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BEFORE THE iNDIAN IACE IF MEN LIVED HERE BE FORE THE RED IEN RUINS WITHOUT UMIT lied Along the Missouri River and What Became of Them is a Mye tery.-They Disappeared Leaving Paraphernalia Behind Them. Houses Built Partly Within the Grouad. A strange prehistoric civilization has been discovered on the western bank of the Missouri River, and Har- 1 vard University authorities have an nounced that they will soon conduet extensive research worm In an effort to establish something definite con - erning the race which antedated both the Indians and the forerunners ot the red man in tae Missouri Val ay. The work will be under the per sonal direction of Prof. F. H. Stern, of Harvard. who, says an Omaha dispatch in the Washington Post, has already spent some time among the prehistoric town sites In this vicin Ity. and who, last 'summer, sent a large collection of erude Implements of agriculture. chase, ana warfare to the Peabody Museum, at Harvard. Prof. Stern was formerly connected with the Gilder archaeloglcal survey of the western bank of the Missouri River. and it was his personal ac quaintance with the field which de cided Harvard to undertake the ex ploration. So numerous are these prehistoric remains that Dr. R. F. Gilder, well known archaeologist, who has spent eight years on a survey within 25 miles of Omaha. recently announced that In his opinion the population of the Missouri Valley is not so great nor so dense as was that of the civ ilization which passed away thou sands of years ago. Both Prof. Stern and Dr. Gilder were struck with the absence of any thing showing, or even- indicating, the fate of the people who so thick ly Inhabited this.country. They sim ply disappeared. But they left their paraphernalia behind them. Their crude agricultural implements re mained in the corners of their houses which finally rotted and fell in. but - they were not destroyed by force. The pots and rude cooking utensils were, in many cases, left boiling on the fires which burned in the centre of the lodges. Their bone fishhooks were left hanging to the walls. Their iastrumehts of war-their clubs. their bows and arrows and their spears--remained in their accustom ed places. Their little ornaments of personal adornment stays in the family cache, and even their articles of feed were left in the burrows used as larder. The thousands of people seem to have simply gone out of their homes for a moment and then failed to re turn. The Indians do not know where they went, ana they have not a single tradition as to who they were. They lived In the Missouri Valley ages before the red man came. The ruins which the Harvard men will excavate and explore are -scat tered up and down the Missouri Riv er for miles and miles. They con .ist altogether of "house sites". The houses were partly wIthIn the ground and partly without. The roofs were ~ef elay, and when, after the great tragedy, which wiped out the nation, the supporting timbers rotted, the dirt fell down into, tne excavations. covering everything the fleeing peo pIe left behind. In time dust and dirte sifted in and filled these house sites until they were almost level with the surrounding ground. Now, the old houses are indicated by a slight depresion, only a few inches deep. In numbers these old ruins are al most without limit. According to Dr. Gilder;'every hill between Sioux City. and Kansas city is simply a vast house .site. And in every one explored there are the same Indica tions of a hasty flight and a great tragedy. These ruins do not appear on the Iowa side of the Missouri, ,but are confined altogether to the Nebraska side. However, there are remains of an entirely different people and an other civilization on the Iowa hills. That the two races lived In entirely different ages is shown by the fact that none of the Implements common on one side of the river Is found on the other side. In many respects these ancient people were entirely foreign to any other whose remains have ever been found f'n America. This Is shown by the Implements left behind when they took their flight. Among these is a beautifully carved head yith dis tinctly Egyptian features, including the rectangular ear guards worn by them, entirely foreign to anything ever before found on the American continent. Of it James Mooney, of the American bureau of ethnology, said: "It is the greatest archaeolo gical find in America in a century. and nothing like It has ever before been found." Harlin I. Smith, head of the archaeological survey of Can ada. who saw the little head some time ago, announced that he . was entirely unable to classify it, and that certainly it belonged.-to a cul ture of which archaeologists and an thiropologists in America knew abso lutely nothing. COCOA NUTS HELD WHISKEY. Texas Farmer TelLs Hoiw He Evaded Oklahoma Law. A man has appeared in Texas as a capitalist and with the expectation of 'becoming a decent citizen. He says he mnade his fortune bootleg ging whiskey Into Oklahoma by means of cocoa nuts. In Kansas City. St. Louis, Fort Smith and oth er convenient points he bought cocoa. nuts by the carload. He removed the "eye" from eacn with a knife and emptied the nut of its milk and substituted liquor. 'The "eye" was then replaced and seared with a wax 'which left no sign of an opening 4 then shipped to Oxlahoma and sold < h'ving ;been -made. The nuts were 4 K fo- 1 a ec. Be mdenouth1 TAXES MAY BE HIGHER TATU LVY MAY BE INCREASED TO EIGHT M)rILI ources of Income Will Yield Only $1,821,875, While $436,256 More Than That Is Being Asked For. The state revenue for 1913 from axes, estimated and based upon the I >resent assessment of $291,500,000 Lt a rate of six and one-fourth mills m the dollar, would be $1,821,875. [o this add the estimated income rom other than taxes, of $300,308, tnd we have a total estimated rev mue of $2,122,183.' This state nent is made by A. W. Jones, com )troller general, on the financial sit nation, in a statement'to be sent to ,he general assembly during the week. The comptroller general says that = te levy of six and one-fourtk mills c ould be one-half a mill more than i ast year, and is rendered necessary 3 :o carry out the plans for building c he new State Hospital for the Insane C e says that if a half a mill is levied a for this particular purpose, every t year it will give about $150,000 a 8 year and that it will take about six E rears to pay for the buildings, which B are estimated to cost about $1,000, 000, or the amount of the bond issue proposed last year. "It will thus be seen by the Spec al report," says the comptroller gen oral, "heretofore made to your hon orable body that the appropriations asked for, $2,578,439, exceed the estimated revenue of the State, under a levy of six and one-fourth mills, by $456,256.00, and if you make all the appropriations asked for, it will be necessary to make a rate of eight mills on the dollar to raise the ap propriations. For section 2, article 10 of the constitution requires a levy sufficient to pay the ordinary expen ses of the state, togetner with any existing deficiency in income to meet the appropriations or the expeses brought over from tne preceeding year. It therefore seems that ap propriations should not be increased more than absolutely necessary until the system~for the asessment of pro perty has been so reformed as to equalize the burden. "In any event, before the taxes of 1913 are- available, the state must borrow $500,000.00 to meet current expenses. "The state has taxable property off the tax books escaping taxation, which if discovered and taxed, would belp in the bearing of this burden and place the state's operation on a cash basis and avoid* the paying of unnecessary interest and expenses on loans." COTTON GINNING REPORT. Crop Nearly Million and a Half Be hind Last Year. The ninth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, Is sued at 10 o'clock Thursday mornIng, announced that 13,091,264 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1912 had been gin ned prior to Thursday, January 18, to which date during the past seven years the ginning averaged 95.3 per cent. of the entire crop. Last year to January 16 there had been ginned 14,515,799 bales, or 93.3 per cent. of the entire crop; In 1908 to that date, 12,666,203 bales, or 96.8 per cent, and in 1906 that date 12, 176,199 bales, or 93.8 per cent. Included in the ginnings were 78,892 round bales, compared with 97,654 'bales last year, 111,079 ,bales In 1910, 146,378 bales in 1909 and 232,510 bales In 1908. The final ginning report will be> ii sued Thursday, March 20, at 10 a. n., and will announce the quantity of cotton ginned prior to Friday, February 28. Up to January 16, 1912. South Carolina had ginned 1, 192,267 and 1,536,085 up to Jan uary 16, 1911. The Indications are that the entire cotton crop this year will be over one and a half million bales less than it was last year. SLAUGHTER OF LEPBRS. Chinese Officials Shoot and Burn Band of Outcasts. Thirty-nine lepers recently were put to death In an atrocrous manner by order of the provincial authorities of Naiubing, province of Kwang-LO1. Tr,. suffer ers from the dreadI disease first were shot and the ntheir bodies we-a tuned in a huge trench. A Catholic mission had sought permis sicn to build at Its own expense a slon to build at its own expense a lazaretto for the lepers, and the pro-1 vincial authorities, pretending to) consent, dug a pit, in whieh was1 placed wood, soaked with keposene. At the point of the bayonet the lepers then were driven into the pit and1 shot and the pyre was lighted and: their bodies burned en the presence of a large crowd. The authorities offered rewards for the discovery of other lepers and this resulted in the shooting of one more man afflicted with the disease.* BEES TRAP A BURGLAR. On His Way to Rob Farmer, Thief Stumbles Over five. Driven into spasms of agony by the stings of a hive of bees, an armed burglar, trapped in the yard t the home of John Sampson, a< tarmer of Fallington, Pa., yelled at< the top of his voice and surrendered in gratitude when his tormentors were driven away. "For God's sake, save me! Please do something: I came to rob your ( house, but fell over the hive and these devils attacked me." t A fter making this appeal the rob- e 3er dropped his revolver and lan- t tern. Sampson picked them up, i, :eted the bees and led his pris- 3 ner to the town jail. It was ne- E ~essary to call a physician to relieve n victim's agony.* Wrote Him Many Letters. Alleging that he had received 700 n tnnoying letters from Giary Stream- '1 r a Staten Island school teacher, e luririg the past four years, Dr. Henry d ;oodwin, a prominent Staten Island s physician, obtained a summons F'ri- a i. N HEIRESS STOLEN 0 OUNG LADY IS BOLDLY TAKEN FROM iFE HONE 11 V OURNED IN A TAXIIAD gld Kidnapers Almost Succeed in ' Daring Plan, But Is Foled by the a Driver, Who Heads the Automo bile for the Police Station, and r c Kidnapers Are Arrested. Facing a sentence of life impris- ? nment at Allentown, Pa., for the ttempted kidnaping of an heiress to illions, Samuel Sinclair Jr., and R. 'alter Star Jr., have put forwar'd a ovel plea for their defense. Sin lair, the principal in the bold plot, sists that the alleged kidnaping of liss Anna A. Steckel, the daughter f a retired millionaire business manC f that city, was not a kidnaping at 11, but an elopement plot which wa1 D result in him marrying the pretty ciety girl. The indignant denial ntered by Miss Steckel against this tory is blandly explained by Sin lair who says that the girl got 'cold feet" and Is now trying to lace him in prison to save herself. "Elopement, nothing!" declares he aged father of the girl. "I saw ay daughter being aragged out of Ler own home by these two men, nd when I protested the only an er I received was to 'shut up'. I m too old to have offered any vio ent objection to the kidnaping, but will spend half my money to have homn pror-erly punishel' The attempted kianaping of Miss teckel was one of the boldest crimes f its sort the east has record of for number of years. She was return ig to the palatial home of her fath- j er from a shopping trip, and when he turned In at the gate noticed a 4 axicab standing by the curb, but bought nothing of it. She opened e front door and stepped into the estibule when she was grabbed by nclair and Star. Thinking the whole affair a joke Lt first, for she knew the two young nen, she began laughing, but the nirth turned to shrieks when she ound herself being dragged down he walk toward the waiting cab. When she screamed for help, one of o men placed his nand over her outh, and thus gagged she was thrust into the waiting automobile. The chauffeur, who told the police at his cab had been engaged "for wedding," became suspicious at he actions of the men, and when he men followed the girl into the ar and told him to drive on, he de termined to turn the entire party ver to the police. He drove at break-neck speed, and, In turning a corner, crashed into a monument, isabling the car and .badly shaking p the occupants. Before any one ~ould recover, a policeman had tak n charge of the two men and the irl, who was found qen the floor of, he wrecked taxi, her arms pinioned. ad a blanket thrown over her. The two young men In the case re members of prommnent Philadel hia families. Sinclair, the leader in he alleged kidnaping, had been a. uitor of Miss Steckers for months, ut his love making had been dis ~ouraged by the young lady and his resence in the house barred by her ather. Star declares he knew noth ng of any kidnaping, but believed e was to help in an elopement. The pretty victim in the case was andled so roughly by the men in at-. empting to keep her quiet, that she - s still in bed. She constantly asks ror a guard to protect her, now that h two men in the case have been ,et at .llberty on ball, declaring that he fears Sinclair will make another ttempt to get her or do her bodily niry. WASTE OF ANIMAL LIFE. ~ulphuric Acid Poisoning Cause Death of Foiul. Investigations of the causes for he enormous mortality azacong v'ed acks In the neighborhod1 of Slt ake City, Utah, which were inisti ~ated, by the American Game Pro :ctve and Propagation Asastio,1O~ ave revealed the fact snat sulphuric cId poisoning, and not a contagious isease as was believed, was respon ble for the death or two million ater fowls in 1910 and nearly as any during the past season. The Association solicited the aid the Biological Survey at Washing n and through Its offices Dr. Buck y of the Pathological Division of e Bureau of Animal Industry was ent to the scene of the supposedi ,pidemic. All those who have given e matter attention now concur in r. iBuckley's conclusion that sul-i huric acid discharged into the arshes by industrial plants has de ~troyed the birds. This discovery iaves the way for legislation which nould be immediatery enacted to revent this great waste of valuable bnunal life. TITA4NIC HORRORS BETOLD. MJms Amounting to Over Five Mil lion Dollars Filed. Stories of death, suffering and per- I ianent physical injfuries; accounts I futter financial destitution and re- I itals of loss of costly gems and aces and gowns are to be found set ; rth In the normal phrasing of the w in the 279 claims thus far filed vith the United States commissioner lchrist at New York for damages e to the Titanic disaster. The ftal amount is $5,500,000. Death aims constitute the larger part of dsl sum. Then follow claims for C ss of baggage and personal effects. ' [any European countries and most tates of the Union are represented. Mexican Rebel Outrages. ebels have raided the ranch and llls of J. M. Gleason, an American, ear Chiantempam, in the state of laxicala, .Mezico, killing four of the aployees. Several women were ab- c ucted. The manager of the ranch, o o is Mr. Gleason's son, and his t f e and child, escaped with diffiul- t .The buildinga ' er e Ioted and f RAILROAD CAR THIEVES NE WAS A MURDERER PABOL- C ED BY GOY. BLEASE. Vas Caught In a Band of Railroad S Thieves at Allendale Where They Were Bobbing Cars. A dispatch from Barnwell says W. Scott, a white man, said to be s rom Atlanta, and five negroes, were R rrested gi Barnwell, where they a rere lodged in jail charged with at- t mpted car-breaking. One of the c egroes, Hammie Williams, was re- C ently paroled by the Governor dur- s -g good behavior. He was serving p Ut a sentence for murder, having R en convicted at Barnwell .several T ears ago. The arrests followed nu- k serous robberies at Allendale. C A dispatch from Allendale says 1 lammie Williams, Jno. Talbert, Dan- a y Moore, Bill Gardner, Charlie ohnson, negroes, ana W. T. Scott, a rhite, were arrested Sunday on i arges of car breaking and robbery, a ad were sent to the county jail at c arnwell. Hammie Williams, with a everal others, was caught in the att s f robbing n ear of a through freight I rain wihile it was stopping for ;oal v LIa water in the suburbs of the C own. about 2 o'clock Sunday morn- s ag. a -Jpon the approach of the trah row all the robbers made their es- f ape, except Williams, who, becom ng entangled in a wire fence, he 1 was captured, placed in charge of t he flagman, who was instructed to urn him over to the police. On heir way a party of negroes, suppos- I d to be members or the gang, ap- I >roached and demanded the prison The flagman presented his pistol t nd frightened them away. On see ng the pistol drawn Williams caught nd wrung it from his grasp and at empted to use it with murderous s ntent, but after a scramble the fag nan overpowered him and tied and lelivered him to the police. Three.more negroes were arrest ad Sunday charged with complicity -n the car-breaking and robbery for E which four others and one white E nan were arrested Saturday and are -ow awaiting preliminary hearing. the white man and one negro have confessed and profess willingness to testify against the others. Later Hammie Williams confess .d and implicated the above named prisoners. For some time evidences ,t car robbery has been in progress it that point, and the authorities be lieve, they have captured the mem bers of an organized band. SHOULD HELP EACH OTHER. Parmers Should Organize for Mutual Protection. All classes of business men can ombine and plan and work and scheme for their mutual ;benefit ex et the farmers. Their attempts at o-operative work in buying and sell ing have been failures except in a oal way, where only a few men en tered into a business arrangement hich was practical and beneficial. )csionally when cotton goes below the cost of production, the farmers hold meetings and politicians will blow off het air and then, after a time, some resolutions will be pass d to hold cotton until it rises to a ertan price. Then another set of resolutions will be passed to cut down the a.:re-j sge of the next crop. Three-fouruhsi f the farmers take no part in LLta e netizl. ernd they do not feel no-ad~ y a iy tesc lutions. These f arm-.ra ad agricultural doctors wait untilI the patient is in a moribund condi tion to apply the remedy. These oasmodic efforts to bring around a etter condition ' generally fail. There is want of wise co-operation, that is, working together for the ben fit of all. I the farmers could get rid of hree-fourths of the middlemen who stand between them and the mann aturers on one side and the ulti aate consumers on the other, they would then ,be in a fair way to be benefited by co-operative buying and selling. Large farmers who buy sup ies by the car load and 100 to 500 tons of fertilizer may deal directly ith the manufacturers and get rid i the middlemen, except a per cent. eserved for special agents of the territory where the purchase is nade. WILL MAKE IT A PARK. ~entucky Will Beautiry the Birth place of Jeff Davis. The work of beautifying the Jeffer on Davis Memorial park at Fair new, near Hopkinsville, Ky., will be aken up in earnest with the advent )f spring, according to an announce eat from the board of commission srs appointed by Governor McCreary. ~ineteen acres of the Dlavis -farm, on which ,Tefferson Davis was born, have een purchased and a stone fence is eing built around it with funds ap ~ropriated by the state. The statue I sf the former president of the Con-i ederacy will be erected in the I rpring. Other permanent improve nents of the property are expected o get under way as soon as weather l onditions permit. ansas Comes Back Again. George H. Hodges, of Olathe, was naugurated Tuesday as the nine eenth governor of Kansas, being the Irst Democratic executive to take oath since the inauguration of ~overnor George W. Flick thirty e eaars ago.a as communistic in habit, or that l ch man was blessed with 100 r nives. C ,II They Had Free Fight. At Cheyenne, Wyo., a riot broke ut in the house of representatiVes fthe Wyoming legislature Monday rhen Speaker Spratt and Speaker ~ 'ro Tem Wood both claimed the Ight to preside. A violent fight, rbich was interrupted by members, , ok place between the two officers. Ship Dead to China. f After being buried in various Chi- n ago cmeteries for years. the bodies I Iseventy-four Chinese were disin- V irred and placed in metallic caskets t Sbe shpped back to the ntive land a r final 1huital. They were shipped e LOST WITH ALL HANDS NE STRAMR SEES ANOTHER GO TO THE BOTTOM. aw Large Ship Plunge Beneath the Waves in Terrific Hurricane With AU on Board. The News and Courier says the nking of a large Danish steamship, S ith all hands on board, off the )uthwest coast of England during a rrific hurricane on the 26th of De miber, was the scene witnessed by apt. K. Ree, master of the Dutch teamship Phecda, which arrived in ort Saturday night from Hamburg ith a cargo of fertilizer material. he name of the lost vessel is not nown, but it is believed by some of apt. Ree's officers that she was a 3 rge Danish merchantman, prob- t bly the Ivar of Copenhagen. Capt. Ree says that on the 25th I nd 26th of December the Phecda r assed through a hurricane. On the t fternoon of the 26th, about three 'clock, the officers of the Phecda ighted a big Danish tramp, which eemed to have been badly damaged y the storm, but was fighting her 4 ray slowly through high seas. ,apt. Ree signalled to know if the teamer was in distress and needed sistance. The unknown vessel di' Lot request aid. She carried her I lag at half-mast. As the Phecda rew nearer the Dane appeared to e trying to make a turn an4 came o the leeside. The high seas waai d her decks and scattered her boats. Lt about 4:15 o'clock a mountain Ike sea swept over her, and when t passed the vessel plunged down rard head first. Capt. Ree thinks that the last dgh eea that broke over the ill-fat :d Dane swept the men from their leeks. The Phecda eame up to the pot where the unknown vessel was een to go down and stood by until iearly midnight. The officers of the hecda kept a sharp lookout to see f any of the bodies of tMe drowned nen could be found, but nothing boated afterward by which the lost ,hip could be identified. The weath ;r was clear after the storm and the noon shone brightly. The vessel which sank appeared to >e a steamer of about 3,000 tons, with black hull ana smokestack. Lhe smokestacks had the sign of the perpendicular cross. It is believed bat she was a Danish merchantman >wned in Copenhagen, probably the [var. The Phecda experienced an aceedingly rough passage, but being s very fine ship and in the hands of LbIe officers and seamen she weather d the gale and Is entirely seaworthy nd ready for the sea again at a noment's notice. ISSUES ATTRACTIVE FOLDER he Southern Railway Mails One to Every Railroad Agent. The Southern Railway has recently issued and mailed to every railroad ticket agent in the United States a rery attractive folder printed in two olors, which booms the South as a ew field for settlers. The follow ng is coppled from it: Man is a migratory being. This is particularly true of the American. A~s far back as that .point in time when history fades into tradition, nan has sought the possible or the dpossible through migration. When, in the days of the later Daesars, civilization took Its west ward trend the spirit or migration began to develop. Its Inspiration hen was battle, conquest, territory. Emulation among men pressed for ward the outposts of civilization un i they belted the world. They were advanced to the south and to the orth, and there came a day when the remotest regions er the earth the north pole and the south pole rielded to the militant spirit of ml ration Instilled through centuries >f conquest Into man. The spirit of migration Is as ac :ive in man to-day as it was in the lays of the Roman legions. Its in piration, however, is not battle and lood; but commerce and industry, est and recreation. It renders pos lble a further extension of the arts if peace and the realms of pleasure. 'hrough Its promptings fancy is :ranslated into fact; and man is the etter for It. Civilization, too, has developed. : this twentieth century migratory nan is supplied with the means of ratfying the spirit of moving in late in him. He is no longer chain d to a post. The railroad, the tele raph, the telephone, have removed he bars of business and man now nay indulge the spirit of migration ithout suffering loss. He may mi irate for pleasure, for health or for ommerce, assured that he will en oy all the conveniences, comforts d luxuries of his own habitat--and hen some. Man thus has become enthusiastic n his migration. The forms of his rovements are varied. He may hange his residence: he may take business trip; he may migrate for leasure or for health. But the spir t of his being is one tnat promotes ndustry, prosperity and happiness. figration has become vacation. Man beds to its fascination and thereby ecomes the better acquainted with is country, with nature, with is family, with himselr. His is an mplified life. He does not exist, 1 erely; he lives. And he lets others ive. He does not waste time; he nances it. Through migration man: has been mancipated; - his wits have be'en harpened; and his intelligence h'as een enlightened. No longer is the ian with a gun case, a fishing rod r a bag of golf clubs regarded as 2 n idler or a drone. He is a man of les. He capitalizes bri'uins. More ban likely he Is a captain of indus ry, a promoter of patriotism of a upporter of good citizenship. He is ianifesting in a morally and physi ally healthful way that spirit of mi-t ration that was born in him. Hist eriods of migration are the results f evolution and of the superior de-r elopment of his own being.d Migrations for pleasure, for health, yr Recuperation, for business, are 13 o longer restricted by the seasons. a i these days, the great empire of ie south, which is gridironed by e 1e lines of the Southern Railway. i fords delightful relief from the t: i11 blasts of winter in the north; c ad In the summer, the beauties of 3 ITS TRUSTS HARD RYINi TO END THEM IN NEW JERSEY BY THE LA! FTER WATERED STORK even Bills Providing for Most Ex tensive Revision of Corporation Laws in State's History Introduced in Legislature and Their Passage Is Confidently Expected, Both Houses Being Democratic. President-elect Woodrow Wilson fonday reached what he considers he climax in his program of reform as Governor of New Jersey. Seven pills making for the most extensive 'evision of, the corporation laws in he history of the State were intro luced Monday night in the State agislature. "These Acts are designed to put in end to trusts and monopolies un er the laws of New Jersey," declar :d Governor Wilson in a prepared statement describing the measures, 'and I confidently predict that they ill accomplish that much-desired -esult." Though the principle of the bills, which seek to prevent monopoly, un lerselling in local markets, mergers, he existence of holding companies, tmd the issuance of watered stock, ,s one"which the Governor emphasiz ed repeatedly during the national :ampa.ign, he declared Monday night that the proposed legislation had been drawn with the conditions In the State of New Jersey alone in mind. "These bills embody my ideas of the -"ay New Jersey should. deal with the question," ae said. "Na tional legislation might have to be different." Ever since the end of the cam paign the Governor has been working on the problem of corporation re form. Chancellor Edward I. Walkei and Judge Bennet Van Ryoknel as. isted him, and Monday night the bills were launched Ia the Senate, As the Acts are administration meas urea and the Democrats have a com fortable majority in both houses, Democratic leaders were practically unanimous in predicting that the3 would be enacted with little opposi tion. The feature of the bills that at, tracted most attention was the pro. vision making violations of the pro posed law a misdemeanor, punish. able by imprisonment as well as fines. The bills go into extensive de tails in defying trusts, monopolies and mergers. It was pointed out it the statement issued rrom the Gov. ernor's office, however, that while mergers and consolidations are pro hibited in general, the proposed law: do not intend to prevent legitimatE expansion of a business concern bI the purchase of property "cognatE In character". Provision for this is made in thE second of the series of bills, whici says: "When stock Is issued on the bas is of the stock of any other corpora tion, no stock shall be Issued, there for in an amount greater than thE sum actually paid for such stock ir cash or its equivalent, provided tha1 the property purchased or owned bI the corporation whose stock is pur chased must be cognate in characte1 and use to the property used or con templated to be used, by the purchas ing corporation in the direct conduc of its own proper business.'? This still permits, It is stated, corporation to extend its business bI the purchase of the property, in cluding the stock, of another corpor ation if Its business .be the same. Du prevents the issuing of wateret si ook in the transaction. It h'. nothing to do with holding compan zcs, which are otherwise treatad, F is contended. While the bills, it Is claimed, takE away none of the rights of exiisting c 'rpo~ra: rcns, they do restrh.t the.e eo pa1 les from extendizig ten~j olcirgs and make them subleet tc tae pre visions forbidding jnier.ll Ing, discriminations and other mo nopolistic practices. Present com* panies will be affected so far as stock issuances and mergers are con eerned. Among the larger combinations thartered under New Jersey laws are the United States Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil Company, the American Tobacco Company, thE merican Sugar Refining Company, the International Harvester Com pany, the Amalgamated Copper Corn pany, the United States Leather Coin pany, and the Rock Island Railroad company. Six Men Shot or Cat. A fierce pistol and knife duel took lace at Glen Alpine, a small place ;ix miles from Charlotte, N. C., Mon. ay night, in which six men received vhat is thought to be fatal wounds. r. E. A. Hennessee, a prominent hysician of Burke county, was one f the combatants, and was shot hrough the head and lungs, and annot live. The Greenville Piedmont says the trouble with a mild winter is hat it gets the womentolks to think ng about their spring hats too on." ts mountains an~.theb extent of its atural resources e are objiects,. of vonder and 'of admiration. The sout.h is, indeed, an empire. t is imperial in its extent; Imperial n the products of its soils and ines; imperial in its natural beau ies and resources; imperial .In its omenal. development In commerce .d Industry; imnperial in its oppor unities. - As a playground, for the winter raveler or for the summer tourist, he south' is without a peer in the vorld. Its fruits and flowers are ir esistile; its climate is superb; the elights of its river and mountain cenery are unsurpassed; and the ospitality of its people is tradition Tevaried industries of the great mpire of the south beckon alike the ioney of the rich and the muscle of ie poor. Room is there for both pportunity for all. Application in, at empir spelin sucess, MET, TRAQIC DEATIF NAZII VASIA SHOT TO DEATH IN HIS OFFICE. R -.._---_ A YOUNG TURKS TO FI T : . ec re After Much Disorder and Excitement tv cc in Constantinople Their Party Captured the Government After c4 m Killing Nazim Pasha, Former Com- a, ti mander of the Turkish Army. ti Fighting occurred at several places. in Constantinople on Saturday morn- n' ing. A dozen or more persons have st been wounded and many arrests have yP been made. Great public excitement E has followed the killing of Nazim tc Pasha, the I 'ner war minister and w commander or the Turkish army, who ii was shot during public demonstra- c tions in Constantinople Friday night. Talaatt Boy, the new minister of T the interior, informea the European h embassies that all measures neces- c sary to insure the security of the e city had been taken. He also ad dressed circulars to the provincial p: governors, explaining the reasons for e0 the change in the government, and a calling upon people to lend their mor- h al and material aid to the govern- S ment. "We are determined," he t< said, "to defend, the interests of the a country, now face to face with the 1 prospect of a resumption of hostile- ca ties." o Enver Bey, who has taken such a prominent part'in the overthrow of ft Kiamil Pasha's cabinet, is the pop- e ular hero of the day. ti Nazim Pasha's death by a shot from the revolver of Envey Bey or 0 Talaatt fBey is believed to have been accidental. The two officers, in or der to protect themselves from the c fire of Nazim's aide de camp, who had h shot at them from a window, drew their revolvers and emptied' them at him. A bullet struck and killed Na zim Pasha who was seated inside the 7j room. The scene outside the offices of the Grand Vizier when the leaders of the Young Turk party arrived there m s the afternoon was very dramatic. There was a considerable crowd pres- b ent and great enthusiasm was mani fested when some one unfurled a flag and waved it. The excitement became tense when Enver, mounted on a white charger, r came in view, accompanied by several Turkish staff officers. As he dis mounted before the door and made his request for an audience with tne Grand Vizier, the gates clesed as though automatically. The camman dant of Constantinople himself stood on guard and refused to allow any f one to enter except Enver Bey and Talaatt Be. Accompanied'by the commandant, a they walked straight to the council c chamber, where most of the ministers 3 were gathered and without prelim- e i ,aries called upon the cabinet to r. sign from office. The domand seem- e ed to be more or -less expected, for e Kiamil Pasha immediately sat down and wrote out his resignation. En ver Bey took it and proceeded to the Sultan's palace amid the cheers of the crowd. The Sultan at first was disinclined 1 to accept the resignation as genuine, but after sending a messenger to the Grand Vizierate and obtaining con-r frmation, he called for Mahmoue Shefket Pasha and promptly appoint ed him Grand Vizier. . N azim Pasha's Death. Nazim Pasha, the commander of| the Turkish army, received his death wound while expostulating with a crowd of demonstrators for having -,ecome embroiled in a conflict at the Grand Vizierate. The official ver sion of the affray, which is termed a "regrettable Incident," was issued Friday night.1 When the demonstrators, it says, headed by Enver Bey, one of the leaders of the Young Turks' party, penetrated the Grand Vizierate in an attempt to enter the Council chain- T ber they were stopped by Fafiz Bey, y aide-d-camp to the Grand Vizier, r who, drawing his revolver, fired a shot at them. The aide-decamp of I Nazim Pasha also fired at the crowd, y his bullet striking Mehmed Nedjit, ~ one of the demonstrators. The do- b monstrators thereupon replied and a Nazim's adie-de-camp was Instantly y killed. Nazim Pasha, who - was in the , Council chamber, heard the shots b and rushed outside. Facing the do monstrators he upbraided them, call- d ing them ill-mannered curs. While c he was speaking a bullet cut short h his remarks and he fell dead. A secret police agent and an at- tl tendant of the Sheik-UI-Islam head C of the Mohammedan clergy also were a killed. The leading Unionists of t Constantinople declare the shooting d of Nazim was unpremeditate<I, and much rekretted, but under the clxr cumstanes, unavoidable. They say the Unionists bore no ill-will toward T1 Nazim, whose open and soldierly character made him respected even by his political opponents. All the old ministerst were set at liberty Frt-s day and permitted to return to theird homes. o FIND) FORTUN~E IN BIBLE. t Shows Three New Yorkers to be Heirs to English Estate. Through :the discovery of a Bible al brought to this country from Eng- w land, Charles Howard, Mrs. W. G. in Hollister and Mrs. M. A. Proper of t Walton, become heirs to a large Eng- st lish estate, says a Binghamton die- re patch. In 1852 the last of the itow- in ard family in England, Nicholas by w nanwe,'died, 'ans there apparently be- ar 'ing no heirs 'the estate reverted to t the crown. A Bible brought to this Al country by James Howard early in w the 18th century was recently discov- p ered in the possession of T. Howard, Adams, of Albany, and it shows Mr.; Howard, Mrs. Hollister and Mrs. Proper to be heirs to the estate. 01 Governor (Blease has given out an en interiew in which he says that the en miliry companies of South Carolina s shall not attend the presidential In- n auguration if he can help it. So our jm soder boys will have to stay at ca ho'me, Ifr LOVE WINS OVER VOWS. riest Places Love for Woman Above Churchly Duties. Love won in a long bout with a lest's vow of celibacy when the av. Father Daniel J. Gallagher, as stant rector of the Cathedral of the isumption, in Louisville, Ky., and iss Florence Layer, a pretty train nurse of the same city, were unit l in marriage in St. Louis by LUe actor of an Episcopal church. For ro years the priest was torn by a infict within his breast, weighing s churchly duties and Iis vows of libacy against his love for a wo an. The love for tne woman won id they are now in Seattle, where Ley expect to make their future >me. Father Gallagher had been con .cted with the Cathedral of the As mption in Louisville for about six :ars. Two years ago he first met :iss Layer when she was persuaded embrace Catholicism. The young Oman went to Father Gallagher for struction. Their acquaintance be ime friendship, then rove. Father alligher fought his battle alone. wo days before Christ"as he made Is first call at the La. . home, de ared his love, gave Miss Layer an agagemient ring and departed. Miss Layer adnitted she loved the nest, but was devout in her adopt I faith. She did not want him to take the sacrifice, for she knew that e would have to give up his church. he consented, however, after being >ld by Father Gallagher that he had ready gone so far that he; could no anger the assistant rector at the athedral whether she married him r not. Miss Layer and her lover then left r St. Louis, where they were unit d in marriage by a clergyman of be Protestant Episcopal church. [rs. Layer was- one of the witnesses f the ceremony, and declares that er daughter and the former priest eclare they are satisfied they have hosen wisely and that they will be appy. SENATE VERY CLOSE. he Democrats and Republicans Di vide it Evenly. Democratic control of the next enate, which became a certainty rhen John K. Shields was elected y the Tennessee Legislature Thurs ay, now rests at the minimum trength of 48, exactly one-half of be membership of the senate. Dem cratic leaders, disappointed in the ecent loss of Senator Gardner's seat a Maine, now are hopefully watch g Illinois, New Hampshire, West irginia and Wyoming in the belief hat a Democratic. senator may be dded to the lists from some one of hese states. The control of the senate, if no urther Democratic additions are wade, will be so narrow as to make ction on many econtested problems, ,nd on tang legislation, a matter of onstant doubt. With Vice-President larshall's vote to rely upon in case f a tie,' the Democrats will have cin rol of the senate organization and *f general senate affairs. It is rec gized, however, that on many mat ers of general legislation divisions rithin the party may reduce the )emocratic party to the vanishing oint. The fight against Senator Warren, c' Wyoming, the contest to u;:set :enator Fall's re-election in New i.ico, ai d the effort to make ar angement that will give the Deul6 Sats at least one of the tw> places to , fi led mi Illinois, now are hoMing .t*.ent'cn of the party lead r~. Den eratic contr ol after March 4 will be ran tte red by the divis.og wiih~n tepublican ranks, and the presence >f atleast two Progres51ves, Senators lapp and Poindexter, on the Repub lan sute of the chamber.* YOUNG GIRL FOOLED. 'ought to be the Victim of an Old Man From Bostont. A special to The News and Courlrer rom Atlanta says thej~'f 1. McCloud, an inventor of Hyde 'ark, Boston, for a loan from a sec et order, to which he belongs here, recipitated an investigation, which ad to the belief that he has been iadng a double life. He has been laced under arrest on the charge of igamy. McCloud, who Is 58 years f age, was married November 10 In 7alhalla, S. C., to Miss Essie Poole, young girl, who has since lived dth him In Atlanta. InvestgatieO~ rings out the charge that he has a Ife in Hyde Park, Boston, who is In estitute circumstances. When she enfronted him in the police station. is girl-bride denounced him as the estroyer of her happiness, and then aratened to commit suicide. Mc loud was taken to the city prison t Atlanta, but denied information reporters. His attorney, however, eclare he is innocent. THEIR LIVES IN DANGBR. hirty Persons Imprisoned in a Boo 4 by Floods. A dispatch from Henderson, Ky., ys relief parties in that section aily are discovering new i'stances ldestitution among suxere:s from ie Ohio river flood. Thursday thir Spersons-men, women and chil ren-were found hudged in one >om in a house locate1 on the crest " 'a knob surrounded for miles by ater.. There was no food in the yuse and the only material avail ,le for building a fire was wet drift ood. Similar conditions were fou'nd :a room at Smith Mills, a small wn near Henderson, completely trrounded by water. Still another lief party found many persons liv g in the second story of their homes ith no food, and exposed to wind id rain storms which have beset - em during the past several dats. bout five miles below Hendersonl In alnut Bottonfs. it is reported 200 -sons are destitute. New Auto Smashed by Train. At Rock Hill. Sifr. R. R. Heffn Chester, bought a Ford car Frid d a few moments later had ished into kindling by a shifting glue on the Southern at the Main ret crossing. The driver, a negro med George Patton, had an almost raculous escape from death, being ught between the engine and 4 seat ca on the sing,