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"NO MAX'S LAND" Interesting Facts About Famous Strij in Texas. L. A. Allen, a cattleman who has an office at the stock yards, says thai the encyclopedias are all wrong abou how No Man's Land came to* be ere ated. Mr. Allen was a cattleman on th( plains and mountains for fifty years He was a boy when he went frorr Kansas City with the first herd o cattle ever driven over the plains For the following fifty years he wa: in the cattle business in all parts o: 'the west. He drove cattle througl the mountains and over the desert! to California. He drove herds alonj the sandy shores of the Pacific, alonj the shores of the Great Lakes am along the Gulf of Mexico. He hai driven cattle along all the old trail! from' the Rio Grande to and int< * * xt x* 1, Canada, ana ne was m me uauu business in Mexico. He was the in ttmate friend of Kit Carson, and h< was with the wife of Carson whei she died and he buried her in his owi garden. He was with Carson whei he died. His brother married th< only daughter of Kit Carson, an< they are living now in Trinidad, Colo Mr Allen was the first sheriff of th< territory in southeast Colorado, am he led an expedition into No Man': Land and exterminated the Coe bam of outlaws that had a stone for there. This expedition hanged elev en of the band in one night to som< cotton-wood trees and captured Co< and took him to Pueblo, where h< was lynched. No Man's Land used to be the strij of land 167 miles long and 35 mile: wide between Texas on the south anc Kansas on the north. Later it wai known as Beaver county. Now it i: made up of Cimarron. Texas and Bea ver counties, Oklahoma. "None of the books tells the tru< story of how that came to be knowr as No Man's Land," said Mr. Allen las week. "The Encyclopedia America na says of it: 'In 1845 Texas, on be ing admitted to the Union, ceded tc the United States that strip of hei land whiclf lay north of latitude 3t degrees, 30 minutes north. Thi: piece, 167 miles long by 35, was with out government until 1890, when i' became apart of Oklahoma.' "The International, Encyclopedh says: 'A region 170 miles lbng and 3i - ? ?.-.p Tovoo /->?./-?or! tn tY>( Ill VNlUl.il, 11 Ui ill U1 X ^AUC, \_ V. V. ^ v. vv United States in i860 and made i part of Oklahoma in 1890. Betweer those years the district was under nc form of government and became j great resort of outlaws.' "None of these accounts is wholly true," continued Mr. Allen. "Th< truth about it is this: In the war be tween Mexico and the United States this country took all of the countrj south of the Arkansas river in whai ^ Is now Colorado and all of New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas In the treaty that ceded this vasi territory to the United States it was stipulated that, for the* benefit of fh( Mexicans living in New Mexico; wkc were accostomed to trading with tin Indians of the Indian Territory, the} should be given a free roadway from New Mexico into this Indian country and a neutral strip was laid out 167 miles long and about 35 miles wide that was since known as the Neutra Strip and No Man's Land. "It was stipulated in the treat} that this zone should be neutral forever. .Mexico has never relinquished her rights under that treaty, so as a a matter of fact Oklahoma has nc right to this, strip of ground, because the United States had no legal righl to cede it to Oklahoma. It is toda> as much Mexican territory as. it is United States territory and the United States nor the state of Oklahoma had 110 right to give titles to the farms there. "You ask why the Mexicans re quired a road 35 miles wide. 1 wil! explain that, in those days then were no roads. The people traveled over the plains at will, following th< water courses or going from on< water hole to another in a zigzaj way. And as they traveled the} needed to graze, to hunt and catch ? wild horse or two. That strip was full of buffalo, antelope, deer an( wild horses. So the Mexicans insist ed on a wide roadway that they coulc travel at leisure, and live by the wa; For many years the Mexicans usee that strip without fear of molesta tion, for the Uuited States govern ment had guaranteed them securit: from attack by the settlers on th< north and the Texans on the south The traders used carts made wholl: of \yood?wheels and all were o wood. They were hauled, or rathe pushed, by oxen, mules or burros No yokes were used. Rawhide strap: around the horns were connec*te< with the front end of tire cart tongiu and the animals pushed iLe cart with their heads. "The traders took with them fron New Mexico mainly silver, and tool back buffalo hides and buffalo meat dried. In those caravans of trader there were often as many as 500 o those carts. "The Mexicans, were still using tha AUGUSTA BOY IX AIKEX JAIL. > Arrest of Young Jack Ourley Smacks of Mystery. > Aiken, March 20.?Jack Curley. an t eighteen-year-old lad, of pleasing apt Dearance. polite address and attrac - tive personality, the son of Mr. P. J. Curley, of Augusta, has been arrested J and confined in the city lock-up here. . He stayed there all last night. The 1 police state that he was arrested for f "beating his board" at the Hotel 01. well. It is rumored, though, that it 5 was not his failure to meet his oblif gations at the hotel that led to the l young man's arrest, and that under s the surface something more serious is I involved. However, the police refuse ; to reveal anything additional upon 1 which to base or substantiate a story. 3 Curley is a minor, and up until the 3 past week or ten days, during which ) time he had been here lie had been 2 living in Augusta witn nis iamer. - Mr. Curley has been notified of his 5 son's trouble, but Chief Jesse E. i George had not heard from him at l noon to-day. Meantime the lad con1 tinues in the lockup. 3 2 Kidnapped Girl for Five ]>ollars. Salem, 111., March 15.?Frank Sul5 lens, who was saved from mob veni geance here last night b,y the arrival = of the four c.ompanies of national 1 guard, was bound over to the grand t jury this afternoon on a charge of _ kidnapping Dorothy-Holt, the sixteen3 year-old daughter of Charles W. 3 Holt, assistant state's attorney. 3 Ernest Harrison, who Sullens testified was implicated in the crime, also 3 was bound over to the grand jury. s ^ullens tonight was taken to Mount 1 Vernon 111., for safe keeping, and 3 Harrison will be taken to Vandalia 3 tomorrow. Sullens at the preliminary hearing confessed that he attacked the girl, 3 but testified that the original plan i was to kidnap her and hold her for ransom. The court held the two men under the kidnapping charge. That crime is punishable by death. Sullens said the kidnapping and ransom plan was suggested to him by Harrison, who gave him $5 to carry it out. In accordance with this plan he captured the girl as she was returning home from a moving picture show. He said he took her to a coal mine, where Harrison had agreed to meet him, but that Harrison did not come, and then he took the girl to the slaughter pens, where he attacked her. See the new line of 5c tablets at 1 The Herald Book Store. ' strip as a traamg route wueu i \%em. - out there fifty years ago. And then " it was gradually abandoned as a 5 trading route, and, as there was no government with jurisdiction over it, t and courts could not be established there, it became a rendezvous for the worst outlaws of the southwest, who t would run out of there and commit 3 depredations and then drop back to J the shelter of the neutral strip. ) "One of the worst bands that found i refuge there was the Coe outfit. Its : headquarters were on the Cimarron 1 river, in the southwest corner of the srrin and if- had a. stone fort there. 100 miles from the settlement. I was ? at that time captain of a company of I rangers in southeast Colorado when it was a territory, and May S, IS68. we pulled off the first election ever held in Colorado. "We were in the cattle business and one time we got word that Coe and his band were coming to run off our cattle. I called my company together, and we rode out, and'by traveling at night we came to an abanddoned 'dobe where the gang was resting for the night. We tied our horses a distance away, and with a revolver in one hand and ?a rifle in the other we crept up to the cabin, burst in the door and took the whole I eleven and hanged them to the cot i ton-wood trees along the river bank. I Coe was not in the adobe hut. He ? was at another place, fifteen miles - away, and we rode there and capj tured him, and as there was a big re' ward for him we strapped him to a t horse and rode with him 100 miles 5 to Pueblo and surrendered him to 1 the sheriff, who put him in jail. But - that night a mob took him out and 1 lynched him. 7 "I lived with Kit Carson in Taos, i X. M., when I was in a box, and I - suppose that I was the closest friend - that he had. His wife's death at my ranch was the most pathetic scene I j 5 ever witnessed. They had seven . nhiirirpn rhe vouneer being a baby ' k' of two weeks. Mrs. Carson was very f sick, and two Mexican women were r nursing her. Carson was suffering with heart trouble, and lie and I s were lying together on a bed in 1 another room and he was telling me ? I of some adventures of his. We did s not expect Mrs. Carson to die, when suddenly the Mexican women ran in i crying, 'She is dead.' and then the < j six children ran in and all af them . I piled on the bed on top of Kit, and s ! he wept with them. I buried his wife f in our garden Two weeks later lie died, and I buried him, too."?Kant sas Citv Star. . BLIND SENATOR GORE. Wonderful Record of His Struggles ( Against Difficulties. About thirty-five years ago a little blind boy of eight used to sit in a ^ humble cottage in the tiny village of b Walthall, Miss., and listen with the o especial intentness of the blind to the V reading of his mother and sister. A few months previous an accident s had transformed him from a sturdy, t gray-eyed chap to a helpless young- o ster doomed to darkness. h The boy was Thomas Pryor Gore, t and now he is United States senator > from Oklahoma, and one of the fore- t most members of that body. t 7 nu'nfnro o ftar f VJQ 1AC.C f Ul SCVCiai n luiciij H.u ?v/wru of his sight, the little fellow used to 1 make his way to and from school, 1 which was three quarters of a mile I away from his home. He had set his v ! mind resolutely upon an education, l his ambition to rise in the world had become a burning obsession with him; 1: he became a child of introspection, c and the gravity of his thoughts re- v fleeted in his sightless face earned for e I him the sobriquet of "the governor." f At high school Senator Gore's clos- 1: I est companion was a boy named Char- t les H. Pittman, who used to read to I him. One day they found an old C [volume of the Congressional Record, n The boys repaired to the stable, where n the blind student would stand for o hours while his friend read to him t the speeches of the legislators at c Washington. t Senator Gore can recall the mo- o ment when the ambition to be a Uni- e ted States senator entered his breast, ? never to leave it. r On one occasion Gore, a struggling ( young lawyer, debated with Senator Money, whose tonsue was a thing of terror toN all Mississippi and who smiled contemptuously when told that his opponent in debate was a poor E blind school boy. The senator declar- r ed that had it not been for his antag- t onist's blindness he would have held * * '' : i-1 _ f I mm personally respunsiuie iui mo words. ^ To this Gore promptly replied: "Let him then blindfold himself and I will ? meet him." * One day, when the fortunes of the f young man were at their lowest, it a seemed as though he had come to t starvation. At this juncture an old s negro woman paid $2 which she owed ^ him,. That saved the situation. His E fortunes began to mend. . e He came to Oklahoma with his c mother in 1901, driving 45 miles. E Bret Harte never wrote a stranger 1 tale than his life in the new territory. * His father became a notary public in the tented city. The blind son, attired ; in an alpaca coat, colored shirt and r slouch hat, used to walk up and down t through the motley crowd waving his hand and shouting: "Here's where * you get your papers out! Here's 0 where you get your papers out!" At * night he slept on the ground. * Things moved fast in the new com- t munity. Soon Gore was campaigning for the senatorship, though he was moneyless, or practically so. One day he was walking the street with his head bowed, wondering whether after all his .terrible struggle he must y be starved out of the political race. f Somebody touched him on the arm. It was a friend, Thomas Dunn, a banker. He felt something slipped into his hand as Mr. Dunn whispered ^ into his ear. "Pay this back when you can." It was $50, and it made him a senator, for it turned the corper.?New York Evening Sun. ? KILLED AGEl) MAX?LYNCHED. c r Put to Death bv Crowd in 0 Union City, Tenn. ? C Nashville, Tenn., March 21.?A a Union City, Tenn., special says that c Johnson Gretson, a negro, charged * with shooting and killing Samuel McClure, a white man, early this morning was lynched this after-noon on a * prominent street corner before 500 to 1.U00 people. McClure was shot in a his home by a negro intruder. 11 Mr. McClure, aged* 70, about one 0 q o'clock this morning was aroused by * a noise in his kitchen and found the' negro there eating, who refused to r leave unless given $5. McClure fired 3 a shot at him and gave an alarm. " Later the negro returned, broke open 1 the old man's door and shot him with t a shotgun. He died at noon. Gret- r son is said to have confessed and im- ^ plicated another negro, who is being * sought. c BODY RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. 1 o Dead Man Probably Victim of Geor- f gia Lynching Party. a ' f Albany, Ga., March 23.?Riddled t with bullets and with a rope twisted 1; around the neck, the body of Will t Washington, a negro hackman, was r found near this place late last night. Police express the belief that the ne- i gro was lynched by a party of white s men who first forced the negro to drive them to the place where the e body was found. A coroner's jury t held an inquest soon after the find- c ing of the body, but ordered no ar- c rests. 2 ODD FACTS ABOUT CITIES. 'ollected by a IVofessor at the University of Wisconsin. Some little known facts about imerican cities have been collected y Prof. R. H. Whitbeck of the geolgy department of the University of Wisconsin. That Massachusetts, one of the mallest states, has more large cities han any other state in the Union, is ne of the odd facts brought out. It as twenty-five cities with a populaion of 25,000 or over. The ?tate of <'ew York has twenty-one cities of 1 his size, while Pennsylvania has wenty. Texas, the largest state in the IJnon, has no city of 100,000 or over, 'here is only one city in Arkansas, Jttle Rock, that has over 25,000, vhile New Jersey, only a fraction of ts size, has fourteen cities of 25,000. The peculiar fact that four states lave one very large city, while the ity of second size is almost unknown, s also pointed out. For instance, evry one knows that Chicago is the irst city of Illinois and has a popuation of over 2,000,000, but few know hat the second city in Illinois is ^oria, only one-thirtieth the size of Chicago. While Baltimore has half a nillion population, Cumberland, the text city of Maryland, has only 23,'00. New Orleans is twelve times he size of Shreveport, the next city if Louisiana. Milwaukee is nearly en times the size of Superior, the secnd city of Wisconsin. There are now tineteen cities in the United States nth a population of a quarter of a nillion each. Only one of them, New )rleans, is in the south. Mormon ism a Crime in South. Atlanta, Mar. 20.?"Mormonism as iracticed in Atlanta is a crime, not eligion" says Dr. H. M. DuBose, pasor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, in an interview this morning. )r. DuBose demands an immediateinestigation by civil authorities. The Mormon missionaries in Geor;ia have converted hundreds of peo>le to their religion within the past ew years. The four elders in Atlanta ,lone have made over 200 converts in his city, and they are planning a tate wide campaign for more memiers. Dr. DuBose says, "This cult is tot religion. It is a crime. These lders and their doctrines should at )nce be investigated by law, suriressed by law, prevented from walkng into the homes and distributing heir vile literature. They are merey politicians seeking strength for the die movement through enslaving nen and women in their grewsome oils." The civil authorities, of course, reuse to interfere with the Mormons in any ground of religious doctrine >ut they say that if Dr. DuBose cares o make any charge of specific violaion of the law, th?y will take it up. Three Old Soldiers Dismissed. Members of the commission chared with the administration of the ffairs of the Confederate home were esterday temporarily restrained ruill UlSlilldSlilg imt;o Vjuuivuvxuw eterans who have been inmates of he home for several years. The temporary restraining order vas issued by Judge Ernest Gary ipon a petition filed, charging, among ither things, that the three veterns had been dismissed because they :ave testimony before the legislative ommittee making an investigation elative to the conduct of the affairs 'f the home. The veterans dismissed were: W. J. Cameron, Darlington, 67 years of ge; J. W. James, Richland, 65 years if age; X. W. Jones, Kershaw, 6S ears of age. The veterans were served with a etter of dismissal Tuesday by A. M. Hack, adjutant of the home. The etter was approved by H. W. Rieh.rdson, general manager and treas i + ,,, 1 n nnn t Tj P irer. 1 iltj 1CLLC1 Yt ciS ICOU^U u^vii. v**w irder of J. G. Long, Sr., chairman; J. \ Crews, secretary; A. W. Todd and I. C. Welch, members of the comnission. According to the letter the veter.ns were dismissed because of a ack of accomodations and because hero were more veterans from the espective counties than allowed by aw. The veterans were requested o withdraw from the home immeliately. In the petition for the temporary estraining order it is stated that all if the veterans have been at the home nr mnrn thnn two vears. that they | Te seniors in occupancy to others rom their counties. It is charged hat the veterans were dismissed lecause they gave testimony before ho legislative committee relative to onditions at the home. The petition charges a "policy of mfairness, intimidation and oppresion." The order by Judge Gary was serv;d on the officials of the home yes erday. The case will be tried in the ourt of common pleas in Richland ountv.?The State, Thursday, March !0. ? Our Pattern Hats Have Arrived 4 and we will take pleasure in showing them to all callers. We have also new Untrimmed Hats, of every shape and material, from the small hat which just now is fashion's favorite, V to the large hemp and chip shapes which j are so universally becoming. We have also a new lot of ginghams, percales, and corduroys which we have . marked at rock bottom prices. 1 % 25 Herald votes given for every dollar's worth of goods purchased from us for cash * Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co. Bamberg, S. C. ft*. R! g,it View 0 y : \r.' I *M If you grow peas a Star Pea Huller will I please and pay you. If you use fertilizer 1 see our Force-Feed Wizard Distributor, the hopper holds 100 pounds. If you plow cotton and corn see the J. M. B. No. 20 Cotton and Corn Plow Stock, the steel beam will not break or bend. Our offer to the readers of this paper will interest you. Write us for circulars and prices. STAR PEA MACHINE CO. , BENNETTSVILLE, S. C. J '"J Nil?MB Ill Ill I llll I Ml?? Telephone Saved Child's Life , < ;T', One of the children fell into a water tank on an Alabama farm and was rescued unconscious and apparently lifeless. The frantic mother rushed to the telephone and called the doctor six miles away. 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