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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.