The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 27, 1913, Image 5
LAND IS WASTED
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SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
SHOWS UP BIG LOSSES
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WANTS BETTER FARMING
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In Speaking Before Meeting of Farmers
Secretary Garrison Gives Advice
Which if Ileedetl, Will Lead to
Better Cultivation of the I^and by
Its Tillers.
Less than 4 0 per cent, of the cultivated
land in the United States is reasonably
well cultivated and less than
14 per cent, is yielding maximum returns.
Secretary Houston of tho department
of agriculture told the .National
Grance of Patrons of Husbandry
in 4 7th annual convention at
Manchester, N. H., that the best llgures
ho could procuro led to such a
conclusion and that only in a very
few localities had conditions been developed
to insure maximum returns.
Secretary Houston touched unon
rural credits, marketing methods, extention
of agricultural education and
the cost of living. Ho spoke of "manipulations
of those middlemen who
perform no useful or necessary service",
as one of tlie causes of soaring
prices. "I do not entertain the
thought for a second that we have approximated
the limit of our output
from the soil," said he. "We have
not even reached the end of tlie pioneering
stage. We have heen so bent
on building up great and artificial device
that wo have had little time to
think of the very foundation of our
industrial existence.
"Wo had better frankly face the
fact that we are relatively inefficient,
take stock of our shortcomings and
earnestly seek the remedy. That we
havo practically reached the stage
where we have ceased to ho an exporting
nation of food products and
are becoming dependent on foreign
nations for the necessaries of life, is
a sad commentary upon our use of
the opportunities bestowed upon us."
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c?!>t;uiYiiiK ui wuat me agricultural
department hopes to do to solve the
problem of the increasing cost of living
Secretary Houston expressed the
opinion that "the existing chaos and
consequent wastes, result from faults
on the part of the farmer in the growing
and handling of his products;
from tho machinery of distribution
including physical equipment and
physical handling; from the manipulation
of those middlemen who perform
no useful and necessary service;
and from ignorance on the part
of tho consumer and of the producer
of the character of the product which
is placed upon the market."
Secretary Houston urged co-ordination
of federal and State agricultural
agencies as essential to success,
deplored the jealousy which, he declared,
exists in many States between
State agricultural commissions and
the agricultural colleges, and decried
duplication of work in many localities.
In tho field of marketing, he declared,
there was danger that pressure
would he brought, to bear to
force the department to act everywhere
before it was intelligently prepared
to act anywhere. He explained
that his department, which started
last summfer to make a careful study
of the marketing problem, was studying
it from every angl.o
There was tho same danger in regard
to tho question of rural credits.
"I am not impressed," ho said, "with
the wisdom and justice of proposals
Hint would tnko tho mnnpv nf nil tlio
people through bonds or other devices
and lend it to the farmers or to
any other class at a rate of interest
lower than tho economic conditions
would normally require and at a rate
of Interest lower than that at which
other classes are securing their capital.
This would be legislation of a
particularly odious type, and no new
excursions in this direction would he
palatable when we are engaged in the
gigantic task of restoring tho simple
rule of equity."
Before the. problems of rural credit
and marketing, tho secretary declared
tho Individual farmer acting
alone was helpless. Nothing less
than concerted action would suffice,
ho said, and tho "same business sense
and tho same organizing gonius
which have placed this nation in the
front rank of industry must bo involved
in agriculture".
The problem of tbo individual
farmer, said the secretary, bad received
scant systematic attention and
tbo problem of rural lifo as a whole
bad until recently been practically
ignored. From every section of the
country, bo declared, came the story
of "increasing tenancy and absentee
ownership, of soils depleted and exploited,
of inadequate business methods,
of chaotic marketing and distribution
of Inferior roads, of lack of
supervision of public health and sanitation,
of Isolated and Ill-organized
social activities and of inferior intellectual
provision." Tie added, however,
that bo was not of the pessimists
and expressed bis belief that
out of the chaos would come order,
better and bigger crops, improved living
conditions in tho country and relief
to tho city dwellor through greater
productivity of the soil and a busi/
CHICKENS GIVEN SAND
NEW ADULTERATION PRACTISED
FOK OLD I'UK POSE.
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Government Inspectors Take Trail of
Those Who Weight Fowls With
Gravel.
"Look out for sand in the chickens,"
is the latest slogan of tho department
of agriculture and its
sleuths who are on the trail for violation
of the pure food law and the
sale of impure and deleterious food
products. Tho government inspectors
have for some time been investigating
tho practices of certain poultry shippers
who collect chickens from farms
and kill and ship them in large
quantities. In some of these places
tho inspectors found that tho practice
was to tako tho chickens as they
came from tho farm, nearly always
below weight or out of condition because
of their being ill-fed on tho
farms and handled roughly on the
cars, and keep them in fattening pens
for from three days to two weeks.
The chickens aro fed corn meal anil
water or finely ground mixed grains
and buttermilk. This practice is becoming
more and more general and is
highly desirable because both quality
and quantity of edible llesh is increased.
It is also profitable, as the
cost of care, feed and interest on the
investment necessary to add a pound
in weight still leaves a good margin
of profit provided tho fattening is
rld-ll <1 V /Innn
a ViWUUi
Not content, however, with adding
legitimately to tho weight of the
chickens, some of these poultry shippers,
a day or two before the chicken
is killed, feed red peper, which makes
tho chicken have an abnormal appetite,
then they food fi mixture of fine
sand an a little corn meal.
The chicken eats this mixture ravenously
and as a result large quantities
of sand are introduced into the
craw and the intestines as well. This
may amount, in tho case of a single
chicken, to only an ouee or two, hut
where thousands of chickens are sold
the aggregate charge for sand becomes
important. It simply means
that the poultry dealer is selling sand
to the customers at the rate of 20
cents or moro per pound.
Tho housewife should scrutinize
the crops of poultry before buying
and make it. very plain to her poultry
dealer or butcher that sho will not
pay at the rate of 20 to 20 cents per
pound for an ounce or more of sand
introduced into the body of a chicken
with the view of defrauding the purchaser.
In fact, sho could rebel
against, food in the crop, because,
quite aside from fraud, the presence
of food means that the chicken has
not kept as well as it would have kept
had it been starved for 2 4 hours before
killing. All reputable poultry
packers starve the birds before
slaughter, which results in empty intestines
as well as empty crops. The
makeshift of cutting a slit in the crop
and squeezing out that food is not
satisfactory, becauso that does not
empty the intestines. Tf the housewife
would have the poultry drawn
in her own kitchen she could catch
frauds of this character and take
means to prevent them.
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RIDDLED WITIl SHOT.
Posse Surrounds and Kills Man Whc
j Shot Sheriff McCain.
Edward Winbush, a negro, was
(killed Tuesday afternoon by a sheriff's
posso in a canebrako near Frost,
a station about five miles from Columbia.
Winbush was almost shot tc
pieces, seventeen bullets taking ef
ieet in ins oody. Tlio negro Is the one
who shot at Sheriff McCain Monday
and was surrounded in the swamp
Tuesday. It is said that ho was in the
act of shooting at one of the posse
when a bullet ended his life. Wlnbush
was about twenty years old. He had
fought off his pursuers all night and
all morning. Hloodhounds were used
to trail the negro. Ho fired upon
Sheriff McCain Monday night on a
crowded street car when his arrest
was attempted. IIo was subsequently
located by rural policemen but escaped
after firing at tlio officers.
Paroled Convict Arrested.
Eddie Hand, a paroled South Carolina
convict, was arrested in Augusta
Friday night on tlio charge of pick
ing pockets. It is alleged ho stole n
gold watch and a wallet containing
about $100 from Dock and Kennedy
Stranes, of Charlotte, N. C., who had
stopped In the city on their trip home
Hand admits that ho was a convict
and says he was paroled not long ago
ness-like overhauling of marketing
methods.
Speaking of tho need of better educational
opportunities in tho country,
Secretary Houston declared that
if more enlightened attention were
devoted to the conservation and development
of the people "wo shall be
relieved of much of tho concern about
tho conservation and development ol
our natural resources". The approach
to tho problem of tho organization
of rural life, he declared, was
clearly economic. The great need
he said, was to give the rural popula
tlon, at least, approximately the primary
advantages which the town enJoys.
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MAKES DARING ESCAPE
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YKCCMW SAWS 1I1MSKLF OUT OF
PEN ITKNTIAKY.
John Fislior, Notorious Safe-lllo\vcr,
Serving Fifteen-Yenr-Terni, Climbs
Prison Wall to Freedom.
John Fisher, a notorious yeggman,
serving fifteen years for safe-blowing,
escaped from tho State Penitentiary
Saturday night by sawing the
bars to his cell, lie climbed over the
wall, via tho old Hosiery Mill, let
himself down by a rope and vanished.
Penitentiary oilicials Sunday night
sent out description in every direction
and have offered a reward of $50 for
his recapture.
When tho prisoners were lined up
for roll call Sunday afternoon Fisher
was absent. An investigation disclosed
the broken bars to his cell, where
he had cut his way to freedom. A
search of the grounds and buildings
was made, and dangling over the wall
behind the old Hosiery Mill was?
found a ropo showing how he had
gotten to freedom. Ho had climbed
over tho Hosiery Mill on the top ol
tho eighteen-foot wall which encloses
i the Penitentiary grounds and let him
self down on the banks of the Congaroe
River.
i Fisher was sent up from Lancaster
> County in 1905 for safe-cracking foi
1 f? years. lie is also wanted by ttic
United States government for post
i otlice robberies. IIo is said to have
been a member of tho gang which
. cracked post ofllce safes in all parts
, of the South until rounded up bj
Post Office Inspector Gregory. It is
claimed Fisher was a pal of "Port
, land Ned". There is a warrant lyinp
in the United States commissioner's
, office for Fisher as soon as he serves
his term in the State penitentiary.
The penitentiary officials furnishes
the following description of Fisher:
Five feet, 2 7-S inches high; weight
1 Rr? pounds; black hair, brown eyes
dark complexion, scar on outside o
left, thigh, large scar on outside o
^ right leg, scars on both forearms am
wrists. He is 5 4 years old and has
the appearance of a typical yeggman
There is no clue as to how Fishoi
got the rope by which he escapee
over the walls. A rigid investigatlor
is being made by the penitentiary of
! fieials. A general alarm sent out ii
all directions, it is hoped, will be the
means of quickly recapturing tin
- yegg. The police of Charleston, Nor
folk and New York, where the favor
' ito haunts of tho yeggmen were locat
ed in their palmy days, have beer
notified of the escape. Fisher had ;
' number of aliases nnd tf- Uinntri,
that his picture adorns tho rogue's
' galleries in several cities and sliouh
' be ihe means of assisting in identify
ing him.
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1IIKKTA HOLDS OV.
Says it Is Case <>l' Life and Dcatli am
1 lie Will Not Design.
What doubt remained regarding
. Gen. Huerta's intentions with rospec
j to compliance with tho American do
1 niands for his own elimination wat
> removed from the minds of inos
Mexicans and foreign residents by his
peremptory dismissal Sunday of Man
uel Garza Aldape, minister of into
rior, who was looked upon as tin
head of Huerta's Cabinet.
Manuel Garza Aldapo led tha
group of the Cabinet which held tin
conviction that it would be best t(
i accedo to that portion at least o
Washington's demands which mean
. tho total abandonment of power b3
the Provisional President, and he Is
said to have been the only one witl
sufficient Cniirnfn tr? rllcnuaa flic
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> bio frankly with his chief. Senoi
' Aidape's resignation was demandoc
? at a Cabinet meeting at Presideni
> TTuerta's house early Sunday morn
> ing.
1 Tluerta is said to have reiterated ai
' this meeting the statement that h<
1 would not resign, that with him ii
1 was a case of life or death and h(
1 was disposed to play out the game
k Certain intimate friends of Gen
Tluerta Tiave heen indicating to him
is is said, for some time that the min
" ister of interior was Intriguing foi
the presidency and that the Cabinet
had become divided into two camps
Those who opposed Senor Aldane in
elude Querido Mohono, minister ol
l foreign affairs; f!en. Blanquet, minis
ter of war, and Joso Maria Lozano.
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Women Send Silver Service.
A silver service costing $1,500
I the gift of women voters of northeri
California to Miss Jessie Wilson
: daughter of President Wilsor
on tho occasion of her wedding
> next Tuesday was sent from Sar
- Francisco Thursday. The service wai
purchased by subscription and is o
old colpnlal design.
Killed by Parlor Rifle.
, Littlo 12-year-ohl Thomas E. Fish
. er Jr., of Charleston, was instantly
. killed Monday by being struck by i
I bullet from a parlor rifle In tbe handi
f of Jewell Bremer, 14 years old. TIk
. shooting was purely accidental.
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) Fear Causes Suicide.
Miss Leila Reed, aged 4 8, commit
tod suicide in the reservoir near At
- (lanta, Oa., because she feared sin
- would be sent to a sanitarium for th<
feeble minded.
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READY TO RESIST
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SO HUERTA INTIMATES TO MEMBERS
OF STAFF
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ORGANIZES CONGRESS
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Quorum Mustered l;y Mexican Senate
?Believed That t inted States Will
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Soon Inaugurate Blockade of All
Important l*orts?lluerta Appears
to he Undisturbed.
Organization of President I-Iuerta's
new Congress was completed Monday,
i when enough senators were gathered
> to form a quorum in the upper house.
. Gen. Francisco Pronces was chosen
) temporary chairman of the Senate,
. and a committee on credentials was
i appointed. A similar committee of
I tho Chamber of Deputies began the
i work of revising tho Deputies' cre[
dentials, and there is nothing to indi[
cate that tho formal opening of Con'
gross next Thursday will he postponi
ed. President lluerta talked Mon.
day night informally to the members
. of his staff and a few personal friends
regarding the possibilities of inter
volition by the United States. Ho in
tiinated that ho would bo ready to re?
sist such a step.
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i no opinion is expressed in various
j circles that the United States will
i soon inaugurate a blockade of Mexii
can ports. Kuinor has it that Presi'
dent Wilson would bo content with
5 such an action and might even per.
init the embassy to remain in Mexico
r City until an open rapture occurred.
$ (Jen. lluerta resumed business at the
* National Palace, apparently with no
thought of any questions pending be1
tween his government and that of the
: United States. Ho seems to regard
, recent incidents growing out of
, Washington's demand that he vacate
f the presidency as closed, and so they
f are, so far as he is concerned, if his
1 statements and those close to him,
^ are to be believed.
I by President, Iluerta's friends, the
r attitude of the executive is described
] as one of expectancy and curiosity as
i to prospective action by tho United
- States, rather than one of anxiety,
i They say he has given no indications
3 of changing his mind about not re3
signing and proceeding with the af
fairs of the government with equa
nimity. They add that he regards as
- probable intervention by the United
i States and an order was sent. Tuesday
i to the State governor to report immet
diately how many soldiers they can
* have ready by November 20. The of
1 flcial explanation of this is that it is
- part of the plan announced in a recent,
decree increasing tho army to
150,000 men.
Otherwiso there has been no development
with one exception, and
j that of a rather negativo character,
the day was almost' devoid of acts
relating to the tense situation which
< xists, notwithstanding the indiffer*
ent attitude assumed hy Mexico. The
f American charge d'affaires received
instructions to continue to advise
'* Washington with respect to develop-]
' ments, but ho was not instructed to
' approach the Mexican government of"
flcials again; nor did his instructions
include anything relative to tlie with3
drawal of the embassy. Rumors that
the charge had been ordered to leave
1 persisted, although an emphatic de3
nial was made at the embassy, all
3 trains leaving for Vera Cruz were
^ watched anxiously by Americans,
f who have made up their minds not to
' delay their departure, if O'Shaugh3
nessy goes.
1 Rumors of plots and intrigues were
common throughout tho day, but no
facts wero forthcoming to indicate
' that Gen. Iiuerta was losing his grip
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L on afTalrs in the Capital. Reports
from outlying points, especially in
the north, were far from reassuring
t to tho war department. Ciudad Vici
toria, tho capital of Tamaulipas, the
t capture of which by tho rebels was
> denied last week by tho government,
is admitted to he in a bad way. Pas
sengers from that part of tho country
? confirm tho report that tho city is
- already in tho hands of tho rebels,
r Tho Mexican government has not
t- even confirmed the capture of Jaurez,
and tho newspapers are still holding
out hope to their readers that posf
sibly tho report of its capture by (Jen.
- Villa is not true.
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Sends Message in Pottle.
A message written with death
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? im-cu ny, v nriH iveenan, united states
i marshal, and custodian of tho barge
. Plymouth, who lost his lifo with six
i others In the storm of November 0,
! was found Thursday in a bottlo five
i miles from Pentwater, near Meno9
mineo, Mich. It was addressed to his
f wife and children and was written
when tho bargo had been in the
storm forty hours. Keenan's body
was washed ashoro near Manistee
- last Friday.
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v Calls Florence Man.
3 The Rev. Piston D. Pass, of Flor3
ence, publisher of tho Commonwealth,
a weekly newspaper, has just
received a letter from Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan ask
ing him to accept a position in the
- diplomatic service, and to como to
3 Washington in January to stand the
3 requisite examination undor the civil
service commission.
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ENTERS HIS PROTEST
( imsmm: i>is< rssi:s tiik
m.ivxsi; c.\i ci s.
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Seems to Think It Was (iotten I p to
Parrel Out the Ollices to the favorites
in the Peal.
Mr. \V. R. Cheshire, in his newspaper,
The Harpoon, gives liis views
of the lato Rleaso caucus in Columbia.
Hero is what ho says:
Wo have given a great ileal of
thou gilt to the complicated situation
which so suddenly developed in this
State during State Fair week. Nobody
expected not even the actors
anything hut torn results from the
Please conference, and, presto: hero
are the woods afire, with weeping,
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The way it looks to us is that flovernor
Rleaso really sees that he lias
pushed diseord and strife to where a
reaction is bound to set in. We have
novor (lowI)tod that at heart he really
desired to seo McLaurln governor. It
didn't suit the gang of job-huntors
that ho has gathered around him;
they wanted McLaurln to grovel in
the dust at Blouse's feet, and promise
to continue raising h 1, until each
one of them landed his piece of pie.
They were fooling with the wrong
man. John L. McLaurin made a
speech on a high plane and utterly
refused to foam at the mouth or wear
anybody's collar. We have been supporting
McLaurin for governor; we
are going to continue to do so. lie
lean not refuse his services to the
Stato beeauso a squad of hungry
camp-followers did not know a man
when they saw him.
Both Senator Tillman and (Governor
Blease say that there is no kinship
In Tillmanism and Bleaseism.
Maybe both of them are right, and
that after all it is a fight, for the
spoils of office. The people do not
look at it that way; they are trying
to get good government and law and
order. They don't want the State
I run by the gamblers, blind tigers and
Southern railroad, while the so-called
leaders arc deciding who shall go to
congress or the Bnited States senate.
The editor of The Harpoon is one
of the people, lie is a candidate for
congress, he was for Blease in the
last election; now why should he not
have rights equal to any other man's?
Is an office-holding oligarchy to pareel
out things from Columbia, and j
tho Ttleaseites to be voted like a flock
of sheep as a master directs. If so
we are unfit and unable to appreciate!
and enjoy the blessings of a free government.
Following the "caucus" of some of
the friends of (lov. Blease, the newspapers
would have the people of the
State believe that the BJeaso forces
had settled on ('has. Carroll Simms
for governor. There's nothing to this
report, for the reason that those who
wore present, were not delegated by
all the r.leaseites of the State to
make a selection, and we understand
hut few of those present favored Mr.
Siimns at least they were not yet
ready to commit themselves to Mr.
Simms or any other man, for the
game is young yet.
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hoy nm:s h.akn.
Lancaster Negro Intended to Scare
Neighbors Hut Caused Loss.
Saul Vaughn, a well known and
prosperous old negro farmer of Lancaster,
sustained a loss of about $4 00
early Tuesday morning in the complete
destruction by tire of his barn
and contents. His grandchild, a boy
10 or 12 years old, wishing to see a
blaze, it is said, deliberately set fire
to the building, probably thinking he
would extinguish it after scaring the
neighborhood with an alarm of fire,
but as tho barn contained about a
bale of ginned cotton, a lot of cotton
seed, several bales of hay, fodder,
corn, and other highly inflammable
material the fire soon got beyond control
of the little neuro and in a fow
minutes all was lost. Vaughn carried
no insurance. The little negro fled,
but has been apprehended and will
ho dealt with.
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SHOT BY BUOTIIKR.
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Chester County Man I'ses Fatal Unloaded
(Jun.
Thinking a shotgun was unloaded
James Thompson snapped it and almost
tore off the lower Jaw of Jake
Thompson, his brother, on Miss Sallie
Halsey's plantation in the Halsellville
section of Fairfield county, Saturday.
They were unloading some
cotton, when Jake playfully threw a
basket at his brother, James, who
picked up the gun lying on the cotton
and thinking it was empty pulled the
trigger. Jake is in a precarious condition
at a hospital while James was
ruteuseu on $zou bail.
Shoots Women and Self.
Charles Deltz, an electrician of
Pittsburg, Pa., and 35 years old,
Thursday morning at Braddock, a
small country suburb, shot his wife,
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Miller
and himself. The trio was hurried
to the nearest hospital where physicians
said Deltz would likely dlo, but
the women were not dangerously
hurt. Deltz and his wlfo have not
been living together and the shooting
ended a visit Deltz paid to her
mother's home.
WITHOUT A COUNTRY
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OllTIK McMWKiAIi IS AFIIA1I) TO
It MM AIX IN I'. S.
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Dynamiter Whoso Confession
Drought the McNumurns to (?rief
Ih'lievCs He is Marked for Death.
Ortle McManigal has become a man
without a country?a fugitlvo, not
from the law but from his own fears
of the men lie served and betrayed.
The dynamiter, whose confessions resulted
in the revealing of the plots of
the McN'amara brothers, and their going
to prison, and which led to the
convictions of nearly two score labor
leaders on charges of complicity in
the dynamite plots, lias left Los An- (
geles with the intention of thwarting
the vengeance ho dreads by losing I
his identity.
Kver since the McN'amara cases
were tried, McManigal, indicted with
them on the strength of his own con- 1
fesslon, had been kept in jail at Los
Angeles, nominally awaiting trial,
but actually to protect him. He has
said from the first that he could
never again livo as ordinary men do
that the vengeance of the men ho
betrayed, more implacable than the |
law, would dog his foot steps and exact
his life.
Hut it became evident that ho '
could not live forever In jail. His |
health suffered from too much com- j
fort, too much food and too little
exercise. Ho left the prison for the '
linonltnl K.. ? H...I l - - * '
..vriMuii, iiii< i.niii w <in miiy ior a I6W I
days, and llion ho loft tho prison entlroly,
ostonsibly for Tampa, Fla.
Whothor ho will ovor get. thoro Is not
known. Hut whothor ho (loos or not, <
it is known that his hopo of lifo lios
in losing himself from tho world that
lias known him of finding rofugfi
whcro the men lie fears can not trace
him. 0
It is not tho law that lie fears. Tho t
Indictments against him still stands, t
hut. it will never lie used. His hopo *
lies in tho belief that liis enemies ?
have neither tho money to waste in a 5
protracted and far-flung search for ?
him, nor tho aid of an army of ofli- (
cials in distant countries, if ho can !
once lose the pursuers lie believes t
are now following him, ho thinks ho 1
will be safe. a
His plans, of course, are secret. It
is understood I10 intends to go to '
South America, where, in tho many
opportunities open for men of whom
no questions are asked, among renegades,
fugitives from justice, nameless
men and adventurers of all
kinds, ho may become another man
than tho terror-stricken informer. q
But he believes his exile will lie per- j
manent. Tlo will he a man without
a country and without a name.
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Mine lv\ plosion in Alabama Unties
Thirty Men.
Nino minors are known to have
boon killed, and at least a dozen oth- i
ers were still missing at a late hour
Tuesday night, as the result of an explosion
Tuesday afternoon in the ^
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company's ^
mine No. 2 near Acton, Ala. The jL
usual quota of men employed in Mine
No. 2 is 70, but the exact number at \
work when the explosion occurred is k
not. certain. While ofTlcoals would \
make no estimate of tho number of
men in the mine, miners at work near
tho scene of the disaster insisted that
at least twenty men must have been e
cut off by tho explosion. Some esti
mates ran as high as forty. It was
said, however, that tho number certainly
would not exceed this figure,
as Monday was pay day and many of
tho seventy men usually employed in e
the mino did not go to work Tuesday.
The cause of the explosion has not
been learned. That many of thoso n
entombed were killed by its force
seems certain, as two men working ^
near tho surface at tho time were
blown several feet from tho mine en- w
trance. Officials of the mine, accompanied
b v rescue wnrkoru or><i
^ w? .t.v? ^ U1IV4 OUI geons,
wore hurriodly sent from P.Irmingham,
and every effort was made
to reach the entombed men. Mine ' <
No. 2, which is known as Acton mine, !*
Is comparatively new, and is one of e
the most productive in this district.
It has a daily output of .100 tons. Of- I
ficials of the company said that all
equipment was first class. '
3
Acton Mine No. 2 is 2 1 miles south
1;
of llirmingham on tho Acton branch
of the Louisville and Nashville rail
IV
road, six miles from Helena, in Shelby
county. Tho mine lias a ?iDgle _
(rack slope and used an I S foot fan m
with tho split air system. J. G. Steele
is superintendent of the Acton
branch. Tho names of tho dead
brought to the surface Included: L#.
\j. Patterson, K. Bright, John Langston,
Henry Childers, Boss Driver
Burns Kittrell, two negroes. All except
Bright wero married. Kittrell
went Into tho mine only five minutes ^
before tho explosion to do somo J
cleaning. Threo of tho rescued aro
C.reeks and a number of dead in tho ft
mine aro thought to bo Greeks.
Thirty Passengers Itescuod. t
Tho British battleship Iron Duke
effected a timoly rosuco of the thirty
passengers and crew of tho steamer
Scotsdyko whilo tho stoamer was
burning in the English channel early <v
Wednesday. 81