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W- '; ' v.;' r I HOW THE INDIANS^ | TELEGRAPH. M a Long Before Science Brought the fj 2i Electric Spark Signal the Red- A <J man Had Devised a System of ft] a "Far Writing" Almost as Ef- m l^^ficient as We Have To-Day. icn i^jjl XE windy, rainy morning '?'?' I went to the tepee of old < I I Hoo-sis-mox-mox (Yellow X-' 1-IoiT*^ trim pnrrm frt {Ill [HHl visit bis friends among the tribes of the Umatilla Reservation at the time of their midsummer pow-wow. I had seen him and wanted to have a talk with this veteran Palouse chief, Ox, born over a hundred years ago. The old man was not at home. Several young Indians lay in the dripping * tepee, stretched upon their blankets. As I started to leave the shelter of the wigwam, one of the young fellows rose > . to his elbows and said to me: "My friend, you had better not attempt to go until the storm is over. Besides, I fancy Hoo-sis-mox-mox will be back pretty soon. - You will find (I learn you are a newspaper man) that he will tell you thrilling stories. He knows scarcely any English, but as I am familiar with both his language and yours I shall gladly act for you as interpreter." "You will certainly be capable of ioing# that," said I to the young man. "I suppose I should," he answered ^ back.- "Only a short while ago I held a chair at Che-raa-wa, the Indian Coltege, you know, near Seattle. "You see, I am just on a visit to some of my friends and relatives, who be long to the tribes of this reservation. I am a Yakima, yet I have here many kin folks. And there is a great pleas^ tire sometimes in casting aside the conventionalities of civilization. "This blanket? Oh, that is the most ~ comfortable thing to wear, when, one lives in a tepee. It serves for coat ||a overcoat, bed and cover. I lived the fey Indian life for four years once, but ^ r hadn't on a blanket for a long time un? til yesterday. Here, pull off your coat p and try one." I wrapped myself within the folds |p*> of the bright woolen. "Now, fake a cigarette, half close | your eyes, dream and you will be an v; Indian veritably," said my new acv, Quaintance. Comfortably stretching out, I little | cared for the rainstorm or the return |fe> of Yellow Hair. I learned from my - companion, who name was Stonewall W, Jackson, that his father, soon after %\ the Civil War, had come from Tennessee to the State of Washington, , and, like many of our pioneers, mari ried an Indian girl. My friend, then, pf ,was an educated half-breed. "You have tried on, then, both the ,wild life and the civilized. Which do ||j? you like the better?" I asked. "Why, certainly, I prefer the civilIll lzed life, but can you not see bow I those who have been reared close to nature's heart would choose the wild? It must have been some satisfaction to my mother's people to roam at will over this vast country and have no barbed wire fences in their way and bo signs stuck about, "Keep off the grass.' Their tribal warfare was only daring sport. :And wait until you see the big parade! You will say that it equals a pageant of kings." i"At any rate, when ttie Indians were called upon by the whites tp give up the larger part of their country?they fought." : "That was in the war of ?55?" "Yes; in what is known as the Yakima War, because it was led by Kami-a-kin, head chief of the Yakima Indians." jr "Your mother's people?" "Yes." "Well, what was the cause of that ,w,ar? I know that you can discuss it fairly, as you have in you the bloods of the two races." 4 "There were many causes. In the first place, I must say for the Indian ? ' that until he was badly abused he was always very good to the white man. Head the journals of early explorers jand you will find that all the tribes in this country, with the exception of the Wishrams, were kind to the whites, giving them ponies, and, at times, dividing with them their scanty stores of food. The Indians were confiding, and traders among the pioneers took advantage of them, exchanging worthless trinkets for valuable furs. The . missionaries tried to teach them that their inherited religion was false. Set\ tiers poured in and occupied their lands. They stood everything but being driven from their pastures and . hunting grounds. This was the culminating cause of the war. ' "And it was a fierce war, too. All tribes from the Pacific to the Rockies acted in concert. They made their first and last great attempt to oust the Bostons?Boston man. you Know, is what the Indian calls the white man, because the first expedition of whites to this country was from Bos)ton. The Boston man then was gradually driving the Indians from their lands. The various tribes made simultaneous attacks at places many hun' dred miles apart." "But how could they do this? They couldn't use telegraphic instruments," said I. "Oh, yes, they could, literally, telegraph, meaning 'Write far.' The Indians have always had a method of signaling which is almost as quick as telegraphing. They do this by building fires that send up columns of smoke. For example, a fire left to burn two minutes, then put out and started again after two minutes is to the Indian what the clicking of the key is to the telegraph operator. When Custer was killed Indians told Mrs. Custer of it the next day after it happened. Ehe was at Fort Lincoln ?over 300 fe .. v miles from where her husband was massacred." "Are the Indians, then, always on the lookout for signais?" I asked. "Oh, yes, continually when they apprehend war. They send runners from vribe to tribe of those allied and establish a signal code; they appoint signal stations. These are along the trails. The Indians, you know, away before the times of the whites, had a trail clear from the mouth of the Co- ] lumbia to the Mississippi. They are . always built high up ou ridges. The , Indians, fearing surprise, never travel in a valley." "But didn't the whites sometimes interpret these signals?" "Yes. sometimes. But they were un- , able to help themselves much, and . they could not answer back. My father has told me that during this 1 very war of which we speak a band of whites coming West were told by 1 friendly Xez Perces away over in Id- 1 aho of the forthcoming battle of Walla Walla, in tbe State of Washington, I several days before it took place."? Pittsburg Dispatch. Why He Stayed. ] The chapel of a northern fishing vil- } lage used to depend for its services on ^ the occasional help of the clergy of the j nearest town. One very wet Sunday j J the clergyman who volunteered to do the duty drove over in a fly. Tolling the chapel bell himself, he announced ( his arrival to the natives, but for a long ( time no one appeared. ^ At last one solitary person came in and took a "seat at the very back of the 5 chapel. The clergyman then found his ( surplice and conducted the service, i That ended, he remarked to his audi- 1 ence of one that perhaps a sermon was surperfluous. "Ob, please go on, sir." was the flattering reply, and the clergyman mounted the pulpit i In the course of his address he ex- ( pressed the fear that he was wearying ? his hearer, and was gratified to be told T that he could not be too long. The ser- j mon, consequently, was lengthened out to some forty minutes. When it was ended the preacher expressed a desire to shake hands with '? ?*- - c tne genneman wuo uau usicucu LIS UX1U I with such evident appreciation. Im agine his consternation at discovering ? on a nearer view (for he was some- < what short sighted) that he had been 4 preaching to the driver of his fly, who was all the while charging overtime? I London Tit-Bits. t Mechanical Umpire. j Following close on the invention of ^ a pitching gun to supplant the star t twirler of the diamond, says the New York Evening Sun, comes news from Canada for an invention to aid the umpire in making correct decisions on plays at first base. This new device, which has been patented, consists of ' an electric plate attached to the initial r bag, and so arranged as to ring an electric bell if the first baseman touches t the bag before the runner. On the * other hand, if the batter reaches first c base before it is touched by the base- r man, the plate is so adjusted that the x bell will not ring. . r Assuming that the device is always t in working order, the umpire may, if i -n-.'cVtAc tuvn hie hnrk and be sure ti UC *T lOUCO, VUi t* of giving an*accurate decision at first. ! r If the bell rings, the runner's out; if it j doesn't, he's safe; sounds simple. Baseball people are now eagerly ^ awaiting news of the invention of a batting machine which shall swell the average of every wielder of the wagon- * tongue to the .300 per cent. mark. E Scholar or Athlete. r x Statistics would tend to show that c while the chance of the kind of dis- I linction recorded in "Who's Who?" is c about the same for the crew as for the c average 01 ine ciass auu is uiulu er for the captains of the crew, it is for the football and baseball men far less than for the average graduate. Such a result cannot be attributed en- a tirely to the fact that high scholars no t longer play upon the nine or upon the r eleven, for this is equally true of the t crew. In fact, from 1SG1 to 1S9S no ^ member of the crew won a Bowdoin prize or stood in the first seven of his c class, and only one took final honors in any subject; but the oarsmen proved ' in other ways that they possessed in .1 as great a degree as the average of 1 the class the qualities that make for distinction. Why should not this be i true of the baseball and football men c also??Atlantic Monthly. 1 A Quick Change. Walter A. Wyckoff, professor of sociology in Princeton, was once travel- J 1 ing, disguised as a tramp, in search of j [ information. While on a railroad train ' * out West they came to a very dark tun- j * uel, and one of his fellows asked a j1 passing train hand how long it would | < take 10 reach daylight at the other end. t "Oh, about half an hour," snapped the i man, as he hurried away. The traveler, as Dr. Wyckoff could dimly see, j at once began fumbling with a grip { which he had. In about three minutes ? the train shot into daylight once more j and everybody saw that the traveler had intended to use the thirty minutes of darkness in changing his shirt. There he sat, thunderstruck, his coat, shirt, necktie and collar thrown over the next seat, as naked from the waist j up as a man about to take a bath. Always in Stock. ] A chemist was boasting in the com- \ pany of friends of his well-assorted ? stock in trade. There isn't a drug miss- ( ing," he said. I ( "Come, now," said one of the by- | standers, by wayiof a joke, "I bet that j, you don't keep any spirit of contradic- j tion, well stocked as you pretend to i be." j( "Why not?" replied the chemist, not i J in the least embarrassed at the unex- J pected sally. "You shall see for your- J self." So saying he left the group and 1 returned in a few minuts leading by * the hand?his wife?London Tit-Bits. 1 .. ' > . : <:.-c.v ' ^ SOUTH CAROLINA \\ i STATE NEWS ITEMS. 5 j ^rsifMrocNjfMivirsji j . Wofford to Increase Endowment. At a meeting of the trustees of V/of-1 ?rtllA#*A ?t Onoi?f^?Knror q fow H Q VC LU1 U O.L iuuui 115 M- ?v.. MMJ k_> igo, it was decided to begin at once a movement to increase the endowment pf that institution. The college is the center of Methodist education of South Carolina, and has been run continuously since 1854. Since the installation of Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, a native of Macon, the institution nas taken a new impetus, and is in fine condition. The endowment is now something like $100,000, and an effort to increase it will be begun at once. * * * Magazine Goes to Spartanburg, The Educational, a monthly magazine which has for the past two years aeen published in Columbia, will be moved to Spartanburg. A new company has been organized, with Dr. H. M. Snyder, president of Wofford college. as president. The company is known as the Educational company, half the stock being pwned by The Heraid Publishing Company, which will print the magazine. The magazine will be doubled in size and will deal with matters of general interest in the south, being a monthly review of southern fact and :hought. * * * Charleston Pharmacist Arrested. The case of the postal authorities i gainst Dr. E. A. Hall, a prominent Charleston druggist, charged with sending obscene matter through the nails, has caused a great"sensation in ? rtf fV?A AUV justness ana siHjiai cutics ui cu^ wi;? The case against Dr. H?TI was made )ut by Rev. Robert Wilson, D. D., pasor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, one >f the oldest and most historic church's in the city. Because of Dr. Wilson's connection with the affair the :ase is attracting more than usual inerest. Dr. Wilson alleges that Dr. Hall has )een sending obscene advertising hrough the mails, claiming that he las sent out looking glasses advertisng medicines that will cure certain liseases, and on the reverse side of he glass is an obscene picture. * * * Will Inspect the Fertilizer. From the agricultural department of }lemson college the following statenent has been issued: Among the agricultural classes of his state a very widespread interest las been awakened by the importation if what is claimed to be Peruvian or latural bird guano, supplies of which s-ere supposed to be exhausted. Alnost daily inquiries are received by he fertilizer department here concern ng the genuineness of the article, whether a manipulated or natural gualo, etc., and in consideration of the mportant interests involved and to irotect both the farmers and dealers, ?Ir. Stackhouse, the secretary, will end an official inspector, with long ixperience in the composition and tandling of fertilizers, instructed to neet the vessel on its arrival and to nake a careful, thorough examination f the material, the custom house pa>ers of the ships, to witness the methids of drawing their samples and send ine to this department for analysis. * ? * Bond Filed by Olympia Mills. The defendants in the suit of Leonird Phinizy and Alice Hull, of Augusa, Ga., against the Olympia cotton nills, filed a bond a few days ago in he United States circuit court at Charleston in the sum of $20,800, the imount of the holdings of the plainiffs in preferred stock of the mill. The filing of the bond and the amount vas in accordance with the decree of he court, filed about ten days ago. When the case came up on a hearing ecently the ourt admitted the justice )f the plea of the plaintiffs, who had jought heavily of preferred stock, fol-1 owing the passage of a resolution by he board of directors that the company would not issoie bonds, but the xmrt decided not to put the property n the hands of a receiver, as the plainiffs asked, but allowed the plan of eorganization to proceed, the defend- j mts being required to give bond for ! he protection of the interests of the plaintiffs. The order of the court provides for i full and complete hearing of the :ause which will come up in due time, md the filing of the bond is only preiminary to this hearing. * o * Legislative Melange. A Columbia special says: The state egislature convened Tuesday, and the >vork of the session began. Among the bills continued from the j ast session are several affecting the Arming and cotton mill interests. Mr. roole early in the last session introluced a bill to limit to ten hours a j lay the time of working in cotton I nills. The late Mr. McMaster had in-1 roduced a bill to extend to employees i >f textile mills the rights and reme- J lies granted under the constitution to employees of railroad corporations. VIr. Carwile, of Abbeville, wants more stringent regulations applying to the isolation of farm labor contracts. Mr. hooper, of Laurens, has a bill to proride for the recording of farm labor 'i-A ' > . -V . i contracts and to regulate prosecutions on contracts so indexed. Senator Johnson's . bill to provide a penally for ctriL-oo onri lr?r?lrmita hnc ovpr to I the house from the senate, where it was passed. There are several bills relating to the lien law and to the law regulating : chattel mortgages. Mr. "Webb's bill to i establish a state fertilizer factory is j still on the calendar. There are several bills relating to ; the dispensary and several more may be reasonably expected before this session ends?the dispensary being the most prolific source of legislation and j debate that has ever been known in the general assembly of South Carolina. The commission on the completion of the state house has given no inkling of its recommendation or finding, but there is the expectation of something interesting. v Another commission was instructed to investigate the tax system of the state and the expenditures and to find, if. possible, how the annual deficiency of $300,000 can be remedied. This is really the most important matter that can come before the general assenTHTiy, as the state is now doing business on credit with no present prospect of ever i paying up. The terms of all the members of the board of directors of the dispensary and of the commissioner are out. and there are several vacancies also* on the penitentiary board, the state librarian is to be chosen and other offices' filled. L. J. Williams, the present chairman of the board of directors, will not stand for re-election, but will offer for congress in the second district against Congressman Croft. H. H. Evans, of Newberry, now a member of ffe uoard, is a candidate for the chairmanship. Commissioner Crum is not a candidate for re-election. The most active aspirants for his place are Representative Tatum, of Orangeburg, and Captain W. D. Black, now bookkeeper at the penitentiary. The coming of the legislature always brings a lot of political gossip to Colombia and before a week has passed it can be pretty definitely known who will be in the campaign next summer. So far no one is announced against Governor Heyward, who will naturally seek a second term, although there is some talk of M. F. Ansel, of Greenville, who made the race before. Lieutenant Governor John T. Sloan will stand for re-election this year. All the other state officials so far as is known, will seek re-election. The term of Railroad Commissioner Garris expires and there will be the usual hurdle race for this comfortable berth. Mr. Garris will be opposed by John G. Mobley, of Fairfield; W. Boyd Evans, of Columbia, and "Cansley of Tirrah," all of whom made the race last time. Others are mentioned, among them being ex-Lieutenant Governor W. L Mauldin, of Greenville, now a member of the house. DEATH OF COLORED LEADER. W. A. Pledger, Head of Georgia Republican Party, Passes Away. W. A. Pledger, the well-known Georgia negro politician and chairman of the state republican executive committee, died at his home in Atlanta Friday morning. He had been ill for several weeks past from tuberculosis. Pledger was a lawyer and was also editor and proprietor of The Atlanta Age, a weekly publication devoted to the interests of the negro race. He was active and energetic in politics and had become a prominent figure in ihe ranks of Georgia republicanism. He had held office under the republican administration. He was formerly vice chairman of the state republican committee and succeeded to the chairmanship on the resignation of United States Marshal Walter H. Johnson. Funeral services were conducted Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at Big Bethel Church. The body was Ihen Laken to Athens, the former home of the deceased, for interment. CHINA RATIFIES TREATY. C^??% Wauu Uae fSnod ftrPiind to I WH^IC Won iivtv a uw _ _ Resist Russian Aggression. A dispatch was recived in Washington Saturday announcing that the Chinest emperor has ratified the American and Japanese treaties- of commerce with China. The news was received with many evidences of relief and gratification in official circles While the treaty does not become effective until ratifications are exchanged, the fact that \ it has been ratified gives this govern- I ment all the ground necessary in de- I manding of Russia that American J commercial rights shall be respected i in the territory now under dispute ! with Japan MISSING HEIRESS LOCATED. i Miss Ethel Rovell Wr^: "Hid Out in Mobile for Two Weeks. Ethel Rovelle, the alleged heiress ic a fortune of eight million dollars, is in Mobile, Ala., and says that she came from Meridian. Miss., two weeks ago, and that she has been in hiding ever since. She says that she left Meridian, where she was staying with her uncle, J. M. Husky, or her own accord, and has not been in Birmingham, Ala., or New Orleans since she left j that place. The woman is uneducated, and says j that she was born in the country. ' " ' ' >" - %' '.... i--' j/ - ' . - v'->V. 3-DOOM OF BOLL WEEVTLT f tj Amendment Providing Appropriation for Examination of Enemy of Cotton Passed in the House. A Washingon special says: The house Friday made available the slim of $250,000 to be used to meet the emergency caused by the ravages of the cotton boll weevil and other insects and diseases affecting cotton. The measure was adopted without division, meeting general support. The sum is to be diverted from the half million dollars appropriated last year to eradicate the foot diseases among cattle. T- rl ocr>n r\ f Tovao cnoalfinfT A . UUi?V4VU| V/Ip A VAUC; W for the bill, explained that the measure simply diverted money^Iieretofore appropriated for another purpose, and did not make a new appropriation. He urged the importance of the passage of the bill to the cotton growing sections, giving the history of the boll weevil, and what it has done. The bill was passed witnout division. It provides that the sum made available may be expended by the secretary of agriculture in such manner as he shall deem best, in co-operation witji state experiment stations and practical cotton growers, if the secretary of agriculture shall deem it advisable to meet the emergency caused by the ravages of the cotton boll weevil and other insects affecting cotton. The house then went into committee of the whole to consider pension bills. The committee arose at 2:25 p. m., having acted favorably upon 115 bills, 29 of which were senate bills. The house passed the 115 bills in twenty minutes. At 2:45 p. m. the house adjourned until Monday. DEITRICH EXONERATED. Charges Against Nebraska Senator Quashed in Omaha Court at Suggestion of Presiding Judge. At Omaha, Nebr., Friday, united States Senator Dietrich,' who appeared in court to answer the change of agreeing to receive, while a member of the United States senate, consideration from one Fisher, for aiding to procure the appointment of postmaster, was released from custody, the jury being instructed to bring in a verdict of not guilty. The decision of Judge Vandeventor sustained a demurrer interposed by counsel for Senator Dietrich. The demurrer was made to the introduction of evidence on the ground that Dietrich was -not actually a member of the senate when the alleged bribery took place. The effect of the decision is that a man is not actually a member of congress from the time of his election until he shall have taken the oath at the bar of the house to which he is elected, and that he is not amenable to law as a member of congress and officer of the United States. Judge Vandeventer said that the court was unable to find a single in stance, nor had counsel cited any instance, where a member of congress, after his election and prior to his qualification, has enjoyed greater privileges than any other person by means of their election, although they often enjoyed much greater influence. Continuing he said: "Under the law, therefore, there is no crime, except where congress has so declared. The court does not make the law and say what it should like to have it be. Congress makes the law and the court construes it. Here congress has said that members of that body who-.take bribes shall be punished. It might perhaps be competent for congress to enact a law which would make it a penal offense for any person to attempt to secure for another an office under the United States government, but such a suggestion is not included in this statute. Instead of saying every person, it is confined to members of congress, officers and agents of the United States. The two houses of congress, under the constitution, are the only judges of whom shall sit as members of their respective bodies." A nolle was then entered m the case or James Fisner, postmaster at nastings, by the government. POSTAL FRAUDS DISCUSSED. Friday's Session of Senate Taken Up With a Lively Debate. Alleged postcffice frauds were under discussion in the senate Friday, the subject being opened in a set speech by Mr. Simmons (North Carolina), who insisted there should be an investigation by the senate into the charges. The discussion was participated in by Messirs. Burrows, Oolliver and Quarles on the republican side, and Messrs. Carmack, Tillman and Teller on the democratic side. QUAY MAY BE ADVISER. /'ennsylvania "Boss" and President Hold Frequent Conferences. A Washington special says: Matt Quay has become the confidential political adviser of President Roosevelt, and it is among the possibilities that the Pennsylvania boss may be chairman of the republican national committee. Whether he is or not. it is a fact that jusjt at present Quay is in almost daily communication With the president upon matters political. 'V>FOR GOOD ROADS f ???L_ % Latimer of South Carolina , Introduces Important Bill. GOVERNMENT AID ASKED , . 4 ' ; t: Sum of Twenty-Pour Million is Car* ried by Measure?Eight Millions 1, to be Available for Three Years. A Washington special says: Twen- * ty-four million dollars for good roads, to be expended at tfe? rate of eight millions a year during the next three years! That is the amount of appropriation carried in the good roads bill which Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, has just introduced. Hi^ bill sets forth an elaborate scheme flor federal aid of the good roads move- ** ment, for "fthicn purposes he proposes to establish in the department of agriculture a bureau of public highway?. r The object of this bureau, accord? ing to the terms of the bill, shjall be to co-operate with the various states in the improvement and construction of permanent public roads in accordance with the scheme set lorth in de- ' tail in the bill. This bureau is to con- , sist of three commissioners to he known as commissioners of highways, ----- - ? - * ' two 01 whom snail be appointed oy the president, one from each of the two leading parties, these to be menwho have practical knowledge of road > engineering and construction. The third member is to be an officer of the engineering corps of the army of -rank / not below captain. Each is to receive compensation at the rate of $5,00Q per year for their services. These commissioners shall be under the general supervision of the secretary of agriculture. After the expiration of six months from the time of the passage of this ^ act, any state, through the proper of- ,\ fleers having jurisdiction of- public } roads, may apply for aid in the im- i "; provement or construction of public ^ ' roads, under general rules to bs made by the commissioners. No state '21 shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this act until it shall haveNes- ' tablished, to the satisfaction of flze commissioners of highways: . ; 1. That the highway or section thereof sought to be improved or con.-. structed is of sufficient public use to come within the purview of this act, taking into account the use, location ' and value of such highway for the purpose of common traffic and travel land for the delivery of the mails. 2. That the requisite right of way -v shall have been secured. 3. That the highway will be improved or constructed in accordance with ?the regulations of the bureau, and when so improved wiTI be maintained and kept in repair without recourse upon the United States. 4. That the state has provided for its portion of the total cost. , - f One-half the expense is to be borne by the federal government, the other half being borne by the state, but it ' is provided that the states may distribute their portion of the expense? among the counties directly benefited. It is further provided that no money shall be advanced by the United . States in payment of its proportion of the expenses except as the work ?t actual construction progresses, and in no case shall the payment or payments made prior to the completion of the work be in excess of 80 per cent of the* value of the work actually performed. s. j To carry out the provisiions of the bill an appropriation of $24,000,000 Is provided, $8,000,000 for "1904, $8,000,000 for 1905 and $8,000,000 for 1906. If any part of this is not expended U> ^ the year named it shall be available for the succeeding' year. And it Is further provided that no state shall receive in any one year a larger proportion of the sum appropriated thaa its population bears to the total population of the states of the "United States. ' i; ' REYES IS STILL WAITINQ. Tarries in Washington Pending the Answer to His Last Request General Reyes is still awaiting the state department's reply to I113 request that the correspondence between him and the Washington government regarding the Panama Iirei- ' dent be sent to the Tn'ted States senate. It is quite possible that upon re- > ceipt of the state department's reply to the last note, Reyes will leave Immediately for Colombia. In that eveit Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge, will also close the legation and return home. A VOLCANO IN KENTUCKY. Eruption from Sugar Loaf Mountain Assumes Alarming Phase. A volcano on Sugar Loaf mountain, in Rowan county. Kentucky, is asanming alarming proportions. There aire five fissures on the side of the mottttain from which smoke pours, accompanied by a deep rumbling noise. AH the trees in the vicinity are blaate* and splintered. The people of that . section are terror stricken.