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The Miller C< buntv Liberal. '■ " *" ■■ . " ' ■" ■*" r ’ —' " ■ —■ i■■ ■- ■ -I—— ... i, ■ VOL. X. ISLAND IS SINKING Added Horror Faces Stricken Jamaicans, is Report, DISASTER GROWS WORSE As More Accurate and Fuller Reports from Kingston Reach the Outside World —May Rival the ’Frisco Cataclysm. Wireless messages received at the station on Anastasia rnanu, Thursday by Chief Electrician Elkins say that Kingston and the Island of Jamaica are sinking gradually; that many holes and cracks one hdndred feet deep were formed by the earth quake and that grave fears are felt that tlie entire city will slip Into the bay. Other dispatches state that the dis aster is as great as the calamities of San Francisco and Valparaiso. Thou sands of persons have been killed and the dead bodies are being taken from the debris by hundreds. The whole town is in ruins. Communication with the islan dis Communication with the island is that comes through brings fresh de tails of the appalling catastrophe. The number of dead is placed va riously at from five to twelve hun dred and the number of lujdred runs into the thousands. The danger of famine has increased and with it stands the specter of pestilence. There is urgent need of supplies of all kinds, and energetic efforts are being made in this country and in England to send aid. The business section of the city has been wiped out and the estimates of the damage range from ten to twenty five millions. Among the dead and injured are a number of prominent English persons and almost every dispatch adds new names to the list. Eight Americans are reported as missing. It is said that many tourists undoubtedly were crushed by falling walls in the shopping district. The American battleships Missouri a rf*-’ oeeatf and American officers and sailors art standing .by to render every assist ance in their power A new horror was added to the situ ation by reports that the city seemed to be slowly sinking into the sea. The contour of the bottom of the harbor has materially changed and two lighthouses at the harbor en trance are said to have disappeared. The ships in the harbor are crowd ed with injured people and the death list is being increased daily. Corpses lie in the streets or are being thrown into trenches. The calm official recital of the ac tual conditions at Kingston sent in by Sir Alexander Swettenham, the Brit ish governor of the Island, realizes the worst fears of the earlier reports and brings home to the British public in a manner the press messages failed to do the terrible nature of the calamity. Some graphic details of the disaster are given in one of the latest dis patches received, dated from Holland Bay, January 15. According to this report, the whole city of Kingston seemed to shrivel up, buildings crashed together and fell in a crushed mass under the first shock. The business streets at the time were well filled with tourists, and, accord ing to this correspondence, no doubt many of them were caught in the fall ing brickwork and buried in the de bris. Fire broke out immediately after the crash at three separate points. The fire department station was wrecked, rendering' resistance to the flames im possible. The conflagration continued unchecked until Wednesday morning, by which time the whoie business quarter of Kingston had been wiped out, the damaged area comprising about a square mile. RELIEF WORK UNDER WAY. Unfortunate People of Jamaica Will Not Be Allowed to Suffer. The work of sending relief to King ston, Jamaica, is proceeding with en ergy. The city is receiving supplies as far as possible from the Island of Jamaica itself. The American war ships in the harbor have put ion shore all the foodstuffs and medical supplies they could spare, and the Jamaican authorities have taken charge of the distribution of all pro visions in the city. In addition re lief is being hurried in from outside quarters. NEW JOB FOR DENHAM. Well Known Railroad Man to Be Man ager of Tampa Northern. A special from Tallhassee, Fla., says: W. B. ’Afeiham has tendered his resignation as manager of the Georgia, Florida and Alabama railway, to take effect February 1, and will assume en tire management of the Tampa North ern railway, being constructed from Tampa to Atlanta. SUPPLY SHIPS ARE SENT.' Uncle Sam Takes Instant Measures for Relief of Quake and Fire Suf ferers in Island of Jamaica. Official news of the disaster at Kingston, Jamaica, reached Washing ton slowly Wednesday. The first re port did not come to hand until well along In the afternoon, when a dis patch was received at the state de partment, dated: “Jamaica, 3:31 p. m„ January 16,” and signed “American Consul,’ stating that Kingston had been destroyed and hundreds of lives lost and that food was badly wanted. The signature to this dispatch was misleading, for the consul is absent on leave from his post. It was assumeti-, at the department that the vice and deputy consul, William H. Orrett, at Kingston, had sent the dispatch. A reference in the cablegram to the fireproof safe Is understood to convey assurance of the safety of the con sular records and papers. However, the dispatch was regarded as warranting the taking of instant measures of relief, indeed, the navy department had been in advance in this matter, for through Captain Beeh ler, the officer in charge of the naval station at Key West, wireless com munication was early established be tween the navy department and Ad miral Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo, Cuba, and when Secretary’ Root later indicated the de sirability of sending warships at once to the distressed island, it turned out that Admiral-Evans had anticipated in structions and had started on a tor pedo boat destroyer, the swiLcst ves sel In the American fleet, for Kings ton, ordering two battleships to fol low ns soon as they could. The appeal for food supplies direct ed attention to tho fact that under ordinary conditions none of the gov ernment supplies could be used for outside relief save by special authority of congress. That fact, however, did not pre vent Secretary Metcalf from ordering two supply ships with full cargoes of food at once to Jamaica, leaving tor later decision the question as to how the supplies are to be given to the needy inhabitants. RECEIVER NAMED FOP, COLONY. Übvrt rakes _ gerald’s Affairs in Georgia. A special from Indianapolis says : Geo. F. Mull, a local attorney, has been appointed receiver for Philander H. Fitzgerald’s '1904 Georgia Colony- Company,” upon the petition of sev eral stockholders in the enterpirse, who charged that Fitzgerald had not kept good faith with them. Fitzgerald was recently indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of using the United States mail to defraud in con nection with the promotion of this colony scheme. The colony is located in Georgia, and is known as St. George, and com prises 8,000 acres of land. The petition for a receiver told in detail of Fitzgerald’s plan to form a colony in Georgia, and to give valua ble pieces of property to all his stock holders, the size and quality of the land depending upon amount of stock subscribed. In this way, the plaintiffs say, the $700,000 came to Fitzgerald, and that only $20,000 was spent in im proving the property. The petitioners declare that the remainder of the money Fitzgerald has in his posses sion, and that he is guilty of fraud and misrepresentation. Besides asking for a receiver and judgment against Fitzgerald, the plaintiffs ask that Fitz gerald be restrained from leaving the state until the case is settled. EXPLOSION KILLS TRAINMEN. Boiler of Engine Lets Loose and Five Lose Life. The boiler of a Philadelphia and Reading freight engine exploded at Bridgeport, Pa., Wednesday, killing five trainmen. All of the killed re sided at Allentown. Tho engineer of the train, J. D. Blank, escaped. LET PRESENT LAW STAND Is Request of Hebrews Anent Statute on Immigration. Features of national interest marked the opening session in Atlanta Tues day morning of the Union of Ameri can Hebrew Congregations. Most strik ing of these was a resolution introduc ed by Simon Wolf to the following effect: “That a message be sent to Speaker Canncm of the house of representa tives, urging in the name of the union, that no changes be made in the pres ent United States laws on immigra tion.” MORE PAY FOR EMPLOYEES. Atlantic Coast Line Raises Wages All Along the Line. It is announced from the headquar ters of the Atlantic Coast Line in Wil mington that a general increase has been made in the salaries of clerks, agents, trainmasters, dispatchers, sec tion masters, etc. The percentage of the increase has not yet been comput ed, the object being to make the ad vance general in all departments. UOLQUiTL GA. WEDNESi ■ . JANUARy 23. JORDAN IS ELECTED For Third limo as Head of Coiioii Association. MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM Third Annual Session a Record Break er in Attendance and Enthusiasm, penance liuned at Wai| Street Manipulators, The third annual couvenuon of the aeuthern Cetwu Crowers' AMsoiiiu tian, assembled in 3irniius»um, .ca., iiiursdtiy. flinging words tavarlng bioser organization anrong umtou growers and standing up for wiia. ii-.oy think are their rights were eke r rd to the echo by the thousands :.f delegates who were assembled. The delegates seem thoroughly Imbued ith the idea that there has been more . rosperity among cotton growers since tiio formation of the association two years ago than ever before, and they applauded the speakers who urged a still closer union and further steps to protect their own interests and to refuse to allow the prices of the south’s great staple to be fixed in Wail street. Even radical utterances in the ex treme were charged, as when F. L. Foster of Shreveport, La, exclaimed that he hoped to see ths time come when a man could not sell his cotton unless ho was a member of the South ern Cotton Association. This was the closing remark of a speech by Mr. Foster, which seemed to be received with the deepest sentiments of ap proval by the delegates assembled. Three sessions of the convention were held during tlie day. When the convention met Thursday morning, every one -of tho eleven cot ton states was well represented. The meeting was opened with prayer, af ter which President Harvie Jordan presented Mayor George B. Ward, who welcomed the convention on behalf of the city of Birmingham. W. 11. Sey mour of Montgomery, president of I ’.io Alabama division, folloved in an ad fll’OCa of / Xl’fcllnomo luilvilf nf rlvZx .-Manama | c«oon h>v.. m)Ui s . tne situation with which the associa tion had to deal was not the produc tion of cotton so much as its market ing. He regarded the present con vention as the most important ever held in Alabama because it had to do with the south’s greatest product. “Our cause is a just cause,” con tinued Mr. Seymour. “It is as holy as any cause, for the reason that it looks to the welfare of our people. It is right and we must win.” M. L. Johnson of Georgia, president of the Georgia division, responding to the welcome addresses, said in part: “My friends, it is war. Not a war of powder and lead, but a war requir ing as much bravery, demanding as much brains and calling for as much ‘-.".orifice and patriotism as nerved the arms an dinspired the spirits of the Ijees, the Jacksons and Johnstons, heroes of our lost cause, but a cause never to be forgotten.” He said that for forty years the south had submit ted to being robbed on the price of its chief product because of its pov erty. "For forty years,’ he continued, “we have paid tribute to Wall street gam blers, the spinners of Europe and the spinners of our own country. Are you ready for the battle against this rob bery?” The speech of President Jordan re views the history of the organiza tion, outlines the scope and purpose of its future work, stresses the ne cessity of co-operation between all southern commercial elements inter ested in the cotton trade, touches ion immigration, denounces speculation and discusses the recent fraud order movement against tlie New York Cot ton Exchange. At a meeting of the executive com mittee the following officers were elected: Harvie Jordan, Georgia, president. J. C. Hickey, Henderson, Texas, vice president. Dr. Will H. Ward, Mississippi, sec retary. F. Hyatt, North Carolina, treasurer. E. D. Smith, South Carolina, general organizer. B. 11. Burnett, Chickalah, Arkansas, financial agent. Secretary Root Goes to Canada. Secretary Root left Washington on Thursday for Ottawa, Canada, where he will be the guest of Earl Grey, the I governor general. PRESIDENT RECEIVES VETERANS Old Heroes, on Their Way Home, Cali at the White House. A number of veterans of the civil war who attended the reunion of the Biue and Gray on the forty-second an niversary of the battle of Fort Fish er and Wilmington, N. C., and who were en route to their homes, were received at the white house Friday by President Roosevelt. QUAKE AT C[ AMES Deal Death and t * !/■ 1 , I Destruction at Kingston, 1 0 IJamaica. LOSS OF LIFI » HEAVY J Se-smic Jar V/recke and Fire QuickC >tion ° f City pie of Islar f owed—Peo- Detail T Panic ’ /<• e. Kingston, the 1 the island of Jan ca ' lital 01 11 « xrk, s i has been dev astated by a vio | j of. the | arthquane. as direct comm aro lacking, stricken city ha pion with the land line's had be JWn cut off. ihe within 5 miles o' C reconstructed to . veiling, and fro*. Kingston Tuesday cetved through f W’agre reports re open, it has b. 1 hannels as were of the most im, pned that many been destroyed i buildings have rious loss of lif has been se- So far as the f fatalities number Aqrts indicate, dred, though the s X s than one hut>- witli Injured atv - tspitals are. filled may be materia I list °f victims Kingston, an- j pcreased. interest of the I: ' | X other Points of son of the year J -■ are at this sea ists from both f .Tinged with tour and the greatest ■ / ‘'lea and England for the safety | prehension is felt who had recent® m any persons maican resort, if y.rrived at the Ja- The first greajfif • 3 30 o'clock aloii* pock was felt about in the San Fra *l’? a afternoon and as disasters, flainefWcisoo and Valparaiso from the wreck I immediately sprang work of destru Ita” to carry on the noon the fire < lion Tuesday after though it was still burning, al trol ®imewhat under con- The Myrtle I > pal hotel at. Ki" »nk hotel, the princi sheltered rhe gi li.sston, which probably the island, is r feat bulk of visitors on great military farted destroyed. The and forty soldi J hospital was burned Sir James F/.f'S are reported dead been instant! A V sso ” is saili to huve London rep ’ ' ed > but according to m>n»riian 6. other Englishman, I. no- an is believed to Kings to. a number c aoastroas vise.,.’.'* '»'■( fire, earthquaj anc ] C y C | One j n years gone by, and I the extent of Monday’s disaster is stil* l| ] e f t ] arge iy ( 0 the im agination. I The city is-"’ 1 one O s i OW -lying build fugs, clusters ) (j along the shores of one of the f. t .j nes t and most securely land locked I arbors in the West In dies. The populi ( j on> w hich number- .’e l .- 000, is larg l S raa( ] e u)) O s native blacks. Many stea|. ncrs carrying tourists to Jamaica we|. e rou t e to the island when the e; f.rthquake occurred, ; • o it so happenei | that, according to sched ules, none | o f the ships from New York or Bo | s t or was in Kingston har bor Monda |. It would J appear that the first re ports that s he city had been “des’ o ed” were Jixaggerated. Evar s o r <je r ed to Kingston. Secretar o f the Navy Metcalf has sent a ca t,legram to Admiral Evans, in coniinaF 1(1 o f t he United States fleet, off Guant; in am< Cuba; requesting him to investigate the extent of the earth quake dis aster ard report to the de partment i Admiral Evans is authoriz ed, if ue< j essar? proceed to Kings ston, whifflyh is abl r a twelve-hour trip from Gu. Lntanim d. STEAMIfc R b ruN WICK RETURNS. Initial l|rip to Cu» Filled Pai agers With Eli uusiasm. ” .... Thr > line new > am r Brt wick reac w port of unswick 1* .May on ns "reti-Miu n' ! j Cuba, and all'ui the pssseiftgers bio made the trip to the troiljic islhd are enthusiastic in praise o r the 'A age, the vessel and the courtesly of th| management ON ’TRAIL-bf BAILEY. * —U— Texas Sen; ite Derkrds Papers in the Char ges Agir.st Senator. In the 1 'exas sprite Wednesday a resolution was ad<it< i calling on the attorney g eneral jr any papers he had in com section tin charges against Senator H ailey’s tl< ged connection with the t Vaters-iirce Oil company. An amend “intent wi added providing that all s uch pap- s should be ex hibited onl-y in exec tive session. This action wil 1 preciuc newspaper men and others I form e: unining them. BRYASsi DUMP C IN SNOW. Team Rai? Away K :h Sleigh, But Nelpraskan \ Unhurt. William J. Bryan a < President E. A. Bryan of the State College were thrown into i snow bank 'at Pullman, Wash, Motjday night. The team draw ing them ft >nr the college to the depot tan awai and the sleigh was upset. Neither wa hurt. ■ —— > DIXIE’S GREAT MONOPOLY Should Be Exploited to the Limit and Move Made for Higher prices, Says Editor Richard Edmunds. In discussing the south’s monop oly of cotton production and why higher prices for cotton should pre vail, Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers’ Record of Bal timore, who was in Birmingham, Ala., to attend the Southern Cotton Con vention, said: “Cotton i« the most remarkable agri cultural product known to mankind. Destroy wheat and a substitute can be found; destroy corn and other grains would take its place. Destroy cotton and you would shake the foun dation of civilization itself. I'he ad vance of civilization throughout the” e;#*-::i Is ine«.b; consum 'tion of cotton. It has been well said that' the missionary of the gospel as he penetrates the wilds of Africa is as advance agent for the south’s Imperial staple. TJiis crop is the most won derful ever given by a beneficent Cre ator to any people. It ramifies every financial and business center of civi lization. 3 his royal product is as nec essary- in the palace of the king as I in the hut of the peasant; on the tented battlefield and in the hospital it is alike essential. It is the one great power in our foreign commerce, which turns the balance of trade in our favor. It is not a sectional crop, not even a national crop, it is a world crop, for it belongs to the world and wherever on earth men do busi ness the south’s cotton crop must of necessity command thoughtful atten tion. It is the most important factor in our international relations. "Without our cotton. Europe’s in dustrial life would be almost ruined. Probably $2,000,000,000 is invested in the cotton mills ami allied industries in Europe and in Great Britain alone over 10,000,000 peop>« alone de pendent upon thb coton trade. “The cotton crop for which the south receives $600,000,000 a year is worth over $2.ni0,000",000 before it. reaches the consumers in the shape of cotton goods. For many years Eu rope paid us from $2 "‘.OM.OfMI to $250,- 090,000 a year for the cotton which under the better prices prevailing dur ing the last three or four years now brings annually to the south $400,000, - 000 or more. “No wonder the financial powers of Europe iare to beat down the price of OOOto'CAi k. s-l'.c themselves (he $150,- over what thej- paTd' us di?finB XC £?- days of starvation prices. So rapidly is the world’s consumption increasing that within the last twelve months Manchester in England has added 6,- 000,000 spindles to its equipment, t.hus I increasing the number of its spindles in one year two-thirds as much as the total number in the south. This in creasing consumption will necessitate in the next ten years a crop of at least 17,000,000 to 18,009,000 bales in the south. Consumption is gaining at the rate of 500, (M r hales a year and without any more rapid increase this would in ten years add 5,000,000 bales required by the world's needs to the 12 500,000 bales o.f American cotton now consumed'. But. in considering this gain, it must be borne in mind that the whole world has entered upon a period of expansion in trade, in com merce, in higher wages, and therefore more and better clothing, and in the creating of wealth, such as men never saw before.” USING FURNITURE FOR FUEL. People of Seattle Caught By a Cold Wave and No Coal. Seattle, Wash., is suffering severely from a cold wave. In many homes fur niture was chopped up for fuel and old antiques which had been saved up from grandmothers’ days went un der the ax. Coal and wood are almost nninhtfiinnhlo unobtainable. Florida Postmasters Named. The president sent to the senate on Tuesday the following nominations of Florida: F. M. Taylor, Titusville; M.B. Bishop, Eustis; E. N. Bradley, Green Cove Springs; G. E. Koons, Palmetto. CORTELYOIJ-AND GARFIELD Given Favorable Report by Senate Nominations Committee. The senate committee on finance Tuesday agreed to report the nomina tions of Postmaster General Cortelyou to be secretary of the treasury, and James R. Garfield, commissioner of corporations, to be secretary of the interior. The vote on both Mr. Cor telyou and Mr. Garfield was unani mous. The committee also recommended the confirmation of Arthur Stater of Washington to be assistant secretary of the treasury. PROBE OF CAR SHORTAGE By Congress to Be Recommended by President Roosevelt. Congress will be asked by the president to give the interstate com merce commission increased power to enable them to deal with such emerg encies as that now existing with re gard to the ear shortage qm ption in the northwest. f —— . . .. ..... Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad. Passenger Train Schedules Corrected tc June 22, 1906. NORTHBOUND. Ex. Ex. D’ly Sun Sun D’ly June 22 1906. D’ly Sun Sun D’iy A.MI P.M. A.M. AM. P.M. P.M. A.M P.M. 7:00 Lv . Apalachicola . . Ar 5:35 6:00 8:00 11:35 . . . Carrabelle . . . 2:36 3:40 10:15 6:45 8:20 11:50 . . . Lanark .... 2:28 3:20 10:05 7:21 9:14 12:22 .... Sopchoppy .... 1:58 2:36 9:29 7:45 9:53 12:45 .... Arran 1:36 1:55 9:05 8:40 11:00 1:35 Ar . Tallahassee . . Lv 12:51 12:30 8:15 6:40 8150 3:25 Lv . Tallahassee . . Ar 12:46 8:05 8:50 7:17 9:25 4:05 Ar . . Havana . . . Lv 12:02 7:27 8:14 6:25 3:00 i.v . . , 4.,- 1,15 9 ; (U) 10:10 7:10 3:45 Ar . . Havana . . Lv 12:30 8:15 9:25 Note: See Below. 7:17 9:30 4:05 Lv . . Havana ... Ar 12:02 7:22 8:14 8:25 10:25 5:13 . . . Bainbridge . . . 11:00 6:20 7:16 9:23 6:10 . . . Colquitt .... 9:59 6:10 10:16 7:20 . . . Arlington .... 9:10 5:17 10:45 7:46 .... Edison B:3£ 4:45 11:35 8:30 Ar . . Cuthbert . . . Lv 7:5C 4:05 Through Connections Via Tallahhassee. AM P.M. P.M A.M P.M. PM. 7:40 Ar . Jacksonville . . Lv 4:116 11:15 10:50 . . . Pensacola , . . 5:00 A M. A M. Via Ba nbridge 9:40 9:40 9:40 Ar . Savannah . . Lv 6:45 6:45 9:40 6:15 8:05 8:05 . . Montgomery . . . 6:15 ’6:15 6:50 P.M. P.M. Via Cuthbert. P.M. 1:00 9:49 Ar . . Smithville . . .Lv 6:38 2:50 4:10 12:50 .. . Macon . ... 3:35 11:35 7:55 7:10 . . . Atlanta .... 12:01 8:00 P.M. A.M. a.M. A M. NOTE —Additional trains, daily: Lv Havana 7:35a 1 Quincy 8:20a Lv Quincy ll:O< ! o ' r Havana 11:45a J. H. WILLIAMS, G. P. A. i •) The Wall Street Gambler f ? ..or. j Sweatshop Oppressor J > Worse tnan Petty Thief f 1 By Dr. Lymun ' 4 HE portraits of all the pickpockets of our country do not hang in the Rogues’ Gallery; the pictures of the biggest pickpockets of the country are not to bo found there. Ihe man who takes money which he has not honestly earned from the pockets of the people at the gambling table, or in the speculator’s shop, or in industry in which young children are ground up in the sweatshop in order to supply cheap goods, is far more a robber than the petty thief L T I on the streets. in the life of the baby, the child and the young man in college, we recog nize that things are made for the baby, the child and the colieglan; but when the young man leaves college and enters business, this whole order is re versed and our American people seem to accept it as a truth that man was made for things, not things for man, and that the measure of a man is the amount of money that he can make. What a curious phenomenon this is, but that it is true of many, many of our people no one of you can doubt. If we as a people are to accept it as true, let us change the stars in our flag to dollar marks, and our motto from "In God we trust," to “Be successful honesly, if you can, but be successful." I was recently talking with a noted lawyer in New York who told me that for a large number of wrongs and immoral methods of business practiced in New York city to a large extent there was no punishment in the statutes of (that place. The law was codified years ago, and since then both the law and crime have increased, but crime has outstripped the laws. Can it be said that money—the badge of ability to discern between the dishonesty that is il legal and that not illegal—is a sign of character? I have heard temperance orators say that the saddest tragedy of life was that, offered by a bright young man going forth into the world and blasting his hopes by drunkenness. But it seems to me that the picture of a young man leaving college with high ideals of manhood and life, entering business and there learning to conform to business standards, losing his conscience and moral discernment, is a far sadder tragedy and one as frequently if not more frequently seen than the otter. THE OATMEAL TRICK. j An Ingenious Swindle That Was f Worked on a Shopkeeper. It reminds me of the oatmeal dodge, i said the detective. He was speaking of an ingenious swindle that had been worked successfully on a shopkeeper. The oatmeal dodge, he continued, was worked on a grocer in the suburbs. A man entered the shop and engaged the 1 grocer in conversation. While they talked a youth came in. “Do you sell oatmeal?” the newcomer asked. “Yes,” said the grocer, “The very best. How much—” But the man interrupted, "I just wanted to know’," he said "Good day,” and he walked out. The grocer, looking a little disap pointed, resumed his conversation with the stranger. In a few minutes a second youth appearerd. “Do you sell oatmeal?” he asked. "Yes,’ the grocer answered. "Thank you. Good day,” And this young man also disappear e<S. ’Well, what the dickens!” exclaimed the grocer. "But. as we were saying.” he resumed, and the interrupted con versation went briskly on. Soon a third youth entered the shop. He said. "Do you sell oatmeal?” "Yes.” the grocer snapped. “Thank you. Good day.” And this young man departed—on a r’.n. For the grocer, thoroughly eit i.sed at last, had rushed upon him had, however, a clean pair of heels. I Nd. 23 The grocer was unable to overtake him So after a chase of a hundred' i yards or so returned, breathless. He found the first man gone. The shop was empty. So was the till. ; Once more the oatmeal dodge had J succeeded.-—Tit-Bits 5 Rich Treasure Coach. • .1. J. Williams, the oldest living pio neer of this section, gives the date of the first placer mining as 1875. On his return to the Hills In January, 187 C, • found that two discoveries had been made. "On August 20, 1876,” he said, ”a six' horse coach with twenty armed guards •’ and between $500,000 and $700,000 north of gold dust left here for Chey enne. Some of the guards were paid as hingh as SIOO for the trip, but others went for their board, they were glad to get away. There were the Chisholms. Woodbury and Hank Harney of the-/' Homestake, and Jr kson, who same in with me. and others I have forgotten - V and some of them had more dust in ’ the coacl, than the Wheeler outfit, who look out about $56,000. as I recollect. That sum representated about 120 days work, and it was all clear profit abov° expenses.”—Black Hills Mining Re- ~ view. The women of Sumatra wear cos * ■ - dresses, many of them being n.-,.. v ”f pure gold and silver. After th . J metal is mined and smelted, it. A.' J formed into a fine wire, which is wo- *z . n into cloth and afterward nsed for ' j I dresses. ■ ■