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ATONE FOR CRIME
FATHER AND SON PAY THE PEN.
, ALT) FOR MURDER
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ALIENS DIEI IN CHAIN
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Eleventh-1 lour Appeals to the Lieu
tenant-Governor in Behalf of
Young Claude Allen Stopped When
Governor Mann, Apprised of the
Plans, Returns to Richmond.
Mumbling a prayer and crying half
audibly that he was ready to go,
Floyd Allen, lawless product of the
Virginia mountains whose refusal to
accept a short prison term for a
minor offence led to the wholesale
Court murder in Hillsville, one year
ago, limped to the death chair in
the State penitentiary at Richmond,
Va., Friday.
The sentence of the Court, held up
for six hours while desperate and
. ^"dramatic efforts were being made to
save the condemned men by eleventh
hour appeals to the Lieutenant-Governor,
was speedily ordered to proceed
when Governor Mann hastened
back to Virginia soil to take charge
of a situation which was sensational
and exciting to a degree.
The prison superintendent, acting
entirely within the law, agreed at 2
o'clock Friday morning to defer the
execution, giving Attorney-General
Williams an opportunity in the meanwhile
to pass upon the constitutional
right of Lieutenant-Governor Elysson
to interfere. *
But the young son of Governor
Mann reached his father in Philadelphia
by 'phone less than an hour after
the delay had been ordered, and
by 8 o'clock Friday the Governor was
again on Virginia soil.
Incensed, as it afterward developed,
by the unexpected effort to take
advantage of his temporary absence,
A when he had repeatedly refused clem^Hftncy,
the Governor boarded an early
^PRiorning train, arriving in Richmond
at 11:30 o'clock.
On the way he telegraphed the Secretary
of the Commonwealth that he
would be In Virginiia by 8 o'clock,
this information suddenly checking
the plan of Allen sympathizers in further
urging the Lieutenant-Governor
to interfere.
WJiik/every proceeding had halted
f^M^dlng'the Governor's arrival, word
reached police headquarters that a
crowd bad assembled at the station,
patrolmen, detectives and plain
clothes men being hurried there to
prevent any demonstration. When
the Governor stepped on the platform
he was quickly surrounded by
officers who escorted him to a taxicab
which took him quickly to the
Capitol.
In his office at the State prison
Superintendent Wood was pacing the
# ? floor nervously as he awaited devel/?p\nents.
The situation there had become
more intense. Precisely at noon
the superintendent was called to the
telephone.
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""I 110 uovornor til Virginia is ai mn
desk," was the message ho received
from the Capitol, and instantly preparations
were made to obey the
mandate of the Court. The witnesses
who had assembled at 7 o'clock, the
hour announced for the execution,
had left the prison with instructions
to return at 1 o'clock.
Just after sunrise the Aliens practically
collapsed when informed that
a half-day respite had been granted
by a combination of legal and technical
circumstances as strange as any
that had ever been presented to a
Court of justice.
Claude Allen, who had retained
his^erve throughout the trying ordeal
in his .behalf, gasped and trembled,
but ho regained bis composure
as he noted the hopeless and dejected
appearance of his aged father in thfe
cell across the corridor. As the
morning hours passed they sat with
their spiritual advisers, but they
nerved themselves again for the end
when they heard that Governor Mann
had returned to Virginia.
Men prominent in official circles of
the State, who waited in the Capitol
for a final plea to the Governor, were
turned away as his secretary handed
out this statement, from the Executive:
"Hearing ait fivo minutes to three
o'clock this morning of the action
taken in the Allen case, after I left
the city, I considered it my duty to
hurry back. I simply desire to repeat
that, after the most careful examination
of the evidence in this
case, I have not the slightest doubt
of the guilt of Floyd and Claude Allen,
and I will not interfere. The
law must take its course."
What brought forth the greatest
indignation from the Governor was
the reported fact that the plan to appeal
to the Lieutenant-Governor was
agreed upon a week ago.
While there was no intimation
from Lieutenant-Governor Ellysson
that he would interfere, his willingness
Thursday night to await a written
opinion from the Attorney-General,
who had already ruled verbally
that he was without authority, was
accepted outside to mean that the
life of Claude Allen might be spared.
Governor Mann, however, cut thru'
the maze of uncertainty and doubt by
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HITS THE SCHOOLS HARD
GOVERNOR HIiEASE REFUSES TO
OBEY THE LAW
Fails to Attend Meeting of the Board
to Arrange to Borrow Money to
Carry on Schools.
Governor Blease did not attend the
meeting of the financial board of the
State, called for to-day to make some
arrangements looking to borrowing
.5u,uuu lor iue use 01 me rurai
schools. The meeting was held in
the office of the State Treasurer with
only Comptroller General Jones and
State Treasurer Carter present.
The Legislature at its recent session
imposed a special one-mill tax
levy for the support of the free rural
schools and empowered the financial
board of the State to borrow $150,000,
If so much be needed, for the
schools and pledge the income from
this tax in payment of the loan.
State Superintendent of Education
Swearingen the other day called the
Governor's attention to the pressing
and immediate need of about $30,000
to enable the rural schools to continue
right now and asked the board to
meet and make arrangements for
borrowing this amount. It was for
this purpose that today's meeting
was called.
The Governor in a mesage to the
General Assembly stated that he did
not speak to the State Treasurer and
Comptroller General and would not
serve with them. However, the Legislature
put it in the hands of these
two officials and the Governor to borrow
the money and the matter is up
to them.
It is authoritively stated that unless
the money is borrowed by the
end of the week that some 25,000
children in the rural schools will be
deprived of school and many of the
schools forced to close their doors.
Intense interest has been aroused
throughout the State, for scores of
the schools have applied to the Superintendent
of Education for aid.
It all depends on the attitude the
Governor will take. If he declines
to act with the other members of the
financial board it will hardly be possible
to borrow any money, it is said.
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KILLS HERSELF IN STORE.
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Chattanooga Woman Takes Poison
in New Orleans.
Mrs. Isabel G. Temple, thirty years
of age, daughter of H. N. Temple, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide
in a Canal street department
store in New Orleans, Friday. Miss
Temple, who went to New Orleans
three weeks ago suffering from nervousness,
was found in a lavatory by
a shopper after she had swallowed
the greater part of a viol of poison.
She died before she could" be taken
to a hospital.
Miss Temple went with her mother
to the public library Friday afternoon.
The young woman excused
herself for a moment and walked
into the street. The mother waited
a while, and when her daughter had
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When found the young woman was
u nconscious.
A Chattanooga dispatch says Miss
Temple was a daughter of H. P. Temple,
a retired manufacturer of thai
city. Miss Temple was an artist and
had been in New York for several
years, employed as a magazine illustrator.
She returned to her home a
year ago, suffering from nervous
breakdown. Her condition did not
improve and she became despondent.
Miss Temple was widely known. The
family is one of the most prominent
in the Central South.
hastening home.
The jury, which, under the law, is
required to witness all executions, assembled
outside the penitentiary
gates shortly .before 1 o'clock, mingling
there with the crowd. The program
as originally announced was
carried out without change.
While two ministers, who have
been unfaltering in their loyalty to
the condemned men, were telling
them good-bye, the prison superintendent
stepped into the corridor,
which separated the cells of father
and son, and read the death warrant.
Floyd Allen, still limping from the (
wounds he received in the Hillsville ,
Court battle, said the last tearful
farewell to his boy and went with the
prison guards to the death chamber.
A groan escaped him as he sat in the
chair, while the straps and electrodes ,
were being fastened about him. The ,
current was turned on at 1:22
o'clock and in four minutes the sur- ,
geon motioned to the superintendent ;
that he was dead. The body was (
speedily removed.
Again the chair was tested, while <
Claude Swanson Allen, namesake of
a United States Senator, was being 1
led through the corridor to the chamber
door. Though a trifle pale, he
marched with measured stride, his
head held high, his wonderful nerve
with him to the end. As he took his
seat he moved his arms to assist the !
guards who were adjusting the i
straps, and like his father he went i
silently and unafraid. i
When the autopsy had been performed
the bodies were given over to
Victor Allen, Floyd's son, by whom
they were taken to the mountains of
Southwest Virginia for burial. J
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BODIES IN STREET
MANY SURVIVORS STILL CLING TO
TREE TOPS
BEYOND THE RESCUEBS
Others, Frozen, Drop to Death in the
Waters Below ? Two Hundred
Dead Found in a Church?Hundreds
of Bodies Are bald to be
Partly Submerged in Streets.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio,
says the first direct communication
was established with the West Side
shortly after four o'clock Thursday
afternoon, when Undertaker Osman
said over the telephone that he had
nineteen bodies in his morgue and orders
to care for sixty-nine more as
soon as possible.
He says that he estimates the number
of dead in the United Brethren
Church on the West Sid? at 200.
From 100 to 150 bodies, he said, are
lying partly submerged in Avondale
avenue. About 200 more, according
to Mr. Osman, are lying in West Park
avenue.
Th? section between Central avenue
n ml SnnrliiKkv ntreet vviik nlmnsf
wiped out. After two nights of horror
during which hundreds clung to
hopsetops calling for help until their
voices gave way, while dozens were
perched In the branches of the trees,
many are still beyond the reach of the
rescuers.
The cold caused many to freeza,
lose their grop and drop in the water.
With military glasses, rescuers
standing on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad near Central avenue could
see several dead forms lying on the
roof of a building to the east.
At the corner of Glenwood and
Thomas avenues, the lifeless form of
a man was still hanging in a tree.
He had frozen during the night. Vandals
looting the besieged territory
added to the horrors. G. W. Giver,
justice of peace at Briggsdale, swore
in several deputies Thursday and
gave them instructions to shoot down
all looters.
Company E, Fourth Ohio National
Guards at Marysville, assumed guard
duty around the stricken district
Thursday.
Relief trains from Marysville and
London bearing food and clothing
relieved irc situation in 1n e reiugees'
quarters in the hilltops.
Estimates of a heavy loss of life
in the West Side are the stories told
by the hundreds rescued and by
scenes witnessed by the rescuers, who
have been working continuously with
rough boats tor forty hours.
'Between 600 and 1,000 persons
lost their lives in the flooded West
Side of Columbus, according to representatives
of the Columbus Dispatch,
who nave jus*, gotten into communication
with the newspaper office
from the previously isolated section
of the city.
The same estimate is given by tiersons
in charge of the relief stations
011 the hilltop west of the flooded section.
Discoveries made Thursday
morning among the stricken populace,
they say, are appalling.
According to those who invaded
the stricken district, the big State institutions
and store rooms in the hilltop
section are crowded with refugees,
many of whom were rescued
from the murky waters and who tell
stories of indescribable horrors.
Former Mayor Geo. S. Marshall,
who was in telephone communica
tion with Attorney Cecil Randall, his
law partner, said Thursday that Mr.
Randall said the death toll would
reach at least a thousand.
Throngs of excited groups of people
from the flood-stricken section
of the city who were crowded into
the temporary rescue quarters asserted
that the estimate of Mr. Randall is
not exaggerated.
The true extent of the awful tragedy
will not be known for days until
the mass of wreckage, hon es and
uprooted trees, which are strewn over
the lowlands south of the city
are uncovered. This mass of debris
is under several feet of water with
Bwift. currents running in many di
rections.
Many of those rescued tell of escaping
from their homes by the fractions
of minutes just before the rushing
waters swept their homes away
and crushed them like egg shells
against bridges. Scores of entire
families, those people assert, were
Bwept down with their houses in the
Bwlft currents.
Every available Inch of space in
the Columbus State Hospital for tha
Insane and Mount Carinel Hospital
on the hilltop is occupied by refugees,
according to those who invaded
the stricken district Thursday.
Four children are reported to have
been born in a school on a hilltop.
Fire Chief Lauer, who was marooned
on the hilltop, just beyond
the flooded section, reaching that
point of safety in his automobile Just
before the waters swept the lowLands,
said he saw scores of people
Btanding on their porches as the waters
swept down and that he cannot
Bee how scarcely any escaped.
Who would have thought it? Illinois
sends a Georgia Democrat to
represent her in the United States
Senate. Surely the war is over.
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HISTORY OF THE CRIME
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FOIl WHICH THK AL.LENS WERE
E LiECTROCUTED.
Bevei-al Other Participants in the
Crime Serving Various Terms in
the State's Prison.
The execution of F'loyd Allen and
hiB eon, Claude Swanson Allen, at
Richmond, Va., marks the first blow
of justice upon the notorious Allen
clansmen, whose lawlessness for
years held the natives of the Virginia
mountains in terror and culminated
early last year in the shooting
up of the Carroll County Court, when
five persons lost their lives. The
news of the crime sent a thrill of
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"v/iii/i mi v/u^nuui uiv uat'vii) 4iiiu
the shocked Virginia authorities moved
expeditiously to .bring the criminals
to justice.
On the morning of March I i Zioyd
Allen stood before the bar of the Car
roll County Court House, ac Ilillsville,
to receive sentence for hie part
in aiding the escape of another mountaineer
from the custody of the sheriff.
A crowd packed the little Court
room, for the character of the prisoner
was well known. Members of
the Allen family were known to be
in Court and trouble was thought
imminent.
The jury having announced a verdict
of guilty, Judge Thornton L.
Massie sentenced the prisoners to one
year at hard labor. With the last
word of the sentence a crash of firearms
broke from the spectators'
! benches. Floyd Allen, the prisoner,
with a smoking revolver in his hand,
leaped from the prisoner's dock and
joined the rush of the gang toward
the door.
When the Court room was cleared
the body of Judge Massie, riddled
with bullets, was found lying over
his desk; Commonwealth Attorney
William 'at. Foster ana snerm L?. F.
Webb lay dead on the flood; Augustus
Fowler, a juror, and Elizabeth Ayres,
a spectator, were bleeding from
wounds, which proved fatal the next
day, and Dexter Goad, clerk of the
Court, lay shot through the neck.
Goad was one of the principal witnesses
for the State at the conviction
of the prisoners.
When the Court room was examined
later it was found that more
than 200 shots had been fired. Twenty-seven
shots took effect upon those
killed or wounded. An army of detectives
and newspaper correspondents
soon was scouring the muddy
roads of the mountains in search for
the prisoners. Floyd Allen, the cause
of the shooting, who had been
wounded by Sheriff Webb in the
Court room, was taken the day of
the crime, together with his son, Victor
Allen, and his nephew, Bird
Marion.
Sidna Edwards, a nephew of the
Allen brothers, was captured in a hut
in the mountains, March 2 2. Edwards,
who is lame, had eaten nothing
for several days and was very
weak when found. Claude Swanson
Allen, another son of Floyd Allen,
walked up to a posse in the mountains
and surrendered himself on
March 2 8. The next day Friel Allen,
youngest member of the gang, was
taken at his father's home.
Floyd Allen, charged specifically
with the killing of Commonwealth
Attorney Foster, was found guilty of
first degree murder on May 17, and
sentenced to death. Claude Allen,
his son, was tried on a charge of killing
Judge Massie, and convicted of
murder in the second degree. The
jury recommended a sentence of fifteen
years in the penitentiary. The
State demanded a new trial and a
verdict of guilty in the first degree
was returned on July 2 7 and he was
sentenced to death.
Friel Allen pleaded guilty of murder
in the second degree, and on August
14 was sentenced to eighteen
years in prison. Three days later
Sidna Edwards pleaded guilty to a
like charge and was given a sentence
of fifteen years. Victor Allen was
acquitted of a charge of having participated
in the murders.
Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen,
and recognized leader of the
clan, and his nephew, Wesley Edwards,
eluded pursuit for many
weeks, and eventually escaped out of
the Virginia mountains and made
their way West. They were captured
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the result of a love affair of young
Edwards. A letter from him was
lost by Maude Iroler, of mount Airy,
N. C., and detectives followed its information
and captured the two men.
Sidna Allen was placed on trial
November 11 at Wytheville, Vn.,
charged with the murder of Judge
Massie, convicted and sentenced to
thirty-five years in prison.
Three Candidates for Senator.
Three candidates have already announced
tor the baited States Senate.
The campaign will be held in
1914, and the candidates already out
are E. D. Smith, incumbent; C. L.
Rlease, governor, and N. B. Dial, of
Laurens. Mr. Dial was a candidate
last summer for the place of Senator
Tillman.
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We have no doubt of the success of
the Wilson Administration. The most j
prosperous periods ever enjoyed by
this country was when it was under
the rule of the Democratic party.
Why should not history repeat ltsolf?
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LATE FLOOD NEWS
THE DEATH LIST NOT AS LARGE
AS REPORTED
LOOTING IS REPORTED
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Thousands Thought to b? Drowned
in Dayton Are Found to be Safe?Seventy
Thousand Marooned in
That City ? Fifteen Thousand
Homes Submerged and Untenable.
Revised estimates of the losses of
life in Dayton, Ohio, received Wednesday
night, give ground for hope
that the dead in all sections affected
by the flood will not exceed 2,000 and
may go below that figure.
Darins? investigators who nonetrat
ed the Hooded section revealed hundreds
safe whom it was feared were
lost. Unless swelled by a death list
in the foreign settlement on the north
side, as yot unreached, there may not
be more than 2 00 dead in the whole
city.
There was far heavier loss of life
in the west side of Columbus, Ohio,
than was thought. One estimate
placed the number of dead at more
than six hundred.
Apparently authentic reports from
Piqua indicated that twenty were
dead there.
At Peru, Ind., the authorities estimate
the death list will reach at least
150.
From Hamilton fifty persons were
reported drowned in the collapse of
a hotel where they had sought refuge.
Twenty-five deaths were reported
from Troy, Ohio, thirty in iMiddletown
and five at Masillon.
Deaths from the flood in Chillicothe
will not exceed 25, according to
latest advices. Earlier reports were
that from 200 to 500 lives had been
lost.
A report trorn Linton, ina., gave
sixteen persons drowned at Howesville,
25 miles south of Terre Haute.
There were ten deaths at Sharon,
Pa.
Estimates are that 7 0,00 0 persons
are marooned in Dayton's flooded district,
where 15,000 homes have been
submerged. Rescue stations are providing
for 5,000 homeless. The property
damage in the city is figured at
$25,000,000.
Alarmist reports were frequent
during the day. In most eases these
were quickly contradicted. Rumors
that the Grand reservoir near St.
Mary's, Ohio, had broken proved unfounded.
Similar reports about the
Rewiston reservoir likewise were
found to be untrue. Threatened
breaks in both were repaired and reports
to Governor Cox, at Columbus
Wednesday night indicated that the
danger from tills source was passed.
Later reports from Zanesville -are
that fifteen lives are believed to have
been lost there. About 15,000 are
homeless. A score of buildings collapsed.
Fire broke out at one point,
but it was not believed it would
spread.
Twenty were found dead among
refugees in the Court House at Peru,
Ind., the victims of exposure, according
to a telephone message. Contagion
has broken out among the refueees,
the report stated.
The police and militia report that
looters are working in the central
district. All persons not able to give
a satisfactory explanation of their
actions are arrested. Persistent, but
unconfirmed rumors, tell of looters
being shot. Excitement is running
riot. The wildest rumors were in circulation
and serious trouble is expect
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THEY MUST AIjVj WORK.
Postmasters Must Give Full Time to
Thoir Offices.
Hereafter postmasters in the larger
offices of the country are to he
held strictly accountable for the time
and personal attention they give their
official duties. Postmaster-General
Burleson announced Friday that he
proposed not merely to discourage,
but to stamp out the practice said to
be followed by many first and second
class postmasters of imposing a considerable
part of the duties upon
subordinates in order to utilize the
time for personal ends. Furthermore,
the Postmaster-General, in
making recommendations for appointments
to these offices, will require,
in addition to the usual qualifications,
an assurance from the applicant
that his whole business time
will be devoted to the duties of the
position.
Surgeon l)iwt From Infection.
Dr. Algernon T. (ftristow, sixtytwo,
one of the best known surgeons
in Greater New York, died at this
home, No. 234 Clinton street, Brooklyn,
of blood poisoning which resulted
from infection received while performing
an operation at the Long Island
College Hospital on March 12.
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Fell One Thousand Feet.
At Toklo two Japanese army officers
were killed Friday while giving
an exhibition flight in an aeroplane
for the members of parliament.
Their machine broke when making a
turn at a height of 1,000 feet and
they were dashed to the ground.
CRIMES OF THE ESKIMOS
HUMAN LIFK CHEAP IN THE ABOTIC
AMONG THEM.
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A Missionary Who Was Sent C > Theo
Tells of the Ways of Northern
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Tribesmen Who Never Wash.
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A great work is being done far up
on the northeast shores of Hudson
Hay in converting the wandering Indians
and Eskimos who inhabit that
desolate region to Christianity. A
devoted little band of three or four
Christian pioneers is stationed there,
and a member of that "Arctic mission",
who is in England for a short
"leave", gave some of his experiences
of the country and its people recently.
He said:
I am stationed at a tiny settlement
on the Great W halo river, and the
town consists of two houses and a
store 1 live at one of the -houses 0
with a Hudson Hay trader. We get
two mails a year out there, but the
newspapers only visit us once, so
that you can imagine our expectation
when newspaper day comes round.
At the end of August every year a
ship calls, and we have to be very
careful to remember to order everything
we want, because if we forget
anything we should have to wait another
year.
The Eskimos never wash themselves.
I have oft?n seen an Eskimo
woman washing her young children
like a cat does a kitten?by
licking them all over. Their only
means of livelihood lies in catching
seals. They are always on the lookout
for seal holes in the ice. They
eat the blubber, that is, the fat of the
seal, and clothe themselves or at any
rate make their trousers out of sealskin.
It is very cold?45 degrees below
zero as a rule?and we Europeans
have to keep roaring fires going
in every room of our house.
The people don't live in villages
but separately in families, so as to
have as wide a field for hunting as
possible. They are a very revengeful
people. A short while ago an
Eskimo was out hunting and saw a
black dot in the distance on the ice.
On approaching ho made certain that
it was a seal just protruding from a
seal hole. He fired and -hit it, but
when he got up to it he found that he
had accidentally shot a man.
He called on the widow, said how
sorry he was, and, promising to help
the woman, asked for forgiveness.
The son of the dead man entered,
and, when he heard the story he
rushed off and killed all the hunter's
family in revenge. In retaliation the
hunter killed all the dead man's family,
and so the feud began. When
we were informed of this and came
to investigate we found that there
was only one man surviving out of
two families of about 17 persons. ,
They were terribly lawless until \
we came, and even now when in the
grip of starvation commit the most
awful deeds. Lately a mother, ravaged
terribly by hunger, ate her two
children. An other killed his wife
and lived on her, and when she had
been eaten up tried to murder three
other men's children. Luckily he
was prevented. There are no native
laws. They don't steal, but think
nothing of murder. When they aro
"put out", as the saying goes, they
must take a life. They don't mind
whom they kill when they are angry
as long as they kill some one. There
is no sort of punishment for the
crime.
They are very fond of singing and
their favorite or only game is connected
therewith. A piece of seal
bone, with a little hole in it, is sus- \ "
ponded from the roof. They all sit
round the room, and each tries to
throw an arrow into the hole. He
who succeeds has to sing a song,
most songs wins the game. They
have largo families, and the race
would increase tremendously were it
not for accidents and murders. They
are, however, very impressed by the
Christian creed, and we are gradually
getting them to change their ways:
Driven From Their Homes.
At Louisville, Ky., more than two
thousand families were driven from
their homes last Friday, 3,000 men 1
were out of employment and thousands
of dollars' damage to property
had been done by the waters of the
Ohio River, which early crashed over
the "cut off" at tho east end of the ,
city, flooding a large section to a
depth of four feet. t
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Kobels Surround Federals,
Gen. Ojeda, with four hundred
Federals, is surrounded by a thousand
State insurgents ten miles below
the border at Naco, Sonora, and
making a last stand. Gen. Obregon,
commanding all Sonora insurgent
troops, is on his way from Cananea
with six. hundred insurgents reinforcements.
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Boat and Soldiers Are ljost.
A report, which this far lacks confirmation,
is current in Mexico City ,
to the effect that a boat, with more
than four hundred soldiers on board,
has been sunk off Guyamas, in the
Gulf of California, as the result of
an explosion. .
There are plenty of rich Demb- M
crats, but they are not the kind that
is needed to represent thta country fl
at foreign courts if dollar diplomacy I
| <s no longer to be In favor.