Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? MANY VICTIMS re Thai Two Hnndred Persons Believed to Have Perished FIGHTING THE FUMES The Names of Many of Tliem Will Never lie Known.?Most all of ? Them Were Fire Fighters an<l Only One Woman Is Known to Have Keen Burned. It is believed that more than 200 persons, nearly all fire fighters, perished in the Idaho forest fires. {Superintendent Welgel of the Couer d'Alene National forest after - vonnris of disaster ?rceiving man; . to various parties of his 600 employes, posted a bulletin in his office at Wallace, announcing the death of 114 of the men, and also stated his grave concern for the safety of Ranger Joseph B. Halm and 74 men who were surrounded by fire Saturday night in the forest on the Big Fork of the Couer d'Alene river, near where another party lost 13 men. Halm was for four years the best athlete at the Washington State college at Pullman, a renowned football and baseball player. The charred bodies of twenty fire fighters were found at Seltzer creek in the St. Joe country. Two hundred Japanese dragged themselves to Avery, Idaho, and told of the death of their companions. The twelve men, the employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget o~.railroad, had gone out to fight OUUUu ? , _ fire and had been surrounded by flames, only two escaping death. The rangers missing in the Thomson Fall country of Montana were not heard from Wednesday. The number of deaths in the State of Washington was reduced to three. All of these are in the Pond d'Orelie valley near Newport. One of the victims, Mrs. Ernest Reinhardt, wife of J a rancher, was the only woman who I Js Known to have been burned to j death. Nearly all of the dead were fire fighters. The wholesale loss of life occurred Saturady afternoon and night when great numbers of men were striving to check the flames. The names of many of the dead will never be known. W?hen the groups of fire fighters were overwhelmed the camps were also destroyed. The clothes were burned off the bodies of the men and the bodies of the dead were often so charred that searchers stepped on them, 'thinking they were pieces of burned logs. The fire obliterated the trails and the burned country is difficult to go through be cause of fallen trees. With the towns out of danger and the settlers fled to places of safety, the rangers were able to devote themselves entirely Thursday to the saving of the trees. Various fires were isolated and will die out for lack of fuel. 1 In Montana rain and snow fell, checking the flames. In Spokane the sun shone clear and even in Wallace the smoke cloud was lifted. No one ventures to estimate the financial loss as the extent of the burned area is not fully known. ACCUSED OF WRECKING TRAINS. White Fireman Arrested in Alabama. Negro Confesses. At Birminghaam, Ala., W. H. Nabors, a white fireman, living at Decatur, Ala., was arrested Wednesday afternoon, charged with being implicated in causing three of the recent wrecks on that division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He was taken from his cab as the engine came in from the south. He denies the charges. Morris Brown, a negro, is said to have confessed that he caused the wreck of the fast mail train below Montgomery a few weeks ago. Several people were killed in hat wreck. ? ? REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Will Be Held in Columbia on Sep< ember 20th Next. It was decided Thursday afternooi at the executive meeting of the Re publican party to hold a Conventioi at Columbia September 26. It i thought that several important mat *' ? <? In (ho Pnr ters win DO XUI U U * All viiv vy v* vention, including, it is believed, tli elimination of the negro, foilowin lines indicated by President Taft. Among those who were not prei ent at the executive committee mee ing are: L. W. C. Blalock, who ws In the city, and John G. Capers, wh usually attends the Republican Be: sions in this State. Several prom nent Republican leaders in this Stal were in Columbia for the meetinj It was definitely decided to hold tb conference September 26. y ^ ^ # | Died In Mash Vat. | Peter Hell, a brewery employ while preparing to mix a mash Fr I day, fell into a vat of boiling waU and was quickly scalded to deatl mdb. SERVES THEN RIGHT ? DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED WITH REPUBLICANS REPUDIATED By the Democrat# of Georgia, Who Elect Hoke Smith Governor Over Little Joe Brown. "Cannonism" played an important part in Georgia politics during tne past several months and at the Democratic primaries Tuesday brought ?4. i flu i<-? F,ivi 11 trston t He flPIPHl UI liCumuuu . . and William M. Howard, in point of service the oldest members of the Georgia delegation in the national house. in the fifth district William Schley Howard, a young attornew, won a decisive victory over Livingston. In Uie eighth district the returns show a convention majority of four votes for S. J. Tribble and Wednesday Congressman Howard filed notice of contest of the election. He charges irregularities at two precincts in "Elbert county, which gave Tribble a majority of four votes. The other nine members of the Georgia delegation in congress are 4 ? n L f assured of renoniinanon* i ut nfiMt against Livingston and Howard was, in each case, l>ased upon their alleged desertion of the Democratic party when it was sought last December to change the so-called Cannon rules of the .house. Former Gov. Hoke Smith won the -nomination for governor over the incumbent, Joseph 'AT. Brown. The popular majority of Smith in the State was approximately 4,000. Two years ago 'Brown, whom Gov. Smith had 1 removed as chairman of the State railroad commission, defeated Smith for re-election by a popular majority of more than 10,000. Among the few contests for other State offices, J. A. Perry won over O. B. Stephens for railroad commissioner; AT. L. Brittain defeated B. AI. Settler for State school commis sioner; T. S. Felder won over the incumbent, H. A. Hall, for attorney general. NEW FOKM OF MONEY OKDEK. It Will Be Provided With a Detachable Coupon. Announcement has been made at [ the Postoffice to the effect that the J department would issue a new form of domestic money order in the near a nrincinle feature of this 1 U V U* Vs * r . new form will be a detachable coupon to take the place of .the advice on the present slips, and which will be presented with the money order by payee or endorsee at the paying office. It is stated that the names of the remitter and payee will not appear in the body of the order, but the sending of the coupon with the order will serve to acquaint or remind the payee of the name of the person entitled to credit for the remittance. The order and coupon together are somewhat longer than the order now in use, but may be handled conveniently with commercial paper by banks and business houses. The width is the same as that of the present order. Beginning with the earliest date on which the Government printer at " - - * - - ?:?? Washington will be reaay iu pi im and ship such forms, domestic money orders of the new style will be furnished to all postmasters in the United States. It is stated that the supply of old form domestic money orders now in stock at the various postoffices in the country will be used up before the new ones will be asked for. It is expected that the new slips will make their appearance in this city on or about December 15. PELZEll WOMAN SHOT. Infatuated Man Attempts Murder.? * Committs Suicide. At Knoxville, Tenn., pedestrians on South Broadway late Thursday evening saw Henry Gardner, aged 26, approach a woman, fire two shots at her then turn the weapon upon himself and commit suicide. Gardner is the son of a farmer living three miles from t.he city. The woman he tried to kill was Mrs. Ellen Ball, who went to Knox* ville less than a week ago from Pelzer, S. C., and previous to that re sided at Spartanburg, S. C. Tin i woman. wa? shot through one hanc " ~ v ~ -* nor nnrt t houtrl And me iouu ui unu _ i removed to a hospital is only slightl; 8 hurt. > Gardner fired two shots into hi i- left breast and died almost instant e ly. He left a note stating that h g had rather die than live without th woman, adding that she had gon 5- back on him. Gardner's friends sui t- pose he met the woman in Sout is Carolina, where ho had been worfc o ing, and that he had become infa s- uated with her. i te Preacher Stole Watches. According to his own statemei l? the Rev. August Heuberich, forme ly pastor of a German Luthera churc.h in Middleburg, Ohio, stole 1 watches and $1J in currency froi e, students of Eden College, St. Lou i- county, Mo., in order to raise monc ?r to attend a conference of the Ge ti. man Evangelical Synod. TRAGEDY WAS REAL MIMIC DRAMA GIVES RISK TO A MURDER CHARGE. Rival in Love I'laowl a Shell in the Shotgun to be' Used to "Kill An* other Player/* Jacob Winkler is dead in Muskogee, Okla., and L. D. Hooker is in jail, charged with placing a shell in the gun that was used by ICverett | Olden in a play in the Stone Bluff j schoolhouse. Olden declares the gun lie used was not leaded a lew seconds .before he took it to the stage for lie examined it in the dressing room. 'Later Hooker handed him the weapon and the fact that it was loade 1 became evident only when his playing partner fell dead with a load of shot in his breast. Booker advised Olden to surrender to the sheriff but instead of Olden, Book )r was placed in jail, for it became evident that he was a rival to Winkle" in the suit for a young woman's hand and that the two young men had quarreled. T.he audience was intent upon the scene, wherein, at the click of the trigger 011 the shotgun, Winkler was to fall to the floor. When the cli * - rt/1 1 /I n n Ill<1X Ot tile SCeiie was icauncu v/ivtv/u raised the weapon level with Winkler's breast. Olden fell back in the same affright as the audience when an explosion reverberated through the little hall and Winkler wa*; sent reeling half across the stage with n charge of buc\t>J ot n his bod). The) entertainment ended abruptly. Winkler's father has been active in obtaining evidence to prove his son was the victim of a plot. Hooker took Olden to jail at Wagener, advising him to surrender to the sheriff. Olden, however, was rot placed in jail and Winkler's rel.i'tves made no complaint against him. The coroner's jury arrived at a ve'dict that Winkler's death was due to "'be accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Olden." ADVENT OF RUSSIAN FISH. * Louisiana Fishermen Have Chance to Put Caviar on Market. Numbers of the so-called "Russian" sturgeon, the fish that have been the source of millions of dollars revenue to Russian fishermen on ac-^ count of the roe, which provide the> world's markets with caviar, are now in the Mexican Gulf, according to ?- Kv the cam** and re pons ictcucu v..~ fish commission of Louisiana. The migration of these fish into waters hitherto uninhabited by them seems unexplainable, '.but this movement now is putting hundreds of dollars into the pockets of Louisiana fishermen. CRAZED MAN SHOOTS TWO. Opens Fire on Passengers of Union Pacific Train. Harry Pouh, of Niagara Falls, X. Y., became insane on the Pullman car of a Union Pacific train, near Ellis, Kan., early Friday and fatally shot the porter, named Young, and a passenger named Temple of Kansas City, Mo. Pugh shot through the end of his berth into the smoking room. The car porter ran towards Pugh's berth and was shot twice through the body. Dr. H. H. Temple, who was enroute from Denver with his wife and child sprung into the aisle ano Pugh shot him twice through the abdomen. The conductor and brakemen then overpowered the passenger and he was placed in jail at Ellis. Temple was taken from the train at Ellsworth, unconscious, apparently in a dying condition, and placed in a hospital. Young was taken to Kansas City. Pough is about 28 years old and of prosperous appearance. WOMEN SAVE SHERIFF. Wife and Daughter Rescue Him fron 1 Murderous Negroes. - " 1 n A# snerin i<noma? rw. ou<p^, . tur, Ala., was saved from a murder ? ous attack of six negro prisoners ii 1 the county jail Thursday by his wif i and daughter. The negroes attempi y ed to lock the sheriff In a cell and h was In a fight with them, hand-tc 8 hand, with hie life in danger, whe _ the two women ran in with a sho e gun and a revolver. They forced tfc e negroes to surrender. e ' ). Shoots His Mother. h Mrs. Robert Thompson, aged 3 of Pittsfield, Pa., Wednesday wj t- shot and killed instantly by her 1 year-old son, Dewey. The boy ht been presented with a rifle and w, showing his mother how he wou it hill a burglar. r n Freezing in Wyoming. 7 A bitter cold wind and temper m ture below freezing drove thousnm is from the grounds at the Front* ?y Day sports at Cheyenne, Wyo., < r- Thursday, and caused posiponme of part of the program. WHAT CENSUS SHOWS RACE SUICIDE I\ THE COUNTRY AN ACTUAL FACT.. The Increase in Population Is Sole* ly Rue to Immigration.-? Decrease in Rural Districts. Race suicide is the dominant exhibit in the new census. It is true that the country's population has in- I creased, from 7 6,000,000 to approximately 90,000,000, but the increase lias been almost solely due to immigration. In former decades the average increase in internal population ..roc 91 Upr e.nnt. It has now fallen off to six per cent, and in another 10 years will probably show a decrease. This is the reason census officials see in the contrast cause for alarm similar to that which confronts France. Such growth as the country has enjoyed in the last ten years has been largely due from immigration, according to these returns. The vital statistics of immigrants do not, of course, enter into the general findings in this respect. They bea.' ;n an important way upon them, however, considering that immigrants may be classed as natives after ten years; and the general tendency ;.o apply to them beyond that period as well as to those of older residence. '.There was a gross populition in 1 900 of 76,000,000. The present estimated total is 90,000,000. Out of the 14,000,000 increase 9,000,000 came from immigration. Tim makes 5,000,000 as the natural increase from those who were in the country in 1 900. . Another remarkable showing of the present census is the growth of cities at the expense of rural districts. Many of the small cities, show increases above 5 0 per cent. For c< ample, Atlanta, Ga., shows 72; East St. Louis, 1)7; Akron, O., 62, and Detroit, 63. About 40 per cent, of the. population is city dwelling. Returns from rural districts are not yet ready for tabulation, but so far as tnev Lave been examined they show, save in two states where local conditions account for an increase, a positive falling off from the population 1900 Averages calculated from rural dis tricts taken at random figure out a decrease of about 11 per cent INDIANS KICH PEOPLE. They Have Twenty Thousand Dollars Per Capita. At Pawhuska, Okla., on Thursday testimony was given before the Con"rcssional committee investigating Indian affairs that each of the 2,000 Osage Indians is worth $20,000, which, upon a per capita basis constitutes the richest people in the world. As their property is held in restriction by Lhe government the Indians have used a great many lawyers, it was stated. One attorney testified he represented 23 claimants, who demanded that the government place them on the Osage rolls, thus giving them the right to twenty thousand dollars' worth of property. The wealth of these claimants, If they are successful, would amount to four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Another attorney testified he had been employed to oppose the claims on the ground that if allowed they would decrease the wealth of the tribe. Attorney's fees were paid to keep the Indians off the rolls and fees were paid for putting them on. DESPITE HIGH DUTIES. I'lie Use of Cotton Seed Displaces the Use of Olive Oil. American cottonseed oil, despite the high duties against it, is steadily making headway in the markets oi the world. Through the efforts ol the bureau of manufacturers of the department of commerce and labor some packers of sardines in Franc* and Norway have promised to begir experiments in packing fish in tin American product instead of oliv< 1 oil. Italy is able to undersell Spaii In the olive market, a report t< the department says, but Spain pro - hillt* the importation of cotton see< - as ?n ciMbl6, while Italy promotes it n The domestic use of cottonseed oi e in Italy, as well as in Turkey, cause L- neariy aii the native oil (olive) t e bo exported. >- ? ? n Superceded, He Knda Life. Driven into a state of despondenc 10 by the fact that after 22 years c faithful service in one position in Memphis, Tenn., department stor he had been superceded by a ne > Frederick W. Ives, a wide] *-? iiiuil) - ? as known dry goods salesman, commi 2- ted suicide there Friday by takir id morphine tablets, as id Found Boy Killed. No trace has been found of tl kidnapper and murderer of Pet< Fabish, four-year-old son of Frar a- Fabian, an Italian, at Kingston, i ds Y. The boy's body was found Thur er day in an outhouse at the rear of h >n home, cut and strangled. He h? nt been dead but a short time, althoui missing since last Friday. | FIRST NATIOl A OONWAY, ? CAPITAL STOCK ffS SURPLUS PROFITS A TOTAL ASSESTS ? IMIIKCTO .T- A. McDermott. John C. S ijL B. G. Collins, H. L. Buc JI? M. Burroughs, C. P. Quattl Successor to the Bank of C Horry County, and a pioneer in ly allied with the recent develc M Republic. Backed by the Goi United States Bonds, we are prej tomers any reasonable accommoi & I A II. A. Sl'lVIOV, ^ Cashier. BANK OF Conway Has largest capital and surplus of any than the combined capital and surplus CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOOKHC nimiini'iiv nu nPOnSITHH or^VyUiii i * v-?i* uui %/u* * DIRECI | Robert B. Scarborough, | H. L. Buck, j George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every accoir will justify, and we sol bobeht b. scarborough, d. 1 President. Vi We continue to pay 5 per c FKOFESS1GNAL CARDS. j ' I H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Lta CON WAV, 8. O. R. a SCARBROUGH ^ OONWAY, a C T Attorney at Law. SL H. BURROUGHS Physician and Sargeoa, I CONWAY, a c. I s c B. WOFFORD WAIT. f Attorney at L?/. r Rank of Horry Building. f OONWAY, 8. O. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE ( |^LIGHT RUNNING ^ ? 3 ffyoti want either a Vibrating Shuttle, RotAiy Shuttle or a Single Thread f Chain Stitch} 1 Sewing Machine write to > TNI NEW HOME SIWINC MACHINE COMPANY Orange* Mess. \ M?nr aewlnr machines are made to sell regardless <f quality, but the New Home is made to wea* Our guaranty never runs out 1 I i#M by authorised dealers aalf*' a roa sals av y 0 BURROUGHS A COLLINS OOh Conway, R. C. y About the worst curse any town y* " I can be afflicted with 1b the man wno a' e loafs on the street corner and spends w his time in fault finding and in oply posing evey project for advancing t- the welfare of the community. He is a knocker from the moment he gets up in the morning until he goes to sleep at night and he keeps at it seven days in the week. le er Every time a farmer goes into a ik ! store and buys 50 pouns of sugar N. f the store keeper collects one dollar s- | from him for the Sugar Trust. The lis Republican protective tariff scheme id makes the storekeepers tax gatherers ;h for the thieving trusts, so as they can fool the people. NALBANK| S. C. X $25,090.00 ^ 2,600.00 . A 125,000.00 ^ KS: J? Jpivey, D. T. McNeill, /k k, W. R. Lewis, D. jjL ebuuin, D. A. Spivey. onway, the oldest Bank in . Eastern Carolina. Close- 3k mment of the Independent /eminent and secured by pared to extend to our cub- jl iations. H. (J. COLLINS, jL President. ^ horITy, s. c. bank in Horry county. More ' \ of all other banks in the ccunty. $r> 0,000 12,500 )LDERS . . . . 50,000 :S 112,500 0RS D. V. Richardson, *** a r i w. A. JODDBOll, W ill A. Freeman. imodation which their accounts licit your, business. /. Richardson, will a. freemah ce president. cashier :ent. on yearly deposits. iONE FOUR DAYS jars Are Felt Fer the Safety of Six Hundred Forest Rangers HEY SEEM TO BE LOST hefi? Brave Fighters of the Forest Fires in Montana Could Scarcely Have Obtained Food, and as Nona of Them Have Returned They Must Have Been Cut Off. A dispatch from Helena, Montana, ays the first report to reach that ity with a suggestion of the terrible ate that is believed to have overaken a crew of six hundred forest angers, who left Thompson Kails our days ago to combat the forest ires in the Cabinet reserve, was nought by Julius Barney, who arived from Thompson Tuesday, and le heard from Forester Supervisor Hishell flrst-?hand information of onditions in the district. "Six hundred men," Mr. Barney laid, "have been gone four days, luring which time nothing has been leard from them, and Forester lushell, who is at Thompson fears til are dead. They could scarcely lave obtained food, and as none has 'eturned they were cut off by the i Ire. "W.hen I left Thompson Tuesday morning. a wall of fire hundreds of ?eet In height was sweeping in from die west. The people of Thompson, ibout five hundred, had packed all their effects and were prepared to flee to Plains, twenty-five miles west. "Thompson began to l?e crowded with refuges several days ago. Where White Pine, Mont.; Burke, Mont,, and from many other points they have come tramping in, men, women and children, blistered, Jheart-broken , and without a dollar, escaping only V with their lives. V. "The fire has beep burning around Plains and is burning east of Paradise and in several other places. All hope of fighting it has been abandoned, and Thompson seems to be hopelessly cut off. Plains is still open and being the largest town in Sanders county, -can accommodate the refugees, hut nobody knows whether Plains, which is surrounded by dense forests, was set aflame. "The flames jump five miles at once. Menawhile nothing can be f done for the 600 men who are missing nor can the slightest news of their whereabouts be learned." Governor Norris has ordered out Ave companies of the Montana National Guard to aid in fighting forest fires in various sections of the State. The "complimentary business" of giving franks and half-rate certificates by the Postal and Western Union Telegraph Companies has been discontinued since such corporations have been made common carriers under the new railroad law. It is about time that Express Companies took similar steps and the Interstate Commerce Commission should stir them to action and reduce the rates of all these corporations as excessive, especially the express Companies.