The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, December 08, 1910, Image 1

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PUBLISHED MKEETJJ WANT BEST MAN h tfce Presidential Roer, S?ys Congress man James, oi Kentucky. ML SAYAMtM 10 THIS The Congressman Says Candidates Have Agreed That Party Must Submerge IPersonality?"Harmon's Administration in Ohio Has Never Seen Equalled. While Judson. Harmon, governor of Ohio, held a long conference with Congressman Oliie James at the gov ernor's meeting at Louie vi lie last week. After the session Mr. James buttonholed 'and talked with every sun of prominence he met. He was ss&ed this question: "Is Gov. Harmpn the leading can- j didate for the Democratic Presiden tial nomination in 1912?" "'There are several candidates," ho replied. "Gov. Harmon is one of the strongest men we have in the party. Flld record Is known to the people. There is not a flaw in it. The same may be said of several other gentlemen of national promi nence who are in the public eye to day. "Mr. Harmon has the prestige of having carried President Taft's own1 State by a larger majority than he j ? did the first time he ran. Dr. Wll-! son of Princeton made a wonderful1 showing in New Jersey. He 3tand3 J for a new element in American poli tics. It remains to be seen whether! or not a scholar and a student can direct the affairs of a State. . "Dr. Wilson is on trial. We want ) i to see if a man with a wonderful I nind and a magnificent education and a student of governmental sei- j once can solve the problems that I eonfront a nation. Dr. Wilson wa?j elected in a Republican State be cause the good people of that State Relieved in him. The good people . ?nd I mean by that, those who. have ??? the interest of their home and coun try at heart?really control every :-/.; State. ' '. .' 0: "If Wilson makes good and puts ?'-?IL: h's -theories* ^nto-*.'practice.. and that practice turns .out right he will ?e a dominating figure in the Demo cratic convention of 1912. Harmon, on the other hand, has given Ohloi Cie be=t administration that It ever bad. His defiance of Roosevelt when i Paul Morton was shown to be a re- | bater for the Santa Fe railroad shows the timber he is nfode of. It took courage to do that, because he I tras then defying a President who J was considered all powerful. "The Democratic party has a lot of material from which to choese a! President. But there will be no quarrels. Wcodrow Wilson and Harmon recoynize the fact that rheyl have presidential adversaries. New I York, wtth its thirty-six electoral 'rotes and Its many controlling in fluences on the nation, hps to be con sidered. That State has recently put a bln'Vk eye nn 'New Nationalism, i Mr. Rocseve't seems to have been anhorset. Some of these days the American people will simply regard ' Mr. Roosevelt as a ?ood citizen, but I a little bit too ambitious. The present mayor of New York, Judge Gaynor, has shown that he knows how to run the largest city In America. He has made very few . mistakes, and every one that he has '.ma'de has been of the heart and not of the mind. He's a big man and, I mean by that, a man who knows Beonle; knows their emotions and sentiments. He may develop Into a| possibility. "Then there Is Dix, the man who fc the governor-elect of New York; the man who converted a tremend ous RepubUc majority Into a Demo cratic victory, thanks to a certain extent to Mr. Roosevelt. "Governor Harmon, of course, is| a receptive candidate for the nomi-| nation for the Presidency. So are five or six others. But everyone has agreed that the Democratic party is gning to conduct itself a little dif ferently Ihan It has in the past. When I saw Dr. Wilson. Mr. PTarrmn and Mr. Marshall taking totre-her recently, each ef them had a smile on his face. They have agreed that the Democratic party must submerge personality, and our slogan in the next convention will be: "Let thoi bos* man win. And then we are all for him." Governor-elect Pla'stcd of Maine j was 'old the tenor of Congressman Janr s' interview, and gave it his Indorsement. He saH: "As Governor Marshall said: "This conference of governors should be called I ho Amalgamated Order of; Nino Course Dinners." We are. of! course, a serious proposition, but at! the same limo you can't Itcep Demo-1 cr<;-; frort! rneetinsj tn~?tVr and cv ervoi'f fcr? ? > ? ? Republicans lav- alwava h. toother. We are for "'<.????>-;-<: who o-n win the pre?s ''.-u\ y In ? r* 2. and ju 'slnqr from recest events the voters htv of the same mind. Every Democraticj governor who is present at this con ference is in favor of majority rn'e. Yve are going to support the man who can win and he has got to show us be can win before we give him our support.' 1EK A WEEK SiAlt P?fULA?UN CENSUS BUREAU GIVES |GRAND TOTAL OP 1,515,400. (Statistics by Counties Show Charles* too, Spartanburg, Anderson and Grt^nvilie Leading. According to the official count o? the returns of the thirteenth census, the population of the State of Souui i Carolina is 1,515,400, as compared! with 1,340,316 in 1900, and 1,151,-1 149 in 1890. The increase from 1900 to 1910, therefore, is 175,084, \ or 13.1 per cent, as compared with an increase for the proceeding de cade of 189,167, or 16.4 per cent. Population by Counties. County. 1910. 1900. Abbeville.34,804 33,400 Alken.. .. .. ..41.849 39,032 Anderson.. .. ..69,568 55,728 Bamberg... .. ...18,544 17,296 Barnwell.34,209 35,504 Beaufrrt..30,355 35,495 Berkeley.23,487 30,454 Calhrun.16,634 . Charleston.88,594 88,006 Cherokee.26,179 27,359 Chester.29,425 28,616 Chesterfield .. ..26,301 20,401 Clarendon.. .?. .32,188 28,184 Colleton...35,390 33.452 Darlington.36,027 32,388 Dillon.. ;.22,615 . Dorchester.17.891 16,294 Edeefield.28.281 25,478 Fairfield.. '_29.442 29,425 Florence.35,671 28.474 Georgetown.22,270 22,846 Greenvire.68,377 53.490 Greenwood.34.225 28.343 Hamrton.25.126 23.73S H"rrv.26.995 23.364 Kershaw.27.094 24.69G Lancaster.. .... 26.650 24.311 Laurens.41,550 37.382 Lee.25.318 . Lexington.32,040 27.264 Marlon.20.596 35.181 Mar'boro.; .. ..31.189 27.609 Newberry.34.586 30.182 O?onee..27.337 23.63 4 OT?neeburg .. ..55.893 59,663 Pickens.25.143 19.37o R'rbland.55.143 45.589 Salnda.20.943 18.966 Srartpnburg .. ..83.365 65,560 Su.mter. .38.472 51.237 Union.29.911 25.501 Williamsburg.. ..37,626 31,685 York.. .. .. .. .47,718. ? 41,68,4 Former Census Reports. Following is. the population of South' Carolina as shown by the Fed eral census taken at each decade from tne beginning of true- Govern ment of the United States: 1790. 249,073 1800. 345.591 38.7 1810.. .. .. 415,115 20.1 1820. 502,741 21.1 1830. . .. .. 581,185 15.6 1 840. 594.398 2.2 1850. 668.507 12.4 1860. 703,708 5.2 1870. 705,706 0.2 1880. 995,577 41. 1890.1,151,149 14. 1900.1,340,316 13.6 1910.1,515,400 13. Legislative Apportionment. The fo'lowing statement, carefully prepared by Senator Lide of Orange burg County, shows the loses and gains in members of the Legislature by some of the counties In the State under the apportionment of repre sentatives In the State Legislature under the new census: Present. New. Abbeville.3 3 Aiken.4 3 ?Anderson.5 6 Bamberg.2 2 Barnwell.3 3 Beaufort..3 2 Berkeley.3 2 Calhoun.1 1 ?Charleston. . '.8 7 Cherokee.2 2 Chester...3 2 Chesterfiell.2 2 Clarendon.3 2 Colleton.3 3 DarMngton.3 3 DHlon.1 2 Dorchester.1 1 Edeefield.2 2 Fairfield. . ...3 2 'Florence.3 3 Georgetown.2 2 Greenville...5 6 Green wr od.3 3 Hamnton.2 2 Horry...2 2 Kersbaw.2 2 I Lancaster ...2 2 j Laurens.3 3 Lee.2 2 Lex'ns'on.3 3 Marion.2 2 [ Marlboro.3 3 Newberry.3 3 J Oconee.2 2 i ?Ornnsoburg.4 5 j Pickens.2 2 ! Richland.4 5 j Sal u da.2 2 j Spartanburg.6 7 Sr niter.3 3 j Union.2 2 | Williamsburg.3 3 j York.4 4 By the above the counties of Aik pn. Braufort, Berkeley. Charleston, Chester and Fairfie'd each lose a renreF'",t"Hv<?, while the counties or Anrlercon. Dillrin. Greenville. Orange brrtr. Rfrhland ami Spartanburg each pain one. Uses a Knxor. A man r.t Houston. Texas, tried to Mil a young woman because she re insert to marry him. cutting her with a razor. He then cut his own throat. Both are expected to die. WHAT TAFT SAYS Ought to bj Dime by Congress and What Ought Not to be Done by I. A C0MPLE11 SUMMARY Ship Subsidy, Pcrnjanent Tarill' ! Board, Two New Battleships, Ex tension of Civil Service, Fixing of I Tolls Panama Canal, Iiess Cost of Litigation, and Other Matters Dis cussed. A complete summary of the mes sage sent to Congress by President Ts,ft on Tuesday is published below: He declares It is time to stop legis lating with reference to regulation of corporations and to witness the ef fect of a vigorous execution of the laws already on the statute books. The exact limitation upon business methods imposed by law will doubt less be made clearer by pending de cisions of the Supreme Court. Just at this time the President says he believes the activities of the government, in addition to enforce ment of the laws should be directed toward enlargement of opportunities for foreign trade, the building up of home industry and the strengthening of confidence of capital In domestic investment. Mr. Taft recommends strongly some form of ship subsidiary to in crease . American shipping, especially to South America. The tariff board is not ready to submit a report on any of the sche dules cf the Payne law and Mr. Taft says he will not recommend anv tariff legislation until the new Cou gress convenes in December, 1811. He urges that the tariff board be made permanent and that all future revisions be made schedule by sche dule. He vigorously opposes another general revision. The Panama canal should by ali means be fortified. An appropriation of $19,000,000 is recommended for this purpose. There must be no more "pork bar rel" methods in river and harbor and public building bills. The latter should be based upon the report of a commissirn of experts. The past Congress has-appropriated too. much for buildings not needed and not enough for buildings badly needed. Recommendations for anti-injunc tion an1 Federal incorporation laws are renewed. It is proposed that second class mail rates shou'd be readjusted so as to charge magazines a much higher rate on their advertising sections. Strong reDresentatlves are made frr the establishment o:: a new bank ing and currency system. Two new battleshlpn and several auxiliary vessels are urged for the navy. The President recommends that coal, phosphate and oil lands and water-power sites be disposed of In the future by leasing. Estimates for government expen ditures during the next fiscal year have been cut to $630.494.013.12, which is $52,960,887.36, less than the actual approoriations ' for the current year. The estimated re ce'rts for the next fiscal ysar were $800,000,000. The President urge3 the extension of the civil service principle to all classes or postmasters and to the di plomatic and consular corps and the acquisition by the govf *n:nent. of res idences and offices for its dipjomafic officers.' i:ome criticisms of the Payne tariff act are ju*t, says the President, but more are unfounded. There should be more officers for the array. The engineer corps should be Increased to sixty. Regarding the Panama canal, the PPresident says: "The progress of the work is most satisfactory. It will be competed well within the time set. Januarv 1. 1915. and with hl the estimated cost of $375,000, \ The Bildes In Culebra cut of fer no great reason for delay." Failure to fortify the canal would leave the United States pow erless to enforce the universal and equal use of the waterway against a desperate and irresponsible enemy and would defeat the object of the canal in incrcishig the military ef fectiveness of the American navy. The tolls should not exceed SI per net ton. T'.ie President should be authorized to adjust the rat;s as nec essity arises. The government should include In its management of the canal the furnishing not only to the navy, but (o the public as well, dry dock and repair facilities and the sale of coal, oil and other ship sup plies. Interstate rai'ropds should be pre vented from ownins: or controlling shivs trading through the canal. Regarding the courts the Presi dent deelares the crvinp; nc^d of the Unite! Stale? is eheapeiiiiiv; the cost cf litigation by simplifying judicial procedrre and expediting final judg ment. Ti e Pimrrnip Court should be relieve'1 frrm unnecessary appeals. Tbe salnries of Federal judges should be increased. I Postal savings banks will be es tablished in a number of cities Jan uary -. A parcels post on rural delivery routes is recommended. Postmaster General Hftchcock is giv en high praise for putting the post i office department on a self-sustaining S. C. Till h'SDAY. bEQ'i basis. ? The President recommends that Congress gives some fitting recogni tion of the polar discoveries of Com mander Kobert E. Peary. The Sec of the Navy suggeatB that Peary be ads a rear admiral and piaced on the retired ?bt. The stupendous value of the agri cultural products amounting to $8, 926.non.onn this year, indicates a good prrsppot i'or business through lout the country. The pres?r.i census promises to be 'he best tv&r taken, but Is not per fect. The census padders are to ue iforbusJy irosecited. A bureau of health should be es tablished. The Southern Pacific railroad should be reimbursed for its expen diture in fighting the floods in the [imperial valley of California several [years ago. . Heavier fines should be imposed against steamship companies for vio lating the immigration laws. The facllitieu at Ellis Island, New York, Bhould not be so increased as to of fer' an Inducement to the steamship companies to concentrate their 1m jmlgrat business at one'port. Immt g-a^ts are needed in the rural dln Itrlct?. Pome provision should! be made for retiring superannuated government clerks. The on'y amendments suggested in the' Interstate commerce law are an appropriation to enable the inter state commerce commission to ascer tain the valuation of railroads and fiving the responsibilities of public carriers in the issuance of bills of lading. THE WAGES OF SIN. \ Young Ilaby M.urdei?<l by Its Ola - Grandmother. Mrs. Adelaide Robinson, aged six ty-six, a well known resident of H:u I lif aysburg, Blair county, is under ar I rest at Johnstown, Pa., charged with I the mi rder of her daughter's Infant by chlorcform, and following a story, which she related to the police. Her husband, Samuel Robinson, and Dr. E. M. Ruff, also of Hollidaysburg have been detained as witnesses. The circumstances of the case are unusual. Mrs. Robinson was arrest ed just after she stepped from a cau at the Pennsylvania station, on 'Sat urday evening when the cab driver, John Schultz, called an officer and declared he had seen the woman id minister chloroform to the child while riding in his carriage and then place the'Infant in a>-?plescoplc-tra7 eling bag. The police allege that Mrs. Robinson confessed to this whsn brought to headquarters and the dead child was taken from the bag.. The woman col'apsed. Pannie Robinson, thirty-four years old, mother of the child, wad board ing with a private family at Johns town as a Mrs. Frank Hughes v?hou the baby was born last Wednesday evening. She had said her husband had left her. The Robinsons at Hollid.aysbur? were notified and the mother of the young woman hurried [here to see her daughter. Schultz, the cab driver, told the police that he was called to the boarding house where the young Robinson woman was stopping on Saturday afternoon and ' the elder Mrs. Robinson told him to drive hur riedly to the railroad station. He noted a babe in her arms, particular ly because the infant cried all the way and he said that as he chanced to glance around and through a glass shaiie in the cab he u-iticed the woman holding a wad of cotton to the ncse of the baby. Worried about the unusual occur rence, Schultz soon afterward agal'i looked Into the cab and this time he claims he saw the woman place the baby into the telescope and close the case. Hurrying his team, Schultz drove to the station, and after open ing the door for the woman to alight,, noticed that she carried nothinj brt the suit case. As the womau walked up the steps into the station the driver searched the cab and finding no baby, was convinced that it was in the suit case. He rushed to an officer and had the woman arrested. ESTDIATES 11,120,000 BALES. i National Ginners' Association Makes Crop Estimate. The annual report of the National Ginner's Association, issued at Mem phis, Tenn., Tuesday, shows 10,020, 000 bales of cotton ginned to Decem ber 1st. The total crop estimated by the Association is 11,120,000 bales. The report by States follows: Hales Crop State. ginned. estimate. Alabama . . .1,000,000 1,1 7G.000 Arkansas . . . 610.000 0.0-1,000 j Florida. . . . 53,000 CO,000. Georgia . . . .1,612,000 1,757,000 Louisiana . . . 210.000 232,000 Mississippi . . ?8,000 1,134.000 X. Carolina . . 60S,000 6S4.000 Oklahoma. . . S27.000 906,000 S. Carolina . .1,031.000 1,166.000 Tennessee. . . 242.000 L'SD.OOO Texas. 2,770.000 2,974,000 Various .... ".::.000 60.000 Total . . .10.020.000 11,126,000 Caused His Death. Thirteen frame buildings, eight stores and five dwe'lings, was de stroyed by fire at S?mter on Mon day night. Rev. O. II. Hopkins, col ored, after working hard to save nis furniture, discovered that fifty dol lars which he had in his vest pock?t had been stolen during the fire He dropped dead. iMliElt ? UUO BRUTAL MURDER Intense Excitement Follows the Wanton Killing ot a Neuro Boy. LAKE CITY IS AROUSED The Testimony Causes the Coroner's L.Jury to Charge Will J. Cockficld With Killing Henry Alfonso, a Ne gro Attache of a Carnival, and J. j II. V. Gaskins as an Accessory. A dispatch from Lake City says Henry Alfonso, a negro attache' cf Wollcott s show, was shot and in stantly killed il'CT S'.iridi/ morning before day, a crowd of armed m<m of the town and community estah lished a reign of terror on th-* show grounds, which culminated la this homicide. The witnesses wire so terrorized they refused ? to viik at first, but it was certain that AlfonoO was killed without the slights: pro vocation aid Iii his slayer was a white man of that section. Little by little, enough was worm ed out during Monday to sat's/j the oncers of the Identity of th? wit nesses and of .the faqt that they would testify if assured of pro ectiou. Whereupon, Magistrate Baldwin, act ing coroner, sent lor So.I-t.or Si c:lI and Sheriff Grauain. A J:?ry was sworn In, and after viewing thf bony, and after an .vfHiuination iiv TV. Woods, the inquest was ad burned until Tuesday. { Beside?- thi .??inic'de. is s-r.l that several of the show people v ere robbed at the potnrs of pis:ots by these said t? be responsible for the trouble. Intense excitement prevails, the whole community hv amused. The best men have banded together to protect the witnesses, bring out the truth and see that the law ?? vindicated. The substance of the testimony d' rectly in point was as follows: ... H. Gaskins was acting chief of police; he was authorized by Mayor Black well to appoint special po'icemen, if necessary, but cautioned to select on ly sober men. He appointed several, who are said to be notorious for their drinking habits and rowdy characters, and among those appoint ed was Will J. Cockheld; there was more or less drinking among these pc-TTTemen, it was stated. About one o'clock Sunday night Henry Alfonso, a negro attache of Wollcott's shows, who was assisting in moving the show property to the cars had Eat down on the show grounds by a fire to warm; he'was talking to another negro and was laughing, when Will Cockfield came up and said something about shoot ing. Cockfield said as given In tes timony: "You laughing at me, nlggsr. You don't believe I would shoot you?" to which Alfonso replied: "Yes, boss, I be'ieve you would shoot me." Jerking his pistol from his overcoat pocket, Cockfie'd fired ar the negro, who ducked hir head and the bullet went over his ncad, so witnesses testified. Just as Alfonso raised his head, Cockfield fired again, the bulle-' striking the negro In the left eye brow, and Alfonso fell backwards, dead. This was the testimony of two white boys, who were eyewit nesses, and their statements were corroborated in numerous details by other witnesses. J. H. V. Gaskins testified that he jan towards the fire where the shooting tcok place and just before] [he reached the dead man he saw Cockfield come from un'er a near-' by shed, and that he asked Cock-J field three times before getting a reply: "Where was the shooting?" and Cockfield said, "Towards * the railroad," aL.l that Cockfield went off J in a different direction. Notwith standing this Gaskins did not ques tion Cockfield, nor attempt to ar rest him, it seems. ?Other witnesses, who went to the; dead man, swore they saw Gaskins immediately after the shorting go off | with Cockfield around a house near the scene. Gaskins' own testimony j and that of several others pointed :o the fact that Gaskins knew that Cockfield shot the negro, yet made I no attempt to arrest him and even j assisted him in retting out of sight. ' Further, immediately the magis-i 'tr?te reached the scene, Gaskitie in sisted that the inquest be held at, i once, notwithstanding the confusion land the midnight hour, and voliia Ifeered to .vr as constable In getting the jury an*1 did summon a jury, and ! among those thus summoned were! \V. Ti. Godwin and G. R. Rowen, bo I; hi policemen. In the finding of the jury no' a' dissenting voice has been heard. The1 testimony was corivincin2 and went into details, consumim; three hours in the telling. So strong was Lite evidence that it was common com ment that it was sufficient to give the I case to a pi'!it jury. Gaskins is a white iikmi a!>oi:: ".: vonrs old and la- . 1 . at;.! - .... children and grand h'.) 'i :; r\>i about twelve years hi- .v.;- ;:::;_!.?:.??;<. at this plai e an.! ':. r a of bcln:; an excellent ? good citizen. About I'li.-t.- ... ..... <(..,u he fell to drinking, it is said, and has followed it since, much to tne injury of his standing. Cockfield comes of a very good family and has a wife and several small children and has stood very well In the community, except with VtK> NVhiL IKUP WILL NOT GO MUCH OVER TEN AND A HALF MILLION. The Southern Mills Had Better Wake l"p to a Realization of the True Situation. There is no doubt but that the cotton crop of the present year is '. short one. Even shorter than was thought a few weeks ago. In a let ter to the Augusta Chronicle Mr. T. E. Massengale, of Norwood, Ga., gives good reasons to bear oat the above statement. Here Is what he says: ' Convince a man against hla will, He is of the same opinion still." Some time back I wrote an article for your paper on the cotton crop, stating that the splnnable crop, or ciop from first glnninr would not be over the amount stated above. And now even with Unters and city crop it .vlll not reach more than 11,000.-' r,00 bales. City crop shou'd nev?r be counted. Neither should Unters. The city crop Is nothing but samples having been pulled from ba'es al ieady weighed an "I which are sold and in warehouses?in tranElt or ill j the hands of spinners. And the' weights of these bales will Bhow in the average weight cf bales by Mr. Hester. And to count them again in which they again appear is a prop esition that seems fishy. Linters aie fit for nothing that cotton is or can be used for, and should not be counted. But the bears are hard to. con vince. They had set their hearts and hands cn robbing the Southern r.danter by announcing a bumper crop from the opening of Lhe sea son. And there has not been a r?ay since Sentember 1st, that woui'l have warranted a large yield. The bears, however, are beginning to Lomo down from 13 1-2 millions to 12 1-2 and 11 1-2 million?quite a tall. [ The last census bureau report bhows bales cotton ginned 8,764,153. Now last year the same date cotton tinned 8,112,3 99, or 80 per cent or the crop that year, which was 10, 072,731 bales. If the same ratio -.ppertalns again this season, of 80 per cent ginned, we have a crop of x0,517,063 bales, first ginning of rotton, and I can see no reason-why ?hese figures should not prevail as rvery sensib'e .person ?nows that a more propitious fall for gathering was never known, and the sinning facilities never better, and the price a I tractive. But suppose we go back to the ginning of 1908. When 9,695,809 was ginned', leaving 27 per cent to be ginned (and this was a bad fall lor gathering.) The crop that year was 13,086,005. So if we take this vear's ginning for this crop yet to be ginned at 27 per cent we only get a crop of 11,100,000 bales of cotton .but I say that is preposter ous. So I still insist that I am emi nently correct, not only my premises, hut in my conclusions, if I ha l one million dollars today 1 would invest in spot cotton so quick, " 'twould make your head swim." The lowest estimate of the Augus ts cotton exchan-ie this season wa3 10.650,000, identical with my fig-J ures. Two short crops coming ou | the heels ^f the other means 20 cents cotton by March 1st, and that >\ill be cheap. The total consump tion of all kinds cotton during the 12 months ending August 31st was 17.030.511 hales, over 11,200,000 bales of American was spun, and as that spun in 1909 over 12,000,000 or American. Where will the cotton come from to sunp'y the demand? As there are 135.000,000 Bpindles now humming sweet music to ears of the world, where, oh! where, is ? he cotton coming from to keep the music going? The Southern mills had better iTake up to a realization of the fact' last there is no more cotton in the' fields to pick. They arc as bare as! they will be March 16t. Ginnin? all | over our country?having had gin-| ning days since November 1st, and the cotton being gathered up by the Luropean spinners, the smartest ?oil] men on earth. They call great meetings (always in our cotton country) and pass resolutions that ihey will shut down before they will pay the price, and while the English j spinner is hollering "sick him, Tisje, and our mil' boys drawing their i r nlves to assassinate the farmer and I ractor, the European spinner is I?'tiietly buying through his agents j V.rj cream of the cotton?leaving icnr mill men to run around and set I the tail end of lh-3 e:.pay liki: j i-Zadss for that. This reminds me cl Hie slory of Hi'.' outlaws that called a meeting for prayer, and I while the devout ones were down in the tempi'1 un their leners praying : for t.Vc brethren, the outlaws had j lobbed them of their earthly pos '?essions and ran away; Nov.- Hulls, give tin Hears vts. Tom Barrett ''an tell you how to do it. j Yours truly, i '1'. G. Massengale. Noi w oou. Ga.. Dec. 1. I!) I 0. respect to lein.' hot-headed and vio ieisi. About eighteen months ago hc-i oliui a man here, inflicting a slight I wound. It was then thought that! the bad reputation of the victim was all that prevented Cockfield having to stand trial. Both Cockfield and Caskins have surrendered and Con stable Belli has taken them to Jail inj Kingstree. ? CKVI> I'KR CO IM m IN MOD OmIik k-?>> V- H-pii ss t" Respond to lb? Gi?s ot ?1- n <s Thfy '* SLOWLY SINK. 10 DEATH T-ivc Grid Seekers Kngulfed by Mud ?Region's Danger Spots' Are Called "Honey-Pots"?Mining En gineer Tells of Diggers Tfu.owing ? i Away Grid to Save Themselves. S owly sinking in a sea of mud, a* iea&t five men are known to have scne down to ^eath, swallowed up hy the "honey-pots" that lie-around Frederick House Lake In the newly discovered go'd mining region of the Vorcupine district of Northern On tario. The story has been brought' .mm the new gold fields by W. B. j'?acleay, min'ng engineer and pros pector of Montreal, who has spent t^e summer in the Timmlns district and who, emaciated and gaunt vis age-', has come back to civilization to recover his health. Mr. Macleay says that Just before hf started out-bound on hia tramp-' ine fall rains had converted a large' part of che district into mud slougna end wide deep patches of yielding, shaking soil. All kinds of vehicular rrrffic was stopped, thus cutting off i^e fond supplies that usually reach 'he camps from Bisco, the nearest ?Lat'on. When he left camp, a 1IU1? '?nor? than two weeks ago, nearly everything edible had been eaten, and starvation stared the miners ie the face. They were therefore con fronted wirb a slow an1 'miserable death, if they remained In camp> and until the frosts hardened the surface of ihe swamps they would encounter a no less terrible fate in striving to reach the outside woYld unless acquainted with the trails. Some in desperation faced the peril of the long and dangerous tramp to Bisco to brln? back food; the general load being 100 pounds of provisions per man, strapped on the hack. Packing through .supplies *q this way or death were the only alternatives. At best, it was a sk>y> and laborious process as the trails^ ro in any direction the packers might, led through swamps.' that sep arated the northern or richer parts oMhe goidfleld-from the ground that .iad a solid surface. The most diffi cult and deadly part of the journey ?.r as along the shores of Frederlelt 'ilouse Lake, where there was an old Hudson Bay post. "It was on this part of the trail,* paid Mr. Macleay, "that I saw, on my way out, two men with' loads oh their backs slowly sink down in the mud and disappear, from sight. Their cries and shrieks were (rightful to hear. There were several otherB h round, but we could do nothing for the two unfortunates, fwho werfe gradually en?iulfed ? before our eyes as we stood near by absolutely help jess to afford them any assistance. Nobody had any ropes. Branches of the alder and tamarack were torn irom some solitary trees'around, but :lie sinking men could not stretcn out their hands to gxa'sp the suc cory. The sight and sounds wero horrifying. It was raining hard th^n and dusk was beginning to fall, and had we remained longer it would jr.ave been death for all of us. It was with the utmost difficulty that we at last succeeded in getting on ?al'e ground. "Gl?cks mad? out of houghs of the trees were pushed down to probe ihe depth of the inlre, and it was a legend that in many parts you mi^ht go down twenty feet of more before solid ground was touched when ihe iiins came in such quantity as had then fallen. One man'told* me that he witnessed two stalwart fellowa sink to their death tinder circum stances similar to those I have de scribed, while another told of a youny lad who went to his doom ill like manner lower down the trail. It Is quite probable there were sev eral others who me"t a like fate, as It was the easiest thinfc in the world ?o wander off terra firm a and get hopelessly mired In *a treacherous bog. Some of those tvho were com ing out had to save*their lives at the expense of fho" geld they car ried that represented--their labor for the summer." Yet the knowledge of all these terrible difficulties, tlto sufferings to be undergone and the death traps that Iurk'-oh every sfdte, does not a[> pal the seeker after, hidden wealth. NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH. it Is Thought the 'Murderer Will Soon Bo Caught. One of the negrp helpers with Wolcott's model shows v/as shot and instantly killed at Lake City at -?ix early hour Sunday mornln.tr by un known persons. While it is rumored that there were sorat eye-witnesses !< the Ira^fdy, the officers have not been able to secure any testimony which would place the respotisiut'Ty rn any ono. Those in' charge th'fite that they have a clue and hope, ro secure tie conviction of the gtiifty person. Besides the homicide, it is snid that several of the show people were robbed at the points of pistols by those said to be responsible for the trouLIb. L.Lci.ot excitement pro vails, the whole communiu being aroused.