The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 11, 1905, Image 2
THE HOUR
On nature's round
"Which sweetest is, stillness or sound?
Which is most musical,
Song or the interval
When the silence stirs, to b&
A voice, a melody?
On nature's way
Which fairest is, dawning or day?
Which would the nice eye choose,
The noon gold or the hues
When the shadow of the night
Wakes, smiling into light?
THE GREAT FIGHT
AND COI
: M
BY GEORGE B
-XO*C HE main camp was on the I
" ^ South Platte River, and
O O the Dog Soldiers were
X *? jl camped a day's ride from
lMIr there. Porcupine Bear was
the chief of the Dog Soldiers.
The Dog Soldiers determined that
they would make a war expedition
against the Kiowas and Comanches,
\ and they sent Porcupine Bear to the
/ main camp to ask the rest of the people
to join them.
After Porcupine Bear had reached
the camp and had delivered his message
some one there who had whisky
gave him some. A good many people
got drunk, and some men began to
fight. Little Creek had Lean Bear, one
of Porcupine Bear's relations, down on
the ground, and was cutting him with
his knife, when Lean Bear called on
Porcupine Bear, who was also drunk,
to help him. When his relation called
on him for help Porcupine Bear stabbed
Little Creek, and his cousin then took
the knife and killed him. After this
Porcupine Bear and all who were con'
cerned in the killing were sent away
from the Dog Soldiers, and the command
of that body was given to White
" Antelope and Little Old Man. The
Dog Soldiers and the rest of the Cheyennes
now came together to consider
tHe question 01 tne expeaiuuu agmusa
> ? the enemy.
This happened in the year 1S38, and
the men -who took part in the killing
;were nephews of White Thunder, then
the keeper of the medicine arrows.
. For the offense they were outlawed,
and were not permitted to remain with
the main village, but were obliged to
travel and encamp by themselves, off
^ to one side. There were a very few
lodges of them, less than a dozen men
s in all. Soon after this the whole camp
sthrted south to find the Kiowas and
Comanches. All the Kiowas, Comanches
and Apaches were together,
and moving against them from the
north were all the Cheyenne s and Arapahoes
together.
., The outlaws, though not permitted to
camp or to remain with the main village,
accompanied it, traveling and
: camping by themselves, two or three
miles to the westward. They were in
constant touch with the main camp,
and kept themselves informed of all
that was happening.
After leaving the Arkansas River the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes were sending
out frequent parties of scouts to
locate the Kiowa village. The- first
men sent out were Pushing Ahead and
Crooked Neck. They had been strictly
ordered to-find the village if possible,
but on no account to attack any Indians
they might see. One day as
they were watching from a hill overlooking
Wolf Creek they saw two men
coming down the stream, carrying
shields and leading horses?evidently
two Kiowas who had been on the war
path. The Cheyennes watched them
pass down the stream, and then re
turned to the eamp and reported, saying
that they believed the eamp must
be lower down on the stream.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes continued
to move, on south. From
Crooked Creek, Wolf Road and Gentle
Horse, with five or six others, were
sent out to locate the camp. These
scouts were sent out after the ordinary
custom of the tribe. The chiefs assembled
in the centre of the circle and
called out the names of men whom
they knew to be swift runners and not
afraid, ordering them to come to the
centre of the circle. When they had
come, the chiefs fold them that they
had been chosen to go out to look for
the enemy, and that each one must do
his best. The chiefs told them all they
knew as to where the enemy's camp
might be, told them where the village
would stop each night for the next few
days, so that they could readily find it,
and ordered them not to leave the
camp in the daytime, but to start after
night had fallen.
Following these orders the scouts
had gone on almost to Wolf Creek, and
were traveling along in the bed of a
little stream running into it from the
north, when suddenly they saw people
coming over the hills, prepared to run
the buffalo, which were all about them.
The Cheyennes lay down in the high
grass of the creek's bottom and saw
the Kiowas killing buffalo. One man,
riding a big bay mule, drove a bunch of
buffalo close by tbem, and killed several
on the hillside, not more than
forty yards away. The mule was fast;
lie kept among the buffalo all the time.
Afterward the man's wife and a Mexican
came along and cut up the animals
and took the meat to camp. Wolf
Road, Gentle Horse and the other
scants saw all this through the grass.
Just at sundown, after all the people
had gone, the Cheyennes left the creek
and climbed to the top of the hill and
saw the smoke of the camp and the
horses feeding on the hills all about it.
The scouts returned. When they
came in Wolf Road was ahead, for he
SUPREME,
Beauty is brine
In midsummer or a: springtide?
In June her solsticy
Or when the nale mists be,
When the clou feels some warm power
At work, and lo, a flower!
Ay, when is bliss
The sweetest that it ever is?
When the loved one is at rest
Upon the lover's breast,
Or when he first may dare
To dream he feels her there?
?John Vance Cheney, in The Century.
WITH THE KIOWAS
RANCHES.
sx
?> GIIKELL
! was tlie leader. As a sign that he had
! seen something Wolf Road carried in
his hand the wolf skin which he always
had with him. The approach of
; the scouts had been observed, and the
chiefs had already gathered in the centre
of the camp to receive the report.
They were singing and some were pil-'
ing up a heap of buffalo chips, some
distance behind which the chiefs stood.
The scouts came toward the village
running swiftly, and just as they
reached the entrance of the circle they
began to howl like wolves, and to turn
their heads from one side to the other,
like wolves looking.
They entered the circle in single file.
The men of the camp, who from all
these signs knew what the scouts were
about to report, were putting on their
war clothing, getting out their shields
and jumping on their war horses, for
they knew that good news was coming
?that the camp of the enemy had been
found. The scouts ran around in front
of the chiefs and stopped. Wolf Road
told what he had seen, then Gentle
Horse, then each of the others. They
passed on around behind the chiefs,
and then from all sides of the camp all
tbe young men on their horses charged
toward the centre, each trying to be
first to reach the pile of buffalo chips
and to strike it, for it represented an
enemy. Three men might count coup
on it.
Then all the mounted young men
rode around the chiefs while they were
singing, and afterward they dispersed.
All were now busily preparing to attack
the camp of the enemy which had
been found. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes
were camping together in one
big circle, the Arapahoes at the northeast
end.
Now a crier mounted his horse and
went to the southeast end of the circle,
and from there rode about it, telling
what these scouts had seen. \ He cried
out that the village would move against
the enemy that night. It was a time
of great confusion?men singing their
war songs, painting themselves and
their horses, fixing up their things and
getting ready to start. During the
night they set out for the camp of the
enemy.
From the camp of the outlaws, off to
the west, everything that was going on
in the main village could be seen, and
very likely one or more of the men
may have been in the camp, for they
often visited it.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes left
their camp as it was, the lodges standing
and all their possessions in them.
The women and children, carrying
light camping outfits, followed the
men, who marched ahead. During the
night they stopped four times for a
little while to rest.
At peep of day they formed in a long
line. White Thunder, the medicine arrow
keeper, opened the bundle, and
with the usual ceremony pointed the
medicine arrows in the direction where
he supposed the enemy's camp to be.
Then he wrapped the arrows up again
.ind held the Doints toward the sky and
told the Cheyennes to charge. They
made the charge, but when they
reached the river they found no camp
there, but far up the river on the other
side people could be soon on the hills,
and when the Cheyennes had ridden
down into the bottom they could see
beyond a point of the bluff the Kiowa
village.
Meantime the outlaws, a little way to
the westward, had gone forward somewhat
faster than the main body, and
approached the stream just opposite
the Kiowa camp. Just after the dusk
of the morning Porcupine Bear?afterward
called the Lame Shawnee?saw
people ride over a hill before him?men
and women going out to hunt buffalo.
He was a little ahead of his party,
when, looking from a crest of a hill, he
saw them coming. He called to his
men to keep out of sight, saying, "Keep
down, keep down out of sight; I will
deceive them." His men remained
hidden, and he threw down his lance
and began to ride backward and forward,
making the sign that buffalo had
been seen. When the Kiowas saw
him they thought it was some one
from their camp who had gone out be
fore them and had found buffalo. They
began to move toward him faster, still
j riding their common horses and leading
the running horses. Porcupine
Bear did not turn his face toward th6
enemy, but kept gazing off over the
prairie, as if watching distant buffalo.
He kept doing this until the Kiowa 9
were so close that he could hear them
talking.
Down in the ravine behind him were
the other Cheyennes lying down on
their horses, some fixing their shields
or putting arrows on strings and some
already prepared for the charge. Presently
the Lame Shawnee called to
them, "Be ready, now; they are getting
close. We must not give them time to
prepare for us."
At last, when he could hear them
talking plainly, he reached down to th#
ground, caught up his lance, and turning
his horse charged the Kiowas and
all the other Cheyenues followed him.
The Kiowas were so close that the
Clieyennes were on them before they
had time to think. They had no time
to change horses, no time even to get
their bows out of their cases. The
Cheyennes lanced them and shot them
down one after another until they had
killed them all. They captured all
their horses. The last Kiowa of all,
with his wife, was so far behind that |
he had time to jump on his running
horse and turned to flee, but nis wiie
called to him. "Do not leave me," and
he turned and rode back to help her,
and was killed. Porcupine Bear?the
Lame Shawnee?killed twelve, Crooked
Neck killed eight. There were seven
of these Cheyennes and thirty Kiowas,
men and women.
Thus these Cheyennes gained the
glory of counting the first coups in
this great fight, but because they were
outlaws the honor of it was not allowed
to them, but to another man who
counted the first coup in the general
battle an hour or two later. Still,
every one knew what Porcupine Bear's
young men had done.
When the main body of the Cheyennes
found that there was no camp
opposite to them, but saw the camp
and the scattered people up the stream,
they separated. A part charged across
the river and a part up the bottom.
Those who crossed killed a number of
men and women who were out gathering
roots. Those who went up the bottom
drove off a great number of horses,
Gentle Horse alone getting between
eighty and a hundred head.
The first man to count coup in the
main body was a very young man, a
Ponca captive?Walking Coyote?who
had been adopted and brought up by
Yellow Wolf, who had put him on a
good horse for this fight. Walking
Coyote was a Bowstring soldier.
Previous to going into this fight the
Cheyennes had agreed that they would
take no prisoners. A man who wished
to take captive a girl who had a handsome
elk teeth dress, seized her and
was about to carry her off, when an- |
other Cheyenne came up and shot her
and took her dress.
After the attack had been made on
the Kiowa and Comanche camp a Comanche
chief, who early in the morning
had gone out to run buffalo, which
were close by, heard the noise of the
fighting, and came back to the village
as fast as he could. He had. ridden so !
hard that his horse was exhausted, but
his people had his war pony ready, and
he mounted it and charged toward the
enemy and other Comanches followed
him.
The Kiowas and Comanches were
fighting behind their lodges and behind
breastworks that they had thrown
up, but when the Comanches charged
Crooked Neck called out to his men,
"Come, let us run and draw them away
from the village." The Cheyennes all
turned and ran and the enemy followed,
riding hard, this Comanche
chief being in the lead.
When they had gone far enough
Crooked Neck called out to his people,
"This is far enough?now turn." The
Cheyennes turned and charged, and
the Comanches and Kiowas also turned
and ran. Sun-Mater, wno was on a
fast dorse, almost overtook them, and
shot two arrows into the back of the
Comanche chief.
Sun-Maker watched the chief, and,
as he drew close to the village, saw
him begin to sway, and then saw him
throw out his arm to catch his horse's
neck, and saw him fall to the ground.
After the peace was made the Comanches
learned who it was that had
killed this chief.
For most of the day after this there
was nghting about the village perhaps
until i or 5 o'clock. Then they stopped
fighting. Six Cheyennes were killed
on the north side of the river and six
on the south side. Of these two were
important men?White Thunder, keeper
of the Medicine arrows, who was
about seventy years old, and Big
Breast. They do not know how many
of the Kiowas and Comanches were
killed, but it was a large number, women
and children and men.
This was in the month of May, 1S38.
?Forest and Stream.
Girls' and Boys' Names.
'A correspondent points the decadence
of the simple, old-fashioned names for
girls. He has been looking over the list
of successful candidates for the Commercial
Traveling Schools, and finds no
Eliza, no simple Susan, no Jane, no
Anne, nor even a Louisa; the list contains
Ivy, Gwendoline, Yioletta, Rita,
Vera, Desiree and Gladys. On the evidence
of the list that lies before us we
conclude that Gladys is the favorite, or
was the favorite in the '90s.
From the same small document we
draw the conclusion that in names as
in dress men are more conservative
than women. James, Henry, Walter,
William. Charles, Robert, Joseph, Al
fred and John occur again and again,
though as a second name there is a
Collins, as a man may make a modest
experiment with a new tie. But men
seem to retain their old-fashioned
names.?London Chronicle.
Pretend to Marry.
In Russia every woman of the peasant
class marries, or pretends to marry.
If a girl comes to the decision that no
one intends to ask her to marry she
leaves home, goes to some distant district
and returns after a time to announce
that she is a widow, that she
went away to be married, and that her
husband has since died. Xo embarrassing
questions are put to her, for
among the peasants it is considered
bad form to mention a dead man to his
widow.
This curious custom goes to show
in what high regard the women of
Russia look upon the institution of
marriage?rearson's .Weekly.
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2 SOUTH CAROLINA Z
| STATE NEWS ITEMS, jj
King's Daughters and Sons Meet
The ninth annual convention of the
King's Daughters and Sons of South
Carolina at Charleston brought together
upward of one hundred delegates,
representing thirty-five out of the forty-eight
circles in the state. The
meetings were interesting and many
matters of importance were considered.
Costly Blaze In Greenville.
Fire which broke out in the millinery
department of the dry goods establishment
of the J. T. Arnold company,
at Greenville, completely gutted
the store.
Th#? stnck. which is valued at $10.
000, is almost a complete loss, with
about 50 per cent insurance. The origin
o? the fire is a mystery.
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Major Hemphill Honored.
Major J. C. Hemphill, editor of the
Charleston News and Courier, was
elected president of the Southern
Newspaper Publishers Association at
the closing session in Charleston. He
succeeds H. H. Cabaniss, who declined
to serve longer. Q. J. Palmer
of the Houston Post was named vice
president, and F. P. Glass of the
Montgomery Advertiser was re-elected
secretary and treasurer.
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Battle to Be Celebrated.
The inaugural anniversary of the
Carolina society of Atlanta, Ga., will
occur on June 22nd, this being the
anniversary of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, in
Charleston harbor, in 1776, and of the
establishment of the colony of South
Carolina under the crowh of England.
Hon. George Legare, member of
congress, will probably he the speaker
of the occasion. The anniversary
ball will follow on the night of June
22nd.
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Alleged Lynchers to Be Tried.
J. H. Palmer, S. A. Eadon, Penny
Martin, Andrew Martin and Benjamin
Martin, the five accused in the "Eutawville
lynching case," who have
been confined in the Berkley county
jail at Moncks Corner, and who were
later carried to Orangeburg, were ai
raigned in open court. Attorneys for
the defense moved to quash the indictment
on the ground of irregularities,
but the judge overruled the motion.
The accused pleaded not guilty, and
a day was set for the trial, after which
the accused were remanded to jail.
H. C. Edward, who is named in the
true bill found by the grand jury, was
not arraigned, he having confessed
and will be used as a state wit-"
ness.
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Child's Slayer Surrenders.
Sumpt Nance, familiarly known as
Bub Nance, who fired a pistol shot
at Asha Bishop in Spartanburg several
days ago, but who killed little
Lillie Quinn instead, later surrendered
himself to Sheriff Nichols, fie went
to the home of a relative, Joe White,
near Cherokee Springs, and expressed
a desire to give himself into the hands
of the officers of the law and White
accompanied him to the city. Nance
is now in jail.
The facts in the case are as follows:
On Saturday night about two weeks
ago Nance and Bishop engaged in a
difficulty in the West End section of
the city. They were near the home
of Lucius Quinn, and when Nance
fired at Bishop, the 8-year-old daugh
1 ?? - -.1*1 tt?n rr in
ter of yuinn, wnu waa *u ~
yard, fell with a bullet in her brain,
causing a wound from which death
ensued a few hours later. Nance escaped
and had been in hiding since
the tragedy until he surrendered.
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Eleven-Hour Day Restored.
The five large cotton mills, of which
Col. T. C. Duncan is president, and
which on March 16th executed the
ten-hour system, have now gone back
to the old eleven-hour system, under
which all the other cotton mills in
the state have been operating. At the
time the new system was adopted
much criticism went up from the other
jnllls, the reason given for the
step by the mills being that it was
thought the -same production could be
had in ten as eleven hours, owing to
the optatives being in better pay
scale condition.
a month and a halfs
nu?c?ci, v.
severe test, it is found that this was
a mistake. The mills which revert to
the old eleven hours are the Union
Cotton Mills, Nos. 1 and 2 Buffalo
Cotton Mills of Union, Seneca Cotton
Mills of Senaca and the Pine
Creek Manufacturing company of Camden,
which together employ some
twenty-four hundred operatives.
*** '
Officer's Departure Regretted.
Much regret is evidenced in Charleston
at the assignment of Captain R.
M. Berry, commandant of the Charleston
navy yard, as the successor ck
Captain Thomas Perry, who has been
ordered to Washington, as president
of the examining board. The Charles- I
ton yard is a much larger and more
t
I
elaborate yard than that at Pensacola, '
but the appointment of Captain Ber- j
ry is in the nature of a promotion
for the reason that the gulf station j
is in active operation, while the i
Charleston yard is not completed. In j
this sense there is of course satisfaction
and pleasure'at the removal.
Captain and Mrs. Berry have become
great favorites in Charleston so- j
oiety since their arrival last Septem- j
ber an* their departure will he espec- !
ially regretted in social circles. Cap- ;
tain E. S. Prime, of the Port Royal 1
naval station, will succeed Captain
-err/, and tor the present will looit
after both stations.
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Dispute Ends in Tragedy.
At Spartanburg a few days ago :
Thos. Jones was shot by Thos.Godfrey
and died a few minutes afterward.
The bullet entered his left side in
the region of the heart Jones' wifo
was a witness of the tragedy in which
her husband lost his life.
The homicide occurred on North
Church street at the home of the de- |
ceased near the front gate. Jones and !
his wife were sitting on the front j
poi ch waiting for a car to take him to
work. Godfrey passed and had in his
hand some grape vines. He asked i
Jones if he knew anything about them,
inferring that the latter had injured
his vines.
Jones arose and advanced .passing \
the lie, it is said, after denying the I
accusation. Without further words !
Godfrey pulled his pistol and fired. J
Jones expired wimm & icw uimutco. i
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To Investigate Train Wreck.
The state railroad commission adop- j
ted the report of Commissioner Earle
on the wreck of the Ogden special
at Greenville, and appointed the 23d
for the hearing, to which the crews
of the two trains, all dispatchers and
operators and yardmaster having anything
to do with giving or sending or
receiving orders, affecting either train,
and the superintendents of the Charlotte
and Savannah divisions will be
summoned as witnesses. It was not
thought necessary to summon any passengers.
The report discloses that the Greenville
yardmaster was not notified by j
Charlotte with what is known as "Or |
der No. 31," which the yardmaster
receipts for in triplicate, 9perator
serving it checking back to the dispatcher,
but Night Operator Lebby
told Commissioner Earle that he placed
a skeleton of the schedule of the
special on Night Yardmaster Faussaux's
hook before 3 o'clock Satui*day
morning. Day Yardmaster Riser
told Commissioner Earle that Fassaux
did not transfer this order, and
that he had no notice of the coming
of the special; that he understands
thm- n teleeram reading "Ebttra 1010,
Ogden Special, reach Greenville 7:55,"
was placed on his file at 7:18, while
he was out in the yards.
The wreck occurred at 7:55. Commissioner
Earle did not get an op
portunity to interview Faussaux. The
report censures the railroad for delaying
report of the wreck eight hours
in violation of the act requiring
prompt report of a wreck to the commission.
WITTE FORESAW D18ASTER.
Only Brainy Man in All Russia Was
Ruthlessly Turned Down.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
KI. Aiyurieff, formerly ap assistant
of Mi T^itte, president of the oommittee
of ministers, undertakes the defense
of his former chief against the
charges that he was in any manner
responsible for the Manehnrian venture
or the events which brought on
the war.
On the contrary, M. Angurieff proves
by means of hitherto unpublished documents
that M. Witte opposed the
Manchurian plans throughout in an energetic
manner and the fact that It
was really his opposition to the
scheme In the far east which led to
his downfall as finance minister,
i When the situation became acute,
seeing that Russia was not prepared,
M. Witte urged at last the temporary
withdrawal of the Russian forces from
Manchuria. He then wrote to the
emperor as follows: "Instead of making
an enemy of Japan we should win
frHpndshlD. I strongly advise a
friendly solution. We 'need to populate
our eastern provinces and have
vital interests to defend in the eventual
war with the yellow race in order
that the peasants of Russia may
understand what they are fighting
for." All of M. Witte s warnings were
unheeded, and he was no longer consulted.
The Korean timber concesaion,
which was in part responsible
for the outbreak, was obtained withr
out his knowledge.
RUSSIANS HEAR FROM TOGO.
Report That Jap Ships Were Seht to
Intercept Admiral Nebogotoff.
Admiral Rojestvensky, according to
a high naval authority at St. Petersburg,
has sailed south to meet the
[ division of the Russian second Pacific
squadron, commanded by Admiral Nebogatoff.
The admiralty has information
that a Japanese division of fast
| cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers
I was sent south for the purpose, if
I possible, of crippling or destroying
I Nebogatoff's ships before they could
| effect a junction with those of Rojest|
vensky.
BLANCHARD AFTER MOB!
Governor of Louisiana Offers Reward
for Members of Mob Who Shot
Craighead in Ja*l Cell.
Governor Blanchard of Louisianahas
made an offer of rewards aggregating
$1,500 to secure the arrest and
conviction of members of the mob
which on April 26 entered the parish
jail at Homer, La., and shot to death
Dick Craighead, awaiting a new trial
for the murder of Mrs. McKee ana
child.
' io v nfforprl
rmeen uuiiurcu uwibib i? ?
for the identification and conviction
of the entire mob, twenty-five in number;
$1,000 for the conviction of any
five or more ,or $500 for the conviction
of any one person who was a
member of it The offer of rewards,
is to remain in effect for a year.
Tbe governor issued an address to
the people of Claiborne parish, denouncing
the assassination of Craighead,
in which he said:
"This resort to mob law greatly injures
the good name of the state and
tends greatly to impede her progress.
Especially does it work harm to the
community in which it took place.
Whether Craighead was innocent or
guilty of the double murder with
which he stood charged has nothing
to do with it In the eyes of the law
the parties who mobbed the jail are
as much subject to condemnation if
Craighead were guilty as they would
be if he were innocent
"We must inculcate respect for law
and order. We must let it be know*
that here in Louisiana life and property
are protected. We must make
the law a terror to those who defy ^
it, and this mob did defy it outrageously.
| "All good citizens owe it to the 4
state, to the community in which they , ?
live, to range themselves on the side
of the officers of the law in the effort <
that will be made to identify, and v
brine to trial those who formed the
? w ?
mob.
. "I appeal to the good people of
the parish to uphold the cause of law
and order. The executive department
will render every assistance in its
power to bring the guilty parties to
answer at the bar of justice for thencrime."
OYAMA READY" FOR SCRAPPING.
Japanese Army in Manchuria Again
Pressing Toward North.
According to dispatches from Manj
churia, since April 29, the Japanese
I have been advancing slowly/and in- . :
! termittently, pushing forward their %
: columns successively from right to v
left under cover of a screen of cav- \
airy and Chinese bandits. The advance
has resulted in straightening
the alignment, of the opposing ar- ' ^
mies, Russian detachments which
were far in advance on the flanks
being forced to retire. Erdagou, to
the eastward, was occupied May 5,
but under pressure by the Russians,
i the Japanese later evacuated the
! place. On the left the Russian cav- ^
i airy retired behind the Liao river,
i It is reported that the Japanese ar!
mies in the center have been reinforced.
The force at vField Marshal
Oyama's disposal according to inform J
mation recently received is 348 bat- - v
talions of 390,000 men. ^
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FRANCE HAS ANGERED JAPAN.
Alleged Breach of Neutrality Engen-.
ders Wrath of Dangerous Tension.
Special dispatches from Tokio to
the London morning newspapers rep- |
resent that the Japanese feeling is
becoming highly Inflamed at France's
alleged failure to prevent ostentatious
disregard for the principles of neutrality
by the Russian Pacific squadj
ron. The Toldo Asahi (newspaper)
i describes the French assurances that
i wnnij nrAQPrvp neutrality as
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falsehoods, and declares that Japan
would be justified in bombarding
French territory, and calls ,on the r)
government to take vigorous action.
Among Japanese officials in London
It Is asserted that France put off
| Japan by fair promises In order to
I give Rojestvensky time to effect a^ ."j.
junction with Nebogatoff's division,
| and that the Russians are now given
i every privilege, provided they keep
I just outside the three-mile limit
GIRL'S SLAYERS DOOMED.
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Smith and Collier Given Death Pen* alty
in Decatur, Alabama, Court
The jury at Decatur, Ala., Friday,
in the case of John Collier, colored,
charged with the murder of Miss Belle
Bloodworth, returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree and
fixed punishment at death.
Harvey Smith, colored, was prevl- ,
ously convicted of the same crime
and given a like sentence. The trials
of both negroes were held under mill*
| tary guard to prevent mob violeneo.
BAGGAGEMEN IN TROUBLE.
Diamond Necklace Stolen from Mrs.
Vanderbilt in Florida is Recovered.
Dispatches were received in New
York Thursday from St. Augustine,
FJa., stating that a diamond necklace
j owned by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and
| valued at $50,000, the loss of which
had been kept a secret, has been re|
covered.
As a result of the investigation sevi
eral baggagemen of the Florida lines '
j have been arrested.
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