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' ' i ' .'.'Si - . V RECOVERS HIS GOLD. Montana Pioneer Finds Treasure Buried Forty-Four Years Ago. Of all the thrilling stories told by visiting pioneers, one by George Liscom of Miles City, has a golden setting which makes it especially inter' esting,' says the Helena correspondent of the New York Tribune. In 1866 Liscom was a member of a party of fur hunters who operated in this section of the state. Early in January of that year they were camped over near the "gap." One day Liscom rode several miles away from the camp after some otter skins which he believed could be obtained at a small creek out from the "gap." When some distance from the camp he met an Indian who manifested great interest in the destination of the white man. He asked questions which caus_ed Liscom to grow suspicious. He wanted to show his friendliness bv shaking hands with his white brother. Liscom reached out and shook hands but as he brought his hand back he pulled the Indian's revolver from the belt. A moment later the Indian exclaimed "Indians!" and pointed back of Liscom. The hunter looked back, but at the same time he divined the object of the redskin and threw his hand up over his head. As he did so the wagon spoke with which the aborigine intended to brain his victim came down on the upraised hand, and as a result Liscom has a stiff finger. The fur hunter sent a bullet into the Indian, who in toppling off his horse caught one arm in the surcingle on Liscom's horse. Thinking he was not dead and was holding on, the white man put another bullet through the Indian's throat. The weight of the redskin's body finally broke the surcingle and Liscom's horse ran away. Fortunately, the Indian's horse did not run' away. About that time sixteen Indians got within firing distance and began to shoot. The Indian's horse was wounded, and using the body of the animal as a breastwork, Liscom began 10 do a little execution. He laid low an Indian with each of his first six shots. It finally became so warm for the Indians that the four or five of them who were stilL alive rode away. But the white man did not escape without wounds. He made his way back to camp. "Old Man" Buchanan, who still lives out near Kendall, attempted a bit of surgery, using a bullet mold in his effort to get a bullet which had been flattened against one of the bones in Liscom's leg. Later the camp in which Liscom was lying was attacked by Indians and he buried $800 in gold dust. He supposed that some member of the party had - dug it up until Buchanan a few months ago told him that, so far as * he knew, the gold dust was where it was buried. Accordingly in May of this year, forty-two years and four months alter it was buried, Liscom went to the old camping place in the ^ "gap" and uncovered the gold dust. The powder box and chamois bag in which it was buried had disintegrated, but all the gold dust was there. T.fRnnm is now a well known stock + man of Custer county. He carries thirteen scars, made by arrows and bullets, which speak eloquently of the vicissitudes through which the trail .blazers passed while wresting! this state from the redskins. Threats4 by Night Hider%. Nashville, November 13.?As a re: suit of the operations of a gang of : ' *bight riders in the Henrietta vicinity of Cheatham county, this State, near the Montgomery county line, a num; ber of negro families have left the 1 State. Wthin the last two weeks, warnings have been sent out that this section of the country would be rid of negroes. Ed. Williams was warned to leave about a month ago and did so. Several nights ago a band visited the former home of Williams and burned o his house and stables. Many shots were fired about the place. All the tenants on the farm of Ed. Guston have moved away on account of the threat. Henry Evans, colored, ' . f is said to have been called upon by a band of fifty men and to have lost \ no time in getting away. . Shot to Deatlf in His Store. Perry, Ga., November 14.?James H. Hall, a well known merchant and farmer, brother of M. F. Hall, of Atlanta, was shot to death at his store early this morning by unknown parties. Mr. Hall lived on his farm between here and Marshallville. He was called to his store or commissary, as it is >known, it being stated that some one desired to make some purchases. Mr. Hall responded to the call promptly and while lighting the lamp in his store was fired upon. The shot tore off the back of his head. The shooting attracted attention and several people ran to the sbore. ' < Mr. Hall was found dead and his cash drawer prized open and robbed. Beware of Pimples. An ounce of prevention is proverbially worth a great deal; but a 50c box of Tetterine is worth proportionately as much to anyone suffering from a small pimply blotch; for it is from just such an appearance that the worst cases of Eczema are developed. Tetterine is an absolute cure for this dread disease, as well as for Tetter, Ground Itch, Chaps, Insect Bites, and all cutaneous affections. For sale by druggists, or by mail, postpaid, from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. k , I BLOODY FIGHT WITH NEGRO KILLING OF DESPERADO COSTS SEVEN LIVES. Shot to Death and Burned in His House.?Governor's Prompt Action Prevents Race Riot. Okmulgee, Okla., November 15.? Eight persons were killed and 10 others were wounded to-day in a fight between James Deckard, a negro desperado, and officers. The dead: Edgar Robinson, sheriff of Okmulgee county; Henry Klaber, assistant chief of police of Okmulgee; two negroes named Chapman, broth? i ers; J. Deckard, negro; tnree unidentified negroes. The wounded: Steve Grayson, Indian boy, probably fatally beaten; Victor Fair, chief of Sioux, shot through shoulder; deputy sheriff, arm broken; seven others slightly wounded. The disturbance began at the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad station, where Deckard engaged in a fight with an Indian boy, Steve Grayson, and beat him into insensibility with a rock. Friends of Grayson called the police. When Policeman Klaber went to the station Deckard fled to his house near by and barricaded himself. When Klaber approached the house Deckard shot and instantly killed him. Sheriff Robinson gathered deputies in a few minutes and hurried to the scene. This party contained several negroes whom the' sheriff commissioned as deputies. As the attacking party aproached the Deckard house, Deckard opened fire with a rifle, firnig as rapdly as he could load his weapon. The sheriff fell first, instantly kill ed. Then five negro deputies were slain. Deckard's house was soon surrounded by a frenzied mob of armed men. Fire was set to a house just north of Deckard's. Volleys of bullets were poured into ?Deckard's house and he was shot down. He was seen to roll over, strike a match and set fire to his own house, which was soon a roaring furnace in which' his bodf- was baked. Deckard evidently had a large quantity of antmunition stored In his house for many cartridges exploded. , Gov. Haskell at Guthrie was advised of the fight and of the bad feeling between whites and negroes that had grown out of it, threatening a race riot. The governor at once ordered the militia company at Muskogee to prepare to go to Okmulgee and a special train was made ready to carry the troops The governor remained at his office to keep in touch with the situation News of the preparation to send militia had a good effect on the disorderly element of both races and tonight the crowd dispersed. Further trouble is not expected. When it became known that no other negro had assisted Deckard against the officers, the talk of race riot subsided. Fifteen Operations in a Year. New York, Nov. 13.?Only thirtyeight years of age but with hair as white as snow, with a record of having undergone fifteen operations within a year and now awaiting another series, the case of William Smith, at St Vincent's hospital, at West New Brighton, 01 Staten Island, has attracted the attention of physicians. He has been operated on for appendicitis, stomach trouble and an intestinal complaint, suffeted amputation of his right foot and then his right leg, and now faces the prospect of having his left leg taken off at the knee in a few days. Smith is suffering with tuberculosis of the bone. He is miserable and in pain, of course, and remarked to an interviewer: "I can not even pray, for when I kneel I fall over. I hope to die when they are taking off my other leg, for if I live through that I will only have to prepare for more cutting." ^ ?-am A Vl /\ YV> A1 AAA o ll1 iill Yi eta iui me: ij a uuuitivoo wanderer. Physicians declare that he has shown remarkable vitality in view of his past life. Mrs. Stalvey Gets Money. Aiken, November 10.?Information has been received in Aiken of the action of the presiding judge in the Atlanta county court in granting a decree giving the entire sum of money deposited in an Atlanta banking institution by Geo. M. Stalvey to Mrs. Elizabeth Stalvey, his alleged first wife. Mrs. Stalvey contended that this sum of money, about $700, was earned while she and Stalvey were living together as husband and wife and that she earned a portion of the money, which had been deposited in his name, and she instituted proceedings to recover a portion of the money as being hers and also asked the court for alimony, and this acounts for the fact that she receives the whole amount. Notice was given that the case would be appealed. It will be recalled that Stalvey was recently convicted in the Aiken court of bigamy, having married Miss Etta Lightfoot of Orangeburg, and -Mrs. Elizabeth Stalvey alleging that, she was his rightful wife. \ POSITIONS FOR EX-CONVICTS. Employment Agency Will be Tried at Jersey City. New York, November 13.?An employment agency for ex-convicts is to cording to J. F. Larkin, chief of the cordidng to J. F. Larkin, chief of the Jersey City detective bureau. Realizing that men and women who are released from prison are branded by the public at large and find great difficulty in fighting life's battles anew, it is Larkin's hope to secure work for as many applicants as possible and to this end he is seeking the co-operation of public spirited citizens. It is Larkin's plan to have each man or woman whom he places in a position report to him from time to time of his or her progress. Their employers will be communicated with and in this way the deserving will be helped along in their struggle to regain lost respectablity. The Law Needs Amending. A few weeks ago a most dastardlv crime was committed near Spartanburg, S. C. A highly esteemed young lady was criminally assaulted by a brutish negro. The brute escaped, but was shortly caught and positively identified. He was put in jail. A number of indignant citizens, men who had daughters and sisters, fearful of a like fate for their loved ones as well as burning for revenge upon the fiend who had blighted the young life of the daughter of another, gathered around the 'jail. It was their avowed purpose to mete out his just deserts to this criminal. They were met with guns in the hands of the sheriff and his deputies and several nf thom worp wniindpd. Then the VI VUVU1 f? v* v ?. w ? militia was called out. The criminal was carried to the penitentiary for safe keeping and the people were promised that he would be punished as his crime deserved by the law. rfe has now been tried. Guarded by soldiers he was brought back from Columbia to Spartanburg, and put upon trial. He was defended by counsel and given the benefit of all the safeguards provided by law to avoid the conviction of an innocent party. After a full and fair trial he was convicted. The full penalty provided by the law was given him. And what was that? Thirty years imprisonment. Is that adequate punishment for such a crime? What in the way of punishment is thirty years imprisonment to such a criminal? He will be well fed and clothed, better perhaps than he would have been had he been at liberty. . He will suffer no hardships or inconvenience beyond being J deprived of his freedom, and the worst punishment in that to him will probably be the fact that it will prevent the committing of other crimes. Imprisonment is no punishment for such a creature, and imposed as a warning to others against the committing of like crimes it is absolutely valueless. JThere is but one punishment that is adequate for such a crime, or as a salutary warning to criminals of this class. That punishment is death. Nothing short of the life of such a brute can atone for this crime, and nothing short of inflicting the death penalty will be sufficient to serve as an example. The judge in this case cannot be blamed. He can only apply the law as it is written upon the books. The law itself is wrong. What is needed in South Carolina, and what the legislature should do on the first day it meets again, is to pass a law making criminal assault a capital crime.? Augusta Herald. Situation at Winthrop. Columbia, Nov. 13.?Superintendent Martin is back from Rock Hill, where the board of trustees and State board of health have been holdinge meetings looking into the checking of the spread of typhoid fever at Winthrop. Mr. Martin said that the situation remains much the same as a few days ago. About ninety girls have already left Winthrop, and every day telegrams come from parents requesting that their daughters be given permission to come home. However, the recent dismissals from the infirmary have had a quieting effect upon the student body, and the girls do not appear greatly agitated. The board of health is exercising persistent efforts to find the source of infection, and is now attempting to clear up the matter by means of elimination. The water supply has been abandoned and city water is being used. The milk has been stopped. Flies are being trapped and everything possible is being done to ascertain the cause of the epidemic. The period of incubation is from ten to twenty-one days, and if no new cases develop within that number of days after the precautionary measures above mentioned were taken, the situation will then be in hand and the epidemic will have ceased. s ?9gggg$e$aggggggggg | Tilt Big CI | Is Still in Prog i ? j? We have sold more go 11 ever before. The r* II lower prices. V t! convincing V ? STAPLES g Checked Homespun, good one, @ 6 J cents a yard. Will cost you 8y2 cen elsewhere. :; 10c and 12*72 c Outings, @ 8*4c yai :: 7%c Sea Island Sheeting @ 5c yai 7y2c and 10c Cotton Flannel @ 6^ g and 814c yard. :: Androscoggin Bleach @ 8y2c yard. I FURNISHINGS ?1 Wright's Health Shirts and Drawe ?i for boys, were 50c, now 43c each. ' Men's heavy ribbed Shirts and Dra1 I j ers, worth $1.25 suit, our price 90c. ? Boys Top Shirts, were 35c, our clea I i ance price 23c. ;; Big line of Sample Hats at 75c ai i $1.00. These are big value. TxT T.aHips' mod 10c black Hose, now ;? pair. ; j Heavy all wool Men's Gloves, wor | j 50c pair, now 23c pair, ii One lot men's fine black Cravanet Coats, really worth $12.50, our pri 1 $9.98. < ? * * -f i l Remember, this sale continues | s will more than pay for your trip hen I LOOK FOR THE B A* 8? and be convinced of the wonderful} ?! make next Saturday the biggest day ( I KLAU 4j "The Store of Quality." * i? ? Bargains Bargains Bargains Bargaii \ I thought in my ing bargains, an for I have a lot picked up at a gr They are simply friends and oust gains is why I at So Come am Look at my line < guaranteed?evei sell is guarantee< represented, you money baek. Is I will always gii treat you right. McGowan's CI Bamberg = ? - * s____ r - y " . ' ' ' 1 : ! -I--:! ! -I? -I--I--I--I--I? ?! ' earance Sale j ? m ress at Klauber's |}I ods during this sale than * $ | iason: better goods at j* Jji Ve quote you some 'a -JB prices: H I|1 ??????? 2 ? See our 49c line of Men's Shirts. They ] j would cost you yoc eisewnere. m {l Men's all leather Leggins $1.29, were 9 $1.50 pair. {| ;>|M 1(j Pelt bed room Slippers, former price i I j|l|| .(j' $1.25, now reduced to 98c pair. Bed, j *Ja| / j black, and gray. ' i Ladies' Vici Shoes, were $1.35, now j | reduced to 98c. the pair. * |||||1 Men's good quality Patent Colt Shoes : r ?1 were $2.50 pair, now reduced to $1.98 5? ;#fj rs pair. See this wonderful value. j: :Wimk One lot imitation leather Suit Cases, ? >!|p w- worth $1.35 each, for this great sale 89c. each. j&fiH i,r- One lot Solid Qowhide Suit Cases, worth $6.00 each, now $4.19. 11 ad Long Cloaks @ $1.98 and up. j * One lot Embroidered Coats, were 6c $10.00, now $5.98. Exceptional value. *1 Big line of Skirts, Shirt Waists, and j th all kmds of ready-to-wear goods at low- i j ;.fj| est cash prices. We have no competi- j | ite tion in this line. i | /|| ce See our $13.48 specials in Men's ? M Suits, former price$17.50 to$18.50 each. 3j.. 'f until December 1st, and that the savings e. We offer values that must interest you :m 10 SHOW WINDOWS jjlij values now being offered. We want to >f thio great sale, so be certain and be here, i 1 i BER'S !|| Bamberg, South Carolina. \ ^0 -a*:!--I?-I? !? q* :I? :D :I? :n;I? 0? il?i i'M ns if ' last advertisement that I was offered I was, hut not the offers / have now, of Clothing, Overcoats, etc., which I eat reduction by paying cash for them. grand for the money, and I want my -f|||| omers to get the benefit of these harIvertise them. ' ' ? ~ i? i Look v of E. C. Burt shoes for men. They are I nj pair. In fact every pair of shoes 11 i to be worth the money. if not as I can wear them a while and get your I that not fair ? Come to see me often. I ie you full value for your money and I >||j leap Cash Store f ? ? South Carolina I |'%