^ VOL. II. BATESBUR(i> S. C, \VLI)NLSI)AV, Jl'LY 1(1, 19()2. ^ NO 26 GREAT DISASTER. * s a Three Hundred Men Perish in a tl Johnstown Mine. (j * a t< BEEN IN OPERATION 50 YEARS, tl n Cause of (lit- lv\|ilohioii Not Known, M # but Supposed to lie the a< * ll Carelessness ol'Some Miner. i ' ? |l "V % * Johnstown was attain visited by an appalling disaster last Thursday, it is onjy less frightful than the awful h calamity of May ill, issn, in cost of Ilife, hpt in its terrible consequence it t; liusJuought the shadow of sorrow in tl liltaHrnilu lit hni..nii ......I.. i , IIUIUIH IllUtir UOTIPlilU' I 1V ?t |) mifye explosion, which took place in la the Cambria Steel Company Rolling (J 9 ^>1111 mine, under Westmont Hill, at ti t 12.20 o'clock Thursday afternoon. \\ How many are dead it may take h< several days to ascertain, but that, it! tl % is a lorig and shocking list is certain, tl It may redch 200 or more men. | sc ltrwas nearly an hour after the ex- w plosion before any general knowledge T of what had happened got abroad. 11 Men wbpiame from the mines, escap- hi injj witb their lifes. told the terrible st news and soon It spread like wild lire Ik . all over the city, in scores ofw bonus h; there weroXhe most pathetic. Scenes, tl Mothers, wives, daughters, 't&hs and tl relatives were frantic with- grief. ]l t i Hundreds rushed to tlie point and. fr with soffhing hearts, awaited news hi that did not come from the ill-fated la J mine. pi Tl IK WOliK OJ- KKSf'CE. Wl At the opening across the river from ' s'] the point the Catnbria Iron Company police, with several assistants, stood guard, permitting no one to enter the fa mine, front which lioxious gases were of coming. It was nearly 4 o'clock when pu all lyipe of sending rescue parties from di the Wostmont opening was abandoned, at Two men who had escaped from the ca mine. Richard Hcnrintt ?mrt ir\?,?vJ.... Meyers, went back two miles to see in what assistance could t>e rendered, but ft the frightful damp drove them back and they fell prostrate, and after a flf des|>erate struggle reached the outside, pe The doctors gave the men afkistance flfl they were !K compelled to return-MVthe surfaee. KK8CUKK8 OVKKCOMK 1IY GAS. Mine Foreman Harry Kodgers. bis re; assistant. William ltlancb, and Fire bo I tosses John Whitney, John Retallick and John Thomas were overcome hy St the gases, and it is feared they perish- th ed in an etlort to rescue the miners, st.: A son of Harry Kodgers then tried to reaeli his father, but lie was quickly ca overcome by gas and was carried out m unconscious. da William Stibirh spent several hours fa at the Mill Creek opening, lie said th that lie believed as many as 450 men ni trance to the working portion of the ('i mine can lie clfected from the main q< entrance. Many of the miners escap- hi ed at Mill Creek, a shaft reaching the al mine near the power house at that ei point. NAHItOW KSI Al'KOK VMKISK'ANS. 111 [ ( j About a score of Americans, who . were at work in the Klondike (listrict, j noticed the presence of the lire damp in their apartment soon alter the explosion occurred and started at onee'-j for the main entrance. They we real most overcome by the nas. tint', reached the outside in safety. < >ne of A' the men who ^ot out safely said it was ( not. known what caused the explosion, and that it will probably never be known, as he believed none of t lie men at work in the Klondike district can j . lie saved. ! I CAKKLK88NKSS OK MINKKS. sj lie also said that only a few days sa a^'o the otlleials issued an order to the ' li employees in the mines not to play with the tfas, and that the next day a d* yountf Hungarian was seen pushing tl his naked lampalon^ the roof of the >1 mine in search of it. The mine fore- ot man, Harry Rodders, his assistant, a William Itlancb, and lire I losses . I oh n Whitney, John Thomas and John h< Rctallick were overcome by the yascs hi and perished in a heroic attempt to m rescue the miners. Mining engineer pi Moore and (ieor^rc T. Robinson, sup- a> Ka * IP * M* ? \ r.-- ' I rintendent, are at the head of a iscuhig party from the Franklin lope and Coucmaugh Mine. They re slowly working their way toward lie scone of the explosion, but must glit the gas every step of the way. anvas screens are being used to wall II the clde entrances and rooms HD as ? force a current of pure air ahead of ie rescuers. Engineer A. G. Prosser, ho, with Mr. Mbore, entered the lain opening, canac the to surface at lill Creek Thursday and immediately ,'t about getting men and material to vsisl in the rescue. it will be absoiteiy impossible to state the loss or fe until Hie rescuers reach the scene f the disaster, which may be several ours, possibly midnight. TilYINO TO SAVE WHITNEY. Harry liodeers. the mine fi ire mil i? is assistant, William Hlaneh, with ire Mosses John Whitney, .lohu Kcilliek anil John Thomas, were not in ic Klondike when the explosion look lace, but started down a short time iter. It Is feared all have perishefl. ritilth Powell and Thomas Foster, >vo other tire bosses, carried Mr. Whitney two hundred yards in the upo of saving his life, when icy were* compelled to drop icir burden and save them fves. Mr. Whitney was unconscious bile bekig qarried by his friends, he tifteen-year-bld son of Harry Olivers. w he italic heard that his father id been overcome' with lire-damp, arted down toward the Klondike to lip rescue hltn, If possible, and he id no sooner entered the drift when te deadly gas almost overcame i te lad and he find to be carried back, is tongue protruded its whole length otn his mouth and men had to force s jaws apar^ with a stick txi prevent ckjaW. Voting I lodgers, who Is einoy'ed in the mine, was among those ho escaped through the Mill Creek aft. tuk iiooiKs of Firry men Several miners have reached the snr- I ce wlio were working near the scene flic explosion. They say that they isscd through a portion of the Klonke 'district and saw the bodies of least lift V" men. The men who inc out were foreigners and were in eh an excited condition that it was 1 possible to get a connected story jin them. Tlio.jinine has been open for alxiut ty years and is producing .1,000 tons r day. It is the property of the imbria Steel Company. The faniis of the entombed-miners are asrnbled in large numbers at the mine cuing, but they caiingt got any dctlte information and must endure a spouse of many hburk. .e AllMUK V AS.'A MOJltOV'fi-. The armory of Company 11, "?t h regient, N. (j. P., wiil lie turned into a arncl house. After a conference it was an-' unced that tlic dead miners would brought to the armory Friday, j auk*, have been laid on chairs in the 11 mory and the removal of bodies will j 1 trin at an early hour in the morn- I t ff. . * t The ambulances of all the under-; kers in the city are at Mill Creek in adiness to begin the transfer of dies. \ At midnight President Powell ackhouse was seen at the mouth of | e mine and gave out the following i itemcnt: j? "The disaster is an awful one and t ino on us entirely unexpectedly. The 1 \ ine had been inspected only three I j ys ago and was pronounced in satis- ; ( ctory condition. I n the thirty years \ at the mine has been in operation | serious accident has occurred. The i use is yet indefinite, liut 1 believe U was caused by gas escaping from | ( c liftli heading, which was closed J y id was not being worked because it, i ntainod gas, into the sixth heading. | , T1IE XI MllKlt <>K CASUALTIES ,1 now placed at No list of the i * nnos of t lie dead miners can lie given, 1 r the majority of them were for- ( inters, and were known only liy check ui not by name. The only way their imes will ever he known, if the dies are recovered in time for iden- t lication. will be by their families h tiding their names to us. ji OEM KIIT'ION oK THE MINE. | ? The mine in wliicii the disaster oo- j 1 irrod is one of the largest coal mines ' the I'nited states, according to the atenient of officials tonight. From 1 ic entrance in the hill across the , ver from the point to the one at Mill reck is a dist ance of t hree and t hrcetarlers miles. The Klondike section. which the explosion occurred, is ' M?ut two miles from the Mill Creek j ] it ranee. The mine is divided into a la rye , ini)>? r ut- i de of Llie "Klondike'1 the mines are ife and uninjured. Within tljc fatal mils of the mine the havoc wrought y t he explosion is such as beggars ! scription. Solid walls of masonry I iree feet through were t< rn down as < lough harriers of p aper. The roofs < ' the mine were demolished and not door remains standing. I lira ve attempts at rescue were made i re. Mining Knginccr Moore and I is assistant, Al G. Pressor, tried to 1 ,ake some headway toward the im- ' risoned miners three and a half miles 1 way, but they were driven hack by < the deadly gases. Diehard Bennett and John Meyers, two miners, were similarly driven back. Then the attempt at rescue work from the main , opening was shifted to Mill Creek, live miles from tills city. Business in the city was practically at a standstill. "They are not all dead. We ran across some of them alive," stammered Mr. Swan Tylar, at 1.2"> o'clock tonight, when he staggered out of the shaft at Mill Creek. Just how many, though, dead or alive, he was urfablc to say. lie had been down in the mine since 2 o'clock in the afternoon with th^ rescuing party. The llrst victim brought to the surface was William Botiertson accompanied by I)r. John B. Bowman. "We have four with us," said the % doctor. ltoliertson is in the worst ( shape, lie is unsconsclous and badly t hurt. We passed twenty-live bodies , while getting out these four, who are ^ yet alive. . We counted them as we went along. They lay hi all kinds of ,| positions. unc ma: wax leaning |a against a door, not fai from Hubert- ,, son, just where he h:?d lieen thrown j, by the force of the explosion. Froth ? was running from his mouth and lie > had undoubtedly died in threat agony. (J Others were partly standing, partly j, reclining. They were in heaps and n singly. The paity with us has nearly f( reached the actual scene i f Hie explo- t, sion and the work of bringing out the ,, poor fellows ought to progress rapidly j from now on.". jr It was nearly 12 o'clock before, the s, tlrst four live men atid one corpse was CJ brought up and laid on mattresses, K| rugs and comforts on the ground, j.; They were not left long out,d(K?rs, as ^ it was tot) cold there, but were carried into the is*i!er house nearby, and lIio doctors went to work on them, giving them restoratives and administering f(< oxygen in the glare of the tires from the open lurnaceS. 11 At 12.l."? A. M., this (Friday) morn- '' ing. ti OKNKItAT, MANAOKIt MOOUK, ;>f the mines, who, with SuperintenJent Hohinson, had penetrated to a Considerable distance in the Klondike, lad reached a telephone station and " lotitied men at the main entry that le had found live of the bodies up to diat t ime and had lieen only in the l' iglit. rooms. From the brief report Vi t was understood tliat Mr. Moore had 'S| rone as far as he could without en- 0 iungcring his life from tire damp, and 1,1 lad decided to go to the Mill Creek sntry from there without further :u learch. Pl Further news came a few moments V' ater that Mine Superintendent Hojlnson, wlio had gone into the mine ?cen overtMiinc will) tire duiop aiid w.ts i1 ioablc to talk. He had been carried ' a) thes Mill Creek entrance. The mine inployees stationed at the mine enry stated that the fact that Mr. doore had penetrated so far into the 1 nines showed that the lire damp was 11 Hjlng cleared rapidly and with every )! >rospectof t*ing entirely driven from !V .he mine before morning. ., ? I A Convict ttewai-tlcd. j r'' I lb Gov. McSweeney Wednesday re-! ^ varded a convict for the saving of a . (|f piard's life near this city, granting j lim a pardon. The pardon was grant-j (1 uuon recelDt of the following from I >upC. Tirlftlth of the State peniten- I iary: Dear Sir: I respectfully ask ;ou to give Walter Anderson a full di lardon for the reason that on the loth lay of 'March, 1000, while on detail ot vork on farm, several prisoners over- w lowered and took Mr. Marlins's nun lc roin him. (llarling was the guard.) w Some of the prisoners i ::.d llarling cs knvn on the ground when this con- ?'< ;ict,. Walter Anderson, rushed to his 01 relief, pulled the convicts off of him ' hi md saved him from being killed, for I m vhieh 1 at once made him a "trusty," | w uul he has ever since, as well as he- t< fore. liccn a line prisoner, humble, , ot ibedlent and a good worker. I hi ; 01 (ircut l.oss of lVuperty. I rc A sandstorm has caused damage stimaled at $1,UPUA)00 in thelndiol ,' calley on the Southejli Pacific railroad j* n the Colorado desert. An artificial!^ asis of nine hundred acres had'been jj hade 1?y digging artesian wells and l(| planted in melons. Judging by last ! () roar, when only sixty acres were in ' ' ult i vat ion, a profit of more than | ^ SI.ono an acre would have been made. I ^ Three hundred carloads of melons, for)., which $1,200 a car bad been offered, ' were almost read) for shipment when i bhe storm broke. For three days it | raged with the thermometer 12?> in j (,l lie shade, and when it was over every n fit of vegetation had l>cen destroyed. | a hi WorkM of n Cloudburst. | A special from Far is, State of ai hoahuila, savs A cloudburst visited ('' bis sectiun today,covering an area of A' 70 square miles and doing damage to w I.lie eAUnt of $100,000. The big n I'atagolana dam, the largest in north- 111 in Mexico, broke with all the Hood " k?ates open and was completely de- w droved. The Sao Lorenzo dam, which J lias been standing for over 't.">0 yours :ll v,as also washed away. This dam was (| built of solid masonry about l."/7u and ' was in perfect condition until Wed- V nesday. lt ti Three Mutilated Itodies. ^ Near Prudence. Rnld, < >. T. .'to miles y southwest of here, the Itodies of a man, a woman, t wo children, appar- b cntly members of one family, unitilat?d into almost unrccoifni/.able masses el were found today. The bodies had V been stripped of all clothing leaving no a means of identification. It, is sup- a posed Uial the family were strangers tl traveling overland and that they r< were robbed and murdered by men a who then made otl with their team cl md belongings. <1 SENATORIAL RACE. < . I rhe Candidates Speaks to a Large | Crowd at Orangeburg. , ( LATIMER GOES FOR EVANS. 1 i I Iicm- Two CnndiilalCH Attack Kueli < 1 Other iiiul I ml ii Iged In Crimi- j nation ami ltcci-iiiiiiwit ton I for Koiiip Time. S The senatorial campaign meeting 1 vas lield at tills place on last Thurs- ' lay. The party came over from Sum- , er. where they had spoken on Wed- * icfday. The following account of (l he meeting was furnished The News ( ?id Courier hy its regular correspon- ^ lent, lie says Orangeburg never tjocs nything by halves. It is that unity v i act ion and conlidence of her people ? ii each other that makes Orangeburg tie of the Ijnest counties in the State. , Nothing gives these people more pleas- 1 re than to attend a campaign meet- 1 ng, ho when the announcement was 1' mde t hat big anil brainy candidates " ;>r the Senate would speak at Orangeurg Thursday fully l.ftuu people athTYcd around the stand, erected on he east side of the Court House, and ave the candidates the greatest in- a l>i ration they have received on this vv impaign. Everybody expected "hot t,ulT"' and they were not disappointed. '' '.very candidate made votes, but how 11 lie ballots will add up no one knows. s' \\ Til 14 MI4KTINO. ,, The Senatorial meeting was called u Hirder by County Chairman W. (). ri 'alum at 11.1 r? a. in,, and an earnest y w Is able competitors, who would note jM re ry thing he said. Col. Elliott suid cc lat the old Itlack District had at p, irious times covered nearly half this y .ate, and if lie liad represented half V; it, why not trust him further and ake him Senator for the whole State? a( e told of his record in the civil wai sa id his work in behalf of ht> home j,', ople in the dark days of ri construe- tt] tin. lie was chosen to lead'a forlorn ^ flit In his district and terrible consis followed eaqli electioiv. yet Ills e(] ingressional record of fouriisenyears n <>. uiv l"'"!"'' """ 51 ile. The total amount of apjprupriajns obtained is in round uumbcrs re ?,ooc,ooo. / W) Col. Elliott spoke of the ivonderful iprovements in the manufacturing ^ terests of the county and, as we are jn coining a nation of exporters, it is cessary to improve the?Qtransporta- ^ (in facilities on "Cod's hghways." ,n e spoke of the Appalachian forest yy serve and how beneficial its est,ah- ()jihincnt will prove to the South in ^ ic prevention of destructive overflow y( our Southern rivers. TUB HON. J. J. II KM I'll ILL. | I Oil. Hemphill threw handsome Ihiu- j at lots ;it tile ladies. A voice: "Praise the gals if you ce m't get a vote." St We will do ourselves an injustice if lii ir representatives content themselves ra ith getting appropriations; we need sli aders in Washington from the South tl ho can protect our political inter- hi ts. lie charged that the Democratic st nnmitt.ee hail reported adversely on at te occasion, but Col. Elliott called er im down and reminded him that he le ade such a statement before and it i E as not true. Mr. Hemphill yielded bj i Col. Elliott's correction and passed j T i to the Philippine Islands, denounc- wi ,g colonial expansion and spoke of 01 ir t iriental trade, especially the small turns accruing to us from the Phil- hi pines. He said that in the discharge lu ' his duties as a lawyer he has often :cn called away from South Carolina > attend to professional matters. si< >me of ins competitors want to say in tat lie had given up his citizenship, $1 it again lie deemed it expedient to tl 11 of 11is home connections in dies- \\ r the same statement he made at hi liesterlied Conrt House. Col. liemp- Ui ill received a beautiful bouquet of hi avers. ei KX-UOYKUNOK EVANS. Ol Mr. Evans felt, the Inspiration of an 0{ d-time orderly campaign audience, n e told why lie entered this and the j, inner Senatorial campaign. It took |)( is coin net i tors live ve:irs t.? tree Me- I . aurin, and now they all come here t.t id want to Ik? Senator. "Dan Ilen rson went all over t his country cjsng old Hen and everylKKly connected it It Ll to lie form movement. Now he J11 ?mcs here preaching unity, hut give le the peas and Henderson the cake." le spoke of Latimer's charge that it (| as said of him he took $15,000 out ai I the Ixiiul deal, lie denounced it gi jain. If anyliody will lind it I will1 t i ivide and give them two-thirds of It - j a-' atimcr says that his record is clean, j ,(J /eshall investigate this little mat- / ' r. "lie denounced tlu; transports- j on trusts," said Mr. Leans, "hut jj tat pure, honest, Dr. Stokes, whom mi all loved" li A voice: "Let him alone now; he d! i dead." ! al Hut Mr. Kvans went on to read the 1 liargcs made hy Dr. Stokes in the" orkvlllc Kni|iurer, and which have I ') Iready heeu printed. Latimer was up I iTir/.uh claiming all the credit for -j ne free rural delivery, when Mr. (irist 1 k ported his statement in a daily paper i li ud thus caught up with Mr. Latimer u laiming what did not belong to him. | hi that trip to Cuba lie (Kvans) was j down there, and Tillman and Norton same with Mr. Latimer. Tillman told him that lie was Latimer's guest, and supposed that Latimer w;is payi??g for It. "Tillman had been caught up with once with a free pass and you jan rest assured that you could never ;atch that old hull in a similar scrape igain." You are asked to believe stokes a liar and to believe him." Mr, Latimer answers all this by say- 1 ng that he brought a few Yankees lown here, and pleads the Charleston 1 Exposition as one of his excuses, Mr. Evans said that Mr. N. I). Harris, one ' if Latimer's best friends in Helton, ' aid written him that Latimer had 1 old hlni that he had offered Stokes an innual pass, and that Stokes accepted 1 t. Also that Latimer hud i.tTered Mr. t. A. Lewis, of Helton, a pass to Mex co, hut he had refused it. Again, ' dr. Latimer olTered Mr. Ilufus Hill, ' if Anderson, and his hrotlier-in-law, 1 'larence Hrowu, free transportation 1 o Mexico, and that both accepted. 1r. Evans also charged that Latimer ' ras in fa vor of turning over $11,000,0(K) ' rorth of property in Washington to he Pennsylvania Railway. In these v liings lie had simply responded to ' .atimer's invitation to inspect his a ecord. Mr. Evans said that lie was 11 resident of a little railroad nine v liles iu length between Pickens and v iiiderson, He is proud of this, fur 1 very cent of money in this little road '' elongs to South Carolinians, j v iv- in u"i? living 111 .spanauiiurg, j . ml has tliti confidence of every inan, |'' oinan and child in the city, besides i'' lie support of the two papers, and M1 elleves that he will net s.ooo out or " lie 11,000 votes in the county. He P* x?ko of Ids opposition to the Cuban Pf ar. and said that \ye oi|ght to swarp ' ' 11 ba otf for a "nigger" and then ki|l 1 le "nigger," I|e is standing on his cord and asks the votes of South 11 aroliuiaiis, (!( ti J,ATI MKit IN HKl'LY. | s, Mr. Latimer started out by saying! ^ lat I e is not responsible for this let- i *r being brought into the campaign 1 e id therefore, the consequences must I ist with the man who is using it. 0| r. Lat'mer's denials and admissions i n ere tlie same as made at Conway, it as to the new matter, the charges <1, meering. or coming from, Helton, j was as silent as the grave. Also ]?, le matter of giving that property. SN lined at $.'f,000,000, in Washington, t v > the Pennsylvania Railway. lie w indited all the junketing trips and c< id there was no law agaiust accept- w g free transporations as the Legisla- Se tre had killed it, but when Mr. \\ vans took him up on this he ad- m it ted that the Legislature had kill- sy I it, hut theCovcrnor had vetoed it. oi I ' 1 ,U(l West g 1 In this it was understock oV . . ferred to his Mexico trip, but who er ent with him was not staled. of Mr. Latimer turned on Evans and la id: "You were charged with takg $15,000 in that bond deal. You ar ive gone down into the grave to bring t! methlng up against mo, but the ci an that made that ehargestill lives, tr 'hy don't you bring him here? (Cries as "Hurrah for Latimer.") ltion, of N ugusta. knows alnnit it. Why did fa ?u not bring him?" h; Evans: "I could not get him, but got an allldavit from his denying it. a id read it in the campaign." In Mr. Latimer said that if anyone h: mid prove that he tendered Dr. c< okes an annual pass over a trunk m le that lie would withraw from this cr ce. He spoke of ins personal friend- fe iip for I)r. Stokes, and said that tree weeks before Dr. Stoke's death .n?.u.A .. IIh A-au.->i: a it'biti iiuiu i n. niUM'.N, ; ating that he wanted to come up til* id visit him. If there was any j,n unity he never knew it until these , Iters were produced. lie said that 1111 vans got inta farmer, saying two words always >r himself and one tor the fanner. Sl ol. Elliott tells that he has fought jfi egroes for fourteen years and now, as t reward, asks to Is* sent Io t he Senate. < e ;old how they settled the negro & nest ion in Aiken forever. Mr. Hemp- h ill has lieen in congress ten years lie |, Id not set 1 lie world on lire, hut after j, II these years he comes hack and ants to go to the Senate. Evans said 1 lat he defeated him (Henderson) in iken, hut he did not. Hen Tillman ; ideated him and not Evans, lie ran j a the Shepard ticket and Evans had I 'ilhnan at his hack. Hen Tillman i* nows him and respects him and lie-;(' eves him (Henderson) to he an honest , f Kin. "The campaign,'1 said Mr. lien- ? I.CONTINUKD on I'AOK 4. J 1 v I MURDERED AT SEA. Olio >inn of tlio Crow Shoots Dotvn Another Without Wuruiiif?. A special from I'ensaeola, Fla. says The American schooner, Mary, Sanford, which arrived Saturday afternoon had an eventful voyage from Itlueticlds. Nicaragua, to Pcnsacola, luring wliicli lime one man killed another and the crew were almost in constant mutiny for the man's hlood, who murdered their shipmate. Captain McI>onald wasglad to roach here, ind as soon as possible had the murderer in Jail. The Mary Sanford left HlueHeldson lune :14 and when four days out. in ;>? It I* ?" ? .v.vk-.v iu.iv uiiii longiuifle H1.4."?, v \. <5. Nicholson, the lirst mate, kill- ? 'd Fred, Iteed a West Indian seaman t it 4 a. in. t iteed, it was learned, had l>cen a ordered to some duty about the sails, s jut the particular job was not done jj leoordiiuf to the liking of Nicholson, vho ordered Iteed to do the work ver. The latter did not relish this e aid made insulting remarks to the |, uate, who without any liandy of r, rords, whipped out a 44-calibre revol- 'j er and tilled the new roe's body with g our bnliets, either one of which would lave proved fatal. The seamen died ^ rithin 20 second after being shot. p When Captain McDonald saw what si iad liappened, lie ran and overpower- t,l d Nicholson, took the pistol from ;i, iim and threw it" overhoard. 'i'lie n late was tlien placed in irons and <| opt so confined, and under strict p, uard until tlic vessel reached tiic |t Vnsjtcola quarantine station, when n lie United States marshal's otHee was ^ ?ld uf tlic murder on the high seas ir ud Nicholson brought here and lock- w il up. lie will be given a preliminary p] rial before l'. S. Commissioner Tuni- ,,| ?n tomorrow morning. Since lie has y neaped legal advice he refuses to ilk and give his side c no dead ones lying P' round on shelves and door. l>o not irow the mixture away, but save it ('? >r further attacks, as it can easily be . Ul loisiened and used again when we ri to the pantry some warm, moist; turning and find sugar bowl, cookies 1,1 ud all sorts of sweets and cereals, 1,1 vanning with the troublesome sum- : ler pest s. ' c* Mcliuurin .May Decline. I t' Some people in the South Carolina , j( irele in Washington who claim to ave inside information as to aiTairs j C| i tliis state seem to think that, after ( 11, Senator McLatirin may not heap- ' C( ointed to the federal judgeship of , lie court of claims. Not because V( hey do not tliink the president would ? ? i. - -i .s |H> Mill Uli: M-ll.ll.lM II III' UCKITCK Mil" i onor, liut because they believe that Iter all the talk concernint; the sena- , | nr that he may notearc bo accept the lace, lie may prefer to remain in ,| he senate until the end of the next ; I'ssion of congress, when his term will xpire. and then to reenter the praeice of his profession, either In South j u Carolina or in Washington. The cnator. it is stated by his friends, ias received many tempt in^ olTers. but ^ le has accepted none of them, and it, M i said he mav decline the judgeship f offered. An Indian llangcd. < Arch Conlev, an Indian, and Dick ; a 'leming. were handed upon the same 'I caffold in Salesbury, N.U. last Tues- o lay. Conley paid the death penalty t or the murder of a young negro last e November. Fleming was handed for t ommitting an assault on a white 11 yoman last February. c THE OREGON OUTLAW. Who Has Killed Six Men Since Juite 9 ? Still at Large. BLOOD HOUNDS ON rflS TRAIL. Fully a Thousand Men are in Pursuit of' Him IucliuliiiK ? Posse Which Takes Train to Cut Him olT from CVtlar Mountain. llarry Tracy, the convict wiio has tilled six men and wounded several ?t lutnn ?U t " * * * '?iir>a itiuirc .iuiie u, is Doing lK>tly lursucd by men and dogs in Hie courtly southeast of Seattle and will probkbly be slain or captured. His puruers who have with them two tine >loodhounds are only a short distance lehindltim. Tracey made another extraordinary scape from o.ie of the posses after iiin Wednesday afternoon. Word was oceived at the sheriff's office that 'racey had been at the house of a Mrs. Icrald near Ilenton for live hours. "Ifty armed men at once hastened to lie scene. When they reached the lace they scattered and took posses- ? Ion so they could watch the house to lie best advantage. The peculiar ctionsof Mrs. Herald convinced the len that Traoey was still in the house, in the arrival or Sheriff Cudihee the iisse closed in on the house only to 'arn from Mrs. Gerald that Tracey ad given them the slip, lie had ft Hie house by a rear door ten dilutes previously while the posse ere taking up positions to watch the lace, hid for a few minutes in some ' the hushes and then cjuletlv slipped trough the woods toward Palmer. run IVONDEKKUI, COOLNKSS id daring of the convict was never ore fully exemplified than in this Inance. In the baek yard of the Gerd home. Anderson, the man whom racey had kept a prisoner front the me he left Port Madison, was found I'd to a tree. Tracey had tied Andern while the posse was in full view of io house. The bloodhounds were let mi his train and are reported to only a few minutes Itehiud him. illy a thousand armed men are now gaged in the pursuit, including a isse which lias taken lite train for diner to intercept Tracey in his ght toward Cedar mountain. News was received at the slteritTs ' . lice Wednesday that Harry Tracey us at Uauclier Gerald's house, below ^ eno, on the Cedar Mountain road. ___ d son of Itancker Gerald arrived at r le sheriff's office with a gold and a > Iver watch, saying that Tracey had J rived at l is father's house at 10.30 dock Wednesday morning ting a hearty meal had sent him to neighbor's house with the two . itches, with instructions to try to A 11 them. Tracey said if they "were ven away" he would kill the whole mily, the l>oy included. The boy, tuat il Hcia X1 awj, lAillClUU" to bring the watches to the sheriff's lice, hoping that the desperado mid remain there until a searching irty could arrive. The watches lswer the description of those stolen om Johnson. Young Gerald deserib1 Tracey accurately, and the otlioers link he is trying to make the l'almer itoff by the Cedar Mountain foad. boson's white boat, used by Tracey i his escape from Port Madison, has en found on the tiahxnear Seattle. SEVENTY FIVE PER CENT. late Board Flxeil that Standard ot* Valuation for Taxation Purposes. The several committees of the state >ard of equalization charged with ic equalization of assessments of real tate in South Carolina for taxation, * id also with the assessment of cotton ills, fertilizer mill and cotton oil mill lants, worked all of Tuesday afterHin and evening and all of Wednesty morning as well, and it was not nt i 1 I o'clock that they were ready to port their action to the full board. The Important "per cent com* littee" recommended the adoption [ a 75 per cent basis of market value >r taxation of all property subject to lualization l>y the lioard, provided lat after obtaining proper inforinaon from the counties the board may iwer the percentage if not injurious ) the several counties. A strenuous ffort was made to eliange tills so as > make the basis of valuation 05 per int. but this failed by a vote of 14 to I, the chairman casting the decisive ate in favor of the committee's reLirt. This report was then adopted * follows: "Your committee appointed to tlx lie preccntage on property beg leave i report tliab Llicy recommend that lie following resolution be adopted: "Resolved, That all property sub?et to equalization by this board be ut on a basis of 7"> per cent of Its larkel value, and that the county uditor and county chairman of each nunty be required to furnisl* the omptrollcr general, licforc the next iceting of this board, a sworn statclont, according to their best knowl* t dge and belief, showing what t>er . ' out of its market value property was ssessed at in their county. Provided, That when this information lias lieen btained. the board may lower this K'.rcentage to sueli a tigure as will uualize the taxes and at the same line provide a sulltcicnt amount to neet the requirements of the various ou titles."