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A STORY OF GRAFT SAYS HE SLIPPED MONEY UNDER STOTHORT'S DOOR ? IT WENT ON FOR MONTHS O'Neill, Former Charleston Liquor Dealer, Hays lie Collected "Protection Fund" From Other "Tigers", Put it in Envelope and Left it at Office of Chief Constable. Appearing before the committee of the general assembly at Columbia on Thursday, J. P. 11. O'Neill, a confessed whole~sale and retail whiskey dealer of Charleston, gave testimony under oath that hp had been paying a "protection fund" of about $60 a month to ITeu H. Stothart, the chief whiskey constable in Charleston. O'Neill made the direct charge that he had collected this fund from sev-; eral retail whiskey dealers. Tho testimony by O'Neill was given after he had been put through a grilling cross-examination by the r-nmmittfvi ami after ho had been threatened with a jail sentence for contempt. The witness when placed on the stand refused to give testimony on the ground that it might Incriminate him. The members of the committee took the position that O'Neill must answer all questions with reference to the Charleston situation or to be held in contempt. The testimony of the witness and his answer caused a general uproar among the spectators. He tried to evade practically every question propounded on the ground that it might incriminate him or other Charleston citizens. After a conference with his attorney, W. S. Nelson, O'Neill said that he was ready to answer all questions rather than take a jail sentence. Story of the Scheme. After evading questions by the committee for more than one hour ...,d after several conferences with his attorrey, O'Neill got down to his story of confession and outlined the .following scheme. He said that about eighteen months ago Hen H. Stothart -* 1 - ... * ~ Uln nlnnn f OI VJIliinCHlUU v;illII15 lu II in ui business and informed him that he had been appointed as chief constable for Charleston county. "Stothart told me that the boys would be coining around to see me," said O'Neill. O'Neill then said that about one month afterwards he placed Uie "protection fund" that he had collected from the retail whiskey dealears in an envelope and put the envelope under the door of the ofllce of Ben II. Stothart in Society street. He declared that the money was left during the night and that the envelope contained the names of the retail dealers who had paid for protection. O'Neill declared that the "protection desired" was given to the retail dealers. The testimony of O'Neill was the most sensational that has been given before the legislative committee. In IPs testimony O'Neill declared that thv, collection of the "protection fund" had commenced about eighteen months ago or just after the appointment of Stothart by the governor of South Carolina. At a recent meeting of the dispensary committee in Charleston several confessed "blind tigers" charged that they bad been paying a protection fund to J. P. B. O'Neill, who was said to be a member of the Marion Stock company, alleged to be a wholesale * ' ' ?...... rvo/vrnlintr 1,1 (hn WIUSKCy CUIll (11111/ i/|ici ainif, in v>*v city of Charleston, The principal testimony on the "protection fund" given at the Charleston hearing was by John J. Miller. O'Neill admitted before the committee that Miller had been employed as his agent and that ho collected the "fund" from the retailers. O'Nelirs Testimony. The following is J. B. P. O'Neill's confession as taken from the ollicial stenographer's notes: Mr. Carlisle: Mr. O'Neill, did you collect any money in the city of Charleston or elsewhere for the purpose of paying it over to Mr. Stothart or any other constable for protection or immunity? A. I decline to answer on the ground that it would incriminate me. Committee rules that witness will 'have to answer or be ruled for contempt. Upon reconsideration and consultation Mr. O'Neill consents to answer. A. I can not tell you exactly. It has been testified by two people they paid me money and this money I placed in an envelope with names of parties paying it to me, and left it at the constable's otllce. Q. What parties paid it to you? A. Milton is one. He paid it for two places, $15 . Q. Did you take it in person to the constable's ollice? A. Yes, sir. Q. With whom did you leave it? A. At his ollice. Q. Did you have your name on it f ift any way? A. ."Samoa or parries who paid the money and (heir place of business. (J. How did you know the consta l)les would keep that money? A. ^ Because I was to Rive the money to them. Q. Acting agent between reailers and constables? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did the retailers direct you how to do that? A. The retailers? Q. Yes. sir; who told you to put it under the door? A. Those people who dealt with me was to pay me so much to keep from being raided by a warrant. All I had to do was to place the amount in an envelope and names and to leave at the ofllce. Ills Name. ^Question by Senator Clifton: What is his name? A. B. H. Stothart. The constable's ofTlee. Question by Senator Carlisle: Who made that arrangement for you to do that? A. I arranged. | Q. With those fellows? A. What fellows? Q. Those In this business. Did you ever have any conversation at an? time about this method of "protection"? D|dn't you agree with tne constables that this matter should be done In this way? A. That I could collect It. I made that agreement ( with Mr. Stothart himself. Q. How many retailers did you represent in this' proposition? A. Different times. Q. How many times did you leave it under the door? A. Once every month. Q. When did that arrangement begin? A. About 18 months ago. Q. Commenced soon after Mr. Stothart went Into business as constable? A. About the time I went into tlie jobbing business. About March of last year. Q. Soon after the inauguration of Gov. Mease? I want to get after tne date of Mr. Stothart's appointment. A. Shortly after that. Q. And continued up to what? A. Up to when I went out of business, some time in the month of June. Q. Just about the time that article came out in Common Sense? ? A. Before that I think. Q. I would like if you could give I us the exact date of your going out of business? A. I can not state positively. Q. Do you know whether any other jobbers had this same plan? A. Don't know anything about others. Q. Mr. Stothart didn't tell you? A. No, sir. Q. Where were you when you made that arrangement? A. At my place of business. Mr. Stothart came there. He notified me ho had been appointed chief constable, and the boys would be around to see me. The "Boys". Q. Whom did ho mean by boys? A. Men under him. Q. What arrangement aid lie suggest to prevent anything unpleasant, what did you suggest he could do for you? A. Didn't suggest anything. J just collected the money during the month and put it in an envelope and left it at the ofllce. Q. At the time of the first conversation did he tell you he would do that? A Didn't specify anything. Said only the hoys would ne around. Q. Said something besides that? A. No, sir; 1 was in jobbing business. Q. You think Mr. Stothart, when he found those envelopes of money knew what they were for? A. Yes, sir; the names were there; my name was on it. Q. Then Mr. O'Neill, the understanding was tliat those payments were made monthly there would be no search warrant? A. He was not particular about it. Q. The understanding was if they were paid the searches would not go so far as search warrants? A. I did not do that. Q. Wasn't search warrants on vn11r fiiHtniners after that? A. I don't know. Q. Did you ever give them credit for goods? A. No, sir. Q. About how many customers did you have? A. Not many, very Tew. Q. About how many? Any time during the last 18 months. IIow many men have paid you that money? A. Only six. Q. (live us names? A. Milton is one. He paid for two places. Q. The others? A. Strickland, Windham, myself, and \V. J. Cantwell. Q. How much did you pay, Mr. O'Neill? A. Fifteen dollars per month. Q. How much did you pay for each of the others? A. Five dollars and ten dollars. Q. Your total payments for the month aggregated about how much? A. About $60. Q. Where is that office located? A. Society Street. Q. What time would you pay it? A. Just shove it under the door. Q. Ever hand it to them personally? A. No, sir. Q. If they were in there you would put in under the door? A. No, sir; if they were in there I would not leave it. Never Got Itack Money, Q. You never got any of that money back? A. No, sir. Q. Mr. O'Neill, you say you were a jobber? A. Yes, sir. Q. About how much stock did you carry? A. Didn't do much business. Not more than ten customers. Q. Didn't you pay for some of the 1 A XT ^ oineiH: nu, ?u. Q. Why did you discriminate? A ] don't know. Q. Did. those men you spoke of buy mostly from you? A. No, sir. Q. Hut from others, too? A. I judge so. Q. Do you know whether any other jobbers had the same privilege or agreement? A. Don't know. Never heard one of them say. Q. Hy Mr. Cary: Mr. O'Neill, (lid you ever have any way of knowing whether these constables or the chief of the constables actually got this money that you put under the door? A. No, I don't know for a positive fact. Q. Havo*you any reason to feel sure that they did get it? A. Oh, I judge so. Q. From what did you judge? A. I guessed I would have got a telephone message if there wasn't something doing. Q. Hy Mr. Carlisle: Why do you guess that? A. Just guess they would liave rung me up. Q. Didn't they do It? A. I never gave them time. I always sent it in. T^5*1 \T*\ it 1/ n o n n n o a/1 i Vg? I/in j sj 11 iv 111/ >v a iiKiii uaiuv;ii Uonvc? A. Sain Howe? Q. Yes. A. He used to be chief constable there; during the State dispensary, I think. Q. Ever know of his receiving any money directly or indirectly? A. I was a new beginner. Q. Did you ever hear of any one who did make arrangement with him? A. No, sir. Q. Dy Mr. Evans; Any arrangement made in your behalf? A. Not that I know. Q: Ever have any protection at all then? A. No. I*rotect<Ml by Stothart. Q. By Mr. Carlisle: From whom were you to be protected? A. The only one I got any protection from was Mr. Stothart. Q. Do you know, Mr. O'Neill, anything about what became of that money when It went into the hands of the constables? A. No, sir. Q. Ever hear them say? A. No, sir; never discussed it with them at i all. Q. Mr. O'Neill, as a matter of fact in your first conversation with Mr. Stothart, did you not make some agreement with him as to some kind of protection? A. No, sir. Q. You never discussed this matter it all with him? A. No. Q. You simply paid him money without any understanding? A. I simply wrote him names of people and enclosed money. Q. How did you know he would take it? A. I didn't know. Just sent it to him. Q. How long after that first convernation was it you first sent it to him? A. About a month afterwards. Might have been longer than a month. Q. You did that without any knowledge of whether he would accept it or not? A. Yes, sir. Q. Without any suggestion from anyone? A. Yes, sir. Q. Ever pay protection to anybody else? A. No. Q. By Mr. Evans: Why is it you taxed yourself heavier than others? A. I just sent it to him. There was no price on any. A. I didn't know, just sent It. If it wasn't satisfactory I guess I would have heard. Q. by Mr. Oary: Did you first think up tliis scheme that it would be a good one to keep your customers protected? A. I thought it n. good idea for those fellows, they would not have no trouble. Q. by Mr. Clifton: How far is your place from Hasselmcyer? A. One mile and a quarter. Q. Wasn't he one of your customers? A. No. Sold Whiskey. Q. What do you sell? A. wniskey, mostly. Q. You wero in business in a small way? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you know Miller? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you hear him say he collected money in the same way? A. Yes, sir; he was my collector. He worked for me. Q. He collected from the people and paid it to you and they put yon brttween Miller and Stothart? Is that correct? A. He paid money over to me and Stothart. Q. You were to stand between Milier and Stothart? A. Miller was working for me. Q. When he collected for the goods he also would collect the graft? A. Yes, sir. Q. You mean to tell this committee that you paid money to constables without any agreement? A. tMr. Stothart came into my place and said lie was appointed chief constables. Q. So you sent him that money in answer to an agreement? A. I told you I sent it to him in an envelope. Q. Ho knew about your agreement? A. He knew about names In envelopes.. He didn't suggest that I put money under door. Q. He didn't know Stothart was appointed chief constable until he told you? Didn't you then agree with him for you to collect from people you could and they would not be raided by warrant? A. I put money in envelope and put it under door. Q. He knew what it was Tor? A. Yes, sir. Q. He knew not to raid these people with warrants? A. To he raided all right, but that he would notify us. j Q. That was the agreement? A. [There was no agreement. That was just understood. Q. by Mr. Cary: Mr. O'Neill, on this first trip of Mr. Stothart's to your place did you write down the I names of these retail liquor dealers and show it to Mr. Stothart with amounts opposite their names? A. | No, sir; I guess it was a month afterwards when I sent it to him. [ Q. Did you ever submit a list to Mr. Stothart without the money? A. I No. Q. by Mr. Carlisle: You didn't collect in advance? A. No, sir. , The committee then adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. ? ? __ BURNS SAYS ITS A HAT) MESS. ?, I Says Conditions in South Carolina is I I the Very Worse. Before leaving Augusta William J. Burns discussed the situation In South Carolina. Ho charged that conditions here are worse than in any case where he has made investigations. He charged that the "graft I c? f 11 n Ion " in Smith Carol inn. was the "worst mess" that he had ever run across and that the San Francisco hoodie case was infinitesimal in comparison. He expressed himself as being interested in the South Carolina case and said that he would go to the bottom of it. On the stand Burns testified that he had the evidence te show that Cole L. Blease had heen guilty of grafting as governor and State senator. It is expected that Burns will appear before the committee at a later date. He promised the use of his men in airing the situation and said that they would be avauauie ai any Iimr. ? Several Drowned by Cloudburst,. At Darren Run, Pa., Thursday Flight during a heavy storm John Raymond left Ills homo and went to a barn in a nearby ravine. Alarmed by his continued absence, his wife, six children and two quests went In search of him. As they entered the ravine a wall of water swept, down and drowned them. Raymond, safe I # the barn, was helpless to aid when the victims screamed. WILD TEXAS STEER ON A RAMPAGE IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY TRIED TO GORE PEOPLE Dashes Through the Streets, Bellowing and Cliarging Group of Folks on the Sidewalks, and is Finally Killed by a Bullet from the Pistol of a Policeman. The New York World says one hundred long-horned steers, just arrived in New York from the Texas plains, were being unloaded Wednesday night from a cattle boat at the foot of East Forty-fourth street. Suddenly one of them?a big red fellow?gave an angry bellow, plunged against the fence about the pier, broke it and leaped into the East River. The steer started up the river, swimming with the tide. l.Many persons swimming off the piers passed by the longhorn hurried to shore. At the foot of Forty-ninth street there is a pier that extends far out into the river. The steer rounded it and then turned toward the shore, where between 3 00 and inn Yunn nnil wnnion wore bathiliir. The first the bathers knew of the steer having got loose was when they saw him approaching. At tho same time lie gained a footing in tho shallow water and with a bellow charged them. A small boy, trying to clamber up the jagged rocks, was overtaken by the brute. The steer was lunging forward with his sharp horns when Walter McGirr of No. 311 East Fiftyfirst street ran forward and covered the steer's eyes with his coat. Then the boy was drawn to a sare place. Quickly the steer shook tho coat from his head and, trotting up to tho J street level, loped up Forty-ninth street toward First avenue. The street was crowded, but the cries of the bathers had given tho alarm. At First avenue the steer swung about and headed toward tho river. On tho long pier at the foot of the treet were many mothers with babies ! in carriages and small children at their skirts. The steer made straight for the pier, and the women and children were pushed upon a barge by men, who then sought their own sarety. The police were called. Again the steer turned and started in a gallop, with lowered head, toward First avenue. A passing trolley car brought him to a halt. Patrolman Andrew Deleali of the East Fifty-first street station attempted to head off the steer and was charged. The patrolman sprang aside and as the steer swept past lilm he sent a bullet into the animal's shoulder. This only angered tin; brute the more. He turned and again charged. Deleah had to show the agility ol' a toreador as he leaped to safety. A second bullet entered the steer's side. The third time the steer charged he came so fast Deleah was In danger of being gored. Again the patrolman shot. The brute sank to his knees with a bullet in the centre of his forehead. Before he could get to his feet Deleah had shot him in the hea rt. The steer was consigned to the United Dressed Beef Company, which has an abattoir at Forty-fourth street and First avenue. It was hardly dead before employees of the company came running up armed with clubs and carrying ropes. The steer was loaded on a wagon and hauled to the abottoir. After a government inspector had said the animal would make perfectly good beef It was prepared for market. ? BURNS DKTKUTIVKS ABSKNT. Afraid They Would be Assassinated if They. Came. An interesting turn has come about in the investigation in the absence of the Burns detectives. Sam Nichols had requested that when he testified 'I'll Iit.crlnv ie S2 Wniwl liellTi'M 1 J1 UI C7VIUJ X 4% M. lV\/VVt| A# l ???^ ?a\/ v? VN/.. ant, appear and hear his testimony. The committee had requested Reed to appear, but announcement has been made that neither the Burns detectives nor Thomas H. Felder, who has been backing the detectives' investigation, will appear before the committee in this State. They say they are afraid that they will be assassinated by friends of the Governor who will act boldly in the expectation of a pardon from the chief executive in case of conviction. They consent to appear before the probers in any city in a nearby State. ? ? Cat Adopted Little Rats. An official report of the assistant actuary of the Ohio State liability board declares he lias discovered a cat at the Goodman plant in Hamil ton that has adopted a nest of eight young rats. The mother rat had been killed by employees of the plant. The report says the eat is mothering the rats just as if they were her own offspring. ? tinselino Tea Kills Girl. Miss Florence Trout, of Muscatine, la., was burned to death and four other members of the family were injured, two fatally, when a tea pot of gasoline exploded. Tly mistake the kettle had been tilled with the dangerous fluid and placed on a hot stove. A Daring Airmail Killed. At Sevastopol Lieut. Zekutskt fell from a military aeroplane Monday and was killed. He was an experienced airman. BITES PROVE FATAL I; CHARLESTON MAN VICTIM OF MARSH MOSQUITOES. ^ Succumbs to Illiictis Brought on by Myriads of Mosquitoes Which Bit ri Him While in a Launch. ' The News and Courier says as a result of numerous mosquito bitos, j( which he received in the marshes behind the Isle of Palms about two weeks ago, Mr. John Von Oven, the King street grocer, died at the Riverside Infirmary. Mr. Clarence Fairchild, who was with Mr. Von Oven, was also badly bitten, and is ill at the Riverside Infirmary, though his condition is said not to be serious. The two men spent the night in a launch near the isle of Palms two 1 weeks, or more ago, it is said, but :p did not feel seriously the effects of 1 the attacks of the mosquitoes until a few days ago. Mr. Von Oven's ( death is ascribed to a severe malarial infection. It was not by previously made plans, but through seemingly acci- 1 dental circumstances that Messrs. 1 Von Oven and Fairchild spent the t night in the launch behinn the Isle > of Palms. The two men, together ( ; with some ladies, had gone to the , Isle of Palms to attend one of the hops at the pavilion. They made the trip in a launch, tying the vessel in 1 one of the small creeks back of the island. 1 After the dance it was found that t the tide had ebbed, and left the boat ( aground. It was impossible to get the craft off at that hour, under the , circumstances, and the ladies spent the night at the hotel, he men staying aboard to take care of the vessel, 1 and to get her afloat at the first pos- ' sible opportunity. During the night the mosquitoes attacked them in droves, and both men were badly bit ten. The serious results of the bites did not become apparent until a few days ugo, when the men became ill, and were taken to the Riverside Infirmary for treatment. In spite of all that could done for him Mr. Von Oven died. The cause of death is said to be ;i severe malarial infection, received from the bites of these mosquitoes. It is now a generally accepted belief of the medical profession that malaria can only be taken into the human system through the bite of mosquitoes of a certain species. The mosquitoes probably came from the fresh water swamps in the interior of the marshes themselves. At last reports, Mr. Fairchild was stated to be getting along nicely, and it is thought he will be out again in the near future. ? Will Defeat President Taft. To elect the ticket nominated on Aug. 5 seems not to be the purpose of those responsible for this third party movement, so much as to bring dissatisfied voters into a new party organization and thereby prevent, if possible, the re-election of President Taft, says Grit. There does not eem to be prospect for success in any oilier direction, although there may be. Some idea of what a million or two votes can do in a presidential primary election may be gained from on examination of the returns of former elections, in which sometimes a few votes determined the results. For instance, in 1 908 the Republican pluralities in a number of States were quite small. If the same conditions should obtain in 19 12, the third party might be able to determine the votes of these states. To bo more explicit, if the third party should draw away 11 per cent, of the Republican vole in Delaware, 3 per cent in I Indianna, 2 per cent in Montana, 12 per cent in Ohio, and 20 per cent in West Virginia, the electoral votes of these States, amounting to 54, would go to Wilson, providing he can poll the normal Democratic vote. This loss of 5 4 votes would likely defeat Taft. Again, the progressive element is supposed to be very strong in California, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, North Dakota, and Oregon. To take these States from the Taft column the third party would have to poll 40 per cent of the Republican vote in California, 3 5 per cent in Idaho, 30 per cent in Kansas, 15 per cent in Maine, 4 5 per cent in North Dakota, and 3 0 per cent in Oregon, on the basis of the vote of the last presidential election. To carry these States and secure their 43 electoral votes for its own candidates, the third party would have to secure between GO and 7 0 per cent of the Republican votes in each and all of them, which it seems posible to do, unless the Democrats vote solidly for their own candidates. A few votes in these states might place them in the third party column, and what is true of them, is also true of Penn- | Smia, with its 38 electoral votes, it what effect a very few votes d have in determining results is best illustrated by the election of 1S84, wherein 1,000 in the state of New York would have mado IMaino president; or in the election of 1 888, wherein a change of 3 0,000 votes divided between several states would have re-elueted Cleveland; or in 189G a change of .1.r>,000 votes properly distributed would have made Bryan president. A change of 01,000 votes 1000; and the same number of votes would have prevented Taft from being elected President in 1 008. ? ? People oftentimes lay tho blame for failure on bad luck when it is bad Judgement that is at fault. Life is made a failure, not by ill conditions but by ill thinking . I rHE MESSAGE CAME ? IICHOLS TELEGRAM TO REED REGEIVED SUNDAY. rHE PERSECUTION CRY ?.? 4 'elder Talks About tlie Evidence M??i Submitted to the Committee am? Says After Sending the Telegram Nichols Went to See Bleasc andWas Closeted All Day. "Blease and Sam J. Nichols may lot have had a conference about the ardoning of Gus Deford, but the fac*. emains that wo have in our poeses* iion a telegram from Nichols, adIressed to the mythical Chicago lawyer who was really a Burns dotecive stating that on last Thursday ho ,vas going to have a conference with. iImsh ami nrrflntro for the nardon.'* laid T. D?. Folder Sunday afternoon?* >\ hen shown the denial or the Govm nor lllease, that he ever had any:hing to say to Nicholas about the pardon of Deford by a Constitution reporter. The Constitution then goes to say that Mr. Feldor was satisfied with he evidence which he gave before the committee from the South Carolina legislature at Augusa, and lie was. non-committal when asked if ho would cause the Hums' agency to continue its investigation of tho acts ei the South Carolina governor. It is said that the investigations which resulted in Blease bcimg charged with giving and accepting bribes and with other crimes have already cost Mr. Folder more than $15,000, all ot which was paid from his private* funds. A number of prominent South Carolinians, whose names were not given out, held a conference with Mr. Folder in his ollico Monday morning, hut what the result of this conferencewas could not bo learned, as Mr. Folder refused to talk of its purpose. Hostated, however, that a number of additional facts wore supplied himwhich may later develop into testi mony even more startling than that: given at Augusta. Owing to the fact that the South Carolina legislature will not nieo.ti. again until January, >9 13, tho Investigating committee from, the legislature will have several ''additional months to obtain new testimony and prepare its report, which will bemade immediately upon the convening of the legislature. This commit? too has been at work since February, and has hold many meetings, at all of which now evidence against the governor has been heard. With the facts already obtained, ft is said, the legislature of South Carolina will take little time in imponchtbo chief exeeutiVs of tho State, as conclusive proof hi been given that Ifleaso not only acci Ted bribes, but also misused his oIlicA in other ways. Tho declaration of 11 Lease tnat the investigation was caused by political enemies was denounced as absurd. "When Sam Nichols sent the telegram to Chicago ho immediately went to Barnwell, where he nwr Rlcase, and the two were closeted; . most of the day," continued Mr. Folder in answer to IlJease's denial of the charges. "It may be that Nichols merely fabricated, out it does not seem probable after' what we have already found out. J^icase knows that he is up a tree and is adopting; the only methods possible. N "I have never known a crook?take the McNamaras, the Atlantic City grafters, or any others?who. when direct evidence was given against him, did not cry that he was being persecuted. That is the only defense they can put lip and that is just what llloase is doing. Ho is as guilty as any man outside penitentiary walls, and it would not surprise me to see him spend the greater part ef tho remainder of his life behind! the bars of a prison." E. S. Ueid, the Burns detective who has been conducting the investigation in South Carolina, is still in the city as Mr. Folder's guest. Ho Iirst began his detective work when ho was but sixteen years of age. At that time he ascertained the location ot a kidnapped child and returned her to her parents. After that he was employed by the Croat Northern railroad to- run down the Harvey Logan gang of trainrobbors. After a trip over practically all of the United States and Central America he caught the leader of the gang in Argentine. His latest work was rounding up the Atlantic City grafters, and it was., with the little dictagraph, the same instrument which ilgured in the Iinvestigation, that ho obtain oil most of the evidenco against, the city oftlcials and bosses. It Is not Improbable that he will continue his investigation of F.loase and will have many more sensational developments to reveal at the next meeting of the . j committee. Five Texas Feudists Poisoned. J County Commissioner M. G. Diaz,- .JM his nurse, and three other county offlcials who drank from tho same bar- jr.1 rel of water in San Diego, Tex., are M j dead as the result of a feud in which a number of outlaws bad ncen previously killed. The water was.shciwni to contain strychnine. t-J