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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Fairfax Fancies.
/- Fairfax, July 6.?Mr. Marion Seymour,
of Hastings, Fla., is spending
k some time with his friend, Elliot
O'Neal.
There was a picnic at Youmans's
mill, given in honor of the house
party guests at Duck Branch place,
/m tho 4th All epottipH ,tn have
spent a delightful day.
I Mr. George Sanders gave a barbecue
dinner on the 4 th to the laborers
on his plantation. All passed off
nicely and good order prevailed.
Mr. and Mrs. Angus Williams, of
our town, were active in getting up
a fish fry for friends and relatives
who live in Bamberg county. The
most industrious of those who fished
were: L. M. Ayer, Chas. Ayer, L.
G. Ayer, H. B. Ayer, G. E. Smoak,
G. L. Gohagen, J. P. Harter, Jno.
Platts, A. M. Williams, and C. A.
Kinard. There were eighty-two
Is ' guests, ladies and all, who partook
of the delicious feast that was spread
and yet there were enough fish left
to supply ten families with a good
mess, three hundred and fifty-five being
the number caught! Can Barnwell
beat that?
The Jlfisses Johnston and Miss
Peeples, of Estill, vrere recent guests
of Miss Annye Moye.
Miss Mattie Matthis, of Early
Branch, is visiting Mrs. Maude Wide
man.
Mrs. Carrie Rutland, a recent
bride, is spending some time with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. S.
O'Neal. ^ '
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Youmans, Jr.,
were "at home" to quite a number
pf guests on Wednesday evening, in
honor of Miss Elizabeth Woodward,
of Valdosta, Ga. All reported a most
delightful evening.
The condition of Mrs. Mary Reed,
who was partially paralyzed several
weeks ago, is still quite serious.
- ' ' , Mrs. Dn Addison and little daughter
are spending some time in Aui
gusta with Mrs. Luquire.
Crops are very fine in this section
?both corn and cotton.
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More Money for Carriers.
Washington, July 9.?The 40,000odd
rural free delivery carriers in
the United States are to receive salary
increases as a result of an order
issued to-day by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. The order provides for
the disbursement during the current
fiscal year of $4,000,000, which will
mean an increase for all carriers.
Congress provided last session for
the expenditure of this extra $4,000,000,
but left it to the discretion of
the postmaster general as to how
much of it should be expended. Mr.
Hitchcock decided to-day to authorize
the expenditure of the full
amount.
His desire to compensate the car
riers for any additional burden which
may be placed on them, if the parcel
post system he has recommended for
rural routes is approved by congress,
was the important consideration, Mr.
v Hitchcock declared to-day, which led
him to make the authorization.
The rural delivery system was
started 15 years ago with 83 carriers
who were paid only $200 a year. On
July 1 there were 41,562 carriers,
\ their aggregate salaries being $35,"793,000.
31,000 Operatives Return to Work.
Boston, July 10.?More than 31,000
operatives employed in textile
^ mills in various parts of New England,
resumed work to-day after
shutdowns of varying lengths in accordance
with the policy of curtailing
production adopted by the mill
managements.
At Manchester, N. H., 18,000 operatives
returned to their machines
in the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company's mills, after a lay-off of
ten days.
Six thousand hands went back to
the mills in Biddeford, Maine, after
two weeks of idleness and more than
7,0 O0 employees in mills at Clinton,
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Carolina Pardon Record.
The governor has been in office
since January 17, and since that time
he has granted executive clemency in
171 cases. Paroles, 98; pardons,
73. During the four years of the administration
of Gov. Ansel 87 paroles
were granted and the records
show that he granted 38 pardons durthe
last two years of his office.
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COST OF LIVING.
High Price Shown by Business Reports?Increase
of 4 per cent.
Washington, July 8.?The high
cost of living is no myth. An investigation
by the bureau of labor of the
prices of 257 commodities during
1910 shows that wholesale prices in
that year were 4 per cent, higher
than in 1909, and 1.6 per cent, above
rx# 1 TTT h 1/->V| TUCIQ th P
liic avci age U1 i^vi, nuivu ?ux ~? ?
year of highest prices since 1890.
In view of the Canadian reciprocity
discussion an interesting item in the
bureau report shows that the wholesale
price of farm products was 7.5
per cent higher in 1910 than in
1909.
Wholesale prices in 1910 were
19.1 per cent, higher than in 1900;
46.7 per cent, higher than 1897
(which was the year of lowest prices
between 1890 and 1910.) The highest
prices in this decade were reached
in October, 1907, when a general
decline began, which continued until
August, 1908.
, Rise Continued.
A rise then set in and-.there were
monthly increases without a break
up to March, 1910, when wholesale
prices reached the highest point in
20 years. They were then 21.1 per
cent higher than the average of
1900.*
Then followed a slight decline, and
from June to December, 1910, prices
remained nearly level, and at the
close of the calendar year 1910 they
were still 30 per cent, higher than
the ten-year average between 1890
and 1900 Of thfi 257 commodities
considered in the investigation, 148
showed an average increase, 26 showed
no change and 83 showed decreases.
Some Details.
Prices of lumber and building materials
increased 10.7 per cent.; farm
products 7.5 per cent.; drugs 4.1 per
cent.; foodstuffs 3.2 per cent.; clothing
2.7. per cent.; and the miscellaneous
group of commodities 5.7 per
cent. House furnishings decreased
0.1 per cent., and fuel and light 3
per cent.
Some extraordinary variations
were recorded during 1910. Potatoes
increasd 300 per cent.; eggs 90
per cent.; coffee 60 per cent.; mess
beef 35 per cent.
THREE LIVES LOST.
Terrific Wind and Hail Storm Does
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$106,000 Damage.
Washington, Ga., July 6?Three
lives lost and a property damage of
$100,000 is the result of a terrific
wind and hail storm that swept over
the northern nortion of Wilkes and
Lincoln counties Monday afternoon.
The path of the storm was approximately
four miles wide and ten
long, embracing the larger portion of
the plantations of several big planters
of Wilkes and Lincoln, among
them being M. A. Pharr, J. O. and
N. B. Chenault, D. J. Muse, B. J. DuBose
and J. M. Harper.
The havoc of the hail is without a
parallel in this section and unusual
this late in the year. On the farm of
Mr. Pharr, for example, where seventeen
plows are run, there is not left
standing on the entire place a stalk
of cotton or of corn. A field of 100
acres is nothing but broken stalks
now about a foot high.
In the worst affected sections the
hail stripped the foliage of the woods
and fields, destroyed the fruit, killed
hogs and poultry in the barnyard and
rabbits and birds in the field.
During the storm lightning instantly
killed three negro women in
the same house.
So marvelous were the statements
of the disaster that interested Washington
citizens would not believe the
reports until several parties returned
last night from the scene with assurance
that the picture had not been
overdrawn..
May Ask for Felder.
It is rumored that the dispensary
commission is discussing the advisa
bility of requesting Gov. Smith of
Georgia to honor requisition papers
for T. B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney,
wanted in this Stafe by the governor
on the charge of attempting to
bribe a State official and with conspiracy
to defraud the State of South
Carolina. The commission held a
long executive session here on Saturday,
and it is said that the Felder
requisition question was generally
discussed, but no definite action was
taken.
The Newberry county grand jury
refused to indict T. B. Felder on the
charges presented, and the governor
has offered a reward of *$200 for his
apprehension. Gov. Brown of Georgia
refused to honor requisition
papers a few days before retiring
from office.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State -News UOlieu IWWU xur yuita
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Tuesday morning an accident happened
at the plant of the Aiken Ice
company, which came near costing
the life of a colored man. Frank
Brunson had stopped at the plant and
while there in some way fell into a
receptacle filled with boiling water.
One of his legs was almost cooked up
to his hip, and he suffered great
pain.
Sheriff Corley oh Wednesday seized
six gallons of whiskey from Wm.
Berley, a prominent Lexingtonian,
just as he crossed the Columbia
bridge on his way home with it. Will
Lorick, a negro, was with him. They
were both carried before a magistrate
and bound over to the circuit
court; the white man on the charge
of selling, the negro on the charge
of transporting.
Charlie Baughman, of Shuler's Sid-r
ing, Lexington county, is in Knowlton's
hospital, Columbia, with his
jaw bone broken in seveal places and
practically all of his lower teeth
gone, the result of injuries sustained
by jumping from the Southern's
passenger train near his home Saturday
afternoon while in a drunken
condition and while the train was in
motion. John Goodwin is at his
home kt Styx suffering from injuries
received at the hands of Baughman,
it being alleged that Baughtiian
struck Goodman over the head with
a quart bottle of liquor just befcyre
jumping from the train.
FOR REFUND COTTON TAX.
Money for Sonth Carolinians if Clayton's
Bill Passes.
Washington, July 10.?Representative
Clayton, of Alabama, has Introduced
in the house of representatives
a bill providing for the refund
of the cotton tax collected by the
United States government from citizens
of various Spates during the
years from 1867 to 1868, inclusive.
Under the terms of the bill South
Carolina would receive a refund of
$4,172,420. The measure was referred
to the committee on war
claims, of which Representative Jas.
P. Byrnes is a member.
Death Sentence Commuted.
As predicted the governor has
commuted the death sentence of Joe
Bates to life imprisonment. Bates
was convicted in Spartanburg county
two years ago for the murder of Docia
Boiter, a young white woman,
and was sentenced to hang. His case
was affirmed by the supreme court
and he later made a plea of insahity.
A lunacy commission examined him
and dismissed the plea.
Bates is a former Spartanburg policeman.
The young girl that he killed
was his paramour. She married
and several days afterwards Bates
went to her home and killed her.
The governor visited Bates in his
cell in the Spartanburg county jail
several days ago.
Seaboard Trains Into Florence.
Florence, July 8.?The construction
of the Seaboard road has advanced
to the Coast Line tracks in
Florence and the question of crossing
the Coast Line will be a live issue
again. Judging by the experience
in Darlington, there will be no
obstacles thrown in the way, and it
is expected that the road will be running
trains into Florence in a few
weeks, as the track is surfaced.
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i lie gang ui gi auci s una uccu bcui
from Florence to Mullins, where the
construction of the road on to Georgetown
will be continued. There is an
unauthorized rumor that the Seaboard
will make a connection with
the Darg^n road to Pamplico and be
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pusnea runner on 10 savage m me
lower part of this county, where connection
will be made with the road
being extended from Mullins and the
one now nearly completed from Rosemary
to Savage.
blackwell"released.
Warrant Against Waterloo Township
Man Withdrawn.
Laurens, July 10.?The prosecutor
and others interested in the case
having consented to withdraw the
warrant, J. D. Blackwell, the Waterloo
township citizen who was committed
to jail a few days ago, charged
with an unnatural offense, was today
released from the custody of the
sheriff.
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ftCURSES ALABAMA GOVERNOR.
Court-martial in Store for National
Guard Captain.
Montgomery, July 6.?George H.
Todd, of Montgomery, captain of Battery
B, 2nd regiment, Alabama Naj
tional Guard, was ejected from the
camp at Picket Springs to-night by
Col. Bricken and a company of infantry,
for cursing the governor, the
adjutant general and his fellow officers.
A court-martial will be ordered
in his case.
Todd was thrown from his horse
when a salute was being fired in honor
of the visit of Gov. O'Neal to the
camp. It made him angry and because
the men at the gun laughed
at him, he swore they should not
complete the firing nor should they
lower the flag. Capt Lewis, of the
Tuskegee company, officer of the day,
ordered the salute to go on and when
Todd attempted to interfere, placed
him under arrest.
At a consultation held later, Adj.
Gen. Scully told Col. Bricken to do
what he thought best and a guard
was ordered to escort Todd to the
outskirts of the camp. The affair
caused a grea: sensation.
KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
Double Tragedy in Which Separated
Couple are Victims.
Farley, Ala., July 6.?While officers
were approaching to arrest him
on a trial charge, R6y Morris, ai.farm^er
25 years old, to-day shot his wife
seven times, killing her. He then
turned his pistol on himself, putting
two bullets into his body, dying instantly.
The couple had been separated for
some time and Morria had called pn
his wife, at her father's home, in an
effort to effect a reconciliation.
HOKE SMITH FOR SENATOR.
Governor of Georgia is Assured of
the Promotion.
Atlanta, July % 11.?Gov. Hoke
Smith will go to the United States
Senate to fill out the unexpired term
of the late Senator A. S, Clay.
1 % A total vote of 127 was cast for
Gov. Smith to-day in the two houses
of the general assembly, balloting
separately for senator. A vote of
115 is necessary to elect on joint
ballot. Mr. Smith failed of election
to-day only by two votes in the senate,
he receiving twenty,one of the
twenty-three vote3 necessary to a
choice. His friends declare that the
vote will be practically unanimous
at the joint session to-morrow.
Senator J. M. Terrell, who was appointed
by Gov. Brown to fill the 1
varancv caused bv -the death of Sen
ator Clay during recess of the legislature,
received ilfty-three votes in
the two houses. Pleasant A Stovall,
the Savannah editor, ran next, with
a total of nineteen votes in the two
houses. Judge W. A. Covington polled
fourteen votes in the two houses,
and Thomas E. Watson received five,
all being cast in the house.
When it became apparent that
Gov. Smith would be elected for the
senate by a good-sized majority,
friends and supporters flocked to the
governor's office at the capitol and
began showering congratulations
upon him. Gov. Smith received his
visitors with face beaming. He declared,
however, that he would have
no statement for the press to-day.
The vote in the two houses was as
follows: Senate?Smith, 21 r Terrell,
17; Stovall, 2; Covington, 4;
Watson, 0.
House?Smith, 106; Terrell, 36;
Stovall, 17; Covington/10; Watson,
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Auto Explodes.
Grant's Pass, Ore., July 7.?A
family automobile party, touring
from Portland to San Francisco, ended
near Crescent City, Oregon, yes
terday when the machine's fuel tanK
exploded, fatally burning one young
woman and inflicting serious injuries
upon her sister, father and two
little brothers for whose protection
she gave her life. The dead is Myrna
Kelly. The injured: J. B. Kelly,
Myrna's father, Miss Angela Kelly,
Hobart Kelly, Homer Kelly, all of
San Francisco. t
' A bump in the road struck the
bottom of the car stripping the gear
and tearing loose the gasoline tank.
As the car sprang forward fire from
the burners streamed back, touching
the tank. An explosion followed
and flames enveloped the tonneau.
Myrna Kelly, with her arms around
her six and eight year-old brothers,
crowded them down in the car
but was herself caught by the full
blast of the fire. She died late last
night.
WHO SHOT ?. GRIFFITH?
PROBABLE TRAGEDY NEAR COLUMBIA
UNION STATION.
Nephew of Penitentiary Director
Griffith Probably Receives FaWound?Others
Injured.
Columbia, July 6.?In a shooting
ing scrape near the union depot early
this evening, the details of which are
difficult to obtain at this time, four
men received gunshot wounds more
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Rhett Griffith, belonging to a prominent
family, is thought to have received
injuries which may cause his
death, having received at close range
a charge of buckshot from a shotgun
believed to have been in the
hands of Charles B. Stone.
The others wounded are Policeman
James C. Moore, shot through
the shoulder with a pistol bullet; a
young mill operative named W. 'H.
Hyden, and an unknown negro, who
in the excitement went away in search
of surgical attention. Young Griffith
and Policeman Moore are* at the
Columbia Hospital, and City Physician
Manny M. Rice thinks Griffith has
small chance of recovery.
Accounts Conflicting.
The shooting occurred at Heriot's
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flicting, but most of them agree that
in a fusillade between Griffith, armed
with a pistol and Stone, who carried
a shotgun, Hyden received the first
shot through the right hand, the
negro was hit, Griffith received a
charge of buckshot, and Policeman
Moore was hit while trying to stop
the shooting. Stone is in the police
lockup, unhurt.
Developments to-night indicate that
this affray will produce one more Columbia
homicide mystery. Recorder
Verner, after an examination, held
in $500 bond, as a material witness,
James V. Heriot, manager of the beef
market and grocery owned by J. B.
Heriot & Co., where the shooting
occurred. Bail was given by J. B.
Heriot, father of J. V. Heriot. The
bond is returnable to-morrow morning,
when the hearing will likely be
continued. Rhett Griffith is not expected
to live through the night
Two Theories Advanced.
There are two theories for the
shooting, as developed by the examination
,of witnesses to-night by
Chief of Police W. C. Cathcart and
Recorder Jas. S* Verner. One theory
is that Rhett Griffith and bis brother,
Hanson Griffith, both drinking, appeared
on the block and started a
quarrel with Charles Stone, who was
employed in the Heriot establishment
as clerk; that Rhett Griffith, armed
kwith a pistol, opened fire on Stone
from the Schumpert barber shop,
Stone standing in the door of the
Heriot market, nex? door; that Stone
under fire, ran back into the Heriot
t>1qpo nn a shoteun. loaded
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buckshot and fired once in return,
mortally wounding Rhett Griffith,
who fired twice after he had
fallen. This is the story told by
James Heriot, who thinks that Policeman
Moore, across the street, was
hit by one of the shots which Griffith
fired after he had fallen. Stone
himself has not been questioned.
Hanson Griffith, brother to Rhett
Griffith, told recorder Verner to-night
that he himself did not see the actual
shooting, being in the barber shop
next door, but in the quarrel Charles
Stone was the aggressor.
Coincides with Police View.
Hackman Braswell said that James
Heriot, when the quarrel commenced,
handed a shotgun to Stone, saying,
"You use this," and Heriot himself
picked up a revolver and threw the
scabbard away. This supports the
police theory, that Heriot himself
participated in the shooting and perhaps
fired the shot which struck Policeman
Moore across the street.
Stofie has been repeatedly in
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trouDie wnn me ponce, ne aiiu wuliam
Meetze made an attack several
years ago on W. H. McCaw, a local
newspaper man, and later Stone and
James Heriot were actors in a lively
fight on Assembly street. Stone was
for a time connected with a "social
club," which the police drove out of
business.- The Griffiths are nephews
of Capt. D. J. Griffith, superintendent
of the State penitentiary. Rhett
Griffith, a weaver in the Richland '
Cotton Mills, has a wife, formerly
Mrs. Helen Coleman, now a patient
in the State hospital for the insane.
Hanson Griffith, his brother, has been
employed as a detective by an agency
here managed by George S. Ogg.
While at work at .the Winnsboro
granite quarry on Friday, Rex Caine,
a young white man, was instantly
killed by having his head crushed
between a beam and a cog-wheel. :
He was from Wilmington, N. C.
STABBING AT BRANDON MILL.
C. F. McColl Seriously Wounded by A.
L. Pittman.
Greenville, July 10.?In a deeperate
condition from the effects of .
eight deep knife wounds, inflicted
by one A. L. Pittman, C. F. McColl,
boss spinner at the Brandon cotton
mills, hovers between death and life
at his residence, in the Brandon mill
village. The trouble took place yes- T'f||
terday morning about half-past 6
o'clock, when Mr. McColl was approached
by Pittman, in the spin^ ;,4ii
ning room of the mill, in reference
to Mrs. Pittman's connection with
thfl mill '
Pittman was lodged In Jail early |gM
yesterday morning, and will prober ^||
bly not be admitted to bail until there
is a very decided change for the 'bet- ~
ter in Mr. McColl's condition.
AND THIS IN OLD OHIO.
Mob Thirsts for Blood of Girl's Al- ;^pH|
* leged Assailant. . ; ?||g|
Massillon, Ohio, July 10.?^With
the cries of "hang him," "lynch the .
brute," a mob of several hundred
gathered in the northern part of
this*city to-day and threatened to
wreak vengeance upon Harvey Mick- v
ens, a negro, who is accused of having
attacked Myrtle Evans, a l^'y^aa .
year-old white girl. The negro was:-^3^:
captured by a posse that chased hint
for,several miles upon a handcar.
crowd surrounded the city jail-and ' C|B? made
a demonstration of violence?/^f|l
but was quickly repelled by the police
and deputies. /' ;^|B
News of the attempted assault ;
had gained with currency and intense ||| , ^
excitement prevailed, as the men^- -'Sfjfl
bers of the posse, with their prison- '.^|Sj
er, arrived in the police station this ^||?|
evening. The county and city au
thorities, anticipating an outbreak, ^gn
had ordered the entire police force
to the city prison, and, supplementing
this force, a large.number of'-jfafc
special deputies had been swim in. ' . ^
Later to-night Mick ens was spirited
away to the county jail, at Canton*^|| '3
for safe-keeping. < '.
Infant Killed by White Woman. ?8
Gaffney, July 10.?News reached
this city yesterday from Blacksburg ^.0^
to the effect that a killing had taken^jjH )
place near there on the plantation
a man named -Mack Byars. A wo^I^gM
man named Mrs. Prances Sarratt,
wife of Ira Sarratt, had killed a ne- V'v
gro baby two years old, named Ruth I
Duncan, daughter of a negro woman> |||
namea flora uuncan. 1 ue curuuu,
accompanied by Sheriff Thomas and
Deputy Sheriffs Henry Lockhart and .
Joe Watkins, at once went to the?|?9 |
scene where an inquest was held.
The affair occurred in the middle of~ gM vU
the rord in front of Mack Byara' |^^ffl
house. Byars is a brother of the wO*^:J
man who did the shooting. The af- S
fair occurred in the country, about ~
three miles from Blacksburg andfeSlffl- %
about 13 miles from Gaffney.
At the coroner's inquest held lat^^>
yesterday afternoon, the facts w&fC%^gB
related as follows. Lil Duncan, the. 0 J
negro woman, stated that lra bar- *^ggg[
ratt, husband of the woman who did/.;v..
the shooting, and Pete Byars, anoth- ^
er brother of the woman, both white
men, came to her house in the afternoon
and announced their intention' "
of spending the night there. She
stated however, that, within a shodfejB
time the entire party decided to
to Blacksburg and that she accompanied
them, the trip being made ifl :3p
a buggy. They returned from Blacksburg
shortly after dark and she stop-;
ped at the home of her mother, , the ' ^^g
two men leaving" her there. It seem#rv^Sffl;
that about 1 o'clock she^in company
with another negro woman, started
to her home but when she reached
the cross roads she saw Mrs. Sarratt "jgjjBI
approaching with a double-barreled /v|?|8
shotgun in her hand. The Duncan : ' 0M
woman states that when she saw^
Mrs. Sarratt raise the gun
shifted the DaDy irom ner ngai ?rw
to her left in order to protect it
from the shot which she felt sure g
would be fired but as. this was done -gjlH
the entire load took effect in the4
baby's head and side, death being
most instantaneous. The coroner's ;5l3||
jury returned a verdict that the child
came to its death by a gun shot
wound, the instrument being in the'^|wj
hands of Frances Sarratt. It is gen- nfljl
erally supposed that the shooting
was done with intention of killing
Lil Duncan and was caused by the .
ride which the negro woman took
with Ira Sarratt, husband of the ac- '
cused woman. Notwithstanding the ~'^||||
fact that a diligent search was made >|1|
by Sheriff Thomas and his deputies
for the woman who did the shooting,
up to this time she has not been apprehended
although her arrest is
mentarily expected. ^ ^