- - PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLa TAFTS BOARD Who Cod pose It and How Some of Thea .Stand in the Tariff Qatsricn HAVE CAST LARGE SUM The Boa -d is Composed Largely of Politic il Nondescripts, Friends of the Pr esident, Who Know Little or Nothirg About the Tariff, Except That Mliey Are Protectionists. The T >.riff Board was appointed by Presiden; Taft in September, 1909, ?under at throity of a paragraph in the "maximvm and minimum" section of ?the Payue-Aldrich tariff act, which gave hin. authority to employ experts to deteco any discrimination made against i .he United States by foreign governments and to assist the offi cers of t te Government in the admin istration of the customs law. Nothing in the Tariff act autho rized th > President to appoint a per manent ooard or to use its members for the .jurpose of securing- informa tion as to the relative cost of com modities here and abroad, either for his own use of the use ot Congress. The President, however, amplified his authority and Congress has ac quiesced by appropriating $550,000 for the 1/ork of the tariff board. Besides the work for which it was intendet?of advising the President whether foreign countries were en titled t< the minimum tariff of the Payne-A Idrich law?the board has made a study of the law itself, has compiled a tariff glossary* begun, a field investigation or various sched ules, Im dudlng cotton, wool, chemi cal and iron schedules. It resisted in the f -aming of the Canadian reci procity )act and expects to be ready to repoit on the cotton and wool schedules by the end of the year. The t triff board originally consist ed of oily three members, Heary Crosby Emery, Alvin Howard San ders and James Burton Reynolds, all Republi-ans, but it was enlarged in. 1910 tc enable the appointment of two De nocrats, William Marcellus Howard and Thomas Walker Page. Henry Crosby Emery was profes sor of p< ?litical economy at Yale when Presidei t Taft appointed him Chair man of the board. He> is a son of former ?hief Justice Emery of Maine and has always been a Republican and a } rotectlonist. All his life he -has spent in class-room work, which has nec ssarily kept him out of touch with th * people. He has never held any pu'dic office, but has written a treatise on "Speculation on the Stddk md Produce Exchanges of the Uni ;ed States" and Is the author of "Coli mbia University Studies." Al though ae will only be thirty-nine In December he has taught economics for eighteen years, having been ap pointed professof of political econo my at Uowdoin in 1894 and at Yale in 1900. He is a personal friend of President Taft, but has never taken any act ve part in politics. Alvin Howard Sanders, editor and ( Continued on 3rd page. rOSS ES SEARCH FOR FIEND. Attacked a Lady and Nearly Killed Her Husband. ? "At Lumberton, N. C, Gray Tolar, a weal" hy lumberman, was probably fatally injured and his wife attacked by an unknown negro at their home early Monday. Tolar's skull was crushec by a blow with a plow bar and Mr j. Tolar was nearly choked in sensible before her screams freight ened o f her assailant. As soon as the ne ro escaped Mrs. Tolar seized her two children and ran to their nearest neighbors, a half a mile dis tant ard gave the alarm, and posses immediately took up the search. Tolar was carriel to a hospital where it was sW ted that he could not leiover. Three suspects have been arrested, but Mrs. Tolar is unable to identify her assailant. Negroes Flee in Panic. For the first time in its history, Caddo, Okla., has no negro residents. The blacks have also fled from much of the surrounding county. The ex odus s:arted Monday morning from the first report of the report of the killing of Horace Gribble, a white farmer by negroes and continued throughout the day. Posed as Being White. C. M. Love, a "negro who had been passing off as a white man and board ing in he home of well known people at Spa tanburg, was fined $100 or 30 days in the mayor's court Monday morning. Mayor Lee ruling that it was disorderly conduct for the negro to sit ..t the table with white people. T ive Dead in a Hotel Fire. At Juneau, Alaska nine persons are believt i to have perished in a fire which .iestroyed the Juneau hotel and the McGrath building iMonday night. Four bodies have been recovered from t.ie ruins ir.d five more are be lieved to be buried in the debris. Another Aviator Killed. A F'ench aviator, M. Mc Forestier, while lying at Huelva, In Spain Mon day, f ?11 from a height of 250 feet and w? s killed. The motor exploded, setting fire to the aeroplance and the aviato' was incinerated. MAN AND JONES. Capt. John G. Richards States That There Was Xo Political Signifi cance in Tb<"'r Visit. That the recent visit of Senator B. R. Tillman to his home recently has no political significance whatever was the declaration of Mr. John G. Rich ards Monday afternoon. Mr. Rich ards also says that conclusions which have been drawn from the aupposed visit of Sen. Tillman and Chief Jus tice Ira B. Jones to his home at the same time, to the effect that Mr. Jenes would have the political sup port of Senator Tillman and Mr. Richards, should he make the race for Governor next year, are entirely erroneous. This statement was called forth by an editorial In the Sumter Item which has ben copied in various State pa pers. This comments as follows: "We have been wandering what would be the political outcome of Senator TiUman's and Chief Jus^ tice Jone's visit to Mr. John G. Rich ards of Liberty Hill, and while we have not yet found the answer the following editorial in the Lancaster News is somewhat illuminating." The editorial in the Lancaster pa per referred to 1b merely a comment upon the current reports that Chief Justice Jones would enter the race for Governor mext year. After quoting this the Sumter paper continues as follows: "It Chief Justice Jones should enter the race for Governor against Governor 'Blease and if he has the assurance of the support of Senator Tillman, 'Mr. Richards, and their friends, Cole Blease, will not serve two terms as Governor all pre cedents to the contrary notwith standing." "I have read comment in the col umns of the News and Courier," said Mr. Richards, "this statement from the Sumter paper of a visit of Chief Justice Jones and Senator Till man to my house surprised me very much. Senator Tillman and I as is well known, have been warm perso nal friends for a number of years. His visit to me had no political signif icance whatever. Chief Justice Jones did not visit my home while Senator j Tillman was there, and therefore I I do not see how the Sumter paper drew or came to itsv conclusions, which were entirely erroneous." FIVE MEET INSTANT DEATH. Sixth Dies Later From Injuries in Mine Accident. Caught in a vortex of a whirling steel drill in a mine cage, five miners met instant death in the shai; cf the Black Rock Mlae, of the Butte Super ior company, near Butte, Mon., at 3 o'clock Monday morning, while a sixth, James Lee, died a few hours la ter in the hospital from his injuries. I In their anxiety to reach the sur I face, the men 'umped on the cage upon which a dull steel was being j taken to the surface. It is presumed I that in their crowding they dislodged the steel shafts from the bor: and the wall plates fell among the men on the cage cleariD ? the deck of miners, fairly mincing their bodies as the steel bounded tuck and forth, sweep ing them into t. dump 1,400 feet be low. Charles Gaston, station tender, fi nally was hurled from the upper deck of the cage to the lower level by the impact when the brakes were applied and was decapitated as were all the other miners with the exception of Lee, whose head was crushed. KILLED FROM AMBUSH. . . . Two Victims of a Fued in Santa Rosa County, Fla. As a sequel to a long-standing feud, ar a result of which Daniel Cooley, a prominent naval stores operator of Santa Rosa county, Fla., was shot and killed last Sunday, Alf and Arch Cool ey, brother and cousin, respectively, of the dead man, were shot and kill ed from ambush Sunday night near Milton. The bodies of the two men were found lying in the road at day break Monday morning amile apart having fallen out of the buggy in which they were riding. Feeling is said'to be intense in Santa Rosa coun ty over the tragedies and more trou ble is feared. Took Fatal Drop. His parachute failing to work at the proper moment, H. C. Brown, a ballonist, of Saginaw, Mich, abandon ed the usual method of decent Satur day night and dropped from bis bal loon several hundred feet into the shallow pond at Lakewood Park, at Charlotte, N. C, where he drowned before help could reach him. Mills Close Down. A dispatch from Fall River, Mass., says the cotton manufacturing plants closed until September 11. Seven mills were idle this week and others are on short time. The total curtail ment this week amounted to 295,000 per cent of the usual output. Pasenger Train Robbed. Southern Pacific train No. 15, south-bound, was held up at Sims, Ore., Sunday night. Two safes were were blown, but it said no one was hurt. The robbers obtained but lit tle booty. ORANGEBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1911. POPULATION OF THIS STATE COMPLETE FIGURES GIVEN OUT BY THE CENSUS BUREAU AT WASHINGTON OF RESIDENTS OF THE LARGER CITIES AND COUNTIES The State's Population Over One Million and a Half, Nearly Half of Which Are White People, That Race Making Some Gains Over the Other Races as Compared With the Census of Ten Years Ago. Preliminary comparative statistics of the population of South Carolina were issued Tuesday by Census Di rector Durand. The tabulations were made under the supervision of Wm. C. Hunt, chief statistician of the di vision of population, and are the result of the first count, in detail, of the returns of the 13th census. The figures are, therefore, subject to possible revision, but it is believed that the changes, if any, will not be ma terial. The figures relate to the'State, Charleston,' the other cities of 10,000 and over, and the counties. The total population of the State and of Charleston is distributed into white, negro and all other, and the percentage proportion of each Is given for the censuses of 1910, 1900 and 1890. The decennial percentage of increase or decrease for the same classification for the decade, 1900-1910, also is stated. The figures for the counties are divided into white and negro, the latter including Chinese, Japanese and Ind' ns, but the number of such are so small that they do not materially affect the figures given for the neg. ,s. Similar statements for the other Southern States are being prepared and will probably be issued In the near future. Preentnge of Negroes. The figures show that of South Carolina's total population of 1,515,400. only 679,162, or 44.8 per cent., are white. The negro population, S35.S43, forms 55.2 per cent of the whole. The rate of increase, as fig-| ured by the census department, indicates that the State, has gained more whites than negroes, the percent age being 21.8 for the whites and 6.S for the negroes. The total growth in population was 13.1. The figures for the cities of Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg are interesting as showing] the additions to the white populations of those towns. ' Charleston gained 3,026 people during the decade. The gain in white population was 3,526. This shows that 500 negroes really moved away from Charleston, ia*d no more negroes came in. This leaves a clear white gain of of 3,526, which is about 15 per cent of the white population. Negroes still outnumber the whites in Charleston, the figures being 31,069 against 27,764. Columbia, with 21,108 people in 1900, grew to 26,319, this increase being 3,528 white and 2,673 colored. Columbia now has 14,772 whites and 11,244 negroes. .. Spartanburg gained 6,122. Of this increase 3,517 are whites and 2,605 were neg*oes. ula?on now comprises 10,641 whites and 6,876 negroes. ?Greenville's gain during the decade was 3,881, including 2,979 whites and only 902 negroes tion Is now composed of 9,422 whites and 6,319 negroes. Spartanburg's pop-| Its popula South' Carolina. Numbers. 1910 Total population ...1,515,400 White. 679,162 Negro. 835.843 , All other *. 395 Per Cent Distribution. Total population.?. 100.0 ' White. 44.8 Negro.f .. .. 55.2 All other.?.'. .. .. ??* * Chinese, Japanese and Indians. ** Less than one tenth-of one per cent. Decennial Increase State. 1900 1,340,316 557,807 782,321 188 100.0 41.6 58.4 1890 1,151,149 462,008 688,934 207 100.0 40.1 59.8 Total population White. Negro.. ..". All other. Per Cent of Increase, 1900-1910. . . .. 13.1 . . . . 21.8 . . . . 6.8 . . . . 110.1 City of Charleston. Numbers i 1910. Total population. 58,833 White. 27,764 Negro.31,056 All other.,. 13 Per Cent Distribution. Total population.100.0 White. 47.2 Negro. 52.8 AH other *.'. ?* ? i * Chinese, apanesc and Indians. '* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. Dec nnial Increase City of Charleston. 1900 55,807 24,238 31,522 47 100.0 43.4 56.5 0.1 1890. 54,955 23,919 30,970! 66 100.0 43.5 56.4 0.1 Total population White. 'Negro. All other . m tm t H4 HE ?w Per Cent of Increase, 1900-1910. 5.4 14.5 1.5* 72.3* County. Total Pop 'lation 191C The State.... .. 1,515,4 00 Abbeville. Aiken . . .Anderson Bamberg Barn well. 34,804 41,849 69,5 6 S 18,544 34,209 Beaufort. 30,21 Berkeley.. . Calhoun .. . Charleston . . Cherokee . . Chester. . . . Chesterfield . Clarendon .. Colleton . . . Darlington . . Dillon .... Dorchester . . Edge field . . Fairfield . . . Florence .. . Georgetown . Greenville . . Greenwood . . Hampton . . Horry. Kershaw .. . Lancaster .. Laurens . . . Lee. Lexington . . '.Marion . . Marlboro . . . Xewberry .. Oconee . . Orangeburg . Pickens .. .. Riohland . . . Saluda .. Spartanburg . Sumter .. Union. Williamsburg York. 23,487 10,634 8S.594 26,179 29.425 26,301 32,1 8S 35.390 36.027 22,615 17.S91 2S.281 20,442 35,671 22,270 08,377 34,225 25,126 26,995 27,094 26,650 41,550 25,318 32.040 20,596 31,189 34,586 27.337 55,893 25 4 22 55,143 20,943 S 3,4 65 38,472 29.911 37.626, 47,71 S White. 679,162 12,282 18,997 43,232 5,670 9,561 3,964 5,256 3,895 32.54S 17,669 10,28 1 15, 73S S.794 13,094 14,741 10,999 6,908 8,165 7,065 15,3 29 6.15S 4 7,515 12,923 9,006 20,325 10,648 13,5 18. 8.066 20,401 9 11 11 20.4S9 19,098 19,991 25,609 9,754 57.04S 10,24 6 14,439 14.4' 1 2 ? 3 524 r o c IS' 5 6 4 5 531 Charleston.?? Columbia. Greenville. Spartanburg. ?Includes Chinese, Japanese and Indians. 5S.S33 26.319 15.741 17,517 Cities. 27,764 14,772 9,422 10,641 Negro* S36.316 22 522 22.S52 26,336 12.S74 24,648 26,391 IS,231 12,739 56,046 S.510 19,141 10,5 63 23,3 94 22,296 21.2S6 11.616 1 O.OS:? 20,116 22,377 20.3 4 2 16,112 20,862 21,302 16,120 6,670 16,446 13,12 6 22.75 4 17,252 11.6SS 3 1,209 1 S.93D 22,041 6.S4S 36,795 5.4 3 0 29,53 4 11.1S9 26,417 28.226 15.4 72 23,215 25.3S7 31,069 11,547 6,319 6,S76 Total Population 1900. 1,340,31 6 33,400 39,032 155,728 17,296 3 5,504 (35,495 3 0,4 5 4 |88,006 21 359 28.61 6 |20,401 28,184 33,452 132,388 White 557,S07 11,331 17,388 32 232 r.',65 8 10,OSS 3,349 6,4 SI 27,647 13,952 9,243 1 2,256 8,033 11,187 13,083 Negro" 7S2.509 22,069 21,644 23,496 11,638 25,416 32,14 6 23,9' 60.359 7,407 19,373 8,145 20,151 22,2 65 19,305 16,294 25,478 [29,425 2S.474 22.S46 |53,490 28,343 23.72S [23,364 24,696 24,311 [37,3 c2 6,202 7,347 7,05 0 11,819 5.336 3 3,999 9.43 7 S.236 17,(142 10,002 12,201 15,205 10,092 18.131 22,375 16,655 17,510 19.491 18.906 15,5 02 6.3221 14,694 12,11 0 22,171 27,264 [35,181 27.639 311.1 82 |23,634 5 9663 1 9.3 75 j 4 5,589 IS.966 65,560 j51.237 25,501 31,685 141,684 55.S07 21,108 [11,860 11,395 1 6.9 61 1 6.992 11.226 10,351 17,53 0 1 8,220 1 4,574 17.513 S.S19 44,391 12.SS1 10,943 11.818 19,784 ? 4 n 3 S 11,244 6.443 7,124 10,303 18,1 S!t 16,413 19,831 6,104 41,4 43 4,S01 2S.076 10,147 21,169 3S.356 14.558 19.867 21,900 31,5 69 9,864 j 5.417 4,271 PLANS FOR CAPITOL WILL COST THREE MILLION DOL LARS TO CHANGE. ?Members of Special Legislative Com mittec Inspect Designs as Prepar ed by A. W. Todd. At the session of the general as sembly in 1910 a special commission was named by Speaker Whaley to make an investigation and report on the feasibility of enlarging the State house. Among the members of the commission were Mendel L Smith of Kershaw county, now speaker, and A. W. Todd, a4 member of the house from Charleston County. The Staite ?ays this commission h*a been hard at work for the past two years amd at the last session request was made for more time to complete the work. A. W. Todd is a well known architect and he has prepared plans for the enlargement of the State house. According to the plans of Mr. Todd the improvements would make the capitol one of the handsom est La the world. The portico plans now used are considered second to one building, according to experts. These plans call for the expenditure of $3,000, 000 within three years. These plans will be submitted to the general as sembly and it Is expected that some definite action will be taken. For the past several years there has been much discussion as to more room for the State officials. When the general assembly is in session there is little room left in ether buildings. There has also been much discus sion as to a building for the supreme court Under the plans of Mr. Tood there would be special quarters for the supreme .court in the new state house. The dome on the building would be changed, modeled probably after the dome om the capitol at Washington, and there would be two wings to the present structure. The original Ni-ernsee plans called for a beautiful tower, capping the porch designs. FOUR DEAD, FORTY INJURED. Passenger Train Crashes Into Freight With Fatal Results. Four are dead and at lea?t forty injured, the result of a wreck of the .Erie and Pittsburg passenger train No. 201. The wreck occurred at Docks Junction, twenty miles from Erie, Penn., at 8:30 p m. The train plunged into a freight train that was backing into a switch to allow the passenger train to pass. The dead: John S. Jones, engineer, of Erie., firmean, name unknown; tramp riding on train, unknown pas senger in the smoker. Soon af:er the crash the wreckage took fire and up to a late hour to night bodies of the dead had not been recovered. A relief train was rushed from here. (Nineteen injured had been received at Erie hospitals up to midnigbt, but many of the passengers live here and were taken to their homes. Engineer Jones was in charge of the passenger, and it is stated in rail road circles that he disregarded or ders. DROWN IN ANGRY RIVER. Reported That One Hundred Thou sand Chinese Perished. Awful news of the loss of life by the floods In China have reached this country. The floods are said to be the worst that have ever been exper ienced ov.r there in many years, and the destruction of life and property is'terrible. It is estimated that over ninety-five per cent of the crops have been destroyed, and the people fear starvation. The American mission at Wu-Hu has received a report that 100,000 persons have been drowned by the floods caused by the water flowing over the banks of the Yang-. Tse- Klang river above. Young Lad Drowns. Burt Shockley, the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Shockley, was drowned at 'McMahan's mill on Cane Creek, five miles east of Wal I haila. Young Shockley was accom panied by two small boys whom he i told to watch him swim across the ! pond. He soon sank, anl as there was no assistance at hand he was drowned. Lost His Life in Hive.. While taking a swim in the Yad kin river near Spencer. N. C, Hrax ton Barkley, aged 17, of Salisbury j was drowned Saturday, and Floyd j Hoist, a companion, who attempted I to rescue ?arkley, narrowly escaped I sharing Iiis late. The drowning OC ' curred in plain view of a party of i friends powerless to help. Toad Stools Proves Fatal. At New York Angelinc de Salvo, a 5-year-old girl, is dead and seven oth er persons are in a critiial condition as a result of a birtMay feast given in her honor Monday in which 24 persons ate toad stools by mistake for mushrooms. Killed by Lightning. Near Plaquemine. La., Handall M. Robertson, aged 3 7, a prominent sug ar p'anter was instantly killed and I \\. Williams was knocked sense less by lightning, while riding horse back Saturday afternoon. Both horses were killed. TWO CENTS PER COPY/ KILLS MANY -?- 1 Chemical Preser valor its tense ffasj Deaths Yearly. -?- ' ~) OR. WILEY SUSTAINED Rutledge Rutherford, Food Exp4*r| and Editor Declares That Tho Chemicals Work Especial Injury to the Young?Some of the Dlan eases Caused by Them. Two hundred and fifty thousand children were killed last jear by pois oned foods according to Rutledg? Rutherford, a food experl: and edilo of a food magazine. He declares that more people ai| killed by adulterated food in on year than the number engaged in the Spanish-Amercian war. Counting ?bet deaths of the babes alone he says* they number more by (?0,000 thani tbe total of all the soldiers that weorft killed in all of the four years of tlMi Civil War. In the mad race to increase pro.Btat through the cheapening the cost oif production recognized poisons are be-' ing inserted in foods in order to made use of poor ?rade of raw prod ucts. Such poisons finu their way intrt food factories of many descriptions, and are especially numerous in can dies, soda fountain beverages, loo cream products, bakery goods &nd uiion by Henry Garman, a Kovera nient bacteroloiist and entomologist, as the cause of pellagra. Just hew the great communicates the dlseaise is not known, but scientists belie/e they are on the right track and even tually will find a cure for the disease The Buffalo gnat e.tists in great num bers all through the South. Mistaken for Burglar. At Anniston, Ala.. Dr. T.' L. Sm?h? a well known dentist was shot aiji^ probably fatally wounded early Fif day by his roommate Joe S. Tbom| son, who mistook him for a bxl glar. Thompson vas asleep wb! Smith returned from an entertain, ment and fired before he recogrrfs!i!f| him.