Thursday, June 1, 1899
MOB LAW AT PRINCETON
Is the North becoming barbarous?
Is law and order to be trampled under foot by college students?
Is a reign of anarchy about to be effected?
Is Buffalo Bill to be deprived of his constitutional rights in Princeton by mob law?
We call upon the Government at Washington to place Princeton under military law until Buffalo Bill can hold his performance. He has paid his war tax as a circus man, and he is entitled to protection. Troops should be sent from the South to keep order in Princeton. When a horde of football students run over a lot of cowboys, Cossacks, Indians and Argentine Republicans, it is time to call a halt. The conduct of the North cannot be endured. The circus people must be protected.
THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG
Salt was once a great object, when there were no wagons or wagon roads in the county. At that time, salt was manufactured at a salt spring on Stony Creek, two miles from Marlinton, on land now owned by George Baxter. This was once a great salt lick and the trails of buffalo and deer can be plainly seen this day on the hillside. The water of this spring held a quantity of salt in solution and it was boiled and the owner had valuable property. About 1825, it became the property of an enterprising man named William Cochran who wished to increase the flow of water and dug a well.
Not far below the surface, rock was struck, and a spring pole rigged up and the stone drilled through. The drilling continued nearly a hundred feet down and when the well was about finished, the tools were left in overnight. When morning came, the well diggers found that there had been a cave in and that the tools were fast. The tools were lost and the project abandoned. No water has flowed there since, and where once the salt spring oozed from the earth, the ground is cultivated.
The owner had killed the goose which laid the golden eggs.
NO JOKE
A Levels man on his way to Marlinton stopped to ask very gravely of a merchant at Buckeye if it was true as reported that the village had protested against the establishment of a pulp mill at Marlinton, meaning to get him to rise to a fly. But a Swago man is ready for anything like this. He replied: “yes, sir, the occupation of most of our citizens is fishing, and they do not wish to be molested.”
FISHING
The first two weeks in June is the height of the bass spawning season in Greenbrier River. Bass can be more easily taken with bait at this season than any other, and the law fixing the open season at June 15 is a good one and generally well respected. At spawning time, the female bass selects a quiet nook near the edge of the stream and may be seen at all times hovering near the eggs deposited in a little excavation on the bottom. The mother fish remains on guard until the eggs are hatched and sometimes longer. It is believed the fish returns to the same spot year after year. One has been observed in the river at Marlinton in a certain pool for three consecutive years and is now of unusual size weighing probably over two pounds. When near their beds, they may be approached very closely and do not take alarm as at other times.
STABBING
While making threatening motions with a knife towards Ed Patterson, Frank Thompson cut John Wesley Ervine, a bystander, very seriously in the arm Tuesday evening in Marlinton. The cut was in the large muscles and penetrated to the bone. Thompson was drunk and made sincere protestations that it was accidental. Ervine was made and inclined to maul him anyway, which from this size and strength he is quite able to do. When the row subsided a little, Dr. Cunningham attended to the wounded, and then loaded his gun to quell any further riot that might develop.
BROWNS MOUNTAIN
Adam Moore, of Elk, was over Monday to get alum water for his mother, who is unwell.
Mrs. Mary P. Wanless and Miss Mirtie Moore made a flying trip to Huntersville last Saturday.
Ed McGlaughlin and Vernon Moore are raising some young pheasants. They found the eggs and set them under hens. The question is, would they be allowed to kill the pheasants before the game law is out or not.
Last Saturday as J. C. Dilley and Mrs. Mary Bird were returning from Marlinton, they lost a grip containing fifty dollars in money. Mr. Dilley never missed it until near home, and then started back in full haste to find it. Fortunately, Mrs. J. F. Wanless found it and left it at S. R. Hogsett’s where he got it all safe.