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Soon after the close of the Civil War
a number of troops of the Fourth
Cavalry were sent out to the different
posts on the Rio Grande. Their principal
business was to watch Indians,
who would cross over from Mexico to
- steal horses. The Indians seldom destroyed
ranches; that would not be
_ good business. The men living on the
ranches, if not driven off or killed,
would in the course of time gather up
another bunch of horses for the In.
dians to steal. Our troop and one
other were sent to Camp Verde, Texas,
wnich was one or tne ironuer posts
then; about all the country west of
- it was still out of doors. We began
hunting Indians as soon as we had
got here. There were a good many
settlers east of us and several small
towns. Kerrville and Banders were
the nearest ones. They are probably
larger towns now.
The citizens were continually losing
horses and we were kept busy hunting
them. The greatest drawback to our
finding them was due to the fact that
these men did not report their losses
soon enough, and about the time we
would be told of it the Indians would
be safe in Mexico. There was an arrangement
now under which we could
follow Indians to Mexico, and the
Mexican troops" could follow them
across to our side of the line if they
wanted to do so. They ran them over
to us, then quit, while we have often
followed them 150 miles into Mexico.
I have been as far down as that after
them myself while in the Fourth Cav%.
airy. We had no such arrangement
|p when we first went across, and had
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g* Mexico then our presence over there
-would have been the cause of an xtended
diplomatic correspondence beV.\;
tween Mexico and Washington to explain
what we were doing over there,
but at this time there was no civil government
in Mexico, or rather there
were two so-called governments. Gen.
Juarez was at the head of one, the
Emperor Maximilian had the other,
Bfev- and they were too busy just now trying
to keep out of each other's way to
18'' Pay any attention to us.
An old gentleman who had a ranch
. near Kerrvilie lost a bunch of horses
and told us about it. We followed up
j^.-V the Indians, and crossing the Rio
Grande a few hours after them, ran
into their camp at night when they
|r:> thought they were safe at home. We
ijv got back all the horses, the Indians
making their escape on foot, all except
a few that came in contact with
" jour rlc+?l halls; they stayed where
they were.
These Indians were Lipans and
Kickapcos. They had originally belonged
in Texas, but had emigrated
to Mexico and would nqw come over
glsgv on foot, then ride back on stolen
- horses, sell them to the Mexicans and
come and get more. We returned the
, horses to where they belonged and a
I short time after. Mr. Crawford, their
owner, paid us another visit. He had
found us more Indians, hut they had
\> not taken his horses this time. He
Ihad been west of this hunting up his
cattle and had seen a ?buncfc of In
disjns, how many l*e did nofc know;
he had not stopped long enough to
count them.
About a dozen of us under command
bt of our First Lieutenant, a Brevet Major,
were sent out with Crawford to
help him count those Indians. He led
us up through Bandera Pass, a few
miles south of the post, then turned
west. Had he kept on west far enough
( ' we would not have needed him for a
, guide. Edwards county was out here,
and we had been all over it lately.
*After going west a while he turned
.. north again and late in the afternoon
we rode past a chain of hills. They
were off to our right, and I noticed
when passing one of them what looked
like a small cave up in the side of the
hill, twenty feet above its base. Craw^
ford saw it, and riding over got off
his horse and examined the ground.
There certainly, could not be Indians
in that cave, I thought; not more than
' a dozen, anyhow. It was about two
feet wide and hardly that high at the
entrance. After looking at the ground
P>' ' or rocks that lay on the ground rather,
Crawford climbed up to the cave.
The Major had stopped the column,
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"What have you got there, Mr. Craw<cL
ford?V
"I think there is a b'ar in that cave,
Bir."
"Let him stay in there then, and
come on. I want to make camp as
soon as I can now."
Grawford mounted and came over to
us, and the major asked him if he
had meant to crawl into that cave
after a bear?
"No, sir; not all the way in. I only
wanted to find out if he was thar or
not."
"Well, if he had been there, you
would have found it out pretty
quick."
I nearly choked myself trying to
keep from laughing. I rode just behind
the major, and it would Dot do to
laugh. This Mr. Crawford was a curiosity.
He was about 60 years old
~4 and rode with his stirrups so short
that his knees were shoved half waj
up to his chin, and in riding he leaned
forward in the saddle something as
English hunters are represented in
newspaper cuts as doing, but no fox
hunter or any one else could follow
the hounds riding as he did. I could
not, at least.
We were taught to ride with stirrup
straps long enough to allow our legs
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to extend their fu 1 length and to sit
erect in the sadde. Had we leaned
forward, as he d:'d, an officer's saber
across our backs would have straightened
us up. Crawford carried a
Henry rifle on the saddle in front o'
him and lugged around two Colt's pistols
day and night. He slept with
them on. We had to do that ourselves
at times, but unless I was told to keep
mine on it came off promptly when I
lay down. I could get it quickly
enough if I needed it.
He had been an Indian fighter all
his life," or said he had, and as he
found us no Indians this trip, and
never made another one with us. I
will have to take his word for it,, but
from what I saw of him afterward,
if I were an Indian he would be the
man I should want to follow me. I
would not expect to have to fight him
oftener than twice a day.
We went into camp more than half
a mile beyond the cave, and as soon
as our horses were staked out I went
to Crawford and asked him if he
would go and examine that cave with
me. No, he did not care to walk that
IUI.
"It Is only half a mile," I said.
"Yes, but it is another half mile
back, and I ain't used to walking. You
may go down and get that bear if you
want him."
"I want him. of course, if he is
there."
"Oh, he is there all right. I saw his
tracks there."
I went to the major and asked permission
to hunt the bear.
"Yes," he told me, "hunt him, but
don't crawl into that cave after him,
as Mr. Crawford was going to do."
I had no idea of doing that. I did
not want bear quite so badly as that,
and I don't think that Crawford had
ever meant to crawl into it, either.
He was not exactly a fool.
On my way to the cave I began to
study plans to get him out of it if he
was in it, without going in and dragging
him out. I first thought to climb
up there, then give him a shot or two
into, but I dismissed that plan. I
might kill him if I did and would
not know it. I was not going in to
see. According to some authorities
on bears, it takes 8, man and a gun
half a day to kill one. Sometimes it
does. I have followed one with a rifle
a half day, then did not kill him. I
don't know that I ever wounded him,
though I shot at him often enough.
And again I have killed one in less
than two minutes with a pistol. It
depends a good deal on where you hit
the beer how many shots it takes to
kill him.
t frnt rirvwn in front of the cave and
examined the ground for bear signs,
but found none. The ground, what little
there was of it that was not covered
with loose rocks, was hard yellow
clay?an ox team passing over it
would hardly leave a sign.
Gathering up a lot of dry brush,
weeds and leaves I piled them in
front of the cave, set them on fire, and
going off a few feet to one side waited
for the bear or bears to come out I
had a Spencer carbine and a Celt's
pistol, and I though that I could stop
all the bears that might be in there.
The wind drove the smoke right into
the cave, the fire burned out, but no
bear made his appearance. There
would be no danger in going into that
ca?ve pow, and I tried it, but as there
was too much smoke in it I had to
crawl out I went back to camp and
Crawford wanted to know if I had seen
the bear.
"No, sir, there is none there, nor has
there been any lately."
"Oh, yes, there has been;" he had
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j*You could not see a sign there with
a l^icroawo^e. Mae ground is
hard."
"There might be plenty of signs
there that an old hunter could see,
and you could not. You have not
been in this country long."
"Yes, I know; but we have men in
this troop that have been, some oi
them twenty years out on the frontier.
I myself have been pretty well over
the Northwest, and have hunted with
Sioux Indians. They know something
about signs, don't they? We are not
all tenderfeet, if we were born and
raised in the big cities."
"Yes, maybe so, but there has beer
a b'ar up thar."
"Well, as the Major told you, wc
will let him stay up there. I can'l
find him."
We started again early next morning
to hunt those Indians of Crawford's
and soon after breaking camp it begar
to rain and kept on raining all forenoon.
The Major went into csfnp as
soon as he could find grass and wood
We did not need to look for water
We had all we wanted of that anc
some more.
The timber here was cypress, anc
there was a lot of blocks of it thai
hs;d been cut to make shingles out o!
which had been left; Indians had pro
bably interrupted the shingle making
before it had got well started. Tha
had been some years ago, "before lh<
war," probably, to use Crawford's fa
vorite expression when giving the dat<
of his numerous fights with Indians
We tried to start a cook fire with thes<
blocks but they were wet and woul<
not burn, only smoke.
I got a liberal dose of this smoke
:nd a small dose of cypress smoke i:
i cure. Then I hunted up something
hat would burn more and smoke less
;nd found a lot of dead cedars, but i
ook hard work te? get wood off them
the branches had to be broken off. We
had no axe; we never carried one on a
pack mule then, and there is hardly
anything that can- be carried on him
that is needed oftener. When I had
anything to do with the pack trains
in after years I always carried at least
one r/xe in a leather sling and a spade.
While riding through the rain today
we were continually passing small
bunches of cattle. They belonged to
ranches away east of us and had wandered
out here.
Nearly even- cow had a different
brand, some had none at all. They
ay ere still tame and would let a man
; ride close enough to examine them,
but further west could be found thousands
of them that we could not get
i within a mile of; they had been born
i wild. Crawford would examine every
bunch we passed; he wanted to see if
any of them had his brand on, he said.
This was what had brought him and
us here; he had seen no Indians, but
wanted a cavalry escort so that he
could come out here and look up his
and his neighbors' cows.
These men would not think of coming
out here alone. If they did they
would have no trouble in seeing all the
Indians they wanted.
I noticed the Major watching Crawford
while he was engaged in taking
the census of these cows, and I knew
that if Crawford did not find Indians
. in a day or two he would hear from
the Major. The Major had risen from
the ranks and could sweaj not only
like the proverbial trooper, but like
half a dozen of them. He dare not
curse an enlisted man, and never did;
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court-martialed if he had, cr else have
to give the man he had cursed an
apology in front of his troop. It was
given to me by another officer in the
presence of the Colonel once, after I
har reported this officer for cursing
me. But the Major could curse a
teamster cr citizen guide, and he often
did, and I expected Crawford to get
the full benefit of the Major's experience
in the line of cursing before he
was a week older. When in camp
Crawford kept down among us. Hp
would not go near the Major unless
he was called, and we kept him busy
blowing about the Indians that he had
killed. I had found out from him that
he had been in the Confederate Army
of Northern Virginia, Lee's army, and
I had been in the Army of the Potomac
at the same time, so I got him
started telling about the time that
"we uns had fit you uns," and we put
in some hours fighting the War of the
Rebellion over again.
The weather had cleared up thi9
afternoon and gave the ground a
chance to ary. I had been thinking
that I would have to sleep tonight
seated on my saddle with my back to
a tree; I often had to sleep that way.
We carried no bed blanket; we were
not allowed to put one on the horse;
I would not put it on anyhow; I never
carried anything on him I could do
without; I did not want to make a
pack mule out of him, then ride him.
It had been good weather when we
left the post and no one had an overcoat
along with him. I had a rubber
ccat, though few were worn then.
Soon after dark tonight we were
gathered around the fire and Crawford
was giving us an extended account of
the Indians he had killed "before the
war"?he had not got to the ones he
had killed after the break-up yet
When he was about in the middle of
this interesting nararative the sentry
on post outside of the horses fired a
shot. We picked up our carbines and
rr<n out to form a line out beyond the
herd. Crawford had followed me with
his rifle and I thought he had fallen
. in line until I heard a noise behind me
as I stood in line in my place on the
left. Looking around I saw Crawford
i down on his knees here among the
horses, with his hands pressed together;
he was busy praying.
I wanted to tell him to postpone
i that prayer and fall in here and shoot
a few more Indians Nbut I was not in
command. There was a sergeant here
who ranked me, and had I begun to
i give orders he would soon let me know
i that he was here. The Major had not
got out here yet He had been outside
i of camp somewhere when the shot
, was fired, and came running out now
; and almost fell over Crawford. What
he said to Cra,wford need not be ret
peated here. His remarks would have
! to be principally in dashes if they
were recorded. None of them could be
mistaken for a prayer, though,
i We satisfied ourselves that there
; were no Indians out here now, nor
; had there been any here lately. The
I* sentry had fired at a bunch of cows
without challenging, as he had been
i told to do; it was dark, and he could
not see them! We went back to the
! fire and tried to get some more Indian
: stories from Crawford, but I had hurt
his feelings on the way in by telling
r him that we generally fought our
, Indians without the aid of a chaplain,
i He went to bed now.
This happened to be his last night
; with us. Had he remained, I don't
. suppose he would have given us any
. more Indian stories. His failure to1
night to get out to where he could
slaughter them, after both he and we
1 had thought that there were plenty
t of them here, had put a large disf
count on the stories he had given us
- already.
; Next morning the Major gave no
t orders to saddle up. He seemed to be
i going to make a permanent camp here.
- But calling Crawford up, he told him
3 to go out and And those Indians or
. their trail or be shot. That was the
5 gist of his remarks.
i Crawford started to find the trail.
Whether he found it or not I don't
, know; he never came back to tell us
s about it. He probably found a trail
? that led straight' home, then took it.
i. The Major waited until noon, then
t started us home.?Correspondence in
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Jpalmetto Stale Hews
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Alleged Loss is a Mystery.
Nothing can be learned in Columbia
regarding the alleged less cf $1S,000
from an express package en route
between Augusta, Ga. .and New York.
J. F. Fant, route agent cf the Columbia
division, believes the loss cc
curred outside of his territory. The
package was in Columbia two hcurs
between 3:30 and 6 o'clock in the
/norning, but has been traced to New
York in apparent good order.
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Fire Destroys Much Cotton.
Fire in the cotton warehouse of the
Eureka mill at Chester destroyed 1,500
bales of cotton, resulting in a loss
of between $30,000 and $90,000. The
Eureka mill is located about a quarter
of a mile outside the corporate limits
of the city, and little aid could be
rendered by the city fire department.
The company has its own fire apparatus
and fought the flames with all
its force.
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* Record
in Collection of Taxes.
Mayor Rhctt's administration in
i Charleston has scored a record held
! bv few municipal administrations in
the respect of the collection of taxes.
During the past year 99.1 of^the assessed
taxes was paid into the city
treasury, which beat the record of last
year, 98.8 per cent. The best record
made by a previous administration,
that of Mayor Smyth, when 98.4 per
cent of taxes was collected. Many cit
ies are entirely satisfied with the collection
of all but fifteen per cent of
the taxes assessed, but the Charleston
administrations of recent years
have been scoring records in this respect.
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Actors' Society Aids Prosecuti:n.
A New York dispatch says: The retainer
of a special attorney and other
necessary expenses incident to the
prosecution of George Hasty of Gaffney,
S. C., accused of the murder of
Milan Bennett, and Abbott Davidso:-,
actors, will be defrayed by the Ac
tors' Society of America. The Actors'
Society alleges that Hasty, who
i is a hotel proprietor, on December
15, killed Bennett and Davidson bej
cause they resented an insult to two
, women members of a dramatic company
stopping at Kasty's hotel. In
oeciaing upon mis acuon, ine society
adopted a resolution giving as a
reason therefor that peculiar circumstances
attended the tragedy, and that
Hasty is a resident and property owner
in the town in which the shooting
occurred.
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Cotton Growers Re-Elect Old Officers.
The South Carolina division of the
Southern Cotton Association met in
Columbia the past week in annual
convention, the following officers being
elected: B. D. Smith, president;
H. B. Tindall, vice president; F. K..
Weston, secretary, and F. H. Hyatt,
treasurer, the old officers, were unanimously
re-elected.
An executive committee, composed
of R. M. Cleveland, Richaod Singleton,
F. I\I. Farr, R. M. Pegues, Wade
Stacklicuee and J. E. Wannamaker,
was elected. Resolutions providing
for a financial agent, the reduction of
25 per cent in acreage, except where
there was only one plow to ten acres,
and a 10 cent tax on each bale is "asked,"
were adopted/
Eight delegates at large were elected
to the New Orleans convention.
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Another Dune#)-Property in Court.
The Union and Glenn Springs railroad,
another property in which Thos.
C. Duncan, former president of the
Union and Buffalo cotton mills, was
heavily interested, has been placed
in the hands cf a receiver in the
United States circuit court at Charleston.
in answer to complaint and petition
filed by the Mercantile Trust &
Deposit company of Baltimore, Edwin
W. Robertson being appointed the receiver.
The Union and Glenn Springs
railroad traverses a number of townships
in Union county, beginning at
a point near Carlisle, crossing the
Broad river and extending to the Buf
falo cotton mills. It has a number
of extensions and the road is the possessor
of considerable real estate,
franchises ana ether property.
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The Colleton Mill Case.
Complaint has been filed in the circuit
court at Charleston by J. A. Rob
inson, doing business under the name
of Robinson & Shackieton, on behalf
of himself and other creditors of the
defunct Colleton cotton mills, against
u \v Blank and a number of other
stockholders for $3,052.37, alleged to
be due on promissory notes. The
property of the Colleton mills was
sold under order of the court some
time ago, but the amount realized was
not large enough to discharge the
debts. The present suit is brought
to enforce the stockholders' liability,
provided by general assembly, under
which the mills were incorporated.
The prayer of complainant is "that
the defendants be adjudged to pay
the amount of their respective liabilities
as stockholders of the said'Colleton
cotton mills ior the satisfaction ni
the debt cf the plaintiff and creditors.
The case v.-ill br heard at the next
term of the circuit court
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Silver Service fcr Cruiser.
The new cruiser Charleston. Cap
tain Wirslrw. was received with fill?
honors by c'tl?:?ns of Charleston Wednesday
and was presented the silver
(?;!? r j
....o city, for whom the ocat was
named. The presentation of the
service took place aboard the vessel
The service consists of a large
punch bowl and ladle of silver, inlined
with gold. The bowl is about
two feet in diameter, weighs three
hundred and twenty-five ounces ani
has a capacity of ten gallons. It rests
on a heavy substantial base, set in a
silver platter. The handles, of the
bowl show two edges with outspread
wings. The sides bear the seals of
the City of Charleston and of the
navy department and beautifully
wrought v.ews cf Fort sumter, rori
bt. .VuCticicio c-iureii and
ia-icery park, tile v.la'o being typical
Oi. Uiiailesion. iL.e p-eoJ is
e-casea in a sat.n. imtu ouk. oojl v/itu
su?er trimmingo, appropriately inscribed.
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State College Adopts Resolutions.
The faculty cf the South Carolina
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cc::ege leamea wiw utcy
the death cf Dr. Walter B. Hill, chancellor
of the University, cf Georgia,
distinguished as a citizen, a publicist
and an organizer and leader cf higher
education, whose personal and official
influence was widely and oencr icently
felt .beyond the limits of his
own state, and who has lately testified
in the most gratifying way his interest
in the South Carolina College. At
a special meeting the following resolution
was passed:
Be it Keso'./ed, First, That this faculty
expyess its deep sympathy with
the family of Chancellor Hill, and
with the faculty of the University of
Georgia, in the personal and public
loss sustained in the death of cur lamented
friend and colleague.
Resolved, Second, That a copy of
this minute be sent to the widow of
Chancellor Hill and to the faculty of
the University of Georgia, and published
also in the daily papers of Columbia
and Atlanta, and that a blank
page of the faculty minutes be reserved
for this entry.
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Ssa Island Cotton Men Meet
The executive committee of the Sea
Island Cotton Seed Association met
in Charleston last Monday and discussed
matters in connection with the
efforts of the association to control
the supply of seed and by removing it
from the market create a monopoly
for the South Carolina planters. The
association was organized a year ago
and at the meeting several days ago
it was determined to leave the control
cf the matter in the hands of the
executive committee, so well pleased
was the association with the. work of
the committee during the past year.
it appears that the'"foreign" raisers
of the long staple cotton have to purchase
annually a fresh supply of seed
from the original Carolina producers,
as the seed from their own cotton
brings fcrth a deteriorated grade of
staple. By making it impossible to
purchase this seed, the Carolina planters
hope to shut off competing product
and the efforts of the association
are being directed towards this end.
All seed above that actually necessary
for replanting of their own crops
will be destroyed in crushing oil .mills
and'thus eliminate from the market
to the disadvantage of the so-called
"foreign" or "alien" raisers of long
staple in Georgia, Alabama and other
communities where experiments have
been made with more or less success.
GAGE ALSO GIVES WARNING.
Agrees With Schiff as to Possibility
of Disastrous Panic.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of
the treasury, said at New York Frl.-lav
that hp asrpps with Jacob H.
Sf h'ff in the opinion that a great panic
is inevitable unless steps are taken
to remedy the inelasticity of the existing
currency system.
"I agree positively with Mr. Schifi.',"
said Mr. Gage, "that the monetary
conditions which have obtained during
the last sixty days are disgraceful
to us as a nation, and I further agree
with him that a stunning panic is but
a matter of time if something is not
done."
LIVED SIX SCORE YEARS.
Negro Woman Dies in Philadelphia at
Alleged Age of 135 Yeara.
Mary McDonald, a negro woman,
who claimed to be 135 years of age,
16 dead at the Home for the Aged,
an infirmary for colored persons in
Philadelphia. According to the wo
man and her surviving relatives, she
was born November 14, 1770, near Valley
Forge, Pa. She often told of the
scenes in about the camp of Washington's
soldiers at Valley Forge during
the winter of 1777-78.
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MINESHAFTHORROR
Men and Animals Entombed ;:$j|
in Pit by Explosion. S
OVER SCORE LOSE LIFE
Catastrophe Occurred at Plant of the >. ^
Cooper Mine Company at Coaldale,
West Virginia?Rescuers Very ;--Wi
Quickly Begin Work. --'SB
Twenty-one miners were killed in
an explosion of mine gas in the shajt -^wB
of the Cooper Mine company at CoaK '
dale, W. Vsl, at noon Thursday. Im- . M;
mediately following the explosion* ;
whtch was heard for seyeral mOeaj'
rescue parties set to work to '
the wrecked shaft
Coaldale is a mining town situated
on the Norfolk and Western railway*. and
is 15 miles west of Bluefield. It is. ' ^
in Mercer county, and wire facilities.\$jf.
are inadequate. Some idea can ho ?
formed as to the force of the explo- ";
sion when several hours after the explosion,
one of the miners, who could ' :M
not be identified on account of being
so badly mutilated, was found a <Hs-\ . ^
tance of several hundred feet frota C
the mine mouth, having been blown;
there, together with a mining car fey ;
the explosion. News of the explpsion
soon spread through the
fields, and a great party of
from the numerous operations .J|3|
ered to assist in the rescue.
MADE A SCENE AT WHITE HOlWlfc-^^p
woman insisted on seeing 'resiamKj^^a
and Was Carried Out Bodily.
A Washington dispatch says:
distressing scene was enacted at
white boose executive offices
day in which Mrs. Minor Morris,
fifty years, was carried screanaifcofc^ 1^1
from the building because she Tefia^^^lW
to leave without a resort to force.
Mrs. Morris told Assistant Secrets^
ry Barne3 that she wanted to
president She said that her
band had been discharge! from
government service, and she ^1r<tinH|
to demand from the president his^re^^^M
Mr. Barnes explained to her I
the president had nothing to . do with%
such subjects, and that she would
ter. take up the matter with the
of the department from which 'her:
husband had been discharged.
Mrs. Morris declared in a loud totfi^/ HaSj
that she had come to the white. h?^^
to see the president, and proposed
see him even If she had to camp
there for a month. The white hma??: Jl|?
officers tried to get her to leave,
she defied any one to touch her. s >7
Two of them lifted her up bodily.
and carried her screaming to a PGHaj ;-V.
call box, where a petrol weson .wn^^^M
summoned. She was taken to th*
house of detention. 'r ^.dgB
Mrs. Morris was released from' {bet
house of detention shortly, after v 8
o'clock p. m., and returned .to the ;Nber^'^9B
Willard hotel. She refused
see any callers, sending word
was Indisposed. M
She had been a guest at the WHlartr v .V&Kj
for a long time .
DIXON ALLEGES INFRINGEMfiNT/
Author Of "Clansman" Seizes Baggage;'
of Theatrical Aggregation. v '*{* H
Thomas Dixon, author of "The Clansman,"
through attorneys at Raleigh,
C., attached property of the Corhme v
Runkel company for presenting
Reconstruction Days," a play which he
claims is an infringement on; the <J?Pyv/ v^ffl|
rifeht of his "The Clansman," but;
which Thaddeus Breton of the Runkerf^^H
company says he wrote in forty days,' .
from Dixon's and ether novels'of rOv
construction times.
Statehood Bill Considered. ^ ^
The senate committee on territories
met Thursday and began consMeraticge
of the joint statehood bill. Thtt\wa^^fsW|
the first meeting cf the committee to
consider the admission of States. ( ^
SLAV RED8 STILL DEFIANT. "v &?
Admit Defeat, But Will Organize a
Fight on New Basis. 1
A St. Petersburg dispatch says : V^^SII
The general meeting of the work
men's council and of representative* ^
of the proletariat organizations,which
was held across the Finnish border, ^
lasted for 36 hours.
The practical result of the meet*
ing was a confession that the gov*
ernment had proved to be too strongJ^lfl^K
in its fight against the strikers and
the proletariat organizations, ana that
it would be necessary to organize on '
a new basis the armed revolution. ' :sXt
A DAGO TOWN ENGULFED.
Earth Opened and Swallowed Up thej-iaBj
Houses and Many People.
At Gezano, i\ town of 8,000 inhabitants
in the province of Potenza, A I
Italy the earth suddenly evened, engulfing
ten houses and shattering
many others, which threaten to fall.
Many persons were buried in the