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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 1 16TH TEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1908 NO. 47 j LATIMER DEAD. The Senator Dies Thursday Morn ing After a Short Illness. SHOCK TO STATE. The Seaator Was Operated Om Fo? Appendicitis at a Washington Hospital on Sunday.?At First He Gol Along All Right, But Pcrttonltli Followed and He Boon Passed Away. Senator Asbury C. Latimer died at Providence Hospital at Washington on Thursday morning after a fsw days illness. He was taken sick on Sunday night and waB taken to the hospital at once, where he was operated on for appendicitis. He got on very well until Tuesday, when complications set In. and thn SnnBtnr grew rapidly worse until Thursday morning, when he pussed away at nine o'clock.. Mrs. Latimer and two daughters were present when the end came. Senator Latimer was about fiftyseven years old. He has been In the Sesate nearly bIx yeara. Hefoie going to the Senate, he served ten years In the House as a Representative. Ho was a candidate to succeed himself and would have been voted for in the primary this Summer. His remains wore brought from "Washington Thursday night In charge of a committee of Senators and Rejresentatives on a special train and Interred at Belton, at which place he lived. Senator Latimer was a hightoned up-right gentleman. He had been for years a member of the Methodist Church. He leaves a wife and several children. Among the prospective candidates developed for the unexpired term to be filled by the legislature, are E. Marlon Rucker of Anderson, ExSpeaker of the House Farnk B. Oary of Abbeville, Senator LeGrand Walker of Georgetown. SALARY RILL PASSED. The House Agrees to I'ay Its Members More Money. The House by a rote of 67 to 84, and without debate, last week passed the bill of Senator Walker to change the manner of compensation of members of the General Assembly. The bill was amended so na to give the Spoaker double the compensation of a member. The bill as passed, reads: Section 1. That members of the General Assembly shall receive as , compensation for their services the sum of two huudred dollars for each regular session, and mileage for the actual distance travelled in the most direct route, going to and returning from the place whore the session of the General Assembly shall be held. The Speaker of the House Bhall receive double the pay of the members Section 2. That the provisions of this Act shall not go into effect until January 1, 1909. Section 3. That Section 14, Volume 1, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1902, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. ____________ TWO MOKE JVlM.'Etf To Fill the New Circuits Created This Session. Messrs. J. W. DeVore, of Edgefield. and 9. W. G. Shlpp, of Florence. were 7hursday afternoon elected Judges f the two new circuit* creairu uy i :s legislature. Mr. J. V DeVore was chosen Judge of the jleventh circuit, .insisting of Lexington, Saluda and Edgefield. H? was opposed by Mr C. M. Eflrd Mr. DeVore represents Edgefield In the house, and his opponent, Mr Eflrd, is supremo court reporter. Mr jJoVore defoatod Mr. Sflrd by a tok of 89 to 70. Mr. S W. Q. Shipp, of Florence defeated Mr. W? Y. Montgomery, ol Marion, by a rote of 92 to 69. Th< twelfth circuit consists of the coun ties of Florence, Ilorry, Georgetowi and Marion. The new judges will begin the dis charge of their duties with the be gluing of the spring terms of court It May. ? HEADS LIKE FlCrriOX. x Left n Fortune of One Hundre* Thousand Dollar* A story reading very much like i tale In a novel h?9 developed at Au giiHta, fia., In which Mrs. Joe Koger of Columbia County, has hccom< heiress to a fortune of about $100, 000. About forty-five years ago he brother. Col. Kllsha Bates, went ou to the Santa Fe country and engage* as a stage driver. He was penniless but hoarded his little earnings urn* eventually he became the operato of the stage line, and later mad< other successful business ventures A short ti ne ago Col. Bates died leaving an estate of >100,000, U which Mrs. 'voger, now a reslden of the Columbia County, Is heiress. HE WILL RUN. Mr. C. C. Featherstone Will Oppose Gov. Ansel This Summer. The Distinguished Prohibitionist Announces His Candidacy on ; *_ntl-Dispensary Platform. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the pol ltlcal situation was still further com, plicated by the announcement Thursday night that Mr. C. C. Feather1 stone, of Laurens, will be a candl| date for Governor in the primary tnig summer. Mr. Featherstone wm In Columbia Thursday night on hla way home from Orangeburg County, where he had gone to deliver two prohibition speeches. He said he believed the , time for the enactment of a State prohibition law had arrived and that he had acceded to the wishes of his friends to enter the race for Governor to advocate that policy. Mr. Featherstouo was a candidate for Governor in 189 8 on the prohibition platform and was defeated by a combination of peculiar circumstances, and by a very narrow majority. Ho has not since that time parstand In the next campaign is not known. Mr. Featherstone is one of the strongest lawyers in the State, is a man of fine address and manners and is personally very popular. He has served as grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and is an active and prominent member of the Methodist church. Governor Ansel some time ago an-1 nounced that he will be a candidate for reelection. He was elected two years ago on the platform of local option, but before that campaign he was an out and out State Dispensary advocate. Just wnere he will stand in the campaign is not nown. Mr. Featherstone is a candidate that will have to be reckoned with. Those who think that Gov. Ansel will have a walk-over in the campaign this Summer will find that they are mistaken at the end cf the campaign. Many who bellevo in the dispensary will support Mr. Featherstone against Gov. Ansel. Gov. Ansel Is not near as strong now as he was two years ago, and many who voted for him then will oppose him now. Many people regard him as dictorial in the extreme, and this has made him many ene^nies in all parts of the State. There has been considerable talk to the efTect that Mr. John Q. Richards, of Kershaw, may enter the race for Governor this year and Mr. Richards In reply to a question said he had the matter under consideration. He is also for State prohibition. SPEEDY JUSTICE. Q&lck Work In the Trial of a Confessed Fiend. Committed assault Thursday, arrested and jailed Friday, Indicted the following Monday, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, is the record established by the Trazewell, Va., Circuit Court in the case of the Commonwealth against Walter Rtppey, the couvessed negro rapist. Rippey was tried for assault on Mrs. Mary Dancey. Mrs. Daucey testifled and In the course of her story was several times overcome ; and the Court had to wait until she regained her composure before proceeding. The recital was one of the most harrowing in the annals of crime in that section. The Jury was oat a short time and when the ver, diet was returned Rippey was sentonnail to hnn<r on il?rch 2 f? . LITTLE BOY BURNED TO DEATH Match Ignited Oll'doaked Cloth Placed 011 Ills Cheat. specisl to The News and Courier . from Louisville, Ga., says Walter, the s little 9-year-old Bon of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Farrell was burned to death , at their homo Inst night In a very f touching Hnd pathetic manner. The i littlu fellow wus suffering from a se vere cold ,and a flannel cloth saturati ed with turpentine was placed over his chest. During the night the skin -1 became Irritated, and the child was - restless; the mother arose to com? fort it and, striking a match while ' leaning over the little fellow, the turpentine ignited. Mrs. Farrell was severly burned In her efforts to exHnarnfch thn tUmnu Thp rhlM rllArl ' In a short time. WENT FROM THIS STATE. i - Man Who Kllcd Another in Mlssissip| pi is From Spnrtanburg. J. F. Wilder, who shot and killed W. L. Hooth of Dailas, Texas, at r Kppe, Mississippi, last Saturday af1 ternoon, is a native of Spartanburg 1 county. He has a brother living in Spartanburg and has many relatives 1 In the county. Twenty years ago r Wilder was running n taw mill enB gina at Woodruff at 50 centa a day. ' He left here 15 years ago for Mis siaalppl, where he operated a saw 5 mill on his own account. He made 1; money fast uud is now worth about joae million* WILL BE LIVELY. Gov. Ansel Will Not Have a WalkOver This Summer. CANDIDATES GALORE. O. L Dlrue lias Announced That Ho Will lie in the Race for Gorer* nor, and So Ma> C. C. Feather tOUe, w. II. Xnsfi .Tr?hrt Otts and One or Two Others. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Herald sayB up to a few days ago the probability has been strong almost to the point of certainty that Governor Ansel would gilds Into a second term without opposition, as was the good fate of Gov. Heyward, but the gathering of the legislature, and its actions recently, hava wrought several radical, cruel changes in this program. The practical certainty now Is that the gubernatorial race this summer will be an extremely lively if not sensational one, with half a dozen men in the race, with a great variety of liquor platforms from which to choose. llleasc of Newberry. State Senator Cole L. Mease, of Newberry authorizes your correspon dent to formally announce his candidacy for governor. His liquor j latforiu is the present local opticr. r/stem with a liceuse feature for those counties that desire thi3 way of handling liquor. He i ?'i for governor when Ansel was elected, in spite of the unpopularity of the state dispensary system, which was his platform at the time, he received nearly 18,000 votes in th race where the vote was split up among a numbei of candidates. It has been thought that he would offer for re-elcetion as senator, but developments of tne past I few weeks have decided him otherwise. In spite of his nollticB Mnc I distasteful to a large body of the senate he has for years been one of the smartest and most influential members of it. Joint G. Richards. It 1b also practically certi&n, unless there are further radical changes in the political situation, that Representative John G. Richards, for a number of years one of the house floor leaders for the state dispeusary. will be in the race for governor against Ansel on a state wide prohibition platform. His fight through ten continuous years for a repeal of j the agricultural lien law has brought him into prominence on account of the adverse action of the senate on that measure. Urged to Run. A number of delegations have come to him and ofTered their support and urged him to run promising to work for him regardless of his liquor platform. Some of these have urged him to run for lieutenant governor against President of the Sennte McLeod on account of the latter's vote against the Crouch lien law repeal bill in the senate. Rut although Mr. McLeod's vote against this bill was applauded on the floor of the senate at the tlm by the anti-repeal forces his action is said by his friends to have been misconstrued, that he was vot|n. .u- /-i V l-lll - - - - in a u6aiu3i i iic i/iuucu mil iu order to get the Richard's house bill passed so as to hasten enactment of repeal. C. C. Featherstone. C. C. Featherstone, of Lnurens, a former candidate for governor, has been in Columbia several days holding conferences, and it is predicted that he will announce himself for governor ou a state wide prohibition platform in a few days. He has been making prohibition speeches in different parts of the state recently. The friends of Mr. Richards and other prohibition candidates have gently Intimated to him that he has rend himself out of the prohibition forces by his interview published recently to the effect that the next change In the liquor law should eb to declare a state of prohibition and allow such counties as desire it to vote in dispensaries. His attitude the paBt year has been construed that he would not oppose Mr. Ansel, but if others are coming in he will Join the merry band. Representative Nash. Representative Nash, of Spartanburg, a life-long prohibitionist, Is expected to announce his candidacy for governor soon as the legislature adjourns. 1Mb friends say that the reason he does not announce now !s that that course would reduce his Influence and hamper him in his work on the floor of the house. John Cull ioi: n Otte. Still another state wide gubernatorial possibility is said to be Representative John Calhoun Otts, of Cherokee, a former dispensary advocate. but Inst year a champion of local option in the senate. Ansel's Platform. It is thought highly prohahle that Governor Ansel himself will switch to a state wide prohibition platform before he flies his pledge next June, lie was elected on a local option platform, but he has always been a worker for prohibition, choslng local option as the next best thing. It Is known that he hesitated many many moons before recommending a con. dnuan?e of local option, In his mes HOT SENATOR Charges Extravagance on Part of Dispensary Commission. What He Said, What He Reiterates and "Responsible for What I Say, Here and Elsewhere." There was another personal privilege statement In the State senate Tuesday, anent the dispensary winding up commission and Attorney W. F. Stevenson, over the Irrepressi ble Clark purchase. Senator Johnson was the speaker, he said: "Mr. President: In my remarks on Thursday last on bill No. 609, Mr. Chrlstensen's bill, to appropriate the sum of S15.000 .to enable Mr. Lyon to secure counsel to prosecute alleged graTters, I stated In opposition of the bill that the investigating committee had already spent $20,000 of the people's money without any results. That the winding-up commission had spent $50,000 during the year of their existence, and If statements and charges In the public prints were true and to be relied upon, In refusing to accept an offer that was said to have been made by a firm or corporation outside of the state, to take over the entire stock of liquors, wines, etc., including dead stock, odds and ends, at their original Invoice price, and having subsequently sold the stock at a discount of 20 per cent, on the dollar, which resulted in another loss of $200,000, to the people of South Carolina, I uld not say how or for what pur- j pose the $50,000 wa6 spent, but, 1 simply said that It had been 6pent by the commission, and any statement to the contrary is false. Hut It now develops, and is shown hv their own record that $59,3 89.56 was spent by them, insteau of $50,000 as stated In my argument, and t/ie $15.oOO, given them by order of Judge Pritchard, and the $20,000 spent by the Investigating committee, together with the $15,000, carried by the Christensen bill, will make an n?r gregate of the enormous sum of $110,000 In round numbers of the dispensary fund that has been gotten away with In one way or another, which Is over one elgth of the total amount of the entire assets of the dispensary. . ? "Now comes one, W. F. Stevenson, who Is said to he the attorney for the commission, and who claims that no such offer was ever made except in a Jocular way, by a Mr. Dull, of Peoria, 111. "This alleged offer and loss caused thereby will however, be Investigated, but Mr. Stevensen says. If such an offer had been made it could not have been accepted under the uct. This Is a most remarkable proposition to come from a man who claims to be a lawyer, but not altogether surprising to others in view of the fact that if an offer had been made, and accepted, it would have been folfowed by the loss of some fat lega' fees. I do not believe, however, there is a real lawyer in South Carolina, who would read the act creating the commission and place any such construction upon It. "Now I have presented the facts and figures relative to the matter. Just as they appear, and have reproduced my remarks upon the subject just as they were made, and any charge or intimation of unfairness on my part is false and without foundation no matter by whom made. I TV'11 1 f ,1 r( Vi Or ctnta H Q T oni ro?,,on Blblo for what I say, here or elsewhere." KILLED IN RIOT. Two Dead and Six Injured la a Pennsylvania Town. Two men were killed and six others were seriously Injured In a riot at Dunbar, Pa., Tuesday night. Two of the wounded are Amerlcnns, the dead and the other wounded being foreigners. Forty-five persons were arrested by the police who were called to quell the disturbance. According to one of th.>se arrested the trouble Is tne out--onie of rivalry between two boarding houses conducted by foreigners. It is said that six Croe.tins who lived In a box car went to an old homestead which another gang of foreigners had turned Into a boarding house and after battering down the doors, started a fight. AN AUTOIST SUED For Making a Mule Run Away aiul irtllUw* lUlraa Mr. Harry Buhl, a wealthy resident of Pittsburg, Pa., who, winters In Augusta, Ga.. Is being sue dby Melissa McClady, a negro woman, for $3,000 for the aeatn of her husband. While autolng on a country road n few miles out of Augusta, Mr. Buhl's machine frightened a mule which the woman's husband was driving, causing It to run away and kill him. sage to the present legislature. Mr i Ansel Is a former state dispensary supporter. He has the advantage lr the coming race of the strong sontl ment la favor of second termisui. A CHOICE PLUM Several Gentlemen Hope to Succeed Late Senator Latimer. - i POLITICAL GOSSIP. i Legislature Expected to Hold Eire- | tion on March 3 to Fill the Unex* < pired I^rni.?Various Persons Arc Mentioned for the Place. Names i i of the Candidates Who Expect to ( i Run In the Primary. The announcement of the death j of Senator Latimer on last Thurs- ; day threw the General Assembly In- * to political turmoil. Coining with- 1 In two days of the expected end of ' the session with the certainty that r the Legislature must fill the racan- t cy before it could adjourn, the whole I aspect of legislation was changed. ' In addition, the removal of Senator | Latimer from the race in the primary a entirely alters the condition of af- t fairs, and that the political situation ' in South Carolina had been complete- ' ly transformed. Within an hour after the pn- c nouucement that Senator Latimer r was dead had reached the State j House, it was seen that the names of f more than one member of the Gen- c eral Assembly would be presented for r the unexpired term and their friends e at once got to work. This may have r appeared somewhat heartless, but at that time It was the prevailing opin- t ion that the election would have to -j be held on Saturday and it was real- ^ ized that in this case no time could ^ be lost. t Investigation of the law was set e on foot however and it was then dis- c covered that the General Assembly might not have to elect at this tl time, and further, that Is was possi- p ble that the election could not be held at this time. Though no official p Information was served from Washington until transmitted throuarh the I message of Governor Ansel Thursday | night, the judiciary committee ol ' ^ both House and Senate met and considered the question that was presented. Senator Carlisle, chairman of the State judiciary committee then got into communication with Wash- n Ington and talked with Senator Bailey on the long distance telephone, V Mr. Bailey being regarded as an authority on such questions. v Mr. Bailey informed Mr. Carlisle " that after consulting Senator Till- ^ man hw and Senator Tillman were of the opinion that the n General Assembly could at once elect d upon receipt of official notification of the vacancy but that Senator Hale ^ and other Republican Senators, who P would in the final analysis decide the v point if it were raised, held differ- ^ ently and thought that the General Assembly could not elect until the s second Tuesday after the receipt of official notification of the vacancy. P Senator Bailey then advised as it e was a Democratic egislature electing s was a Democratic legislature electing s best not to elect anyone now. but to P follow the procedure which Senator ' II o 1 a n/^ncirinvnd locvnl In onnor/1. 1 ance with this opinion the Legist a- ' ture adjourned on Saturday until v Tuesday, March 3, when it will meet a and elect a Senator for the unexplr- " ed term of Senator Latimer, which f has about one year to run yet. r On the understanding that the r Geueral Assembly would elect some one to fill the unexpired term alone, n and not one of the candidates for the long term, the following members of s the General Assembly were at once 1 suggested: a Lieutenant Governor T. G. McLeod ^ of Lee County; Hon. Frank B. Gary, \ of Abbeville; lion. George Von Kol- I nltz, of Charleston; lion. James Cos- t grove, of Charleston: Hon. W. L. i Mnuldin, of Greenville; Hon. Legrand r Walker, of Georgetown, Senator; c Hon. E. M. Itucker, of Anderson. The ' name of Gen. Wille Jones, chairman 1 of the State Democratic committee, f was also presented. y The list of candidates and probcandidates, as uublished in The i News and Courier a few days ago, ! was a follows: Col. John J Dargan. < of Statesburg, Sumter County; Hon. t 0. 11. Martin, of Pickens County, at present State Superintendent of Education; Hon. D S. Henderson, of Aiken; Hon. Jas. A. McCullough, of ' Greenville; Hon. George Johnstone, of Newberry; Hon. E. D. Smith, of Florence. DRANK DISPENSARY DRY. Georgians Closed North Augusta ! Shop for a While. The troubles of the North Augusta dispensary continue to exist. The people of the little South Carolina town have tried to close the liquor shop and failed on several occasions; but the people of Augusta have been more successful. The little shop was closed, the third time since Its opening during the early aftornooo, because the stock had again been ex1 hausted. And the dispensary trade In or from Augusta Is increasing ev- . ery day. FIRST IN THE SOUTH Colored Photographs Taken by Two Clemson Professors. How the Pictures Are Token?Art of Photography Will, It Is Predict- | ed, He Revolutionized. A special to the News and Courier Trom Clemson College says two mem- < bers of the faculty, Prof. F. II. 11. Calhoun, of the geological departnent, aud Assistant Prof. E. T. Howird, of the mechanical department, lave succeeded In producing photographs showing the orlgiual colors >f the objects photographed. This has beeu accomplished by neaus of the L.umlnre autochrom date. The process was discovered |1 I hnn f wuc jcar ago only by Lumlere, \ it Lyons, France; and the specially t >reparcd films have been on the mar- * cet about three months. e Dr. Calhoun and Prof. Howard are l imong the very first in this country y o try the process, their order for L >lates being the 33d. Out of eight lutes they succeeded In getting sev- 4 ?n excellent color photographs of / arious scenes around the College, j md they are naturally very proud of r heir success. They are doubtless the a Irst people in the South to under- I ake the matter. 1 The film used in making these eol- v r photographs is so made that it t ontnins coloring matter, which is afectcd by the various colors in the r icture to be taken. The plate is i ixposed as usual in photograj?hy. ex t opt rather longer through a speaial s ay filter. Great care needs to be ex- c 'rcised to handle the plates n s dull ted light. i They must be washed in nine solulons, the first two in total dark nest , ^he others take place is the open layllght. The colors appear Inline- n llately upon taking the plates into e he light: but the remaining process p s are essential to the Intensifying, learing and fixing of the colors. a The newly discovered process, by p neans of which any scene may be | ilctured In the original colors, seems ]< estined to revolutionize the art of p holography. t, it WILL HE IN RACE. h U !or. Heyward Announces His Onndi- ; dacy for I'nitcd States Senator. Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward Thursday h ight announced that he would he a -i andidnte In the Democratic primary his summer for the nomination to n he United States senate. Gov. Hey- i rard has received messages and com- i lunlcations from all parts of the tate urging him to announce his T nndidacy. Last night he stated de- E nltely that he will become a candi- b ate, and be expects to win. f( "I will be a candidate for United v fates Senator In the Democratic m rlmary this Summer," he said, "and rl ,-ill make the race on my record and w uallflcatlons for tho office, which ! si rust are known to the people of g outh Carolina. p< The constitution of the Democratic miy. iu ou 11 lii vrarunna provinces mat f< ach candidate for the United Stater ^ enate shall file a pledge that he will ti npport the political principles of the t! arty during the terra of office for , irhich he may he elected and work In P ccord with his Democratic associates p n congress on all party questions. I g till of course abldo by that pledge nd will therefore be bound by the p datform adopted by the national s democratic convention at Denver. At ^ iresent it Is not necessary to discuss t rational issues. * I only wish my friends to know I ini in the race and in to win." Gov. Heyward came Into politics- i. Ix years ago. Up to that time he g rad a considerable personal acquaintince over the State. Capt. Heyward. . vith four opponents, lacked 1 1,000 | rates of receiving the nomination on f he first primary. In the second c iriinary he had a sweeping victory, a najorlty of 10,000 votes. In his ? >wn county, Colleton, he lost but 58 r >ut of 2,200 votes. Another remark- j 'bio feature of his career is that he ( rad no opposition for re-election, the ? Irst time in years, possibly since the f ,var, that such had been the case. r It Is understood that Gov. Ilev- f ,vard is not seeking election at the f land of the legislature to fill tho unixplred terra, but is in the campaign ? ins summer. - t TRAIN RAN DOWN IJUGGY. t'ouug Man Killed and Father and Sister Seriously Injured. Train N'o. 99, the Seaboard Air Line's southbound Florida limited, ran Into a buggy containing Mr. Jerry M. Thomas, of Dentsvllle, anil his ?on and daughter, Tuesday morning at about 11 o'clock, at Waddell, ton miles north of Columbia, the accident resulting In the Instant death if the young man and the serious injury of the girl. The vehicle was smashed to pieces and the mule killed. Somehow the ( father escaped with hurts not more serious than minor contusions. The j accident occurred at a crossing a little above Waddell where limited trains run at a high speed. The supposition Is that the proper signals were not given or that they were unheard, or else disregarded by the occupants of the buggy. FOUND GUILTY. Gen. Stcessel Condemned to Die For Surrendering the POST OF PORT ARTHUR ?ourt-Mnrtial Which Has Ilcru Trying him for Cowardice in Surrendering Port Arthur Returns Verdict Sentencing Famous General to Death, but Itorommrtiding Ton years in Prison Instead. Lieut-Gc. Stoessel was condemned 0 death Thursday evening by a tilltary Court at HI Pe'.ertmurg for he surrender of Port Arthur to the Fapaneeo. The Court rrommendd that the death sentence upon Lieut !en. StoosFel bo commuted to ten ears imprisonment in a fortress auu ie be excluded from the service. Gen. Frock, who commanded the tli East Siberian division of Port trthur, was ordered reprimanded fur 1 disciplinary offence, which was tot connected with the surrender, nd Gen. Smirnoff, acting commandtoiss, chief of staff to Gen. Stoessel, telss, chief of staff to Gen. Stoesseil, vere acquitted of the charges against hem for lack of proof. Gen. Vodar, president of the Court, oad the sentences amid a tense sieuce. By a great effort of self conrol Gen. Stoessel maintained rigid oldierly-like impassivity. Geu Siuirloff also was seemingly unmoved, ?ut there were tears in the eyes of 3en. ltciss. The sentenee of death was protounced upon Gen Stoessel, "for Fiirendering the fortress before all the neans of defence had been exhnustd, for failing to enforce his autliorLy and for military misdemeanors." Commutation of the sentence was sked on the ground that "Port Arhur, beset by overwhelming forces, efended itself under Gen. Stocr.sel's lauershlp with unexampled stuboruness and filled the world with asvnishinent at the heroic courage of s garrison; that several assaults ave been repulsed with tremendous >sses ou the part of the enemy; that on. Stoessel throughout the seigo ud maintained the heroic courago f the defenders and finally that he ad taken energetic part iu three impalgns." Before the sentence was read, leasures were taken to prevent a delonstration in favor of Stoessel bynumber of tho younger officers, nd witnesses who were present, fceso later sent n dispatch to the Ininress saviniz that thev would hum ly bear testimony that Gen. Stoes;I was ? the soul of the defence r Port Arthur; that he had always acouraged and put heart In the Carlson, and that in case of war they ould wish to serve again under ,irh a hero. They asked the Empress raciously to bespeak from the Eiueror a full pardon. There was a dramatic, moment nf?r the reading of the sentence when detatchment of soldiers filed into fie hall. The spectators, thinking tiey were about to seize Gen. Stoesel, displayed great excitement, sevral women fainting. It developed, owever, that this was merely a uard for the disposal of the Court. Gen. Stoessel, who was accompan?d by Ills son, was the object of a ympathetlc demonstration, friends lssiug and shaking him by the hand s he left the Court leaning on hla on's shoulder. The basis of the Indictment upon krhlch Lieut. (Jen. Stoessel, Gen. 'rock, who commanded the ith East Siberian division of Port. Arthur, nd Major Gen. Ileiss, chief of staff o Gen. Stoessel, wore tried for their Ives, was a secret report made by dent. Gen. Smirnoff, on the defence ?f Port Arthur. Smirnoff was acting commnndint of the fortress. Stoessel being lommandor of the Kwnng-Tung Ponnsuln. Snilrnorf categorically hctused Stoessel of cowardice an 1 ln:apaclty, and finally of the deliberate ind treasonable hastening of the sur ender to savo his own me ana aelanre of the derisions of two suc:esslvo councils of war. Oon. Smirnoff declared that the ortross, which was surrondorc 1 to be Japanese, January 1, 1905, could inve held out for six months longer. The stands taken by Oens. Rtoesiel, Relss and Frock were that the 'ate of Port Arthur was sealed with he capture of the "Eagle's Nest," ind two other positions. The Indictment against Hen. Smirnoff charged him with having failed to remove Gen. Frock from his command, although ho suspected the \greemert between Gens. Stoess?,d xnd Frock to surrender ths fortress. s For State Senator. Ex-State Idrponsary Director Huh F.vans authorizes the announcement of his candidacy for state senator from Newberry. He was formerly mayor of the town of Newberry, and was recently defeated for another term In that ofTlee by only eleven votes. He Is one of the few state dispensary officials of his period of service not under Indictment. And personally he Is one of the most popular moo in the state.