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Sfaa ESTABLISHED IN IS MANY KILLED And Much Property Destroyed by a Destructive Cyclone. SWEEPS TEXAS TOWN Two Known to Be Dead and Many 'Fatalities Are Feared?Buildings Flattened and Wire Lines Prostrat ed?Tornado Visits Mississippi Wip ing Out Tliree Towns, Destroying Life and Property in Many Places. Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most disastrous tornado in its history before daylight Friday. Coming from the southwest, the storm swept over the main residence quarter of the city, leaving a trail of death and 1 devastation. \ The known dead are C. A. Francis, agent of the Dallas News, and his wife and baby and a negro, Mose Lee. Francis's body was found a hun dred yards from his wrecked home. The body of his child was found in the street. Mrs. Francis was in the I wreckage of the building. Six seriously injured persons are | reported. They are Irwin Franklin and his wife and four children. One of the children may die. The Frank lins were caught in the wreckage of | their home. Wires are down in all directions | from Tyler, but reports from far mers are that farm houses along the lines were blown down. It is im possible to ascertain the loss of life in rural regions, but it is known the tornado swept everything clean for a distance of five miles. Three miles from the town the wind demolished the home of Irwin Franklin, severely wounding Franklin and his wife and four children. The tornado tore a path through Tyler 100 feet wide. Buildings, telephone and electric light poles were laid flat in the storm's path, while great dam age was done in other parts of the city. CYCLONE IN MISSISSIPPI. *\Six People Killed and Three Small V_ Towns Demolished. A dispatch from Meridan says 3 . suiall towns were practically demol ished by a tornado Friday. Reports of the number of the killed range from six to ten, with the smaller number probably correct. Mossville, Service and Soso are the towns destroyed. They are all in Jones County and all are very small being merely a handful of scattered dwellings. The tornado struck them about noon, and in most instances is report ed to have carried buildings in its path completely off the lots on which they stood. Nearby fields were cov ered with wreckage, and the branches of several trees were littered with small household articles. L. S. Norrison, a resident of Moss ville, said that he was out of doors during the blow and was compelled to grasp a wire fence to keep from *^eing blown away. He said the dead at^Mossville are Alexander Windham and wife, negroes. Near the town he said four white persons had been killed, a man and his wife and their two children, whose names he did not learn. The seriously injured at Mossville are J. W. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Campbell and Minnie Campbell. Near Service one child of Ike Hol loway is reported dead and also an unknown negro. The tornado was accompanied by a torrent of rain, which caused a sudden rise in the creeks and washed away several bridges. ? YOUNG MAN SLAIN. There Was No Immediate Provoca tion, But Old Grudge. A. J. Cline, a young lumber deal er, formerly of Bristol, Va., was shot and instantly killed by Luke Ban ner, sixty years old and a wealthy merchant at Banner Elk, N. C. There was no immediate provocation for the killing, but, it is said, was the result of an old grudge. Cline, it is alleged, was shot down without warn-j ing. Banner escaped on horseback, and is still at large, though he was seen inter near Montezuma heavily armed and fleeing. A posse is in pursuit. STEPPED ON LIVE WIRE. And Both Horse and Lad Were In stantly Killed. At Thompson, Ga.. Willie Richards the eighteen year old son of John H. Richards of that county, was kill ed in a most horrible manner Thurs day afternoon. The electric wire leading from the electric plant to the Smith Manufacturing Company fell to the ground, and was still on the ground when young Richards came up the road, and the horse's feet struck the live wire, killing both the horse and rider instantly. * Six Burned to Death. Lajyrence Haake's wife and six Iranging from a new born girl of 13 years of age, id to death Wednes [ay in at New Liskard, north of ;G9. FAKE WHISKEY FIRNIS Whiskey Was Bought From Houses That Never Has Existed. Remarkable Testimony as to Dispen sary Creditors Brought Out at the Hearing in Columbia On Thursday. It having been established before the dispensary commission that the address given as headquarters of the alleged liquor firm of Belair Distill ing Company is in a fashionable res idence of Baltimore, it was brought out at the hearing Thursday that the address given at the Washington branch of the Belair concern was the same address of Richard &. Co., 4SO Pennsylvania avenue. From letter heads of both con cerns it wa!s shown that j. S. Richard, a member of the firm of Richard & Co., was also president of the Belair concern, and then it was shown that Richard is a brother-in-law of M. M. Goodman, the agent of Ullman & Co., who is now under bond on charges of conspiracy to defraud the State. The Belair Company, it, appeared, began to do business with the dis pensary after 1905, when Uli in an & Co. were put on the blacklist by the Hay committee. It was then stated j by Mr. Felder that Goodman had put in bids for Ullman & Co., the Anchor Distilling Company, Strauss &. Co., Richard & Co., the Commonwealth Distilling Company and the Belair [Distilling Company, all of which got suciness from the dispensary, and all of which according to Mr. Felder, be longed to the "Ullman family." It was shown that Goodman in 1903 had put in a bid as president of the Commonwealth Company, though in his recent testimony he said he left the Commonwealth Company before that year. The old dispensary law prohibited one concern nutting in more than one bid. The commission passed a judgment finding that on account of overcharg es the Belair concern was indebted to the State in the sum of $10,492 to which is to be applied the amount of the claim, $6,380.41. But if the Belair concern is a fake concern what is the judgment worth? To show that it is a fake concern, Fel der said no record of its charter could be found in any State; there was no response to a notice servt by registered ivirulT no one had appeared for the concern and the house could not be found in Baltimore by a col lection agency. During the investi gation Mr. Lyon suspected that the Belair concern was a protege of ? !<?ischman & Co. He was on the track, but did not get the game. Evidence was also produced to show that J. W. Kelly & Co., and King & Co., both of Chattanooga, was one and the same concern and both had put in bids on Silver Spring corn liquor at prices 20 per cent, higher than Kelly & Co. had charg ed other customers outside the State. The claim of King & Co. amounts to $6,395. * THEY WERE HUNGRY. Fifteen Hundred Children Fed by a Kind Hearted Restauranteur. At New York fifteen hundred school children, attracted by the prospect of a free hot dinner were in a riot in front of- a restaurant at 274 Grand street, and before the police could restore order by assuring the little ones that all would be fed, the plate glass window was pushed in. The retirement accommodates only 480 children, but thrice this number were fed. Adolph Lorbee, the res turant keeper, assured them that there was food enough for all, but those is the rear became impatient less there not be enough time for the noon hour. Many children said they had not eaten in two days. Their parents had no work and there was no food in the house. In view of these conditions, the restaurant keeper sent word to all of the schools in his neighborhood that he would give free dinners to children who applied between noon and one o'clock each day. The se cond and the third floors were turn ed over to the children, the menu comprising soup, a meat order, veg etables, rolls or bread, and tea or coffee. It was while the first set of dinners were eating that the trouble occur red. The remaining children stood in the rain in a line that went half away around the block, bui they kept pushing and struggling till the two policeman on duty sent for the re serves of the Edlredge street station. Before they arrived the children had smashed the plate glass windows. * POOR, YET RICH. A Wealthy Man Dies in a Hovel With $100,000. John McMillan, aged S6. died in a hovel on the outskirts of Chattan ooga, Tcnn. Thursday. For years he lived in apparent poverty. After his death it was discovered that he was worth $150,000, which he carried with him in a basket. ? Two Miners Are Killed. Two men were killed by the fall of a case for a dstance of 7,">'1 reet to the bottom of a shaft at the No. 1 colliery of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company's mine at Sydney. B. C. * ORANGEBUK LYON FLINGS LIE At Editor Koester of the Columbia Evening Record WHILE HE !S IN COURT As a Witness, Where He Had Been Summoned by the Attorney-Gener al to Give His Reasons for Assert ing That the Attorney General Has Been Trying to Convict in Dispen sary Cases with Bought Testimony. During the session of the dispen sary commission Thursday after noon, Attorney General Lyon de nounced Mr. George R. Koester, edi tor and manager of the Columbia Record, as "A most infamous and dirty liar." Mr. Koester, who was present, asked ror tne protection of the Court, and arose from his chair. The situation was tense and Commis sioner Patton also arose as if to step between Lyon and Koester. Mr. Lyon warned Mr. Koester not to approach and dramatically told him he (Lyons) walked the streets of Columbia and was personally responsible for what he said. The incident grew out of an edi torial in the Record Wednesday af torial in the Record Thursday af brought into the room while the com mission was in session and the at tention of Mr. Lyon was called to the editorial. Mr. Lyon had just come into the room. He at once re quested the commission to summon Mr. Koester. This was agreed to, and Mr. Stevenson, drew up the sum mons, which was signed by Mr. Mc Sween. The marshal of the commis sion was given the paper and within I a half hour or so returned with Mr. Koester, who had come very willing ly. Ho was examined under oath by Mr. Stevenson, the regular counsel for the commission. Mr. Koester Questioned. The official record is in substance as follows: ? Q. Mr. Koester, the attention of the commission has been drawn to this paragraph in this afternoon's daily paper as follows: "The Record has been asked why it assails Attorney General Lyon and seeks to hamper his attempts to have "grafters" punished. The insinua tion in the question is that, the Re cord is in sympathy with the "graf ters." The insinuation is too con temptible to notice. "Explanation of the Record's atti tude toward Mr. Lyon is wanted. It is easy to give. If there has been graft the Record, as much as Mr. Lyon or anybody else, wants it ex posed and the guilty punished, but the methods employed to bring about that desired result should be clean and honorable and command respect. It is Mr. Lyon's methods to which the Record objects. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon civilazation has spread a common maxim of its Courts has been that It is better for a thousand guilty men to escape than that one innocent man should be punished. "Similar in spirit is the Record's belef that it is better that all dis pensary grafters should escape than that an attempt should be made to secure convictions with bought testi mony. And that is the game Mr. Lyon has been playing first as a mem ber of the investigating committee and now as Attorney General. If there were no political phase to the matter he could not hope to secure conviction with bought testimony, and it is only the political phase of the case that keeps his attempts to buy testimony from meeting the uni versal execration they deserve." The commission wishes to know who is responsible for the editorial department of your paper. A. I am. Q. The commission being partly charged with getting this testimony, and the work which Mr. Lyon has done in that line being through the commission, the commission wants to know what information you have about the purchase of testimony? A. Nothing but what has been pub lished. Q. Does what has been published justify the charge that they are buy ing testimony? A. Well, all this is very sudden. I have not got it at my fingers' end. but Mr. Hermann, who is the president of the Augusta Brewing Company, testiiied that lie had paid rebates or commissions and that an order was passed by the old I investigating committee ordering payment of his claim, which I believe] was the first and the only one paid up to that time. Q. Let us get that straight, That was when Mr. Lyon and another com mittee was investigating the dispen sary. Those who composed that com mittee, I believe, were Mr. Lyon. Mr. Blease, Mr. Christensen, Mr. Spivey, and some others. These gentlemen you charge, together with Mr Lyon, with having purchased testimony. Is that the basis of your charge: or the purchase of testimony? A. That is, offered to purchase testi mony, yes. Q. That is the basis of your charge, that the old investigating committee did that? A. That they offered an in ducement tor getting testimony. Q. I want to know this; what evidence nave yon that there has been a purchase of testimony since the or ganization of this commission? A. I don't say there has been a pur chase. ,. Q. Do you mean to say there has bpcri an effort to do so? A. I mean to say, if I be correctly posted, that G, S. C, TUESDAY, FEE TAME ENOUGH TO EA ?Mc I have goi a right to infer that if parties to whom claims were due, or who allege that amounts are owing to them by the dispensary, will come forward and give testimony that. there claims will be paid. There was a report in the paper this morning of a claim paid on yesterday. I Is that the publication you refer! [to, the publication in the State this [morning? A. Yes, sir. Q. Then you state that ail you' base your charge on is what was published in the paper? A. As to this j present commission. Q. Is there any publication that you base your charge on A. No. ? Q. The publication in the State this morning? A. Yes. Q. With reference to the Paul Jones Company? A. Yes. The first claim said to be paid was the Paul | Jones Company, which was of exces sive volume, but on account of mat ter behind it, it is stated that the payment of the claim was ordered immediately after obtaining testi mony by them. Q. ITow do you connect Mr. Lyon with that action? A. I don't know that I rightly connected him with that action; but at the same time, i considered him as adviser of the commission. Q. You don't hold him responsi ble for the action of the commission in aujudicating the Paul Jones claims? A. Not directly. Q. Or that this charge that he is purchasing testimony at the present time is based on that? I understand you to say that the only basis of your charge at the present time is from this article in the State. Now, you admit that you cannot hold him rssponsible for that. Then you nave no basis for the charge that he is now purchasing testimony? A. No, sir. I can't say that I draw that in ference. , Mr. Patton: Q. Is that the only source of in formation you have, what you saw in the State? A. That is all I based my article on. Q. You stated that you had infor mation about to-day. Is what you saw in the State to-day all the in formation you have? A. That was all. Q. Answer by question? A. Yes, I said, except as to the old commis sion. Q. You have no further informa tion of the purchase of testimony, except what appears in the State? A. No, sir. Mr. Lyon Enters Discussion. Attorney Generai Lyon: I wish to make a statement in re gard to this matter. I regret, ex ceedngly, that it becomes necessary for me take any action or to notice anything that may be said or done by this creature (pointing his finger at Mr. Koester.) Mr. Koester If this be a legal proceeding. I desire that that gentleman be re quired to use proper language. Mr. Lyon: , I wish to say that as far as shown this afternoon that the man that wrote that article in the record is a most infamous and dirty liar. Mr. Koester: I ask for the protection of the Court. Mr. Lyon: I will be on the streets of Colum bia, and you need no protection. I say, Mr. Chairman, that I regret ex ceedingly that I have to notice that charge. Tt has come to my notice that he has written and published in his paper a tissue of infamous and scurrilous lies. I have not seen fit to notice them, and I would not have noticed this now, but it comes before this commission in an official way. I simply wish, to say that he has prov eu himself a self-convicted, infam ous liar. And I want to say to you, sir, (indicating Mr. Koester,") that I am personally responsible for what I say. and I dare you to resent it. Mr. Koester: Now, Mr. Chairman, in regard to this mailer. I have nothing further to say in regard to this editorial fur ther than to say that I did not mean to charge any personal dishonesty on the part of any one of the present commission. It seemed to me a mat ter of policy that an editor had a right to criticise and condemn. If it was the policy of the commission to withhold the payment of claims until parties came forward and gave! testimony implicating others, that it! was a wrong policy. I stated it and state it again. Mr. Patton: Who said that was the policy of the commission? \. I In ferred it from the action of the com mission. , Mr. Patton: And furthermore we passed judgment yesterday on a claim, and nothing was said about that and a half a dozen today. Mr. Koester: I was not awire of that >vhen I wrote that article. I IRUARY 18, 1908. T FROM HIS HANDS. __ >rris in Spoksne Spokesman-/.ivicw. distinctly disavow the intimation of any disrespect against any member of the commission. It was a matter of public policy, and if that was the policy of the commission that a' claim would not be paid unless par lies came forward and implicated the officials, then that was a wrong, pol icy. One member of this commission I have known for years, Mr. Hender son, and I would not for the world say anything against Mr. Henderson personally. Col. Felder Makes Statement. Col. Felder: Without indicating the policy of your paper or resentinc: in any way anything you said about myself, I want to make this state ment as having been very active in the prosecution of these claims be fore the commission, that not the slightest inducement has been helJ out to any man to come here and furnish eveidnce. The commission passed a rule requiring all claim ants to produce their books and pro duce the representative that con ducted the negotiations with the South Carolina dispensary, which re lated to these sales. And when their books are produced and their agents arc produced and examinations are made, the commission then, without offering any reward, taking these claims as they present themselves in the books, making deductions as they did in the Paul Jones claim of the amounts that their books show to be overcharges, purging the claims as the evidence demanded, have giv en judgment for the balance. I an acquainting you with that because under your statement you say you want to be perfectly fair, not only to Ihe commission but to all the parties at intei-ost. Mr. Koester: I must absolutely disavow any intention to reflect against any member of the commis sion. Mr. Stevenson: Mr. Chairman", there is another suggestion I would like to make. Mr. Koester states that it was the policy of the com mission he was criticising when he made this charge about the Attorney General. This commission would prefer to have the criticism made against it in its own proper person and not against the Attorney General and I would like to ask Mr. Koester a few questions. Stevenson Questions "Witness. Q. Mr. Koester, the member of the investigating committee to whom yo j referrer, it was the realizing of Mr. Hermann's account you referred to ia your paper? A. Yes. Q. Do you mean to charge Mr. Hay, Mr. Blease, Mr. Christensen. Mr. Spivey and Mr. Gaston with buying evidence? A. I don't remember who voted for it or anything of the sort. Q. Mr. Christensen and Mr. Lyon were then on the committee? A. I drew the inference from the fact that all claims were held up and ordered not paid, but that when Mr. Hermana came and testified that he had done wrong, immediately on his doing that his claim was ordered paid the first one. Q. This cricicism was directed first at the old investigating com mittee and secondly as this commis s'on and their actions? A. Yes. Q. But Mr. Lyon was made the sole target? Mr. Patton: There is another in timation made by you. That this commission is being handled by the Attorney General; if you were here, as the other newspaper men are, you would know that this commission is not handled by the Attorney Generc-.l or by anybody else. Col. Felder: Although Mr. Her mann came here and made the full est statement in regard to this mat ter this commission has not ordered his claim paid. * Mr. Koester: I did tint refer to what this commission had clone. At (lie conclusion of this incident members of the commission assured Mr. Koester in the kindest way that lie had be-n laboring under a mis apprehension in regard to the pro cedure of the commission, and thai :hey invited the fullest scrutiny of their official acts in regard to these clftims; that their sessions were open lo the public in considering tlr-e matters and that newspaper men were welcome to attend and that others had attended constantly. Mr. Koester was informed that the commission would be glad to have him preser.t to see for himself what the commis sion was doing. With these 'assur ances the matter was closed and tlie commission took up other matters, adjourning soon afterwards. Jumped From Brooklyn Bridge. At New York John Grant, an un employed printer, jumped Friday "roin the Brooklyn bridge and al though he landed among floating ice ? ikes in (be river 200 feet below, es ?aped with only a few minor brui s. * PRAISES BRYAN. New Jersey Congressman Pa. Him a Just Tribute in Answering Another New Jersey Con gressinan Who Thought Bryan Wanted to Boss Things. For the second time hist week pol itics cropped out during the discus sion of the Indian appropriation bill in the house of representatves. Mr. Ilamill of New Jersey got the floor for five minutes, presumably to talk on the bill. "My colleague, Mr. Lcake, last Monday made some remarks derog atory of the conduct of William Jen ning.s Bryan," he said. Mr. Hamill declared that the senti ments as expressed by .Mr. Leake "arc not the sentiments I entertain or the sentiments that prevail in Hudron county, which we both represent; which prevail for that matter, throughout the State of New Jersey." Mr. Bryan, he said, had been criti cised because of his knowledge of the decalogue. In his opinion it was amazing that Mr. Bryan should be opposed on the fioor of the house be cause he showed an acquaintance with the Ten Commandments. It was refreshing, he said, to find a man who not only boasted and pos sessed an acquaintance with the Ten Commandments, "but who throughout the entire course of pub lic career has consistently put the precepts of the commandments into practice." Shouts of Democratic approval greeted Mr. Hamill's announcements' that while he agreed with the State ment that Mi-. Bryan's knowledge of the commandments would lit him to occupy a pulpit with preeminence. "I can also assuret the house, reflecting at the same time their own convic tion, that that same acquaintance will enable him to occupy with eclat the post of president of the United State". The principles Mr. Bryan es pr-uced, he said, were so undeniably sound, "that his victorious oppon-1 ents have appreciated many of I hem and made them the popular features of their policies." If, said Mr. Hamill, it was true, as charged by his colleague, that Mr. Bryan was engaged in the practice of corraling delegates to the Denver convention, it was the very same practice indulged in "by the illus trious gentleman with whom my friends on the other ?de of the cham ber boast of as their political chief tain." * i BOY WHO BAN AWAY. From Dctriot Home Two Years Ago Found in Aikcn. Through the publication in The State of an article from the Detriot Free Press, a long-lost lad has been located and will shortly be sent back to his home in Michigan. The boy, Arthur Hingle, who ran away from his home in Detroit two years ago, was arrested in Aiken Tuesday af ternoon, and is detained there for identification. The artcle as reprinted here came to the attention the people in Aiken, and on Tuesday afternoon, when a boy of fifteen was seen loitering about the freight depot, he was no ticed, and it was seen that he cor responded to the description of the lost boy. He was arrested and when questioned acknowledged that he was the lad wanted?Arthur Hingle?and that he had run away from two years before from his mother, Mrs. Martin H. Hingle, in Detriot. He says he left home, with five other boys, who has since seperated. They had wandered all over the South, from Texas to Virginia, and he had reached Aiken Tuesday from Columbia. He expressed . his will ingness to be sent home, but will be detained in Aiken until his photo graph and a full description of him can be sent to his mother for posi tive identification. * IMPORTANT BILL PASSED. Provides for the Sale of the Dispen sary Real Estate. The Nash bill providing for the sale by the state sinking fund com mission of the dispensary real estate at an upset price of $75,000, was j passed by the house. The bill carries a committee amendment forbidding paying out of any dispensary funds except the checks countersigned by the slate treasurer and this ouly up on the certificate of the commission that the payment is for some ex pense of the commission or for a! claim passed upon and ordered pai 1 by the commission. The bill extends! the per diem of the commission till. January, 1909, and allows them $150 each for service from first of the year to the present time. MADE A COOI) HAUL. Five Cracksmen Rob a Missouri Bank of Big Sum. At. Richhill Mo., robbers dynamited I he Farmers and Mechanics bank at 12:30 o'clock Saturday morning, de molishing the building and entering the vaults which they looted of $23, 000. There were live of the bandits. When last seen they were riding iorth at breakneck sreed. Citizens of the town heard the terrific explo sion and hurried fo the ceae. When they saw the leak in uins a posse was immediately organized and pur suit started at once. ? I-f SI.50 PER ANNUM.. SERIOUS CHARGE, Senator Blease Said to Have Rep resented a Liquor House. AN AFFIDAVIT READ. Mr. L. W. Parker Swears That S. J. Lanahan Told Him That He Had Employed Senator Blease to Re present His Firm Before the State Board of Control.?Blease Read an Affidavit from Lanahan Denying It. Testimony which the Legislative investigating committee of 1906 de clined to bring out was developed by the commission to wind up the affairs of the State dispensary at Columbia on Thursday when Messrs. Lewis W. Parker and Ellison A Smyth were put on the stand and related a conversation with Mr. S. J. Lanahan, of Baltimore, in 1905, in regard to the employment of a "prominent politician" to represent the Lanahan firm before the State board of control. Mr. Parker said that Lanahan in a prior conversation, when Capt. Smyth was not present had said that Hon. Coleman L. Blease was the agent referred to. It is understood that Mr. Blease, who is now and has for four years been State Senator from Newberry, and who was candidate for Governor year before last, has an affidavit from Mr. Lanahan denying that Mr. Lanahan made the statement attrib uted to him. He said that he had read it during the campaign last sum mer on the stump at Union, and that it. was published at that time. He showed the original affidavit, which he has kept pinned in his inside pocket. Those familiar with the dispensary investigations will recall that two years ago the Legislative committee to investigate the dispensary sum moned Mr. Parker to appear and he realted in substance the conversation with Mr. Lanahan, but when pressed by Mr. Lyon to give the name of the prominent politician he declined to do so. As Mr. Parker challenged the power of the cominitte to make him answer, a case on habeas corpus pro ceedings was brought in the Supreme Court and the Court decided that the committee had the authority to require Mr. Barker to answer its questiors. But the committee decid ed not to exert its authority and Mr. Parker did not answer the question. It has been common knowledge, however, that the suppressed name of the alleged agent, of Lanahan was that of Senator Blease, and this knowledge evidently reached Senator Blease himself, as he took the pre caution to get an affidavit from Lan ahan, and 5t is fortunate that he did, since Mr. Lanahan died about two weeks ago. The commission to wind up the State dispensary had already summoned Mr. Lanahan. When they testified Thursday Mr. Parker and Capt Smyth made it plain that they did so unwillingly and on ly yielded to the recognized authority of the commission, which has the same authority as the Legislative committee as decided by the Supreme Court. It is not worth while to say who Messrs. Parker and Smyth are; they are the leading two cotton mill men in South Carolina, and their char acters and reputations need no bols tering. The Lanahan Affidavit. Following is the affidavit read by Senator Blease at the campaign meet ing in Union on August 71, 1906. State of Maryland, City of Balti more.?Personally came before me Samuel J. Lanahan, who, being, duly sworn, says that he never told Lewis W. Parker, or any other person, that Cole L. Blease was in his employ to look after his interest in the whis key business in South Carolina, and as a matter of fact, he did not have Cole L. Blease so employed. Augustus W. Bradford, (Notary Seal) Notary Public. Mr. Blease also road at the Union meeting affidavits from Jodie M. Rawlinson. John Black, Jos. B. Wy lie, H H Evans, John Bell Towill and L. W. Boykin, dated either August ?,, lOOfi, or August 4, 1906, ami each of which slated that during the af fiant's term of service as director of the State dispensary "Cole L. ?lease neither directly or indirectly solicited business or asked that purchases be made from Samuel J. Lanahan or any other person engaged in selling whis key er other articles to the State dis pensary. DYNAMIT!'.!) AMERICANS. Mexican Miners Blow Up Quarters and Many Were Injured. Mexicans employed at Santa Rosa mine in Sopora, two miles south of Douglas, Ariz., tried to kill every American in the camp by placing slicks of dynamite under the Ameri can boarding house, the company's siore and the formnn's office. The dynamite .nd^r the boarding house sent a dozen men through the r of. All of them had legs and arms b ik on and some wore mnrc or less m gerotisly injured. The fuses "ere timed so that the explosions w alii occur almost simultnnee'rs'v am! the hour selectee was that nf tl e evening meal. Dynamite was nisi placed be neath the superintendent's residence. The company store was completely demolished. *