PUBLISHED TRt-WEEKL1 BETTMHSS Fi? to Obtain ftea ?w*iti bj Di Wade Stttitaose *A DiSaa TO BUILD WAREHOUSES Fanners Would be Asked to Store at Least One Fourth of Their Cotton 1b These Warehouses an'l Hold It Until a Suitable Price Could be Had. Tbe following' if. the plan, for hold ing, cotton, pro$os$d by Dr. Wade Steck ho use at Dji'lon, that caused so Tcuob discussion at the meeting of the Farmers' union in Columbia Thursday night: lev "There is no ,.shame gr^tejr than defeat: There is no joy Ijke .victory. The Southern cotton grower, today iB covered with the shaimD ,pl defeat Like tbe union army at Bull Run hp is in full retreat; panc-stric?en he has turned his back to the bears and is hustling to dispose if this crop under the cost of its production. "Can we do nothing to stop this panic of our brother farmers, which not only threatens this crop, but points to a few years of depression which means a lower level of livng to every man, woman and child in tbe Sourb. "The time to prepare for war is before it begins. We have lost the best time to prepare lor this emer gercy, but I suggest the following plan: "Build warehouses in each South ern State capable of holding one fourth of the largest prop we are likely to produce. My argument ap plies to South Carolina, but should be duplicated in each cotton State, and then combine all tbe cotton ware house cimpanes into a whole. "The fanmers should put up the capital stock to erect the warehous es, which should be large storage f houses and built at points where sub stitution, and reshipping prwilege can be secured. This would imply that warehouses would ce built on ly in towns having more than. one. railroad, or having w&ter rates and where ample fire protection can be provided?the small warehouse can never pay. Perpetual motion is no more impossible in physics than iB the continued exercise of good business sense in the conduct of warehouses and in organizing a holding move ment of cotton farmers. The warehouseman must be a man of character. He must be a fair book keeper. He must be a s'voirn weigher, capable of adjusting equitably differ ences as to moisture, damage, etc., on cotton. He should take the notes of farmers wishing to secure loans on cotton and forward the notes with warehouse receipts to tie State trust company organized to handle these receipts. Such men can be found to day buying cotton for the leading exporters. They are a set of capable men having good, hard, business sense. It will take around 81,200 per year to employ such men. Then the warehouse must keep a night watch man the year around. It must be built according to certs.in plans and specifications and must be equipped with automatic sprinklers anl have two sources of water supply. This water supply must be absolutely suf ficent to satisfy the most skeptical insurance inspector. Having all these requisites it is astonishing how small the insurance cost. It can be reduced to 12 cents on $100 valuation for 12 months. The small warehouse can't afford all this. "Our normal crop in South Caro lina is around 1,200,000 bales. One fourth of this, 300,000 bales, would need "o be warehoused under my pinn. i would suggest organizing a South Carolina Cotton Warehouse company, with a capital stock of $1, 000,000, divided into shares of $50 eajch and that the farmers be asked to subscribe for most of this stock. | That, say 15 warehouses be built at central points in the State, capable of storing the 300,000 bales. That a trust company be organizer to con duct the loans on cotton, and this trust /company be located in Colum, bia, S. C, and its acts to bind the $1,000,000 capital stock of all the warehouses. "We would need a high class bank er to manage the trust company at Columbia. He could find In what money centres he conld place his warehouse receipts and borrow the money. With a million dollar asset to back him he could sell his ware house notes in most of the money centre* of the country. "This plan is not origina?, but is today employed by warehouses of this city, I would suggest that we let alone all the existing warehouses in the State now being conducted as private enterprises. There is ample field for all the warehousing com panies now in operation and. the sys tem I recommend. "The State warehousing companies should take in all friends of cotton in the South. They could cooperate with tbe Farmers' Union and all other organizations having for their object better selling of the cotton crop. The exclusive business of the warehouse companies would be to better handle the cotton crop. "Having the warehouses we would ask cotton farmers to store at least one-fourth of crop and sign a con tract that if he sold before August MATS CAME SLOWLY FORTUWE AND CREEPING DEATH WERE CREEPING. A Miner Pinned in a Sha2 by a More of Rock and Lived Thirteen Days. An old assay certificate, found on the body of j. j. D. Miller, -who died in the shaft of his mining; claim, 12 milesnorth of Bridgeport, Cal., told two stories when it was deciphered in the coroner's office there on Wed nesday. One slide told of gold in Mil ler's shaft.. The other bore the pen ciled record of the man's seven days imprisonment, ended by death at noon Friday, October 13. The body was found last Satur day with the. left leg pinned against the side of. the 15-foot shaft by a mass of ,rcck..j Miller stood upright with his head thrown back. The shaft 1b slightly inclined and he must have seen, the sun, which stood on the meridian, as he wrote the last line of his diary. "Friday, noon?the thirteenth day no hope." The certificate was rolled and had been replaced -in his pocket book. The daily record follows: "October 6?Frank Yparraguierre, Sweetwater: If helps does not come, send this message to M. C. Miller, wife, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and wire what to do with the body. J. J. D. Miller." "This occurred Friday morning, October 6. It is now Saturday noon. :'No help yet. Why did this come " . "Sunday night?It is cold and long. God help me. I forgive moth er. "Monday?It is noon. Why did Dick forget? A drink of cold water would taste good. Am getting very weak." "Tuesday night?The end is near. Don't see how Dick can forget me." "Wednesday night?Guess tonight will be last; no hope; the end near." Thursday's record is illegible. "Friday noon?The thirteenth; no hope." The "Dick" referred to is Richaru Barnes,' a teamster on the Yparra guierre ranch, where the two men had been employed together. The body wa? found by Barnes. Miller came to California a year ago from Virginia An unsuccessful attempt wai made by the authorities to commun icate with his widow in Harrison burg today. lfith, the following year, he would forfeit the difference between the selling price and the minimum price fixed. I suggest for th's crop we fix 12 cents per pound for minumum price, and should cotton reach that price before August 15, eacn holder Of cotton is at perfect liberty to sell. Before cotton could sell at 12 cents next August the world must have convincing proof that we are going to make a smaller crop. To convince the public we must prove by the gov ernment institute that we have small er acreage and have used less ferti lizer. "Tc get a few farmers to meet at each county court house an.l resolve to cut the acreage and fertilizer hill is not going to be convincing proof to cotton spinners. To think such resolutions will be lived up to is as vain as the dream of a dreamer who dreamed he had dreamed some thing. "I have talked to two or three good attorneys as to the validity of a contract a farmer might make with the warehouse company to hold his cotton. They think such contract can be drawn so as to be legal. The acreage proposition would have to be worked the same way. If Mr. A planted 100 acres in cotton in 1911 and, contracts with a warehouseing company that he will plant only 75 acres in 1912 and provides that in case he breaks his contract that all cotton produced on land over and abuve the 75 acres shall go to the warehouse company. I think such [contract could be made valid. If some strong bank could act as trustee for us in 1912 and they would say they had contracts in their vaults providing for a 25 per cent, reduc tion in South Carolina that would [carry weight. ' "In conclusion we can rally the panic-stricken farmers of today and win a partial victory for 1912. We can organize so that the present ca lamity may not happen in the future. "First, build warehouses to store fully 3,500,000 bales of cotton in the South, to be owned largely by cotton farmers. "Second, get legal contracts exe cuted and properly signed to hold over any surplus. "Third, get legal contracts signed to reduce acreage the following year. "Fourth, prech in season and out of season." Twenty-Four Drowned. The French steamer Diolibah sank at sea Wednesday and twenty-four persons were drowned. The Diolibah was towing the French steamer Li bera for Marseilles when the latter fouled her, tearing a hole in the Diolibah's side, causing her to found er. More Trouble in Mexico. At Torreon, Mex., six federals and one Maderista, were killed and fif teen federals wounded in a street fight. The trouble arose over the at tempt of four Maderista officers to disarm the Gendarme. ORANGEBUR( SHOT IM DEAD Edgar 3 Farrar, Proniorai New (Meats Attorney, Killed by Tbags. HAD ROBBED HIS HOME SHOT HIM DEAD. When They Were Accosted on the Street They Fulled Out Pistols and Shot Farrar Down in the Street? They Were Run Down, Caught and Confessed. At New Orleans, La., Edgar H. Farrar, Jr., son of the former presi dent of the American Bar Associar : tion, was shot and killed at 10 o'clock Wednesday at the corner of PeniBton and Magnolia streets, by two- high waymen. Mr. Farrar was on his way to his office in the Hibernia Bank building when he, was told by a neighbor that two men standing on a corner op posite were probably a pair who had broken into the Farrar home the day before. Mr. Farrar started in pursuit of the men, who drew a revolver and who shot him. He fell in the streets dead. The two men started to run and vere pursued by a crowd of citizens. Special details of police and mount ed officers were rushed to the scene and joined in the chase. Young Farrar was a graduate 01 the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the New Orleans bar a decade or more ago and had prac ticed his profession in this city con tinuously ever since, with the excep tion of a year or two spent in Okla homa. He was popular In social af fairs, and had an extensive acquain tance throughout Tennessee, Ala bama and other sections of the South. Less than two hours after the shoting Mr. Farrar's assailants had been captured and had made a con fession to the police. They are Leon Cantom alias J. C. Helms, and Luc ien Canton, brothers, who live in New Orleans, aged 23 and 21, re spectively. Theopolus Rodgers, a tall, black negro, proved himself a hero in the capture of the Canton brothers. He "gave chase immediately following the shooting. His legs made it im possible for the fleeing men to out distance him, and soon he had Lu cien Canton, the younger, in his clutches and held him until the po lice arrived. Rodgers gave directions to the officers as to the direction tak en by Leon Canton, the one who did the shooting, and he, too, was soon captured. The prisoners were at once taken to the office of District Attorney Adams and the police say both con fessed to their participation in the crime and then admitted, under ex amination, that they had robbed the Farrar home the day before. Officers visited the home of the Canton bro thers and brought to. the police sta tion all of the articles which had been stolen from the Farrar home. Edgar H. Farrar Jr., was 32 year's of age, and was married about five months ago. He lived only a few blocks from where he was shot down in the 6treet. Mr. Farrar was a member of the law firm of which his father is the senior member, and was one of the brightest young members of the Louisiana bar. HiB father went to the scene of the shooting and had the body re moved to his home. NINETY-NINE FIGHTING SHIPS. Seventy-five Battleships Sewing At Anchor at New York. Ninety-nine fighting ships, groom ed for the first formal event of the greatest mobilization in the United States' naval history, swung at an chor off New York in the Hudson river Wednesday morning in a gray line seven miles long. Only the tor pedo Darney Timney and the Craven we. missing from the list of 102 vessels ordered to the mobilization. The fleet included every battleship now in commission in the United States navy, 75 in all, evr -y one in fighting trim. Early risers, who stood on the western .edge if Manhattan along Riverside drive, and those a cros3 the river in New Jersey, who gazed from the preciptlous cliffs of the" lower palissades, saw ship after ship take form a3 the mir.t lifted. Iben, at 8 o'clock, the signal flash ed on the Connecticut and every craft in the line burst into rainbow col ors from stem to stern. Four Killed By Train. W'hile crossing the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Huston's Cross ing, in Bourbon county, Friday after noon, Miss Lena Hughes, her sister, Mrs. Barton Harp, and two children, Ruth and William aged 3 years and 5 months, respectively, were struck by a fast train and instantly killed. Ran a Huge Blind Tiger. J. O. Ross, the negro president of the Atlanta State Savings Bank has been arrested on the charge that he ran a big blind tiger, for the benefit of his depopitors, in connection with the bank, and that the list of his depositors has increased marvellous ly lately for that .cause. 1, S. C, SATURDAY, NOVE& AUBDG9N S9CIEH HOLD ANNUAL MEETING IN CO LUMBIA ON WEDNESDAY. Matters of Importance Discussed by the Members?James Henry Rice Re-elected Secretary. The annual meeting of the Audu bon Society of South Carolina was held in the Loan and Exchange baak building Wednesday. There were 300 members represented. M. 0. Dantzler, -the president of the so ciety, was unavoidably detained on account of the serious illness of hie brother. O. M. Dantzler, sheriff of Calhoun county. Moreover, President Dantzler hav ing served two full years, now re tires from the presidency. The so ciety saw him go with regret, and passed suitable resolutions, testify ing to the value of the moral and active support he has given the cause of bird protection during his incumbency. His successor has been named, but will not be announced until he is officially notified and has accepted. The society feela that its moral position is stronger than ever, al though no gain in membership has ever been secured on account of the lack of active field work. The matter of extending the so ciety's usefulness by increasing membership and changing the mode of securing members was taken un der advisement and a plan adopted which will be published in full lat er. This in the main looks to secur ing a permanent endownment, so that the society may become inde pendent of small annual dues. One of the main duties devolving on the society by law is the sugges tion of suitable legislation. The so ciety reafirmed its belief in the res ident hunters' license as the only practical means of enforcing bird and game protection, and will ask the general assembly to reconsider its action and pass such a license. Recent events have strengthened the society's determination to se cure for the farmers of the State the protection for their crops and lands, to which they have always been entitled, and which they have never reecived from the general as sembly. For the present there has been no change in the officers, outside of the president. James Henry Rice was re elected secretary. The treasurer's ^eporL' showed a small balance to the credit of the society, not counting the money bor rowed last year, and the return of v/hich was recommended in a spec ial message by Gov. Ansel, voted by the general assembly, but veotoed by Gov. Blease. The Audubon society feels content with results so far, and is ready for a campaign more active than ever waged before for the protection of the birds. The society now enters vpon the sixth year of its work. RICHESON FORMALLY INDICTED. Minister Will Bo Tried for Poisoning Girl. After he had been formally served at Boston with the Indictment charg ing him with poisoning his former sweetheart, Avis Linnell, the Rev. Clarence V. T. RIcheson was visited in the Charles, street jail late Wed nesday by Attorney John L. Lee, of Lynchburg, Va., a criminal lawyer prominent in the South, who proDa. bly will direct the accused minister's fight for acquittal. ?Mr. Lee arrived Wednesday hut he took up Immediately the work of pre paring the defence and conferred at length with former Judge James R. Dunbar, his son, Phillips R. Dunbar, and Congressmen Robert O'Harris, who have been retained in Mr. Rich eson's interest. Reports that the- family of Miss of the accused, had decided to dis continue financial support to the the minister's defence, were scouted by Attorney Dunbar, who was re tained by Moses Grant Edmands, fa ther of the young woman. Mr. Diin bar said: "Any statement that Mr. Edmands has ceased to have faith in Mr. Richeson is absolutely false. Mr. Edmands still retains absolute confidence In the integrity and in nocence of Mr. Richeson." CHOCKED BIG LINER'S PUMPS. Had to Come to a Full Stop Out in Mid Ocean. A remarkable experience on the voyage from London to Halifax was reported Friday by Captain Cham Ik.'f, of the Furness liner Durango, While in mid-ocean the big liner came to a full stop, the circulating pumps failed to work and for a time the crew were unable to account for the trouble. When the interior of the circulating feed pipe was examined it was found to be chocked with a mass nf fish. After the fish were re moved the Durango proceeded at her usual speed. The vessel has passed through a school of fish aie Ing unsettled, but that the doefcof? gave the cause of death from symp toms given by the widow as acute gastritis. That two conductors who had worked with Smith on the railroad told the coroner that Smith had told them he was living with Mrs. Vermilyia, though not married to her, and that he has been threaten ed with death by another suitor of the widow, an undertaker That Bissonette was really en- ? gaged to be married to Miss Lydia Rivard, of Kanakakee; this was shown by Che 'filing to-day of the polieeman's will, in which Miss Rivard was named as his fianeee. Mrs. Vermilpia was a witness to as certain whether the widow had shown jealousy of the policeman's intended wife. In a talk with the police of Peoria Bruington said Mrs. Vermilyia 'had periods of mental depression m which she waB fond of talking of death. He said: "She told me it seemed funny to her that nearly every one she knew and cared for died and asked me if I was afraid of death." A new coincidence developed to day following the sudden- illness of Mrs. Vermilyia herself when a sis ter, living in the house adjoining Mrs. Mary Bucholze, suddenly be came ill. Mrs. Vermilyia told inquiries to day she had never studied medicine nor sought to become a nurse as had been reported, but that she had some little knowledge of medicines that she had acquired to enable her to aid neighbors and relatives. She insisted she was innocent. The deaths being looked in'to follow: Frederick Bringkamp, first hus band of Mrs. Vermilyia, died on a farm near Barrington, 111., after a brief illness. Charles Vermilyia, second hus band, died arter six days' illness of "gastritis" at Maple Wood, 111. Florence Bringkamp, four years old daughter, died at Harrington. Cora Uringkamp, eight years old daughter, died at Harrington. LiUina Bringkamp, a stepdaught er, 20 years old. Frank Bringkamp, son, dird of pneumonia in Chicago. Richard T. Smith, reported to be third husbad. Arthur Uissonette, policeman, roomer, to whom she was engaged died of "gastritis" last Thursday. It was the suddeness of Hisson ette's death, coupled with the wid ow's statement that he was addicted to drink, whereas members of the police force had known him as aa abstainer, that prompted the inves tigation. Prof. Walter Haines, prison ex pert, expects to report by Friday. The coroner's jury to-day left for Barrington, 111., a suburb, Mrs. Vermilyla's former home, to Inves tigate the deaths that had occurred there. j