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1ILLIN DEFENDS CARLESION YARD SBNATOR GROWS WARM IN DIS CUSSING NAVAL STATION. Declares Magazine Article About Es tablishment at South Carolina Port Misleading. Washington, Feb. 16.-When the senate today took up tie naval appro priation bill Senator Dixon of Mon tana was the first to take the flooi and he continued his strictures of the plan of having many navy yards along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts instead of three of four gnreat naval bases, which. lie insisted, was the course that would be pursued by any great commercial and business man. He said millions of dollars are anual ly wasted by the scattering of the work through many navy yards. Senator Tillman taunted the sena tor from Montana with being a "sen ator from the Rocky mountains who has come here to tell us show to build a navy." "It is," he continued, "easier to sit on a mountain peak out in Idaho and read magabine eritic isms of the navy than to run the navy.'' He declared that a magaziiie arti cle from which Mr. Dixon read was "full of lies." "Whether or not it is full of lies," wDlied Mr. Dixon, "is just what I sm endeavoring to find out." He re ferred to a statement in .the magazine to the effect that the improvement at the Charleston, S. C., yard was ad vised against by the experts, buit -when Mr. Tillman said this was not the ease, -he expressed himself as sat isfied. Mr. Dixon insisted that the naval committee of the senate was compos ed almost entirely of senators wiho have navy yards in itheir respective States. He wanted to know what would be thought of having the com mittee on reclamation of arid lands composed of senators from the States in which such lands a-re located. Mr. Hale replied that such was ithe ease, and Mr. Tillman added that a similar condition exists in the Indian and the public lands committees. Mr. Dixon was again reading from the magazine from which 'he had quoted when Senator Tillman inter rupted to say that if lie was "going to bring muckraking into the senate " the bill would be there a long time. "If this is the only muckraking brought into .the senate it would in terfere very little with -the dispatch of work," retorted Mr. Dixon. Charleston's Advantages. Mr. Tillman referred to t'he subject of the C4harleston yard, on whose ad vantages 'he elaborated. "You," he declared, pointing his finger at Mr. Dixon, "simply are pre judiced against the Southern yards arid you want to get that out of your head." Mr. Dixon replied tha't he was a Southern mani and :had no such pre judice, so far .as 'he knew. Charles ton might be the best place for a great naval station. "If I am mistaken," Mr. Tillman replied, "-then I beg the senator's pardon. But there are some people who think nothing is good if it is in ithe South. The president himself rea izes this condition and 'has in his speeches appealed for a different treatment for that section." Mr. Tillman declared tha.t there was a "el-ique in the na.vy department who wanted to break up the Charles iton navy yard." "I am not speaking in the interest of any navy yard." said Mr. Dixon. "'I am only speaking in favor. of con solidation.'" "'If I stood indicted in this arti ele," said Senator Dixon, referring to the m'agazine criticism, "I1 would an swer it. I think that it is a matter of self-respect that the senate and con gress and the administration should answer these charges which are made openly. T:he people of the country be lieve these articles whether we do or not.'' Senator MeEneryv, of Louisiana. de lared that 'hostility in the navy de partment against .the navy yards of Louisiana prevented any ship from gongz there for repairs. "They ab solutely refuse," he said, "to make improverments and 'repairs in 'tha.t vard and yet they send small boats from the South Atlantie coast to Northern yards for repairs." There was, he said, a usurpation of authority in the navy department. so that. evenl when congress makes ap propriations for certain yards the de partment withholds the money and delines to make estim'ates for. fatare appropriations for them. Mr. Dixon declared in reply to statements made by otiher senators that he was not filibustering again-e the naval bill. "What is lie filibusterinv-r aainst?"' asked Mr. Flint in an un dertone. ''The senator from Montana is not filibustering 'ait all," replied Mr. Dix on for himself. "Here is a bill carrying $13S,000. 000 and we have had one day to con sider it," said Mr. Dixon. "Has ii reached such a. point in this senate that a senator has not a -right to ask questions about a bill earrying s much money?" Mr. Dixon declared tihat we dc not know where we are dritit ing,' i ina-kin- these appropriations. " God knows,'' lhe said, "there ought to be some plan somewiere to put a eiek upon this geometrie increase in the appropriations, especially when WE are confronted by a deficiency of $150,000,000. Mr. )ixoi yielded tlie floor and the conlside;ation of the bill was proceed ed with. An amendmenit directiingu a report on the availabi-lity of land of the Jamestown Exposition company near Norfolk, Va., for a naval train ing station was stricken from tjhe bill on a point of order. SAD ACCIDENT. Fourteen-Year-Old Irene Wade Run Over and Killed by Freight Train at Greenwood. Greenwood, February 16.-Irene, the littl.e 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Wade, of this place, was run over by a freight on the Sou thern here this morning, and so bad ly crushed -and mangled that she died about tihree hours after the terrible accident. The little girl, with a you.nger sis ter, aged about 8, was on her way to school from their home, on Lee street, and were in the aet of crossing ith-e railroad tracks at the lower end of Hampton avenue, near Beaudrot' shoop. A freight train on the Ohar leston -and Western Carolina was oming in as they began crossing, and the two little girls were watching that. They were directly behind the caboose of South;ern freigh,t 66. which had a few minutes before come in from Greenville. This freight sud denly moved baek, and without warn ing tihe little girl was pushed down, run over and mangled. Her left leg was practically crushed off above the knee. Her left. hand was run over and also erushed off. The girl's screams attracted - meiate attention. Dr. J. B. Owvens, who lives very near. was the first to reach 'her. Messrs. Geo. Anderson, Beaudrc t, and Ed. Hunter, were also quikly .at hand, and the little suffer er was carried crushed and mangled to her home, from whence she :had on lv a short while before left 'happy and content. Her mother was away from home, .atitending the Sunday school convention in Orangeburg. Her fath er, superintendent of the Greenwood Cotton Mills, was in the mill. He was soon at home. The best surgical skill was rendered aher,. but she never sur vived the terrible shoek. She died about noon. Mr. and Mrs. Wade 'have been liv ing here only a few months. They came from Peizer, where Mr. Wade was superintendent of one of 'the mills there. The Southern train was in eharge of Conductor Fant. The trage dy has deeply stirred the community. Anything of the sort happening to a child is peculiarly sad and peculiarly affecting. Parents gaze with fonder and more ~tender eyes on their own ehildren, -and their 'hearts go out in inexpressible sympat,hy to the berear 'd father and mother of little Irene Wade. YBGG WAS IN LAURENS. Man in Arrest in Jacksonville Talk ing-Claims to Know Dead Man -Adds There Was Third Man. Columbia St.ate, 17th. The identity of the heretofore un known ye-gg killed at Laurens seems to ihave been established. The identi fications have been nlumlerous, but 'at offered by a brother yegg captur ed by -a Jacksonville polieeman in the et of blowing .a safe in a saloon in that city seems 'to be 'the best yet preseted, if it can be credited. How ever-, it is not a yegg habit to talk, and this fellow may be trying to pro tet 'himself. According to 'this man' *s!tatement, the dead man's name is Charley Silas. The man appr-ehended in .Jackson v-ille talks ver-y freely of himself and his v-aried operations as a safe crack e-. Hei says ,his name is -John Samp son. A yegg by the name of George Barton is alleged to 'have been with Sampson, watching on the outside while Sampson did the . ob in the sa loon. This Barton, says Sampson, is the man who was with Silas when he was killed in Laurens. Barton is al leged to have evaded the police and made ihis 'escape while the lone officer was running in Sampson. Sampson says 'he himself w'as no-t a participant in the shbooting. He went to Laurens with Silat and Barton, but he remained on the cars a little longer than did his two pals and was lying ear wheni ie heard the re-olver re p<mvts. His tile of the trip to LInr1en. is iltat about six neeks ago he went to Oharleston, and one of the first men he saw was Charlev Silas. The two were old pals and he had known Silas as an exceptionally elever safe erack er in New York eity and elsewhere. Thev two planned miany "Jobs"! while they were in Charleston. the Laurens stall beiig ailono- them, and after several diys went to Savannah. While here the; met Geo. Barton, an old pal of theirs, who told them that he had been operating around AugOus ta. but ithey had decided to get out of Georgia. The three selected Jackson vIll-e as a good poilit to camp for a while aid1 sia.ed in i tiat (itv. '-erack ing'' safes in the outlying list]ries. That city remained their -iwadquar ters. One of .the trio is dead, anither in jail and the thirdI fleeing from t-he Jacksonville poliee. Sampson says they had some time before planned a "job' at Lauren.; and went from Jaeksonville to Char leston. where they caught a freight train for Laurens. The entire party was to have alighted from 'the train near Laurens, but lie himself. as aforesaid, did not get off with them and only heard the shots from the top of the ea,r. After the shooting, Samp son and Barton caugh.t a later -train for Cha.rleston, coming immediately to Jacksonville, where they continued >perations until tihe capture of Samp son and the leparture of Barton for parts unkno -n. Sampson says that itfhe pictures published of Silas were excellent likenesses and both he and Barton commented on this fact. Sampson talked freely to the Jack sonville police, telling of many "jobs' lhe has been implicated in. The 'records corroborate everything he has said as to the jobs pulled off, and as to his partner, Barton, being wanted in different States and escap in<r from the Fulton county jail. Sampson is an artist in his --profes sion." and says Silas. tlhe dead yegg, was one of the very best in the busi ness of cracking safes. Sampson claims to have made his own nitrogly cerine. * The liquid, according to Sampson's story, was made by put ting sticks of dynamite in hot wa.ter and 'after mashing to a pulp, squeez ing -it through a rag into small bottles. The dynamite was purchased by Bar ton, who declaired that he wished to 1use it in blasting in conneetion with the work on a house .he was building Sapon was very bold, passing the Jaeksonile police headquarters fre quently and carrying on conversations Iwith several patrolmen. He was ar rested by .the sheriff on a charge of vagraney, but was released. He had at the time, he said, a small bottle of nitroglycerine suspended from a at:ring tied around ,his waist. Samp son says -he would have shot the po liceman arresting him had he not thlought that he had other offieers with him, and that Barton is a dan gerous man, alwvays going armed, and will not thesitate to shoot. Postoffice Inspector Gregory is in Jacksonville .to take a look at Samp son and he may have information that will result in additional charges being placed -against him. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in post office at Newbery, S. C., for week ending Feb. 13th, 1909: Mrs. Mary Agner. Miss Lillian Baxley, Mr. C. T. Bradley, Mr. J. H. Burton, Sr., Mr. H. W. Cook. Mrs. Mattie Gr'een. Mr. Jeff Gilliam Mr. Dollie Harrie. M. E. Hutehison. Miss Elvira Matthews, Miss J'am mie ickes, r. C'harlie P. Myers. George Nance. Miss Annma Neal S. D., Mr. R. J. Nebane. 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