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mmrXb* w-wamrM Too Man)' l.tlllo Hnlf-Sii|»|>orlo.l ;m ( | the taU'H Qf discord in soni' 1 Schools—«Sooncr or, later our. iieoplo committee makes one marvel that a are goln K To have Tfidre cOmfortahu ; whool (;an ^ i,, 8uch a ~^7 and commodious school houses, lie , fore the people put their money Into rh * a,uJ tlu ‘ a ' , ' , “ al, ‘ w ‘' lc ‘ , permanent Improvements, wou^d p | come before the various school not be wise to reduce the numtJbr of, ’ oardK an * onotiKh to make one turn , 1 pessimist. The worst of it. all is. schools In a great many places? . i good four-room house costs less than hat - n ' ,,s, of ,hvst * contentions an.i four one-room houses of equal com- 1 tarings are childish and ground fort and convenience. Sixty pupil.- j'•‘ KN - aml ,ha ' a, »‘ "«'>ally be in one building can be better taught * u H an(l k "> J ' >*"'*• by men who haw and -more easily taught that, fifteen “ ll "^ es ' ,n a " v pupils each in four buildings. A i W* 100 ' M V" ,n,K moR * of , ,h,>s “ four-teacher school will flourish Solomons judgment be where four one-teacher schools would struggle to keep alive. In more than half tin* counties ' In the State are to be found dozen* of schools with 10 to 12 pupils each Not many weeks ago I visited a ru ral school with an enrollment of 11 pupils; three miles off was anoth er school with 13 pupils, and i« another direction was a third school with 14 pupils The three teachers were paid $3o each; each school house was cheap and ill equipped. In some districts six miles sqttar • are to be found as many as three ' neir origin with a small I ’Utdes. and the baneful habit of eon- ween the two women claiming the hild would be wholesome.- It is to these jealousies and quar- els that we owe two, three, an 1 four, little starvin';; | bool .vhere but one ought to be. To hem we owe the little district ini ible to support a school. Every In- .luentlal local celebrity wished to »ave a school house at his front door nr In his backyard. To these jeal dtsles w)> owe most of the defeated 'oral tax executions. Nearly all the 'ncal disputes over the teacher have In neighborhood jeal- whlte schools, each number of pupils scattered from first reader to high school grades, A good many of the Incorporated vil lages have school districts co-ex- tenshe with the incorporate limits. An accurate school district map oi the State-^ould look very much like a crav quilt. What . I* the remedy? Take th» three schools cited above. Mulld a comfortable two-room house at a central point, and give the entire 38 pupils to ttfo teachers. Each pupil would then have his fecit a tlon time doubled, for there .would be In the consolidated school no more grades, or classes, than then .were In- the moat advance of the three little schools I am at once reminded that some of these children would have too far to walk. (It Ij marvelous how much trouble a fath er who walked four miles to school and brags about, makea over hit child's walking one mile.) I grant that the r.mBolodatlon puta the school too far for some to walk. What then?- Take part of the money to transport these to the school Prof W. K Tate of Mie Moiumlngnr Normal school says? "It Is bettei and cheaper to transport the dlstatr children to the good school than t< bring a poor school to the distant- children." Yes. one good school l> Immeasurably better than three In ferior schools. The transportation of distant pn pita la no new fad. Several ydafr ago the Kastover district In Kichlam. county threw five schools Into one The dtwtrtrt nrmt fmir vcog made for the puropse. to haul th« distant children. Another Instance: Three adjoining districts In Fair- field county .with a combined en rollment of 60 pupils? have consoli dated their schools at llethel, have erected a 12,600 school house, and are transporting all 'the who live too far to walk This con coltdatton give* the school enough pupils to eslabllah a rural high school, with $.100 of Ftate aid Htata Superintendent McMahan and Martin have aex 4 usly advocat ed the consolidation of small schools Such policy would encourage the building of lielter roads, while the transportation Itself would protect the children In bad weatlg r. and would protect the small children and the girls from Insult or vio lence at the hands of tramps or thugs on the lonefy country road-i. Neighborhood Tcalonslcw and V« nr * has it- -Thesc twin evils have don tant change of teachers •oots embedded here. A certain district school Is' sup ported by ten families. All Is well. >ut the school house stands on th south side of a little cri-ek whicn ibout once a year reaches a depth >f four feet. A and II suddenly ’onclude that this Innocent.stream is a menace to the Uvea of thei;- ■hlldren. and petition for a new dis trlct. The next session finds a lit le 20x20 foot hull of a school house m the north side of that creek, and i little lifeless school on each sld* if It. Or. C’s bad boy Is punished by the teacher; straightway <’ raises ihe flag of secession, and proceed to- have his owN^IMtle d-e-e-strici cut off Or. one of the local econo mists gets tired of paying a teacher $40 a month, since his daughtei would tench for $110; the trust.*, will not yield to the economist; then the economist canvasses the district In the Interest of a new set ot lrnstees,. with the economist a chairman Or. D and E are rival ’oral physicians already at odds; I .a>s that Smith’s Uiy has a con- agious disease, and must be stopped "rom the |*ct,Mol; E declares that th Itsense Is only Infections, ami that t would be silly to stop Smith’s boy; the quarrel rages, the partisans • rrAy themselves, and down goes he local school tax proposed by th inly really Interested patron of th. ;chool Or, X aeglns to drseuss . lew school h mse, I. says thaj ^th dd one is good enough, and that X trvlna- i<> luad lae dialriL't.—no lit- 1 w louse is built, and the old one grad lally rots down. Or, Miss Mrown he teacher, boards wiili the Smiths he Joneses feel neglected, and beglt o whls|H*r It about that the teach* -an not solve Sallic Jones problem »r phrase Sallies sentences; tb r h lid refej Smiths retaliate by asserting th.i he teacher Is able to teach the who' loii.-K family; result— the anti ’nilth faction's children are taiigi'. text session by Misa Sallle Jon. fieraelf. Once more. Mr Hrown with much religious devotion to hi •hnrch creed, deniamls that the new teacher shall be an X-lat, I'efkln Y-Ism at once begins to term on while Stubbs declares that 7 ianisi ha* he«‘n outraged, since there Its not been a Z4an teacher In th school In five years When the ne- 'eacRV'T^comes. Is he to teach X-ls doctrine. Y-lst doctrine, Z-ian doe trine, or sh’ould’ he be A kHlVfile tio'it fearing qtan whose daflv life will I. more'to prevent and to destroy the efficiency of the common school* thMt- any other twd 4LgehTJt‘.S III, til' 1 ZZ. land. It Is difficult enough to main tain a good school where everybody works In harmony, and It Is well nigh Impossible where strife and division are. To listen to the pet ty contentions, the sharp bickerings. LEFT MS FAMILY A IHMTOIt AND YOFXO LADY MISSING. Hr l^'ft for l tali, According tft Ills Story, Kid Since Then - Nothing Iky Has I teen Heard of Him. Several weeks..,ugo It was stated tv the Aiken correspondent of th" News arid Courier that Dr. II. .1. Weeks, a prominent young physician of W'agener. had derided to go to the West. He did leave, and now hews from Wagener Indicates that, he not truly left himself, but de serted his wife and five children, and has since married another woman, former clerk in a Wagener store For some time it has been reported that he had deserted his family, hut the report was generally discredltVl md his friends believed that he would soon return to them. But time has passed and he has not yet returned, ami further Investigation has discovered the fact the he was quite familiar with Miss Sarah StXlth, while she was In charge of the millinery department of Mr .1. W. Lybrand's big store in Wag- enner last winter. -A few weeks previous to July 30 Dr. Weeks announced, Ithat he had decided to move his family to I’tah, where he has a brother-in-law. Dr. J It. A Whitlock, formerly of thU county. He lias been in correspon dence with Dr. Whitlock in referenc* to that action and had completed all the details, apparently, to carry Hit his announcement. Subsequent ly he said he would go out then md make his a'rrangements and re turn for his family in ten davs \ short time after he was to have returned home the Hood came and it was thought that he was possibly flood-bound, or perhaps drowned. Soon after the floods an Invest! Ration was started, and a par interested In the matter wtuit to Spartanburg and called on th mother of Miss Smith jfTrfl asked where the latter wtr« i Mrs. Shiit’a replied that she* had married a AV \. Hamhleton. of Charleston. Cpon being described to her It appeared that "Mr. Hamhleton'' was non other than Dr. Weeks. The vlalto ihen showed her a picture of Dr Weeks ynd she agreed that It nuts ho the person to whom her daught* was married *a short time previous The marriage, she said, took plac n the. Hantist chinch. Mrs Smith salt! sh*A had last heard from th -otiple in Kansas City. A great deal of Indignation has leen arousdd over the seeming plain desertion Vnd steps have l>oen Jake u» bring Weeks tq Justice. It is understood that attorneys have been employed anduLhe case will Is- pushed against him. It has been stated «hai a- dtHt-sHivn has l»mn employed a rebuke to these clamorous I’hai sees 1 It Is n mask n-hharsai of a play wher. th** curtain never falls. Can no some neighborhoods see themselvt In the play? WILLIAM E. 11 VND University of South Carolina HYDHOrilOBIA IS blHEKIA. Peasant* Who Ale Infected Cattle V Suffer From Disease. Hydrophobia Is raging In the vil lage of Pielskly. In the Yenisei dls trlct, Siberia. The village possesses a large number of dogs, whle'a during the hot summer were at tacked with rabies and bit many of the horned cattle. / The owners of the cattle, noticing that aome of them were ailing, killed them for food. Many of the peasants after wards developed hydrophobia. The ‘disease wss Fommunlcafed fo th*- domestic poultry, and even some ACC! HKD OF FHAl'D. horses showed village twenty-seven famlles are now infected. T. C. Duncan, of I'uioii, Is An-rsted and Hailed. Thomas C. Duncan, formerly preai-. d*-nt of the I'nlon-Huffalo and oth* cotton mills, was arrested at UyitUl late last Saturday afternoon *on warrant charging him with recelvin money from the People's Hank of I'nlon under false pretenses atvl with intent to cheat and defraud Bond In the sum of $1,.’>00 was re qtiired and fttmlrh'd. The facts, nearly as cun be a seer S bT'lt. 'lri;' r llfKiitaln«*d. are that in December of l»rt6, Waated Them to Settle. - H w6n*t lie the fault of the edito- .of the Dovle Record if his sub scribers fall to pay up. Here Is hi* liberal often; "Will we take egg^ on subscription? We'll take the en tire output of the hennery for the next six months and pay for it in subscriptions. We*ll take lye soap, clean rags, ginseng, pants, patches old bonep, wood. green hides, hound pupt. old clothes, lumber; cut) ties, wagon tires, peamits«- suck candy, onions, crackers, furm, greens, sausages, town lots, cab bage leaf cigars, yearlings, milch eowa, sorgum. pumpkins, spring ranles, well seasoned shoats, sofa plllowa. foot stools, bachelor In? ton*, patent medicines, eightda- clocks, patent churns, home-mad. sox, choice scrip iron, old maids and ekewfog gum You can bring then- by the wagon load, armful, in tow sacks, by the yard, gallon or ton: te drorves. swarms or schools. Yes wo’ll toko 'km. Well take anythisf to got you to subscribe or fo pay «p wbat )«£> •••. ; Duncan obtained from the Peoples Bank the sum of $ 1 ,e 1 .'> In paym«T.* of a check or draft ui*on a hank in Spring City, Tennepaee. where ftun- can was then doing business, and there was no money in the Spring City Bank to pay the check. It is alleged thatjhc check was drawn by tjuP*Araorlran Lime Company at the ,uwUHce of T. C. Duncan, who is suimosed to have boon the head of t IvitLcompany. It Misstated that there are other transactSolre^of similar nature in volving an amolint of abouTsuinH thousand dollars. Since the People s Bank went into the hands of iv- •elvers a few months ago the r»- and Is now - at work trying to capture him. Some rc|»orrK have It that he is in the West-, while others stat that he has gone to Coin. Dr. Weeks Is a bcother-ln-law of Drs. J It A and W. A. Whitlock and i* himself prominently con nocted. He has always Imh-ii a r«-s dent of Aiken counjje ap(l at th time of his dlsappeanititb' his aged mother ”Vaa living with him. 11 was a poor young maif when h** 1)* gan the study t*f no'di- in**. By ai (dying hlms**lf h*- soi n built up (airly good practice and he was gen orally well thought of In his section A few years after his marriu* to Miss Emma Whitlock ~ some of his friends advanced him money aiPT'‘ he went to a juesJical colleg**. H** had an office in Wagener and visped liis iiar«*nts In an autoniobile. He was a ntenilier of the Alk*-n County Medii-ai Association and was promi nent among his brother |div*acjans Hfs deserted family is composed of his wife and five children, who art tv 1 w—lieing ' cac. |l *l—bH-*. by relit I Ivi’a, The affair la greatly deplored and every effort will be made to see that justice Is done. ter of common notoriety about Gov- eruor Ha»VeH,*ikat he was the de- gnomlnlous Failure of Roosevelt to Make Good His BASELESS CHARGES Connecting llnskell With Mtandncd Oil Iti-ibery Case and Fulls Hack I’|N>n lax-al Affairs In OklMttonttt as 'Dcscrllted in a Political Article in a Hepublicaii Maga/.iiie. -' * President Roosevelt Wednesday night, follow ing* uponproloiig?4t conferenCvkrStitli members of .the cab inet at ihe i White House, prepared and' gave out his reply to William J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate” relative to W. R. Hearsfs chargek that Governor Haskell, treasurer of th*> Democratic committee, had rep resented Standard Oil interests botn In Ohio and Oklahoma. Mr, Bryan had demanded proof of the charges, promising that in. the event of their substantiation. Governor Haskeil would he eliminated from the cam paign. Here is the lame reply ot Roosevelt: ,. "The White House. "Washington. D. C., Sept. 23,lDUX. "Dear Sir; In your telegram you speak of so much of the clpirgc against Governor Haskell as dea:t with his ^relations, while iu Ohio, with the Standard Oil Company. You omit the Miarge as to his rela tions with the Standard Oil interest as shown by his action while gover nor of Oklahoma, this very summer, this action being in part taken while he was at Denver, where, as you state, he was by your wish made, Mialrman of the committee which drafted the platform upon which you are stamliugT Pi_my statement I purposely^made no specific allusion loathe Ohio matter, and shall at this time make none, in spite of its sig- nlficance, and in spi'e.of the further fact that Governor Haskell's close relation with the Standard Oil in terest while he was in Ohio- was i matter ,<>f common notoriety. In Oklahoma it is a matter.of record. By this court record It uppean | that the attorney general of the State.t elected by the people, ob tained an Injunction to prevent the Prairie Oil ant] Gas Company 'from building a pipe line, and that Gov ernor Haskell|>pund this out while he was at Denyvr; as appears by th-- represent at iona for the dissolution of the injunction made in his name, on behalf of “the State, before a court of superior jurisdiction to that which had issued the injuncMon In tin- HE I'OI ND J)IT. Wanted to Tiid Out if Young Wife J/oved Him. At Paris, a grey bearded French man reo ntly married a girl In hei teens, and kept wontiering whether she, loved him. Would she weep when he died, or would she rejoice, ami marry agalqi? He would put her to the testjt rind hV revised gam-some strategem. /,*> He locked himself up in *a room, and waited After some hours his wife wondered at his unaccountable disappearance, had the door broken ypen. On the bed day her husband, his hands crossed, his face white, his. .body motionless, apparently dead. Now. the wife would show w|tat fpWe really felt. She gazed at him. earim- to the-coivclusiii i that 1\<- really was dead, and danceda break down in the room. ^ Pp leaped the corpse and' roared, So that is how you would grieve foTTUr?—The-n-'tnke- this,' ’ and,t hn-w clocks and candlesticks at h<‘r. She fled, and he continued to* vent his disappointment by smashing all the furniture in the flat. ' the governor states that th<* acting governor. In his absent*, had asked that the hearing Ik- |>ost|ionod. that he. th** governor, might return and ha\e an opportunity to investigat the controversy. The governor sets forth In his petition that he is th< sob- authority to demand such mat tera. and that the attorney general and the Judge of the lower court had no right in the matter, and that the ac’lon of the judge of The lower court represented ‘an encroachmen by the judiciary.* The attorney gen eral opposed the disolution of th'- injunction, stating that the Praiii--. Oil ami Gas C Hupauy was a foreign cot^KtraHon which had not accepted the provisions of . the* eon-tit utio.i applicable to such corporations, an.I that without authority of law it was tmploy iug a great force of men- ami terfhis to dig up, across and into va rious highways of the State for th-- 4>urtxpse of laying its pipe lines. The governor prevailed, the injunction was permitted to continue its work, to use the words uf thi* attorney gen eral. without any *asi<g.jufria.y t- call your attention to the fa. t that the /{m,-stion is not whether or not the Judge'efred. or whether the in junction was proper. The point is that the governor was alert to take out of the hands of the attorney, gen eral what the attorney general felt was his sworn duty to prevent'"ait alleged^instance of the breaking of the law-^by this particular great <oi> poratlon. "As far as I have seen Governor Haskell has not evep attempted any*- thing whb-h can be railed a defens.- of this action of his. It thus ap pears that his action was as inex cusable as It was wanton except on the theory that in defiance of the attorney general of the Ftate and at all hazards, .he intended for some reason of his own to protect th. interest of a great corporation against the law. It has been sugges ted on his behalf .that after all h> did not favor the Standard Oil ('on? puny but- me rely .It he Prairie Oil' and Gas Xupipany Thfsj claim rs dis tender and supporter of certain corporate Interests and therefore hostile to the policies for which this administration has stood. There was no such convincing proof against Senator Foraker at that . time, how ever. as there is against. Governor Haskell, when, as you say, he was, with your, approval, made treasurer of your campaign committee. But Mr. Taft refused to 'be a party to the renomination of Senator Foraker, even Though it was reported that only thus could he advance his own interest, showing by actual * deeds that his words were true when he said,, T do nyt care for the presi dency if it has to come by compro mised" With a hundredfold clearer evidence before you as to the con- nection of Governor Haskell witn the Standard Oil than Mr. Taft then had as to the connection cf Senator Foraker with any corporation, you nevertheless, having secured Gov ernor Haskell as chairmen of the committee to write the platform on which you stand, put him In as treas urer of your campaign committee. “'’'Let me add that Governor Ha.-» kell s utter unfitness for any public |K)sition of trust or for association with any man anxious to make an appeal on a moral Issue to the Amer lean people has been ahundantlv show-n. wholly irrespective of this action of his in connection . with Standard Oil interests.. As an Amer ican citizen who prizes his American ism and his citizenship far al>ov-' any question of partizanshlp, I re gard as a scandal jmd a disgract that Governor Haskell should be con nected with the management of any national campaign. I have not th space in this letter to discuss Gov ernor Haskell s conduct, for instance in vetoing theji*-hlld-Ial>or bill: oi the fact that his name appears as one of the defendants in variou- suits brought by the governmen to prevent the Creek Indian'* fron having certain of their lands fraud nlently taken: or his connection with various matters of the kind, but let me call your attention to his con duct in prostituting to base-purpos* the State- C-ttiverslty;..as set forth In an article in The TTUjTook of Sep tember last, utitler the heading u “Shall the People Rule in Okla homa?" In this article you will se. that Governor llask.*ll was given full opportunity to make every ex planation. and that he made non After setting forth the facts as U Governor Haskell's conduct, Th Outlook article concludes as fol lows: ip- ' "'4b% this state of affairs we hav two pfimnients to make and two ques tion* to ask " 'The people of Oklahoma an taxed to support th.-ir educational institutions, from the pifmai'J- school to the university. They pay th*-i money to have th.-ir children edit rated. When the p ||t|. fans use thi money to promote the interests of |noIiiical mathiii.- or a church sect Gcmpers Says Van Cleave At tempted to Buy Him Off. TAFT For Contempt Proceeding Says the Imbor Lead*'r. He Goes Into De tails of the Attempt to liribe Him, Giving Names, Dates and Othei Particulars. INSANE MAN KILLS TWO Ami Injures a Woman at tlie^Wasb- ington Asylutn. posed of bv the testimony of th-- Standard Oil Company itself in th<- atter part of 1907 in the suit now pending in the United States court against the St a tula rd Oil Company In this U>Uaucrlf\vl4ji«'’ Standard Oi Company, upon belfr^ required by the govsJrnment -to put in evident 1 a list df all the companies in which it held stock or In which its sub sidiary companies held stork, repre sented among the othei's the Prairi-- Oil and Gtfs C mvpany, total capital $10,000,000, of which the Nat Iona Transit Company s proportion wa ,$!KMM).r>60j and furthermore if ap peat s J hat. the Natioaql .Tramut Com-. jtany owned $23,451,650. In othe.' words, this Prairie Oil and Gas Com pany'•was owned, all except $500, hy the National Transit Comapny, and* this National Transit Companv [they arc guilty of a breach of trust What do the taxpayers of Oklahom think of the its*- to which their ptihli servants are making of the ptihli funds * What do they think al.ou this financial |»olicy the taking o the money due their sons and daugh ters and diverting it for-the benefl of politicians, eccb-astlcal ar.d civil " 'Governor^ HasK'-H was one of Mr Itr.ajjs tiaht Ira ml-men in th DeiiKx-ratf.- convention find at Mi Bryan's Itf-tame has l.e.-n mad treasurer ef fit*- Ib-tmM-ratlc natioitai committee, |t is appalling to tbink what would be the results of th educational r ST^t*ma cf the Philip pln.'s-aml U*»eilo r Ritm. H. tjje diggiii) th*- Panama canal, in the Work of Irriiratlbti'tami reforestation, iu th ad minis! frit ion of the postoffice, th interior * and agricultural depart merits, in the apiKdntments of foreign ministers and consuls, if th*- spirit which has actuated the AJemocrati authorities . in the ..tate of Okla homa should' lie |>erm.itted to tak eotitrol rf the Federal governmen it-v Washington Governor Haskeb ’?rmj I? 1 which speak lond*‘r than words, has declared his disbelief in Grover Cleveland’s motto, "A publi ofli.-e is a public trust’." and Mr Haskell Is a representatTve leader iu the Bryan Democracy. 'What does Mr. Bijyan think of Mr. Cleveland' principle What do the American ><-oplc think of Mr. Haskell’s con temptuons reversal of it ' "Yon clqse your telegram by sav ing that you expect and will demand fair and honorah.e treatment fron those who are In charge of the Re publican campaign. I am not in charge of the campaign, but am greatly Interested, in it. I have shown you above fairly and honor ably that Governor Haskell is a man who. rifTevery account I have named is unworthy of any |iosition in our nubile .life. No further Investiga tion of these facts is required. They 1 jpp spread on rtn- record before y-m and they were available before Mr. Haskell was chosen for his ,4 dtion as treasurer.” •t - a American Federation of Labor, .as Washington Thursday introduced the name of Formey Secretary Taft and made serious charges against W. J. Van Clcve, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. The charges were made as a part of Mr. Gompers' testimony . Iri connection with the' proceeding against him Secretary Morrison and John Milch ell in the Buck stove and range eo. tempt case. Mr. Gompers was? 1 & the time under oross-examinatioir ai the hands of his attorney. Jackson H. Ralston. In the case of Mr. Taft, .vlr. Gom pers in effect charged that he ha* supplied the« sentiment behind th* Injunction jj/'Toe, while the diree charge was made that Mr. Vat Cleve had had Mr. Gompers and oth ep federation officials shadowed b detectives and had undertaken t have Mr. Gompers bribed to dcsi-i the cause of organized lubbr am join its enemies. Mr Ralston's efforts were d-i-ecte* towards a eountr-conspirac. Vmfwwv towards showing a counter-conapir u-y by the manufacturers to tb-strov r rade unionism. He rerid the portiot >f Mr. Yafi's presidential noniina Ion acceptance bearing on th - anti- injunction fllaHk, and co-iiim-ntini. upon the extract. Mr. Gompers said ."H is* substantially _ the b is o his injiKictiori srttt and l!i*-s>- i-ou- empt proceedings under tint in iun*-tion.-'" * • Mr. Ralston: ' I nmler-'an-l you hen. it is in .reliance upon Mr Taft's decisions that you arc her* today." Mr. Gompers: "JustIce Ce.>u14 ll t\js opinion so asserts and V' quote from Injunctions !>> Judge i'af' whil* on the l*ench .Mr. Ralston: '"Judge T it's sf-m in the matter then bavin; f'-«* en lors*-mont of the National .\ssocla tlon of ManuYacturers?'' Mr. Gompers: "Yes. Mr. Ralston asked Mr.* Golnpen whether there had l>e*-ji any g»nera effort to break doWu org *nized Ja bor. and h«- replied: “Men have been suborned to »|»> th«‘*i'—feWow—laltolf ux—Lu—r.llilll: DASHKD THROUGH FLAMES. At WastfngTon'TnSff'ftianical fury. Andrew Ifght fooV.^S, , jn u I a tt o In- -elvers have made several efforts to mate of St. EIixabtf^sivAsylum tof adjust these matters, but without the Jnsanty TucsdaylynlcA Patrick ivail, and the warrant, . was sworn Maloney.' overseer of flte—ffroun.ds. )ut by one of them.- . , and Millie Fdlwt, a young Inmath It Is tin / rptrod that' Duncan's of the ^asylum, and severely injured inderkakings and Investments at Miss Robinson, another Inmate;, was owned, all’except About $3,550, Iprlng City, where he has been open- The murder* escaped from tb*' by the Standard Oil Company, itlng fer seversT years, have turned grouuds and fled to the swamps near- ■*ut badly, and the American Lim*' V- where,, shortly afterward, a score lompany. which figures In there at- of police - surrounded the place eged fraudulent transactions. t.< .of hia concealment He finallv thought to be bankrupa.- t Unless .fhla was subdued after the police found rase la adjusted tt Is probable thli.lt necessary to ahoot him. Inflicting ' ifiy statement. It was a matter of •Imtlar. action will be taken with wounda In bit legs, and he wa* common notoriety about Senator "Now, con'raist your action in thi- -*'*<* to Governor Haskeil wi h Mr Taft’a action as regards Senate, Foraker. as ret forth in hls letter o July 30, 1907, which I quoted in refareuce to the otbei 'transaction-.- taken back to 1 tha aaylum. joraker, aa it haa .ong been a mat- PaxscngeiS Arc Ilcfugco.s Uixini Town Destroyed by the Fire. ' A great forest fire is raging nea> Eureka. Col., fanned Ixy a fifty-mil-- gale, and already the plant of the Keistrom Lumber U nipany, valuel at $60,000, has been destroyed. Th* fire is threatening vast tracts o' redwood timber lying between Ke' stronv and Trinidad. Jo which latte; place- refugees are flocking—from many camps. TUe miJlion-dollai plant of the Itedwoorf I.timber Cony pany is directly in the course of the flames. A passenger train- ar- .ived at Samoa Thursday night, car ving refugees'from Luffenholz ami Fleldbrook, the former town having men destroyed hy the flames-- Refugees wer«v hummed in bv th- flames araff the daring t?ip through tlte fire on the train was proposed. .. * The d«h w„ made „ltb the (l.me., W Pf'; so close that the paint on the cars w«a blistered in the bSit. icci'dings the gglMtaent' for a conferenc'). Relating the particulars of tho second meeting In New York, Mr. Gompera said Brandenburg disclosed to him hla purpose, saying that he knew it To be Uie Intention of Mr. Van Cleve to ddstrojf hls (Gompera ) character, but that he (Branden- •urg) had persuaded Van Cleve that It would be better in the interest of Van Clove's purpose to make an rlly ot Gompers and to prevail upon him to betray the secrets of the Federa tion of Labor. "rev*fil)ng." Mr. Gompers added, "whatever informv ‘lon I possessed which might reflect detrimentally upon labor orgaul- znt'ons.’ "He said." continued Gompera, that Van Cleve had agreed U) this >roposition nnd had undertaken to uugest to me ‘hut I could peimit ilvself to lie re-elect'-d president € Samuel Gompers, president of the oi ,h, ‘ federation in otdei to pre- of Vice President Duncan and that after some Uttl.5 time I could resign. He assured me that I would be given a good lump sum and that Van Cleve wrould guarantee beyond -questldn that I would be cared for the rest of my life, even goin^ to far as to tell me that the gugwntee should be under written. "He said that I,could deliver lec- iires in opposition to the labor novement. knd that if i di*te*»t re vive as much as five or six tTuiusand ollars a year. Van . Cleve^ would lake up the difference. - "I told him." said Mr. Gompers. hat it was difficult to l>*-li«‘ve that Ir. Van Cleve would make such *» reposition and that I must have urther ~ proof of his sincerity, not her meeting w as arranged and t tliis meeting Brandenburg show-ed e-cheeks, drafts and vouchers on "itlcial letterheads of the National Asaeriatioa of Manufacturers and nder the signature of Mr. Van 'leve. which were made payable to '.i anden burg. v " "I told him i would consider tha reposition." continued Mr. Gompen*. I did not reject it. because t anted him to continue under th-? •elief that i miiAt accept. Of cour«e was just as determined then as am now and always have l>*en > be true tri myself, my conscience nd to my fellow*^ .Uc stated that, e had if la ted all the details of thi*- invereatfon to \ Ice Provident Dun* an and Ruber. AN'SMKRS CALL TO PHK.UTf. fsctoiies and mines, to report th* proceedings of union meetings: t< spy on the personal conduct of work men after working nours and to foi low- from place to place labor lead *>rs visiting other cities than thei homes. Money has also lieen used ti liribe representative labor men t cease their connection with-the la bor organizations and ilircet thei ictivitles to th*' National Manufac • urers' association. Tli*-y have no offend substantial safeguard in tin future.” After giving details of hls own -pursuit by detectives, Mr. Oomper hen told of being approached in New York by a man named Brough ton Brandenburg of New York, who he said, had attempted U> 1 tr lirtU' him in the Interest of .ifr. Van ru-ve. *ffP saidt" Mr. Gompers eon tinned, "that he was friendly-to m< ted he thought that Mr. Van <'U.'T> md myself should have a bettei understanding and offered to bring xluiur a meeting between us to es tablish more, agreeable relations." Mr. Gompers stated that he told Brandenburg that would he glad to meet Mr. Van Uleve, as it had always been his |*ollcy ,•* encourage frtendly conferences In J.;ntters in volving lalmr disputes.*- - After Mr. (5oni|K'rs returned to Washington he said that he received several Sonimiiutc&tioiiH from Brandenburg and stated that this correspondence had led-tq an agreement for a~hieet- ing in New York. He was accom panied to \ v York \ Vice Presi dents .Duncan and Huber, both of whom had advised him to carry out Bvcn Up Dig Salary to Enter tho Mliyisti-). After spending three years In tho -.iking *rf iron and steel and in bat time teaching his friend, W. 'Ills Corey, most of what he knows odav of steel making. Geo. L. Glunf. nperintendeirt of the IHLinch mill f the Carnegie Steel Company, at lomestead. has resigned his po- itiou and will enter the Western to - tiewwie » -nwrmcTrflT' sv-mlnarv-, T.-sbyterian minister. 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