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OKLAHOMA STATE Calls for a New Star to Be. i Placed bn the Flag. SFNATE VOTES ADMISSION f; Oklahoma and Indian Territories Obliterated?Arizona and New Mex 1 ico Will Vote on the Question of Statehood. At 5:35 o'clock Friday afternoon the j senate passed a bill for the admission of a new state to be called Oklahoma, and to be composed of the | territory of Oklahoma and Indian Tor- | ritorv. It was the house joint state- i hood bill with all the provisions re- | latins to Arizona and New Mexico j stricken out The motion to strike j out was made by Mr. Burrows, and it was carried by the close vote of | 37 to 35, after having been lost in j . committee of the whole by the still ! closer vote of 35 to 30. The final vote on Mr. Burrows' motion was as follows: Yeas ? Alger, Bacon, Blackburn, I Bulkey, Burrows, Carfer, Clark of Montana, Clay, Culberson, Daniel, Du Boise, Flint, Foraker, Fester, Frazier, Gallinger, Gearin, Hansborougli, Hepburn, Latimer, McCreary, Mallory, Martin, Morgan, Newlands, Overman, Patterson, Perkins, Pettus, Rainey, Scctt. Simmons, Spooner, Stone, Taliaferro, Teller, Tillman?37. Nays?Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bev. eridge, Brandegee, Burnham, Clafcp, * Cmrk of Wyoming, Crane, Collum, Dick, Dillingham, \Dolliver, iDryden, Fulton, Gamble, &ale, Hemenway, f Hopkins, Kean, Knox, LaFollette, Lodge, Long, McCumber, Millard, Nelson, Nixon, Penrose, Pile, Proctor, Smoot, Sutherland, Warner, Wetmore ?35. The test point upon which the opponents of joint statehood showed their greatest strength was on the Foraker amendment, which provided that Arizona and New Mjexico should have an opportunity to vote separately on the proposition of joint statehood. This was carried by 42 to 29. Provisions of the Bill. As amended by the senate, the bill provides for the creation of the state of Oklahoma, out of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The state is allowed the usual quota of executive, judicial and legislative officers, two United States senators and five members or the national house of representatives. A constitutional convention, with 110 members, 55 cf which are to be chosen by each cf the territories compris> ing the state, is provided for, and all male citizens, cr male Indians, 21 years of age, are made eligible for membership in it. There is an especial provision protecting the Indians in their rights and continues the prerogative of the national government to control their affairs. ^ The sale cf intoxicating liquors in what is now Indian,Territory is prohibited for twenty-one years and longer, unless the constitution is changed. Sections 16 and 36 of each township of land in Oklahoma are set aside for the benefit of the common school system, as is also five per cent of the proceeds of the sale of public lands. There is an appropriation of $5,000,000 from the national treasury "* for the benefit of the schools. Provision is made for the support of diigher education and charitable institutions. Two district or United States courts, cne in Oklahoma and the other in Indian Territory, are provided for. Guthrie is made the temporary seat of government, but the house provision, continuing it in that capacity until 1913, was eliminated. i INSURANCE OFICIALS HEARD. Give Their Views on Bills Now Before New York Legislature. For many hours Friday until nearly midnight the joint special legislative insurance investigating committee at Albany, N. Y., listened to arguments of insurance presidents, actuaries and agents, against some of the provisions of the bills amending the state insurance law. FARMERS. TO POOL CROPS. i ? Kentucky Legislature Passes Bill to Aid Tobacco Growers. 1 The Kentucky house has passed the senate bill allowing farmers to pool their crops and hold them for higher prices. The main purpose for which the hill was introduced was to allow Kentucky tobaicco growers to combine and secure satisfactory prices for leaf tobacco, something they allege they are at present unable to do on account cf the workings of the so-called "tobacco trust." BRITONS WANT GEORGIA LANDS. > English Syndicate May Secure Dodge Holdings. A gentleman in position to know, who has for several years been connected with the land interests of Norman W. Dodge in Laurens, Montgomery and Dodge counties, Georgia, * states that a large syndicate of Englishmen is now negotiating with Mr. lodge for the purchase of about 150,000 acres of land in that section of Gesrgia. ' The syndicate represents English cotton mill men. -m i U WOMAN SLAYS HER SISTER Effectively Breaks Up Sinful Alliance Between Husband snd Her Victim With Six Revolver Bullets. Maddened with uncontrollable jealousy, Mrs. Willie Standifer, wife of Edward Marion. Standifer, Gf 203 West Alexander stieet, Atlanta, shot to death Miss Chapell Whisenant, her youngest sister, at the home of D. P. Durham, her brother-in-law, 261 South Boulevard Friday morning. The two sisters were alone in a bedroom. The wife had been pleading with the girl to remain away from the husband. The girl was scornful. The infuriated woman drew a pistol and fired six shots. The firsl crashed into the mirror of the dresser the second struck the girl in the facs ort/1 ehd thrPTu hftrsplf iinnn ft InnnftC and tried to shield herself with a pillow. Determined that only deatS could satisfy her, the woman lifted the girl's arm and fired four shots into hei breast. Two hours after the tragedy Mrs, Standifer went with her husband to the police barracks and told of the killing. Both she and her husband were held as prisoners. The affair is one of the most shocking that has occurred in the city in many years. Mrs. Standifer is 24 years of age and the mother of a little boy 20 months old. The dead girl was only 17. Standifer and his wife were married three years ago in Alabama. He became infatuated with his pretty young sister-in-law. The wife suspected the couple, and a few months ago her suspicions became so st'ong that she went to her young sister and upbraided her. Thursday evening about 6 o'clock Standifer hired a carriage and he and Miss Whisenant took a ride. They were together until nearly midnight. Mrs. Standifer, always suspicious, ascertained by telephoning that her husband was net at work. She went to Durham's home and waited until nearly midnight for the couple. She had been gone only fifteen minutes when they drove up in a carriage and the girl got out. Mrs. Standifer had a pistol at that time, and it is believed she meant to kill both sister and husband. About 1 o'clock Friday morning Mrs. Standifer, who had reached her own home, called up Mr. Durham over the telephone and asked if her sister had returned. When told that the girl was there she said: "Let me speak to her." The girl held a conversation over the phone with Mrs. Standifer and the former was asked to go at once to the Standifer heme, but it was too late. Mrs. Standifer closed the conversation with the remark: "Well, 1 will see you in the morning." And she saw her. She went to the Durham home with a pistol holding six bullets and she used every one oi them. The dead girl was to have beer married within a week to J. E. Sitton of Seneca, S. C-, to whom she had been engaged for some months. Marion Standifer brazenly admitted that he had loved Miss Whisenant, but swore that his affection for hei was platonic; that he loved her, but that it was a pure love. AN ADMINISTRATION DEFEAT Results from Final Disposition of th? Statehood Bill in Senate. The first open clash between President Roosevelt and the senate resulted in a distinct defeat for the administration. (Not only did the sen ate adopt the Foraker referendum amendment to the statehood bill against *the strenuous opposition oJ the administration forces led by Sen ator Beveridge, and in the face oi what Senator McCurnber pronounceO the most vigorous lashing of whicb he had ever known, but on top of this defeat the senate proceeded to administer another by adopting the Burrows amendment striking from the bill all mention of Arizona and New Mexico. HOUSE IS FOR TWO STATES. Senate's Elimination of Arizona and New Mexico Cannot Stand. The statehood question will not be taken up by the house until the return of the members of the river and harbors committee who are making a trip of inspection throughout the south. House leaders who represent the administration view of the statehood problem are positive that the houic will not concur in the amendment of the senate eliminating Arizona and New Mexico from the bill. RIOTERS FOUND GUILTY. Eight Men to Be Punished for Hanging Negroes in Ohio. The jury in the riot cases at Springfield, umo, iouna eigm young men guilty of rioting as follows: Harry Garber, John Plerpont, George Epprecht, Carl Kloehfer, Glen Johnson. Frank Young, Carl Wise and Kemp Reeder. Leniency was recommended, and the court was asked not to impose a work house sentence. None of these found guilty is over 25 years of age. s MORO HOST SLAIN! , Six Hundred Killed in Battle with Philippine Troops. FIFTEEN SOLDIERS KILLED 1 Besides the Dead, Thirty-Six Americans Are Wounded?Fight Occurred on Mountain Top and Was Desperate Encounter.A Manila dispatch says: An important action between American forces and hostile Moros has taken place L near Jolo. Fifteen enlisted men were - killed, four commissioned officers and . thirty enlisted men were wounded and , a naval contingent operating with the military sustained thirty-two casualties. The Moros lost 600 men killed. The attack was made under the i most hazardous circumstances. Start. inly early in the afternoon of "March 6, the assailants climbed for a distance of 2.100 feet up a lava cone, the thickly wooded ridges of which furnished the only foothold. The last i 500 feet of the ascent was at an angle : of 60 degrees, and the last fifty feet almost perpendicular. At the top were 600 fanatical Moros armed with rifles and knives and supporti ed by native artillery. The fortified crater was almost invisible and seem! ingly inaccessible. At the word of command the troops rushed into the crater and a hand to hand encounter followed. Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the division of the Philippines, reports as follows from Jolo, capital of the Sulu Islands: "A severe action between troops, a naval detachment and constabulary and hostile Moros has taken place at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The engagement opened during the afternoon of March 6 and ended in the morning of March 8. The action involved the capture of Mount Dajo, a lava cone, 2,100 feetvhigh, with a crater at its summit and extremely steep. The last 400 feet were at an angle of 60 degrees and there were fifty per> nendicular ridges covered with a , growth of timber and strongly fortified and defended by an invisible force of Moros. "The army casualties were fifteen : delisted men killed, four commission' ed officers and thirty enlisted men wounded. "Colonel Joseph W. Duncan of the sixth infantry directed the operations, s All the defenders of the Moro strongholds were killed. Six hundred bod' ies were found on the field. I "The action resulted in the extermi nation of a band of outlaws, who, reci ognizing no chief, had been raiding friendly Moros and owing to their de[ fiance of the American authorities had stirred up a dangerous condition ; of affairs. ; "The artillery was lifted by block ! and tackle a distance of 300 feet into a position on the lip of the crater, i "Brigadier General Bliss and my self were present throughout the ac1 tion. "The officers and men engaged highly commend the Moro constabulary, who did excellent work, their casualties numbering seventeen out of the force of forty-five engaged. "It is impossible to conceive a stronger natural position than that attacked." Some of the army officers in Wash i ington, who have served In the Jolo group, aay that Mount Dajo, the scene of the action, is located about 14 miles from Jolo, the capital of the island. Moro Goto is on the very ' top of the mountain. Once before the garrison of natives was induced to vacate the place by the exercise of [ diplomacy, but heretofore no force ; has been able to capture it. The sixth . infantry, which seems to have borne > the brunt of the fighting,- was from I Fort Leavenworth, and has been in l the -Philippines about a year. The . officers of the general staff fully ac. quainted with the habits of the Mo. ros say they have not the slightest i fear 'that the Moros will try to re. taliate for the crushing defeat administered to them. ITALIAN WOMAN ESCAPES NOOSE I Sentence of Mrs. Tolla Commuted to Term of Imprisonment. . The sentence of death upon Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the Bergen county, N. J., murderess, for the killing of , Joseph Sonta, has been commuted to seven and one-half years' imprisonment by the court of pardons at TrenI ton. The vote stood six to two. Mrs. : Tolla was tc have been hanged in ; Hackensack on Monday, March 12. I This is the first time the court of pardons has commuted death sentences to other than life imprisonment. SLEW WIFE AND SUICIDED. Double Tragedy Enacted in Albany, Ga., by M. L. Cohen. j M. L. Cohen, a Hebrew, at an early uou; XliUiOUdV lliUl lllliij, Cll LCI 1CIUing with his wife at a house on Mar, ket street, Augusta, Ga., secured a gun, shot his wife and (then himself. He died instantly. The woman never regained consciousness, and died a short while afterwards. They were married only six weeks ago. | HELD IN NEGRO DIVES. " ' A A4A..miJ r> 4. ^ ^ A/ f??J i-vi IU u i IU 111y oitiic u[ /Aiicud ncvcoiN in New Yorks Tenderloin District. A New York dispatch says: Representatives of the district attorney's office went into the tenderloin Friday night and raided a flat in West Thirtieth street, as a preliminary step, it was said, in a campaign against a band of negroes whom the district attorney has been investigating for four months. Important, information about them came finally from the arrest and trial of Berthe Claiche, who killed a man toward whose support she alleged she had been compelled to contribute. The raid followed an indictment by the grand jury on three counts against Robert H. Spriggs, a tenderloin negro, who was arrested immediately. The police claim that there exists a syndicate of resorts patronized by negro men, an dwhere white women are forcibly detained. One case, it is said, has beerbrought to light of an unusually attractive girl being kept in one of these places for more than three years. Assistant District Attorney Garven intimated that the ruid would be followed by others. "This is only the beginning of this mess," He said. "facts wnicn nave been given to this office show an appalling condition of affairs." It is astounding; Mr. Jerome has the facts upon which to base sweeping action, and he is going to move quickly and effectively. He will stamp out this in a hurry." RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA. Trouble Breaks Out at Wilmer, a Small Lumber Town. Sheriff Powers at Mobile, Ala., re ceived a telegram Saturday stating that there was a race war in progress at Wilmer, a small lumber town, 24 miles west of Mobile, and that several whites and blacks had been killed. The trouble commenced through an unknown negro shooting into houses' of white employees of A. V. Pringle, the largest turpentine operator at Wilmer. Sheriff Powers and four deputies left at once for the scene of the trouble, and returned Sunday night with four negroes, who are charged with being implicated in the attack. kill jews and hang witte Is Advice Given by Reactionist Leaders in Russia. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: ? Arfrom*7ot:rmc some 01 cue reacuuuaiVI gauiLuuvMw are pushing the agitation against the radical elements to a dangerous point Sunday a "league of the Russian people" held services *to celebrate the ' manifesto of March 8, as a victory of the old regime. Later the fighting society of the same organization held a public meeting and listened to inflammatory speeches by two extremist leaders, at which the orators openly summoned their followers, the black hundreds, to kill the Jews and hang Count Witte. TRIED TO INFLUENCE JUDGES Is Charge Brought Against Former "Boss" Cox at Cincinnati. At Cincinnati two Judges of the circuit court in testimony before the Drake investigating committee of the state senate charged that George B. Cox, formerly republican "leader in Hamilton county, had tried to influence the judgment of that court in a suit involving a $200,000 bond, while a third judge testified that Cox had simply asked him that the case be given a fair and impartial hearing when ti came up on appeal. FATAL QUARREL OVER MULE. Shooting Bee Results From Dispute and Two Men Are Dead. A shooting affair occurred Saturday afternoon at Scarboro, Ga., in which two men were killed. John Burke and Ed Aycock, botn white, quarreled over a mule, and the quarrel ended in a row, each killing the other with a pistol. Burke leaves a wife and five children. Aycock was unmarried. RAILROADS BECOMING SCARED. Western Lines to Cut Rates \o ForeCrimmiecinn. okan Warned by the agitation of govern* ment control of rates, western railroads, according to the Chicago Record-Herald, have decided to make voluntary reductions in transportation charges amounting In the aggregate to many million dollars annually. The proposed reductions are to be made in all the rates of the six classes into which freight is divided and will ' be effective in the entire territory j tween the Atlantic seaboard and Mis- 1 souri river. i I __ AVALANCHE OF PENSION BILLS. | Four Hundred and Eight Passed by ! the House Friday. The house Friday passed 408 private ! pension bills and devoted three hours I to the consideration of a biil provid- j ing a uniform system of naturaliza- j tion, the chief features of which require an alien to write either his own or the English language and to speak and read the latter. OFFICERS TRAPPED j I Three Killed in Indian Territnri/ hv Outlaw Sand. ...... I i WERE SHOT FROM AMBUSH Posse, Attempting to Make Arrests, Was Met With Volleys from Barricaded House?Excitecitement Intense. A dispatch from Vlnita, Indian Territory, says: I. L. Gilstrap, deputy United States marshal of Vinita; Otis Tuttle, posseman of Vinita, and Dick Terry, posseman of Talequah, were killed in a bloody battle with the Wickliffe band of Cherokee Indian i outlaws, in the Spavinaw hills, Sunday afternoon. I After the battle, the outlaws were i ucsiegcu iu me uuu^t: ul mtu uucie, ! Jim Wickliffe, at the scene of the j crime, 31 miles from Vinita. There i3 ] no telephone or telegraphic communi ication with the battleground, and no j news has yet been received from a I large party of deputies, who went to ; the Spavinaw hills to capture or kill ! the outlaws. It was not expected that j they would yield without a fight. The VVickliffes killed Deputy Mar! shal Vier about a year and a half | ago, ana the officers have been on | their trail ever since. A posse of ; six officers, who were on the way to I arrest the gang, were fired upon from j ambush by the Indians, who shot and ! killed three of their pursuers and es| eaped unhurt. Flezz Mann, a pesseman, who surj vived the attack of the outlaws, walkj eel 28 miles to Tahlequah, and told ^ the story of the battle, which was tel[ egrapned to "United 'States Marshal : Dnrrough, of Vinita, at 5:35 Monday j morning. Thirty-five deputy marshals ' wore immediately sworn in and dis! patched to the scene of the battle, ! and authority, has been granted Mar\ shal Darrough by the department of I justice in Washington to increase the number to one hundred. Marshal Darrough announces that he will employ this many men, if necessary, to round un the desperadoes. It is reported that the full-blooded , Cherokee Indians in the vicinity of the battleground, commonly known ! as the Xight Hawks, are joining the i Wiekliffes and the authorities fear j that they will barricade themselves ! in the rough country and a desperata ; battle ensue before the outlaws are j captured, me wiCKimes are iaeniuers ! of the Night Hawk band of Indians, | which has given the United States officers so much trouble in the mati tcr of taking allotments, and it i3 j said that many of these Night Hawks j sympathize with them. The home of the Wickliffes is in the center of the Night Hawk settle| ment, where the battle occurred. Many | of the Indians have been sheltering i the outlaws during their months of i scouting, snd the officers have arrestj ed many of the Indians for giving such i protection to the Wickliffes. It is i feared that the full bloods in that j vicinity, which number several hundred. may join the Wickliffes, and ! that it may be necessary to call cut j the United States troops. The offij cers at Vinitia, however, believe they J will be able to cope with the situa! tiou successfully. Deputy Gilstrap was a fearless offij cer appointed to succeed J. H. Vier, who was killed by the Wickliffes. He leaves a widow and several children at Kansas, I. T. ' Tuttle and Terry : were Cherokee full-bloods. | Marshal Darrough has asked the department of justice to authorize him j to cffer $1,000 for the capture of the ; outlaws. Only meager details of the i rffopiverl as vet. The I IlgiJl iiavc | battle occurred far from the railroad, and it is hard to get tidings from I there. Outlaws Open Fire. | Deputy Gilstrap, with Otis Tuttle, Dick Terry, Plezz Mann, Thomas Wofj ford and Andy Dick, possemen, Sunj day afternoon at 4 o'clock rode up to ' the home of Jim Wickliffe, uncle of the Wickliffe boys, and were intendj ing to make a search of the place j when the outlaws, concealed in the' j house, opened fire on them. At the j first shot Gilstrap, Tuttle and Terry ! v-ere killed, and at the next volley all j of the horses were killed, besides two 1 bloodhounds. The survivors of Gil' strap's party fired into the h3U.se, but \ the firing from the outlaws was so j sharp that they soon sought shelter ! behind trees and stones. rm. _ enrvivnrs decided to send 1 lit? Lili CC , I Plez7 Mann to Taleqiiah for assistance while the other two men would shadow the house and if pQssible prevent the escape of the Wickliffes. LUCKY DOG; LUCKY HORSE. Owner Left Fortune in His Will for Their Maintenance. In a will which was Sled for probate in Chicago, Monday, George C. Watts, a contractor, and board of trade operator, left $20,000 to provide a home for his fox terrier, "Bill," and $300 a year for the care of his old riding hcrse, "King." jSUSAN ANTHONY DEAD. j Noted Advocate of Woman Suffrage Passes to the Beyond After Long and Eventful Career. . The long and eventful life of SuI ?an B. Anthony ended at her "home I in Rochester, N. Y., at 12:45 o'clock Monday morning. The end came peacefully. Miss Anthony had been unconscious practically for twentyfour hours, and her death had been momentarily expected. Only her wonj derfui constitution kept her aliye; her ! attending -physician said* Miss Ani thony died of heart failure, induced by double pneumonia. She had had serious valvular heart trouble for the last six or seven years. Her lungs were practically clear, and the pneumonia had yielded to treatment, but the weakness of her heart prevented -*Jj| her recovery. In spite of her eighty-six years, her mind to within a day of her death \h had been clear and strong, and even : in her last sickness she was actively $ j engaged in planning for the future. | Since she retired from the presi- Sjj dency of the suffrage party about - ^ three years ago, Miss Anthony has traveled widely and -lectured more .^||b than was wise for one of her age. j This year she went to Baltimore, 'via i and it was this journey that overtaxed . 1 her strength. She was attacked by :ij ! neuralgia, and had to take to her bed. ~i? ! She was obliged to cancel an obliga| tion to attend a dinner given in her . j| ! honor in New York city, as symptoms i of pneumonia were detected. It was 'i? ! difficult for her to give up, and she ! insisted on going to New York, e-en ; in the face of hei* doctor's warning. j She became suddenly weaker, how- , | ever, and was forced to take to h3r ' | Miss Anthony was greatly beloved > in Rochester, which had been her | home since 1S45. -She lived to see a I decided change in sentiment from the v ; time in the winter of 1861, when she i was hissed and hooted when she at- .--ha tempted to give a lecture on abolition ! in Corinthian hall. .$3 FRAUD ORDER IS ISSUED. Postal Authorities Allege Preacher is J Defrauding Ex-Slaves. A Washington dispatch says: 'Post* .Jjl 1 moctor rjonpral Portelvou has issued ';J$I ; a fraud order against a certain Rev. ||j j Isaac L. Walton of Savannah, Ga^ J charged with being head of a scheme :;>|j to defraud credulous colored people of liSl the southern states. I Walton is, or was until recently, ||i head of an organization which has ! headquarters in several parts of the south, purporting to have for its ob' ject the securing of pensions for ex- : ; slaves. At least, such is the report ' of the inspectors, who have caused ' several fraud orders to be issued in ; the past against the order, which is -JM , known by various names, such as the Vg ; Independent Order of the National In- ':j|? dustrial Council of America, Fraternal. 'rM j Rev. Walton, say the inspectors, has /|1 1 - -I 1? ^fho mnTlAff . j Q. uau Ll'dLUxi, KJL UIOIX luutiuv, vmv m -frv.-M.. he gets through the mail from appli- 3a| | cants among a few of his close friends ; and himself. Most of it, however, ;'^j j went into his own pccket. j The head of this order promised the authorities last December that he :.:M j would have nothing more to do' with. -^ij j the organization, and would not con- <v?j j nect himself with any scheme for se- ' klj ! curing pensions for ex-slaves in use of ' j the mails, but it is reported that he . |f has broken his word, and is dt it once more. The fraud order has now been is- $38 sued against all of his personal mail, 3 with the hope of putting a final stop ,|s to the plan. 'IM J RESCUE WORK IS STOPPED. || j Other Explosions Are Feared In Dead- |j ! Iv Coal Pits in France. J A Paris special says: All rescue work has been suspended at the Cour- 'Vi~j rieres pits, where over a thousand t miners lest their lives on Saturday, owing to the danger of gases and the ? || enianatings from decomposing bodies. The engineers fear another explosion, and therefore they ordered up ' the relief gangs Monday morning. The engineers will attempt to ventilate the v chambers before attempting further rescues. BAPTIST PREACHER CONVICTED. Rev. Johns Given Sentence for Intl- .7^ macy With a Woman. Rev. A. H. Johns, a Baptist minis- ^ ,flp snrt fnrmer Dastor of a circuit VV1 f w?v? ? ? of seven churches in Blue Ridge township, N. C-, was convicted at Hen- * '3 dersonville of criminal relations with Mrs. Angeline Cagle and sentenced to Imprisonment for one year. The woman was also convicted and fined $100 .-"i and costs. GREEKS ARE DENATURALIZED. ""a Savannah Judge Revokes Papers That Made Them American Citizens. An order revoking and setting aside the order admitting twenty-one Greeks to citizenship was signed by Judge Norwood, in the city court at Savannah, Ga., Friday, upon the petition of Alexander Akerman, assistant United States attorney. The petition that . ^ the order in each case was secured fhrough fraud was admitted by eacl J applicant in a voluntary swora scare