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MANN ING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1907. N WILL DEFY LAW 3ffrt is Made to Reinstate Negro Troops YS THE PRESIDENT. 111 Veto Any Measure Congress May ass to Benefit the Discharged Negro Soldiers, and Will Refuse to Carry Law Into Effect. Anuous times are expected In lngton before Congress adjourn 'he correspondent of the Chica 3ord-Heraid says the President ring to fight to the last ditob Intenance of its position with -,; to the discharge of a bat of the Twenty-fifth (,olored) -ry against any action, no mat 3w extreme, that Congress by osihity make take. Presi Rtoosetels has sent Milton D. assistant to the Attorney _4l, to Brownsvill, Texas, to affidavits of citizens regarding ot on 'the night of August 13 ,nd these affidavits the Presi utendd to have ready to meet, * :newal of the attack against' Senator Foraker when Con sconvenes after -he holdays. ions who called at the recently declare that Pr Roosevelt is aroused to his . fighting pitch by the atr .%7 being made to discredit hisl following the Brownsville and that he is more deter than ever not to take a single ard step nor make any move g to tlie construction that he havi-g misooncelved either -. wers In the promises or the te -that guided him when he is -is.order of wholesale discharge. r longress pass a bill restoring -charged soldiers to their for sitiona in the army, or remov disability to te-enlist placed lem, the President will veto It. res pass a measure by a two vote over his veto he will dis its action-being willing to peachment proceedings If his e3 want to carry the war that --;til tho Supreme Court of the States far decided that the -Ave power no longer rests with -lef executive of the nation, ested in the legislative branch .overnment. Sstatridenta are strong. They. - oent, however, and those a- close enough tothe President =%estand his position thoroughly a talked with him during the -enty-four hoursentertain no j- to tAhe lengths he will go to s: his right as he see&it. Not a oldier; among those of the o'mpanies discharged "without will hereinstiated In the army Pre~Ident of the United ? less he proves his innocence 2arges in gross, made against talion to the satilsf action of Ident of the United States. the ultimatum from the : ouse toit c ritics at the cap nk the story about what the lnends to do is silly to talk d youwmust excuse me from - g it,":deelared Senator For -:Ohio, when asked his opin oosevelt's reported declara che uipuIS disregard any law might pass reinstating the -ops until the supreme court ~portidnty of passing on it. sid Koraker conferred with - on and legal autihorities in - - zation conducting an inves . af the negro troops matter * arrived at an opposite con -zfl the president and Taft. - ew York. The senator spend hi' holiday vacation -.- evidence supporting his c ithat the negro tiroops did olpatie in the Brownsville sistant Attorney General aTexras as the president's representative working up of the case. ishington Is discussing the -President Boosevelt's de --on to ma-ntain the atttunde ken with regard to the dis * 2the negro soldiers of thej fth Infantry which comes arent persons who called on * mon amazing ratureS or :ortsis that in whch he is sdas declaring that In case assed a law ever his veto re *- as discharged men to their - the grmy he would seek hy ilrdstrative means to defeat nd tailing in that would en -gws the supreme court tio sorder of dismissal. This ~ary declaration has roused Intierest In Washington. It out that It is practically an * -y the highest executive of -e government of his inten liberately refuse to obey a1 - gress. It Is an announce - eband that suich a law will -Iinstead of enforced4 -course' on the part of the - ltis pointed out,lisa diect to impachment. When ent refue 30 varry out the - fcongres the oply proced ~o the legislative branches iernaient tio Insure the -en - of Its laws is to impeach 3re Is no other remedy. It Is Lhat that is what thse s In mind when he expressed * some of hisaannr're - lling to face impeaol1'4ut * n withdraw from'the stiand en about the discharged-sol res nopossibl~Ythat he -e to carry 1the fight so-far. e of such avigorous contest reparjng- to make. there is bat.?L ~^. congress will atior..tse.t1nl. to him. - e'wili -probably order and le i~y-ad theeI V-m3aR4na shllrstorinz the discharged men would necessitate the active co-operation of the House machine, which is very far from ready now to enter Into open revolt against the president. The possibil ity contemplat-d by the president when he made that declaration would Involve complete rupture with his party. -It is not becauss of the possibility of actually reaching such a situation, however Mr. Roosevelt's announce '"ent awakens astonisbhment, but be cause of the attitude he declared himself prepared ty take. His anger against Senator Foraker has been raised to the white heat p!tch by the shooting of Captain Mocklin, and the opinion is expressed In some quarters that the vigor or his lan guage was due to that fact, and was not perhaps exactly descriptive of his realpurpose. COTTON METING TO BE HELD IN BIRMINGHAM. ALA., IN JANUARY. It -Will Be an Important Gathering and Fouth Carolina Ehould Be Represented. South Carolina should be well rep resen4Ed at the meeting of the South em Cotton Association in Birming ham, Ala, on January 18. Among those who will attend are Governor Heyward, Piesident E. D. Smith, Meas. F. H. Hyatt, the treasurer of ,be South Carolina division, and F. H. Weston, the secretary. The fact that there is a fight on hand to change the loca.ion of the headquv ters from Atlanta to some other city makes it crobable that Columbia will be a factor in the proceedings and the influenos the de'egates from this state %iWl exert gives some ground for be. lieving that Columbia may be select ed. At the meeting President Harvie Jordan, as announced some time ago, will send in his resignation as presi ent, and the delegation from this state hope to have either Messrs. E. D. Smita or F. H. Hyatt elected to that position. Both are recognized as leading spirits in the organization. Governor Heyward goes to the meeting as the result of several let ters ur,ing him to address the organ ization on "The Immigration as it Affect the Association." As his suc ;ssor, Hon. Martin F. Ansel, will go nto (fice on January 15 and the gov rnor will have taken up his residence In Columbia as a private citizen, he feels that he will be able to attend and show the members what has been accomplished since the establishment of this department by South Carolina. He feels that, since his election as president of the Southern Immigra tion Association, It is absolutely nec 8sary for the various organizations of the South to realiz3 the vast import. Lace of the work commenced by this ntate and now being followed by oth es. His recent speech in Philadel phia, which attracted so much atten tion, has resulted in hundreds of letr ters being received from Southern people who recognize the value of a representative from this section show Ing the people of the North the mu tual benefit to be derived from co operation. F. H. Hyatt will address the asso lati.on an ''How Shall We Finance the Cotton Crop.?" and because of the Importance of the subject he stated Friday that he would be glad to re meve any suggestion along that line bhau may be of value. The following letter was received by him from Har ie Jordan, the president: F. H Hyatt, Columbia, S. 0. Dear Sir: The annual convention of the Southern Cotton Association has been called to west at Birmingham. Ala., Jan. 17 to 19. I am now pre paring the programme for the occa sion, and it gives me great pleasure to extend to you a most cordial invita tion to be present and deliver an ad dress on the subjet, "How Shall We Finance the Cotton Crop?" I appreciate the fact that you are thoroughly competent to handle this subject and very much hope that you will write me at once of your accept ance. We are doing everything in our power to secure as large an at tendance as possible at this conven tion, and believe that we will have delegates from every cotton growing county in the Suth. The time has come when every loyal and patriotic Southerner should do eserything in his power to cooperate for the futare success of this great movement, which has been of such material value to the South since its organization. Thanking you for a prompt reply. Yours truly, HARVIE JORDAN, reuident. Left to the Poor. The suicide of Mrs. Mary Elsie Bal four, aged 54. who threw herself lute the lake at East Lake Park at Los Angeles, Cal., reveals that though she lived alone In a poor shanty she left a large fortune, mainly to charity. Her body was found Tuesday by a park keeper and in a satchal was the mem orandum: "My will Is in little trunk on table. I want to be cremated." The will directs that the money be given to the poor of San Francisco and other cities. She was a refugee at Los Angeles from the San Francisco fire, and that the disaster had affected her mind. 'Burnel in a Field. IAt Danville, Va., James Moss, a negro, was burned while 'ying drunk i a field. Moss was an Inmate of the, city jail but being a trusty was jilowed many privileges. iOhristmas hewent home to visit his family and becoming intoxicated wandered out FIto a straw field and there fell aleep Fire was raging in the field and be as soon the center of a mass of flames. He~ was conveyed to the gnealhoisptal 'there he died later. Why The DIrerence. Statistics compiled by representa tivis of the United Typothetae of America and the American Weekly Publishers'. Association show that the government is paving the railways three times as much on an average, Ifore transportation of mall matter as 'express companies pay roads for like DIE IN FIRE. Five Hundred Horses and Mules Burned to Death in ATLANTA STOCKYARD The Fire Caused by Safe Blowers. Night Watchman, Trying to Release Horses and Mules, Was Badly Burned on Hand. Safe Blow ers Escaped. In Atlanta on Christmas Day safe blowers who wrecked a safe and over turned the cifiee stove, started a fire which gutted the two stables of Har per Brothers and Bagsdale and Car lisle, near the Brady Union Stock Yards, and caused the death of 400 heads of mules and 100 of horses. H. .. Harper, of the first named firm, es. timrates the total loss at scmething over $100,000, with approximately $55,000 Insurance. The fire started shortly after 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. The stables of the two firms, covering two acmep, and owned by Harper Brothers, were gutted before 5 o'clock. The fire de partment responded, but could render no aid. The mourning and suffering of the 500 caged animals was terrible. and could be heard all over the neighbor hood. R. L. Baynes, the night watch man, was in the basement feeding, when the fire started. The back dow was fastened and he could not open it to permit the animals to escape. Baynes himself, was burned on the band. The safe, with its doors blown open, stood on one side near the cffice door. The books and other contents were gone. There was not much money in it, however. The loss is as follows: 400 mules at $150 a piece, $60,000; 100 horses at $100 a piece, $10,000; two stables, $30,000, making a total of $100,000. Mr. Harper says that these figures are approximated, as is the amount of the insurance-$55.000. The county police are keeping a lookout .or the safeblowers, but o far have no clue. Tuesday morning part of the walls which had been left standing fell down, and the police kept the crowd back. B. Gillard, who lives near the sta bles, says he heard a crackling noise, as if some one had used dynamite, shortly after 4 o'clock Tuesday morn ing. Getting up, he dressed hurriedly and made for the stables. When he got there-they were in flames. They were completely guted by 5 o'clock, or less than an hour after they started. R. L. Baynes, the night watchman, was in the basement feeding. He heard no noise in the office, he says, but then he was about 400 feet from it, He smelled smoke, however, but by the time he reached the rear en rance the building was aflame. The horses and mules also smelled the smoke and crouched close to one aother and began to whinny. Baynes tried to unfasten the rear gate so that he could open it and allow the helpless animals to escape. While he was working with the gate the whole buiding suddenly flamed up and he imself escaped just befcre it crashed In. E ven so he got one of his hands burned. The horses and mules were distrib ted through the two stabl'is which were about equally div~ded between rhem. Some were in the great base ment, while others were on the upper floor. Even if the rear gate had been opened it Is doubtful whether they would have escaped, as animals be ome panic stricken on such occasions and so far from running from the ire, generally return to It in their frnght. The fire department arrived on the scene, but the blaze was too far gone for the firemen to do any good. Short .y after 5 o'clock it was over. The animals were completely burned un in most instances. N~ot a shred of tim br could he seen and only parts of the walls were left standing. H. S. Harper, of Hutper Brothers, said Tuesday that he could give no very exact figures on the fire, except the approximate ones given above. While he placed a valuation of S150 on the mules, lb Is probable that the average would be nearer $200. MI am convinced that the sare blowers were responsible for the fire," saId Mr. Harper. "The safe was blown up and turmu d over and its con tents were taken. I don't think they got much money, but they got some. "My theory Is that when the safe blowers dynamitad the safe the explo sion overturned the cdfice stove, and this spread the flames to the building. It was the quickest fire imaginable. In less than an hour after it had gutted the plac3. "We have no clue so far to the Identity of the men who blew the safe. The night watchman, being in the basement, 400 yards away from the offce, of course heard or saw nothing that would give us any clue. "I don't know exaotly how much Insurance we have, but it Is In the neighborhood of $55,000. We lost be. tween 350 and 400 mules at a valueof 150 a piece; 100 horses at $100, and a stable at $30,000. The two stables covered about two acres of groundy and they were owned by Harper Brothers. The insurance is on horses, mules and buildings." The two stables are at the foot of Emmett street, cif Marietta street and near the Brady Union Stock Yards. A Big Boy. C ar Shaklees, afifteenyer-old claims to be the biggest boy in the United States. He is six feet two inches tall, weighs 488 pounds. and Iis in fair health. His chest measure ment is 74 inches, his waist 712, his Ithigh in 26 Inches In girth and the calf of his leg 24. Carl wears a No. CLOSER BALING OF OUR COITON SUGGESTED BY THE SPINNERS. it Would Ering About a Great Sav ing in Car and ship !pace in Shipping. As the question of forcing the rail roads of the country to do somathing to relieve the situation in regard to the shortage of cars is soon to be one of the important matters before the Interstate commerce commission, a solution of the problem may be at hand in the suggestion made a few days age by H. W. McAlister, chair man of the Lancashire cotton inves tigation committee. He came to this country early in November to make further inquiry into the methods of baling and transporting cotton. He says that this is one of the most serf ous matters that coDfronts the busl ness men of the country today and that it is not confined to any one State or section, but that all are alike affected. In the South It Is cotton that is unable to move, in the West it is cattle, and in other sections diff erent commodities, but that the same shortage is felt everywhere. To the railroad companies he says it is equal ly as serious a matter by reason of the eLormous capital that would have to be expended to supply the deficiency in cars. Mr. McAlister further says that the only cure for the present condition of affairs Is the initiation of a scheme to effect an Improvement in the baling of cotton. "The form of the bale of cotton made at present," he says, "is so irregular and its density so light that It owcuplesitoo much space. A standard freight car will under pres nt conditions carry twenty-five bales from the gin to the point of discharge at the compress, and after compres sion the same car will carry fifty bales to the shipping port. I advocate the establishment of presses at the gin they are capable of baling cotton to a density of thirty-five pounds per cubic foot and of making the bale into such a form of standard dimensions as will enable a freight car to carry 100 bales of cotton instead of the number above stated. "The saving to the railway compa nies in capital expenditure, upon freight cars, in depreclaticn (renewal of plant), in cost of repair in shorter trains, in the reduction of cost in the matter of delays in having to unship cotton at compress points, and to re hip the same, in the reduction in the number cf "short haul trains" and in an increase of "long hauls," in the number of Iccmotives used to move tandard lengths of trains-all these can only be calculated by men versed In railway management. "It is admited generally that there is no crop in the country of such value which Is treated so badly in the mat ter of exposure to weather as the cot ton crop, and attention was drawn to this at the meeting of the cotton spinners and vlanters that took place in Washington last May. The mem - bers of the Southern Cotton Associa tion and others expressed their Inten tion to take measures to remedy the evil by building warehouses. If the guestion of saving space Is conside~red L the light of the comparative space occupied in a freight car above indi ated, the saving of cost in warehouse1 accomodation must be patient to all concerned. "The same conditions apply to own ers of steamships. A vessel whose present capacity is, say, 8,000 bales of cotton, would crrry 12,000. These savings in the aggregate would amount to millions of dollars annually, and ivery one connected with the trade, from the producer to the last cordsum er, would benefit by the change." Cost or Living (ureater. The New York World one day last week published statistics from corres pondents in vorious states showing that the cost of livi! g has Increased more than wages have advanced. Twenty states reported, but only In diana, Rhode Island and Wisconsin show a greater increase in wages than in prices. Georgia, Maryland and Virginia are the Southern states quoted. Virginia estimated Its wage increase averaged two per cent., while the cost of living had increased ten to fifteen per cent. Georgia esti mated wages increased twenty per cent. In five years. The starting point was poor as previously wages were very low. Commr.,dities have risen more rapidly. Maryland prices ad vaned about fifteen per cent., while only skinoed labor Is receiving higher wages- averaging ten per cent. KiedI His Comrade. Tragedy blighted the spirit of Christmas at the big holiday dinner of the colored soldiers at Fort Stieri dan Equadron of the Ninth Calvary who were seated at the long tables in the dinning hall ready to begin the Christmas feast, Sergeant John Grif tin, of Troop I., shot and almost in stantly killed Corporal William Tay lor, of the same troop, in a hand -to hand struggle, following a quarrel about a woman. Taylor di'ed on the way to the hospital. Griffin was placed in the guard house. There was speculation ac the Fart last night as to how the witnesses will conduct themselves In giving testi mony, whether with the affair of the olored troops at Brownsville, Texas, fresh in their minds, they will con sent to testify at all. Death of Bishop Smith. Bishop A. Coke Smith,of the South en Methodist Church, died at Ash ville, N. C., on Thursday night after a lingering Illness, although his death was unexpected. He was 57 years of age. having been born In Lynchnburg, . C., In 1849. He graduated from' Wofford col've, Spartanburg, S. C., in 1873 and Gamediately ,ioIned the South Carol' " conference. He was pastor at C , Columbia, Charles Iton an& other douth Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the faculties of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor of Epworth chuah. Norfolk, Va., In 1902, he was lected bishop. T wo years ago he emoved to AshevIlle for his health., W INT IT KILLED. WOULD BAlfCOTTON EXCHANGES FROM THE MAILS, It Has Cost the Eouth Millions cf Dollars During the PastYear. A dispatch from Washington says representatives of the cotton growing Intorests of the South are preparig a date on which to base a request that the poateffloe department issue a fraud order agaLst the New York Cotton Excharge. They are certain that the information they will file will make issuance of Euih an ord3r imperative The matter was tentatively presented to the department late Friday. The gr3unds on which the postal authorities will be asked to deny the big New York concern the use Lf the maills Is that it conducts a businest which is not legitimate. The South erners are not making a fight on the business of dealing in futures, per se, as they assert that the New Orleans Cotton Exchange handles its affairs in a way which is entirely legitimate, and which Is altogether different from the methods of the New York ex change. If ihe postofflee department pursues the course that Is usual In such matters the promoters of the movement say that a j order forbid ding the mails for the transmission of contracts certainly will be forthcom ing. The principal complaint against the New York exchange is that the cot ton delivered on contracts .sold on its floor, is not of the middling grade. or its equivalent, but a "rotten" com modity which cannot be spun, which Is only fit for makng horse collars, mattresses, etc.. and on which the buyer, if he does not dispose cf his contracts before "notice" day must in some oases lose more. than $10 per bale, regardless of price flectiations. In New Orleans, it is asserted, cotton delivered on contracts purchased in the usual course of future trading, is always the grade called for in the contracts. Persons who are interested in the matter point to the wide discrepancy between the pricsof cotton in New Orleans and New York in support of their contention that the New York exchange does not do business on a straight forward. aboveboard basis. This difierencea now is not far from a cent a pound, while the difference be tween January and March on the New York exchange is from 30 to 31 points, or nearly a third of a cent a pound. To-day is notice day, and re cent dispatches from New York are to the effect that many firms are will. ing to receive cotton on contr-os, if tendered, inasmuch as the difference is c3nsiderably in excess of carrying charges, and that a profit would, therefore, result frrm such action. Southerners who are In touch with the movement against the New York exchange assert that nothing of the iort is possible, since any cotton de livered would be of the "rotten" va riety already alluded to, an that any body receiving It would certainly lose, iespite the difference in prices n January and March contracts. There are only a very few bales of midlng 3otton in New York, It is said, in the same quartersl. Epresentative Livingston, of Geor gia, who keeps closely In touch with all matters sacting cotton, disclaim ed positive knowledge ci the move ment to bring about the issuance of a fraud order when seen lrday. He tAd, however, of having received a letter from a well-posted Southerner who asserted that cotton growers in the Southern states lost $31,000,000 the past year as a result of tbe prac tices of the New York exchange. Mr. Livingston turned this letter over to the secretary of agriculture, who re plied, through the chief of one of his bureaus, that the department could do nothing in the premises. The Geor gla congressman says that eff~rts to secure the enactment of regulatory legislation has failed anid that, In his opinI-n, the only way to get at the root of the trouble Is through the Is suance of a fraud order. The understanding in Washington is that the Co-operative Farmerds Un ion Is taking a lively Interest in the matter, and some who are in touch with the situation here think that that organ.'zation will submit the re quest for a fraud order to Postmaster Gsneral Costelyou. President Barrett, of the union, has headquarters in Bar nesville, Ga,. It Is thought to be prob able that the Southern Cotton Grow ers' asscciation, of which Harvie Jor dau, of Atlanta, is president,, will al so take an active pas t in the matter. Mr. Jordan's organization is the one which waged war on the bureau of st-atistics of the department of agri culture and succ eded in driving Chief StatisticIan John Hyde and E. S. Holmes out of the service. Barkis is Willing.. In an interview at Topeka, Kansas, Thursday, Wmn. 3. Bryan virtually admitted that lie would be a cand~i date for the Presidential nomination before the next Democratic Conven tion. "While I have not yet announc ed that I would be a candidate," said Mr. Bryan, "I have not stated that I would not be a candidate. Such a high honor as the Presidential nomination Is something tha: no American citi zens should decline." Mr. Bryan said there was no foundation for the story to bhe effect that he would, If nomi nated, favor the selection of Senator Win. J. Stone, of Missouri, as chair man of the Demnocratic national comn mittee. Killed Many Babies, A midwife living in the Vivienne quarter, Paris has been arrested on the charge of systematic murder of newborn Infants. The attention of the police was attracted by the fact that no deaths of children was report ed from the establishment, and Inves tigation resulted in the discovery that the midwife, with the complicity of a servant, had cut up and burned the bodies of thle childrdh .In a big stove in the dining room of the midwife's residene. The evidence obtained in dicates .that 125 t hildrer. were mur ONCE AN OUTLAW But Now a Lawyer and Highly Respected by All. VERY STRANGE TATU. Al. J. Jennings, Whose History Reads Like a Remacce, Has Had An Eventful Career. Led Garg of Robbers, Sent to Pria on and Reformed. One of the most Interesting strang era who has visited Washington re cently has been at the Raleigh during the past week. He Is Al. J. Jennings, an attorney of Lawton, Okla., whose career in the new southwest country reads like a work of fiction. Four years of his life were spent as the chief of a band of outlaws and train robbers The people which he and his gang ter rorized now respect him, and he IE considered one of the beat lawyers in Oklahoma. A mild-mannered man, physically small, about forty years old, although he looks much younger, he attracted no unusual attention In the Rileigh lobbya He was here with a party of friends on private business, and dur ing his stay called at the White House aud wss warmly greeted by President Roosevelt. "I am not trying to hide my past," he said, not boastfully. "It is an open book. My desire is to show the poople where I liva that I regard that part of my life spent in outlawry as a mis - take, and am trying to make amends for it by living a straightforward hon sat life. I think the people in Okla homa believe in me. It shall be the object of my life to make myself worthy of their good opinion." Mr. Jennings is a native Virginian. having been born in Tazewell county. Early in life he moved to the Wes tern country with his parents. When Oklahoma Territory was first open.d for settlement, he went to El Bent and there practiced law for several years. A man of brilliant attain ments, he soon built up a lucrative practice and gathered many friends. He entered the politicl arena, and became the leader of one side in a bitter factional light In the Demo sratic party in municipal politics. The leader of the other side was T. F. Hensley, an editor, formerly a Washingtonian. Hensley, through his paper, made ttacks on Jennings, which were not esented by the latter until an atta k most bitter, appeared one day against the father of Mr. Jennings, also a resident of the city. Meeting the Luthor of the article on the street, con after reading the paper, Mr. ennings, angered until he was al nost in frenzy, struck him down. The two men fought for several min tes efforts to part them being of no vail. Finally to escape further pun shment, f or he seemed to be getting he worst of It the ditor ran into the .stoace. Jennings followed and tract hiin over the head with his re rolver, and probably wculd have kill d him bad not freinds succeeded In plling him away. The incident Is said to have caused he people of El Reno to turn against he young lawyer, whose popularity p to that time had never been ques toned, Jennings himself admitted hat be earried the punishment too ar. The loss of his friends caused im to become despondent, and he mon left the town. He was not eard of again until he was identified as the chief of a band of outlaws. For four years every crime of rob ery. depredation, or even murder ommitted within a radius of a hun red miles of his former home In Ok ahoma was laid at his door. His gang was even suspected of crimes commit ed In New Mexico, Colorado and thers border states. Showing the true nature of the man, it is a notable fact that .Ten iings, on whose head abig irice had een put by the authorities of several states and territories, was finally aken into custody wtjl~e trying to efriend a young man who1 he claim d, was wrongfully accuzed of murder. He, with others of the gang, was ried in the federal courts of Oklaho na, and he was sent to prison for life, eing confined In the Oniio state pen tentary, where Oklahoma sent her ife prisoners. He served only a short ai in prison, and whenasked. what ethod 'ie used to obtain his free om, said: "I bought my way out," and his expres ion showed that fur her questioning on that line was use Free from the penitentiary, he did nt go to another part of the coun ry, or to Australia or South Amern a "I determnined togo back to the ountry where they knew me at my best and where they knew me at my worst, and fight it out. It was bard t first, for many people would not believe in me. but I believa I am win ing out," he said. "I have revealed truthfully to the athorities everything In connection with my career, with the exception f one thing. I will not give infor nation as to the whereabouts of my former comrades. I do not believe It would be honorable for me to do so. v father and my wife, my best friends, do not know where they are." The story, as narrated In th'e fore going, is substantially as told by Mr. Jennings himself. INot once during he telling did he assume a boastful attitude, and through i.t all there was a tcne of regret. That It should be kown, he se'emed to think, is a partE of his renentau3e. Mr..,Tennir gs has written a book, which is a nasure study of the men with whom he came in contacs while an outlaw. He has one great fear, and that is that his book fri not he taken seriously, but will-bce regarded as what he referred to i "yellow lit KILLED IN WRECK. RESCUERS BATTLE WITH FIRE TO SAVE THE INJURED. Six Persons Fat.lly Injured and Many Hurt in Addition to Ton Killed. Ten persons are known to be dead, six others are fatally Injured and at least 25 others were hurt in the wrEek of an east bound accommodation train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul Sault Ste Marie Rilroad, at Ender. lin, N. I). The train from Moose Jaw, Canada, Is due at Eaderlin at 11.45 P. M., but Wednesday was about two hours late. The engineer was running at high speed in an endeavor to make up the lost time. As he swung a round a curve just before entering the yards at Enderlin, a switch engine was shifting a string of cars . toa side track. The ears did not clear the main track and the passenger en gine collided head-on with the switch engine, both were wrecked and the passenger cars were thrown In confu -ion down a small embankment at the de of the trick. Several cf the icy coaches were turned bottom side up and the passengers pinned beneath the wreckage, which took fire from the car stoves. The passenger train was heavily loaded with people going to spend the holidays. Most of the causal. ties occurred in the Fm'king car and first day coach,- both of which were splintered. Enderlin is the divIsional head quarters of the railroad and a rescue party was soon at hand endeavoring to release the imprisoned passengers from their perilous position. Many persons were in imment danger fromx the fames which were fast spreading through the cars. Axes were weild ed by willing hands, and the roof of the overturned cars were broken open and the dead and Injured taken out as quickly as possible. It was a race between the rescuers and the fames, but by Herculean efforts all of the in jared were removed before the dAmes reached them. Ten dead bodies were taken out and ilad jiside the track while the it jur. sd were taken in hastily improvised ambulances to hospitals and hotels. The dead 'tre: Oharles B ekus, Bergen, N. D. H. J. Votering, Anamouse, N. D. John Satterburg, Anamoase, N. D. Tony Gleen, V3lva, N, D. D. J, Beresford, Medicine Hat, Al berta. H. Rosenbaum, Volva, N- D. W. J. Danielson, Sheldon, N. D. A. 0. Anderson, Starbuck, Minn. One unidentified man. It is supposed that ehe passenger train had made up more of Its lost time than had been anticipated by the crew of the wreck The enginects and firemen on both ngines leaped and saved their lives. Death ot a Hero. At Morriston, N. J., before the yes of bis young wife, Geb Davis ged 25, Thursday lost his life in an mauccessful attempt to rescue- Johnr rker, an elght-year-old boy. from frowning. The boy went on the Ice n the Bockaway river an-1 broke hrough. Davis - ud his wife saw trkea drop Into t water and Davis int down the clothes line in their yard and tied one end about his waist. He ave the other end to his wife and: ~tarted to the boy, who was flounder ng about In the broken Ice. Lying lown Davis reached out a'xd seized &rke and shouted to his wife to haul n on the rope. She drew her hes >and back from the hole until the boy was out of the water. As she started bo pull agaIn the rope broke and the nan and boy fell back into the water and were drowned. Ambushers Shot. At Dalwood, F'la., on Christmas ight two white men and four negroes were wounded in a shooting scrape. Erly in the night four negro broth ra named Bell ente'ed. the store of . W. Nichols and, being intoxicated, acted in such a d~sorderly manner diatthey were ejected by Nichols and white citizens, who were In the store. ater Nlchols accompanied by a Mr. Dykes started for home. They were ired upon by the negroes and both slightly wounded. They returned the ire, wound'ng all four of the negroes, wo probably mortally, Officers went ut from Marianne and arrested the Bell brothers, taking~two to jail at ariana, but the other two were so adly wounded that they could not be moved. and men were stationed to guard them. Pass Him Around. The state deparment has sent out a notice to all consular and diploma ic cificers to be on the lookout for Frederic MacMaster of Ne-w York, ntil recently the American consul at Ziuzibar, and who is now accused f securing $1,000 from a bank in ~ice by falsely representing himself o Harold S. Van Baren, the Amer can consul at that place, to be en oute to his post and in need of mon y because of the loss of his pocket ook, wtereas he was really under sspension from the consular service md on his way home. Stoke Jewelry. With 875,(.00 worth of stolen jewel ry In their possession, Babriel Hit and ouisa Lonys, about whom a veil of mystery has been thrown by the New Yrk policE, have escaped and are ow being sought In all the large cities of thie country and In foreign ports. Beyocnd admitting that'th e robbery took piLrce on Dacember 6, tjhe police would dicolose none of the details. It was at first reported thi..1its scene was in one of the larger hotels, but investigation proved this story to be without foundation. Perishan in a Blizz ird. Six of a party of eight lumnbermen. who tried to cross Big Sphoodic. ake, Ma.ine, on the ice December 7i perished in a blizzard. T wo s-.rvivors John Keeas of Boston a d George Agll of Providence, E. I1, reached Boklanld Wednesday nighrt with their feet frozen and brougbrthe news. The twaosuiiVlorsdOZi dknow tb -nato ~thrcampalionls. RACE RIOTS. In'Which Five Negroes and One JWhiteyare Killed. TROOPS ON SCENE As Usual in Such~ Affairs theNe. groes Are The Chief Sufferers. Riot Started by a Negro Cutting a Conductor en a Train. A race rt at Wahalak, Mis., re sulted In the death of several persons most of them being negroes. Two compani %s of state militia were sent there, and after their arrival no dis turbance occured, alti ough It is be ieved t-hat three argroes, Including George Simpson, one of the principals in.the disturbance aboard the Mobfl artd O'lo train last Sunday, had been lynched just before the srrival of the troops. The citizens of Wahalair, while not admitting the fact that the men were captured by a posse, but were "lost in the swamp" whIe On, their way to town. Two sons of Simpso.were shot to death Wednesday afternoon. As near as can be ascertained at that time the casualities resultant from the trouble are as follows: Uaknown negro shot by Conductor Ocoper on the M. and 0. train. Constable O'Brien killed by the pre cipitator of the trouble, George-Simp ion, when anrattempt at arrest was made. George Simpson. lynched. Tom Simpson. son of George Simp son shot to death by white citizens oear Wahalak. Tim Simpson, anotherin, shk t to death. Two unknown negroes lynched. Conductor Cooper, seriously Injured by belt g out and stabbed seven times by George Simpson on the passenger train; not fatal. Lgland Sparkman, toldier, lsh wound in left knee; accidental die charge of his pistol. C22ATED A SENATION. Negro Soldiers Fired on Kanas .Street car Men.. As the result of a street car riot in Leavenworth, Kansas, Christmas EBe night started by a colored soldier re fusing to pay his fare, fourteen cav alrymen, mostly members of the 9th, oavalry, are said to have been placed ander arrest Tuesday. The President las been apprised of the affair. The trouble, coming as it does, while the controversy over the dia 3harge of the colored troop. nrn edin the Brownsville aff ir, is an Ab sorbing topic owing to the different lights in which it is viewed by Preui lent Boosevelt and the Senate, Is ia ble to result In more complicasenns. The trouble occurred late Critmas Eve night on a car between sLsaven worth City and the fort. Fifteen or twenty soldiers, including both whites md blacks seem to have been engag d in a free for-all fight-in which aev sral shots were fired and some of the windows in the car smashed in. After rowdy actions the negro broops were finally -ejected from the sa.r. In retallation several shots were. BEred, and stones were thrown through the window of the car. Two women tud four civilians were aboard the aar, which was crowded from the tact that it was thielast car of the afght from the down-town district to the fort, During the melee the motorman Locked himself In the front vestibule leaving the conductor to be beaten by the colored soldiers. He was badly beaten before the white troops came to his aid. To the colored troopers who created the disturbance were captured only a few hours later while attempting to reach the quarters at the fort, and will be court-martialed. The sentiels Ered at one of the men, who tried to escape when he saw that he was about to be captured. All cars running be bween the fort and the city of Leav anworth have been guarded by armed sentries, In anticipation of further trouble. Gen. Lee's Oentetnl The . atennial annniverarsty of the b~ia~fo General Bobert E. Lee .111 be celbrated by Washington and Lee university, the institution La Lexling ton of which he was president for five years before his death. Graduates of the univ'ersity, with widely known men from uhe North and South, have been invite? to the Virginia town January 19, 190e Charles Francis Adams of Masu~cL ietts will deliver the principal address in the day emr monies, and therewilllbe a banquet at night. An effort is being made to secure the attendance of every living alumnus and representativs of Confederate societies All visitoss will be entertained by the Cltisanstof Laxlngtonl. It is intended ioemake the commemoratiOn emphize the fact that General Lee chose after the war to devote his life to education. - Judge.Too Slow. ' At Chicago an unsuccessful attempt was made on Thursday to assauinste rudge Catting, of the criminal ciourt, y a man giving the name of .Fan S. Ellerbrock, aged 50, who- declared . the i adge delayed settlemerajt In an, estat~eof $30,000, which has ben- n litigation for eight years. Ellerbncck said: "I could endure the deAgi no longer; so I decided to shoot Outting and get a judge who wouldgve'm some action." The police sekl .nan Is instne-- v High License. ) The aincaster town oIlhe made the linoense or bucket so $1L000 for the yner& ena ~hic doubtless means that Xanokz+wBl~ have Dane in the yeaIO90 -