Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■N, Bias :£AT THEM All r';'* Hies Acres* the Eig- m Chine) Carrybt ING WITH HIM ROBBING THE SJ .WTOR C.OHK'M CHARGES TURN ON THE LIGHT. DO NOT NEED THAT FLAN .. i . .. t - • • ■ ’ . iARJHKUS TAKE CARE OF THEIR owx oqrroN. r |n ! , - t A - ^K- x, \ ' 'i Many I>and Ilobhrn* Waxing Rich on Nation's Wards Who Have Great - MnSasaat, Tonng Chirago Accompanied by Mech- His “First Visit to in Spectacular Man- arse Unknown. been reserved for an Amer- to-perform fine fit the log feats In the history of •rtntiM. John D. Molssant, of Chic- rgo. lew across the English Channel trim Qplaia. France, to Tilmanetone, “ Wednesday with & passen- this achievement far sur- tfeit of Blerlot. Delesseps ■nfertunate English avia- who afterwards met his Htrnemouth. h#tirh Han flight from France to England waa the more astonishing for * waa only a month ago that Motes? it learned to fly. and be made so few flights and was Sp little know among Mir men that even his na tionality was not disclosed. He w&S reputed to be a Spaniard, and it was only when he landed In England that l* wfis revealed that he is a young Chicago anphltect. Ts map the feat still more sur- prhrtig, Mbissant was totally Ignorant of the course. He had never l>een Bodies of Land. \ In %gland, and was obliged to rely on the compass, tiannel flight was an incl- aerial voyage from Par- pdon. Molssant left Issy rlth Hilbert Latham end liens in two hours. Le sroplane was wrecked and aomlng Molssant, leaving 1 jfarly hour, headed for feCiiwricdan, Albert Fi- had aocompartieC. . Wm luntry, took his place in the nuMMse when the motor was set in moths for the dash across the Channel Moismt. eared nothing for the warnib|S of the people and even the fact th(t there was no torpedo boat la his sake, but only a slow mov ing ta& did not deter him. He made the trip In S7 minutes. When he de scended his eyes were bloodshot, and greatly* inflamed, as a result of the heavy rain storm, which they drove into <« approaching the English coast. ; An overage height of between 300 and iff feet was maintained over the wfefcr.' The aviator expected to land ateDotett but was forced north by thsMda^gjpd made the coast near Deal. The eoM was intense and both Moiseatt agd his mechanician were benumbed. Ifoiesant seemed to take hie menumgntal feat as though it were a dally occurence. When he revived sufficiently he '.anghed and said to an interviewer: "This is my first visit to Eng land.” Desortbing his accomplishment he said: "This Is only my sixth fligjht in an aeroplane. I did not know the way from Paris to Caltas when 1 started. And I do not know the way to London. I ehall have to rely on the compass I would like to land In Hyde Park if 1 can find it. "My mechanician, who weighs 1*2 pounds, has never been In an aero plane before this, and did not know where I was taking him when we left Phrie.’ ’ Mofenant Is 35 years old. He first visited Parts some months ago and became interested In the study of .Re had two machines built Alter his own designs and found the sehJectA'SO fashionable that he determined to become a practicable air mtB- His flight to-day was made on a JMertot machine, which weighs about 100 pounds. Pileux. the mechanician, a burly ParlsiftB clad In overalls, did not know .where he was going when started, but say* that he felt quite at hoase, as he had the greatest con fidence In the pilot. WHIRLED TO HIS DEATH. Every Inch of land owned by In dians Is 'ooked upon as the legiti- irate prey of the land grabbers. This stal^ment was made ifcon- cay at Sulphur, Okl., by a member cf the committee appointed by the House of Representative* to InveSU gate Indian land contracts. Besides the charges of Senator ncr*; that he was offered $50,000 bribe tp "boost" the McMurray con tn>cts in Congress, the committee i« Inquiring unto Indian land condi tions. Some of the land-grabbers’ scl ernes certainly should be called to the attention of Congress,” said committeeman. "One man, wo have learned, has become rich. He kept a list of Indians who owned allott ed lands. Whenever an Iddian died he rushed into court, had guardian appointed with the conni vance of the guardian, dfcmaudet. *^af the land be sold under a ridl- celuously low valuation, for a few bnndred dollars. He has bought whole sections df l*nd. This man who is only one of many, started with no capital, now owns 10,000 ecies, for which he paid the Indians an adequate compensation. As there aic in Oklahoma something like 20,- •»00,000 acres oflndian 1 ands, seems absolutely Imperative tha; Congrese take prompt steps to pre vent land-grabbing." land-grabbing.” More details of J. F. McMur- ray's alleged activity at Washington jto promote his 10 per cent attorney fees contracts in the sale of $30,000, 000 worth of Indian Lands, were re ihted before the Congressional in vestlgating committee to-day. W B. Johnson, former United States at torney, testified that an indictment McMurray and others in Ii»05, charging "paduteg” of a $300,- tCO expense account, which OH iny’s firm had filed against the In- r.ians in prosecuting citizenship cites, had been dismissed by the At torney General. At the time the indictments were being investigated, Cecil A. Lyon, m.tiamel Republican committeeman for Texas, was in Washington. Mr. Ijon previously had testified he had uiged tJie Attorney General to In- Nertigate the indictments, but he de clares he never asked that they be dismissed. The indictments later vf-re ordered dismissed. Ms. Lyon then became interested with McMur ray in what are known as the old tiibal contracts, and talked with President Rooaeveltin’regiard to them Mr. Johnson testified that of 6,000 indictments returned during hi* •erm of office, only one—that : gainst McMurray, was dismissed. "After the McMurray Indictments were returned I was called to Wash- ngton. I took all the papers there \fter nine days, Assistant Attorney General Russell told me the indict- .ntnts were to be Investigated. I al- o met Mr. Lyon. He said he had been summoned to Washington by telegraph. When I got back home I was told that the indictment against McMurary had been dlsmiss- \ stionsl President Barrett President of Alabama . Union Bounds Protest. C., THURSDAY. AUGUSJL IfO 1W1U. ■ness—■— MTEDDilnLL HOT * v fcA . •• i. QVE THEIR SIDE J 1 » Arfueati lafc f«r tfa Kaihris for Uwer tue$ Before BOARD OF ASSESSORS Strong opposition to, tho proposed pUtn of JbhB K»yi Hammond. Dsn* isl J. Sully and other cotton men to establish a chain of cotton ware houses, developed Thursday at the opening seaslon of the Alabama Far- mers' Progressive Co-Operative uu ion at (Montgomery, Ala. National President C .3. Barrett referred to it in hia address to the convention. He said: "A meeting waa ealied, Atlanta being selected to discuss the advls- a bility of gathering under one bus iness organisation the cbhtrol of the union warehouses in Georgia. There were more than 130 such establish ments at the time, the namber being second only to thoae of Texas. “It waa proposed to have a boas, a .big man to run the bualnem to have it uUdsr the control of a few men. It was proposed to the farmer to give up hia rights and turn the control over to the boas. A year lat er another meeting was held and the plan failed to carry. "I advised that we never surren der our right*. Hold what you have. — "The trouble with yop farmers Is you want too much; you are never satisfied; rest awhile when you get something and enjoy It; never give up your warehouses. They refus ed to , in Georgia.” State President W. A. Morris in an interview, declared: "The Southern farmers, realizing along what lines their best interests lie will never affiliate with such a movement. To block such a move- rent will be our strongest effort ( an any one'suppose the Southern farmers will place the control of the cotton crop in the hands of another Interest? "We are well satisfied with exist ing conditions as compared to what result of the advent of inch s ould be. I am sma , X‘ ’ . ... 9IH SIGNAL DEFEAT ’■AS ED UP HU IRB. SHOULD HAVM SEEN. And Will Go y>to WRh • Rate. NSW York Po«t*es|T»i* Dtfferewce to Ral* or I of Codtoa In tho United -y -v __ I other CoaBtrfcs. cotton Thl convinced the farmers dl 'md the rest of the South will mi this plan with a cold shoulder. It is not tfieir interest or the interest cf hundreds of towns and cities with which they do business.” More than seven hundred delegat es are present. THE TARIFF STEAL. u. PARTY CAMPAIGN BOOK. Two South Every Bone Is Body Broken. ■ r '.'.-'15 8rott Hamraaker, superintendent ot tbs Pip® MBI, of the Susquehan na Iron and Steel Company, met a horrible death in tfie mill at Colum bia. Pa., Thursday.® Mrudlng key of a knuckle caught the tail of his coat INI was drawn into the belt and luJrtfc around by the shaft, w hich Hag 1,200 revolutions a Tkrsafr cot away was an ir- aod jrith every revolution •true* it. His feet later Eked up thirty feet away. waa Mother shaft, against Ilia arma and thighs hit with Iravolntloa. Every bone in his broken Cardins Congressmen Are (Quoted In it. The Congressional campaign book of the Democrats for the jijpesent year made its appearance from the headquarters of the committee in Washington Tuesday. Incorporated in the complication are speeches made in the House by the following Southern members: Aiken and Fin- 'ey, of South • Carolina; Kitchen, ■^mall and Sen. Simmons, of North Carolina; Adamson, Hardwick and Senator Bacon, of Georgia. Most of •he speeches are against the tariff nd "Cannonism." No Congress man’s speech who was not straight op these two subjects could find a place in this book. The book is Is sued for the benefit of Democratic campaign speakers. Senator Bristow Scores Aldrich and ^ Old Man Joe. ‘ At the old Salem chautaqua in Ill inois, Senator Joseph L. Bristow, of Kansas, delivered a denunciation of Senator Aldrich, whom he charged with the manipulation of the tariff for the enrichment of himself, his son and a number of his friends. Among the names Bristow link ed with that of Aldrich were Senator Guggenheim and Paul Morton, for mer Secretary of the Navy. Bristow attacked the entire "standpat” ele ment in the Republican party, and declared the people would demand a better explanation from Aldrich re garding his connection with the al leged trust than that of last Friday. fn his arrangements of the organi zation, In Congress, Bristow declar ed that under the domination of Cannon in the House and Aldrich in the Senate the pledges made in Republican platforms are flagrant ly violated and duties fixed not to contrbute to the welfare o< the American people, but to All the pockets of greedy, remorseless finan cial speculators. ♦ ♦ a WEVIL IN ALABAMA. The Officials Say the Corporations itf~1MifiiM»A "*■«'■ - ! Relief or Go Into the Hands of n Receiver ns • Mean* of Snvkm the Property. According to" the offlclale who ap peared before the Ststs Bosrd of Assessors in Columbia on Tuesday, the railroads are fsnrlnl; I crisis. Especially was this condition in the South emphasized by Henry Miller, assistant to the first vice-president oi the Southern. That wagee are in- c r easing end rates are being con tinually lowered is the reason given by the railway men for the condition of the railways. Basing hia argument upon the state of affairs and upon the recent action of the State board of equalization In lowering the aaseas- roents on cotton mills and cottonseed oil mills and like property, Mr. Mil ler asked that the railroad* be as sessed on the same basts as the tex- lies, namely. 50 per cent of the ac tual-voluhtion as arrived at by the board. j.. As to the Southern railway, Mr Miller pointed out that In 1907 the assessments were placed at 60 per cent. “No property outside of cot ton mills and banks are assessed as highly as railroads," said Mr. (Mil ler. Mr. Miller explained how valua tion make* the taxable value $19.* 142,000. He thought the $31,000, 000 excessive and explained that the method of arriving At the value was wrong. Mr. Miller explained In detail the bonding of property and answered questions put to him by Attorney General Lyon, who la a member of the board.. The total encumbrance of the Southern is about $20,000 per mile, Mr. Miller said. The Sou .ern, as explained by Mr. Miller f the receivership was cf several lines, ben t'nds that are not to be placed on any of the teperate property of the Southern railway proper. The Sou thern owns half interest In the Mon- on system, and whole or part of oth- €i lines. It ownr $96,000,000 In se curities of other lines. Figured with the reduction of this amount on Ks iund the Southern per mile i^val- ued at $27,000. The Southern, Mr. Miller, said, his been Increased 80 per pent, in taxes in this state in the last seven years. Yet its earning hove increased only ^0 per cent, in that period. Mr. Lyon—Does not the Southern earn more In proportion to it« mile age in South Carolina than in any other State? f Mr. Miller—No. Mr. Lyon—Does not more money 1 1 ■ r ’ v ■ 1 sp A dispatch from New Ydrk sarsl In a recent iwut the Progreselvs ^ there was marked calm Wednesday I Tarmer sad Southern ram Oaxstto r.v*r Tfii -troubled waters of the Re-J published two picture that should publican political ss*» following th* have been assn by every cotton fai storm Tuesday, when th* “Old *« In th* United Stats* On* of tho Guard" la the Sthth commutes, vot-1 picture* ahowsd th# ragged and tat* • a T1 flinr. Wnn—Talf* COPdlttOtt ^f A«i*fliS# UtlHl ' td down Theodors Roosevelt * name ^ ^ ^ marit#u *riK# lor temporary chairman of the ‘ , ‘*®-| fnd t j, e 0 tb*r showed thf neat con ing State Convention. j dltlon In which cotton from other No man woe prepared to Say how I cottD trt*a Is put on th# things would shape themselves dWr?btootly *11 the bagging had edm* of ug the day* Intervening between jpf the American cotton now and th* State convention, wherojodi^,. cotton was completely the delegates, after all, will finally I oith bagging and presented a neat determine who *h*ll be chosen. j q|c« appearance.. On th# oth#r New York County Chairman Oils-1 hand th# American cotton looked cpm, who presented Roo#evelt‘a name I *aggsd, dtrtyr end badly packed. Th#y to the committee eays the fight will J w9re ftriklhg picture#, be carried to the primaries and to j n commenting on them the edl- the convention. I tor said tbeee two photograph# made That Roosevelt. Intends, ss a dsl- | n Liverpool strikingly Illustrate the - f V ••gate to the State Convention from 1 careless and dlsgraeefnl manner in Naeaau county, to urge * progressive I *hlch our Southern cotton reaches platform and candidate for govern- the English market (the writer or is clearly Indictated. phtltictana AMn our ragged Southern bale# haui- tay. in that portion his statement over Liver pool In just this plight) Issued Tuesday night, which Mysljt ctompared wfitta the thoroughly lhat a speech by him “would be of Lett and aatiafactory pecking of cot- such character that It might help L rn f r0 m other psrte of the world, tf the convention nominated tbej no t only Egypt, but India and South right kind of a man on a clesn-cut I Africa as well. The unsightly and progressive platform, but It would I figged condition of our ootton hurt If neither the right kind of a I ranees the English manufacturer to man were nominated nor the right I prefer Asiatic or African cotton If kind of a platform adopted." be can get It Roosevelt made It clear Wednes-j Right now la the time for oar day that under no Circumstance# J Southern farmers to decide that our would he allow hi# mbs# to h# pro* j 1 si0 cotton crop shun Jto better bal- oented to. the convention a# s can- e U than soy other crop ha# ever didate for the governorship noml- j been. King Cotton 1* nd longer poof, nation. I be’# rich, and he deserve# ^ beCtar President Taft waa upset when j C ] 0 thlng than the r«|i»d g news came from New York to Bevor- 0 f humiliation h# wor# in lit 1-4-I- ly of the defeat of Roosevelt for j *. (Moreover, It will pey. A buyer temporary chairman of the New York I u always willing to give a higher State Convention. | jrlce for any product on earth when looks thoroughly neat and attrsc- the year 1900 It was said that the I live. Consciously or unconsciously. 1 ate then was lower than In any hutentiohally or unlntentlaHy. th* country in the world yet today the j cotton buyer will pny mors lor the rate is just about two third* of j well-bound bale, and we fully be- what it was ten year* ago. jlieve that the farmer ♦111 get from The cause for this. Mr. Miller $i.so to «S for every fl hp spends out. are the interstate com- for better baling. ro’T’tag^m^ijMton. various rail; I For one thing, then brother farm- merce cooMK^^and competition. | ere, let’# ^dde on bettor baling for toad comjnieatffiW^^^^o f■> IMo cotton. And then let's and ofttimea the desI^MHMHM^|^^hUtarem*Uer settled. In writlnx c union at Spartanburg, msneed on tost Wednesday, Ml* 8ut#,.*«jKS Daniel from hM etoxn# which stakde to S#<xr- / ^-5 tanbnrg’a principal egnarototod saw f" * thousands of th# dssesndssu if th# —s»e men vho foUowsd him to vic tory at G01 ♦ar and fas peace, hav# South Carolina aad tor xlShL '^4= -v* Tbs annus! rawiloifi oral* votaraa# aad ot th* Men of *7fi opened here today. (hot* ar# mor# people in SparUn- bag than UfUr tUr# tfcfor#. ^4 Twenty-urn- hundred -roioraa*. * thousand Red Shirt men Bad num bers, bf both Sob# aad the Confederacy ar# to poo ‘th# renaloa. -f = Opening exercises were h#M Wsd- cssday morning to the South- PLAYD.G WITH SNAKE. Baby Saved from Bite of Rattler by It« Mother. When Mrs. Jas. Oxalli, of Blue 'art, ,Oal., went Into her back yard to look for her b^by she found the .nt’ant playing with a rattle snake, v h!rh was colled up and hissing end .Mltllng. Each tisie the child stoop ed over to pick up the reptil* it woo'd stick out Its tongue and rattle, 5-11 of which served merely to delight ne baby. The mother drew the child iway, later dispatching the snake ■with a club. It measured three feet and had four rattles and a button. Expert Thinks Cotton Pest Will Soon Get There. That the boll weevil will be in Alabama this fall all things now in dicate. If the pest makes as good time eastward a« It did In Mississ ippi, last year, it will find Judge ment as far into that State ai Es- ccmbia county, across Mobile and Baldwin counties, from the 'Missis sippi line. However, It is more like ly that It will get no farter than Mobile, Washington and Choctaw, xhich is almost certain. If there ts a late fall. This Is the opinion of W.L Pryor, expert weevil mao of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, who is In Alabama to take up with the State officers the first work of elimination and pro tection. Murderer, citizens and po- Rhlng the swamps N. J., searching >t who la wanted of Urn. Mary Um- t|x Killed Herself. At Atlanta,-Ga., Miss Emma Lee Campbell, agod 25, of Kdgemont. N. tm ho was a student at a business rnllese. died Monday at a bosoitzl ?s a result of poison taken with sui cidal intent. Sbs explained to her landlady, shortly after she had taken the poieou, th# rosaon for her act was that shaJjad a quarrel with one ot her tsadw*., . » 4^' Good for the Ladies. The stock of liquors and boer be longing to the American Order of Owl* at Maryville, Tenn., was seiz ed by the sheriff at that place un der a distress warrant and sold. It v as bought by th* ladles of th* Wo men's Christian Temperance Union and destroyed in front of the jail by pouring It on th* ground in the presence of a large crowd. earned in this State on the road go towards improvements In other btales than such money from other States comes to this State. (Mr. Miller—No; improvement* are made on seperate bonds, not on earn ing*. "We have greater profits in Vir ginia, North Carolina and Tenn“s- see." added Mr. Miller, "and less dead mileage there.” Asked about improvements In oth er States, Mr. Miller stated that tra de and tonnage demanded the same. On questioning as to whether the f-outhern is worth more now than ip 1907, Mr. Miller said that there was rumor of a receivership in that year but said be would not like to answer that question as an official cl the road. "Not materially better now," Mr. Miller's final reply to that question, although the latter ex I iained the condition of the road with regard to high wages and dbst of operation. “We are met on one side with the absolute demand for Increased coot- rensatlon,' said Mr. Miller. He ex- I Iained that to the pay roll of the road since January 1 there has been added $1,750,000 aa increase pay U* trainmen, enginemen and clerks, none of whom receive above $70 per month, the others not being raised. Mr. Miller told of the conference <*t Washington between the rood and the employes resulting In this raise u wages. Then the operators ap^ pealed and arbitration waa necetH aary. "Everything we buy hoe Increas ed in prjee," said Mr. Miller, "any where frdm 16 to 100 per cent. Our 'nly hope Is increaee in raise which has been withheld. At no time in the history or railroading have we (seed euch a crisis as today. Ex penses must be reduced or rates must go up." (Mr. Miller compared the co«t of bridge timber of a few y#ers ago with the coat now. What sold f >r a little over $9 per thooaegd Is sow 723; cross ties have Increased from 2$ to 37 cents; rails from 917 to «2fi; coal from $1 cent* to 91.17,' -cor from 91.600 per tall# to 1906 a* '?>*-• %. w r Leopard Escaped, g- Nine persons were injured 1 g a abort spell of freedom e-joyltoJo 99.119 lost year, by a leopsd who escaped from a mt- •'sgerlo at Vega Portugal. Th* animal after mauling two wotoot, mads off with a child In Its pairs, but cropped U whan the 4%mb cams near. The child was scarcely Injur ed at all. a, -■ seme" industry. As to taxes In 1902 1*rn waa taxed 9196,000 In this State/ In 1909 the amount was 9362.00V,' an inerease of 80 per cent, in seven years. The earnings . lncresa#4 .3* per cent, in that time. Mr. Miller contended that If the 60 per cent, basis were allowed to aland tbe taxes for 1910 would be $375,000. h takes 12 per cent, of net earnings to pay tbe taxes, end 6 per cent, of gross earnings. Mr. Miller said If present condi tions are not relieved receivership would be tbs goal of the railroads. "If I could so cast >my vote 1 would vote that the government take oxer tbe railroads. It would .be s horrible state of affair*, for the gov ernment could not run tbe big sys tem*. "The trent of rate# hoe been dovfn-' ward. In South Carolina the fertil* ii^r rates were recently reduced. The Double Is that the people sr* al ways jumping on the roods. They imagine that they are burling some Northern capitalists when, as a mat ter of fact, millions from the South- trn men are involved.” (Mr. Miller pointed out that the isles should be figured always on v hat will give a fair return on the money invested on the amount efr business done. The tax man toys what Is the value. Mr. Miller asked that 60 per cent, should be adopted Ify tbe board, making the Southern's assessment about f 13,500 per mile or 8 per cent of earnings, which would make about $17,000. Continuing bis argument, Mr. Mil ler compared railroad assessments with other class of property. “It la perfectly ludicrlous," h* said, "t# A ok at Charleston county sad see the personal property assessments.'.' He pointed out other Inequalities, t Other officials who were In tbe v:<ty for tbe meeting agreed with Mr. Miller that the railroads on getting the short end of LK* waga preposi tion and that tbs rates must be In- erboeed or they will be la bad c#n- dltlon. C. J. Joseph, tax agent of tie Atlantic Coast Line, argued that the railroads have been Increased more than any other class of property and gave figures to substantiate the statement. Th* railroads have beam increased 31 per cent; the reel sal personal property 6 1-2 per cent, to the last few years. Th* Atlantic Coast !*lBe asked for. an assessment of 60 per cent, on tiMIfifi.fififi. ~ Albert Anderson, superintendent cf th* Charleston 4 Western Caro* DM rail toad, argued that material fan Increased to price, higher anl the road la faelsg a tout conduion. HU Ii will be rem per lost fall carried #11 * crusade for 8 per cent, tar* en cot- ten This agitation was felt for good In many sections, but from one or two communities w* have had com plaints that buyers refused to buy cotton with 8 per cent, tare, end these correspondents seem inclined to blame us for the tenable. —^ These correspondents ar* answer ed In this'week's Progressive Fa«»* ei and Gssette In whtah we polat out two things; First, the • per cent, tare U right, but If s farmer is wilt ing to be run over by buyers who object to It, If he is not ♦HHag to staiffi up for hU rights, why. It U not our fault; w# cannot help It Second, whenever buyers assume such sn attitude, however, th# farm ers should organize through the Farmers Union or otherwise for self protection and enforce fhelf rights. And It Is none to sarly to bedis this work If results are to be had this season. ter, whieh. though a large building, could not hold the crowd which I to listen to thn eloquence of <* m Red Shirt men ned lire flret toer veterans, many of then grey uniforms, and the Lee, of Jackson ahd of 'oet none of their chai d tones, while “Dtajp*’ tbe "rebel yelt" In x 'gor. mi the. jm Md-: 1 an forth The veterans. Petty, was H, Carolina division U. Q. ▼ dree* to the Sou# of to by Oea. #. OAl nd* dress to made by Ft. B. Red Shirt men hy A. L. Osston of ft file and to the ‘-■sra for the Mauldin for |4|e prtnJtl« • mor of South „ The pr R. Brooke of Moquent duty of end marble to •jr«*ds done hf,' on the Sold of battle ai still harder S«M whieh of Brooke* [mB .be, BOLDIKR8 FIGHT. Texas Militiaman Kills Two Privates , With Pistol. At Abbott. Tsxas, Saturday, P. M. Firmln, a member of Battery A. Tex as National Guard, shot and Instant ly killed A. B. Puckett and O. L. Williams, first class privates of the hospital corps. Ftrmin used a volver, one of his victims being ehot twice and Uhe other receiving one ballet. Flrtnin and his brother, Burt Flr- Uln. also a member of Battery A. were placed la jell. Firmln Is soli to have bees absent from kb com mand without leave whan the shoot ing occurred. The troop# were sn route home frdha Lean Springs, hav ing been attending aaajfeuveru for several days, * ■meuasaiBfansgBsh^i A dispatch from Curling. K V.. rays It wan definitely learned Th era- day that four persons were killed to the explosion of * gasoline tank that practically wrecked th* gneoltoe fur ry boat In the ha>. X * Copt, jobs fir. principal speech and the^ was laid by Mrs. Char lee right the vetnrann went to the auditorium of Couverue toHegu 1 heard Polk. Miller at war 4lnto stories. Red Shlrte of ♦ and description «omo wore them with m the outside and the others pedera out of sight or without the