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1 tie Marlboro' ?TO T??0T7, OBBAT LIBE?V1Y, IHSPIH? O0B BOWLS A WO MAJCK OUB UVB? 1? THT POSSESSION HARPY OB O?B DEATHS 0LOBIO?8 ?T THY OAUSK." BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. MAY ll, 1906. NO. 20 PT SHOT FIRED Into Severa. United States Judg es ia the Senate BY SM VTOK TILLMAN He Claimed That Spooner Had Acted Harshly Towards Him, but Said He JU Did Not Object to Bein* Call ed "Rude," Because He Was a "Rude Man." During the debate In the United States Seuate Thursday on tho rall i$Sf? rate bill senator Tillman took the floor to put iuto the Record a nu m ber of statements he bad gathered to Justify his position that the people distrust the federal courte. Prelimi narily he announced that ho did not intend a wbolesalo onslaught upon the judiciary and ho acquitted the sup reme court especially of questionable proceedings, although, he said, lt bari "wobbled" moro or less. In the Bouth, ho wot on, then weio Ui?i"v ?xoollen J idgcB, bub or the otho ha some o? t em had been guilty of .c. j questions) In and dla creditable aots." Many Of them were be said, ULduly prejudiced In favor of the railroads add were wholly ui.il^ to be trusted with the power cf passirg on railroad questions. Ileuoo hoar - gued that there would be no great risk in preventlr g their Interference In suoh oases, "lils utterly absurd to show that tho J dgr-s are higher oreatures than other mi o,1 he said. He referred to the divinion ol the supreme court on the lnccmo tax case saying that in that case one of the judges hadohanged his mind. "Thus' be said, "the practloe cf a century reversed and the country submitteo merely beoaubc of the plea that thc highest court of tho country must be ?JoHoalned.'' He niuo oited other oases in other courts intendi i tot show that some judges are not only not Infallible, but not incorruptible." The llrstof the references was to Judge s ni th Mc Pherson of Iowa, who was represen ted in an article in the Now York World of the 30th of March last a* naviug appeared at a bai quot to Gov; Cummins at Council Bluffs in such 8 condition as "not to be able fcc stand up without clinging to the ta ble. Mr. Tillman next ref erred to a pleasure trip to Tamploo, given b> tbree Kansas railroads to lindora' Judges McPherson, Phillips and PJ1 leek. The account was condensed from tho Kansas City papers an showed that the Judges bad beer, transported In a sp?cial oar and were accompanied by the general solicitors ot the railroads giving the excu si?n. Mr. Tillman said that Judgo Pnllllps had been especially oom mended by the president in connection with the Paul Morton caBe and he contrasted the president's course in this case, with bis course in critic zing Judge Hump bro y In the beef packers case. I bellevo it has como to be o insider ed good law to issue iujunotion\ a gainst strikers," said Mr. Tillman, and added, "if it is not the senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner) will correct." Tho manner of this appoa. to bim evidently angered Mr. Spoon er# "?.-oso and replied sharply Hay ing: "'Ane senator from South Car olina forgets wi at ls decent when he challenges me in that way. Mr. Tillman maintained that Mr. Spooner had aotod very harshly tow rtff^him, and oharged him with hav ing been "indecent." To this Mr Spooner responded that he would withdraw the word and substitute "rude." Thlssatihfldd Mr. Tillman who said he did not mind being called tho word, because be was a rude man and did not care. Mr. Tillman con sidered the case of Editor Daniels of ^frp Raleigh. N. C.. New and Ob WWver, who had boen placed In prison nlcausG of a refusal to pay a fine of 92,000 for criticising the appointment of a receiver for a railroad by Judge Purnell. Mr. Tlllmrn insisted upon with drawing his question and apoiog zing but Mr. Spooner remarked that he asked no apology. Upon an apparantly good-natured oommand to Mr. Spooner to sit down, Mr, Tillman and the ohalr became involved in a spirited colloquy as to who had tho floor. The deoiston was favorable to Spooner, who remarked that in ordering him to take his seat Mr. Tillman morely had accentuated what he regarded as ' 'a great piece of rudeness." After Mr. Tillman had offered an apology Mr. Spooner eat down with the statement that he did so of his own volition. Mr. Tillman had read an editorial from tho Columbia, S. 0 , State con cerning the Judge Purnoll caso, up holding tho position taken by Joseph us Daniels and quoting from a discus sion of Otrcntt Judgo Pritchard of North Carolina, d-ola*.ii.g that pub lished criticisms or even libel of s Jud? is not contempt of court. In having tho editorial read ho stated. "I have that artiolo read with capto lal pleasure beoause it does ampio J JU tloe and 8poaks in the mont oomplt mentary way about Judge Pritchard." When tho reading was concluded Mr. Tillman said he would pass on to Florida, although ho could rovlcw In stances in his own State of acts of ty ranny and indecency, hut tbs Judge committing them Ur dead and has sot tied his accounts elsewhere Tho son stor said he also know some oases in Georgia, but that he would take up the case of Circuit Judgo Pardee in en joying the Florida railroad commission from Instituting suit to compel the Louisville and Nashville railroad to reduoe Its fares from four to three cents a mlle. He ooarged that Pardee ought to be Impeached for his course. Mr. Tillman next paid his respects to tho case of Judge Charles S. Wayne of Florid?, whom tho senate refused last session to Impeaoh and asked to Incorporate in his remarks a statement prepared bv Representative Lamar of Clorida. Mr. Tillman then olosed with sn apology, explained tbat the situation was suoh as to require the administering of "some physio." He would not allow tho Judges to "roam up and down the land, doing whatever be railroads want and refusing to 4rant relief to the people." Senator 13 ?aeon ot Georgia made a . plriled defense of the federal Judici ary and deplored the fact tbat their misdeeds were given suoh publicity which would necessarily result from this recital in the senate. Tillman asked bim if ho had not voted for tho Impeachment of Judge Swayne. Beacon made reply to "this buooh of quea tions," as be called them He had vo Od for Swayne's Impeachment, but chat he said was a diff erent thing from erltiolsing a Judge before he had been formally Rcoused. Senator Beacon was applauded by tho Republicans as he sat down. Announcing his conviction that Mr Tillman needed no assistance In pre senting his oase to the senate, Mr. Bille? took tho door in opposition te Mr. Beacon's contention that thu J - diolary Bhould not be orltiolsed on t. r licor of the seuato, ho behoved In branding wrong wherever lt mado its appearance and while as a wholo he had the utmost coulldonoe in the |u tlolary of thc United States bo oould uot overlook the fact that thcro were some unworthy members of it. ?HOI ir cur. r\v.> Voting Rion Tried to Kilt Knoll Oi her. Tho Columbia State says a sense tlonal shooting affjdr between Dr. Rowland K. Smith, formerly of Co lumbia, and Mr. T. H. Brown, a wei' known lumber mau of Chap?n, occurr ed at that p'aoo Thursday morning. Both men, lt is said, emptied their guns ai eaoh other, but neither of them was hit. The shooting occurred as tho train from Laurens over the Co lumbia, Newberry and Laurens rail road was leaving the station, and it In alleged to be tue result of tho rela tions between Dr. Smith and thc wife of Mr. Brown. It is said by thoso who saw the shooting that Dr. Smith was boarding ".bc train on it way to Columbia when Mr. Brown opened lire on him from ohe side of tho track. The doctor dash ed into the baggago car and returned Urn tire through tho door. The passen gers on the train were greatly alarmed by i he tiring, but no one was hurt. Dr, Smith continued ou tho train and came as far as Irmo, where he stopped, and, it is said, went h ok through Chupiu on the r.cxt trah in that direction and went on In the dlreor.ton of Laurens. Mrs. Brown lift Chap?n ou tue night, before tile shoot ing aud went frons thero to Laurens. R mor has lt that the names of Dr. Smith and Mrs. Brown have been oon lected by noisip for some timo, bui chat on Wednesday they were seen together walking in tho v.codsaDd it wes this and the subs?quent departure of Mrs. Brown that brought the mat ter to a orislB Toursday, The affair was reported to Pr?sident Childs ol the Columbia, Newberry and Luuenae rall oad soon a'ter thc arrlv al of/the train In this city. Mr. Childs Investigated the matter carefully and announced Thursday afternoon that ne would place tho case In tho bandi, of the attorney for the company with a view to having both parties arrested for tiring into and from the train. He was Indignant that the passengers on his roed sin u!d have hceu submitted o this danger, and seems determined to bring tho oase into thc curta. Dr, Smith is a Bon of Capt. 0. M Smith of Columbia, tho local agent of the Atlantic Coast lino. Ho is about 28 years of age and is a married man. Mr. Brown ls from Virginia and Is connected with the lumbor mill of Charles P. it bins m of Chap?n. How co D.mtroy Filos. A priai of $3,000 has been awarded by the Paris Matin to the anonymous Inventor of a new method of gottlng rid of houBO tl es. The mothod 1? strictly solentitlc, and, lt is claimed, will completely destroy tho eggs, whloh aro ur.ually th p<.sited In drain pipes, dude petrol mixed with water ls used for household disinfect ing purposes. Tho drain pipes be come lined with the oil, which both ?Ills tho eggs already there aud pre cludes tho deposit of others. When desired thc p?trol can bo poured on tine soil and the latter sprinklod in corners, This, it is said, is thorough ly ctlleaolous in destroying tho eggs The operations should be oarrrled om lu the spring to obtain tho host re sults. Killen by Bomb. A dispatch from Paris says a bomb explosion occurred in tho forest ol Viiiconnes Thursday afternoon, klll lug a Russian named Strlc ano dangerously wounding a companion named BoufiSnc ff. The mon were proceeding through the woods, eaoh carrying a lomb with the evident purpose of biding them for futun uso. While so doing the bomb which Strle carried exploded, killing bim in stantly. Bou.iSntfl w?;s struck by fragments of the bomb and fearfully lacera, cd. The remaining bomb ha* not yet been examined owing to the danger in handling it. Holo Thief, A h(;rae thief operated on Broad way, just above City Hall Park, Nov. York Thursday afternoon, and piok lng for a pr 7.) a handsome bay and rubber tired runabout, valued at $1,000, owned by Maurice S. Looks, No. Ul Scbenck street, Brooklyn, drove rapid y away, while the owner was in an i ll! so building. Blind S'udont lOxoollod One of the most Interesting figur?n in higher mathematics, lu geology, was a blind student who halls from a small country town In North Carolina. He has mastered tho mest difficult courses In higher mathomatlo??, In geo logy, won a degreo from tho Universi ty of North Carolina, and ls now work ing for a degreo of M. A. at Harvard. WANTS TO HANG. Murderer Rawlings, of Georgia, Asks the Governor Not to SU8PEND SENTENCE. He Bi j? the Qovernor Not to Pay Any Attention to Silly Appeals for Illa Reprieve, But Let Him Bo Executed At Once From his cell in a Georgia Jail A condemned murderer ls sending forth appeals to stop all efforts to save his *lfe and demanding to be hanged. This unique example among mur derers has written a lotter to Gover nor Terrell, of Georgia, inah*tlog upon his rights as a murdorer legally condomned to go to tho gallows ou tho *ay named by the trial oourt-May 4 Through the newspapers, when they interview him, ho makes the samo de* m and. Thia anomaly among oondemned .entenoed murderers ls a former cler gyman, the Rev. J. G. Rawlings. In Jail with him at Valdosts, Ga., aro his thre . finoB, Leonard, Milton and Jesse convicted ror compl o ty in the mur der last Juno of little Willie and Gar rie Carter, childron of W. L. Carter, wi: h whom Rawlings bad been at feud for years. As the aotual shooting of the ohll drcn wan dono by Alf Moore, a negro, ?Afho ojnfoi-sed, dt daring that Raw lings paid him to do it, many personb interested themselves lu efforts to have the sen seneca oommuted to life imprisonment, and tho case waa even oarried to the Supremo Court of the United States. Rawlings's omphatio and open re iontment of these < (Torts to save his life oreatod a sensation in Goorgia, which has not yet subsided. In his letter to Governor Torrell ho salt!: "1 respectfully urge your Kxcelien oy not to interfere with the speedy exeoution ot the death seutenoo. 1 am tired of the bosiness, ana I warn to be hauled as soon as possible. UHQKD TII10 aoVKHNOH TO LBT IIIBf UANO. "My boys are innocent, but I do not believe there ls auy hope for tuem aud they feel au 1 do, that the sooner we are hanged the better. We are lUfforlng more than death now. The delay and uncertainty are far worse jhau the gallows, and I hope you will do nothing to prevent a speedy execution of tho death seutonoe. " Being interviewed for this newspa per, Rawlings made this remarkable oemand still stronger. He sate: "I am desperate. 1 don't oare any thing about the decision of the Su premo Court, and I had ratbor be dead than to stay shut up in this dark and stifling coll another day. It will suit me exactly to bo hanged to-mor row, and the sooner lt is done the bet ter I shall like it. "I navo written to my attorney, Mr. Cooper, asking him not to take ?ny further steps in the matter, and to let it go as lt stands. I have writ ten to tho Governor demanding my rights. I don't oare anything aboiu my own fate, so far as lt affeots me personally, and I bavo only wanted to dve thus long in hope of being able to do bomothiug to sive my lonoocni boys. "I expoot to die liko a man, and ono of the greatest regrets 1 have ls on account of my mother. I have just written her, though, that I shah tro to my death bravely. She is old now, and oan't hoar up under suoh fll.otion even as well as my wife can. "But that oan't be helped. I am entitled by sentence of tho Court, to 'he hanged by the neok until dead,' and in simple justice I demand my legal right-I insist upon no Interfer ence with my execution." Tho United States Supreme Court has decided not to Interioro with son tcnoe of tho trial oourt. But Raw lings's attorneys have still tho plea of insanity to argue-and tho oondemnod man's strange demand, in itself, is considered a good ground for suoh a plea. But this faot duos not give rise to any susploion that tho murderer ls playing an "insane dodge." aa lie ls loo earnest and omphatio and logical In his demands for his right to be hanged. Milton and Jesse, who aro to hang with their father, are not so anxious to go to tho gallows, and they say that tho old man ls orazy and has been for years. Both of the boys have made a pathotlo appeal to the Gover nor for olemenov, stoutly claiming that thoy aro innoocnt of tho orimc for which they wore convicted. (H.AD W1IKN UK 18 IIANUKD. Whon Rawlings was toid that the United States Supremo Oourt had re fused to lutorfero in his case ne was whistling "How Urm a foundation, ye <alntsof tho Lord." Hcoontlnuod to vhlstlo au thc news was broken to ulm and dually said: "It is no more than I exprotcd and 1 am not sorry. I looked fur no favon? from the United States. I will be rt lad when wo aro hanged. I reckon wo will be at peace then. " Tho mon havo boon con fined in Jail for a llttlo moro than ten months, and the monotony of a dingy IO by 12 foot oell has told sadly on their spirit? ?nd demeanor. They ocoupy a oorner coll In tho Jab, with windows over looking busy thoroughfares on two Mides, ?nd as thoy blt day by day look ing out through tho bars at the peo plo passing by, or ai they pace rest lessly up and down the narrow con fines, n Sleeting ?Q the time WllOtl they, too, wero freo to go andoome as they please, \t ls not hard to under stand that tiny have found jail lifeao Irksome. The elder Rawlings maintains that he has absolutely no hope of his soul's wal vallen, and says be ls certainly j doomed to go to hell. He believes he has committed the "unpardonable sin," and has appeared to beoome In censed with the spiritual advisers who during hts long Incarceration, have gone to the Jill to minister to him, and have attempted to disabuse his mind of the idea that be is doom.ul to eternal punishment if he repents of bis sins. He was once a minister of the gospel, aud says he bas studied the Bible olosely for years, with the result that he ls convinced that mor tals sometimes reaoh a stag? where they are beyond the palo of God's for glvnnes?. The orlme for whloh Rawlings and his three sons-Milton, Jesse and Leonard-were oonvioted was commit ed on the night of June 13, 1006. O : that night Clarrie and Willie Carter, daughter aad son of W. L. Carter, a farmer, living ten miles north of Yal dosta, were shot down in the yard of their lather's home, and an attempt made by the assassins to kill the roat of the Carter family. The lilrl, aged fourteen, and her brother, sixteen years oin, went out of their father's house soon after the evening meal to investigate the in cessant barking of tholr dog, and as they reached a point near the garden fence, a few yards from tho house, both ot thom wore shot down, the little girl being killed almost Instant ly and the boy living to drag himself baok to the door ot his home. For sometime his parents wore afraid to open tho door to tako bira in for fear that another volley from the assassins, who were secreted In tho shndo of some trees nearby, would ond the lives of other members of the family. Tho boy lingered until aaout sun rise on the following morning, and the girl's body lay in tho cotton Hold, where she fell until after daylignt. In tho trial of Rawl'ngs and his sons, witnesses sw ?re that tho girl's head had been battered into the ground by the heels of the murderers, or by tho stocks of their guns, as she lay dead. Susploion at once fell on J G R ?.w lings, as lie and Carter had been enemies for a long time. It developed that Rawllugs spent the night at Val dosta, and at the Coroner's inquest the next day Carter and his wife and daughter swore that they had reoog ntzed the Rawlings boys as tho assas sins, as they walked around tho Carter homestead in the moonlight on the night before. The boys were arrosted that day, and on the following day, as the older Rawlings and bis wife drove into town and to the J ?il with some clothing foi their sons, the father was taken lntc custody and looked up with his boys. Alf Moore, a negro was arrested at Siaunton, thirty miles north of there, two days later, charged with oompll olty in tho orlme, and mids a co?tes don of the whole affair. He sworr that the elder Rawlings hired him tc ?o and kill the Cartor family, prom Ising him $100 for the work, ant sending his three sons to see that thc murders were carried out as arranged At the trial Moore claimed thal when they reached the Carter home Htcao, about a mlle from the home ol Rawilogs, that his nerve failed hin and he refused to take any part in tin murders. He maintained that Mtltor and Jesse Rawlings fired the shotf that killed the two Carter children and that ho (Moon) then beoamc frightened and ran away. His tosti mony was corroborated In many p duti by the testimony of tho Oartor fam Hy. After the convlotion of tho men Rawlings acknowledged that ho hire?: .it.o negro Mooro to kill the Cartors but that hts boys were not present know nothing of the arrangement be tween him and the negro, and had ab solutely nothing to do with tho mur ders. He has stoutly maintained thi all tho time. Furthermore, Rawlings says he dh not intend to havo any of tho Carter harmed except tho old man, and tha lt was not any part of his arrange ment to kill other members of th family. On the other hand, Moor swears that he had positiva instrtic Mons, as also had the boys, to kill th entire Carter family and tbon bur the house. If Moore was actuated in turnln State's evldenoe by a hope of esoapin the full penalty of tho law for his pai in the tragedy, he was doomed to dil appointment, as the Jury brought 1 a verdict of murder in tho first dcgrei and he, too, was sentenced to doatl along with J. G. Rawlings, Milton an Jesse! Leonard Rawlings was ser tenced to the penitentiary for hf? and served a few weeks, later bein brought baok to J ill hero on an ord? from Governor 1 erroll, to await tl result of tho appeal made by tho attorneys to tho Supremo Court. Alf Mooro has also esoapod th death penalty, so far, as his test!rn? ny was oonsldored very eneentlal I oaso the Rawlings obtained ano tb? trial. J. G. Rawlings ls forty-nino yea old, and In addition to his three soi ls thc father of two intorosting girl who are now budding into womai hood. Milton Rawlings ls aboi twenty years old, Jceso eighteen ar Loonard sixteon. Tho boys are awi above the average in appearance at Intelligence. HOYS SAY VATUKU IS OIU'/.Y. Rawlings was a well-to-do farme and beforo his numerous troubles wil Carter, and even up to the timo the murders, was a very popular ma among a great number of people ] faot ho had moro friends, lt ls sal than Cartor bad. He was very host table and a good neighbor and li homo was always open to his friend whore thoy were entertained In tl best mannsr possible. Milton Rawlings, tho eldest so has written tholr attorney, John J Cooper, of Macon, requesting him institute lunaoy proceedings again his father and, If possible, have hi oommltted to tho insano asylum, as I and his brothers are oonfldent th the elder Rawlings In aorazy man. is understood that this will bo t next stop of tho attorney, and if ho unsuooessful in that, tho last pago the famous oaso will have been wr ten and Rawlings will expiate 1 orlmo on the sallows as ho insists his right. Sinoe his oonviotlon th? elder Ra lings has spent much of bis time roi lng the Bible. He has a habit of rei I lug alema, and buln habui nearly on used a duel to Dbe death between Rawlings ?nd Henry Hlokey, said to bo from New York, wbo ls under sen tence for picking pockets while a olr ous was exhibiting ber hist Fill. Rawlings was reading the Bible aloud when Hlokey cursed him Raw lings made at Hlokey with a knife, whloh he had been allowed to nave, aud Hiokey drew a razor, whloh no one knew be had. Toe men were soon slashing one' another and inflict ed several wounds ?before th< y wero separated. Suoh episodes as this, manifesta tions of an ungovernable temper, hav;1 been frequent In Bowling's oareer though, up to tho thee of the murder of the Garter children, he was ?bte ' o keep out of serious difficulty. There ls no doubt that he was sincerely re ligious, and when his passions wore not Inllamod by some infringement of what he considered hts personal rights he was a kindly and charitable man It Is characteristic of him to still insist upon his personal rights evon when they condemn him to tho gal lows. WILL FIGHT BRIDE. Tho AUtl-Dlsponaary JLeader May Ii >?o Hi* Seimtorahlp. The dispensary people of York county have organized their foroes to ou8f< State Senator J. Steele Bries, the anti-dispensary leader and author of the BrJoj sot under which fourteen counties have voted out their dispen saries. The correspondent of Tao Charles ton Evonlng Post, who wai at Rook Hill last week, was Informed by a number of dispensary leaders that Senator Brice's defeat for roeleotion as oounty obalrman on May 7 was DOW practically certain; enough delegate: have been elected last week to accom plish that end. j W. H. Stewart, who has nerved a long number of yoars as reading olork of tho Senator and who is a splendid organizer, ls to be put up to bjafc Mr Brice In addition to this a o .?nf ci once id to bo hold at R >ok Hill In the im mediate future for tho purpose of nominating four stra'ghout dispensary men for the Legislature. Mr. Brice's term as Senator does not expires for two years and ne therofore eau not bo put out altogether uutil that time, but bis defeat as county chairman means almost certainly hi defeat as Senator two years hence ann the elevation in his place of Mr. Sib .? art. Mr. Brioc attonded tho recont anti dispensary secret conference hero re oently. Tho meagre information given out about its doings dlsolosed that lt was the intention of tho auti-dlspen sary peopl* to organize throughout; the ?tate. So lt is thought likely that the anti dispensary people of York wih also put out a legislative tiokot. lu that event other oountios In all probab ility fo low ault. The York fight appears to mark the beginning of drawing sharp lines on tho dispensary issuo in the o >ming summer campaign. The storm oonter at York appears to bo at Fort Mill, where a straight Stewart delegation has been ohosen to tho oounty conven tion. The hidden hand seems to he that of ex Representative J. R Halie, ot that place, who ls booking Mr. Stewart. The Yorkvllle Enquirer ls support ing tho Brloe faction, though all the other newspapers of the oounty are said to have lined up on tho other sido. ROOBfcVJ?LT FLUNKS. flo Worked a Sholl Gamo on tho lliniooralB, A dispatoh from Washington says President Roosevelt has oompletely lluukod on his championship of the rate-making bill. So seems to bo the general impression in Washington among those who knew of bis having sent for forty newspaper correspon dents, Friday afternoon, mostly re presentatives of Rmubhoan papers. He Informed them that ho would stand to the amendment ag rood upon by the Aldrich element. This is known as the Allison amendment and calls for tho broadest possible court review of the rates tixed by tho inter state commerce commission, against which review all the light in the senate or most of lt has boen direoted. Up till Friday th J presldont has stood out persistently in favor of limited court review. Ho denies now that he has surrendered, but claims that hts advocaoy of the Allison amendment is in accord with bis privato views and tho very tning ho has beon striving for. Bx&otly how he will bo aulo to Justify this claim is best known to himself. He says he is consistent and he doesn't care who thinks other wise, So there! But lt is thought and freely said that tho object of Bonding for these correspondents was to got the news to the country in suoh a way that the people will bo fooled. Senator Bailey, who has led the fight against tho Aldrich crowd, says the Allison amendmont is tho broad est court review provision that could ho drawn, and Sonator Tillman thums that tho Republicans will .tow let up on lt to a man. Tillman says he sees no roason why thoy oannot Just pass the bill Monday, for the Democrats are powerless, and the Rjpublloane will stlok by the presldont. It looks like something is going to happen now, af tor all those months of talk, though it isn't going to happen in ao oordauco with Roosevelt's talk. Mr. Aldrich hasn't talked, but be's lt. ZACK MOGIIBK. ?Veil Amid Debris. The San Franclhco disaster so shook the plans of Montford Spining, son of the Rsv. Dr. and Mrs. George L. Spin ing, of South Orango, N. J., that his we ding took place an even month be fore t io date he had.sot for it. Mr. Spining is treasurer of the San Fran cisco Lumber Company. Ho was to have boon rn? rr led on May 24 to Miss Alice nuncan, but everything was s> changed by tho oalamlty that despite tho faot that the home whloh had boen made ready was ruined, tho two wore wedded oh April 24, when thoy with a quarter of a million other San Franolsoans, we're homeless, STOLEN BONDS ] t _- i Must Be Paid For by Response ? ble Parties. ! < ----- i GOVERNOR HEYWABD j , _ I ? , Writes a Letter to State Treasurer Jen nings on the Sub] *cL Nothing Was 1 Done by Legislature to Make Provisions for Redeeming Worthless Bonds. Gov. lleyward Wednesday made offloial lrqulry Into the matter of the bondB purloined rrom the odios of the State treasurer says The State. Tho amount so lost to tho State approxi mates 610,000. Toe faot that pur loining had b en going on was dis oover**'' ist October and was made publ'o at that time. Tue defalcation then amounted to 810,403 75 The fro value of the oonda purloined was $ 12,500 aud the Interest was $3,903.75 Botween that time end January 1st the ace* u sd in terest was $281 25 and to dato ia about 8400 additional. As no announcement of any m wo oat nt to pay has been made and a? the lnte;est ls ino. easing dally, thi legisla?uro having deolined to mak'? iii appropriation to tn ki up the* worthless bond cortilloates, G?v lleyward thougtit lt his duty to make s imo inoury. Tho olilolals resp mst hie f ir tne making g jud of the loosen .mffjrod by the Soate aro Capt. lt H Jennings, S^ato treasurer from 1901 to dat? ; Or. W. H. Tim-; er.nan, frotx 1895 to 1001; and Dr. W T. U Bites, ttom 1891 to 1895 Acorrolugly, G iv. lley ward a'"1 .iresiod tun following loiter to Oupt Jennings as tnere bad buen som > di ousslou as to the manner in whio ho loss Should b> prorated and Oap: J -mn lr gil its tue lncunoent lu th? ul .it: May 2 10 ,0. Mr. R II Jennings, Stdio Treasurer, i>d ,?i .m. S O. My Djai Sn: 1 big leave to cab /our ... conti.in to the la9t annual re port of the comptroller general to tin general assembly relative to an in ves igation of certain irregularltles'ln the htate treasurer's office. This in vostlgatiou revealed the faot thcslj iii the exe range of c?rtala Brown Gone 0 ooupon bonds the S'ate han lost, by P number of fraudulent transactions, tue sum of $12,500, together witt ?3,903 75 inti rest paid by the State, making a total of $10 403 7 S, and 1 will be glad if you will inform me what stops, If any, have been taken looking towards thc reimbursement of the State for tho loss incurred. As ohlef magistrate I feel it my duty t eui your attention to this milter, and desire to have this Information requested in order that I may refer lt to the o?d ce of the attorney general, so that the Interest of tho State ma) bo proteoted. Very respectfully, D. G. IIiyward, Governor. In reply to tho lotter of inquiry from Gov. lleyward, Oapt. Jeuuing.-. made an cflloial answer In whloh he said: ''I am In receipt of your letter of this date in re tho matter of fraudu leut transactions In exchange of oer tain H io.vu consol bonds of the State. You ask what steps, If any, have been taken looking towards the relm buriicmont of tho State for tho loss Incurred. "I answer for myself that I havu arranged for a loan with which to purchase a $1,000 Stato bond, whloh will bo doposlted In bank to await tho decision of the proper tribunal as my lndvidual liability as State treasurer, that with Interest being the amount reported so far as having bean fradulently taken during my au ministration. "I am not author'z d to speak for Dr. Bates and Dr. Timmerman, for mer treasurors, as they have not In formed mo as to their intention. Neither do I know what furthor ao Hon I will bc rr quired to take In thc premises, out await instructions from tho attorney general and yourself." The amount of the shortage tu in creasing daily and lt appears that there Bhould bo somo way of scouring it. Each of the State treasurers win has been hurt by the peoul&ttons ot some ono has stated tnat his bonds men shall not suttor and that eaob individual will pay tho losses incurred tn his administration, with interest. Tnere is a orimlnal Indlclment against D. Zimmerman, bond olerk, during thc period of all of the trans actions. On aoojunt of the faot that Mr. Geo. Bell Timmerman, sollcltoi from this olroult, is a son of one ol tho ex-treasurers, he has been rcllov< od ol ttie prosecution by courtesy, and Solicitor James E. D?vlsof Bart. <vell lias oceu entrusted with too casu It is believed that tho State troasur or and his predecessors Interested ir these proceedings will ask for counso to assist Mr. Davis Ia a letter dated Ojt. 7, 1005, fron Hon. R. II Jennings, State treasurer io the o impiroller general, ho oallec attention to what appeared to be ai irregularity in the matter of tho tx chango of a certain $1,000 Bcowi ooupon bond, purporting to havi boen canoolod during the months o January, 1897, and the amount oover od Into a atook certificate. Ile statei that, Judging from the records, tin State appeared to have lost tb amount of said bond and the Interest at 4 1-2 por oent., s.noo that date and ho requested that tho oomptrol lot general make a full investigattoi ot tho status of the State's seourl ties, as requited b/ law. The invest) gatton was immediately mado In poi son by tho comptroller general, assist ed by S T. Garter, bookkeeper, an J. Fulior Lyon, bond dork In th State treasurer's ondeo. Tho roaul of tho investigation caused a sensi tion over tao State. The oomptroih [eneral, In reporting to the State ?roasurer, Bald: "Tho examination reveals the faot ihat the bond olerk during the period n willoh these transactions appear ipon the books, has falsified or erased in the books the numbers of certain VD?l H ur re nd er cd for exchange, and /fts abstraoted bonds previously eau? toled, and has substituted the tame dj a later date for suoh ponds sur .antlered; and has evidently, as shown )y the Interest account, put the >onds BO erased and uncanceled on ?he market. Tots ls clearly ghcwn ly the faot that all transactions doi ng this pirlod appear In the hand writing ot the same bond olerk. lt teems that the bond olerk in the State treasurer's office baa charge or ill bond transactions." Thore has been Borne calculating to vnvrt;; n for how much Of the loss Dr. V m norman will be responsible iud fur how much Uapt. Jonning?, as jhe bond olerk reforred to was In Jxob. donning' administration but i few days. However, that is a mat ,er to be adjusted elsewhere and no: oy tho State. There are now two ends to the transaction-the prosecution of the 3ond olerk and of Mr. T. J. Gibson, indicted In connection with him; and the other end ls the securing of th? money lost by tho State. There lt iome disposition to criticise the legis lativo committees whloh made per functory examinations of the book?, lu tho. State treasurer's offloB but these committees are not under bond vud while morally they might have negleoted their duty, yet legally thoy are not responsible and the State] oreasurers cannot aad will not make ?be ? IT >rt to contest whether or not they should be amenable after their oooks had been oheoked and approv d. WAITBD IN VAIN. "lt r*ko* a Worn An to Chango Her Mind." "IVJ takes a woman to ohange her nlud. Returned by tho applicant, not useol" Tho above legend lnuorlbed ?oros i the back of a marriage license eturned to the Supreme Court of the DKM tot, of U ?lumbla unlined, BUmuaar z 1 the sad ending of the romaneo of Limes H. M jffebt, of New York. Moffatt was ready to marry Mis? H .m lot B Webb, of No. 1642 J erse/ ..venue, Brooklyn, Thursday, to the latent of being at tho trysting plaob ti Washington with a preacher, his license and a hopeful smile, l'Isa Webb lad promised to be there promptly at mon. It wis a heartrending owe for Mar rett of waiting at the church all the tttomoon aud far In the nlg'it inti n d.sp&ir he was moved to send b. ok ho legal pormlt with the pathetic ?ommeutary on the party of the sec ond part and her sex in general. Mr. Mi ff-Lt mot Miss Webb in brooklyn several months ago, and thc ..ouri ship whloh began at once moved m without a hitch to ita triumph int and logloal conclusion When she ;ave her answer to Mr. Moffatt M lus Webb also gave a very busy Imitation if a young woman who had found the ?fflaltv she had known in soveralstateb Df previous txlstenoe and had boen inxlously waiting for In this life. M ?TdJt was so sincerely convinced if the warrxith of the young woman's IT o don for bim that he connon tnt to <o to Wast.iogt.on and make all of the necesiary anargt uents for the core non y and await o *e bride-eleot. He carried out bis part of tho contrae to the letter with a glad heart, untl. ne bto\mo convinced that he wai overdoing the waiting end. Mr. Moi 'od. took the first train from the cap ital to Now York. fte ls curious tb know Just what de tained M inn Webb. What Is N?Odert. . The beautiful ls needed in our oom muni ty hie. We all have oharaoterc co build, strengthen and maintain Wo neel tho beautiful. Dress and live as savages and would soon become lavages In aotlon. Tho oity ur vii l?ge totally void of beauty would be too abode of tho sensual, lmmarol and lawleis. A community of taste abd icauty must necessarily ba composed yt refined and cultured people, and brue leads to higher morality. There aro about our village many thiugb that commend lt. There are thiugb that are oapablo of Improvement, r.ihilc. sentiment will do muoh tow* beautifying our dwelling, our streets ind alleys. Neatness, taste and bea ty will help UH all: Orr moral life would be higher and our social life purer. i'Vui'id mt Jj*at, Several million norvooiu womeu will rt Jolee to hear what happened to ,he "man under tho bod" whom Mrs. Wiri Lindsay, of Konkonio, Ind., ound. nor husband was away and jefore she retired Bhe looked for "the nan under the Iud " Brave Mrs. litn isty dil not soroam or faint, but jot lier husband's t hot. gun and order id tho man to come from under the ied. So ho did but he ran out of the louse and away. She ohased him and ired both barrels of the gun at him. ) ie slut hit him, then pol'cemen )augnt him. Ho was James Wilson, professional burglar, wanted in sev* irai Iudlana towns. No Il?in lor Pourteon Your?., "The most parched country in thc world ls looated on the west ooaBt cf 3 JU tb America," said Capt. Held, .mister of the British steamship A uo.he.norag, whloh arrived at Thomp son Point, Philadelphia, from Iq il. pie and Taetal, with a oargo of nitrato of soda for the DuPont nitro; {lyoorlno works at Gib'isboro. When tho Auohonerag lefblq ikitio lt had no1) rained for fourteen years, al though tho tops of tho Andes were at times snow-oappod. They Can l)o It The Charleston Post says "if the War Department oan'to head off Fath> ir Sherman on his maroh to the sea it m'gbt commission some of tho old Jonfodorate veterans in Georgia to itop him. Most of them were away on the lighting Hue when Ida fatharcamo along to bum their homes and make war upon their women and ohtldren, and they would not bo sorry of tho ohanee to halt the younger Sherrmn as they might havo halted the eider, SPOTTED FEVER Tills Dreaded Disease Appears Again in thc West DOCTORS BtFfLVJD. Tbe Medical Fraternity Is Entirely ?t 'Jes Concerning Cause?, 0 Igln and Nature of the Disease. Natives Generally Attribute it to the Wood Tick. Passed Assistant Surgeon King, of I he p ubi lo health and marino hosplt^' f al service, has just been sent from Washington to Mlss'u'a, Mont., to investigate a new outoroak of "spot ted fever" ai d the medical world ls onoe more "up In tho air" over this strange and deadly disease. Whatoause lt? What will cure lt? And what rvlll prevent lt aro questions that the physicians have been vainly trying to answer for thirty-five years, and today with the hiBtory of hundreds of oases co guide them, the learned fraternity ls as much In tho dark as lt was in the early'70's, whon the cattlemen of the Bitter Boot valley fell vlotims of the malady. Under the various names of "black measles," blue disease," "black fever," "ttok fever," and "spottod fe ver," soores of doctors have Investiga ted each now outbreak and generally have now come to the conclusi?n that all the former investigations mad ? by their brethren were conducted upon erroneous premises and therefore were Just a little less valuable thau of no value whatever. In the first plaoe nearly all the solentlsts agreed that olin common wood tick was responsible for the disease. In 1903 Dr. John F. Anderson, of the marine hospital ser vioe, wrote a 30 page pamphlot on the subject and said the tick was the cause Two years later Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, of the same burea, wrote a booklet of 120 pages upon tue disease and do dared that there was nothing to support the theory that the tick ls to blame either, for tho fever's start or finish. After ex [ ?mining the records of several hun I dreds of oases and personally watch ing a score of it here. Dr. Stiles reach ed the conclusion that "no satisfac tory npeo'iio treatment ls known" for the spotted fevor, and added: "I have no new theories to present regarding I ihe CAUSO, transmission, and origin of i the disease." lu spite of the faot that Dr. Stile?* d:. is not believe that spotted fever li sjrUsorl by tho tiok, throughout the Western country where lt is most pre valent, tho tlok is more than the rat tlesnake. Mmy of the pilgrims and dwellers In the valleys nearly die from fright when they find a trick upon obelr person and often when they are bitten by tho pestiferous Insects, take oo their beds, Coolaring that death has marked them, when they are really In perfect health. In the Bitter Boot Yalloy, which many physicians regard as tho home of spotted fever, nearly all the oases oocur on the western sida of the river lu the month?, o ' April, May and June. Both sexes and all ages aro aubjeot to the disease, and, according to the rec )rds, about 70 per cent of the cases termine lu death'.- About five or six Jays after being bitten by the tick, whioh ls given credit for tbe start ot 000 dtscase, tho patient takes to his oed with a heavy ohlll, headache and aausea. Soon aftor the spots begin to appear upon the wrists and ankles aud later upon tho arms, legs and about the waist. N weld od, soro ?hroat, a fever rising to 106 at times, and swelling of the Joints them fol low in succession or simultaneously! iud often a haoking cough serves to make the patient more miserable. Often the symp oms closely resemble y plum feyer and spinal me ingltls. Dr. King's investigations into the causes and results of tho latest out oroak of the disease will be watohed with a great deal of interest by tho ?notre medical profession. The fact that the fever has lu recent years often sproad Into Utah, Idaho, Neva da and Oregon from Montana, makes each fresh appearance of tho disease tho more alarming. Unless a remedy 1 ! found that will ouro it, same physi cians believe there ls danger of wide spread epldemlos courrlng through out the West. Mest of tee doctors who have given study to the disease agree that it ls not contagious and that it ooours ohlelly in the months of April, May and June. The spots that come with spotted fever first rppear about the ankles and waist and by the end of the first week they extend over thc entire cody. Thero is ho regularity about their appearing on the foet firso, as some timos the first spots appear on the hands. The spots are a bright red and are half as big as an adult's finger uatl. The spots fado as the fever sub sides, but If the patient ls exposed to cold or bec ?mes chilly the spots can be seen for several monhtr. afterward, al though not as red a?, at first. Tnere ts muoh Irregularity regarding the disappearance. Yea Ton Tl moa. A young woman in Millerton, N. Y., Thursday received au off sr of marriage with a request to reply by telegraph. Going io the telegraph ofthje she asked tho operator how. many words she could Bond for 25 oents and he told her 10. Tuen she ?rote. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yos, i yes, yes, yes, yos." The name of the youog woman was withheld by the telegraph c< mpany, as was the name ot the luoky man. lieut Thom Ai!. The United States exported more goods in 1005 than any other nation lu ihe worlj) ace rdlng to statistics tabulated by the British board of trade. Too total exports of this country amounted to $1,621,000,000. while that of the next nation, Great Brittan, only roached tl 600 000,000. In i npotts Great Brittan, ranks first, the United Statea third.