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8YNOP8IS. Elam Harnlsh. known all through Alas ka as "Burning Daylight." celebrate# hl? ?Hh birthday with a crowd of miners at the Circle City Tlvoll. The dance leads to heavy gambling. In which over HOO.OOO to stoked. Harnlsh loses his money and his mine but wins the mall contract. He starts on his mall trip with dogs and ledge, telling his friends that he will be in the big Yukon gold strike at the start. Burning Daylight makes a sensationally rapid run across country with the mall, appears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready to join his friends In a dash to the new fold fields. Deciding that gold will be ound in the up-river district Harnlsh buys two tons of flour, which he declares will be worth Its weight In gold, but when he arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A comrade discov ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the most prominent figure In the Klondike a onmhlnatton of capitalists In a vast mining deal. He returns to civilization, and. amid the bewildering complications of high finance. Daylight finds that he has been led to invest his eleven millions in a manipulated scheme. He goes to New York, and confronting his disloyal partners with a revolver, he threatens to kill them if his money is not returned. They are cowed, return their stealings and Harnish goes back to San Francisco, where he meets his fate in I Dede M ison. a pretty stenographer. CHAPTER Xt. Daylight was to the thick of hit spectacular and intensely bitter fight with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company, and the Hawaiian, Nlca raguan, and Pacific-Mexican Steam ship Company. He stirred up a big . ger muss than he had anticipated, and even he was astounded at the wide ramifications of the struggle and at the unexpected and Incongruous in terests that were drawn into It. Every newspaper in San Francisco turned upon him. It was true, one or two of thpm had first intimated that they were open to subsidization, but Day light's Judgment was that the situa tion did not warrant such expenditure. Up to this time the press had been amusingly tolerant and good-naturedly sensational about him, but now he was to learn what virulent scurrilousness an antagonized press was capable of. Every episode of his life was resur rected to serve as foundations for ma licious fabrications. Daylight was frankly amazed at the new Interpre tation put upon all that he had ac complished and the deeds he had done. From an Alaskan hero he was metamorphosed into an Alaskan bully, liar, desperado, and all-around "bad man." The whole affair sank to the deeper deepe of rancor and savage ness. The poor woman who had killed kavcalf iroa rlrncrcrarl nut nf hor PTRVfl ! UVIOQU " uo Ui?OQVU VMV w? -V* o-"* " and paraded on thousands of reams of paper as a martyr and a victim to Daylight's ferocious brutality. He was like a big bear raiding a bee-hive, and. regardless of the stings, he obstinately persisted in pawing for the honey. He gritted his teeth and struck back. Beginning with a raid on two steamship companies. It develop ed into a pitched battle with a city, state and continental coast line. Al lied with him, on a splendid salary, with princely pickings thrown in, was a lawyer, Larry Hegan, a young Irish man with a reputation to make, and whose peculiar genius had been un A Sudden Envy of This Young Fellow Came Over Daylight. recognized unui uayugm naa picKea up with him. It was Hegan who guided Daylight through the intricacies of modern politics, labor organization, and commercial and corporation law. i It was Hegan, prolific of resource and suggestion, who opened Daylight's eyes to undreamed-of possibilities in twentieth-century warfare: and it was Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and elaborating, who planned the cam paigns and prosecuted them. With the Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to Panama, buzzing and humming, and with San Francisco furiously about his ears, the two big steamship companies had all the appearance of winning. It looked as if Burning Daylight was be ing oeaten Biowiy to nis Knees. Ana then he struck?at the steamship com panies, at San Francisco, at the whole Pacific coast. It was not much of a blow at first. A Christian Endeavor convention was being held in San Francisco, a row was started by Express Drivers' Union No. 927 over the handling of a small heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A few heads were broken, a score of ar rests made, and the baggage was de livered. No one would have guessed that behind tliis pettj wrangle was the fine Irish hand of Hegan, made potent by the Klondike gold of Burn ing Daylight. It was an insignificant *ffair at best?or so It seemed. But the Teamsters' Union took up the quarrel, backed by the whole Water Front Federation. Step by step, the strike became Involved. A refusal o cooks and waiters to serve scab teair sters or teamsters' employer brought out the cooks and waiters The butchers and meat cutters refuse* to handle meat destined far unfal restaurants. The combined Employ era' Associations put up a solid froni and found facing them the 40.000 01 ganlzed laborers of San Franclscc The restaurant bakers and the baker wncnn HrJvsra iitnirk follnw?d bv th' milkers, milk drivers and chlckei pickers. The building trades assertei its position in unambiguous terms, am all San Francisco was in turmoil. But still, it was only San Francisco Hegan's intrigues were masterly, an< Daylight's campaign steadily devel oped. The powerful fighting organ) zatlon known as the Pacific Slope Ses man's Union refused to work vesseli the cargoes of which were to b< handled by scab longshoremen ant freight handlers. The union presente* its ultimatum, and then called a strike This had been Daylight's objective al the time. Every incoming coastwls< vessel was boarded by the union offl clals and Its crew sent ashore. An< with the seamen went the firemen, th< engineers and the sea cooks an< waiters. Daily the number of ldh steamers increased. It was impossi ble to get scab crews, for the men o the Seamen's Union were flghteri trained in the hard school of the sea and when they went out it mean blood and death to scabs. This phas< of the strike spread up and down th entire Pacific coast, until all the port were filled with idle ships, and set transportation was at a standstill. Th< days and weeks dragged out, and tb< strike held. The Coastwise Stean Navigation Company and the Hawaii an, Nicaraguan, and Paciflc-Mexicai i Steamship Company were tied up com pietely. The expenses of combatini the strike were tremendous, and the: were earning nothing, while dally th< situation went from bad to worse, un til "peace at any price" became th< cry. And still there was no peace until Daylight and bis allies played ou their hand, raked In the winnings, an< allowed a goodly portion of a contl nentto resume business. Daylight's coming to civilization ha< not improved blm. True, he won better clothes, had learned slights better manners, and spoke better Eng llsh. But he had hardened, and at tb< expense of his old-time, whole-soule< geniality. Even his human affiliation! were descending. Playing a lone hand contemptuous of most of the men wltl whom he played, lacking In sympath] or understanding of them, and certain ly Independent of them, he found lit tie In common with those to be en countered, say at the Alta-Paciflc. Ij point of fact, when the battle with th< steamship companies was at its heigh and his raid was Inflicting Incalcula ble damage on all business interests be had been asked to resign from tb< Alta-Pactflc. The idea had been rath er to his liking, and he had found nev quarters in clubs like the Riverside organized and practically malntainet by the city bosses, One week-end. feeling heavy and d< pressed and tired of the city and it ways, he obeyed the impulse of i whim that was later to play an lmpor tant part In his life. The desire ti get out of the city for a whiff of coun try air and for a change of scene wai tne cause, xei. 10 n>mseu, ne maai the excuse of going to Glen Ellen fo the purpose of inspecting a brlckyal'i which Holdsworthy had sold him. H< spent the night In the little countr: hotel, and on Sunday morning, astrld< a saddle horse rented from the Glei Ellen butcher, rode out of the village The brickyard was close at hanif 01 the flat beside the Sonoma Creek. Resolving to have his fun first, an to look over the brickyard afterward he rode up the hill, prospecting for : way cross country to get to th knolls. He left the country road a the first gate he came to and canterei through a hayfleld. The grain wa waist-high on either side the wagoc road, and he sniffed the warm aromi of it with delighted nostrils. At th' base of the knolls he encountered i tumble-down stake-and-rlder fence. vvr lv n. Wall Street Fancy Job of Trucking That Takei the Minds of Financier* Off Money. Finance Is what engages it mostly but Wall street can spare a momen for other things that are interesting as it is doing occasionally Just now t< look on at some exhibitions of fane: trucking. The structural steel for the ne? building going up on Wall and Nassai streets is landed from lighters at * South street wharf at the foot of Wal street, so it is only a short haul fron the wharf to the new building, thougl it's a lively one. ? Some of the supporting columns 01 pillars going into this building weigl from 25 tons to 30 tons each, bu they are handled easily. They bacl one of those long and ponderoui trucks with low, broad-rimmed, heavy solid iron wheels down on the wharf alongside the lighter, and then thi lighter's steam derrick lifts off it: deck one of those 30-ton pillars anc lays it gently on the truck, doing thii quickly and easily. To haul this load they have hookec to the team seven pairs of big horses a team of 14 horses, all used to th< business and all pulling ably. All ready, the driver mounts to t seat on the forward end of the blj (Copyright. 1910, by the New York Herald (Copyright, 1910, by the MacMIIlan C< 9 "It 8uro Beats Country Places and muned He tethered the horse a6d wan dered on foot among the knolls. Their tope were crowned with century-old spruce trees, and their Bides clothed with oaks and madronos and native holly. But to the perfect redwoods be longed the small but deep canyon that threaded its way among the knolls. 9 Here be found no passage out for j bis horse, and leading the animal, be 3 forced bis way up the hillside. Ou the crest he came through an amazing j thicket of velvet-trunked young ma j dronos, and emerged on an open hlll . side that led down into a tiny valley. . The sunshine was at first dazzling in . its brightness, and he paused kid j rested, for he was panting from the 3 exertion. Not of old had he known t shortness of breath such as this, and muscles that bo easily tired at a stiff , climb. A tiny stream rar down,the j tiny valley through a tiny meadow h 'that was carpeted knee-high with y grass and blue and white nemophila. , Crossing the stream. Daylight fol j lowed a faint cattle trail over a low. i un' J n wlno.n/nnHorf rocity mil auu luiuugu ? *???w?.?. forest of manzanita, and emerged 3 upon another tiny valley, down which a filtered another spring-fed, meadow .. bordered streamlet a "It sure beats country places and bungalows at Menlo Park," he com 8 muned aloud; "and If ever 1 get the 0 hankering for country life, It's me for r this every time." j An old wood-road led him to a clear e lng, where a dozen acres of grapes y grew on wine-red soil. A cow-path, more e trees and thickets, and he dropped a down a hillside to the southeast ex >. posure. Here, poised above a big for o ested canyon, and looking out upon Sonoma Valley, was a small farm d house. With its barn and outhouses [, It snuggled into a nook In the hill a side, which protected It from the west e and north. It was the erosion from t this hillside, he judged, that bad d formed the little level stretch of vege s table garden. The soil was rat ana i- black, and there was water In plenty, a for he saw several faucets running e wide open. Forgotten was the brick a yard. Nobody was at home, but Day light dismounted and ranged the vege Is Interested * pillar on the truck, which puts him high in the air, and gathers up his lines. There are three other men scat tered along the team as leaders and guides for the horses, and then with t out flummery or ceremony they get away, starting the great 'load easily. 3 There's a broad, easy sweep from r the wharf into the broad lower end of Wall street and the outfit makes this, f describing a great arc, and then It J straightens out for the run up Wall i street. It's an up grade all the way 1 from South street to Broadway, but ) the team takes it easily on a steady l trot. It's as good, if not better, than a ? pirrMicj nnrt nrlmRrilv interested i though it is to finance. Wall street t finds time to look when one of these i great outfits sweeps by.?New York 3 Sun. Customer's Opinion. 2 Seymour?What do you think of the s novel that Beaner, the restaurant i keeper, has written? 3 Ashley?It's too much like his sand wiches?nothing between the covers. I j 2 I Knicker?Yes. my dear, I shall be i glad to go with you; I long to Bee the beauties of the country. i Mrs. Knicker?We will stay in town. I ?Judge. i)NDON r/j? C/1U Or r//?MLD? com nm. I Company.) smpany. wr "U Bungalows at Menlo Park," He Corn Aloud. | table garden, eating strawberries and i green peas. Inspecting the old adobe Darn ana rusty piow ana narrow, ana rolling and smoking cigarettes while be watched the antics of several broods of young chicks and the moth er bens. Nothing could satisfy his holiday spir It now but the ascent of Sonoma Moun tain. 4nd here on the cr?st, three hours afterward, he emerged, tired and sweaty, garments torn and face and bands scratched, but with sparkling eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of expression. He felt the illicit, pleas ure of a schoolfioy playing truant. The big gaming table of San Francisco seemed very far away. But there was more than Illicit pleasure in his mood. It was as though he were going through a sort of cleansing bath. No room here for rll the sordidness, meanness and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence. He was loath to depart, and It was not for an hour that he was able to tear himself away and take the descent of the mountain. Working out a new route Just for the fun of it, late after noon was upon him when he arrived -back -t the wooded knolls. Daylight ca3t about for a trail, and found one leading down the side nnruictto tn h1n fMrcline the base of the knoll, be picked up with his horse and rode on to the farm- ' house. Smoke was rising from the 1 chimney, and he was quickly in con- i versatlon with a nervous, slender young man, who, he learned, was only ] a tenant on the ranch. How large 1 was It? A matter of one hundred and i eighty acres, though It seemed much larger. This was because It was so irregularly shaped. Yes, It Included < the clay-pit and all the knolls, and its i boundary that ran along the big can- < yon was over a mile long. Oh, yes, j he and his wife managed to scratch a living without working too hard. They didn't have to pay much rent. Hillard, the owner, depended on the , income from the clay-iiit Hillard was , well off and had big ranches and vine- , yards down on the flat of the valley. 1 The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic < yard for the clay. As for the rest of the ranch, the land was good In patches, where It was cleared, like the vege table garden and the vineyard, but the "You're not a farmer," Daylight said. The young man laughed and shook his hear "No; m a telegraph operator. But the wife and I decided to take a two years' vacation, and . . . here wo are. But the time's about up. I'm going back Into the office this fall after I get the grapes off." As Daylight listened, there camo to J him a cudden envy of this young fel- 1 low living right in the midst of alJ ( this which Daylight had traveled * through the last few hours. "What in thunder are you going , back to the telegraph office for?" he j 1 demanded. . ! 1 The young man smiled with a cer tain wlstfulness. i "Because we can't get ahead here. j . . ." (he hesitated an instant), I "and because there are added ex- j penses coming. The rent, small as it i < . . rest of it was too much is, counts; anu uesiuea, i in uui snuiif, enough to effectually farm the places , ' If I owned It. or If I were a real i 1 husky like you. I'd ask nothing better. . t Nor would the wife." Again the wist- I ful smile hovered on his face. "Yov? ! c see, we're country born, and afte* S [ bucking with cities for a few years* I we kin-l of feel we like the country c best. "We've planned to get ahead, s though, and then some day we'll buy i a patch of land and stay with it" 1 (TO BE CONTINUED.) WAR AGIST TICK AN ASSOCIATION IS FORMED IN ! FLORENCE COUNTY FOR ERAt> ICATION OF PEST. EFFORTS BEGIN AT ONCE A M I\A? 111 O- ETmami rUm. nil uiopcbivr f? III WW a i will vmm ton and By United State* Govern k ment?Thirteen Counties to Be 0t gani2ed in This Work. Florence.?There was a very fair at tendance of farmers at the court bouse when the meeting to organize a tick eradication association was formally perfected by the election of Walter Gregg of Mars Bluff, president; Dr. T. C. Johnson vice president, and U. A. Vincent secretary. The first dipping vat will be concentrated at once on the plantation of Herbert Corrle, near Mara Bluff, for the greatest interest in the matter la shown in that neighbor hood, and the rest of the county will be expected to learn lrom those folk. An Inspector will be sent from Clem ??on tin* by the United States govern ment and the farmers who have in fected pastures will be shown how to get rid of the ticks. In some instances complaints are made of the ticks on horses and mules. Florence will go into the matter with the intention of making it what it should be. There are 13 counties now to be or ganized in this work, and it is hoped that within the next >ear these coun ties will be free to ship cattle to all parts of the United States. These counties are Florence, Darlington, Marlboro, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Edge field, Newberry, Saluda and other counties on that border, which will make half of the state free from ticks if the work is thoroughly done. r South Carolina New Enterprises. Columbia.?The secretary of state has issued a charter to the People's pharmacy of Sumtfer. with a capital stock of $1,500. The officers are: G. W. Birnle, president; T. J. Williams, vice president and. R. G. Biraie, secre tary and treasurer. A commission has been issued to .the Branchvlile Casket Manufacturing .and Casket company of Branchville with a capital stock, of $3, 000. The officers are: W. M. Warren, president, and Preston Ott, secretary and treasurer. A commission lias been issued to the Fidelity Realty corpora tion of Charleston, with a capital stock Dl |2n|UUU. me yeuuuucm ai c m. ? Saint-Amand and H. D. Workman. #' 'W ^ A .. . . > , Dispose of Dispensary Fund. Columbia.?Checks aggregating ap proximately $100,000 were mailed out by R. H. Jennings, the -state treasurer to the various counties of the state. Sending out the- checks finally dis poses of the entire dispenaaray fund which was collected through the ef forts of the Ansel commission. Over 350,000 children enrolled In the pub lic schools of the state will be bene fited by the fund. Each county in the state will reeclve 28 cents for each jhild enrolled. Fix Date of Union County Fair. Union.?The Union County Fair this rear will be held on Wednesday, rbursday and Friday, October 24th ind 25th. This was decided on at the mnual meeting of the Union County Pair Association, at which time Hon L. J. Browning, was re-elected presl ient; A. B. Brannon, vice-president, ind Mr. L. J. Hames, treasurer, sue needing Mr. R. P. Harry, who declined re-election, while Mr. B. F. Alston, Jr. :he wide awake secretary, will con :inue to All that position. i Town Election Held at Eartover. Eastover.?As a result of a town ?l?ct!on the following were elected for :he ensuing year: E. C. Touchberry, ntendant; W. M. Hunt, H. ^V. King, T. P. Lowry, J. H. McLeod, wardens. VIr. Touchberry held the office of in ;endent for two terms when the town ivas first incorporated. Spartanburg.?At a meeting It wa& lecided to launch the campaign to aiso $160,000 for the endowment of Converse college and the building of a lew home for the Y. M. C. A. on May 7. Canvassert Working Faithfully. Greenville.?The reports which were sent in from the Rock Hill plan can vassers to D. B. Trailer, county chair nan, show that the canvassers have seen working faithfully and that thr 'armers, in most instances, are in sympathy with the proposed reduction n the amount of cotton planted, xne eports have come from practically all sections of the county and indicate a eduction ranging from 18 to 40 per :ent. The best report was sent in by VIr. A. B. Black of Chick Springs town ihip. Rhame Refuses to Give Up Office. Columbia.?"The Governor's act In ittempting to remove me from office s purely arbitrary, and his statement ;hat the condition of the bank was not jublished Is false. I shall disregard lis order and shall hold the office until , jrdered by the Court to relinquish," is , ;he statement which was issued by , state Bank Examiner B. J. Rrames vhen he received the copy of Governoi 3lea?es's proclamation removing him . 'rom the office of state bank examiner ] rhis means that Mr. Rhame will re 'use to surrender his office. , April 20 is to Be Field Day. , Lancaster.?The Lancaster county ield day exercises to consist chiefly ol 1 ithletic and literary contests oy rep esentative pupils from each school In ( he county will be observed April 20 'reparations have ben made for a gen eral educational rally on this occasion. , Several prominent educators, notably , 'rof. Tate, inspector of rural schoolf , ?f South Carolina, are scheduled to ] peak on this date, and it is thought ] hat a large crowd will be present tc , isten to these speeches. FROM THE PALMETTO STATE Short Paragraphs of State News That ' Has Been Gotten ^Together With Care by the Editor. Washington.?President Taft named John R. Tolbert, Jr., as postmaster at ( Abbeville. Greenville.?One hundred building permits, representing $89,112 were is sued from the city engineer's office during the first quarter of the present | year, while 105 permits were issued ' during the same period last year, rep resenting $110,810, a difference of five permits and $21,689 in favor of 1911. Orangeburg.?The annual meeting of the Edisto Savings tank, of Orange burg, was held at the banking rooms of the bank, and th^ election of offl cers were entered into. The report of President B. H. Moss was very gratl- 1 fying and showed that the bank had * experienced the most prosperous year 1 1 in Jts history. Columbia.?The governor has grant- * ed a parole to Morgan Smith, who was convicted in Hampton county in 1906 on the charge of murder and sentenc ed to life imprisonment in the itate penitentiary upon a recommendation of mercy. Since assuming office the governor has extended clemency in 345 cases. Chester.?A none-suit was entered - in the case of Chester county for $8,180 against the S. A. L. railway for the obstruction of Pinckney street by the defendant's overhead bridge. The court held that the obstruction com plained of-" waa'not such as was con templated'by section 1375 o? the civil code, under which the action was brought. Columbia.?Invitations to the recep tion to be given the state officers, U. D. C.; and the degelates from the var ious chapters to the uneviling will bfe issued at the capitol. Mrs: Reed Ston ey and Mrs. Cornelia Hlmore Davidson will compose a committee of two to register the names of all delegates and officers of the U. D. C., and to give them the invitations. ; j Columbia.?The supreme court in a < decision by Associate Justice "ftydrick i reversed the Abbeville county court j and ordered a new trial in the case i of J. H. Ferguson, who was convicted t on the charge of manslaughter for kill- 1 ing his father, John Ferguson. The < young man claimed self-defense and i said that he accidentally shot his fath- \ ar, who was abusing his mother. .. Barnwell. ? "Long Henry" Moody, town marshal of Olar, shot and killed . loh.i McDaniel, 25 years old, of Fair- ( fax in a pistol duel at Olar. Marshal { Moody rfecelv^d serious wounds, one . bullet taking effect in his abdomen, wbll^ another passed through one of j his lungs and broke an arm. McDan iel, who Is a native of Georgia, has j been living in this state several years. ^ Orangeburg.?The dairy special that ' is being operated through this state by < :he Southern Railway company, visit- ^ sd this city and many persons visited 1 the demonstrations at the car and a t big audience' greeted R. H. Mason at < :he court house when he lectured on 1 'The Sanitary Production of Milk." Mr. Mason Is one of the special repres sntatives from the United States gov ernment. I Anderson.?Henry Pressley, a neg ro, who shot and killed Tom Rice, an 5tber negro, about two weeks ago on the public road in the Holland's store *orMnn was sentenced by Judge Price to serve ten years. The jury re turned a verdict of mapslaughter. Judge Prince has dismissed! all jurors ' drawn to serve at the special term of Driminal court, and is now engaged in 1 bearing appeal cases from the magis trates' and police courts. * i i Lexington.?By a vote of 11 to 0, the residents of school district No. 7, ( voted to repeal the special tax levy of j ;wo mills, which has bee^ in effect ( for two years. Only about one half i Df the qualified electors went to the j polls, it is said. This was the second I eelction held on the same question, it ( being alleged that the ballot box was t 'stuffed" at the first election, and it ] nroo rlanloraH that t'.a election Was t illegal. f Anderaon.?For attempting criminal assault on the wife of a prominent far mer of Dean Station, this county, Feb ruary 26, last, William Reed, a negro, j must die in the electric chair at the c state penitentiary in Columbia, July t 12, next. r Barnwell.?Georgiana Phenix, a col- j Dred woman about 62 years old, was f killed at Ashleigh, a station on the c Southern railway, a few miles north of j here, by a north-bound passenger train. v The coroner's jury found that the de- v ceaBed had come to her death by be- j, ing struck and knocked from the track p by a Southern railway trafh. ^ Chester.?In the town election held at Blackstock, Chester county, these officials were elected: Intendant, L. E. Sigraon; wardens, J. D. Mobley, J. t E. Craig, E. M. Kennedy and S. D. 8 Stephenson. t, Winnsboro.?Jim Hall, is held here j, on a charge of shooting Jonn jonnson and William Moore on the plantation of Col. John G. Mobley. Moore, who was shot in the stomach and serious ly injured, was taken to Columbia where he is at the Rhodes hispital. Ho is in a'critical condition. John son's wound is in the leg and is nol considered serious. Bethune.?L. W. West, postmastei i at this place, received notice froir j Washington, D. C., that there will be placed here a postal savings bank in the very near future* Florence.?At a meeting of the Flor ence County Medical association the delegates to the state association were Instructed to invite the state associa tion to Florence for its next annual meeting. Two meetings of the state medical association have been held in Florence and the visiting doctors were tind enough to say that they spept a most delightful week litre ana would ae glad to return. tlHE CURRENT 13 FAST EATING AWAVv EARTHWORK AND WIDENING BREACH* FARMERS ARE MAROONED ' V Frail Structures Are Being Washed Away in the Rush of Water Like Chaff Before the Wind?Many Peo ple Are Homeless* ? Memphis, Tenn?With on& mala ' ' 1 - ' figm evee gone, water lapping the crest of he embankments at half a dozen ' -v ' joints and several breaks believed to je only the questions of hours, MaJ. -lark s. Smith, United States engineer llrectlng the fight against the water's > encroachment, described the Missis- ' ilppi river flood situation as grave. The Reel root Lake levee, west of Hickman, ivy., yas the first of the main embank nents to.gp., Flood water* are sweep ng over a wide area. . Golden Lake, 60 miles north of Mem- #3 ?hls, and the levee on the Arkansas ' $ tide 8 miles below this city, are re garded as in imminent danger. At both ' joints, sandbags have been plied on :he surface of ^he revetments to- a lelght of 1 1-2 j feet and (he water is ir ashing over. At Mound City, Ark., ind at Holleybush alaa~. the---levees hreaten to cave. A dispatch was reecived at the office >f the Tennessee levee board from [Jnlted States Senator Clark of Arkan ias, stating that the War Department las been Instructed to devote $40,000 )f an emergency fund toward aiding ; u the fight between Cape Girardeau, r VIo., and the month of the Wttipiffrer. Vrmy supplies and tents are t^So to be -; jent to the aid of the flood suffers. Pitiful cases of destitution have been elieved in various parts of the wide , itretch of country embraced In the :entral section of the valley. Hick zfan, Ky., houses aboiit 3,500 refugees, partly In tents, vazr& these include inmo 9. (y\l\ rvr nihVa cmnlATU r\f fan. ? ??r J . mx ories, living in 900 or more house* loodedln Hickman several days ago. 1':$ Columbus, Ky., New Madrid, Mo., Do ena, Mo., these are thb towns serious y affected by the invading waters. Outlaws Are Begging Food. HillBvlfle, Va.?According to Sug Smith, who lives over Mount Airy way i oward the Carolina line, Sidna Allen md Wesley Edwards, the two court 191130 assassins, came to his cabin md begged for food. Allen came to lis door, he said, and Edwards stood ^ juard: Allen declared neither; had % :aken food that day. They got none toiii Smith and took to the mountains. v rhe mountaineer feared , to tell the .0. letectivea until midnight and It was r nomine when a nosse took -uo the :rial. Sheriff Haynee of Mount Airy x)ok the bloodhounds but they refus id to scent the trail and the posse *ent off onStnith's directions: . Are Ordered to Arrest Haywood. Passaic, N. J.?Deputy sheriffs on juard at the Forstmann & Huffman jtlk mill in'Garfield, where a serious rattle was waged between the strikers md the authorities, declared -th&tQjij :hey had been served with orders 'rom Sheriff Robert Conklin to arrest William D. Haywood, leader of the industrial Workers of the World, if he ippeared in Garfield. Haywood has jeen here lately as one of the strike jrganizers and the deputies said he /. aras charged with Inciting to riot % Number of Americans Stranded. Washington.?There are 21T Ameri- Vt'ij stranded, some of them in abso- ' ^ utc want, in Vera Crus, in the east ,-j joast of Mexico; in Mezatian on the $ vest coast and in ManzanHlo, In the - ntenor or me siaie 01 jannuo, mo Vraerican Red Cross here despatch ed $1,500 to the American consuls in hose places to aid in their relief. The led Cross says it probably will be lecessary to issue a national appeal or aid. Would Favor Philippine Sugar. Washington.?General Clarence R. Cdwards, chief of the insular bureau, >f the war department, urged before he senate finance committee the re noval of the 300,000 ton limit on Phil ppine sugar which the tariff law now lermits to come Into this country free if duty. All tariff restrictions upon 'hilippine sugar, paid General Ed wards, is a discouragement to the de pfllnnmAnf r\t 011001* nlonfincr in tho CIV ^XUCUl VI BU0UI Blands. Two members of the Porto lican free sugar bill now pending in he senate also were heard. Slayer of Seventeen To B? Tried. Lafayette, La?The trial of Clemen ine Barnabet, negress, self-confessed layer of 17 members of her race, ii o be set for the noar future, accord ig to parish officials. The grand jury" eturned six indictments against her, ne for each of the six members ot r. Randall's family. Officers work lg clews believed to lead to Clem ntines's associates- in crime and lembers of the Sacrifice sect, return d empty handed. They asserted liey are on the right track and devet pments are momentarily expected. Pay Last Honor To Bob Taylor. Knoxville, Tenn.?Beneath a tower lg embankment of floral tributes of >ve and affection, symbolic of the eautiful nature and sunshine of hich he was a living exponent, all lat is mortal of the late Senator Rob t Love Taylor now rests in old Gray jmtery In this city. Following the iturn of the funeral train to this ty from its pilgrimage to Nashville, here the dead statesman lay In the gialatlve halls for several days, isequles were held. ' i.tfi.'* > - v.'