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WHO WILL WIN? !W frt?Krit3 aid Republican* are Figfetug fer tbe Hens*. DEMOCRATS FAVORED One HiiinlreMl (tad Klghteen Districts Art1 Debal^l^?Kighty*Two Seats -l4w. Held Of Republican* Are Now tfo the Balance?Squabble* Hunt lie publicans und lhdp Democrat*. The most 'jQomentuoiiB election the country has seen in half a century If low Iii progress. It will determine whether the Republican party, the party of national administration is able to keep control of the National House of Representatives Democrats of political foresight are omphalic in their claims that the House will be Democratic and 'that the Hon. Champ Clark will be the immediate successor of the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker. Di&eafistactioa with the Republican-made tariff is causing Republicans to give their support to the Democrats In the doubtful Congressional district**, of which political ex pertfi claim there are 118 In the country. There are 391 members of the Home of Representatives. In the present House 217 of these are Republicans and 17 4 Democrats. It is generally conceded that there are 132 districts reasonably sure for the Republicans and 141 for the Democrats. This leaves 118 districts doubtful or debatable. In which the battle tor the control of the Hoinse is now raging with more than the accustomed Congressional vigor. The Democrats feel they have a remarkable chance *o show their strength in th.8 campaign, while the Republicans, satisfied in some sections over *he tariff are dissatisfied in others, in some sections torn by party fights and in other sections placidly consent, are placed absolutely on the defensive behind breastworks not built of solid rock. Of the debatable districts mentioned, 82 are now held by the Republicans and 3 0 by Democrats. The ihur arp ko many debut Republican districts, indicates on the surface that the Republican party is in a perilous defensive posMion, and that remarkable work must be done by Republican campaign managers in order to save these districts and thus save thy House for the Administration. Political experts in figuring upon the chances tor a Democratic House rely gTently for a base of operations upon ttk> three special Congressional lection held early in the year. The hmt was in the Sixth Missouri disrret for a successor to the late Duviu A. DeArmond. Mr. DeArmond. Democrat, had usually carried the district by 3.000. C. C. Dickinson. Democrat, carried the district by apiitiv R nr? //I V v v. Tb* second, a pure out-and-out 'tariff battle, was held in the Fourteenth Massachusetts district, where the late William C. Lovering, Republican, was accustomed to polling a majority of 14,000. Here Kugene \f. Foss, Democrat, was elected by a majority of 5.600, overturning as \ou see a tremendous number of normal Republican votes. The third was in the Thlrty-seok *md New Vork dLstrict, where James n. Havens, Democrat, was elected ;oj succeed tho late JarncH it. Feruina, j Republican, whose normal majority j wdvS more than 10,000. Mr. Havens' carried the rlistriet by a majority of about 7,000. In this election, the tight against the political principle of "Ross" Aldridge, Havens Republican opponent than against rho tariff. These three remarkable special elections were responsible for the Democrats claiming in advance the next House of Representatives. They were remarkable, too, in showing tho modern tendency of voters to shift easily from one party to another, when occasions seem to de-' mtvnd vigorous party discipline. It must be remembered, however, that, in the 82 acknowledged debatable ftepu-blicun districts, the contests wilt not be as strenuous as they were in tho threo districts mentioned shove, | fn Vermont, the Republicans show ?d their displeasure of the present Administration bv casting u very light vote tor their two representatives, who, in order to be elected, toad to promise not to vote for .fo?e.ph G. Cannon for Speaker. fu Maine a month ago the Democrats won practically all along the line. | two members of Congress munagiug ' to wiggle through In the general Republican overthrow. | The Democrats in Maine, long a Republican stronghold, got the governor, other state officers, both SOBSI HEAVILY PADDED Till-: CENSUS IN SOME WESTERN' CITIES A SWINDLE. It In Relieved Th?t Gross Frauds Have Reen Perpetrated and un Investigation Is Ordered. Staggered by the enormous growth phown by the returns ot the new census for a number of West 'vii cities, Director Durand, of the census bureau, has ordered an investiga tlon, the result of which appeared in the announcement Saturday night that gross frauds hud been perpetrated. Ci'ties specifically mention**' ?s being affected by the frauds, ore Tacoma, Seattle and Aberdeen. Washington; Portland, Oregon: Minneapolis. Minn.; Poise, Idaho, and Fort Smith. Ark., but is is stated that there are many others. . The result of a second enomecatlon of Tacoma, Wash., was ann-.?ai;-| ^ nr*i% />it if o rv/\t\u Icii 2/i<i \ I TUi A 11*: 1.11 J s>uun o 11 |/u|7un>vtuii of 82,97 2, ai\ Increase of 4f?,2f?i, or 120 per cent over the population of 1900. The first figures turned in for Tacoma were 110,168. In other wor Iff the actual population was padded to the extent of 88,290, which would have meant a further addition of 4?* per cent. ; These additions w.ere made in 3* out of 78 enumeration distric s in Taooma. In some of these districts the n lumber reported pro e 1 t<? bo several times greater thai, the actual population. In ten districts the first enumeration showed 29,798 names, whereas the correct number was found to be 1 1,64 6. Director Durand's statement consists mainiy of a letter from himself addressed to Secretary N'affel, of the department of commerce and labor, dated Oct. 8, in which the whole ease is presented. Director Durand's letter sets t'ortu that attempted "padding" waa main jy through the use of slips printed by private individuals and' containing the census questions. Three were debased freely on the street coiners and elsewhere and wore filled out by thousands of people who either had already been enumerated or who were not permanent residents of the city and not, entitled to enumeration there. It is possible that in some cases the names were wholly fictitious. These names were turned over by the private individuals who collected them, through special agent Staeey I). Casey, to 110 of the. enumerators, and they, ladder iiVStrucUoiPj of Special Agent Corwin, added the names to the enumeration by assigning them as "boarders" or lodgers," to various houses in their districts. In other words, the director states, the enumerators deliberately made th<* false statement that these per .sons were residents at tins or that particular street number although the enumerators knew nothing whatever with regard to the names. branches of thy legislature, and Two Congresrmien. The election of a Democrjitic successor to -Senator Hale is therefore assured. The action in these Xew Kngland states naturally filled the hearts of the Democrats throughout the country with hope. VJven without the support of Theodore Roosevelt, the "insurgents" in the Republican rank's had reached high water mark in the states of, California. Washington, Oregon. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, and Michigan. In every state battle had raged between the two wings of the party I and every inch of ground was conj tested. In Now Hampshire the. Progp'ssivo had overthrown fix* old machine at thi- open primary, nominal lug Mr. Hans, a Kepubliean not represenring tlx- railroad interests, tor governor. In Now Vork state, Theodore Roosevelt. aided by many officials, defeated the Vice.-President loi temporary chairman of the Republican state convention, dictated the platform. and named the ticket, thus scoring a strong point for the "insurgents." Meveridgo has won in Indiana. another "insurgent" point. The Progressive Republican were beaten, however, in Ohio. The "old guard" of Republicans practically won out. in Missouri, and West Virginia He pit Mica ns have backed tip Senator X. Ft. Scott, seeking re-election. The "insurgents" wore rout3d ill North and South Dakota aud in Nebraska. Maryland and Delaware*, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, considered radical, were now in ion-need in the conservative Republican line* as far as nominations were concerned. This sums up the critical political situation in a nutshell. There are three great factors, Demoor.Cs old-line Republican*, and "insuv* gent" Republicans in the Ugh* tor the next House, with the odd'* favoring the Democrats. * 1 SRIBE Nl DOES THE WORK Cttten Picking Machine Invented by an Augusta Bey Said t? be A WONDERFUL SUCCESS - Description of Ilie Picker and How It Gathers the Fleecy Staple?Can Be Kquippetl With Flectrie IJghts For Work at Xlght?-To be Made in Augusta. It is here at last, The Augusta Chronicle says, the Fourcher cotton 1 picking machine, that marvelous J creation of inventive, genius by a bright young Augusta boy, was given a practical demonstration in the i presence of a number of cotton growers and business men in a flourishing cotton field on the farm of Air. Kobt. Fleming, four miles from the city, All who witnessed the demonstration agreed that Fourcher cotton picker is the invention of the age, and that a great future awaits the machine and its maker. The new cotton picker is the ln[ vention of Air. Harry K. Fourcher, of Augusta. Four years ago he con ceiv$d the idea that a machine cpuld be made to take the place of the slow and, too often, unreliable negro cotton picker, upon whom the southern-farmer depends to harvest the world's greatest staple. Mr. Kourcher began to work quietly and said nothing ot' his efforts unitl he had his machine patented and ready for operation. In the meantime cotton picking machines were invented and some were actually put on the oar* ket. Hut none were built upon the Kourcher plan, and he was enabled to continue his work lndisturbed by the tear of having his ideas "stolen. (Karly in the summer of 1909 Mr. Kouroher exhibited 'his Invention. The cotton picker was a very crude affair, but the idea was there, and his friends were confident that he would some day achieve success. The machine was given several tests during the following fall, and, although it picked cotton, the invention vt\?s still "in the rough." Since thai time Mr. Kourcher has busied himself improving upon his original idea, and now he announces that the cotton picker is about coniyiete. The cotton picker used tor the demonstration is only a rough model of what the finished machine will be. Qthcr improvrnjentfj have been made, find the machines that will b?? put on the market will be lighter and more compact. - ? The Fourcher cotton picking machine is Very simple and very practical. A little narrow wagon gears a small gasoline motor, which operates a tiny electric generator. This in turn applies the power which works the picking machine carried in the hand by the laborer. Upon the little wagon is a frame from which flexible wires connect i ue generator in me wagon to little dynamos carried on the backs of the men who operate i he pickers. The little, dynamos weigh about two pounds each, and ire attached by leather straps to the backs of the workers. The pickers carried in the hands of the men, arc operated by flexible shafts connected with the dynamos on their bucks. The picker is a small simple little device. A little metal box with revolt Ing burrs snatches the cotton out of the boll without any injury to the line and throws it back into the cotton sack, to the mouth of which the machine is attached, and which the worker draws along behind him. The packer will not gather loaves or trust and the fotron is remarkably clean. kk.eh picking machine may he equipped with apparatus for eight oieke.j s. On I > one picker w as used I I in I he demonstration, and no effort , was made to show the capacity of the machine, as a "grown" negro who had never picked a boll of cotton in his ( life handled the pieke.r. As the. pickers work, two in each , row. with a full force of eight pick- . ers attached to each machine, the i little wagon is drawn by hand down , the middle row. The wagon is light and can be easily moved over the. ( field. V\ hen it is in operation canvas ( curtains protect the machinery from j contact with cotton ?talks, weeds, i etc. The machine is equipped with * electric light, and it. is possible to attach small incandescent lights j to the hits of the workers, so that s cotion may be picked at night, just as coal miners are euuinneri for their i work in tin* black depths. 11. was Rbown by the feet that each picker I'ati easily gather ftOO pounds of miion in each working day of 10 hours. This means a capacity ot' MOO pounds tor the machine. Mr. OVwroher declares that his tinished machine, handled by expert cotton pickers, can gather $.000 pounds per < day of 10 hours. The complete out- t IW TO OUTLAW D1ETZ QUITS AI TKH A FIGHT OF FOt'K YKAlt* HI] Sl'KKKNDKUS. Showed White Flaj; When He a ad Son Were Shot and Ills Wile About to Collapse. After four years of conflict. John Deltz. the outlaw of Cameron Dam, Wis., has surrendered to the United States authorities and the unique Rtrucrclo of this one man and ;r h family has come to an end. The last scene in the drama wa? enacted last Saturday wheu, after holding oil 100 deputies aniid a vertiablo ralu of bullets for over 12 hours. DSetz sent out his little, daughter with a white flag, and the surrender of the fearless Wisconsin Settler followed immediately. Iloth Diet/, and his son Leslie, were wounded, and in j addition .Mrs. Diet/, was in a very | delicate condition, and this led to j the end of the unequal struggle. On j the side of the authorities one* depu-j ty had been killed and about a doen j wounded before the battle eude I. J flame to the core, Deif/. made a; desperate struggle before he acknowledged himself beaten. When an order was issued for his innnodi-ate arrest last week, the outlaw lei ir. be known that he intended resisting to the last., and it was not untii Saturday that u determined effort ' Wiia made to capture him. Then 1UU; deputies with Winchesters, were sent out from Winter to attack the DeilZi fortress at Cameron Dam. 1 The attackers, creeping: stealthily through the dense woods, surprised ; Dietz and bis family, who were all I outside their log home. Amid a hail! of bullets from the posse the funply! ran Inside the bouse, but the first" volley mured the beginning of the; end, f-or the bullets had wounded Diet/, iu his right hand and crippled : his son in the leg. | From that time on until nearly! nightfall tf>?' beseigers ke.pt up a ; desultory firing on the cabin, and Diet/., fe.uing harm to his wif*> and younger elilldren, finally sent out a white flag. Together with his fan?-( lly he was promptly placed under ar rest and taken to the jail at Winter.: There they will be held, as Mr. and: .Mrs. Dietz and their oldest sou are. charged with murder. Dietz came into the limelight: about four years ago, when he do- | fended Cameron Dam, on Thoruapple apple river, against one of lhe larg-' est lumber companies in tlio state. ' lie claimed that dam was on his' property and turn up several winters outs of logs, valued at thousands of dollars, by refusing to allow tbetn to pass the dam without paying toll. n<? WjlS fought the ^oyrfs by tlx; lumber company, buf, defied the Older of Judges and held off at the point of a gun all officers who attempted to serve papers upon him. Die'z won. The last controversy between Diet/ and the authorities of Sawyer county dates from Sept. i>, when Diet/ shot; and seriously wounded Flert Horrel j in Winter. Wis., in a wrangle, it is! said, over rent due on a school j house. Diet/ first quarreled with C. | (J. O'Hare, president of ?.l\e Winter j School board, It is said, and Horrel. | taking O'Hare's part, struck Diet/, j Diet/ then shot and has since claim-, ed it was in self-defence. ? ?. ?, ? TKACIIKIt FIIIKS FATAL SHOT. IMMliHi'^od Shoots and Kills School Committeeman. News has beou received fro ill Way* liesvlllo. N. of a fatal shooting, which occurred at Hemphill, on Jonathan's orcelc Tuesday, when Allen (tirehlield shot Parkin Magic Mirougn , the kidneys. AccordInn lo the- re-' port HhvhtieUl went armed to Ike 1 house, where Cugle was and' called him outside, and Mien shot him. It is further reported that Tllrchtteld made, his escape with pislol in hand. It is said that there wore several eye witness**; t.o the tragedy. Physicians attending Oagle stated at the. time that there was about one chance >ur of ten for recovery. Cagle died la,tor. According to reports the ause of the shooting was on account )l llirchdeid basing lost his position is school teacher at Hemphill. Ougle >eing one of t.he school com mission- ( it's in that district. * j its can be xoiu i'oi* each and ! illow ;< good proliL to the maker. The full value of the invention o the farmers of the South eannoi jo estimated. When the scarcity of abor i-s considered, and the matter >f convenience. In gathering and marketing the erop is understood, the tnportanee of the invention Is fetidly appreciated. Mr. Fourehor plans to Manufacture the machines in Augus* a, and It is understood that a local lompany will be organized there for lie purpose. THE HI FIVE ARE DEAD As lbt Result tf the Collisioi of Two Trails Near McCoruick. MANY OTHERS WOUNDED IllMtNitchM- Brawden Fails to IH?IIver Moot Order* and PtisMengvr Trains Collide With Kutul Itcsnlts.?Knginoor llughoM Will IMe.?Only Trainmen Killed. A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says owing to the operator at MeCormick, S. C., failing to deliver 'meet order" for Train No. 8, leaving Anderson. S. C.. for Augusta, at 3.r>0 p. ui., Passe.uge.r train No. 3, leaving Augusta at 4.43 Sunday afternoon for Greenwood, collided wit n the Anderson train at 0.45 o'clock at the forty and a half mile post, two! and a half miles of AlcCormlck, S. 0. The trains were running at top spied and came together in head-on collision. As a result of the collision live trainmen were killed and seven trainmen and 10 passengers were injured. I'.oth engines were completely wrecked, the two baggage cars were telescoped and the next two cars on both trains were badly damaged. The list of dead is as follows: Engineer Arizona Ftivers, of Augusta. Train No. 8. I'ircman Jim Sprowles, colored, of Augusta, Train No. 8. Ki reman James Ware, colored, of Augusta. Train No. o. Mail Clerk VV. F. Acker, o f Anderson. Traiu No. H. Train I'orter Heard Seniles, colored. of Augusta, Train No. :i. The injured are: It. I.. Hartley, o t' Klberton, Ha., leg and ankle broken. A. S. McNeal, baggage master on Train No. It, of Augusta, mashed in chest and shoulder, condition serious. Tnsinoer K. S. Hughes, of Augusta. of Train No. 8. fatally injured. J. (r. Stilwoll. Augusta, road master of the Augusta-Anderson division I Conductor Joseph Hernlou, of Train No. 8, body mashed. Hnggage Master H. K. Hums. of Augusta, of Train No. 8, slightly hurt. I The follow ing passengers were al?o injured: VV. F. Smith, Hartsville, leg hurt. I W. K. Cut I iff, of Albany, (la., slight i bruises. I It. N. Segot of Greenwood, chest ! -V J Cl.. i ? i J. A [ it IIU II 1 ii'jiil ru . | K. D. Seiger. ot McOormick, log I slightly injured. iMlss Alma Williams, of CJreenwood, body btulaed. ; Lorenzo Rivers, of Aususla, sou of Engineer Rivers. slightly hurl. Jenny Pay no, of (?tvewood, ?eri-j ously injured. Ross Dawson, dead he.'al liroiwa, internal injuries. Peter l.vrh, head scalded and leg I bruised. | Alt of (he above passengers were. On their wav 10 (Jreenwood and were j scut to that citv in a physicians j i i charge. A relief train was made up I at Augusta on receipt of the news of | the wreck and this train was iimue-. dlately sent to the scene. | Shortly after the wreck Dispatcher { HfOWden at McCormlcU tolojrrnnhed the Augusta oftlee of the C. and W.I O. Railroad and stated that he was1 so busy selling tickets that he forgot to show the signal to stop train No. ft for Augusta for orders. Train ] No. registered at MeCoriuIek and J left at once for Augusta. Conductor K, I,. Poster, who was on train No. ft. escaped injury and, walked (lie two and a hall miles to ; NroCormlck with the news of the wreck. There Capt. l-'osLor secured an engine and ran buck to the so* no and took the eoaeh from the Augusta bound train hack to MoCormick. , Young Artel* Drowns. Robert Rartou Pa.hr. an actor, was drowned Sunday while surf bathing at WriglUsvUle Hunch, mar Wll muigron, .\. lit* w:us caught it) heavy undertow, ami fhooch several men made desperate efforts to save him. the young actor was .swept out to sea. His l)ody has not been recovered. He was leading man iu "The rtinfc of the Father" conipuuy, ; which is now making a Southern1 tour. f j For TwodVni Theft, I For s'ealtvig a two-cent whistle from a store in Boston, George l<;. ! Harrehan. of Oharlostown, Mass.,' was sentenced to spend seven montn.q In prison. He told the court that he wanted the whistle for his child, but when It. was found out that he. was not married the heavy senium o followed. * 1RRY HE T'TtO? Y, .1. * , CHEERED BY CROWDS WAl.TKH WKLIxMAN AM> CREW START GltKAT FLIGHT. May Prove Epoch Making Voyage Across che Atlatic Ocean in Huge Air Ship. Sailing into a thick tog that hung low over the Atlantic Ooeuin early Saturday from Atlatnic City, N. I., Walter Well man, with a crew of five men. is believed to be on epochmaking v<oyage to Kurope in the huge cigar-shaped airship America. Starting from the beach near the lulet a few minutes after eight o'clock Saturday morning, the big air craft was soon out of sight of the cheering crowd. Since then 110 one, with the exception of ships at sea, has seen the strange craft and the only word from her came by means of the wireless telegraph. Numerous messages were received during the day and the latest indicated that Wellmau was sailing off the Long Island shore northeastward. The ship according to this last word from her adventurous crew, ha* set a northeasterly course with the intention of getting into the norther* lane of trans-Atlantic liners. The men who are makiug aeronautic history in the first over-oc ean flight of an airship arn: Waller Wellman, commander; Melvtn Vaninuni. chief engineer and next in command; K. Murray Simmons, navigator; J. Kirwin, wireless operator, John Albert an Albert Louisloud. assistant engineers. With everything ready for the word "Let's go." the crew climbed up and into the car hanging fiom the balloon. The final "good-bypa" were said to wives, other relatives and friends and the last word to the men cm the ground was given. The great ship gave a lurch, all the ropes and cables became taut and the ship rose, slowly at flrst and then more rapidly as It ascended higher and encountered the gentle breev.e from the west. On the board walk and beech weie {assembled a crowd estimated about 1,000. The crowd stood in awe as the America majestically continued j to rise and sail into thp thick fog. | Then cheer alter cheer followed whoa 4. t. 1.1. ... A. I 1 _ I t _ - 1 _ j iney saw me cr;?n uegm siowiy 10 disappear in llic mist. Within five ! minutes the ship was out of sight. Those ot' the crowd who rememborI e<i that the America carried a w ireless telegraph out tit rushed irom the ; walk to the Million Dollar pi er for [news of the balloon. I The last message received from ( Wclhnun late Saturday afternoon [ was to the effect that the course had | boon laid tor the north passage from Foutullai)d and thu' spec, bad be* n cut to 15 knots an boui for the purposu of saving the gasoline fuel. Ktiough gasoline is being carried to keep ?he America's engines groin g tor fat least fifty days under even low [sp<?od pressure. The airship is equipped with provisions for thirty days and a 27foot life boat is part of the equipr ?..>! r?l" frhi? ion If I lw> joiv..s iiito cliftTeulty In f 1ivV;iy o??, motor trouble, sh<* curii?>s two SO horse power engines unci a donkey engine, the wireless will be depeudod Ui on to summon ships. Should the w hole structure collapse the crew will take to the lite boat and being in the track of steamers, expect to be picked tip without drifting long >>u i ho ocean, . . _??* .. j,i?, MtKIVKft MYSTKIIV ( IiK.l IIK1>. ? Two Men Confess to the Murdering of Another Man. One of the most gruesome and in.\ steriouK murders on record in Now Orleans was cleared up Sunday by the complete confession, according to the (MecMvo department, of two men held In the parish piison foe the crime. They are Kugeno Buxan? on and Francois ftodin, middle-aged l?'i:?i #?-Americans. Th?*lr alleged victim was Herman Keidcl, u watehincker, whose dismembered body, . sewed up in a sack, was found floating in the old ba-sin Vast Tuesday. Tic two men, the police say, confessed that, after felling Keidel unci finding that thev had killed him. hey cut up the body, placed It in a sack ;u\d threw it into the canal in mi effort to conceal It. Shoots Ills lloom Mm*. T. Ft. Oglesb.v, a young Atlanta chemist, went home late Friday night, and ^as shot in the thigh by John <Ju.Kt.on, a boarder, who thought his* fvloiul was a burglar. The wound will not prove fatal. The two men hud been rooming together at th* home of Oglosbv's mother, and were the best friends. The accident wan denroed by ail connected with it, but. nobody blamed either of the young men. as it seems to have been 11 11 -i v, lilt 1* hit* * RflLO