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I! THE FORT MILL TIMES .. f , i i VOLUME xvm : FORt MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23.1909 T NO. 40 SEA TRAGEDY ^ CiyUia mi His Wife and Elrrti SeaB aea Use Tkesr Lhts. SCHOONER IS WRECKED I Wkr Picked Up In the Wreckage V of the Governor Ames and Car* HP lied to Charleston by the SteamH ship Hhawmnt, Give* Graphic StoH ry of a Catastrophe. The five-masted schooner OovcrH nor Ames, oound from Brunswick |H Ga., to New York, with a large car HB go of railroad croseties, grounded M and went to pieces off Wimble H Shoals, twenty-five miles north of I Cape Hatteras. Mouduy afternoon at about 6 o'clock. The captain, the crew, consisting o! twelve men. and the wife of the captain, were all killed or drowned with one single j exception. This, Bays The News and Courier, Is the story toid by the sole survivor. a Nova Scotlan, by the name of Josi&h Bpeerlng. a seaman on the vessel. He was picked up from a mass of floating ties by the steamship Bhawmut, while on her way from Philadelphia to Charleston, where she arrived Wednesday ulgbt with Spearing on board. Capt. A. Syenaou, of the Shawmut. on Tuesday morning about 7 o'clock discovered a figure signalling on a mass of wreckage. The Shawmut wua about two miles from the scene, bet Immediately hastened to where the wreckage lay. The sea was too roagh to lower a boat, but a ladder was thrown over the side of the vessel and Spearing climbed abourd. Spearing was suffering from the cold, the shock and particularly from asvere bruises Inflicted by the floating wreckage, which beat upon him on account of the heavy aea dashing It to and fro. Ills legs and arms i bear blue and black marks, and he is unable to walk. His mind, however,.is clear and be 1s able to give s full account of the calamity, which be did to a reporter of The New*, and Courier, and from that account we make up this report: i Spearing hailed the Shawmut by waving an oil skin coat, which he managed to save before the schooner went down. lie says iu&t In the forenoon Monday the wind ossumod large proportions; it was foggy, and drizzling, and ho says the man at i the wheel waa near-sighted and could not see where he was steering; that he could only steer by the way the wind filled the sails, or by aid of _...?,the stars. That at 11:30 o'clock In the morning the schooner struck rocks and broke aft The sea came In on the quarter deck and the tall ore lashed the captain's wife to the spanker rigging. 1 h?.o the men we:., down to get life preservers. When It was tried to uso them they fob to pieces before any one could get them on. Rope yards were thee lashed around the preservers by each ** man who had one. WMlo the men wore trying to make the preserves seaworthy the vessel >broke aft, and the captain's wife %?S8 ruBhed to the forward deck and Sashed to the mast. She whi L almost frozen, suffering from ttai cold (wind and from the cold sen that jvaa filling the boat. The met rushed down Into the cabin for blankets for her. and they bad hardly gotten on deck again when th. stern broke in two and the cabin wait filled with water. It was about 2 o'clock then, and the wind Increasing, the vessel broke up completely. The woman waa lash ed to the niizzen rigging, and then as the rigging began to break, she waa taken away and lashed to the hoops of the mainmast, on the fore castle. The sea was so violent tha. the mast broke, and, falling upor the woman, crushed her to death Spearing said as the woman fell h. beard a man give a death scream aa the same mast had fallen upor him and killed him. Spearing wild that as soon as be and the mate saw that the captain'? wife was dead they knew they coul do no more, so they made an effort to save their own lives by running to the jib as It was the safest place When tbo vessel began breaking aft she swung around so violently that they couldn't stay on ber any longer. Tbree big aeas washed over the wreckage and Spearing managod to bold on. The fourth aea was so strong, howover, that he fell overboard from the wreckage. He grabbed to a hmi. 1 rope at the flying jib and was fortunate enough to land on the deck, which was floating. He had scarce ly landed when two seas struck him knocking him down before ho could raise himself. Ho waa terribly dazed and about half conscious when he stood up, but he made a ..tart for the aft deck and he could bear men screaming with fear and agony as they were being pounded senseless by falling timbers. Another sea washed over him and he attempted to get to the men In distress. It was good dark then; the stump of the Jigger mast broke off an 1 with it came twenty feet of i be deck Three men were hanging, on and all had broken arms and loga. It, was at this time that 8pearlog climbed up the only mast above water and found on the top a poor sea ELEVEN ULLED AND TWBNTT-FTV* INJUBED Of THS SOUTHERN WRBCK. Nudn md Addfonw of Um? Pa?car era Who Were Killed or **' ,<id cd by ** Vice President and General Manager Ackert, of the Southern Railway, Wednesday gave out the following statement in regard to the accident near Greensboro, N. C., early Wednesday morning: "Our passenger train, No. 11, which la operated locally between Richmond. Va., and Atlanta. Ga.. and carries sleepers from Richmond to Charlotte and from Norfolk to ni.. _ -a a % _ a - * * * ? a v^uanunc, wu neraiiru auoui v.av o'clock this morning, about eleven miles south of Greensboro. N. C. As far as can be ascertained at this time, the cause of the accident was a broken rail, due to a concealed defect. Two coaches and two sleepers turned over. The engine, mall and bsggae cars did not leave the track." The passengers reported killed are. John A. Broadnax, Greensboro, N. C. V. E. Holcomb. a lawyer of Mount Airy. N. C. Edward Sexton. Denton. N. C. Frank W. Kllby. Birmingham, Ala. A. T. Cone, superintendent of Richmond division of the Southern. C. 1). Nolan, Pullman conductor. 11. C. White, traveling auditor, Washington. D. C. Ed Bagby. Richmond, Vs. Richard Karnes. New York city. Isaac Dammoiis, porter on Richmond sleeper. One unidentified, clean shaven white man, about 24 years of age. Total reported dead, eleven. Reported Injured: John W. Phillips, Petersburg, Va. David P. McBrayer, Anderson, B. C. Alva L. Harris. Reidsville, N. C. Will Kemmina, Davidsoi College, N. C. Butrol Watson, Baskervlile. Va. Artbiir Watson. Baskervlile. Va. Robert Russell, 14 East 41st street. New York. Mrs. H. T. Cook. Norfolk. Va. P. Smith. Spencer, N. C. H. L. Btribbllng. Atlanta, Ga. Richard Dobte. Norfolk, Va. W. T. Deberry. Portsmouth. Va. Mrs. Robert Edmond, Jr., New Orleans, La. Philip Nelson, Owosboro. N. C. The Rev. D. D. Hill (colored). Reldsvllle. N. C. Thomas W. Kldrldge, baggage master. Richmond. Va. Burton Marye, road master. Klch mood, Va. Thomas V. Chalkier. Richmond. Vo. George B. Wagoner, Danville, Va. W. T. Carroll, ticket agent. Norfolk. Va. H. L. Wood. Pullman superintended. Norfolk. Va. W. T. Carter, traveling auditor. Danville, Va. John Anderson, colored porter, Norfolk. Va. Total reported Injured twentyfour. The track was cleared and afl trains moving at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. Tragedy tn Georgia. At Cuthbert. Ga.. John W. Harris. 50 years old, and brother of Mayor Harris, of that city, was shot and instantly killed In the lobby of the Randolph hotel by J. F. Lcrd. Jr., 18 years old. son of the proprietor uarris was pfiying cards In the lobby when young Lord, It is said, irdttred him out of the house, aid fln the difficulty following Harris was shot. lx>rd Is under arrest. u?d with all his fingers chopped off. When finally a big sea dashed the men from the perches and took the mast with It. Spearing remained in the water fully fifteen minutes be'orc he came to a big part of the wreckage which he at first thought was a shark. He hung on to the floating timbers with might and main until the next motning. Spearing says the schooner lert Brunswick on Thursday last. The veasel hailed from Providence. R I., but had sailed from Boston to Brunswick. He did not know the captain's name and had only been with the ship for a little over three weeks. He joined the ship at Boston The crew consisted of the captain, '.wo mates, sn engineer and a steward and six seamen and the captain's wife. Spearing said that his home Is Cambridge, Hants county, Novla a^ntln 11- - 01 -* -? ?-? wvv>Iiv ID an jvmn ui ?K<' and unmarried. Hpcarlng was floating on the wreckage two or three miles from the Bhawmat when ho was first sighted, which was about 24 miles north, northeast of Diamond Shoals lightship. The catastrophe occurred at Wimble Shoals, about 25 miles north of Cape Hatteras. Spearing said that the vessel went to pieces shoot fire miles from shore An attempt was made eight or ten times to make rafts to pnt the crew on so as to get to shore, but tbs high sees prevented. The shore Could Just be seen owing to the hesrr fog. mm** WRECK OF TRAM fob derm Liret as4 foots Iqar; to luj People. ACCIDENT On SOUTHERN | A Brokw Rati Throws Frte Coschvs Prom a Bridge New Greensboro, N. C.?Two High Southern Hall* wsjr Officials Are Included la the List of Those Killed. Local passenger train No. 11, on I the Southern railway, known aa the 1 Richmond and Atlanta frain, duo In Greensboro at 0:40 a. m.. was , wrecked Wednesday at 6:32 at Reedy i Pork trestle, ten miles north of Greensboro, and at 6 o'clock Wednea- 1 day evening eleven dead bodies had , been removed from the wreckage. < Fourteen are reported dead and twenty-five injured are being cared ' for at St. Leo's hospital. ) Owing to the character of the < wreck much time was required to i remove the dead and injured front 1 the debris and, it was 8:30 before this work was well underway. The injured were carried to Greensboro ! aa rapidly as they could be extricated from the wreck and placed 1 in St. Leo's hospital. The derailment of the train wsj ' caused by a broken rail, about two hundred feet from the trestle that ! spans the small stream. The train ' was composed of two baggage, express and mall cars, three day 1 coaches and two Pullmans. The engine and baggage, mail and express 1 care passed over In safety, while , the day coaches end Pullman were thrown from the trestle Into the * orcek and along the banks some twenty to thirty feet below. At the point where the first coacb c left the track, the right hand rail , being broken, about eighteen It.ch- | es from a joint, the rail was L"."Cion Into fragments for several feet, and torn entirely from the croKatten truck wheels ran on the tJes until near the trestle, when the outside wheels went over. allowing the brake beams and axles to fall on the guard rail of the bridge. As th? last ooach was about on the trestle. the fiv?? coaches toppled ove.\ broke loose from the mail and ?*x press car and tumbled to the mu-1 and water below. The Norfolk Pullman fell in the ( water while the Richmond sleeper * Just in front, landed only partially c in the water. The most of the in Jured and kiiled in the sleepers we e in the Richmond sleeper, which whs totally demolished. The Norfolk sleeper was not so badly torn up, but fell on its side in tho swollen stream, submerging many of the passengers in the water. The conduc tor In this coach, Capt- Johnson, was very slightly Injured and none of tl?e passengers in his car were killed. The Richmond Pullman Is a mat of wreckage and scattered over thf i wet and muddy bank of the stream, | p?rc 01 11 neing ourteo la tbe inu*. * At 11 o'clock parts of two bod'. .6 wore visible from tbe edge of thin mess of wreckage and It is not nov 11 known bow many more are under It. Railroad men, who were working bard to rescue tbe unfortunate victims and to recover the bodlej of tbe dead, are practically certa.i. that a removal of tbe debris would reveal more drj'a bodies. The iwi day coaches In front of tbe Pullmans were also complete wrecks, being smashed into kindling wood. Of tbe dead their appearand at tbe undertakers ?howed thai. some were scalded to death, o'ba. ? sere badly mutilated, while one was cut 1 nbalf at tbe waist, bis dismember ed parts being found at the ppposire end of tbe coach. At 1 o'clock, when tbe d"*a;l were . carried into tbo city, the morgue ( was so crowded the* the tra'i.i pa->I ed on further where tbe ambulances and backs were gathered to convsy the dead to an improvised morgue which had been ordered. It took a cordon of policemen to I keep tbe eager crowds from .'licking all approaches. For a Hpa:o of four hours the streets were at one time or another the scene of o procession of ambulances carrying (ho wounded to tbe hospital or the dead to the morgue. The Southern h?.d a corps or officials, physicians and laborers on tbe seen quickly after the news was received, Improvised Utters were quickly put Into service, as the InJnfed were released from their per Hods positions In the mass of wreckPullman mattresses and' blankets ?rr?j ueeu 10 proieci ine me injured, and the dead were wrapped and handled as tenderly a? the exigencies of the occasion would permit. < Rtron? and willing bands lifted the 1 Improvised Utters with their bur- I dens of suffering humanity and bore ' them to the hospital trains, which I werp operated between the place of the wreck and Sainmtt avenue, nearest the 8t. Leo's hospital. 8?rong men wore blanched faces, but carried steady hands and worked quietly, but with a will to do everything in tbelr power. Even i under tha stress of the terrible eg- i cltement there was mnch tender 4 solicitude shown the suffering. ZELAYA HAS RESIGNED TYRAN1CAL NtCARAQUAN Rl'LKH YIELDS TO THE INEVITABLE. With the Whgie Country Seething With KefolaUon Against Him, This Was Hto Only Way Out. A dispatch (jom Managua aaya Jose Santas Z^laya has resigned from the Presidency of Nicaragua. He placed hla resignation in the nana* or Congress Thursday morning. Apparently there was no other course for him to take. The people were at lost aroused. The guns of the revolutionists threatened, the warships of the United States were in Nlcaraguan ports. Managua has been seething for lays. The spirit of revolt has spread even to the gates of the palace. Zelaya surrendered himself with an irmed guard. Unchecked the populace have marched through the itreets, crying for the end of the aid, proclaiming the new regime. Who will take up the reins no ane knows nor cares. It Is sufficient '.hat Zelaya as dletator will be known ao more. There Is no doubt that Congress will act quickly on his resignation, for the people have demanded It. Dr. Jose Madrlx. Judge of the Central American Court of Justice it Carta go, who has been close to Zelaya, and ie now his choice for s president, has goue to Managua. Madris has his following, itrong and influential, even among :he revolutionists, but Qen. Estrada, ander whose command the great ?dy of fighting Insurgents now face /asquea's troops at Rama, will have lone of him. Estrada's word will >ear weight in the choice of a Presilent. Zelaya has known, too. that Jadris is not acceptable to the IJnltvd States, and he has sought to learn vho would be looked upon with fa or by that government us bis sue :e??or. Accompanying his resignation Maya sent the following meesage o congress: "The painful circumstances in vhlch the country is plunged call for ids of abnegation and patriotism on he part of good citizens, who are he witnesses of the oppression of he Republic by the heavy hand of ate. The country is staggering unler 1 shameless revolution, which hreatens the nation's sovcre'gaiy >nd a foreign nation unjustly intcrenes in our affairs, publicly providng the rebels with arms, which has mly resulted in their being defeated erywhere through the heroism of mr troops. "To avoid further bloodshed, and or the reason that the revolutionnta have declared that they would >ut down their arms when 1 surender the executive power, 1 here>y place in the hands of the national issembly the abandonment of the emalnder of my term of office, which b to be filled by a substitute on their boosing, with the hope that this vlll result in good to Nicaragua, the establishment of peace, and partlcllarly the suspension of the hostlliy of the United States to which 1 lo not wish to give a pretext for ntervention." A commission of five deputies was ippointed to draft a bill looking to he acceptance of Zelaya's resignalon, which is now considered a mere brutality. News of the president's iction spread through the city, and toon great crowds moved through he streets, shouting for the United itates. Estrada and the revolution. Held in eontml for v??ro Hv iho itrong hand of Zelaya, tbc people mvc been quick to break through estrsint wben It was certain that be dictator could not breast tbe tide bat has been rising around bim. luring tbe later days Zelaya has esorted to all tbe known tricks and ;ontrivances to hold the people of danngua with bim. Reports of a government victory t Rama have been freely circulated. and rumors that a massacre of -evolutionists had occurred were slowed to spread unchallenged and unlenled. It finally became known hat these were without a Bhred of ruth, and they rebounded like a }oomerang. First one deputy then another took jp the denunciation of Zelaya in ?e chamber and later in the public places, and soon throughout. the city lemonstratlons were hold, in which >pen revolt was voiced. Wedneaiay night, however, a pro-Zalaya lemonstratlon marked the session of congress, but this had no effect outilde the walls of the houso. The rising was more marked Thursday than ever, and the President deeded discretion to be the better part of valor and withdrew from >ffice. Shot While Hooting. Mr. Barkln B. Rerley, a planter *f the Mount Pleasant section of Newberry county, accidentally shot himself at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning while out bird hunting, the load penetrating his left leg just below the knee, and producing a hemorrhage from which he died at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Bitten by Boll Dog. Seven persons were hltten by a : rabid white hull dog which went on i a rampage tn the lower part of New 1 York Wednesday night. The dog , was finally killed by a policeman. j \ & CAN THIS BE SO? Iqjtr HcapkHI, Editor tf tfe New ud . Curier, is Said to U AN ADVISOR OF MR. TAFT The Editor's Abuse- of Mr. Brru n Before His Lust Nomination, and u His Ridicule of Bryan by the Hen ? P and tiander Incident Mode the 8' Editor Solid With Mr. Toft. o Zac.k McOee, Washington cor re- w spondent of The State, sends out s d surprising statement in his last let- fi ter to his paper. Here is what Mc- b Gee says: a "In these modern and radiant days U of Big Bill Taft, what has become of that ancient and honorable in- F atitutlon formerly designated 'Re- n publican Referee,' beatiflcally trans- cmorgrifled, as you may recall, under u the be-accurate dispensation of Hon. It George Bruce Cortelyou into 'Ad- tl vleer' ?But, regardless of nomencls- h ture, where is he at? In brief, e< Who's It In South Carolina when it V comes to pie? d "The man who secured the nomlnation o( Louie C. Kukor to be postmaster at Florence and S. Coke King it to be poet master at Darlington as 0 Mayor James Calvin Hemphill, ivil P lor of the Charleston News uaJ Courier, and Mr. Taft'e closest and ai most confidential triend in South tl Carolina. Captain John O. Capers, h Republican national committeeman *< and eratwhile "referee" for South o! Carolina recommended Other men tl for these offices. Captain Caper's h recommendations have been wont to bl go iu South Carolina postmaster- tl ships. b] "General Francis H. Hitchcock. c< Political Charge d'xAalrs of the Administration, still consults him b< about thcso offices, but a bigger e< than the/ General has been taking rl a hand. Senator E. D. Smith, who pi represents Florence in the senate tl and who had the power of holding st up any appointment objectionable to >1 him, 'did his durndeet,' in the lan- cl guage of the classic poet, to induce fr the president to name another man h< for Klorenco. Rut there wae one dl more potent in the counclSes of the <*< president than the senator, and the hi Major's man was named. e< "Captain Capers nays he Is no longer 'Referee' or "Adviser' In the hi established sense. 'So far ns 1 fr know there isn't any such Job,' he hi s&ys. 'I have retired to my private law practice and am devoting my ta time to it. intending not to accept d? any further political office. Of **c course, until the next national con- w ventlon, I am scill the national is committeeman, and having advise 1 b< about South Carolina offices so long. ?I and still desirous of seeing good b< men In office as well as to ae* the ? party prosper In South Carolina, C why wbeneve- I am asked to sd- te vise, I advise. When 1 am not asked, I have nothing to say.' In u< passing It Is an evidence of Mi. Cu- "1 per's sincerity that he has had th:- c< refusal of at least two good fed??v- d< al appointments since he left that b< of General Reveaue commla*!on?-r. T "Now upon the election of Mr. d< Tnft a different policy with respect tc to apiioiptmcnts in the rfouth was ? determined upon. Mr. Taft bad tl been down to Greensboro, N C., R several yeara l>eforo he was ou octlve candidate for the pre? .le.1-7. Y< There he shocked his fellow llcpub- T licans, who for several year* had w been engaged in one continuous and P conspicuous exhibition dogfight over ct federal patronage by telling them H that the Republican party In tlio M South would be better off if the a Democrats held nil the offices. N He seems not altogether to have P got that idea out of his head, and a it is believed he would have enter- w ed upon a wholesale policy of ap- ?i lAMimu.^ i/cuiuuiitun iu umct? una 11 " not been for the more astute poll- It tlcal head of his postmaster general tl and chief political adviser. There 8 is a difference only of Judgment K between Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitch- P cock. The object of each Is to break P the Bolid 8outh. Mr. Taft thinks t> he can do it by coddling a few Demo- ^ crats with Republican leanings, and & while Mr. Hitchcock does not whol- tl ly disagree with the idea he wants to he quite sure of the leanings ' Mr. Taft seems willing to take greater chances on this score. The regu- t lar aforetime 'referees' have not a beon formally abolished or super- J seeded so much as they have been I' Just sort o' defunctionized, as it t were, perhaps temporary and ex- P perimentally in order that the beAm- ? ing and eprsuasive personality of the n , I _ . . n... . .. . . - . v 111K neanea mu ion mignt oeam 11 direct. "Thla personality has been beaming upon the Charleaton editor ever slnco that famous Gander and Hen Incident, when The Newe and Courier conducted a raffle for the Bryan campaign fund. Thl? tickled the Republican candidate very much and. his attention was riveted npon the bitter attacks upon Mr. Bryan which The News and Courier had rande bofore the Denver convention and th*> scarcely veiled partially of fta editor for tha Republican eandl/ate during the campaign. Whlla Mr. Taft knew Major Hemphill before that, having been entertained In Charleston in that moat hospitable and charming manner for hlch ' t 'M DRUG STORE WRECKED * ATLANTA BY THE EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS. "wo Persona Badly Burned and thr Interior of the Store and Stock Ruined. The Atlanta Journal says as e*ult of the sudden and entirely nexpected explosion of a quantify f Christmas fireworks in the W. L Fuller pharmacy, 470 Pryo! treat. Tuesday evening at 10.30 ViceV.. Arthur Kcgte, the young xia dispenser, now lies at the Oray hospital at the point of death rem burns received; Dr. Fuller is adly burned about the face, hun Is nd bodv and the pharmacy Is a toil wreck. At the time of the explosion Dr 'uller and Kapel were opening a ?w supply of fireworks that hud om? in during the day and were tferly Ignorant of any danger; havxg beet: particularly careful to rxIngulsh the fire in the stove five ours before the fireworks were open 4. The couple had Just marked up wo of the packages when one sud enly exploded and others followed ait. When the |90 worth of fireworks, icludlng Roman candles, skyrockets, recrackers. and dynamite caps, exlode-J young Kagol was blown tor H-t against the top of the store ad came down In the very midst of be burning missiles. Dr. Fuller ad gone to the cash register In un IJolnlng room to ring up tb* hk'.c r a cigar when ho was jarred by to ignition of the fireworks. Though 9 wee many feet away he was town ten feet through space against le eoda fount and badly burned r the flying explosives before he >uld escape. After his flight to the celling ar.d ick, young Kagel was so bady bll vl1 that It took htm ten minutes to ght his way out of the o-i%'tuufi rescript Ion room. Finally Audit* xe door he made a dash for tfi* reet and ran up And do tlx dewAlk like a mad man, with hit* othlng ablaze. He was so badly ightcned by the flames ana jurus e had received that it wsi with Ifflculty that W. 8. Matthews rhn?) him down and held him until is burning clothe* could be rcmov1. The pharmacy looks as IT a cyclone *d struck It with all its force. The ont doors were torn from their luges. all window panes shattered. >ow cases demolished, soda foun In ruined and the building badly imaged by Are. The prescription >om is a total wreck, where the tire orks were being opened. There nothing to it at all. The many >ttles of powder and liquids wort trinkled all over the floor and every >ttle broken into bits. harleaton is famous, in which en rtainment the editor of The News id Courier was naturally conepic 3us, owing not so much to his po tlon as to his own pleasing and >rdtal personality. But this Gan i>r and Hen incident seemed to bavi ?i-n an especial bond of union wice since he was elected presipnt. Mr. Taft has visited Charles >n. and Major Hemphill has vlsit1 the President in Washington, leir friendship being at each ineet\g intensified. "The Gander and Hen incident. ?u understand, was a joke. Mr aft likes a joke and be likes a man ho gets off a good one. Hut the le no* oil Ubn TW-? vu?uvmv in nwb on junr, i uai impaign la6t fall wasn't any joke. Ie meart business, and at one time Ir. Bryan was pushing htm so close od the Middle West as well as lew York showed such slRns of Reublican disintegration that he got 11 vexlfled. as it were. It has al rays been an idea with him ever ince he entered politics, which was rhen he became candidate for preslent. you understand, that be was he man of Destiny to break up the olid South. And he wanted to o into the South during that camalgn to convert the stlfTneckcd peole, and would huvo done so but or this daoRerous threat of the liddle West and New York. But II the time he was looking abofit in he South, watching It very closey. He had certain lieutenants, pulse eelers. to report to him what men a the South could be of assistance o him in furnishing Information bout conditions. Among these was , C. Hemphill In South Carolina, t la not believed that he called on heft* men for asaifttance, but it 1r ostively known tbat ho had his eye n them, and considered them an iot bo hostile as their papers might lave Indicated to those who did not ead between the lines. "Whether he has Major Hemphill >n his list of nliglbles with tho hope >f asaisutnce in breaking up the lolid South or not can be but a mater of surmise. It is certain that >e consults the Major about appolntnents. and that the Major, whethor consulted or not. sometimes give* lis 'advice.' This he did a few days igo In the candidacy of his cousin, I. J. Hemphill for the (^flBce of comniwrioner of the District of ColnraMa. It Is believed that were it not tor the teohaleal bar respecting le fat residents. President Taft would >ut of oonslderatton for hla friend, I. C. Hemphill, appoint J. J. Hempbill to the office, further oooaldera ADMITS HE LIED CapL Lmsc Breads His Ova Slatwatit . Ataat Dr. Caak lie. WAS OUT FOR THE MONEY Maker of a Sworn Statement That He Hod Prepared Cook's Obserrations for lilm Has Cunfes^ed That the Story Was Prepared Without Regard to Truth. Capt. B. 8. Osborn. of New Yor*. I secretary of the Arctic Cl?io. h?e written Capt. Joseph E. Dernier and others that Capt. August W. u-toso's story of his dealings with I)r. Cook, as published in a New York newspaper. was concocted for sale, without regard to the truth. "In the presence of witnesses," said Capt. Osborn, "I heard Loose aay, 'I was out for the money, and I don't care how I get it,'" Capt. Osborn does not believe that Loose's narrative, as supported by his affidavits, was a part of any plot to discredit Dr. Cook. "The idea originated with Loose and Dunklc," says Capt Osborn. ij "They had for eale matter In this controversy so explosive that nobody dared handle It. When they found that out they cast about for something else. Dunkle was the promoter, Loobo the workman. "Also Dunklo got most of the money. That's what Loose says, and now he is casting around to see where he stands. He's got a conscience, and it smarts. "I wrote these facts In private letters to Capt. Bernier and others, and their premature publication Is a mistake, and may spoil what would have been complete documentary proof of ray assertion, sworn to before a notary.7 "Loose had an appointment to sign u confession, which has already been drawn up. He did not appear, und now be has Just twentyfour hours' grace. If h? doc-s not sign very shortly the substance of the confession will then be printed from notes of conversations on which It is baaed." Capt. Osborn was not at liberty to name the person who had obtained and dra'trd tho confession. "A Bhip owner," bo designated hltn, "a former employer of Loose and a man who bnA personal influence with him." "How did this man prevail on uoopo lo confess." was asked. "He told Loose Htralgbt oat," said the captain, "that Loose was playing checkers with his own nose." Capt. Oeborn does not df?r tbot Dr. Cook aud Loose had business ioallngs. and that money passed between them. But he said: "I know enough shipmates of the doctor's who went Into the Antarctic with him to be sure the doctor needed nobody to fabricate observations for him. No dcubt he set problems for Loose, by which to check his own calculations." Neither Loose or Dunkle could be found. "Lie From Beginning to End." An Ottawa, Ont., dispatch says, "Capt. lx>ose has confessed that his story published in a New Yo-K newspaper Is a line from beginning to end. We hope to have his confession sworn to in a few days." This, in substance, is the statement made lo a letter received by Capt. Vernier, commander of the Canadian exploration steamer Arc tic. The letter. Capt. Bemier states, is from Capt. B. B. Osborn. of Ne<r 'VI n, c?rtn-mi y OI IQl) Arctic trill 0 of which the explorer Ih a member. It was Capt. Bernier who received the first letter from I)r. Cook aft-?r hie doeh to the pole, announcing the sunceaa of the Journey. Kxtrn Term of Court. A dispatch from Klngstree says Clerk of Court Brltton received Wednesday from Governor Ansel an order for the calling of an extra term of the Court of General Sessions to commenco on January 10, 1910. The special term Is for the purpose of trying John Woods (or Hose), the would-be rapist. Thle In the earliest day the court ??o lawfully be held. Fatal Shooting Scrape. A -fatal shoottng scrape occurred at Wcstvllle Tuesday night In which Doc Belk was shot and killed by John Peach. The parties are white. The killing is understood to be about a woman. tlon being of course glvon to Mr. Hemphill's fitness. "Major Hemphill's recommendations are not always favorable acted on. this being notably the case In i refont recommendation for tha nostmastor's position at Walhalla. He recommended Mtss Fant, who It leveloped was at lh? time residing in Anoeraou, engageo mere as stenographer. She had. however, been a resident of Walhalla. However, she and her people were Democrats, while Jtnson C. Merrick, the hufbend of ?'aa deceased post master, wag a good Republican.' This waa one time the Postmaster General tad hie way, and Merrick waa appointed.*" ? r\ -