andolph Bulletin
Asheboro, N. C.
CENTER OF POPULATION,
In the predictions as to the show
ing which the census figures would
make there was one virtually agreed
upon that the center of population
would be shifted some distance west
ward from its location in 1890, which
was six miles southeast of Columbus,
Ind., says Toledo Blade. But this pre
diction was one of the kind which
goes wrong. The census people have
tentatively announced that the mark
will have to be moved but slightly.:
The west has flourished tremendous-'
ly in ten years. It has gained not
only new railroads, but the old rail
roads have been renewed. Irrigation
has caused new lands to be cultivated
and new cities and towns to be build
ed. Such cities as Seattle have
profited in wealth and population by
the opening of new territory, the de
velopment of r new resources, the fill
ing In of the once deserted spaces be
tween town and town. But in these
same ten years an immense immigra
tion has been distributing itself in the
eastern cities among the coal mines
and steel plants of Pennsylvania, in
the industrial districts of Lake Erie.
It has offset the settlement of the
far west.
Enforcing health regulations against
ignorance and prejudice frequently is
accompanied by difficulties. Cholera
prevails in parts of Italy, and the of
ficials have taken wise precautions
against the spread of the disease. And
one result has been a riot, accom
panied by the wrecking of the health
office in the town of Barletta. Of
course the rioters are taking the pre
cise course that opens the way for in
vasion by the deadly ailment. This
is an age of enlightenment, but there
are regions where there has been lit
tle advancement in ideas since the
time when plagues swept away vic
tims by wholesale because there was
not sufficient knowledge to ward off
the danger.
Those who have been able to hold
back their vacations until now are to
be congratulated. October is one of
the finest months of the year for va
cations, as any one who has been for
tunate enough to have two weeks free
at this time will tell you. The coun
try lies before you. There is no bet
ter exercise than walking. Nature,
in the full beauty of her late summer
foliage, is at her best, and the crisp,
iair of the approaching fall is notice
able mornings. Soon it will be on
tap all day. Why not keep up your
open-air vacation habits all winter?
The world's wheat crop this year is
estimated at a little under 3,500,000,
000 bushels, which will make it, with
one exception, the largest ever gath
ered. The largest wheat crop ever
gathered was that of last year, which
was approximately 150,000,000 bushels
more than the estimate of 1910. More
than half of the shortage is figured in
the crop of the United States. Al
though here as in Russia the crop is
shorter than last year, the reserve of
old wheat held over from the previ
ous year is larger in both countries
than it was in 1909.
The United States government has
ordered another large installment of
the rifle "silencers," by which the
noise of firing is done away with. Ex
periments are also under way with
similar silencers for cannon. It may
,yet come to pass that the noise of
battle will consist mainly of the
"shouting and the tumult" that were
in order before the days of gunpow
der. Firearms as playthings are not en
tirely justified of wisdom, as proved
:in the case of a twelve-year-old Buf
falo boy who received a gift of a
rifle from his father and a few min
utes later shot and killed his mother.
Of course, it was an accident, and
everybody concerned is very sorry,
but the moral is that, given every
ipossible opportunity and invitation,
accidents will happen.
i The expicurean world is still wait
ing for developments in the project to
provide meat from hippopotami fed on
water hyacinth. It sounds better than
terrapin.
Woman steals silk stockings and
pleads that she did it "to feed her
children." The science of infant die
tetics is making great strides, these
days.
I Seeing that Uhlan has trotted a
mile in less than two minutes, with
out the aid of a wind-shield or other
assistance of any kind, is it not time
to begin talking about the minute-and-a-half
trotter?
A St. Louis preacher is in trouble
because he stole a number of
watches. Perhaps the poor man mere
ly wanted enough watches to be al
ways warned against the danger of
preaching overtime.
TAR REEL PUBLIC TALK
Cream of Current County Events
Clipped and Condensed
in a Column.
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
Commissioner of Labor Shipman oi
Farm Conditions.
A summary of the chapter of the
report of the Department of Laboi
and Printing devoted to farms and
farm labor is just issued by Commis
sioner of Labor and Printing M. L
Shipman and contains many features
of special interest, the report being
made up from special reports pix
cured by the department form everj
locality in the State.
The reports indicate slight differ
ence in wages or in cost of producing
the various crops in different sec
tions of the State. It is ascertained
that sixty-seven counties produce cot
ton at .a cost of $33.37 per bale; that
eighty-one counties produce wheat at
a cost of 72 cents per bushel; ninety
seven grow corn at 52 cents per bush
el; ninet.y-five grow oats at 35 cents
per bushel; fifty-tree grow tobacco at
an average cost of $7.40 per hundred
pounds.
Increase in farm wages is reported
in thirty-three counties, a decrease
in one county and no change in the
others. The highest average wages
paid men for farm work is $25.11
and lowest $15.28, this being an in
crease o $1.00 per month and 49
cents per month resDectivelv. TIia
highest average for women is found
to be $15.o3 and lowest average
$10.11, an increase of 62 cents ner
month over the averages for last
year's reports. Children are revert
ed to have average wasres of $8.76. an
increase of 32 cents per month over
last year.
As to the financial condition of the
working people the reports from
seventeen counties show them to be
?ood, thirty-three fair, twentv-one
poor and one bad, with no report
crom another. Ainety-two counties
report improvement in this respect.
The reports from ninetv-three
counties show change toward greater
diveristy of crops and ninetv-eio-ht
report improvement in methods of
cultivation. Lvery county reports
increase in the cost of living. Tn-
?rease in the value of lands is re
ported from ninetv-three counties
and the fertility of lands maintained
in ninety-three, with general ten
dency toward smaller farms. Labor
is reported scarce in ninetv-fivfl
jounties and negro labor unreliable
in ninety-five counties and reliable, in
two.
Reports show road improvements
to-rough taxation stronsrlv favored in
ninety-two counties and not favored
in six counties.
Low Rates to Mecklenburg Fair.
All 'the railroads within 100 miles'
Df Charlotte, including this vear for
t?he first time all branch, lines, will i
J.C lOICO V-L JiAiy U1ID U.11U.. it IIUIU
Pares for the round trip to Charlotte
luring the big Mecklenburg fair, ac
cording to an announcement just
made by Railroad Commissioner
Fitzgerald. Besides giving the re
duced rates from points on branch
lines as well as on the main lines, re
lucfons will be allowed this year
Crom as far as Wilmington, Green
rille and Columbia, S. C, on these
respective lines. Tickets will go on
sale Monday, October 24 and be good
for the return trip as late as Satur
lay, the 29th.
Approximately 3,000 16-cadle-pow-;r
incandescent lamps and about 100
ire lights of the street lighting type
tvill be nsed in the various buildings
ind on the grounds.
More than 500 merchants, manu
facturers and other business men and
employes have signed an agreement
k close at noon on Wednesday, Octo
ber 26 th, which is Charlotte day.
Patents Granted.
Washington patent attorneys, re
port the grant, this week to citizens
)f the following patents: G. C. Bugus,
Fletcher, speed indicator; P. "W. Esk
ridge, Rutherfordton, fire alarm
switch; J. Fletcher, Brick school, ad
justable bench dog; H. Rotha,
iVaynesville, pully block; F. P.
White, Shallotte, combined ean and
jookeer.
Condemnation proceedings with a
iew to compelling owners of prop
irty adjoining the present postoffice
building at WinsHon-Sialem to sell
;ertain land to the govemrnment as
i site for a larger postoffice building
ias been started, by District Attor
ley A. E. Holton in the United States
listric't court at Greensboro.
The Carolina & Northwestern
jailroad people regard with a favor
ible eye the Ridgeview cotton mill
aropetry at Newton as a location for
ihe new shops of the railroad.
Thomasville is shipping daily from
Ifteen to twenty carloads of freight
rom her manufacturing plants, and
just at this season from ten to thirty
carloads of fertilizer is being sold
from this market.
Bettelr regulations safeguarding
olicyholders in mutual and assess
nent life insurance companies issu
ng policies for $500 and less are
o be urged upon the next general as
;embly by Commissioner of Insurance
Tames R. Young, who is already
iharged by the State law with ap
roving the policies and conditions.
Ttfl PLANS A TRIP
TO THE CANAL ZONE
PRESIDENT WILL SAIL ON BAT
TLESHIP NORTH CAROLINA
FROM CHARLESTON.
EXPENSE OF THE CANAL
The Total Appropriations for Canal
Work to Date Amount to
About $250,000,000.
Beverly, Mass. President Taft will
sail for the Isthmus of Panama on
November 10 from Charleston, S. C
He will make the trip on the ar
mored cruiser North Carolina, and
will be conveyed by the sister ship,
tke Montana.' The President will be
gone about twelve days. The North
Carolina and Montana can make the
journey in each direction in four
days. This will give Mr. Taft about
four days on the isthmus.
The President had practically giv
en up all idea of visiting the canal
this year until Col. George W. Goe
thals, chief engineer of the canal, vis
ited him. At the end of the visit
Mr. Taft had been convinced that the
problems, confronting the officials at
Panama require his presence on the
isthmus.
Although his visit will be a flying
one, the President expects to be able
to secure first-hand information re
garding a number of problems of
which he will call upon congress to
deal at its session. Some of the prob
lems to be dealt with in the inimedi
ate future are as follows:
The extent and character of the for
tifications, the fixing of tolls for the
passage of vessels through the canal,
a proposed increase in wages, the fu
ture management of the Panama rail
road, the form of permanent govern
ment for the Canal Zone and the reg
ulation of the sale of coal at the ter
minus points.
The date for opening the Panama
canal has been set for January 11,
1915. President Taft and Colonel
Goethals believe it will be completed
and open long before that time.
Washington. It is estimated that
$47,920,848 will be required to con
tinue the construction of the Panama
canal during the fiscal year
The principal items are $19,211,306
for skilled and unskilled labor and
$19,1S6,751 for the purchase and de
livery of material and supplies.
An estimate of 51,000,000 is submit
ted for the re-location of the Panama
railroad. The total appropriations on
account of the canal to date are $248,
002,668. Of that amount 40,000,000
wa spaid for the Frencn rights and
$10,000,000 to Panama.
Steady progress in the construction
of the canal is shown by lhe month
ly report of Chief Engineer Goethals
to the isthmian canal commission.
TILLMAN MAY MAKE RACE.
All Will Depend on How He Stands
the Work in December.
Trenton, S. C. "If my health con
tinues to improve, I expect to be a
candidate for the United States sen
ate in 1912, otherwise not. All will
depend on how I stand the work in
Washington when I go there in De
cember." This statement by United States
Senator B. R. Tillman, disposes of
the recent persistent rumors that be
cause of failing health the senior
South Carolina senator had decided to
retire from public life at the conclu
sion of his present term in the sen
ate. SUNDAY FUNERALS TABOOED.
Cemetery Guardians Are Not Willing
to Work on Sunday.
Chattanooga, Tenn. The twenty
fourth annual convention of the Amer
ican Association of Cemetery Superin
tendents closed. The convention
passed a resolution agreeing to use
their earnest efforts to abolish Sun
day funerals except where the na
ture of the disease of the corpse ren
dered immediate interment necessa
ry. The committee on location reo
ommended that Philadelphia be the
scene of the next convention and the
Quaker City was unanimously agreed
upon for the convention of 1911.
"Boss" Barnes Has Quit.
New York City. The resignation of
William Barnes, Jr., the Albany "old
guard" leader, from the state com
mittee, was a big event in Republican
circles here. State Chairman Pren
tice and Henry L. Stimson, the nom
inee for governor, state that the ac
tion was a surprise. Mr. Barnes' let
ter of resignation says that the fail
ure to reappoint him on the executive
committee indicated either that his
services were no longer useful or that
he was "faithless" to the Republican
ticket.
Penny Postage in Sight.
Washington. "Before the close of
another fiscal year the Federal postal
establishment will begin being self
sustaining. This will be accomplish
ed without curtailing in the slightest
the service rendered or lessening its
efficiency. This statement was made
by Postmaster General Hitchcock in
connection with the announcement
that he had submitted to the Treas
ury Department his estimates of
propriations for the Postoffice Depart
ment and postal service during the
fiscal year beginning July 1.
FARMERS SHOULD ADVERTISE
In Speech Before Arkansas State Fair
John M. Parker Shows Value
of Publicity.
Hot Springs, Ark. Advice to the
Southern farmers to advertise their
farm products in newspapers was giv
en here at the state fair in an ad
dress by John M. Parker of New Or
leans, president of the Southern Com
mercial Congress.
"The Northern and Western farmer
is up-to-date," said Air. Parker. "He
advertises what he has to sell, and
pays the expense of that advertise
ment and derives the highest price for
his product."
Newspapers, Mr. Parker said, have
led in the diversified farming move
ment; have helped bring settlers into
the South, and have been of great
practical benefit to Southern agricul
ture, but nevertheless their - "adver
tisements are totally disproportionate
with those of Northern papers." The
loss to the farmer in failing to adver
tise, Mr. Parker thought, was even
mere serious than the loss to the
papers.
PORTUGAL EXILESPRIESTS.
Lisbon Soldiers Sent to Rout Jesuits
Out of Subterranean Passages.
Lisbon, Portugal. Battles between
soldiers of the republican provisional
government and Jesuit priests, who
have defied the. order to leave Por
tugal, are being fought in subterra
nean passages leading from the mon
asteries. The' Jesuits are the only priests who
have openly disobeyed the mandate of
the new republic. Instead of leaving
the country, they took refuge in the
ancient underground passages, some
of which were dug over a century
ago. Soldiers have been sent after
the priests and firing was heard often
in the ancient subways under the
city.
Nearly 500 nuns from the Quelhas
and Trinas convents are being es
corted to the frontier, where they will
be driven into Spain. Many of them
are in ill health and a few are ac
companied by orphan children.
Great animosity is shown toward
the remaining Catholic prelates, es
pecially toward the Jesuits, who are
being expelled as rapidly as they are
found.
PLAN FOR RAISING MAINE.
Spain Is to Be Shown" How the
Maine Was Wrecked.
Beverly, Mass. President Taft
finally approved plans for raising the
wreck of the battleship Maine from
Havana harbor, which call for the
completion of the work on or before
the thirteenth anniversary of the de
struction of the war vessel, February
15, next. The work is to be done
according to plans made by army en
gineers, and is to be under the di
rection of an engineer officer.
President, Taft said that the para
mount question in the raising of the
Maine is t&e determining for all time
of the cause of the explosion and
whether the source of destruction
was from the outside or inside the
vessel. For this reason he desires
that the work shall be retained in
the hands of the army engineers and
not let out by contract.
By direction of the President, Spain
has been invited to send a representa
tive to Havana to be present during
the w.ork of exposing and removing
the wreck.
EX-SENATOR INDICTED.
Ex-Senator Gardner Alleged to Have
Offered $25,000 Bribe.
New York. Former State Senator
Frank J. Gardner of Brooklyn was
indicted as a briber by the New York
grand jury. The indictment was re
turned after ex-Senator Foelker,
whose one vote defeated the anti-race
track gambling bills, had testified be
fore the grand jury. A detective was
sent at once to Scranton, where Gard
ner is held in $10,000 bond as a fu
gitive from justice. He is alleged to
have offered Foekler $25,000 to vote
against the bill.
General King Dead.
Sulphur Springs, Texas. Gen. W.
H. King, who joined the Confederate
army as a private, but rose to the
rank of acting major general, died at
his home here. General King was a
well known politician and lawyer and
served for ten years as adjutant gen
eral of this state. He was 71 years
old and a native of Georgia,
14-Cent Cotton in Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala. Owing to the
excellent weather which has prevailed
throughout this week, cotton from sec
tions immediately in the neighborhood
of Montgomery is being regularly
brought to market, where it is bring
ing a record price around the 14
cent mark for this season of the year.
As a consequence, the planter is feel
ing disposed to rid himself of the
staple while the excellent prices pre
vail, despite advice which he has had
which urges hha. to hold the ' fleece
for a flat 15 cents.
Art Dealers uefrauded Government.
New York City. The entire Fifth
avenue establishment of the five Du
veen brothers, known the world over
ds dealers in rare art objects and an
tiques, was seized by Federal officers
and Benjamin J. Duveen, the only
members of the firm in the city, was
arrested, charged withx conspiracy to
defraud the government of customs
dues. Henry A. Wise, United States
district attorney, in asking for heavy
bail, said the frauds would reach
more than- $1,000,000, and that all
five brothers were implicated.
AGREEMENT REACHED
ON COTTON BILLS PLAN
SCHEME TO GUARANTEE COTTON
BILLS OF LADING RECEIVES
A DECIDED SETBACK.
SOUTHERN BROKERS OPPOSE
Southern Exchanges Contend That
Plan Would Place an Unjust
Tax Upon the Farmers.
New York. Due largely to the un
compromising attitude of some South
ern cotton exchanges, the plan to cre
ate a "guaranty company" to over
come the difficulties now attending
the European bankers and Sir Ed
ward W. Holden, representing the Eu
ropean banking interests, would ratify
the previous action, and work out de
tails of the plan; instead of which
the meeting broke up abruptly with
a general misunderstanding.
It was learned after the conference
that the protesting Southern ex
changes openly condemn the "guar
anty company" plan as unreasonable
and visionary. This opposition was
so pronounced that it caused the
American committee to pause. The
outcome was hardly a general disap
pointment, however, for some of the
conference are inclined to adopt a
policy of inaction in the belief that
the foreigners will soon extend the ac
ceptance of American cotton bills
from October 31 to December 31. In
this event the American committee
will have ample time to arrive at a
definite understanding.
New Orleans. General opposition
throughout the South manifested it
self when announcement was made in
New York of the plan to organize a
foreign company to guarantee cotton
bills of lading.
Although the proposed charge for
guaranteeing is only 6 or 7 cents a
bale, Southern cotton men contend
that in the aggregate such a scheme
would place a heavy burden on the
planter, broker and merchant, and
that the reputable firms of the South
should not be made to suffer for the
alleged frauds of concerns which have
been pretending for several years to
sell vast quantities of a staple com
modity at bargain counter prices.
Such a plan "is an insult to the re
putable cotton firms of the South,"
is the gist of a resolution passed by
the Memphis cotton exchange, while
prominent Atlanta business men are
quoted as declaring that whatever is
done "it will, come out of the farm
ers' pocket."
Resolutions passed by the Houston
cotton exchange declare it "an un
just tax," and similar resolutions have
been passed by the cotton exchange
at Dallas, while the resolutions of the
New Orleans exchange assert that
"the proposed guaranteed proposition
would single cotton out from all other
products and make it the peculiar ob
ject of discrimination and burdensome
conditions."
The resolutions of the Southern ex
changes were telegraphed to William
A. Nash, who is presiding at the con
ference of representatives of Ameri
can banks and foreign banks and for
eign buyers in New York.
Although many private suggestions
have been made as to the advisability
of Southern cotton men holding a con
ference, the resolutions of the vari
ous Southern exchanges did not crys
tallize in the form of a call for a
general convention to discuss the mat
ter. WAR ON THE HOOKWORM.
Experts Will Try to Rid Alabama of
Life-Sapping Disease.
Montgomery, Ala. From now on
the hookworms which are thriving in
Alabama soil will have a hard time
of it, if it is at all possible for Dr.
W. W. Dinsmore of Decatur, Ala.,, to
put into effect some of the ideas that
he has regarding the eradication . of
the parasite. The physician has tak
en up his headquarters at the capitol
as head of the Alabama department of
the Rockefeller hookworm commis
sion, and is throwing out lines which
are aimed with the end in view of
permanently ridding the state of the
life-sapping pest.
Decrease in Army Desertions.
Washington. Desertions from the
army are not so frequent now as m
the past. During. tlie fiscal year just
ended there was a decrease of 23 per
cent, in the number of desertions
from the previous year.
43 Injured in Wreck.
Fort Smith, Ark. Forty-three per
sons were injured, thirteen seriously,
when St. Louis and San Francisco pas
senger train No. 5 went through a
bridge one mile west of Compton,
Oklahoma.
Two Wall Street Failures.
New York City. Two New York
brokerage houses failed with liabili
ties aggregating nearly two million
dollars. One is the stock exchange of
Charles Minzesheimer & Co., the oth
er the firm of Thomas G. Gaylord,
who was engaged in business under
the name of 'Latham, Alexander &
Co., cotton and stock brokers, , In
each case assignments for the benefit
of creditors were made. Bainbridge
Colby, attorney for the firm, was
named as assignee by the Minzeshei
mer company.
SOUTHERN POPULATIONS.
Tampa, Florida, Now Has 33,524 In
habitants, an Increase of 143.2
Per Cent. Over 1900.
Washington. Population statistics
enumerated in the thirteenth census
were announced by the census bu
reau for the following cities:
Roanoke, Va., 34,874, an increase of
13,379, or 62.2 per cent over 2G,uoo
in 1900.
Tampa, Fla., 38,524, an increase of
22,685, or 143.2 per cent, over 15,83a
in 1900.
Louisville, Ky., 223,928, an increase
of 19,197, or 9.4 per cent, over 204,7323
in 1900.
Lexington, Ky., 35,099, an increase
of 8,730, or 33.1 per cent, over 26,365
in 1900.
Charlotte, N. C, 34,014, an increase
of 15,923, or 88 per cent, over 18,091
in 1900.
Shreveport, La., 28,015, an increase
of 12,002, or 75 per cent, over 16,01 &
in 1900.
Montgomery, Ala., 38,136, an in
crease of 7,790, or 25.7 per cent, over
30,346 in 1900.
Austin, Texas, 29,860, an increase
of 7,602, or 34.2 per cent, over 22,
258 in 1900.
Wilmington, N. C, 25,748, an in
crease of 4,772, or 22.7 per cent,
over 20,896 in 1900.
SENATOR D0LLIVER IS DEAD.
Iowa Insurgent Leader Succumbs of
Dilation of the Heart. ,
Fort Dodge, la. United States Sen
ator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver died
of dilation of the heart, caused by an
attack of acute indigestion, at his res
idence while being rubbed by an os
teopath physician.
Senator Dolliver's death was unex
pected by his relatives and close
friends, who thought that he had al
most entirely recovered from the at
tack of indigestion with which he had
been suffering for a week.
Senator Dolliver had been up all
day, and. had made a trip from his
residence down town. He told sev
eral of the men whom he met that
he believed he had completely recov
ered from the indigestion which fol
lowed his trip through Wisconsin on
a speech-making tour
While working over Senator Dolli
ver the osteopath physician was using
an instrument to listen to the sena
tor's heart action. The physician un
expectedly discovered that he was no
longer hearing the heart beats. He
at first thought his instrument was
faulty. An examination revealed that
his patient was dead.
CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR.
General Grosvenor Says War Was the
Fault of 'the Constitution.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Gen. Charles
H. Grosvenor of Ohio delivered the
annual oration before the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland here.
The general told his hearers it was
high time to quit waving the "bloody
shirt;" that the war is over, and that
we are all Americans now. The South
ern soldier fought for the principle
he thought to be right, said the speak
er, and he did the best he could. In
studying the history of the Civil war
one should not stop at Appomattox, he
said, but should follow the Southern
soldier as he builded up a nation from
desolation and ruin.
"An indissoluble union of indissol
uble states," was the omission from
the constitution of the United States
which caused the war of the sixties,,
was the declaration of General Gros
venor. INDORSE PARCELS POST.
Postmasters' League Also Approves
of the Postal Savings Bank Idea.
Chattanooga, Tenn. The National
League of Postmasters in the last day
of their seventh annual session pass
ed resolutions endorsing the estab
lishment of the parcels post and the
postal savings banks. Another res
olution which was adopted embodied
recommendations for the removal of
postmasters from partisan politics.
L. & N. Employees Receive Increase.
Louisville, Ky. B. M. Starks. gen
eral manager of the Louisville and
Nashvile railroad, and representatives,
of the passenger and trainmen of that
road, reached an agreement whereby
the men are to receive an increase in
wages of from 10 to 17 1-2 per cent..
effective November 1. Nine hundred
conductors, 2,700 brakemen, besides
flagmen, baggagemasters and norters
will benefit by the increase.
Five Killed in C. & W. C. Wreck.
Augusta, Ga. Five persons were
killed and seventeen injured when
trains Nos. 8 and 3 on the Charleston
and Western Carolina railway crash
ed together at full speed, about two
miles south of McCormick, 53. C. All
of the dead and seven of the injured
were members of the two train crews.
It is said that the operator at McCor
mick failed to deliver "meet orders"
for the southbound train. Both loco
motives were completely demolished,
and the baggage cars of both trains
were telescoped.
Ketchel Snot to Death.'
Springfield, Mo. Stanley Ketchel,
champion middleweight pugilist of the
world, died here as a result of being
shot by Walter A. Hurtz. The shoot
ing took place on the ranch of R. H.
Dickerson, a friend of Ketchel's, near
Conway, 40 miles east of here. The
trouble between Ketchel and Hurtz is
said to have started when the pugilist
upbraided the ranchhand for beating
a horse. This so angered Hurtz that
he procured a rifle and shot the fight
er in the back; 5,000 reward has
been offered for Hurtz, dead or alive.