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FLAYS OIL TRUST In Message to Congress Presi dent Roosevelt Brands as col issal bobbers ? The Staadard Oil Combines, Which He; Says Has Eiriched Itself by Crimes. Commissioner Garfield's Proof oi Monopoly's Gu?t the Basis of Cbarjes. P.-esident Roosevelt, In a message | j to Oongres3 Friday indulged In a se vere denunciation of the Standard 01 monopoly, charging it and the railroads J of tbe country with alt manner of of fenses against the Interstate Commer <ce and Antl-R ibate laws. The ooarges I against tbis vicious monopoly werej timed psychologically with the ap proaching vote in the Senate on the railr ad rate bill, the Presiden ts pet measure, whioh be is determined shall ?o on tbe Federal statute books. Bit this belated laying bare of tbe flagrant .and persistent violation of the law by the Rockefeller monoply Is two years v behind tbe times. In 1904 the same charges against tbe Oil combine were made by Con L ?ressman William Rmdolph Hearst | L in all bis newspapers, and In Deoem Pber of last year he proposed a remedy ' In the shape of a bill to increase the j powers of the Interstate Commerce ] Commission and to create an Inter state Commerce Court, which would have made impossible a continuation | ?of such deflanos of the Cnited States | laws. The bill served as a model for the I ?Esch-Townsend bill, and was killed by i the Administration. For years the Government has paid no attention to tbe repeated accusations against the Standard OH Company, whose crimes | are calmly enumerated by the Presi dent and Commissioner Garfi aid to-, day. Despite the superlatlveness of the denunciatory adj actives used by the President and Commissioner Garfleld, which accuse the Standard Oil monop oly of divers- and sundry offenses I against Federal laws, the Department j of Justice, in rJmosfc the.same breath, announces that It will try to prosecute only under the Anti-Robate law. of whioa the maximum penalty for con viction is only a fine of a sum. Which at most would be considered paltry by tbe millionaire defendants. In other words, should all tbe J Standard Oil officials, all the railroad ?chiefs of the country be convicted, they .would merely have to scratch j their pens across tbe bottom of checks { lor sums infinitesimal as compared with the prodts secured from tue ilie gal and secret rates and rebates, and go on committing the same j orimes against the laws of the land Then, by putting the screws under the price-list anew and tacking a cent or two on to the rate for oil, the trust would get all its money back with enormous interest. Commissioner Garfield's investiga tlons unearthed undeniable proof of the guilt of tbe Oil Trust and the railroads, and his specific charges formed tbe basis for the President's' message and recommendations to Con gress He winorsd no woeds and used no emasculated phrases in denouncing tbe Standard Oil Company as a vic ious business organization, reared upon J the loot from illegal methods of doing | business. He accused the officials of the com pany of criminal methods and strip ped the fabric of their boasted organ fzitlon bare; showed it, to be a mass of corruption; a comblnatlnn defiant of every law of the land, and even of | decent business ameultiOs; a heartless and wynton destroyer of competitors and a menace} to the country. Thr revelations in the report of Commissioner Garfield are almost as tounding. They expose, so far as the Standard Oil Company is concerned, exactly the same methods that Wil liam R. Hearst has uncovered in the I coal roads trust and the alliance be tween the Sugar Trust and tbe great railroads. It is significant to note that Commissioner Girfield's exposure illuminates tbe situation with exam ples of precisely the same kinds of rebates, refunds and other illegal fav or as the coal cases and the sugir cases have developed. Iaotberwords.it tends to prove what Congressman Hearst and many writers and Investigators have con tended for a long time?that the Standard created the system and per fected it and the coal roads and the I Sugar Trust and the other.trusts are [ only im'.totors snd followers of the mos gigantic trust of them a'l. Seldom has organized capital been so ruthlessly pilloried. C >m ulsslon er GarfHd presents an array of facts and figures that would oonvmoe the most skepptical and he does it with a | clearness that a child could under stand. He nos only convicts the Oil Trust of flagrant and persist eat violations j of the law, but accuses its clH ;lal9 of deliberate lying. He says that at the beginning of the investigation the cffiaials of th3 Standard Od said the company had not obtained and was then not obtaining secret rebates from the railroad*. Ee then proceeds to show that the company has hab itually received and is still reoeiving such rebatef, and be cites case r?fter .case in proof. Probably no more opportune time could have been elected by the Presi 69. dent -to Bend the report to Congress just as the Senate is about to be?ii> voting on the railroad rate bill. The President believes the factf reveled by C immissioner Garfleld constitute I tbe best argument yet presented that the ynlv effective remedy for secret rebating and open preferential ratings is through government regulation, with only such restrictions as are nec ce suy under the Constitution. One of the most significant features of the rep ort is that when tbe atten tion of the railroads was called to certain specific instances of rebating discovered by Mr. Garfleld, uhey dis ' continued tbe practica thereby ao kDow'e girig their guilt. The Presliflnt'b or I r recommenda tions in his message are that the im-, munlty law be corrected, that tbe free alcohol bill be passed, which would be a set-back for the Standard and that tbe further exploitation by the trusts of coal and oil lands owned by the Government, be prevented. Already tbe Department of Jus tice bas taken uo the matter of pros eeutinns.of the Standard Oil Company and the various railroads involved, on the facts learned by Commissioner Garfield. In this conn ction it.sh uld be noted that the report presented to day is only on one phase of the oil situation?that relating to transpor tation and freight rates. There are six other branches of the general sub j ct that the Bureau of Corporations is still considering and on wh oh it will report later. TJSJS KILLED. Ool'iaion on the Pennsylvania Rail road Near Htrrlkb arg. Two passenger trains oolllded h?ad on in a cut-off near Wllliamsburg. Pa. on the Pennsylvania railroad at 10.45 Friday night. It is reported 10 peo ple are killed and many injured. Eight physicians from Huntington have been sent the scene of the wreck. A few hours before 37 freight oars bad been wrecked at Union furnace, on the middle division, twenty miles east of tbat city and all trains were being run around Aitoona over tbe out-off. The Chicago mall left tbat city on time and went as far as Ty rone, wbere it was sent back to go over tbe out off. Tbe Chicago and St. Louis express was sent east from Huntington on the cut-off and the two trains met at Springfield, wbere there is but one track. The cause of tbe disaster is said to bave been a misunderstanding of orders by the operator at Springfield Junction. Physicians have been sent from Ai toona. Tbe railroad officials at Huntington and Williamsburg have reoeived a re port that both locomotives, the ex press and mail cars and passenger coaches are completely demolished. Oae of the trains was running re versed, with tbe coach next to the en gine. Twenty-five passengers weae in this coach, and it is reported that all are either dead or wounded. The railroad officials say it will be impos sible to tell tbe exact details of the accident until Saturday morning as several people are pinned under the wreckage. A special has been sent From there to bring in the (dead and injured, but it will not arrive until *bovt 4 o'clock. Conductor Fi ekes end E lgineer J. H. Collins of the mall train are reported to he seriously in-, lured. BOUBUVBLT FLUNKS. He Worked a Shell Game on tbe DsmoeratB. \ A dispatch from Washington says President Boosevelt has completely flunked on bis championship of the rate-making bill. So seems to be tbe general impression in Washington among those who knew of his having sent for forty newspaper correspon dents, Friday afternoon, mo3tly re presentatives of Republican papers. He informed them that he would stand to the amendment agreed upon by the Aldrlcb element. Tills Is known as the Allison amendment and calls for the broadest possible court review of the rates fixed by the inter state commerce commission, against which review all tbe fight, in tbe senate or most of it has been direated. Up till Friday th? president has stood out persistently In favor of limited court review. He denies now that he has surrendered, but olaims that his advocacy of the Allison amendment is in accord with his private view and the v>ry tning he has been striving for. Exactly how he will be able to justify this claim Is best known to himself. He says be is consistent and he doesn't care who thinks other wise, So there! But it is thought and freely said tbat the object of sendlgn for these correspondents was to get the news to the country in such a way that the people will be fooled. S nator Bailey, who has led the fight against the Aldrloh cro <rd, says the Allison amendment is tbe broad en court review provision that could be drawn, and Senator Tlllman thinks that the Republicans will jow let up on it to a man. Tlllman says he sees no reason vuy they cannot jost pass the bill Monday, for the Democrats are powerless, aud the Republicans will stiok by the president, lb looks like something is going to happen ] qow, after all these months of talk, though It isn't going to happen in ac cordance with Roosevelt's talk Mr. Aldrloh hasn't talked, but he's Jt. Zacii McGhee. Bold Thier. A horse thief operated on Broad way, just above City Hall Park, New York Thursday afternoon, and pick ing for a pr'ze a handsome biy and rubber tired runabout, valued at 81,000, owned by Maurice S. Looks, No. 141 Schenck street, Brooklyn, drove rapidly away, while the owner was in an office building. O?AiNfcrEBlIItG HOT SHOT FIRED V _ Into Several Halted States Judg es in the Senate BY SEMTOR THEM AN He Claimed That Spoeoer Had Acted Harshly Towards Him, bat Slid He did Not Object to Being Call ed "Rode," Because He Was a "Rude Man." During the debate in the United States Senate Tbuisday on the rail road rate bill senator Tlliman took the floor to put into the Record a num ber of statements he had gathered to justify his position that the people distrust the federal courts. Prelimi narily be announced that he did not intend a wholesale onslaught upon the judloiary and he acquitted the i sup reme court especially of Questionable proceedings, although, he said, it had "wobbled" more qr less. In the south, he went on, there were ma"* excellent judges, but on the other ha d some of them had been guilty of 41?. j questionable and dis creditable acts." Many of them were he said, uiduly prejudiced in favor of the railroads add were wholly urflo to be trusted with the power of passing ou railroad questions. Hence he ar gued that tbore would be no great risk in preventing their interference In such oases. "It is utterly absurd to show that the judges are higher creatures than other men," be said. He referred to the division of the supreme court on the income tax case saying that in that case one of the judges had changed his mind. "Thus" ne said, "the practice cf a century reversed and the country submitted merely because of the plea that the highest court cf the country must be sustained." He also cited other cases in other courts Intended to, show that some judges are not only not infallible, but not incorruptible." The first of the references was to Judge Smith Mc Pherson of Iowa, who wan represen ted in an article in the New York World of the 30th of March last as having appeared at a banquet to G-ov: Cummins at Council B<uffs in such a condition as "not to be able to stand up without clinging to the ta ble. Mr. Tillman next referred to a pleasure trip to Tampico, given by three Kansas railroads to Federal Judges McPaerson, Pnihips and Pji lt ck. Tne account was condensed from tne Kansas City papers and showed that the judges had been transported in a special car and were accompanied by the general solicitors of the railroads giving the excursion. Mr. Tillman said that Judge Pnillips uad been especially commended by the president in connection with the Paul M >rton case ? and he contrasted ohe president's course in this caae with tils course in critic zing Judge Hump nrey in the beef packers case. I believe it has come to be consider ed good law to issue iuj auctions a gainst strikers," said Mr. Tillman, and ad.oed, "if it is not the senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner) will correct." The manner of this appeal to him evidently angered Mr. Spoon er. He rose and replied sharply say ing: "Tne senator from South Car olina forgets wjoat is decent when be challenges me in that way. Mr. Tillman maintained that Mr. Spooner bad acted very harshly tow ard him, and charged him with hav ing been "indecent." To this Mr. Spooner responded that he would withdraw the word and substitute "rude." This satisfied Mr. Tillman who said he did not mind being called the word, because he was a rude mm and did not care. Mr Tillman con sidered the case of Editor Daniels of the Raleigh, N. C, New and Ob server, who had been placed in prison because of a refusal to pay a fine of $2.000 for criticising the appointment oi a receiver for a railroad by Judge Purnell. Mr. Tlllmrn insisted upon with drawing his question and apologizing but Mr. 2pooner remarked that he csked no apology. Upon an apparantly good-natured command to Mr. Spooner to sit down, Mr,. Tillman and toe chair became involved in a spirited colloquy as to who had the floor. The decision was favorable to Spooner, who remarked that in ordering him to take his seat Mr. Tillman merely had accentuated what he regarded as "a great piece of rudeness." After Mr. Tillman had offered an apology Mr. Spooner sat down with the statement ubat he did so of his own volition. Mr. Tlliman had read an editorial from the Columbia, S. C , State con cerning the Judge Purnell case, up holding the position taken by Joseph us Daniels and quoting from a discus sion of Circuit Judge Prltchard of North Carolina, declaring that pub Iis bed criticisms or even libel of a judge is not contempt of court. In having the editorial read he stated. "I have that article read with espec ial pleasure because it does ample jus tice and speaks in the most compli mentary way about Judge Prltchard." When the reading was concluded Mr. Tillman said he would pass ou to Florid i, although he could review In stances In his own State of acts of ty ranny and Indecency, but ths iudge committing them is dead and has set tled his accounts elsewhere. The sen ator said ne also knew some cases in , S. C, THtrjbi?JJAV, MA Georgia, but tbat be woulrf t-atre up | tbe case of Circuit judge Pardee in en joying tbe Florida railroad commission From Instituting suit , to compel tbe Louisville and Nashville railroad to j reduce its fares from four to three cents a mile. He onarged that Pardee ought to be Impeached for bis course Mr. Tlllman next paid his respects to the case of Judge Charles S. Wayne of Florida, whom the senate refused last session to Impeach and asked to incorporate in his remarks a statement prepared bv Representative Lamar of Florida. Mr. Tlllman then closed with an apology, explained tbat the situation was such as to require the administering of * 'some physio.'' He would not allow tbe judges to "roam up and down the land, doing whatever the railroads want and refusing to grant relief to the people. Senator Beacon of Georgia made a | l spirited defense of the federal judici ary and deplored tbe fact tbat their j misdeeds were given such pubiioity which would necessarily result from this recital in the senate. Tlllman asked him If he had not voted for the lmpeaohmentof Judge Swayne. Beacon made reply to "this bunch of ques tions," as he called them. He had vo ed for Swayne's lmpeaohment, but] that he said was a difflrent thing from j orlticlsing a judge before he had been formally accused. Senator Beacon was applauded by the Rerjublicans as he sat down. Announcing his conviction that Mr. Tlllman needed no assistance in pre senting his case to the senate, Mr. Bailey took the floor in opposition 'to | Mr. Beacon's contention that tbe j u ci: clary should not be criticised on tne floor of the senate, be believed in branding wrong wherever it made its appearance and while as a whole he had the utmost confidence in the j u diciary of the United States be could not overlook the fact tbat there were some unworthy members of it. b?otix uui. Two Young Men Tried to Kill Each ] Other, j ( The Columbia State t-says a sensa tional shooting affair between Dr. Rowland K. Smith, formerly of Co lumbia, and Mr. T. H. Brown, a well known lumber man of Onapln, occurr ed at tbat place Thursday morning. Both men, it is said, emptied their guns at each other, but neither of them was hit. The shooting occurred as the train from Laurens over the Co lumbia, Newberry and Laurens rail road was leaving tbe station, and it is j alleged to be tne result of the rela tlons between Dr. Smith and the wife of Mr. Brown. It is said by those who saw the] shooting that Dr. Smiti? waa hoarding the train on it way to Columbia when Mr. Brown opened fire on him from the side of the track. The doctor dash ed into the baggage car and returned the fire through the door. Tbe passen gers on the train were greatly alarmed by the firing, but no one was hurt Dr, Smith continued on tbe train and came as far as Irmo, where he stopped, and, it is Bald, went back] through Cbapin on tbe next train in that direction and went on In the direction of Laurens. Mrs. "Brown left Cbapin on tbe night before the shoot ing and, went from there to Laurens. Rumor has it that the names of Dr. Smith and Mrs. Brown have been con nected by gossip for some time, but that on Wednesday they were seen together walking in the woods and It was this and the subsequent departure of Mrs. Brown tbat brought the mat ter to a nriais Tnursday. i The affair was reported to President | Childs of the Columbia, Newberry and Liurense railroad soon after the arrlv al of the train in this city. Mr. Childs investigated the matter carefully and announced Thursday afternoon thatj he would place the case in the hands of the attorney for the company with a view to having both parties arrester1 for firing into and from the train. He was indignant that the passengers on bis road should have been submitted to thiB danger, and seems determined to bring tbe case into the courts. Dr. Smith is a son of Oapt. C. M. Smith of Columbia, the local agent of the All in tic Coast line. He is about 28 years of age and is a married man Mr. Brown is from Virginia and is connected with the lumber mill of Charles P. R iblnson of Chapin. Killed by Bomb. A dispatch from Paris says a bomb explosion occurred in the forest of Vincennes Thursday afternoon, kill ing a Russian named Strle and dangerously wounding a companion named BouEsnoff. The men were proceeding through the woods, each carrying a bomb with the evident purpose of hiding them for future use. While so doing tbe bomb which Strie carried exploded, killing him in stantly. Boussnctl was struck by fragments of the bomb and fearfully lacerated. Tbe remaining bomb has notyet been examined owing to the danger in handling it. They Can Do It The Charleston Post says "if the War Department can't heid off Fath er Sherman on his maroh to the sea it might commission some of the old Confederate veterans In Georgia to stop him. Most of them were away on the fighting line when his father came along to burn their homes and make war upon their women and children, and they would not be sorry of tbe chance to halt the younger Sherman as they might have halted the elder. Blind Student Kxoelled. One of the most Interesting figures in higher mathematics, in ge>logy, was a blind student who halls from a small oountry town In North Carolina. He has mastered the most difficult courses In higher mathematics, in geo logy, won a degree from the Universi ty of North Carolina, and is now wo rk ing for a degree of M. A. at Harvar d if 10. WOG. am mm' Must Be Paid For by Responsi ble Parties. GOVERNOR HEYWARD Writes a Letter to State Treasurer Jen ologs oo tbe Subject. Nothing Was Done by Legislature to' Make Provisions for Redeeming Worthless Bonds. Gov.- Hey ward * Wednesday made official inquiry into tbe matter of tbe bonds purloined rrom tbe office of tbe State treasurer says Tbe State. Tbe amount so lost to tbe State approxi mates 816,000. The fact that pur loining bad b-en going on was dis covered last October and was made publio at that time. Tbe defalcation then amounted to 816,403.75. The faco value of the bonds purloined was 812,500 and the interest; was 83,903.75. Between that time and-January 1st the accrued in terest was 8281 25 and to date is about 8400 additional. As no announcement of any move ment to pay has been made and as tbe interest is increasing dally, the legislature having declined to make an appropriation to take up these worthless bond certificates, Gov. Hey ward thought it his duty to make some inoury. The officials responsi ble for the making good of the losses suffered by tbe State are Oapt. R. H. Jennings, State treasurer from 1901 to date; Dr. W. H. Tim merman, from 1895 to 1901; and Dr. W. T. O. Bates, from 1891 to 1895. ? Accordingly, Gov. Heyward ad dressed the following letter to Oapt. Jennings as there had been some dis oussion as to the manner in which the loss should be prorated and Oapt. Jennings is the incumbent in that Lfflce: May 2, 1906. Mr. B. H. Jennings, State Treasurer, Columbia, S. G. My Dear Sir: I beg leave to call your attention to the last annual re port of the comptroller general to tbe general assembly relative to an in vestigation of certain irregularities in the State treasurer's office. This in vestigation revealed tbe fact that in the exchange of certain Brown Oonsol ooupon bonds the State has lost, by a number of fraudulent transactions, tbe sum of 812,500, together with 83,903 75 interest paid by the State, mating a total of 816 403.75, and I will be glad if you will inform me what steps, if any, have been taken looking towards the reimbursement of the State for tbe loss ir cur red. As chief magistrate I feel it my duty to call your attention to this matter, and desire to have this information requested in order that I may refer it to the office of the attorney general, so that the Interest of tbe State may be protected, j Very respectfully, D. O. Heyward, Governor. In reply to the letter of inquiry from Gov. Hey ward, Oapt. Jennings made an offic.al answer in whioh he said: 'Tarn in receipt of your letter of thin date in re the matter of fraudu lent transactions in exchange of cer tain Bro.-n consol bonds of the State. You ask what steps, if any, have been taken looking towards the reim bursement of the State for the loss incurred. "I answer for myself that I have arranged for a loan with which to purobase a 81,000 State bond, which will be deposited in bank to await the decision of the proper tribunal as my iudvidual liability as State treasurer, that with Interest being the amount reported so far as having been fradulently taken during my ad ministration. ''I am not authorized to speak for Dr. Bates and Dr. Timmerman, for mer treasurers, as they have not in formed me as to their intention. Neither do I know what further ac tion I will be required to take In tne premises, nut await Instructions from the attorney general and yourself." The amount of tbe shortage Is in creasing daily and It apnears that there should be some way of securing it. Each of tbe State treasurers who has been hurt by tbe peculations of some one has stated that his bonds men shall not suffer and that ? each Individual will pay the losses Incurred in his administration, with interest. There is a criminal indictment against D. Zimmerman, bond cleric, during the period of all of the trans actions. On account of the fact that Mr. Geo. Bell Timmermao, so.icltor from this circuit, is a son of one of the ex-treasurers, he has b:.6n reliev ed nl tbe prosecution by courtesy, and Solicitor James E. Davis of Barn wen bas oeeu entrusted with the case. It is believed that the State treasur er and his predecessors Interested In these proceedings will ask for counsel to assist Mr. Davis In a letter dated Oet. 7, 1905, from Hon. R. H. Jennings, State treasurer, to the comptroller general, he called attention to what appeared to be an Irregularity in the -matter of the ex- [ change of a certain 81,000 Brown coupon bond, purporting to have been canceled during tbe months of January, 1897, and the amount cover ed into a Btcci certificate. He stated that, judging from the records, the State appeared to have lost tbe amount of said bond and tbe interest, at 4 1-2 per cant., since that date; . " J and he r-q*?wted lhat th3._comptroK ler general make a full investigation of tbe sums of the State's securi ties, as rtqui ed b7 law. Tne Investi gation was immediately made in per son by the comptroller general, assist ed by S T. Carter, bookkeeper, and J. Fuller Lyon, bond olerk In tbe State treasurer's office. The result of the investigation caused a sensa tion over tbe State. The comptroller general, in reporting to the State treasurer, said: "Tne examination reveals the fact that the bond olerk during the period In whioh these transactions appear upon the books, has falsified or erased on the books the numbers of certain bonis surrendered for exchange, and has abstracted bonds previously can celed, and has substituted the same at a later date for suoh bonds sur rendered; and has evidently, as shown by the Interest account, put the bonds so erased and uncanceled on the market. This is clearly shown by tbe fact that all transaations dur ing this period appear in the band writing of the same bond olerk. it seems that the bond olerk in the State treasurer's office has charge of all bond transactions." There has been some calculating to ascertain for how much of the loss Dr. Timmerman will be responsible and for how much Capt. Jennings, as the bond olerk referred to was in Capt. Jennlng' administration but a few days. However, that is a mat ter to be adjusted elsewhere and not by tbe State. There are now two ends to the transaction?the prosecution of the bond olerk and of Mr. T. J. Gibson, indicted in connection with him; and the other end is the securing of tbe money lost by the State. There is Borne disposition to criticise the legis lative committees whioh made per functory examinations of tbe books In the State treasurer's office but these committees are not under bond and while morally they might have neglected their duty, yet legally they are not responsible and the State treasurers cannot and will not make the eff ort to contest whether or not they should be amenable after their books had been oheoked and approv ed. waited in vain. "It Takes a Woman to Change Her Mind." "It takes a woman to change her mind. Returned by the applicant, not usedl" The above legend inscribed across the baok of a marriage license returned to the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia unused, -^mmar ized the sad ending of the romance James H. Moffett, of New York. Moffetfi was ready to marry Miss Harriet E. Webb, of No. 1842 Jersey avenue, Brooklyn, Thursday, to the extent of being at the trysting place in Washington with a preacher, his license and a hopeful smile, Miss Webb had promised to be there promptly at noon. It was a heartrending oase for Mof fett of waiting at the church all tbe afternoon and far In the night until in despair he was moved to send back the legal permit with the pathetic commentary on the party of the sec opd part and her sex in general. Mr. Moffett met Miss Webb in Brooklyn several months ago, and the | courtship whioh began at once moved on without a hitch to its triumph ant and logical conclusion When she gave her answer to Mr. Moffett Miss Webb also gave a very busy Imitation of a young woman who had found the affinity she had known in several states of previous existence and had been anxiously waiting for in this life. Moffe?t was so sincerely convinced of the warmth of the young woman's aff cjion for him that be consented to go to Washington and make all of tbe necessary arrargt nents for tbe cere mony and await u *e bride-elect. He carried out bis part of the contract to the letter with a glad heart, until he became convinced that he wap overdoing the waiting end. Mr. Mof fett took the first train from tne cap ital to New York. He is curious to know just what de tained Miss Webb. Found ?t Lost. Several million nerveous women 7/in rejoice to hear what happened to j the ''man under the bed" whom Mrs. Earl Lindsay, of Konkonio, Ind., found. Her husband was away and before she retired she looked for "the man under the bed." Brave Mrs. L'ndsay did not scream or faint, but got her husband's shot gun and order ed the man to come from under the bed. So he did but he ran tuj of the bouse and away. She chased him and fired both barrels of the gun at him. One shot hit him, then pol cemen caught him. He was James Wilson, professional burglar, wanted in sev eral Indiana towns. No Kain lor Fourteen Years. "The most parched country in tbe world is located on the west coast of South America," said Capt. Reid, master of the British steamship Auchenerag, which arrived at Thomp sons Point," Philadelphia, from Jqui que and Taetal, with a cargo of nitrate of soda for the DuPont nitro glycerine works at G-bbsboro. When the Auchenerag left iquique It had not rained for fourteen years, al though the tops of the Andes were at times snow-capped. Must Toe the Hark. The attorney general holds that work on the county poor house farm is not "hard labor upon the public works." The decision is the result of the agitation with regard to the sen tence of Clarence Thrallklll of Saluda county. Under the law and the dt els ion this young man will either have to go to work on the actual cbalngaog n Saluda County, or he will have to go to Columbia and enter upon service in tbe penitentiary, wbere his father is no serving his term. ?*l.OO PER ANNUM. SPOTTED FEVER This Dreaded Disease Appears Again in the West , DOCTORS BULLED. The Medical Fraternity is Eitirely a Sea Concerning Caases, Oiigiu and Nature of the Disease. Natives Generally Attribute it to the Wood Tick. Passed Assistant Surgeon Eine, of the public health and marine hospit al service, has just been sent from Washington to Missouia, Mont., to investigate a new outbreak of "spot ted fever" acd tho medical world is once more "up in the air" over this strange and deadly disease. Wflat cause it? What will cure it? And what will prevent it are questions that the physicians have been vainly trying to answer for thirty-five years, and today with the history of hundreds of cases to guide them, the learned fraternity is as much in the dark as it was in the early '70's, when the cattlemen of tbe Bitter Boot valley fell victims of the malady. Under the various names of "black measles," blue disease," "black fever," "tick fever," and "spotted fe ver," scores of doctors have Investiga ted each new outbreak and generally have now come to the conclusion that all the former investigations mad3 by their brethren were conducted upon erroneous premises and therefore were just a little less valuable than of no value whatever. In the first place nearly all the scientists agreed that the common wood tick was responsible for the disease. In 1903 Dr. John F. Anderson, of the marine hospital ser vice, wrote a 30-page pamphlet on the subject and said the tick was the cause Two years later Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, of the same burea, wrote a booklet of 120 pages upon tho disease and declared that there was nothing to support the theory that the tick is to blame either for the fever's start or finish. After ex amining the records of several hun dreds of cases and personally watch ing a score of it here. Dr. Stiles reach ed the conclusion that "no satisfac tory specific treatment is known" for the spotted fever, and added: "I have no ne w theories to present regarding the cause, transmission, and origin of the disease." In spite of the fact that Dr. Stiles, doea not believe that spotted fever is caused by the tick, throughout the Western country where.it is most pre valent, the tick is more than the rat tlesnake. Many of tbe pilgrims and dwellers in the valleys nearly die from fright when they flad a trick upon their person and often when they are bilten by the pestiferous insects, take to their beds, declaring that death has marked them, when tney are really in perfect health. In the Bitter Boot Valley, which many physicians regard as the home of spotted fever, nearly all the casea occur on tbe western side of the river in the months of April, May and June. B rth sexes and all ages are subject to tbe disease, aud, according to the reo* ords, about 70 per cent of the cases termine in death. About five or six days after beln& bitten by the tick, whloh is given credit for the start of the disease, the patient takes to his bed with a heavy chill, headache and nausea. Soon after the spots begin to appear upon the wrists and ankles and later upon tbe.arms, legs and about the waist. Nosebleed, sore throat, a fever rising to 106 at times, and swelling of the joints cnem fol low in succession or simultaneously, and often a hacking cough serves to make the patient more miserable. Often the symptoms oiosely resemble typhus fever and spinal me ingitls. Dr. King's investigations into the causes and results of tbe latest out break of the disease will be watched with a great deal of interest by the entire medical profession: The fact that the fever has in recent years often spread into Utah, Idaho, Neva da and Oregon from Montana, makes each fresh appearance of the disease the more alarming. Unless a remedy Is found that will cure it, some physi cians believe there is danger of wide spread epidemics occurring through* out the West. Most of tee doctors who have given study to tbe disease agree toat it is not contagious and that it ocours chiefly in tbe months of April, May and June. The spots that come with spotted fever first appear about the ankles and waist and by tbe end of tbe first week they extend over the entire bodj. There is ho regu'arlty about their appearing on tbe feet first, as some times the first spots appear on tbe hands. The spots are a brluat red and are half as big as an adult'sJiager nail. The spotB fade as the fever sub sides, but if tbe patient Is exposed to cold or becomes chilly tbe spots can be seen for several monhts afterward, al though not as red as at first. Tnere is much irregularity regarding the disappearance._ Foolish Fellow. John Pu.sley, aged 19, from Albertsvllle, Ala., recently drank laudanum and died lu a hospital at Ohattanooga Thurday. In his room over a restaurant where he woiked 100 love letters, torn to atoms, were fuuod. One of these was addressed to Miss Eva Conley, of Bosvllle, Ga. Several letters were filled wijh flow ers and ribbons. Soon after going to Onattanooga Pursley joined the Salva tion Army. His body will be ship ped to Aloertavllle, Ala.