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4 SYNOPSIS. Elam Harnlsh, known all through Alas ka as "Burning Daylight," celebrates his 30th birthday with a crowd of it*tiers at tho Circle City Tivoli. The dance leads to heavy gambling, in which over $100,000 Is staked. Harnish loses his money and his mine but wins the mail contract. He starts on his mall trip with dogs and sledge, telling his friends that he will be 5n the big Yukon gold strike at the start. Kurning Daylight makes a sensationally rapid run across country with the mall, appears at the Tivoli and is now ready io join his friends in a dash to the new Cold fields. CHAPTER IV.?Continued. In the meantime there was naught to show for it but hunch. But it was coming. As he would stake his last ounce on a good poker hand, so be staked his life and effort on the hunch that the future held in store ^ big strike on the Upper River. So he an1 * ' *' ?:_?? Ti tfVi /Irtcrc and I uis taree uuujpaiijuiis, n>u> ?? , sleds, and snowshoes, toiled up the frozen breast of the Stewart, tolled on and on through the white wilder ness where the unending stillness was never broken by the voices of men, the stroke of an ax, or the distant crack of a rifle. Gold they fount on the bars, but not in paying quantities, and in the following May they re turned to Sixty Mile. Ten days later. Harper and Joe La due arrived at Sixty Mile, and Day light. strong to obey tiie hunch that had come to him, traded a third in terest in his Stewart town site for a. third fnterest in theirs o::i the Klondike. They had faith in the Upper Country, and Harper left down-stream, v^ith a raft-load of supplies, tc start a small post at the mouth of tt.e Klondike. "Why don't you tacklu Indian River, Daylight?" Harper advised, at part ing. "There's whole slathers of creeks Rnri draws drainine in up there, and somewhere gold just crying to be found That's my hunch. There's a big strike coming, and Indian River ain't going to be a million milesy away." "And the place is swarming with moose." Joe Ladue added. "Bob Hen derson's up there somewhere, been there three years now, swearing something big is going to happen, living off'n straight moose and pros pecting around like a crazy man." Daylight decided to go Indian River a flutter, as he expressed It; and lin gered a few days longer arranging nis meager outfit. He planned to go in light, carrying a pack of seventy-five pounds and making bis five dogs pack as well. Indian fashion, loading them irith tMr&r nnnnric onrh DenendinE on the repqrt of Ladue, he intended to follow Bob Henderson's example and live practically on straight meat. When Jack Reams' scow, laden with the sawmill from Lake Linderman, tied up at Sixty Mile, Daylight bun dled his outfit and dogs on board, turned his town-site application over to Elijah to be filed, and the same day vas landed at the mouth of Indian River. He continued down Hunker to the Klondike, and on to the sum mer fishing camp of the Indians on the Yukon. Here for a day he camped with Car mack. a squaw-man, and his Indian brother-in-law, Skookum Jim. bougnt h boat, and, with his dogs on board, drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mile. Then it was that Carmack, his broth er-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Iloranza Creek. After that, in the Sour dough Saloon, that night, they exhibit ed coarse gold to the skeptical crowd. Daylight, too, was skeptical, and this despite his faith in the Upper Coun try. Had he not. only a few days be fore, seen Carmack loafing with his Indians and with never a thought of prospecting? But at eleven that night. Fitting on the edge of his bunk and unlacing his moccasins, a thought came to him. He put on his coat and hat and went back to 'he Sourdough. Carmack was still thei., flashing his coarse gold in the eyes of an unbe lieving generation. Daylight ranged alongside of him and emptied Car macks sack info a blower. This be studied for a long time. Then, from his own sack, into another blower, he i emptied several ounces of Circle City and Forty Mile gold. Again, for a long time, he studied and compared. Final ly, he pocketed his own gold, returned Carmacks, and held up bis hand for silence. "Bc.ys, I want to tell you-all 3ome thin#.' he said. "She's sure come?the up-river strike. And I tefl you-all. clefcr and forcible, this is it. There aict never been gold like that in a blower in this country before. It's new gold. It's got more silver In it. You-all can see it by the color. Car mack's sure made a strike. Who-all's got faith to come along with me?" No one volunteered. "Then who-ail '11 take a job from me, cash wages i-i advance, to pole up a thousand pom is of grub?" Curly ParsMji. and another, Pat Monahan. accepted, and. with his cus to.nary speed. Daylight paid them their wages in advance and arranged the purchase of the supplies, though he emptied his sack in doing so. He was leaving the Sourdough, when he sud denly turned back to the bar from the door. "Got another hunch?" was the query. "I sure nave," he answered. "Flour's sure going to be worth what k man will pay or it this winter up o:t the Klondike. Who'll lend me some money?" On the instant a score of the men who had declined to accompany him on the wild-goose chase were crowd ing about him with proffered gold sacks. "How much flour do you want?" asked the Alaska Commercial Com pany's storekeeper. "About two ton." The proffered gold-sacks were not withdrawn, though their owners were guilty of an outrageous burst of merri ment. "What are you going to do with two tons?" the storekeeper demanded. "I'll tell you-all in simple A. B, C and one. two, three." Daylight held up one finger and began checking off. "Hunch number one: a big strike com ing in Upper Country. Hunch number two: Carmack's made it. Hunch num ber three: ain't no hunch at all. It's a cinch. If one and two is right, then flour just has to go sky-high. If I'm riding hunches one and two, I just got to ride LOIS cinca, wuiuu ia uuuiuo three. If I'm right, flour '11 balance gold on the scales thlB winter." CHAPTER V. Still* men were without faith in the strike. When Daylight, with his heavy outfit of flour, arrived at the mouth ot the Klondike, he found the big flat as desolate and tenantless as ever. Down close by the river, Chief Isaac and hi9 Indians were camped beside the frames on which they were drying sal mon. Several old-timers were also in camp there. Having flnishe heir summer work on Ten Mile Creek, they had come down the Yukon, bound for Circle City, But at Sixty Mile they had learned of the strike. and stopped off to look over the ground. They had just returned to their boat when Day light landed his flour, and their report was pessimistic. But an nour later, at his own camp. Joe Ladue strode in from Bonanza Creek. He led Daylight away from the camp and men and told him things in confidence. "She's sure there," he said in con clusion. "I didn't sluice it, or cradle > it I panned it, all in that sack, yes- t terday, on the rim-rock. I tell you you j can shake it out of the grass-roots, j And what's on the bed-rock down in r the bottom of the creek they ain't no } way of tellin'. But she's big, I tell t you, big. Keep it quiet, and locate all j you can. It's In spots, but I wouldn't r be none surprised if some of them j claims yielded as high as fifty thou- j sand. The only trouble Is that it's j spotted." r A month passed by, and Bonanza Creek remained quiet. A sprinkling of men had staked; but most of them, after staking, had gone on down to Forty Mile and Circle City. The few that possessed sufficient faith to re main were busy building log cabins s aeainst the comine of winter. Car , Th? Whrili* Rnttnm Shnw^rt as if CflV ered With Butter. r mack and his Indian relatives were oc cupied in building a sluice box and getting a bead of water. The work was slow, for they had to saw their lumber by hand from the standing for est. But farther down Bonanza were four men who had drifted in from up ^ river. Dan McGilvary, Dave McKay. Dave Edwards, and Harry WaugQ. j They were a quiet party, neither ask ing nor giving confidences, and they herded by themselves. But Daylight, who had panned the spotted rim of * Carmack's claim and shaken coarse gold from the grass-roots, and who had panned the rim at a hundred oth er places up and down the length of the creek and found nothing, was cu- F rious to know what lay on bed-rock. He had noted the four quiet men sink ing a shaft close by the stream, and he had heard their whip-saw going as they made lumber for the sluice boxes, y He did not wait for an invitation, but t he was present the first day they c sluiced. And ai the end of five hours' c shoveling for one man, he saw them a take out thirteen ounces and a half of g gold. It was coarse gold, running from e pinheads to a twelve-dollar nugget, it and it had come from off bed-rork. tl The first tall snow was flying that day, e and the Arctic winter was closing a down; but Daylight had no eyes tor c the bleak-gray sadness of the dying, f short-lived summer. He saw his vis- I; ion coming true, and on the big fiat t was upreared anew his golden city of t the snows. Gold had been found on li bed-rock. That was the big thing, s earmark's strike was assured. Day- o light staked a claim in his own name o adjoining three he had purchased with j s flux tobacco. This gave him a block j o two thousand feet long and extending j ' in width from rim-rock to rim rock v Returning that night to his camp at fi '- -?V A i (Copyright. 1310. by the New York Herald (Cooyrtght. 1'JIO. by the MacMUIan Coi "Who-all'8 Got Faith to C he mouth of Klondike, he found In it Cama, the Indian chief he had left at Dyea. Kama was traveling by ca loe. bringing in the last mail of the rear. In his possession was some two lundred dollars in gold-dust, which Daylight Immediately borrowed. In eturn, he arranged to stake a claim or him, which he was to record when ie passed through Forty Mile. When vama departed next morning, he car led a number of letters for Daylight, iddressed to all the old-timers down Iver, in which they were urged to me 11 n immediately and stake. Also vama carried letters of similar import, jiven him by the other men on Bo lanza "It will sure be the gosb-dangdest itampede that ever was.' Daylight :huckled, as he tried to vision the ex ited populations of Forty Mile and Circle City tumbling into poling-boats md racing the hundreds of miles up he Yukon: for he knew that his word vould be ilnquestioningly accepted. One day in December Daylight filled i pan from bed-rock on his own claim md carried it Into his cabin. Her* a ire burned and enabled him to keep vater unfrozen in a canvas tank. He squatted over the tank and began to vash. Earth and gravel seemed to fill he pan. As he imparted to it a cir :ular movement, the lighter, coarser ' articles washed out over the edge. | u times tie comoea ine sunace wnu lis fingers, raking out handfuls of gravel. The contents of the pan di tiinished. As it drew near to the )ottom, for the purpose of fleeting and entative examination, he gave the >an a sudden sloshing movement, emptying it of water. And the whole >ottom showed as if covered with but er. Thus the yellow gold flashed lp as the muddy water was filtered iway. It was gold?gold-dust, coarse :old, nuggets, large nuggetb. He was ill alone. He set the pan down for a noment and thought long thoughts, ["hen he finished the washing, and weighed the result in his scales. At he rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce he pan had contained seven hundred nd odd dollars. It was beyond anv hing that even he had dreamed. His ondest anticipations had gone no arther than twenty or thirty thousand lollars to a claim; but here were laims worth half a million each at the east, even if they were spotted. He did not go back to work in the haft that day. nor the next, nor the Young Until rrom That Time On Unmarried Wom en Are "Old Maids," Says Bos ton Y. W. C. A. When does a woman cease to be oung? Woman herself, for reasons hat require no elaboration here, de llnes. as a rule, to fix tiie period. Mas ulirie authorities, for the most part, re chary of venturing upon such dan erous ground. Hence the question has ver been involved in uncertainty and t would perhaps reeiain so were it not bat a responsible authority?none oth r than the Young Woman's Christian ssociation. the title of which indi ates Its competency?comes to the ront with a decision which may fair y be accepted as conclusive. It ia to he Boston branch of the association hat the world is indebted for the so it ion of the problem The occasion for olving it arose from the completion f a new home for the young women f the association in the Massachu etts city !:i framing rules for this stablishment. it was found necessary o specify precisely 'he limit of young womanhood, beyond which the bene its ol the heme could not be enjoyed jo< ; * t GHT PNDON^~ VS CALL Of r//?MLti ' "AfAfir/M ?D?N??rc. Company.) mpany. next. Instead, capped and mittened, a light stampeding outfit, including bte rabbit skin robe, strapped on his back, he was out and away on a many-days' tramp over creeks and divides, in specting the whole neighboring terri tory. On each creek he was entitled to locate one claim, but be was chary in thus surrendering up Mis chances. On Hunker Creek only did he stake a claim. Bonanza Creek he found staked from mouth to source, while every little draw and pup and gulch that drained into it was likewise staked. Little faith was had in these side-streams. They had baw) staked by the hundreds of men wfco had failed to get in on Bonanza. The most popular of these creeks was Adams. The one least fancied was Eldorado, which flowed into Bonanaa, just above Carmack's Discovery claim. Even Daylight disliked the looks of E1-' dorado; but, still riding his hunch, he bought a half share in one claim on it for half a sack of flour. A month later he paid eight hundred dollars for the adjoining claim. Three months later, enlarging this block of property, he paid forty thousand for a third claim, and, though it was concealed in the future, he was destined, not long after, to pay one hundred and fifty thousand for a fourth claim on the creek that had been the least liked of all the creeks. < In the meantime, and from the day he washed seven hundred dollars from a single pan. and squatted over it and thought a long thought, he never again touched hand to pick and shovel. As he said *o Joe Ladue the night of that wonderful washing: "Joe, I ain't never going to work bard again. Here's where I begin to use my brains. I'm going to farm gold. Gold will grow gold if you-all have the savvee and can get hold of some for seed. When I seen them seven hundred dollars in the bottom of the pan. I knew I had seed at last.' The hero of the Yukon in the younger days before the Carmack strike. Burning Daylight now became the hero of the strike. The story of his hunch and how he rode it was told up and down the land. Certainly he bad ridden it far and away beyond the boldest, for no five of the luckiest held the value in claims that he held. And. furthermore, he was still riding the hunch, and with no diminution of daring. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Thirty-Five This has been fixed at 35 years. Up to that age a young woman comes within the meaning of the title as un derstood by the association and may enjoy the advantages of membership and residence in the home. On reach ing her tmrty-nrth oirtnciay sne must, resign tier quarters. On that fatal day her young womanhood ceyses and the "old inaid" label is placed upon her Indelibly and irrevocably. Thus the matter is settled beyond further cavil or dispute.?Pittsburgh Chronlcle-Tel egrapli. A Pennsylvania County's Oil Wells. I In McKean county whenever they | want funds to run the county affairs they Just put down an oil well on the ' county farm and up the money gushes 1 The South Penn drilled a well last week that is doing five barrels a day 1 after being given a shot of SO quarts of 1 nitroglycerin A farm like that is a mighty convenient thing lor a county to have?Philadelphia Record. 1 A man Is as youns as he feels?and a woman, but she dcewj't vlwayr look it IDE ROCK HILL PLAN SHOULD BE PUSHED SAYS PRES IDENT WATSON iN SPEAKING OF REDUCTION. LETTER TO THE GOVERNORS Df Cotton Growing States of South Regarding the Cotton ' Situation? Wants Reports at An Early Date So They Can Be Filed. Columbia.?Commissioner Watson, president of the Southern Cotton Con gress, addressed a letter to the gov ' i ernors and commissioners of agricul ture of the cotton states of the South in which he charged that the Increase in the price of cotton is merely an ef fort to make the farmers plant more cotton. He appeals to the farmers of the South to push the work of se curing a reduction of acreage through the Rock Hill plan. "A substantia.1 actual reduction is and must be the basis of protection to the Southern producer the coming year," say3 the commissioner. His statement is as follows: "Having pledged myself to the cot ton growers, bankers and business men of the South to sound a note of warning whenever conditions threat ening the cotton crop demanded it, I am addressing you this brief com munication. Just at this moment it is more vitally important than ever for the thinking men of the South to combat to the last ditch efforfs to mislead the cotton farmer into plant ing a large acreage, which efforts are now apparently well organized and are being most carefully directed. "I would appeal to you with all the' power at my command to push the work of securing a reduction of acreage through the Rock Hill plan in such a way that we can effectively meet with actual figures the persistent statements now being circulated with a view to bringing money results to certain interests and disaster to the producer in 1912. A substanital ac tual reduction is and must be tbe basis of protection to the Southern producer the coming year. "Just as soon as you can file with me the reports as to results from the canvass I trust you will do so, in or der that they may be compiled and put to effective use." The Revenue Raiders Are Busy. Greenville.?Within the last few days revenue raiders from local head quarters have destroyed five thousand gallons of moonshine and near-moon shine. Successful raids have been made in the Dark Corner,' near Tryon, XT n in tHfl fInnronGvllltfk oantlnn STlfl 11. V/.f 111 HiV. VJV ?? UiiW ? wv-v.w.., ? - on Glassy Mountain. This 1's an un usual record, say members of the lo cal government offices. General Dep uty R. Q. Merrick led the raiding par ties. In the Gowansville section a big copper "still" was found in full operation, but the mountaineers were nrt in sight when the raiders came in .view. The same thing happened at other places. , t Want Lutheran Female Colelge. Lexington.?An enthusiastic mass meeting of the citizens of Lexington and surrounding country was held in the interest of the new Luthoran Fe male College. The meeting was pre sided over by Rev. T. S. Brown, pas tor of St. Stephen's Luthpmn church woh stated i.he object of the meeting. Mr. Borwn spoke briefly of the many benefits to be derived from such an institution and urged those present to rally to the call and enlist in the movement to bring the school to Lex ington. Offers Reward #of $1,500. Aiken.?Aiken city council met sev eral days ago and offered a reward ol $1,500 for the arrest and conviction of the unknown person, who attacked Mrs. Frederick O. Beach. At the meeting were present a number ot the Aiken winter residents among them was Mr. Beach, husband of the woman upon whom the murderous at tack was made. The city lockup is full of itegroes arrested as suspects and Mayor Oyles states that the po lice are to make more arrests. Addressed t-dimers At Union. Union.?Commissioner E. J. Watson and J. Whitener Reid, secretary of the farmers Union, delivered ad dresses in the Opera house here be fore a small gathering of farmers and others. Commissioner Watson urged a reduction of cotton acreage, the planting of cover crops, more intelli gent use of fertilizers and the need of raising necessary supplies at home. Mr. Reid spoke in behalf of the union urging the farmers to join the union and advocated co-operative buying and selling by the farmers. Will Not Do Away With Parade. Charleston.?Gen. C. Irvine Walkei commander-in-chief of the Unitec Confederate Veterans denied the re port that he intended to do away with the parade of veterans at the com ing reunion in Macon. Hen. Walker stated that he had modified the form r\t' thn ntiroHa in nrrlar* to ci'vo (Tfontor comfort and less fatigue to the old soldiers and to ensure a shorter march. He stated that the concen tration of the parade into a smaller compass would mako it more attrac tive to the spectators. Flection Commissioners Removed. Columbia.?Robert Mooreinan, J. j Land and J. H. W. Dnncan, commis sioners of election for the city of Columbia, have been removed from office by Gov. Biease. The governor in his letter, dated February 2~ states that the action was taken "bv me up an tiie recommendation of the Rich land delegation." Tin* governor, af innou 11 ceil a few days ago, appointee' C. C. Stanley. L. A. Griffith and George \Y. Collins commissioners for this of flee. but reasons for the change wtjh 101 made public until recently. FrliiM THE PALMETTO STATE The Latest General News That Has Been Gotten Together For the People of the State. Lexington.?The Lexington County quarterly meeting of the year with the Chapin local union on the second Saturday in March. This is expect ed to be one of the most important sessions of the county union in a long while. Lexington.?Pomp Mickens, a ne gro, is in jail here with the serious charge of assault resting against him having been arrested near Brook land by Sheriff Sim J. Miller. The victim is a 14-year-old negro girl, a near relative or tne accused. Washington.?Pellagra seems still to have evaded the closest researches of the medical world. One of the lat est investigations on the subject has been carried on extensively by R. H. Grimm, assistant surgeon of the pub lic health and marine hospital service. Charleston.?At a meeting of the board of health the recommendations for further improvements of the dai ries and milk establishments were considered and finally determined up on for presentation to city council. It is understood that the recommenda tions provide finally for the removal of all dairies out of the city. Greenville.?Greenville county will this summer elect six representatives to the legislature and one senator, the new apportionment giving this county an additional representative. Senator Mauldin will not stand for re election and none of the present rep resentatives have yet declared for re-election. Aiken.?Gen. B. Hammet Teague, commander of the South Carolina di vision, U. C. V., has appointed as sponsor for the veterans of the state to attend the Macon reunion Miss El berta Bland of Aiken, whose maids of honor will be Misses Ella Croft an? Mary Allan Laird, and ,the ma tron or nonor, Mrs. a. r. Aasicrnu&, all of Aiken. Orangeburg.?Col. W. G. Smith, chairman of the special street pav ing committee of the Orangeburg city council, Fingal C. Black, city engi neer, and C. Berghaus and J. C. Fair ey, the successful bidders for the pav ing contract, went to Augusta, Ga., for the purpose of contering with the manufacturer of vitrified brick that is to be used in the paving here. Anderson.?According to President Clint Summers of the county farmers' union, there is now only about 15,000 bales of cotton unsold in Anderson county. It is estimated that j the cot ' ton crop in this county this year was between 75,000 and 78,000 bales. Pres ident Summers said that his informa tion is that all except 20 to 22 per cent of the crop has been marketed. Lancaster.?A northbound heavily loaded Southern freight train was wrecked just outside the city limits. The cause of the wreck is not known, but it is thought th?t spreading rail? did the damage. Three cars, a coal car, a regular freight car and he cab suddenly jumped the track. Though no r-flBiialties. there were several nar row escapes. Columbia.?Another one of the old Confederates has passed over the river. J. W. Biggs died at the Old Soldiers' Home, after a long illness. He entered the service oif the Confed erate state in 1861, and served faith fully during the entire War Between the Sections. He was bugler for Gen. J. E. B. Stuart until he was killed, and after that he acted as bugler for Gen. Wade Hampton. Laurens.?Thaddeus Coopeit, aged 25, a guard with one of the county chain gang sections, was accidentally shot nepr Friendship church in Youngs township, death ensuing three hours later. At the time of the acci dent he was trying to run a rabbit out of a brush heap in a gully, when his pistol fell to the ground, causing the discharge of one chamber, the ball entering his head. Columbia.?A branch of the Boy Scouts of America has been estab lished in Columbia. Four patrols have been organized and leaders elec ted. Robert Waring will be assistant scout leader and the crptains of the various patrols will be. as follows: T>-*?' t n HTnratinll: natrol JTtttl U1 -UUC, u, h? , ? two, Robert Walker; patrol three, Cldrk Waring; patrci four, Harry Walker. Activity has already begun. Columbia.?The county demonstra tion agents of the United States farm demonstration work will soon, be call ed to meet at Clemson College to discuss the work in South Carolina. It is expected that the state agent for the work will soon be appointed by Bradford Knapp of Washington. Orangeburg.?The negro-farmers of Orangeburg and Calhoun counties met in their first annual conference at the chapel of the state negro col lege. They had been invited by the president of the college, who is also president of the negro farmers' insti tute. Laurens.?John Hudgens was lodg ed in jail charged with the murder of another negro, George Martin, in the Chestnut Ridge section. The kill ' ? *- KAma r\f WnHp. ing ocuuncu ui tuc uvu<v ens and the accused claims that he shot Martin thinking lie was a burg lar. Aiken.?The postoffice at Cowden, this county, will be discontinued on March 15, and the patrons of that postoffice will thereafter be served either by rural delivery or will re ceive their mail at the Aiken postof fice, as they elect. This postoflice is between Aiken and Merritt's Ridge. Estill. ? Frank Peeples, a negro man about 25 years of age. working at the sawmill of P. II. Allen, about eight miles from hero, had his left I foov cut entirely off about one half way between the knee and ankle. I He was at work at tlie mill and in | some way stepped on the butt saw. Charleston. ?Slavor Cirace heartily endoresed thi milk report and recom mendations received trom the board of health. He said that the recom mendations appealed to him as along the right line and he did not doubt but that they would be carried nut No official action has yet been taken "s THE SENATE IS EXCEEDED POWER LORIMER'S COUNSEL SAYS THAT THE CONSTITUTION HAS BEEfi VIOLATED. , / Y iw- CJ '-'t4 TRIED TWICE ON SAME ISSUE : ; Has Characterized the Four Principal Witnesses as Self-Confessed Per jurers.?The Republics Safety Is Im perilled By This Act , - J&i Washington.?An attack on the -'r-U Senate's authority to act on the ; charges against Senator Lorimar on the^ground that the case was finally disposed of at the last Congress and a declaration that puttii? Lorimer on trial again on the same issues was a violation of the spirit of the constitu tion were made in a brief filed by Mr. j Lorimer's counsel, Elbridge Hanecy, with the Senate committee on elec- <j& tions. . , . The brief characterized the four principal witnesses, White, Becfce- 'f meyer Link and Hoistlaw, as confess ed perjurors, who testified in the p6- ^ V sitions of "accomplices in crime with ,?* those whom they accused." The prin- ' ^ cipal witness, the brief says, offered jy| his testimony for sale and in no in stance did a jry before whom they ^ stance did a jury before whom they j$||g Illinois believe their evidence Much ' ^ of the evidence, according to Mr. H&n-* ecy proves nothing and Is of no effect ' other than to besmirch Mr. Lorimer." Mr. Hanecy contended that If the Senate decided against Mr. Lorimer, it would be a great temptation to use the case as a precedent for dvernil- / . ing former decisions of the San^te and ' that it would imperil the eafety of the republic. The Senate adopted a resoiuiio^, / ^ calling on President Taft to submit . J to It all the correspondence with Co lombte dealing with the acquisition of the Panama canal zone by the United State;;. A Horrible Wreck At Sea. Victoria, B. C.?Details of the colli sion betweeen the steamers Mori Ma- ' ru and Richa Maru, involving the loss of fltfy-seven lives, were brought by the steamer Awa Maru which arrived i from the Orient. The two vessels ' i in i?i^ ?rS foundered soon ofter the in the Genkai sea, off Eboshi light house, ' Iki province, Febranry 10. The. Mori Maru, a collier of 1,788 tons, bound from Moji for Dainey, crash- > ed into the coasting steamer Richa Maru, 178 tons, driving her bow into ' > ^ the latter vessel on the starboard Bide amidships almost to the middle. Pa?- ' ,v > sengers and crew rushed to the boats , ana mere were desperate struggles In the darkness. " :? To Pa?? on Sanity of Raines. Roanoke, Va.?An unexpected turn 4| was taken In the case of Joshtia P. Raines, on trial at Salem, Va., charged with the murder on January 24 Ipst of ?.If ? Eva Chambers, a school teach- 5$ er. After spending some time in con- /-S, sultation with various persons con> nected with the case, Judge Moffett announced that Dr. Drewry, superin- |j tendent of the state asylum at Peters burg, and Dr. King, superintendent of 1 -jp the state asylum at Marion, one sum moned by the defense and one by the > '> prosecution, had beeft called Into the * case to hear evidence ^nd pass on Raines' sanity. . free Sugar Advocates Confident. & Washington.?Chairman Underwood . '! ' of the ways and means committee of .'' the house, steadfastly refused to give J, t out'r in advance of the Democratic caucus the committee's secrets on the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill. The caucus, it is held, will develop a lively fight. Free sugar advocates forecast they will win. . Guilty of First Degree Murder. Memphis, Tenn.?The jury in the case of J. J. Hughes returned a ver diet finding Hughes guilty of murder in the first regree with mitigating circumstancs. . Present Status of Brandt Case. ?\PW lOrK.?A iiuiuuer ui wiiuecBcB are still to be examined by the grand jury which continued its investiga- > tion to ascertain if there was a con spiracy to send Folke E. Brandt, for* '- Ji mer man servant of the banker, Mor. timer L. Schiff, to states prison for a long term for first degree burglary. Whether Mr. Schiff and his counsel, Howard Gans, will appear before the grand jury will not be determined ' ', until Judge Craiu decides whether the banker and his counsel would gain Immunity by so doing. . . , Strike is Soon to Be Settled. Lawrence, Mass.?An advance in *v?of- mill offset rifiarlv 30.000 TT ** v ------ ,r. v textile mill operatives jn. LaWTence and vicinity, notices of which were posted, forecasts the end of the strike . * that has kept Lawrence in turmoil for the last month. While Lawrenc* strikers have not agreed to return to work on the increased wage schedule, it seems more than likely that the employes will return to their looms " wtien the raise goes into effect. The five per cent advance is based on the 54-nour law. Eight Amercans Massacreed. San Francisco.?Bringing tbe first word of the massacre of eight persons connected with the Christian missions by fanatical Chinese outlaws, last October. 24 mission workers arrived on the liner China, from the province of Shen Si. The victims of the slaughter were George Alstrans, thir teen years old, Mrs. Richard Beck man, Zelma Beckman, 12; Ruth Beck man, 8; Rilda Bergstrom, 13; Oscar Bergstrom, 10; Hilad Nelson, 16; George Vantue, teacher at a mission school at Sian Fu.