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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
Men of Colleton Not Enthused.

Walterboro, July 6.-B. B. Evans's
attack on Attorney General Lyon
was the feature of that part of the
meeting here prior to the contest for
governor. Lyon missed his train in
Charleston and did not get to the
meeting here. Evans repeated many
charges of the past and said the
winding up comisssion with which
Lyon was associated had robbed
your school children" =.
Later he said he did mot believe
Lyon Is an honest man or gentle
man." Evans referred to the par
don of John Black and said he
thought it an honorable act of the
governor He characterized Black
as prosecuted man. There were
many cheers for Lyon during Ev-
ans's speech.
When Judge Jones was introduced
there was much cheering.
Judge Jones's speech was similar
to those of past days and he was
heard attentively. When he referred
to the pardon of John Black there
was an outburst of applause for
Blease. Judge Jones sat down amid
small applause.
Gov. Blease was introduced amid
small applause also. The crowd was
less demonstrative than many yet
faced by the candidates. ""v.
Blease's speech was similar to past
utterances The crowd here was not
very demonstrative, but it seemed
that the sentiment was equally di-
vided between Jones and Blease.
Gov. Blease's efforts did not bring
forth the applause that they have in
the past.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
THRILLING EXPERIENCE RE-
LATED BY A PROSPECTOR.
Mans Hair Turns Gray in One Night-ln Hole
Three Hundred Feet Deep With
Dead Man Without Light.

ly over the PIT.
Il pulled out my watch, smashed
the crystal and felt for the time with
my fingers. This was the only means
of telling the progress of time. The
first time I felt of the timepiece it
was 9 o'clock. had been there only
three hours, and yet it seemed an
eternity.
81 could hear, or at least imagin-
ed I could hear, strange sounds all
around me, and with that dead body
only a matter of inches from me it
was small wonder that I wandered
in my mind.
whether I went to sleep or was
in a delirium I do not know to this
day, but the next thing I remember
after last feeling for the time after 9
O'Clock is awaking in the hospital
tent of the company with the worst
headache I ever had. My hair, which
had been a deep brown, had turned
almost white.
"The superintendent was there and
he smiled much like live person
when he saw my eyes open and he
told me of affairs following the drop
ping of the body for the second time
into the pit Almost at the top the
bucket had caught and turned slight
ly sideways, so that it would neither
20 up nor down. In catching on the
side of the shaft the lever controlling
the drop bottom had caught and re-
leased the catches. The boss barely
missed going back into the pit. AS it
was he held or there until the men
at the top learned his predicament
and pulled him out with rope.
when they found they could not
get to me by going down Doyle's
shaft the superintendent went into
my shaft, and working in the direc-
ton he knew Doyle had been coming,
he had little difficulty in running in
to the shaft in which I was prison
er. He had to work only seven feet
to join the two holes, and neither
Doyle nor I knew we were so close
together.
"The digging in my pit accounted
for the noises that had set me off my
head.'-Chicago News.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE.
Blackville Physicians Have Narrow
Escape from Serious Injury.

Blackville, July 4.-Drs. Bonner
and r. A. Gyles, and Ronald, the lat
ter's young son, narrowly escaped Sc
rious injury last night about $3.50
o'clock, when DR.. Bonner's automo-
bile in which they were returning
from Denmark, turned turtle, pin
ioning the occupants under the car.
On their way home, and while 60
ing at a lively clip, just as they were
crossing the old Beaverdam ditch, in
some unaccountable manner the ma
chine suddenly left the road and
turned over. DR.. Gyles and his son
received slight bruises, while DR..
Bonner miraculously escaped unhurt.
Little damage was sustained by the
car.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
Oh, to Be a Farmer!

Vel, We plows 'em in de winter,
Hopes to plant 'em in de spring,
But dere coomes so mooch bad we'd.
der
Dat We plants not anything;
An We knows it's for our keeping,
An We hates so to complain
But it's - to be a farmer
Ven dere's sooch lot O. rain!
Maybe bout venspring ees over,
Coomes de soonshine in de sky,
An We steps into de furrow
Nit our hopes runnin' high;
But before We gifts 'em finished,
We are forced to stop again
But it's to be a farmer
Ven dere's sooch lot O. rain!
Vel, somehow We gifts 'em planted
First de corn an cotton seeds,
But before We gifts 'em growing
Dey vas hid nit grass an weeds,
For de clouds, again descending,
Vet de earth from hill to plain
But it's - to be a farmer
Ven dere's sooch lot O. rain!
But We live to see de autumn,
An We makes a fair goot crop,
But before We gifts 'em gaddered
We again are forced to stop,
For dem clouds haf coome upon US
An dey vets us up again
But it's - to be a farmer
Ven dere's sooch a lot O. rain!
Harry R. Hughes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
Reflections of a Bachelor.

We get in cents, but have to spend
in dollars.
Life is mostly a series of compro-
mises, except with wives.
The first time man is g hero he
may deserve it, but hardly afterward.
No matter how hard he tries, a
politician never seems to be able to
break into jail.
Just the kind of beautiful stock
ings a girl wants depends on just the
kind of contents she has for them.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-07-11
MINER RELATES EXPERIENCES,
Famous Train Robber in Georgia
Tells About His Flight.

Toomsboro, Ca, July "A har-
rowing tale of exposure to mocca-
sins and rattlesnkes was told by
"Old Bill Miner, who was taken
back to Milledgeville and the State
farm.
Miner was captured this morning
at o'clock in the northwestern su-
burbs of Toomsboro, by Marshal j.
E. Meadows, Jr., Virgins was cap
tured by Mr.. Mcdonald, of Milledge-
vile, few hours later, within 100
or 200 yards of the place. Miner
was captured asleep in the thicket.
Mcdonald carried Virgins and Miner
by automobile back to the prison
farm this morning.
Old Bills Story.
Here is Miners story:
81 escaped last Thursday night, ac-
companied by William Virgins and
Widencamp. We made our way to
the banks of the Oconee river and
went down stream in search of a
boat upon which we were to embark.
My intentions were to reach the coast
and escape to a foreign country.
1--WE had only one pole, and the
river was very swift, the water over
flowing the banks and making it
very difficult to steer. Saturday
night at l o'clock one of the many
snags capsized our boat throwing US
adrift in a strong current, with float
ing debris, none large enough to hold
our weight. Widencamp, not being
able to swim, sank to watery grave.
Virgins and myself eventually reach
ed the bank, after the worst struggle
with water I have ever experienced.
"If suffering is atonement for a
persons sins, we certainly ought to
be forgiven for all we ever commit
ted.
Imagine our horror, when we
reached the banks to find swamp
thick with cane, briars and covered
with water. We struggled through
the best we could, more often swim
ming than walking coming some
times back to the same place we
started from. What land we found
uncovered was occupied by mocca-
sins, and often we could hear the
buzzing of the deadly rattlesnake.
1.-The pangs of hunger were fierce,
and the only food we could find was
blackberries, upon which we lived
from Saturday night at IL o'clock
until Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock,
when we reached the hills, found a
negro house and purchased food,
pledging him to keep our secret.
II suppose he gave US away, and
1 hope he will some time get lost in
that same swamp and experience the
agony we suffered.
"Am an Old Man."
II am an old man, 70 years OF
age, harmless, and cannot stand the
strenuous life. Consequently, 1 am
to-day on the inside looking out, and
1 had rather be here than in the
Oconee swamps.
81 will not say where we secured
help to escape. They will look after
me so close I do not see any chance
for further escape. No one can de-
scribe the pangs of hunger. AS
sit here eating, it seems they cannot
be satisfied. This glass of milk de-
serves a toast. Here's to the first
beverage 1 ever drank, and 1 hope it
will be the last.
Some people think I am a rich
man. That is not true. I have
handled lots of money, but gave it
away to poor people.
This is the vestige of life.
will go back and take it as l found
II wish Won all we'll. GOOd-bye.'
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
LuEST COAST BOY
 SHOOTS THUMB OFF

"Bozen Brockman, son of Fred Brockman, while hunting one day last week, accidentally shot the entire thumb from his left hand with the twelve guage shotgun he was using. The boy and his oldest sister were hunt ing ducks on the beach near Shakan when the accident hap pened but the Shakan happened by and the boy hailed her, was taken aboard and the boat headed for Klawock where the wound was dressed by a trained nurse. Had the Shakan not hap pened along the boy would have been obliged to wait for the mailboat, which on account of a,-trip to Port Armstrong was not in Shakan vet Monday morning.-Sentinel.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
WILL REPAIR GABLE

There's a ray of hope in sight after all, for according to the
 last Seattle Times the cable repair ship Burnside has con- eluded her overhauling and at the last accounts was loading supplies on board to come up north 10 repair our cable. Gee ! but that sounds good to the Mi : ner Man who has been strugg- ling along for the greater part of the past month getting out a paper witout cable news. To one who has never tackled such a job the full significance of the situation isn't apparent bot just try it once, and you will find out it is. a man sized job.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
NAVIGATION CLOSES

With the sailing of the steam ship Nicoria of the Alaska Steamship Company, with AGA passengers for Seattle last Thursday, travel for the season between Seward peninsula and the outside world was brought lo close, the only means 0' communication being over the ? oUO mile dog trail and stage line via Fairbanks to Cordova. The Victoria left 2,5OO people who will spend the winter in Nome. This is 300 mora !han winiered there last year.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
AN OLD VESSEL
 WITH E IgEWs NAME

The lines of the halibut schOn CT Tom and Al, have familiar appearance to old timers i'll this region, and investigation re yeals the fact that she was for merly the steamer Ragnhild of Scow Bay and al one time car ried mail out from this point to the West Coast. She was ta- ken to the Sound last fall or winter and her machinery was taken out of the hull, which was later sold to fish people who installed a gasoline engine of i25 horse power and transfor- med the natty little vessel into a fisherman.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
SCHOOL TEACHERS
 AND NATIVES CONVENE

With delegates present from Hoonah, Sitka, Killisnoo, Haines Juneau, Douglas, Kluckwan and Klawak, the conference of h. dians and Indian bureau teach CTS convened in this city Tues day of this week. Mir. Beattie, who is in chargeof the educa- tional work in this region open ed the conference with an ad- dress on the purpose of the meeting. Among the teachers ill attendance are Mr. and Mrs. Goodheart, Of Killisnoo, Miss Dawson of Rake; Mr. and Mrs. Danforth of Hoonah, Miss Bir- kinbine of klawock, Miss Pat ton and Miss Wright of Sitka, Miss Watson of kluckwan and Miss Thursby, Miss Dean and Miss Ginther, besides about 20 natives. es.-Juneau Dispatch.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
WE'LL kNCLyN NATIVE ngEs

Fanny Ukas, an Indian woman of Wrangell. who has gained considerable notoriety over the Waddleton case last March, when her testimony was the foundation of the evi- dence that sent Mr. Waddleton to the federal jail for a six months term on the charge of furnishing an Indian woman with liquor-died aboard the steamer City of Seattle as that vessel was nearing Wrangell on her last trip up. Death was due to pneumonia, with which the Ukas woman was seized during the court term just end ed here. The woman had board ed the City of Seattle bound for Wrangell but was rapidly failing at that time. The body was buried Saturday at NVran- gell.
 In the passing of Fanny Ukas there goes out of the world one Of the most cunning Indian women of Southeastern Alaska. She has been arrested on all the misdemeanOr charges in the statutes, several times during the past ten years. And her downfall, say missionaries who knew Fanny Ukas when she was a mere slip of a girl, as pretty as any in the Thlinget tribe, was due to the white man and the white mans liquor. Educated in an Indian training school, the dead woman located. in Wrangell. Two years after she had graduated with high honors from the institution of ring-she was the hardened type of Indian woman, always the recipient of the largest gov ernment cheque for witness fees at the end of the term.
 The story of Fanny Ukas con tains as strong a proof that con lamination follows the associ- alton of bad white men and Indians as anyone would need for conviction.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
METEOR SMASHES FLOAT

A blunder in te engine room of the steam freighter Meteor at Juneau Wednesday aftef- noon was responsible for the hlg iron vessels collision wit the Rehrends float near the Juneau Fish and Ice compares dock, creating damage es'- mated to he $500 to the feat and causing consternation I)r the moment to seize sever al launch owners whose bOat- were m the L;uh of deslruc'iop No launches were smashed, but two dories were sunk when the Meteor ran amuck. The launches in some manner as capped injury. The gasbOat Musher, directly in the Meteors path, wormed it's way among the piling and sought refuge, by it's own efforts, under the dock.
 Captain William Thompson, master of the Meteor, was on the bridge of his command. The vessel had gone out in the stream to allow the passenger steamer Spokane the dock. When the Spokane sailed the Meteor came back to the dock. Captain Thompson says that signal telegrapher below to the Meteor's engine room, was for full speed astern. The order was ignored and the vessel lunged toward the Behrends float. The gangway to the float was cut in two, the bum per piling and braces were shat tered. The Meteor's rampage was checked by the astern or der repeated.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
GRIEF STRICKEN

Douglas, Nov. If Jimmie Johns wife had not died seven days ago in Ketchikan, Jimmie John, native, would not have had to spend last night in the city jail.
 Jimmie was feeling bad and when a stanger asked him if he had $l.50 with which to buy a bottle of whiskey, he thought it was a good chance to drown his sorrow, so he invested the one fifty in hootch.
 The very next thing Jimmie knew he was a bear and he started to growl and tear things up. He told the judge his troubles this morning, and of inc bereavement in his family and said he was going back to ketchikan. He will build $S worth of streets in Douglas Juneau Dispatch.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
 WILL PROBABLY DIE

While putting his rifle, a 25- 23, into his boat about ten O. clock this morning, on Pen nook island, Tom Madison, a fisherman, was accidentally shot. He was brought over to St. Johns hospital where it was found that the bullet had struck him in the left breast, passing through the lung and coming out at the back, in- flicting a wound from which he is almost sure to die within the next twelve hours. The wounded man who was born in Belfast, Ireland, is 56 years Of age, and lost his family in the great Galveston flood. He worked on II. R. Thompson
 fish boats this last season.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
JOHNSON BACK TO
 CLOSE CHARTER

Yesterday the power boat Esther returned with J. Fred erick Johnson from a complete tonr of Prince of Wales island in the interests of Ketchikan Lodge No. 224, Loyal Order Of Moose. Owing to unfayorable weather conditions on the West Coast the National Organizer was two weeks overdue and some uneasiness was felt for the welfare of the party but now there is rejoicing through out the herd.
 Mr. Johnson reports a bright future for the whole Island from Pt. Baker to Cape GhacOn as every camp gave it's share .oi the 12o new members that were added to the Moose from there. making a total of nearly .25Q on the roll of the Ketchi- kan lodge, which has purchased Ia $2,000 lot and will carry on the building of a club house and swimming tank this winter
 The lodge, instituted August 7th, has grown steadily for the past three months and the reg ular meeting next Wednesday night will witness the closing of the charter,
 From here the Big Moose will go north to establish lod- Ges in Petersburg and Wran- gell, which towns have already expressed a desire to have @ herd.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
WILSON IS ELECTED

As announced i'll last nights paper, the Miner took a straw vote of the town today on the presidential candidates. Tine result was considerable of a surprise to the Miner Man who had looked for Roosevelt landslide.
 The total vote cast was IFS, about equally divided between men and women. The individ- ual vote was:
 Woodrow Wilson, S2. Theodore Roosevelt, 1T.
 Eugene V. Debbs, ST..
 w. II. Taft, II.
 c. Chaflin,' 1.
 If this vote can be taken as any criterion of what the re- suits will be in the east today, some of the bettors had better cover their bets, or they will be left holding the sack with mo- thing in it.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
DIED SATURDAY NIGHT

Tom Madison, the account of whose accidental shooting ap- peared in Saturdays Miner, died at the local hospital at an early hour Sunday morning. A coroner's jury decided that the shooting was purely acciden- tal. The funeral takes place from the morgue tomorrow af- lernoon at two.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
BRINGS IN GREEN STUFF

F. II. Fielder, the GraVina ls- land rancher was the center of attraction this morning as he landed the big load of garden "sass" from his ranch. He had many buyers more than were necessary, demonstrating that a market exists here for all the produce tat can be raised.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
SAM S1i-VERMAN
 ON WAY WESTWARD

Among the Mariposa passen- gers last night was Sam Silver man, on his way to the Vest ward. He informed the Miner Man that he had made all the necessary arrangements for the aerial tram to his property near Seward, and would keep crew of men al work all win ter.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
DRUG STORE IS
 SPREADING OUT

The ketchikan Drug company IS enjoying so much business that they have been compelled to rent the room at the back of the store formerly used as a sample room, and will extend their store room back
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
WRANGELL MAN, INSANE

Jesus Arenas, the young Span ish lad, a painter by trade, who came 10 Wrangell last spring with the northward migration of cannery hands was adiudged insane Tuesday by a jury com posed to citizens of Wrangell. For some time past he as been mentally deranged from the use of drugs and late actions warranted the decision of the jury which will commit the er- ratio painter to Mt Tabor-Sen tlnal.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08

Fish Creek, Faipbanks dis trict, is looking up. Several prospectors are in quartz.
 Henry J. Sellers says there is a good chance for a permanent camp on Colorado creek.
 Many of us have felt sorry for the Alaska boys and girls because there was too much daylight on the Fourth of July night for pyrotecnical displays. Realizing that the "kiddies" are missing one of the greatest joys of childhood, they are mak ing arrangements at Fairbanks for a display on New Years eve
 The Valdez Prospector sug- gests that we take a straw bal lot here in Alaska to see how we would vote for president fl we had a chance. It is sugges- ted that the judges take the straw ballot and declare the re suit.
 Prof. J. F. Newman believes that there is a future in the Aniak diggings in the lditarod.
 The Army and Navy Journal which recently expressed the fear that Alaska might be stOl- en, is being largely quoted in the Alaska press.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
NOME BOAT WRECKED

Pounded ny giant waves which are carrying her farther and farther ashore, the staunch little power schooner Mary Sachs is on the beach at Tel Ter and all efforts of Capt. Peter Barnard, her master, and his hardy crew to float her have keen unsucces essful. The win try gales which sweep Port Clarance and sent enormous combers on the beach are eX- pected to batter the little ves- sel to pieces.
 The Mary Sachs carried no
 passengers. She went ashore several weeks ago when Capt. Bernard lost his bearings in a dense fog.
 The Mary Sachs was built at Benecia, Cal, in 1898, and is owned by II. K. Heffelmayer, of Nome. She is fifty-s six feet long, of forty-one gross tons Gold Stream. They are con- and valued at $5,0OO.
 SHIPPING CONCENTRATES
 The Alki will take south % tons of concentrates for the signed to the Tacoma shelter.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08
TOWN BUYS PROPERTY

Ketchikan is the owner of the Gottstein property on the cor Ter of Dock Street and Front, having purchased it from the Tongass Trading company for S65OO,O0. Of this amount the abutting property owners con- trlbuted as follows: TOngass Trading Co.,, S25OO, Capt. Con- nell, $500, John Koel, $75O, J.. R. Heckman X Co.,, $75O, R. Nuckolls, S250, and M. Martin, S250. $500 in all. The build ings will be moved off at once and the street improved.
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The Ketchikan miner., 1912-11-08

The American Goldfields company has taken option on $500 acres of ground on Cripple Creek near Nome.
 The total receipts at the Nome post office in 1911 was SSIO0.
 The Fairbanks city fathc"s are going into the liquor ques- ton in earnest. Ketchikan might follow suit.
 Nome has I39 white children who were born in that tGN !;
 Alaska has 200 varieties of fish having a commercial value.
 Valdez bushes have pledged 5000 month to insure the running of a winter stage to Willow Creek. A lively bunch, after all.
 It required coco postal cards to send notice of assessment to all the taxpayers at Nome.
 Fairbanks is having the city ordinance printed in book form for distribution.
 The Valdez Miner notes that the miS sionaries and fur trad CTS are on their way to the blue-eyed Eskimos recently dis covered in the Arctic and ob- serves that it is useless to pro- test.
 The charge that the Salcha tribe of Alaska Indians wasted caribou meat has been abund- antly disproven. The tale star ted around Fairbanks that these natives mearly ate the hind quarters leaving the rest of the animal to rot. The charge was investigated by a deputy marshal who found that they not only ate all the meat but boiled the hoofs to make jelly.
 Indians at Dry Bay want a school