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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY SAYS CRG. Djpirtaeat of Agricalturt hsaes Bear ish Report About Cotton. CROP IS BIG IN TEXAS The Government Agricultural Offi . .cials Again Guessing at the Size of the Cotton Crop, Claiming Now I That it Is Nearly Fourteen Mil lion Bales. The cotton crop of the growing 6eason of 1911, which early in the year, gave indications that it would be one of the largest in the history of the industry, will approximate 13, 868,337 bales of 500 pounds or about 200,000 bales more than the record of 1904. This, says a report from Washing tun, was indicated by the final condi tion report of the department of agriculture on Monday at noon which showed the crop to be 71.1 per cent of normal on September 25. While there were declines in the! ?condition in most '.States there was! an improvement of 2 per cent, in Texas and 1 per cent, in North Car olina. With an indicated yield of 195 pounds to the acre, as unofficially es timated from Monday's condition fig ures, and the planted area, the 1911 crop undoubtedly will go down as the higgest on record. The estimated production of cot ton, based on the condition figures of Monday's report shows the crop cf Texas to be almost 1,000,000 tales more than last year. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Lou isiana and Mississippi showed good increases, while South Carolina, show ed a decrease. The estimated production, reckon ed by the department of agriculture official method from the crop report ing board's condition figures with comparison of last year by States follows: 1911. 1910. Virginia. . . . 17,400 ' 14,815 North Carolina 729,600 726,S50 South Carolina 1,121,800 1,191,929 Georgia. . . .2,078,200 1,820,610 Florida. . . . 74,000 60,049 Alabama. . . .1,373,800 1,223,285 .Mississippi. . .i,420,800 1,306,668 Louisiana. . . 4S9.400 255,733 Texas.4,156,300 3,172,488 Arkansas. . .1,019,100 847,874 Tennessee. . . 34S.700 349,470 Missouri. . . . 70,600 62,159 Oklahoma. . . 960,300 958,955 California. . . 8,200 6,186 The estimate bassed on the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau gives the condition of the cotton crop on September 25 was 71.1 per cent, of a normal, as compared with 73.2 per cent, on August 25, 1911, 65.9 per cent, on September 25, 1910, 58.5 per cent, on Septem ber 25, 1909, and 66.5 per cent., the average of the past ten years on Sep tember 25. Comparisons of conditions by the States follow: Sep. Sep. Sep. Sep. Aug. 25, 25, 25, 25?10 25. 1911. 1910. 1909. yr. av. 19111 Va. . .87 78 71 75 96 N. C. .77 72 70 72 76 S. C. .73 70 70 71 74 Ga.. .79 68 71 71 81 Fla.. .75 66 67 70 S5 Ala.. . 73 67 62 67 SO Miss. .62 63 53 67 70 La.. .66 51 39 63 C9 Tex. .71 63 52 . 61 6S Ark. .70 6S 54 67 7S Tenn..77 73 68 73 SS Mo. . .80 75 72 74 SS Okla. .60 70 55 6S 62 Cal. .100 90 . . . . 100 U. 8. .71.1 65.9 5S.5 66.5 73.2 For the purpose of comparison, the condition of.the cotton crop in the United States monthly, taken on the 15th of the month, for the past ten years, is given below: May June July Aug. Sep. 1911 .87.1 S2.2 S9.1 72.2 . . . 1910 .82.0 80.7 75.5 72.1 65.9\ 1909 .81.1 74.6 71.9 63.7 58. 190S .79.7 SI.2 S3.0 76.1 69.7 1907 .70.5 72.0 75.0 72.7 67.7 190G .S4.6 S3.3 S2.9 77.3 71.6 1903 .77.2 77.0 74.9 72.1 71.2 1904 .83.0 SS.O 91.6 S4.1 75.S 1903 .74.1 77.1 7S.7 SI.2 65.lj 1902 .95.1 84.7 SI.9 54.0 5S.3j 1901 .81.5 81.1 77.2 71.4 61.4 Average 1901 and 1910 SO.9 SO.O 79.4 73.5 66.5 DAVIS HELD IX JAIL. Charged With Having Dangerously Shot Boy Named Paris. A man named John R. Davis was brought to Gaffney Monday night and lodged in jail, charged with having shot a boy named Parris in the Keg town section of this county Monday. Information was received that the1 trouble had occurred, and JeputyJ Sheriff Lockhart at once went to the ! scene, returning Monday night. It is stated that Parris- condition is erit-j ical, although it is impossible to say yet just how badly he is injured. The cause of the trouble is a mystery. Davis is prominent, owning consider able property. He is now in jail held without bond pending a investigation of Parris' injuries. Championship Balloon Races. IA11 is in readiness at Kansas City for the start of the big international balloon race today. N^ STREET. He Died Unrecognized by Anyone in thi- Large Crowd That Rushed to His Aid. Unrecognized oy a single person In the curious throng that rushed to his aid, Rear Admiral W'infield Scott Schley, U. S. N., retired, fell dead in front of the Berkeley lyceum on west Forty-fourth street, New York, on Monday afternoon. The death of this notable figure in the naval his tory Of the nation was for the mo ment that of an unknown man in a strange crowd. The Admiral's sudden death is at tributed to cerebral hemorrhage which attacked him shortly after he, with Mrs. Schley reached New York that morning from a visit to Mount Kisco and had called at the New York Yacht club for his mail. As the Amdiral was walking through west Forty-fourth street, a. passerby who saw him gtagger grasp ed his way quickly through the crowd Despite the strangers service, how ever, the admiral fell helpless to the street and a physician who press bis way quickly through the crowd pronounced him dead. There was a gash over his right eye where his forehead had wtruck the sidewalk. A slight fracture of the frontal bone had ensued, but surgeons who examined the body ex pressed disbelief that this injury in any way resulted in his death. His identity was established by letters and papers found in his pock ets and from an inscription In his gold watch which had been present ed to the admiral by his native State of Maryland "for his heroism and memorable service in rescuing Lieut. A. W. Greely, U. S. A., find six rom rades from death at Cape Sabine in the artic region on June 22,1884." The spot where Admiral Schley died is in the very heart of New York's club district and members of these organizations were thickly clustered around and soon establish ed the identification of the famous commander who figured so promi nently in the naval engagement of 1S9S at Santiago. The body was taken to the nearest police station. After the usual for malities permission was given for the removal of the~body to the Hotel Al gonquin, where Admiral Schley made his home while in the city. As the body was bourne forth to the wait ing conveyance the throng about the station stood with bared heads. Bluejackets from the Brooklyn navy yard who had been summoned furnished an escort, their command er being C. M. Devalen, a recruiting officer, who was with Admiral Schley on the cruiser Brooklyn at the bat tle of Santiago. One of tbe admiral's sons, Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, Jr., reached the scene before the body was re moved. A message conveying the sad news to the admiral's other son, Capt. T. F. Sohley, at Fort Logan, Denver, Col., was dispatched. Admiral Schley was born in Fred erick county, Maryland, in 1839. Af ter graduating from Annapolis in IS60 and serving during the War of Secession in minor capacities, he was commissioned in 1866 as lieutenant commander. During the Spanish American war Schley, in the absence of Sampson, fought the Spanish fleet, which at tempted to escape from Santiago harbor and destroyed it with his fleet of half a dozen ships. WERE KILLED IN MIXES. .Mutiny in Prison Results in Death of Three Convicts. As a result of a mutiny of pris oners at the Brushy Mountain mines, a branch of the Tennessee State pen itentiary, which began three days ago, three negro convicts are dead. Two were shot while in the mines, the third, an innocent bystander died of wounds received during the battle in one of the dormotories. The mutiny which started Thursday a. m. when the convicts refused to work, is thought, to have ended Sunday with the promise of the prisoners to resume their tasks as usual Monday. Despite the promise, an extra force of guards has been placeJ in the I prison. POISONED BY ICE CItEAM. Two Families in Sumter County Made Seriously 111. Fourteen persons in the families of Alva and Frank McCoy near Oswego. and four servants, were made seri ously ill after eating ice cream last Friday night. Two of the parties were critically ill for^a time. Dr. C. .1. Lemon of Sumter, with nurses, went Sunday to attend the sufferers. Dr. Lernen reported Monday night that his patients are much better, and he has reason to believe that they are ail on the road to recovery. He thinks they suffered with ptomaine poisoning, and that the ice cream caused the sickness. Cotton Worm Plays Havoc. A strange worm, which made its appearance a few days ago, is work ing havoc in the late cotton fields of Gaston county, N. C, stripping entire fields, as they come, of both leaves and unopened bolls. ORANGEI DAMAGE BY ARMY WORM COTTON CATERPILLER PUTS IN DEADLY WORK. A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist, Thinks Late Appearance of Worm Will Save the Cotton Crop. The State says many cotton fields in the Piedmont section of the IState have .been stripped of the leaves and the tender fruit greatly damaged 'by the cotton caterpillar, commonly known as the "army worm." Owing to the late appear ance of the caterpillar the cotton crop will not be seriously damaged is the opinion of A. F. Conradi, the Sta,te entomologist, who is located at the experiment station at Clem son College. The caterpillar has made its appearance in several coun ties and many fields have been at tacked. In response to a telegram from The State Mr. Conradi made the fol lowing statement as to the cater pillar: "The cotton caterpillar is rapidly increasing in this State. This pest has created havoc in the western and central sections of the cotton belt. Reports received indicate that the. caterpillar has appeared in the northern, central and eastern sec tion:; of South Carolina. Owing to its late appearance no serious dam age is expected to the cotton crop. Cotton opening at present will suf fer little. Late cotton should in most cases be 'treated with Paris green, dusted at rate of two and one half pounds per acre. It can be mixed ten times its weight with slacked lime, and dusted from mus lin/bags. f,\ can make no prediction as to the effect on the cotton crop for next yeai before the end of the week." A. G Smith, of the United States office of farm management sent sev eral of the caterpillars to Mr. Con radi for examination. A complete re port as to how to exterminate the insect will be issued later. According to reports received in Columbia the octton caterpillar first mace its appearance a week ago. Mr. Smith was inspecting several farms in Greenville county on Monday a week ago. He found the caterpillars on some cotton. Several days later the field was completely stripped of the leaves. JPaseph Shelor, a well konwn- at torney of Walhalla, was among the visitors in Columbia the other day. He said that many fields had been damaged by the caterpillar in Oc onee county. He said 'that the worm first made its appearance in that county a week ago and that within three days all the leaves had disap peared from several cotton fields in his neighborhood. A report from Charlotte Monday night stated that, a strange worm which made its appearance a few days ago in Gaston county, N. C, was working havoc in the late cot ton fields. DEATH LIST MUCH REUDCED. The Flood Victims Now Said to he Over One Hundred. A dispatch from Austin, Pa., says twsnty-flve dead, 86 missing and be lieved to be buried beneath the debris is the official census of Austin's loss of life in the flood of Saturday. It is conceded, however, that several, if not many, visitors and strangers were ir. town that day and undoubtedly perished. Including them and allow ing for inevitable errors in compila tion, the total of dead prolrably will reach 150. Twenty-one of the twenty-four'bod ies recovered have been identified and of the missing hope is etertained that some may be accounted for. The prob lem of Austin is to recover her dead from the thousands of tons of debris choking the narrow valley. To do so, before it is necessary tc burn the ruins to save the living from an epidemic an army of labor must reach the town within the next 3 6 hours, officials say. Otherwise the torch may transform the wreck age into the pyre of most of those who have perished. HYDE ASKS FOR BAPTISM. Condemned Man Would Join Church Before Mis Execution. A dispatch from Anderson says Samuel Hyde, the young white nun who slew his wife and her father on July IS, and who is under sentence to hang on October 20, has professed conversion and has addressed a let ter to the congregation of the First Baptist Church, asking that he be baptised and received as a member o? that church. Judge Prince, who was the presiding Judge and who passed sentence on Hyde, is now in Conway, Horry County, holding Court. A letter from a committee of the Baptist Church has been for warded* asking for an order allow ing Hyde to be taken from the jail to the church for baptism. Thrown from Motorcycle. At Danville, Va., Lewis Cook, a white rural letter carrier, married and aged 29, died Monday from a fracture of the skull sustained by being thrown from his motorcycle when he ran into a rope stretched across a street undergoing repairs. JURG, S. C, THURSDAY, OC iVfRY SAD TALE, Woman Tells Haw She Met and Harri ed Rer Bad Chinese Hosbaod. SHE WAS BIS TEACHER "Was Once a Missionary, and Worked Among the Chinese Before Her Marriage to Charlie Song, Who Now Deals in Opium and Made Her Lead Immoral Life. Government officials recently raid ed four shops in the Chinese quar ters of Newirk, N. J., and sein ed six thousand dollars worth of crude opium. The raid followed the Federal agents' arrest of a China man on a ferryboat going from Jer sey City to New York Friday night; he had $1,500 worth of opium in a suit-case. Four Chinamen, one Charlie Song, and an American woman, Mrs. Char lie Seng, were taken, but Mrs. Char lie Song was permitted to go free. It is hinted that the first arrest and the raid were made possible by in formation she gave. Mrs. Song declared she is weary of "the life of white slavery" she has been leading to which Charlie Seng forced her to descend after she had been a Methodist missionary among the Chinese of Newark. She charged, too, that Song has been try ing to poison her recently; that he forced her to eat butter which, judg ing from its effects, she thinks was poisoned. In a shop. No. 15 Lafeyatte street, and in three others in what is known as the Chinese Arcade, in an alley off Mulberry street, they arrested Bat Ling, a merchant, aged twenty-five, who claimed a residence in New York; Charlie Lum, forty-six; Char lie Song, flft3'-seven, and Ming On, twenty-nine. Charlie Song and his white wife were at No. 2 Arcade. In all four shops ordum was found in cans that had paid duty when or iginally imported full of opium, and had .been properly stamped by the Government. More than two hun dred and fifty such cans that had been used and empty were found in the cellar of one of the shops raided. The Federal law forbids refilling the cans under a heavy penalty. United States Commissioner Jones held Ling, who is said to be the ring leader of a gang of opium smugglers, in $2,500 bail, the others in $2,000 bail each. The woman was not taken tc court. Mrs. Charlie Song said her maiden name was Mabel A. Weis, that she is the daughter of a prosperous farmer of Washington, Warren County, N. J (She married a man named Way ton, who died four months later, j Then she went to Newark and join ed the Centenary Methodist Episco pal Church, one of the leading Methodist churches of the city. She said she took up misisonary wo.rk among the Chinese pupils of the church's branch Sunday school There she met Charlie Song seven years ago; he was intelligent and seemed particularly anxious to be taught religion, and, incidentally English. She fell in love with him and listened more readily to his im portunities to marry him, because, she said, she hoped to accompany him to China, and with his aid to find larger fields for her missionary work. The Rev. George H. Dowknott, No. 90 Madison street, this city, married her to Song in 1905, Mrs. Song said. ISong had professed Christianity and for several months they traveled together doing missionary work. Then Song opened a tea store in Ne\ ark; quickly reverting to paganism, his wife said, and made a slave of her to be disposed of as he saw fit to Iiis friends and customers. Be cause she rebelled he tried to poison her, she believes. MAN TOOK FATAL DRUG. Samuel Brown of Kingstrce Found Dead in His Bed. At Kingstree on Sunday night Sam uel Brown, a young man of about 25 years, ended his life by taking a bot tle of morphine, lie was found dead io his bed Monday morning. Sunday he went to his room as usual, and nothing in his conduct indicated that he had even considered taking of life, but Monday morning his absence from work excited the interest of his friends and relatives, and on forcing the door to his bedroom it was dis covered that he had been dead sev eral hours. Notes of farewell, pre sumably written just before he took the fatal drug, to his -mother, Mrs. Richard Brown, and to his brother, j John Brown who was in business at; Kingstree, were found beside him. To his mother he wrote that he was sorry to leave her, but that she must not worry about him, and to his brother, John, lie wrote that he re gretted he could not stay to help him through the busy season. Whole Family Murdered. At Monmouth, 111., William E. Dawson, his wife and one daughter, were found in their beds Sunday, the skulls of each crushed in. Dawson was the caretaker of the First Pres byterian church, and when he failed to open the building for services his friends went to his house and found the tragedy. \ lOBER 5#11. STRIKE RIOTERS FIGHT PITCHED BATTLE IX RAILWAY YARDS AT McCOMB CITY. . Military Companies Called and the Troops Are to Take Charge.? Several Hundred Shots Exchanged. In a pitched /battle in the freight yards of the Illinois Central railroad at McComib City, Miss., between the strikers and strike-breakers late on Tuesday, several persons are report ed to have been killed and others wounded. Gov. Noel ordered out troops at 7:30 o'clock that night and two militia companies are hurrying to the scene. Adjt. Gen. Fridge, with a squad of the Caipital Guards, left on a special train for Brookhaven, where he will be joined by the Brookhaven and Natchez companies. They ex pect to reach McComb and take charge of the town. Details of the .fight in the McComb yards are difficult to secure. The special train bearing the strikebreak ers contiuued on its journey to New Orleans, ? where it was stated that none was killed. Citizens of Magnolia state that when the train passed there at full speed every coach window was broken and no one was visible at the openings, the strike-breakers ly j ing prone on the floor to keep from being fired on. Several hundred shots were ex changed during the hostilities and among the strikers there were nu merous bruised and broken heads. Many of the wounded were car ried to the headquarters of the strik ers and physicians summoned, but It has been impossible to learn the ex tent of their injuries. It is reported thait several will die. Scores of telegrams and telephone messages have been pouring into the governor's office appealing for help: The governor was informed by the authorities at McComb that order could he restored only by the declara tion of martial law. Gov. Noel acted promptly, order ing Adjt. Gen. Fridge to get at least two local companies in readiness for service at the earliest possible mo ment. The fight in which a large number are believed to have been killed and wounded occurred at the freight shed, about half a mile south of the de pot, closely following the first en counter of the afternoon. The train bearing the strike breakers had pulled down to 'the freight shed and was standing on a side track. Over 100 strikers im mediately assembled, words were ex changed and police started, when, it is claimed, a strikebreaker hurled a brick among the strikers. Immediately a fusillade of shots followed. The strikers were in near ly every cast armed with pistols, and they opened fire on the coach windows at which the heads of the strikebreakers could be seen. Sev eral fell after the first volley was lired. The occupants of the coaches im mediately got under the seats and ' returned the fire through the coach windows, keeping well scattered. Oc casionally when a strikebreaker bolder than the rest, raised his head above 'the danger line lie was greet ed with a shower of .bullets and oth er missiles. The battle raged for fully twenty ?minutes. Finally the engineer in charge of the train made a dash for his locomotive, managed to get aboard, while the bullets were flying thick about his head, opened the throttle and pulled out at full speed. The train did not stop at any points south of McComb. Realizing the gravity of the situation and an ticipating that the strikers would at tack .the machine shops where SO strikebreakers were barricaded dur ing the night, citizens deserted the streets early in the evening. Adjutant General Fridge was ac companied on the special train by a posse of United States deputy mar shals hastily organized by Marshal Fred Wallings. SOUTH CAROLINA WINS. Takes Militia Championship in Hud son River Races. A dispatch from New York says in a choppy ebb tide and cross wind on the Hudson river Saturday the South Carolina crew of ten men won the militia championship of the Unit ed States. The South Carolinians with Lieut. M. S. Sullivan as cox swain got their cutter three lengths ahead of the New York's men boat. Ohio finished third. The Massachu setts crew was fourth and the New Jersey crew last. The New York crew led for three-fourths of the two mile course, but the Southerners hit up the pace in the final quarter, rowing 44 to the minute, and won handily. Wants His Name Changed. "My mail is usually read by three of four persons in town before it reaches me, and I want my name changed," is John Anderson's plea to the supreme court. His home is in Jamestown, N. Y., and the population of that place is made up largely of Swedes and there are forty-six John Andersons in the city directory. His plea will be granted by giving him a middle initial which will differentiate him from the other forty five in the same town. 1 mm IN CONTROL EXPERT'S ENEMIES TAKEN OFF GOVERNMENT BOARD. McCabe Resigns und Dunlap, Other Alleged Defender of Adulterants, Given Vacation L'nlil Taft Returns. In a sudden succession of orders at Washington an initial move in the expected reorganization of the de partment of agriculture, George P. McCabe, a department solicitor, Mon day was retired from the pure food and drug board. F. L. Dunlap, as sociated chemist, closely identified with McCabe, was allowed leave of absence until the president's return and Harvey W. Wiley, chief chem ist, left apparently in supreme com mand of the board. Dr. R. E. Doo little, of New York, was temporar ily appointed to the board to suc ceed Mr. McCabe. These changes were announced on Monday by James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, following a confer ence with Dr. Wiley, who has been on a long vacation. They were deem en Inevitable in view of personal an tagonism aired before a congression al committee the past summer and Dr. Wiley's exoneration by President Taft, after Attorney General Wicker sham, whose views were alligned with those of Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, had recommended Dr. Wiley's removal -frcm olfice be cause of a teachnical irregularity in appointive methods, the responsibil ity for which he denied. The pure food and drug board is the agency '."hich passes upon many important c_ses arising under the enforcement of the pure food law. Dr. Wiley, on the one hand, and ?o licitor McCabe and Dr. Dunlap on the other, were the members of the board. Dr. Wiley declared that he was usualiy outvoted and made a number of sensational statements in the investigation of the controver sy. Smarting under the frequent overrulings of his views wherin he held food products deleterious to health, he told a congressional com mittee that he regarded hi? asso-l ciate, Dr. Dunlap, as his superior of ficer. Secretary Wilson's brief announce ment of the change stated that So licitor McCabe voluntarily resigned and that his resignation had been accepted. Dr. Dunlap was acting chairman cf the board when Dr. Wiley was ab sent from Washington. Whether Dr. Dunlap will return to his duties on the board was not stated. His tem porary withdrawal was attributed of ficially to the fact that he is to take the customary four weeks vacation; but Secretary Wilson stated that Dr. Dunlap would not return until af ter President Taft had returned to Washington. T" place of Solicitor McCabe, to se e with Dr. Wiley on the board, Secretary Wilson appointed Dr. Doo littie, long a member of the bureau of chemistry force and now head of that bureau substation in New York. Dr. Wiley and Mir. Doolittie will con stitute the majority of the board for the immediate future, the latter's appointment being necessary to give the board'? action legal effect. The reasons for Solicitor McCabe's resignation were not announced. Secretary Wilson stated that Mr. McCabe's duties as solicitor remain unchanged, and under the general provisions of the law, he will con tinue to exercise an important con trol over the enforcement of the pure food law. "There will be no permanent changes in the department method of enforcing the pure food law un til President Taft has had an oppor tunity to take the matter up in Wash ington," said Secretary Wilson. "The appointment of Dr. Doolittie will simply continue the board operations as at present, tip to the time when President Taft returns." WILL HAVE TO PAY IT. Sellers Must Pay Mrs. Farmer Five Thousand Dollars. The Columbia State says Wade Hampton Sellers must pay $",,000 to Mrs. May W. Farmer for killing her husband, James P. Farmer. This was the verdict of the Richland county court and the supreme court .Monday, in a decision by Associate Justice Woods, affirmed the verdict of the Richland court. In the Richland County court of general session Sellers was acquitted of the murder of Mr. Farmer, and laier the common pleas court render ed a verdict directing compensation for the homicide. The verdict of $.'.(1111) for the ben efit of Mrs. Fanner and her children was awarded against W. 11. Sellers under the allegation that the homi cide was committed "unlawfully," willfully, wontonly, recklessly, and maliciously." The defense set up a general denial, claiming that Sellers shot Farmer in self-defense and in the protection of his dwelling, and that Sellers had l>een tried for the killing of Farmer and had been ac quitted. Falls One Hundred Feet. Cromwell Dixon, who aviated across the Rocky mountains last Saturday, fell 100 feet at the inter state fair grounds at Spokane, Mon day, and received injuries which caused his death. 1 TWO CENTS PER COPY. PAID FOR SEAT -?- .^Bfl SlsphiDSon Admits Usirg Onr One Haodred Tboasaod Dollars -o_ - IN PRIMARY ELECTION ??? i In Which He Was Nominated to the United States Senate as Senator . . from Wisconsin, Yet He Swears He Does Not Know How the Money Was Spent. On the witness stand at Milwaukee. Wis.,, before the senatorial inve gating committe for three hours answer charges that bribery and ? rupt use of money had contrib; to his election, United States Seni ;v Isaac Stephenson Monday swore that although he spent $107,793 in his campaign, he had little knowledge as to just how it was expended, ex cept that it was net used in violation of the lav/. The details, he said, he had left to his campaign managers. As an in stance of his ignorance of just where the money went he cited an item of $11,000 for postage. "Now," declared Senator Stephen son, "I am president of more than a dozen active industries in this State, and. I have in my employe more than 3,000 men, some of whom have been wiith me for 50 years. In them I have every confidence. "I do not pay any attention to the details of these industries. Just so, when my campaign for nomination by the primaries in 1908 came up. I could not lay awake nights, trying to figure how the postage was used. I gave sums of money to my manage-0 and told them to carry on a vigor campaign and do everything to e' me, except that they must keep w in the law. I cautioned them not violate the law in any particular, far as I know, they obeyed me." Citing proportionately large expen ditures for advertising, 'buttons, lith graphs, advertising in newspapers and traveling expenses, the witness tes tified, he frequently asked where so much money was going, but on being told it wns a close fight, and the State had to be systematically canvassed to elect him, he questioned the matter ?no further. Two points-, as being the position of the "defense" in the inquiry which h being conducted by a sub-commit tee of the senate committee on privi leges and elections, were made known by Charles E. Littlefield, counsel for Mr. Stephenson?one was that the committee had no authority to inves tigate the primary campaign of 1908 at which Mr. Stephenson was nomi nated ;but must confine itself to ques tioning whether the senator actually expended money for his election by the State legislature in 1908. ; He asserted that, all the money was spent in the nomination and not a dollar went to the election. Anotfc' declaration was that Mr. Stephen was elected by the legislature w both houses voted separately Jaur 2(5, 1 909, and that the subsequ election by the legislation jointly March 4, 1 909, when three Demo cratic meml>ers absented themselves and so gave Mr. Stephenson a ma jority was not necessary. The committee announced that at present it would net confine itself to I any of the limitations Mr. Stephen son declared he had given money for campaign purposes to men who afterward became candidates for tho legislature and some of them were elected, but he was not aware of their candidacy when he gave them money. "The record shows that you paid to your managers one day $10,000 and a short time afterward gave them $15,000 more," said Senator W. B. Heyburn, ch iii man. Didn't you ever I ask them what they were doing with all that money?". "No, only in a general way." In October, 190.S, more than a month after the election, you gave one of your managers several thous and dollars. Did you inquire as to what he wanted it for?" "No. I supposed it was for some bill. They did not always present bills promptly. In the same way, I gave J. Earl Morgan, my son-in-law, $2,5 00 for compaign expenses." "Didn't you pay three Democratic members or any one for absenting themselves from the legislature on \ March 4, 1 009, so that you could have a majority." ?'No. I never knew of any mem ber having absented himself except as I read it in the newspapers." E, A. Edmunds, another election manager, testified he knew of no money having been illegally used in Mr. Stephenson's election. The bill I for advertising, he said, amounted to $40,000. A check of 2, 500 had been paid to J. W. Stone, State game war den, on Mr. Stephenson's instruc tions, he declared, but he did not know to what use the money was put. lr previous legislative investigatto" it was brought out that Stone dist buted money to deputy wardens. The committee will resume t hea~i:tgs tomorrow when some Senator Stephenson's campaign wor.. ers will be examined. Eight Chrildren Burned. Eight children of Mr. and Mrs. William Dias of Heshbon, Pa., rang ing in age from 13 year;, to three months, were burned to death Sundax when fire destroyed their home. |