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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-06-03
The Breath Of a Slander.
The Times Are Out of Joint and
Gossip is Not Checked by
Personal RESPONSE
bility.
Atlanta News.

Atlanta News.
The Carson case LII Muc,n is ie.
markahle not only in it's nature,
but IN its swift CONCLUSION, and in
the moral that it points.
A woman's chastity is reflected
upon 10y male teacher of rival
school. They meet for confer-
encc over suit for slunder in a
lawyers Office, lock the door be-
tween them and the LAWYER, and,
when the door is opened, the man
is dead, with four pistol shots in
his body, and the woman prompt
ly avows herself his slayer be-
cause, as she alleges, he refused
to retract his reports and offered
her a further insult IN the refus,
al.
The jury acquitted the woman
promptly, and the spectators APP
plaudcd the verdict.
1t is made clear again by This
swift verdict that n woman in de
fensc of her honor ur of her re
puta'ipn viii! never he punished
for violence in the south.
There remains another lcsSon
which the Macon Telegraph points
mos; aptly as the essential moral
of the case. The Telegraph
says:
"Do not speak evil of fe-
male.
''1f she is innocent you do her
irreparable wong. (And that
was the thought in the minds of
the Carson jury which no amount
of eloqnence or persuasion, CT cold
logic, could rub out.) You con-
denim her to a living death.
''if she is guilty her sin will
find her out without any winks,
or hats, or shrugs of the shoul>
ders
cit is reported to have Deen
said during the trial of this case
that if every man who spoke evil
of woman Was shot down few
men would escape We hope that
this is not true but if it is true,
perhaps it Is time some of the
women were arting out with
guns to make afraid those who
slander them.
"We repeat that the moral in
this case is: Do not speak evil of
females
Words like these would seem to
make wholesome drift of senti-
ment back to the old south.
But the words are murred by
the facts. The counsel is whole,
some, but the times are out of
joint. Gossip and slunder have
grown apace since the creeds of
the old south were swept away by
war, and were choked by the
gross materlalism of the age. .Vir.
tue on wagging tongues Is held
lightly and character is of small
esteem. Good names are banded
in idle gossip and fair .epute in
man or woman is injured in the
careless whisper of the street.
Rumor robs like highwayman
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-06-03

"A new story says Mr.. John
ID. Rockefeller wants to buy
the Ferris wheel. Mercy; can't
the man get the price of kerosene
high enough without that? -Sa-
vannah News.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-06-03

ly stated the present condition of
the food is this:
One hundred and seventy peo.
pie drowned
Eight thousand people without
homes.
$4,000, 600 loss of property.
Identified dead, six.
Floating bodies seen, 90.
People missing 200.
Houses burned, results of fire
in timber from Stacking lime.
probably 200.
Banks collapsed, two; whole
sale grocery stores flooded, two.
Big business blocks almost
ready to crumble, so.
Wholesale commission houses
deserted, SIX.
Rock Island train containing
$50 passengers held her by high
water.
City water works useless.
There Is ground for hope that
the worst has passed. Tonight
City Engineer McBabie issued
bulletin giving out the cheering
intelligence that ttc waters of the
Kansas river had subsided Z 12
inches. With 175 or 200 lives
lost, Sc, 900, 600 of property de-
stroyed, with hundreds of pistol
shots as signals of distress, blend
ed with the agonizing cries of un-
willing inhabitants Of tree tops
and roofs of houses and the wa
ters creeping upward and then
slowly subslding and alternately
changing hope to despair, the
capital city has passed the most
memorable Sabbath day of its ex-
istcnce. Through all this dis
committing condition Of affnirs was
added the presence of cold, dis
NAL rain.
The arduous work of the heroic
rescuers was not abated in the
least by the conditions which con
fronted them. For long, dreary
hours, knee deep in water and
sometimes in water up to their
necks, they worked with might
and main. Tonight they can
point to 300 or more rescued
persons who otherwise might
have been swept away in the cur
rent.
The known drowned:
Carl Rupp, Orville Rupp, two
Rupp girls.
q. H. CARROTS and tive>year-
old son.
Twenty unidentified bodies.
Leading men have made a care
ful examination of the flood and
its conditions and us n result of
their investigation they give $50
as the probable number of lives
lost. A more conservative estl
mate places the mum Der of dead at
175. The higher number is as
apt to be correct as the lower.
The number of dead is merely a
matter of guess. Twenty mem
bers of rescuing parties tell how
they saw people drop from hous,
to be swept away by the flood,
and others tell of men, who ter
rihed at the approach of the fire,
dropped into the water, where
they sank and did not reappear.
The estimated number of dead
does not include the large number
classed as missing, who cannot
otherwise be accounted for.
Neither does it include the number
who are supposed to have lost
their lives in the fire. In the lat,
ter class there Is absolutely no
means of arriving at even an an
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-06-03

The Republican state CON
ventioh of Ohio yesterday en-
dorsed the administration of Press
ident Roosevelt and recommend
ed his reuomination.
The Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushcrs' association has elected
&. Fitzoimons, of Columbia, vice
president.
"a . To7IA.
Bears the hIhe Kind You Have Always Bought
signature Of &Azzzw
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-06-03
Two Hundred Lives Lost.

Some Four to Six Million Dollars
Worth of Property Burned and
Swept by tloob- Eight Thou
sand People Are Now
Without Homes.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
WESLEY RYCKMAN DEAD.

News reached the Recurd aaace,5 m
terday of the, death Of J.W. Ryck-
man, u Westaelh, at . oclock D. M,
Tuesday, Dsc. ), 1895: The funeral
took plsce yest4EddI, the services be.
Ing conducted " the Rsy. P. gr4ak,
the pastor. The intsrmsnt taok place
in Westfeld cemetery. The capse Of
death Was pneumonia. The sickness
WAS Of ten days duration.
II Il ]. w. Ryckman was 4s years old
at the time IL his death. He leaves i
wife and six children.
b Mr.. Eyckman was I member of i
large and highly.rega.ded family that
came from Canada aud settled il tne
WsStteld. country many years ago, "
A Wsstteld jnsig ghoor VIM knew him
We'll, inA lstter u the Record convey
Ing tldings u bis death, trutGfully
esys:: = He Was q good heighbOr, . kind
husband antl.a lgvtR& father, and tbs
entire planlnnllI sincerely sympa'
IthtIeS wish the bereaved taInijy.D
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
BOB WAS ALL RIGHT.

A Wisconsin ediupr has the adver.
tising idea proRer and draws the line
nowhere. Here's his wri,s-up Of q
wedding.
miss Jennie Jones and Rob Henry
we're married ut the jones msnsioA
last night. The bride III the charm.
Ing daughter ri Constable Jones, who
has made y y0od officer, who has an ID
in this paper Offering . line horse f.,r
sale, and whO will undoubtedly be re.
elected next spring.
& ''The grUIn runs grocery store on
Main street, he is . good patron of
our ADVERTISING columns. aud hss rot
ina nev line Of bargains this week.
sAil Through the summer he has paid
tMO cents more for butter than any
other store In iowa.
"The happy couple left on the ten.
1'clM:k train for milwaukee, ~ visit
the brides uncls, who q isreportsd to
have lots Of mOnsy and Brights dis-
ease Of the kidneys.
Bob certainly has ~ ere for busi.
ness +
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11

THERE are few clearer and stronger
writer's in the state than Farmer
Wallace, Of Bismarck. In = recent Is
sue Of the Tribune he writes feelinRly
in opposition to the suggestion that
Alfred and several other unorganized
counties shall be united and organized
under the name Of Roosevelt county.
Comrade Wallace, while allowing 20.
one to have higher regard than him-
self for the president. makes an earn.
est plea for the retention Of the name
OF Alfred, in honor Of an old Union
soldier who was member Of the legis.
lature twenty years ago. 1t Is not
likely that, under. the circumstances,
President Roosevelt would appreciate
the naming of the county for himself.
ONE Of the strangest conditions on
record prevails ip eastern. Kansas.
Girls have practically quit being
.'borned" down that way, III Leaven-.
worth county the proportion Of boy TO
girl babies during. the last year Is
something like l6 to. 4. One doctor
who was present at twenty births says
nineteen Of the twenty were boys.
No one except some Of the venerable
colored people attempt to accountsfori
the phenomenon, and these claim.
that the United States, eighteen or
twenty years from now, viii become
Involved in . great war apd will need
soldiers. They say THAT providence
is taking time bysthe :fpFslock and
ts proyidlng the E.a aaat axaal ,ls,xsthe
army aud navy. hut tnes a @ s.
other supernatural causes. Perhaps
IT is . wise pgscauti6asso prevent the
appearance Ut anotheIC Carrie Nation.
Or perhaps tits in the. interest Of ths
COP. Kansas now being strongly
republican, most Of the boys would
naturally be brought up in that faith.
Thus, provision would be mad agatnst
the Sunhower State again being per
sverted to papulism. However, this
!. pne-sided bipth ratesis hardly ;neces.
sary. for the reason'that 81 the end
Of 8 score OF years, with, the attention
now paid to athletics BY the fatrer
+ hex, the girls will make a. gOud sol
diers as the bpys. s si 81.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11

! EXIT, McGillivray; enter, Jewell.
'sssrhe king is dead. Long live the
king" Is;
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
& RlIOhS C0U RTY RECORD. R
BYD. r. sTREETER.

The Record is entered Ut the Linton Post
temce as sec0nd-ciass matter: IS
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
A LADY BlKlst'ANcIER.

A recent Louisville special telegram
t. the ST. Paul Dispatch says: NM,
Juli4 Sparrow, az tll,s city, 1,as jhsyT
been married the fourth time. The.
name IL the ventpresoms woman's
fourth husband Ia Buzzard. This.
would not be remarkable were it not.
FOR the names Of Mr.: Buzzard,kprcde-'
cessors. The aBt husbands name
wss Grow, the second was Robin, and
the third Sparrow. As the bride Is
an attractive woman, it perhaps ex:
plains her SUCCESS IN securing such m
array Of birds. s
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
THE MOUNTAIN 7LABOREn
y MOLEHILL REsUETED.

VihdY ." paper nays that while
here lnspect,r Berndt put ID q pF.,..
test against the Paulson proof, and IT.
makes all sdrts of intimatlpns. The
tacts are thsse: When tho inspector
reached here be Mss 1t once inter-
viewed 81 certain people who, among.
other things, complained OF the man.
5ner IN which hnal proois were being
taken. 5sss
The truth = that Inspector Berndts
only objection 70 the Psulson proof
swass purely the technical one that u
was not taken before the onicer named
In the pros.f n,itlcs: Also, thxt the.
stestifnony was not read In tho pfes-
ence: Or or by the onoer who ID,
sminlstered tina oaths. Mr.. Berndt
did ~ that hes wonld protest the proof
that " was his duty 70 do %. Hs
! also said that, provided he found the
imp proyements, etc, all right. while
on his Inspect etion trip, he would
commend that the proof be accept
lea, and that - sOmethip9 no fair
minded psrsOn can obJect to- Jt
should not be foryotten, however,
lthAt the only p1rS0ns who mtg Is
injured bys ths bsck kbitinK ol tha COM
lEplainsnis. .Neuld - the s4ttler WiIosa
L spIoOf M bSiMG takeH; MD Ne. Paul.
ssn. VINO rs Y q llysd. 4 4. u Il! e,sniy g
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11
shall be complied With every where III
taking proofs. There is NO diA Aostti"n
on the nArt <,f the ir1SuectxjrS itr annoy

shall be complied With every where III
taking proofs. There is no disIositi"n
on the part Of the inspectJrs II, annoy
settlers in good faith, or deprive them
Of = single right, and thosf who sir
up trouble for the SETTLERS While striv.
ing 70 make political caritsl BY the
injury " political rivals sill iind
their efforts 'comIng homo 4, tust.'
The taking Ut spEeofs .by lA4slscer
UthsF Than the one before wts9in the
proQf is set, .sshe,, y, iancl, officer
is anavoidabIy absent, has besk Al
lowed time and again. What,ss n
great injustice IL would be tospnpf-
making settlers, .ott,erwise. Should
an Qaicer fall sick pr die .befSfe the
day set, would It NOT be y great hxfd.
ship to compel the claimant To re.
ad lerttsey
Hereafter, when an officer isRhsent
from bis once, ur II the lRrOOf.
taking should. require pstwDsment
for some other reason, he should post
9 notice in Y conspicuous place - hiis9
pnice, giving the date Of the later day,
t.pr,if before another Qnicer, the name
| ef such odicer. Aud all proof testi-
mUry and aftidayits. written BY law.
yers. bankers or any one else must BE
read before the onicer who aamintse
ters the Oaths.
Not an unreasonable program, cer-
Iitainly, and not dit1irnlt u observe
when one a~ertains that It n Re.
Quired! ~.
And this Is the n9olshill: that certain
intsresled parties here In Linton
str6ve 70 baild into mountain, and
failed lamentably. :ss
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11

Our Uncle Samuel and the suthor-
tiles Of the new republic Of Panama
are losing no time In arranging mat
ters and things for the construction
Of the interoceanic canal. The treaty
prepared at Washing ton has been sent
to the isthmus, and twill soon be
ratified. It won't be long until Uncle-
Sam will sally forth, pull of his coat,
spit on his hands, seize his spade and
begin to dig.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11

DtkoCl; nor are they doing Az well
financially rs they did here: Several
Of them, Il, our knqWledge, are epdeas::r
o.ing to disp'se Of their property, and
when tlley d. 81 they will reI4rn 10
La MOure county,
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1903-12-11

THA9 instrumental Old ssafter, UA4.
Gle DQwis, seems to b going, the ~.
that ~ fesNds usually 80 at last. He,
10 nearly . njAipn dollars In debt, and
y receiver u Ii charge Of Zioa City,s.
stores and factosies.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
MILITIA is IN CONTROL
Assumed Authority and lg'
nOred Civil Officers

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Sept. IA
Former Attorney General Engley ap-
peared before W. P. Seeds in the dis
trict court today and petitioned for
writs of ha beas corpus for Charles
Campbell, Charles H. Mckinney,
Sherman Parker and James Lefferty,
strike leaders, who were arrested by
the military last week and have been
held as prisoners in the guard house,
though no charges have been made
against them.
Although martial law has not been
declared and under state laws 1t can
not be inaugurate, the military off11
GERS have taken absolute control OF
tho district and have utterly ignored
the civil authorities.
Brigadier General John Chase noti-
fed Mr.. Engley that no civil process
for the prisoners who he represents
will be recognized by the military.
Furthermore, Adjutant General Bell
has intimated that all leaders of the
Western Federation OF Miners in the
district will be arrested and held as
prisoners until the strike is broken.
Il shall cause the arrest of General
Bell, General Chase and certain men,
bers of the Mine Owners associa-
tion." said Mr.. Engley today, "and
shall prosecute them on charge OF
criminal conspiracy. l shall also bring
civil suit against them for damages
for false imprisonment"
c. G.. Kennison, the president OF
Miners Union No. 40. who left town
after furnishing bonds for $500, on
charges of carrying concealed weap-
lons and assaulting a non-union labor
er and was reported to have fed, re-
turned this morning from Colorado
Springs. He said that his trip was
made for business reasons.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
An Excellent Showing

On page 4 of today's Silver State
will be found the statement of the
condition of The First National Bank,
of Winnemucca. at the close of busi-
ness on September 9th. BY reference
to this statement it will be seen that
the bank is in its usual excellent con-
dition. Its total resources are given
at $794 ,03S.56, and this is an increase
of S154, ,231.S0 over the total on Sep
tember Is. 1902, a year ago. The in
dividual deposits now amount to $780,
524.11.
The First National Bank is widely
known as one of the soundest and
most capably managed financial insti-
tutions in the west, and its present
condition is a source of pride to all
citizens of Winnemucca, as well as to
the banks officials.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
wNNEMuccA NEVADA TUESDAY
DEATH OF
j. F. HALlOCk
Served Three ! Terms as State
COntrOlIer-Died in 'Fris-
CO Sunday

All over the state loyal Nevadans
will be shocked and grieved to learn
of the death of James F. Hallock, ex-
state controller of Nevada, true
friend, worthy citizen and every
inch man. His death occurred In
San Francisco yesterday morning.
Mr.. Hallock was born In New York,
in 1888. During the bonanza days he
was the senior member of the tirm CT
Hallock C Meyers, doing a general
merchandise business at Treasure Hill.
Later he went to Phoebe and for some
years served as bookkeeper and col
lector for the Floral Springs Water
company, of that town. In 1873 he
was elected state Controller on tine
Republican ticket and fulfilled the tiu-
ties Of that Office in such manner
that he was reelected in 1882 and
again in 1886. At the expiration cf
his third term he took employment
with the Palace Hotel company at San
Il EduCioCO, anu lndSCcis .
which position of trust he held until
the day Of his death.
Deceased leaves a son, Curry Hal
lock. now in South America, and an
infant daughter and wife.
James Hallock came from a race of
sturdy pioneers who knew neither
fear nor favor, and he exemplified all
the admirable and lovable traits of
integrity, manliness and gentleness,
combined with sterness. that is asso-
ciated with empire builders. His life
in Nevada was an open book and no
man was held in more respectful es-
TEEN by his political opponents than
was James Halleck. He was man
of generous impulses and one who
sought to make happy all who sur
rounded him. Although no longer a
resident of this state, by his ceath
Nevada lost a staunch friend aud
4pporter.-News.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
Going After Big Game

Nels Johnson, shorty Brown, En-
gineer Tucker and H. Montgomery
will leave town tomorrow morning
with a complete outfit, and a young
arsenal, equipped with ammunition
sufficient to kill all the game north
OF Mason & Dixon's line, headed for
Oregon. They intend to be gone three
weeks and perhaps longer, and the OBJ
ject of the expedition is to lessen the
number of live deer in Oregon. Other
game in the region they will visit is
a so Plentiful. and their friends are
entertaining some hope of realizing
on the extravagant promises the hunt
ers are making to remember them
on returning.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
May Be Serious Trouble

CHEYENNE. Wyo., Sept. 12.-An-
other serious strike in the Union Pa
cific shops appears imminent. The
company is preparing to make the
piece-work system general, and the
union men. who returned to work last
June after a strike of nearly a years
duration, say that they will not sub
NIT to the system. Both piece-work
and work by the hour is now being
done in the shops. large number of
non-union men preferring the piece
work system. Ii the strike occurs sew
eral hundred men will be implicated
here and business men are discourag-
ed by the outlook.
The Union Pacific shops at North
Platte have been closed indefinitely,
throwing $50 mea out OF work.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-15
DIED FROM
HIS WOUND
Baptiste SavOrnin Died at the
WinnemuCCa Sanitarium
This Morning

was stabbed week ago last Sunday
by his employer, Germaine Savornin,
at the latter's sheep camp near Buck
skin mountain, died as a result of tue
injury at 1870 this morning, at the
Winnemucca sanitarium. Instructions
to arrest Germaine Savornin were tel
ephoned to Paradise early this morn
ing, and he, being in Paradise. was
Immediately taken into custody. Hugh
A. Bradshaw was appointed a deputy
constable and started for Winnemucca
with Mr.. Savornin about 10 o'clock
II is expected that he will arrive late
this afternoon, when Constable LaVoy
will serve upon him a warrant, and
Ae viii be placed in Jail.
IL will be remembered that at the
preliminary examination held in Par
adise last Wednesday, the defendant
was he'd to await the action of the
grand jury being charged with assault
with intent to kill. Savornin was re-
leased on $1,000 bonds.
Late yesterday afternoon it was
seen that the wounded man was in a
critical condition, and it was decided
to remove him from the Winnemucca
notel to the sanitarium. DR.. Giroux,
assisted by DR.. Samuels, operated up
on him yesterday evening in the hope
CT gaining relief, but the tide of the
unfortunate mans life was on the ebb,
ana the dissolution came at 1870, in
spi,e OF the efforts the physicians
and their assistants, were making to
save him.
A post mortem examination was
held this morning, and proved that
the fears of the attending physician
from the first were we'll founded;
death was due to peritionitis, or in
fiamnation, resulting from the wound,
ana it was ascertained that none Of
rne internal organs had been cut or
injured. Following the post mortem
coroner's jury was summoned, includ-
ing R. r. Chagnon, Cyrus Young, Jas.
Sloan, ]. d. Vargas, Jas. Ritchie and
A C. Webb; subpoenas issued to B.
Borel, DR.. Giroux and DR.. Samuels, as
Witnesses, and the inquest held in JUS
tice Robins Office this afternoon.
The jury returned a verdict at AIS
that the deceased came to his death
by peritionitis resulting from a wound
in the abdomen made by knife or
other sharp instrument in the hands
OF Germaine Savornin.
1t was stated today that another ex-
animation will be held, the defendant
being charged with murder. He will.
in all probability, be held to await
tho action of the grand jury, in in
vestigating the latter charge, and Will
not be released on bail. 1t was the
opinion of one attorney that the de-
fendant will not be indicted for muir
der in the first degree, since the stab
Dlng, according to the testimony at
inc preliminary examination, was
done in the heat of passion, resulting
from a quarrel.