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OLXXMANIGa Sni A;T 'VOL. XXV MANNN.C WDEDYAGST0 STORY OF BRIBE Core UI Cle Pffticulr of Cuspirac toRb ldiaus. WILLIAMS IS INVOLVED The Senator States He Will Gire "Pull Details of a Scheme to Rob Indians of Three Million Dollars. in Substantiation of Charges Made by Him In Ulited States Senate Investigation of charges made in the UnlteA States senate by L. H. Gore that ne and a member of the house of -epresentatives had been of ferred a bribe of $2S.000 each to foster a scheme whereby the In dians of Oklahoma were to be de prtred of $3.000.000 proft' due them through the sale of asphalt land6 in that State. has begun. "I will tell the full details of the hehm hatched at Washington to mule these Indian out of $3.000. 000 through the sale of their lands." said Snator Gore- "I will give namea. dates and other circumstan aon relative to the bribe of $25.006 offered to me and to a member of the bouse of representatives to remove our opposition to the scheme which would put that vast sum of unzney In the hands of public attorneys" The commtttee was appointed by the house of representatives to in vestigae what are k.cown as the Mc Murray contracts with the Chicksaw and Choctaw tribes of Indians. It is --beaded by Chairman Chas. H. Burke of South Dakota and convened on Thursday. Secator Gore was the irst witness. The charges made by Senator Gore In the senate June 24. which are the basis of the present investigation. are: That J. F. McMurray. of McAles ter. Okla.. and his associates had ob tained 10.000 contracts with Chick asaw and Choctaw Indians for the sale of 450.000 acres of lands, eat:. mated to be worth $3.000.000 to $16.000.000. That the profit of McMurray and his associates was to be 10 per cent. and a sum ranging from $3.000.000 to $16.009.000. That a New York syndicate al ready was prepared to take over the land at $3.000.000. That .when opposition to proving the. contracs arose in congress he (Senator Gore) was approached and told that $25.000 or perhaps $50. 900 would be available to him and that a lik' sum would be available to a member of the house of repre sentatives, if all opposition was re moed. That If the contracts had been ap proved the Indians would have been deprived of 1, per cent. of the profits gumarantee'd them by the government and the money would have gone to pay 'attorneys' fees" for which no material service had been rendered. Sesator Gore also charged that 'an e-senator from Nebraska and ex senator from Kansas were interest ed in the contract.' --n my charges before the senate. I did not give any names concerning the offers of bribery," said Senator Gore "That and other Information. I am ready to Impart before the investiga tieg committee. When the govern ment made its treaties with the lun diana it agreed to sell the land and hand over the full profit to those Indians. it would be absurd for the Goverument to sanction a reduction of 10 percent. to be handed out in the shape of attorneys' fee's. It is especially absurd sine e attorneys' services are needed. Besides Mr. Burke. othermebr of the irnvestigating committee are Philip Campbell, of Kanssa. Clar ence B. Miller. of Minnesota. John H. Stephens. of Texas and E. W. Saunders of Virgioia. Chairman Burke sa~id that the committee. after takln: evidence, would vilsit McA1 ester. Oklahoma City and other parts of thse State to obtain from the In diaos direct information as to how the contracts were obtained from them. Dennis Flynn. counsel for J. F. McMurray. said ,he would contend that the contracts were valid since the Indias~s were members of what are known as the "FIve Civilized Tribes" and as such had the right of citisecship to make the contracts. He said he would assert. however. that no offer of bribery had ever been made. Cecil Lyon. chairman of the Re publican S:ate committee of Texas. who was charged by Congressman A. D. Murphy on the floor of the house with having assisted Mr. Murphy in asking for the approval of the con tracts. is expected. First Niew Cotton. Georgia's first bale of cotton was carried to Albana Wednesday night. but not by Dean Jackson, the negro farmer. who for years has been the "first bale man." This year the bale was raised by M. A. Rainey. of B.'k er County, and was sold for Z cents per pound. The bale weighr1 41-: pounds. and was graded mec dling. Dead Man Wins. S.ecretary of State of Oklahoma die-t of hear'. disease at Oklaho:a City on Wednesday. He was a can didate for nomination for etate anel itor on the democratic ticket and i: generally c'onc'eeded to .hav. won. Killed by Lightning. Spencer Lockr-ow. a Saratoga. N Y.. farmer. ard two harvest helpers. Andrew Ecker and Simon Watson were killed by lighta.ng. the tean they drove was also shocked t4 dAath "rhursday. THE MAN HIHRUP IN BRIBERY CASE IS VICE-l'RE.S ID&ET SHERMAN. Senator Gore Testi&es That Several Senatoa% and Congre9Lmen Wera in the Deal. What happened in the private offi ce of United States Senator Thomas P. Gore. at Washington at noon. last May S. formed the basis of sensa tional charges involving the names of Vice President Sherman. Senator Charles Curtis. of Kansas: Congress man B. S. McGuire. of Oklahoma. and I others. In a hearing before a special Congressi.nal investigating commit tee at Muskogee. Oklahoma. Thurs day. During the thirty or forty min sites of a con forence held in that ofice. Senator Gore testified that he bad been approached by Jake L. Hamon. 'ormer chairman of the Ok lahoma State Republican committee. and that he had been offered a bribe of $25.000 or $50.000 to remove certaia legislation pending in Con gress. so that $3.000.000 might be paid to J. F. McMurray. an attor ney at McAlester. Okla.. and his assistants. The money was to represent "at torneys* fees" of ten per cent of $300.000. which was to be secured from a New York syndicate for 450. 000 acres of coal and asphalt lands sow owned by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes In Okla homa. Vice President Sherman's name was mentioned by Mr. Hamon, Sen ator Gore testified. as beiug interest ed in the deal to the extent of ap proval by Congress of what are known as the McMurray contracts with the Indiana. What 'happened In another private room in Washington. and also where it was alleged Hamon made more --overtures" relative to the land deal. was told by Congressman C. E. Creager. of the 3d Oklahoma dis i!ct. Congressman Creger supple mented the testimony of Senator Gore. He said on June 16. last, he had been invited by Hamon to mee: him in a private room at the Occi dental Hotel. in Washington. .Having gone there. Mr. Creager testifed, he was informed he could have a substantial 'interest" in the land deal if he would withdraw his opposition to the approval of L-* XicMurray contracts by Congress. Senator Gore. in his testimony, as serted that the oter of bribery went so far that Harmon said the $25.0% or $50.000 would not be paid over i1 the form of a check or marked money, but that it "would be all clean. hard cash." The committee that heard the harges was appointed by resolution f the House of Representatives to nvestigate the McMurray contracts. which are declared to have been ade by McMurray individually i:ith L1.000 indIans. each of w.hom agreed o turn over 10 pet cent. of his pr its from the sale of land. provided he contracts were approved by Con Senator Gore testified that Hac.t' told him that a man "higher up" n th i Government was interested n the approval of the contracts and. thareore. there was no rea-*"'u Senator Gore should not be -a when asked who was the man "high er up." Hamon had replied. "Vice President Sherman." That Hamon told him Senator Cur tis of Kansas. was "interested" in the deal. That Hamom told him Congrere' man McGuire. of Oklahoma, was in terested in the deal. That Hamon told him an employee of the department of justice at Washington was "intrested" in the teal. that he. ( Senator Gore.) knew the name of the employee, but would not divulge his name or the nan.t of his informant, especially because the latter would lose his position. FALLS PAR TO DE'IATH. Aeroplane Capsizing Aviator Dasihe'. From Height of 630 Feet. Fallin: from a great height. Nich 'las Kin'et. the Belgian aviator. was instantly kill Wednesday after noon at Hrussels. Only three w.-..s -uto his cousin. ani. was killed in a similar ma-.mner at Ghent. Kin tet was Anyes at a height of about 650 feet when he was caught in a' 'quall. A rear wire of his biplane snapped and becoming entangled in te motor st..pped the engine m.t.i a suddenness that turned the aero plane on Its side. The machine crashe-d to the ground and Kinner ws crushed under it. His wife and orother were among the witnesses of the accident and rushed upon the field. The wife feil unconscous beside the body. while the brother, in a St of grief. threw Ihimself headforemost on the wreck ed machine. Kildby Overdos.e. Death from an over dose of brom odia. administered by her own hands was the verdict Saturday of a cor oners jury that investigated the Sund ig l'rida" night of the lifeless body of Mrs. Charles Marboffer. !ormorly Miss May Kid. of Dsnville. Y'a.. .n her home. at Nnrfolk. Va. The huas "'and, who testified 'hat he drst met the girl i Norfolk. July 4. and mar ried ber in Baltimore. July 1 4. thinks i wife !Onk the drugt to reliore iTwenty Are Burned. 'Turent persons were seriously bundin a fire destroying the Tex vas Pacitfe pumping station at Sher Iman. Texas. and caused a gasol:n inkto arplede. THEY WIN IOWA IsWrges Capture Eerylhing and Ii pate t rwi. BRANDED AS A FAILURI With MaiJrty of Thre Hundred na, Every Question "Insurgents" Con trolled Iowa state Republican Con vention.--Cumnmins and Dollivei livide Honors. Repubilican Iowa wrote herseli vig rously progressive Wednesday al a Convention. which was in uproar most of the time. Dolliver and Cum mings and the insurgent delegatior at Washington was er.thusiastically endorsed. The new tariff was branded as a failure. 'n the light of the party pledge of 1908. President Taft re ceived only a lukewarm endorse ment. A sop to harmony was fiun out in the endorsement of Governor CarrolL Senator ( ummins was temporaril ly chairman. Senator Dolliver per manent chairman. The progressive majority ranged close to "00 on ev ery question. The resolutions cow mittee was progressive 6 to 3. The foregoing is a synopsis of the day's events. To It may be added cheers and jeers applause and hisses, music and howls of discord. The appearance and disappearance of the "steam roller'' was one of the diverting incidents of the day. It came about through the insistence of the standpat members of the plat form committee. in demanding an nqualified endorsement of the Taft Administration, the legislative acts of the *regulars'" and hostility to Cummins and Doliver. What may have been an attempt to stampede the delegates In favor of the stalwart resolutions was made when former Congressman Romiuger hoisted a portrait of President Taft amid standpAt cheers. But the oth er side answered with silence, or with jeers. Later another delegate among the progressives exposed a peture of CoL. Rooseveit, occasion ing a demonstration. The Taft portrait was again hoist ed atd the two likenesses held so as to conront each other. The de onstrstion interrupted a roll cadl for several minutes. The stand-pat members went down in defeat with their keys riveted to the mast. Tehy fought in every com mittee where a fi;ht was possible. in isted on roll calls and battled evety inch for their principles. Their resolutions incorporated in the minority part of the platform and voted down by the Convention refer to: The record of achievement of resident Tafts Ad ministration and he 61st Congress as unequalled in ur history and endorses the Taft olicies in fulfillnent of the work naugurated by his predecessor and ongratulates the pauty and count pon its achievements in securing ailroad legislation and declares hat Taft-s Administration is entitled o the unequivocal support of every epublican. It also indorse the action of Pres dent Tart in approving the tariff bill.'' and commends his 'prudent. >usiness-like and ecortomical Admin istration of all the affairs of t.he na In conclnsion it endorses the Iowa legation in Congressf or all efforts n support of the Admiinistrationl and f the President. and for such aid and assistance as they have given ii in carryin': forward his admin btratve and legislative policies. Former Cingressman Hepburn read the minority report. As :he urport of the concluding paragraph ecame apparent his voice was rowned in a chorus of Jeers and ises. It was only after a pound n of the gavel by Senator Dolla ver that .Mr. Hepburn was able to onclude. He moved the substitu tion of these planks for innse of the same application in the major ity report. and '.he motion was bos.t. WS to G. Judges Horace E. Dleemer an-1 W. t. Evans were nominated ituc re-el ction to toe Supreme Court Itench by acclamationl. A. MJ. D.eyoe is the choice on second hallot for State superintendent of public inntructior.. The platform adopted renews "ai alegiance to the doctrine of protec tion: it favors a non-partisan tarilt comissou and expre-ses the belief tat whent the tariff is again revid its "schedulea should be consider'd .eperately. so that each subiject e-t ee dealt with upon Its own merits. and thus secure fair and impartial act ion upon the part of C'ongress" The platform commends "to the nation th'n ty.pe of statesmansbip er hibited by Senators Dolliver and Cummins and heartily endorses theli' work upaon the tariff bill. i.he rail road bill and the postal savings banla In referring to cotmbinations. th< platform insists that "there shall b<e such competition as will protect the people against the exactions of un restrained avarIce and greed." It also ' congratulates the countr: upon the success obtained in the re: ulauoin cf our common carriors. hit they feel that there is much ye 'to be done to secure reasonab'le rate nd charres to whichb it is entitled The platform concludes with a. endorsement of the postal saving ba-:k bill. The policy of conserva ton ot narural resources. incom taZ and :enod roads are tuphelf 1'nite States Senators shnuid te 1t is .arged that the present mett od of representati->n in national Cor ventions based upon members e Congress is unfair. Representatio on the babis of party strenth : NS CLEAN SWEP CANNSON I'OI.CIES WEREF REFI1'D IATEbD IN KANSAS. Seven ()ut of Eight Insurgents Re i elected to Congr%% by Good Ma Ca-nt .,n policies and "tand-pat ism -were r-pudiated by th-- Repaub licans of iansas Wednesday. Seven out of eight insurgent Con gres.smen have been nominated in spite of everyt.bing the Congression al orgafrization at Washington and the regulars in Kansas could do LO save their men. Their majoriti.-s run from 5C0 to 3.500. Of the six sta.d-pat Congressmen who were seeking renomination. only one is sure of having his name on the ticket this fall. In the third dis trict. P. P. Campbell defeated Ar thur Cranston. insurgent. In the first district the race is close, but late returns indicate that T. A. Mc Neil. insurgent. has wo.: over Repre sentative D. R. Ant.hony. a strong adherent. Representative William A. Calder head. in the fifth. leader of the standpaters. was defrated by about 2.000 votes. Victor Murdock and E. H. Madi son. insurgent leaders, had no oppo sition. and will be returned to Con gress. W. R. Stubbs. for governor. has been renominate with a majority ov er Thomas Wagstaff. of about 20. 000 of 2.000 more than he had over Leland two years ago. Stubba is an insurgent. Wagstaff a regular. Speaker Cannon made several speeches in Kansas in behalf of the Regular Republicans, but it seems that he did more .ha:.) than good. as nearly all for whom he spoke were deN'ated. NO DENIAL FROM CRANE. But the Senator Declines to Discuss Ballinger Matter. Senator Crane returned East Wed nesday after his conference In Mia neapolis with Secretary Bailinger. He would not deny the report that he had asked Mr. Ballinger to resign from the Cabinet, merely saying: -I have nothing to say." Senator Crane passed throu-h Chicago Wednesday. When asked if he had gone to Minneapolis to re quire the resignation of Secretary Ballinger. he replied: "I have nothing to say. I wem: West on a mission. and have been to Minneapolis. and am now return ing East. I saw Mr. Ballinger. but not by appointment. We discussed matters in general, and thats all there was to it." When informed that it had been reported that he had been seait to re quest the resignation of Secretary Ballinger. the Senator replied: --What I was sent WVest for, if I was sent West at all, is not of pub li busin-es or interest just now. I will not discuss Mr. Ballinger. poli tics or anything ifl relation to why I am here' When askedi again if he bad ask ed the Secretary to resig'. Sena'or Crant- would neither atlirm nor deny. but simply repeated: "I will not dis cuss it." WOREK CIMtO AT TRIAL. Confederate leteran Rebuked for so 1'slng It. At Savannah. Ga.. S. S. Ressinger.1 a Confederate Veteran. was found guilty of voluntary mtanslau:hter in Chatham Superior Court Wednesday, at the end of his trial for stabbing James Payne to death, on the eve ning of May 30. last. Ressinger wore a Confederate cross of ho'nor in Court during his trial. No object ion was made to this, and Judge Cha rI ton, in sentencing Ressinger to two1 'ears in the penitentiary, said i regard to it: 1 do not like to see a veteran! wearng a cross of honor in court hen he is on trial for a crime. You could 'have worn it for only one pur pose. to work upon the prejudice of. te jury. Practices of this nature would tend to make t~he Confeder ate' badge a common thing." Itessinger and Payne former'y were parturers in a grocery husIness.! They quarrelled over money, and' Bessinger killed Payne in the pres-! ence of the latter's wife. suicide Atten~pt Foiled. Caught on a high trestle just be yond the Rurgin tunnel, on the Sou thern Railway, between Asheville and Old Fort. N. C.. Miss Nellie Smith, of Rutherford. that state. threw -herself betw'een the rails in front of passenger train No. ., Thursday morning and miraculously escaped death when the engineer brought his train to a standstill ov' er her prostrate body. Had Narrowr DEcape. M. Olieslagers. who holds records for duration flights, had a narrow esape from death at Brussels. Bel -gium. Wednesday. Tbrough som de acet in the motor, his monoplance dropped to the ground from a hei:ht of 65 feet and was wrecked. When the aviator was helped from the wreckage it was found that he was uninjured. .Main the "'I'nloaded" Gun. Peli.ato; that a shot-:n was n bloadedi. the C-year-old on of C-ounrty Commissioneflr I. D. harrelson. of unt.N. C.. while playtng with - three other children. in his father's f home. late Thursday, picked up the weapon. pointed It a: his little ss s Ite. agod four. pullod the trigger. a kimed the child instanth'. FIGURES ON COTTON C(ROP OF THIS STATE ESTIMAT ED AT 1.0.7W.000 BALES. Oil Mill Men Hold Meeting in Colman bia to Ascertain Crop Conditions' Throughous State. That. with favorable conditiersi from now until the season opens. te cotton crop of South Carolma may equa. that of last season-l. 4Of.A0v bales-is the joint opinion of the South Carolina Seed Crush ers Association. which held a meet ing in Columbia with a view to as certaining the crop conditions ever the State. The Crushers made another esti mate rf the crop for the 1910 season. This is 1.008.00. The manner of arriving at this -stimate was by rompiling an average estimate from the number of estimates submitted at the tr.-eting. At the arnual meeting of the crushers. held at Wrightsville Beach recently. the estimate of the yield for the present year for this State was 957.000. It is thus seen that the stock of the yield in the opinion of the crushers has gone up S1.000 >ales. It had aiready been pointed out. in reports from various communities. that the cotton crop has improved considerably In the last few weeks, particularly in the last two weeks. the cessation of rains to some extent and the general hot weather has aid ed the growth of the plant remark ably. Old farmers are shaking their heads and wondering how the change has been brought about. From an apparently gloomy outlook. crop con ditions may now be said to be fair. in some communities very good. and i others. good. the general average running now up to good. A poll was taken by the crushers of the crop conditions In every :ec tion of the State. It was found that tere had been material improvement from now on, the crop will equal that of last season," said Secretary B. F. Taylor. Mr. Taylor is presi dent of the .nter-State Cotton Seed Crushers' Assoaiation. That the crop will reach the I. 050.00 mark. the 1909 crop will de pend on favorable conditions from nor on, was the opinion expressed by members of the Association. How ever. the av-rage guess was 1.008. 0t) bales for 1'110. In Vk,17 the crushers guessed 1. 010.000. and the aCtu3l 54)"-pound ales were' 1.062.344: in 19405 the rushers guessed 1.184.214 bales. n; the actual crop was 1.114.44" ale,: in 1949 the crushers estimat <d the crop to he 1.13..35 bales. and the actual crop was 1.05n.280. Thus the crushers came clos, to the ectual yield in their several guesses, made in lune and July. proceehng the openirg of the cotton season. 00TTON ('ROP AVERAGEI. l. I, I'nder the Record for the Pasc Ten Sea.,ons. The average condition of the cot ton crop oni July 25. was 75:.5 p-' Cent. of a normial. according to au miletin of the crop reporting board f t.he De~partmie.t of Agriculture. issued at noon Tues-day. The ave' age- condition was 80.7 on June 25: 71.9 on July 25 last year: 83.9 in 9.8: 75.0 in 19O7. and 79.4 the ten year average. Comparison by S~ves follows: I a-year average. 1 91". Virginia.. .. .. .. ..1 811 'orth Ca rolina . I South Carolina . . .1hi sorgia... ....... SI 'lorida........ .. .. Aabama........ . 1 7 Mississippi.. ........t 7l ,uisiana.. .... ..4 Texas... .. . . . ... Arkansas... ... . .. ennesse........--- 2 ' Missouri.... .........84 kahoma.. .........81 17 California.. ..--.--.. While the average condition in the cotton cr-op fell lelow the aver age for JTune. when it was 80.7. i~he decrease did not surpirse experts who have kept Informed of the con ditius that have prevailed in the otton belt. Heavy rains which oc urred east of the ,Mississippi during the month of July were known to he detrmental to the crop so that the decrease in the average of the con dition was not unexpected. FOU-R A RE IYNCHE. For A.eault and Murder and Othere Are Being Hunted A dispatch from Bonifoy. Fla . says~ the telephona lines to Dady. the scene of the murder and lynching. are up and reports have been con Srmed that four negroes have thus far been lynched by the infuriated citizens of Dlady. avenging the as saut and murder of little Bess~e Morrison. Posses ar- out now hunt i: two more negroes. who were thought to have knowledge of the, murder. It has developed that theli negroes expected to also criminally assault and murder the mother of tha girl and kill all the children. ut their plans failed. Excitement is a? fever heat and a wholesale kill i g is expected. A great throng wa Iat the burial of the little girl. Many Are. Drowned. A Sr. P-eersbu'rL. Russia. dispatch says under the direction of r-he mi, tary depa:?menT the work of rescue was taken up -in the River Amur. ner NicolaiesK. where 2(0f fisbe - men are known to have been drown ed when a typhoon wrecked their boats on Wed.nesday. It is feared t. e ,ea ls w=-l exceed that num BAD FEUD ROW Resuts in the Death of Two Ies in a Ltde Georgia Tow. ROW MAY NOT BE OVER While People Attend Barbecae in Anothecr Part of Town. Trouble L. renewed Between Morton and Etlwridge Families and Two Eth eridge Brother% Are Killed. Under request from Sheriff Brooks of Twiggs c.ounty. a company of mil Itary left Mlacon. Ga.. Friday night at 9.45 for Grays Station. S. E. Eth ridge an.d his brother. Morris. are lying dead in front of the store of Luther %ior:on on the outskirts of Grays and at M: rton's mother's home a block away he and three brothers. Will. Sair and Torn. are .held 'y a big posse sworn in by sheriff while! connections of the Ethridges who were assemlbled in the little town for a big reunion of Confederate veter ans have. according to reports re ceived. been threatened to reverge. summarily. the killing. Sheriff Brooks wired for troops early in the afternoon. Two companies have left Macon. While almost every one else was at the barbecue in another section 3f the little town, the two Ethridges ands a cousin. Will Kitchins. rode up to the little store kept by Luther Worton and an Interchange of in rective fcllowed which terminated in Will Morton leavirg the house and engaging Clayton Kitchins in a fis lie fight. The fight waxed warm. Shots rang out. perhaps nine or ten followed in quick order. When the tmo're c-ared away. rhe two rth ridges, who were standing between he fighters and the door of Morton's itore, were lying on the ground. Half >f the older's face was shot away and als brother. Morris. was drilled brough the heart. Luther Morton was standing in the loorway with a magazine shotgun a his hand. according to an eye witness of the bloody affray. There was a stampede of people to the ;cene. Sheriff Brooks entered the home >f the Mortons. while over the dead >odies of the Ethridges were heard hreiterinz mutterinzs from t.'iir riends. Sheriff Hi-noks rushed his irisoners to thu home of their moth r. and at last reports received they were still guarded there hy a posse. There has been a feud netween be families for some time. Three weeks ato shots were exchanged but ;o one w.s hurt. Two companies, the Florida Rifles knd Mac.n Hussars. 100 strong. all old. took Ote train under the pe; onal command of Col. W. A. Harris. 'apt. Wheeler in charge of the Huis ars and Capt. Shurmond of the Florida Rifles.* TURN THEM OUT. taryam Seys. Lorimer D~emnerat,. Mut H~e Retir-ed. In a staztemnent publish-ti in his Japer Frmiay. in referenuce to the~ neetinig head recenmtly in i'colnu. Ii inois. to wrotest against legislative :orruption. William J. Bryan decesr td that the Democratic legislators. 'rho voted to elect Wililam Lorimer .o the United States Senate should he -ead out of the Democratic party. "Any Democrat who votpd for Gorlmer for 'patriotic' reasons ought :o be retired to private life an I kept there jong enoug.h to learn what ~ariotista means." said *Mr. Bryan. 1t is almost as dangerous to have fool in the Legislature as a knave.' 'A Deiocratic legislator. wh-> touli be convinced that he was per ~orming a patriotic duty in voting ror Lori'.rter. could be persuaded to io anything desired by a lobby. pio rided the same patrictic arguments 'rere used. He :s not lit for anyr re ;ponsible position: it is har-dly afe to allow him to run at large. -Turn them out. The part:: can not pause to defend those who are ruilty. or who, if innocent, have aroused suspicion whi.h can never l1e remnoved.~ STARTED; TROUBI.E: KILLED). Yuth Shotr to D~eath After Wound ing Three Men. After a brief. hnt bloody- runing battle, in which three rmen were wounded. Harley May. aged :D. was shot to death by Patrolman .Tacob Gates late Friday. .Aay who was a .aostler. 5tarted trouble in a Main street saloon by shooting at the hartender. He miss ed the hartender. but shot George Cline. farmer. thbrouigh the 'upper portion of his chest. Going into thel street. May caily reloaded his re voiver and shot Patrolman W. G. Shaw through the breast. inflieting a possible fatal wournd. T.he youth then fled down Main street and took refuge in a private residence. where ; posse. led by Patroltman Gate~. found hira. May fired drst. slightly wounding Gates. but the latter. o:: his lirst sho' pierced the you.::s mn's jutular vein with a bullet, and the lad. clutching his revolver, sank dying to the doorstep. and died before he could be remov-ed.* Birdw Picks Out Eye. At Carrtoltown. Pa.. while he war holding a crane which hadi been slightly wounded. .feseph Warender. ag'd :23. was -:nable to dodge its beak. and the bird pecked out his left eye. Because of sympathetic :~erve ?romble. It is believed tdat he :aylose the other ey-e. MUST SERVE TIME LONG SE\TENCE FOR MESSER1VY FOR MCRIIER. Man Who Killed C. P. Fi.hborne Mus'.t Serve Twenty Years in the State Penstentiary. For .he killing of C. P. Fish hurne. a dispensary constable at Rav enel statior.. in Colleton county. J. W. messe.r must serve 20 years in the State penitentiary. The su preme court Thursday rendered a decisi.n in which the verdict of the Colleton county court was affirmed.1 This means that Messervy will have to spend practically the rema.a der of his days In the State peniter tiary. Messerry Is a man over 4o years of age and a cripple. He has been at the State penitentiary since his cor.vict ion. The opinion is by Chief Justice Tor.es and deals at length with the case and the testimony presented at the trial. T-he crime took place on the evenii:g of July 6 last year. C. P. Fishburne. who was employ ed as a .ounty dispensary constable. was killed while trying to arrest Aiesservy and seize some alcohol, a mule and wagon. The shipment had just been received by Messerry at the station at Ravenel. It was claim ed that the alchohol had been pur chased by his wife. L. W. Mlesservy. from a firm in Cincinnati. Meseervy was tried at the Novem ber term of court for Colleton coun ty last year and was found guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced to 20 years in the State penitentiary by the late Judge Dantzter. At the 1 trial a motion was made for a new trial. which was refused. Later an appeal was taken to the supreme ourt. Soon after the trial Messerry < was brought to the penitentiary for I a if--keeping. Of general Interest in the appeal I f the case to the supreme court was o the exception affecting the Carey- 1 [othraa act. It was the contention q >f tQe defense that the dispensary had been abolished and that it was 2ecessary for the governor to appoint I onstables for the enforcement of he act. C. P. Fishburne had been i :ommissioned by Gov. Ansel. He o ad not filed his bond. The position j was taken by the State that it was nly necessary to show that Fish urne had been commissioned. AGAINST OLD BOSSES. Varusers of the Northwest Will Not He Foloed. 'nce .Joe Cannon. speaker of the ouse of representatives: United tates Sesctor Aldrich and other rel- I es of political bossism have few 4 !riends among the farmers of the t forthwest.' scid E. M. Smith. lec- 7 nrer for the State Grange of Wash nton andl secretary of the Progres- I ve Poli'ic-al Alliance, in an inter bew. He added. "Fifte~en thousand farmers inC 'ashington belony~ing to the grange< nd 10.000 miore' affiliated with the I arm'ers Co-operative and Education- C al union are deeply stirred with rl-- I pirit of insurgency, and are deter- i nii'ed to put an end to the' autocratic* ~onro; of state and national poli-t is by ageints of the interests. "Scratchb a farmer on the back and ~ou will find a man who wanta I ~an non kicked out of the office and il enator Aldrich retired from pub- I ic life. and. what is more. who is[i illing to exert his own political in-1 luence to the aocomplishment of 1 hese ends. Also you will find a I nan r-ho can no longer be hiinded I y appeals to his prejudices made by I -rporation lawyers. They are ut with the -bIg stick.' and they ill make themselv.es heard.' THIRTEEN JAILED. uthrities' Arrest White Men in Connection Wifth Race Ries. With two additional arrests on hursday in connection with recent race riots. a total of thirteen white nen are in jail at Palestine. Texas.t harged with murder. The list is as1 ollows: James Spurger. John Hish p. Walker Ferguson. Isom Garner. lack Reid. Booze Wise. Andrew {irkwood. Steve Jenkins. Alvin Oli ver. Frark Bridges. Horace Bush. organ Hien ry. George Bail.-y. Thel and jury investigat ion is progere.! ng. buit ano developments are giver. >ur. Suicide Identified. The identity of the American wno 'omi-ed suicide M- the Seine .at Paris on July 29. whose body was ecovered Surday was finally estah ished as William Starlin. a lawyer of Chicago. who had been in Europe for the past two years. He suffered from neurasthenia and insomia. F'orest Fires Raging. With a wall of flames eight miles long eating its way over the Mon tana-Idaho divide into Montana. with another fire raging the head of Cedar c-eek and others reported in various s-ections. a cry for help "as raised Tuesday by the officiais of tne forest service. Six Men KMIed. Six men were killed and f'ourteen injured. several of them :atally. I one *of the worst torpedo boat dise ters on record. according to nary-e curred at Aronstadt. Russia. Strikes Are Costly. It is costi::g Ohio S12.non a day' to maintain troops in Columbus dur ing the street car strike. Govern o: Harmon is co:sidering reduclng ' l5s uiber of soldiers so the cost will BADLY BEATEN SeverserPattersu Meets Wth a Disas. tros Defeat at Pels. A DECISIVE VICTORY The Independent Democratic Judi ciary Ticket Fought by Tennes ace-r -ardewinn- Governor Elcet ed in One of the Mot lUtterly Contested Battles Ever Waged. The !ndependent Democrats elect d their judicial tickets in Tennessee rhursday in one of the most erci ag an hard fought political conte-ts, -ver known in the State. Following rre the successful tickets: Judges of the Supreme Court Eastern division. John K. Shields. Middle division. 1. 1. Lansdvn. 6att M. Neil. State-at-large W. D. Beard. Graf on Green. Judges of the Court of Civil Ap yeals. eastern division. H. V. Hughes. Middle division. Joseph C. Hig ;ins. S. F. Wilson. State-at-iarge. Frank P. Hall, Jno. E. Taylor. The Independent headquarters at 'ashville claims that the majority rill opproximate 40.000 votes. The gular Democrats, whose ticket was lefeated. claim these figures will be rut by 10.000 or 15.000 votes. and heir leaders allege. fraud in many faces. They also charge that they vere denied representation at the olls by the election commissioners. lominated by the Independent fac ion. The latter represent. in a large neasure, the State-wide prohibition 4emeut of the Democratic party. hich has been vigorously opposlng overnor Patterson since his memor ble campaign with the late Ex-Sen tor E. W. Carmack for the Guberna orist nominatioc. It took an added strength when he State committee ordered % blank t primary for nomination of both udicial and State officers. Three nembers of the Supreme Court. hief Justice Beard and Justices Zeal and Shields. and Judges Wil on and Taylor. of the Court of Civ I Appeals. refused to enter the prim ry. and the Independent movement ras on. Judges 'McAlister and Ball. of the upreme Court. entered the primary nd were on the regular tick.-t. udge Rarton. of the Court of Civil ppeals. was also a nominee for Su reme Court Justice. A11 the judzes leted are Democrats. and consti ute the present supreme court of 'ennessee. Go-vernor Patterson entered the ists for the regular ticket and tumped t-he State for it. His ene uses lined up solidly with the In epnents. The Cooper case. charges f att-mpted coercion or the Su reme Court by the (overnor in its ecision of the famous trial an -la ~rdon of Col. Cooper playe' i--ad rg roles it. the campaign. and serv almost to mnake it a fight or at rson and Anti-Fatterson. The Republican leaders. N wol aners and H. Clay Sande.a. ' -- ered the tight for the Independents. d it hxas been charged there was a 'eat following a conference at the 'hite House. in which Pre.'ident 'aft participated. The endorsement ey the Republican committee of the ndependents was followd by a breakt n Republican ranks and the negro 'ote, it was alleged. was. solidly for he regular ticket. egroes were re-ristered more free than ever before and they paid heir taxes. The revolt in the Re mblican rankfs was led by the Hon. 'esse Litseton and many of the n" roes followed him. hnt it seems not the nunubers that have been pre icted. Enemies of Governor Paitterson laimi the r,-sult will have disastrous ifet on nis. political future. He is candidate. hut as ye the opposa ion has not shown its hand as 'o rhat steps will be taken in putting .tt a ticket against him. .stung by Heet. At WVoodbuiry. N. .J.. M\rs. Cartton ier~dickson was fri::htfully stund y bees when she went into her lima sean patech. The bee- belonged '0 ron Pinza. a neighbor, and no soon rhad .\rs. Hendrickson begun pick ng when the bees attacked her. tinging her through .her hair, and en througr. a large "at'- slhe wore. Frozen to Decath. Frozen d.-ad with the thermomet rat l'." in the shade. was the fate i a Mlexican at .\aricopa. Airz. A ,arload of ice had been u-nloaded on he depot platform and covered witS heavy tarpaulin. The man. seek ng sleep and escape from the terri te heat. crawled bene,.th the tra ~aulin. where he was found the next aorning frozen stiff. Must Stay Away. The president of poline of Berlin. Germany. has forbidden u::der se vere penalties. the admission of hidren under fourteen, with or without parents. to mioving picture hows after 9 o'clock in the e'ening. The step is taken owin;t to the in creased use of pictures, mimicing crime and immorality. Left a Fortune. A teleram~ Trom his tather in La.rinburg. N C . br'oughr good news to W. .\. .\,eEachern ir.Sn anzh Thursday morning. for the message was the fest intimation that he had inherited property worth ore han S20.'n. McEachern's