Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Days in tl Adventtfres' with After I Soon after the close of the Civil War a number.of _trooys of the Fourth Cavalry were sent out to the diferent Posts oil the Rio Grande. Their prin cipal business was to watch Indians, who would cross over from Mexico to steal horses. The Indians seldom de stroyed ranches; that would not be good business. The men living on the ranches, if not driven off or killh-d, would in the course of time gather up another bunch of horses for the In dians to steal. Our trool) aml one other were sent to Camp Ver(de. Texas, which was one of the frontier posts then; about all the country west of it was still out of doors. We ,egan hunting Indians as soon as we had got here. There were a good many settlers east of us and several smil towns. Kerrville and Bianders were the nearest ones. They are probably larger towns now. The citizens were continually losing horses and we were kept busy hunting them. The greatest drawhack to our finding them was due to the fact that these men (d(d not report their losses soon enouigh, and about. the tine we would be told of it the Indians would be safe in Mexico. There was an iar rangement now uider which we could follow Indianrs to Mexico, and the Mexican troops could follow them across to our sid( of the line if they wanted to do so. They In them over to us. then quit, while we have otten followed them 150 miles Into Mexico. I have been as far down as thar after them myself while in tie Fuit h cav alry. We li no such arrangement when we first welit m-r (Is. a l( had there been) any civil governtment in Mexico thenl our presence over there would( have been Ihe ca use of !.:u : tendid d ijplomativ *orre- 'pondence c tween Mexico a ud Washi ton to ex. pla in what we were d(Oing over there, but, at this time there was no civil gov ernrent iII Alexico, or ratier there were t wo so-cAlled governiimeits. Gen. Juarez was at the heiad of one, tle Eip-ror Maxhimil:m had the othr, .Nid they were to) blisy Just now try inlg to keep otit o' rach otier's wvay to pay aly at,tention to its. An )ld gentleani who hatd a ranch near Kerrvilhe lost a bunch of horses and told us about it. Wo followed up the Indians, ecnd croSinig the Rio Grande a few hours after thema, ran into their cailp at ni'rht when they thought they were safe at hmie. We got. back all the horses, tle Indians making their escape on foot, ill ex cept a few h.t am in contact with our pl.st:1 balls; they st-lyed w here they wro. 'Ihrse Inridins wIr re LI pa IS and Kickapoos. '['hey Iad originally he longed in Texas. but had emigrated to Mexico and would now come ove r onl foot, then ride back on st o Ien I horses, sell them ta the Mexicans and cMM P11nd get more. We returned the hior'ses to where they belonged and : shor't time aifter M\r. Crawfvord, their ownler', Pild us a nothleir viit. ie lhad found us mnoire Indians, but they had not taken his horsres t his timie. HeI thad been west of t his huntint lg up his cattle ail haid seen a hunch of In dIirens, how anny he did( not know; he0 had n uot stopped long enough to coiunt them. About a dozen of us under1c comnnd of 0our Fir'st Lieutenant, a Brevet M~a jor', we're senit ourt with Cmrwfordl to help him coiunt those Indians. He led 11s up thlroughl iandiera Pass, a few miles south of the post , t hen turnmed west. IHad lie kept on west far enough we would not have nieeed him for r, guide. Edwards county was out here, anurd we lad beeii all over it lately. After going west a while lie turned unorthI again and late in the afternoon we r'ode past a chain of hills. They wr.' off to our' right, and f notiece when passing one (if themi what looked( like a small cave up in the side of' the hul1. twenty feet above its b~ase; Craw ford saw~ it, and riding over' got off his horse a~nd examined the ground. Trhete certainly could not lie Indians in that cave. I t houghit ; not more than) a dozeni, anyhow.. It was about twvo feet wide and hardly that high at the entrmance. After looking at the ground or roks thait lay on thle groundl rather, Crawford climbed ill to thie cave. The Major had s'toppedC~ the coliumni, and now culled out: "What have you got there, Mr'. ('raw ford?" "1 think there is a b'ar In that. e ve. "Let himn stay ini there t hen, and come on. I went to make camp us soon1 as5 can now. '. Crawford mounted andi came over to us, and the nmajor asked him if he had meant. to crawl into0 that cauve after a berar? "No, sir: not all' the way In. I only wanted to find out if' he was I bar or' not." "Well, if lie had becen there, you would have found it out prettyv quick." I nearly choked myself trying to keep from laughing. . I rode just. be hired the major, arid it wvould riot (10 to laugh. Trhis Mr. Crawf'ord wr, a cu riosity. Hie was abopt 60 years old and rode with his stirrups so short that his knees were shiovedl half wva. uip to his'chin, and in riding lie leaned forward in' 'the saddle something as E~nglish hunters ai'e represented in ilewspt',per cuts as doinlg, but rio fox hunter or any oneC else could1( follow the hounds riding as ho did. I couli not, at least. We were tatught to ride with stirru; straps long epougth'to allow our legi ie Saddle. 1 Troop of Cavalry ' ndlans. to extend their fill length and to eit erect. in the saddl. Had we leaned forward, as he did, an offlicer's naber across our backs would have straight ened us up. Crawford carried a Heitry rifle on the saddle in front 0'' himi aid lugged around two Colt's pis tols day alnd night. He slept with them on. We had to do that ourselves at tlime,. but unless I was told to keep irtne on. it Came off Iprolptly when I lay down. I could get it quickly enot-igh if I needed it. ie had been an Indian fighter all his life, or said lie had, and as he found 11s no Indians this trip, an(] never made another one wit.h us I will have to take his word for It, but fron what I saw -of him afterward, if J were an Indian he would be the man I should wiant to follow ie. I would not expect to have to fight him oftener t.hani twico a day. We went into camp more than half a mile beyond he e'ave, and as soon ats our horses 'were staked out I went to Crawford andI(] asked himl if he would go and examine that cave with ine. No, he ((did not care to walk that far. "It. is oaly halt ai mit ile," I said. "Yes, but it is anoth r half I mile bac1. and I ain't ised to walking. You 11113 go down and get that bCar if you Want 1him." "I want him. of course, if lie In thlere." 'Oh. he is tIhere all right. I saw his tracks thlere. " I went to t11 major an-d asked per lisio to hn lit the Iear. "Ye(s." Ie toli 1me(, "hunt him, hit ydon' rawl into that (eA'C after 111111, as Mr. Crawford Was going to do." I ha(d 1no Idea of doing that. I did not want. hear quite mo badly as thiat, :an(I I don't. t hinuk thait Crawford hamd ever mat to er-awl into it, either. lie Vz, not exactly a fool. Oin my way Io th en ve I began 1 to !ildy plans to get him out of it if lie was ini it. withmilit g.,oinlg ill and drg glng him i ut. I Ii st thought to '!imb up theri'e, then gli him a :ll or t\wo into0, but1 1 dli niss i that tia iI. miiiglt kill him if I did and wvould not kn1ow it. I was not going inl to See. Ac'orling to sme M0uthoritiCs ol hears. it takes ", Inul and a gun half a day to kill one. Sc m etiies it doe. I have followe(d o with a ritte n half (ay, ion did( not kill him. I don1't know that ! evei won. dei'd lhim. tIhoug h I shot. at hhim oftt-n enouah1. Aw:i agin I have killed one in JOsS thia:1 two miue;with a Pitl. I deipends a good deal on v, her' you hit the h Iow many sho(:' it takes to kill him. I gA. dIown in front1 of (he (.aIe a examinied the gIroni for heai :.; but lound i none. T'lhe groind,. what lit t!e there was of it (11hat was not cov R''e(d with Ilooa r'cks, was hard yellow el'y-an ox te:n passing over it wou Ild harIdlIy leave a sign. GIath1t-rinag upI a1 lot of dry:, brush, wucedt.- an 1 l1 e:i'r's I piled thbem In ruaing off a few feet to 01ne s1(1e waited foi' thle hiear Ir bear01 s to ('0111 (lut. I 1had( a Spencer ('bi 'ble and a Colt's lpil, and I though that I could ston all the bears thait might. be in there. The wiind dr'ove the smoke i'ight into thie cav'e, the fire burned out., but1 no hear' made his allppearan1ce. Thei'e would be no dlanger in going into that ca0'se nlow, and1( I tiedC it, but as ther'e w.as too much smoke in it I had11 to cr'awl out. I wen1t baclk to campIlI and1( Criawford wanted to know if' I had seen the beiair. '"No, si', t here 1s nlone there, 1101 has there been any lately.'' ''Oh, yecs, t here has been; ''le had "You could not sce a slgn there with harId." ''Tiher'e might be plinty of rigns there that an old huntei' could( see, aind you could 1not. You have not. 1been in this couintr'y long." "Yes, I know; but1 we have men ini this troop that hav'e been, somne of' hem tw~~enty yeairs 0ut on1 thie fi'ontier. I myself hav'e been pretty welcl over the Northwest, and have hunted withl .1ouix Ind11ians. Theyc3 know SOmelthin~g shout signs, don't they? We ar'e not. all tenderfeet, If' we were born anld raised( In the big cities.'' ''Yes, may13be so, but therie has b)een a b'ar up thbar.'" "Well, as lie Alajor told youi, wve wi'll let himn stay up thei'e. I can't Iinad hIin.'' We started again ear'ly next nmorning to lhunt t hose Indians (of Crawfoi'd's, anid sooni after' breaCkinhg camp It began to rain and1( kept on raining all for'e nooni. The Major went 1into ('VJnp as .soon1 as lie could( find grass and woodl. We did( not nieed to look foi' w~ater'. We had all we wanlted (of thaut and1( The timber' here wvas cypress, and1( thei'e w~as a lot of blocks of It that hioel been cut to make shingles out of which luud been left; Indians 1had( pro bably initelrupted thle shingle mauking before It had got well startedl. That hadl been s011e years' ago, "before the wuar,." priobably, to use Crawford's fa v'orite expressioii when giving the (late af his numlerous fights wvith Indlians. WVe triedl to start a cook fire withl these block~s but they were wet and would :n01 burn5, onily smoke. I got a libei'al (10se of this smoke, :nd( a small (10se of c'ypress8 smoke is ('ure. Then I hunted uIp something hant wuld burn moire aind smo11ke less, nd( foundio a lot of det'd ('edars, buit It oo(k bard w~ork t& get wcodl off them. the branches had to be broken off. Wo had no ax6; we never carried one on a pack mule then, and there is hardly anything that can be carried on him that is needed oftener. When I had anything to (10 with the pack trains in after yea r; I always carrie(d at least one tixe in a leather sling and a spade. While riding through the rain today we wcre continually passing small bunches of cattle. They belonged to ranches away cast of us and had wan dered out here. Nearly every cow hald a d'ifferent brand, some had none at all. They were still tame and would let a man ride close en)uglh to examine the:n, but further Avest could be found thou sands of them that we could not get withiln a mile of; they had been born wild. Crawford would examine every hunch we passed; he wanted to see it nayi of them had his btand on, he said. Th'lils was what had brought him and us liere; lie had seen no Indians, but wanted a c.valry escort so that he could coTie out here and look up his and hki neighbrs' cows. These nr'n would not think of com ing out here alone. If they did they would have no trouble in seeing all the Indians they wanted. I noticed the Major watching Craw ford while lie was eigaged in tasking tle census of these cows, and I knew that if Crawford did not find Indians in a day or two lie would hear from the Major. The Major had risen from lie ranks and cou ld sweax not only like the proverbi:lI trooper, but like half a dozen of them. le dare not. cuirse an enlisted man, and never did: lie woalId stand a chance of being court-r.iu:rtialed if lie had, cr else have to give the mnan he had cursed an apology in front of his troop. It was given to me lby another officer in the presence of the Colonel once, after I bar reported this officer for cursing me. But the Major could curse a tveaister or citIzei guide, and lie often did, iad I expected Crawford to get tile full binefit of the Major's expe rience in the line of ctirsing before he was a week older. When in camp Cr(awford kept down among ts. Ho wouild not go near the Major unless he was called, and we kept him busy blowing about the Indians that he had killed. I had found out Irom him that lie had he:M in the Confederate Army of Northicrin Virgini:i. Lee's ariy, and I had been in the Army of the Potc m:c at the tne ime, so I got him stai ted telling about the tHie that "we uins had flit you tins." and we put in -olm hours figh tiig the War ef the Itebellion over again. The went.her hiand leared up this r~ftron and gzave t he prounid a1 chanee to dry. I had been thiniing that I wieald hive to slecp tonight sea ted on my s:addle w...it illy back to a tree; I oft en had to s!ee; that way. We carried no bed bA: nkct : we were not allowed to put one on tile horse: I wou lld not ptit it on anyhow; I never S11ried an uything on 11hi I couldI. (o xitholtt; I did not want to mliake a aIc in mIle out( of hii. then ride him. t had been good weather when we oft tihle post and no neli hid an over -ont along wit hi him. I had a rubber ,cat, though few were worn then. S:non after dark ton i iht we were -ithered ariound the fire and Crawford vm givinig us an extendedh accaunt of he Indian~ lie had killed "before the va r"-he had not got. to the ones lie imd killed after the break-up yet. Vhien he was ab~out in the middle of his initerestinag nrarative the sentry mf post outside of the horses fired a diot. We picked up our carbines andl an out to form a line out beyond~ thle ierd. Crawford had followed me withI us rifie and I thought he had fallen n linc tint il I heard a noise behin td me is 1 stood in line in my place on the eft. I .ookinag ar'ountd I saw Crawford lowvn on his knees here among lie horses, with his huand; piressed to gethdrm; lie wasi busy praying. I wIanuted to tell him to postpone that prayer and fall In here and shoot :1 few more Indians but I w~as not in :-ommiand. ~There was a sergeant lucre wvho ranked me, a~nd had I begun to give ordlers lie would soon let ine knowv hat he was luere. Tihe Major had inot g.ot out lucre yet. ie had been outside of caimp som~vleher w-'hen the shot was fired, and camne running out now and( almo~st fell over Crawford. What lie saidI to Crawford nieed not be re lieatedl here. Is remarks would have to lie princIpally in dlashes if t hey were recorded. None of thuem cotuld lhe mi staken for a prayer, thbough. We satistled ourselves that there were no Indians out lucre now, nor had there beeni any here lately. TPhe sentry hiad fired at a bunch of cows without challenging, as he had been told to (1(: it was dark, and he could( tiot see them. We went hack to t lie fire antd trtied t~o get some more I nan stories from Crawford, biut I had hurt his feelings oni thle way in by tellinig him t,hat. we generally fought our Indians withlouit the aid of a chaphl an. lie went to bed now. This happened to be his last night with tus. H~ad lie remined, I don'it suppllose lie would have givetn its any more Indcian stoirles. }Ils failure to night to get (lut to where hie could( slautghtcr them, after buothi he and wve had thloughit that there were plenty f t hem here, hiad piut a large dhis Doumnt oni the stories hie had given uts ulready. Next morning the Major gave no >rdlers to sai~ddle up. lie seemed to be Koing to make a plermanenut campl here. Bhut callinig Crawvford upl, lie told h.im o go ouit and find those Indians or heir tra~il or b~e rhot. That was the gist of his remarks. Crawford started to find the trail. WVhether he found it or not I don't nowv; ho never came back to tell us' thoutt It. lie probably found a trail hat led straight home, then took it. le Major waitedl until noon, then ~t(ted its homne.-Correspondence in A. A.. A. A. A , A , . A A . A SPalmetto State News1 Well Known Carolinian Dead. Dr. L. W. Taylor, well known throughout South Carolina, died at Co luibia a few days ago of pneumonia, aged 72 years. 1lis grandfather was a colonel in the revolution. Dr. Tay lor was a colonel in the confederate army on Geieral Hampton's staff, and the chief surgeon in Charleston har bor at the fall of Fort Sumter. * * * Edward Rice a Suicide. A news item from Mobile, Ala., states that Edward Carew Rice, 33 years old, local representative of the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, and a prominent clubman, was found dead in his office with a bullet through his Lrain. He left a telegram and letter on his desk, showing that the act was a deliberate one. H1e came from Ninety-Six, S. C., and the body will be shipped to that point. The suicide was the son of James Henry Rice, of Ninety-Six, formerly state su perintendent of education, and a bro ther of Jaraes eniry Rice, Jr., editor of The Carolina Field of Georgetown. * * * South Carolina Tea Tablets. A Washington dispatch says: The latest experiment to be made by tile department of agriculture is that of compressing tea into tablets, one of which will make a delicious Cu) of tea. As a result of what would ordi nartily make a big package of tea cai by this new and unique method be placed in a space about the size of a safety matchbox. Th tea is grown at the dmirtilent's eXperimental tea garden;s at Sumnrville, S. C. Each littla 1-: or compre.sel tel cei:taills twenty taIblets about the size of a penny, but about twice as thick. They are darc green. Dr. Galloway states that tha most favorable reports have been made by those who have tried the tabiets. Seek to Join in Proceedings. In the (7-:ite.l States district court at Charleston a few days ago, the Union Cotton Mills company of Maine filed a petition asking to be allowed to intervene in the bankruptcy pro ings against the Union Cotton -lilis of this state. It is alleged in the pa tition that the Maine company is :a creditor of the South Carolina corpo ration, having probable claims aggre gating a om exceeding $2,000,000. The nature and amount of the claims are enumerated, the first mentioned being a note for $5,000, dated June 23, 1905, and due three months fr-om1 date, "executed for value received." The following is a list of other- notes: The petitioner-s allege that on Octo bor- 3, 1903, the Chesapetike Shoe comn lany, the Sncllenburmg Clothing comn panmy, the Alwa Furniture company' and the Spool Cotton company filed a pietitlon alleging the insolvency Ct' the Union Cotton Mills of South Car olina and praying that the mills be adjudlged bankrupt, that this petition was amendled November- 4, 1905, andl the petitioners now ask to intervene andl join in with them, asking for- a decree in bankr-uptcy against tihe Union Cotton Mills of South Car-olin-a. * * New Connection for Coal Fields, The Atlanta Constitution pirints the following: Recpor-ts of the building of a br1anchl road that will r-un fr-om Lake Tfoxaway to XMlhalla, and fi-om here to connect wvith the mafn line of the Southern railway at Becncca, S. C., above Toccoa, is of special inter-est to the Atlanta railroad circles just at pi-esent. The line is said to have re veal only3 a 1 pci- cenit gradoe in tho survey that has been made, and~ as the distance is 0on13 somic 20 miles, the wvork could be comp ileted ill a shor-t time. The advantages to Atlantans and all those living in this sosition would ho ob~vious. Vast amounts of money have beeni spenlt by the Souther-n rail Wasy in making Lake Toxawvay and the Sapphire couintr-y among tihe moist bcaut iful anld famious resorts in the entirec country. Just now tihe traveler muist go to Spartanbur-g JunctIon, andl from ther-e to Hen~dcirsonville, N. C., and the~% go upi the Ti-ansylvania road thlrough Bhrevar-d to TIoxaway. But tile greatest advantage to At lanta and this entire sectIon would~ be the addinlg of another route to the Knoxville coal region fro-m Atlanta. A road~ to Mariyvtie, in the ichl coal region below Knoxville, to Dillsboro, alluost a straight line to the main line of the Southern at Seneca, wouldl be the result. red in this way At!:nt:> would tap the coal r-eglon by a new and prmactically djirect line. * * Policy Holders Called to Meet. A meeting of thle p~olicy holders in tile Now York Life and the Mutual Life in South Carolina will be held in Columbia .Januiary 18, uindler a call is sued a few (lays ago by soveral prom inent piolicy holders in those compa nlies. As many personls hlavo ipolicies in both conmnanieo. It is deeme ..,e to hayegthe -meetigs at the same time. It Is likely that a permanent or ganization will be formed for the pro tection of the policy holders and that delegations will be named to represent the South Carolina policy holders at the annual meeting of ach of the two companies, which will be held in the spring. The call is as follows: "In view of the widespread Interest in life insurance and the efforts that may be made at the approaching au nual meeting to obtain control of the companies, it hias been deemed wiec by some of the Soigth Carolino polev holders in the New York Life and the Mutual Life to hold a meeting of the policy holders in South Carolina for the purpose of organizing an as sociation and to secure proper repre sentation of the policy holders at the annual meetings of the conimanies, which will be held in the spring. The object of this meeting will be to se cure the policy holders in their rights and it is not the purpose to involve the companies in litigation or take any other action which might tend to impair the value of the policies. There will be no cost upon any policy holder who participates in this meet Ing. "All policy holders who are in sym pathy with these purposes as outlined above are requested to notify the com mittee named below or any one of them, whether it will be agreeable to attend either iII person or by proxy the meeting to be held in the city of Columbia on the 18th day of January at noon in the city council chamber.' The call is s'gned by policy holderh in all parts of the state. JUDGE SPEER EXPLAINS Why He Refused to Entertain Motion of Attorney in Hotel Parlor. The climax was reached Welines day in the extraordinary fight befor. Judge Emory Spe er in the Uniteil States court at Macon, Ga., for the vindication of City AtUorney Wimbr ly, Chief Conner of th1e polKco and Superintendent E. A. Wimbuu'1, when Hon. N. ID. Harris spoke for the de tense. When court opened tilie at tendance friom the Macoi bar 11d not lag, and the court roomn was e.owded with attorneys and business inca who desired to hear the close. Attorney larris argued that the re versal of Judge Speor, and that alone, was sufliie:nt to justify the three al leged cont *m)nors in the arrest of Ja mison on instructions to carry out the sentence of the recorder by putting him on the chaingang to work out his sentence. Ie said th.e fiing of the mandate of the supreme coirt InII the local federal Court, Vhiici proco-d urv. was followed out by the city at torney as soon as the document cae down from Washington, imde the re versal complete, and devoted consid erable arguaent to the piomsibility of Jamison's flight from justice *fler the matter had been disposed of in the federal supre1m e court. A most interesting proposition con fronted the attorueys for the defense in Judge Speer's statement that the court was not to be0 driven into ae tion. The assertion was made, as the result of continued reference to a past incident, that in which Attorney W'im berly made an effort to be hea rd on a motion to make the reversal iz the s-u reme court the judgment of the local federal court, and wh!ch was refused by Judlge Speer, while lhe was engag edl in the bankruptcy court upon01 a matter involving the Plant estatte. According -to r emarkcs from Judge Speer, he had been invited into the ladies' parlor of the Lanier to pass upon the bankruptcy matters, when the city attorney lpresented his mo tion in the Jamison case. -ere, Judge S-poer said, it wvould have been nec essary to bring Jamison before hinm, and as he was merely invited there, and as it was the ladies' parlor, suich wou1ld have been very riprop~er, and, besides, be said, the court could hard ly have been exp~ectedl to take tup other business at the time. At this point want of quarters for the federal court in Macon in Decemb~er figured in the discussion. Assistant Distict Attorney Akcer man closed in a short argument of rebuttal. IHe found himself fired at rromf every direction when lie began. Messrs. Hall, Harris andl Olla Wim berly p~ut into his logic and law at --ory turn, and the last moment wit. nessedi an effort fr-om Attorney Hlarri; to refute the pr1osecuting att('rney-'s statemrents. 'lhe accused men found sympathy i abundance and ready assistance was offered from many memibers of the bar. Attorney Akorman fought the case through alone, and urged the conviction of the three mn on many legal considerations. After argument closed, Judge Spoor discussed the case at length and an nounced that lhe would reserve his decision. COLOR LINE IS SUSTAINED. Kansas Supreme Court Upholds New Separate School Law. The Kansas supr-eme court has do cidecd that the law passed1 by the,1ast: legislature providing Reparate high schtools for the whites and negroea at Kansas City. K(ans., is va1l(1. The do c1icn paves the way for the legisla ture .to pass an act ropairating the whites froa- the nef-:'ce In all the schools of thn state. MINESHAFT HORROR Men and Animals Entombed in Pit by Explosion. OVER SCORE LOSE E Catastrophe Occurred at Plant of the Cooper Mine Company at Coaldale, West Virginia-Rescuera Very Quickly Begin Work. Twenty-one miners were killed In an explosion of mine gas in the shaft of the Cooper Mine company at Coal dale, W. Va., at noon Thursday. In mediately following the explosion,. which was heard for several miles,. rescue parties set to work to explore the wrecked shaft. Coaldale is a mining town situateo. on the Norfolk and Western railway, and i- 15 miles west of Bluefleld. It Is, in Mercer county, and wire facilities. are inadequate. Some idea can be; formed as to the force of the explo sion when several hours after the ex plosion, one of the miners, who could not be identified on account of being so badly mutilated, was found a dis tance of several hundred feet fron the mine mouth, having been blown there, together with a mining car by the explosion. Nows of the explo sion soon spread through the coab fields, and a great party of miners from the numerous operations gath ered to assist in the rescue. MADE A SCENE AT WHITE HOUSE: Woman Insisted on Seeing President and Was Carried Out t3odily. A Washimint mi dispatch says: A distressing ccie was enacted at the white houtse executive offices Thurs day in which Mrs. Minor Morris. aged flifty years. was carITled scrCalnini from the building because she refused to leav-e without a resort to force. Mrs. Merris told Asistant Secreta ry Barnes that she wanted to see the president. She0 s:aid that her hus.3 band had been discharged from *tlh government service, and she wanted: to deniand from the president his re instatement. 'Mr. Barnes explained to her that the president had nothing to do with such subjects, and that she would bet ter take up the matter with the head of the department from which her husband had be-n discharged. Mrs. Morris declared in a loud tone that she had come to the white house to see the president, and proposed to see hii even if she had to camp' oil there for a month. The white house ofllcers tried to get her to leave, but she defled any one to touch her. Two of them li-fted her up bodily and carr-iedl hier screaming to a pol;ccr call box, wher-e a patrol wagon was 4 sunnn~oned. She was taken to the house of detention. Mrs. Morris was relcased fromn the house of detention shor-tly after 8 o'clock p. im., andl retur-ned to the New- - Willard hotel. She reofused to see any caller-s, sendling word she wvas indisposed. She had been a guest at the Willard' for a long time. DIXON ALLEGES INFRiNGEMENT.. Author of "Clansman" Seizes Baggage of Theatrical Aggregation. Thomas Dixon, author of "The Clans mant," through attorneys at Raleigh. N. C., attached pr1operty of the Corinne Runkel comp~any for pr-esenting "In Rocogstruietion Days," a play which lie lidms is an infr-ingement on thie copy ri lit of his "The Clansman," bit which Thaddeus Br-eton of the Runke! compiany says lie wrote in forty days, fr-om Dixon's and ether novels of ri construction times. Statehood Bill Considered. The senate committee on territories: met Thursday and b)egan consider-ation of the joint statehood bill. This was ~ the first meeting of the committee to' ;onisidler th-e admisisicn of states. SLAV REOS STILL DEFIANT. - AdmIt Defeat, But Will Organize a Fight on Now BasIs, A St. Peter-sburg dispatch says. The gener-al mieeting of the woi-k nien's council and of represetatives of the p~roleter-lat organizations,which, was held neross the Finnishi border,. lasted for' 361 hours. The practical result of the meet ing was a' confession tht the gov ernment had proved to be too strong In its fIght against the striker-s a the proletariat organiizationsu, an thia, It would be necessary to or-ganizeo on a now basis tho armedlO~ r-evolutioni. A DAGO TOWN ENGULFED. Earth Opened and Swallowed Up the Houses and Many People. At Gesano, a town of 8,000 inhiab itants in the province of -. Potenzo,, Italy the earth suddenly opened, on ggilfing ten hOUSes and shattor-ing many others, which threaten to fall. ~ Many persons wore buried in the ruins.