire started in the cen ter of & block and seriously threatensd the entire business quarter Shah of Persia Sinking Rapidly. LONDON, hee, 24. A dispateh from Teheran says that the shah is sioking rapidly. Wenther Probabiiitien. president, but would prebably give the sender reason to believe that he might look for a return. The presideat is not running his office in that way.” SAY GIRLS FORGED NOTES Premineat Young Women of Warnes burg, Pa.. Aceused. WAYNESRURG, Pa, Dec. — Sev en of the most prominent young wo men In this ¢ity face arrest on charges of forgery, Thelr alleged forgeries are sald to have caused the 1.000000 wreck of the Farniers and Drovers’ hank J. BF. Rhinehart, former cashier and vice president of the institution, discharged the men employed on the books when he took charge of the vank and employed the youug women, He is sald to have selected them, first, hecanse of their ignorance of banking methoda, and, second because thelr social prominence would be an asset of the Lank. He is uiso =aid to have induced them to sign notes on which he ruised money for himself 24. OIL TRUST WINS POINT. Sut Brought Against Standard In Ohle Court Without Jurisdiction. FINDLAY, O., Dec. 26 —The Stand: ard Oil company won & victory in com- mon pleas court here when Judge W. S. Duncan decided that the probate court had no jurisdiction in the suit brought against it in the probate court and threw out the recent verdict of guilty against the company This decision In no way affects the indictments recently returnal in com- mon pleas court by the grand jury agulust John D. Rockefeller and the other officials of the Standard Oil com- pany charging them with violation of | the anfitrast laws | It is understood that the prosecution will appeal the case to n higher court | COMES TO AMERICA. feller Church. NEW YORK, Dec. 20 -Rev. Charles Aked has written John I. Rockefeller accepting his offer of the pulpit of the New York Fifth Avenue Baptist church No official announcement of the ac ceptance will be made in Liverpool or New York pending the completion of | the 1ffcessary church formalities. Dr | Aked will surely be hitterly criticised for leaving Plymouth chapel for the i richer church In New York leading members of the New York | cungregation refused to discuss Dr | Aked’s nction. 1he offer of the Fifth Avenue church to him was S100) a vear aud a residence Joseph Lelter's Auta Kills Boy. WASHINGTON, Dec, 2% The sixty horse power touring car of Joseph | Leiter, In which were riding Mr. Lei- | ter, Mrs. Levi Z Leiter and Mr and Mrs. Franklin Remington of New York, ran down and Instantly killed Samuel West, a fourteen year-old pe gro boy. Mrs. Leiter and Mrs. Rem- ington were greatly affected by the accident. Charles H. Raywond, the chauffeur, was arrested, and the en: tire party went to the Tenth precinct police station, where Raymond was paroled In custody of an officer in or der that Mr, Leiter and his party might be couveyed Lome Derniling Switeh Caused Wreck. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 26.-The Southern rallway passenger (rain Neo. 33. from Washington, was wrecked at Moncrief, ive miles north of Jackson- ville. John Holmes, a negro fireman, was kill. Engineer J W. Urqubart of Savannah, s=culded by escaping steain, was seriously injured. None of the passengers was injurtd. The de- | railing switch was thrown in front of the fast moving train, which caused the engine to turn turtle and threw the oxpress car from the track | | Was Despondent Over Wife's Death. |, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Dec. 26— | Despondent because of the death of his | wife a year since Peter Medjo, a con- tractor, reputed to be worth over $25. ou), choked hlmself to death with a small piece of rope. Hin body was found hanglug to a tree in a bit of woodland a mile and a half from Mine haha falls Church Organist a Suicide, FLEMINGTON, N. J. Dec. 26. Mise Elizabeth Hill, ®&rganist at the Rea ville Preshyterian church and promi nent lin charel work at lteaville, where dhe resided. committed suicide at ber flome by entting her throat aud then jumping inte a cistern heneath the kitchen floor Big Vice at Denver, DENVER, Dec. 26-The Ernest & Cramer bulldiug, one of the largest «8 fice buildings lu Denver, was destroyed by fire last might. The bullding was ap eight story brick and stone strueture and co=t over half a million dollars, Wenther Probabilities. Partly cloudy: northwest winds William's Carbolic Salve With Arnlea ! snd Witeh Hasel The. best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bores, [licers, Salt Rheum, Tet- Camp Goes Wild ~ With Joy. BURIED ALIVE NEARLY SIXTEEN DAYS ———— Reseus PFarty Vietorious ia less Fight With Death—Tears, Laagh- ter and Cheers Greet the Plucky Prissner. BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Dec, 24—0uil of the valley of the shadow Lindsay B. Hicks, the miner who was buried pearl sixteen days in the Edison mine At this piace, has heen rescued from his living tomb. Surrounded by hundreds who have literally camped at the bead of the mine shaft waiting for the outcome of the desperals bhattle being waged for & human iife, the freed captive was carried, Iving on a stretcher, on the shoulders of the triumphant men whe reached Lim to the hospital Rough miners cheered, with tears in their eves, as the procession reached the top of the mine shaft: women al ternately laughed and wept, and ev ery one crowded forward for a look at the rough, begrimed, snoken cheeked workman whose name has been on the lips of pearly GO.00000 people for more than a8 week, And above it all the mine whistles, factory whistles, locomotive whistles and every other thing that could be in duced to make a noise shrieked a wel: come back to earth of the man who had been buried alive and twice given up for lost Every one who could grasped the Land of him who had been saved from almost certain death after a Herculean struggle. After twice changing plans on ac count of great rocks that blocked their path, the rescuers by careful timber work te keep the soft dirt and rock from raluing dows upon their heads came upon the top of the car which covered Hicks Bits of rock were torn out, and Anal ly the buried nan could he seen. They had heard him for three days Through a hole a candle was drop- ped In to Hicks His eves hare been handaged for two days to Keep the sud den glare from affecting him, hut he took the cloth off and blinked at the candle. “I'm all right.” he =aid. “Td give son one of these eves to get a good look at the right now, though.” It was 11:25 o'clock at night when Hicks was relensed. The last cut on the drift was made at 11:12 o'clock, and no sooner the segment of debris removed and the way left open than Hicks began to scrape away the rocks and earth aud crawl toward the opening With arms in front of his head he went inte the miniature tunnel and began to work his way slowly through to the other side of a dump car, near which he has remained during the ex cavatiug. When he had progressed about halfway he stopped, and Super. intendent Frapk Miller, who stood at the tube at the mouth of the shaft, immediately called and asked what was the matter “Ob. nothing.” Hicks “I'm juxt going to stop wind My wind know.” Then Hicks moved a few inches fur- ther toward freedom, and bis arms were seized by Dr. Stinchfield and Miner Gents, The two, exerting all their strength, pulled the miner Into the main tunnel, where be was plac od in a sitting position. The blindfold that Hicks had been ordered to put ou was removed, as the tunnel was enly dimly lighted hy candle. And there, 38 hundred feet from the face of the mountalu and within a few steps of the place where the miner bad lesin entombed for uesrly sixteen days, there occurred a pathet- ically Joyful scene Dr. Stinchfield, with tears in his eves: and his bands lald affectionately ou Iicke' shoulders, sald: “Well, how are you, old boy? Aud there were tears in the eyea of Hicks as well, the ouly tears that he had shed in all the days and nights since he was entombed, as he replied: “1 am feeling fine 1 never thank you. doctor, for what you have done” And then Superintendent (Cone eof the Edison Power company, the man who Las stayed by the work daf aed pight directing every move in the res cue of Hicks, came forward and took Hicks by both hands and sald “1 am glad to see you agaip man” Hicks, his volee choked with emo tion, attempted to thank him nlso for his efforts in Lis behalf The superintendent gazed steadfast ly for a moment and then, nuable to speak further, turned and walked ont of the tunnel and up the mountain side Hicks appears well and happy after his grewsome experience and Ia spend. ing wuch time in receiving the congrat nlations of friends and neighbors, te whom he relates as best he can the feelings be underwent within the dark, close quarters of his tomblike prison pear the dead bodies of five less forte: nate companions while scores of men worked like beavers day and night for more than two weeks to save him from death by digging through many feet of earth and rock He was once a soldier and is sald to carry some Indian blood In his veins His bravery under the trying condi tions has won for him the admiration of bundreds of persons who watched the progress of his exhumation. So strong was Hicks at the finish that he helped to scrape away the last bamlor of earth and erawled, with slight as sistance, from death to life Hicks was not emaciated. He was 80 strong that the stimulants that had been prepared for him were not needed. His beard was thick and stubby, bof sun Wis called back I'm out of is very short, you nn old It was first thought that all had per. the hundreds of tons of rock and earth Three days later a tapping on the iron rall of the little tramway running through the drift gave the first intima. tion that a man still alive was buried heneath the debris A seventy foot pipe, two inches In diameter, was Immediately forced through the debris. It reached the spot where Hicks was entombed A heavy dirt car had become wedged In the debris In such a way ss to keep the Immense weight from crushing him When Hicks pulled the wooden plug from the iron pipe and called to the men above him his volee sounded like one from the grave. Through the pipe the men working on top learved from Hicks that for sev eral hours after the cavein he had talked with bis companions, but that they had become silent, and he beliey- od they were dead By means of the pipe Hicks kept In communication with a hig force of res cuers at once organized Milk was poured down the pipe. This was the only sustenance possible to give the man for uearly two weeks During the first two days Hicks said he had existed on a plug of tobacco he had with him at the time of the cave in He had just exhausted this when the pipe was foroed inte the crevice In which he was pinned. Every day gal lons of milk were poured down the pipe to keep him alive It wax thought at first that his res. cue would at the most be only a mat- ter of a few dave hnt as the work progressed it was seen that the fask was a mnch more diffienit one than was anticipated In a narrow space under the car there was just room for Hicks to lie down. His prison did not allow of the slightest freedom of movement, and for days the mau lay on his back, not daring to niove lest he might disturb ihe car overhead and bring down upon himself an avalanche of dirt that wotlld mean Als death Through the pipe be himself directed the work of rescue, While the last ~teps were being taken (0 his rescue Superintendent Cone, who led the workers, called to Hicks and told him he was still ou the payroll. He said: “You have been a most faithful man, Hicks. You have been on duty for Ar teen days and nights and never asked for a day off. You have been drawing pay all the time.” American Monument te King. ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 24—A move ment to secure by subscription among the Danish-Americun citizens of the United States a fund to erect a mony iment in Copenhagen to the late King Christian has been presented to these citizens In Georgian. From the quarries of this state have been promised the marble from which the figure is to be fashioned And also the granite pedestal on which it will be placed, The move ment is headed by K. Mathiasen of Keyport, N. J, president; Jucob Riis of New York, vice president, and C. Ras- wussen of Minneapolis, secretary New Crulser South Dakota a Flier. SANTA BARBARA, (Cal, Dec. X.~ During a straightaway run of four hours in Santa Barbara channel in her endurance test the new cruiser South Dakota averaged 22.24 knots an hour. The channel was like a will pond and the weather absolutely clear. In less thau half an bour after the return the ship was off on the return trip to the Golden Gate, It was one of the speed lest trials on record Town In Grip of Socialists. LODZ, Russian Poland, Dec. 21 The town Is threatened with a serlon= industrial crisis. It is practically con trolled by Socialists without lpterfer- ence from the government. One-fourth of the population Is without work or bread, and unless the workmen aban don their excessive demands the em ployers have decided to close all manu- factories within five days Students Have a Fell Programme. ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. J. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity will hold its fiftieth annnal convention and anniversary in Atlanta, opening on Wealnesday and continuing until Sat- urday Aside from the husiness ses- sions dally, there will be a smoker on Wednesday, theater parties on Thurs. day, the annual ball on Friday aod the banquet on Satuniay. A Substitute Porter With Nerve. COLUMBUS, 0, Dec, 20-—A subst] tute negro porter on the Central of Georgin passenger train that left Co jumbus for Macen during the night shot and killed two negroes at Juniper Station about midnight. The negroes were creating a disturbance, and the potter attempted to eject then. They resisted, attacking the porter with knives Plies! Piles! Plles! Dr. Willlams' Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding, Ulcerated and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at once, acjs as a poultice, gives instant relief. Dr .William's Indian Pile Ointment is prepared for Plles and Itching of the private parts. Every box guaran- anteed. Bold by druggists, by mall, for 50c and $100. Williams Mfg. Co, Cleveland, O. For sale by C. season get away. WRECK ON S00 ROAD Collision at Enderlin. TEN DEAD; SIX MOKTALLY WOUNDED Both Engines Wrecked — Passenger Cars Thrown Down Embankment Turned Turtle and Took Fire. Many Saved From Flames. ST. PAUL. Minn., Dec. 34. —Ten per sons are known to be dead, six others are fatally injured and at least {wen ty-five others were hurt in the wreck Inst night of an eastbound accommo dation train on the Minneapolis, St Paul and Sault Ste. Marie raliroad at Enderlin, N. D, The train from Moose Jaw, Canada, is due at Enderlin at 11:45 p. m., but was about two hours late. The en- gineer was running at high speed In an endeavor to make up the lost time. As he swung around a curve just before entering the yards at Enderlin a switch engiue was shifting a string of box ears to a side track. The cars did not clear the main track, and the passen- ger collided head-on with the switch engine, Both engines were wrecked, and the passenger cars were thrown in confu- sion down a small embankment at the side of the track. Several of the day coaches were turned bottom side up and the passengers pinned beneath the wreckage, which took fire from the CcAr stoves. The passenger train was heavily load- ed with people going to spend the boll. days. Most of the casualties occurred in the smoking car and first day coach, both of which were splintered Enderlin is the divisional beadquar. ters of the railroad, and a rescue party was soon at band endeavoring to re: lease the Imprisoned passengers from thelr perilous position. Many persons were in imminent danger from the finmes, which were fast spreading through the cars. Axes were wielded by willing hands, and the roofs of the overturned cars were broken open and the dead and injured taken out as quickly as possilile It was a race between the rescuers and the flames, but hy herculean ef- forts all of the injured were removed hefore the Hames reached them Tep baxlies were taken out and lald beside the track, while the injured were taken In hastily improvised am- bulances to hospitals and hotals. so hard as they used to be. They bad no Gas Lesters inthe olden day: Rates: — Wanted, Lost, Found, For Sal etc, 5 cent a word each in- sertfon for the first three times, cenl a word each insertion there after. None taken for less than 25 cents. Situations wanted free to paid in advance subscribers. RSI WANTED, Girls, to work on shirts at the new shirt factory which will start at Sayre, Jan. 2, 1907. Make appl cations ,Postoffice Box 61, Elmira, N. Y. 183 I FOR BALE. A 180 Art Andes Heating Stove in good condition for sale at half price. Address Box 6S, Athens 189-6* Plane for Sale—Upright grand, $450 Instrument; will sell regardless of price. In perfect condition, chased new six months somely carved, with studenl’s prac- tice mufer, In fact all requrpm desirable in a first Lf Promineat maker's 10-year J tee on receipt. Will positivel at any reasonable price offen first cash buyer. Call owner’ dence, Mrs. Hodges, No. § avenue, Waverly. For Sale—Two show cases Ir condition. Enquire at No. 106 7 avenue, Sayre. Several houses and lots for desirable locations in town. to sult purchasers. Inquire G. Schrier, Maynard Block, FOR RENT. For rent, office rooms in the lock Block. ¢ Ten room brick house, mod provements. Inquire at this 1 For rent at once, several and suites of rooms, good loc with or without bath; $8.60 wards. Enquire of C. C. West, Pa. on THE CAYUTA LAND CO. OF § Desires to announce that tb some very desirable bullding sale on cheap and easy term that they have placed the agen selling them in the hands of EVARTS of this place. All wishing to provide themsel homes or to invest in lots for lative purposes will do well sult with Mr. Evarts before ing elsewhere. This plot of nearly surrounded by industrial with beautiful scenery and all vantages of a modern town. to sult purchasers. Steps are being taken to supply all comprising this plot with a Bf ply of the best water the val fords. When you come to lof the plot of ground take tre Springs Corners, cross crosses over L. V. R. R. whea bridge turn to the left and on the ground. There will be | at the office Tuesday, Thurs Saturday afternoons of show you over the other day by calling | No. 2¢4c. Andrew Evarts, 108 tal Place, Sayre, Pa. a i = ADVERTISFPS. TAKE 50% i i The notice printed in ye . base. their ropy for change offi « on the day Seore t appear is tonpe xUve and |
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