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JOHN IX>F GOT Bl'SY.
A Xamber Have Been Calle<l to Court
From The Dally Item. June 26.
John Doe. the unknown whiskey
detective has been getting In some
good work. A number of arrests
have been made already, and a num?
ber more will be In the next few
days.
A warrant was sworn out for Lewis
Bossard. but when arrested he said
he only bought it. and if an officer
were sent with him he would show
where it was. Magistrate Harby sent
his deputy with him to the house of
Anna Henderson and Lloyd C-reen.
where sure enough the booze w.
found. Three cases were made out
against them, one for storing and
two for selling.
Two cases were made out against
Oeo. P. McKagen. but he is confined
to his room with a lame foot and has
not been lodged in Jail. He has been
trying to give bond, but has falleJ
so far.
John Rsyford had three cases made
out against him. He Is In Jail.
Frank Boykln. colored, refused to
sign a witness bond and Magistrate
Harby ordered him to Jail. He decid
\ ed It would be better to sign the
bond rather than to go to the county
boarding house.
MARE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Went to Haddle Her Vp and Found
Neck Broken.
Lightning does peculiar stunts
some times On Saturd.iv when
the boy working for Mrs. M.
Molse went to the stall to saddle up
^"the mare he found her dead. Dr.
Morse was called in and a post mor
ten examination was held. It dis?
closed the fact that the mare's neck
was broken. There was no evidence
of a struggle and the only bruise was
a slight one over the left eye. The
only explanation Is that lightning
struck the mare during the storm
Friday night.
FARKWFXL TO M III MUHKIl.
Sumtcr Innige Ulli Honor a Faithful
Member.
The officers and members of Sum
ter Lodge No. 86. B. P. O. Elks will
give a farewell reception to Prof. W.
S. Schumacher In the parlors of their
club rooms Wednesday evening at
8:30 o'clock. Since the early organ?
isation of the Order m Sumter. Prof.
Schumacher has been closely iden
tlh sj with the local lodge, and has
from the night of his Initiation been
one of Its most popular and enthusi?
astic members. Many is the time
that his violin has given pleasure to
his brother members, has touched'
their very souls and carried them off
t<> th ?t haven of hllsn c reated only in
the realm of music such as his?that
music carries mortals nearer to heav?
en than is within the power of any
other human agency. Mr. I?. J.
Wlnn. Jr.. will play the piano accom?
paniments All memhers of the Or
d< r In k -od shinning. an i \p.-? ted to
be present gSj Wedn.-.i \ evening. It
will be an occasion Milan' with m?ny
conflicting emotions, an oc casion that
will bring sadness to the hearts of all
who attend, for it will mark the dis?
appearing from the midst of Sumter
Elkdom of the glowing light of one
of Its most ??rllllant stars: but the
passing star will lease in Its wake a
beautiful wreath of never-dying for?
get-me-nots.
The . impiign for Sumtcr's V. M.
? ' \ has begun in earnest. A large
clock, whl? h can be plalntv seen from
both Main and Liberty streets, has
been affixed to the BSeOSsf story of
the 1>. J. ('handler Clothing ('?.. and
'ts bands will point out Sack day the
number of dollars raised until thev
mert "n the final goal. 8*15,000.
Walking, wo are told. Is a good ea
gp ts??better than riding In an auto
mobile. The trouble Is that a great
many of us are not looking for* exer?
cise ?Mllwsukee Sentinel.
shed April, 1850. 'lie .lust ar
!. sun
"l GEORGIA DESPERADO
HMtllU \l)i:s HIMSELF AND DL
FI KS AJUIKST.
Two UM, Three Others Are Wound?
ed?Governor is Asked Tor Troops
to Storm House in Which Desper?
ado Has Children.
Ocilla, Qa., June 26.?Barricaded in '
his home in the western part of thiB.
Irwin county, W. H. Bostwick has re?
sisted two attacks of officers today,
killing two and wounding three
others. He is a white man with a
reputation for fighting proclivities
and has threatened to kill everybody
who comes in range of his bulletts.
The local authorities have asked
Oov. Brown for troops to storm the
little house where the desperate man
Is hiding.
The Dead.
Those who died under his deadly
fire are:
Chief of Police Stave Davis of
Ocilla.
Deputy Sheriff Sheffield of Irwin
county.
The wounded are:
Deputy Sheriff T. C. Bass, arm
broken and shot in the abdomen.
Sheriff J. P. Mclnnls, slightly In?
jured.
Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Tucker,
slightly Injured.
Lynching threats are heard here
and a crowd of men Is forming that
may not await the coming of soldiers.
Bostwlek Is well armed with rifle,
shotgun and pistol and has a good
supply of ammunition. In the house
with him are six of his children.
The first attack on Bostwick's fort
was made at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
He was wanted on a misdemeanor
charge and Sheriff Mclnnls with
Chief Davis and Deputy Sheriffs Bass
and Tucker went to arrest him. When
they came within close range of his
house Bostwick opened fire. Chief
Davis fell dead and Bass was wound?
ed. The officers removed the dead
and wounded and summoned a posse
from Ocilla and Irwinvllle and sur
1 unded the house. Sheriff M' I/inis
with Deputies Tucker and Sheffield
led the onslaught and Bostwick killed
Sheffield Instantly and wounded the
two others.
He is still unharmed in his fort.
The scene of the two battles Is several
miles from here and In -matlon Is
hard to obtain.
All of the children In the house
w 1th Bostwick are small and some of
them are little girls.
It was stated tonight that Sheriff
Mclnnls is probably very seriously
shot, as a rlflle bullet found its way
through his breast In addition to shot?
gun wounds.
Information has just come that the
troops from Fitzgerald will be here
just as quickly as they can be mobi?
lized and rushed here on a special
train.
Efforts are being made to burn
Boetwtek out Of his house, and It is
said that after holding their lire until
it was ?eon they could accomplish
nothing in that way, the posse began
firing tonight and that several hun?
dred shots were fired at the house
where Bontwtok sad his little children
are hidden. It was hoped this would
draw the barricaded man out of his
fort but it had no effect. It is not
known yet whether any of ths bullets
found a human mark. It is known
that one of the little girls in the
house is ill.
Wh.n sheriff Mclnnls fall. Best?
Wick sent one of his little boys out
to pick up the officers pistol where
It had fallen. The boy came out in
the face of the posse and picked up
the pistol, Hs*WSS allowed to return
unmolested. There probably were
UneXploded cartridges In the cham?
bers Of the weapon.
The posst is ready to savs the little
children If the fire drives Bostwick
out. He is yet keeping guard and
shooting whenever any one approaches
the house. Whether the efforts made
to burn the building will bs success?
ful tonight ens not bs foretold,
it ki staled that seversl monthsago
Bostwb k shot bis brother-in-law, C.
O, fields and wns arre.-t. >i charged
with assault with Intent lo murder
He was put un.br a peace bondi it
was stated, and his bondsman told
the Sheiiit that be wanted |q be re?
leased from responsibility. On Fri?
day a deputy went to BostWlek'l house
to srresl hint but Bostwick told him
ho would never submit t ? srTCSt, ?hat
be would die llrst.
Then today the Sherlfl W< nt out
with bis deputies to make the arrest
and the battle followed. That In
was despfr?,te was evident to th"
deputy who saw him I'riday. Yester?
day Bostwick's wife and one of his
seven children left the house and
went to the home of some relative,
but the father rsfUSSd to allow the
(1 Pear not-">Lct all the ends Thon Aln
[TER. 8. 0., WEDNI
WEATHER FOR THE WEEK.
Bureau Very Safely Predicts Bonie
Local Showers Hero und There und
Some Warm Weulher.
Washington, June 26.?Generally
fair weather with no extremes of
temperature is predicted by the
weather bureau for the coming week
over the greater part of the country.
There will be local showers mostly in
the central valleys, the lake region
and the Southern States.
The temperature will rise tomor?
row and Tuesday in the lake region,
the upper Ohio valley and the East?
ern States, and warm weather Is
probable during the next few days in
the plateau region, the Southern
plains States and the interior of Cali?
fornia, also in the Northwestern
States. No extremely high temepra
tures are predicted for the week.
VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS.
Washington, D. C, June 24.?To?
day's vote on the anti-option bill, by
which the Democrats won a decided
victory In the House and put through
a measure that th< have been ad?
vocating since the early days of the
present session, largely due to
the efforts of 11 S?rth Carolina
members. They have r.orked con?
tinuously for months past to bring
about such a resu;; as that achieved
today. Beginning th the hearing
before the committee on agriculture,
when President Barrett of the Farm?
ers' Union, and other well known
Southerners appeared here, a con?
tinuous fight has been kept up, and
at no time have the Carolina mem?
bers failed to believe that they would
be victorious. The fight before the
committee occupied many weeks and
engaged the attention, not only of
those advocating the passage of a
bill to stop dealing in options, but
also dozens of the bigg, it and most
prominent men in the cotton ex?
changes throughout the country.
Among the members of the dele
gaion from South Carolina who spoke
today were: Representatives Finley,
Ellerbe and HjSVST. While ev*ry
member of the South Carolina dele?
gation has been deeply interested in
the outcome of this bill, no one who
heard the Representatives just nam?
ed could fall to be Impressed with
the effect of the sledge hammer
blows they delivered.
Mr. Lever, as a member of the
House committee of agriculture, not
only protested vigorously on the floor
today against the continuance of pres?
ent day practice of the cotton ex?
changes, but was largely Instrumen?
tal in securing the overwhelming \ ote
for the proposition. "The operations
of the Loulaana lottery and the
schemes of the "greasy pig" and
"shell game" artists are as nothing
to manipulations of the otton ex?
changes of the country," he said.
Mr. Ellerbe said "they are the most
damnable institutions ever organiz?
ed, and I call upon the people of the
United States, through their relegated
authority in Congress, to come to the
rescue of the farmers today, and for
all time put these monstrous concerns
out of business."
During the debate, and while the
vote was being taken. Senator E. D.
Smith was an Interested spectator
on the floor of the House. It is now
up to the Senate to pass the bill.
other children to have him. He is
i?? years of age.
As soon as the first squad of offi?
cers came within sight of the house
today Bostwick opened fire with a
rifle, killing Davis anil wounding
Baaa, who, for safety) lay for some
minutes where he fell. Sheriff Mc?
lnnis, In the face of Bostwlck's rain
Of bullets, recovered Davis' body and
assisted Bass to a place of security.
Sheriff Mclnnis then summoned re?
inforcements and made the second
attempt to kill or captuie BostWlck.
The knowledge that the desperado
has tlx children In the houss with
him deterred the officers from shoot?
ing except when they caught sight of
I lost w lek.
Sheffield ft n a \ Ictlm to his shot,
then Tucket- and .Mclnnis were
wounded. Vgaln, In the rain of bul
luets, the men succeeded In dragging
the sheriff out of range. The neigh?
borhood by this time was alarmed
and the news of the killing and
wounding of tin- officers had spread
to marby towns and soon the otli
< eis bad 50 men to assist them.
Sheriff IfcGlnnls swore each man in
as deputy sheriff and ordered the
house surrounded, in the meantime
he had dispatched a runner to the
nearest telephone office with a mes?
sage to Qov. Brown to rush a com?
pany Of troops tO the seen*4 post
haste. A large number of citizens left
< m ilia for the scene tonight well
armed.
is't at be thy Country'*, Thy God's ai
SSDAY. JUNE 29. 19
BRIBERY jj THE SENATE.
OKLAHOMA SENATOR CLAIMS TO
HAVE BEEN APPROACHED.
One senator. One Representative and
Two Former Senators Brought In?
to Indian Scandal.
Washington, June 24.?Senator
Gore of Oklahoma disclosed in the
senate today what he interpreted as
an effort to bribe him in connection
with legislation affecting the fortune
in attorneys fees claimed by J. F. Mc
Murray of Oklahoma for services
rendered .to the Chocktaw and Chick
asaw nations in land town site cases.
The charge created a sensation in
the senate which later extended to
the house. The latter body, in conse
q tence, sent back to conference the
general deficiency bill, which car?
ried item relating to contracts be?
tween the Indians and their attor?
neys.
As the result of the denouncement
Senator Gore finally involved a mem
1 er of the senate committee on In?
dian affairs?one from Nebraska, and
the other from Kansas?but whose
names were not made public in de?
bate.
It is not improbable that an in?
vestigation will be ordered.
Mr. Gore was compelled to address
the senate three times before that
body was fully aroused to the seri?
ousness of the charges which he
made. His first effort was in connec?
tion with the conference report on
the deficiency bill. As passed by the
senate that measure contained an
amendment which would render null
and void contracts made by the Choc
taw and Chickasaw nations and by
individual members of these tribes
with their attorneys unless the con?
tracts were approved by congress.
This provision was In accordance
with a resolution Intrcduced by Mr.
Gore on May 4, larc It was design?
ed to prevent Mr McMurray from ob?
taining fee;: which it is said would
aggregate $3,000,000 and which Mr.
Gore complained had not been earn?
ed by the attorney. The conference
report had been adopted by the sen?
ate when Mr. Gore entered the cham?
ber.
He announced that he had been In?
formed that the senate had receded
from the amendment requiring the
approval of congress of tribal agree?
ments but, Mr. Hale assured him
that the matter had been proporly
safeguarded. He added that as agreed
upon in conference these argeements
would require approval by the presi?
dent and the secretary of interior be?
fore becoming effective. Mr. Gore
accepted the explanation but said If
the contracts were to bo recognized.
Mr. McMurray would receive $.1.000,
000. It was in this connection that
he announced that improper in?
fluence had been exercised by a, rep?
resentative of McMurray in order to
defeat the amendment requiring con?
gressional approval.
Mr. Gore said that he had been
approached by an outsider, who de?
sired to interest him in the McMur?
ray claims. Later Mr. Gore examin?
ed the provision as agreed upon in
conference. He lost no time in re?
turning to the senate chamber, where
he moved to reconsider the vote b\
which the conference report had been
adopted. The presiding officer in?
formed him that the report had pass?
ed out Of the possession Of the senate.
Mr. Gore then moved to recall the
report, but Mr. Gallinger moved to
lay this motion upon the table. A
rule against debating the Gallinger
motion was enforced and Mr. Gore's
motion was tabled.
Mr. Gore explained thai on May J.
last, he had offered a resolution sim?
ilar In term- to the amendment be
had placed in tin deficiency bill in
the senate and that it had been re?
ferred to th^ committee on Indian
affairs. On the following day Senator
Hughes had been directed to make a
favorable report on the resolution, he
sa Id.
"< >n May 6," exclaimed Mr. Gore.
' a man came to me with an Improp?
er suggestion. He was a representa?
tive of Mr. McMurray a, resident of
my home town, and had been my
friend In time of need, lie assured
mo that it would be to my financial
interest if I would call upon the sen?
ator from Colorado and advise him
not to report the resolution. There
was .'i suggestion that $25,000 or $">0.
000 would he available If the con?
tracts were not prohibited. And 1 am
Informed that a similar proposition
was made yesterday to a member of
the house."
Mr. Gore also charged that an 'ex
senator from Nebraska and an ex
senator from Kansas are interested
In these contrac ts." and declared that
a large lobby was maintained in
Washington in that Interest. He said
id Truth's.'
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THE TRTJ
New Seri
that he felt In honor hound to con?
tinue these efforts "to prevent this
steal from those defenseless Indians
in i Oklahoma."
Learning that the house had not
j yet agreed upon the conference report,
; Mr. Gore hastened to the other cham?
ber, where, he told friends of the
efforts that had been made to cor?
rupt members. "When the confer?
ence report was brought up in the
house Representative Murphy, of
Missouri, called attention to the sit?
uation. He declared that an attor?
ney had been lobbying in the capitol
for a long time In the lnterst of leg?
islation which would validate his con?
tracts with the Indians.
"Name the attorney!" demanded
several members.
"J. F. McMurray," replied Mr.
Murphy.
The attorney was seated in the gal?
lery at the time.
The house almost unanimously re?
jected the confernce agreement.
When the action of the house was
reported to the senat, Mr. Hale mov?
ed that the senate further insist upon
its amendments to the bill, and aked
for a further conference.
Mr. Gore reentered the chamber
at this juncture and obtaining recog?
nition reiterated his protest against
the provision inserted in conference.
Another sensation was created
when he declared that the "friend in
need" had told him during the con?
versation of May 6 that "a member of
this senate, a member of the Indian
affairs committee, and a member of
the house committee on Indian af?
fairs were interested in these con?
tracts."
Mr. Gore said that he had just seen
Mr. Tawney, one of the house con?
ferees, and had asked him who had
suggested the provision which was
subsituted for the original senate
amendment.
"And Mr. Tawney named the very
same representative who was men?
tioned to me on May 6 as being in?
terested In these contracts," exclaim?
ed the Oklahoma senator. "I under?
stand that this member of the house
and Mr. McMurray practically live
together in the same hotel In this
city."
Senators looked aghast at the dis?
closures made by the Oklahoma
member. The charges which had been
mild at first piled up In such an
alarming manner that even the rush
for the last days of the session was
not sufficient to minimize the general
interest displayed. The chamber was
filled when Senator Bailey exclaimed:
"I think the senator from Oklaho?
ma owes it to himself and the senate
to give us the name of the senator
who was represented to him as be?
ing interested in these contracts."
Mr. Gore declined, however, to
mention any names, but said that he
hoped there would be an investiga?
tion of the whole matter before which
he might make the disclosures.
The bill was then returned to con?
ference. Mr. Gore had prepared a
resolution providing for an Investi?
gation but he withheld it upon as?
surance being given by Mr. Hale that
the interests of the Indians would be
properly safeguarded.
"This is one of the biggest steals
ever attempted to be put through
congress," said Mr. Murphy.
Alter naming Mr. McMurray as the
man who had been trying to put this
scheme through, he said McMurray
had been "ably assisted by Cecil Ly?
on, chairman of the great Republican
committee of Texas and national Re?
publican committee men from that
State."
"These gentlemen." continued Mr.
Murphy, "have traveled over the In?
dian territory and have procured con?
tracts from Individual Indians. You
are giving to these men who are hold?
ing the contracts from $3.000,000 to
$16,000,000 and presumably more and
they have done nothing that is worth
a single dollar for it."
Mr. Murphy, who was once an at?
torney for the Creek Indians, tonight
figured the ultimate amount that
would accrue to McMurray and those
aasociated with him under the ten
per rent, contract at $20,860,000.
"This," said Mr. McMurray, "is un?
der the general survey estimate and
is exclusive of the percentage they
would gel from the pine lands which
are reserved from allotment."
The glass workers empolyed by the
Carolina (Mass Co., of Columbia, have
gone on a strike.
Where was Kick Longworth when
the colonel came home? He was not
mentioned In the pre ss dispatches.
Forty-three applicants for license"
to practice dentistry appeared before
the state Dental Examining Hoard at
Glenn springs Friday. Seven were
negroes. One of them being I. 1>.
l >a> is, dr.. of Sumter.
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FIGHT ON LODGE.
BUTLER AMES TAKES CP ARMS
AGAINST THE "MACHINE."
Mr. Ames Says Massachusetts Sena?
tor is a Tool of Railroads, Ranks
And Other Big Corporations.
Washington, June 26.?Represen?
tative Ames, of Massachusetts, pub?
licly announced his candidacy for the
United States senate today in a for?
mal statement embodying an excep?
tionally bitter attack upon Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge.
Mr. Ames in his statment says he
becomes a candidate after having
failed to Induce any one else to "take
up the fight against Boss Lodge and
his political machine."
These are some of the things Mr.
Ames says about the senator and
what he ascribes as the "Lodge ma?
chine:"
"This machine, backed by all the
large corporations and all the State
and Federal patronage at his com?
mand has for many years served a
ready and efficient tool to crush out
all political ambitions, endeavors and
opinions not sanctioned by Mr. Lodge.
"His orders have gone out to crush
not only for his own political end,
but to advance the selfish schemes of
the large railroads, banking and
manufacturing interest he serves in
the hall of congress as well as in the
Massachusetts legislature.
* "It is said that in his present ex?
tremity, fearing to seek re-election on
his long public record in congress
and in the State, his one hope Is that
Mr. Roosevelt may create new confi?
dence in his behalf by speaking for
him as an old friend. It is hard to
believe that the former president
would lend himself to the political
support of one, even though a friend,
who has consistently violated all the
moral teachings of which he Is the
great exponent.
"With direct primaries, it is uni?
versally admitted that Mr. Lodge
would have no possible chance of re?
election. The Lodge machine and *
lobby worked in- the senate <Massa?
chusetts) again this year to success?
fully defeat the direct primary am
which had passed the house.
"The defeat of Mr. Lodge and the
termination of this machine will lend
more than anything else to party suc?
cess not only in the State, but in the
nation. It will restore confidence in
the Republican management by di?
vorcing the legislature and the lobby?
ing political machine and defeating
a public official \.ho has so long serv?
ed the private interests rather than
the public good."
LIGHT COLORED RELIGION.
Columbia's Mulatto Congregation
Makes Big Real Fstate Deal.
Columbia. June 25.?Illustrative of
both the low price to whleh Colum?
bia realty sank In Reconstruction
days and the big prices to which it
has climbed under present favorable
conditions is the fact that local In?
vestors have vainly offered to the fa?
mous mulatto congregation?no black
negroes admitted?$29,500 for the lot
at the northwest corner of Sumter
and Gervais streets on whleh stands
Wesley M. E. ehureh, and for which
the congregation paid in 1S72 just
exactly one-tenth that amount.
It is probable that '.h^ parties will
be aide to agree shortly. Then the
icgroes will build them a fine church
some where else in town with the
proceeds and the valuable corner lot,
facing the State House park, will be
converted to business or residential
uses. Three lots have already been
sold off the property, so the enhance?
ment in value has been considerably
more than ten-fold in the past 38
years.
This church Is said to correspond
pretty closely with one in Charles?
ton, in that it is strictly for * light"
colored people. Common black folk
are barred?not by any written reg?
ulation, of course, but simply by a
sort of unwritten law.
COLORED RUMMER SCHOOL.
Negro Teachers of Clarendon Coast
t> Have Reboot,
Manning. June 24.?There will be
a summer school for colored teachers
of Clarendon county. The resslons
will be held in Manning beginning
Monday, June 27th and closing July
2L'nd. The following course of study
is offered: srithmette, history. <j\ics.
physiology, agriculture, pedagogy ami
spelling.
Lectures will bo given each week
by prominent educators of both races.
Prof. L M. A. Myers, principal, of the
colored graded school at Manning,
will conduct the summer school.