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-. PK ""T 17Pf'l THI E TIS r?7SN1;J.L J(JE Nil Entored April 23, 1903, at Pickens, 8. 0., as Becond- ass Matter, Under Act of Congress of MArch 3 1879. VOL. XXX VIII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1908. NO 38 THE TOBACCO TRUST Declared to,Be a Combination in Restraint of Trade AND IT SHOULD BE OUTLAWED United States CircUit Court of New York Hands Down a Decision Which Declares the American To bacco Company an Illegal Combina tion in Restraint' of Trade. New York, Special.-The decree of the United States Circuit Court in the government's suit against the Ameri tan Tobacco Company and others, which was filed, declares the Ameri ean Tobacco Company, the American Snuff Company, the R. J. Reynolds Company, Pierre Lorillard and the Blackwells Durham Company a mono poly and engaged in an illegal com bination. The decree restrains these holding companies from engaging in foreign and interstate commerce un til competition between them is re stored. The decree denies the re vership asked by the government. n appeal which has been taken to t United States Supreme Court will as a temporary stay to the de ne companies with their subsid i - are nhmed as constituting an I combination in the final de > . led in the United States Circuit putting into effect the judg ecently obtained by the gov t irr its suit to dissolve he soc d tobacco trust. The eom pani named are the American To baco Company, the American Snuff Cbmpany, the American Cigar Com pany, the American Stogie Company, MacAndrews and Forbes Company, P. Lorillard & Co., R. J. Raynolds Tobacco Company, Blackwells Dur ham Tobacco Company, and the Con ley Foil Company. . Each of the first flve of these com tanies, the court declares, is in itself a combination in violation of law The order enjoins these companie., from continuing as parties i nthe com bination and restrains them from en gaging in intcrstate or foreign trade until "reasonable competition" be tween them is restored. Nor may the companies named for their subsid iaries acquire by conveyance or other wise the plAnt or business of any .other different corporation wherein any one of them now holds stock. or -exercise any control whatsoever over its corporate acts. Both Sides to Appeal. 3oth the government and the de fendant companies will at once take appeals from the decree. S--Ah action on the companies' part wi: :n.ke ef fective one highly important cl%,ise that which provides for n suspernion of the injunction during the pendency of such apreal. As the matter stands therefore, the companies may con k)tinue business as heretofore and until an affirmation of the judgment is ob tained in the Supreme Court. Twentv ays is allowed for an npeal to be filed. The government will ap 'peal en what it considers errors and -ommissions in the decree and the de fendants wvill appeal from the general * decision of the court. It is understood that one grouind of the government 's nppeal wvill be0 the failure of t he court to declare that the American Tobaco Company, the Am -evican Snuff Company, the American KC ' Cigar Company, the American Stogie CGompany, MacAndrews and Forbes *Company, and the ConTev Foil Coin teping:vto force a monopoly. An --oh#er ground for the government's aPpeal -will be the denial of its de mand f4r a receivership for the de -fendant corporations. Thutch Os$ture Second Ship). Willemnstad, By Cable-The Dutch rbattleship Jacob von Heemnskerk 'ar Srived Tuesday' mnorning towing as o prize the Venezuelan coastguard vessel ''23 do Mayo."' The flag of NThe Netherlands had betrn hoisted .to ~.the peak of .tho Venezuelan shop. and astern of the Dutch flag gloat~ed the e 'Venezuelan colors. year; of raw sfigar not above ]o. 16 Dutch standard in eolor, 2.33 cents per pound, against 2.11 cents in the preeeding year; and of tea, 17.3 cents per pound, against 16.11 cents per pound in 1907; while in manufactur ers' materials fibers show an average price in 1908 of $117 per ton, against $135 Mr i6n in 1907; hides and skins, 19.3 cents per pound, against 22.5 cents per pound in 1907; India rub ber, 58.8 cents per pound, against 76.6 cents per pound in the preceding year; raw silk, $4.13 per pound, against $4.20 in 1907; clothing wool. 22.5 cents per pound, against 26 cents per pound in 1907; combing wool 27 cents per pound, against 30 cents per pound in 1907; and carpet wool, an- average price of 14.5 cents per pound in 190R, aqainst 15 cents per pound in 1907; all of the above being import prices. On the export side, corn shows an average export price of 64.7 eents per bushel, against 53 cents in 1907; wheat, 99.3 cents per bushel, against 79 cents in 1007; bacon. 10.5 cents per pound, dgainst 10.6 cents per pound in 1907; and lard, 9.1 cents per pound in 1908. against 9.2 cents per pound in the piolceding year. Florida Man Shot to Death. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-A tele eram received here by Dr. M. B. ITerlong, a prominent physician, stated that V. A. Ierlong, his brother and foreman of the MeGehee Lumber Company's mills at Woodstock, had been shot to death by a negro em ploye and that a posse had been formed aind were in hot pursuit of the negro, who had escaped to a nearby swamp.- Woodstick is a small settle ment in Baker county and many cit izens joiijed the white men at tle mill in mursuit of the black men. No partier-lars of the murder conld be learned. Wornan Asamu'ed in Hnme. Spencer, N. C., Specin.-Criminall, asTo1ulted in her own home TuesdaY afternoon at Moss' siding, near Whit. ney, Stoq;ley county. Mrs. James .R. Moss, a highly respected lady of that place, is in a precarious condition on account of an attack made upon her by Henry Youm. colored. nzed about 25 years, who was lnte Tuesday af terneon landed in jail at Aibemarle charged with the crime. Laymen's Movement. Salisbury, Special.-The l aymen's movement in the Methodist Episcopal church, South, was given quite a help forward by the late meetings held in connection with the meetings of the stewards of the Salisbury district. Nearly all the charges were repre sented by one or more lavmen. Viof Waltdr Thompson, of Concord, was elected district leader of the move. ment for the coming year and a leader was chosen for each church in the district. There was general di.eet sion of the aims and scope of the movement. A feature of the meet ing was a banquet Tar Heel Shoots Broker. New York, Special.-Following an altercation over an alleged debt of $650 incurred in connection with the financing of an electric vibration company, of which lie was treasurer, Henry B. Suydam, a mining stoek broker, member of the curb market. was shot in his office at 39 Broad street Saturday by John C. Lumsden, an, inventor'. Suydam was probably fatally wounded. Lumsden claimed that the money in question was due him and thant an attempt was being made to defraud him of it. Graham Dies on Gallows. Concord, N. C., Special.-Will Ora ham, a negro wvho committed criminal assault on Miss Pearl Tucker in the edge of this city on the 13th day of last October. paid1 the penalty for his crime here on the gallows. Mist Tucker, the 16-year-old victom. in pretty and of respectable family an/ strong in character. She is lthe daughter of D)aniel E. and Mrs. Emn ma Webb Tucker. 'In time there may be boonm enough, sh1outs the Dallas News, for every person, male or female, to have one. WE MAKE A PROFIT. A Favorabla Obaractoristic of the Foreign Trade'of the United States for 1908--Decline in Value of Im ports is General and Acounts for Decrease In Total Value 2ricos of Foodstufs Remain Stationery Gains in Prices of Corn, Wheat and Bacon Exported. Washington, SpeciaL - Falling pric4s for imports rising prices for exports, are declared by the annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Com merce and Labor, to be a characteris tic of the foreign trade of the United States in the fical year 1908. This is especially true,' he says, as to the manufactprers' material imported and - foodstuffs exported. In manu facturers' materials, whether raw or partly manufactured, the average prices for the year are, says the re port, materially lower than those for the preceding year, and were also much lower at the en4 of the fiscal year than at the beginning of the year. The average price per ton of hemp in June, 1908, was but $141.02, against $174.78 in June, 1907; of ma nila, $137.74, against $202.01 in Juno, 1907; of sisal graqs, $106.20, against $152.57 in June, 1907; of goatskina, per pound, 24.5 cents in the elosing month of 1908, aginst 31 cents in the corresponding month *of the pre ceding year; of hides of cattle, 10.9 cents in June, 1908, against 15.4 cents in June, 1907; of India rubber, 56 cents per pound in June, 1908, against 67.1 cents in June of the preceding year', of raw silk, $3.23 per pound in June, 1908, against $4.63 in June, 1907; of pig iron, 27 cents per pound in June, 1908, against 39.1 cents per pound in June, 1907; and of clothing, wool, 17 cents per pound in June, 1908, against- 25.7- cents in June, 1907, while other classes of wool also show a simllat reduction in price during the year. The decline in the total value of imports, which occurs in nearly all of the principal articles forming the. great groups, foodstuffs, manufactur era' materials and manufactures, is due in a considerable degree to this falling off in prices, though in many cases there is an actual decline in quantity. This is* particular true in manfacturers' raw matei-ials, which show a marked decline in prices per unit of quantity, the decline in value being tlaus much greater than that in quantity. In fibers, for example, the fall in value is from 42 milliin dollars in 1907 to 35 millions in 1908, a (lecrease of 16 per cent., while in quantity the fall is. fiom 312,9S3 tons to- 303,848 tons, a decline of but 3 per cent. In Indian rubber the fall in value of imoorts is from 59 millon dollars in 1907 to 36 1-2 millions in 1908, a decline of 38 per cent.; but the fall in quantity is only from 77 million pounds to 62 million pounds, a decline of but 20 per cent. In hides and skins the fall in value of imports is from 83 million dollars to 55 mil. lions, a decline of 34 per cent., while in guantity the fall is from 371 mil lion pounds to 283 million pounds, a decline of but 24 per cent. In pig copper the value of imports fell from 39 millons dollars to 24 millions, a decline of 40 per cent., and the quan tity.from 198 million pounds to 145 million pounds, a decline of 27 per cent. In pig tin the value of the im portations fell from 38 million dol lars to 25 millions, a decline of 20 per cent., while the quantity fell from 96 million pounds to 77 million pounds, a decline of 20 per cent. In raw wool, -the value of the importa tions fell from 41 1-2 million dollars in 1907, to 231-2 millions in 1908, a declhne of 44 per cent., while the quantity fell from 204 m'llion pounds to 126 mi llion 'pounds, a decline of 38 per cent. Thus in practically all the principal articles used in manu facturing the falling off in the value of imports as~ compared with those of last year is due in a greater or less degree to a reduction in prices per unit of .quantity, though in most of these articles there is an actual reduction mi. quantities, much less, however than would be indicated by a. mere considerationi of figures of value only. .Food stnffs do not share, as a rule, iu the decline in values, eithei' as to iml)oorts or exports, which is charac 'enistic of manufacturers' materials. The average ,import price of cogYee in 1908 was 7.6 cents per , pound, ,gainst 7.0 cents in the . pre'ceding PILIPPIN[ AfIAIRS The Conditions On the Islands EnGrely Satisfactory . REPORT OF BRIG. GEN. EDWARDS Progress of Peace and Order An nounced in the Report of the Bu reau of Insular Affairs-General Edwards Opnmends the Work of the Phillipine 8outs. Washington, Special.-The work of the Phillipine scouts is highly commended, the bill to amend the Phillipino tariff act now pending in the Senate is endorsed, cncouraging - progress in the Philippines and the iaintenance of peace and order in Cubg throughout the year are an nounced in the annual report of Brig. Gnbral Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, which was made public last. Sunday night. General Edwards says the Phillip pine scouts are an important. factor in the education of the Filipino peo pie and in the creation of a higher standard of living in the islands as well as in the extension of American influence. The report, recounts the settlement of Catholic Church claims, and refers to the bill which )assed the House at the last set,sion, but was still pending in the Senate before committee when Congress ad journed, to provide free entry into the United States of Phillippine pro ducts, with certain exceptions, and free entry of United States products into the Philippine islands i'd free tron, between the United Stas s and the Philippines without exceptions after April, 1909. The report says the friends of the measure are ea tirely agreeable to the inclusion of a clause limiting Philippine sugar to be admitted under its provisions to 400,000 tons .annually. This the su gar people admit would be sufficient to restore some of the former pros perity to the sugar interests in the islands. A reduction of the present duties on tobacco, the report suggests would afford the moral encourage inent of which producers in the is lands now stand so seriously in need. The ofh2r principal products in the Philippine islands, hemn. copra %nd ice, have the advantages over sugar of not requiring such enormous cap ital for development. 'and of not en tering into competition with inter ests of this country. The expenditures of the Republia of Ciiba on necont. of American in fervention frcin -October.1st, 1906, to June 30th, a4, were $757.343, these expenditures being made from funds allotted by the provisional govern ment from time to time for army expenditures. due directly to the army service in Cuba. The statement of extraordinary expenditures on ae count of the army of pncifleation in Cuba which under congressional leg islation are to be reimbursed from the Cuban treasury, shows a total of $5,311,822, of which $3.37.735 was from October 1st,. 1906, to .June 30th, 1907, and the balance from then uin til June 30th Inst. The settlement of the Dominienn debt, the stend.'v wviden-inig netivi ties in the Philippines antd thle a dmin istrative cent rol of Cuba continuing to b)rinig up importnut questions of law, making the demand upon thle law officer ef the bureau, constant and serious. len:islation for retirement of certain civil emuployes of the Phil ippine government en part pav, after ten years of sat.is'facierv service are among other matters dlisenissed. .Adjovrned For the Holidays. Wosingt on. Speciali.-Not h hotus es 6f Congress on Saturiday took a recess utill after the holidays. Up t.a this time no real wvork lias been done. It is preso'med that upon res assembling the bodly will get down~ to work ini enrinest, as the session "loses by limitation on March 4th,' Former Congressman Loud Dezd, San Francisco, Cal., Special.. Former Congressman Eugene F. 1.oud died Sunday night in this,.city. For several mont'ha past lie has been in poor health. His condition was ag-' gravated by the death of his daugh ter flive months ago and the loss of 1his wife, who died on December Cth. Mr. Loud served 12 years in 'oa.. 2: COL TAYLOR ON STAND Companvion of the Victim of the Night-idedr Band Relates the De tails of the Lynching of Captain Rankin. Union' City, Tonn., Special.-Fol lowing his caution to the press not to print the testimony in the night rider cases, Judge Jones Saturday cautioned the minis,ters of local churches not to refer to the cases in their sermons Sunday, since the ju rors might be present. le took no further action regard ing the press, although he conferred personally with the correspondents of several of the State papers, im-. pressing upon them the necessity of following out the court's orders. The first witness was Col. H. Z. Taylor,. who was companion of Cap tain Ranken. Mr. Taylor is a veteran of the Con federate army and a wealthy man. Colonel Taylor and Captain Ranken went to Reel Foot lake to lease some land to a carpenter. They drove over the proposed property on the night of October 19th and left orders for horscs for another trip the day fol lowing, then they retired. Colonel Tavlor related the story of his experience the night Ranken was murdered. Fie said he and Ranken were taken from the hotel. Ranken was led under a tree when a rope was adjusted and thrown over the fork of the tree. "Give him time to pray," said a night rider. "I have attended to that," was Ranken's quiet reply. Ranken then was raised from the ground until his toes sedreely touched the ground. "You are choking me, gentlemen, I pray you let me down," said Ran ken. Some one fired a shot, the wit ness said, which was instantly fol lowed by a fusillade, most of the night-riders firing into the air, how ever. Taylor told his captors he was tired and wanted to sit down. He crouched to his knees ready to spring and when the firing stopped lie jump ed into the waters of the slough. The firing was immediately renewed. Taylor dived but heard the bullets strike the water. He swam to a log and clung to it while the bullets struck it like a hail storm. When all sounds ceased he swam to the op posite side of the lake and took to the woods. After telling of . the hardships lie endured during his wanderings. Col onel Taylor said he hid in a cane brake until thirst drove him out and into the arms of friends. Colonel Taylor stuffered from dn! sions during his wanderings, seeing bands of masked men. JuRt before the night-riders killed Ranken, Colonel Tavlor said. "10en temen, I am an old man. I cannot evnect to live many years more. By killing me you will not be cheatin' me of mueli. J)ut Captain Ranken is a younger men with many yenrs before hir... Do iot kill him." The leader eurtly replied: ''Shut up.' The President's Hunt. President Roosevelt has entered in to an agreement (his own proposi tion) with the Smithsonian Tnstitute at Washington, by wvhich all the rare and valuable specimens of game lie may slay in his African hunt will be taken charge of by an expert taxi (ermist and sent back for mounting in the Inst,itute. The program the President has in mind is to start about April 1st, ar iving on the hunting ground of British and Dutch East Afirica about May .1st. His course will be~ toward Uganda, striking the Nile about .Jan, uary 1st, 1910, andl working his wvay to tide water about March 1st. The President says he is no game butcher and will hunt chiefly for game of special scientifle interest. His son will accompany him and is ex peeted to share with him in the dis tinction of adding specimens to the national exhibit. Georgian Hanged For Wife Murder. Swinesboroj Ga., Special.-For the miurder of his wife, six months eo George Joyn,er, was hanged here Fri dIay.. Altlougli Joyner confessed sev ernal mon b's ago that lhe killed his wife (lull g the last weeks of'his lift' he protes ed innocense and on the gallows iterated -his denial of the commiss' a of the crime.