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VINT VOL. XXV MANNNNG. S. C. WEDNESDAY AIUG.UST31, 90N. MAY VICTIMS lore Than Two Hundred Perseas Be lieved to Have Perished FGHTING THE FLAMES The Nanw% of Many or Tliemai Will Never He Known.-Most all of Them Were Fire Fighters and On ly One Woman I% Known to Have Been Burned. It is believed that more tia 200 persons. nearly all tire tighters. p-r 1shed in the Idaho (orest tires. Superintendent Weigel of the Couer d'Alene National fores: after orceiving many reports of disaster to various parties of his 61 employ es. posted a bulletin in his ottice at Wallace. announcing the death )f 114 of the men. and also stated his grave concern for the safety of Ran ger Joseph H. Halm and 74 men who were surrounded by fire Saturday night in the forest on t.he Big Fork of the Couer d'Alene river. near where another party lost 13 men. -Halm was for four years the best athlete at the Washington State col lege at Pullman. a renowned foot ball and baseball player. The charred bdies of twenty fire fighters were found at Seltzer creek In the St. Joe country. Two hundred Japanese dragcea themselves to Avery. Idaho. and told of the death of their companions. The twelve men. the employes of the Chicago. Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad, had gone out to flghz Are and had been surrounded by flames. only two escaping death. The rangers missing in the Thom son Fall country of Montana were not heard from Wednesday. The number of deaths in the State oi Washington was reduced to three. All of these are in the Pond d'Orelie valley near Newport. One of the vic tims. Mrs. Ernest Reiuhardt. wife of a rancher, was the only woman who is known to have been burned to death. Nearly all of the dead were Are fghters. The wholesale loss of life occurred Saturady afternoon and night when great numbers of men were striving to check the flames. The names of many of the dead will never be known. W.hen the groups of fire fi:hters were overwheimed the camps were also destroyed. The clothes were burned off the bodies of the men and the bodies of the dead were often so charred that searchers step ped on them. thinking they were pieces of burned logs. The tire ob literated the trails and the burned country is difficult to go through be cause of fallen trees. With the Towns out of danger and the settlers fled to places of safety. the rangers were able to devote themselves entirely Thursday to the saving of the trees. Various5 fres were isolated and will die out for Slack of fuel. In Montana rain and snow tell. checking the flames. In Spokcane the san shone clear and even in Wallace the smoke cloud was lifted. No one ventures to estimate the financial loss as the exte::t of thie burned area is not fully known. "X-SEI) OF W1REV'KlNG TRIlNS. White Fireman .%rrested in Alabamaa. Negro ('onfesses At Birmin::haam. Alat.. W. H. Na bors. a white fireman. iiving att I~eca tur. Ala.. was arrested Wednes'da., afternoon. charged with being irm plicated in causing three of the re cent wrecks on that division of t:ie Louisville and Nashville Railroad He was taken fri his cab as the enigine came in from the south. He denies the charges. Morris lirown. a negro. is sa'id to have confessed thai he caused the wreck of the fast mat: train below .\ontgomery a few weeks ago. Several people were killed in that wreck. WV>MEN SAVEI SHERIFF. Wife and Isaughter Rescue Him from Murderous Negroes. Sheriff Th'omas R. Shipp. of Deca-I tur. Ala.. was saved from a murder ous attack of six negro prisoners in the county jail Thursday ty his wife nnd daughter. The n'-groes attempt ed to lock the sheriff in a cell and he was in a fight with themi. hand-to hand. with his life in danger. whewn the two women ran in with ash gun and a reaolver. They for'-ed ihr ne;:roes to surrev'der. BAiNIFTS HOI.l) 'P ('.ll$ Coinductor Puts to Flight Highnay - men With [Brake Iron. Two masked high waymten held 'ap two interburb-an cars at Wilkesbarrc . Pa.. Tuesday night, tiring their re volvers andi terrorizing the wonie-n passengers and relieved te employes and a Ione' mala passenger of on. of their w-eches and s19 i:: eash A conductor of anothe-r car contain ing wonmen attac-ked the bandits wi'n his brape iron and~ put themi to t1ig-it. The men have nyt teen captured. 5jix (-harted With Mlurkr. and Rart creekmar. \^bss lii'.he.1 and Frar'k .\irph' . ai! 'ron. r..nv citizens of Lyon er -- were brought to Hopkins' ille. Ky. rirday night for safe keeping They are charged] with the .nurder of Axien Coo;'er. ?E SERVES THEM RIGHT lVEMOIMI.ITS WHO VOTEDI WITH RlEPUBlLIC.ANS IleC1-3tIATEl3a lny the lenmocrats of Gkorgia, Who Eleet Hoke Smith Governor (K er Little Joe Brown. .-Cann -nm'' plaiyed an important par: in Georgia politics during tue past several months and at the IDe.n ocratic primaries Tuesday brought the defeat of Leonidas F. Livingston and William M, Hloward. in point of service the oldes-t membhers of !he Georria delegation in the na:ionai house. In the fifth cistrict William Sch ley Howard. a young atttrnew. wen i decisive victory over Livingston. In the eighth district the returns show a convention majority of four votes for S. J. Tribble and Wedne. day Congressman Howard tiled no tice of contes; of the election. He charges irregularities at two pre cincts in Elbert county. which gave Trioble a majority of four votes. The other nine members of !he Georgia delegation in congress are assured of renomination. The fight against Livingston and Howard was. in each case based upon their al leged desertion of the Democrat.ic party when it was sought last Dec emher to change the so-called Can non rules of the .house. Former Gov. Hoke Smith won the :omination for governor over the incumbent. Joseph 'M. Brown. The popular majority of Smith in the State was approximately 4.000. Two -ears ago Brown. whom Gov. Smith bad- removed as chairman of the tate railroad commission, defeated Smith for re-election by a popular majority of more than 10.000. Among the few contests for other tate offices. J. A. Perry won over D. H. Stephbens for railroad commis ioner: M. L. Brittain defeated B. .. Settler for State school commis ioner: T. S. Felder won over the incumbent, H. A. Hall, for attorney :eneral. NEW FORM OF MONEY ORDER. It Will Be Provided With a Detach able Coupon Announcement has been made at ,he Postoffice to the effect that the epartment would Issue a new form f domestic money order in the near !uture. A principle feature of this ew form will be r detachable cou on to take the place of z.he advice n the present slips, and which will e presented with the money order y payee or endorsee at the paying It is stated that the names of the emitter and payee wil! not appear :n the body of the order. but the %ending of the coupon with the order ill serve to acquaint or remind G-e ayee of r.be name of the person en. itled to credit for the remittance. he order and coupon together are ~omewhat longer thar. the order ow in use. but may be handled co ~eniently with cov.mercial paper by ~anks and business houses. The vidth ist the same as that of the resent ord& Beginning wi:.h the earliest date n which the Government printer at Cashingtor. will be ready to pirint nd ship such forms. domestic mone: ~rders of the new style will be fur ushed to all postmasters in the l'nit d States. It is stated that the suip ly of old form domestic money or lers now in st-ek at the various post -lces in the country will be used up 'efore the rew ones will be asked 'or. It is expected that the n-t lips will make their appearance zn his cit y on or a bout Ikcemniber 1 3. P1I.ZE~R WrOMAN SHOT. Infatuated Manm .ttempt.% Murder. Committ% Suicide. At Knoxville. Tenn.. pedestrians n South Broadway late Thursday . vning saw Henry Gardner. aged . approach a woman, fire t wo shots Sher then turn the weapon n;pon umself and commit suicide. Gard er is the son of a farmner livingI :hree miles from the city. The woman he tried to kill was irs. Ellen Hall, who went to Kno. ..lle lees than a week ano from PeI er. S. C.. and previous to that re ided at Spartanb~urg. S. C The .oan wa5 shor through one hanrd nd the lobe of one ear, and thoughl eoved to a hospital is only slight ly Gardner fired two shots into -his: lft breas' a: d died almnst inst ant y. lie lett a note stating that n ad rather die than live without the onan. adding that she had gone .ak on him. Gardner's friends sup soe he met :he woman in South arolina. where he had be-en work n. and :)iat he had be-omew infat riated witi' her. Preacher Stole Watchee. .ccording to his own statemtuent h. Rev. August Heuberich. former ly paustor of a German Lujthera'n ehu:reh in Middiehurg. Ohio. stole 17 watches and $1j in currency from t':dnts of Eden College. St. Louis1 o;rv. Mo.. in order to raise mroney :o ..:t.'nd a conference of th~e Ger ia E-vangtelical Synod. -Town Wiped Out. The town of W.-ndlin. Oregon. was 'ntir.ly destroyed by a forest fire arly Thursday evening. Th.-e bg tkohKel:y lumber Mills and corn ider..hle railr-,ad pre.7perty were 'ic ryri le P s feared.. sevrsm In'es aer. 1 imed ini Ma%h lat'. Peter H1eil. a brewery employc. wie preparing to mix a mash F'ri LOSS OF LIFE bi the Forest Fires of Idaho and Mon tana is Appalling MANY HUNDREDS DEAD Fire', ,wept Thro u;-h Foresat W-fit h -such spoet-4 Tlt -None Coul Es cap.-More Than Two Hundred l'ers'on l'erish in lLdahio Alone. P~rolaerty IA&n-*-- 0.00 It ?he stories of men who returned last Friday from the S:. Joe country are :o Oe believed. the loss of life along lig Creek. a tributary of the I St. Joe river. was appalling and the lead in Idaho aione will :iumber i more than 20'o. even if R;ng.r Haln i a:.d his S4 men turn up. of which the 4 forest otlicer in Wallace is not hope ful. All estimates of the financial loss w.s place it at over $2.000.000. most- I y in timber. Supervisor Weizle ha. :iven hop.' for the safety of Ranger HlaIm and xi on the headwaters of .he St. Joe river. Ranger F. A. erns, at the head of a still larger party on the St. Joe. is safe. t The loss of life occurred mostly I ast F.aturday and Sunday week. when r a gate fanned smouldering embers I nto great fires and drove flames s trough the mountain with the speed a f an express train. giving fire tight- t rs no chance to flee for their lives. r %'one of the town in Idaho and Mon- 0 ana is now in danger and the crit- e cal period is passed. Wit.h SS emlployes of the forest ,ervice known dead and grave fears s elt for a number of others who are e issing. headquarters of the Couer a 'Alene forest service at Wailace. s daho. is anxiously awaiting news P rom the relief expedition sent to 1 escue Ranger Joseph B. Halm and ,4 men who have not since been t eard from when they were on the eadwaters of the St. Joe. With the opening of tEhe Chicago. lwaukee and Pudget Sound into he St. Joe valley. discouraging news a beginnin:; to come out. It appears c hat eow men were at work on ilig reek !ast Sunday when th. wind low flames through the cas on. Ap arently truthful accounts of the loss if 47 of the men were rec'eived Fri- r lay. These deaths should not be h 'onfused with the losses reported U rom Avery. Near Avery 47 hadies have been ound and 1;1 Japanese. four negre j oldiers and an unknown :;um'er of|, ettlers are mizsing. 0 Simtv-fve men. natives of the Med erranean country. arrivedl in Spok ne from Bi: Creek and said 1.. Aus rians and two American choppers ', 'ere burned to death last Saturday j, teek. From the 5tory of the sur-| -ivors it appears that these v'ic'ltms .. ver.- working at a point farther up. he creek than the .10 Italians al eady rep~orted dead. T[he .\ustrians were untder'takinc r, a back tire but their work was so :t nsuccessful that they were' killeti y the' fire they t. emselves had just ighted which ran back on themt and a lrose themt against a wall oif !la?mes Ldvan(eit.:: from the opposite diree The townts alon;- thIe. line of te -. 'olutmbia and lunet Soundl. a short oal road, are int greater da::;:er t han htose' alontg t he .\ ilwau:ke.' line. The ' -lumbhi:.'s a;:enut at Tailor repiortedl I: "riday that the tire was withtitn 7"' yards of the town, lie added: 'Two houses c.:: the outskirts wer, , urned last night. Wind .:owint : tard. When fir.-s ;:e into he.,vy' imi.er atvt here' tothing enn. sae he town. Worst 's ye-t :o come.' The Columalia &: Pu;tet Sound --n. : passenger tr-iin to Tailor Friday ti:ht ard is holdintg i: ther'. read.s . 0 bring out the peop.le. Ta. 'r is a own of t;499 population. Warden Simtons rer,'ivedi the fo!- i owing reb-'gram. front Ran.:er Stone: it 'loncon. Ott t.he line' of the .\il vaukee: The' tir.- hore is tr"'m one to three nuiles wid''. Need ai1: :h.- he*lp .*uan et. C'an nt .t k eep fire t':.ek. Loss to p.rsonai property grea.t and possi l somett i es lo0 Wardent Simons ha.s role-t: phed to the navy and war de'p.,rtmtents ask ng that thbe forts and warship.s on uet sountd ir.' all the-ir 'e gunst r t. o'cloc~k Sat urdiay tiuotrg in .he' hope. t he d--ton~ai n wii start : geeral ra.irtal: ove'r wesdernm Wash. The. I-,. of ( otton 'seed l~ialaces, the I se' f Olite' Oil. A.\merican ct.ot tons.eed oil. de's;i -- the htigh d uties a.:ainst it. issteadily making headway in : i.- ma rke; s of 'he worldl. Through th' efforts --t the bureau of mantufac' tur'ers of th.' deanrtmten t of comme'~re.- a nd lab or. soe packers o'f suirdini's in France and Norway' hn e ptromi .ed to bes:: expenrets in uack in.; tish in the m.'ri ;roduti mto tad of olive oil. Italy .s :ab'.- to undel.rse:! Spain in th.' .jive market. a repo.rt to the dep': atment ayr. lbu t Sp:an pro~ :i!b e imtportittion o: ."'tton seed as -.n - "ild-'. whti;e Italy' promotes i:. in Ilal'. :as we.ll as it' Turk"'. c'onses nearls all the n'ati oil 'o . to be e'xport"-L e'dde lfurned to lr'dth. when the hou-e 'a: .John Flee.'. a far ame. w as d"troyed The children TRAGEDY WAS REAL 0 1ll1 Il'.1.1MA (lVS I sE TO .31U-1;1,11-1 lA ; E ltival in I.uve I'Laced a Shell in ti Shotaun tUS Ie t,.eul to *Kill AI other l'layer." .iaco:. Wirkier is (14i in Mu-k. :ee. Okla.. an.1 L,. 1). B, oker is i ai!. charzed with placing a shel; he zun that was uiied b-y Evere )lden in a play in the Stone Bhlu ;choolhouseP. Olden leclar--s th :un he used wa, not la aded a f. weords before lie took it to the stat or he examined it in the dressin oom. Liter Booker handed him Tte w a )on and the fact that it was loade came evident only when hi. . ng partner fell dead with a load c hot in his breast. Booker advis! )den to surrender to the !r:i ut instead of Okdet.. Book -r w-i laced in jail. for it .tcame e hat he was a rival to Wi- ki~ ii he suit for a young woman's han nd that the two young men ha. uarreled. T-he audience was intent u:pI. .h ene. wherein. at the cli-k of t*t rigger on the shotgun. Winkler wa > fall to the floor. When the cli ax of the scene was reached Oldez aised the weapon level with Wink r's breast. Olden fell bsck In thi ame affright as the audience wher n explosion reverberated *.hrouqb he little hall and Winkler wat sen.t eling half across the stage wth : arge of buch." .z .a his t>4d. . T-i ntertainment ended abruptly Winkler's father has been aetiv; i obtaining evidence to prove hi mn was the victim of a plot. l'-' r took Olden to jail at Wagener drising him to sarrinder - i., eriff. Olden. however. -s rto laced in jail and Winkler's rel.t iveq tade no complaint against hi-n. Tt< roner's .ury arrived at a ve-ich iat Winkler's death was due to *"'I cidntal discharge of a shotgu-i r ie hands of Olden." THAT SIX PER CENT. TARE. arleston Exchar-ge Oppo..es the New Cotton Law. We learn from The News and Co-: er that the nenibers of th.- Char. ston Cotton Exch.anne are ainioo.l nanimously opoposed :o the carryin; :t of the law pa.sedi at thle lan: ,ssion cf the Le;zislature. where:..y 1I cotton sold in this State may !i vered with ,agging to the extent r per cent. taro. T>.e opposithr this law took definite sa;iw at a eeting of the boird of directors o1 e Cotton Exchangr- il: a ;erie fi *so-utions. The le-gislati n in int *solutionls is denounced as~ 'unwis4 d injurious tc the cotton interes:. his port.' and the "excesi'e bag ing contrary to all the rub-s a:.A gulat ions of all --ott: n excht...ge th domtest ic and forteignl. Thte solutions piassed by the botnard ce: trectors of te Cotton E'xchante fol lws: Whereas. the legstuitre of t1n tate has enacted a State law tha: at ton s bi ini th is Sta.*te ray t) vered with ha~t.::g to the exten lper cenlt tar'' thus mak- : ei-ponid hale ettletd to thir:' 'unda of bagging; antd contrary to all the rules and regu: t ions of all cotto eu11changes. .ori reign and den;ic. and s:tebt *' ssi'e tare will be ebharged to thec iyer of the elton. ma ki: t the o:. tess a s~ever loss in its incepti:on Whereai.. in our op~nion. -uch w is only attempting toe sell ha cotflton at an a' erage pirice of1: a15 cents: he it Resolved, that this Exc'hange con emn sutch lenislaionr as unwise an' rxjuriouts to the cotton business u his port. A IIVENT OFl lIUSSIA N FISH. .4u iianla Fishertnen H ave Chane to Put ('aviar on Market. Nubel~rs of the so-called "Rut. ian sturgeon. the fish that ha' e.en the iource of mtillicns of doliar evene to Russian fis~hermnen (in a' ount of thte roe, which provide th' 'erl's markets with caviar. are no' rn the .\exican Gutlf, acecording e ~p-..rts received by the' game ant' ish commnissi'on of Louisianta. Tht iiration of these fish into w.at.' uthe'rto uninhabited iy themr ..e- mg nepla.inable. but this motevem-n''t tow is pu:tting I hundreds of dlolla: to the pockets of lnuisiana fi.ne.c No t race haes been tee't::d of thI kidnaper and muirde'rer of J%'e 'abish. four-year-old sonf of F'ran .~ ian. ain Ital ian. at Kingtont. The boy's body waes found Thuc lay in an oiithouse at th~e rear of h bote. cuti and strangl.-d. ie ha. 'en dead iut a .iort tm. . t h. u;: uiion i: cO last Frid.ey Meet Atter Long Years. former govern ar ot Neiraska. ati s roth.-r. WValtor .lanmes. ated 7 -a resident of Lo- A\ngeb-'s. t-aj.. mi in sea- le-. Wash.. last we"'k. but h; to :e introduced ti each other hi ber"i cle-rk They pa;rt-d 7.1 :.ei Fat al ~n ap :st ng. .'.rs. Frank rDnmm'oc-k. aged;& Natural Bridge. N Y . n biin pickki errt-s in a field near her hon: TRAGIC STORIES .1 rtsyE WH) ESAt'l'E TELL. PoF FL..IIIIS FIFltCEV BLAiST. e sme of the Awful Tragedies En.act iol in the Fire Zone Rtecited b; Survivor-%. ' Tele::raphic eomm:ication wita n -he :. J,-- Valley of Idaho hti, been u re:,torted1. I.ut itI is not yet i -ass o e to verify tr. re;orts -.3tW..P It s 'f ot life aion, tire flgh-e s. adit-onal e to the rep':--: . v the mern :ent. oficials. The estimate of 20)) dead in the three State.% is adhered to by those most familiar w h t* situat;on. Trntiet-,:3iao --ing taid Vy. arrivals from the fire zone in Ida f h,>. George Ryan of Toronto. C3n.. ! one of the- ::o men imprisoned in Wr, - -Eagle mine Saturday night, where six pe.rished. said Friday: *Ther.- were 7. of -t% ttuder Ran i fer Pulaski. We first took refuge ;n I the tu::nel of the J. . C.. mile. .-ut I it was not safe and after we had b-een there a short time. 30 ot a, . went down the creek a quarter of 2 mile to the War Eagle. I don-t a know what became of the test of - the men. We took horses into the *-tonel - Pulaski told up to lie as close 0o the floor of the tunnel as we could. or close the wall. We tried to block t up the entrace of the tunnel with blankets. but the fire burned them off is fast as we put them up. -The flames licked up 15 feet from the mouth like a blast. The smoke was suffocating. -*Alout an hour and a half after we had been in the tunnel. Pulaski lost consciousness. "Two men who qct seared rolled arou. .1 mi the middle of the tunn-. instead of keeping by the edge or on the floor and they died across my knees. -Nearly all of us during the six hours were lying in water that drop ped frotn the roof and walls of the tunnel. "When the fire finally passed and the tunnel cle;.red a little nearly half of us were unconscious. The eye% of the. others were gummed to :ether from smoke and tears so that we could hardly open them. Five were dead. --\e found a sx:h man. burned to a cri.p. but t:e don't kn~w what .ie~m of ti. others. T.he two hot sc:; wore nearly .uffocated and thel: eves were fallrg out of their heads We had to shont them. t; e Iiberon. owner of a mine on Placer .-r-ek. s utbeast of Wal lace. w no r eached safety Friday. sai; he number of (lead would never be known. lie continued: -Iar%..y iertrai. a deputy raan --r. had natch difliculty in ho'ding all :is nialf crauze-d mte.'. Relieving the.y were bunst trappled. one or two 01 his ;eariy thre.atened to commit sul ide. .\t titates, lartramn was able -o controtl them onfly at the point of* a revolver." F.AT Al. STRtEFT I EL Two Meat Soct Fachn Other and an 1lunaocent Man. .\t (hai t: oota. Tenzi.. Ptoyd Thomtnpson. :e promndet Joung Couirt repiorter. wasI shot and fitally wonind <-<l. ~and William Snyder. the other principle in the duel. wili die as a re suit of hi- injuries. The shooting o'curred or. erowded Market street. he miain iuisiness thoroughfare. Charles Hlenaliry. a lawyer. of Daytoit. at pedestrias.. received a slight wound fronm a s: ray bulilet. The troub-le is t.he result of an o'd .rud::e. Ten days ago Thompson rired three shots at Snyder -=ithin a block of the scene of the traredy. All1 the sh':ts went wild. The two muen have he-en anticipating further In Friday night's affray ten shots were tired and a panic followed. Af :.1r 5: yder nd emptie.. his pistol at Thompitson. the latter staggered to a art:g store. Snyder followed. re iloading his pistol as he ran. Thomp sont felfl to the sidewalk. Synder 1ev ele~d his ;:un at the prostrate form. but Iey-standers interfered and wrest ed th. .pistol fromt Snyder. .l :hr..e of the wounded were hurr'i.d to a hospital. but there is noi ho ,- for the recovery of either -nyder or Thompson. T.he former reeited :hree bullets and the lat ter a.-ur IVE CHhIltFROM DE.T. \V1oman3 %tandia for Eiglht Hou-Sa in (i-tern V'ntil Help Comnea. Standing in five feet of water an eic.:.-rn a: :er bomne near Sedan. Kan.. .\lr. John: lurah. wife of a. trmeor. tor eigtht hours held aloft t.- two-ye-a r-old chitld until the ar rival ofh'r .humsband Friday. The child haid fallen into thA cistern and - the mother immaediaately sprang al te .i: . s.eized ,he haby in her arms. at.1-d' itaove the surface of the h water antd r'ailed for help. No one w a, wimhzn he-arin- of thewoa' c ls. anc she waited for the return of -to r hand from his work in the 6.-d4-: Mier beng taken trom the cstern. Mr. Burch collapsed and is dang'ern:-t i!:. hut the child suffer ed unlnesr. INilled by Fanatic. -i nmin': *hat he -s :-anctioned andi - mer,: o nmmitintg a crime. G V \1e n.es'd of Ph~m-ot. Ark.. hnl .., learteri" a awaitin: heatrin he~' ona charg;- of! murder .:'t iltl co::ernMarnard. it is claimes. e.I *ub'-d -t:o neghbor. So! Townsendi - w::h whb~r !e d:sa;reed. to death g- --:'a dt> 2;o. ':n doe not. deny WAR TO THE END Tediy Dedares That He is in the Polit ical Fig to a Finish Will SHOW NO QUARTER He Says He Realizet that He May I t Be Deefeated and that He Jecop ardizes the Succe-e of the Repub Ian Party in the State. but There Can Be No Comproe. Theodore Roosevelt s.-rved n->tic Wednesday that he would wage war without quart--r on the "old guard of the Republican party in New Yiora State. Having been drawn into :J fight. as he says. against his wii. be has determined to pursue it to the end. win or lose. Mr. Roosevelt's attitude was indi cated more clearly than at any time before by a statement which he .s yued. The statement follows: *They will have all the iight they y --ant. I am only going to the con- a rention because I feel that the pub ie interests, the interests of the people of New York demand that the I Republican party be given a chance ti to stand squarely and uncomprising- t y for clean, decent, honest politics. c "I go to that convention to make * the speech as it had been planned >riginally. and while '. hope there it will be enough good sense to pre ent any one opposinc the princi- tLI ples for which I shall stand yet if ' they do oppose them. thea it is their own afair and so far as I an oncerned the issu! shal. be a...e tely clean cut.' The colonel said he was going into D the fight with his eyes open. and with ,ull realization of the fact that he ti night .be successful. He said he felt ri hat, on account of the attitude of t embers of the organization he was it perfect liberty to carry on un ompromising warfare. Some of Col. Roosevelt's closest iT rends in the State have told him A hey were doubtful as to the out- t .ome. and he has replied that he d4 imself thinks that even though he -bould be -uccessful in the State con -ention a: Saratoaa And such a ilat rm as he desired should b.e adopt ri <. the result of the election w-u!( %e in grave doubt. The colonel has old his fri-rds t-hat he did not f--ej ure that the Roosevelt-Hlughes fore - would recetve unqualified supp.,| rom the organization at the polls. Co!. Roosevelt's indersement o I ;tate Senator Frederick Davonport ?as the first step in ;he fight whici: te expects to carry on from now un i1 election time. He decided to-lay I o go to :he State fair in Syracum eptemeer 17 to speak and at tha: mie may tatlk politics. He probabu: ill make a numbter of 4'ther speer' s. both before and after the Starz. onventior..V Vice President Sherma'n. who i ~ne of the entral fig:ures in th. truggle. and whom Col. itoosevei posed by his endorse-ment of S.-n for Davenport said emnphaticali e would not talk about the situ:' on. Senator Davenport c111led o :1. Roosevelt We'dnesday to tali. vr the present situation in his dis :ric. Col. Rotsevelt was not will n: to say what conclusion th-.;.A eached.r What ltarnes~ Say.. Wmn. Barnes. Jr.. Republican lead r of Albany. an~d of the 'old guard . ho selected Vice President Sher an for temporary chairman of the state Convention over the head 01 heodore Roosevelt. was in New ork Wednesday and gave out a tatement WVednes'day. part of which ~olo ws' "When .\r. Griscom interjecet ir. Roosevet's name as a catndid. i (or the temporary chairtuanship. without the members n'! the Sta' ommittee kcrowving where .\r. Roo: veit stood on the issues. nOW b)etOz the people. in New York state. and after the Vice President had b~eena laced in nomination befoze tit.it :ommittee. the-rehy forcing the is sue. which it was not the intentirn f the committee to create. he sim ply threw a firebirand in t.he Rtepiub lican situationt. entirely unwazrrant ed and for what purpose it is not for me to say." "It is therefore higly~ sensible. e contin'ued. "on the part of .\r Roosevelt, if- he ho3.--' to control the policies of the Republicamn part: I in that state that he shouild go to the Convention as a dlelegate' an.: there :hrash out what he: thuink ought to be the policy of the part: wth those who have different opi.:-. ions from him. It is assuimed. of course, that he will alide by th decision of that Convention. as wi.I those who oppose himr :here. i: .he i successful. Shoot.,. His Mother. .r:-. Robert Thompson. aged 32. of Pittsfield. Pa.. Wednesday was shot and killed instantly by her 1 - year-old son. Dewe:.. The boy had t been presented with a rifl.' and was showinr his mother how he woula kill a burglar. Freezing in Wyoming. A Ni!'r cold wird :and temtpera ure below freezing drove rheuane from the grouner. at t.-- Finnt e Day sports at Cheyenne. EA 7.. '.n Thursday. and caus~e-i po- ponmetn: of part of the 1rr'nm. Fell to His Decath. Rev. Dr. William Vat! E i:an D'a vis. prominent Congrega'onal mmn iste: of Pittsfield. P.*. and tat-her of Will.n Stearns Dar:s. author. WIIAT CENSUS SHOWS tAC% SUICIDE IN THE COUNTRY AN .CTUAL FACT. rhe Increa.e in Population Is. Sole ly Due to Immigration.-Occrease in Itural District.. Race suicide is the dominant --x iibit in the new census. It is true hat the country's population has in reased. from 76.000.000 to approx mately 90,.00110.001. but the incr*.e as been almost solely due to immi ration. In former decad-s the aver ge increase in intern.il population .as :I per cent. It has now fallen ff to six per cent. and in :another 10 ears will probably sh.w a decrease. hiA is the reason census officials .,e i the contrast cause for alarm sim ar to that which confronts Fran<.e. Such growth as the country has njoyed in the last ten years has ezen largely due from immigration. ccording to these returns. The vit I statistics of immigrants do n-)t. , course. enter into the general 11nd igs in this re-.pect. They be- 'n n important way upon them. boo' ver. considering that immigrants tay be classed as natives after ten ars: and the general tendency a pply to them beyond that period as ell as to those of older residence There was a gross populition in 900 of 76.000.000. The present es mated total Is 90.000.000. Out of te 14.000.000 increase 9,000.000 ime from immigration. This make; ,000.000 as the natural increase -om those who were in the cvrtr.ry; Another remarkable sho-ing of ie present census is the growtn of ties at the expense of rural dis icts. Many of the small citi-s. show creases above 50 per cent. F-..r -,c n1ple. A lnta. Ga.. shows 72: East . Louis. 97; Akron. 0.. 6:. and etroit. 63. About 41) per cent. of the popula on is city dwelling. Rer-arns f:om tral districts are not yet redv for ,bulation. but so far as trev have nen examined they show. save in ro states where local cona'.:ions ac unt for an increase, a positive fal! g off from the population % 19ui* verages calculated from rural .ls icts taken at random figure oirt -crease of about II per cent INDIANS RICH PEOP l. try Have Twenty Thousand Dollar.. Ier Capita. At Pawh;aska. Okla.. on Thursday tiniony was given before the Con e-ssional c.mmittee investiga.ting dian affairs that each of the ':.040 ) age Indians is worth $2is.068. T hich. upon a per cpita basis con itut., the richest penple in the arld. 1 As their prclperty is held in re rict ion by the government t he In- l ans have used a great many law-- I rs. it was stated. One attorne.1 stifled he represented 23 cla imant. ho demnanded that the government l are them on the Osage rolls, thus ving themi the right to twenty ousand dollars' worth of property. be wealth of these claimants, if i ey ar.' successful. would amount four hundired and sixty thousand .\nother attorney testified he had '*n employed to oppose the claims Sthe ground that if allowed they ruld decre-ase the wealth of thei ibe. .\ttorney's fees were paid to, ~tp the Indians off the rolls and es were paid for putting thema or. BEES ATTrA(CK B.ATHER1. inang .Man I.. Rescuedl When Other.. Hear Noise of Fray. Removing. his batn robe and pli-te er one foot in the cool wat.-r th..t led his hathtub Friday. Chapin ard. a Denver mining man, was addenly electrified by a serIes of larp. pains it: practically every por on of his anatomy. At the sam. mue a loud buzzing filled tbe room. hen folbowed turmoil. Other oc JJpants of the house. who came to awestigat.- the disturbance, found ard in thte gostuame of a prehistoric arrior. vainly swinging a wet bath >wel and waging a battle aga~nst a warm of bees that had irrade-a ib' athroom through a hol.- in the w'ui ow screen. GAVEl 1.31 U'P FOlR lDE'AI he Hu..band (omae. 1kack and Find,. Ha.. Wife .larried. Af!ter heing mourned for deaed for nur yeari. Siamuel Stephens canme ae'k to lIte and :o his wife at ln ianapolis. Ind.. last week. to ti:.d er the wife of another. kn.-wn to; rfriendls and neighbors as .\31 'illiam Hall. 9::4 Hiasbrook .,:reet ust betore Mlrs. Stephens was ar aigned on a charge of higamy, made ethe pol::e. Stephens went to th ome and too'k away wi'h him a on. aged '. who was a Daby of hen his father left ham. St-'phens hen disappeared. Fad Strikes Turkey. The Department of State hayr. >ortn from George Horto::. l'u:ted states Consul at Salonica. Turkey. hat -he. mouing picture tad is now preading among the Turs. He 2be: tat Freh and Indian films~ we a1uperceded those ot Amuerican Tired of Li'ing. .\- N"w Britain. Conn.. aith a r''e readi:rg T~m tired of li'ing'' pinned o h:s c'lothet.. the dead body of Ja :'o' J. Strobel. ased 36. was found !:.tn .coss his octhere ;rave in a FATAL WRECK Eight Persons Were Killed and Eight Ijure in Michigan REAR END COLLSION The Entire Train Caught Alire ad Many Midirs Are lkadly Burned. Only One 'ammenger Escape's In jury or Death.-Pullnan Flung Frou Itails. In a rear end collision between passenger trains No. 4 and 14. both eastoound. o.: the Grand Trunk rail road. two miles east of Durand. Mich.. late Wednesday night. eight persons are known to have been kill ed. three were probabiy ..tally.in jured and five were seriously hurt. It was reported that four parsengers are missing. Train No. 14 stopped to repair a defective brake when No. 4 crashed into the sleeper on 'the standing train. I - The engine of No. 4 ploughed balf way through the sleeper. crush ing some of the sleeping passengers. The wreckage of the sieeper caught Ire and others of the passengers were burned or scalded. It is said :here were 18 passengers on the ilt ated car. The dead bodies recovered during :he night were two unidentified wo :nen, one about 50 years old and the ather about 60. and six persons whose bodies were so badly scalded tnd burned as to render identifica ion impossible. The probably fatally injured ar-: iinton A. Davis. 7 years old. of lontreal. .calded and v.at about head Lnd body: George Nelson of Battle reek. fireman of train No. 4. scald 4d and cut: and Bert Mitchell of ort Huron. engineer on train No. 14. who was injured about the head. Only the splintered Pullman was brown from the rails. the occupants >f other c.aches escaping with noth ng more serious than a severe shak ng up. The uninjured passengers. malf clad. endeavoring to rescue hose in the sleeper. were driven ack again and again by the heat of he flames and by the escaping steam Lnd were able to do little toward re -overing the hbdies of the dead. No. 14 left Durand at 10.02 and 'o. 4 at 10.3.. Shortly after leav ng Durand -omething went wrong vith No. 14's engine and the train .opped for repairs. The crew of No. 14 say a 1fag was ert ;ack a mile as .oon as their rain stopped to warn approaching rains. Georg- Wilson of the crew if N-. 4 savs the only warning was t torpedo placed on the track a hort distance bebind No. 14. A Davis Trenton. of Monireal. is bought to be the only one of the >assengers ir the wrecked sleeper o escape. His invalid mother and trained nurse acco:jipaning her vere b::th killed. (CAZEiJ MAN SHOOTh TWO. )pen% Fire ona Pa.'.enger% of L'nion P'a.:ific Train. hiarry P-ouh. of Niaigtara Falls. N. .. becamec insane on the Pullman -ar of a U nion Pacific train, near -:lis. Kan.. early Fridagy and fatally tho? the po)rter. namied Young. and Spastsenger named Temaple of Klan bas City. 310. Pugh shot throu;:~h the end of his >erth into the smoking room. The -ar porter ran towards Pugh's berth and was ..hot twice through the sody. Dr. H. HI. Temple. who was -nroute from Denver with his wife and child prun-: into the aisle and Pugh shot him Twice through the abdomecn. The conductor and barakemien then >verpowerad the passenger and he was placed in jail at Ellis. Temple was taken from the train at Eils worth. unconscious. apparently in a lying conditionl. and placed in a hos :tal. Yo::ng was taken to KanNsas ity. P'ough is about 2!8 years old and of prosperous appearance. Will te HelId ini (olumabia on Sep tembaer 2Gth Newt. It was decided Thursday afternoon it the ex.-cutive meeting of the Re publican party :o ihold a Convention at Columbia Se-ptember 2e. It is thought that sev--ral important mnat :.rs will he threshed out in the Con vention. inrluding. it is .elieved. the elimitnation of th. negro- :ollowing lines indicat.-d by President Traft. .\mzong :hos-- who were. not pres .'nt a: the ..xecuztive committee meet :ng are: I.. W. C. Bllalock, who was i'n the city. and John (;. Capers. who usui..ly attends the Republican sea alons int This State. Se-veral promni neint Republic:an leader-. in This State were in Columbia for' the mneetirng. I! was detinitely decid..d to hold the conferen.- Sep;tember 26 tSupercedted. He Ends Life. T'ri:en into a state of despondency a' -he tae: that atter 22years of tatthful s.:'rvice in one position I Niemphis'. Te-nn.. department store. he had been superceded by a new man. Frederi.'k W. Ives. a widely k.nown dry. goods salesman. commit ted suicide there Fridiay by takian: IFour Killed in tSma..hup'. Four men were kiled and two badlV hurt whe~n two heave freight trai:.s on the river route division of the .Misot: Pacif.c colided head-on.