The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, October 26, 1909, Image 1

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PUBLISHED THREE WONT ATTEND : Senator Tilimao Refuses to Participate in i the Taft Luncheon. ' ! _ j I 1 WOULD NOT BUY TICKET I ' -,- ; As He Does Not Believe in Thut .' i? . . Kind of Paid-for-in-Advance Hos- j pitality, and Intimates ' That Columbia Should Pay for the Frol ic or Cot It Out. The following correspondence ex plains itself: Secretary's Office, Columbia Chamber .of Commence, Columbia, S. C, Oct. 22, 1909. Hon. B. R. Tillman, Trenton, S. C. Dear Sir: In order that the com mittee in charge of the arrangement* for the visit of President Taft may complete plans now pending, will you kindly inform this office if you will be present on that occasion and if you expect to attend the luncheon to be given in his honor. Yours very turly, (Signed) C. W. Moorman, Secretary. : Trenton. S. C. Oct. 23, 1909. Mr. C. W. Moorman, Secretary Cham ber of Commerce. Columbia, S. C Dear Sir: I have your letter of Oc tober 22. I replied yesterday to a previous letter explaining the situa tion in regard to my acting on the reception committee on November 6, and I await your answer to that be fore deciding whether I will go to Columbia at all or not. As for attending the luncheon, I received an invitation 3ome days ago, signed James'A. Hoyt, to attend the luncheon, accompanied with an Invitation to send a check for $10 This may. be ? new way of conduct-r ing entertainments in South Carolina that will find favor in the future, but ft Is Wholly contrary to all Ideas of courtesy and self-respecting hos pitality that I have'ever heard of In the ?State... and I do tot propose to lend any aid or countenance to it. If the city of Columbia Is too poor to entertain the president decently it ought not to attempt it; if it wants to ask contributions from outsiders, that is a different thing; if it.wants^. outsiders to bear" the expense and Insiders enjoy the glory, that is another thing. I have known Mr. Taft very pleasantly some eight or ten years, and I have dined with him quite often, both as a guest and as a host, and I do not feel like encour aging the departure from South Car olina's reputation for decency and hospitality which this transaction in volves. I did not respond to Mr. Hoyt's invitation, but treated it with silent contempt. But inasmuch as you have asked the point blank | question, and it seems to be the' official scheme to ask men to meet the president and have them pay the expenses,. I tell you emphatically; No, T will not attend the luncheon. Very respectfully, (Signed) .-' . . B. R. Tillman. . The central, ?committee, arranging for the reception in Columbia for President Taft, consists of Gev. An sel. Mayor Reamer and VVilliam E. Gonzales. The governor is out of the city, and Mr. Gonzales was late Sat urday- night called up at his resi dence, Senator Tillman's letter was read to him over the telephone, and he was asked for a statement of the committee's position. "The committee will engage in no discussion of this matter," he said, "until the guest of honor on No vember 6 has come and gone. Co lumbia will welcome the president, but Columbia is not assuming to be his host at luncheon. The identical invitation was sent by the chair man of the invitatiou committee to Senator Tillman as was sent to the governor and the other members of the central committee. There is no 'free pass' for the hosts; the dead head list is suspended. "The letter from Secretary Moor man, to which Senator Tillman has made this answer, was sent at the direction of the central committee for the excellent reason that the com mittee, in recognition, of his official position, planned to have Senator j Tillman accompany one of the presi-j dent's party in an automobile and act as his escorf into luncheon, and it could not perfect its arrangements until it knew whether Mr. Tillman would be present. His right to de cline is unquestioned, and the decli nation will cause no embarrassment! whatever. "Neither the people of Columbia nor the people of South Carolina who cherish the honor of city and State need have any fear tint in the en-1 tertaiuuient of Mr. Taft in Colum bia there will be lacking dignity, good taste ur evidence of gou.l breed ing." Homicide Charged. Ed Bellinger, colored, has been committed to Jail on a warrant or Magistrate' Hills, of John's Island, for homicide. He is reported to have killed another negro named Single ton. * i Accused of Murder. At Columbia Friday the- coroner arrested Jane Drawtey, charging her with the murder of Jane Hampton by throwing her out of a window on Main street last Monday. ? TIMES A WEEK. GRONM SLAVED CRM WOMAN SKELETON FOUND HAS' BEEN IDENTIFIED. Police Think the Murder Was Com-| niitted More Than Year Ago and j Are Searching for the Murderer. Following the receipt of dispatch er'-'from Hamburg, Germany, say ing that the young woman whose body was found at lslip, Long Island, last Sunday night was that of Anna Latter, of Altona, a suburb of Ham burg, a number of points in the mys tery have been cleared. The iden tification is considered correct and the police are now seeking to locate Otto Mueller, why is said to have married the girl in Newark, N. J., on February 6, 1908. For several - .months previous to that Lime it is said that Anna Latter haa been employed as a maid in the home of Ibaac Seligman, a New York banker. Shortly after the wedding Otto Mueller took his bride to Eu rope, where they visited her rela tives in Germany and then hurried oack, to New York, 'ihey spent a few days in Newark visiting friends, wtnie Muulier made excursions to .\'e? York to find an apartment. Suddenly the couple was lost track of, and although inquiries were made by many, the mystery of their dis appearance was soon forgotten and remained so until the disclosure of the fact that the skeleton found at lslip might be that of Anna Latter. It has been the belief of the po lice that the muraer was committed more than a year ago. The girl could then have been but a bride of a few months when she met her death. How she came to it is still a mys tery. The discovery of a pair of automobile goggles near the skele ton strengthens the theory that the girl was taken to the woods in a motor car. A roadhouse-keeper near by has told the pollle* that two men and a woman came to his house in an automobile last fall, and after quarreling over money and real es tate they hurried away, and the two men returned to the house later that night without the woman. Anna Latter was said to have been a pretty girl. She had worked as a maid in wealthy families in Den ver, Chicago and New York. In the Sellgman household, where she work ed for two years, she had been con sidered a girl of unusual good taste and refinement. Mueller met her at Far Rockaway Beach while she was caring for an invalid there. He ha? represented himself to Anna Latter and her friends as an architect and had said he owned twelve lots in Jamaica, Long Island, where he plan ned to build a home. The police are looking for Mueller for further in formation. ? KILLED IN WRECK. Passenger and Freight Trains Col lide Friday. Six persons were killed in a wreck on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, near Collins ville, Ohio, Friday, when a south bound passenger train ran into a freight train on an-open siding. A relief train 'with medical aid waB sent from Richmond. The passenger train, whick does not stop at Collinsville, was said to have been running 50 mileB an hour when the crash came. According to reports, the switch was open' and the passenger and freight trains col lided head-on. The dead: E. G. Webb, Richmond, fireman on passenger train; O. O. Raines. Kokomo, mail, clerk: Louis Marshall. Richmond, engineer of freight train; B. H. Hatfield, Greens Fork, mail clerk; Elmer Brown, Lo aansport, Ind.. engineer of passeng er; C. A. Johnson, Eaton, Ohio, mai: clerk. Is is said that none of the pas sengers was killed, but that several men iu the smoking car were in jured. * Brown's Bad Break. An Atlanta dispatch says the final chapter in one of the most noted criminal trials in the history of Geor gia was recorded today when Gov. Brown commuted to life imprison ment the sentence of John Harper, who was to hang for the murder of Sheriff Keith of Murray county, which occurred two years ago. Caught at Last. After twenty-two years of hiding, following an alleged murder com mitted near Hendricks, Ky., in the fall of l.x.sT, Alex. McFarland, was arrested Friday close to the Raleigh Kanawha bonier line by a posse of West Virginia and Kentucky of ficers. Enduring Monument. Kansas City. Mo., has lost a bene factor in the death of Thomas H. Swope. millionaire and philanthrop ist. He was eighty-one years old and ins finest gift to that city was tiie park whi'h bears his name. It contains 1,400 acres and is worth more Ihau $2.1..000. Many Are Killed. A dispatch from Sima, British India, says twenty-five persons were killed and a sore of others injured in the recent earthquake shocks at Beliput, a small town on the Quetta railroad, and fthe central part of Beluchistan, a railway station and several residences were razed. ? FOUND GUILTY Bigham and Avant Convicted of Man siaogbter and Sent Up for THREE YEARS AND A HALF It Will be Remembered That Avant and Bigham Shut and Killed Bigham's Wife on the Evening or September 4 Last, at MurreU's Inlet. Three years and six months im prisonment in the State penitentiary was the sentence passed by Judge Watts Friday afternoon at George town upon W. B. Avant and G. C. Bigham, for the killing of Mrs. Kuth Crisp Bigham, the jury having rendered a verdict oi guilty of man slaughter after two hours' deliber ation, thus enus the story of a deed that has shocked the people of the entire State. The correspondent of the State says the majority of the people are inclined to think the senten.e ex tremely light. In spite of the ver dict-, though, the killing of Mrs. Big ham has not been explained, mys tery Btill enshrouds the affair. The fight for the accused men centered around the fact that they considered the "object," which proved to be Airs. Bigham, a trespasser and that there was reason for suspicion. This was: ably combatted by the State, although the prosecution was at dis advantage in not having reply to Mr. Ragsdale. Considerable surprise was created when the defense permitted the case to go to the jury without offering any testimony. The State touched another phase of the case when in the testimony of M: J. ?.Pearce of Waterloo, Laurens county,', it was Bhown that Mrs. Big ham while on a visit to her old home in-August had received a letter and telegram from her husband, the con tents of which caused her to weep, 'ilie matter of unhappy married re lations was merely hinted at in this mariner. Mr. Pearce had seen this letter and the tears of the deceased woman. Mr. A. C. Leonard, one of the State's witnesses, was on the boat to Georgetown, with Mr. and Mrs. Avant, after the killing. Avant had told him "it was a sad occurrance, but I believe any one else would have aone iL under the excitement and .right. JL?r. Hignam uoesn't blame me; he told me to shoot." a hat ?vord "e\ciic-me;jt jlayeu a great part in the argument by counsel, particularly in that of Air. Rad iale. Attorney j. W. VVingate open ed for the .eiense, speaking but 10 minutes, dealing largely with tut; duty of jurors. He was followed by Solicitor Cooper of Laurens, vno spoke for 30 minutes. Mr. Cooper dealt some what at length with the law on tres pass. Mr. Cooper pointed out that ac cording to the testimony Mrs. Big ham was sitting on the beach when shot, that there was no suspicious action or movement, that the men did not hail her as she passed the house. He argued the complete ab sence of any circumstances that would warrant suspicion; he showed an intention on the part of the de fendants to shoot and oontended that they were therefore guilty of mur der. Solicitor Wells argued that since the defense was baseJ on a specific statute, section 2, the burden of prov ing the fitness and applicability of this statute rested on the defense. Then he attacked this plea with mu?h vigor, making a telling im pression on the jury. He endeavored to show that because these men wen; frightened was no sufficient excuse for the act. "The law doesn't ex empt them because they are arrant cowards," said he. Mr. Ragsdale, for the defense, clos ed the arguments, making a pow erful appeal to the jury in behalt of his clients. He endeavored to show an absence of any motive for the killing, a fact which the Stale has not attempted to establish. He ridiculed much of the State's tes timony and sought to discredit some of its witnesses. While the appeal was eloquent, moving the hearts of many in the audience, strong and forceful. in terms elegant and refined, still it I was scar ely more than an attempt j to piay on the sympathies of the jury. He attempted to show that by the testimony, it was dark when the shooting occurred, that Avant and Bigham seeing this suspicious looking person on the premises were only acting in defense of their homes and loved ones. Several times dur ing Mr. Ragsdnle's speech both the defendants, Avant and Bigham, were moved to tears and sat sobbing, their faces buried in their hands. Judge Watts' charge was shirt but to the point, touching only those phases of the law that might apply in this case. On murder and man slaughter the jury were thoroughly instructed and Bection 2 was especial ly brought to their attention. Crim inal carelessness or negligence, a dis regard of human life, were also touched upon at the request of So licitor Wells. Judge Watts told the jury that if the testimony satisfied them that the "person" were acting in a sus S. Cm TUESDAY, OGTO picious manner and fled when halted, then the defendants were acting within their legal rights, as indicat ed in the section. The clause "flees when halted, ' which had been stressed by Solicitor Cooper was defined by Judge Watts as not necessarily "running away,' but that a person might flee and yet not move faster than in a walk. Many have questioned the matter of both defendants being principals | in the commission of the deed, some thinking that Avant, who admitted firing the shot, was or ought to be more responsible than Dr. Bigham. Judge Watts cleared up the mat ter in his definition of principals and accessories. "A person who. is pres ent when a felony is committed, en couraging, aiding, inciting or abet ting is equally guilty with the per son who altuaUy commits the crime," said Judge Watts. ? MINE EXPLOSION. Terrible Disaster in Oklahoma Mine Near H arts horn e. Ten miners are dead, two are in jured and one is missing as a re sult of an explosion in mine No. 10, of the Rock Island Coal Mining Com pany Near Hartshorne, Okla. Nine bodies were recovered. The men' are believed to have gone beyond a "dead line" with lighted lamps in entering the mine, the lamps igniting escaping' gas. The fact that Dan Hughes, a sub-boss, was with the other men, suggests the theory that the men were arranging the air courses to carry out the gas when one or more of the men passed over the "dead line." Hughes was alive when taken from Lhe mine, but never regained consciousness. This is the third largest catastro phe in the history of the McAlaster Mining district. In the Dengan mine near Wilburton, in 1905, nineteen men were killed. Twenty-nine men were killed on August 26, 1908, in the Halley-Ola Mine near Halley ville. ? TYPHOON PLAYS HAVOC. Loss of Life in the Archipelago May Be Heavy. A dispatch from Manila says a typhoon of unusual severity swept Northern and Central Luzon on Sun day. Wire communication beyond Dagupaa 'W)d . Luzon is cut off and details are lacking. One message from San Fabian says that the loss of life is consid erable and that the damage to prop erty was heavy. At Hongkong many casulatles at tended the typhoon that played hav oc with native shipping and dam aged other vessels at various points on the coast during the night. At Macao the Fortnguese gunboat Patria was lifted from its moor ings and carried up the canton riv er, where it was stranded on a flood ed rice field. Many houses were blown down in the vicinity of Macao, where junks and fishing smacks in large number foundered, involving many casulaties. ? ELECTION RIOTS AND FIGHTS. First Primary ut Gary, ind., Attend ed With Murder. One murder, two riots, scores of street fights between citizens, and the severance of three business part nerships is the result of four days of intense political strife at Gary, Ind., attendant upon the election of the first Mayor of the "steel ciLy " The mutilated body of Roda Ivau ich, one of the participants in th/r primary riot of Monday last was found at daylight lying in middle of Gary's principal streets. Ivanich had been shot with a revolver through the back of the head. His face wa<? then beaten into an almost unrec ognizable mass. Two men are be ing held as suspects. Following close upon the disclos ure of the Ivanich murder, it wus announced that three business firms had dissolved partnerships beause of animosities growing out of the bit ter Mayorality campaign. 4 Blind und in Prison. At Patterson, N. J., when Wil liam Fason, a blind negro, was de nied a drink in a saloon he dr*'w a revolver and fired promiscuously around the barroom. Although he could see nothing, his bullets kill ed two men and wounded two oth ers. As a penalty, the court has just decided that Fason must spend forty years in State's prison. * Two Men Hung. Alabama had two hangings on Friday. Willie Stevens, white, was hung at Luverne for the killing of his wife and daughter, and at drove Hill Louis Balaam, a negro preacher, was hanged for the murdi r of a deputy sheriff. A Bold Robber. In view of the scores of passengers on the Chicago to New Orleans Illi nois Central train, two highwaymen bold up and robbed Conductor Dav ison Wednesday night when the lim ited train stopped at Harvey, a Chicago suburb, for wafer. * Launch Party Missing. The launch Sarah L., five days out of Walker, Minn., is believed to have gone down with all on board on Leich Lake in the storm which swept the lake. A government boat has been sent out to look for the wreck age or dead bodies. * BEE 26, 190;? MOURNS HER SON South Carolina University Takes Action on Death of Dr. Carlisle HER GREATEST ALUMNUS Prof. Moore Says Dr. Carlisle's Life is Worth More to the State of South Carolina Than All the Money Spent on the South Caro lina University. Tho State says the nameB of great men emblazon the pages of the records of the South Carolina uni versity. Of these names there is none more revered than that of Car lisle?Jas. H. Carlisle, who fell asleep in Spartanburg after a long, long day of life filled with effort and of self-denial. So pure was he, so lofty in his principles and his conception of life that many had thought of him as a minister. But a minister h-e was not, although it Is said that at one time an effort was made to get him to become a minister so that he might be made bishop. It is also declared that he could have been president of his alma mater, but he preferred to live on at Wofford, where the salary was but little more than half what he could have re ceived. The Methodist xfienominatKon of this tSate revered him, and it ap pears that he was well worthy of that confidence and of that esteem. It is recalled that once when there was talk of vacancies in the United States senate, the people of this State clamored for the appointment of Dr. Carlisle to one of those places ?not because he was trained for that kind of service, but because they wished his noble life to be perpetu ated more broadly in State history. Rev. S. C. Mitchell, D. D., presi dent of the South Carolina universi ty, went to Spartanburg Friday to convey to Wofford tollege the love and sympathy of the alma mater of thiB great and good man. Dr. Mitch ell had had for weeks an important engagement which he canceled. The student body of the universi ty was Saturday morning addressed by Prof. Andrew 0. Moore, a native of Spartanburg and the vice presi dent of the university. The following telegram was sent Thursday: "President H. Ni Snyder, Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. "The University of South Carolina mourns her Illustrious alumnus, whose services and example have blessed all our people. Prerident Mitchell will attend the funeral on behalf of the university. "For the Faculty, ? "Edward S. Joynes." Prof. Andrew C. Moore, Friday night in speaking of the deceased great Carolinian, said: "In the death of Dr. James II. Car lisle the University of South Caroli na has lost a distinguished alumnus and devoted friend. No man has ever been sent out from the old col lege who has had so great an in fluence In raising the intellectual and moral standards of the State. At a time when all young men of promise entered one of the learned professions, young Carlisle chose a calling which gave no promise of preferment. That was ;*haracteristio of the man. "He entered the calling in which he could be of great service and forgetting himself 'in that service grew great in spite of himself. Humility and unselfishness were his chief characteristics, but bigger still in heart, Dr. Carlisle was a giant among men without being conscious of it himself. "One the 23rd of February, 1S42, James Henry Carlisle entered the sophomore class of the South Caro lina college from Kershaw district. He became a member of the Euphra dlan society and after the lapse of 50 years of the centenial celebra tion of the college held in Charles ton. December 19, 1900, his portrait was unveiled as that of the society's most distinguished alumnus. "In ISM he received the degre'i of A. II. with the second honor of his class, the first honor beang won by Patrick Henry Nelson. The dis tinguished professor of history in the University of Berlin, Fred-tick von liaumor, who was visiting Co lumbia at t'ne time, attended the com mencement exercises of the col leg ? and in his 'Letters* making mention of the speakers, one of them being Mr. Carlisle. An old and yellowed program, dated the 9th and 10th of May, IS II. shows that the seventh and last speaker on that occasion was .1.11. Carlisle, whose subject was "The Causes Which Have Led to the De cline of Practical Power in the dik ed Pro*? i rices.' "Young Carlisle taught school in Columbia from l s t.". till IS54, when be was called t;> chair of math ematics in the young Methodist col lege at Spartanburg. From that time till his death the career of Dr. Car lisle was synonymous with the histo ry of Wofford college. In is?;, be became president and in T;* =?U presi dent emeritus of the college. In an article prepared by him upon the oc casion of the celebration of the cen tennial of tho South Carolina col lege. Dr. Carlisle says of President R. W. Barnwell and Rev. Steven El liott: " 'The young men privileged to totv TW MUST HAVE DIED A CALIFORNIA RANCHER TRACES DESERT TRAGEDY. Finds Tracks of Teams -and-Follows Trail to a Dying Horse, But Saw No One. T. H. Kellogg, a rancher, while riding across the Mojave Desert, in the Carsho Creek country of Cali fornia on Saturday came across the tracks of two teams. The wandering trails indicated to his experienced eye that the drivers of the team eith er were lost or did not have control of mind left. He followed the trails for some distance and finally came upon a camp wagon and a buggy, and fur ther away a horse dying of thirst. Here evidetly was the starting, point of a greater tragedy. Following the trail further he discovered the tracks of a man and a woman and three children. Unless even at times, retreating and wav ering in purpose as though the trav elers did not know which way to tnrn, the footprints on the sand tolw of the search for water against a des perately growing need. Sometimes the trail of one or the other of the childre n disappeared in dicating that, the father or the moth er had expended the last'drop of energy in carrying their little ones. The trail followed the bed of a dry creek for many miles and then lei off to that country from which few travelers return. Where the lost ones are Is unknown. Kellogg returned to civilization and searching parties were started out at once, but no word has been re ceived. ? NEGRO DESPERADO KILLED After Shooting a Magistrate and a Negro Child. . . | At Sumter Wednesday while Mag istrate Douglas Jenkins and Deputy Charles Jenkins were attempting to arrest a desperate negro named Geo. Mitchell, the latter' fired' upon and seriously wounded Magistrate Jenk ins and the negro's stray shot caught a negro child in the neck, crippling it for life. The officer, returning the fire, killed Mitchell instantly. The coroner's jury 'exonerated them. There was intense excitement for a time, the Jenkins being prominently connected. The universal verdict is that Mitchell got exactly what he deserved, aud that the community in which he lived is better off with out him. ? * FIRED BY THE GOVERNOR. The Dorchester Hoard of Registra tion Removed. By a .proclamation made public Wednesday, Governor Ansel summar ily removed from office Elias Doar and R. M. Limehousc, members of the Dorchester county registration board, for misconduct- in office in registering negroes-and others from lists furnished them without exami nation and for issuing certificates to a number clearly not entitled to registering because some could not read and others had not paid their taxes as required by the Constitu tion. The Governor's action was taken after a full investigation, in cluding personal interviews with the men deposed. A. W. Rumph, the third member of the board, "who is an old man and in iil health," will be allowed to resign. ? be under these instructors seem to have been greatly impressed, partly by what these men taught, but cbisf ly by what these men were.' These words may be aptly used in speaking of Dr. Carlisle himself The young men who enjoyed the priv ilege of sitting at his feet were most do. ply Impressed by what he was. Inspired by him some choice young men were directed into dis tinguished careers in the field of scholarship, but all were made bet ter men. His ideal was to make men first and scholars afterwards. His great sympathy for and faith in young men gave him a hold 'upon them for life. ' "Dr. Carlisle's work was not con fined to the class room nor- to the college walls. He was*, a public spirited citizen, always- taking an active interest in every movement poking to intellectual, and moral improvement. Hin activity was not con fiend to his own commtintiy, not even to his own State. For many years he was associated wi:h the great chautauqua movement. Though not a minister, his own church rec ognize 1 him as a leader. He was a member of the first gineral con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church :?> which laymen were ad mitted and was ? T??<:'! :d to each snc i.linn luuference. "He was a member of the Seces sion convention and leaves behind only one survivor of that memorable convention; Mr. Robt: A. Thompson of*- Walhalla. After one of George MeDitffiVs-. brilliant speeches before the State legislature Judge lluger said thai if the .South Carolina col |i ge had done nothing but produce that man, she would have amply re paid the State f.ir every dollar ex pended by the State. Dr. Carlisle's life is worth more to the State of South Carolina than all the money which has been expended on the college." * rO CElVTS PER COPY COOK'S STORY Of Going tc the North Pole Conhnned by Noted Explorer COOK IS NO SWINDLER Rasm onsen, the Danish-Eskimo Ex plorer, Has Talked to Many Es kimos and They All Testify as to the Movements of Dr. Cook as Told Them by Bin Companions. A dispatch from Copenhagen says the Greenland steamer Godthaab, ,ln command of Capt Scho^eye, has ar rived there. CapL Schobeye reports that.Knud- Rasm?ssen, the exploirer,. who Is now in Greenland, after ex amining 35 Cape York Eskimos who had seen Dr. Cook's Eskimo iom panions, is quite convinced that Dr. Cook reached the pole. He says that Rasmuesen is willing to come to the United States with the two Eskimos, Itukashoo and Ahelah, who were Dr. Cook's sole comparions in the latter part of hia expedition. Rasmussen, however, the captain states, had not himself seen ituka'sh?? ?r ATielah, who are now hunting. The steamer brought a letter from Rasmussen to his wife at Copenha gen in which he confirms what I id said above and gives details of his talks with the Eskimos. ; The letter 1s quite long and goes into detail^, and ends by saying the Eskimos think that Cook reached the goal, and that be, during the voyage, showed great nerve and ener gy. They are at the same time very proud of I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe lah as it is their conviction that Cook would never have reached 'tbe ?gaaT without them. The above facts must be looked upon as strong con firmation for Cook. Rasmussen says personally he wants to express hid unreserved admiration for Dr. Cook; who, he says, can call a swindle. Rasmussen is half Eskimo. He has made extensive researches into their ethnology. Rasmussen was' a member of the Danish literary ex pedition, whLh left Copenhagen ear ly In 1S0"2 and spent two years' among the surviving tribes of Eski mos for the-purpose of -studying their racial history. In August, 1906, Rasmussen left Copenhagen for Greenland, intend ing to be gone six years to complete his researches into the ethneloglca! and social habits of the EsklmoB, the tour as originaHy planned to cov er the entire north coast of North America as far as Alaska. For this work Rasmussen is pre-' culiarly fitted, as he is part Eskimo himself. His mother is a South Greenland Eskimo, His father Is Christian Rasmussen, a Danish cler gyman, who spent over twenty years as a missiouary among the natives of Southwest Greenland.. The. results of his early cssoeiation wy.h his kinsfolk, supplemented by his more mature studies of 1902 and 1903, were published in Danish under the title of "The New People" and "The Lash of the North Wind." * A FUGITIVE CAUGHT. A Murderer, Wanted in Chester, An rested in New York. A special dispatch from New York to The News and Courier says Chal mers Barber, a young colored man, for whom an alarm was sent out last August from Landsford, near. Chester, S. C, for the shooting and ktiiliog of a man named Collins Judge, on August 25, was arrested at Houston street and Broadway, Wednesday afternoon by Headquar ters Detectives Conroy and Mcllhagy. Harber is 19 years old and says he has been living at 55 East 132J street. He had obtained a job as messenger for-a Broadway hat storfe. The prisoner was locked up at po lice headquarters as a fugitive from justice, and Sheriff D. E. Colvin, of Chester county, South Carolina, was notified. * KlMJiiage Mmk: Go?>d. A compromise wa? effected on *prj. day between the Attorney General and tlie National Surity Company with reference to the alleged short-' age of ex-County Treasurer Lang ford of Hampton, whereby the Surety Company paid tbe State $2--,v)00 and is to be reimbursed by what it can recover from Langford and ai.y banks that may be sued in connection with the shortage. ? MyHterioiM Shooting. Although he has a bu!l"t wound in his abdomen Irom which the hos-' pltal physicians say he probably will die. Frank Kunese will no! t< II the police who shot him. He was found In Bast Fourteenth street, Ni v York, early Friday suffering great pain, but would not nay a thing about the circumstances of the shooting. * Vesnvkrog in Eruption. The .eruptions of Mount Vesuvioasy' which became alarmingly active Thursday, appears to he decreasing. The villages in the vicinity of the volcano are filled with strangers, mostly foreigners who had hasten ed there to witness the phenomena, ?