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I ! Three Cents the Copy. VOL XIII. CADET HAZING MUDDLE AT WEST POINT kpffl plebes Give "Silent Treatment to a Classmate. yppER CLASSES INDIGNANT i Oncer Situation Has Developed at the Military Academy Hardest rrost to Come Under Colonel Howze's Rule. West Point N. Y. A mild instance of attempted hazing which occurred at the Military Academy recently has caused some curious complications. It has been reported that the Com mandant, Colonel Robert Lee Howze, has threatened an entire class with dismissal. This, however, Colonel Howze characterized as nonsense. The curious feature abouL the sit uation is that the lower class man, the man upon whom the hazing was attempted, apparently had the sym pathy of the upper class men, while the cad :s who are opposed to him re the members ot nis own class. This is the first trouble that has arisen from hazing since the close of the Congressional investigation Hazing is almost unknown at West Point now,' said Colonel Howze. The trouble centres around a first year man, Cadet Bock, who hails from Missouri. An upper classman, Cadet Sherman, of Georgia, appar ently undertook to give Bock the 'bracing up" exercise. This is about the mildest form of "hazing" there is. It is about on a par with calisthenic exercises in a gymnasium. As the story is told here, however, Cadet Bock refused to obey the upper class man's order. The incident occurred while the corps was on its recent practice march. Cadet Sherman, it is said, called at Bock's tent later in the day, and again ordered the plebe to "brace up." Bock again de clined, and, according to the stones torrent here, his stubbornness ra suited in various forms of petty an noyance. : It has been said that Cadet Bock tolantarily reported the matter to the aaiiorities. This is denied by all Mads here. Colonel Howze, Jt is said, learned about the affair when he was examining into charges that had been preferred against Bock for some minor neglect of doty. The Commandant took prompt action iu regard to Cadet Sherman, inflicting rigorous puuishment in the way of extra hours of duty and curtailment of privileges. Then it vcs that the plebes took the affair upon themselves. They de cided that their classmate, Beck, needed discipline, and they proceeded to give him the "silent treatment." In other words, no metn'.ier of his own class speaks to him. Thry ig nore his presence entirely. The upper classmen viewed this action on the part of the plebes with astonishment. They take the view that if anybody disciplines Bock, it shall be themselves, and that the kin dergartners have taken altogether too much upon themselves. In other words, the plebes In assuming the right to punish one of their own num ber for a matter that concerned an upper classman have infringed upon the privilege of the upper classmen tnemselves. Colonel Howze sa'd when seen that ne had no doubt the trouble would adjust itself. "The uimer classmen." he said, "havo taken the matter in liand, and they will undoubtedly settle it. Bock is a fine, strong young man and will win the esteem of his fellows. The accusation that he is a tale-bearer is entirely unfounded But the whole incident is one that we cannot afford to treat too lightly I am confident that the upper class men will find some way of showing the plebes that they are in the wrong, and that the incident will be closed in a few days. 1 have made no threats of dismissal or punishment." 'OK GRANTING REEATIiS OX OIL F our More Indictments Found at Jamestown, N. iv Jamestown, N. Y. The Federal in te-siratinn in this citv of alleged con Passions granted to the Standard Oil Company by the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads from Olean to noints in Vermont is now mpieted. The Grand Jury returned four additional indictments and was en discharged with the thanks of the Court. The four additional in dictments will add materially to the troubles of the corporations under lire. The corporations named in these Jnaictments are the Standard Oil ompany or New York, the Vacuum 1 Company of RoDter, the New ork Central and the I'eunajivauia, "ail roads. As the law provides a penshy t M0O tov fBi of.'er.??, and as nftv 'R'at separate and distinct offense e-e alleged, the Courr, .f the cor porations are convicted, could im pose a fine of $1.1C0,000 on each cor yoratlon, or $4,tM0,000 in all. Add to the indictments previously jound and the fines will come close the $ 2 9, 00 0,000 Ine recently im posed by Judge Landis at Chicago. Lawyer Haugs Himself. At Salem, Mass., Robert K. Dicker an, a Boston lawyer, hanged him hV,i a urivate hospital, where he oeen under traatment. DBIVE HINDUS FROM CITY Twelve Hundred Asiatics Forced to Flee From Beliingham, Wash. Mow of 300 Whites Raids Lodging nouses and Mills Race Troubles -Long Brewing. Beliingham, Wash. Sii badlv beaten Hindus are in the hospital 400 frightened and half naked Sikhs are in jail and in the corridors of the City Hall, guarded by policemen, and somewhere between Beliingham and the British Columbia line are more than 750 natives of India, beaten, hungry and half clothed, making their way along the Great Northern Rail way to British territory nnrl the nrn- tectton of the British flag. me long expected cry, "Drive out the Hindus!" was heard the night be fore throughout the city and along tne water rront. The police were helpless. All authorltv was naralvr.prt and for five hours a mob of half a thousand white men raided the mills where the foreigners were working, battered down doors of lodging houses and, dragging the Asiatics irom tneir oeas, escorted them to the city limits with orders to keep going. The trouble started at C and Holly streets, a lodging house district. The houses were cleared and the mob then swept down to the water front and mill after mill was visited, the white employes joining the mob. Every Hindu was hustled outside. Here the police suggested that the mob victims be taken to iall. This was hailed with delight and the Hin dus were hustled along. From this time on few were beaten. The mob kept up its .work along the water tront until early next morning, when Larson's mill at Whatcom Lake was visited and 100 Hindus brought in from there. Four women were found amoncr the crowd in the city building. The city is quiet, but there is a strong under current oi opinion wmcn apparently annroves the action of the mob. and it may be found Impossible to punish the leaders. Racial feeline has nlaved no small part in affairs here. Every day whites : ., . a a nave Deen repiacea in me nuns oy Asiatics. Many instances of white women being pushed into the gutters x j. a or insuuea oh street cars oy me ior- elgners were reported. General un easiness of the whites is given as a reasnn for the out break. The Hindus are all British subjects and this matter is beintr Disced before the British authorities. 4. Coldwiu Smith Foresees Trouble. Toronto, Canada. In an interview on the mobbing of the Hindus at Bel lingham. Wash., Goldwin Smith said he anticipated a contest between Eu ropean and Eastern races for suprem acy on the Pacific Coast. He urged the admission of Asiatic women Great Britain and the President' wil smooth out the present difficulty, but the future is extremely dark. Complaint Expected From England. Washinzton. D. C. While no offi cial information has reached the State Danartmont rnnpprnln f the Pxnnlsion of the Hindus from Beliingham, Wash., it is. expected that Ambassador Bryce will soon lodge formal com plaint. All that the State Department can do is to ask the uovernor oi Washington to take steps to prevent a recurrence of the trouDie. ine British Government is likely to find itself embarrassed in dealing with the Beliingham incident because oi tne ever nresent danger of similar at tacks upon the East Indians, who are numerous in British Columbia. TWELVE DEAD IS IOWA WRECK. Rock Island Express Train Crashes Into a Freight Twelve Injured. Waterloo, Iowa. Twelve persons were killed and a dozen were injured when a north-bound Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific passenger train left the rails' at ftbrris, Iowa, and crashed into a south-bound freight train standing on a siding. All of the dead and injured were in the smoking car, which was immedi ately behind the baggage and mall cars. The smoking car was demol ished. The north-bound express was ten minutes late at Norris where the freight train was waiting. The ex press came along at terrific speed in an effort to make up time. The dead: P. B. Oliver, Waterloo; Will Goodman, Waterloo; John N. Watson, Waterloo; C. L. Landphere, Shell Kbck, Iowa; Wray Johnson, Dike, Iowa; B. R. Christy, Minneapo lis; Lepovan Toja, Hammond, Ind.: W. H. Meyers, baggage man, four un identified men. The severely injured: J. H. Douglass. Waterloo; collarbone and arm broken; Thomas Evanson, Mors, Minn.; leg broken; V. O. Mar tin, mail clerk; W. H. Myers, Albert Lea, Minn.; arms and legs crushed; J. A. Newell, conductor; arm torn off; Dr. Cnaries J. OTCeefe, Marble Rock, Iowa; leg crushed; John Shaw, Wat erloo. 'HARVESTER TRUST PAYS FINE. Gives 35,000 to the State of Texas and Agrees to Quit Business. Austin, Texas. The International Harvester Company of Wisconsin pleaded guilty in the anti-trust suits instituted against it by the State of Texas and paid the fine of ?3o,00O assessed by the court. The company also subscribed to the perpetual Injunction fobidding it from operattnir in any way in Texas. iNPEPENDENgEJLMTiilNCS. Subscription Price, $1.00 CQLUMBUb, N. CIpUaSDAY, SEPTEMBER BURGLAR KILLS OFFICER, THEH COMMITS SUICIDE Chief of Police George Cassidy, of Lyndhurst, N. J, the Victim. THIEF FIRED .ON HIS PURSUERS Italian Murderer's Spectacular End in Passaic Marsh A Kind of JBffl Sykes Death After Coldblood d Shooting of a Policeman. - Lyndhurst, N. J. A thief cauit in the act here killed his captor ahd then, when about to be recapture, committed suicide with the last shot In his revolver, from which he had fired a fusillade at his pursuers. Patrolman George Cassidy, of this place, was the victim. He was ihot and instantly killed by one of two burglars whom he bad arrested cn suspicion while on his way home at; 5 o'clock in the morning. He had seen the strange men walking along Valley arooic avenue, and quickly recg nized a coat on one of their arms as belonging to Mrs. Margaret M. Hol- den, who conducts a grocery only a lew doors from where he lived The brave young policeman usftd poor judgment in not covering, tjfre men with his revolver, for when e reached the grocery store and rappmd on the sidewalk with his night stick one of the burglars suddenly drew, a revolver and shot Cassidy through the heart. Mrs. ho id en had heard the men talking, and had gone to her bedroom window. She heard Patrolman Caa sidy tell the men they had no right with hex coat, and she saw the young officer shot to death. She screamed for help. As the policeman dropped the burglars separated and ran in op posite directions. Asa L. Orcutt, foreman in the De! aware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad shops at Kingsland. had seen the policeman and the prisoners pass his house while he was waiting for the baker. He heard the shot and saw the burglar-murderer dash iast revolver in hand. Orcutt went into his hoiyje, grabbed his revolver ard followed the escaping man. He yelled for help as he ran, but did not pause to tell what the trouble was for fear of losing sight of his man The burglar reloaded his revolver and would pause long enough to fire an 'occasional shot at his pursuers Orcutt has grit and was determined to catch the man or die in the at tempt. Through brush -and bush and rau4 and water went Orcutt, close on the burglar. The latter became weary, and when near the Avtmdale bridge over the Passaic River he lay down from exhaustion and sent a bullet into his brain. He was removed to the Passaic Hospital and died during the after noon. On him was found a receipt made out to Alexander Lundeno by the Elizabeth Mattress Company. Neighbors carried Patrolman Cas sidy to his home, two doors away, and broke the news to his young wife. They bad one child, a daughter, one year old. Mrs. Holden says a coat was the only thing stolen from her store. The burglars had evidently used a key to open the door, for there were no signs of violence. FEAR A WATER FAMINE. Wells in Sullivan County Going Dry Crops Rained. White Lake, N. Y. Never before In the memory of the oldest residents of Sullivan County has such an ap palling situation been faced as that which now confronts the thousands of summer boarders from Manhattan and Brooklyn because of the scarcity of drinking water. Unless there is a considerable amount of rain "within the next few days, water will be,sp scarce that ft wur he a luxury. At Mongaup Valley, three miles from here, nearly every farmhouse and hotel has Its own well, and where there has always been an abundance of good drinking water, a petition ii being circulated calling upon the lo cal priest to offer up mass on Sunday next for rain. Crops of every descrip tion have been ruined. There are only two wells that have not run dry in the principal part of the valley. It is no uncommon sight to see men and women carrying wat er for a mile or more frem these wells, their own having dried up. Here the situation is no better, and those who are fortunate enough to have water have been selling it to many of the fashionable hotels here. DISTRESS IN JAPAN. Tokio Caring Fop 80,Q0O Sufferers Through Floods. Tokio. In Tokio alone 80,000 peo ple, left homeless by the floods, are being eared for at public expense. About the same number are being cared for in the Prefecture of Sai tama. There is no doubt that thou sands of others are homeless. The whole town of Tukuchivama, near Kiota, was submerged. Many people are missing. The American Consulate at Hako date estimates the loss caused by the conflagration there at 545,000,000. About fifteen thousand houses were burned and sixty thousand people are homeless. . TO STOP WHITE SLAVE TRADE I Government Appoints Miss Helen Builis to 62 1 Evidence. Planning Measures! to Check the Inv portation of Women and Girls For Immoral Purposes. Washington, D. C. With the ap pointment temporarily to the Immi gration Service of Miss Helen M. Bui lis, of New York, who recently has been connected wh the Travelers Aid Society, the b Government will bend its energies toward detection of the systemized "wfiite slave traffic" believed to exist in1 the United States. Thus far the Immigration Service has been unable to make any headway against. the evil. Miss Builis has rep resented to Commissioner-General Sargent, head of the Immigration Ser vice, that she will pe able to gain the evidence necessary, not only to check the importation of women and girls ror immoral purposes but to bring to justice the men who are setting: rich through the Infamous business. Kobert Watchdrn. Immigration Commissioner at fjllis Island, came to Washington for a conference on this subject with Qjommissioner Gen eral Sargent, and me result of their talk was the appointment of Miss Bullls. The campaign ajjgalnst the white slave traffic has been given impetus by Oscar S. Straus the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Mr. Straus is resolved that if the traffic can be ar rested through his efforts it shall be done. As Minister to Turkey he was a member of a society organized for the suppression ofj the white slave traffic in Constantinople. Thus far the" immigration officials have been beset by many difficulties in attempting to prevent the landing of women and girls suspected of be ing brought to the: United States for immoral purposes. The results of a mistake in questioning an entirely respectable person are so serious that the immigration inspectors hes itate to make a searching inquiry un less they are absolutely certain of their ground. Because of this and the fact that persons brought to the United States fie immoral purposes are carefully coached before embarking for the voyage, it has beenj found next to Im possible to break up the traffic at the large immigration ports. Many girls are brought to the United States without knowing that they are to vic timized, and, of course, questioning will not reveal anything in their cases. I , 4k The Department of Commerce and , Labor received a few weeks ago from the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League in the Northwest a communi cation setting forth! that there existed an extensive traffic of Japanese wom en. Marcus Braun, an immigration inspector, was sent to the scene of the complaint. While the complaint was found to be generally true, the per sons complaining had ho evidence to point to the men presumably behind the traffic, and Mr. Braun was unable to get evidence sufficient for the Gov ernment to proceed upon. He is now engaged in an inspection of condi tions along the Mexican border. Upon a complaint from Phoenix, Ariz., Secretary Straps recently in structed the Immigration officials along the Mexican border carefully to investigate the whiite slave traffic al leged to be maintained for the min ing camp towns and cities of the Southwest. 4 I SHOCK KILLS GENERAL'S SON. Jj. H. Carter Meets Death Cleaning a Chandelier in University . Chicago. L. H. Carter, son of Brigadier-General W H. Carter, of Chicago, commanding the Depart ment of the Lakes, was killed instant ly by a remarkable electric shock sus tained in the dairy room of the Uni versity of Illinois at Champaign, where he. was a special student. Young Carter wa4 stone dead when found. As Is customary in industrial schooling, he had been set at the task of polishing and cleaning a combina tion electric and gas: chandelier hang ing from the ceiling of a room in the dairy. A piercing scream was heard by C. G. Potter, a fellow student-employe, who was busif In an adjoining room in the building. Potter rushed to the aid of the fybung man and found he had received a current of electricity. Carter had been standing upon a small stationary engine while reach ing up to, the chandelier. The en gine was fastened with bolts driven through the concrete floor, and this comnleted the circuit. A ladder was leaning near by, ahd when Potter rushed into the roorji Carter's lifeless body had fallen ov'r against it, but the hands of the dead man were still clutched tightly ovr the chaildelier, which had been party wrenched from its fastening, Potter seized the body and it fell to the floor, thus breaking the circuit. I KILLED BY MOWING MACHINE. Father Dies on Hearing of Accident to Soi. Concord, N. H. Charles Carleton Coffin, twelve years old, of Boscawen, was fatally injured tyy being ran over by a mowing machine on which he was riding on his father's farm. The father, Henry Cofflna a prominent ag riculturist, was so whocked when he heard ot his son's' injuries that to a leu irum ucait uibv 12, 1907. FATAL FIRE NEAR SHELBY Cleveland Springs Hotel, Near Shel by, Set on Fire by Lightning, Three Women Being Boasted Alive The Cries of Miss Cora Smith. Ellenboro, For Some One to Saw Her, Heart-Bending. Shelby, Special. Shut in their rooms, with no possible avenue of es cape, and roasted to death was the awful fate of three women, one white and two colored, at Cleveland Springs Hotel, a few miles from bjege, at an early hour Monday morning. Those who perished were: Miss Cora Smith, a young lady of Ellenboro, Rutherford county. Mary Frazier, a colored chamber maid, of South Carolina. Annie Frazier, her sister, also a chambermaid. Miss Smith was sleeping on the third floor and before, she was awak ened the flames had hemmed her iu beyond any possible manner of es cape. She cried most piteously to be rescued, but the anxious specta tors stood by horror-stricken, entire ly unable to render her any assis tance. Her body, charred almost be yond recognition, was found in the debris of the building. The two chambermaids were .sleep ing in the attic of the hotel and, like Miss Smith, were overtaken by the flames before they could flee from the building. The fire originated in the kitchen part of the hotel during a severe electrical storm and is supposed to have caught from lightning stroke. AFTER BIG GAME. Constable Arrests a Bunch of Mar- shals and Revenue Officers Greensboro,Special. United States Marshal James Millikan his two dep uty marshals, J. M. Baley and Joe Millikan and Deputy Collector Hen drix were arrested here by the town ship constable on a magistrate's war rant charging: them with forcible trespass on the premises of Bud Hil ton, two miles in the country. No bond was required, the officers giving their recognizance to appear before the magistrate for trial at White Oak Tpesday next. Hilton alleges that a large force of officers went to his home one night recently and without process or warrant entered and searched it on pretext of looking for illicit whiskey. The officers stated that on reports that Hilton was blockading they sur rounded his home one night to watch what was going on, and one of them making a noise, it attracted Hilton to his door and upon recognizing several of the party as friends he invited them in the house and when they told him their business he obligingly told the mto search all they desired him self lighting a lantern to help them examine the outside premises. No whiskey was found but a still which had evidently not been in use in a long time was found hidden in the yard almost hidden by a rank growth of grass. The complainant is a broth er of Dr. Hilton a practicing physi cian of Greensboro". 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Tires to be at OUR expense ii for any reason they are not satisractory cu examination. r. wVfWrpikWe and money sent to as is as safe as in a bank. .Ask year Banker. Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of this paper about ns. Ii you order a these tires, you will find that they will ride easier run faster, wear better, last longer m i um ot.. tvF -x--r used or seen at an v price. Ve knew that vou will be so well that when yon want a bicycle you will give us Z&1CZ1T nSrbeel saddles, pedal part, and renain, 6$n&SYERm3FlASi&&. everything in the bicycle line are sold by us at half the prices charged by dealers and repair men. Write for our big SUNDRY catalogue. bmb isiarr but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK. OY BUYING UU f4Jf VWMBt bicycle or a parr wonderful oflerB we are mating, k omy eow MEAT' CYCLE CWMIY Per Year in AdvanciT Na 20. has the civil clash between the and Umted States in . the eases created general interest speculation. Led Fast Life. Winston-Salem,, Special. W. H j Drinkard who has been nngr the Virginia Brewing Company branch house here for three years and. who mysteriously disappeared Thurs day morning is now said to be in his accounts between three four thousand dollars. The comr declines to name the exact amount oJt his defalcation though it is aiiiyHfsiaTf. that Drinkard is "a traitor to h trust." He was bonded with the Fi delity Deposit Company of Baltimore? for $2,000. It has been known for some time that Drinkard leading a fast life. Gambling bad women are said to be responsible; for his downfall. He is a native e Virginia and a member of one o best families in the State. He been with the Virginia Brewing Com pany five years. In a letter him Drinkard admits that he is i faulter but says he hopes to be to make his shortage good. Church Improvement. High Point, Special. The First Presbyterian Church has undergone improvements the past two months Handsome golden oak pews have substituted for chairs new si glass have been put in and large windows added making the one of the most attractive State. churebi in Went Up In Air. Salisburv. Soecial. Seven coloreel employes of the T. A. Gillespie Com pany were injured at Whitney, ly county, were injured Saturday ernoon by the explosion of a box dynamite on the canal where workmen were engaged. The were hurled a considerable distance on the air, and all had a miraculous escape from death. All of the are improving and it is believed recover. i Necessity e Country Home. The farther you are removed! Irom town to railroad station, the more the telephone will save in time and horse flesh. No man has a right to compel one of the family to lie in agony for hours while fcte drives to town for the doctor. TetH ephone and save half the suffering. Our Free Book tells how to or ganize, build and operate tele-' phone lines and systems. Instruments sold on thirty days' trial to responsible parties. THE CADIZ ELECTRIC CO., 201 CCC Building, Cadiz, IS ILL IT WILL COST to write for our bie FREE BICYCLE showing the most complete line of b rainvrnvrcs. ttrrs t,a s rrwrt rirs ot manufacturer or dealer in the world. I&MIIT M DfAWIf JT fron. at any - until you have received our complet Free describing every kind of high-grade and latest models, and learn of our remarkable Aaent in every town and can offer aa young men who apply at once. - PROOF TIRES ? " $4.80 lively and KASY BID IN O. riding, very durable and lined becomes porous and which erases up small hundreds of letters from satisfied custom Weave" tread which prevents all air from overcoming ail suction. The regular price of Tour order. We want you to send a a small ot tires irom anyone until yon xnow tne nei pww w nwn cwjwmg. " Dept. "J L" CHICaCKILL LY rAr . 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