Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FINE POSTS TO FILL FKESIDENT WILSON WILL HAVE SOME FAT JOBS - NOT IN CIVIL SERVICE > OoHfimuiAn Joseph T. Johnson, of Thin State, Kxpresses Himself Very Plainly on the Matter, Baying That the Present System Is ? Mere Kopublican Pretense. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says since the Republican party began its sixteen years of uninterrupted control of the administration in 1 897 it has set up a system of examination for applicants for positions in the consular service. The impression has been generally made, therefore, that the consuls are under civil service regulations, like tho clerical forces of the various Government departments. The fact is that the consular places are in the Presidential class, and no ?Alee that is filled under tho Constltu11 * * : ^ 'x Inni len no n ha tjon ny i!rfXUi'unvw 11w111111uij\/11 k,uii iy?-? brought wilJiiii the compulsory operation of the civil service without an amendment of the Constitution itself. Examinations may bo required to fx a list of eligiblea if the President i? willing, and such a system affecting appointments and promotions of consuls was created by an order of President Roosevelt in 1908. Rut any succeeding President can disregard or abrogate this system at will. Representative Joseph T. Johnson, of South Carolina, one of the present Democratic leaders In Congress, had this to say when the matter was mentioned to him: "The Republican papers and a good many of the Democratic papers are urgjng that the consular service should not bo disturbed by the incoming Wilson administration, stressing the alleged fact that this service has been taken out of politics and is tinder the classified or civil service regulations and should there rcmaii . ,w ni?. o ro n mucins I out u nuut'iiiciim en v; uuiuuiiiQ. can understand why the Republican papers are so anxious to maintain the status <juo; but I am surprised that any Democratic paper should fall into the Crap. 1 believe strongly in the civil service, but 1 detest hy ,f>ohi isy and deception. Here is tie r<4- >Bituation: There are many consuls and consular agents of the United States. The compensation rauges from $2,000 to $12,000 a year. At a time when every consular office probably was filled by a Republican the Republican Administration made a pretense of taking the con nular service out of politics and putting it on the merit system. Since that time a few Democrats from the Southern States have been permitted to stand very rigid examinations as to their scholarship, and where the> passed successfully have been appointed to some of the consulates o; the lowest grade. For instance, from South Carolina, Dreher, Haskell, Cook and Jenkins have been appointed to $2,000 posts, which is the minimum salary. Alter a year or two in these undesirable places, two or three of these men hare been promoted. Prober, Haskell and Jenkins have been advanced to $2,500; Cook remains at $2,000. It would bo many, many years beforo any of those Democrats of the low grade could ever reach any one of the high and desirable places, if the Republicans who now fill them are permitted to remain until they die out. "I think President Wilson would bo perfectly justified in upsetting audi a partisan, unfair and sectional arrangement. If the places had not all been filled In the most partisan and sectional manner it would be all ; right, to take the consular service out of politics and place it upon merit. But one serious objection to the form of examinations that have been conducted here in Washington is that the examinations require men of very ' high literary attainment, and would bar some of the very best business men in South Carolina. How many of the very best business mon in South Carolina, who could be instrumental in extending our foreign trade, can speak fluently two languages? And yet that is one of the prerequisites to appointment as consul. "It may he of Interest to you to know who fill the most important ^ m n .. 1 rt m IP I xx* \ /\ fyllTA OAll' f I'tflinuiai nil vro, lii'l nu: i > c jun i ii? poste, their respective salaries, the perftons who Oil them and the States they hail from in the consular servico in tho grades from $5,000 a year up to $ 1 2,000 a year: London, $12,000, Griffiths, New Ybrk State. Liverpool, $8,000, Washington, District of Columbia. Paris, $1 2,000, Mason, Ohio. Rio de Janerio, $S,000, Lay, District of Columbia. Shanghai, $8,000, Wilder, Maine. Havana. $8,000, Ttodgers. Ohio. Hong Kong, $8,000, Anderson, District of Columbia. Rterlin, $8,000, Thackers, Pennsylvania. Hamburg, $8,000, Skinner, Ohio. Vienna, $6,000 Denby, Indiana. Calcutta, $6,000, Michael, Ohio. BODY HAS BEEN FOUND DISCOVERED IN ASHLEY RIVEK NEAR A RICE MILL. ? Long Search for Former Charleston Jeweler, Who IHaappeared on Saturday, at Last Rew?rtled. The News and Courier says the mystery of the disappearance of Mr. Joseph M. Thomas was solved at midnight Monday night by the finding of his body In the Ashley River, just off the wharf of Chisolm's Mill. The body was in a neml-decomposed condition, but was identified by a relative of Mr. Thomas' without any trouble. Mr. Thomas was last seen in lift; at about 11.20 o'cloek Saturday morning. His hat and overcoat were iound on the edge of tho Boulevard Saturday afternoon, giving rise to the theory of suicido. Searching parties had dragged tho Ashley River continuously in vain until midnight Monday night, when two men from the Navy Yard, venturing out from Chis-. olm's Mill in the bare chance of finding tho body, hooked it while taking soundings at tho last momont before coming in. The two men who round tho body stated that they had gone out with little hope of finding it, not even knowing of tho reward of $200 that was offered for it. They wero talking soundings in thirty feet of water a short distance from the head Of tin wharf. A large hook had been fastened on either side of the sou'tiding lead. Suddenly the hooks struck something and when hauled in it was found to be the body It was taken into the boat and given attention, notice boing sent meanwhile to the family of the dead man, to the coroner and to the J. M. Connelley undertaking establishment. A relative of Mr. Thomas hastened to the spot and quickly identified the body. Mr. A. Chambliss Connelley arrived soon after to take charge of the body undor permission from Coroner O'Donnell. While there is nothing to prove definitely that the death of Mr. Thomas was a case or suicide, everything points strongly to this fact. Tin1 hat and overcoat, when found on the Boulevard, were carefully laid, aside. In addition to this, it is understood on reliable authority that before lea\ ing home on Saturday, Mr. Thomas had laid aside his watch and pei scnal jewelry that he had worn roe uarly. Mr. Thomas was u?>out f>7 years o ago and was until recently a meinhe of the firm of S'pphen Thomas .t Pro., jewelers. A reward of $'100 h.te Kao n n tT/irn.'l h u VI r I f 1 l'lw \ m o o son of the missing man, for (ho dolivery of the body. 'Some men seem to think that thov should hold ofhce all the time. Somi men in this State wrio were cand dates for re-election to county office 'hey had held for sonic years, bti who were defeated, are now cand dates for a high Federal position P his State. It seems to us that mewho have held office for years, at" been repudiated by their own oeepie, should stand aside and give others a chance at Hip pickings. Dies From Lodge Initiation. The authorities at Cumberland Md., are investigating the death o Zadock TroxeJ Offner. 2 2 years old which occurred during initiation int. the Loyal Order of Moose at Western port. While members of the organ1 zation are reticent, it is stated deatl occurred suddenly during "hors< play" in the initiation when an electric battery w.) i used Capetown, $6,000, Uuentiier, Wisconsin. Manchester, $0,0 0 0, Howe, Massach usetts. Yokohama, $0,000. Sr.mmons. New Helfast, $5,000, Sharp, North Carolina. Kobe,$0,000,West, Maine. Amsterdam, $0,000, Mahin, Iowa. T.ourenco Marquez, $0,000, Cham l>orlain, New Mexico. This is enough. Tt is not necessary to go through the long list of $4,500, $4,00 0 and $3,500 places. Suffice it to say that practically all of these desirable berths are filled by Republican politicians." York. Montreal, $0,000. Hradley, Illinois. Ottawa, $0,000, Foster, Vermont. Mexico. $0,000, Shankln, Missouri. Constantinople, $0,000, Randall, South Dakota. Antwerp, $5,500, Diedrlch, Pennsylvania. Brussells, $5,500, Watts, Pennsylvania. Tientsin, $r>,.r>00, Knabenshue, Ohio. Marseilles. $5,500, flaulln, Rhode Island. Rotterdam, $5,500, Distoe, Minnesota. Havre, $5,00 0, Dunning. Maine. T,yons, $5,000, Hurst, District of Columbia. Bremen. $5,000. y*oe. Ohio. Frankfort, $5,500, Hill, Minnesota. Seoul, $5,500, Scidmore, Iowa Panama, $5,500, Snyder, West Virginia. Moscow, $5,500, Snodgrass, West Virginia. Oarcelona, $5,600. Morgan, Louit?lnana. WARMLY WELCOMED SOUTH CAROLINA BAPTIST CONVENTION NO! IN SESSION AT ABBEVILLE ? " Opened en Tnesdnj and Is New Hard at Work.?CoL W. H. lout I* Ileelected President for Another Tear.?Other Officer* Are Named and Reports Submitted. The ninety-second session of the iouth Carolina Baptist State Convention was called to order at three o'clock Sunday afternoon at Abbeville by the president, WaWlter TI. Hunt of Newberry. After joining in a song the congregation was led in prayer by Prof. B. E. Geer of Greenville. The ioil of delegates was reported as complete by the secretary. Key. Chas. A. Jones, and the convention weiu Into election of officers. Col. Walter H. Hunt was re-elected president, and Rev. W. E. Thayer of Laurens, first vice president; Rev. Rufus Ford, D. D., Marion, second vice president; Rev. Chas. A. Jones, Liennettsville, and Rev. A. B. Ken nedy, Columbia, were elected secre tary and assistant secretary. Prof. B. E. Geer was reelected auditor. Rev J. S. Corpening submitted the report on order of business, which was adopted. The address of welcome was made by Rev. Louis BriBtow, pastor of tbe Abbeville ehurch, and tho response was made by Rev. J. F. Vines, D. D., of Anderson. Ten pastors, who have com? into tho State since the convention n year ago, were recognized and welcomed Those wore Rev. Josiah Crudup, Tlmrr.onnville; Rev. E. P. Jones, Newberry; Rev. Z. G. lAmderioii, Newry; Rev. Geo. A. Nichols, Florence coun' y; Rev. E. V. Babb, Easley; Rev. ames McKittrick, Edgefield county; iev. D. L. Hayes, Barnwell; Rev. J. !). Bowen, Newberry county; Rev. .1 t Whitesldes, Spartanburg; Rev. R y. Johnson, Cbappells. Visitors were welcomed as fol'.ows 'rof. B. IT. Demert, Southern Rapist Theological seminary, Louisvillc, I Ky.; Rev. V. I. Masters, I). ')., educa- J ional secrotary of the homo mission j >oard, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. M. V. YlcHifiie, financial secretary of Kurman miversity; Rev. T. B. Ray, O. P.. ducational secrotary jf tha foreign noard, Richmond, \'a.; Dr. \V*. J Misenbury, representing the Tudson ontennial memorial fund of the l'orign mission hoard; R?}v. and Mrs tiiiji I.'iUp nnd Rev. Id. T .Snticffp. iissionaries in China; Rev. John II. '?p(*r, I). H., represent.!!:! /<? of Cokt i uilege; Rev. D. W. Cw1 i i, Atlanta, 'a., and Rev. \V. D. Stvens of the 'arolina association, Hoc *v county. Reports were ^uhmit t eA hy the >oards of ministerial education, age*, linisters' relief, trustees of (Bonnie Maxwell orphanage, />?-Ge mission card and the report )f tuft ^u.idaj >ewool field secret? ry. .1. D. Moore. There are now in Funnan !fniverity thirty-five ministerial studeu's * will require $3,400 to aid ihejt -ident8. The orphanage has children. Phe gifts to the orphanage this \ear >ave gone u little beyond the dioouul ipportioned to it by the contention. Tho Statu mission board's report vas submitted by Rev. W. T. l)erpiix, D. D., corresponding secretary *ifta to the board this year have amounted to $38,058.1 6. It was good or the convention to hear this report or they had been rearing a heavy !oht. ?5ut large and numerous conributlons were rushed into the treas iry in the last few days ot' the convention year. The Sunday school hoard report was submitted to the following comnittee; 1. S Corpening. W. L. Hayes f G. Phillips. C. H. Roper, J. R Whitesides. The report on report or aged minsters to: F. P. Covington, M. M Benson. G. T. Asbill. M. C. Brabham R J. Clary. Committor* to report on report of trustees of Connie Maxwell orphanage: R .1. Woodward. T. S. Wright I. D. Bailey. O. .1. Prince, L. D Rvans. At 4:10 o'clock the convention adjourned with prayer by Rev. W. T. IT undley. Ten years ago. MM) 2, contributions to the State missions amounted to $1 0.B08: this year. $38.0n8. Thfa one item of increase lias characterized other depot" men fs of the wort in which South Carolina Baptists are enlaced. It is very probable. judging from recommendations reports. that every department w;M he enlarged, and new features of ov.evolencf begun, this incomi* e \? The town o'' i" ville has spared tio pains in ? ' onsiderate courtesy to the B nisteia' conference an' ' s: Stale convention. Tr'pi' ' no! hv the committee n ?' ?. ?>s n re put into | ? aitlnv end whirled to, ho lin?n for en'ertain* menf A " ? fn^t ne<tr the new r n n .. .? ? rhurch swings a donhV - ' trie lighted letters* i?> ? We1 come naptksti," FIFTY CHILDREN DEAD ? VICTIMS OF A PANIC IN A MOTING PICTURE SHOW. Maaj IJttle One? Were Crashed Death When the Crj of "Fire Was Sounded. A terrible panic was caused Bunday afternoon by the cry of ' fire" at a moving picture show at Ililboa, Spain. About fifty children and others were killed. Only one woman, up to a late hour Sunday night, had been found among the dead. The number of injured is not known, as most of them were taken home by friends. The scene of the accident <s a largo circus, which had been converted into a continuous cinematograph sho.v. As the price of admission was only two cents tho building was crowded to its utmost capacity, for the most part women and children. Tho operator of the machine lost his nerve when a film Ignited and screamed "lire". He was able to distinguish the flames himself without I difficulty. Almost every one In tho building ! sprang up. l'olice and attendants were powerless to control the panicstricken people and were swept away by tho surging mass which sought to fight a way to the exit. Scores wero knocked down and trampled and many were crushed to death in the passages from tho galleries and to the streets. Tho disaster caused frenzied citizens to gather outside the building, and authorities had great difficulty in carrying on tho work of rescue and extricating the dead and injured from the piles of wrecked seats. Tho manuger and other employees The Greenwood Index very properly advises parents not to give their boys parlor rifles for Christmas presents. As The Index says if a boy does not kill himself he is liable to kill tllO Oil tin or /our irieiiu uim neighbor. The parlor rifle Is a great nuisance, a dangerous thing STIRRED WIFE'S SCORN. When Husband Cut Her Off From HI < Red and Hoard. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN? My having left my bed and board I will not be responsible for any dents contracted by her alter this date. That advertisement, inserted by Edgar Botts Marshall of Newton, N. J.f appeared in a paper there last Saturday. Recently this advertisement appeared: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN? I After reading a few lines sontained In the columns of your paper in re-j gard to myself 1 beg to differ witli| the author. In the first, place, how; could I leave my beloved husband's,' bed when the faithful old bed on, which i slept, including the ancient feather tick and a few board slats, j are the property of his aged father? A straw tick is also included in the make-up, the covering of which I ' .? /.,wl ??? uca 1 t' i,? ; 1 11 t 1m I n : J 11 I U II (iru U ill.v dCll ^ iUi 1.11V7 Hiv.ui?iv^ from iny flock of chickens, which I worked hard to raise. If I am not.j awfully mistaken my beloved hus-| band furnished the few bundles of htraw contained therein, hence 1 left his bed of straw. 1 also bog to announce that I have furnished a greater part of the board for my father-in-law, for myself and I poor mother was laid in her grave. Therefore, how could I leave his hoard? I also took in sewing and I kept boarders to help sustain my faithful husband. Will no longer be responsible for any debts contracted by my husband. Grace Hrnndago Marshall, Beloved wife of Edgar Potts Marshall. HAREMS ARE DEPLETED. Educated Women S. ?/.e Opportunity to Slip Away. Turkish%harems have boon considerably depleted since the Ottoman capital has been threatened by the Bulgarian army. Many of the educated women belonging to the establishment of Turkish personages of high rank have taken advantage of unsettled conditions in Turkey to escape from the harems and proceed to. western Europe. Several of the refugees have arrived at Marseilles on i vi t tt n tyi n rn nnmlnir frmn r?n?tr?rn Modi W ^ W ...... 0 ? . V/M. .. fcrranean porta. Others have reached hausiinne, Zurich and Geneva. A few have come to Paris. They show, every appearance of having departed in haste. They possess very little money but have brought with them much sp lend id Jewelry and some fine silks. ? ? - Four Iturn to Heath. Four persons, one woman and three small children, were burned to death and one othet woman reoeiv ed probably fatal injuries in a fire i:c}:r .MMvpon .\ews, \ a., inursuuy.j which was featured by the heroism of the two mothers in an effort |nj vo I bet r r It 11<1 ri?n Falling (Yosn Kills Sevton. While he was removing a monument in a cemetery at Hamilton, O., a cross fetl upon Charles Welling-' hoff, the sexton, fracturing his skull] and causing death within a few. hours. and in the public square, pointing into the street on which hhe Baptist church is located, is suspended the 4 TELLS AWFUL TALE AN AMERICAN TALKS OF MEXICAN JAIL HORRORS FOUR COMPANIONS DIED Crowded With Thirty-four Other Prisoners Into a riunless Dungeon, He Ix>8t Seventy Pounds, and Would Have Died Had Not Ho Itecn ltelcttsed After a Year's Torture. Keduced from 170 pounds to a mereshadow by a Ion* confinement in a Mexican dungeon, C. W. Macatee once a resident of Chickasha, Okla., ia now under the care or Dr. D. 10. Manuel, the city physician. Stooped, thin and sallow almost beyond recognition, it was hard for men who knew him to believe that the thin, wasted figure is the samo man of sturdy physique who left there some years ago. Macatee says he went from there to Wichita, Ivan., where ho joined a Mexican colony, went to Mexico and purchased forty acres of land from the Mexican CTovernment, receiving from that government a deed. Having stocked 1iyh holdings with necessary horse*-, cattle and nivilos ho began preparation of the soil for flitem crops and had five acres in shape for pineapples and seven acres ready for banana culture when the Mexican revolution broke out. His place was near Chihuahua, whicn city the insurrectos captured ?*rier a spirited fight early in the rebellion and made it the rebel capital. The story of his Imprisonment covers sixteen months of privation and hardship, wherein he was forced to live on practically nothing and submit to conditions almost beyond human endurance, when death stalked into the cell and claimed, one by one, four of his companions, whoso bodies were allowed to lay in the cell nearly two weeks before they were removed by the prison authorities. The following is Macatee's own story: "1 had about J250 in money and several hundred dollars' worth of horses, cattle and mules when the present Mexican revolution broke out. When the rebels captured Chihuahua they seized all the American colonists and demanded that they turn over all that they possessed to the rebel leaders, because, they said, we helnnrrod to the American and not. to the Mexican Government. They destroyed all we had, took our livestock and money and marched us in a hollow square of j^ddiers to prison. In Chihuahua there are two prisons -?one known as the 'outside' prison and the other as the 'inside' prison. '4In company with thirty-four other Americans I was placed in the 'outside' prison, where for about sixteen months 1 did not see a ray of sunshine mr set a breath of fresh air except that ftiitcred into the ceil by a circular pipe that reached the roof. Wo were thrown into prison on April 15, 10 11. and were liberated August 15, 1012, when Madero's arn:y recaptured Chihuahua. "The roll which 1 shared with thirty-four other prisoners was possibly twenty feet square, and during all the time we were there the ceil door was unlocked but, three times?twice to clean the cell anc once to remove the bodies of four of our comrades, which removal occurred two weeks after their death. "The hellholes of tho Mexican prisons are indescribablo. The cell was without bedding <.r any kind, and we were forced to sleep as best we could on the cold stone floor, in the filth and germs. Our food consisted of four tarferis, one-half pint of wat er. and was doled out to us at irreg ular Intervals. "We were fed whenever thev happened to think of ,ts. The guard would come through the corridor bearing a small lighted torch and ( would push out scanty food through a hole at the bottom or the solid steel door and go away, probably not to return for' several days. - \> kz i it i t*u ui'iiiM *:i%v iiiuu a drovo of hogs an<! death came to my four companions absolutely from starvation. Wo could not got, ?t par- ] tide of exercise owing to the crowd j <u' condition of our coll and eventually put in most of our time sleeping. "Our vtell was twelve feet underground and we did not even hear the ; cannonading of the two armies in the * six-hour battle when Chihuahua fell t again into the hands of Madero and 5 the Federal government. "We did not hoar tho Federals * when thov battered down the front door of the prison and tho first ' knowledge wo liart mat something urn sua) was taking place was when 1 they battered down the inner doors ( to the cell room. We naturally 1 thought that our hour of execution ' had come, hut were happily mlstak- 1 on. Hoing almost nased wo wore given some dothlng and smuggled across the lines to El Paso, where I stayed two weeks, it was fully that long bofon I dared to attempt to 1 open my eyes In daylight. Even now I have to wear clouded glassee. ' j BESIDE WIFES GRAVE J. CLARK TAKKS HIB OWN JLIV1I IN THE CEMETER1. ItiRht Hand Still Grasping P1M?I, Hullot from Which Famed Nock Caused Instant Death. A. J. Clark, one of lancaster b moi.t prominent and Influential citizens, who recently resigned the position of manager or tho Lancaster News, committed suicide early Thursday morning, between 0 and 7 o'clock, in the Presbyterian Cemetery, at Lancaster, using as an Instrument of death, a 32 calibre pistol, with which he shot himself through the neck, the ball entering from the !* ft side and lodging in the base of the brain. From the nature of the wound inflicted, tho physicians, who examined the body, say that death must necessarily have been instantaneous. No piobable motive is yet assigned fsr Mr. Clark's rash act, which has oassed universal sorrow and regret i? this community, where the deceased Has lived and worked the beet of bis lift Tho body was found at 2 o'cIock Thursday by parties walking tftrougt) tho cemetery, under a large ouk trse, near the grave of his wife, who died jcinc eighteen years ago. The discovery was at once reported to the members of tho family and the searching party, which, on account of his continued absence from homo since dawn Thursday morning, had been looking everywhere for him. II is body was found in a reclining posture. He was partially dressed, and held in his right hand the pistol with which he put an end to his life. Mr. Clark was a native of North Carolina, from which place he came to Lancaster years ago to engage in the newspaper business. For seventeen years ho was editor and m&nwhich paper was finally takeu over, with tho Ledger and Review, to Join the Lancaster Publishing Company. He was elected manager or tnte company, which position he held continuously ever since until about two weeks ago, when, on account of failing health and close confinement In his office, he was compelled reluctantly to resign. WANTS TO II10 JUDC*lib b'riends of Octavious Ooftcn, Dsq., Urge His Claims. A letter from Moncks Corner to The News and Courier says *?a statement which has appeared In some of iho newspapers of the Stato to the effect that P. T. Hildebrand, Esq., of Orangeburg, solicitor of the 1st circuit, and M. S. Connor, Esq., of tho St. (leorge Bar, are the only candidates for the Judgship of tho 1st circuit, made vacant by the resignation of the Hon. Robert E. Copes, is incorrect. The statement boro a St. Ceorge date lino. Berkeley County has, and has had, a candidate for the Judgeship in tho person of Octavus Cohen, Esq., of Moucks Corner, who also maintains an oilice in Charleston. Mr. Cohen's friends believe that he is far in tho lead in the race and that he will be elected. In consenting to permit, nis name to ho used in this connection, Mr. Cohen is making a great sacrifice in a monetary way, and his friends at Moncks Corner and at Charleston, appreciating that fact, ire doing all in their power to bring his candidacy to a successful conclusion. Aside from members of the Berkeley County Bar and county officials, who have endorsed Mr. Cohen's candidacy, he is endorsed by many members of tho Charleston Bar. Man is Seriously Shot. At Wilmington, N. o., J. M. Leishia, a local manufacturer, Tuesday light was shot and seriously wounded by Jene Carewe, a well known local contractor. The men quarreled over domestic affairs. Carewe wan admitted to bail In the sum of *1.000. It. is said that in Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted, no hoels are allowed to open their bars from midnight on Saturday until Monday morning and any one driving past a place of worship at a faster uace than a walk while scrvleo In jirogrens is liable to be .arrested. Riders Are Killed. At Flqun, O., Homer Whitlock, \god IS, and Ora Wilhelm. aged 23, jvero killed Tuesday when the'r moorcycles collided on the Plqur-Troy speedway near there. Their necks -ere broken by the collision. 'Though I weighed 170 poundi? ivhen 1 went into prison, my weight a'as Irs* than 100 pounds Ayhen ' *r~ rived in El Paso. I remember three >f the men who were in prison with me. Charlie (lardner, of Arkansas Hlty, a man by the name of Woods and another named Atwoll, from Kansas. "We were taken from El Paso to Tucumcarl, N. M., frv#m which plaee we walked to Amartllo and were taken from there to Fort Worth. From Fort Worth I made my wmj as heel I could to Chlefcaaba.