The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 29, 1914, Image 6
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TO MEET IT HALF WAY
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Pimidrmt Heads llis to Ui? <
actxa and Senate in Joint Session
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??Sn^gest? Scope of legislation ;
and .Mnki's Personal Appeal for A ti
iMtvKpliere of l'YioudJiness.
i-resiaeni v\ lison personally laid
before a joint session of congress
Tuesday the fundamental principles
Of the Democratic administration's 1
program for dealing with trusts and 1
"big business". The president presented
the ease, he said, "as it lies 1
in the thought of*the country." "We
are now about to write the nddition.il '
articles of our conslituion of peace," 1
said ho president, "the peace that is '
honor and freedom and prosperity." '
Besides suggesting the scope of legislation,
tho president made a per- 1
Honnl appeal for an atmosphere of '
friendliness and cooperation in congress
while handling the problem.
The chief points which tho presi- 1
<4ont singled out as a basis for leg- 1
Mat ion were: 1
J. MfTectual prohibition of the in- (
tea-locking directorates of great cor- !
porations?banks, railroads, Indus- '
tria I, commercial and public service 5
bed i os.
2. A law to confer upon the interstate
commerce commission tho power
to superintend and regulate the 11- '
najK'ial operations by which railroads ?
henceforth aro to he supplied with
the money they need for their proper
development and improved transpor- !
tation facilities.
3. Deflnilion of the many hurtful
restraint of "trade" by explicit legislation
supplementary to the Sherman
law.
4. The creation of a commission to
aid the courts and to act as a clear- ;
lap liouso of information in helping
business to conform with the law.
Si. Provision of penalties and punishments
to fall upon individuals reoponsiblo
Tor unlawful busines practice#.
5. Prohibition of holding companies
and a suggestion that the voting
pawor of individuals holding shares
In numerous corporations might be
restricted.
7. Giving private individuals the
right to found suits for redress on
facts and judgments proved in government
suits and providing that the
statute of limitations should run
only from tho date of conclusion of
the government's actions.
Tho President spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen of tho Congress:
"In ray report 'On the State of the
Union,' which 1 had the privilege of
reading to you on tho second of December
last, I ventured to reserve for
discussion at a later date the subjoct
of additional legislation regarding
tho very difficult and intricate matter
of trusts and monopolies. The time
now seems opportune to turn to that
grcwt quoatlon; not only because the
currency legislation is now disposed
of, but also because opinion seems to
be clearing about us with singular
rapidity in this other great field of
action. In respect of tho monopolies
it seems to be coming to a clear
and all but universal agreement in
anticipation of our action, making
the way easier to see and easier to
get out upon with confidence and
without confusion of ocunsel.
".Legislation has its atmosphere
like everything else and the present
atmosphere of accommodation and
mutual understanding is matter of
Blneero congratulation. It ought to
make our task very much less difficult
and embarrassing. Constructive legislation,
when successful, is always
the embodiment of convicning experience.
Legislation is a business of
Interpretation, not of origination, and
it Is now plain what tho opinion is
to which we must give effect in this
;matter. Tt is not recent or hasty
oplnidn. It springs out of the experience
of a whole generation. It
has clarified itself by long contest and
those who for a long time battled
with it and sought to change it are
now frankly and honorably yielding
to it and seeking to conform their
actions to It.
Tho Scale Yields.
"The great business men who or
ganifced and financed monopoly and
those who admired it in actual everyday
transactlonB have year after year
until now either denied itb existence
or Justified it aa necessary for the
effective maintenance and development
of the vast business processes in
the country in the modern clrcuin1
atancee of trade and manufacture's
finance; hut all the while opinion has
' made bead against them. At last the
t masters of business on the great
1 scale have begun to yield their pre1
ference and purpose, perhaps their
Judgment also, in honorable surren1
der.
? "What wo are proposing to do,
T therefore, is not to interfere with
n business as enlightened business men
prefer to do it, or in any sense to
1 put it under the ban. The antagon0
fam between business and government
!s over. We are now about to
give expression to the best business
ML.*,,,
udgmont of America, to what wo
mow to bo the business conscience
md honor of the land. Thie-governnent
and business men are ready to
meet each other half-way *in a common
effort to square business woth3ds
with both public opinion and the
law. That Is the strength of our
position and the sure prophesy of
what will ensue when oar reasonable
Work is done.
"When serloss oontest ends, whei
mi suited is opinion and purpose,
those who are te change their ways
of business, Joining with those who
ask for the change. It Is poeslble to
pffect it In the way In which prudent
and thoughtful and patriotic men
wish to see it brought about, with aB
few, as slight, as easy and simple business
readjustments as possible, nothing
torn up by tho roots, no parts
rent assunder which can be left in
wholesome combination. Fortunately,
no measures of sweeping or novel
change arc necessary. It will bo understood
that our object is not to unsettle
business or anywhere seriously
lo break its established courses athwart.
On tho contrary, we desire the
aws we aro now about to pass to be
lie bulwarks and safeguards of inlustry
against the forces that have
listurbed it. What wo have to do
can ho done in a new spirit, in
houhtful moderation, w'thout revolution
of an untoward kind.
1 ndcfeiisible.
"Wo aro all agreed that 'private
monopoly Is Indefensible and intolerable,'
and our program Is founded
upon tliat conviction. It will bo a
comprehensive, but not a radical program
and these aro its items, the
chances which nninlnn flnllhrkr-nfnlv
sanctions and for which bsiness
waits:
"It waits with acquisence for laws
which will effectually prohibit and
prevent such interlocking of the permtmel
of the directorates of great
corporations-?banlts rind railroads,
Industrial, coniinercial and public
service bodies-?as in effect result in
making those who borrow and those
who lend practically one and the
same; those who sell and those who
buy hut the same persons trading
with one another under different
names and in different combinations,
and those who affect to compete in
fact partners arid masters of some
whole field of business. Sufficient
lime should be allowed in which to
effect these changes of organization
without inconvenience of confusion.
"Such a prohibition will work
much more than a merq^ negative
good by correcting the serious evils
which havo arisen, because the men
who have been the directing spirits
of the great investment banks have
usurped the place which belongs to
Independent industrial management
working in its own behalf.
"In the second place, business men
as well as those who direct public
affairs now recognize with painful
clearness the great harm and injustice
which has been done to many,
If not all, of the great railroad systems
of tho country l>y the way In
which they havo been financed and
their own distinctive Interests subordinated
to tho interest of the men
who financed them and of other business
enterprises which thoso men
wish to promote. Tho country is
ready to accept with relief and approval,
a law which will confer upon
tho interstate commerce commission
the power to superintend and regulate
tho financial operations by which
the railroads are henceforth to he
supplied with tho money they need
for their proper development to meet
tho rapid growing requirements of
tho country for increased and improved
transportation facilities. Upon
this question those who are chiefly
responsible for the actual management
and operation of tho railroads
have spoken plainly and earnestly,
with ?a purpose we ought to be quick
to accept. It will bo ono step, and a
very important one, toward tho necessary
separatk 11 of the business of
production from tho business of
transportation.
llu.siiicss Waits.
"The business of the country
awaits and has suffered because it
could not obtain, further and more
explicit legislative aenniuon or tnc
polltcy and moaning of tho existing
anti-trust law. Surely, wo aro sufficiently
familiar with tho actual processes
and methods of monopoly and
tho many hurtful restraints of trade
to make definition possible, at an>
rate up to the limits of what experience
has disclosed. These practices
can be explicitly forbidden by statute
in such terms as will practicallj
eliminate uncertainty, the law itsell
and the penalty being mado equallj
plain.
"Business men of the country de
siro something more than that th<
menace of legal process in these mat
ters bo mado explicit and intelligible
They desire tho advice, the deflniti
guidance and information which car
bo supplied by an administrate
body, an interstate trade commission
"The opinion of the country wouli
instantly approve of such a commis
slon. It would not wish to seo i
empowered to make terms with mon
opoly or In any sort to assume con
trol of business as If the govornraen
made Itself responsible. It demand
such a commission only as an indls
penslble Instrument of lnformatlo
and publicity, as a clearing: house fo
the facts by which both the publl
mind and the managers of great bus
Iness undertakings should be guided
as an lnsrumentallty for doing Ju?
tlce to business where tho proccssc
of tho courts or the natural force
I
of correction outRlde tho courts aro
inadequate to adjust tho remedy to
j tho wrong In a way that will mcen
all tho equities and circumstances of
the caso.
llulf Way.
"Inasmuch as our object Is to meet
business half-way In Its processes of
self-correction and disturb Its legitimate
course aw little as possible, we
ought to see to It that penalties and
punishments should fall, not upon
business Itself, but upon the Individuals
who sss ths Instrumentalities of
business to do things which public
policy and sound business practice
condemn. These should be held Individually
responsible and the punishment
should fall upon them, not
upon tho business organization of
which they make Illegal use. It
should bo one of the main objects of
our legislation to divest such persons
of their corporate cloak and deal
with them as with thoso who do not
represent their corporations, but
merely by deliberate intentions break
tho law.
"Other questions remain which
will need very thoughtful and practical
treatment. Enterprises, in these
modern days of great individual fortunes,
are oftentimes interlocked, by
tho fact that the greater part of their
corporate siock is owned by a single
person or group of persons who are, in
some way intimately related in interest.
Wo are agreed, I take it, that
holding companies should he prohibited,
but what of the controlling private
ownership of individuals or actually
co-operative groups of individuals?
Shall the private owners of
capital stock be suffered to ho themselves
in effect holding companies?
Shall wo require the owners of stock,
when their voting power in several
companies which ought to ho independent
of one another would constitute
actual control, to make election
in which of them they will exercise
the right to vote? This question I
venture for your consideration.
I ndividiials.
"There is another matter in which
imperativo consideration of justice
and fair play suggest thoughtful
remedial action. Not only do many
of the combinations affected or
sought to be effected in the industrial
world work an injustice upon the
public in general; they also directly
and seriously injure the individuals
who are put out of business in one
unfair way or another by the many
dislodging and exterminating forces
of combination. I hope that we shall
agree in giving privato individuals
who claim to have been injured by
these processes the right to found
their suits for redress upon the facts
and judgments proved and entered
in suits by the government where
the government has upon its own
initiative sued the combinations complained
of and won its suit, and that
flirt ofoflifrt r\ P 1 1 - 11 1?
vi>u oiuiutu v/I IllllllUllUlin SSI1H11 DO
suffered to run against such litigants
only from tho dato of tho conclusion
of the government's action.
l'lain Obligations.
"I have laid tho case beforo you,
no doubt as it lies in your own mind,
as it lies in the thought of the
country. What must every candid
man say of the suggestions I have
laid before you, of the plain obligations
of which I have reminded you?
That these aro new things for which
the country is not prepared? No;
but that they aro old things, now
familiar, and must be undertaken if
we aro to square out laws with the
thought and desire of the country.
I'ntil these things aro done, conscien
tlous business men the country over
will be unsatisfied. They are in these
tilings our mentors and 'colleagues.
We are now about to write tho additional
articles of our constitution of
peace, the peace that is honor and
fron,lr>ni ?,,,/! nnnmni-lto "
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A1UIK8TS SlISPIK TS.
Negro Implicates Two Others in Murder
and Arson Crime.
Sheriff Owings and Deputy Shoriff
Held of Laurens made two arrests
Monday in connection with tho kill'
ing of George P. Young at his home
1 at Stomp Springs a week ago Sun'
day. The two negroes taken Monday
wore Greenwood Rodgers and
"Junk" Caldwell, both of whom live
in tho vicinity of the Springs. Theli
1 arrest was tho result of tho alleged
voluntary confession of Tom Young
who was implicated by tho coronerh
1 jury along with his brother, John
last Tuesday, and both of whom wen
T committed to jail that night.
f Early Monday, it is claimed, Ton
7 Young asked to see tho officers, it ii
said ho told them tho story of tin
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niiiMicHuiiK uoogers an(
3 Caldwell. In liis alleged confessioi
Young said that Uodgers, Caldwol
* and himself Instigated the plot, an<
3 oxocuted It late Monday night; tha
1 Rodgers shot Mr. Young through ai
0 opening in tlio window, and thei
Caldwell applied the torch to the cot
1 tage.
Auto Kills Boy.
Dorsey Hudson, a fifteen year-oli
I orphan boy of Clearwater, Fla., wa
fl run down and almost Instantly kill
h ed by an auto driven by Dr. A. I.
n Bowen.
r
c Dines Five Hundred.
i- Mrs. Flnley J. Shepard, who wa
I, Miss Could, provided dinner for 50
i- Bowery outcasts of New York oi
a Wednesday to celebrate her llrst wed
a ding anniversary.
HOUSE PASSES IT
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SMITir-LKVKK HILL PROVIDES
FOR FARM EXTENSION.
TO TEACH THE FARMER
I ntUr iUt Provisions Federal
meut Will Give $10,000 a Tear to
K?<h State for Uio Demonstration
Work, IncrcusinK tho Amount Annually
for Ten Years.
The Smith-Lever agricultural extension
bill providing for co-oporativo
agricultural extension work between
the agricultural colleges in the several
States, passed tho house Monday
afternoon under tho suspension
of the rules. Tho bill now goes to
the Senate.
As it passed the House tho bill
would provide for an immediate appropriation
of $180,000, of which
$10,000 would go to each State complying
with the requirements of the
law. This appropriation would be
increased by $300,000 each year for
nine years, and after a ten-year period
would become a permanent ann
lal appropriation of 000,000.
Just what tho bill plans is best
shown in a report from tho House
committeo on agriculture by Congressman
Lever, its chairman, recently
made. It provides for the inauguration
of cooperative agricultural
extension work through "lleld
demonstrations, publications and otherwise"
to bo carried on in accordance
with plans mutually agreed upon
by the secretary of agriculture
and the land grant colleges receiving
the benefits of the first Morrill act.
In practical effect it undertakes to
provide such machinery as will bring
to tho attention of tho farmer, tho
farmer's wifo and children, in the
most striking manner such demonstrated
truths and practices of successful
agriculture which rightly followed,
makes rural living desirable
and profitable as an occupation.
It provides the connecting link between
the sources of information in
matters relating to agricultural life
and tho people sought to be reached
with such information, and furnishes
an added agency to tho system of agricultural
teaching. It carries out
to tho farm tho approved methods
and practices of tho agricultural colleges,
experiment stations, the department
of agriculture, and the best
farmers, and demonstrates their value
under tho immediate environment
of the farm itself, thus providing the
means by -which the organized agricultural
institutions of the country
may bo made to serve all the people,
as should bo the case, rather
than a limited and privileged few.
Under tho plan provided in this bill
tho information which has been accumulating
for more than half a
century and reservoiring in colleges
and other institutions organized in
tho interest of agriculture is to be
made available to tho mass of tho
people in such a way as will bring the
best results in tho matter of improved
rural conditions and rural living.
There is no more important work
for tho agricultural institutions of
the country than that of strengthening
field service, demonstration and
instruction, to tho end that the pro?
nn on H < ? * -1 ~ c ? *
iiuiiuu uiiu >ic(ciu|>iuciu DlUt? III ilgl'Iculture
shall balance Its investigational
and research activities.
To provide adequate facilities for
the utlization by the farmer of the
efficient work of tho scientists in the
department of agriculture and in the
various colleges and experiment stations
of the several States is one of
tho very important problems with
which agricultural thought must
deal. Earnest scientists every day
are discovering useful truths, meth*
ods and processes which if known by
i tho farmer and applied by him would
mean financial independence and soi
cial progress; but the farmer does
not know what the scletist is doing
and has no way of learning.
I Sufficient Information has been
3 gathered and is awaiting distribution
to revolutionize rural conditions in
' this country in tho next ten years,
* but it is dead information until it
3 becomes vitalized by tho service to
? which tho farmer puts it. Tho logic
3 of the situation forces the necessity
for providing adequate machinery by
1 which tho storehouse of information
3 may bo opened to those who stand
3 upon the outside. Congress itself
* has committed tho country to a pol1
icy of encouraging, promoting and
* developing agriculture which makes
* tho legislation proposed in this bill
t an imperative duty that tho fruits of
1 its former action may bo realized in
1 actual results.
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o nwiriri t'araon rower,
A Joint resolution' has boon introduced
in the House, providing that
3 the governor may adopt or reject a
b rocomdendatlon hy the .board of par
dons but can not grant a pardon or
i. parole unless reconfmended by the
board.
Tried to Saw Head Off.
s Despondent because he was out of
0 work, Charles Schreiber, of Chicago.
n attempted suicide by ripping his
1- throat open with a handsaw. His
condition is serious.
WILL BE GREAT HELP I
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tiik ( rmtK\cT? JIIXIJL aND THE
COTTON FARMER.
CongrC88m?n lta^sdulo Points Out
Whore it Will llelp Theiu to Get J
tb? Modej They Need.
Among those who spoke in favor of ^
th# adoption of the currency bill in
the House of Representatives was
Congressman Ragsdalo from tliis
State. Just a few minutes before he
spoko Mr. Hayles of California had
attacked tho bill as increasing the
power of the Southern cotton farmer
saying that it would give to the farmer
tho power of holding his crop
and securing higher prices for it. Mr.
ltagsdale replied to this by saying '
the people of tho South, whom the
gentleman from California has so unnecessarily
criticized for tho benefits
we receive, look upon it as a very
Cod-sond to us that at least tho cotton
growers of America are recognized
in this currency system.
Mr. Ragsdalo went on to ask why
should tho cotton growers bo barred
from tho benefits? Why should tho 1
agriculturists bo barred from tho
benefits of a financial system? Ho we *'
not produce that which foods and
clothes tho world? I)o not tho products
that wo grow help to sustain x
the balance of trade with other conn- 1
tries? Why then should our pro- v
ducts be outlawed and the right of 1
credit bo denied to us? Ah, Mr. 1
Speaker, tho Republican party have H
errnwn ko nmnotr>mn<l ...... 1
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rights to tho agricultural people on
everything and heaping unjust burdents
on us in tariff laws that I hey *
welcome this last opportunity to hurl (
another stone at them. c
Mr. Speaker, tho gentleman from :1
California says there is no system 0
here by which money may he loaned *
on lands. If ho will turn to section *
2 4 of the bill, it is provided there *
that any money received on time and c
which interest is paid may be loaned 1
for livo years directly on land, the r
loans based either on capital and surplus
or time deposits. What is a sav- t
ings bank? Is it not a bank that re- i
ceives timo deposits and pays inter- c!
est on them. Does not this bill spe- \
cifleally provide for their entrance t
into the system? Does it not provide t
that money may be loaned under tho i
system? Why then is the gentleman i
from California so disturbed? Why t
is it that he never offered anything \
by way of relief along this line, but (
merely contents himself with trying ti
now to muddy the water? t
Mr. Speaker, the time has come *
and it has been written into this
statute for the llrst time in this conn- r
try, that farm lands are a basis for t
credit in America, and that the own- c
ers of them who produce the wealth ?
of this country share in that finan- c
cial system which everything in this
country goes to support and sustain.
The time is here when farm products
are a basis of credit and subject to
rediscount in the national reserve
banks of America, and men on whose
shoulders rest* the feeding of tho
masses now have some recognition
in tho hands of the nation through
the Democratic party.
Mr. Ragsdale was on? among the
few especially invited to the executive
office to witness the signing of
tho great currency reform bill. Being
asked for some of the main points
of advantage in tho bill for tho
Southern farmer, he said that he regarded
tho power given tho national
hanks to have farm paper rodiscounted
for six months a particularly good
feature. The farmer can now put up
his paper on his crops or stock in the
national hank in place of the old
bank note, issued heretofore.
He can now secure loans on a fiveyear
contract basis from the national
banks and tho bank can put these up
with the central reserve bank and receive
treasury notes on them. It will
necessarily make money easier in the
South.
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DOI/L WEKVITi IiOST. 1
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Post Destroyed Ten Million Dales,
Worth $500,000,000. 1
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Figures announced by W. J. liar- j
ris, director of the census, show that .
tho boll weevil has caused a loss in
the production of cotton in the Unit- i
ed States in excess of 1 0,000,00r.
bales, valued at least at $500,000,
000. The reduction in the production
of cotton duo to tho fact that '
tho farmers refrained from planting
because of tho fear that the weevil
would not permit tho plant to mature,
he said, never can bo estimated.
In seven selected mnntfaa
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sissippi the production of cotton In
1907 amounted to 191,790 bales,
valued at nearly $11,000,000. The
boll weevil, Mr. Harris said, reduced
this production to 30,809 bales in
1912.
Louisiana's largest cotton crop.
1,089,526 balfes, was grown in 1904.
The production was reduced to 24 5,68
4 bales in 1910. The loss In Arkansas
Is estimated at $10,600,000.
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Rebellions Are Killed.
Twelve rebellious M ex icon soldiers
wero killed at Knsenada, Mexco, as
a result of a quickly repressed revolt
iue to the failure of the Mexican Government
to pnv off the troop in the
Ensenada garrison.
JA1TLE IN PRISON
rilltKK CONVICTS, GUAItDS AND A
JUDGE DEAD.
iUARDS FIGHT BRAVELY
?
lecuriiitf Pistol* Throe Inmates of
Oklahoma's *'1*011" Shoot Down
Four aiul Fire at Girl Telephone
Operator?Guards Come ?p and
Pour Merciless Fire into Them.
Seven persons were killed and a
elephone operator injured during a
)istol battle at the Oklahoma State
>enitentiary at McAlester, Okla.,
donday when three prisoners with
evolvers made a dash for liberty.
Che dead are: John It. Thomas, Muscogee,
former United States District
udge; D. C. Oates, deputy warden;
\ C. Godfrey, store house sergeant;
I. H. Drover, record clerk; China
teed, serving two-year sentence for
uurder; Charles Koontz, serving fory
years' sentence for murder; Thoniis
Law, serving six-year sentence for
arceny.
Tho men armed with two revolvers,
vhich had been smuggled into the
>enitentiary. broke from tho ranks
vhile the prisoners were being
narliced through a court yard. As
hey ran through tho office they fired
everal shots at random, one of the
Millets striking Miss Foster
Next they encountered Judge
rhomas, a visitor to tho penitentiary
n the corridor, and both of the men
arrying pistols opened fire, several
?f the bullets striking the attorney
nd inflicting mortal wounds. Oates
ml Drover intercepted the men as
hey left tho corridor and were shot
0 death, the prisoners continuing
heir flight. By this time half a dozn
guards were in pursuit and In a
mining battle Godfrey and the three
nen were killed.
None of tho other prisoners atempted
to escape. Tho attempted
nutiny occurred at tho end of the
lay's work. Reed, Law and Kooniz
vorked in the tailor shop, and when
heir work was done they approached
he back door of the office in the adninistration
building. heTre they
net John Martin, the turnkey. They
old Martin they wanted to see the
larole officer. As Martin opened the
loor Reed struck him repeatedly with
1 largo revolver, shot him through
he cheek and robbed him of his
ceys.
The three prisoners, all armed with
evolvers, shouted to others to follow
hem, and ran towards the warden's
iffice. There they mot Oakes, the as
usuuit waraen, ana Derore he couiu
lefend himself, Reed shot him
hrough tho heart. The greatest conusion
ensued. Convicts ran about,
ihoutlng words of encouragement to
he mutineers. Ry this time the
?uards were alert and began firing.
V random shot passing through a
loor in the ofllee of Drover, the Derillion
officer, killed him.
Godfrey, tho guard, sprang directy
into the path of tho mutineers,
lischarglng his revolver at them. He
.00 fell a victim to Reed's deadly
lim.
John R. Thomas, formerly United
States District Judge and widely
tnown through Oklahoma, was siting
in tho warden's office awaiting
die roturn of warden R. W. Dick,
ivith whom he had a business engagement.
Apparently mistaking Judge
Thomas for tho warden, tho mutineers
fired a volley of shots at him.
lie sank to tho floor mortally woundid.
Fearing alarm might be given by
the telephone operator, Mary Foster,
Lho three men next gave their attention
to tho telephone switchboard.
They turned it over and tried to disconnect
it. "You come with us," they
shouted as they dragged the girl into
the prison yard, holding her before
them to keep tho guards from shooting,
Shielded by the girl's presonco and
cheered on by 1,500 convicts, the
three ?nen made their way across the
.-iiBuii yar?. uniy one shot was fired
at them and It struck the girl. As she
sank to tho ground wounded the convicts
sprang to tho prison gate. With
the keys they had taken from Turnkey
Martin they unlocked it and were
free. Outside tho gate tho horse and
buggy of tho warden was hitched.
The three men sprang into it.
"You'll never take us alive,"
shouted Reed as ho stood up in the
buggy and fired at tho approaching
mi
aiio omor convicts bont low
to avoid the scattering bullets. Reod
fought the fight alone. Fear-stricken
the others crouched behind the stagerlng
horse. The guards poured a
merciless fire Into the buggy. The
horse fell and the convicts ceased firing.
The three mutineers lay in a
heap in the bullet-riddled buggy,
dead.
TMsappears With Cash.
Search was begun at Fort 8mith,
Ark.., Monday for Clayton Saxtey
a twenty-one year old clerk for the
Wells-Fargo Express whose disappearance
was followed by the announcement
that $0,300 In gold had
been stolen from the Express Company.