The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 / VOL. I. NO. 8. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C? OCTOBER, 28, 1909. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PEP COPY. ' Attention, Farmers! ' 8 ( A Note ot "Warning from 1 Harvie Jordan?Tells Far- J ers to Hold their Cotton t "Like Grim Death." I i I Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25.?Far \ mers and merchants of the t -1 : - II (UC YV2UUOU itJJJili "Sir CO * ton buyers who are now busy 1 at many interior points trying to induce spot holders to sell * them their cotton at market 1 1 prices and agreeing to pay any , additional advance that may j accrue within tho next 60 or 90 ( days. If you deliver up your , cotton on that basis and the | buyers get enough of the staple in their hands to fill their or * ders, there is but little chance 1 for the market to advance. The : only way to foice an advance ^ quickly is to refuse to part with J the cotton until satisfactory prices are offered. No middling cotton sh uld be sold tit j interior points for less than ? eleven cents per pound. The j crop is short and all who hold j will be rewarded a^ they should t (? he. Again, don't lend your cotton . to local mills on the promise of * settlement at any time within the next tew months. With the staple in the hands of the spinners prices can never ad- , vance. \\. Again, don't lend your c t i ton to whom 3'ou ship your cotten for storage t! at under no j circumstances must your cotton *?e loaned or sold to exporters j or buyers on any sort of tra 1c or contract until you are ready , to sell it. All kinds of tricks and devices are being resorted to now by buyers and spinners to induce favrncs top id with! >m Moscow was completely paralvzed today by the railroad <] strike, and the commercial heart i of RtMiia has been shut off from ( all communication with th? rest " )f the Empire except the narrow lection to the northwestward, intituling St Fetorsburg and the iinltic provinces I'hough the government hap ordered the raiload battalions of the army to jro.;eed to Moscow and take the jlaces of the strikers for the pnr purpose of restoring traffic, the Revolution; , o. i sodden and mexpccted M - ?, have shown heir ability riodr bands >n the throai.- :? 'lie nation's Miinmercia) life The employ?o ot I ur railroads truck today and ? jo v the lines tinning ov r the N.c iolai Uoad 10 St Fetersburg and over the it;: ? - ** niuau ami Kyhinsk road to lliita ?>./l Atl. t? ii; l?im? ?nu wuier miino parts tire >pen. Tragic is at a standstill tn the Kazan Line and oh the ine to Yaroslay ana Archangel. 1'he strik rs today forced the employees ol the. general oflices md llnancitil departments ot hree Lues, the Windau ana tiybiuk, tin- Moscow and Brest Litovsk and the Kieff and Very iezh to quit w ok. l'tie otto is ilivady feeling t. ie effect of a mik and meat famine and a ew days' continuance of the itrike will cause serious embar assment and even suffering f? p >pulation. The renewal of the? aetory strikes is not improbable. tieatli Springs to Liberty h;ii rhe News as Gathered Along Star Route No. 1. Mr. Editor: We have had a 7ery dry and favorable fall f< r uarvestinsr the crop*. and in mo-! es the task is about completed Pliore is not much oo'ton 'oli in be fields now. Work is beinj; j)united lorwaid ip rapidly as po sib!e on the new tore building '>1 Mr. A Caiithcn. \W- understand that Mr. .1 K. J reed will occupy it when compete I Movers W. I>. Twitty & Co. are )o.v located and ni?*? fv arranged it one of the now store rooms <>' a'hy to the stricken family. Mrs. L E. Cant hen ol (ireoa d'le, !S O , is spending some ime with her parents, Mr. and rlrs. L Bell, at MagiII. Mrs. Hammond UrnerandchiJ Iron ol Frederick, Md , are visitng the parents of Mrs. Urner, Jen. and Mrs. J. W. Floyd, at The Hill." Q. R. 0. For The News. Happenings in Georgia As Reported by a "Former Lancastrian"?Big Crowd Greets Teddy in Macon, as well as Elsewhere?The Danger of Cotton Speculation?Man Loses h i s "Wife's Money?F i n e Roads and a Fine Fair-The Insurance Scandals. M r. Editor : President Roosevelt pa-sod through town the other night about ten ?j uiuuk, on ins way from Atl?n'a to Jacksonville. He only stopped a few minutes here, as Macon was not included in tlv different points he had planned to visit on Ins s ?uthern tour He was greeted at the depot by ov -r two thousand people, who a anted to get a glimpse of the inimitable Teddy a d hear him speak a few minutes, lie ;s a man of striking personality and impressed the crowd vei'3" much. He has (1 tin !i f"""11, .1.... - Will ing his administ ation to hiing about admiration for liiinself, 110 doubt, but one time, severd months ago, I10 dined with a black nof-ro, named hooker Washiti itou. IIow can this fact be overlooked? 1 list at this season, every year, the chief topic around town among men, especially, who are engaged in that business, is cotton. They are dis cussing the reports of the ctop that the armors br.ng in from the country, they are talkin- of the different estimates j laced on the crop by various statisticians and guessing among them selves what the crop will ' amount to and many of them are I wondering which side of th 3 j market won d he safer to specu late on The other day I saw a fellow, a man working on salaty about sufficient to suppott his | family, appro'ch a man eimag ed in the cotton business and ask bis advice ab lit a ileal lie bad made. He I ad the most woe be gone expression 011 his f ire, great drops of perspira ion were 011 hi- fore.head and he was, as lie himself expressed it, "scared " lie had bought cot ton futures and the market had declined, lie lost -everd hundred dollars of his wi Mmw Vn?u i 4 - J . .. V/ - ' x , , I V^l IV JLJI 1 t"? shou'd write to President Mc Call and demand that lie make good the $150,000.00 he misappro? riated. The only objec 'iotiaole t'eatu e we see about that would be that several hun dred dollars mo.'e would bs wasted at 'heir expense in buying the stamps and stationary. Fo: mer Iamcastrian. M(icon, Ga. I Homicide in Columbia. A Young Man Kills Another I Thursday Afternoon at Union Depot, in Presence of Two Thousand People. "olumbia Special to Charlotte Observ r. of Oct. 27 : James Trotter, Jr., a younjr! farmer of lie heesville sec'ion, was shot through the heart at ' the Union s ation at 4.45 [o'clock his afternoon by ^ i [ iner Mitchell, ab u' the same age and also of Leesville, the two being fast fiiend>. Dr. Smith, of Wards, who happ n ed to he present at the time of the tragedy, pronounced life extinct in less than ten minutes, dea'h resulting from an inter nal hemorrhage. Trotter had been drinking, but the arresting officers say Mitchell was perfectly sober. He gave as an | exouse for the shooting that Trotter continued to slap his face, after he had several times warned him t? quit. Mitchell gave himsh' up! promptly to a > Ia n clothes man ; unci was earned to jail. His family is about the most prom iturnt and influential in Leesvillo , he being the son of Mr. Cromwell MiteheN. Trotter was unarmed. Both hear good reputations. The killing occurred in the presence of two thousand people who were at the station waiting for trains. \ Heavy Cotton Receipts. | [ Wednesday a Record Breaker?More Cotton Sold than the Public Weigher could Weigh?Half-mile of Cotton | Wagons. During the middle and latter part ot the week there has been a bin rush of cotton on this market, many farmers turning loose the staple when the prica got above ten cents. The receipts on Wednesday were probably the largest within \ne history of the town. A - many as 600 bales must, have been sold here on I hat day?far more than ihe public weigher couhi handle By night he had weighed 476 bales. A number of lai mere, see* ing that they would be limbic 10 reach the weigher's platform, unloaded their cotton in neighbor ing yards. At 11 o'clock Wednesday 1 "26 bales had been weighed and loadivittrnno ef aa! i !%-% A ? ' o DIOOU IIWIII lilt: CIMUIIl platform to the Church street crossing on Main si reef? .V mile ?containing by a ;tu <1 conni *202 bales. I Alleged Pickpockets Captured at the Fair. Columbia v. Charlotte Observe;: The lair grounds' conn 4 .. 1.1 ? ?: -1 J ->ii?uie.*i piCKeO lip iour alleged pickpockets 1 his afternoon. They were relieved o< about $500 in cash which they were about to carry awa\. No diamonds were found There was id properly recovered to point co; clusively to their guilt Still jus before they were dragged from the street car at the grounds entrance the offi 'cers saw one of them run hn hands in the pockets ci f< ur people in rapid succession as his pal? assisted his operations. Ollicera 1 hackiioiin and Knox and M agistrate llielly, who made the arrests, had been watching ft e o & . j tet lor sevt rrl hours and, when [they iell an outbuilding went in I behind them and found eight em ol v iuifLr t l?n I. - . ? i I i /' ? - V ^/vv.?n. V^IJV ' ' I 111*: j men escaped from the building, where tthe four were temporarily confined, by jumping out, of a vv i nd o w. All were well-dr09s??d. None would talk after being arrested. The three men, placed in jail for a preliminary heating i i C X M >n| day, gave their names as Joe Shultz, .Joe Beckwith, ana John Parker. The police also picked up a pick-pocket suspect to day This man gave his name a* John 15 irnett M .. . \ M ? * ? mis. :vici>mcn, c?t Lancaster, passed through yesterday on her way to Columbia to spend several days ^ith relatives ? IChester Lantern. Dr. C. A. Foster, o( Taxahaw, was a visitor to Lancaster this week.