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iWE 1 Mont i Next Door t A REMARKABLE Story of the Fight at Ra'w Break for T There was a time?and not so very long ago, either?when Cheyenne, now the staid and respectable capital of Wyoming, was famed far and wide as the wickedest spot in America. It was a capital of outlawry then. Homicides were so frequent they passed almost unnoticed. The sixshooter was the only code of law that was enforced. But in all its days of disrepute and its nights of terror Cheyenne never endured such a reign of lawlessness as that which put its neighbor, Rawlins, on the map about a week ago. What happened in Rawlins is unique in history, West or East. Briefly, the 350 inmates of the State prison lynched one of their number, a negro. He had assaulted a woman 78 years old, who had endeared herself to the prisoners by her kindness and her good deeds. The negro prob? ?Viovo hoon 1 \7nViH if nut. CL\J LJ rv VU1U uaf V WVU V ?V siders could have gotten at him, it is said, so the convicts' swift justice seemed likely to be unpunished. But their act, once accomplished, had a psychological effect on these caged men. Prisoned men, like wild beasts in captivity, are animals of primitive passion. These convicts at Rawlins tasted blood when they lynched this man. Also their act 6howed them an flmazin? thin?: something thev had not suspected?that they were more powerful than their keepers. A cageful of tigers is kept in subjection by fear. Once that fear is gone the man with whip and revolver is lucky to escape with his life. Nothing kills fear like blood lust. Therefore it is no wonder that the 350 convicts in their cage of stone and iron muttered and plotted all through the days that immediately followed the realization of their strength. They were as furtive and whispering as tigers creeping auu ciuucuiiig ready to spring. The lynching was October 2, the mutiny started ten days later. Led by "Butch" Dalton, a murderer and outlaw, twenty convicts dashed out of the prison stockade and fled into the rough hills back of it. They were pursued ineffectually by some of the guards. This showed the less resolute among the remaining prisoners that escape was more than possible. Early in the afternoon of Saturday, October 13, a party of life\ *@@?@??@?@?@?<??< When a man says he can sell y he can do so. For there is no sell just as cheap as the other what we are going to prove to ing to Bamberg, and while the as you know who will sell you cheaper than the other felloe stock, expecting a crop like w< are compelled to raise money 1 mense stock at actual cost. 1 one cent of profit, but just act will come in and look and mak< you will come and look. We h; Coat Suits, Cloaks, Underweaj If you do not find just what yc when you come to town to tak and you will save enough to p; of goods for you to understam * 1 I? I mm n m place ana tnat tne sale runs ir lay, Novemb 0 Post Office , PRISON BATTLE: rlins, When Prisoners Made a heir Liberty. termers, led by Antonio Pascuale, a c 1 Mexican, overpowered the cell house c ' - ? - | V keeper, took his keys and released \ their comrades. Every prisoner will- ^ ing to risk a battle with the guards r made a rush for the gates. What c happened inside the prison walls af- ^ ter that is not known, except as to s general results. Probably it is better that it should not be printed in de- t tail. c Their backs against the gates, a fighting for their lives, stood a hand- t ful of guards. They were like the g trainer in the cage when his wild 1 beasts have tasted blood, but there c were none with hot irons to prod t back the ferocious animals. The c guards had no thought of getting outside and saving themselves. Three c of their number lay dead at their r feet. The living keepers were of the s stern, cold, fearless type of the old s West. They stood face to face with t 300 men, most of them armed with c cleavers, knives and pistols. All that c the world outside the walls know* of p that desperate battle that ended in t driving the convicts, cowed and ter- t rorized, back to their cells, was what c they heard?a fusillade of shots, a | l bedlam of shrieks, and yells of rage | c and agony that lasted half an hour s and then diminished until now and r then the silence was punctuated at r long intervals by the crack of a re- t volver. Then the prison was still. The beasts had been driven back into t their cages. Victory in every battle, c little or big, hangs in the balance for \ a moment. One side or the other c falters. If the convicts had the cour- s age to grasp their chance the mo- a ment it presented itself they might l have left the prison tenantless except j for its dead. But they were stunned for a moment with the prospect of \ liberty, and in the end the old in- a ctinot nf nhedienee asserted itself. t But bitter ad was the battle inside c the walls, the ferocity of those who i escaped and dashed into the streets a of the little town was almost beyond a picturing. Rawlins is a place of a about 4,000 population. The prin- c cipal thoroughfare faces the railway v station and runs parallel with the e tracks. Hills and rolling prairie are e i round about Rawlins, and the foot- t hills of the Continental Divide form 1 the rim of the bowl that touches the t horizon. t The twenty convicts who escaped c I A *. ? ou cheaper than the other fel one that is going to sell you | fellow, unless he can show yc you right here. We have ms re we made good use of our t the cheapest in your town, sc r because we know exactly \ 3 had last year, and therefore - - ^?? ? ? ??? A M J 4-1^ /% -C vin4> /N -C jeiweeii now aiiu me mst ui Ve are not going to sell to s? ual cost. We will offer you; 3 us a reasonable offer we wil ave anything needed in the li ty Overcoats, and in fact ever iu want you will find somethi e in the big circus on the 271 ay for your ticket. We are i i unless you can see them, sc om er 25th, ti D X n the first day's outbreak fled mostly o the hills. Some, weaker spirited, >r with the habits of long confinenent overpowering them, sought mrrows in the town. Seven of these vho were captured were found in :ellars and outbuildings, and the ughth was run down while fleting ireathlessly afoot across the prairie, fhe other twelve, fully armed, were lot heard from except in the way >f distant firing later in the day, rhen they attacked a ranch aid tole some horses. The second score that broke out he day following, led by the Mexian outlaw, were bolder and better .rmed. Together they dashed down ;he main street brandishing their :uns and knives. They knew exacty where they were going. A few itizens tried half-heartedly to stop hem, as men on the sidewalk rush iut and wave their arms at a runavay horse. The convicts did not leign to pay attention to these, but nade straight for the largest livery < table in tne place, a western livery table runs more to saddle horses han to docile carriage animals. The onvicts left a huge negro on guard mtside. They rushed in and over>owered the owner of the barn. A >arber, Charles Stressner by name, leard the commotion. Though his iccupation was peaceful to a degree, le had a heart that was big with ourage. He came running down the treet, shotgun in hand. He saw the legro, but before he could fire the tegro shot him through the head and le fell headlong, dead. Inside the barn the convicts had ieen busy grabbing up saddles and :inching them on the horses that rere nearest at hand. At the sound if the negro's shot they swarmed out ide, some leading horses and some ifoot. The owner of the stable, folowed them out, and Pascuale, the Jexiean, turned and stabbed him. The mounted men fled toward the lills, but those who had been le^t ifoot, fourteen in number, rushed to he railroad yards, where 100 freight ars were standing. In a few minites armed citizens, deputy sheriffs md penitentiary guards came up and ittacked them. They shot to kill, ind Pascuale, the blood not yet dried in his knife, was killed with the first -olley. Other convicts were wound>ri and the little band numbered only ileven when it made a break from he box cars and rushed to the rocky lills to the south of town. There hey separated, striving to escape ino the almost impassable stretch of :ountry toward the Colorado line. ?@?@?@?@??@???i low you will not believe him u: joods at less than cost, and yoi )u where he can buy cheaper th ide New York our home for a nime by getting on to where to b ), therefore, we are better pi vhere to go to buy them. We > we have more goods than we k January and are, therefore, c ill to you at less than cost, and1 anything in our store, it mattei 1 trade mighty quick. We ha ne of Dry Goods, Notions, 3h ything carried in a first-class ng just as good that will take h, and if you have any goods t< lot attempting to quote prices,< ? pnmp a.nH rpp a/nrl Wfi will dc f VVlAiiV VVAAV% WWW j WMVk ?v w w? ? ) Tuesday, ES $?@??@??????@@* . i Then the most desperate man mint in the history of the West was on. All this outside the prison walls j took in its happenings but little more ; minutes than it does to read it here. When it was over, the people of Rawlin6 were terror-stricken. They knew the desperate character of the men who had escaped. The wildest rumors flew from house to house. People were afraid to stay indoors and equally afraid to go out. Imagination peopUd every cellar and every closed room'with'o*1 laws armed to the teeth. So it was all that night. It was as if man-eating tigers were loose. The governor was telegraphed to and asked to order out the State troops. He was away on | an electioneering tour and the message did not reach him for two hours. He hurried back to Cheyenne, telephoning in advance to have the troops assembled under arms against his arrival. By the time he reached the capital the later reports indicated that the escaped convicts appeared to be all in the hills and that the town had little or nothing further to fear. By nightfall the more courageous citizens had got over their panic. Posses of armed men were formed to 1 ride in all directions. Throughout the night a rattle of shots in the distance told of the progress of the man hunt. " About sunset four convicts were located in a canyon about a mile from Rawlins. They had barricaded the narrow cut in the mountains and o were ready for battle. The officers 1 decided it would be too dangerous t to attempt their capture in the dark n a'nd surrounded their stronghold. At 1 dawn they were surprised and over- o powered without a shot being fired, t All that night couriers kept rid- ^ ing into Rawlins telling .of the state t of terror that existed in all the coun- t try round there. Every lonely ranch T house was barred and barricaded as c it used to be half a century ago when ii the Indians were on the warpath. v In the next few days all but seven r of the forty that had escaped were e either recaptured or killed. The or- h ders given to the deputies were to t bring tlieni back dead or alive, it . didn't matter much which. The seven that are still at large probably never will be caught by the ha*d of man. Xo doubt most of them will g perish in the wilderness. The cold v and snow come early in high alti tudes, and men who have been long yj in prison are not likely to be able to v withstand the rigors of winter, t Therefore, after the first blizzard the ranchers will rest easy.?N. Y. Press. ??@??@??@?@?? nless he can show you how i believe that everyone can an his competitor. That is umber of years before comuy goods the cheapest, just :epared to sell you goods > have put in an enormous mow what to do with. We inmnplled to offer our im ?re are not going to ask you rs not what it is, and if you ve no fears of the result if oes, Hats, Clothing, Caps, Mercantile establishment, the place. Come to see us 0 purchase, buy them of us is there are too many kinds 1 the rest. Remember the December KI Ba g???????????? ; If you grow peas a | please and pay you. see our Force-Feed s| the hopper holds IOC i cotton and corn see ^ Cotton and Corn I i beam will not breal | to the readers of th | you. Write us for I STAR PEA IV 1 BENNETTS Street Car Strike ?t E*d. Jacksonville, Nov. 16.?The strik > f the trainmen on the Jacksonville Yaction company's lines is now pracically at an end. Sixty of the old len have already returned to work. 'he remainder of the men who went ut on a strike have announced to he company that they will return to ,-ork Monday morning, provided all he strikebreakers brought here by he company are dismissed Sunday, 'his. it i? learned, is agreeable to the ompany, so all lines Monday mornig will be operated by the old men, , ho receive an advance in wages but eturn as non-union men. The genral threatened sympathetic strike as been called off and no further rouble is expected. NOTICE. I will file my final accounting as uardian of Mildred Sledge Copeland nth G. P. Harmon. Judge of Proate for Bamberg county, on Saturlay, November 30th. All presons laving claims against said estate rill present same before said day or ie forever barred. J. D. COPELAND, JR., Guardian. Bamberg, S. C., Oct. 29, 1912. iss! 4H i 24th I 3 N mberg, S. C. I x"^^iPw8f Star Pea Huller will If you use fertiliser . Wizard Distributor, ) pounds. If you plow ! the J. M. B. No. 20 'low Stock, the steel e or bend. 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