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I ====== CHEATED DEATH SEVEN TIMES. "Diamond Field Jack" Had Many Close Calls "With the Gallows. His eyes were of a kindly blue, and as he began to talk they were filled with a soft, faraway look that made you feel the best of his life lay in the I* past. But as he got well into the story the eyes began to narrow and snap. You found yourselves sitting tense on the edge of the upholstered seats. You forgot you were in the Savoy hotel. k* You saw, along with him, that sheep camp in Idaho a winter morning 15 years ago. You heard the| j? spat of the bullets as they buried j themselves into the logs of the cor-( ral. You fought the battle along with him. That was when Jack Davis was a young man. He is 50 ' years old now, and the cattle and sheep "wars" of Idaho are- of the past. Jack Davis, known in the West as "Diamond Field Jack," was the first Sman, he says, to find gold at Goldfield, Nev. It was he who opened up the camp at Rabbit Creek, one mile j from the site of the present town. His life has been that of a soldier of Mr+nna XT a hue hPPTl POwhOV. reVO IVi UUUV* A4.V UMV WW WW ^ , .... lution maker in South and Central America, outlaw and fugitive from justice, protector of the weak and avenger of the wrongs done to cattle men by sheep herders in Cassia county, Idaho. It was of only one incident in this last series of excitement that he had the time to talk about this morning. It was of the seven years of his life in which seven sep-. arate dates were fixed on which he was to be hanged. "It was when I was 24," he began, "I was foreman for the Spikes & Harrell ranch, in Cassia county. A bitter war was being waged between the sheep and the cattle men. Half * of Idaho was settled by the Mormons, and the sheep men allied themselves with them, so the war soon became a fight between the Mormons and the Gentiles?Gentiles, of course, mean ing the non-Mormons. "There was one man?Bill Tolman by name?who was known to be one of the 'destroying angels' of the Morr mon church, who had sworn to put me out of the way. The county had a Mormon sheriff and a judge who was a sheepman, so he was fairly safe in whatever he attempted. One day I received word, that he was coming to the ranch to 'get' me. So I made up my mind to meet him half way. That was how I got the drop on him about five miles down the road. "When he tried to draw his gun I beat him to. it and sent a bullet through his arm. That marked the - < J Jv.fl real oegmnmg 01 tut; uewimmation of the whole crowd to put me out of business forever. A little later two sheepmen were killed in a fight with a cowboy and a warrant was sworn out for my arrest. I told them I would give myself up, but they knew they didn't have any case against me and preferred to take me by force. In that way they hoped to embroil me in a quarrel and shoot me legally." Then Diamond Field Jack recounted several fights. He told how he finally fought and forced the sheriff to take him to the jail. "Seven times I was sentenced to be hanged," he said with a smile. "I appealed seven times and lost every appeal. It cost the State $295,000 to prosecute me." The board of pardons finally settled the matter. In 1902 Davis was granted a pardon, just seven years after he had been arrested first. . Mr. Davis is in the mining business now.?Kansas City Star. Angry Over Sunday Games. " ' ? * o fi CT>1 f Cif isasnvme, oeyu *.?iUC the Young Men's Christian Union of Nashville for the dissolution of the baseball team as a result of this season's Sunday games is up again. Acting upon a petition signed by a number of citizens, Gov. Hooper, Attorney General Charles T. Cates, concurring, has directed Attorney General A. B. Anderson, of Davidson county, to institute proceedings to have the charter of the club declared forfeited. The action of Gov. Hooper and Gen. Cates was taken under section 5168 of the Tennessee code, which provides that such suits can *.be brought by the attorney general lor the county, when directed to do so by the general assembly or by the governor and attorney general of the State concurring. A Confusion of Terms. Judge , who is now on the supreme court bench, was, when he first began the practice of law, a very blundering speaker. On one occasion, when.he was trying a case in replevin, involving the right of property in a lot of hogs, he addressed the jury as follows: "Gentlemen of the jury, there were just 24 hogs in that drove?just 24, gentlemen?exactly twice as many as there are in this jury box."?Case and Comment. TO FLY ACROSS OCEAN. Ohio Man and Five Companions Will Make the Attempt. Melvin Vaniman's balloon with which he and five others say they will attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean October 22 will be shipped from Akron, Ohio, to Atlantic City Monday, it having just been completed in a rubber factory. As soon as the frame work of steel tubing is attached and the balloon inflated in the mammoth hanger, the airship will be christened the "Akron," with fitting ceremonies. The "Akron" is the only dirigible of the first class ever built on this side of the Atlantic. It is 268 feet long or about 30 feet longer than the "America," which was lost in the ocean as a sequel to the Walter Wellman expedition last year. Filled with hydrogen it will have an atmospheric displacement of 350,000 cubic feet and a gross lifting power of 26,000 pounds.. With the car and engines attached it will have a net capacity of 12,000 pounds, or about 80 persons. The Akron is made up of 22,000 pieces of tough fabric. The propellers will each be driven by a gasoline engine of a hundred horse-power. The gas bag is of the cigar shape with an extreme diameter of 45 feet. Cotton Shows Material Loss. New York, Aug. 30.?According to 1,9?0 0 replies of special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, bearing an average mail date of August 23-24, percentage condition of growing cotton was on that date 72.6, as compared with 86.0 a month ago, a deterioration for the period under review of 14.3 points. This compares with 70.7 per cent, last year; 66 per cent, in 1909; 78.1 per cent, in 1908, and 73.9 in 1907. The ten-year average is 73 per cent, and the loss of 14.3 points during August is the greatest in that month in the past ten years. The most important declines occurred in Texas and Oklahoma, respectively, 21.4 points and 19.1 points, where severe droughts and hot winds and worms caused heavy shedding. Well informed and conservative correspondents incline to the belief that the deterioration show in this month's crop report has been unduly exaggerated, consciously or unconsciously, by the active agitation in the cotton belt against large crop estimates. These returns must, therefore, be accepted accordingly, and due allowance made for popular lies. \ In 1905 the August condition reported in these columns was 72.4 per cent, or about the same as this year. In 1905 the crop was 10,726,000 bales, or a yield of .41 bales per acre. Should the same rate of yield be realized this year, it would suggest a crop of not less than 14,300,000 bales. Since the date of these mail advices general rains have greatly relieved conditions and considerable improvement is expected. Other heavy losses occurred in Georgia, 10.9 points; Alabama, 12.8 points; Mississippi, 12.3 points; Louisiana, 14.8 points, and Arkansas, 15.6 points. A Restful Life. We sent our reporter out to Geauga county last week to interview an old Luugci ?v jliu vveta ucicuiauug nid iuiiu birthday. "How do you account for the fact that you have been able to attain this remarkable age?" asked our bright young man. "To the fact that I have never worked a lick before breakfast,"' answered the centenarian. "This is a fact worth remembering," muttered the reporter, making a note of it. "There's another thing that pa failed to mention," a son-in-law whispered in the newspaper man's ear. "What is that?" "He never done a lick of work after breakfast, neither. Git that in your story, too."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. TAFT AGAINST NEGRO. President is Taken to Task by Independent Political League. Boston, Aug. 30.?In an "address to the country" adopted at to-day's session of its fourth annual convention, the National Independent Political league takes President Taft to task for his alleged color discrimination. The address asserts that President Taft "announced color discrimination in the right to hold public office; perpetuated the injustice of the Brownsville soldiers; continued his bartering with the colored prejudices of the South by putting the balance of the supreme court in the hands of the Bourbon South; lent the prestige of his office to the doctrine of inferior education for colored Americans, and refused to raise his voice for trial by jury for colored Americans." MOVED FURTHER WESTWARD. Error Discovered Changes Location of Centre of Population. Washington, Aug. 30.?The centre of population of the United States was announced by Director of Census Durand to-day to be the western part of the city of Bloomington, Monroe county, Indiana. This is eight miles further west than the location announced July 17, which Director Durand placed four and one-quarter miles south of Unionville, in the same county. The change in the location of the centre of population since July 17 is due to the discovery of an errnoflo in tV?o pencils fiffice. TwO clerks worked separately in completing the location, but both made the same error and the wrong result was published as the census office's determination of the spot. The movement of the centre of population 39 miles westward is due to the increase of population on the Pacific coast. Storekeeper Kills Negro. Florence, Aug. 30.?Mr. Charlie Johnson, manager of the country store of Mr. F. M. Rogers, killed a negro by the name of Edward Durant Saturday night about 9 o'clock, and according to the verdict of the coroner's jury, Mr. Johnson was justifiable in the killing.. From what can Ko cathorpri Durant was somewhat of a desperate negro and had been 1 dominating the other negroes in that section of the country considerably. He and another negro, it is stated, broke up a religious service at a negro church Saturday evening, and I then went to Mr. Rogers's store and raised a row among the hands who had gathered around the store for their settlement that night. Mr. Johnson ordered Durant to leave and he went up the road a short distance but soon returned and renewed the rowdyism among the negroes. Again Mr. Johnson ordered him to leave the place, whereupon Durant got out the door and turned around quickly with a revolver drawn on Johnson, but the latter got the drop on him with his Winchester and killed him instantly. Durant went to Black Swamp, a few months ago as a saw mill hand and it is said bore a very bad reputation. Counterfeiters Found in Memphis. Washington, Aug. 30.?A wavering red line, straggling across a street map of the city of Memphis, on the wall at secret service headquarters here, records the story of a five years' hunt for a counterfeiter of silver dollars which reached its climaxv in Memphis to-day with the arrest of John G. Payne, a negro, and his wife. For more than five years the dollars, which Payne is charged with making, have been passing through banks in Memphis and some have even reached the subtreasuries. They were accounted among the most dangerous counterfeit money with which the government has had to deal. All the resources of the secret service faiiAri tn turn iid a clue as to their source. Three months ago, Assistant Chief W. H. Moran, the government's crack man on difficult cases, sent "Bill" Nye, also one of the flowers of the service, to Memphis. A few weeks later at a negro emancipation celebration at Paducah, Nye picked up the first information which led to ~ ? * ttie identincauon or rayne as me mail alleged to have been passing the dangerous coins. Nye followed Payne to Memphis, consulted with Moran and the two men laid out a campaign. Then almost inch by inch Nye began picking up a trail through the streets of Memphis to Payne's house. Every day Moran in Washington, with a pen and red ink, recorded the progress of Nye's search upon a map of the city of Memphis. A few days ago the thin red line came to an end in the suburbs of Memphis eight miles from the heart of the city. It stopped in front of an isolated farmhouse, surrounded by a high board fence which made it impossible for Nye to see in the windows. To-day Moran flashed a message over the wire to Memphis and a few hours later Nye reported the arrest of Payne and his wife as well as his capture of several of the counterfeit coins, the outfit for making them, and the genuine dollars with which moulds were made. On the counterfeits have been pe culiar little dents, and scratches. Nye reported that he found them in the genuine coins he took in the raid. Moran says that proves that the moulds from which the counterfeits were made were so perfect that they even reproduced the scratches and nicks of the genuine coins. Wanted Further Details. < "I had a mighty queer surprise this morning," remarked a local stock broker. "I put on my last summer's thin suit on account of this extraordinarily hot weather, and in one of the trousers pockets I found a big roll of bills which I had entirely forgotten." I "Were any of them receipted?" asked a listener, who seemed to be a pessimist.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. * SUGAR TAKES ANOTHER LEAP. Consumers and Dealers Affected by Recent Price Advances. New York, Aug. 30.?Grocery circles here showed concern to-day over the high prices now prevailing In the sugar market. There was another advance in granulated during the day of 6.25 cents, representing a full cent rise in the last few weeks and the highest level in many years. .Coming at the height of the canning season, this advance is of vital j interest to consumers all over the country. It is attributed primarily to a poor sugar beet crop in Europe, following prolonged drought this summer. To make matters worse, the Cuban crop, which furnishes the bulk of raw material for American refiners, also proved short, and prices began to soar. Far sighted dealers bought large supplies some months ago, leaving the market almost bare of stock, and raw sugars in consequence have made new high records, while many operators in the street predict that the end is not yet in sight. m ? Brought Him Cats. "Wanted?Female cats; will pay $1 apiece for them; call after 9 o'clock. Inquire of Mr. l^uck, John A. Murphy Co., Wilbraham avenue." The foregoing appeared in the want columns of newspapers in Spring field, Mass., and as a result Mr. Huck politely but firmly declined offerings of cats aggregating more than 500 specimens and nearly as many varieties. Most of the cats were submitted to Mr. Huck personally for inspection. When an insistent late comer attempted^o ring in an ancient jack rabbit, Mr. Huck's temper got the better of him and he expressed a willingness to pay considerable more than one dollar to learn who inserted the advertisement. Hero Medal for Negro Boy. Mr. Robert Eve, of Keysville, Ga., a son of Mr. Ben Eve, of that place, was in Augusta recently maitiug inquiries about making application for a Carnegie medal of honor for a negro boy who had saved his life. About six weeks ago Mr. Eve was in Briar Creek fishing and was bitten by a water rattler or water moccasin. The negro boy was with him, and' he asked the boy to suck the poison out of the wot nd. The wound was in the heel. The negro boy put a chew of tobacco in his mouth and I began sucking the poisoned blood j out of the woudJ. He soon had all j of it out, or enough to save Mr. j Eve's life. Mr. Eve believes that the boy's act comes under the Carnegie hero fund, and application will be made for recognition. The negro boy risked his life to save that of his white fishing companion.?Augusta Chronicle. Coughs Up Carpet Tack. When Ernest Heeran, son of Geo. H. Heeran, of Corona, Lofcg Island, was nine years old, he swallowed a double-pointed carpet tack. That was eight years ago, and as no ill effects were noted the incident was forgotten. Last winter he excelled in studies and athletics., but suddenly became ill and went fnto a rapid decline. The doctor said he would die onnarnnnflnn 11 Vill UVUHUUiy VAVUt About a month ago the boy's parents took him to St. Mary's hospital, No. 596 West 34th street, Manhattan. The physicians there examined him closely, and all gave him up except Dr. Matthews, who seemed to take an unusual interest in the case. He applied the X-Ray to Ernest, and discovered some foreign substance close to the right lung. Two fruitless operations were performed, and a week ago a third operation was begun. Just as the surgeons were finishing their work Ernest was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and he spat out the tack he had swallowed eight years ago. The surgeons at St. Mary's say that the boy will recover his normal strength in a few weeks.?New York Tribune. New Hotel for Columbia. Columbia, Sept. 2.?Ground will be broken Tuesday morning on the corner of Main and Laurel streets for a modern four-story hundredroom hotel building costing in the neighborhood of $100,000 according to a statement made this morning by Mr. J. J. Cain, the contractor, who owns this property, and who has already announced tentative plans in regard to a building in this section of Columbia. It is expected that the building will be completed about the first of June next year. Detailed plans of the building have not yet been entirely completed, but it is stated that the building will be modern in every particular, and that each room will have a private bath. No manager has yet been secured for this hotel. "The property will be leased to satisfactory parties, if such can be found," said Mr. Cain Saturj day. "If not, I will run it myself." - . - - " I Fall Announcement IJ II Our stock of BUGGIES is arriving daily. They 11 | l=^.... .. 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