The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 29, 1906, Image 1
~~ r
• 1
'"V
^ ' V'J? ^ - ;, -
fi
r * J
' —
TT-
VOX. XXIX.
;:r.*
BABNWTIX, 8. C., THCB8PAT, MARCH 29, 1906.
IS NAMED
Are Uflder Sospicioo of ho*
proper IfealioK.
PH KISPENSABY.
to the State £ai4fnJ Meaera
aai Lyea Naatof
Aim With Which the Dircc-
Are AErifctf Net to
f li*
-K’
«»ph
CbriateDaea and Bepnaent
of fUe dUpenaury inTtotl
Committee Wedneaday reootn*
(hat the State board of dla-
direetora dlaooattnae doing
with a number of flrtoa that
prevloualj aelllng auppllea
The noommenda-
ib aaade aa a mu't of a para
appearing in The State Wed*
morning, aa follows:
new board received a letter
from OOalrman Hay of the diepeccarj
iamtigating oommlttee aa follows: ^
" 'The oommlttee la not now In poa-
BPaaion of evldenoe eaattng aaaplclOL
cm any wbkkey dealer. The poaltion
and caution of the board la to be con
gratulated.'
"Thia la an answer t< a reeolution
adopted at the n.at mating of tht
board, aa follo*k. <
" ’Haying no knowledge of tbe etl*
~deoee the legtalatire oommitu e naa In
Ito poaeeaalon. we he aby Inat i c the
. Ilerk toaak tbe oommlttee through Ita
ebairman, Hon. J. T. Bar, whether
or not there la any evldenoe In tbelr
Tfcf
of >our reeolution, be Juat fled In die-
continuing bualneea fof the preeept
with the following houaea or flrma:
Meaara H. and W. Gather wood,
^ladelphia.
J ok Cranaton company, Auguata.
Fielaohman A On., Olacimattl.
Gallagher A Burton, Philadelphia.
Garrett A (Jo., Norfolk.
Hireb A Schofield, New York.
J. W. Kelley A Oo., Obattunooga.
Wm. Lanahan A Son, Baltimore.
Meyer, Pitta A Oo., Baltimore.
Boeakam, Geratley A Oo., Palladel-
pbla.
I. Trager company, Olnolnnati.
Blnthenthal Dlatllling company,
Loulavllle.
Richland Dtotbling company, Oc-
ambla,'S. C. .
Carolina Glato oompany, Oolumbla,
8. a
J. S. Tarnam, Oharleaton, S 0.
Pabat Brewing oompany, Milwau
kee.
0. H. Bom A Oo , Baltimore.
0 L. Fiaccua Glam company.
Very respectfully yonre,
Niele Ohrlatenaen, Jr-
J Fraser Lvon,
Membera Dispensary Investigating
Commutes.
It now remains to be seen whether
or not tbe State board will abide by
this recommendation. Tbe resolution
publiahed above would seem to Indi
cate that tbe board wonid, on it for
mation received, refuse to purchase
supplies from any firm believed to be
ghllty of Irregular methods with the
dispensary. Official action may be
taken today when the parchasae will
be made.
XOlkBE STOPS WaBDlMG.
4
gepurutud Ooupl* m they 0 ood B»-
lore Mialetur.
e
Another Senfitioa in the New
York Life Insurance.
I Some Indians Who Sacrifice Ba*
bies to Sacred Snakes to
CAMPAIGN TRIBUTE
Paid to Defeat Rryaa la First Caa
palga. Hamlltaa Declares He Paid
duina a Bliss a Big Sam.
Tbe Hege Living Reptiles Are kept Shat
Up la a Cave^la the
serf Fed oe H
Moaatalae
J*
Sadfl-
Blisa Delias
Hi
Tbe coarse of true love, It develop
ed last Monday received a rude auook
when £ A. Turner, of Hlggstown
and Mias Pearl Ooldman, of Savannah
were not mattied aa they bad hcptd
to be.
Aa tbe words "I pronounce yon
man and wife” bang on the Ups of
OKItlng ?Mhe R w^lbrbrid! d^h^'lu°u^
the iMemblage. Striking apirt tbe
two bands toat were about to b
united forever, she forbade/the mar
riage. Fainting, tbe bride fell to the
floor and the groom stood with star
Ingeves at tbe prevention of tbr
fulfillment of hie long planned elopt-
ty dealers or any other perabnor
paraone dealing with ti e State dispan
mry of any unfair deall'ig» with the
the State If so, to honor uj *ith the
namea of aieh perstn or persons eo
that'wo tan hold up their b;ds until
they have made a satisfactory showing
to the said eommlttes
Meaara. Ohrlatenaen and Lyon felt
might be miauoderstood and,
knowing that Chairman Hay was not
with all the facte In their pot-
eamoo, thought that It would bo wall
to tot tho board know that they eon
aevsral Sms had not dealt
with the dispensary. Among
Arma mentioned in the letter to
tho board are the Richland Distilling
company and the OaroUna Glam aom
pony, both of this city, aad J. B. Far-
’ Bumof Charleston.
Wednesday morning tbs sub-com
mlttee held a oonferei or with tbe
board In regard to the resolution and
—gg- A result tbe following additional
reeoluttcn was adopted and the letter
belo# flint to the oommlttee
“In view of the fact that since tbe
board addressed a letter to Senator
JI*f taking him to g ve the
of any liquor bouses of other concerns
who ware under suspicion of the dU-
panaary In eetlgatinc committee and
having redelveohls reply in the nega-
tlve and It having happened that Sen
ator Christensen and Representative
\ Lyon have just returned from
North after examining certain credi
i ton Of the dispensary and being In
'formed that Senator Onristeteea am
. Bapreaentatlve Lyon have not had
- * time to consult with Senator Hay since
. their return.
"Be it resolved, That tbe olsrk
addrem a letter to Senator Chris
(OitoAkBS BeRNNOUtlve Lyon aaP
Ing them to give the nameor of any
concerns, persons or corporations d • 0 f the kil log. Smalls was given s
Ing business with tbe dispensary which ■>nt»wee and Nsll, being reoom
Dr. Vandeventer, too startled i)
■peak for an instant, held the mar
rlage lloenee loosely in his hand. This
was the mother's opportunity; she
elotobad the lloenee anl defied the
minister to proceed. Dr. V^ndevan-
ter barged that she allow the wedding
ceremony to go on. To this she was
obdurate. The would-be bride was
resuscitated, tbe wedding assembly
dispersed and Mias Pearl, tbe 14-year
old bride that was to be, retorned die
Cdoaolate to bar home.
The mother la Mrs. Elisa A. Cole*
Tbe would be groom Is tbe
owner of a sawmill at Hlggstown
The wedding ceremony warflnternpted
at tbe home of Mrs. N. F. Cowart
tbs Irate mother's sistor, at 8J7 Wsst
Broad street Sav innah.
Lvrt Monday Mr. Tumor renewed
bis tffxto to win the mother's con
sent, but Mrs C leman was uerelent
mg apparently. Sue iatd her daugh
ter must wait five yean. When tbe
license was secured tbe girl was given
as eighteen. She wear, short drato-
\
White Men Meet Hang.
A Supreme Court decision seals the
fete of Bob Smells and John Nall,
North Carolina white men, who were
convicted last spring to Darlington of
the murder of a negro named Frank
-oott, -frMr they shot oe the streets,
the wbiti being Ina drunken and
rowdy OJndifea Smalls was only 21
years old and J jat IB at thetisoe
they suspect of Irregular or improper
dealing with the dispensary and which
have not been reported to the chair-
• •
letter to Messrs. Lyon and
Christensen is as follower
Hon. N. ObrtoteneenrJfrrAnd J. Fra
ser Lyon, City.
Gentlemen: Upon reeolution of
State board of directors I am Instr
od to ask you to give tbe names of
eoneskna, persons or corporations
log business with the dispensary which
you tospect of Irregular or Improper
deallhga with the dispensary and
whtob have not been reported to the
0 ( jour oommlttee.
lam very respectfully,
M. H. Mobley, Clark.
Ar atonaa this letter was received
Mvttto Ohriateneen and Lyon agnt
the fallowing reply.
Masers. Bawllnsou, B yllaand Black,
Board Of Dlraotors, S. 0. Dlapea
Oolumbla, 8 C.
tor of even date will say that, while
wa Ukve not evldenoe In the ease of
each of the concerns mentioned below
that wonid establish the fast that
they have been dealing Improperly or
In an irregular manner with the dls*
penary, still we will ay that we eue-
pact that tbe firms hereinafter
ttonbd may at some future hearing
bo shown to have been guilty of
Irregular dealings therewith. We think
that the evldenoe brought ou* at a
leant public mmIoo of our committee
Shows conclusively that the Carolina
Qlam company and the G.L
Glaa company have been gntlty of
grate Irregularities In their
tiona with the jllipenaary^
In addition tell* glue
above mentioned aad too Nwvlaon-
Welakopf company, the Inagutorlttoi
of wotoh wemoallbH to year attoatioa
communication,
mended to merov, got a life sen ten oe
Smalls wm sentenced to bang last
MAI. The Supreme Ocurt tfflrma tbe
results In the tower court, and Smalls
is to bo aeutenoed in tho near future.
to Chairman Hay’s
we tjuok yon would, i
. Killed Hie rather.
Atlanta Henry J. PUresll, a bar-
60 years, waa abut and in-
killed by Hi eon, £ labs Pur-
24, at tbelr home oo Court-
y Wedneaday evening.
Tbe olrousoatanoM u gathered from
several witnesses were that tbe elder
Puroell asms home intoxicated and
began at ocoe a quarrel with bis
wife. Going from the house he re
turned with a brick which be made a
motion to throw at hta wife and at
tbe wife of the younger man, who
Immediately drew hie revolver and
fired. Elisha Purcell surrendered to
to the police. —
lltee Shows Receipt
The following Interesting srtlele
from the New York Herald of March
20, shows tbe means used in' 1896 by
the Bspublieane to defeat the election
of William Jennings Bryon:
"I see that Cornelius N. Bliss, treas
urer of the Republioau national com
mltte, denies that he had received
from mo for the New York Life the
sum of 176,000 for campaign purposes
In 18M,” eald Former Judge Andrew
Hamilton Wednesday,- ornamenting
upon Mr. Bliss’ sssertlon that he nev
er mat the judge.
"Maybe this might stimulate his
memory a bit,” he added.
Judge Hamilton reached inside the
breast pocket of his orat and produo
od a sheaf of vouchers, some of wbloh
bore the signature of the foremost
men ln|fiuanoeof today, and stripped
rdf a white receipt fnm such as the
Republican national committee usee
He smoothed out the bit of paper,
gas*d at it with an amused smile, and
spread It flit upon the table in bis
\partment
. "L >ok*ae 4f it was
to tbiuk some mpre, does is i
continued Mr. Hemlltcn.
Tbe receipt is a vouoner for 176,000
signed by Mr Bliss and dated October
1 and 20, 1896 It Is explained
tne amount wm paid over In two pay.
manta, tbe first one of ilo.OOO, on
October 1, and the balance of 166 000
on October 20, the figures at the
left hand lower orner of tbe voucher
being raised from 910,000 to 976 ,
000.
When It wm first br ngbt to the
attent on of The Herald, on Sunday,
that Andrew Hamilton eald he held a
voucher allowing that be had paid
•76,000 to Mr Bliss, in addition to
the 60,000 admitted by Mr. McCall
to haue been paid to the oampslgu
fund of tbe Republican party in 1896
Mr BUM asked oonoarnlng toe mat
ter, and he denied all knowledge of
si ci payment. Hie exiot lanuage
wm:
"Such a statement la utterly false.
I, m treMurer of tbe Republican na
tional oommlttee, did not receive any
money, nor wm any voucher therefore
Issued by me. I do not know Andrew
Hamilton, would not know him if 1
should see him. and never heard of
him uniil recently.”
In bis home, 189 Mtdlaon avenue,
yesterday, the muter was again call
ed to the attention of Mr. B11m.
"Since applying to you for infor
mation about she allaggd payment of
an addltl. nal 976,000 Into the R^pob
Uoan national committee's fund In
1896 by Andrew Hamilton, new
dene* bM oome t» haad,
Can you recall the incident toda> f'
wm asked.
*Thave said all I care to say about
tbe matter,” returned Mr. B las. "No
snob sum wm paid ov-r by Mr. Ham
ilton or tbe New York L fe. My
word ought to bs accepted m final.”
“But It la now known that a rotoh-
er existo”
"Toat Is untrue. No receipt ex
ists. If any one says so he lies. Have
you seen such a voucher?”
"Ym, Mr. BUm, and I have a pbo
tograph of that voucher. Will you
let mashow It to you In order that
| executive commute have Intimated
that they wight to mtk« good to Mr.
MoOill’s citato the amount ifli48 t -
000 which Hr. McCalJ paid over to
tht Republtem fond. That la all
right, bat I am in a position to toll
[ them that they will have to /ay over
much more than 1148,0(0 to square
I the ea'-ual moiey contributed to the
joampaign funds by the New York
Life during the last 13 yean. This
| t76,000 la one addition./ Let them
'‘•ttSLI&SHb. .bo« th. J WARD OFF TROUBLE.
Columbia State Myt: Mr. BUM eaye
lie. Julge Hamilton eonfidantiy
waves the voucher In air. If Mr.
BUm i word "ought to be accepted as
final” It is neverthelMS true that It
will not bs so accepted. The pub'lo
has great faith In what Is put down In
"black and white ”
< One of two things Is oeytoln. Elth
er Judge Hamilton's voucher Is gen
uine or elM la a forger. If tbe vouch
er or receipt is a forgery then Ham
ton le either a forger or an at-
bomplloe In forgery, and In alth-
er event he thru d be prose
the reoei’pt Is genuine, then la no
other recoune than In the painfa'.oer
toin’y that Mr. BUm Is lying. Oer
telnly a gentleman of Mr. B. lie's
stan lug will not rMt under such a
susp cloa He mutt and will demand
that Judge Haaailton ba prosecuted
and convicted of forgery or oonnivanoe
In forgery. Tost Is tbe only ooutm
that will absolve Mr. Bliss from the
suspicion that la naturally aroused by
the exhibition of an alleged genuine
receipt signed by himMlt and ao-
kno vledglog; the receipt of money that
be denies having reo Ived There le no
mistaking what Mr. Bliss’s course
should be. It Is plain and peremptory.
Until some one proves that Hamil
ton lea liar at the moat malicious sort,
there oan b. no rest for the weary. He
le at rrtng 'em up with , a long and
pointed stick. With theJaunty as?
saranoa of toe msn who admits al>
and rather glories In the admission, be
le going about disporting himself In a
manner that Is m Joyful to him m It
Is disoonoernlng to the group
financiers and oqrtoratla
at constitute his gsma. He Is quite
willing to tolk and he Is not careful as
to whom he talks about. For the safe
ty of those gentlemen high in toe
counsels of fluanoe and of politics, be
must be gagged. If he la not, It Is as
certain m fate that something Is go
ing to drop.
BIG HOBBY IB TRUCK.
del Fleet ky its F»
' • imttaK y _.
' j*
Toe gtand Jury of Bernadillo Coun
ty, New Mexlpo, wm presented with
evldenoe recently which apparently
shows that human isorlfice la still ba-
leg praotlsrd among other her baric
religious rltM by our American In
diana A considerable amount "-of
testimony wax produced ss to tbe
practices of wltoheteft and the com
mon habit of the Indians of murder
log men and women who are suspect
ed of being "evil spirits.” In fact,
Joe Luis, chief medicine man of the
Papago tribe of Arisons frankly so
knowlefged that be is tbe slajer of
Josefs Anton, a woman, whom tbe
Papagoe of a native village nmr
Covered Wells In the Guoelght county
accused of belug an evil spirit who
bewitched them and wm r iponslble
for tbelr misfortune?. During the
Summer a great m iny cattle belong
log to the Indians sickened and died,
and statvation stared them in the
face. Later some of the leaders o’
the tribe suocum iedtoa mysterious
disease, and -the iatagea, who stilt
believe in withcraft L held JomJA-AA-.
a woman of the village, respon
sible for the oondtttBnK Ltrfs; tor
medicine man, believed It hie duty to
rid the village cf the wltoh, so be lur
ed her out luto tbe desert and mur
dered her.
But the most shocking testimony,
sate the eoirasponlent of tbe New
York American wm given by a Catho
lic missionary who wm admitted to
some of the M^red rites of the Indiana
of tbe pubeloiif Z a, the most Isolat
ed of the Mvages In New Mex'co.
Here the priest wm led to a cave In
It must be remembered, too, that
New Mexico la a big territory, with
an area M great m tbe combined
ans of Nsir Y*rk and the N-w B :g*
land States, and-eventemay transpire
In certain secluded sections of It arid
be m little known to many other
sections M if the Inhabitants d «eit
at a much greater distance from tbe
scene of these events. The highest
forms of dvll'setlon and prosperity
exist In certain parts of N ;w Mexico,
but there are etlll rone lodlan pueb
los, or villages, little known to the
In one form or another this story
wbloh was)brought before tbe grand
Jury not new, m It hu been told
ironed oampfirrs and ty writers of
Pueblo legends and traditions, but It
hM n ver heretofore been b:< ugbt be-
f ore e Judicial bridy. A . version of
the story Is that there Is bus one
snake rf venerable age and immense
"'se, which has been transferred from
pueblo to pueblo, oausing In
in turn, a mysterD us decrease In
birth rate. Another version Is
there are several snakes, hut that the
medlotne men led tbe pmpla to be
lieve that there wm only one. Still
another relatM as to how tbe snake
Is guarded by the Indlkn councillors,
tbe people being kepi Ignorant of the
fate of tbelr children The history
of the snake brought to the attention
SHOT TOR MONTY.
D. 0. Ziegler Shot by lageae
Hofin at Samter
the Santo Domingo pueblo, whenoe H
wm tram f urred to the Jem t pui bio,
tbe Santo Domlalcms paying a large
tribu e to have it taken off tbelr
bands. Tbe Jemex Ind ana In turn
unloaded it upon the Za pueblo,
where It hM remained for many
years ~ .
That the snake Is a conspicuous
figure in the religion of most i t the
Amer'oin Indians In tbe Southwest
Is, of oourss, well known. The mod
era Indians get tbelr traditions from
tbe erolent Azteoi, who were snake
worshippers and who, ws know, made
human saerifiooa and venerated sacred
replUea. The M qul Indiana and
tbelr annual snake dances are survi
vals of the old Azteo ceremonial*
The Jtoqula uapture large number of
rattlesnakes, wash them and dance
with them, holding the serpents In
their teeth. Many of the d*oc re
are bitten, bat the victims are at
once taken Into a cavj where the
medicine man administer!an antl'ote
and ro hs'm ensues. Tbk ate-et ourt
for make bite Is known only to one
man In each tribe, and he pease* tbe
secret on to a oboeeo priest before hr
dies. No amount of pertuMlon by
white men hu ever been able to wrest
for n >t paying ojr
What He Owed Him for Week Done
le His Office. Ziegler Wifi At
tacked as .He Wee Leaflet
His Office. Wm Hit Five
„ * Times.
<v
. J
A special dispatch from Samter to
Toe S ate eiye Kagene H gan, ,Jr # ,
shot 1). G Z ilgler Friday afternoon
at 4 40 o.olojk. The weapon wgs a
32 etllbre p'stol. \
2 He fir d firs tlmis, thj fl it DtH
^ entered direjtly aider tbe left shrol*
of the grand Jury U qu to singular. ® tier blade and tojk adawnvard wares
rune that the snake wm first kept In
.V
Owe Farmer Made Seventeen Thoua-1
and Dollare Clear.
• l ■ S -
TheS atoMysOol. E J. Wato.m,
commUsloner of agriculture, Immigra
tion and oommeroe, u very buiy now
getting material for a statistical bul
letin which he will Imus shortly
Nearly every day he gets letters In
quiring for information on certain
subjects and It requires a personal
to furnish tbe answer each time. He
hM decided upon the kind of bulletin
he will Issue and la preparing the
maousoript for the work.
The amount and variety of Informs
tlon to be furnished In this pamphlet
will be a matter of aurprise to all
workers Id figuras. He will give ton-
age banled on railroads for each year
fora decade; tonnage of fartil sirs
used In the Mine length of time; num
ber of bales of oottoa spun Into tbrea'i
number of hales of oloth made; popu
tlon and
Ooeof the most remarkable exhlb tt
which Uol Watson bM got together Id
some time la S statement of the In
oome from the sale of garden truck.
Blank forms'are coming In. These
will have to be collaborated. "South
Carolina, tbe Garden Country of
America," is tbe title of the pamphlet
| od gardening for the market.
The most remarkable statement of
all those so far received ihowe that on
one farm of 103 sores the owner Ust
year made, net 917 600. On six sores
of lettuos he cleared 92,630; 93 000 on
acres of cooumbers, sod 93,300 on
Seventeen paasengert on three eara
Cleveland Southwestern
tlon Une, enow bound by deep drifts
five miles from Wooster, Ohio, after
spending an uncomfortable night,
were weened Timraday by farmers
and liverymen from Wooster, who
•ant three big slelgbe to the enow
bound cart. Tbe anew la so deep
between Wooster and Berea, 40 mltas
away, that traffic on the road la at a
standstill.
Brother* Oonvteted.
At Oordele, Ga, the jury In tbe
against Georgs W. Bundriok,
charged with marder r xetnrned a ver
dict bf guilty and he wps sentenced to
death. Bundriok and bis brother An-
dfewln 8 ptember, UMUL waylaid and
shot to death John Shfbuder and
wended hie wife. George escaped
and Andrew wm tried and sentenced
to life Imprisonment. G*orge wm
reeently captured In Louisiana aad
brought bask for trial -
of tbe signature?''
‘Nqsli! I won’t lo/kat It. I de
dine to mj another word about tbe
matter.”
Judge Hamilton explains the exist-
anoe of the ebeok and takes a pecul
iar delight In vecalllng tbe careful
manner in which the payment wm
kepteff the books of tbe Neyr York
Life.
BUm wanted more money.“ he
said. "I don’t know any thing about
the 960, 000 wbloh Mr. MoGall ac
knowledged wm paid to the Republi
can campaign fund In 1899. That
wm another matter. But I know I
wm Instructed to pay this money to
Mr. BUm, and that I- borrowed 975,•
000 upon my notes and passed It over
to Mr. BIIsk I first passed over 910,-
OCO and got Mr. BUm’ receipt for It,
and whan 1 raised the balance 1 paid
that over,jand in order to simplify
the transaction oaoeed the addition
966,000 to bs receipted for u; oj the
same voucher, preserving the two
dates of payment, 19 days apart.
"I borrowed this money and when
I wm reimbursed I took up the notes
and settled tbe Indebtedness. I know
this transaetloQ does not appear In
the regular way upon the books of
tbs New York Life.
"But you do hot suppoM, do you,
that Andrew Hamilton wm
turn of these figures la enougu to
make everybody quit everything
else and go Into the truck raising bus
iness.
Commissioner Watson will leave
the latter part of this week for C.em
ion college where he will confer with
President Mali and Prut. Chambliss In
regard to tbe terms for the competi
tors from this State who will take
part In the corn growing contest. A
number of farmers from South Caro
Una will take pert, several having al
ready eent in tbelr notlfiratlone. This
State will, m before, be the only
State In the Sr*uth to take pert in the
con test, end the 91,000 prise wm won
by Mr. Drake of Marlboro In the lait
Commissioner Watson
children to take
Illinois and thus
from South
exposl-
oompetltion.
wants tbe school
part m they did In
get up a corn exhibit
OaroUna for the Jamestown
tlon.
Next week Oommlsriooer Watson
will be In Beaufort where he wlU loot
Into the matter of growing sweet po
tatoes there. This Is the banner
county of the State In the matter of
sweet potatoes.
976,000 of his owe money to the Re-
pub.loan campaign fund? As a mat
ter at fact, tbe entire tranaaotloe can
will be proved to the utlsfaction
everybody In dne time. Do they
t any more vouchers of this sort?
"I ootios that Mvsral mao on the
Death of Mr. Thai
A dispatch from Wedgefieli to Tbe
State says: Mr. H. &. ThomM, one
peylng [of this Oommunity’s most substantial
of
oit'tens, and former railroad commis
sioner, died suddenly Wednesday of
heart trouble. • He waa a man of fine
boriaem ability, wbloh was fearlessly
■sade known daring hie term m mil-
nmdeommlMloner. His ■udden death
watt (book to hM many fritryM.
is enclosed with astooe wall flfteei
feet tblek. In this wall there is a
bole eight or ten Inches in diametor,
and In the cave hvee a huge sacred
snake, whieb at times emerges
through this hole. Tbe Indians keep
■'watch at the oave asd regard the
appearanee oTthe serpent m a man
date upon them to produos a human
sacrifice for the creature.
Usually, the witness sild, tbe sacri
Qoa wm voluntary, some Indian moth
er being ready, under tbe spur of re
ligious enthusiasm, to iffir her In
fant. If, however, tie exhortations
of the frensled medicine man failed to
find willing raspouse, then a council
of tbe old men of the tribe wm held
and a baby wu picked out by vote.
In either owe, willing or unwilling,
toe mother wm IsA forward to the
entrance of the oave and kept there
unt 1 tbe snake appeared. As the
huge serpent wriggled forth through
the hole the mouer crept forward
end delivered over her ehUd.
Attar this a dance wm begun by
tbe chief medicine man. which wm
Joined in by toe others cf tha tribe,
sod the ceremonial k pt up ngtii
rise
It Is known that a very ntmtlar sys
tem of sacrifice of babies and adults
wm practised until recently by the
Glorieta Indians,, who lived In the
Peoos Veliev, of New M xieo Thirty
miles north of the village of Glorieta,
In the mountains, Is a oave similarly
sealed up exotpt tot a hole Irr e
enough to admit a large snake. Tula
Is well known to all residents if that
section. Several yean ago when the
Glorieta Indians were snake worablp
huge sacred
abode in tbe oave. .
A human saor.fioe iraemadratr g
ular lerlods to tola make, tbe oere-
mony connected therewith being one
of toe most aaored tenets of the In
dlan religion. Sometimes toe sacri
fice wm voluntary on the part of toe
victim, and sometime was pliexl on
the altar by his comrades. Finally
tbe tribe dwindled down to one mao
and one woman. When the time of
saorifioe again earns around, the
mao wm as sed with terror, m a
man wm alway considered preferable
m an tff.ring to appeaM tbe greet
spirit through tbe medium of the
snake. Unknown to tbe man, she
Bed before tbe fatal hour arrived.
Left alone to ftoe tbe gruesome ox
deal, the man wm also seised with
fear and fled toe country. Otoer la
dlant of other tribes know of tbe
oave, and cannot be Induced to go
near it
The grand jury was Impressed with
the need of a thorough iu«Mtlgatloo
ot the secret pnettoM of tbe Indians,
and a resolution wm adopted calling
upon the United States authorities to
•tfttbe matter to the bottom and
take means o atop forever the prac
tice of human saerifloe. In view of
tbe greet dlflBoolty a white man hM
tojyraMng^he^eoyf^toi In-
Government officials are Ignorant of
these c.uel ceremonials. In fact,
assay vlllagM of Indiras In remote
untatn districts era hardly known
to even the wandering mining jeoa-
peeta, and are never vial ted by agents
of Ike D.partment of toe Interior.
h” loita'A medicine men will
*lways le. a white man die of snake
bite rather than give him the cure.
Aside from putting an end to the
cruel ritaeof human sacrifice there
are enough secret oeremoi Ills of the
Pueblo Indiana yet unseen by' white ] QfflM
men to writ repay an Ihveitigatlon by
the Department of the Interior.
THB PB18IDXBTS IALA1Y.
Will anrptlee
Many F«opU>.
• Great
The Philadelphia Ledger says the
dlgoosbioa of tbs Insi ffificnoy of the
President's salary bM reoommenoed,
and oartatn facts ara bn ught forward
with wbleh it Is doubtful if toe aver
age American It acquainted. It will
perhaps be newt to many that al
though the President's salary Is 960,
000, be actually reserve* more than
twice tost amount —9126,000—ever}
year. Governmentapprop.'latl n>year
ly devoted to tbe excou ive mansion,
In addition to toe Prasldenl’s salary,
are given as follows: Pay of Presi
dent’s private secretary, is 260;
•l^tant private secretary, 12,250; i
nographer, 91,800; five noeKengsm,
etch, 91200; twujoorkeepers, each
1,200$ four other glerks at ml tries
ranging from 91,600 to 9260; telegraph
operator,91,200; two oshms, eeob 91,•
400; one night usher, II 900; awateh-
to ward, the right ride. - Tue second
ball entered j ist about two InehM a-
Tovethe ttm one aad took yt rppo>
-ilte course. Toe third ball wiot be
tween tbe body and the eibrw, gras. -
Ing tbe flesh on the arm Tue f jurih
sod 6 tu shots want wild.
Ton tragedy wu eoas* d on tbs
•’.airway of the Winn b«> tdi g, 13
N rth Mata street. Mr. Z Ig’.jr wm
coming down the stairway. Wu-m
*b Uu half way down Mr. Hegan be
gan firing from (be top of toe euil-
way. When toa first ball atouok
Z jigler he turned, he says, half way
ground and begged Hogan to stop:
Uhls accounts fur the two bUls proas-
log each otoer in tue body, presunw
abiv.
. r Jijywjg».,RR^it'„tos. fltAtntok-
into toe street, then turned aua wena
into Duran.’s pharmacy where lie
wm nude comfortable until hs oould
be taken to the Suintor h spital. the
phyfloiane have made an ex*x Ration
*ito toe Roentgen X-ray. but hav*
Ulied to diaoovar toe tu.lsu. Toe
doctors state that ha la lo-a very
aerlou* condition and while tbe
wounds are not neosesaailly fatal
they do not feel at all sonfiieotof h<*
recovery. Z igler says hlmwlt he is
going to dls and hM mads a sworn
in terrorism statement and given
some directions ab ut the Disposition
of hit butineM sffilre.
ZolgMr Mates, It M reported, that a
toon wbUt previous to the
youog Hogan jailed at
^ rafuMd him ads
Hogan demanded toa mo
Zilg'sr wm dla him m a drat
nun wfemn ha «m formerly
employ. ZtorJer replied
sot have It bat wou d pay him.
Hogan went down tbs hallway
bid behind a large door at the
of the stairs, Zdgler i
not know of his l
beard the first shot from i
Is known that Zsiglar wm I
H gin for work dons and'
mads repeated efforts to<
debt but without soooe
Tbe State’s oomspoedsot
the young man at toe Jail, bat 1
engaged In oonsultatton with I
tome:, H. D. Motes, who replied that
as hau nothing to my now. Hal
comfortably seated and oool aad
leeted. He greeted toe con
In h's usual manner. He I* a xut l
years old aad hM a very yoaog
Mr: Hogta’jfatJur.
at an,' 9900. The government also
furnishes a man to take care of the I Soato Wublngton Street,
firm at 9861 a year, a steward at 91, | 3— _ "
800, and allows two special funis of
340,000 Just mentioned, 912 600 Is for
repairs and for refurnishing tbe White
92A0O Jafot
toegreenhousH916,000 for gM, matei
es, the upkeep of the etablee aoc
various mueellaneous matters. The
98,000 is for stationery, earptto, the
sate of th* stabtae m distinguished
from expendltaras for feed, equipage
aud the like. Tbe grand total, inolnd-
log tbe President’s salary. Is given at
9125,000 a year. To most men these
spprepri tkina will seem very liberal.
It is posribtoi for example, that five
hundred -tone of coal are required Ir
toe White Houm ever) year for tbe
purpOM of beating and cooking? It i»
true that (he President Is o:mpeilw
to do a great deal of oostly entertalL-
log, but praotloally all hM household
expenses seem to be paid by toe gov
eminent except the outlay for food
and wine. Fifty thousand dollars la
oot much for a man who must live Ip
tbe style of the President of the Uni
ted States, bat 1125,000 a year ig a
comfortable koome.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
well known ba teher is prostrated with
frit-- ■ rr - ; / —: _v-S-
Zriglsr hM bean aa srehltoet Hi
Sumter for several yean. He formerly
had an office inCblombia. He is abnat
36 yean of age aud hM a wife aad
three omtdren. Hit bams Is st 101
Tbw Wa«*e of 0ia.
The fi lends of Tboe. W. Kiley, a
wealthy hanker and meic unt of
Brooklyn, fear that be hM committed
suicide. Thursday night a story was
published to toe tff ml that Ktley had
married Mrs. Flora A. Oolt, of Brook
lyn, three years ago, in Hbmmand,
loff, although hs had another wife
at the time living. After the publl
cation of the obarges.KUey wm qaoted
M my log: "Tbiesoaodle will be mort
than I can bear. I never did am-
thing that wm not hoasst or Honora
ble until I married Mrs. Oolt. I kno*
that It wm wrong and ! am
It.’*
I Mem DmtH*e Door.
The entire family of John H. WU-
union, pcM—tor end
it-
tbe Fjrt Wayne railroad, were
unconaeioue from Mphyxiatlon
day morning. The family
of the father, mother aad five chil
dren, and when found they were sup
posed to be in a moribund
Tbe d u. 00 very wm mads by
who bad gone to the station to
toe train fof Pittsburg. F.
doors they found too enilro
still In tbelr
The house wm filled with tho
of gM PuystotaM wore summe
and heroic off jrte won sudo to
sueoltate tho vloUme of too aooidoot,
but at 10 o’clock only one, aa Infant,
had bun revived.
Killed !• Meow eude.
A dlapateh from Granite, Oolo.,
*aye an enormous snow slide oasm
town Thursday evsnlrg in tho Win
field and Oiear Greek mining district,
killing, it Is reported, at l«Mt half a
doxen men. Among the dead la
Harry Wineboru, toe pioneer praepoo*
tor and mining man of Onaffm M onn-
ty. A relief party wm orgautxl by
James Ball and hM gone to them
•if too dimeter. Toe news of 1
slide wm brought to town by a «j
Mr.
6Wvmi
virsty*-*..
v»- /