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AS p. m-Riot started through re-
sentiment of Hamlin's remarks by
union miners. Shot fired from Union
hall, RoXie McGee instantly killed and
several injured.
4;3O p. m.-Company l. Of Victor
called out on request of newly ap-
pointed Sheriff Edward Bell.
4:40 p. m.-TrOops surround Union
hall and return fire opened upon them.
4:4O to p. m.-Heavy exchange Of
shots between union miners, barrf-
caded in Union hall. and troops and
deputy sherifts surrounding them.
Three union miners injured. Building
riddled with bullets.
500 p. m.-Union miners called for
a truce. march out of Union hall with
hands in air and surrender to the
troops and sheriff.
500 p. m. to $40 p. m.-Striking
union miners to the number of forty
march through the streets with hands
in air TO the armOry under escort of
the troops and deputy sheriffs.
$40 to $50 p. m.-Arrest in Victor
of union miners wherever found by
sheriff and deputies. Union store
raided by mob and goods thrown into
lii' Sl'' ''tI uii'ii otcPl''u bs Iii' o4i'i ~
GEO p. m.-Special train picked up
to convey sheriff and three carloads
of troops to Goldfield on report that
the union of that place had defied ar
rest.
700 p. m.-The same force moved
to Independence arrest miners.
7:3O p. m.-Same force went to
Goldfeld, where union store was
wrecked and goods thrown into the
street. and the mob afterward smashed
windows of every house displaying the
desecrated flag of the union.
500 p. m.-Rcturn of force to Vic
tor and the arrest of union men con-
tinued VI, to 10 o'clock.
HOO p. m.-Streets of Victor were
quiet, showing few men. Special train
was brought into requisition to con
'vey the $50 union prisoners who had
been taken during the day to Cripple
Creek, going out of Victor at 1870.
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Russia Greatly Depressed.

London, June 6-The curtain is
drawn again over the progress OF the
war, probably indicating that import
ant events are impending or afoot. Ihe
explosions heard at Port Arthur sug-
gest that the Russians have renewed
their attempts to remove distractions
in the mouth of the harbo.. All kinds
of rumors are current, few of which ap-
Lear to have any reliable basis.
Various special correspondents in st.
Petersburg report increasing depres-
sion in Russia over the prospect of the
fall of Port Arthur, and say that wild
reports are in circulation as to dlSsen-
sions between the generals and the
highest officials over questions OF poilcy
and strategy.
The Daily Mail gives great promi-
nence to a statement from a Russian
CORRESPONDENT" declaring that Russia
will stand or fall by Port Arthur as FAR
as the governments prestige with the
lower classes is concerned. .,
internal troubles are inevitable,
the correspondent says, should the
fortress fall. Count Lamsdorff displays
a long personality, but his position Is
precarious. and he is likely to be sac
rificed as scapegoat to popular mag
nation at the way the war has peen
conducted. Although it is SAID Una.
General Kuropatkin has lost FAVOR as
court. no change in the command OF
the army is contemplated. .
The St. Petersburg correspondent OIL
Reuters Telegram Agency says lliat
increasing anxiety is felt over the
restlessness of Chinese troops on the
Manchurian frontier.
The Morning Posts correspondent IN
St Petersburg goes so far as to say
that Russia is preparing to cope with
serious Chinese invasion
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x<<xxN<' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Teller County's Bloody Day.

EentA June 1.-The Republican
eptomizes the dreadful events of yes
terday II the Cripple Creek district as
follow
2:35 a. m.-Blowing up of the Flor
ence Cripple Creek depot at lnde.
pendeure, fifteen non-union miners OF
the Finley killed and seven injured.
$3.50 a. m.-Specal train of physi-
clans. mine owners run from Cripple
Cresli over the Colorado Midland to
the scene of the disaster
4:15 a. m.-Bodics of dead and in
jured gathered onto the train and
taken to Victor hospital and undertak-
ing es'8blishment of Coroner Doran.
500 a. m.-Citizens began assem-
bling g Victor streets as news of the
assassiGltion was spread.
700 a. m.-Victor streets thronged
with an excited mob.
500 a. m-Mines in the district
closed own and miners flock to Victor.
$50 a. m.-Talks of lynching heard
on every side.
600 e. m-Meeting of citizens and
mine owners at Military club and com
mittecs appointed to demand the resig-
nation of the sheriff of the county and
the marshals of Victor and Cripple
Greek.
1000 a. m.-Saloons of Victor or
dered c.0sed by the sheriff.
1890 a. m.--Indignation boiling and
talk of ,ynching strong.
Hoo a. m-Committees of citizens
were scaking officials OF county and
city to Gemand resignation of officers.
1870 p m.-Sheriff Robertson called
into Military club and his resignation
demanded. When it was refused, he
was shown a rope and at the intimida-
ton broke down crying and consented
to sign lis resignation.
1:45 p m.-Marshal O'Connell OF
Victor called at the Military club, de
manded he surrender of all arms He
was thrown out bodily and repeatedly
kicked in his descent down the stairs.
1:45 m.-Marshal OConnell went
into DoHuelly's hardware store, took
posscsiun of all arms and ammunition.
200 D m.-Marshal O'Connell swear
ing in all available union miners as
deputies and arming them with cap
tured guns and ammunitions
2:1O p m.-Mob organized to go to
lnICDeIN tlCc anu udHS uulDIl lliilISi O.
but deferred on account of lack OF
leaders
2:30 m.-Resignaton Of Sheriff
Roberts, of Teller county delivered
to county commissioners in Victor city
hall. Immediately accepted, and Ed
ward Bel of Cripple Creek appointed
sheriff.
500 , m.-Deputies sworn in by
Marshal O'Connell form on street in
display Of force. about fifty in number,
strongly armed.
300 D. m.-Conference at city hall
between mayor of Victor, marshal Of
Victor and sheriff of county.
$3.50 p m.-Marshal O'Connell Of
Victor, dnposed and his fifty armed
deputies Tobbed of authority
345: p. m.-Former deputies Of ex-
Marshal O'Connell marched to Union
hall, retaining their arms.
400 p m.-Meeting of the citizens
at corner Of Fourth and Victor avenues
called by the citizens committee and
mine owners, addressed by c. C. Ham.
lin, secretary of the Mine Owners As
sociatiOn.
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exploded between fifty and hundred
pounds of dynamite, judging from its
effect, which had been surreptitiously
placed beneath the platform in prep
aration for the commission Of the
crime.
A number of buildings surrounding
the Independence station and which
were damaged more or less by the ex-
plosion had been occupied as homes
by union miners now on strike in the
district
Warning had been given these. and
none within the reach Of the explosion
were at home when It occurred
Fortunately the hoisting at the
Shurtloff mine near by had been de-
layed. and the forty or more miners
employed on that property had not
been released to take the train. as was
their custom.
But for this, and with a little more
careful planning of this plot by the as
sassins. 100 men might have met deeth
in the explosion.
That it was deliberate, cold -blooded
murder, and that it was perpetratcd by
union miners is not denied. and is be-
lieved by practically every person in
the Cripple Creek district tonight. The
assassin had planned the work care
fully, deliberately. and ths1s !s no
doubt but that in doing it he had the
Iconnivance. support and advice Of many
besides himself.
No arrests for the specific act have
been made, but as the outcome of the
violent demonstrations of thousands of
citizens and non-union miners alike,
fully $50 union miners were taken in
charge by deputy sheriffs. deputy mar
shals militamen and private individ-
uals by force of arms, in Victor, lnde-
pendence and Goldfield, and these at
II: 20 o'clock tonight were placed upon
special Florence & Cripple Creek
train and headed for Cripple Creek, six
miles away.
The Trinidad bloodhound was tele-
graphed for. brought here and took up
the trail of the murderer at O'Clock.
The pump man at the Altman water
works pump house on the Colorado
Springs wagon road. about mile be-
low Cameron, says that at noon to-day
lie saw Victor Poole. one OF the union
miners who was taken in custody in
the early days of the strike on various
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criminal charges, seated In the back
end of a buggy. which was being driven
by woman and heading down toward
Colorado Springs at great speed.
Specific charge against any one man
or set Of men for committing the crime
has not been made Detective Rob
Sterling. an employe of the Mine
Owners Association, says that he has
positive information who 1t was pulled
the wire.
News of the enormity of the crime
was telephoned to President A. E. Carl
ton of the Findley mine by his super
intendent, James 5. Murphy, soon after
the explosion,
At $3.50 O'Clock a special train on the
Midland Terminal was made up In
Cripple Creek with all available physi-
clans, by Mr. Carlton. Mr.. Murphy and
Z. c. Newcombe, and hastened to the
scene Of the disaster. There the view
OF the wreck which met them in the
early light was one which beggars de-
scription.
The body of one man had been blown
|seventy-tiye yards away. two feet OF
dump 400 feet away
tions of flesh and the nearby buildings
s~otted with blood
The injured were placed upon the
train and FASTENED to the hospital in
Victor A return trip was made for the
bodies of the dead, and everything pos
sible done toward gathering up the re-
mains.
There haC been many miraculous es-
capes from the effects IT the explosion.
Fully two-thirds OF tho men waiting
on the platform were able after few
minutes to render assistance to the In
jured.
Officers from Cripple Creek came
upon the scene soon after the removal
of the bodies Under Sheriff J. Knox
Burton reached the scene of the crime,
and after tracing the wire by which it
had been committed to the point where
the peTpetrator sat. he called two un-
ion miners from the crowd, deputizcd
them and with them in charge Of the
clew, left Later in the day, when
new sheriff had been appointed, the
first act of his official life was TO re-
move Under Sheriff Burton from Of
flee
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Victims O. Victor Riots.

Denver, June THE News cores
pondent furnishes the following list Of
killed and wounded in the Victor riSts:
Peter Crisman, Gold Coin miner.
shot through the mouth but not fatally
injured.
Roxie McGee. killed outright shot
through the heart.
Fred Studevant, shot from behind.
through the right side. He found the
bullet in his left pocket, where he re-
covered it. Not serious.
Hod Finch. dangerously stabbed by
some unknown person. He is at Red
Cross hospital and reported In a critic
cal condition.
Spud Murphy. bartender, shot
through the back under the right
shoulder. Wound bad, but not neces-
sarily fatal.
John Davis, watchman at the Vindi-
Gator mine, shot in back by a man who
is now under arrest. Davis was quickly
removed to the Victor hospital and
died there at 80 tonight.
Victims OF Second Riot at Miners
Hall.
Peter Calderwood. shot in leg.
Edward Mckelvcy. shot in leg.
Arthur Parker, shot in leg.
Thomas McMannus, shot in leg.
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Explosions Near Port Arthur.

Washington. June 6.-The japanese
legation yesterday received the fol
lowing cablegram from the home gov
ernment at Toxic bearing on events at
Port Arthur:
Admiral Togo reports that accord
ing to message received by him
through wireless telegraphy from the
captain Of the cruiser Chitosea, which
was cruising off Port Arthur, four
masts. one with wireless telegraphic
instruments and a sentry box. were
seen on the top Of Lao Tshan. Great
explosions were heard and rising Of
dense smoke was observed repeatedly
in the direction of Port Arthur Satur.
day"
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Strength of Port Arthur.

st. Petersburg, June 6.-W. S,
Smith. a brother Of Samuel Smith.
United States consul at Moscow, and
who Is in business at Port Arthur, has
arrived here. Mr.. Smith expresses
confidence that Port Arthur will never
be taken unless the Japanese sacrifice
thousands Of men. He said:
THE Russians had $4,000 men at
Port Arthur at the time left there
and every man is hale and hearty and
is prepared to fight until the last drop
to prevent the capture OF the fortress.
All the surrounding heights are strong
ly fortified by entrenchments, en-
bankments and gun emplacements sci.
entifically disposed. l counted in one
day between 300 and 400 guns"
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Phil Chandler, ]. A. Brooker, Edward
Holland. John Police, Tom Sinclair.
Holland and Sinclair are in critical
condition.
Injured in the Red Cross hospital in
this city:
Dan Gainey and Clarence Allen.
John Collite. both legs amputated at
the Victor hospital.
Ed Holland, right leg amputated at
the Victor hospital.
Dan Gainey, right leg ampNated at
Red Cross hospital.
A. H. Allen. both legs fractured, but
amputatiOn not necessary; at Red
Cross hospital.
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were pressing the japanese cavalry
when the Japanese assembled their en-
tire force and engaged the enemy. The
Russians drew off gradually. and at
$50 in the afternoon they retired to
Tel Issu. The Japanese had four men
killed and four men wounded in this
fighting
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Japs Win Cavalry Fight.

Toxic, June G-The Japan and
Russian forces, located north of Pun
tien, which were in series of brushes
during the early part of last week, had
another encounter on Friday, June 3.
near Chu CHA Tun. On that day the
Japanese cavalrymen met the Russians
at noon.
The Russians numbered 1000 men
and were composed of infantry, detach-
ments Of cavalry and artillery. They
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-12-28
MAGISTRATE REEsEs RECORD.
Within Five Months He Turned Over
to the County S452.50 in Cash
and Labor.

Mr. W. j. Reese. Magistrate at
Wedgefeld, has made a record, for eff
cheney and prompt attention to the
business of his Office that all magis-
trates should emulate.
While discussing the magisterial
question, as relating to the numerical
strength of the chain gang, with Sup
ervisor Scale few days ago, he cited
Magistrate Reese's record. The state
ments made were SO interesting that
the following notes were jotted down.
Between June lst to November 9th,
when the last report was filed by him,
Magistrate Reese collected and paid
over to the County Treasurer s132 for
costs and fines, aud S3 to the Clerk
of Court for license tax. He sentenced
prisoners to the chain gang for a total
of 270 days, whose labor or fifty cents
a day was worth to the county S135.
He sent one prisoner to the sessions
coort for trial, who was tried, con-
victed and sentenced to the chain
gang for one year. This convict's la
Dor at fifty cents a day. was worth
Sl82. so. The total proceeds of Magis-
trate Reese's Office in cash and labor
between June l and November 9th
amounted to Sl35. 90 cash and s3l7.5O
in labor, a total Of S452. 80.
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CONDUCTOR WELLS INJURED.
Captain Henry a. Wells Caught Be
tween Cars and Severely In
ilred.

Conductor Henry A. Wells was Sc
riously injured yesterday afternoon by
being caught and crushed between
coaches at Pinewood. His right arm
was broken between wrist and elbow,
his right shoulder broken and several
ribs crushed.
He was brought to this city as soon
possible and taken to the Baker IN
6rmary for treatment. His injuries
are of a serious nature, but unless his
lungs were perforated by the broken
ribs when they were crushed, it IS
hoped that he will recover in time
Today he was suffering great deal
of pain but was doing as we'll as could
be expected. His wife, who was Miss
Nettles, Of Mayesville, is with him,
having been summoned from her
home in Florence. by telegraph last
night.
Captain Wells has been in the At
lantic Coast Line service for many
years and is one Of the best known
and most popular conductors in the,
passenger service. His many friends
here and elsewhere willl hear Of his
accident with regret and wish him a
speedy recovery
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lished as news, and the especial" line
which 30 srievously offended the eth
ical sensibilities of the Evening News
was inadvertently placed there by the
devil or some other facetious or ignor-
ant person. if We may adopt the e1-
planation OF the Evening News. We
will add, however, that the offending
special line would have been omitted
had We had notice Of it. We should
not have treated it as a joke, as we
do not desire to sail under false colors.
With renewed assurances of our
highest consideration, and thanking
the editor of the Evening News for
the bouquets he throws at US, we are
content to let the matter rest with the,
public, leaving him to settle the
ethical principles involved with the
jokers on his staff, whom he seems to
feel called upon to defend in a hard
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loudly for American interference and
both Of which are likely to feel the
weight of the "big stick" in the near
future. One is Venezuela where what
appear to be high-handed odtrages
have been perpetrated on American
citizens and the other is in Santo Do
mingo where this country is likely to
assume control at an early date. The
United States has already taken pos
session of two DOMINICAN ports ana
will take two and perhaps four more
soon. The receipts Of four VIII b .;e-
voted to paying American creditors
and Of the two others to defraying Eu-
ropean Indebtedness. European cred
itors are urgnig this country to take
this action and present indications are
that their prayer will be granted.
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TAKEN BACK TO COLUMBIA.
Walter Weston, Who Assaulted Con-
ductor Black, Arrested By Po-
lice and Delivered to Sheriff.

On the night of December 2lst,
Walter Weston, a negro, made an as
sault on Conductor Black on an A. G.
L. train near Eastover. He made his
escape at the time, but the police OF
this city we're notified to keep a look
out TO, him and on Thursday he was
arrested here.
Sheriff Coleman, OF Richland coun-
ty, was notified Friday of Weston's
arrest and next morning Deputy Sher-
if Cathcart came over on the $40
train and carried him back to Colum-
bia on the 9. 45.
Jailer Hancock made mistake
when the officer went to the jail for
Weston and gave him the wrong ne,
gro, and the error was not discovered
until the depot was reached. Then a
hack was secured and q record break
ing trip was made to the jail and back
to the depot with the right man, the
conductor holding the train few
minutes for Deputy Sheriff Cathcart.
The mistake of Jailer Hancock was
due to the fact that two negroes nam
ed Walter were committed to jail the
same day.
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How Edward Markham Suppressed a
Book.

Recently a man called at the Staten
Island home Of Edwin Markham,
author of "The Man with the Hoe, !"
and introduced himself as the writer
of a book on which, he said. he had
spent twenty-five years of study and
research. Mr. Markham who is IN
usually kind in listening to and coun-
selling amateur authors, Immediately
felt that one who has spent a quarter
of century on mis- product is rare, and
be Invited him to bis study without
delay.
"What is the nature Of your WORK."
asked MIR. Markham.
81 have written the greatest book
of the ages" began the new author
"I have loved the mystery OF the
world. I know all about it. l ana
prepared to prove my statements. l
know just why the world was made,
who really made it, and l have laid
bare the mysteries of creation. L"
"My good man, said Mr.. Mark
ham, interrupting him. "if you have
come to me for advice, let me tell you
to take your manuscript at once and
burn it. If you have solved the mys-
terry of this world, you are its greatest
enemy. Why,'' continued the poet,
eff you have solved the mystery OF the
world you have robbed men of their
greatest Joy. You have left US noth-
ing to work for, you have destroyed
our ambition, you have reduced Us to
mere animals. 1t is the mysteries OF
the world that have made it great,
and I, for one, don't want to have
them solved. :"
Mr.. Markham's visitor sat dunn
founded for moment. The vision
of his twenty-five years Of labor fitted
before him as be said:
81 guess you're right guess
you're right. "-From Success Maya
zine -
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TAX RETURNS FOR 1906.
Office of
County Auditor, Sumter County.


Sumter County, Dec. IA, 1904.
Notice is hereby given that I will
attend, in person or by deputy. at the
following places on the days indicated.
respectively, for the purpose Of re-
rciving returns of personal property
and poll taxes for the fiscal year COM
n:ancing January 1st, 1905.
Tindals Store, Monday, January 9TH.
Privateer, (Jenkins's STOREY Tues.
jan 10:
Manchester, (Mr Gardener. Levi's)
Wednesday, Jan: 18th.
Wedgefeld, Thursday, Jan. 18th.
Statesburg, Friday, Jan. 18th.
Hagood, Manday. Jan. 18th.
Rembert's Tuesday, January 18th.
Dalzell, Wednesday, Jan. 18th.
Gordon's Mill, Friday, Jan. goth.
Mayesville, Monday, Jan. 23rd.
Shiloh, Tuesday, Jan. Oath.
Norwood's x Roads, wednesday,
Jan. 25th.
Oswego, Friday, Jan. 27th.
The law requires that all persons
owning property or in anywise having
charge of such property. either as
agent, husband, guardian, trustee. ex-
ecutor administrator, etc, return the
same under oath to the auditor who
requests all persons to be prompt in
making their returns and save so per
cent penalty which will be added to
the property valuation of all persons
who fail to make returns within the
time prescribed by law.
Taxpayers return what they own
on the first dayof January 1905.
Assessors and taxpayers will enter
the first given name of the taxpayer
in full, also make a separate return
for each township where the proper
ty is located and also in each and ev-
erv case the number Of the school dis
trict must be given.
Every male citizen between the age
of 21 and SO years on the first day OF
January, 1905. except those incapable
of earning a support from being
manned or from other causes, a:c
deemed taxable polls. and except
Confederate soldiers SO years of age,
on January 1st, 1905.
All rturns must be made on or be-
fore the goth day of February. next.
I cannot take returns after that date
and all returns made after the goth
day of February are subject to pen
atty of so per cent.
]. DIGGS WILDER.
a, Auditor Sumter County.
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Mr.. D. j. Winp, Jr., has RESIGNED
his. position with the First National
Bank, which he has filed acceptably
for a nmber of years. His resigna-
tion will take effect on January 10Th,
after which date he will be associat-
ed with his father in the manage
ment of the cotton mills.
Willie Michau. the Jail breaking
negro, who was arrested about ten
days ago for stealing from. the Sumter
Dry Goods Co.. and made his escape
from the guard house twice and the
Jail once the same afternoon. was ar
rested Sunday bv Officer Weeks. and
is still in jail Care was taken this
time to put him where he could not
get out.