The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 20, 1911, Image 6
[ GANG RUN DOWN
Traffic ia White Girls Brakta Op By the
Gercrueat Mcials.
TALES OF HORROR TOIL)
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Three of tlie Infoitoiu Gung Hare
Been Tried, Convicted and Bent to
a Federal Prison, Winds? Several
More of the Gang are Vet to be
'Jtled.
The operations of an organized
gang of white slave dealers, composed
of men and women, who have carried
on the traffic all over the Northling.
It is said the women have contributed
as much as $500 a month to
him. His part of the combination
was to go from town to town collectin,?
the money and locating and procuring
young women.
The officers say he had sixteen girls
located at Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Cal., Portland, Ore., Spokane, Seattle,
and Walla Walla, Wash., Butte,
Mont., Boise and Pocatello, Ind., Reno
and Ely, Nev., and Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Brown woman was found .guilty
of inducing a 15-year-old girl to
leave her home in Salt Lake City and
enter into an immoral life. Mrs.
Brown was the tool of Herbert Gould,
who drifted into the West from Ohio
five years ago and since has lived on
an income from the traffic.
During the trip to the prison Mrs.
Brown was in great fear of her life,
saying, that Gould had threatened to
kill her because of the nature of her
testimony at their trial.
Siegel deserted his wife and child
ten days old at Denver to go with a
woman to Ogden. There he forced
her to live an immoral life and give
to him her earnings.
The federal officers on the Pacific
coast and In tne Kocay mountain
States are operating in a way to
break up the slave traffic in that section.
west, are believed now to have finally
been broken up. J. H. Anderson, a
United States marshal! of Salt Lake
City, Utah, has taken three members
of the pang as prisoners to the Federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
They are May Brow, who must
serve a term of five and one-half
years; Herbert Gould, seven and onehalf
years, and William Siegel, four
years. They were sentenced by
Judge Page Morris of Duluth, Minn.,
siting at Salt Lake City. Two more
members of the gang have been convicted
and are awaiting sentence.
One of these, Roscoe Morrison,
took a girl from Salt Lake under
promise of marria<ge and forced her
into a life of shame at La Grande,
Ore. After two weeks search, in
which the girl was moved from place
to place by her abductors, the federal
officers located her and arrested
Morrison.
All of the girls Morrison has taken
are young American girls, and for
eleven years according, to his own
admission, he has not done a day's
work, but has lived from the earnigs
of the young women and by gamb
DIED PAD FKOM HOME.
Workman from Germany Accidentally
Killed at Great Falls.
A special to the Charlotte Observer
says Dr. W. W. Feunell, of Rock
Hill, received a telephone message
to come to tlreat Falls at once, that
a party there was seriously hurt.
He rushed down In an automobile
and found that Lawrance Miller, one
of the Germans that the Southern
Power company has inJsfallin# its
fertilizer plant at that place, had
fallen 4 5 feet into a tank or vat, and
his skull was crushed and neck broken
and that nothing could be done
for him. Later the unfortunate man
died. His body will be shipped tc
his home.
A young German of the party thai
is at Great Falls, who could scarcelj
speak any English at all, accompanied
the body to Rock Hill, stated
that Miller was 34 years of age and
had a wife and four children in Ger
many and that he carried $8,000 in
surance.
THEY WANT RAIN.
Indian Tribal Customs to Obtain 1
Are Being Used.
The Creek Indians in the vicinity
of Wetumka, Owla., are resorting tt
ancient tribal customs in an attempt
to obtain a rainfall.
One of their customs which hai
been widely followed in the last weel
is to stake mud turtles on the edge o
a stream Just Car enough away fron
the water so that it cannot reach it
It is the Indians belief that the tur
tie despairing of their attempts t<
reach the water invoke the aid of th<
"Great Spirit* to send rain so thai
the stream will be raised t&nd broughi
to them.
Since the turtles were first stakec
out several rains have fallen. Th<
Indians *>elleve their prayers are l>e
Ing answered and they are fastening
vp more turtles to pray for a stil
greater nalnfall.
WHERE IS THE LETTERS:
NO TRACE OF TELL TALE NOTI
CAN BE DISCOVERED. |
Part of Another Document Mysteri
ously Disappeared Before Preslden
Taft Signed It.
The story of <a vanishing letter
.both addressed and signed "Dick*
from Richard S. Ryan of New Yorl
to Richard A. Ballinger, then sec
retary of the interior, purporting t<
show that Charles P. Taft had in
fluenced his brother. President Taft
to forward the alleged attempt ol
Guggenheim interests to acquire Controller
Bay, the only outlet for large
coal fields in Southern Alsaka, figured
in a congressional inquiry be
gan Monday. ,
The testimony before the house
committee on expenditures in the interior
department and statements
1 the White House pnd from Charles
P. Taft's office failed to lift the mystery
enshrouding the alleged letter
Fred Dennett, commissioner of the
general land office, testified that he
knew nothing of it and that he would
not necessarily know of its existence,
and such a letter was not recalled
in any other quarter.
The letter was not to be found in
the files, though Miss M. B. Abbott,
a newspaper writer, who will testify
later, says she copied such a documpnt
from the official files. Presi
dent Taft has expressed confidence
that his brother never communicated
with him on the subject, either
orally or in writing.
It was stated at the White House
that a careful search of the files in
the executive office failed to reveal
any record of a letter to the president
from Charles P. Taft concerning
Ryan or bearing in any way upon ths
Controller Bay affair.
The ino9t important development
was the testimony of Commissioner
Dennett that the claimants represented
by Richard S. Ryan of New York
said to represent the Guggenheim
interests, had benefited by the omission
of one provision in the final papers.
,
Mr. Dennett said that when the
executive order opening the Controller
Bay land to entry reached his
office it contained a provision under
which entrymen could not file on th?
land for 60 days after the order wai
issued. In some way or other he
did ot know how, he said, this provision
was lost or eliminated before
the final promulgation of the order
Mr. Dennett said that the flrsl
draft, which, in accordance with the
custom, was prepared at the department
of agriculture, contained the
60 days provision, but that It wai
not in the order as finally signec
by the president.
"Who struck it ouif"
"I do not know."
Chairman Graham of the commit
tee asked iMr. Dennett to furnist
copies of all telegrams and corres
pondence regarding the Controllei
Ray claims and the report dealing
with the surveys made there.
Mr. Fisher, secretary of the inter
lor department, issued a statemen
Monday concerning the interview at
tributed to Miss Abbott, In whlcl
she referred to a postscript to a let
tt-r from Mr. Ryan to Secretary Bal
linger.
"No reference whatever," says Mr
Fisher, "was made In this Interview
to what Miss Abhott very properl;
calls the 'amazing postscript,' whlcl
she says she found attached to i
letter to Secretary Ballinger fron
Mr. Ryan, nor was this postscrlp
ever mentioned or referred to In an
other interview which I have eve
had with Miss Abbott or any one els
prior to its publication in a Phila
delphia newspaper.
"I am told upon my return tha
the most dilligent search of the re<
ords of this office has failed to dh
, close any such document and ever
, one who has searched the recor
[ says most emphatically that he ha
never seen this postscript or an
other writing of this character. Th<
t inciuaes iwr, urown, WHU wan |;u<ai
r secretary to Secretary Ballinger."
I SENATOR TILLMAN TO SPEAK,
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Annual Picnic of Old Soldiers i
Olanto Saturday.
A dispatch from Florence to T1
News and Courier says the annu
picnic for the old soldiers will 1
t held iat their picnic grounds, i
Olanta, in lower Florence County, c
Saturday, July 22, at which tin
/ United States Senator Benjamin 1
Tillman and others will make a<
t dresses. The -old soldiers' picnic i
Olanta is always one of the grei
3 events of the year in lower Florenc
c Last year there were more than 8
000 people present, and from presei
i indications there will be not less ths
. 10,000 people there this year. E
. erybody is invited to these event
> but the old soldiers come first.
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t Never Been to Town,
t Mrs. Polly Monk, 94 years of ai
is dead in North Ch^stlan count
1 Tenn. She had lived all her life c
> a farm, outlived two husbands ar
- had never seen a train and had i
i ig within two miles of Crofton. SI
1. had never seen a train, and had c
J antipathy for "new fangled things
.
'I RAGING FLAMES
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luJrds af People Baraed ( Death ia
the Percapiae District.
* THREE TOWNS BURNED
| Entrapped Miners, Seeking Safety in
Shafts Perish in Flames. Streets
Strewn With Charred Human Bodies
and Dead Carcasses of Animal
that Perished.
9
f A Toronto Canada, dispatch says
- the loss of life in Porcupine district,
j from Wednesday's fire is known to be
several hundred and the property
loss will reach several millions of
(Inl 1q ra H n 1V throa ft f thft alcVltv
5 four empoyeee of the West Dome
Mine have been accounted for and
{ 200 miners, muckers, etc., in the vart
ious other mines are missing.
Among the dead are Robert Weiss,
manager of the West Dome, and his
^ wife and child. The West Dome Mine
k Company, of Philadelphia, sustained
a loss of about $50,000. Reports
from Porcupine give vague tmtej
statements of the loss of life and
property. The property loss will
probably totial millions.
Some loss of life is also reported
from South Porcupine and Eldorado.
At West Dome and Big Dome, the entrapped
miners, cut off from escape,
were forced to take to the shafts for
safety, and penned in by flames, perished.
This was notably true at
Dome and west Dome mines.
The streets of Sonth Porcupine are
strewn with dead persons, horses,
dcngs, and cattle. Along the mine
roads are the charred bodies of those
overcome trying to escape . Of the
j staff of three hundred at the Dome
but a few were saved, and at the
West Dome but three out of 84 em
, ployees are known to be alive.
Early Wednesday the miners saw
dense clouds of smoke to the southwest,
where the fires were raging.
They gave small heed. It was not
until noon that the smoke olouds began
to roll over the Porcupine dis,
trict. Then the miners beaame
alarmed. Messengers were sent out
, and soon returned with the word that
, the fire was travelling through the
, forest rapidly and was licking up
, many towns.
Shortly after noon the fire had covered
'.an area of twenty-five miles in
, length .and two miles in width, and
was licking} up the base line of Tisl
dale sweeping over the Standard and
J Imperial mines at Dolore, the Phila.
delphia, Inshiaw, Tldorado and Unity
, mines.
} When the seriousness of the situaL
tion was apparent the fire call was
sounded with the Dome Mine whistle.
In half hour the flames were
raging on the spot. They swept over
the Foley O'Brien mine, then jump,
ed to the Preston East Dome and fol.
lowed over the Dome and West
p Dome.
? Hundreds fled from the flames, but
fV?.a omAlfo hunc low ,n vpr thp land
. and made progress difficult. Many
t fell exhausted. The frame buildinjgB
of South Porcupine burned fiercely.
1 Twenty minutes after the flames
. struck the outskirts the town was in
lashes. All who escaped the flames
made for the water, where all sorts
of water craft, launches, canoes and
v skiffs were pressed into service.
y Women and children were first
u huddled into the small boats and
started og for Pottsvllle and Golden
a City, where they were temporarily
t safe from the ftames. Many miners
y lost their lives in efforts to save othr
ers and some were drowned.
e Fifteen men were drowned at
South Porcupine, when they were
driven Into the liake by the dense
t clouds of smoke and rolling wave of
flame. At El Dorado two men were
j_ burned to death, and another met a
y similar fate at the United Porcupine
d Mines.
mv,??? t^M.nn Vioirn Kaon ivlnad off
1UI ct: inn no tin t v i/wwo (>??.
y the map and hundreds or refugees are
ls facing starvation. A train contalne
lng six hundred women and children
was rushed out of Cochrane for the
south, ias the wall of flames advanced
toward the village. The town of
2,500 Inhabitants was soon a mass
of fire and ls entirely destroyeu.
South Porcupine and PittsvTn? are
charred ruins.
Golden City wias surrounded by
is flames for hours, and Is still In dangal
er, although only the suburbs have
>e been burned. Part of Tlsdalo has
at been wiped out, the fire being con>n
trolled only by dynamiting a dozen
\e .onses In the middle of the town.
It. Two speclial trains have been sent
3- *o bring the 4,000 persons who are
at facing starvation or death by Are
at In the Tlsdale district. Communlcae.
tlon with stricken districts Is exceedI,
Ingly difficult.
at The flames swept down on South
in Porcupine and PIttsvIlle lalmots wlinv
out warning*. The alarm came just
s, In time for the people to rush for
the lake, but they were forced to
abandon all of their belongings.
Gasoline boats, rowboats and even
?e hastily improvised rafts were utilized
y, to get the refugees, many Of whom
>n were women and children, across the
id lake to Golden City. There all are
in attempting to beat back the flames,
te [ which have consumer the outskirts
>n of that place. There lare only a few
days' provisions left In Golden City.
'
REAL STORY TOLD
CONNECTED ACCOUNT OF FIRE
SWEPT DISTRICT.
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Two Cities Were Wiped Out by the
Flumes and Many Were Drowned
to Avoid Awful Death.
Eugene A. Thomson, business man
and fire chief, who Wednesday night
brought a party of refugees to Detroit
from the burned towns of Au
Sable and Oscoda furnished the first
connected story which hias come from
the fire swept district.
"The first serious fire on the outskirts
of the town was discovered
Sunday and a crew fought it until it
was under control," he said. Monday
nothing was done and on Tuesday,
aided by high winds, it burst out
again with great fury.
"The first alarm in Osceodia came
in at 3 o'clork from a private house.
President Gowley and myself procured
palls from the Loud Company's
office to fight the ftames that had
spread to the Catholic cemetery. The
next alarm came in from Au Sable
township slab piles. Just about the
time the host was working well we
got an alarm from the village of Oscoda.
The first to go was the Oscoda
and Au Sable canning flactory and in
a few minutes the fire was general,
breaking out north, east, south and
west all at once.
"Our equipment of three hose carts
land thirty-six volunteers fought for
an hour and a half with a good supply
of water.
"Then the flames reached the
pumping station and it went out of
commission. A few inhabitants
among them myself and my father
and mother, went to the steamer Niko,
Captain Meyers, which was lying
at my own door.
"When we left the dock between
200 and 300 people were on it, 30 of
them were nursing children, cut off
from shore, with the tramway overhead
afire. There was no escape for
them unless they jumped into the water.
I saw Peter Duval struggle down
the tramway with his aged father
in-law on his back, but the flames
forced him back ind I cannot tell
whether he was saved.
"I saw a woman with two children
In her .arms rush out on the dock.
One of the children fell into the water
and a young man leaped in after
it and saved it.
"When the fire started the wind
was blowing about 50 miles an hour
from the southeast. Then it shifted
co the westward and the flames completely
swept the towns. Two hours
afterward it shifted to the northeast
and swept the blaze back over the
ground it already had travelled, licking
up the whole of Oscoda and Au
Sable city and township for a radius
cf three mile3.
?
CROWD MENACED FIEND.
Ohio Mob Threaten Negro Who Is
Saved By the Police.
With cries of "Hang him; lynch
the brute," a mob of several hundred
persons gathered in the northern
part of the city Monday and threatened
to wreak summary vengeance
upon Havey Mickes, a negro, who is
accused of having (attacked a 16-year
old white girl. The negro had been
captured by a posse that chased him
for several miles upon a hand-car.
A crowd surrounded the Jail and
made ia demonstration of violence,
but was quickly repelled by the police
and deputies. News of the attempted
assault had gained wide currency,
and intense excttement prevailed
as the members of the posse
with their prisoner in custody arrived
in the police station.
This county and city authorities,
anticipating an outbreak has ordered
the entire police force to the city
priaon and supplementing this force
with a large number of special deputies.
Later Mickens was spirited tc
the county jail at Canton for safe
keeping.
ITad a Close Call.
When the first execution under th<
new law providing for electrocutior
in place of hanging took place ir
the State penitentiary at Eddyville
Ky., recently it came near ending ir
the death of two persons instead o!
one. Prison physician Moss stepper
forward to feel the pulse of the negrc
who formed the first subject befor<
the current had been turned off anc
barely missed having several thous
and volts pass through his body.
Noah** LUli?ti? tha
f " " best remedy for RheumaMHRB
tlsm, Sciatica, Lame Back,
nrnflstilT Joints and Muscles,
. Mtrftlnn.
KpRKH Bore iniw?, wiu<?i ,
TtfclBCal Sprains, Cuts, Bruises,
ZS? Colic, Cramps, Neuralgia,
PPWFFB Toothache, and all Nerve,
."llfJSK H Bone and Muscle Aches
kllfillR ?nd Pains. The genuine
NmMH has Noah's Ark on every
Hfclllilikl package and looks like this
cut, but has RED band on
Heniriiiti front of paokage and
H "Notfi Ualmaaft" always
? In RED Ink. Beware of
SxrisHr Imitations. Large bottle
hmTmiw 25 cents, and sold by all
mmwmwmm dealers In medicine.
i m TtrrBUm. Guaranteed or money re nn
funded by Noah Remedy
Co., Inc., Richmond, Vs.
The laborers employed on the Ontario
Government's new railroad line
reached the city after a desperaU
fight with the Aamee, In which man;
were badly Injured. They lost everything
but the clothes they wore.
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II0RAN6EBURC
ORANGEBU
Thin school, with a great U
;; University trained teachers, will
< September 20th. Expenses hai
\ \ of everybody. Board, the best
;; Fine healthful location. Elect
! | Broad open fireplaces. Thorouj
o Bookkeeping. Fine Conservato
; I number of new students. We i
< > tion. No safer school for your <
! today for our beautiful new catal
I it President W.
< j i 47 Broughton St. . . .
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Has since 1894 given 'Thorough instru
influences at the lowest possible cost.
RESULT: It is to-day with Its faculty
Its student body of 400, and its plant wor
THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOf
$150 pays all charges for the year, inclu<
heat, laundry, medical attention, physica
except music and elocution. For catalo
REV. THOS. ROSSER RE
BliACKSTONIS, V
LOYt RA1
/gSxfr. ~/:?rz*e
mfSef; : BEGINNING J!
Now Is the time to begin to prepare f<
Lessons by mail If desired. Posltlo nt
Southern Corgn)
Calhoun & Meeting sts., Charleston, 8.
Salisbury, Durham, N. C. The highest
South Atlantic. Enter any time. W
CLASSIFIED COLUMN
For Sale?Several hundred bushels V
igood clay mixed cow peas at a rea- .
sonable price. The H. G. Leiding
Co., Charleston, S. C.
You can start a mail order or light ^
manufacturing business at home
during spare time with small capital.
Valuable circular free. U.
S. Specialty Co., Greenock, Pa. ?
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Wanted?Men to learn cotton bus!
ness in cur sample rooms; two
weeks to complete course; high salaried
position secured. Charlotte
Cotton School, Charlotte, N. C.
Men make $25 to $50 weekly selling
our household specialties. Experience
unnecessary. Write to-day.
Household Supply Co , Talladego,
Alabama.
For sale?-Southwest Georgia farms.
No finer lands; no better prices.
We speak from personal knowledge.
Write today for new list.
Epton ft Switzer, Spartanburg,
S. C.
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4,000 acres, 2 1-2 miles Ry., 1,000.
acres in cultivation, 50 tenant
houses, good barns, excellent fences;
3.000 acres timber; $20 per
1 acre. Harris Realty Co., Claren1
don, Ark.
J Feather Reds?Mail us $10 and we
will ship you a nice, new 36-pound
feather bed and 6-pound pair pillows,
freight prepaid. Turner ft
* Cornwall, Feather Dealers, Charlotte,
N. C.
Farm Tjamls for Sale.?In southwest
Georgia, the country that Is coming
to the front in great shape, not
only the land of promise, but the
land of fulfillment, write us for
land list. M. T. Levie & Son, P.
O. Drawer 57, Montezuma, Ga.
Wanted-?one man or woman In every
locality to start a "candy kitchen."
Rest piaying small business
on earth. Few dollars start you.
Write for particulars. Humboldt
Publishing Co. ,Dept. J., 4743
State st., Chicago, 111.
SUMMER RESORTS !
, Overlook Cottage, Hendersonvllle, N <
) C., Is open for a few boarders, i
r Write Mrs. F. E. Rogan.
Wanted?Boarders at the Chapman i
i COLLEGE
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iculty of Sixteen College and \
begin its Eighteenth session <;
re been placed within reach
in the State, at actual cost J !
ric lights. Artesian water, j; S
gh courses in Shorthand and ! I
?ry of Music. Rooms for a I !
ibsolutely guarantee satisfac- ; ;
:hild in all the land. Write t
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ding table board, room, lights, steam
I culture, and tuition in all subject*
gue and application blank address,
EVES, p. A., Principal*
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jne first. *
or the fall and new year posltlQ*,
i guaranteed. No vacation.
ercl&I School
, O.; Wilmington, Winston-Salens,
endorsed Business College In the
rite for full Information.
House, Glenn Spring. Board and
mineral water, $9 a week.
ye want you to be one of 2,000 vin.ltors
to The Land of Waterfalls; /
write for booklet. Board of Tradn, *
Brevard, N. C.
it Glenn Springs, S. C., The Garner
House offers good serivce. Splendid
fare and the best location.
Write for rates.
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'oplar Glen, Saluda, N. C. Near
post office and depot. Modern con- ' C
vAnlpnoPs Reasonable rates. Sne
cial rates to flamiliee and large
parties. Address Miss .Minnie M.
McFaddin, Saluda, N. C.
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Every Horse Owner
drcsda that moat danjraroua dla?a. Colic.
B? prepared for an amarffoney by havlac
A hattla of Naak'a CaISc Rumid* nn hand.
Mot* animals die from Colic than all other
non-contaarious'diseases combined. Nine
out of every ten cases would have been
cured If Noah's Colic Remedy had been
given in time. It Isn't a drench or dope,
but is a remedy given on the tongue, so
simple that a woman or child can give It.
If It falls to cure, your money will be
refunded. If your dealer cannot supply
you send 50c In stamps and we will mail
a bottle.
f Noah Remedy Ok, las* llnhmead, Va
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Tlio Mob Got Him.
Will McGrlff, the netcrro who shot
ind killed Will Washington, a white
man, and wounded two colored men,
nnafl ftrrMtprl tat llornntnn WadnAadev
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afternoon and later killed by a mob
estimated at more than live hundred
men.
The cotton crop Is improving after
nany refreshing rains.