The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 11, 1913, Image 6
SUCCESS IN MEXICO
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ASSURANCES GIVEN THAT HUERTA
WONT RUN
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OUTLOOK IS HOPEFUL
?
Wilson hikI llryaii Adopt Attitude
That lluerta lias Been Mliiiiiiiat<tlami
They Tliink That Other Developments
May I.ead to Peace in ]
War-Hidden <'ountry.
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan have adopted the attitude that
the elimination of Yictorlimn iinnptn
from the Presidential race in Mexico
is assured and that the first step toward
the establishment of peace in
Mexico lias been accomplished. This
wgs the authoritative declaration
Thursday of administration ofllclals,
who also let it be known:
That oral assurances had been
given Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge
d'affaires of the American embassy,
of Huerta's intention not to bo a
candidate in the approaching election.
That the United States would
construe literally the argument in
the second note of Frederico Gamboa,
Mexican minister of foreign affairs,
who pointed out at great length that
a provisional president in Mexico is
ineligible to succeed himself.
That any effort on the part of
lluerta to circumvent the Constitution,
by resigning in advance of the
elections in favor of another provisional
president, would bo regarded
by the United States as a breach of
f I f 1 * \\t\C t l'O ' "\t-- t 1 -
uu: Aivic.ii stress
was laid by the ofllcials upon the
withdrawal by Senor C.amboa, in his
second note, of the original demand
for recognition by the United States
through the exchange of ambassadors.
That the lluerta government had
in effect withdrawn its demand for
recognition is now held by many
Washington oflicials, notwithstanding
Senor liamboa's declaration in the
same note'that, lie would "always
stand on the unavoidable condition
which declares that we are in reality
the adintcrim constitutional government
of the Mexican Republic".
Dispatches from the Mexican Capital,
stating on high authority that
lluerta would resign soon in favor of
Gen. Geronimo Trevlno so as to be an
eligible candidate for the Presidency,
attracted wide attention.
The administration ofllcials having
taken the view that lluerta has been
eliminated from the Presidential contest,
are looking forward to the early
negotiation of an armistice by the
Mexican factions and the prompt
holding a constitutional election.
The United States will consider itself
free to withhold recognition until af.
tor it has scrutinized the elections to
j determine if they had the approval
of the Mexican people.
1 ?
Sotting a (iood lOxnmple.
I The action of those fifty thousand
1 or more Missouri citizens in turning
] out so willingly to help get tho state
"out of the mud" was a practical 111
lustration of patriotism that may well
3 find imitators. For it is patriotism
1 to Help one's community or state, as
] well as the nation, info a better and
J: higher condition. If more of such a
spirit were displayed in communal
i life there would not he nearly so
< many dead or dying towns,
j As a good roads proposition the ae \
tion of the Missourians has every \
thing in its favor. It was a recognit
tion that good roads are vital to the
? best interests of the state, and therer
fore, to those of every city and village
t in the state. Roads are the arteries
t of commerce and trade, and also of
v the social life of a place. A good
road, one that can be traveled every
o day in a year means progress and
nr prosperity. Many a town has lost out
s because the roads leading to it were
t well nigh impassible, ?nd in like
t manner many a town has won out bet
cause its citizens saw to it that the
I. roaus leaning 10 11 were Kepi 111 gooo
condition. %
Again the action of tho people of
Missouri was a striking illustration
of the power of harmonious co-opera?
tion. Rich and poor, and people of
every vocation in life, and of all ages,
a were moved by one single purpose?
^ that of improving the highways of
the state. It goes without saying
h that in all tho future its roads will be
more easy and comfortable to traverse,
and that they will be more
pleasing to the eye. In a very literal
sense it may be said in the langagc
V of Scripture, "the crooked has beer
ci made straight and the rough placet
t< plain." All that will mean millions
d; of dollars to the commonwealth, and
M which is by no means to be overlook
h; od, a greater pride in and love foi
in the state.
That same spirit of co-operatioT
may well be imitated in everything
ol conceived to promote the interests o
anv nlaee. whether that nlace be :
JIf da 1
m largo city or state, or a small village
n, It is the spirit that speaks of unity o
jj desire and action. Many a town ha:
II) been killed hy factional feeling ant
jealousy. Such a spirit has mori
than offset all the natural advantage!
the place may have had. Unity, ear
neatness, and intelligent action wil
j,, make prosperous any place not in it
self impossible. 9
President Wilson Indorsed.
Ono of the most interesting and
helpful results of Presiient Wilson's
special address to Congress on tho
Mexican situation is ifce responsive
ring of approval it lias brought from
thinking men in every party and in
every section of the country. The
Atlanta Journal says if lluerta ever
had reason to doubt that the administration
was speaking for the entire
American people be is now convinced
of his error, for every voice of
public opinion that comiuandR respect
has united in earnest commendation
of the course the President is pursuing.
Thus the New York Tribune, as
staunch a spokesman of Republican
politics as could be found, declares
that the nation must "approve and
support the dignified, benevolent and
resolute policy which was "put forward
in tho President's message'' and
the Run aflirms that "the attitude of
the administration, so manifestly inspired
by lofty ideals of duty and of
method, represents exactly the attitude
of our Congress and, generally,
of the American people.
The Herald speaks with insight as
I well as enthusiasm: "No more striking
evidence of the truism that In the
I'nfled States political opinion "stops
at the border," could be asked or
given than that furnished by the reception
accorded by Congress to President
Wilson's address. Republican
Ren n tol-K If Alirnonnlollimo ?
, . . ?...? .v j i v in uuun i f, cin
strongly as those of tho President's
own party gave unequivocal approval
of the efforts of the executive department
has made to promote peace in
our neighboring republic, and of the
policy to be pursued in the immediate
future."
The Kvcning Post remarks that <lie
President "lias absolutely united the
country behind him. Scarcely a single
partisan or prejudiced voice is
raised against his general attitude.
This is tho more remarkable in that
the President's plea, while strongly
insisting upon the national dignity
and the duty laid upon tho United
States, is all for peace, all for friendship
with Mexico, all for non-intervention,
all for the most resolute denial
of any selfifeh purpose in our .attempts
to bring about a peaceful sett
lenient."
The Boston Transcript is confldont
that Mexico and tho world are now
convinced "that the voice of the
President in this crisis is tho voice of
the nation;" and the Springfield Hepublican
declares that tho course Mr.
Wilson advises "is tho nnlv t?
pursue and the American people will
show their patriotism to the best advantage
by solidly supporting him."
The Chicago Tribune says "The
President's action is bused on the
deepest and broadest foundations of
American international policy, foundations
sometimes ignored but always
ignored at cost." The Chicago
Inter Ocean counsels the American
people "to stand firmly with their
President in seeking such a triumph
of moral force and pressure as most
clearly distinguished from physical
arguments of any kind."
And the San Antonio Express,
speaking from the first band experience
of one on the troublous Southern
border, observes: "Congress
cheered the President; we who know
conditions in Mexico, we who are
more capable of judging because ol
our proximity to and our famlllaritj
with the aflairs of the neighboring
Republic, congratulate him on hit
wisdom and strength.''
Thus, almost without a dissenting
voice, does the press of tho United
States sanction and support tho far
sighted and high-minded policy the
administration is carrying forward. Ii
is doubtful if ever before in the coun
try's history a President ever inspir
ed confidence so cordial and wide
spread in dealing with a crucial is
sue."
They Will 1m? the Tjotters.
The refusal of Germany, Grea
'Britain and some other Europeai
nations to participate in the grea
fair at San Francisco will, if persisted
in, lessen to some extent tne uttrac
tivenesB and valuro of the Exposition
but it will do for more harm to thoei
nations not represented. Doubtless
as the governments of those countrie
declare, tlio cost of making such dis
plays is considerable, and the immed
1 iate trade results may not bo appar
ent. Hut for nations that spend bun
dreds of millions of dollars ever
* year to build wadsbips, and train an
equip vast armies, th excuse that ca
not afford two millions apiece for in
' dust rial display is rather far fetche
; and but provokes a sceptical smile. 1
> is rather a sad coinmetary on the
boasted civilization of thoso land
? that while they decline to pay u. con"
I partively small sum to bo representei
> ed on an occasion designed to promot
i commerce and the arts of poae<
* they squander with spendthrift reel
* lossness immense snms for warlik
, purposes.
r Home influence and not legislntio
is needed to curb the "tango" and th
1 "I ni key trot" and slit-skirt, wearing
X is the opinion of Vieo-President Mai
f shqll. Mr. Marshall was the principi
\ sjieaker Sunday at the camp nieotln
. of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurcl
f South, at Great Falls, Va.
s
1 It may not be possible to stop th
8 formed the habit, but a stron
s healthy, determined public sentlmei
- against the illegal sale of liquor b
1 so-called social clubs and blind tiger
- and similar lawlessness, can be buj
pressed, and it (should be.
PRIMARY NEKDS REFORM
.IOIIN J. McMAll \N I'lmjks LKtiAl/
ki:^i iki:mi:nt or school
* ' I
Attendance to Moot Mxccptional ()?*
4es
and Insure Disciplinary Oontrol.
Children with school-going companions
will want to go to school
It is natural to imitate. This is motive
by suggestion one of the most
poten influences in 1 ift*. Thus it is
quite easy to send children to school
if it is the custom of the neighborhood
to do so, but it is difficult in a
community that has not this custom.
The development of such a custom is
much to be desired, and may require
the aid of law.
Desisting Needed Discipline,
lint there are'times when children,
even though they started to school
with eagerness, will drop out or lag
unless kopt to the tasks by the com
ulsion of the parents backing up the
teacher. At such a period of strain,
f the parent undermines the influence
of the teacher, or encourages
tho child to give trouble or stop off,
it may prove the fatal turning point
in the career of the child. Whether or
not thus ruinous to the child, the
contagious example and demoralizing
influence will disturb the work of
111<3 other children, and will retard
the growth of that community sentiment
necessary for the establishment
oi the needed community attitude toward
supporting the school and the
teacher and making the fullest uso of
both.
Mveeptional ('nsos,
Here is the need for the exercise of
the authority of the State to protect
the school which it owns and pays
for, and to control the parent who is
exceptional in harsh disregard of the
child's interests or is exceptional in
weak surrender t. the self-will of the
exceptionally relvollious child The
State's authority is to correct the.
wrong attitude of the ignorant or
heart less parent and prevent the denial
of the child's right to use the
shool facilitties offered by the Stace
or the State's authority is to stiffen
the backbone of the weak parent
helpless against a spoiled and disobedient
child. Thus in iteher case
the State comes in merely to supply
the deficiency of the needed parent
authority, which appears only in ex!
ceptional cases. All law is for ex|
ceptional cases?to make them still
more exceptional by adding motives
the normal and customary.
To Steady I'urciit's Judgment.
, tendance will have far-reaching be
neficlal moral effect as the crystalli
ization of public opinion and the
rinai settlement of wavering indlviI
dual views by the sovoreign decree.
"Thus saith the law!" This will tend
, to straighten and steady the judg
ment and motive of a parent inclln
ed lo let the child stay at home for
; fimsy, fancied or otherwise false
' reasons. The child may be put to
5 work too young, when not really nec'
essary for the support of the family.
r Or the parent may just care nothing
f for the school?concede it no rights
i and give it no thought, and therefore
without reason keep the child loaf;
lug at homo. In similar indifference
I without professed hostility, the par
out indefinitely delays starting the
? child to school, upon sundry pretexts
t such as waiting for shoes, and new
- clothes, or hoofs, or waiting till the
- weather is better, or till the child
- gets over Its cold, etc. In such cases
- the child may never learn to read,
especially if without associates to stir
the ambition to attend school despite
parental indifference.
Dropping Out of School.
( T.et us emphasize the fact that the
j child seldom attends school without
parental compulsion, and every year
many drop by the way. Even after
I the habit should have heen aconired
| by yoars of attendance, pressure is
^ still needed and when exerted usually
has good effect. Many a boy does
well at. tho high school, though he
would have stopped before entering
it if allowed to have his way. Si Hillary
a boy frequently starts to col^
leg>e against his will, and would stop
each year, but for parental influence.
n
Nowadays it Is often persuasion of
entreaty rather than control, as part
cuts in easy circumstances have so
generally ceased to command. NeverIS
thcless the unwilling student usually
' justifies tho parent's decision especially
where tho parent shows a real
' decison and firmness, and is not con^
tent to keep the boy at school or collego
merely in name.
0 Trying Out the Child.
But more and more as tho lilghei
education is approached tho taking
n of it. may be left to the choice, the
e aptitude, of the boy, or girl. Not sc
?, in lower grades, especially primary
r- There the child docs not knov
il enough to bo able to decide for him
g self with any real sense, llo has noi
i, reached tlie ago of discretion, aii(
even if his powers of reasoning were
sound and his judgment trustworthy
io ho would still lack the data, the in
g formation, tho range of vision, nec
it ossary to make an intelligent elecis
>y ion on so momentout a question
s, Moreover, heforo tho child has beer
)- tested, nobody can know enougl
about his possibilities to be justl]
| The Awful Cost of War,
War is tho greatest curse to the
human race, and all tin; great nations
of the earth ought to make war the
very last resort to the settlement of
International troubles. All other
means should be exhausted before
war is even thought of by nations.
As a boy wo have a very distinct
recollection of the hardships and sorrows
caused by the War Iletwecn the
States. Very few homes In the South
but where lorrow entered because of
the death of somo loved ono or
friend on the battlefield.
Tho young men of the South almost
to a man went to tho front in
that fearful struggle and did their
duty like the brvvo men they were
should have doue. Thousands of
theso young men were left on the
battlefields as an offering to tho god
of war, and few homes in the South
hut what mourned for somo loved
one or friend who gavo their life for
their country. Who can estimate the
loss of theso young men to the South?
Then look at. tho treasure that war
cost, to say nothing of tho homos destroyed.
The money cost of the two Balkan
wars amounted to $1,350,000,000,
and tho loss of life was appalling. Of
150,000 Turks mobilized 100,000
were killed In battle; but it Is among
me r.aiKan christian armies that the
losses were most terrifying. miliaria
brought 350,000 men into the
field, and of this number 1 40,000 are
dead. Sorvia mobilized 250,000
men, and lost 70,000 killed. (Ireece,
out of a total of 150,000 lost. 40,000
killed, and Montenegro, out of a
fighting population of 30,000 left S,noo
dead on the bloody field. The
proportion of fatalities to the number
engaged exceeded that of any war
on record.
In the face of these terrible figures,
there are people in the United States
who are anxious for this country to
go to war with Mexico. They do not
stop to count the cost, but want this
country to rush into a conflict that
would cost millions of dollars and the
lives of thousands of our young men.
Wo are glad that we hnvo ut the
head of the nation In this crisis men
who fear (?od and have the courage
to do right. Refore going to war
with Mexico or any other country
they will exhaust all other methods.
AIRMAN PIKiOIT) |)()KS IT AC!AIX.
Proves Somersault in Mid-air Was
Not mi Accident.
The thrilltnp" mnimniivpn /?f
n \/i vwiii
ing a somersault in the air with an
aeroplano flying at rapid speed was
repeated Monday by the French Aviator
Pegoud over tho aerodrome at
Hue, near Versailles, Franco, with
perfect success. Pegoud had promised
that his performance at Juvisy the
day before was not the result of an
accident, but was u proof of proper
control and also of tho stabillay of
the aeroplane. Tie carried out the
daring feat, with apparent easo again
Monday in the presence of ofllcers of
the Frencli army flying corps, about
100 military and civilian aviators and
a large assemblage of tho general
public.
"The story is interesting, but I am
not prepared to comment 011 the
event, without knowing exact details,"
said Orville Wright Tuesday, when
questioned at Dayton, O., about tho
upside down flight of the French
aviator, Pegoud, at Hue. "Present
models of monoplanes that T am acquainted
with," ho said, "make such
a feat impossible, because once the
engine is upside down it stops duo tc
a lack of gasoline."
M. Pegoud writing to the Matin,
says: "My experiments are not finished.
I want soon to show that it
is possible for an aeroplane to turn
overhead-first and then tail-first, and
then side ways without disaster. II
my experiments demonstrate, as I am
convinced they will, that security
may bo attained in an aeroplane, 1
will bo satisfied."
To Issue Paper.
A national official paper will br
established by the National Farmers
union. It was said the purpose ol
the publication would be to advance
the interests of organized farmers bj
disseminating information regarding
the ponding legislation in whlcl
farmers are interested.
warranted in deciding against giving
; him a chance to show what is in him
'lo should be compelled to make i
certain trail of learning before he o
his parents shall decide against it
One of the objects of education is t<
.give the child (at first an unknowi
' quanity) opportunities to doveloi
and tost his different powers, ti
awaken his latent tendencies, taste
and inclinations, to start all the cur
rents of desire and ambition so tha
later ho can with reasonable accur
* acy and fairness to himself and th
? world find his true bent and choos
i his life work. Already there ar
> bungles enough made in this selec
. tion. There would lin mnrn If th
r schools were not. serving the rlsini
- generation by trying out what Is ii
t them. Ttut there should, come to h
1 far fewer misfits in life, lnevltahl
3 disappointments through mlsdlroctoi
, energies, and there will ho fewer
- when school are more perfectly ad
- justed to their proper work, and th
- children are moro universally pu
. through preliminary school thainln,
1 of the right sort.
l John J. McMahan.
r Columbia, August 30.
"OLD BILL" MINER DEAD
?
ll.\l) HAD NOTED CAKKKK OF
DA KING CHIME.
At Age <>f Seventy-llv? Succumbs to
Attack of Gastritis in State Penitentiary
at MiUcdgeville, Ga.
"Old 11111" Minor, the most picturesque
bandit America ever produced,
has died on the Georgia pris011
farm with the great project of his
lifo unfulfilled. It was bin great
hope and ambition to go to Europe
and rob the Mediterranean express,
the richest passenger train in the
world, which goes from Paris to Constantinople.
Hill Miner was nearly seventy
when ho died, and ever since be was
a middle aged man he had been planning
and arranging the details for
pulling off a wild-west hold-tip in
the center of the Old World. It
wasn't the rich loot that tempted him
to tho undertaking but the daring
adventure and tho fame as an outlaw
which such a climax to his long
career would have given him.
Instead, he died of gastritis, a bent
old man, a shackled invalid, among
the suite's weak and decrepit prisoners
at the farm near Milledgeville.
The shackle* were the only thing that
made life tolerable at tho last to the
former terror of the plains, lie regarded
them as the greatest compliment
which the prison management
could pay him. and always smiled
grimly and shook his head when they
offered to take off the chains if he
would give his word of honor not to
try to escape.
uiiii Minor was ":i rmd man'' In tlio
UBimlly accepted sense of the term,
and was a great criminal. but he had
a queer code of honor of his own
which lie lived up to the last.
His Own Story of Info.
Nobody In all the history of America
has a more notable career than
Old Bill Miner, who died at the state
penitentiary at Milledgeville Tuesday
night at 9:2f> o'clock.
The full story of his life, told by
Bill Miner as death approached,
which has just been gained by a correspondent,
is one that would thrill
the most unimaginative and fill page
after page of the most adventurious
stories ever promised by writers of
fiction.
When the grizzled old robber, emaciated
and worn with long txperience
of lawlessness, passed away in peace,
idolized by hundreds because he posed
as ehirf of robbers and classed
himself as a gentleman and scolar,
none of them ever dreamed the true
story of his long life.
lie was born in Jackson county,
Ky., in 1S47, and there he led the
wild free life of that section at that
time. Throughout the width and
breadth of the state (leorgo Anderson
was known before he was fifteen
years old.
Shortly afterwards he started west
unit iiiur jx-urs inier was rounded up
for robbery in San Joaquin county.
April 5 18GG, when but nineteen
years old, he was sentenced to San
Joaquin prison, where lie was known
as prisoner No. 3 24 8. Me was discharged
June 0 of the same year, but
July 12 ho was sent up from Palcer
county for a few months, which he
served as No. 3313.
lie was discharged only to be sent
up from Calveras county June 2 0,
1 1871, as No. 4 002, hut a new trial
1 was granted him and he was taken
back February 0, 1 872, and returned
1 March >0, 1 872, as No. R2 06.
Tie tried to escape May 7. 1 874,
' and had four years added to his time,
1 but March f?, 1 877 his sentence was
commuted to twelve years and he
?
was discharger July 1 4, 1 880.
Heal Activities.
Tt was at this juncture Bill Miner
began his real activities. Meeting
up with Bill Leroy, most noted of
western bandits at that time, he
formed a partnership with him go>
ing under the name of W. A. Mor*
n?i TT -A ' - ~ ~ -
iM-i i uy stage coaon or $3,r?()0. Posses
r pursued them. T-eroy was captured
? and lynched, but Bill Miner escaped
j safely, after shooting up the posse,
r hut only slightly wounding a few of
i the members.
A littlo later he was caught in
- Tuolomne county for robbery and
K sent up for twenty-five years, going
. back to San Quontin as No. 10191.
* He started work December 21, 1881,
i* and emerged from prison July 17,
. 1901.
3 Daring Train 1tol>l?eries.
i Although growing old and having
P paid a severe penalty, he started out
in his career of lawlessness with more
s force in every way. September 2 8,
- 1908, he held up a train near Paget
t Sound on the Canadian side, having
- two confederates on the job.
e They robbed all the passengers,
e looted the express cars and secured a
e big hand, hut all the robbers were
t- caught except Bill Miner. Resting
e tor a few months ho again started his
? v\ i 1<1 career. With his two aides he
a "hold up a train at Mission Junction,
e British Columbia, September 10,
e 1904, and secured $10 000 in gold.
1 The government and express authori\
ties became frenzied at ids daring
- robberies and the Dominion governe
ment. offerod $r>,000 reward for him,
t while tho express company offered n
g similar sum and tho province of British
Columbia augmented it by $2,500
more, making a total $12,500 to be
paid for "Old Bill" Miner, alive or
I
/
The North Carolina Way.
Last year a young man from a
country in this State was tried for tho
murder in Charlotte of a prominent
young man of that city. The killing
occurred in a hotel at Charlotte and
seems to have resulted from a fight
which arose among drunken men.
The jury very properly found tho
slayer kuilty of manslaughter and ho
was sentenced to four years imprisonment.
The attorneys for the convicted
young man have recently been making
a hard fight to secure his pardon.
They managed to get the signatures
of eight of tho jurors who
sat on the case to the petition for
clemency. Governor Craig, however,
has announhed that he will not interofere
with tho case since he has
made a study of it himself and is
satisfied that tiie punishment is not
too severe.
"How different the North Carolina
way from the South Carolina way!"
says the Greenville Piedmont. Down
here we dare say the prisoner would
have been turned loose and in the
reasons given by the governor for his
action, tho fact that eight jurors had
signed the petition would have been
tho first mentioned.
It has always been a strange thing
"" ><"? "An M i*r?tnrii n vor.
diet of guilty against a man, which
calls for a sentence of a certain number
of years, a fact which the jurors
know when they cast their ballots,
yet will turn right around and sign
a petition for a pardon in a short
time after the conviction. It simply,
to our mind, goes to show what a
frail institution man is."
Mexico a Thorny Problem.
.Mexico is a very thorny problem
just now and the thorniness is aggravated
by self-seeking politicians and
business men who are thinking only
of dividends, and by a sensational
press. The men who have big investments
in Mexico are very anxious for
tbis country to intervene in order to
protect tbeir interests. That is all
their patriotism amounts to or their
pretended love of humanity. They
do not care how much bad feeling is
aroused, how many hundred millions
of dollars are spent, nor how many
thousands of lives are sacrificed if
only they can get tho government to
collect their dividends for them and
nrnt f linlr m in fit* ntwl t^lnnlnlionu
. r. 4 *?V4I UUU 1(1
Tliey seem to forget, or, rather, to
J ignore the fact that it is ticklish
I business to interfere with the intorInal
affairs of another nation. It is
much like interfering in a family
quarrel. However denlorahle conditions
may he in Mexico the great
J thing for this country is not to loso
Jits head over the situation. The demands
of self-seeking men dominated
solely by selfish motives, and the hysterical
outcries of sensational newspapers
and unthinking persons must
be disregarded. Calm and wise statesJ
manship is needed and it is encouraging
to note that men of all parties
are thus agreed.
J dead.
J Hut the redoubtable old fellow
laughed at their attempts to corner
| him. lie roamed the wilds of the
J country until May 0, 1000, when ho
j associated himself with Txmis Col|
quhon and Tom Dunn and held up an
I express train at Furer, British CoJ
lumbia. They made the engineer uncouple
and pull the car a mile away,
J but to the disgust of "Old Hill" lie
J found only registered mail, the exI
press company being left in andother
ear. He abandoned robbery.
A Jrice on His Head.
J However, the big rewards were
still In offoct and the Canadian con|
stabulary took mp the trail and
J rounded up Hill Miner and his two
| partners and they were given life
sentences in the New Minster penitentiary
in British Columbia.
J But Old (Bill kept up liis spirit and
J August 0, 1 907, he dug bis way under
the prison walls to liberty and
J traveled to the middle west unharmJed.
For a period lie was quiet, with
J plenty to live on, but after his hoard
| was used up wintering In the south
ho started north and an opportuno
J time seemed to present itself on Fob|
ruary 27, 1 909 when he found two
J novices at. Gainesville, Ga., and robbed
the Southern express train. Hut
lie was captured and sent to tlie State
| penitentiary at Milledgeville under a
j twenty-year sentence.
Grizzled, old and gray, ho was still
| undaunted and declared lie would escape,
and this he did on two occasions
with which lie reading public is
familiar.
Through all his career of crime ho
was known to the officials as "Bill
Miner", though his real name was
George Anderson, but as W. A. Morgan
and George W. Edwards he was
iviiuwu ior a 11mo to many people in
Michigan and Wiflconsln.
This is the first full story over published
of tho famous bandit's life.
The record is official and authentic.
He has so mo few known relatives
said to bo llvlncr. thn ? -- *
~ ann
clearest being his sister, Mrs. \V. .T.
Wilmer, living at Puget Sound, Brlt,
ish Columbia.
?
"Still, "says The Philadelphia
Press, "it would not be fair to blamo
. Ctovornor Sulzer for everything.
There is Cole. Blouse's indorsement of
him, for instance."
? ? ??
, Governor Mouse is not satisfied
. with the way the church is managed,
i Judas Iscarlot had some sort of a
? grouch against the church too, we be
lieve.