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{1.25 PIFM IBIM Sylvan n; Lei’s “Putt Together. CONDITIONS BEHER yoti Oo^rC'i tDofaem o Wor^/i JJ. MINER, Mgr. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1908. VOL. XIII. NO. 46 MRJAfT’S RELIGION President Roosevelt Says It is His Own Private Concern PEOPLE SHOULD NOT INTERFERE The President-Elect’s Keligioiis Be lief, Declares the Presidient, Ib Purely His Own Private Ooncera; a Matter For Which He Is Re sponsible Solely to His Maker, and Not a Snbjcct for General Dis cussion or Political Discrimination. Washin^on, Speci&I.—Secretary Taft’s religious faith is purely his own private concern and not a matter for general discussion and political discrimination,” says President Roosevelt in a letter he made public iii which ho answers numerous cor- li spondents. The President says he deferred the publication of the letter until now to avoid any agitation likely to influence the election. The letter follows: November 6, 1908. My Dear Sir; 1 have received your letter riuining in part as foliov/s: “While it is claimed almost uni- v’ersally that religion should not enter into politics, yet there is no denying that it does, and the mass of the voters that are not Catholics will not support a man for any office, es pecially for President of the United States, who is a Roman Catholic. Since Taft has been nominated for President by the Republican par ty, it is being circulated and is con stantly urged as a reason for not vot ing for Taft that he is an infidel (Un itarian) and wife and brother Roman Catholics. * • • jf jijg feelings are in sympathy with the Roman Catholic Church on account of his wife and brother being Catholics, that would be objectionable to a suffi cient niHnbor of voters to defeat him. On the other hand, if he is an intdel, that would be sure to mean d^eat. *• • • r am writfn^^ this tetter for the sole purpose of giving Mr. Taft all opportunity to let the world knoAv what his religious belief is.’^ I received many such letters as yours during the campaign, express ing dissatisfaction with Mr. Taft on religious grounds;; some of them on the ground that he was a Unitarian, and others on the ground that he was suspected to be in sympathy with Catholics. I did not answer any of these letters during the campaign because I regarded it as an outrage 2ven to agitato such a question as a man’s religious convictions, with the purpose of influencing a political 9lection. But now that the campaign IS over, when there is opportunity for aien calm.ly to consider whither such propositions as those you make in Kour letter would lead, I wish to in vite them to consider them, and I have selected your letter to answer because 3*ou advance both the ob- iections commonly urged against Mr. Taft, namely; that he is a Unitarian also that he is suspected of sym pathy with the Catholics. You ask that Mr. Taft shall “let the world know what his religious belief is.” This is purely his own private concern, and it is a matter be- tvv’oen him and his Maker, a matter for his own conscience; and to re- 'piire it to be made public under pen ary of political discrimination is to negative the first principles of cur ?fivpriiment, which guarantee com- plf'te religous liberty, and the right to each men to act in religious affairs his own conscience dictates. Mr. Tuft i?evcr nsked my advice in the T^iatter, but if he had asked it. I have emphatically advised iiiui ficrainst flms stating publiclv his fplio’ons belief. The demand for a ?tnfement cf a candidate's religious Wliof can have no meaning except there mny bn discrimination for .^.aainsi him because of that be- Discrimination against the Milor of one faith means retaliatory mint ion against men of other The inevitable result of en- terii]o- upon such a practice Avould bo ^abandonment of our real freedom a reversion to the leadful renditions of religious dis- ■sensions Avhich in so many lands have pioved fatal, to true liberty, to true fP igion and to all advanced in ci^’ili- ^(lon. p-o discriminate against a thorough- ■} upright citizen because he belongs 0 some particular Church, or ‘be- ■ ‘ like Abraham Lincoln, he has iior avo\yed his allegiance to pny -|iurf'h, is an outrage against that 1 " rty of conscience which is one ^ the foundations of American life. ou are entitled to know whether a seeking your suffrage is a man pi f lean and upright life, honorable all his dealings with his fellows, ^^d fit by qualification and purpose do well in the great office for ^nich he is a candidate; but you are [!**t entitled to know matters which between himself and his aker. If it is proper or legitimate to oppose a man for being a Uni tarian, as was John Quincy Adams, for instance, as is the Reverend Ed ward Everett Hale, at the present moment chaplain of the Senate, and an American of whose life all good Americans are proud—then it would be equally proper to support or op pose a man because of his views on justification by faith, or the method of administering the sacrament of the gospel of salvation by works. If you once enter on such a career there is absolutely no limit at which you can legitimately stop. So much for your objections to Mr. Taft because he is a Unitarian. Now, for your objections to him because you think his’'wife and brother to be Roman Catholics. As it happened, they are not; but if they were, or if he were a Roman Catholic himself, it ought not to affect in the slightest degree anv man’s suiipcrting him for the position of President. I believe that this republic v/ill en dure for many centuries. If so there will doubMcss be rmon'T its Presi dents Protestants and Catholics and very probnbW sr-rro .Tp.ws. I have constantly tried while Presi dent to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who hap pens to be a Catholic will act to wards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the Ameri can people. In my cabinet at the present mo ment there sit side by side Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Jew, each man chosen because in my be lief he is peculiarly fit to exercise on behalf of all our people the duties of the office to which I have appointed him. In no case does the man’s re ligious belief in any way influence his discharge of his duties, save as it makes him more eager to act justly and uprightly in his relations to all men. The same principles that have obtained in appointing the members of my Cabinet, the highest officials under me, the officials to whom is entrusted the work of carr>'ing out all the important policies of my ad ministration, are the principles upon ^^ieh^'lill ^ood Americans should ««t in choosing, whether by election or appointment, the men to fill any of fice from the highest to the low’est in the land. Yours truly, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Mr. J. C. Martin, • Dayton, Ohio. Mill Esiployes Get Fell Work. Paw’tucket, R. L, Special.—The thread mills of the J. & P. Coats Company, in this city, employing 2,- 500 hands, resumed a full time "work ing schedule on Saturday, according to an a nri cun cement posted in thf mills. The mills have be^n running on short time since the financial de pression of last fall. Healthy Showing in Earnings of Ail Railroads RECEIPTS PER MILE INCREASED Oommissioner I<ane SajB Bailroads Bevennes For the Year Ending in Jnne Broke Ail B.ecords. LEGISLATIVE PERSONNEL Washington, Special.—In the opin ion of Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner, the rail road, industrial and financial condi tion of the country is improving rap idly. ‘^It is a fact,” said he “hard ly believable, but nevertheless true, that the total operating revenue per mile of railroads for the year ended June 30th, 1908, exceeds that of any other year in the history of railroad ing in the United tates except the one year of 1907. The average ope rating revenue per mile of line per nionth for the 226,000 miles of rail road reporting to the commission was $vS94, for the fiscal year of 1908. This was less by about $61 than for the year 1907; but it was more than any preceding year, and was $118 per mile per month more than in the year of the last presidential election. As I predicted, a local car shortage even now exists. Conditions rapidly are becoming normal and prosperous.” Graham Confessed—Sentenced to Death. Concord, N. C., Special.—Will Gra ham is a self-confessed rapist under sentence of death. On the 18th day of December Graham is to be hanged until dead. Judge Ferguson having so sentenced him after the evidence bad been taken and a verdict of guilty reported by the jury. Judge Ferguson addressed the •rrowded court room, showing bow the law finds the guilty one and ad ministers justice in the case where the law is allowed to take its course, and in giving the negro a fair trial carried out the ends of justice. He also commended the membters of the negro race for the fidelity and the manner in which they gave tesimon^ against the prisoner and did all pos sible to bring out the truth. The closing hours of the trial were tragic and pathetic. Thursday night Graham told Captain Brown, of the local militia, that he wanted to talk with a preacher, and at* his request Captain Brown brought Rev. T. F. Logan, a Presbyterian minister, to whom Graham made a full confession. Wcrll’s Vici’D.e Cotton Supply. New Orleans, Special.—Secretary Hester’s statement of the world’s vis ible supply of cotton issued Saturday; shows the total visible is 3,817,900 against 3,230,124 last week and 3,- 371,958 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3,092,90C against 2,741,124 last Avcek and 2.- 565.082 last year all other kinds in cluding Eg'^’pt, Brazil. India, etc. 525,000 nsrainst 539,000 last 'ceok and 806,876 last year. WKLL K.NOW-V V.ASllKll DKMJ, IlUgcPf I.. Mass., AM< »■ I.Mji*; jUncss. Springtield, Ma??.— Kugene L. Munu, iltiy-foui-, president of the Park National i'.ank of Holyttke and one of the l>est known financial-nien in New Kn<4la)id, died at his home in this cify tUter a uroiracted iHness. He or;;anIzed H’e Cliy >Tational Bank of Holyoke ami the Home Njitional Bank of Holyokt'. In l.S92'lie organ ized the Park National 1]ank, of whieh he ^\£^s ])reiiiderjt at the lime of his death. Berlin rolicc 31ont Sorl.nli.sts. A mass-meeting of Social Demo crats held at Berlin, Germany, to ])ro* test against the treatment of the So cialist minority in the Prussian Diet, resulted in numerors. conflicts with the police, >vho forcibly disi>ersed 10,000 Socialist.s who could not get into the hall. Ng77 Orleans Cotton. New Orleans, Special.—Cotton: Spots opened Saturday easy and closed steady. Good middling being reduced 1-16 and middling fair 1-8. Middling unchanged at 815-16; sales on the spot 2,000 bales and 3,200 to arrive. Futures opened quiet at a decline of 2 to ^ points under the influence of disappointing Liverpool cables. Later the market sagged off still fur ther under the bearish into-sight staten'icnt, the active position reach ing a level 9 to 10 points under the previous day’s final quotations. At this point numerous cable messages from Livelpool and Manchester were received stating that the cotton mill lockout had been settled and prices quickly rose 20 to 23 points, at which level they were at a net advance of 10 to 14 points. At the closing the tone was called steady and prices shoAved a net advance of 5 to 7 points, ' Clo‘?ing bids; Nov. 8.S5; Dec. 8;78. Jan. 8,75. Feb. 8,76, March 8.78; Ap ril 8.81; May 8,83. ]{enne(t Cup Auardcd. The Aero (Mu'.) of llerliii, 'Germany, awarded the, J-Jenneit Cup in the in ternational oalli^ou race to ‘he Swiss balloon il.Mvetla, Ihe F.nglish Ban shee b'eing placed second. Aiming to Please. “See, here,” growled the patron in the cheap restaurant, “this coffee’s cold,” “Dat so?” retorted the polite and Intelligent attendant. “Well, dis is a quick lunoh joint, so if de cofCeo wTiz hot yer couldn’t drink it in a hurry/’* — Catholic Standard and Tlmei. Daughter Dead; Mother Injured. Clarkesburg, Spscial—Mrs.’ Joseph Fctta and her 14-year-old daughter were fatally injured by being run down by a Baltimore and Ohio pas senger train. The daughter died while being taken to a hospital here and the mother is not expected to survive an operation performed aftei the accident. MARYLAND’SJVOTE SPLIT. Indications, Based on Officisd Retume Are That Taft Will Receive 2 and Bryan 6. Baltimore, Md., Special.—Calcula tions of the official returas from Tuesday's e!actions, not finished until Saturday, show that the electoral vote of Maryland will be split, Brvan getting six of the electors and Taft two. On the popular vote—the vote cast for the elector receiving ^h€ highetst number — Taft carries the State by 561 votes. His elector poll ing the highest vote received 116 471 and the highest Bryan elector 115,- 910. rhose WIio Will Constitute the Next House and Senate of Onr State Lawmaking Body. Raleigh, Special.—Practically com plete returns give the membership and political complexion of the North Carolina General Assembly for the 1909 session as follows: House. Alom.ance—Dr. J. A. Pic4cett (R.) Alexander—Will Linney (R.) Alleghany—R. F. Doughton. Anson—T. C. Cox (D.) Ashe—T. C. Buie (D.) Beaufort—Frank B. Hooker (D.) John F. Latham (D.) Bertie—A. S. Roscoe (D.) Bladen—G. D. Perry (D.) Brunswick—C. E. D. Taylor (R.) Buncombe—Zeb Weaver (D), R. J, Glasion (D), both re-elected. / Burke—T. L. Sigman (D.) Cabarrus—H. S. Williams (R.) Caldwell—M. N. Harshaw (R.) Camden—J. C. Cook (D.) Carteret—C. S, Wallace (D.) Caswell—Democratic. Catav/ba—Killian (R.) Chatham—R. H. Haves (D.) Cherokee—T. C. McDonald (R.) Chowan—W, S. Privett (D.) Clay—R. E. Cranford (D.)- Cleveland—R. S. Lovelace (D.) Columbus—J. G. Butler (D.) Craven—E. N. Green (D.) Cumberla7vl—J. H. Currie (D.) John Under»vood (D.) Currituck—Pierce Hampton (D.) re-elected. Dare—Charles T. Williams (D.) Davidson—T. Earle McCreary (R.) Davie—A. T. Grant (R.) Duplin—J. A. Gavin, Jr. (D.) Durham—Y. E. Smith (D.) Edgecombe—Hugh B. Bryant, (D.) Dr. M. B. Pitt (D), re-elected. Forsyth—S. E. Hall (R), J. T. Stimpson (R.) Franklin—Dr. R. P. Floyd (D.) Gaston—D. K. Davenport (D.), N. B. Kendrick (D.) Gates—Lyeargus Hofler (D.) Graham—Democratic. Granville—A. W. Graham (D.) irreene—J. A. Albritton (D.) Guilford—Thomas J. Murphy (D.), Dr. J. R. Gordon (D), re-elected. Halifax—A. P. IGtchin (D), H. S. Harrison (D.) Harnett—N. A. Smith (D.) Haywood—H. R. Ferguson (D). Henderson—J. S. Rhodes (R.) Hertford—David C. Barnes (D.) Hyde—J. W. McWilliams (D.) Iredell—Z. V. Turlington (D), M. D. Tomlin (D.) Jackson—J W. Wyatt (D), J. W. H. Crumpler (R.) J ohnston—Democratic. Jones- -John C. Parker (D.) Lee—D. A. McDo\vell (D.) Lenoir—E. R. Wooten (D.) Lincoln—H. D. Warlick (D.) Macon—Higdon (R.) Madison—Republican. Martin—Harry W. Stubbs (D.) McDowell—Price (D.) Mecklenburg—W. G. McLaughlin (D), W. A. Greer (D), W. C. Dowd ((D), latter two re-elected. Mitchell—Republican. Montgomery—Robert T. Poole (D)* Moore—^D. A. McDonald (D). Nash—J. C. Braswell (D.) New Hanover—George L, iMorton (D), re-elected. Northampton—Dr. M. Bolton (D). Onslow—E. M. Kconce (D.) Orange—T. E. Sparrow (R.) Pamlico—J. B. Martin (D.) Pasquotank—S. N. Morgan (D.) Pender—Joseph T. Foy (D.) Perquimans—Ernest L. Reed (D.) Person—F. O, Carver (R.) Pitt—Cotton (D), Cox (D.) Polk—J. B. Livingston (D.) Randolph—Thomas J. Redding (D) J. Rom Smith (D.) Richmond—M. C. Freeman (D.) Robeson—W. J. McLeod (D), Mar shall Shepherd (D). Rockingham—Davis (D), Witty (D.) Rowan—John M. Julian (D), D. M. Carlton (D.) Rutherford—L. C. Dailey (D.) Sampson—J. T. Kennedy (R.), B. H. Crumpler (R) Scotland—T. C. Everett, (D) Stanly—Campbell (R). Stokes—J. M. Tagg (R.) Surry—R. T. Haymore (R.) Swain—Rapublican. Transylvania—George W. Wilson (D.) Tyrell—Democratic. Union—R. W. Lemmond (D), Ney McNeely (D.) Vance—^B. H. Perry (D.) Wake—A. L. Cox (D), J. W. Hins dale (D), E. T. Scarboro (D). Warren—T. O. Rod well (D), re elected. Washington—Republican. Watauga—Smith Hageman (D). Wayne—J. E. Kelly (D), J. H. Mitchell (D.) Wilkes—T. N. Hayes (R) and A. Caudell (R.) Wilson—George W. Connor (D.) Y adkin—Republican. Yancey—D. M. Buck (D.) Senate. First district (Camden, Chowan Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquo tank, ^i’trquimans)—N. R. Johnsor (D), A. S. Godwin (D). Second (Beaufort, Dare, Hyde Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Washing ton)—V. Martin (D), F. P. Latham (D). Third (Bertie, Northampton)—B. S. Gay (D.) Fourth (Halifax)—E. L. Travii (D.) IHfth (Edgecombe)—L. V. Bassetl (D.) Sixt-—(Pitt)—Blow (D.) Seventh (Franklin, Nash, Wilson) —Ben T. Holton (D), J. D. Dawcf (D.) Eighth (Carteret, Craven, Greene Jones. Lenoir, Onslow)—J. W. Bu? ton (D.) Ninth—(Wayne)—J. L. Barhan (D.) Tenth (Duplin, Pender)—^Edmom Hawes (D.) Eleventh (Brunswick, New Han over)—B. G. Empie (D.) Twelfth (Bladen, Columbus)—0 L. Clark (D). Thirteenth (Robeson)—D. P. Shav (D). Fourteenth (Cumberland)—Q. K Nimocks (D). Fifteenth (Harnett, Johnston, Sampson)—Ellington (D), Peterson (D.) Sixteenth (Wake)—W. B. Jones (D.)) Seventeenth (Warren, Vance)— H. T. Powell (D.) Eighteenth (Granville, Person)— J. A. Long (D.) ' Nineteenth (Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Orange)—J. L. Scott, Jr. (D), J. S, Manning (D.) Twentieth (Rockingham) — Wray Twenty-first (Guilford)—J. A. Bar ringer (D.) Twenty-second (Chatham, Moore, Scotland, Richmond)—A. S. Dockery (D), Jonathan Peele (D). Twenty-third (Montgomery, Ran dolph)—^J. A. Spence (D.) Twenty-fourth (Anson Davidson, Stanly, Union)—J. A. Lockhart (D.) Hawkins, (D.) Twenty-fifth (Cabarrus, Mecklen burg)—H. N. Pharr (D), P. B. Means (D). Twenty-sixth (Rowan)—^Whitehead Kluttz (D). Twenty-seventh (Forsythe)—Ex- Judge H. R. Starbuck (R.) Twenty-eighth (Stokes, Surry)— Republican. Twenty-ninth (Davie, Wilkes, Yad- kin)-^Wm. Lee (R.) Thirtieth (Iredell)—Zeb V. Long (D.) Thirty-first (Catawba, Lincoln)— J. D. Elliott (DO Thirty-second (Gaston)—W. T. Love (D.) Thirty-third (Cleveland, Hender son, Rutherford, Polk)—McD. Raj (D), John C. Mills (D.) Thirty-fourth (Alexander, Burke. Caldweil, McDowell)—J. C. Sherrill (R.) S. A, McColl (R.) Thirty-fifth (Alleghany, Ashe, Wa tauga)—R. L. Doughton (D.) Thirty-sixth (Madison, Mitchell Y ancey) —Republican. Thirty-seventh (Buncombe)—J. J Britt (R.) Thirty-eighth (Haywood, Jackson Jransylvania, Swain)—A. M. Frj (D). Thirty-ninth (Cherokee, Clay, Gra ham, Macon)—West (R.) FOREIGN NEWS NOTES. Ice King” Doomed to Hard Laiwr. in Federal Prison at Atlanta, G& A. H. CURTIS ESCAPES JAIL Bridsh railways in 1907 killed 1117 persons and injured 8811. A British blue book says that on January 1 last England and Wales had ■928,671 paupers—nearly a mill ion. China by imperial decree orders that the punishment for manufactur ing morphine needles shall be banish ment to a pestilential frontier. Statistics published by the munici pal poor relief fund show that^ the cost of living in Paris, France,'has increased eighteen per cent, since 1905. Greece has a beet sugar factory turning out twenty tons a day. Sugar retails in Greece at eleven cents a pound, The import duty is five cents a pound. Pauperism in London, England, continues to increase. The number of paupers on September 6 last was 118,954, against 114,577 on the same day in 1907. Jamaica, West Indies, now has monthly steamship service with Gal veston by the United States Shipping Company. The sailings will increase as business develops. By reason of the falling off in its American trade the last ten months the Austrian Shipping Company, known as the Austro-American Line, will not pay any dividend this year. Scotland’s flsh catch In 1907 was 9,078,059 hundredweight,worth $15,- 425,525. The industry employed 94,773 men on 10,365 vessels of 141,- 385 aggregate tonnage, worth |23,- 640,561. Denmark’s beet sugar production this season is only 110,250,000 pounds, a decline of 34,177,500 pounds from that of the season 1906- 07. Two companies with seven fac tories do all the business. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway has completed 675 niiles of track trom Winnipeg westward. Judgo Imposes a Ffrre-Year Term ilk Lattrr’s Case, Tlicn Suspends Penalty—Jeers For Morse Am He Goes to the Tomlis. New York City. — Charles W. Morse, formerly the Ice King, and fifteen months ago considered finan-^ cially invulnerable behind a bulwarlc of $20,000,000, was sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor in the Fed eral prison at Atlanta, Ga., by Jadgo Hough in the United States Circnit Court. Alfred H. Curtis, former president of the National Bank of North Amer^ ica, w^as sentenced to five years* im prisonment, but upon the recommen dation of the jury and the United States District Attorney sentence was suspended. Judge Hough allowed counsel for^ Morse ten days in which to file what ever motions they may deem neces- jjary. Curtis left the court room with his wife, practically a free man. After Morse had been kept at tha Federal Building for two hours word reached the Marshal tnat no attempt would be made to start appeal i>ro- ceedings. As Judge Hough had al ready held Morse without bail, this meant, of course, that he had to gfo back to the cell in the Tombs. Once more he was spared the igno miny of handcuffs. Between Marshal Henkel and Wallace Macfarlane, one of his lawyers, Morse went np Broad way to Leonard street and through Leonard street to the Tombs. A big* jeering crowd followed along b^ind the trio. Morse never looked back. He was taken at once to che cell where he slept the night before with Curtis and was locked up. He asked for copies of the afternoon paperi» said he wanted no lunch and sent a sealed message to his wife. The imposition of sentence was at tended by dramatic scenas. crowd that packed the littla court room applauded when Curtis was shown mercy. More vigorous and re sounding applause was heard when. Morse was sentenced to serve fifteea years in prison. Curtis* wife fainted away when the strain was over* Morse’s wife •'broke down and wept hysterically. Morse, with his hands in his pockets, was as cool as the comraodity upon which he builded his fortune. * ' SUMMAR Y OF LA TES7 POLITICAL NEWS The oliicial count in Maryland was completed and gave Bryan six elec toral votes and Taft two. There was a rumor of a plurality of 600 for Taft in the popular vote. The Maryland result gives Taft 321 electors an^ Bryan 162. Supplementary returns failed to disturb materially Taft’s lead of 4235 in Missouri. The Tiegislature seexas to have a majority of six on joint bal* lot. Adlai E. Stevenson will contest tlte election o£ diaries S. Deneen as Gov ernor of Illinois, claiming an incor rect count. Deneen’s plurality is given at 33,000 to 2«,000. Governor Johnson's majority lit Minnesota has grown till it is c^pect* ed to reach 30,000. Returns from all countien showed Bryan carried Nebraska by 4500. The Prohibition party polled 000 to 30,000 votes in New York State, as against 20,700 four years ago, its State Committee announced. Illinois voters adopted tlie consti- tntional amendment appropriatius $20,000,000 for the first link—Iiock- port to Utica, 111.—of‘the lakes-l<^ the-gulf deep watenvay. This is said to assure consti'uction of the etftire watenvay. California iulo;>led a constitutional amendment providing for a tiirect pri mary, a reform urged by Governor Hushes for New Yorli. The Albany Journal recwmmends: Try the beefless dinner as a rem'edy tor. tire reaciiless prices. rOUND HIS JPAMILY DKAI>. Wife, Mother and -iaby Asiliyxlatcd by Illuminating Gias. Washington, D. C. — When Ciar- ence L. Brennerman, a stenographer employed in th3 Library of Congress, returned from work to his home at 5 o’clock p. m. ns found that every msmber of his family, wife, mother and babe, were dead as the result of asphyxiation from illuminating gas. The bodies of the wife and mother were in a bedroom and the babe waa found in the kitchen. The condition of the bodies indicated that they had been dead for some hours. While the signs point to accidental causes, the chief of detectives has ordered five men on the case to make a thor ough investigation. Killed in Political Quarrel. At Foraker, Okla.. during a polill- cal quarrel Frank S. Seward, local Democratic Committeeman, shot and killed John H. Millam. a Republican farmer, of Pawhuska, Oklahoma- The latter had been prominent ia Osage Indian affairs for yeara.