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HOLDUP FOILED. Robber Kills One Man and Is Near- ^ ly Lynched BY AN ANGRY CROWD ' The Robber Dangerously Wounds Two Others for Xo Cause But an ' f Uttered Threat. Woman Had ] Thwarted Him, and He Fires on c V Her Defenders, and Mob, Led by j Woman, Fights for Revenge. J One of the most determined at. ^ tempts ever made to lynch a prisoner in the streets of New York was v witnessed in upper Second avenue, * near One Hundred and Fifteenth v street Wednesday night, when a for- * eigner shot one man to death and j, desperately wounded two of the vie- * tim's brothers. The following ac- [ count of the affairs we take from the * American: V > The slayer's only motive was re- J sentment because he, with four of * his countrymen, had been interfered 8 with when the tried to hold up and v rob a man in front of Mrs. Anna I Kaufmann's dry goods store at No. * 2256 Second avenue. , Mrs. Kaufmann heard the cries of r the victim, who was beaten and ? kicked by his five assailants, even 1 while he protested that he had no r money. Mrs. Kaufmann ran be- ' tween the assailants and their vie- ' tim. They fell sullenly back, and she r rushed the man into her store. He s was bleeding from cilts on the face, ? The five Becker brothers, who keep P a large hardware store at No. 2250 1 Second avenue, heard the noise of f the struggle and they came running , up just as Mrs. Kaufmann had res- 1 cued the man. She is a powerful wo- v man, and the holdup men had receiv- ^ ed ample evidence of her ability to ^ hit hard. But they still hung about i V M -?- - -I 1 J J L - T\ 1. ana nnstenea wnue sne coia tae jdkck.ers of the affair. "It is too bad we were not here," v said Henry Becker, who did not no- E tice the men nearby. "We would v have punched their faces for them." f "You would, eh?" exclaimed one " of the foreigners. "We'll soon fix . you," and they darted off into the jj darkness. d The Becker's returned to their ? - store, where they were joined by J* their mother, Mrs. L?na Becker, 1 their sister, Mrs. Annie Postlenseck. P and her husband. The stranger who , had been held up had slipped away J from Mrs. Kaufmann's store. Even * his name was not learned. But it was not ten minutes after q the disappearance of the man's as- ? sailants when all five suddenly reap- h peared in front of the Becker store, j* and, singling out Henry Becker, at- " tacked him with clubs. e The other Beckers started to aid c their brother, and the two woman p also jumped into the meiee, when 11 Francis Sica, one of the five assail- c ants and the smallest of the party, suddenly whipped out a revolver and shot Henry Becker through she breast, killing him instantly. 1 The other. Becker brothers then ran to the store to get hatchets, and axes to avenge their kin, but Sica followed them, firing as he ad vane- t ed. One shot struck Samuel Becker in the abdomen and he fell mortally ^ wounded. Then Sica shot Isaac Post- c lenseck in the right ear and turned c to flee. p But he ran almost directly into the ? arms of Detective Higgins, who" fol- a XT mi UnJ luwcu uy JL/ctcv;tivc i^auguiAju, iiau ^ come on the run when they heard jj the shots half a block away. n Sica, the moment he saw the de- ^ tectives, pulled the revolver and aim- ^ ed a shot at Higjtfns. But the lat- r ter knocked the weapon from his 0 hand and, though the man fought cj fiercely, he was speedily subdued. g v The detectives were about to march him into the street, where a vast throng, including many foreign- n ers who had been celebrating the f( feast of St. Rocco, were "gathered, ^ when Mrs. Becker and her daughter ? advanced with hatchets. p "Let me cut him to pieces!" ex- g, claimed aged Mrs. Becker, as she j.j tried to,get near the prisoner. 'I will r( on? tr\ fV?n rtrvi inf xt ft*nm fmrinnr Kim T-T q . dovc nic xiviu u jiu^ mm. nv shot down my son." ^ Advancing on the other side of the ^ now cowering Sica was Mrs Postle- ^ neck, also armed with a hatchet. ^ She, too, cried for the blood of Sica, e, and had not policemen, who rushed into the store at this point, seized jr both women, they would have chop- ^ ped the man down. t( But the mob outside had under- e, stood. They saw the dead form of n Becker on the sidewalk and there was a rush for the store entrance, j? while hundreds took up the cry. Kill, tr him! Kill him!" * Men drew pocket knives as they ^ rushed toward the narrow store en- ;r trance. But the doors were slammed ", shut by the detectives and the re- f, ? serves from the East One Hundred sj and Fourth street station, arriving ? at this moment, charged the mob tj with drawn clubs. The crowd gave way slowly. The foreigners in the throng seemed the D more determined to get at and slay jj Sica. It took a hand to hand fight of ten minutes to clear a space about the door so that the prisoner could ~ bs led forth. * p The mob followed close on the heels ^ of the police and when the detectiv- sj es took refuge on a Second avenue jr down-town car, filled with women and ohildren returning from the pic- ? nic of Senator Theo McManusjat Sul- n( zer's Harlem River Park, the mob r( broke through the police lines and f im.vn fVio oar Tho riaccon. &w?inicu uyuu hiv . j..m gers cried out in terror and the car had t$ be stopped while the police hauled out the pursuers. *" Sica was finally landed in the East h? One Hundred and Fourth street sta- ed s, tion, but in front of it, until nearly m midnight, a mob remained. Sica's ?.a four cdmpanions, who had fled when h\ , f *' * ' ~y7# "* 'r ENDS HIS LIFE. le Preferred Death to Twenty Years in Prison. Ie Declared That He Was Innocent of the Crime for Which He Was to Be Punished. Rather than spend twenty years n the North Carolina penitentiary or kidnapping Kenneth Beasley, the ittle son of State .Senator Beasley, a ntUi/kU SW*A /\^ l*io lncf O/lf O ;i 1XI1C Ui VYIII^II U11C UX mo loot UV/bO vas to declare himself guiltness, Joshua Harrison shot himself in the "Jew Gladstone hotel at Norfolk, /a., at 5:30 o'clock Tuesday afterloon, dying eight hours later. Harrison arrived Tuesday and vent directly to the hotel. He came here from Elizabeth City, N. C.. vhere he had appeared in court to enew the bond on which he was at iberty pending the decision of the "forth Carolina supreme court on a notion of a new trial in his case. His >ond was raised from $3,000 to $5,K)0 and he had no trouble in furnishng it. He immediately left for Norolk, and the supreme court almost is quickly rendered a decision adersely to him. The Norfolk police vere asked to arrest him, as he had hreatened suicide. Harrison made no effort to conceal lis identity here, and no trouble was experienced in locating him at the" hoel room, and a little strategy was esorted to get him out. A bell boy pas sent to his door Jjy Detective Vright, who went to make the arest, with instructions to tell Harrion that he was wanted at the teleihone. Harrison told the boy that le would not answer the phone, sayng that he was not to be easily trap>ed by the police. Detective Wright remained at the oot of the stairway, as the bell boy irent up to deliver the message, and s the lad returned to report to the letective, a pistol shot was heard in larrison's room. The door to the room was forced pen. Harrison lay across the bed pith a bullet hole in his right tem>le. Besides him was a pistol. He vas still alive, but an examination I 1 ll - A 1-1 -1 nowea tnai mere was no cnanee 01 lis recovery. In Harrison's room was found a 2tter signed by himself, in which he eclared that he was innocent of the rime of which he was convicted and new nothing whatever about it. 'he exact wording of the letter, the iolice have not seen fit to reveal. Harrison was convicted in Elizaieth City, N. C., February, 1905, for ;idnapping the young son of State lenator Beasley, of Williamson, Pasuotank county. The boy disappeard while on his way to school, and as never been seen since, although pcore of detectives seerched for im for months. Harrison was an nemy of Senator Beasley and it was harged against him that he kidnaped the boy and that this was his nethod of revenge. He denied the harge to his dying hour. FEAR THE PEST. kill Weevils Here Would Be a National Calamity. Because of the relief existing in iatirens and other counties that cerain localities are infested with the otton boll weevil the subject is l>eoming of vital importance to exerts and scientists in .the departlent of agriculture. Should it be dmitted that this crop destroying est had taken a hold in South Carona the result could be short of a ational calamity, for the reason bat up to this time it has not been iscovered east of the Mississippi iver with the exception of the state f Louisianna. W. D. Hunter, in harge of cotton boll weevil investiations, has prepared some interestior infnrmatinn nn Khp :;iihipofc. o ?"- ...wv.v.. w The boll weevil problem still relains, he says, a most important one 3r the cotton industry of this coiln:y. The insect continues to spread. Himatic barriers have given it temorary checks, but they have been iccessively over come. The predicon that the pest will eventually each the limits of cotton culture in lis country has repeatedly been lade, but an important consideraon connected with the future spread' as received less attention, largely ecause it has more recently become vident. This consideration is that damage 1 new regions is likely to be more ;vere than it has been in the terri>ry infested up to flu's time. The xperience of the past two years has ather tended to obscure some of the matures of the weevil problem. The trge crops produced in Texas have iven an enormous impression of the rospects. It is true that very relarkable results have been obtained i the work of the department of sericulture. Making due allowance >r this important work, it must be ;ated that the recent large crops re largely due rather to a combinaon of conditions favorable to the rowth of the plant and unfavorable ) the weevil than to a lessened caacity for damage on the part of the lsect. The work of entomology has shown lat in Texas, except in unusually ret seasons, a full crop can easily be roduced? The possibilities of prouction in a favorable season are town by the fact that in 1906 the lfested area produced about onelird of the total crop of the United tates; but the same success will by 3 means necessarily follow in other jgions where the conditions are dif;rent. Therefore future develop- i ents must be awaited with some < licitude. ^^^ j, ; began to shoot, were being hunt-1' [ Wednesday night by plain clothes | en. At the Harlem Hospital it was i 1 id that Samuel Becker could not i re until morning. < I ? BEAT AT HIS GAME. A Farmer Kobs a Robber After a Hard Battle. Robbers having designs against A AW/V?> "Va -Po v?v>-k/-kV* AT TVav Hlllc naiuii iyciil, a laimu ui a. * vj xxhm, near Caldwell. N. J., will please take this warning from this tale and leave their valuables at home when they start out to get his. Very late Wednesday evening Aaron sat on the front seat of his wagon going home singing s natches of "Rally Round the Flag," Boys while poBbins and Charlie plodded along in front. In Farmer Kent's undershirt pocket reposed a wad of $200 in yellow bills, the proceeds of his peach crop, which he had sold at Newark Markef Two masked men leaped from a brush heap at the roadside. One grabbed the horses' bits, the other clambered up on the wagon step and pressed a gun to Aaron's ear. "We want that $200," he hissed. "Shell her out er crook." Farmer Kent quit the "Rally' song in the centre of the stirring refrain. Also he dropped the lines, ducked his head to miss the bullet and in the same instant caught the road agent about the neck in the crook of his stalwart arm and threw him clean into the back of the wagon. Kent floDped over after him and fell on top. He closed the surprised highwayman's windpipe, and then raised his head and cried: "Scat, Dobbin!" Dobbin leaped forward with a bounce threw the burglar at his bit into.tKe roadside bushes, and then dashed on, while Kent and the robber fough it out in the box of the wagon behind. <_ Kent was easily victor, At the farm up in front the discomfited robber wormed himself out of his coat and vest, squirmed out the back of the box and and fell with a thud into the sand. After stalling Dobbing Aaron Kent examined the rear of his double wagon. In the discarded coat of the burglar man Impound $33.50 in cash. The discarded vest's pockets yeilded a gold watch worth $50. L HEARSE WRECKED. Coffin Broken Up by the Horse Run* k ning Away. THe State says two horses attached to the hearse bearing the remains of Margaret Martin, colored, became frightened near Randolph cemetery Wednesday and the results are al"most too grewsome for publication. The horses were being driven slowly down Elmwood avenue, near what is known as the "overhead bridge," in charge of S. L. Lopez, the colored undertaker. v Near the bridge they became frightened at something and dashed against the walls, almost wrecking the hearse at this point and throwing off the driver, who was run over afterwards and badly hurt. After running on down the steep hill in front of the colored cemetery the hearse turned completely over and was split in half, the coffin being thrown out and broken open. One of the horses was so badly hurt that it is not thought the animal will live and it was necessary for some colored men, who were passing at the time, to help put the remains back in the wrecked coffin and carry it to the grave. There were only two carriages with the funeral and no pall bearers, the family having little money to conduct the funeral. The horses are owned by the McCartha livery stable and one of them mav have to be kill ed. Lopez was brought back to his undertaking establishment on Washington street and is said to be severely bruised. SOLI) THEIK CHILD To a Chinaman, Who Adopts Him As His Son. Somewhere out on the Pacific is a little American boy born of white parents who has been sold to a Chinaman, who will bring him up as his own son in the land of the Dragon. This case is said to be without parallel in the history of the United States immigration affairs. It is the first case of this character ever recorded and is absolutely without precedent. When Sing Lee, a Chinaman, boarded the steamship Chippewa at San Jfrancisco witn ms aaoptea son, Samuel Edwards Sing Lee, an American boy, with only the rights and priveliges of an alian, there ended so far as this port is concerned, such a story of deliberate heartlessness on the part of dissolute parents that hardened immigration officials were visibly affected. At Fort Wrangell, Alaska, Sam Edwards married Jennie Edwards in 1898. On the eighteenth day of October, 1899, a baby boy was born to the couple and Edwards, who was still" a drunken dissolute, lounger, with no appreciation of home life, manifested no appreciation of the responsibility which had come to him. The child was healthy and large. When little Sammy was three years old, he was sold to the Indians for a small sum, with which the father purchased whiskey to continue his riotus life. For five years the little tellow lived with the Indians and was then sold to the Chinaman. Mother, father, child and Chinaman appeared before L. A. Sloane, United States commissioner and exofficio probate judge at Wrangell, where the papers of adoption were made out and signed. Just what status of the child will be when it is of legal age is a 'matter which immigration officials are discussing. Will the American m in c <nsent to remain a Chinese subject? Will he be able to demand his citizenship should he care to return to America? The use of dog flesh as food appears to have originated in Saxonv, and it Is in that part of the empire that the consumption is most noticeable. > } \ SEES THEIR FATE. The Prohibition Movement Is Sweeping the Country. \ More Than Half the Population of the United States Is Claimed to Be Living in "Dry" Territory. Prohibition is sweeping the country. Its recent advances are throwingjiquor producers and dealers into panics in many places. A member of the Liquor League, states the situation in these words: "The onward march of prohibition in some sections-of the country is advancing like a praire fire, and no hand will raise to stop it." He concludes his statement by saying that five years ago a united liquor industry might have kept back the situation, but, today, it is too late and an effort might as well be made to keep back the Hudson river with a whisk broom. More than half the nation is said to be under prohibition law. Maine, North Dakota, Kansas and Georgia 1 L.'Lli..' ??.1? nave statutory promuiuuii ruica. More than half the territory in. 17 other states is dry, and in 16 remaining states little intoxicating liquor is sold. The four prohibition states have a population of 5,500,000 and it is estimated 25,000,000 others live in local prohibition territory of 33 other states. The state prohibition movement is spreading rapidly in at least 11 states, especially where local option has already driven out the open dram shops in large sections. These states include Oklahoma, where the prohibition constitutional amendment is voted on Sept. 17; Delaware, and three political divisions of which vote separately on license or no license Nov. 5; North Carolina, Florida and Mississippi, where state prohibition campaigns are under way, led or warmly endorsed by the governors themselves. Popular movements for statutory or constitutional state prohibition in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Ne-< Hrnclrn Tn addition to this it. in Rjiiri that Arkansas, Kentucky, Nebraska. South Dakota; Neftr HSmtfskire and Vermont m*y-adopt state prohibition policy withih-tKfe'iiear future. A significant straw from Ohio! comes in thej shape of a dispatch fi-c/m Cedar "Point, whert, at a r&fent1 fathering of political leaders, 72 out of 86 members of the Ohio legislature there presetot, declared informally for ultimate state prohibition and immediate couPty optic?;- : * Montana, Nevada, Utah. Washingtoft, Tenne&efe, Arjzona and New .Mexico are {WeL" Tfifey have license with little or.too restrictions. California, Idaho, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia, have license with restrictions, different in each state. All observe a Sunday closine law. Local option laws have been passed in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts. Nebraska, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, and many of their towns, townships and counties have become "dry" by popular vote. In the states classed as "dry" more than half the counties and cities have not more than one saloon, and they have become "'dry" through the expression of the voters at the poles, though not through a local option law. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. THE BOLL WEEVIL No Longer Feared by the Texan Cotton Growers. Dr. S. A. Knapp, special agent of the United States department of agriculture, detailed to take charge of the fight against the Mexican boll weevil, and stationed at Lake Charles La., has been ordered to Washington This change is made on the ground that the fight against the boll weevil is over and won, not that the destructive insect has been eliminated?for on the contrary, it is still in evidence in Texas, the territories and Louisianna, and has just been discovered in Catahoula parish, Louisiana, within seventeen miles of the Mississippi, where it will undoubtedly exist next season?but that the department of agriculture has finally perfected the plans by which the cotton grower can raise just as much cotton if he has weevils on his plantation as he could without them. WANTS TO GO BACK. Senator Latimer a Candidate to Succeed Himself. Senator Latimer, who has just re turned from Europe, announces that he is in the race to succeed himself in the United States Senate. When asked if he was afraid of the Clinkscales senate boom, Senator Latimer said that it had died out in the last few days and that he had not the slightest fear of it whatever. In speaking of Congressman Lever as a possible candidate for the senate, Senator Latimer that he did not consider Lever a force to be taken into account, if he should enter the race. * When asked if he thought Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward would be in the senatorial race, he said that Mr. Heyward had expressed himself to his friends throughout the State as having no desire to enter the race, and that he considered him a man of honor who would keep his word. The Florence Times is told by a gentleman, who, while not connected ? !i.u Ai- - ?ii J i wnn uie ranroKQ, is m a, pubinuu w know many things about it, that the Coast Line has no watered stock. That the objections made lothe railroads in general through the country, which have worked the watered stock, or Harriman scheme, taxing the people tc pay their stocks and bonds, cannot be urged against the Coast Line. THE FRANKLIN CASE Has Been Appealed to the State ' Supreme Court This Will Postpone the Execution of the Murderer for A Short Time Only. The Columbia Record says Judge Brawley's recent decision, holding unconstitutional the state labor contract law, will figure largely in the argument before the supreme court on the appeal, taken by the defense, from the action of the circuit court at Orangeburg, which found Pink Franklin, colored, indicted with his wife, Sad Franklin, for the murder, July 29, of Constable Henry Valentine, and sentenced him to be hanged October 25. John Adams, colored, lawyer of the Columbia bar and professor in Allen university, was the leading counsel for the defense at the trial in Orange burg and it was he who brough up the Brawley decision, doing *so in one of. his motions for a continuance, all of which the court overruled. Adams and Moorer raised three constitutional objections?two based on the federal constitution and one on the state constitution?and also moved to quash the indictment, on the ground of irregularity in keeping $e coroner's re&rds. T'was that the franchisee clause' In ttie state constitution i^.'fn violation- with the act of congress of JdiiSttary 15, 1868, which provitfed t tfc?t afteir' reconstruction the states '-should remain in the union witt tltefir franchise requirements unchanged!^ TOe main' motion for a continuanfe4; hoWeVerr%ars upon the alleged irregularities in keeping- the coroner's ffetidrife. Itftrfifc discovered during the trial that testimony giVen at the inquest Iffid not been kept in'a public office bt the court house, although the , 4>aw requires, specifically, thdt the OYiginri) record must be filed with cferk of court within ten days, arf&jirtist be copfed into a botrik called xtib' book of inqflests, wlHeh is requft&fr to- b6: kept in ~tfte~coroner'6 office at ttifceftttrt house. Adams made an affidavit that he had searched for the record and It could not be found; also that on the eve of the trial he had an interview with the coroner and that official admitted the book of inquests and the original record were both in his residence In the country. In all his motions to quash the indictment and for postponement, Adams was overruled by the court. After sentence had been passed, he served upon Solicitor Hildebrand notice that the case would be appeald to the state supreme court. There is a possibility that if the highest^ tribunal In this state .should affirm the judgment of the lower court, and the defendant and his friends can raise sufficient funds, the case may be carried to the supreme court of the United States, upon the constitutional obectlons raised. The case Involves some exceedingly delicate points. The state's whole cheme for the registration of electors is questioned, and for the first time Judge Brawley's recent decision, which threw consternation into the ranks of the planters, by taking away the state labor contract law and leaving them no hold upon their laborers, Is used as a defense" in the courts. There is no dodging the fact that, were the case not complicated by the fact that it is baSed upon the killing of a white man by a negro, the courts would have little trouble in arriving at a decision. The question the attorneys for the defense are by implication asking is, will the supreme court decide tne mauer ujiuu iut? wu stitution, or will they be guided wholly by expediency? The defense also Is confident that the supreme court must either hold that the warrant, which Constable Valentine was killed in trying to serve, was invalid, and that Franklin, was, therefore, justifiable in killing one who tried unlawfully to arrest him under it, or must disregard and defy the decision of the United States Court, Judge Brawley presiding, I which held that the labor contract [ law, under which the warrant was issued, was unconstitutional. ! It is, therefore, one of the possibilities of this most delicate and troublesome case, that there may develop in South Carolina shortly a condition analogous to that which has lately agitated other states; a direct clash and a resulting deadlock between the state and federal courts. Undoubtedly the federal authorities will be heard from In case the state courts attempt to set at naught the decision of Judge Brawley. The Record is unofflciably but reliably informed that the representatives In South Carolina of the United States government already have their eyes upon this case and will keep themselves posted upon its successive developments, with the purpose of remoininp' nnipRent and allowing the state courts to handle the case In their own way, so long as they do not conflict with the federal authority, but of stepping In at once, should the prerogatives and the dignity of the United States tribunals of justice be Impugned or attacked. DEATH IX A MINE. Eleven People Killed by an Explosion in Mexico. A special from Toluca, Mexico, says: Neglect of duty on the part of an employee resulted in the death of eleven persons and injury to twelve more Wednesday through the explo* ? - T71 sion or a boner in me reuci io^uij at Asorradero in the Anguangueo district of the state of Michoacan. The explosion occurred just before noon hour and the two proprietors and -a numb*** of n-rri-iven were clustered togethed i:i vicinity of the boiler doing repairs to some machinery. FATAL SNAKE BITE I Railroad Section Hand Killed by S a Huge Rattler. The Unfortunate Man Died a Few V Hours After He Was Bitten by the Snake. A letter from Florence to The News and Courier says one day last li week Section Master Matthews, of ^ the Mount Holly section, on the ^ Northeastern Railroad, had his gang j of hands at worn cutting down 1 bushes on the right of way near a ii swamp three miles south of Straw- s berry. One of the hands, John Jenkins, a g negro, was cutting some small sweet e gum bushes near the stump of an old tree. All of a sudden he felt i something strike him on the leg, and r as he looked he saw the head of a C monster rattler lying about three feet C from him. t Knowing that he had been bitten, 3 he rushed from the bushes and hal- s lowed "snake." The other negroes 3 rushed from the bushes and to Jen- \ kins' assistance. It was soon found 3 that Jenkins had been bitten on the < leg and he was placed on a hand 1 car and hurried to Mount Holly. Some whiskey was procured and t poured down the negro, who in that t time, just seven minutes, was begin- * ning to suffer agonies from the poison. A physician was sent for from ' Summerville, but it was some time ' before he could reach the sick man, 1 and the result was that he died sev- j eral hours afterward. Mr. Matthews, the section master, as soon as he reached Mount Holly, and after baring the negro's leg, measured the place where the snake had stuck his fangs in the leg, just below the knee, and by actual measurement it showed that the two fangs in the upper jaw measured two inches apart and the distance between the upper and Lower jaw, where the . fangs entered, was just 4 1-4 inches, showing that it must have been 9 monstrous snake indeed to have sucb , a very large mouth. In the exxcitement when the negrc was bitten no one had presence of i mind, or took the time to kill the , snake, and when the party returned i the snake had moved away and could not be found. Where it lay in its bed and where i the negro stood were justs two and one-half feet apart, showing that thf reptile was of unusual length or it would have been impossible tc have struck' his object so far away. Where the reptile had lain in the bushes he had made a bed some five i feet in diameter. An effort is to be made to capture this monster reptile by a party of snake hunters ?and il secured he will be placed on exhibi tation. THE DEMOCRATS WIN. They Carry Everything in the State of Oklahoma. Returns from Thursday's election in Oklahoma indicate that the constitution was adopted 3 to 1, that pro- ' hibition was carried by at lea^t 30,- ' 000 and that the whole democratic ! state ticket, headed by Charles W. Haskell, of Muskogee, was elected by i 20,000 plurality. In the congressional election, the ' I democrates seem to have chosen four ^ of the five representatives, according ' to the returns received. The candi- " dates elected are: First district, for- ' m'er delegate to congress Bird S. Mc- " Guire, republican; second district, E. j L. Fulton, democrat, defeating exTerritorial Governor T. B. Ferguson; third, James Davenport, democrat; fourth, C. D. Carter, democrat; fifth, j Scott Ferris, democrat. , The legislature is democratic by a large majority and will elect as Unit- i ed States senators, Robert L. Owen, a Cherokee Indian, and T. P. Gore, a blind orator. They were nominated ' by primaries in June. : Should Keep a Scrap Book. ' I Every farmer should keep a scrap . ? /.lit mit fmm the naDers every- I thing that they may wish to refer I to again and paste in the book. Remedies for diseases of fouls, and animals, cooking receipts, large yields 1 of corn and cotton, and in fact everything that is worth reading a second time should be thus preserved. 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COLUMBIA SUPPLYC ' t'v . ; ' * - ' >.' ' : ,4v .' . % :V. : < '" ' flNf' ?V 'Vc 3; ' : ' y BEATS GOLD MINE. ' i '-'A outh's Cotton Crop Worth Nearly One Billion Dollars. World's Product of Precial Metal for a Year Would Pail to Equal Value of This Year's Cotton Crop. Commenting on an interview pubshed in New York with Mr. E. H. larriman. in which he refers to the irosperity of the South and Southrest on account of the cotton crop, Ir. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of 'he Manufacturer's Record, in an nterview with The Baltimore Sun aid: "Mr Harriman's optimism in re,rard to the effect of the wonderful xpansion of the agricultural interests of the South is justified, but he s far short of the reality in his stater nents as to the value of the cottbn :rop. He credits Texas with a proluction of cotton of 4,000,000 bales, vorth he says at present prices, >180,000,000, or about $45 a bale, vhereas cotton is selling at over $60 t bale, and if to this be added the ralue of at least $70 a bale, or just >100,000,000 more for the cotton crop )f Texas than is estimated by Mr. iarriman. Mr. Harriman also says; 'Think what that crop alone means ;o the country. A.$6000,000.000-cot;on crop means prosperity for the South.' "It is not a $6000,000,000, but rtore, nearly a $900,000,000 crop vhich the South is now getting1 ready ;o pick. Last year's cotton crop wrought to the South about $800,)00,000, or more, by far the largest imount which that section ever re in ?np war for cotton a^id :->ttonseed. "But with cotton now bringing two , ents or three cents a pound more han at the same time last year, it is, . ife to estimate that the crop which s now beginning to move will bring o the South from $850,000,000 to -900,000,000. It is difficult to exaggerate the tremendous importance >such an inflow of money. Europe /ill pay to this section during the :ext twelve months between $500,- -* )0,000 and $600,000,000 for cotton, r not far from $2,000,000 for every orking day of the year^. "The world's total production of>ld is now at the rate of $435,000,J0 a year. If Europe could gather gether every ounce of gold mined \ earth during the next twelve mnth and dump it into the South, would still be from $75,000,000 to 150,000,000 short of paying its inebtedness to the South for the rsiw -tton with which to operate its iills." FIENDISH HAZEBS. v r-;< ow Employe at Tulx* Works Ne#riy Roasted Alive. 'fhe fiendish joke of brutal employ.s of the Tyler Tube and Pipe comp ny, at Washington, Pa., may result i the death of Henry Perry, a new . mploye, who came from Wheeling, ?V. Va. Ringleaders in the hazing iscaped arrest by leaving town. 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