The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 19, 1908, Image 3
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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
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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,
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is said to have been called upon by
a band of fifty men and to have lost
\ no time in getting away.
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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.
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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?
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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Suits, former price$17.50 to$18.50 each. 3j.. 'f
until December 1st, and that the savings
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values now being offered. We want to
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of Clothing, Overcoats, etc., which I
eat reduction by paying cash for them.
grand for the money, and I want my -f||||
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