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THAT OIL DEAL In Oklahoma Comes Out In Full il^h at Last ^ 4 THE PEOPLE SCOOPED us HIGH DEATH RATE TEDDY TREED AGAIN WHAT A STUDY C1T1U8 SHOW. OF SOUTH Kit V THE Ijf^TJKKANS TAKES HOOSE- ^VELT TO TASK a 1 By Prcsidoiit Roonevolt for. the H* n- rflt of tho Stu^idanl Oil Charged by Ciovernor H»sk«ll During ili‘ « pnign and IH'iiii^l l>y Teddy. —— Washington, Nov. Ill - Tho story of how the I’m Irk 1 Oil Company. ;* siiti?idiary com-cru, to' tli*‘ Standard Oil, got its privileges in Oidahoivw. wf'ro told in tfie r.ufient campaign li> only a few -newspapers that wei.- supiKirtlag thtf" Democratle ticket ilut again recently in the Herald of this offy appeared a full story of hoc this Standard Oil concern got Us licivik^cs in Oklahoma, contrary U law, and in a special yay,', with 8|ieclal concessions which have been denied other companies. This is the story which the Herald publishes' . •'Defttted intelHgenee as to tti- w hereabout 8^ of .an hn|K)rtant fepor*. written by Ethan „ Allen JliJcheorlt, while he was secretary iff the in terior in President* Roos velt s cat- inet, came to hand yesterday. "This report was the one submit ted to the president by Mr. Hitch cock In 11104. setting forllt his rea sons for denying l lie- ii|iplicatmo of the Prarle Oil and Has ('om|iany. a Standard Oil subsldary, or a permit to construct a pipe line U> the .Jbeil Territory of Oklahoma.'' "The pipe line franchise was granted, nevertheless,, but is did tie’, become gen rally known until Tat* in the recent political campaign that this course was authorized by Prest dent Roosevelt himself, who ove' rfiled the action of his secretary of the yiterlor against Mr. Hitchcock's uncompromising resistance. “The fact has come to light that the present repository of SeereUjtrC Hltchcdek's report Is the department of jusTTce. The document has lie n lying there for several—years, and nothing but a resoluflon of congres* will eaitke it to lie ninde public. A man of.^ national deputation jwid probity said yesterday:. "‘Yes.'^iCE^ reiMiftla tjjere, but President Roospvelt dare pot let lt> contents lie known.’ “That Mr. Hitchcock's adverse d< Hsion Is in the deparlnient of Justieo lastoad of in the fil'ss of the While House, or interior department, Ijm iliii->‘H th.. ^nmiisi; that, liui ^crutarv advised that criminal proceedings lie brought against certain men connect ed with the oil and gas deal Irt Okt Ighoma, but there Is no specific authority for this statement. ‘•‘■Men of national political renown were Interested in- the oil and gas franchise, and It happened that their application fear a pipe line, w hich wa so stoutly resisted by Secretary Hitchcock, came along at the time when Mr. Roosevelt was seeking nomination and election to the pp.sf- dency. “Mr. Hitchcock has resisted ttn IniiMirtiinltles of the Standard; and finally, In March, 1'.t04, a statute passed by congress directing him t. make regulat.ons for permits for pipe Hues. The regulations pro posed by Secretary Hitchcock wen considered too drastic to suit the Standard Oil people, and Anally Guy Frank Higgins of New York wroti a tetter to the president in Uh Interest of D. W. Harusdals, th* Pittsburg agent of the StHii.kir-l, asking the president to order Sec retary Hitchcock to grant the permit “The president did so. but th. secretary yielded reluctantly. A few months later Mr. Hitchcock print ,1 a volume of the private hearings held b fore his department on appii cations f(< pipe line permits. *■ le the documents he gave a copy of Gov,. Higgins' letter. - " t “When the volume, appeared i* creaf d sotne * xi4t-f nicn't.—it was .in the Hughes-Henrst * giibernatorf* campaign. The president wa.- ihdig- S*»nie Farts N’«»ne of Us Like to Ad- r . ' mil, Hut They Are l a* ts ami We Must Ear** Them.. The Country Life Commission re- eently h*dd ine^nngH at Spartantuirg and GreenvIH* in this . State. W ‘ iclleve that the Commission will ac.r eoiupliah untbld- good by directing the alt nt-ion not-aul> of the Natiojial. Goverjiment, lint of our own home people to the pressing needs of ru ral life and the pos.-iliililies »f rural dev.dopmertt. . The 'I’rogresslv i J Farmer says the Commission Is erlt- IHsed because In urging the need of bet tel 1 }’ rural sanitation and hygleii • 1 ir^rt^HJes poloarnkeeut-’t he *‘xcetsi|* dealu rare in ourjfural districts'Fs compared with fMlier sections of the -A y ■ j , '■•■ ■■■ ■ -- country. For Instance,, ik* mentions ty- phold fever in emphasizing the truth (of so unuch nMinient to usi, that 9n f p. tv i^iTt of the cat* s and the deatTis-W^r^^-... turn this dread- disease mlrfht l>e prevented by proper ssnltjiry pre- eautions. And he is right. Tb • av rage nimilier of ..duaths, from ty phoid in ~th; Fii I t od St ates is 3 S in each ijOtlty deal in*. ...w'liil<t |h the (lulf ('oast ri'gian it is Soueh Cenfal .Appalachian region ■ fi.'!, in the Southern interior plateau (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Alls sissippi sections.) 76, and In tho Southwestern Central region (parts iif Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas) 79 per conrr' Wherever the negro popuktfkHi is highT as Dr. StUes points'out, ,tli' lack of sanitary precautions insures a high death rate from typhoid, i lie negroe's rarebtssn ss, and our own, as Dr. Styles points oui, in tho matter of typhoid fever, hook worm disease, etc., in murdering ‘th* white women and children of th* South. Here ayty some llgures tha: should innke us Idiish. The tsibl truth Is that our death-rate from ly mphoid fever and other preventalib dls«*ases Is shocking and inexcusable high, a hurnlft shame to our peopl uuioiinttng to nothing less than a sectional crime. The flgures fedow ar«* for several ales'Ct l h.-us professes to have tnifv accuratemortality statistics, and we are going to take In alphapetleal order Just as they rnin<‘ In the rensus- table*, every Southern city Included In the reglstratioa area with their death-rate per 1,000 of poptilat.lo: for both races, and compare each one -of—those- Southern - elites with tie- HOLY GHOSTSECT Missionaries Who Went to Eng* land Have Hard Time. Kor Some Tilings "He Said in Ills Letter l^e^lIling Taft's Religious Relief and Morals. ” ^ New York, Nov. 15.—In-an open letter to* President Roosevelt, made public here today, the New York city mem hers of the Synodical Com. ference of the Evangelical LutHTThin Chureh aTmirierii a take issue- wiiF th* Prosi,d( i nt over the - tetter of the latter, made pntdle a w+‘ek aeo in which he denounci'd as "unwar ranted bigotry” any refusal to vi" for a cjindidate for high office be cause of tils' membership ih the Po man Catholic Church. The letter, tt is announced, wa authorised at a ree rrt m-'etlnif of the local Lutheran Conference. Thm letter ^declared that it was “sit'>- vcrslre o*f tU« ,1«b4c ^rhiciplda-o.f a real separation of .church and Stab' to^permit the religious belief or non- hejjef of any candidate for public to dotermiue the casting , of dWh’s.vote for dr agaijjst such can didate, except when that very reiig- tous Iteltef 'or non-belief antagonizes this principle.'df complete separation of church and State.” • "Put .for ceBtnries,'" the teTt*■ r went on, “the Roman Catholic had denounced as wrong, ;jnd a coodTHon finiy to- be Idle rated/so. long as it could not be'ehtnrgedxnlyls_aeparatktij_ of church and^State, abd also ftiil .religious- liberty,—freedom of con science, speech and the press. “Are we not then compelled to maintain that a loval Roman Cath- olic who fully understands the at legiance required of' tlftB by the Pope can never sincerely soihscrllie to tiye Federal Constitution, nor ,'f he-Tloes suhscritie. to it, never ran in 1 expected to abide liy it, enforct* and defend it? 1 ' asked the letter. “How could the subscribers to th doctrine of separation of church and State, the letter went on, consistently help to cteet to the Presidency a Roman Catholic* so long as Jhat church does not ^officially revoke I s ^diametrically rqmo ed deet iratlon '‘Ar<* the nijllions of Protestants in this country to tie accused of bigotrj or fanaticism ^because of stamp GIRL’S LIFE LOST. BLEW OPEN VAULT AND TOOK OVER EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS . >. J » PROMINENT CHICAGOAN MAKES SENSATIONAL CONFESSION. From South Rend, Did., Postoftle* Almost in the Presence of Night -Mall Clerks. After* Suffering Great Hardships in Different Parts of the \Wbrld They (tome to the Conclusion That They Were the Disciples of the Devil and Not of (tod. ‘—g C J ' IHiiladelphia, Nov. * Ifl-^-r-Mhbel Collins, a young giri who was con verted to the strange religious sect known as the Holy Ghost Society in New York a y: ar ago, and sail. 1 for England, with five men- ami- twelve'other young women mission aries, returned to Philadelphia f o- day. She tells a story of almost In credible hardships. Starting away from Philadelphia aTpretty girl of eighteen years, $Ii'ss Collins looks toda-y liks^ja womaft. of fifty.'’ One girl of their uum-ber, she. ..mty+y died ySrking in factories in Bueno’s Ayres, three of the men are laying -ties on a South Aril eric jp, two girls are .in -'-Tndiaqr South Bend, Ind., Nov. 16.—Bur glars tunneled a 14-iiiQh Are wall, enteretf the vault of the. postofficc with an electric “drill, and escaped Blicll two eitii's In other sbi'tlons itllliTeiTT ately following 'In alphabetical or der Just as named In the ceusu« list. Here then is the showing: nant at Mr. Hitchcock forgiving out the Higgins letter, declaiming tha* it was the property of the executive ' 1 '+te' ordered tin 1 copies- ol Seer - tary llil-elicock's printt-d—4m*+tmer. • to be called in and shipped to Oysi i Bay, wlierb Mr. Roosevelt wasvthon staying. ^ There was some excITomeiit over the ord r. an'd agents from the intepor department were Imsy visti- intj: newspaper bureaus and law bf- llces ip AVasiiiiiK'on in miust of Di, /objectionable documejit. "Th* regulations . made ‘by, Secre tary Hitchcock in December" 1906 following the favors shown U> Un Standard Oil Company !)>• tin~ presi dent in 1 904, were more drastic fro rtf the Standard viewpoint than ar-V thing that had preceded thin. Ip 1 tenth lUte Per 1,000 i*pH lutloli. yy or For Name of City / A hlte Negr > \tlantu, Ga. ... T ... ■ .,2:1 Ml Atlantic City. N J. .. ..is 12 Attleboro. Mass . . ..14 • Italtimorc, Md. .10 Ml Bangor, Me ..16 • Bnrre. Vt . .. . ...... ..18 « JackNoiivllle, l la.-. . . 2r» Ml tacksonville, HI *} *> 19 Jatnestown, N.- Y ..12 • Lym liburg, \ n. .21 MO Lynn, Mass .16 18 McKeesport, Piij .. ..17 2 4 \»>>li» III*', Tenn! . 20 :<2 Natchez, Alls* 27 IN Wattek. Mass.*'*. , . .. ..14 • Nangatuck, Conn. . . . . . . 17 • N wport, Ky.. . . 20 • Newport, R. I. . . 18 ,23 Vori* Ik. \ ii. ....... IN 2» Norriaton, Pa* . . : . ..23 W. 1 North Adams. Muss. . . . 13 * Rnleigh, N. C • *4$ 2M Reading. Pa . . 17 * 31 Revere',*Mass . , ..... ..15 * Ricliinend, \ n .21 MS Roidiester, N. II. . . ■) •) • Rochester, N. Y ..15 2 6 n«ii Antonio, Tex . . 2:1 22 San Diego, Cal •» •» , 2 * San Francisco, Cal. . . ..19 35 .Savannah, Gu .21 IU :{ Schenectady, N. Y ..15 .'Vrauton, Pa. . .20 1 4 '•hrcvcjMirt, |,a. . ■•^ioiix (iity, la. Somerville, Mass. . \\ ilii’iugtoii, \. C Windham, Conn. .■ :{‘J i :> ID Lii Winona, Minn 14 • (* Too f- w negroes to report.) these are tite figures whos** a 1 '- curaey the* Government stands for, and, as the Progressive Farmer sav.. the Southern man who can look them in the face and still argue .fair a list less, do-nothing |>o!icy Is the man wh,, luilidt-is |:* l i sDrrt and future gen- eralioHs l>y criminal carelessness. Dr. Sliles is a man who with rare selt-devot hjM proposes tb gtv - his fffe 'to the effort the congressional campaign preced ing President Roosevelt had promis ed a certain Western senator, who was aggrieved at Mr. Hitchcock, that he would remove him, the day after election. “On WednesdayV the day ofbn flection, the president Issu-d.u httf- * yletln from the White House, in which he virtually fulfilled his promise to the Western senator announcing the fprthcomlng retirement of Mr. Hitch- ... cock, but explaining that the secre- tary waa going out of—hi* z^rlltloit gTtfte m-nfh, t>;gatB'» 4b dent’s wishes. “The regulations of December 1906, were promulgated mrr.tbo event of Secretary ^Jlitchcock’s ri- tlrement frotn office. The Standard Oil Company defied* the htterlbf de partment and* refused to apply for permite under the regulations of 1906. The company announced that It wws acting upon the advice 0,’ It* general counsel lu refusing to avow ttaelf a- common carrier as required by the Hitchcock reguia- Southern death rate—its excesslv proport ions in our elites being but typical of similar conditions in on.- I'oiim ry—di.-trict:*—rnte—there than is no in America today who ntor' heartily deserves the co-operation of every agency in the SxxntneiuwStMtes. It is not ciimati^that makes our Southern death ra’te so high.' It is lack of sanitary precautions upon the part ,of our large n.gro popu lation and, also upoik. the part of a Ihrgt'^hite-'_i>opulation as well. In the name of human, life', let us sot aliout remedying these conditions. The letter concludes: “We do not rare Atyhh: mfwyp “We do ne’ accuse the bulk "Roman Catholics of being disloyal citizens. We beueve many do net realize the jjaii-tlon the hterachy o' their church maintains, and that,.if it came to an issue, comitelling a d ristotx "either^ for the ConsTifution or ral Iroixd, harems, and one was captured by hill trTfies. "When we l*‘ft New York ‘as members of the Holy Ghost ;sect, said Miss Collins, "we all believed that had ’’the gift of tongues, and we wy>a4-©u4-toMeach the rest of the woflTI our reTTglOh. We decided to sail ty London. We escaped a great shipwreck, 'but they would not rec ive us there: Then six of id got the call to go to India.' We went from London and reached Cai rn t Pa in July. .Mr. Me Elroy .-.who led us, t bought* wc could do great things in India. "Besides myself, there Fere thr 0 girls from New York and two fro'm Philadelphia. We nearly starved in Calcutta and went north. We reach ed Buenos Ayres a monjh •Wter. "There two of our girls dirap- pear< d.—They Were vitt pretty, and there were some Indians who mot and liked* them very much. We were destitute, and the girls—-wel the papal hierarchy, they would de cide in favor of the former. "We have considered It Jo tie our duty not to keep silence In this mat ter. because in our Judgment, that P'ould have been an act of cowardice nor do we wish to do any one ah injustice, nor in any manner Iraduc any man or berdy of men. If. ther-*- fore. In aught we- have .‘•aid we an laboring under error, we shrill if pleased to have you enlighten us and with us the millions who occupy the same position. But if we an right, we ask you to show yrtur un questioned sincerity and courage b* an acknowledgement of the correct ness of our contention and the at'i (tide bas«d thereon:” TT' CARMACK DID NOT SHOOT. A dun Cooper \V»s Sliot Ry Hi* < h\ n FuHi<‘r. - Memphis, Tenn., Nov. .1.6 Thai ex-Sehator F.dward E. Carmack never fired the pistol .he carried on his death walk, and that young .Rob in Coopt,.heretofore alleged to have been shot by Carmack, was ill fact' wounded by ten I lets from his fath er's rovoler juteinh d for Carmack, is the startTfng statement made by Will A. Itercy, :t well-Rifown lawyer. Mr. Percy says that the son was behind Carmack and th*‘ ‘'atber in front, each so near their victim tha! the son was powder-burned bv'the father'/Tevolver. 'Hiat two elianil- (*rs of . Carmaek’s idstt)!* had b « .1 IIkmI moans noiliiitg,-says the lawyer,- for the \\c-;tpon was in the hands of his enemies two hours before it was turned »>ver-4-o -t4e‘ dAieers. -and. hi shb s. Carmack s hand-stt+b heliF'fltc cigar he was smoking as he boaved to Mrs. Eastman. SIX M \Ki: I AI AL I'Ll \(.I . Three Civil .Engineers *«ml_ TffPee Foretellers Mtete Deatfr: I’it.tslnirg. Pa., Nov. IS’ Six men iVf'r-' instantly killed, another Was , , dangerously injured and three othe s to reduce this fearfiu ‘ „ , , o. ^ThtfcP narroV escapes from injury o • de.ath in <a mine'cage accident ;tt Elb. worth Min*' No. I. located in Wa-h ingtnii co 111111 Moil'll' The H\ le'l to the bottom, a distance of 225 fe -r, the heavv timiier on l i‘ , n in Georgia Hills. . » Hi . k .t )ii*>‘itit .»b The Times from Albert Bomt Lam- 'liert, says balloon Yankee landed ai Tig r. Ga., in the ntouniains, aft» r traveling over fares! fires a|l njght. TT? ' ' .lion firf 1906. "In April. 1908. Secretary Ga*- field sent for Present O'Neill of th? Prairie Oil and Gas Company, the Standard stilisidary, apl agr*?(H , 'to waive the common carrier re quirement In the regulations of 1908, to which tht. Standard Oil Company objected.” - * t top of them, and were bruised and crus lied almost he yond recognition. Cotton Seed Meatefor Alilk. There Is no question but that cot ton segd meal grows in popularity as its in_trjnsj£ value becomes known There js Ifio foodstuff 'known that will place the same amount of fat on cattle within so «hort »a time as cotton seed monj combined w it a cullmi seed hiiUs., atld (li 1 f i S T^cogniz d wheresoever this feed te used. When fed to dairy cows, or by the family that has but a sing’e cow', its use increafes the quantity of Tnilk; improves the color,, atvd tin* cream therefrom makts richer and better Tiutter, but while Hie ration of hulls ne.ed not tie limited et all. that of meal should not tie more than one-half the . quantity fed for fattening purposes. * Sunday morning with nearly $19,000 in—stamps, while a force of night clerks Were at work. The theft was discovered at 8:30 iu^the morning tiy a clerk in a store one. door north of the room temporarily occupied by the (iostoffice during the erection o' the new building. The clerk having occasion to enter the store found it Impossible to open either of the doorsTo w'h'lch''he hafi keys, and, suspefTing that "so m2 thin*; wgis wrong, called a patrolman Throwing theit "weight against th* doprs, they forced an entrance and amexamination showed that they had been fastened by large screw hooks They found that a hole 14. by 1 s inches had been electrically drilled in the 14-Lnfch fire-proof .wall,-form ing one side of the jHistofflce vau't through which one of the .thieves entered the vault and passedjh l^Ttinder to his confederates.. The JnTilglarfi, worked so skillfully tl^at the night Jorde of. mailing cierk- W'ithfn one hundred feet of the vault -cago'.s. proap in aa t° having obtained tnrough forged deeds and in re than 6700,000," and x tte'.v just vanished. We didn't com plain to the authorities, because we knew pretty well wh^re they had gone. They are n ,,w in harems, and I can't blame them much. We did not have the real gift, and life was far more TerribTe than 1 can tefl you. "Again we went north to Luck now. Another girl, Mabel Charles, of Slew York, was taken from us one night white -we were camping out There vfVre some w ild^hill men .who rode down'and stopped at our camp >‘eit morning there were only tlm-e of us left. "Mr. McEiroy and Lillie Thomas and I went back to Calcutta. From there we sailed to Buenos Ayres, t > join the others. - • "One girl, May Sirnes, who wa.- from Bhlladelphia, di*‘d in the Pam pas on the way to Roussario. W had been overtaken by a storm. W had no covi-ringFof any sort and the cold was awful. We buried poor Mary there! We_ had even hantei times iu Argentine than in India. Tin-n my parents suc^e dcd In g**t- tlng me home. Our gift of tongin- was not from Heavan. It was from sonn* devil." . • , ». Miss Collins, whnse mother lives* at No. 2135 Catherine ¥treet, said. "My h'usband and I pawned many of our household articles to raise the money to bring Mabel home. There are two oth'-r girls who ar also writing home for funds,. tint their parents are unable to false the money. ... A CAUSED RY DOG FIGHT. Due Man Dead Mini Another Is Se rimisly HurL ’ 0* \ Wotumka. Nov. 16. JSs the'result of a fight between two monggr •! dogs, one man Is dead, another s* 1 - riously wounded and the town of and a bloody fetTct is ttireatemui llrnthi'r.s of the'rtrpjd man Jpive lieer- walking the . streets of tlm town for liours, heavily armed, and the qitize.n.s are terrorized. -, — Iten Smith and John Taitor sided with their resp rtive pets, when th ■ animals encountered each other on the .Main street yesterday, and T*aher after he had been wounded, stew his adversary. He was placed, under arrest and a posse of denuties armed wTttv-repeating- pities fs guardingg him. Jeff and Ira Smith, brothers of tIv dead man, armed thomsehos and went on hunt with their friends for Taber. Taber's •friends are ajso wil ling to take his side. HR 1C DEAD ^The worm the te'mper, the lesa its owner minds losing it. And Seven Missing at Rig Aline Near Ririninghain. Birmingham. Ala., .Noy. 17.—Tim bodies of four men have bee’n re covered ami *o\.en~ot,hers are missing, following the firing of the main way of X.i, 2 mine oi the Tennessee Iron, Goal and Railroad oonR ny last night. Heroric *‘fforts ; *0 being made to stay the flames and reach the bodies of-the missing iiten, all of whom have been gfv^n up for, dead. It is the belief of the officials that the main wjiy was set on fire in the hope that th. re would lie a general escape, convict labor t&ing exclusive ly employed. , If's/wh«n a fellow is going to the b-xl tnat he gets th».»reputation of bat ing a good fellow. bad. no know 1 edge of w hat was ta« jug place--* -I t- Access to the ,store, room was gained by ‘ascending a stairway fifty feet south yof the|store to th? thirl floor of the building. From th* head of the stairway the rolilie crossed over to the ^building north of the postofflee and descended to the first floor next to tiie postofflee. Before ^beginning operations or the wall the fthioves covered tl\ floor and stairway with scores of blankets and quilts! taken from th* stock of the store., and also hung thick quilt on the north wall of th v&ttlt under which the drilling was done. As the bricks were loosened they were pulled out of the driller's wav by means of a sm-all tackle and pul ley, which was left behind. ' Marks in the dust of the stair wav showed a lookout was stationed - * rv Is a position which would give him a full view of the street through rhe windo'w In tlteTr'at of the styre. As the booty woold fill not less than eight suit ca»°s, the police be liewe thut at least f.mr men were a«- sociated lu the robbery. TTb- eteril III 1 dl til UJ* *1 WQU ork** by power taken fro mllghtlng wlrts l-ss than 20 feet from the wall, the wires being attached from a des< light in the store. DEBRl TALIZEDcFOOTRALL XP-RT FORGER He Carried on System of Robbery f r Nearly Twenty Years, btat Hi* CONVICT ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE But Is Bun Itewn and Captured With Hounds. William^Dong', a white convict, ea- qaped from the Richland ^inpy- chalngang. near Rin&yille, Monday*^ nt 1 o'clock p. m.. while at dinner. He was sent, after a "bucket of wa*\ ter, .and not returning as protoptly usuaL It was suspected 7 that "biC as Chicago. Hi.. Nov. 10.—Peter Van 1 had fled. A search was made and Vlissingeu, a real estate dealers, for he could not be found. Guard -f years classed among tyhe first of Chi- d. Reese was sent to camp at Gad^ reputable bus- den for hlfiodhounds. Upon th? arrival of the dogs, Capt. J. O. Williams, with Mr. Reese, placed the dogs on his trail : . He was traited through Congaree swamp for iijtite* >wn urgent appeal to be punished, wis sentenced to .the penit ntiary. hours after Hris—arrest, on -Jila about half a mite, where he took the railroad across the trestle and Con- paree river hridg". to a negro lionse, about two nriles from Fort Motte. The arrest, the incident, the eonfes- Jt WBg found hp had^securel sion and the sentence wrere the work | a of r]othInK „„ From there he was trailed to a .. swamp, rear Fort Mntte. where he , v, » 1 ° .ft," was caught about 4:30 o’clpek p. Was-hUiston -street, shortly M „, a HP w«. c.rrlefl Wk un \ llsalngpn, a vyo.ralilj rh ,|„ a „ K „ (iad.dc. looking men, appeared before .the of tese than four hours. Taken in the midst of business 1 from his office desk at. A girl will often select a husband Court and in tears confessed that f„r from 18 10 20 ,-o.r, he h.d b.on ^ „ , fc0 h , !he m*mo--*nrou,h Iho .1. of r „, bon ^ forged documents, slid that though hf hadHKTTtgfU back nuvny of these) ^ A-OCicirn PHI IIUIJ spurious instruments without- de-j IgLAowIrltU UULUlYirl tectian, at least 25 people would lose an aggregate of more than $7.,00,009 ^ 10 p | )y Mail—Our improved method through' the paper which he has not give* yoo a complete department yet redeemed. In forging notes, he store at your door.' Large lllus- leclarad. he had perfected an unique (rated catalogue free for the ask- ievice. This consisted of> plate AddreriTfiepL A. Dowda Si aflass desk loji. so arranged^fcat by <c- ijox' 3 02, Atlanta, G«. ,bl readily tracT’fron) WOO-OO^For Jokes, stories, poems, j.-d slgnaturesTjJn *o I P'lfztes. given to readers of our intere-stlng magazine: Partic ulars and three months sutiscrlp- tlon 15c H. Paul. 414 N. Calver - , Baltimore, Md. an electric ligtet thrown up from be neath he -could originals forged signatures, .yn worthless paii r. Throughout his ar-| re*-t aid sentence the prisoner made: no-effort to defend himself. Asked .if he had anything to say before sen- t nee was Imposed, Van • Vlisaingen. boding his head, replied: "Only that I be given my punish ment at once.' 1 * , ’ His tUnu in the penitentiary was fixed as. indeterminate from 1 to 1 4 ' Van Vlissingen, who li atH,nt ! ' TEACHEIDk-THI STEKS. forty-five years old. was ^marrl**! teachers anC l*~* -y— 1 ^ to Mr*. Jsssle Roosevelt Blend, who was described at the tinie as a distant relatlvs of I’resident Roosevelt. The bride wse Ven i diiiurb:*-!- of Milton C. hlead. Ylissingi n had beep a-bachelor, Tlv- ing-at’tjie Calumet Club. He w*e ktjown as being of a philanthropic, disposition, giving ‘special attention t^) the-wOLLcr-' of hoya, , The specific-charge which led up to th*- ymctacular arrest of Van Vlissingi-n today waa made by two rm-n wh-r had ttought forged BToTT- gage notes. They are T. J: Lefeii* Ipp. vrho -faav offices Wanted to Buy—One to five^fhous- and bushels mixed .clay peas; will give highest market price: must t*e fre-* from.Whippoorwills. I M Pearlstine & Son. 201 an! 203 East B«v St., Charleston, S C. have many excellent vacancies We recommend teachers to trustee* anif 'sell school furniture of at' kinds Write Southern Teach C. For Sale—New Rulck 2o h p. four- cylln.der Roadster; corntdete with top. gas lamps and generator: ex tra large tires; cost II.056 de livered First ^heok for 11.00# “gets it. Hurry! Other bargain* In runabouts, touring ears and White Steamers. E. A. Jenkinv Motor Co , Columbia, S. C. Sates Agents for The Whlt*y|*e«wU Tteo and Stoddanl-Daytois. Tnrr Win. O in the same building as that ocsr-J pi.'d by Van Vllsslugeu. • | For Sale—Thoroughbred Berkshire To the notes for $1,500 held by Plg3, Blitmore istock. at |8 and Has Killed Ten Lads and Scrioasly Hurt Hundreds, Chicago, Nov. 16.— Dehrutalized football has been thte year as dang erous as ever, according to the 11s of casualties issued. Gridiron warfare between th colleges* high schools^and athletic clubs to date has resulted in 10 dead and 290. wounded. 'the list of d*ad: Balthozear, vyilfred, W^terbur Conn. r*~‘ * Coop r, JohnJ, University North Carolina. Dougherty, Albert,, Evansville (Ind) Y. M. C. A. ' Dickson, Ernest, University of Ar- kaii!-as. Duck, J. J., OJtlahoma State Nor mal school. Evans, Thomas, Utah Agricultural college. — . Ferebe, G. C., Virginia MHttary Institute. C Marker, Charles, Groat B nd Kans. Potts, William If., Cannonsbur*:. Pa. of Smith, William, Clarion, Iowa. All the deaths but one fesultet fixxn the open playing. The excep tion-was the cause of Charles Mark er, who, was a spectator at a gam in Greater Iteml, Kane., who was run over by the playeis and so seriouad/ injured that he died. . —-— ' ‘ : ‘ >' V** :—i*- ttiern were attached the names of Jos. and Bertha Gressmau. Van Vltesin.gen copied the forged papers from originate, which be .dltpos-l of to otitet 1 buyers. Lefent tn 1 Seipp say they first N became auspic ious of the note last'Satqrday. Csnsultlng wijh AsftTatant State's Attorney Barbour, they, decided to! dely no longer. Frances Lackner, conns*! for tha! complainants, said tonight it wpunl! • be impoasflrtey for several days to 'make a complete list of the losers. The notes on which Van Vlissingeu was indicted wefe not due until 1911, and It was believed that as 1j many previous instances, he intended o pay them up before they could lea l to disclosures. $T0 each. Qt Grenville. 14. C. Devonia Farm, Wanted Him Hanged. Philadelphia, Nov. 18—The feeling entertained by the late George I) Wolf, of Somesall, towards Charles W. Wenzel, his son-in-law, Is shown in the following paragraph of his will: Fifty cents to be paid to my on-in-law, Charles W. Weniel, a na- H.ve of Huntington, Pa., to enable him ‘b buy a g ol stout rope with which f.o hang hims If ” The deceased le f i ifi-estate valued at $10,500. Two Men Killt'd. Buffnlb, Nov. 1 9.—Frederick Chit- ’t-nd:mt and Edward Malije, were in stantly killed awl Wlllialff ,J. Green seriously injured when the steeiu Wanted—Live Wild Turkeys. Also Squirrels, Tame Deer. Red Foxes, Partridges. Pheasants, Will Waterfowl. Etc. Dr. Cecil French, Naturalist, Wastjrngton, I) C. Wanted—To purchase timber frarn 500 acres up. any one having same •write and give full particula*»/--to A M Fell, Greenville. Pa. Let Me Simp for You—If you want street suit, weeding troussesn, evening or receptiqn gown, let ms send you my samptes and esti mates. Can give any price gpwa the market affords Simple and Inexpensive, or handsome and costly. Miss J. E JOSEPH. 1006 Franklin street, Louisville, Ky. FOR HALE—Common building brick red color. Immediate delivery Price upon application. Cam6*B I’resa Rrtek Co., Camden, B. O. . WANTED—Plae logs bought T7 esah. For particulars address I’reas Lumber (\>., Sumter, 8. C. '*4 Buying a Piano or an Organ la Not Hard when you come or write to us. Our Pianos and Organs are guar anteed and up-to-date, and *t4 a rear enable price. The cases are beautiful, the In side ts made hr the bestt -and most experienced, men in their lines, to it is no winter our pianos and organs John A. McGean cra>hed Into hn irm hold* their sweet tone a lifetime: ore unloader at the Lack wanna Steel com jinny’s jilant this morning. ~NTTir< K WITH A BRICK. Assnult Made on- Ynnug Lady by Un- ■t ’ • - . ^ known Person. Florence, November 17. — Miss IL-s sip Shackleford, the sixteen-year-oH danghter.of M r and Mrs. Chari s W. Shakleford.was. struck in the head with a brick in the hands of some un known person almost directly in‘the front of the American Tobacco Com pane's plant m North "Dargon street last night,-aiWcjs jjiiffi'riiig very much from -'the wound. ^ Misit Shackleford Js ejnployed as ca.-hij*/ at th? dry goods store of Geo. M. McCown, in East Evans street. It was while on her way home from her daily duties-that six* was assaulted. The assault was comhiitten in one of the most frequented thorougbfare.- 6f the city, almost directly nnd r an electric arc light and within flf v yards of Iter father's storey- m If tite highwayman or foot pad could be run down it would go hard with him. This is one of the boldest i ■ holdups that has ever been niadej. in < Hhis city.' Many Coreans Killed. San Francisco, Noy. 19.—-Passen gers arriving from .Manila in the ‘transjiort Buford quote military ofl*-- ^>rs who have recently been in Japan as authority for the statement th*t thourandg^of Coreans have'been kill ed by Jajiarrese since the mikado oc- eupied the hermit kingdom with his | troops. • Every woman lives to congratulat herself Jhat'there was some man sh didn't marrv. , *-r Write us-at once for catalog and speciiil price and terms, Ktatiug pref erence piano or organ.- MALONE'S. MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. Pianos and Organa. •/ lOUTHERN PPLY Govt Vtachinery Supplies — HWiuaa ilKls ill in, I, S.uir». Plumbing SuppHc«_ PHONE l«4. COLU M Bl A. NEXT WEEK!' WATCH THIS SPACE, Angle Drive GIBBES PNEVMATIO GINNING SYSTEM Compvte with Bnnhlo boi. St«>«m f'vUnder Cu hlondTr^mi.r, l,n|>ri>vt-j CU-aninit Ft-ed*-.», /gv — Dr l>oubl * Roll Condi nm'r. 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