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w. »«t< •»«#• . if '-anjP ^ -'A » »>’ i F-'.* LAND JSMTLD SECRETARY OF AGRICOLTURE SHOWS OP BIG LOSSES WANTS BETTER FARMING - ♦ In Speaking I^jfore Meeting of Farm er* Secretary Garrison Gives Ad- S^rice UTiich if Heeded, Will Lead to Better Cultivation of the Land by Its Tillers. * CHICKENS GIVEN SAND MAKES DARING ESCAPE NEW ADULTERATION PRACTISED FOR OLD PURPOSE. YEGGMAN SAWS HIMSELF OUT OF PENITENTIARY. Government Inspectors Take Trail of Those Who Weight Fowls With Gravel. John Fisher, Notorious Safe-Blower, Serving Fifteen-Year-Term, Climbs Prison W T all to Freedom. READY JJESIST SO HUERTA INTIHATES TO NEII- BERS OF STAFF ORGANIZES CONGRESS i I < | I Less than 40 per cent, of the culti vated land in the United States is rea sonably well cultivated and less than 14nper cent, is yielding maximum re turns. Secretary Houston of the de partment of agriculture told the Na tional Grance of Patrons of Hus bandry In 47th annual convention at Manchester, N. H., that the best flg ures he could procure led to such a conclusion and that only In a very few localities had conditions been de veloped to Insure maximum returns. Secretary Houston touched upon rural credits, marketing methods, ex- tentlon of agricultural education and the cost of living. He spoke of "ma nlpulations of those middlemen who perform no useful or necessary ser vice”, as one of the causes of soaring prices. “I do not entertain the thought for a second that we have ap proximated the limit of our output from the soil," said he. “We have not even reached the end of the pio Bearing stage. W’e have been so bent I on building up great and artificial de vice that we have had little time to think of the very foundation of ou industrial existence "We had better frankly face the fact that we are relatively Inefficient, take atock of our shortcomings and earnestly seek the remedy. That we have practically reached the stage where we have reaaed to be an ex porting nation of food products and are becoming dependent on foreign nations for the necessaries of life. Is a sad commentary upon our use of the opportunities bestowed upon us Speaking of whit the agricultural department hopes to do to solve th*- problem of the Incrfastng cost of liv tng Secretary Houston expressed the opinion that "the existing chaos and consequent wastes, result from faults on the part of the farmer In the grow ing and handling of h:s products from the machinery of distribution Including physical equlpm. nt and phvslcal handling from the mantpu latton of those middlemen who p<-r form no useful and ne.e-sarv v.-- vie** and from Ignorin'e on the part of the consumer and of the producer of the rhiraeter of the pm In • Is placed upon the market ” Secretary Houston urged coord nation of federal and State agn u! tural agencies as ess, n.M ,] to s , *s deplored the ealousy which, he de Hared, exists In many Sta’es between State agricultural commissions and the agricultural colleges, and decried duplication of work In many local; tiea In the field of marketing, he de Hared, there was danger that pres ■ ure would be brought to bear to force the department to act every where before It was Intelligently pre pared to act anywhere. He explain ed that his department, which started a*t aumraer to make a careful atudy f the marketing problem, waa study- ag It from every angl e There waa the same danger in re gard to the queatlon of rural credits. *T am not Impressed.’’ he said, “with the wisdom and Justice of proposals that would take the money of all the people through bonds or other de vices and lend it to the farmers or to any other class at a rate of interest lower than the economic conditions would normally require and at a rate of Interest lower than that at which other classes are securing their capi tal. This would be legislation of a particularly odious type, and no new excursions in this direction would be palatable when we are engaged in the gigantic task of restoring the simple rule of equity.” Before the problems of rural cred it and marketing, the secretary de clared the Individual farmer acting alone was helpless. Nothing less than concerted action would suffice, he said, and the “same business sense amd the same organizing genius which have placed this nation in the front rank of industry must be in volved in agriculture”. The problem of the individual farmer, said the secretary, had re ceived scant systematic attention and the problem of rural life as a whole had until recently been practically Ignored. From every section of the country, he declared, came the atory of "Increasing tenancy and absentee ownership, of soils depleted and ex plotted, of Inadequate business meth- of chaotic marketing and dlstrl n of Inferior roads, of lack of rvislon of public health and san Ration, of Isolated and ill-organised •octal activities and of Inferior Intel- loctaal provision." He added, how ever, that he was not of the peesl mists and expressed his belief that ovt of tha chaos would coma order, better and bigger crops. Improved ttv tag eoaditloas In tba wintry aad re- IM to tbe dty dweltar tkroegb ■ “Look out for sand in the chick ens,” is the latest slogan of the.de partment of agriculture and its sleuths who are on the trail for vio lation of the pure food law and the sale of impure and deleterious food prodqcts. The government inspectors have for some time been investigating the practices of certain poultry ship pers who collect chickens from farms and kill and ship them in large quantities. In some of these places the inspectors found that the practice was to take the chickens as they came from the farm, nearly always below weight or out of condition be cause of their being ill-fed on the farms and handled roughly on the cars, and keep them in fattening pens for from three days to two weeks The chickens are fed corn meal anc water or finely ground mixed grains and buttermilk. This practice Is be coming more and more general and is highly desirable because both quality and quantity of edible flesh is in creased. It is also profitable, as the cost of care, feed and Interest on the investment necessary to add a pound in weight still leaves a good margin of profit provided the fattening Is rightly done. Not content, however, with adding legitimately to the weight of the chickens, some of these poultry ship pers, a day or two before the chicken Is killed, feed red peper, which makes tha chicken have an abnormal appe tite then thev feed a mixture of fine sand an a little corn meal The chicken eats this mixture rav enously and aa a re*ult large quantl- tlea of sand are Introduced Into the craw and the Intestines as well This may amount. In the case of a single chlrken, to only an ouce or two, but where thousand* of chickens are soM the agerepate charire for sand he comes Important It simply means »hat the poultry dealer 1* selling sand to the customers a* tha rate of 2^ cents or more per pound The housewife should scrutinize the crops of poultry before bu'lng and make It verv [ lain to her poultrv dealer or butcher that she will not [xwy af the rate of 20 to 2'i cm's per pound fur an ounce or more of •an ! John Fisher, a notorious yeggman, serving fifteen years for safe-blow ing, escaped from the State Peniten tiary Saturday night by sawing the bars to his cell.. He climbed over the wall, via the oM Hosiery Mill, let himself down by a rope and vanished. Penitentiary officials Sunday night sent out description in every direction and have offered a reward of $50 for his recapture. ‘When the prisoners were lined up for roll call Sunday afternoon Fisher was absent. An investigation disclos ed the broken bars to his cell, where he had cut his way to freedom. A search of the grounds and buildings was made, and dangling over the wal behind the old Hosiery Mill was found a rope showing how he had gotten to freedom. He had climbed over the Hosiery Mill on the top o the elghteen-foot wall which encloses the Penitentiary grounds and let him self down on the bank* of the Con garee River. Fisher was sent up from Lancaster County in 1 905 for safe-cracking for 15 years He Is also wanted by the United States government for post office robberies. He is said to have been a member of the gang which cracked post office safes In all parts of the ihruTh Until rounded up by Post Office Inspector Gregory. It Is claimed Fisher was a pal of “Port land Ned”. There Is a warrant lyln In the United States commissioner nffiro for Fisher a* soon as he serves h. s term In the State [onlteutUrv The penitentiary officials furnished the following description of Fisher Five feet 2 7-* Inches high; weight, lltr. pounds black hair, brown eyes dark complexion, scar on outside of left thigh, large scar on outside of right leg scar* on both forearms and wrists He Is T4 years old and has the appearsn e of a tvplral veggman There no clue as to how Fisher got the rope by which he escaped oxer the walls \ rigid Investigation Is belt g made by the penttenttarv of fb lals A general alarm sent out In all directions It Is hoped, will be the n.em* of q .bkly recapturing the in' rod need. Into the body of a chicken r g k a 1 e ‘ a •• 1 t N e n t s ,. • > . - M e of Charleston. Nor V r k w I. • • e t 1 <• f ■ pa. . *• x e g g rn e n da' * tsx - ere 1,m xt . .xx« been Quorum Mustered by Mexican Senate —Believed That United States Will Soon Inaugurate Blockade of All Important Ports—Huerta Appears to be Undisturbed. Organization of President Huerta’s new Congress was completed Monday, when enough senators were gathered to form a quorum In the upper house. Gen. Francisco Pronces was chosen temporary chairman of the Senate and a committee on credentials was appointed. A similar committee of the Chamber of Deputies began the work of revising the Deputies’ cre dentials, and there Is nothing to indi cate that the formal opening of Con gress next Thursday will be postpon ed. President Huerta talked Mon day night informally to the members of his staff and a few personal friends regarding the possibilities of Inter ventlon by the United States. He in timated that he would be ready to re sist such a step. The opinion Is expressed In various circles that the United States will soon Inaugurate a blockade of Mexl can ports. Rumor has It that Preai dent Wilson would be content with such an action and might even per mlt the embassy to remain In Mexico City until an open rapture occurred Gen Huerta reaumed buslnesa at the National Palace, apparently with n thought of any quet.: ons [ending b» tween his government ami that of the United States He seems to regard recent Incidents growing out of Washington's demand that he vacate the pre*Menry aa closed, and so they are so far aa tie la concerned, If hla statements and those close to him are to t>e bellexed 1 y President Huerta's friends the attitude of the executive is described ** one of expectancy and curiosity as to prospective action by the United States rather ttian one of anxiety They say hf has given no Indication* of changing his mind about not re signing and proceeding with the af fairs of the government with equa- n m tv They add that tie regards as probable Intervention by (tie United M.it• s and an order was sent Tuesday ENTERS US PROTEST WITHOUT A COUNltT HE8HIRR DISCUSSES THE LATE BLEASE CAUCUS, Seem* to Think It Waa Gotten Up to Parcel Out the Office* to the Fav orite* In the Deal. ORT1K McMANIGAL IB Dynamiter Whose Brought the McNi Believe* He i* Marked tar Mr. W. B. Cheshire, in his news paper, The Harpoon, gives his views of the late Blease caucus in Colum bia. Here is what he says: We have given a great deal of thought to the complicated situation which so suddenly developed in this State during State Fair week. No body expected—not even the ^actors anything but torn results from the Blease conference, and, presto: here are the woods afire, with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. The way it look* to us is that Gov ernor Blease really sees that he has pushed discord and strife to where a reaction is bound to set in. We have never doubted that at heart he really desired to see McLaurin governor. It didn't suit the gang of job-hunters that he has gathered around him; they wanted McLaurin to grovel in the dust at Blease’s feet, and promise to continue rslslng h—1, until each one of them landed his piece of pie. They were fooling with the wrong man. John L. McLaurin made speech on s high plane and utterly refused to foam at the mouth or wear anybody’s collar. We have been sup porting McLaurin for governor; we are going to continue to do *o. He can not refuse hts services to the State because s squad of hungry camp-followers did not know a man when they saw him Roth Senator Tillman and Cover nor Blease say that there is no kin • hip In THImsnlsm and Bl^sselsm lV:i\'i«> both of thom are right, and that after all It Is a fight for the spoils of office. TfTe people do not look at It that way; they are trying to get good government and law and order They don t want .the State run by the gamblers blind tlgera and Southern railroad while the so-called leaders are deciding who shall go to rongreaa or the United States senate The editor of Th*.Harpoon Is one of the people He Is a candidate for rnngreav he waa for Bleaae In the !a*t election, now why ahould he not haxe ngbta equal to any other man'a* !• an office holding oligarchy to par cel out things from Columbia, and the Hlease!tea to be voted like a flock of sheep as a master directs If so x»<* are unfit and unable to appreciate and enjoy the hiesetngs of a free gov- Ortle McManlgal has becoiM a without a country—a fuglttva, a*t from th| law but from hla ova of the men he served and betrayed. The dynamiter, whose confeastoas suited in the revealing of tha plots of the McNamara brothers, and their go ing to prison, and which led to the convictions of nearly two saore labor leaders on charges of eomplMty la 3^e dynamite plots, ha* left Lo* An geles with the Intention of thwarttag the vengeance he dreads by leetng his identity. Ever since the McNamasa aaaea were tried, McManlgal, Indicted with them on the strength of hie eva fession, had been kept la )aH at kee Angeles, nominally awalUpg trial, but actually to protect bias. Be ha* said from the first that be eotsM never again live as ordinary mm de —that the vengeance of tha asea be betrayed, more implacable thaa the law, would dog his foot step* aad ex act his life. But it became evident that be could not live forever in )alt. Hla health suffered from too fort, too much food and too Httla exercise. He left the prison ler the hospital, but that waa only tor a tow days, and then he left th* tlrely. ostensibly for Tampa, FW. Whether he will ever get there hi not known. Rut whether be doe* or aoh it is known that his hope of life Bee In losing himself from the world that has known him—of finding refege x»' r-o th" rr.en he fcara can not trace him It la not the law that he indictments against him still hut It will never be used His hope H^a in the belief that his eeemkee have neither the mosey to weete la a protracted and far-flung eeareh tor him, nor the aid of an army of offi cials In distant countries. If once loee the pursuer* he are now following him, he thl will be safe vi! • h t h «* x !• w of ii*' r .i u 1! P. If t * . f joir • >• ! of t 1 t ►' i • A *• r hat ' to * ^ t> ^ t X t O V#T U >r to r-por t 1mm- -rn m-nt «'! a- < r In fii't a f « r ouM . . * ,. r f a! 1 a « * * h f. 1 t 1. t 1 'ir' t ■tl.llr 11 how man \ • oMl-r* t i ** V < .*\P. FolA.vi Ing th- ”i aurii*' of *<>m* of 11- r: * * f"" 1 t ) . , r, , t* t" A ."** ■' • ‘ * [ a !or * t A f r c .<■ * ! ii- r* a<! v Ay Suit mb* r 2 1 Tt.f Hi- fr -nil* < >f Gov I'J-a*- th- n-»*- ; ii : t «• a * lo from fra u ! ' At> pr v n .* • ' « fl «■.••• . -rt 1 1 - a •, ! » 1 o 11'1 : s'. t \ [A »! ^ < <1 « ' thl* 1* 11 i;it It 1 h p.xpt-r* vi ou 1 1 havo th- p-npl- of th- f J i- i :: * t 1 t' ! ’ ’i to- ’ 1 ■■ m. .*• V . * \ « w J a ’ * 1 ' * ‘ * ’ * * ’ ‘ !’•' r ' of th- ; I a n u ’. nourn -<1 n a r- '-tut- b-ll-i • that t!^ UI-aii* fore-* ri"’ k.'j.t n« b * It Moil ! (i a v • • k * • U ‘ VI • fit !-i rot : n i' r - a s.rig the arm) to A ul »«it t l-il on <'ha* Carroll Flmm* '..•«! It 1 •tn otarx fl * ) r t ho r* — ' !!!•■ n ' r Kovt-rnor TA-rt- * nothing to th 1 * v - k : ■ n 0 A ! : r [■u’n ; o 1 i ’ • r HI 1 HI \ lini l»N UN 1 1 ’ k »' T w . • t A f r - ha* b-t n p, o 1** r-; ort for t - r»A*on that thou- who pa« n• *r*4 *' in O t 1 .* t r ! * bf' >r■ ♦ \ • hi,fnt • h o 1- -X ( #• p’ ■n a r. ! u i r** prn t a • r- not d-l-gat-d b> -'.I!. '.! • - » h: r h rr* ulM li rn, • V ’ N,l l » || | » ( " <t ' i r atht-r t » ►: dM \ ♦* < ! i r .x i t « r itll tA« Hi- a*fit-* of the State to %-«• t f l ift .no 1 1 *•*( b ami st llflobl of n ' • -Mm i H VA ♦ ’ 1 a s «• v >- Tops T’.f t At- i.a v \*a* tt.u.t . t* m»k- a •i-i-i tt >n. and we underatand Tnnk ft of i lit! ng a '! i i n t! ♦» rft i p 1 1 f \\ ill Not 1 l<*»lgll . r* it* It g to th- t-n »- *11 uat lo II vi h b-h but f-w of t ho*e pr-a-nt favor-d Mr His plans, of course, are secret. It Is understood he intend* to go to South Amerlce. where. In the maay opportunities open for men of no questions are asked, among gades. fugitive* from jnstlee, seme- I'*** men and adventurers of ell kinds, he may become another mea tlan the terror stricken Informer Uut he tiellevee bis exile will he per manent He will be a man without a country and without a n ;ir. ! ‘ jLjcczIng out that food !* no' ■ia'Hfactory tier^u«o that docs not empty th»* Intestines If the house wlfo would have the poultry drawn In her own kitchen she could catch frauds of this character and take means to prevent them € HIDDLKD WITH SHOT. Posse Surround* end Kills Men Who Shot Sheriff Mci'eln. Edward Wlnbush, a negro, waa killed Tuesday afternoon by a sher iff's posse In a canebrake near Frost, i station about five mile* from Co- umbla. Wlnbush was almost shot to pieces, seventeen bullets taking ef fect in his body. The negro Is the one who shot at Sheriff McCain Monday and was surrounded In the swamp Tuesday. It is said that he was in the act of shooting at one of the posse when a bullet ended his life. Wlnbush was about twenty years old. He had fought off his pursuers all night and all morning. Bloodhounds were used to trail the negro. He fired upon Sheriff McCain Monday night on a crowded street car when his arrest was attempted. He was subsequently located by rural policemen hut es caped after firing at the officers. Paroled Convict Arrested. Eddie I.-and, a paroled South Caro llna convict, was arrested in Augusta Friday night on the charge of pick ing pockets. It is alleged he stole a gold watch and a wallet containing about $100 from Dock and Kennedy Stranes, of Charlotte, N. C., who had stopped in the city on their trip home Land admits that he was a convict and says he was paroled not long ago. \V 1 t d<’ u bt r** n. a I: r **g a r rn Himrt.V* intrntionx »t'h rriprct i ( omi'llanr** wit' the A mm -an de mand* fur his own elimination was removed from the mind* of most Mexicans and foreign residents by his peremptory dismissal Sunday of Man uel G&rxa Aldape, minister of Inte rior. who was looked upon as the head of Huerta's Cabinet. Manue] Garza Aldape led that group of the Cabinet which held the conviction that It would be best to accede to that portion at least of Washington's demands which meant the total abandonment of power by the Provisional President, and he Is said to have been the only one with sufficient courage to discuss the trou ble frankly with his chief. Senor Aldape's resignation was demanded at a Cabinet meeting at President Huerta's house early Sunday morn ing. Huerta Is said to have reiterated at this meeting the statement that he would not resign, that with him it was a case of life or death and he was disposed to play out the game. Certain intimate friends of Gen. Huerta have been indicating to him, is is said, for some time that the min ister of interior was intriguing for the presidency and that the Cabinet had become divided into two camps. Those who opposed Senor Aldhpe in clude Querido Moheno, minister of foreign affairs; Gen. Blanquet, minis ter of war, and Jose Maria Lozano. ■Women Send Silver Service. A silver service costing $1,500, the gift of women voters of northern California to Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of President Wilson on the occasion of her wedding next Tuesday was sent from San Francisco Thursday. The service was purchased by subscription and Is of old colonial design. ness-like overhauling of marketing methods. Speaking of the need of better ed ucationai opportunities In the coun try, Secretary Houston declared that if more enlightened attention were devoted to the conservation and de velopment of th* people ”we shall be relieved of much of the concern about tha conservation and development of our natural resource*”. The ap proach to the problem of the organ isation of rural Ufa, ha dhclarad, wa* clearly economic. The great need. Mia* Leila Reed, aged 41. eommtt- ha mid. waa to give the rani pop*la- ted saldde la the reservoir near At tic a. at least, approximately the pH- lasts. Oe.. beeaai rhich the teem aa- weald he Met to a Killed by Parlor Rifle. Little 12-year-old Thomas E. Fish er Jr., of Charleston, was Instantly killed Monday by being atrnck by a ballet from a parlor rifle In the hands of Jewell Bremer, 14 yean old. The ■hooting was pnrely accidental. ■ x •>’* not wlthatanillng the InJifTt-r- t iittltud** *H»utn**(l bv M'-XWo The A r.'-nran charge d attain* received hi*’ruction* to continue to ad%l*e Washington »ith reapect to develop ment*. but he waa not Instructed to approach the Mexican government of finals again, nor did hla Inatructlona Includ# anything relative to the with drawal of the embaaay. Rumor* that the charge had been ordered to leave peralated, although an emphatic de nial waa made at the embaasy, all trains leaving for Vera Crux were watched anxiously by Americana, who have made up their minds not to delay their departure, if O'Shaugh- neaay goes. Rumor* of plots and Intrigue* were common throughout the day, but no facts were forthcoming to Indicate that Gen. Huerta waa losing his grip on affairs In the Capital. Report* from outlying points, especially In the north, were far from reassuring to the war department. Ciudad Vic torla, the capital of Tamaulipas, the capture of which by the rebels was denied last week by the ^ovgjrnment, is admitted to be In a bad way. Pas sengers from that part of the country confirm the report that the city Is already fn the hands of the rebels. The Me.-lean government has not even confirmed the capture of Jaurez and the newspapers are still holding out hope to their readers that pos sibly the report of its capture by Gen. Villa is not true. ♦ ♦ ♦ Sends Message in Bottle. A message written with death nearby, Chris Keenan, United States marshal, and custodian of the barge Plymouth, who lost his life with six others in the storm of November 9 was found Thursday in a bottle fire miles from Pentwater, near Meno minee, Mich. It was addressed to his wife and children and was written when the barge had been In the storm forty hours. Keenan’s body waa wash'd aahor* near Manistee last Friday. Simms at leaat th»-y were not yet • a'ly to commit themaelve* to Mr mm* or any other man, for the game 1* young yet Call* Tha Rav. Liston D. Bass, of Flor enee, publish«r of th* Common wealth, g WMkly newspaper, has Jast received a latter from Secretary of SUta William Jennings Bryan ask ing Mffi to accept a position la the and to coma to BOY KIBES BARN. lAacester Negro Intended to Scare Neighbor* Bat Qaa*cd Loe*. Saul Vaughn, a well known and prosperous old negro farmer of Lan caster, sustained a losa of about $400 early Tuesday morning in th* com plete deatruction by fire of hla barn and contents. Hla grandchild, a boy 10 or 12 year* old, wishing to see a blaze, It 1* said, deliberately set fire to the building, probably thinking he would extinguish It after scaring the neighborhood with an alarm of fire, but as the bam contained about a bale of ginned cotton, a lot of cotton seed, several bales of hay, fodder, corn, and other highly Inflammable material the fire soon got beyond con trol of the little negro and in a few minutes all was lost. Vaughn carried no insurance. The little negro fled, but has been apprehended and will be dealt with. SHOT BY BROTHER. ♦ Chester County Man Uses Fatal Un loaded Gun. Thinking a shotgun was unloaded James Thompson snapped it and al most tore off the lower Jaw of Jake Thompson, his brother, on Miss Sal- lie Halsey’s plantation in the Halsell- ville section of Fairfield county, Sat urday. They were unloading some cotton, when Jake playfully threw a basket at his brother, James, who picked up the gun lying on the cotton and thinking it was empty pulled the trigger. Jakp is In s precarious condi tion at a hospital while James was released on $200 ball. Shoot* Women end Self. Charles Delta, an electrician of Pittsburg, Pa., and SR years old. Thursday morning at Brad dock, a small country suburb, shot his wife, his motbor-ta-law. Mrs. Carolina Mil lar aad hlatoalf. Tha trio was harried to the aaareet hoeptta) where phy dans said Daft* weald Uhety die. hat hart. Delta and hto wtto have ■ haaaJNtoc Isfttoharjto^tho toaatr I COAL MINERS ENTOMBS*. Midc E\|ili>*i<>n la Alabama Thirty Mm. Nine miner* are known to h*v* b<-«-n killed, and at least a dosea oth- cra acre atill mlastng at a lal* hoar Tuenday night, as the rea.H of aa ex plosion Tuesday afternoon to the Alabama Fuel and Iron Oompeay’s mine No 2 near Acton. Ala. Th* usual quota of men employed to Mina No 2 I* 70, but the exact samber at work when the explosion o as aired Is not certain. While offleoala wontd make no eetlmate of tba number of men In the mine, miners at work the scene of the disaster insltoid at least twenty men most base cut off by the explosion. Soma esti mate* ran as high as forty. II waa said, however, that the at talnly would not exceed thie as Monday was pay day and maay of the seventy men ssnally employed la the mine did not go to work Tae* day. The cause of the explosion kaa not been learned. That many of tbooe entombed were killed by Ha foraa seems certain, as two man working near the surface at the time ware blown several feet from th* mlaa en trance. Officials of the mine, aaoom- panled by rescue workers aad sur geons, were hurriedly sent from Bir mingham, and every effort waa made to reach the entombed men. Mlaa No. 2, which is known as Acton adae, is comparatively new, and is one'of the most productive In this district. It has a dally output of 310 tone. Of ficials of the company said that all equipment was first clase. Acton Mine No. 2 is 24 mtlee south of Birmingham on the Acton hranak of the Louisville and Nashville rail road, six miles from Helena, la Shel by county. The mine has a tingle track slope and used an ix-foot fra with the split air system. J. G. Steele is superintendent of tha Aeton branch. The names of th* dhad brought to the surface included: L*. L. Patterson, E. Bright. John Lang ston. Henry Childers, Boa* Driver Burns Klttrsll. two aagroea. JJI *»• cept Bright wart married, went into tha mlaa only tva before tha axplaaloa to ii cleaning. Three af th* Greeks and n samber of mlaa are thought te ha ■ a a a