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PUBLISHED THREE TWENTY KILLED And Thirty Injured Out in Colo rado in Fearful RAILWAY SMASH-UP "West Bound Passenger Train on the Denver and Rio Grande Collides With an East Bound Freight. Victims Includes Many Women and Children. Glenwood Springs, Colo., Jan. 16. ?Twenty persons were killed and thirty injured, many of them se riously, in a head-on collision be tween west-bound passenger train !No. 5 and" an ? east-bound freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, between Dotsero and Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from Glenwood Springs, at 9:36 o'clock last night. Following is a revised list of the dead and descriptions that may assist in the identification of the unknown dead: The identified dead: J. D. Mahon, Princeton, Ind. A. A. Hamilton, Polo, 111. W. C. Kettle, Ashton, Neb. Mrs. Mattie Kettle, Asheton, Neb. Mrs. Mattie Ezell, Willistou, N. D. G. W. Oleson, St. Louis. Dr. Arvilla Olseon, either from Hildreth, Neb., or Axtell, Neb. The Rev. R. L. Miley, either from Brooklyn, N. Y.f or Mechanicsburg, Pa. Clarence A. Gooding, Washington. John Williams, Clarks, Neb. J. C. Davis, of Davis Brigham Drug Company, Denver. Henry Dunn, St. Louis. Twelve-year-old boy. Eight-year-old girl, wearing plain ring on third finger of left hand. Ten-year-old boy, light hair. Six-year-old girl, light hair and eyes. Woman, full-faced, brown hair, about thirty years of age, wore blue ?? plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch. Unidentified woman; no discrip tion; badly mangled. Woman, black hair, dark -oinplex iou, plain gold ring inscribed "Nancy," shoes stamped Selby Shoe Company, Portsmouth. Ohio, Woman, with red sweater, blue and white striped waist, about forty five years of age. weight about 110 pounds. All unidentified are women or children, and the bodies are badly mangled. While nothing official has been given out at to the cause of the wreck, it is stated to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of i':^ engineer, Gustaf Olson, of the passenger train. Ol son, however, claims that he under stood his instructions perfectly, but that he misread his watch, thus encroaching oh the time of the freight train, which was being drawn by two locomotives, the first of which was in charge of his brother. Sig Olson. When news of the catastrophe reached Glenwood Springs every available physician and nurse in the city was pressed into service and a relief train was soon on the scene. The werk of rescue was immediately begun. As the bodies were taken from the ruins they were laid side by side on a bier of snow amid the agonizing shrieks of husband, wife and parent as they searched among the dead for {their loved ones, many of whom were mangled beyond all recogni tion. A pathetic feature of the acci deut was the killing of a father, leaving two small children, the elder being four years old, the younger two. The elder boy told a nurse at the sanitarium that his father called him Benuie, and this is all he will say. From a fellow passen ger it was learned that the family was en route to Grand Junction to visit relatives. It is supposed that Mr. and Mrs. Kettle, whose names appear among the dead, were the parents of these two little ones, who are badly in jured. Another sad case was the destruc tion of an entire family with the ex ception of an infant of three months. This helpless child was taken care of by a family at Shoshone. who in tend, to adopt the sole survivor of a once happy family. Another heart-breaking scene was enacted in the wreck zone, when kind hands gently lifted a four-year old girl from the death claso of her mother's arms. Nearby lay the body of her father, decapitated, and on every side were lifeless bodies, vic tims of the disaster. A train load of thirty wounded and bleeding men and women ar rived in Glenwood Springs at 7 o'clock this morning. The wounded were taken to the county hospital and to the sanitarium, and when the cots and wards there had been filled, room was made in hotels for the maimed. A woman died from her injuries in the relief train, while on her way to Glenwood Springs. It is expect ed that at least a dozen others who were brought here will die. Train No. 5 was made up of an j engine and tender, a baggag-i car. a i smoking car and a full complement' TIMES A WEEK. COUNTY SYSTEM DISPENSARY PROVES A GOOD MONEY MAKER. The Old State Dispensary Had More Dispensaries but Less Profits. Sales, by Counties. The following tabulated statement of gross sales and net profits for the years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 is given by Dispensary Auditor West in his report, together with a similar statement of the business done under the county dispensary system for rhe years 1907 and 1908 for the pur pose of comparison. It will be noted, however, that the year 1907 em braces only about nine months, since j the law did not go into effect until March 1, and many of the dispen saries were not open for business for two or three months following. The year 190S is complete from January 1 to December 31, inclusive. November, 1903?Number of dis pensaries, 138; sales, 82,489,894.79; total net profit, S638.482.35. November, 1904?Number of dis pensaries, 146; sales, $3,012,402. 59; total net profit, $775,375.95. November, 1905?Number of dis pensaries, 145; sales, $3,122,796.09; total net profi'., $870,318.07. November, .906?Number of dis pensaries, 122; sales, $2,585,137.16; total not profits, $575,975.94. March to December 30, 1907? Number .of dispensaries, 100; sales, $2,691,663.43; total net profits, $695,056.61. January i to December 31, 1908 ?Number of dispensaries, 92; sales, $3,644,21 1.81; total net . profits,, $934,600.90. From this it will be seen that the profits of 92 dispensaries were much lagfer than the profits of 145 dispenaries under the old Slate dis pensary system. A large part of this total net profit under the old system really never materialized on account of the method of crediting the school fund as an asset. Sales and Profits. Auditor West also gives a table showing the sales and profits for the past year by counties. They are as follows: County Sales. Net Profits. Abbeville . $153..377,07 $ 58,375.20 Aiken . .. 315)623.31 72,167.46 Bamberg . S2.388.26 22,733.78 Barnwell . 175,486.58 39,833.17 Beaufort . 12S.535.31 31,463.57 Berkeley . 67,556.79 10,654.35 Calhoun .. 19,563.06 4,627.37 Charleston 606,146.9? 118,061.49 Chester ... 83,741.06 18.S27.71 Chesterf'ld 22.223.S5 922.13 Clarendon . 41.698.36 7,467.36 Colleton .. 78,024.53 3 6,146.06 Dorchester 67.SS4.84 14,952.12 Fairfield .. 70.229.S5 11,935.05 Florence .. 14S,192.30 52,612.07 Georget'n . 116,454.85 35,465.82 Hampton . 60,131.02 12,501.84 Kershaw .. 114,001.22 40,116.21 Laurens .. 138,093.90 29,793.03 Lee. S2.641.9S 22,249.14 Lexington . 71.692.06 15.706.24 Orangeb'g . 220.21S.65 78,530.22 Richland .. 506,076.58 131,749.65 Snmter ... 185,565.34 56,929.20 Williamsb'g 87,437.29 22,724.34 Total .$1.644,214.21 $931,600.90 The counties of Chester, Claren don and Laurens would have shown a greater profit if the gain made from October 1 to the time they were voted out had been reported. Ches terfield county showed the usual profit at the time it was closed, but the stock had to be sold at a con siderable discount, which accounts for the very small profit shown above. The largest percentage of profit was 60 per cent in Abbeville county. The percentage in Richland was 38 per cent. * QUEER CLAUSE IN LAND DEED. Granter Expected to Be Born on Earth Again. New York, Jan. 15.?This curious clause has been discovered in an ancient deed just unearthed at the county clerk's office. It relates to a few acres of land in New Jersey, which William Patterson deeded to his sons in 1852, and reads as fol lows: "If at any time the granter shall be born on earth agaii the within described parcel of land shall re vert to him. In1the event that he is not born again or that the second coming of Christ is delayed more than 999 years, then the said Wil liam D and Samuel Patterson shall be possessed of the property," etc. "* of standard sleepers and a dining car. The locomotives are up on end and joined together as one piece of meehanicism. Their wheels were rolled down into the Grand River and pieces of machinery are scat tered all over the scene of the wreck. The smoking car was only partly derailed, while the chair car im mediately following was comletely telescoped by the tourist sleeper. None of the standard sleepers left the track and no one was killed or injured in these cars, most of the dead and injured being removed from the ruins of the chair cur which was split completely in twain. * TEDDY HAS BEEN CAUGHT. Government Pays for His Barber and Wife's Messages. Washington, Jan. 15.?President Roosevelt's taking Senator Tillman to task for abuse of the franking privilege and tne general row be tween the president and congress over secret service investigations of congressmen has led to the rather startling revelation that the presi dent's barber is on the rolls cf the government as an "accountant" in the navy department, and that while not accounting anything he is get ting a salary from the government of $1,600 a year for shaving the president and occasionally cutting the presidential hair. It has also developed that Mrs. Roosevelt's messenger is on the pay rolls of the bureau of printing and engraving, and that he draws now $920 a year. The only thing he en graves is an occasional footprint on the sands of time. Both the account barber and the engraver-messenger went to Oyster way last summer with the Roosevelt family. The revelations have caused a considerable stir here today. The members of the house appropriations committee who replied last week to the president's charges against them express regret that they did not know of the president's misuse of the civil service when they spoke. Zach MeGee. * THORNTON HAINS ACQUITTED. His Brother, Captain Hains, Will Never Be Tried. Flushing, N. T., Jan. 15.?After reviewing the evidence for 22 hours and taking 14 ballots before ail were agreed, the jury in the trial of Thornton Jenkins Hains this after noon found the prisoner not guilty as a principle with his brother Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., in the killing of William E. Annis. For the second time in his life Thornton Hains has been found not guilty of the charge of murder, as he was acquitted of murder in shoot ing a companion named Edward A. Hannigan in an open boat in Hamp ton Roads 17 years ago. * Rarely in any court of law has such a demonstration been witness ed as that which occurred when the jury made known its verdict. The packed court room of spectators rose as one man and cheered and applaud ed with such mighty vigor that the gaval falls of Justice Crane on his desk could not be heard. Officials of the district attorney's office in Queens county are quoted as saying that the verdict in this case probably means that Captain Hains will never be brought to trial and that ho will be surrendered into the care of his family or the federal government. * Kills His Uncle. Vienna. Ca., Jan. 17.?P. G. Mc Donald, farmer, merchant and gen eral trader, and one of the most widely known men in Dooly county, was shot and instantly killed this evening hy W. Theodore McDonald, his nephew, who worked for and lived with him. The shooting oc curred in a room in the McDonald home. Mrs. P. G. McDonald, two daughters, and a young son were in the house when the tragedy was enacted. * TAFT'S TAFFY In big Atfanta Banquet He De clares That The SOUTH HAD WON HIM Makes Fair Promises in Regard to the Character of the Officials He May Appoint in the South, and He Will Bear Them in Mind After March. Atlanta, Jan. I?.?President-elect Taft attended a big banquet in At lanta Friday night, given in his hon or. Judge Taft had given care to the preparation of his banquc-: speech, regarding it as his important utterance of the day, and in its de livery he followed his manuscript closely. Mr. Taft said with feeling that he was proud to have been the first revolution candidate for the Presi dency who had carried his canvas south of Mason's and Dixon's line. "In the presence of Democrats aim Republicans here at a non-partisan banquet expressing the welcome 01 the whole community, it would neith er be courteous nor appropriate for me to go into a partisan discussion,1' Mr. Taft continued. "I can on'y refer to the fact with gratification and congratulation that today the expression of any political views in the South is possible without in volving social ostricism or any of the penalties with which it might hav? been visited in earlier times. Ten years have made a great difference in the situation which the controll ing people of the South occupy to wards the North and the govern ment." The President-elect then summar ized the causes which had worker! and were affecting the change?the Spanish war; the attitude of Me Kinley, his lovable character and the principles he stood for in his cam paign; the succession of Roosevelt with his Georgia mother; and final ly the wonderful business develop ments of the South. "I am a Republican but I concede fully the great advantage to the country of having a Democratic pa ty sufficiently powerful at times to win the Presidential elections and always to put the Republican party, when in control, in fear of a pos sible or probable defeat. And so i"j the South no one can deny the ad vantage that will arise in local and State governments when there is a substantial and intelligent minority, which may become a successful ma jority in punishment of the abuses that are likely to grow out of the long continued and undisputed con trol of one party. Added to that, the uncertainty which may attend the result of national elections in a Stale is certain to give it additional im portance to the councils of the na tion. "I observe that among some prom inent members of congress there is a disposition to charge me with an attempt to win the South over te Republicanism and a somewhat con temptuous expression of opinion that this is utterly impossible. To them I would say that I am not hopeful JARY 19, ?Gillam in St. Louis Post-Oiapatch. of winning the South over as they say, but that the South has s'rc ceeded in winning me. "If my coming has been partisan no such meeting as this tonight would have been possible, and so I may say of all the receptions and expressions of good will and welcome that I .have received from point to point throughout the Southern coun try. The very success of my trip, the very reason why it gives me so ' much satisfaction, is the pronounced nonoartisan character of the we' come which has been so kindly ex tended to me. "Now if this Indirectly makes, not for a partisan advantage, but for n continuance of the movement in fa vor of independence of speech ai:d action and political tolerance its result is one that all citizens of what ever political party must rejoice to have brought about. "The direct local effect of a nv ional administration upon the South is chiefly through their functions through the section, and therefore the expression of the Administra tion toward the Southern people takes its color in the character of those officials, and there the admin istration may be properly held ac countable and its policies determin ed by the qualifications fitness and standing of the men appointed to represent it in the districts and : States of the section. I realize, therefore, that expressions ol sym :pathy with the South and an earnest ' desire to bring it closer to the central ' government in thought and action I and feeling will have comparatively I little weight unless this expression j is accomplished by such appoint ments in the South as shall prove this sympathy to be real and substan tial. "All I can say with reference to the future policy of the administra tion in the South on this subject is that I expect to spare no effort to find out the facts in respect to the character of the proposed ap pointees, and so far as in me iies to select men whose character and reputation and standing in the com munity commend them to their fel low citizens as persons qualified and able to discharge their duties well, and whose presence in important positions will remove, if any such ;' thing exists, the sense of alienism in the government which they represent. "Of course, the immediate great work of the administration must be the revision of the tariff," he said. "In that work the South is quite as much interested as the North, and would have an honest and genuine j revision such as has been promised by the party in power." He gave assurance to the Southern people that "no 'ntercst of the South, whether it share that interest with the North, or whether it has a peculiar interest of its own, will be neglected in the conduci. of the government in so far as that conduct shall be under the control of its Chief Executive." In concluding, Mr. Taft said: "I beg of those of my hearers who differ with me politically not to sup pose that their cordiality and courte ous reception are misunderstood by me. I know that they spring from an earnest and patriotic desire to pay proper respect to the great of fice to which I have been elected, and that they grow out of a sincere wish and proper assumption, that having been elected to the Chief Magistracy, I shall become the Pres ident, not of a party, but of a whole united people." ? 1 TW< DEAD IN BATH ROOM A GRIM TRAGEDY ENACTED AT SEATTLE. A Man, His Wife and Their Twenty Two Years Old Daughter Are Found Dead. Seattle, Wash., Jan.. 17.?W. L. Seeley, an attorney and former nat ional bank examiner for Illinois, his wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her daughter, Miss Irene Seeley, a student at the Uni versity of Washington, were found dead in a bath room of their home in the fashionable Capital Hill quarter today. i The victims had been dead since last Thursday. The women, clad in night robes, had apaprently been murdered with a hammer. There was no mark of violence on Seeley. He is believed to have been partly chloroformed and then drowned in i the bath tub. That Seeley killed his wife and daughter while insane over worries and then committed suicide is the theory of the police. His night gown, blood stained from the bodies of the two women, was found be neath a clean pillow in the room oc-' cupied by him and his wife. The pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been sleeping was saturated with blood. Seeley came here less than two years ago from St. Joseph, Mo. He moved there from Ottawa, 111. He was 55 years old, his wife about three years his junior, and his, daughter 22. The bodies were found by Guy M. Smelzer, affianced husbf J of Miss Seeley, and E. R. Seibbel, a friend of the family. The family c uld not be communicated with after 9 o'clock Thursday night, when Smelzer talk ed over the telephone with Miss Seeley. Although keeping up the appear ance of prosperity, Seeley had been forced to borrow money for his last month's house rent from W. W. Wilslfire, an attorney, from whom he rented desk room in the New York building. Detectives were unable to find any blood-stained implements in the house, although a hammer was found. No article of jewelry or any thing or value was taken. Every window and door was securely lock ed. ? MOST FATAL DISEASE. Consumption Kills More People in Augusta Than All Others. Augusta, Jan. IS.?The most fatal disease in Augusta in ] 9OS was con sumption, or "tuberculosis," as the board of health authorities term it. Out of every eight and five-tenths deaths during the year, one resulted from the dreaded "White Plague." Records of the department show that the spread of the disease is not be-! ing restricted, to any material extent. The ratio of tuberculosis to mortality has, vlthin the past 25 years, been only a little greater than it was in 190S. During the fiscal or board of health year of 1908, 861 people died. Of these deaths 101 were due to tu berculosis. USED JUG FOR BANK. Farmer Had One Thousand Dollars Stored in One. Anderson, Jan. IS.?A rather unique deposit was made at one of the local banks here yesterday just before the clock struck the closing hour. A well-to-do farmer of Rroad away township, who is considered a good business man and a prosper ous one, walked into the bank, and in his hand held a little brown jug, stopped up with an ordinary corn cob. The cashier pulled out the corn cob, and protruding out of the neck of the jug was a crisp ten dollar bill. The cashier then got busy and with the assistance of all the clerks in the office managed to draw out $1,000 in new bills, resorting to j a hat pin to extricate the money. The farmer had decided on this unique way of keeping his money for deposit. * Shot Wife and Self. Alliance, O., Jan. 15.?Albert Lazinvvood, 50 years old, a farmer living near Rergesolz. shot and kill ed his wife, 55 years old, and then killed himself on the road near Annapolis last night. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause. * Dancer Dies Suddenly. New York, Jan. 16.?During the heigh: of festivities of a public dance at the Grand Central Palace shortly aTter midnight a middle-aged man who. according to papers upon him was William Schoerd, a clerk, fell to the floor dead. Miners Are Killed. Veszprim, Hungaria, Jan. 15?An explosion of fire damp in the Auka coal mine yesterday resulted in the death of fifty-six men. Of the 240 men ?ntombed 1S4 were taken out alive. * 0 ) CENTS PEB COPY. BRUTAL MURDER Choked His Wife to Death While She Slept TWO MEN ARE IN JAIL At Afken Charged With the Awful Crime?Verdict of Coroner's Jury Results 'in Holding of the Wo man's Husband Principal and Another .Man as Accessory. Aiken, Jan. 17.?Coroner John son returned to Aiken last night from Sleepy Hollow, bringing Sov ereign Lowe and Lee Boyd, both, white, who were placed in ialil, charged with the murder of Rainey Lowe, wife of Sovereign Lowe, at Lowe's home in the Sleepy Hollow section. The arrests were made as a result of an inquest held yester day afternoon by Coroner Johnson and a post mortem examination con ducted by a physician. Mrs. Lowe died last Sunday night, and was in terred on Monday; but at the re quest of Mrs. Counts, of Augusta, mother of Mrs. Lowe, the authori ties had the body disinterred yester day and an inquest held. The evidence at, the inquest show ed that on Sunday night Lowe came to his home accompanied by Boyd, both being in a drunken condition. During the night Alfred Glover, a negro residing nearby, heard a wo man in Lowe's house and begging for her life. The screams were also heard by other parties. Next morn ing the woman was found dead. Mrs. Counts came over from Augus ta and said that she found bruises on the throat and body of her daugh ter, and was not satisfied as to her death. After the burial she became so convinced that something was wrong that she came to Aiken and asked for an investigation. Boyd and Lowe both testified to coming to Lowe's house in a drunk en condition, and said that they re tired soon after arriving. During the night, Boyd said, he went to Lowe's bed, called ihim andj told him to get up, that he had a long way to go to his home and that he must have an early start. Lowe got up, and when he looked at the clock he saw that it was 3 o'clock and they went back to bed early Monday morning. Lowe said that he called to his wife, who was sleeping with him, and that she did not answer. He shook her and found that she was cold. He then called Boyd and they found her dead. When testifying, Lowe'is said to have almost broken down. The examining physician found bruises on Mrs. Lowe's throat and body, and that there had been sufficient external violence to have produced death. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to her death from choking at the hands of Lowe as principal and Boyd as accessory. The two men staunchly maintained their innocence. Lowe is about 25 years of age and Boyd some years younger. Boyd is unmarried. The deceased ' was the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is only seven months old, and was her self about 22 years old. The case has created a good deal of interest here, and any further .developments will be closely watched.?News and Courier. * Deinnnds Enquiry. Washington, Jan. 16.?Based up on a report which reached Senator Tiilman today that the senate does not Intend to accede to his request for an investigation of the charges made against 'him by President Roosevelt in connection with Oregon land cases, the senator announced today that if necessary to obtain an inquiry he would himself introduce a resolution providing for it. * Robbed by Masked Men. Kalamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 16.? The Kalamath Falls County bank at this place was robbed of $3,000 by two masked men who entered the bank this afternoon with drawn re volvers and compelled the cashier to pay over the counter all money in sight. Several citizens who were in side the bank were held at bay while the robbers escaped. ? General Butler 111. Columbia, Jan. 17.?News was re ceived here today of the serious ill ness of former Senator M. C. But ler at his home in Edgefield. The re port is that he is suffering with pneumonia. He has a remarkable constitution, and this, his friends hope, will pull him through this attack. ? Minister Convicted. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 16.?Conclud ing a trial which extended into three days, a jury in Nansemond circuit court, brought a verdict giving Rev. Kniest Lyons, colored, 18 years for the murder of Rev. James L. Smith, also colored. ? This Takes Prize. Washington, Jan. 16.?The snow flakes, the size of an average hen egg, fell in Washington today.. At the executive mansion a number of flakes measured two and one-half Inches in. diamater.