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- BRYAN WILL RUN. But Says Ha Is Not Seeking the Nomination. WILL LEAD OR FIGHT In the Ranks as the Party May Desire.?If the Democrats Wants Him to Make the Kace He Will Do So, No Matter How Forlorn the Hope. He Says the Party Must Decide Who Shall Lead. William J. Bryan will accept the Democratic nomination for President in 1908, but he will neither ask nor make a fight for it. He says that foi a year or more he has been pressed to answer the question "Will you accept the nomination?" and he believes the public is entitled to an answer and to know the position he occupies. The question that ought to weigh most, he says, is whether his nomination will strengthen the Democratic party more than the nomination of some one else. Not only will he not seek or ask for the nomination, but he will not assume to decide the question of availability, and if the prize falls to another he will neither be disappointed nor disgruntled. At the same time he denies that he has waited this long in a desire to see whom the Republicans are likely to nominate, or to ascertain the chances of victory. Mr. Bryan says: "Now that the election in 1907 is past and plans are being made for next year's campaign Mr. Bryap feels that a statement is due to the public. Those who prefer another candidate are entitled to know his position and those who favor his nomination have a right to demand an answer to the question so often put, 'Will you accept the nomination?" His refusal to answer the question has led to the circulation of many laise reports and unfriendly newspapers have taken advantage of his silence to mi3represent his attitude. "Mr. Bryan will not ask for or seek a nomination and he w?.l not assume to decide the question of his availability. He has been so amply recomposed by his party for what he has done and f >r what he has endeavored to do that he cannot claim a nomination as a reward; neither should his ambition be considered, for he has had honor enough from his party to satisfy any reasonable ambition. The only question that ought to weigh with the party is ? whether the party can be strengthened and aided more by his nomination than by the nomination of some one else. If he can serve the party by being its candidate he w II accept the commission and make the best fight he can. If. however, the choice falls upon another he will not be disappointed or disgruntled. His avail ability is a question to be decided net by him, not bv a few leaders, not even by the leading newspaper that call themselves Democrats, but by the votes of the Darty, and to them he entrusts the decision of the question?they are the Supreme Court in a'l matters concerning candidates, as thav OVA in oil ...v^ tm. in an niauL'ia concerning the platform, "He assumes that they will not silect him unless they desire to make an aggressive fight for the application of Democratic principles to pre sent -conditions, and he also takes it for granted that the organization of the party will be in harmony with the platform and will be composed of men whose political records will invite confidence and give assurance that a victory, if won, will not be a barren victory. "The Republicans must nominate either a reformer, a standpatter or one whose position on public questions is unknown, and the course of the Democratic party should be the same no matter which element control the Republican Convention. The Democratic party must make the fight for what it believes. Wnile it may take advantage of Republican mistakes, it must depend upon its own merits for success and not upon the error of its opponents. "The action of the Republican Convention may have its influence in determining the relative availability of Democratic candidate, but it ought not to have any influence in determining the question whether the one chosen by the Democrats should ac cept the nomination. If the rank and nie of the Democratic party desire Mr. Bryan to make the race, he will make it, no matter who may be the Republican nominee. "No one can estimate the chances of the party in the next campaign with sufficient accurracy to make his candidacy dependent upon the outlook. While the Democrats have reason to be encouraged by the fact that Democratic princip'es have grown in popularity and that Democratic policies are now praised by many who denounced them a few years ago. and while further encouragement is t<> be derived from the fact that the Democratic party is more united than it has l>ceTi for mav.y years, and the Republican more divided, still the action of the Democratic party cannot be made dependent upon the prospect of success. The prospects now seem excellent, but a Democratic National Convention will bo held, a platform adopted and candidates nominated, whether the prospects are bright or gloomy, and the party must make the best fight it can whether it enters the campaign with fear or with confidence. Democrats believe that Democratic principles are sound and tnat Democratic policies are necessary; they should, therefore, endorse those principles and; present those policies and then se-; feet as their candidates those who, in their judgment, will give the party the greatest assurance of benefit in case of victory. "If the members of the party be ' * > . - SOLID ON STATE RIGHTS. United States Court Refers Case to The State Courts. The case of C. B. Boyett and others charged with intimidating negroes "because they were negroes" contrary to the provisions of sections 1,977 and 5.508 of the revised statutes of the United States, was decided by the supreme court of the United States favorably to Boyett and his co-defendants. The alleged offense was committed in Bradley county, Arkansas, in 1905 when Boyett and other white men were charged with having conspired to drive away a number of negroes employed by the Arkansas Lumber Company. This result was accomplished by posting notices of warning to the negroes and firing guns in their vicinity. The whites were tried in the United States district court for the eastern district of Arkansas and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve a year in prison. The decision of the trial court was reversed. The announcement of the court's judgment was made by the chief justice, but there was no written opinion. The decision of the court was based on the decision of the last term in the case of Hodges vs. the United States,, in which it was held that as negroes are citizens thev must rely upon the state courts in such case3 as this rather than upon the federal courts. In that case the court held that it had no jurisdiction of a charge of conspiracy made in a state to prevent citizens of African descent, because of their race and color, from making contracts to labor. TRAMPS KILL, FOR I/OOT. Three Murders In Indiana Are Charged Against Holmes. Through a discovery made in Buffalo, N. Y., evidence has been obtained that three men, whose bodies have been found along the Lake I Shore Railroad, in Northern Indiana, in the last week, were murdered by h'omno 1 W Min.r.1... - .. u.Lfnj. u . II. l?l IV years old. of Colorado Springs, was found dead in South Bend, Ind ; Ralph Kyle, twenty years, of Edgerton, Ohio, whose body was found near Goshen, Ind., and Henry Rank, sixty years, of Berrion County, Mich., whose body was found in La Porte, Ind.. are the men who were murdered. The finding of a pool of blood in a car at Buffalo, in which Murphy was supposed to have ridden with a consignment of horses, and the evidence showing tnat he had been robbed after a struggle, led to an investigation, which showed that all three men had been robbed and murdered by tramps. It is expected that ar rests will be made soon by the railroad detectives, who are working on the case. Kyle was the first man to meet death. Until the discovery made in Buffalo, it was supposed that he had fallen from a train and was run over. He was killed November 2. Ra^k was killed last Tuesday, and Murphy met dea^h Thursday night. The car in which Murphy had been riding with the hor.-es was found spattered with blood, and several small coins were found on the floor. There were other evidences which showed that he had struggled for his life. He was 1 killed by tramps at South Bend, and his body was thrown from the train. Keeping your mouth shut Is iin easy way not to hurt peoples feelings. lieve that Mr. Bryan's nomination | will help the party, its principles and i its policies, he will accept the nomi1 nation whether the indications point to defeat or victory. A defeat can bring no disgrace where the cause is a just one, but cowardice would be disgraceful, especially in one who is as deeply indebted to his part of Mr. Bryan is. "The next campaign will be an appeal to the public conscience. The investigations have shown not only the corrupt use of large campaign funds, j but the only source from which they can be drawn, namely?-the corporations that seek to convert the Government into a business asset. The Democratic party stands for the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, and therefore cannot promise favors to favortseeking corporations. If it made such promises to the corporations it would be guilty of duplicity, for it would have to betray the votets as the Republican party has done, in order to reward these corporations as the Rei publican partv has rewarded them. "The Democratic campaign must be carried on by volunteers who will I work because they desire the triumph ! of Democratic ideas. We cannot i hope to appeal to the sordid or to buy the purchable. even if such a course would contribute toward | Democratic success. No one should favor Mr. Bryan's nomination unless the party is willing to open it books and show where its contributions come from and for^vhat the money is expended, i de Kepublican party I ought to be challenged to conduct its campaign in this open and honest way. and if the Republican leaders ! refuse to accept the challenge the i Democrats can well afford to leave i the issue with the public. "An appeal to conscience is politically expedient, as well as morally ! right, for the conscience is the most ' potent force with which man deals. The national conscience has already been aroused, and a large majority of the voters have been educated to the necessity of real reform?a reform that will make this Government again a Government of the people by the people and for the people. It only remains for the Democratic party to convince the voters that it can be entrusted with the work of reform, and nothing will do more to convince the public than a refusal to negotiate with predatory wealth and an honest appeal by honest methods to the honest sentiment of the coun-; try." I BIG BKAR ESCAPES. * * Old lira hi H*s Fun With Pigs and Poultry. A big bear escaped from some show people at Florence on Wednesday night.. When they awoke next morning they found the great big bear had made tracW^^br -tWSnj^flhr 1 or swamps. Luckily for them It had rained and It was an easy thing to track the wanderer. "Pantner," the big dog, a pet In the show, was taken . along to trailvM01d Bruin,** and about fout miles from the city he was located!" going in the direction of the i swamp that follows Black Creek. He was retaken and brought back to the city and replaced in his cage. While St large the bear had quite a frolic ot; it, for when he struck the ! city limits he knew he was "monarch of all he surveyed" and proceeded to | slay chickens aud the like, at one j place managing to capture a good j isy?a rsnoai." Killed by Train. At Milwaukee, WIh., Wednesday night six persons were instantly killed and four were njured when n southbound Chicago and Northwestern flyer plowed through a throng of laborers. The bodies of five men and a boy were hurled through the air j by the train. Indians Killed in Fight. In a battle between Ute Indians and United States troops, in which six Indians were killed. No soldiers were killed or wounded. McElmo is on Montezuma county close to the. Navajo reservation. Keep the Reeord Straight. The Washington Post, which poses i as an independent paper, but which is really a Republican pat>er, recentlysaid "when Bryan supplanted Grover Cleveland as a leader, both houses of Congress were Democratic; Conneticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island were Democratic; New York, J New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin were Democratic, and Ohio doubtful. Both Senators from New York were Democratic, as j were those from New Jersey, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and there was one Democratic Senator from Ohio, and another from Illinois." This statement was either prompted by ignorance or viciousness, as there is not one word of truth in it. In 1892 Mr. Cleveland was elected president the second time. He car- ; ried all the Southern States and New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin and California. Ohio divided her electoral vote and Massachusetts elected a Democratic governor. The I Democrats elected a large majority I of the House of Representative.and the Senate was also Democratic. This all happened in the election of 1892, when Cleveland was elected the second time. Cleveland was inaugurated March 4, 1893, and for the first time since j the war the Democrats were in com Dleto control of the legislative and executive departments of the government. What did Cleveland do with this grand victory. He was elected on a tariff reform platform, but instead of carrying out his pledges to the people, he called Congress in extra session and fas- ( tcned the gold standard upon the country in payment to Wall Street for the money it had freely contributed to his campaign fund. This j was in direct violation of the plat-1 form upon which he was elected as 1 it declared for bi-metalism and tariff reform. This base betrayal of the people by Cleveland was what wrecked the Democratic party. In 1894 the biennial elections came on and the people were called on to endorse or repudiate Cleveland, who was then in the middle of his second term. Did the people endorse Cleveland and his administration? No. They repudiated him and his administration as no president had ever been repudiated before or since. He had betrayed the people and they rebuked him in the severest manner. The States of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Massachusetts. Indianna, Wisconsin and California, all of which had been carried by the Democrats in 1802 were carried by the Republicans in 1894 by large majorities. Even the Southern States of Delaware. Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky repudiated Cleveland and his administration by going Republican. It must be remembered that all j these States were carried by the : Democrats in 1892. The Republi-' cans also carried the House, the! Democrats elected fewer members j in 1894 than they had elected in j many years. The fost tries to cro- j ate the impression that these States were lost to the Democratic party by reason of Bryan's leadership. ! when as a matter of fact they were lost to the Democrats two years be- j fore Bryan's leadership began, and when Cleveland had only served two years of his second term. Bryan's leadership of the Democratic party , began in 1896, two years after Clevc land had wrecked the party almost beyond resurrsection. The fact that 1 Bryan revived the party and brought j out under his leadership the largest \ vote it ever polled in a prescnaential I election proves that he is a match- ( less leader, and worthy of the con- , tidence and support of the people.? { Orangeburg Times and Demacrat. j j HIGHLAND COUNTY BEATEN. Did Not Get Even a Majority of Vote Cast. The effort to form a new county T out of portions of Spartanburg and Greenville Counties to be known as Highland County was defeated at UHl^|K)ll8 on Tuesday. In Spurtanburg County every box. with the exception of Arlington aud Wood's T Chapel, voted against the new county. The vote in Spartanburg county is 433 for the new county and 563 against the movement. The vote in Greenville County as far as heard from Tuesday night stand 886 for o< and 669 against the new county. V Bryan and Boosevelt. 'J Col. Geo. Harvey, editor of liar- u pers Weekly, thinks the financial n Hurry of the past few weeks "marks u the beginning of the end of the po i, nucai careers 01 uoth Koosevelt and C) Bryan, and that a sane man will be a elected President one year hence." The Charleston Post does not agree t with Mr. Harvey. The Post says w "now and again somebody rises up. ,, like Col. Harvey, with a fine acidem- d ic protest against the way of things and is greeted with applause, and it looks as if a stand is going to be made for the principles of the fathers of the republic. But just as the J fight begins to take shape the chief shouters go up to the White House to make terms and the President ' takes a new lease of power." Now, according to the Post, "that is just what has been happening recently. Mr. Morgan, it is said in ' Washington, has been visiting the s White House by night for conference s with Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Gary l' and Mr. Frick have gone up boldly 1 by day to ask him if they will be per- ' mitted to absorb the Tennessee Coal a and Iron properties into the steel 1 trust without interference by the v government, and they are all saying ' smooth things about him, as they come away satisfied that they may P have their way for a while." ' "Mr. Roosevelt is considerably >' tamed. He doesn't like to be point- v ed to as the destroyer of prosperity, 'i and the captains of finance have i' about persuaded him that the specu 11 ators' panic is a genuine chill of na- r t;onal industry. Tney have moved v the President to revise his message t to Congress and it is said that tne t document will be very mild iti its re- r commendations of legislation rela- s tive to the corporations. Further- t more it is promised that the campaign against the trusts will be press- r ed discreetly, not to say negligent- t iy." .I The New ork World reports that v the President is a changed man even R in appearance, as tho.-e who saw him t as he passed through New York on y election day are prepared to testify. c The events of the past two weeks in r the financial world," says The World, ] "have had remarkable effect upon ;| Mr. Roosevelt. The crash of banks, [ the cry of strangled business the frightened hoarding of money have deeply impressed him. If linal argu- N ment were needed to complete the remarkable change in the nation's r chief executive, it was furnished by , the sight of Manhattan's b? sieged f skv scrapers of finance as his tugboat f passed by the foot of Wall street and t skirted the Battery." "No doubt," says the Post, that is a true depiction. Mr. Roosevelt is ? , an emotional man. and he would * | very likely look upon the frightened ' herds of New York's speculators as ' ! typefying panic in all the land, and think that he was looking upon the j ruins of an empire wrought by his all 1 ! powerful word. That is the idea that r the financiers are trying to cultivate c in him, and they are succeeding, no 1 doubt. It is said that Mr. Root has 1 the President's ear again, and we ( know from what sources Mr. Root ( has come. It would even be possible 11 to persuade the President that his ll attacks upon wealth were becoming ll unpopular, and if that could be done there would be an end of them." e "On the other hand," says the I1 Post." "there is Mr. Bryan unopposed in the Democratic party save s by a few voices caliing out in the * wilderness. He seems to be practi- <* cally certain of the nomination of his s partv for President, because no in- e telligent effort to keep him out of it v is being exerted. Now, Mr. Bryan o has the courage of his convictions, n however uncertain hi? rnnvi.?tinmi <. may be. and he is unhampered by p dny traditions of friendship or any actual obligation to the great mon- n eyed interests. If he set out to war i< upon wealth he wouldn't let up when s the rich began to squeal; indeed that f< would probably spur him to redoubl- o ed effort. He could look upon a mon- a< ay panic with considerable equani- k mity, if not with satisfaction, as his n enemies will believe. i ri "Mr. Bryan is, at least, no molly-! w coddle, were he in the White House 10 today the magnates would not find ,, it easy to stop him from hitting them when they were down. He would h have no Klihu Root at his elbow to a whisper moderate words into his ear. In short Mr. Bryan would come t) very near to being the real thing j t( which Mr. Roosevelt pretends to be. t) Let us be perfectly sure that the men v who are now howling against Mr. ! 'C] Roosevelt would shout most lustily for him to save them from Mr. Bry-1 an it tncre should appear even a pos-''' sibility of the Nebraskan's prevalence. ; J?1 "So. it will depend upon whether the apjietite of the people for radi- n calism has been appeased as to whether or not Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan are to pass from the stage : ai next year and make way for more (| quiet performers. If it be reason- M abiy certain that the Democrats will v< nominate Mr. Bryan at the time the i"1 Republican convention meets, and '' signs point to the gathering of a formidable following after him. the f,i Morgans and the (larys and the!r{! Prick, and the Harrimans. who are w practical men, and even the Ilarveys,1 ,n perhaps, who can be persuaded to I o| reasonably practical views, may lead ni theory for Mr. Roosevelt to take the 1 field once more. When it come" to ;hoosing between two radicals they | vill every time take the one who can ol t>e stopped short of doing things and ,111 that one ia Mr. Roosevelt."?Oi-(Jmgeburg Times and Democrat. i 6' WILL OPEN AGAIN. he Dispensary (hard Will Put Dispensary at Etloree. he Efforts of tin; People of Ellorcc to (let It 111 of the OlsiHMisnry for Past Three Years lleealletl. At a meeting of the Orungeburg aunty dispensary hoard, held on Wednesday. It was agreed to reopen he dispensary at Elloree. Mr. .loliti V. Horry, for several years a well tiown merchant of Orangeburg and ow doing business at Elloree, Iip*een elected dispenser and is disposig of his mercantile business so a?; o devote all of his time to the tnangenient of the dispensary. We have seen 110 statement r?r?n. lie board as to why the dispensary ill he re-established, but we do not elieve the board would foree the ispnsnry on the town unless a maority had asked for it. We have eard that the boar had numerour equests to reopen the Elloree disensary so sent a representative here to ascertain the wishes of the eople and his report showed a maority of the citizens of the town as esirtng to see the dispensary re-es itblished. It s also stated on authority that he well known fact of there being everal blind tigers in the Ellore? ection, had nothing to do wish tin ecision of the board to reestablish he dispensary. They say they were irepared to handle the blind tiger;nd that their sole reason for reope i ng the dispensary was the ext.yessed i'ish of a majority of the Elloree fit zens that they do so. It can hardly be true that over tin; irotests of a majority of the citizens n Elloree, the county dispensary ioard has decided to place the dislensarv back in that town, as stated iy the CSolumhla State. We are sat sfied that if a majority of the peoile of Elloree do not want the disiensary that the dispensary board kill not force ii on them. Possibly he board lias been deceived about he matter, if that is the case the natter can easily be arranged as 0011 as the true facts are brought to he attention of the board. The reopening of the dispensary ecalls the long, hard fight made by he people of Elloree to get rid of lie ispensary and means probably the* kill make another effort along 'lie ante lines. The efforts to remove he dispensary started about thre< ears ago . A petition was forward d the State board of dispensary di ectors asking them to close the El oree drain shop. It was signed by ill except four or five of the voters kf the precinct and the State board leclded to order the place closed. However, the dispenser, J. M Veeks, brought action before the suireme court to order the dispensary eopen on the ground that the Rric* aw had been violated and that nndet hat law the board had no right t< lose any dispensary, where the conn y retained the institution as a whole, list as tho board was required ti lose all dispensaries when, under tin ante law, they were voted out. This ontention of the dispenser was snsallied by the supreme court and tin lispensary was reopened. When the Carey-Cothrnn act was tassed the citizens of Elloree again nade a strong effort to have the place loted under the opportunities given inder the net for local self-governneut. They presented a petition t< iOV. Ansel and also wrote Attornex ieueral Lyon for an opinion on the natter. Before any test was made lowever, the county board of Orange >urg announced that the plax-e would ie closed and up to the time of tin lection of a dispenser recently the lace has been without a dispensary The State says recently, however, nine of tlie leading citizens of tin own heard that the county board onteniplated reopening the dispellary, and, although they were inform d by members of the board that this otild not be done against the will f the majority, a petition, signed b, early every taxpayer in the townshii 11 which the town is located, win resented to the hoard. Since then, however, according h lev. John A. Branson, one of tin waders in the fight to keep the dispe> ary awav, others have been at work :>r the dispensary and the decision f the Orangeburg board means that onie legal steps will be taken tc eep it closed and should there be o section in the present law waranting this?that an amendment ill be introduced at the next session f the general assembly making it osslhle. The contention that a county board as no right to close any place open t the time of the passage of the arev-Cothran act is easily overcome y the paragraph giving county oards authority to fix the salarie:f dispensers. A salary of $1 per ear would make it impossible to scare a dispenser. This advice was iven by a State official once, unoffiially. We are very certain that the disensary board have no disposition to >rce the dispensary on Klloree, if a lajorlty of the ]>eople there are not i favor of it. Let the matter lie loroughly canvassed for and against ad then let a vote bo taken of the ualilied voters on the snhjcc. and ?e how the matter stands. Take : ite, so as each man can vote hi* j pinion. In that way the wishes of ie ]>eople can tie had. and in n< 'her way. Some men may he in ivor of the dispensary hut do not ire to herald their request lo the orld by signing a petition to roes ihlish it. and the same may he said ' some who oppose its roostabMshenf. Killed by K\ plosion. A iioiler explosion in the gin house the TrnloeV Plantation . ?e\p;i lies south of Pino Itlu'V \ 1. killed ,R. Trulock an'd 1 \ e m^rois. The n was demolished. WILL MOVK COTTON* CHOI*. || Pit's! dent Roosevelt Promises t.overniueut Funds to Help. The Wushiugton correspondent of The News nnd Courier suys Leroy Percy of Mississippi called on the President Thursday in reference to placing Government funds in the batiks of the South and Southwest to move the crop and relieve money stringency. After his conference he stated that he was not at liberty to disclose what the President said to him, but that on his own account lie would s:?v that within a few days plenty of Government money would be placed with these Southern banks for all immediate needs. This statement coming from him immediately after his talk with the President is taken to mean that the latter agreed to the request. It is learned that at least ten per rent, of the funds recently placed with the New York banks by Secretary Cortelvou will he placed with the banks of the South immediately. RNTK1CS THH HACK. State Superintendent of Education Martin Out for Senate. State Superintendent of Education Martin announces that he will be in he race for U. S. Senate in vigorous 'angunge. Two Mysterious Iteaths. \V. O. Mrown's child, eight months old. and It. h. Lockman's child, is lion's old. were both found dead in bed in the town of Iluntersvillc, N. 3. The cause of deaths is unknown, but the affair has caused considerible excitement in the town. Both hildren have been healthy youngsters all their lives. Open Next Year. The directors of the Jamestown Exposition the other evening unanimously accepted a committee report 'avoriug keeping the Exposition open next year, provided $200,000 can be raised by popular subscription. , Low Prices Fit Guaranteed Eyes Accurately Fitted BYMAIL Fro men fitted to face perfectly rvrr 1?if? I crystal" optical company I 213 Temple Court. Atlanta. G?. | SPECIAL 1\IH ( MMK.VTS ?ON ? PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR TIIE NEXT FEW WEEKS. \VB ARE FACTORY AGENTS and ppresent only tho best Pianos and JrKiins, that will last a life time. Write at once for our liberal terms ind Special prices. MA liONF.'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. 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Youn) per thousand. 5 to 9,000 at II.25 per thousan Cauliflower. I* 00 per thousand, quantities in | Write your name and express ofl W R. MART, ENT References Enterprise Bank. Charleston iMMinaiMMMHMi mmmm I ' * RANGERS'GOOD WORK Ruffians on the Mexican kBorder Are Being Weeded Out Smugglers, Train Robbers, Murderers. Cattle ami Horse Thieves Kecei\e Their Deserts. Smugglers, stage robbers and cat1 le tbloves, who used to prosper ou he .Mexican border, are finding their 'business' mo dangerous to pursue. The} :iro migrating to more congenial quarters. Some have been sent to heir graves or to prisons by the ang?s of the Southwest. Tlie work of "cleaning out the ountry" was given over to the rang?rs only six years ago. The ruffians ook ihe undertaking as a joke. They ieclared they knew no law save their >wn will and no force of men could aver compel them to cease their lawess !i e. Rut the joke has turned tnd the men who laughed are either lead, in prison, or in fear of capture for crimes committed or attempted. A recent dispatch from Yuma., \ri7... is the best evidence of why he rangers succeeded. It follows: "in a fierce battle on the desert, to r ibs from Gila Rend, Sunday morning, F. S. Wheeler, ranger, single bended, killed James ITerriek and Rentier, two desperadoes. Roth were on er convicts and llerrick was a nurderer. They were wanted for hers" ' oaling in Yuma county. Rent ley fought until shot the fourth time. Wheeler tied the bodies to a horse and brought them 20 miles for burial." Alt bough officers of the law the anger would make a "tenderfoot" ?el tather suuenitsh on meeting him iloin in the wilderness. The ranger has i careless, cut-throat manner. His head is usually surmounted by i sombrero. His neck is swathed in a losely tied bandana. His corduroy suit is yellow with dust. His belt is full of cartridges. Handles of six shooters are seen in all the pockets and under his saddle hangs a rifle. When lie displays steel and fires, he is ci tain to "reach" his man and lay hint in the dust Capt. Thomas H. Rynning, lieutenant in the Rough Rider regiment in the Spanish-American war, is in command of the 26 Arizona rangers. The Mexican border was a lawless district before the year 1T-0 1. Train rob!" rs, hank breakers, cattle thieves and ' luminals of every kind flourished. They committed de red;;', ions on the American side and the ni tossed to Mexico. Moonshiners operated in every quarter. No revenue officer that ap preached the distilleries in the desert land was ever known to return. Then oanie the rangers in 1001. They are determined and are generally successfi'l, heeause they are not afraid to shoot and are expert riflemen. The ruffians are acquainted with both of these facts and are making themselves scarce. ,Y IIOUSE ing a specialty of handling everyone. icing order elsewhere. 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