Just what the attitude of the white farmers toward their colored neighbors would be in the event that farm-loan associations were formed, was in question that seemed to worry the board. Industrial and Normal School, Petersburg, the only colored speaker of the day, ably answered this question by stating that Virginia was the best place in the South for such a bank. Nowhere in the South, he said, was such a splendid feeling between the races. There is no State where the white and colored people work so well together, or where the colored people are. (Continued on Second Page.)

"Squatter" Killed After Hot Battle Shoots Sheriff Dead and Wounds Four Other Officers Before Being Slain.
[By Associated Press.]
Williston, N.Y., October 23.? Paul Stier, sheriff of Queen's County, was shot and killed, and four police officers and a deputy sheriff were wounded today by Frank Tuff, a squatter, near here, before Tuff eventually was killed by a police sergeant, after a siege of an hour and a half, in which policemen, deputy sheriffs, and blue jackets from the United States torpedo-boat Henry tried to capture Tuff. 