The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
BY ,. nE. KGAN.

Johannesburg, Feb. e--Six men in- lcluding three whites, fare alleged to have been murdered recently by a Kaf- I lr desDerado in the neiGhborhood of lSalisbury, Rhodesias These and other bsriod of three days. ana until the the, eap- I ture of the murderer. who wab well
 armeds something like a reign of ter. Iror prevailed in the district. It ap- bears that the Kanar began by break Ing at night Into the house of the hec- hretasy of the Giant Mines ct Hartley. whence he carried off a shot gun, a re-
 volyer. and 8 considerable quantity of
 Next morning he assaulted Kafnr woman on the field not far from a kraal adjoining the mines. Her iscreans attracted the attention of two Iblacks. who ran to the rescue. The
 assaflant at once opened fire. shooting
 one man dead and mortally wounding the other. Then he made good his es- cape. He was next heard of on the following day at the cottage o& a.
 gang boss on the railway line some miles distant. Returning from work towards sundown the railroad man. found on his doorstep the body of white man. He had a bullet wound in the throat, and had not been long dead After carrying the body Inside. the Egang-boss passed through to the back
 of the cottage and was horrifed to dis cover 8 second victim lying stone dead This was his now cook-boy, who had been shot through the head with revolver. On searching the premises the rai1roader came upon an empty shot gun, which subsequently, proved to be the one stolen from the Giant Mine. The white man was unknown
 in the district. He had probably. dis RAA kaA H-a. i.
 shot at night. A sum of 410 was found to be missing from the house.
 Subsequently two more white men
 were found shot. These terrible dolngs naturally created intense excitement and alarm all over the country. Every household was on the. lookout with his gun, and the slightest suspicion Iagainst a strange native meant "shoot-
 ing at sight" Police secured the dis- trict in every direction, and close watch was kept all along the railway. It was on the railway. that the des- perado was captured. On the day fol- Towing his visit to the gang boss's cottage he was seen by the police an- preaching the Norton siding. He was immediately surrounded by the whole available force. The previous record the fntility of attempting the usual straightf0rward arrest, so the ,cordon was slipped around him. and a cautious but determined tightening of the moose carried out. The man quickly discov- cred his danger, and as the police ap- preached from all sides, he spent the last of his stolen ammunition in an ef- fort, first to tnjure his pursuers and, secondly, to commit suicide. He had
 only, two bullets left One was. dis charged at a native constable. and other was fired at himself, Both fail. ed to accomplish their object. The men then closed in. arrested the des- lperado without any show of resist ance handcuffed him. and removed hinr conveyed by the first train to Sails
 bury.
 | Election Apathy.
 t Municipal electors in this country have often been charged, with apathy
 In the matter of exercising the rights Of citizenship, but 1t is doubtful if the
 record recently established at Ronde- bosch has ever been equalled anywhere in the civilized world A poll was
 Town Council should bc empowered
 to contribute to hospitals and other charitable institutions. So ,smalf> an in-
 terest did thea ratepayers take in the
 matter that up to half past four o'clock in the afternoon only seven. out of | a total of thousand on the register. had recorded their votes. It happened that meeting of the Council was held on the following day. and the mayor commented sorrowfuily on this extra ordinary exhibition of apathy. ''If
 we were putting something extra on
 the rates" he remarked, 'they would
 come forward fast enough, but as 1t is
 matter of charity. they take little or
 no interest in the poll. I don't expect
 there will be more than a dozen by six
 o'clock" As a matter of fact, the to- | tai number of votes cast during the
 whole day was nine. .~ 1 In striking contrast to the state of
 things prevailing in some other coun-
 tries. the financial industrial outlook lin the TransFaaI, in certain respects ae least. seems to be very promising. 4 If a rising state revenue Indicates