Show J GORDON MPHERSON J PATRIOTIC Offers to Recruit Volunteers to Avenge Liscums Death J Gordon McPhorson collector col-lector and wouldbe l Juror in the Ben brook murder case patriotic If anything any-thing Gov Wells yesterday received from him a telegram from Fort Du chcsno offering to recruit a company of his colored brethren to go to China and whip the Chinese The dispatch read as follows Tender my services to War department depart-ment to recruit company colored Volunteers Volun-teers for foreign service to avenge death of gallant LIscum Answer According to the system adopted for recruiting volunteers the matter rests with the War department which sends recruiting officers without the intervention Inter-vention of the Governors of States Coy Wells therefore referred Mc Phcraon to the War department |