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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1914 _______ aV U~ 331a~vt MAN. RUNS AMUCK IEORGIAN GOES INSANE AND TER RORIZES TOWNS WE DEAD;OTHERS SHOT Riding Through Town Slayer An- n e nounced eH Had Slain Negro and Going Home He Shoots Friend, S Brutally Murders Wife and Sui- p cides to Escape Mob. Securely baricaded within the walls S of a four room cabin at Grovetown r sixteen miles from Augusta, in Co- t lumbia County, Georgia, Claude Jor dan, a well-known white man, 43 e years of age, held at bay an armed posse of fifty frenzied Xhough power- I less citizens from noon- Thursday un- I til 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the mob broke down the door, to find b Jordan stretched upon the floor with c a hole in his right temple-the work b of his own hand. As terrible as was this spectacle o that first grjeted the entrants into t Jordan's home, in the next room s awaited the most grewsome sight P many of them had ever beheld-Jor- S dan's wife, whom he had murdered b earlier in the day-proba.bly about 12 1! o'clock-was partially concealed be- a tween the mattresses of a bed which, c when they were turned back, reveal- f ed the body cold in death, and with b % very nearly every stitch of clothing 2 torn from it. The woman's features were distort ed, her face was smearea with blood b and the lower part of the trunk show- t ed an awful wound caised by the I shotgun with which the husband mur- P dered her. Two small children. ag- e ed 6 and 3 years, were also in the a house at he tinie Jordan murdered his wife and then killed limself, but b they escaped unharmed probably on- d ly through the workings of Provi- r dence. D Until three years ago Jordan was t: an inmate of the Georgia State Asy- o lum at Milledgeville in that State, b and from the reports of the residents a of Grovetown. this last attack of in- p sanity which has resulted so pathet- e Ically tragic, was brought on by an n overindulgence in drink. Jordan ran b amuck sometime during Wednesday d night when he left his temporary j place of abode at Grovetown with two c two-horse wagonloads of furniture. s; which he.was moving to the Haynie p place, some miles from Grovetown. ii where bezhad contracted for a farm e this year. - The first intimation of his deange- d ment.was seen when he returned to Grovetown ilding a mule Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, and proclaim Ing, as he drove wildly through the quiet streets to his home, that'he had killed Major Green, the negro who bad accompanied him on the trip to the Hayne pc t This .Is all the information that the residents of Grovetown could obtain regarding the negro's death, and atc dusk Thursday a search for the ne gro's :>udy was instituted, although at a ltte hour no trace had been found of either the body, the furni- C ture or- the other three mules. Seing Jordan's condition, on his re-S turn to Grovetown on Thursday morn King, his brother, Mr. Benjamin Jor- a dan. a merehant of the town, set out to devise means of pacifying Claude e Jordan,. but declined to go to the house, personally, :as the frenzied man had aninounced in his rage that ~ he would kil! him -on'sight. - Mi-. 3. E. Beale, who was a good a friend of yordan. was also shot by the maniac .while passing near the house. Fortunately. however, he was not seriously injured, notwithstand ing the fact that Jordan aimed a load j of buckshot at Beale's back when not C more than fiv~e feet from him. Mr. b Beale. when asked about the tragedy Qi by an Aiisnista Chronige represe tive, replied as follows: "On previous occasi dan has beenp whisky, I hay -him: so a I went - day a t1 FILINOS PLEASED EILSON'S POLICY BRINGS JOY TO ISLAND PEOPLE. 'ew Governor Harrison is Attain ing to t'npreccdented Popularity Among 4he Natives. Manuel L. Quezon, resident com iissioner from the Phillippines in ongres;. returned Monday from fanila w,,h the declaration that ince the 4qnouncement of President Cilsonu l1hillippine policy the Fili inios m more friendly towards the mericans than they ever were and lat th'y 'now look to the United rates goernment as well as to its presenta fx: ni the Phillippines as aeir real -nefactors. Mr. Quezon -ent to TY Phillippines with Gov rnor Geteid Harrison. "Gov. -&igrison had been in the hillippin6 fully two months before left the 'sland." said Mr. Quezon. and duriT -that time his popularity as increa 1d and the affairs of the untry, bita political and economic, aye been' growing better. "The icy of President Wilson as utlined -his message delivered to he Filipat people by Gov. Harri on has mt with the enthusiastic ap roval of the people, especially the tep giviig the natives control of oth brarches of the Phillippine leg ;ature. No wholesale removal nor ny polit.cal appointment of Ameri an offichis has been made. The ew charges among the chiefs of ureaus 'ave been made in further nee of the policy of the present dminist'ation in the islands. The ilipinization' of the service has een prcmised to the Filipinos by e forn-er administration and Gov. Tarrisor is just redeeming that ledge. The civil service regulations nacted '>y'the former. administration re being strictly adhered to. "The effect of the new policy on usiness has been good. One imme iate beiefit had been the improve ient of the relations between Fili inos ard Americans so that now here is co-operation among them not nly in governmental affairs but in usiness also. Gov. Harrison has Iready -ained the love of the Fili ino people and. he is received in very pace with enthusiasm such as o othe- human being ever enjoyed efore. Acting upon his recommen ations the Phillippine legislature as introduced administrative hanges which have resulted in the aving of several million pesos (a eso is half a dollar) in the govern ient expenses, as well as increased fficienty." an followed so closqly on the shoot ig of Beale that the mob had not athered near the house, but Mr. C. . Norris, a resident of Grovetown, as ntar the house and heard Mrs. ordai, in the most pleading manner. egginz for her life. Her pleas were Alow.fd by a report of the shotgun aat is supposed to have killed her. With the lack of organization, the rowd of fifty or more armed men ailed to enter the house until a few finat~s before 5 o'clock, fearing they ould be shot down the moment they rossed an imaginary deadline desig ated by the crazy man, who was til bt-lieved to be barricaded insi'~e ae hse with a plenteous reserve of mnmution. Practically no effort was made to nter the house and provide safety r the little ones until the arrival of Er. J. J. Zachry, of Harlem, who vol ntarly took the situation into his w hands, and, with rare bravery nd admirable nerve, app'roached the ouse and persuaded the little girls y come out under the pretense that e had a doll for them. May is the older of the two and her oungfr sister is called Alva. Once ut o the house, they related the orible story of the murder of their 1 , which so frightened them ey. took refuge in the kitchen, ing beneath the stove for ever before vent'ring to pecp ' xt rown, where the~y beheld ather also dead. *were taken !'ro:1 the building *Z:'/hry at about -> o'clock and at th:ir father bad shot him metimne before, although none ren surrounding the house had he report. The little girls were d and although rarged and thy were not abused to any xtert. r reuoving the children from use. the posse proc eeded to fire e roof. in an effrt to get a se from the man inside-not ng whether or not to take the of the little giris--but. failing ,Mr.'Zachry rushed up to the ..g, smashed in tl-e door and him, Jordlan, in a heap upon tress, which he had spread man ha'd evidently been dead or forty minutes. His head a puddle of blood, and lhe was upon his shotgun, which was ed and found to be loaded. present then drei w Jordlan's and from benea h his body. it was clenched a 38~-calibre er. It was examined and two chambers em:pty. It was oted that the wound in the em'ple was a bullet hole. hoots Man and Kills Self. liam Murphy, 40 years old, hot dead in front of his home, est Philadelphia, by Catherine an, 3-, Wednesda:- night. The then ran to her 'iome, a block ,and committed suicide by lng just before the police broke the door o'f her room. Lone Bandit Gets $2,000. lone bandit concealed himself d an express car on the South Uacific railroad, knocked down ssenger and escaped with-a pack ontinin-g $2.000. YIELD 10 PUBLIt MORGAN'S NEW YORK FIRM COMEV HALF WAY ACROSS SOME DIRECTORS RESIH Many of the Firm's Connections Witl: Certain Railways Are Loosened b] the Removal of Some of the Inter. locking Directors-More Changes to Follow. The withdrawal Friday of J. P. Morgan & Co. from more than a score of great corporations and the statement shortly afterwards by George F. Baker, an almost equally dominant figure in American finance, that lie soon would take similar ac tion, gave Wall street generally a thrill that almost brought tr iding on the stock exchange to a halt While it probably is true that many prominent bankers had infor mation foreshadowing this momen tous move toward ending interlock ing directorates, the public and brokers had no advance knowledge of what was taking place in the inner councils of the greatest of all American houses of finance. Wher ever telephone and ticker flashed the news about the street groups of men gathered to discuss what was the all absorbing topic. Mr. Morgan, departing from his firm's traditional policy of silence, made a public statement announcing the withdrawal of five members of J. P. Morgan & Co from directorships in twenty-seven corporations and the in tention to withdraw from more. He said: "An apparent change in public sentiment in regard to directorships seems now to warrant us in seeking to resign from some of these connec tions. Indeed, it may be, in view of the change in sentiment upon the subject, that we shall be in a .utter position to serve such properties and their security-holders if we are not directors. We have already resigned from the companies mentioned and we expect from time to time to with draw from other boards upon which we feel there is no special obligation to remain." Ceorge F. Baker followed Mr. Mor gan's lead and in response to a ques tion whether he intended to follow the example of the Morgan firm, said he intended to get out of as many companies-as would let him. "There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the announcement made by r P. Morgan & Co., is only the forerunner of many similar an nouncements that will be made in the near future, and from my point of view the effect will be wholesome and far-reaching. Only a few days ago the American Telegraph and Tel ephone company showed that it was in sympathy with the spirit of the times by announcing that it would surrender control of the Western Union Telegraph company, and Fri day's announcement is .iust another indication that our big men appre ciate that a 'public be pleased' policy is better than the old 'public be damned' idea." The companies to which Mr. Mor gan referred. from whose board members of the firm have already submitted their resignations as direc tors, are: J. P. Morgan--New York central and Hudson River Railroad com pany-; WVest Shore Railroad company; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; Michigan Central Railroad company: New York. Chicago and St Louis Railroad: Cleveland. Cincin nati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; New- York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Central New England Rail way; New Yovrh, Westchester and Bostcn Raiway: Harlem River and Port r hester Railroad; Milbrook~ copany; New Haven Navigation 2mpany: New England Steamship company: Rhode Island company; Rutland Railway company; Hartford and Connecticut Western Railway company; New York. Ontario and Western Railway; Western Union Telegraph company. Other members of the firm have retired from these companies: Charles Steele-Jersey Central Railroad company; United State!: Steel corporation. H. P. Davison-American Tele phone and Telegraph company; Astoi Tr'ust company; Guaranty Trust company of New York; Chemical National bank. W. H-. Porter--Rankers' Trasi company: Guaranty Trust conmpan:. of New York. Thomas W. Lamont - Westing house Electric and Manufacturin. company- Utah Copper company: As Itor Trust company; Bankers' Trusi Icompany. Father of Many Children. A Gaffney dispatch says Cheroke< county holds the record for parent ae, regardless of color, which fact i established by investigation at thi death of Abe Smith. a well knowr and respected Gaffney negro. Abi was SZ years of age, and it is said t( be an actual fact that he was th< father of forty-three children. Shot While Hunting. While out hunting near Gaffne: Tuesday afternoon Oland Beardei Iand G. W. Thomason, of near tha place, were wounded by the acci dental discharge of a shotgun in boat. Their wounds are not serious of an express and was killed. Found Dead on Traek. An unknown white man was Tfues day found dead in the Santee swan.1 near St. Stephens. H~e was founi lying face down, one arm torn off an: his left side torn open. He had evi enty been struck by a train. ' HE PRAISES BLEASE PARDONED SAFE CRACKER THINKS WELL OF HD. "Oakland Sammy," the Burglar, Par doned by Blease, is Found to Have Acids and Saw. "Oakland Sammy," the burglar and safe-blower who was pardoned by Gov. Blease, has been taken to MIontgomery. Ala., for trial on a charge of robbing a safe near there. A dispatch from Montgomery says roundly scoring jail and prison con ditions in South Carolina, James P. Kelly, alias "Oakland Sammy", finds the 'Montgomery jail a- veritable haven and harbor. Kelly was brought back to Montgomery Sunday night to answer the charge of burglarizing the Marion post office in 1901. Post Office Inspector Gregory also comes in for a full share of the ani mosity of the man whose career in twenty years has been one which, if known, would probably marvel the most extraordinary stories contained .n the wildest detective books. When Kelly was searched soon after his. arrival at 'Montgomery, a small jag sa v and a small bottle of fluid, ap parently of an explosive character, was found in the pocket of one of his coats. Arrested just as he reached the gate of a South Carolina convict camp after his parole by Governor Please, and placed under guard in a jail, officers at Montgomery are at a loss to know how it was possible for the prisoner to secure implements, which but for the vigilance of Cap tain Cheney. of the local jail, might have permitted another daring es cape from the jail. Kelly himself- retains,,;dbiously silent as to the saw and bottle of acid, disclaiming all knowledge of its possession, and declaring that he does not know where the articles* came from. Could the five years which the prisoner spent in a South Carolina convict camp be erased from his life, he declares he would not fear the sentence which awaits him in case he is found guilty of robbing the Marion post office. "Those five years have been like h-I and have prepared me for. any thing that may come," said the pris- I oner to a reporter. "Many of the reports about me being mixed up in a jail breaking in Florida are false and other things are false and hatch ed up by the offcials who 'seek to gain a reputation at my expense. I know nothing about the burning of a jail in Florida, and neither have I been charged with. any othker.erio tabn the; ones in Alabamta and the one for which'I have just completed a sentence in South Carolina. "After my years in that terrible place in South Carolina, I had hoped to go free and settle down, to estab lish myself as a respectable man. I had hoped that the laws of South Carolina would prevent me. from be ing taken from that State, and al though I knew of the charge hang ingfl over me in Alabama, I thought to live this down and become respect. able. I am not a bad sort, and..If those officials who have been on my ~trail for a number of years had let me alone in South Carolina I would soon live everything down and be cane a good man." Kelly has nothing but words of praise for Coy. Cole Blease, and nothing but words of condemnationl for the prison conditions in South Carolina. He declares that it wvas his ioed behavior and efforts to do right while confined in the South Carolina convict camps which attracted the at tention of Gov. Blease and caused him to be paroled. "You and the rest of the 'world may not believe it, but I am tired -of this kind of living. The prisons of South Carolina are dirty and slimy, and terrible enough to make a de mon of any human being. Thank od, I have lived through it without becoming worse and if I ev'er get a chance I am going to be- good: Be caues it don't --pay to be otherwise." CARELESS SHOOTING. Lancaster Youth Faces ~Deathi From Foolish Accident. - News reached Lancaster Thursday of the shooting of William .Wallaoe, December 24, at the country'store of Minor Sweat, near the New Cut sec tion of Lancaster county. It seems that several parties, in noisy celebra tin of the season, were shooting fire crackers and pistols promiscuously about- the store. when young Willace, a clerk in the store, .while busily loading up a customer's buggy with groceries and Christmas goods, was a~ccidentally shot by a nistol-'in the hands of some member. of tha pary' so far unidentified. The ball isdep ly imbed ded near the young man's left -shoulder, having ..entered dan gerou sly close to his he~art.. He is in a precariou's conditioni and litle hope is entertained for'-his:-recovery. . Lad Looses. Eye. - . Rlay Long, the 8-year-old sbn Of iurene Long, of Honen Path, wvlfMe popping fire crackers of the' salute size during the holidayvs ha~d one to explode in his face with the -result that he has lost the sight of the ele His face was also badly burned .by the explosions. Fell Beneath ~Train. Mis:;'Mildred Ziminermanl, daug -2 ter of- Gustave Zimmerman, once :a 1.f e rifle shot, Tuesday -aint~d on . heuXze of a subway platform at, * 'wrk. teil on the track in fronit o th ~) ungnma. . ;o'rred After Long Chase. . > mm or Frank Kioehn, a young i. r, ch-nrged with embezzle I met oiS4. ,000 at Zeppenheim, Ger - ma..-'d d- Tuesday with .his ar NEW YEAR IS WELCOMED ARLINGTON TOWER SENDS WIRE LESS FLASH ABROAD. Washington is Scene of Important Scientific Effort, When Announce ment is Sent to the World. Following custom, Washington Wednesday night observed the ad vent of the New Year without osten tation. With but one exception-the bluish flash that sped from the great naval radio towers at Arlington, across land and seas, . telling all within range of the passing of the old year-the usual program was fol lowed. At churches, hotels, clubs, lodges and other gathering places elaborata programs had .been prepared. The assembled crowds watched the pass ing minutes of 1913 and cheered the birth of 1914. This program of amusement was little varied in any of the larger cities. All of them en joyed dancing and feasting. Painstaking preparations had been made for the wireless New Year flash at Arlington, naval officers in charge recognizing the importance of their task to the eyes of thee scientific world. Although the naval observa tory- for years past had undertaken to transmit such messages by linked cables and telegraph wires, Wednes day night was the second time in the history of sience that the feat was attempted by wireless. - According to the schedule the signals began at 11.55 p. m. Meridian time. The beats of the transmitting clock at the naval observatory, cor rected by stellar observation to the most exact time possible, connected by wire with the radio towers, were repeated. atomatically by delicate in truilents and translated into radio fashies. These, backed by the powerful voltage of the Arlington plant, were dispatched in message form over a wave length of 2,500 meters. The last beat announced the arrival of the New Year in the capital of the United States. Officers said it pos sibly would. be , week before they could ascertain, just how far the sig nal reached. It was not doubted that the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, 3,000 miles distant, received the signals. It was believ ed, too, that they reached the Isth mus of Panama, the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian islands. * FREES FOUR MORE. Governor Blease Paroles a Fe.w More Negro Convicts. Governor Blease freed four more convicts Wednesddy afternoon, all under paroles. They were: Rocky Colly, colored, convicted of assault with intent to ravish at Barnwell in March, 1910, and sentenced to eight years on the chain gang. William Oliver, colored, convicted at Anderson in February, 1900, of murder with recommendation to mercy, and 'sentenced to life impris onment in the State penitentiary. .Sumpter Brooks, colored, convicted at Aiken in February, 1910, of mur der with recommendation to mercy and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Henry Felder, colored, convicted at Bamberg In November, 1909, of mur ler with recommendation to mercy and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. This makes the total number freed by Governor Blease 914. * TRIED TO KILL- HI. Daylight Assassination is Attempted 'in Lancaster. While Frank Williams, superin tendent of the Lancaster county chain gang, was driving in' his- buggy along one of the public highways sev eral days ago inspecting work .re cently done by the gang, he was fired upoi- at close range by an- unknown negro man who, riding a bay horse, rushed,. upon Williams unseen and after firing two shots at him in quick snccessioui darted into the woods near the roadside. One- of the balls went through .Williams' hat. ..Williams' ho'se became frightened and ran for soie' distance down the road before he -could be checke'd:.- This bold at tempt in ,broad daylight upon one of. Lancaster's public roads to assissi nate Superintendent Williams while in perform'ance of his official duty will -be thoroughly investigated. SHOOTING AT MALLORY. Mail Cirrie~r Bou as is Shot by Hlis Substitute. 'A sepie:i-~ shooting affray occurred at Mallory la.te Christgias .Eve night. Mariori 'fl. Blounds. .rial 'carrier on. Rote '.'ut shot 'by 'Vernon Par ham; substitute -earrier on the same rQute:'. Beth" men were:- drinking, it ~s. said,. and it.i.is lleged that Bounds bgan ~the'shooting, but hit no one. Pitam;' it Weemis, flired thi'ee shots, twsteing effe't:in'the hip-and one penetating .the. abdomen, causing:- a wound from. which Bounds died Wediesday.. This 'is the second 'm'an' shot7 by' -IParhamn in the' list few. weeks,i.the :ether -one being a. negro,. 'Th~o .Is still suffering . with a woind, th6ugh able to be out. * - egro is Shot. About noon Wedn'esday-Henry Snt ton of. Dennettsyille, a negro,.. was, shot in the liead by. Pete W/illiams, a rigr boy. The' shooting occurred at-Oeles' -st'ab14s. ;ln Be'n-ettsville.: Belton J'ohnson, .Pete Williams and Henry H-utton were alone in the stable and disagreed abolit a foul. Snow at Spartanburg. Snow feHl at Spartanb..n-g o:Tues A BLOODY BATTLL MEXICAN REBELS FORCE FEERAM TO THE RIVER BORDER PATROL ACTIV[ Huerta's Northern Army All Bul Ready to Surrender to Rebels, Who Are Threatening Them With Extermination - Wounded Cross Into the United States. The northern division of the Mexi can federal army at Ojinaga, Mexico, with it 11 generals, other officers and about 4,000 soldiers, after a merci less three-days' attack by Gen. Orte ga's 6,000 rebels Thursday night ap peared ready to flee in disorder across the river into the United States. With a line of struggling wounded at the border to indicate the extent of the carnage, and deserters already appearing in numbers, Maj. M. N. McNamee, commanding the border patrol at Presidio, Tex., made every plan in anticipation of the flight. Lest than 500 cavalrymen, mostly from the Fifteenth cavalry, form the border patrol. To this small body of American soldiers would fall the task of surrounding and disarming, per haps, 4,000 foreign soldiers, or 3,000 of them if 1,000 have been. disabled or killed. The ability of the Ameri can soldiers to handle the refugees was based on the assumption that the rebels would pursue the federals merely to the river. An estimate, as carefully as could be obtained, of the wounded on both sides was 1,000. Most of the wound ed were left on the battlefield. The less disabled reached the river and were cared for by the Red Cross on the American side. Scores of unin jured federal deserters, in defiance of the American patrol, crossed the riv er. All were disarmed and forced back to the Mexican side. More than 200 rifles and other arms and ammu nition were taken. It was impossible to learn accu rately the number of dead and the belief that it would be great was based on the number of wounded. Many were believed to have died through lack of medical attention, as Red Cross officials were not permit ted to ford the river even under a Red Cross flag. Those who ventured to help the wounded from the river risked being shot. A few shots fell on the American side, north of Pre 'idio, but no one was injured. MaI. McNeamee 'seint G-en. Ortega a warning that any further firing across the river might entail grave consequences. So far Maf. McNamee has adhered to a policy of sending back all the unwounded combatants. Should all the federals come across they would be disarmed, but they might be permitted to remain on this side under temporary arrangement on grounds of humanity. Final dis position of the prisoners would be In the hands of higher army authorities. It was hoped that the federals, If they came. would cross without any 'nexected incident, and that the rebels would not pursue them un necessarily near. As for the battle at Ojinaga, one mile back from the river, it proceed ed uninterruptedly, with the federals confined in and fighting from the adobe houses in the village, while the rebels, always drawing closer, fired artillery and small guns from the hills ad approaches. Soon after daylight the federals made a desperate attempt to rally. They even extended their line of fire outward, but this brought heavier iring by the rebels that sent the de -'rers baick '.their inner defenses. Thereafter the relative position of the opposing forces remained much the same with Gen.-Ortega driving in shot and shell from three sides while rCen. Francisco Castro's federals fired from what vantage points they had within the horse corral, the custom house, and trenches. Never in bordsi history had there been a scene equal to that of the fed eral - wounded and deserters who scrambled to reach the United States. while from their rear there poured a parting shower of shells and bullets. The river's edge was a ragged and half naked soldiers, some rush ing pell mell into the river, some rying from the pain of their wounds, others crawling, becanse of shattered limbs, over rocks and cacti, some greedily stopping to drink the muddy water, and all begging the Americans on the opposite side for shelter from the turmoil from which they had fled, The' river bed is of soft mud with water. in the middle about waist deep. At one point 200 men, all carrying arms, waded across. They were sur rounded by a handful of United Stateg troops, disarmed and forced back. The wounded were picked up as soon as they reached the shore, or if a wounded soldier got stuck' In the mud he was dragged out and placed in the care- of the Red Cross. A soldier who had his arm shot off, another limping with a wounded foot, still more who had actually cr'awled into the water, a federal lieutenant bearing. the uniform of the rank; a bugler with a bunch of yellow tassels on his ~arm, a barefooted private who ha: lost his shoes, all formed part of the bobbing line that came down ihe mile .which intervenes between Ojin aa a'nd the river. The protest of the fringe of smoke-begrimed, maimed unwounsled federals- against being frced .back Into Meio Was pitiable. Deserers went back, but wailing as they went that they would surely be killed without their arms. One Negro Kills Another. D. L,. Campbell, negro, was shot and killed by Jim -Kimball, a negrc blacksmith, In Dumas,- Ark. Kimnball IALE5 LUKMlINI 15ILL JUNIOR SENATOR IS PLEASED WITH ITS SCHEME. The South, Especially, Will Benefit From Passage of the Measure Pro tecting the Farmers. Senator E. D. Smith is stopping in Florence for a few days before going to Washington. He is especially proud of the work that he has ac complished, but it is not the pride that vaunteth itself, but that which rejoices in what has been accom plished for his fellowmen in the cause in which he was enlisted. Senator Smith says that the people of this country hardly realize just what that currency bill means to the South particularly. He says that the South will begin to realize the bene fit from it at once, because the chang ed conditions in regard to money will make it seek investment, and that in the future the currency of the coun try will be based strictly on the real wealth of the land, and it is backed by the land itself. There can not hereafter be any in flation of the values of the country, nor any contraction thereof, for the money which is the measure of the value Is based on and runs with the wealth of the couni.ry itself, he says. In the new currency bill the very essentials of true banking are carried out. Money is based on the wealth of the people, not on the debts of the government, nor the amount of gold that some individual may happen to have, nor-any set of individuals, and money becomes really and truly a medium of exchange rather than a commodity controlled by a set of men for their own benefit. For the farmer the benefits may be summed up by saying that of the first time in the history of this country the farmer and his business are rec ognized in the banking law. The. farmer and his friends were criti cized for trying to get advantage under the new law ahead of every one else, but those who urged such argument were ignorant of their real facts. Senator Smith said that he was lined up in the fight for proper aid for the development of roads through government aid and the viewpoint that he and his friends had was that with the increase of the business of the parcel post the gov ernment must need heavier vehicles and the roads would be more of an item than now. As the government paid for the upkeep of the railroads in part, by the hire of their cars, so the government could and should contribute a share for the mainte nance of the roads used for the same purpose, the people doing their share, and the money of the futureand re solved to keep on in post office de partment coming back to them in support of the roads. Senator Smith said that in passing he would like to say that the country now recognizes in the Democratic party that the bitter school of the past 50 years has made a lot of post graduates in question of legislation just, fair and equitable, and that to the astonishment of the Republicans the Democratic party has been of, ono mind, one purpose, united, solid. * LANDLORD KILLS TENANT. Christmas Fatality That Happenedl Near Camden. The only fatality of the Christmas season reported at Camden was the killing of Henry Rogers, aged about 65 years, by G. J. Baker, aged nearly' 60, which happened on the place of the 'latter about nine miles each of Camden, Thursday night. It is said that Rogers had been drinking and being a tenant on the place of Baker, the wife of the dead man had sent for Baker to aid her, that Rogers was unruly. Baker went to the home and it is said Rogers adttempted to shoot him with a gun. Baker suc eeded in getting the gun away from him, and Rogers continued to ad vance upon him with a chair, when Baker struck Rogers over the head with the barrel of the gun, inflictin~g wounds from which he died shortly after the blow was dealt. SHOTS CAUSE DEATH. an Dies From Wound Received Some Weeks Ago. Near Lowryville, In the southern part of York county, on the morning of December 22, Dave Montgomery uarrelled with Frank and Edgar House about some wood and was struck with a stick by Edgar House. Later in the day Montgomery met the two other negroes in the road driving a wagon and told them- to stop for he was going to kill somebody: As he was attempting to secure his pistol Frank House drew his and shot him. Montgomery 'died last Sunday and in accordance with the verdict th~e House negroes were committed to jail to await trial Killed His Father. Hischel Watson, a seventeen-year old boy of Uchlocknee, Ga., shot and killed his father Saturday night. He said his father first attempted to burn the Watson home and then threatened to kill his wife and their five children.* -Cracksman Dug Tunnel. Cracksmen tunnelled 130 feet and pierced the concrete walls of the First National Bank of Oroville, Cal., vault some time between Saturday and Monday mnorning. They obtain ed $3,700 in silver.* Pistols Are Dangerous. While attempting to "break" his pistol Monday -at Dillon Gad Saleeb7 was shot by the accidental di'fetarge ote weapon. He Isrpc W UN AN. IUlli I R \ RALH ULft~ UTAH -PENDS3;170 61 8 iESPERAO EI I Five Officers Have Falen -V i" His Deadly Aim Since theui-d of Juan Valde . Poisonous Gases Fail to- Xi The search for Ralph Lope can desperado now cornered- t Utah-Apex mine, near *in a costing Utah $1,700 a.day. sheriffs and approximately 200 ties and guards liave been on - every day and night since No when the -desperado fired the1 that killed Juan Valdez.:andth took to the mountains.,. The output of a large mine-has tailed; the heavy machinear-Of law has been set at naugIf are six newly-made graves orphans, with twon more'soon'to into the world, -because ort1ls itS man's crimes and his deffane o law. Of splendid physlque, de - clean life in the' open, ILopsev undergone 'hardships seemingly . yond human endurance in the month. He has baiffled the igen of some of the cleverest the West and when -ompar his record the worstnien rough days In the West appear most as schoolboys.. The spiiit of the. vendettae6 he story goes, was respobleo career of crime on the part of' He avenged the-death of. who was burned at thestk Valdez in, Mexco an ea Before his recent crinfo -regarded as a peace- ll the Bingham copper other story- connects the woman of the underwdrl ries the name -of the cause of the u these rumors, if eitheri never be known. Of the earlier'life of lo known, but he was not a "bad man". His- early trn the trails, and later his.e'exlec a "dead shot", withB Wild West sbolvs; are serving too well. To-day, hidden- 1% bowels of the earth, he Isdoome death by starvation or from"'dea cyanide fumes.. Following the-killing of "Vd& . the night of Nov..20 Loperspplie with food and arms and with ociets bulging from ammtmtotook te the mountains, 'saying-he woul die fighting. In less than an hour o. cers were on his trail. Chief of P lice J. W. Grant, of Bingham; Dep~uty Sheriff Julius Sorenson.QttQ 1it beck and' Nephi Jenseh, of Salt IAke county, formed the posse. They rode into a trap and four .shots spat spite fully from a hidden rifle sent three - of the men to their death. The hat red for the polic which had .its In. -- ecption when offcers restrained Lopez in Bingham, had been partly satisfied. T'ors were hurried from .Salt Lake City. Lopez kept them at a distance. Using smokeless powder, his place of concealment was always unknown and he -kept up a run of bantering talk with his pursuers for an entire day. Hope of ever seeing the desperado again passed when he .vs r.ot fo-nd after a few days of *. co'rching, but soon he return ord to IBingham and entered the Utah MAnx mine in which-ho- had worked for -:ears. There he planned to make his final fight, there he hoped to be suplied -with food and ammunition - - + o up'~, an indefinite fight. Onenings to the lower level of the rmne were blockaded and poisonous. asos created in the ~mine 'by the brning of cyanide, coal 6ar, hay and other materials. Deputy Sheriff 3. n. TH'lsoy and Tom Manderich..a-Ser rien miner, were picked off while . carrying chemicals into -the mine. - The deadly sulphur and fornialde h yde fumes - were .-turned Into the tunels and when well started. the openings were all .bulll~headed wth. earth and heavy timbers. The smoke continued to pour Iintothe.mne. fie days when the bulkheads were re - moved and after allowing the air to circulate for .eight hours., a.lttle party of volunteers, heavily arm#al and carrying electri ctorches, eta and carrying electric torches, start All week they searched- caretalli here -and there finding footprfits-a scrap of clothing or bedding -Oceasiot ally, but never a sign-of the fugiti~. r Occasionally a miner~ would repoi, talking to Lopez at some pold.th mine,,- but with the report -came his resignation. He wouldn't dare-fa'ce the bandit a second time. At last, more than 'a week .afte the (nal smoking of' the mine authentic informationjwagmelieVedio have been received. -The Mexica~n was back In .the Andy tunnelignear the'scene of his last crimies.: very avenue of escape was Immediately bulheaded, armed guards werepla ed at points of vantage, and the d perado has been left .to stare tOi diath. Warships Save Towna. Possession by the Mexican federal forces at Tampico of two gunboatst has been made clear, has forced the Costitutionalists who have'beenbe . 'seging that port for the .IastoElg weeks to abandon the undertaklng notwithstanding they far outnninber~ the enemy. Slew His Wife..> James L. Bolejack, $ white, was arrested a C;,' Thursday -hr lddled his wf