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A LAWYER SHOT' By a Saloon Keeper Decause, As He Claimed, HE HAD RUINED HIM Third Trial of Abraham llucf, on Chai'ift" of ltrihery, Brought to an Abrupt Halt by Mail Shooting tin1 l*ri scenting Attorney in the Conn Boom in the Frcsence of Many. San Francisco, Nov. 13. ? Francis ,T. lien y, a lending ilgurc in the prosecution of municipal corruption in San Francisco, was shot and so rlonsly wounded at 4:23 o'clock today in Judge Lawlor's Court room by Morris Haas, a Jewish saloon keeper, who had been accepted as a juror in a previous trial of Abraham Kuef and afterwards removed, it having bo. n shown in Court by Honey that llaas was an ex-convioi, a fact not brought out in his examination as a venireman. The shooting of Honey occurred in the presence of many persons in the Court room during a recess in ih< trial of Abraham Kuef. on the trial for the third time on t lie charge of bribery. At t? o'clock tonight Mr. Honey, who regained eon-ciousnes^ and will likely recover, said: "1 will live to prosecute Haas and Kuef." The Court had taken a recess for ten minutes and the jury had left the room. Honey and Ituef's attorneys, Ach and Dozier, had just returned from .luig.'. Lawlor's chain e ers, where they had been summoned by the Judge for a conference. Aft. i (In* confoience Arh ami Dozier r turned to tlio Court room and lleney returned to his customary seat. He was talking with former Supervisor Caliagh r, who had just previously undergone a severe crossexamination by Knot's attorneys, when Haas rushed up out of the an dience. Haas approached Henry placed a revolver against th* prosecutor's right cheek and lire 1. lloiup fell over en the desk, blood streaming from the wound. Haas was immediately seized by by-slanders and thrown into the empty jury box. where he was held on his hack till the police came. "Haas, while a venireman in the second Kuef bribery trial, was put to a severe examination by Honey, while he was examined for jnyr (Inly. He asserts that the information brought out by Honey in his question resulted in the ruin of his business that of a saloon keeper. Haas in the second Ruef trial had been pass:', as a juror. Then one day in Court lleney dramatically produced a photograph of Haas, taken at San Quontiu penitentiary, in convict garb and with cropped hair and with bis number across bis breast. Haas collapsed in Court, admitting that lie bad been a convict. He was immediately discharged from the jury. News of the shooting spread rapidly. and an immense crowed gathered in the corridors of the Court building. A large force of police, headed by Chief Biggy, surrounded the building and kept the crowd i... ..i* v > - i/.n iv. ,\ it it 111 ni'!' <>i men, who wer suspected of boisg there to create trouble, were arrested. Haas in a statement afber the shooting said: "I am the wronged man. 1 do no. care what become of me now. i have sacrificed myself not for my own honor but for the honor of those who are situated like myself. I would not have brought my four children into the world to bear such a brand if I had known that the fact that I was a former convict would become known. Heney ruined me. That is why 1 shot him." After tine shooting Judge T^awlo* called the Court to order and Immediately ordered Ruef taken into custody, overruling the objection of Attorney Ach. Attorney Dozler asked (hat thi1 witness. Gallagher, also he taken into custody, but the Court declined to issue the order. The Judge then adjourned Court until Monday. Close examination of the wound showed that tlio bullet entered through the right cheek and lodged under the left ear. It barely missed the carotold artery, and at another point the arteries wvro not ruptured. * mi on kili.hd. Union l*aeifle Freight Train Crash With Terrlnlo Itesults. Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. ] p. -Eleven men, five of them Japanc>r? laborers and the rest trainmen, were killed in a collision of two Union bacllle freight trains late last night at Dorle, Wyo., and in the IIdo widen followed. Only the body of J. C. Duncan, one of the brakemen, and five Japanese laborers were recovered. The other bodies were cremated by the burning of th car.-.. The wreck was caused by one of the trains getting lr?yond control while running on a grade. * V SOME COMMON BIROS rtlAT AUK <iOOI> FKIKMOM T</ THK FA KM Fit. I tenuis** They llonti-oy (iro*t (Jnantitles of WihmI Seeds and Millions of I assets Much Tenr. Tho general function of birds it'tr.s to be, insofar as nature's plan is intelligible, that of keeping insects in cheek?not in destroying insects utterly, for this would work incalculable harm to the rest of creation. It is highly probable that, w?re it not for the work of insects, vegetation would become so rank and luxuriant as to incline1 tho world Birds, the mighty aerial police of the Creator, sweep over continents in their migrations and s*areh every corner for the natural food. This u riguiuus chuck on me sprea i of insects. lint even with nil thin keen oversight sometimes insec's break out of bounds and begin 'o create havoc and to spread ruin over the land. This happened with the Rocky Mountain locust in its outbreak of 1 k77. when Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa part of Missouri and Indian Territory were swept bare of vegetation, causing famine to people and death to cattle, entailing a loss to these States which was estimate I at two hundred million dollars. When such a thing as this happens nature seems to ring in a general alarm and the reserves are called in to meet the crisis. How this is dene and with what effectiveness is one of the marvels of nature. Birds, not known or counted as insect destroyers, such us gulls an 1 other birds, as w 11 as the hawks and owls the rear guard of nature's mighty host ?rush to the feast and insects are devoured by the millions. This has never failed to restore the balance. The Common llirds. In this eonneetion let us examine a few of t lie common lords of South Carolina to see what use tney have ;ind what relation they b ar to the economic life of the Slate. Thev may be described as they are usually seen. Many more are valuable, but it Will not (til l(? mnlfr, I l> > lit.f ? ' ,? x, ? x* Utitiw III J I S5 1. Hill largo. Thoy are put down categorically. | The Wren ? A groat insect feeder. I all \ariotios of wrons are. Those birds 1) eonic quite tame with good treat nient. Bluebird?At some seasons of iho vrar a bluebird will oat more tliar his weight in cutworms each day Bluebirds are entirely harmless and if they haw suitable nesting places made for them. They destroy many other insects besides cutworms, especially grasshoppers and crickets, both very destructive ius< ets. Yoiiow-Hamnver ( Flicker or golden -winged wood-pecker)?This is an anteater of renown. The bird lms a tongue highly developed for the purpose of licking tip tints. If tints spread beyond bounds they become a groat pest and a menace to man and beast. King-Bird (lleo Martin)?Kingbirds spend their time catching in-pcts, although in some cases they have caught a few bees. It is said bey cat only drones, so that no harm is done in this way. The bird takes ilmost no other food than insects. Pee-wot s and phocbes are smaller varieties of the san e bird, with the same general habits. Oat-Bird? One of the most va'u. 1>Ie of the birds around the yard and garden. Those birds eat some fruit especially grapes, but this may :> avoided by sacking the grapes. With this exception they are invaluable Uniu Crows?Croat destroyers of all kinds. The snin s from 1)10 r>ntn,-. pillars pierce the bird's stomach, so that the outside of a cockoo's stomach resembles a brush, covered with hair. Cuckoos also break into the web of the tent caterpillar, a groat orchard p^st. Few birds eat hairy catterpillars, so intu mis habit of the cuckoos is an extremely valuable one. Woodpeckers?All varieties of woodpeckers are valuable to trees exc pi one species which is accused of sucking the sap and thus weakening the vitality of the trees. There are 25 varieties known in North America, according to Chapman. The greatest of the so are the plicated woodpecker of South Carolina and adjoining States, ami tlift .. .. v. . IIV^ ? ? V I J - U I I I I now found only in Florida and Louisiana. The Field Lark-?This bird is ar insect feeder to the extent of threefourths of its food. The only grain eat/ n is during the winter months, when, owing to the scarcity of insect food, some loose grain is picked up on the surface of the ground. Having no crop or gizzard, the lark is form d by untrue for insect eating and -could not live on grain any more than a man could live on fodder. From the lark s habit of holing into the ground in Holds whole grain lias been planted and occasionally pulling up a stalk of grain in order to get at the insect beneath, he is eond mned as a post over a wide range. The insect is the on> my; it is destroying the grain, 110: the bird, and without the work of the bird, grain raising would become i 111 possible, 131111 bat, Whlppoorwill, Chuck-, \\ ill s-\S laow?These threw bird?, along with the poor-will and th*? chimney swift, belong to the goatsucker family. The poor-will Is tho smallest, the whippoor-wlll next, then the hull hut, and last the chuck-j wllPs-wldow. Much has already been written about the hullhat and his worth In destroying the cotton moth aud boll weevil. The work of the other members of the family is similar. Nono oats anything but 'r sects, except that, now and then,the ohuck-wlll s-widow, ^hose capacious mouth measures two inches across, will swallow a sparrow or humming bird. This Is believed to resuit through accident, the bird beinj. taken for a largo moth. None of these should ever he killed. Their value Is incalculable. Sparrow-1 lawk ? Tlv0 handsomest of the hawk family and entirely harmless, except for the killing of an occasional small bird, hut this is more than offset by the immense quantity of grasshoppers and other noxious Insects taken. Screech-Owl?A bird of no harmful habits and one of value because of feeding at nights on destructive mot hs. Tho schreoch owl is a great destroyer of the noc'aid moths, whose progeny, the cutworms, are estimated to inflict an annual loss on fields and gardens throughout the United Stall's of two hundred million dollars each year. Screech owls also destroy numbers of mice and rats. All the owls are valuable birds and far more beneficial than harmful, exo pt the great horned owl. whose illroa'ls on poultry mi*1 game condemn it. Tho groat horned owl is virions and the only one of on resident owls that is harrrfful '< poultry. It may b> easily distill guishol by the great ear tufts nearh two ineli s long, by the feathered logs and feet, by the white patch under the throat and bv its size, it being 22 inches long an 1 its wing is 15 inches. If for nothing else, the amount of field mice and meadow mice killed by owls would entitle tnoin to man's protection. Hawks?Without going too far j into details, it is sufficient to say that nearly all hawks are friends of man. The exceptions are well known and these are the sharp-shinned hawk, known locally as the "blue darter." the chicken hawk or Cooper's hawk, and the duck hawk (peregrine falcon) of the marshes. This duca hawk is not to bo confused with the marsh hawk, so familiar an oh loot as he sweeps over the fields, hunting his prey. The marsh hawk is valuable for destroying mice, for catching out tho diseased game birds .-Mid thus keeping the rest hoalthv by preventing spread of epidemics. 11 umniing-Hird?The ruhy-t hroated humming-bird is the only one known east of the Mississippi river, lie is an insect feeder and spends his time taking insects from the I cups of flowers, being able to swallow insects so large as to appear I incredible. He also takes I honey, too, and can be taught to take I it front the hand. The Brown Thrasher?The thrashI er, the mavis, of the poets, gets its I name from the habit of thrashing its tail on the ground while feeding. I The long bill is-ever ready to snatch I up the luckless worm, revealed by I industrious scratching. 1 noticed a I thrasher last winter in Aiken take IT worms in less than ten minutes (or rather the pupae or chrysales I of moths, if our critical friends insist.) I These are a few of the many insect eating birds in South Carolina, lit would tiro the reader to make I the list longer at this time. Of course a great deal more might be I said about each bird named, bu? I they have been thus hurriedly 1 sketched in order to arrest the atI tention of those who too often forI yet that human life itself, with a'l l.'its ramifying Interims and cares, is absolutely dependent on bird life I for Its continued existence. The heedless girl, with a bird or I her hat, could not he on the earth I except for the loving care of tin I omniscent Providence that made lh.? bird for a purpose?for a puropse the girl is trying to set at naught. JAMES HENRY RICE, JR., Secretary. * Cotton Seed Meal as Fertilizer. Although cotton seed meal con tains considerable percentages of phosphate acid and potash, a large proportion of which has been shown to be readily available to plants, it is chiefly used as a source of nitrogen in fertilizers. Storor states the "experience has shown that cotton s. ed meal is usually as good as fertilizer as regards its nitrogen as either dried flsh or flesh scrap, provided the land is not too dry." Cotton ed meal has given excellent re suits, es1 cially in the Southern States, as a fertilizer for sugar cane, cotton and corn. It, lias also boon successfully substituted for barnyard manure in the culture of tobacco. While cotton seed meal, as the above facts show, has high value when applied directly as a fertilizer, a more rational practice in many cases is to feed the meals to animals and apply the resulting manure to the soil. From SO to 90 per cent of the fertilizing materials of the meal will thus be recovered in the manure, and additional benefit will he secured in the production of meat, milk, etc.?Farmers' Bulletin, U. S. Dept. Agriculture. MANY DEATHS Pjy For tht Errors of Careless Railroad Employees. SOME HEROIC WORK Surviving Passenger* Prevent the Cremation of Victims of a Terrible mid Fatal Collision on the New Orleans and Northwestern Railway Tracks at hit tie Woods. N'Cw Orleans, Nov. 11.?It was n heavy price In human flesh and blood that lsiid for the errors of railroad employes when a Great Northern express crashed into the rear of a New Orleans & Northeastern local passen ger train shortly before 9 o'clock this morning at Little Woods, a small station on tlie Lake Pontchartrain, 12 miles north of this city. lOleven dead and many more injured, some of them fatally, is the record of the wreck, which was at tended by unusually gruesome scenes in the fog-bound swamps. To add to the horror of the situation the work of the surviving passengers prevented the ' cremation of those pinned lown in the debris. Hutween SlHell and New Orleans i he Great. Northern trains run over the tracks of the New Orleans vc North astern. A local train of the Northeastern from 1 (attieshnrg, due to arrive in New Orleans at 8:30 a. 111., is followed by a fast. Great Northern train from Covington scheduled to reach here at 8:40 a. m. Tills morning the Northeastern train was late and the difference of 20 minutes between the running of the trains was considerably reduced. When Engineer Itlackman of th-? Great Northern train took the Northeastern tracks at Slidell, he says, lie was given the usual right of way signal and proceeded toward Nev. Orleans at a 4.r>-milo an hour clip. As the station at Little Woods wn? approached he discovered the Northeastern local, which suddenly loomed up out of the fog. ViPMiiom 1 ' " i i i i i11<111 i?i i \ /(i ri y lcupcHi i roni I lit engine, but Hlackinan applied his brakes and remained at the throttle while the ponderous locomotive ploughed its way through the train ahead, leaving behind it death and destruction. Hlackman crawled otn practically unscathed, while his tireman sustained painful injuries in his leap. No one in the Groat Northern express was seriously hurt, but those aboard the Northeastern train were not so fortunate. The nose of the big express engine tore its way entirely through the two rear coaches of the local and tlie crash of splitting timber was followed by the groans of those pinned down in the wreckage. A little golden-haired boy waved his bands piteously above his head, unable to extricate himself from tin wreckage. A socrc or more of men some of them stained with their own blood, made heroic effort to rescue the child, but in vain. This child was Willie At tawny, 3-year-ohl son of Mrs. Alphonse Attaway of Slide!!. I Ms little body was taken out of the wreck several hours later, horribly mutilated, and placed beside those of others whose lives were sacrificed in the catastrophe. GHIUVKS OYKIl TKAGKIIY. 11/vlU^ "* wniciiiiiii who tsiiot Child by At cident yuits the Force. Charleston, Nov. 13.?The Evening Post Bays, grieving over the shooting of the little girl of a fellow policeman, Private S. M. McClure, of the Charleston police force, has resigned from the department, because of shattered health, and will start with his family tomorrow for tho West. He will go on to Arizona, where lue has a brother, leaving his wife and children with his father in Tennessee. Private McClure has always been a good officer, and was held in high esteem by bis sujtfMiors. Last July ne was in pursuit of a negro in the upper part of the city, and was forced to shoot at the follow. Little Mary Sassett was hit end killed by one of the bullets from the oflloer's A father himself of small children. Policeman McClure was almost prostrated with grief, and never reco\ered from the shock which the deplorable death of the little girl gave him. lie seemed to pine away, and is now forced to use crutches io make his way about. He leaves tomorrow morning for Arizona, where it is hoped his strength will return ' Shoots Ills Own Brother. Warrenton, Va? Nov. 12.?Defending himself and his wife in his home, as he alleges, against a midnight attack made by his own brother, Henry Spinks shot and killed William Spinks at Hopwell, twenty miles north of here yesterday. * WILL MtAN MUCH RUltAL MAIL CARIUKR8 URGED TO OIUMMZK. Ily Organization 1 toads "Will Ik' ImliroriHl, Saluries Ruined and Other Good Tilings Accomplished. To the Rural Carriers of South Carolina.? The greatest power iu the world today Is organized power. Singlehanded individuals can do little or nothing; but when united they can accomplish wonders. Every carrier appreciates this fact to the fullest; therefore, I shall not dwell upon it. only to the extent of reminding you that, in unity there is strength. Let us arouse ourselves and organize. Our State organization can be useful in many ways. First, by working together, with tha prestage of the State Association behind each of us, we wi.i finally succeed in creating sentiment for better roads ?and who should be more interested iu good roads than the rural carrim"? This thing cannot be done in a day; we must keep everlastingly at it as the days and months go by and the victory will surely be won. 2nd. The salary question is another incentive for organization, ily co-operating with tlv? other Sta-o as associations throughout the Fnii-j ed States we shall be the better able to communicate our wants and needs I to the postolIUe department and thus indirectly to congress. hrd. There is a social an 1 fraternal feature of inestimable va:ue in getting together in county and State meetings. 'I rue. all of us cannot be delegates to the State conventions. hut if we organize we can send good i men to the State convention who' may be able to bring the next convention to our very door?first in I one part of the State and then in allot her. There are a gr at many other reasons for organizing which 1 shall not mention for lack of space. If this call should meet the eye of, a carrier in tin unorganized county, he should loose no time in making of himself a pioneer in this cause J by g. tting busy. Let him drop a postal card to every carrier in his county (the State association wi'.i pay for the car's) and urge them to meet him at some central locality, on Thanksgiving day, or new year s day (not later than this) and organize. If you will secure a half dozen or more to meet with you. I will come or send some one of the State officers to help you organize. In closing, let me impress upon you the supreme importance of organizing. They are organizing very rapidly in the North and West and in our neighboring States. Let us not lag behind. If organization ? a good thing for them, it must bo good for us also. Yours fraternally, W. (L I MOT1011SON, President State Association. Newberry, S. C., Nov. 10, 1908. Cotton Seed Meal for Milk. I i .i<n- i? m? quern ion out that eorton seed meal grows in popularity as its intrinsic value heeom s known. There is no foodstuff known that will place the same amount of fat on cattle within so short a time as I cotton seed nieai combined wit a I cotton seed hulls, and this fact is recogniz d wheresoever this feed is used. When fed to dairy cows, or !>v the family that has but a sing'e cow, its use increases the quantity of milk, improves the color, and the cream therefrom makes richer and better butter, but while the ration of hulls need not be limited at all, that of meal should not be more than one-half the quantity fed for fattening purposes. * Southern States OV-fL IVIachlneri gi^etiCT.'Jiare -rtBWJ., piio: CO L_ U M E Gibbcs "Poi gibbes^^^P t i J A money-maker Indeed, JlT^ S Be^* Write. ^ ii SmS wbbesR Good! ao""s^;r, BOX 1290, The American All-Wrou ?ht Tlip 1 Split Steel Pulleys. * llV I STAN I) AH I) DEMON ^0 OFFICIAL VOTK OF VIRGINIA. Itryan'ii Majority Over All Nearly Twenty-nine Thousand. Richmond, Va.. Not. 12.?Official returns complete for Virginia from the president ial election bIiow the ( IK>pular vote to have been: Bryai?, 82,948; Taft, 52,979; Chafln. 1,054; Debs, 254; Watson, 106; Hisgen, 52, Gllhaus, 25; total, 137.555. Bryan's plurality, 30,369, majority, 28,853. 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