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A i, A i / i i > V / ♦ voL.xxxrv BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 15.1911 SOME HOT TALK Gmraor Blease ud Cel flib Etiis Sores tie Eeldrr Letter SAYS ITS A PACK OF LIES The Governor Neither AdinitN Nor Denies the Letter* With Ills Name to Them Publish'-d by Feld er, Who. Evans Says, Is a Grafter and a Scoundrel. novernor Blease has iicjiher de- THE COTTON PICKER WILL IT BE A BENEFIT TO THE COTTON GROWERS. Mr. I jew Is W. Parker Thinks it Will Put Many of Them Out of the Bualnesfl. DEBATE WAS BITTER TRUSTS ASSAILED IN SPEECHES ON THE WOOL TAX. SHOCK KILLS CAN’T BE FOUND LAND SELLS HIGH i I'nderwood, Democratic Ijeader, Charges American Woolea Com pany with Forcing Adoption of Schedule K. Muy Killed nf Irjared by Sererc Earthquake in Kt xic* City. SIPPOSKD TO HAVE BEEN (WIGHT AND LYNCHED. TWELVE WOMEN KILLED Bitterness of political debate such Wednesday, In his address before the graduating class of the South Carolina. I rdyersity, Mr. Lewis Wj.^^asAiaa not characterized, any. of the.1 Parker summed up in m&sterful' 0 p en j n g t ar jff skirmishes of the! manner the industrial situation ofij )re8pn { session of congress, cropped todav in the South in general and 0U ( j n t) ie beginning of the wool South Carolina in particular, looking ( tar jjj discussion in the house Wed-! conditions squarely in the face and nesday. recognizing opportunities of the fu-. q I'nderwood, chairman of the ture. Speaking of the cotton picker, wa y g an( j mean's committee, devoted Klajer of J. P. Houknight, Who Es caped in Night Clothes, Has Not Been Keen- Since. The body of .1 Pink Boukpight, ! the farmer of the Shady Grove sec tion of the Dutch Fork of Lexlng- 'Trm county, who was shot and killed WONDERFUL INCREASE IN VAL UE OF GEORGIA DIRT. Hat U flat CtvfTMf fOsai Say* 4 lit Deatcratic Praafedi I.lltle Over Three Hundred Acres In creased Over Two Hundred Thous and Dollars In Forty Years. The Atlant i Constitution says the sale of the almshouse property by the county Last Saturday brings up a very interesting bit of history which Many of the Itead Were Soldiers Who Were Crushed While Asleep in Their Barracks, Which nf an pr(rly hour Wednesday morning ^ihowf, ,ho1 wonderful Increase of real Were Demolished by Shocks He- whil,> heading a posse of "white eiS, . a ^ val '"' 8 np ' ir Atl anta foro ( ouhl Make Their Ks- ra|>e. caps." by Will Collins, a negro, was 1 Kul,on < ' oun, >' bought the propert> i laid to rest at Shady Grove church ', n J hroe differen t lots and at three Thursd.y afternoon at ?, o’clock. In, 'the presence of a large congregation Sixty-fhree killni and seventy-, of friends and relatives. Will Col- ! has caused some comment but the whicb bids fair to have u P on the 5n ' friends of Governor Blease say the ! fluStrlal hi8tor >’ of the South an ef - ^ ^ t Died or admitted that h<> wrote the j he said. the afternoon to an explanation of' letters published by T. B. Felder: There has recently been perfect- t i le proposed revision of the wool live wounded and fifty thousand dot- ^ ns ' who did tho shooting, has over the Governor's signature. Th)h another agricultural Implement tar 4f( an< j to aa attack, upon thenars worth of property destroyed i S lf,i, her been killed and his bodv Payne tariff law and the Republic,^ np( n . suU of au earthqua g P> in ri ^r, or he has suc- can party. j . ceeded in making good his escape, ac- He was met at almost every stage which Mexico City, the enpi- (<or(1inR fo thp mogt rpllable lnfor . of his argument by replies from | tal of Mexico, Wednesday morning. mation obta i na , )]e from that aectlon Senator Payne, ranking Ret&H*lican an d jected a not of tragedy into! The first news of the death of Mr. member on the ways and ■means| wbat was expected to be a day of Bouknight reached Lexington Wed- committee, and bj- other Renublic.ans 1)ure re j 0 i t .j a g nesday morning, when Coroner who questioned his stafel^^Fs W d tvhen the work of searching the Clark received a telephone message his arguments. ! ruins is completed it is possible that ! in effect that J. P. Bouk- Mr. Payne denied wtgorousVy the matter will all lie cleared up as soon as Felder is hauled up, which he hopes will be soon. Col. H. H Evans .was asked while what have you to siy about it. He in Coluin Id. i if he had seen Felder’s ■Wrbicle about Governor Blease and wheat have you to say about it. He made the following st.itonent i feet equally as great as that of the cotton gin, with this difference: The ! cotton gin facilitated the production of cotton growing states, whereas there is good reason to believe that . the other Lnventioh that of the cotton I'icker, may so accellerate the pro duction of cotton in communities In which the picker can be used to the , in i greatest advantage as to make much writing to t ie Greenville .News for ] egs profitable, and possibly later to respondent different times In 18G3 the county bought from the M ei hah lea Building and Loan Company two hundred and two and a half acres for $1,000. In 1 877, the county needing more land for an alms farm, “bought forty- three acres from J. L. Mathewson for $705. More land being needed the county bought, In 1881, eeventy-aeveu acre* from Henry Irby for $770. This made a total of three hundred and twenty-two and a half acres, and the total amount paid by the county for the entire tract of land waa only It will be seen that the first pur- i the list of the dead will be somewhat night was dead and requesting the ,„^ Democratic charge that the ^ a y ne i bjgbp,. an< i there are doubtless many to come over and hold an In- 1 $2,475. law had not fulfilled Republican !. oun(lp( j w j )0 w | t h traditional fear n upst No particulars were given l>rohibit altogether, the production of! criticised ^n detaf^Mr 8 I^ndervvood’s ’ he authori,i,s and government, and. attaching but little Importance , chase was made forty-two years ago. ’les. I read Felder's article in the coUon in those communities and un-1 8tatem . nt8 that countr ,.. 8 reve | ho8 I ,i,ala arfl nnvious to evade dis- to the message on account of its fteno.-,, r , :r eha statements that tn, countr. s re e | rovery. The propeity loss is bat .ir. " “•e coroner lnstn: r tc.! ,i K o and the third and last mirchaae nue was declining and the treasury i Miniate and is based upon estimates Magistrate Lorick of Irmo, who lives approaching a de cit. ; iiv nn-noru an d contractors. Dot far from the scene, to hold the PEOPLE WANT CHANGE Delighted With Tottr Ttarovgh tM Far W'rmi aad ladoraea Tendency—Stop# In W« and Conaiuenda Honae Cancn* tm Refusing to Put Wool on Free IMi On big way home from Columbia Uov. Wilson stopped off at WMfelig- ton on his way home from a tour of the far Weotern States, and all through the day his auito In the Will ard was crowded -with tens ton and representatives who diarntiid wttfc him the political outlook. Ho Ao- clared Demoo ratio proapeoU woty never brighter. * Gov. Wilson congratulated tk« members of congreua on the work> done my the Democratic minority 1 thus far during the extra sseslon. and heartily Indorsed the action of. the house in reducing the wonlr Atlanta Constitut.on. i do not know ( j pr tb ORP conditions In which the who the alleged letter was written to picker can not be used to tgireater ad- > Blease as the addressee s name vantage It is a correct statement Is not given ’>y L elder As far as the 0 f f ac t to sty that the acreage in Hut) is concerned in the said let-, cotton and the growth thereof has t**r 1 presume that it appHes to Huh been limited heretofore by the plck- H Evans, as w s the only man of ing capacity of the South generally, the name of Hub that made bv owners Mr. Payne will lead the opposition uttle of the , 088 js covered by in . of the Democratic bill and sura i ue Will make the opening speech. No 1 ' limit has been set to the debate, and while it Is Mr. Underwood's hope It was 6:23 o’clock when the first inquest. Nothing of the real seriousness of thirty years ago, Now, after a lapse of forty-two, thirty-four and thirty years, the same tract of land that cost only |2,- tho situation was learned, untll ^"^. has been sold for $209,232.53. shock was felt According to the the return of Deputy Sheriff Miller, ■ These figures show that the land was ever on for the limit of what the Individual t b ' a V"it'" win he concluded with”in j nip t eorolf > sr tc a l observatory the great-' who was early on the grounds w »s bought for about $7.50 an acre, the board of directors. Felder and . tdauter can cultivate is that which 1 j g PX p ec t e( } k5 S t we |] into P9t '"tensity was reached at the end Wednesday. After making an In-, *nd for about $6500 an acre. the addressee are both inf imous liars he can pick; no man can safely plant as I have never turned over to Cole more than he ran pick: hut if pro- 1, Blease $5'Mi or any other moneys vision he made by which the picking And there is not a man living in the is tremendously ac-ellerated, then world that knows better th n Tom there ran be correspondingly an In- Felder that I did not do it If I crease in acreage if that he necen- had done so every man w'ho knows sary or certainly such increase in Blease knows he would have too Improved met hods of culture through natch sense to have acknowledged it the-use of machinery as to cause a in writing, for whatever efce may great increase in the number of bale-* have been or mav be said of him. not crown even his bitterest political enemies Heretofore, there has been little have ai ecsed him of being a fool inducement to use the most improved the second week. I of the minute, but the instruments 1 vestlgation. Mr. Miller was not able : There were two sales of the prop- Mr I'nderwood declared that t be i r ontinued to record the shocks for to give any of the particulars of the ! ert y °d June 26, 1909, more than Not onlv that, wh t inducement could have poss’bly b.-en bought upon me to deliver over to Cole I. Blease $',e,i (>r any other moneys’’ All of niv friends a^<J enemies know that Huh Evans did not give Cole 1. Blease er any other man $T,imi and a no'her tiling 1 know that the language ; u ; : s!., <1 in the ;. t’e ) .a to tny no* her).; r< Cable '•) lur-i < 1 maters was n.e ..sed bv Bl, ■ se f,,. be knows :bat 1 am reii.,Ule In all of tr.v finam ; al dealings "Felder is known f r and wide as a grafGr and a s outulrel and un- worthv of tielief and 1 do not care to take further nothe of his filth, but am r> adv and prepared to meet him and his e-sociates on anv charge that tie may make, as I have been endeavoring to do by clamoring for a hearng befon* th<' winding-up methods of culture anil -agrl- eultural Implements for the rea son that this decreased during the Period of culture the amount of la- Ayteri an Woolen com pan y had dic tated to the Republican congress on the wool tariff. "There is nobody ~m t+iis country v'ho dors not know that the Ameri can Woolen company fixes the price." said Mr. I'nderwood: "that it is a monopoly, that it Is,.a trust, and that that industry and thut company dic tated to a Republirarv house, when they prohibit'd you from reducing the exorbitant rates under schedule K in the last congress " Critlmsing the present tariff board. Mr I'nderwood sat’d that if that hor required and left the planter bo dv "went on for 1" vears as it without no essarv la'mr to jdek. upon rtie niaturity of the crop If however, relief is pi ven through the cotton i acker towards the reaping of the harvest, there will cert Inlv tie ap plied those agricultural implements that will decrease the amount of la bor in the growth of the crop These agricultural implements', a* oing at present, we would not get enough information on the woo! schedule to wr/ie a tariff bil! " While not Questioning "the sitmer- Oy of lioneytv of purpose of Presi dent Taft." Mr I'ndervvood sail he was convinced th>t "e : ther the tioard wa> onyincctl hat "e ther the board refused/to give up facts we called fourteen minutes more. It was of a vacillatorv, twisting character, but almost free from trepida'ory niotion. More than half of the dead c- counted fo'r were soldiers Thev were eaught hen'a'h the falling walls of the atillery barracks in San Cosine, a locality roar th» Mex ican Central st ition Vno’hcr place where the earthquake took its toil of death in considerable numbers was at the city power plant of tbe street ear eompanv. Here six vv re killed and six wounded Two others were found in the de r : s consistin’’ par’ly of steel raj's vv hi* h h id been stacked in 'he :rcn nd wood de partnients and which collapsed The victims were uih ib tants -hacks lutil! along the sn -t n et ure With 'lies. two t >\ . death list was made up " Hfs or in soir ♦* i Vi - * ;t in « f h r* ♦* (*a v f ht luvn» T h ,t t tragedv. further than that Rouk- "ne-third of the land, Including the night had been shot In the stomach ! valuable Pwu htree road frontage, with a shotgun while making an ef- wa * «"ld at auction, and from the fort to enter the home of Will Col- sale was realized $69,690.76. litis through a window. Last week the remainder or nearly O Inmn is divided as to the two-thirds of the property, was-eold where bouts of the negro who es-' n t auction for $1 30,54 1 77. It was caned after shooting Mr. Bouknight, thought two years ago that the prop- hut the maforltv believe (hat he was Prt V brought an exceedingly high killed and his body thrown Into the Price, and yet that price was small river Others declare that the groans ns compared with the sales made of the dvinc man so frustrated the la* 1 week, parfv that tholr attention was dl- verted from the negro and that he MURDERED BY BI'RGLARA. made his escape. One of Collins’ «- children was shot in the brnk. If Is A lady HufTorateri in Her Boom With su’d Collins’ wife it is said, makes Her Stocking. rntnmission an detr.nd a trial in the courts, hot h of which have been with the development of th Iso the picker itself, ran unques- f ()J . p yen with the president's sane- on iblv he used to much greater ad- t j on f, r P | 8P the hoard has wasted a vantage in the bottoms of the Mis- ,,,, ,-4^ 0 f a minion dollars in Jts mssipi'i and other rivers, and upon WOJ ,^ the plains of Texas. Oklahoma and _ ^ ^ \rkansas. in the fertile fields of the Pee Itee and Savannah, than they c n he in the hilly section of the Car- nlinas and Ceoryia and Alabama If G not an unnaturil exfvoct at ion tha't. MONKEYS TO I*( K COTTON. cotfon Trial Was Suggested by Ant p-s of Pet Chimpanzee. denied me notwithstanding tne fact that tiie const it u'ion of both the Cnited '-'tates and my state guaran tees me th.e right to a fiir. puhlir .and sp» - d' trial All of this has been rep-tfedly tvfu-ed me tiy the eoni-. missiou .atnL iiv the circuit judges who have field the courts in the r ii-h’h eir nit. "I have been lied upon, insulted bv insinuations and lying charges bv Felder nd his crowd of liars and thieves and I now call a show down The limit is reached If Felder or the addressee of said alleged letters published in the Atlanta Constitu tion feels aggrieved at my language 1 l am ready to gi-v-e them personal s: tlsfaetion at any tine and place. C-ev or either of the i m:\ desire"- ••hker and its eue-essful use. rot- ton culture wall he gradually re stricted to those communities Avhere 'he picker, the steam plow arid slm- i 1 ar implements can he usjCd most ad vantageouslv This is not necessarily to he re garded ns an unmixed <?vi 1, In our state, for even in an agrienltural view if may become ry hlessiug as tending to force upon our people a •Mversification of crops, which has rot heretofore existed. But as the, effect of this aeticyn Will he to h" ' «en the numt>er reqtt*red upon the f artn. and, eorrtyspondinuly. to in- resae the movement to the towns, 1 * is well to eqnsider what is to be come of this urban population and how it is to/be employed. An attempt is to be made in Ful ton Countv. Ga , by French cotton experts to teach monkeys to pick cotton If the experiment succeeds a colony of monkeys will be imported and put to work The idea was suggested !>> tlo an tics of a pet chimpanzee carried bv a farmer boy into the fields The little anim tl, after friskifig around for a time and watching the negroes at work, began of its own a cord to pick the cotton V^l t h a 1 [most inc r»»di- a \v a y nd t Ir n t itc n ■of 1 Tit Me rapid By. on the slcc I'ing men and h Anima 1 traine TS find it very 0 *sv dow tl t h ro imh the fioo r to teach tronkt * \ ? i to pe rform any com it 1 d»-s icdow Th.- manual t ri< k or la tbor. i’ :y util izin 1: Hurt > sold iers itavr he' ■n monkey la-’Or the cost of bar ve -tin*: '1 liree ;tre missing and si cot'on would be infinitely less than w ith hum in labor KILLED two ukoflk. 1 PROBABLY DIED FROM FRIGHT '-ent to t Double ('rime. Wife of Florence PoMoflice (Jerk Found Dead. . ,, i t Guilty with recommendation to Mrs Rosa McWhirter, wife of Jas. ; ’’er/v." This was the verdict reaeh- McAYhirter, a clerk in the moneX' or- n d by-the twelve men selected to der department at the Florence post- !- 'e/ide the fate of Ernest E Grims- ofiiee, w 's found dead in her homeMey. who shot and killed Mrs. Rosa on Gilliard street. Monday afternoon i/’essinger and her nephew. Walter shortly after the thunder storm, and/Sandlfer, one month and one day ago it was first thought that she had beet/ on last Wednesday. The tragedy killed by lightning, but the eoronQr | occurred in the Acme lun h room on and physicians investigated her de^h i Taylor street. Columbia, and it was determined that she died , Grimsley was tried on the *3* / . ! ittle ^ Return Stat<‘‘s He«-or<ls. ie PenltentiHry for Life for 1 Albany, N. \ disp t h s,a\ s 1 Gov Pix has signed the hill requir- Of little of t lie t (ms 1 !.•■ of -ingle of two or '! • n vv ,11 in the poorer buildings of the distrb ’ nio-t seirou-'v ffe ’.-1 Although the shot k wes pi ,inly fell n all ; irt- of the city few reili/e l the magu - tilde of the <• strophe until late In the forenoon. d"e 'o *h- fact thD' the casu.ilit its were 'OlilltH-d to a rompartivelv small area No personal property of Americans m s damaged and wi'h the exception of one Ch'n tm.nn no foreigner was killed In the barracks where the -oidllTS Were kill'd. 12 women lo.-t th'-ir lives Thev were 'he wives of the nrtillernien The women have the privilo e of -pending the n : ght with:ti the walls of the barracks The barn ek s was an old s’rm,‘ure hut't i generation ago Se-.. n'v two sol diers were shaping :n the hoiisr A pprox’ir i'v h:i! f wei*. quarter ed oti the tir-t door, 'he remainder on the se oiel , The outer watt fell nd tie n the roof crashed down iirhal tliem onto their bodies of recovered xteen are wounded, a few dangerously In- 1 stantly those who e-r:ped tn-gati the 1 work of rescue Three Mocks from the barracks the wards of the Mexican Central, where Madero had been scheduled to enter, presented another spectacle ’he statement that she told him to shoot. believing that She. together With a stocking tied closely about •'''h her two children, would all be her neck, anofher crammed Into her k Med She ga'bored her children throat and her handa tied behind n her arms and manag' d to make her. Mrs. Ida Hill was found dead whlrh th * P«opl« of th« We*t ! ,. r escape in the darkness tbp home of her mother, Mr*. J. H. i fluting and the progreea for whl Ttm verdict Of the jury of inquenf Ragsdale, at Jamestown ,N. C . early fighting \n the was in effect. Mint the deceased came Thursday morning The deed Is anp- thlrtv-fonr vea-s! S " hpdn,f ' r, ° C « nt ' '*«*** ® f P«t-, ting wool on the free list at this time, as urged by Bryan. The New Jersey Gorernor wws deiiglited with his trip throaffh tbs West. It wss the first time h« bsd crossed the Reeky mounts]ns, ssff his traveling companions ssM thoje were greatly surprised at the warmth of the recaptions he reostved. The statements made that Mr. Wilson was unknown In the Went were j ed false they said. "1 was delighted with the reoep* lion I received In the West. Party lines have been demolished compaw* <, ly In the West as far as the dsetree of the progressive people are con cerned. I found that there was virtually no difference between a Democrat and a progressive Republi can except on the tariff question." Asked If he Included in this class the Insurgent senators who harfc' been fighting reciprocity with Canada Oov Wilson smiled and said. "They are not esactly the else* of progressive* to whom I referred. I am heartily in (jivor of redprodtjr,* and I think moat real progressives are likewise. "I was not able to find any dif ference between the progress for ar people of some of the Western ''* !,, h bv a gunshot wound In posed to he the work of burglar* who haT « a^tunlly put the pr ImndH of parties unknown to the Pn tered the house between midnight! on the statute books. While iurv The wounded man was ear- an d day Indication* of burglary led rbM to the home of his brother-in- to the theory. Mrs. Hill 1* the wld- liw. Mr Fulmer where a convey- ! ow of the late Dr. Joel Hill, who wa* mice was secured to carry him home. * prominent physician of Lexington, but he died on the wav The de- \ (\ Hr. Hill died about four ccm*>M was a brother-in-law to Joe. months ago Mrs Hill was returning Eftmer whose tvirn was burned a .from Philadelphia, where eh a was f ' w H '''‘ks ago. the burning of which treated in a sanitarium following «. v is laid to the negro. nervous breakdown after her hu*- The killing occurred on the plan- band's death faf'on of Rheft Aounelner, for whom ghe was accompanied from Phil- t'olPns worked. The tragedy ha* adelphia-*bv her sister. Miss Jennie Ragsdale, who is a member of the faculty of Bryn Mawr college. M!s*> Ragsdale was in the house when the I "The Initlatlv* and referendum murder was committed. No rlue has) th « y have gotten , n ^he We« Is the been found as yet to the perpetrators ; we want , n th<) ^ of the deed e.-is* n gloom over the entire section. T P Bouknight was 52 years of age md haves a wife and several rhil- drett. He was prominent in the communitv and numbered his friends hv the score Deputy Sheriff Miller returned to Hie scene to make furth er investigation, but no trace of the n<-gro could be found. we in the Beat have not had aa maek succeaa we are fighting for virtnnHy the aame things. "There is little difference In what the Eastern American wants and' what the Western man gotten. They have got their desires s little faster than we have, and they have used means which we may not nan in the East. There la no doubt la. my mind that we will continue fight* ing In the East until we get vit$nally all they have accomplished la the West. ' ' ‘ ' FATAL F.AKTHQUAKE Earthquake at Mexico City Kills at I/east 150 Persons. the same that we win eventually get. ! I am and always have been fn favor | of the initiative, referendam an^ re- I call—except in the cases of jndgae— Estimated to be Between Fifteen to 8 | mp iy aa_ a ..safeguard, to bo nsod only when It la necessary for the purpose of putting tbe will of the A message rereived at San Diego,, people above the will of tbe ,men t Gal . from "treasure seekers aboard who happen to be in office. HIDDEN (KM/D FOUND. * Sixty-five Million. Bolling froth roast to the steamer Eureka says their expe- coast : dHton to recover an immense cache ing the state board of regents to de- of the shock A long wall separated liver to the state of South Carolina these yards from those of the Mex- the rerords of the commissioners of iran railway was thrown down A the navv Itoard of that st Me and rer-: Mexican locomotive engineer who tain other records now In. possession was lying by its side was crushed to of the New York authorities. Some death A warehouse of the Mexican of the records which South ('arolina Central is almost a wreck, one wjjl desired returned were destroyed In and a portion of the buiiding having through Mexico Wednesday’s eartb- qcake brought death to at least 150 person^, according to latest accounts received at Mexico City Thursday nicht. The area of the quake was rectangular in form, the lower part being along the state of Guerrea. of gold hidden by the crew of a Chil- the capitol fire After S(*ven Weeks Sleep. After seven weeks slumber from from fright, coupled with some'^ttle ; ‘meeifie charge of murdering Mrs. w hich physicians have been unable heart affeetion. The woman an4 her * Besslnger. It will he remembered to arouse her,, Miss, Hazel Schmidt, two little babies were the onl/ per- that the double murder was the re- of Vandalia, 111., awakened twice sons in the house at the tithe the suit of some words about a roll. Wednesday, each time for about an collapsed. About one-third of die round house was torn down No casualities were reported here. In none of the advices received at police headquarters is there men tion of the death of any person of pronvnenre The fury of the shock was shown in th" northwestern and The death toll grows .as belated re- allrry Krejling. a well kno'wn .ports come in, Fjft y -nlne corpses , ( '' ,I * )man ’^ an F' ranr ' 8CO - The map have been taken from the ruins In "bowlntg the location of the burled Orel an, Jalisco. It will never he i * reaBHre waB in P"&*c*sk»n fov- know n how manv perished In villages | mer resident of Honduras, who suc- in remote pairs of the quake zone, ' n interesting Krelling In his It is estimated, however that, at ! 8tor y buried gold, least 15u persons have met death, "1 do not think the Western peo ple expect to use any of these safe guards often. They merely west them can cruiser off the Honduran coast ( to protect themselves when they more than 20 years ago, has been feel thet their deeires are hehig trod- successful. The treasure has been den under foot. 1 believe that they * variously estimated at from $15,000,- will work the greatest benefits when * 000 to $65,000,000. according to applied, but I do not think they need • reports. The expedition was financed In any way overturn the electorate except In segregated Instances. Ore- , hut the deaths cannot be accurately numbered Not many persons were killed In the city of Golima, but 3 considerable amount of damage was done. gon used them often when they were first put Into effect, hut only to stand- , ardise their form government. — “My trip , through the West has ’ convinced me that the proepbets of the Democratic party for success ‘ were never brighter. The present “ home he* redeemed its promises, end MAKES TEHRIFIO 8PTED. •—— : the people of the Whet- TssllSh Hj • Attains Velocity of One Hundred and | They feel that they «#e net being I hoodwinked, hut that Ihey are being > , , . _. . , t , j , ,, . , ■ , , western part of the citv. The most thunder, ftdrm reached Florence. She which Grimsley contended he was en- hour, asked for something to eat and ^ ^ . , , *■— 1 / i , , , . . _ , , % i unrnn;?^ norift in tn.it oiiart^r of was found dead by neighbArs, who titled to with a bowl of aonp. | then against dropped off into sleep heard the scream of the fwo little j children after the storm. j Teddy Denies Report. have written local physicians Fifty-five Mile*. The "L’Auto" estimates that Ve~ drine, the winner of theP aris-to- Madrld race, whose proper name la Will Begin at l/nre. -there on WednesdaySHRDHRDRLD By a uivanimous vofe the senate, says Ex-President Roosevelt said Wednesday flpproved/the action of 1 here on Wednesday with reference^ Boilernmker* on Strike. .,. b . f . e , „ , Between * thousand and twelve • ^Tea'Vedrinea/"^^’^'^^"^©^- Her case has puzzled scientiats who r ' A, nOV ’ n ap P ' nn a , arla , '" nrired boiler makers in the Bald- K j 0U8 8 p ee ^ 0 f 155 mile* an hour on have written local physicians asking ! ^0 pavement and win-Locomotive work* at PhiUdel- Tuesday 00VPrinK , thp 77 5 -10 mile. : walls toppled over serve to mark its nhia went on a strike Thursday ^ 0. r A dispatch from Springfield, Mass..-about her condition. ; roilRTo as far tn Lsouth as Go- wl thout the sanction. It Is saidof the!^”^ ^aTm'imttes 3 “ Ionia RoRma, a dist.arnofll ffl ffl Speech Please* Sims. Ionia Roma, a district Inhabited Union. ./ C o-.„»v«.. ......The paper national officers of the Boiler Makers quotes thp avlator ag 8aylnK that he , . , ' a ? e question was in- wag p, IBbe( t bv a wind so violent that Representative Sims,,, of Tennes- largely by Americans In this district volved. The trouble is due to the at t ime* hetflew with the tall of his ,u see. a Democrat, was so pleased however little real damage was done laying off of twelve hundred men re- machine perpendicular. He also en-, with President Taft's reciprocity and no deaths have,been reported. certly. The tltfion men^slert that ; conn ^ rPd wind fhat caused u _ _ . . speech a Chicago that he announced Cracks show here, and there 4n the the men were forced out because h , mononlane to make frirhtful investigation. Tl^t sub-committee the report that I have agreed to : at the Whlte Hoilse Tue8da v his in- pavement throughout the district of--th^y 'joined labor organizations. , dro p Bf *ometimes descending S00 . , . ... T . . . . tentlon to ask Congress to make it fe^ed. A\alls, made usually of a ^^*»—*l 1 feet In a few seconds Vedrlnessnf- really becomes a/separate committee, j 1912. I have not made any such --** —-- -* - ^ ^ • - - - - - ~ - reet in a rew seconas. veartnes sm “There is no truth that I have agreed which under the/esolution adopted, j support any man for president la mch the given the legislation that they ex pected. ~ - “The party it stronger than it: was last November when H carried the election. It Is afivaadog by % leaps and bounds. Tbe ctost^l of Democratic sentiment la more normal; it seems to be at high tide. No man can tell what tbe will bring), but I believe that a tlnuance of tbe preaent pollelea of the party vdll mean attcceaa 1912.’’ .. _ — ! feet ip a few seconds. ,, . 4 .. ^ a public document. Mr. Sims said 80 ^ 8t< ine or even of adobe bricks, which show the effect of the shocks. . d , through the strain on hia is clothed with/wide authority, and statement nor even discussed the _ ... _ 1 #-n— .1 , , . .. . - . terea only mrouign me siram on nis will begin its ★ork immediately ! matter. The story is made out whole cloth.” Accidentally Electrocuted. At West Point, Ga., while at work ! Shot O*** Crap Game, _^j£inJ^y^in/the Manett Cotton Mills | At Florence Doody Jordan, a negro John Thomaa, a ! is under arrest for the shootInr. of : he preferred a republican offer the' have fallen in scores of places, giving 1/ong cracks appeared in all of them e _ ei 0f resolution, but if none rose to the t0 some lorn 11 ties a ■v'reatly damaged and in the pfi'ace a keystone In one aspect The water mains of the city of ftp arches occasion he would. ►-k*. an elec- Its Frank "Crawford, also colored. The troubla arose Saoday over a crap game. Crawford's wounds are not lly fatal. , Aged Beaneater Wed*, r At Muldrow, Okla., A. D. Dutton, 92 years old, who attributes his long- Ivlty to his haW of eating beans, was married to Mias Rebpcca Jane Gallo way, 24 years old, Wednesday. was loosened snd were practically uninjured and the thrown entirely out of its place. The I light and power company suffered two churches are Santa Domingo and little Inconvenience in operations, in Profeaa. The latter church has Some slight damage was done to shown cracks of a serious character the street car track but not enough a* a result of other erthquakes and to Interfere with traffic. this morning they were of such a ser- Two of the capital's old rbnrches jnu* kind that the, building was OT- and the national pala-ca are buildings t dered closed. Died From a Pall, At Iron Rock, Ga., Ben Adnew, the fifteen year old eon of G.'lf. Ad new, waa killed by falling off a load of wheat as he drove in the barn yard Tuesday night. He waa lam med between the wagon and a gate post. Ha lived about twelve boars. Refused to Grant ^ ■ mi|p t , A mother’s pitiful plea eras darned down by Governor Blease Tharedd? when be refined to peMjaa fL’ 1 Bingham, the yonfig tor, who, with. W. %. Avast, close friend, was eonvleted at tKfe term of eonrt In Ittt oft* of young Mm. Rlngbem, sentenced to e tern ef' and a half la the fUtf Both Bingham add J from the etaa efW -a fi.. '.irtikturifik