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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY TRIED TO BRIBE Tfosas ft. Felder Charged With Tryiog 19 Corrupt Hob. H. Evans. SWEARS OUT WARRANT B. F. Kelly, Secretary of New South . Carolina Dispensary Winding Up Conuni vsions, Makes Affidavit for the Arrest of the Attorney for the Winding Up Commission. T. B. Felder, of Atlanta, will be Indicted on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the state of South Caro lina by the new dispensary commis sion. This announcement was made in Colunbla Monday by B. F. Kelly, secretary of the commission, follow ing a long session. Colonel Felder has been ordered to appear at Columbia Monday and tell what he knows of the affairs of the old state dispensary and dispen sary grafters. Colonel Felder did not appear as ordered and the announce ment was made that he will be in dicted. The secretary charges that: B. F. Kelly, secretary for the new South Carolina Dispensary windiug up commission, went to Newberry from Columbia Monday afternoon, and, appearing before a magistrate, swore cut a warrant for the arrest of Thou. B. Felder, of Atlanta, and former attorney for the old winding up commission. The warrant charged Mr. Felder with attempting to bribe Hub. H. Evans, i member of the old boa-.i of directors of the state dispensary, and who is now resting under a charge pending in the courts. The warrant further changes Felder with conspir acy to cheat and defraud the state of South Carolina by "offering to or promising to the said H. H. Evans certain gifts or gratuities, with in tent to influence his act, vote, opin ion, decision of judgment of mat ters which were pending before him as a member of the board of direct ors. The warrant was sworn out before' Magistrate J. C. Sample, and has been turned over to Sheriff M. <M. Bu ford for execution. Mr. Kelly re turned to Columbia Monday, and it is understood that, when the warrant is -served on Mr. Felder in Atlanta if he declines to. respond to the service, steps Will be taken at once to get extradition papers issued by the governor of this state on Govern or 'Brown of Georgia, to have Col. Felder brought to this state to answer the charge. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Body Found Lashed to Post in Midst of Embers. Refusing to comply with demands for money by a band of bandits at Ajuno, Michoacan, Robert J. Swea sey, an American, superintendent of the Central Railroad of Michoacan, was burned at the stake on May 16, according to the story of Joseph Hansfelder, one of the refugees, who arrived at San Francisco Monday on the steamer Newport from Manzan illo. 1 Hansfelder says that the bandits had made demands for money of ev ery American in the district Some complied but Swoasey refused to pay. Hansfelder declares he made his way to Sweasey'8 house, three miles dis tant from his own home, on May 16, and found the house burned to the ground and Sweasey's body lashed to a post in the midst of the burning embers. Mrs. (Sweasey had disappeared and is .believed to have been taken pris oner by the bandits and held for ransom. Fearing his own house would be attacked Hansfelder, with his family, made his way to Manza nillo and took passage for the United States. Sweasey is believed by Hans felder to have been a former resident of San Diego. Family Foully Slain. At Pawnee City, Neb., J. A. Mc Vlttle. his wife and two children were robbed, killed and i third! child dangerously wounded in their j beds early Monday by Jim Filder,, a farm hand, who had been working for McVittle. Filder later shot himself after shooting Sheriff Fuller three times and seriously wounding him. Killed by Train. The State says Ben Kelly, for the pas-: month employed by the Sea board railway as car repairer's helper in ihe Columbia yards, lost hiB life Monday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock,) when a switch engine backed into some cars, crushing him between; them. Preacher Fatally Burned. The Rev, J. H. Hastie, a Baptist minister aged 69. was burned to death early Friday morning at Talla dega Springs, Ala., when he went hack into his burning home to recov er uome money left in a trunk. Made Fatal Mistake. Mistaking for salts oxalic acid that she U6ed for bleaching curtains. Em ma Lee Parks, aged 38, the wife of Victor Parks, deputy city collector of Novfolk, Va., died within half hour after swallowing the fatal dose. FELDER BITS BACK WRITES LETTK %1 THE NEW I <%\ WINDING UP k *, .YtflON. o - - Committee of One to \% % and Affinities. Siitr The following letter from T. B. Felder explains itself: "Mr. James Stackhouse, Chairman, and Mr. B. Frank Kelly, Secretary State Dispensary' Commission of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. "Gentlemen: "Receipt o-f your valued favor of the 19th instant is hereby acknow ed$ed. I have been absent from the city for the past week or 10 days, conducting; some investigations on my own account anent the matters re ferred to in the second paragraph 01 the series of resolutions adopted by your commission at a meeting held in the city of Columbia on the 19th in stant, a copy of which you caused to be transmitted to me here. "After mature consideration, I have reached the deliberate conclu sion that if 'your governor' could with propriety create a commission who are 'all friends of mire and per sonal supporters' to investigate the members of the old commission, the attoney general of the Stale of South Carolina and the agents, attorneys and employes of the old commission, and to make 'a rigid investigation of all of my (Bleases) acts as State senator, private citizen and governor of the state.' I could with equal propriety resolve myself iato a com. mittee of, one to make Investigations as to the said Blease, his allies and affiliates. I think it will be conceded that my jurisdiction is equally as broad as yours; that I have the same authority to subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, and to give evidence touching the promises, as you possess; and I feel that I may say, without undue arrogance, that my 'findings of both law and fact will be just as binding and carry with them the same degree of weight and respectability as yours. "In conclusjon, permt me to say that my investigations have been quite extensive, thorough, exhaustive and most satisfactory to me, and when made public will, in all human probability, disqualify for service some of those now seeking to pass of ficial judgment upon the acts of my associates and myself. To some of you this statement may prove enig matical, while to others it will he most clear. "It does not suit the convenience of my committee to meet with yours at the time and place indicated, but if we can mutually agree upon u different time and place, for an in terchange of views, information and confidences, I feel quite safe In say ing that the result - will be most pleasing and profitable to the peopl? of the State of South Carolina, if not to you and 'yours.' "While making no unconditional promise to do so (for I must in 'these matters consult and largely yield to the wishes of others more vitally interested in the outcome qf this controversy than I can possibly be, and I may add, whose views have deterred me from doing so hereto fore) still, if unrestrained, it will be my pleasure to deliver in the notj distant future a veritable 'broadside.' "With assurances of my most dis-i tinguished consideration, I have the honor to be "Yours very tru';y, ' T. B. Felder, "Chairman of the AnH-Blense In vestigating Committee." DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. Child of Congressman and Mrs. Le gare Crushed to Death. Rosa, the H-year-old daughter of Congressman George S. Legare, died this morning as the result of a most deplorabfe accident, "'esterday ev ening the little girl war. playing at a nei?li.bor's house and accidentally pulled down upon her tiny body a shelf containing heavy plant pots and she was pinned to the piazza floor by the weight of the debris. Internal injuries were caused which brought about her death this morning. Con gressman Le"gare arrived home from Washington to find his yiungest child in extremis. He had known nothing! en rente of her sad condition. Killed in Runcvny. At La Grange. Ga., Miss Lidda Daniel, of that place, was jnstantly; killed and hrr sister, Miss Lola Daniel and Miss Mary Morgan of" Union, Ga., were severely injured Monday evening in a runaway. The horse they were driving became frightened and overturned the buggy, throwing the girls against a tree. One Dead and Three Hurt. Speeding at the rate of sixty miles an hour, four motorcycle riders col lided in front of the grandstand packed with thousands of spectators at Chicago. Monday, on the Haw thore race track. One rider was kill ed and three others wee injued, one perhaps fatally. Denuded by Lightning. A wind storm Monday wrought con siderable damage to residences and parks in St. Louis. Dr. J. J. Mere dith, who sought shelter under a tree was denuded by a bolt of lightning, but he was unhurt. OR ANGEBT SWEEP INTO EUROPE "THE YELLOW PERIL IS NOT A MYTH," SAYS AX OFFICER. Thinks That the Yellow Hordes Will Eventually Sweep Through Russin Into Enrope. "It is the conviction of every Rus sian officer on the Chinese frontier that the 'yellow peril' is no myth," said Lieut. P. T. Etherton, who has just -arrived in this country. Lieut. Etherton is the Indian army officer who recently completed a wonderful journey across Asia from India to Siberia accompanied only by his In dian orderly. "1 have talked with many Russians from the Pamirs up to Siberia, and they were all of the same opinion," ho added. "It will be a thing, they say, not of today nor of tomorrow, but they feel assured that the yellow hordes will eventually sw-eep through Asiatic Russia into Europe. They have great respect for potential value o:f the Chinese as soldiers. Trained and properly led they believe them to be of the same standard as the Japanese. "China," said Lieutenant Etherton in conclusion, "is desirous of consol idating her power, and since the Russo-Japanese war is awakening to a sense of responsibilities and the latent strength she possesses. She as realized that to get at the root of the evil she must purify the system of administration corrupt and rotten to the core. "This she is endeavoring to do, though time is needed to cleanse and remodel a system in vogue for Cen tarles. With the formation of the new model troops, the management of the schools on modern lines, and reforms in the administration signs are apparent that China is desirous of developing her illiminitable re sources. "With a view to resisting aggres sion along the western, and north western frontiers of the empire, she is showing great energy and determi nation in reorganizing her military forces under foregn supervision, and this coupled with the scheme to con stitute a force of irregular cavalry from amongst the Mongol population may well give rise to perturbation in Russian circles. The awakening of China is at hand? She will he the predominant power of the East." LOSES A SMALL FORTUNE. Jones Was Unsuccessful in Cotton and Wheat Deal. The Spartanburg Herald says W. T. Jones, the wealthy Union county planter, who will be taken to the State penitentiary at Columbia next week to serve a life term for poison ing his wife, bears no malice towards anybody, and has decided to submit to the judgment of the courts grace fully, although he declares he is in nocent of his wife's murder. It was learned recently that Jones had lost an amount estimated at about $100,000 through speculation in cotton and wheat. He has ap pointed the Nicholson Trust company of Union, trustee of his estate, and instructed the company to pay his debts out of the income of his plan tations. Jones owns about 5,000 acres of land, 3,000 acres behig contained in a single pantation. The annual In- i come from his property varies from $12,000 to $15,000, it is said. According to Spartanburg friends Jones turned to speculation in an ef fort not only to recover the attor. neys' fees and other expenses of his trial and appeals to the supreme court, but also to divert his mind from his trouble. At first, it is said, he was successful, but later the tide turned and he sustained heavy losses. Jones is now forty-one years old. He is said to be a tall, handsome man and is well educated. He at tended the Unversty of South Caro lina and Davidson college, N. C, but did not. graduate from either. Kills Wife apd .Self. Dave Floyd shot and killed his wife as she lay in bed last night and then committed suicide as the sheriff with a posse and bloodhounds w^re about to capture h;m. He was en raged because the court had awarded their child to his wife following their ' divorce case. The killing occurred jon a plantation about 12 miles from ' Pelham. Ga. Killed by Deputies. Charles Young, a desperado, was Ikilled. Young's wife was probably fatally wounded, and Deputy Sheriff 'Woodruff was seriously wounded in ja pitched battle yesterday betwenn jthe Youngs and Deputies Woodruff 'and Brown in the dountains of Al [leghany county, N. C. * Mexican Refugees Starving. United States mounted inspectors I at Marfa, Texas, report four thou j sand Mexican refugees on the Amer I lean side of the river in Presidio : county. They will have to be fed i by the United States government, or i they will starve the report says. Snow Falls in Manitora. A dispatfh from Harrowford, northwestern Manitoba, Sunday says: Winter returned In earnest. Fi-e iuches of snow covers the ground, and a blinding blizzard is raging. * JRG, S. C, THURSDAY, JTJN TOLD ONCE MORE Rev. M. 0. Gage, Cbapiian cf an Indi ana Regiment Daring the War Tells WHO BURNED COLUMBIA He Exonerates the Confederates, But Haims that the Conflagration Was Started by a "Bummer" and Not by a Soldier of the United States Army. Rev. M. D. Ga-je. of San Jose, Cal., who is now eighty-three years old, has recently paid a visit to Columbia. The State says he finds Columbia one of the most intensely interesting points in his 9,000 miles of travel. Forty-six years ago last February he was in the beautiful capital of South Carolina when the entire business and much of the residential portion of the city were destroyed by fire. In his capacity of chaplain of the Twelfth Indiana volunteer infantry he marched with Gen. W. T. Sher-I man from Savannah to Washington on the 17th February, 18G5, when Bragg retired from Columbia and Sherman advanced upon the city. Crossing the Saluda and Broad riv ers, Mayor Goodwyn met him north west of town and formally surrender ed the city of his authority. As the Army of the Tennessee marched through the city a large quantity of cotton was found burning, as was and still is generally believed by or der of Gen. Bragg. Gen. Wade Hampton being the immediate in command. "That fact has been made the basis of a common belief on the part of iSherman's friends, as well as of him self while still living, that Ger. Hampton was responsible for the dis astrous fire which destroyed Colum bia on' the following evening and during the entire night," says .Mr. Gage. "On the contrary it has been almost universally believed by the people of Columbia and of the entire South that Sherman was himself re sponsible for the terrible disaster, j It s therefore a matter of the utmost j importance that one who knows the facts derived from direct personal testimony of a non-commissioned of ficer of the Twelfth Indiana volun teer infantry should have a hearing. "The facts are as follows: 'While marching through Columbia in the! afternoon of that disastrous day | Chaplain Gage and Assistant Surgeon A. B. Tayloi- of the same regiment noticed two ladies who waved white handkerchiefs in token of loyalty to the United States flag. After going into camp southeast of the city Dr. Taylor proposed that the two officers should ride back into the town and interview these twe ladies They called a*, the residence and saw the elder lady, who gave assurance of their genuine loyalty, which had been well known and no one' had molested them. The younger woman was then absent at. Gen. Sherman's headquar ters for the purpose of securing a guard to protect the property. " 'Soon after the two officers re turned to camp an alarm of fire was sounded. Col. Reub. Williams, com manding the Twelfth Indiana, was immediately ordered to take his reg iment into the city, he being made provost marshal, and the entire com mand was at onee put on duty.as provost guard. " 'It. was then that. T heard Sergeant Thos. J. Lessig of Company E. Twelfth Indlna, Btate the fact that while in the northwestern sec tion of the city he saw a man throw the firebrand, which caused the con flagration, into a small unoccupied building. The deed was not com mitted by one wearing the uniform of a Federal soldier and It was and still is supposed that a "contraband" was the man who set Columbia on fire. However that may be, it was not an act of Gen. Sherman or of one ! serving under his comand. Tndeed, Gen. Sherman never knew who the offender was. I had removed to Cal ifornia when the controversy be tween Sherman and Hampton arose, and the above facts In the case have never been published, though fre quently stated in private circles. ; "While the conflagration was rag ing. Ser^t W. J. Warren of Company ; T Twelfth Indiana, who had been ! posted with ten men at the residence I of Rev. J. M. C. Brecher, D. D.. pas j for of the First Baptist church in Oo : lumbia, informed that clergyman ! that Iiis chaplain was also a Baptist : minister. Dr. Brecher therefore re i n'lPfted the serpent to bring the 'chaplain to his home, which he ac ! cordingly did. After a few mo ; ments of general conversation, Dr. ! Brecher said: "Chaplain Gaue, do your men know that the first seces sion convention was held in our ! church here in Columbia?" To which I I replied: "I presume they do. as I ! know it." i Dr. Brecher then said: "It the i soldiers do not burn the church, it j will not be destroved, as it is the only fireproof building in the city. I And. accordingly, when the next j morning downed the Baptist church of Columbia stood unscathed by th I fire which had destroyed every other ; building in the burned district. "Never in my life did I witness a j sadder scene than was presented on the next morning when large num I bers of men, women and children got E 1, 1911. TRAINS COLLIDE SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED AND MANY INJURED. The Day Coach Was Totally Wrecked and in This Car Most of the Cas ualties Took Place. At least nine persons were killed and 20 injured Monday in a head-on collision between eastbound and westbound passenger trains Nos. 9 and 12, on the Burlington railroad, ten miles east of McCook, Neb. The engineers of both trains are reported among the killed. The members of the Denver and Omaha baseball teams of the- West ern league were passengers on the wt-stbound train, the Colorado lim ited. A number of members of both teams were slightly hurt. James Mc Gill, president of the Denver team, was among the injured. The day coach on the limited was totally wrecked and in this car most of the casualties took place. The i tourist car and baggage car were thrown on their sides but, so far as is known, their occupants escaped serious injuries. Surgeons and nurses have been summoned from McCook and other nearby towns. Officials of the Chicago, Burling ton and Qnincy railroad have only meagre information of the accident. The first report to the Chicago office said the wreck was the result of a head-on collision between trains Nos. 9 and 12. Bo'h of these are through trains, the No. 9, or westbound, be ing on its initial run as far as Den ver. No. 9 left Chicago Sunday morn ing with a heavy passenger list. Pre viously it had only run as far as Ne braska points, but a new schedule took it to Denver and it carried a full list of passengers with through trans portation. It was due at McCook, iNeb., at about 7 a. m. Monday. The No. 12 train was also a through train, eastbound, and due in Chicago a<. 7 a. m. Tuesday. WOMAN'S BODY FOUND. Mysterious Tragedy Revealed Near Victim's Own Home. With bullet wounds in the face and back and the face crushed in with a piece of timber the body of Mrs. David Sapp, of Qultman, Ga., was found early Friday morning in a sink hole, about a quarter of a mils from her home. She had .been miss ing since Monday afternoon. Just before her disappearance, it is said, neighbors heard three shots in the Sapj) home, but no one was seen about the premises. When his wife failed to return ?donday night, Sapp notified the police and investigation showed a lot of blood leading to a desolate spot, where the body was finally located Friday. No arrests have been made. amidst a few hastily (gathered arti cles from their ruined homes, left of their all In one brief and terrible [ night. j "The high wind which had been from the northwest rendered useless I all efforts to stay the progress of a I raging conflagration. Only hand en ( gines were to be had, and the streams j of water fell short of the higher buildings, while many fragments of roofs and walls were scattered before the path of an angry storm. "During the night I sought the res idence of these two ladies whose signals of loyalty had attracted at tention. By making a long circuit of the burning! buildings I reached the place, finding the roof in flames and no one In sight. Entering the finely furnished rooms I ran to the piano, many fine paintings on the walls, luxuriant furniture, caprtes. etc., all about to be consumed. The only evidence of deliberate purpose on the part of some irresponsible miscreant which was discovered was a bonfire on the rear porch of the doomed res-j ldence. It could have been extin-l guished, but as the roof had caught1 fire from the opposite side of the street and no help was available, the] j home and all its valuable contents j were left to their fate. Chaplain Gage has retraced, as far as possible, the line of Sherman's i advance from the Broad river bridge j into and through Columbia. But the, new city of nearly 50,000 population.! ; more than five-fold its inhabitants] : at the time of its great disaster, pre-1 sents no residence of its former ap pearance. It was then exceedingly beautiful, and the memory of Its de-! struction has b"en indelibly made on the chaplain's mind for more than 4fi years, lie makes no attempt to soften j the sorrow and biterness which that ?unfortunate and cruel disaster brought, to so many happy homes, j "No nan could have felt a deeper! sympathy than was mine when, with tears, mingled with those of devoted fathers, mothers and children 1 left them sitting in the ashes wrere so recently they had enjoyed all the comforts and luxuries of social and domestic ife jn the heart of this beautiful Southland," he said. "It : was the most heart-rending scene of our great cruel war, the bloody bat . tlefields alone excepted.'' Kiled in "Craps" Game. In a row over the winnings of a i "craps'" game Tuesday afternoon I Lewellyn Smith was killed by Rob ert Young, another negro, a few j miles from Greenville. Young is now in jail. ILLEGAL COMBINE TOBACCO TRUST MUST DISSOLVE TN EIGHT MONTHS. Justice Harlan Dissents as to Bear ing of Extent of Restraint on the Trusts. The government Monday won a sweeping victory over the so-called "tobacco trust" when the supreme court held the American Tobacco company and its allied corporations to be operating in violation o fthc Sherman anti-trust law. Associate Justice Harlan delivered a vigorous dissent to part of the de cision, although he agree that the American Tobacco company and its accessories and subsidiary corpora tions were members of the Sherman anti-trust act. His dissent, as expressed from the bench, centered around two points, First, he took issue with the court for sending the case back to the low er oourt. "I have found nothing in the rec-| ord," he said, "which makes me at i all anxious to perpetuate any new combination among these companies which the court concedes had at all, times exhibited a conscious wrong | doing." In the second place, he reiterated | the objection he expressed in the! Standard Oil decision of two weeks ago to the adoption of the "rulej of reason'' as a standard for ascer-j talning what restraints of trade vio-j late the Sherman anti-trust law. The tobacco trust, decision is char-j: acterized by Attorney General Wick-! ersham as a most comprehensive and i sweeping verdict for the government, j The trust Is held to be a combina-j tion in restraint of trade?a mon^ opoly in violation of the law. The decision affects 65 Amer ican corporations, two English cor-' porations and 29 individual defend-j ants. An opportunity is given the trust to disintegrate and re-create a con dition of transacting business not re- j pugnant to law. If at the end of six or eight months' the corporations fail to bring them selves within the law, a receiver and dissolution will follow. The trust Is held to have been '? guilty of ? intimation, and clearly to have shown a purpose to stifle com petition. MARRIED SAME MAN TWICE. Children See Father First Time in Thirteen Years. If statements are true, and there is no reason to doubt them, Mr. Rob ert L. Henley and his wife, of Macon, will ,be married in a few days for the! second time?to each other. The Henley family lived in Terns thirteen years ago. The father of the fam ily left the mother and three chil dren and went further in search of work, the Jamily came 'balk to Georgia, and the father was to come back to see them the following Christmas season. He Called to come. Also no word ever came to the family In Georgia from their father?till the Galveston flood when it was reported to them that he had been ..mor.-T the number who lost their lives in that disaster. Just previous to that time, however, Mrs. Henley got a divorce from her husband on the grounds of d-^ser. tion. Thursday night Mr. Henley appear ed sound and well and wrote from the h-otel a note to his former wife asking that he be allowed to call upon her and see the "children."] The children are now grown?two j are full grown, pretty young ladies and the son is a traveling man for a local wholesale house. The daughters went to their home on Pulaski street Thursday evening to see a middle-aged stranger sitting on the veranda. For the first time since they were tots of six and eight) years, they spoke to their father and J felt his hands upon their heads. Mr. and Mrs. Henly, it is stated on good; authority will remarry. The husband I has been living at Paris, Texas, and has had fine success in business. Italian Aviator Killed. The Italian aviator Cirri, while making an a"roplane flight near j Voghera. Italy. Monday, fell from ! a? height of 650 feet and was killed.; I Twenty thousand peraons, including1 Cirri's wife and children, were view ing the exhibition. Cirri used a i Bleriot monoplane. He had complet ! ed a number of evolutions when sud-i denly the motor exploded and in a: moment the wings of the machine : wer" on lire. Must Have Been Crazy. T. 11. H. Gardner, a traveling preacher, attached to no S"ct, beat his wife to death with a club Monday a mil" east of Kittitas. Wash., and after attempting to drown himself in an Irrigation ditch, gave himself up. Gardner told the officers that he feared she would become unfaithful to him through influence of his ene mies. He said he had received oc cult messages to that effect. Need More School Room. By a vote of 145 ?o 24 Greenwood i school district, including the town of j Greenwood, voted Monday $25,000 i for additional school buildings and an 'extra levy of two mills for school ? purposes. The present large build j ing on Magnolia street is greatly I overcrowded. TWO CENTS PER COPY. DEEP PLOT LAID Md Overthrow the CoveromeaS afid Start New Revelation -?- \ AUQNG THE MEXICANS Two of the Rebel Leaders Promised to Desert Madero Until They Got All the Secrets of the Men Plan* ing the Gamp and Then They Told About It Revelations of a plot to start an other revolution in Mexico after ov erthrowing the leadership of Fran cisco I. Madero, Jr., and preventing his journey to Mexico Oity, created Intense excitement throughout th9 insurrecto army Monday. ? The plot, which resulted Sunday night in the arrest of Daniel De Vil-' Hers of Mexico City, at El Paso, and} W F. Dunn, an American, at Mont erey, Mexico, is said to include among its leaders three insurrecto miefs operating, in the State cf Coa buila. A telegram from Monterey rtates that Dunn, on- Madero's orders, has i>een placed In communicado for 72 liours. De Villlers is held in the El Paso jail on charges of "conspiracy to murder Francisco I. Madero, Jr.'' According to Gen. Benjamin Vill joen, the Boer veteran, who is Ma ?ero's chief military adviser, the scheme was that Villjoen and Gen. Orozco were to desert Madero, and start a new revolutionary movement, which would be joined by certain in surrecto leaders now in the field, to gether with a federal general known to be friendly to the "Cieiitifico" party. It was represented to him, Gen'. Villjoen 3ays, that great quantities of arms anc! ammunition were stored in the mines of Coahuila in anticipa tion of the new outbreak and that success was assured, as "Madero would never reach Mexico City." Behind the arrest, of the two al leged conspirat'-rs is the story of several weeks o. conferences <and the* exchange of many telegrams. 8oon? after the battle of'Juarez, Gen. Vill joen received a telegram from Mex ico City, saying: "The government wants to moke a proposition." The telegram was signed "Vint ers." Madero was informed of the telegram and it was declded?to give every encouragement to, those be hind the overtures. VPljoen, accord ingly, sent a reply stating that ho "was open to receive propositions." This was followed ,by a telegram* from Villiers, 'instructing Villjoen "to watch the rebel chief, note by what route he comes and when he leaves. Make friends with Orozco. There is a fortune in sight for us.'" Shortly after this two men ap peared in El Paso and secretly met Villjoen and Orozco, who professed their willingness to enter the plot. Villjoen declares he was to receive $25,000 and Orozco a like amount. Money was given them for current expenses, Villjoen receiving $480 and Orozco $200. Dunn, who was one of the pair, Villjoen asserts, translated to them a cipher message which road: "Last message at |hand. Rose? working fast for change of federal city. Do not worry about financial end of which will take care. Would advise direct action Di-az at early time. Be very careful. Continue advising and act as you think best. Mexico City man says agent Figueroa brothers comiug you from south. (Sig.) "Adolfo."' The message, it was explained, came from the agent of the conspira cy at Mexico City. The reference to> Diaz was not explained by Gen. Vill joen. Agreement having been reached with Villjoen and Orozco, Duno started for Meyico City, followed by a private detective with instructions to arrest him on Mexican soil. The arrest was made at Monterey Sunday night. Telegrams from theia de clared that "Important papers" had been found on the prisoner. Several Persons Perish. At San Francisco, Cal., ten met> perished in a fire destroying "The Chutes,'' the city's largest amusement resort. The de?ad were occupants of an adjoining lodging house from which escape was cut off by the flames. Many were injured in trying to escape. The loss is $250,000. Hangs Himself to Tree. When the great fire of 1909 crept up Telegniph Hill, it left a dead tree with one naked limb standing on tho highest bit of ground In San Fran cis-, o. Francisco Luigl Capl Del Ca besa. pining for his native land handed himself to this limb 'Monday with a red sash which he had brought from Tuscany. Winthrop Commencement. We have received an invitation to the commencement exercises at Win throp College, which comes off on June 4 to 6. A large '-lass of young ladies will get their d .grees and di plomas and go out '.r.lo the world to make it better. -.~t~.- f Snake Bite Fatal. 'Near St. Augustine, Fla., Walte* Bilton, four years old, was bitten by a large diamond back rattesnaft? Monday and died in a few hours, j