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Th VOL. 23. NO. 33. SEMI-WEEK] RAILWAY REVENUE I ' SHOWS INCREASE nnd Rut Increased Expense Over steps the Margin Reducing Net Profit. Fiort _____ ?1erton. Wilbur THERE MAY BE DEFICIT ly wou which Railroads in 1917 Earned-About the hni $958,000,000 and It Is Esti- houae zens o mated Government Will Pay ton, a $945,000,000. particij three happen Washington. Feb. 11.?Railroads probate In 1917 earned about $958,000,000, man n. which is near the amount the gov- 0f ^he eminent will have to pay the roads ,iown. this year as compensation under na- their r tional operation. This was indicat- Was at ed by figures on revenues, expenses }n the and income of all roads earning |n the more than $1,000,000 last year, pistol available In unofficial computations rushed based on Interstate Commerce com- pushed mission reports for 11 months and Uderto estimate for December. front, The sum the government will Cape o have to pay the roads under the bill deemc< pending in congress is estimated at Udei $945,000,000 by Chairman Smith, of the senate committee, having the WOU|a railroad bill in charge. tered I Figures for 1917 show that if ^ railway income continues to decline (Ji(i as it has in recent months, the government will face a deficit in mak- unharr ing its compensation payments, augmented by increases in wages and ^ ( the constantly rising cost of mate increase In haulin*. and from Oerstr freight the roada received most of dent. their revenuea. ' Hp|n c Theae freight revenuea are catl mated at 92,808,000,000 aa compar- * * ed with $2,573,000,000 in the ban_ . Newbi (Continued on Page 2.) Team * ie Lai L.Y. LAN* ?L DUEL IS FATAL III?ATI >R DR. Wm. ILDERTON "LA 11 'e Physician Killtxl by Son m I Lawyer in Court House at Florence. Improve Given i ?nce, Feb. 11.?William IIphysician, was klled and J. Hicks, an attorney, Beriousnded In a shooting affray ALSO occurred at noon Friday in 1 of the Florence county court v. . . Hoth are well known citif this city. Geddings Ilder- Contil son of the dead physician. Mondt >ated in the shooting, firing shots ut his father. This Are P ed Just after the judge of i h^d pushed the half crazed y^e G way from the prostrate form ,jRr so fj, attorney, whom he had shot j;nu an(\ Ilderton and Hicks emptied 8(atPS has evolvers at each other. Hicks lowing t< ruck down and Ilderton was ^y pr u act of attempting to club hiin a,iministi head with the butt end of his ?In vlR when Mr. Hrunson. who had transport into the hall from his office. vlRlonR ol him away. Just then young j9igt ex? n entered the hall from the j1Rrej,y R, firing as he came. The es- jelate to f Mr. Hrunson from harm is aroUna 1 miraculous. l)na ton was shot five times and Mississipi one of two or three bullets u wU, have proved fatal. One en- and Kent '.he heart. Hicks was shot in reRUjati0 ad and in the abdomen, but which w, vity was not pierced and he Monday ecover. Young Ilderton was ])jxo ned. necessity shooting grew out of bad {lay. Th between the attorney, who was p, jn ?nting Mi's. Ilderton in a suit are thosi mony, and the dead man. I)r. ghipnient rs. Ilderton separated three provide ago. Friday was set for the ance of earing in the case before the J( lR { , H. A. Hrunson, acting as 8|on>? 0 5. Mr. Hrunson postponed the Rta n account of the fact that II- pent RUt appeared to be drinking. malited and Ilderton came together in po,.tat|or 11 of the court house later and Tlie R ooting began. offect an rton came to Florence from ance rea sstcr county. At one time ho "1'iuil rominent in county politics. StatOR fU : served several terms as sena- sellin^ tr Florence county. He was jn r>5 years old. The verdict of (irr8 nm roper's jury was that Ilderton ((J n,.ces? to his death from gunshot ,.aitroaiis s in the hands of J. W. Hicks (R,R (.j,a eddings Ilderton. an(] naV; ties, byDEHBILT ACTING plying g DIVISION STAFF CHIEF phone ai ping fc United S foi k Colonel of KiiKinerrs Fill mental i? Position Temporarily at tracts lo Camp Wadswortli. facturers for nece . . ? . ,, tlon and rtanburg. Feb. 11.?Col. Cor m _ .. governm \ anderbilt of the One Htin? ? . . uses. A ana Second hngineers is act- ( ^ lef of staff of the Twentyh Division, having been desig- r to fill that position tempo- (jers .. by Major General O'ltyan. The y is caused by the promotion . 11. If. Banholtz, chief of staff. Lhe division had been in camp. 0,)|P?,ati ;adier general. General Hand- f,lsps to will he assigned to a brigade ",a,ion ' e regular army perhaps, but fMPs(,,"M e present is here taking a few (>on^res8 rest before his assignment along. The tables of organi- HOOSE provide that the chief of staff ('1 ivisinn be a colonel in the regrmy, but until the new chief ff for the division Is named **"<11 'v 1 Vanderbilt will hold the po- Ifosp't _________ fmK RENCE ASHBAUGH KILLED IN LOUISIANA fro^WR< ? that Col. ?r >>wl?erry Oo'leRe P(n)(Iih' t?***ed t was rest ayer Meets Death in Air- ton ^lar plane Accident. expected *he even no ballet e Charles, La., Feb. 11.? -er the < Clarence V. AshbauKh.c. Colonf :?town, Ohio. ?nn killed""?* np the < >er Field In an n'rplane arc- 0,'n ,BS' ... wi . i . . ti mnrover H s machine pot into-a tailpe)ature lose to the pround and crash- mat(on n ore he could pull it on. I.1eu to be a Axhhaugh played end for the rated thi irry College (8. C.) Footbal before hi in 1914 and 1915. 'he hosp .i i "ii ~ " represi rials and supplies. On the other hand, the railroad ftn(j administration hopes to be able to rs cut operating expenses sufficiently ' . first h and economize on charges necessary ^ ,a .tei only under competitive conditions. r?f?r?< to offset the declining income. The , case o size of these items, which will play ^ such a big part in railroad financing ^ this year, was disclosed today bv . . . . the ha the latest computations. (tail Karnings Decline. ^ In December, the last month under private operation, rail earnings '>orch< declined sharply, according to early was I1 reports from railroads now being ?avinp received in the Interstate Commerce 'ol commission. The average reduction of income was estimated at 30 per 1ro cent, caused hy the ever mounting ran,e cost of operations, doubly increased. woun<' together with a sudden drop in rev- ani' enues resulting from traffic cong.-stion and embargoes. VAN v .uii|i.iM;<i wmii ine esumniea income of $958,000,000 last year, the figure for ,1916 was $ 1,087.5H 000; for 1915, $716,476,000; for \ow 1914, $692,330,000, and for 1913, $816,510,000. 1,11 Last year the total revenues from railway operations were $4,03 8,000,000, and operating expenses were $2,861,000,000, leaving a net revenue of $1,177,000,000. Prom melius this were deducted $217,000,000 dred 1 taxes, and minor items of uncollects 'nK ble revenue to compute the net in- sevent come figure, which is comparable in na,?d a general way to the basis of gov- ran'y % ernment compensation. These fig- varan( ures will be Increased about four ot ( ol per cent l?y addition of reports from ! si:i( p ' numerous small roads, having op- to 'M'' erating revenues of less than $1.000,00 a year, whose records are not 'n included with the reports of stand- 1 or ard class one roads. days >> , . ? comes Itenson Is .Apparent. /.at ion The reason for the decline in net 0) a () income last year is shown graphic- ujar a ally by the report. Operating rev- sta enues were 10 per cent greater than Colon* the $3,622,000,000 of 1916, but ex- flJtion penses jyan more than 20 per cent above the $2,373,000,000 mark of the year previous. (.LAI Nearly all items of expense were higher. Wage increases are estimated at 20 per cent. Cost of coal, train supplies and repairs went up by bounds with which the immense I?l * receipts from freight and other revenues did not keep pace. People traveled more In 1917 than in the year previous, but the Increased revenue did not go far in ^ counteracting the steadily declining Income. War fnilaort an ^ oung NCASTE CASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 LESS MONDAYS |l.W.W. Vim LISHED IN S. C. PLAY GREA1 d Weather Conditions Fifty-five Were Indi as Reason in Telegram Francisco and Ar From Garfield. Custody. IN OTHER STATES CHARGES OF CO and Kentucky Are to Wholesale Interfei tue to Have "Tight the Prosecution ol lys" But All Others the Blanket Chai Relieved. the Workers. arfield Monday-closing or Washjngton. Feb. 1 ir as it affects South Caro- Workers of the Worlc several other southern c|flt. coast have plant t been suspended. The fol- destruction of industr slegram has been sent out ping and other inter I. A. Garfield, federal fuel prosecution of the wan ator: at the department of w of improved weather and indictments of 5f? at S atlon conditions, all pro a federal grand jury on r regulation of January 17. result of recent inv ept sections 1 and 10 are government agents w jspended insofar as they that leaders were plott the following states: North sabotage. Tennessee, South Caro- . The investigation wj orgia, Florida. Alabama suit of the recent att ji and Louisiana." up the governor's resi be observed that Virginia ramento. Agents ucky are retained in the old group of plotters wl ns. All the other istates extended throughout ?re affected by the heat less coast territory, order, south of the Mason in addition to blow n line, are relieved of the iies, plotters in that w. v .uo.iif, uu? ii iicai .nun- country had planned e sections 1 and 10 referred strikes among worknv telegram from Dr. Garfield war industries. destru e which fix preferential trees and crops. s and deliveries of coal and a penalty for non-observ- .... , .... Wholesale Inili the regulation. Sacramento, Cal., iresumed that the suspen- ... . . r _ , indictment charging "? f the order affecting the . . ... conspiring with Will tes will remain a perma- , wood, secretary of ipension, unless there is a ... , , ... , , Workers of flic World backward trend in trans- ... .. hinder the execution i or weather conditions. ,, ., . 0. . . ,. United States in the ection 1 which remains in ,. ... ? the war with German (1 which is of great import- . , , . . . rd by the federal jury lis as follows: Fortv-six of the p< further order of the United , ... are held in custody h? el administrator all persons .. . . ers reside in or a be fuel in whatever capacity CISCO. tilling their contracts or orv on hand give preference Sepaiate im.i< tm< nl lary current requirements of "'"'1 ' . domestic consumers, ho- 11 v 'ni citable institutions, army i,,OKal transportation v cantonments, public utill- ' " m> 11 u' r< *in product coke plants sup- n'Mtion wi,h ,ho a,! as for household use. tele- milSnK of G?vernor S id telegraph plants, ship- n(Pntly?r bunker purposes, the General charges i itates for strictly govern- roents include alleged purpos?a (Not including "l'' selective draft, < or plants working on con- an(l encouraging sa r me united States), menu- was nxed at from i of perishable fond or food Frank II. Little, ly ssary immediate consuntp- Mont., last year, was municipal, county or state others, as persons wi ents for necessary public indicted here had ent nv tonnage remaining after splracy. toirg preferred shipments Letters mailed to si >n made may be applied in fendants from Industr ny other contracts or or- the World being in j; were reproduced in tl inth section is as follows: They urged men on person, firm, association or greater effort in tliei Ion which Violates or re- best means of helpinj conform to the above reg- In Jail. A poem bell nay he liable to the penalty Ci,n soldiers, alleged d in the aforesaid act of wirtten by Miss Theo (Lever art.") San Francisco, also w The conspiracy indh VEI.T HAS PASSED Ibat the defendants i MSIS OF HIS IIINFSS Re"eral consr,irary w til Ml^ 300.000 members of Workers of the Work Indicated by Reports Fro . ,he government an "widespread campai; nl?I>ee|? Concern of Hoy tage " Scouts Is K\pre?sed. Assistant District i son said that evidenc ed acts of sabotage in ^ ork, Feb. 11. Reports nf the United States." >ose\elt hospital indicated ftmpuifm was a'm' d j Theodore Roosevelt had t|(?n of railways and < he crisis of his illness and Ing comfortably. I)r. Wal- Haywood Is I tin, his physician, was no* Chicapo. Feb. 11. to see him until later In Haywood, with whom in*. and It was stated that dieted at Srcramentt In would he issued until af- with conspiring, was loctor's visit. federal grand Jury son >1 Roosevelt's ccyid'tlon dur- has sin-e been held lay was described In a bul- Counsel has made ued as one of "progressive his release on bail bu nent" with pu'se and tern- not yet been made. normal. While the infla f the left Inner ear was said Sinal!po\ Neat ubs'dinp, the doctors indi York. S Feb. 1 at It would be three weeks rtnallpox has develope b w ould be allowed to leave I try several miles wes ital. I * t er.t teing a your 1R NEV 2, 1918. SL irn TA CLEMSON WAIVES TAX ILU 1U ON NITRATE OF SOI) f HAVOC Fertilizer Hoard Derides That Fa iiiois Would (iol No Benefit icted in Sar Fixnu Money Collorted. e Held in Clemson Collage, Feb. 11.?T1 following statement was Riven oi by the Clemson College board of fe 1NSPIRACY tilizer control: tkn 1 ? mc v/iriiiswu > iMiaiu t "ence With fertiI,zer control has decided tin the farmers of South Carolina sha f the War is not be required to pay an inspectic rge Against tax on nitrate of soda which to be imported by the governmei and distributed in this State. ] purchasing this nitrate, the farme 1.?Industrial will have to do so on the good fait 1 on the Pa- of the government. It would n led wholesale ^e possible for them to recovi ies and ship- damages even if the goods prov? ference with inferior. The farmers therefo r, it was said would get no benefit in this partic justice. The i?r case from the fertilizer tax ar Sacramento by *',e hoard felt that it would not 1 i Friday is the Just for hin? to have to pay it. estigations by "Ordinarily in the purchase ho discovered fertilizers from private concerns tl ing systematic inspection and the analysis prote the farmer against inferior goo is a direct re- and ?? case they prove inferior t! empt to blow analysis made at Clemson Colle, idence at Sac- enables the farmer to recover dai discovered a ages. lose activities "It Is estimated that the fertillz the Pacific tax from the government asslg ment of nitrate of soda in Sou ing up facto- Carolina would amount to betwe section of the $15,000 and $7,000, but the boa to fonieflt of control foregoes the collection en engaged in this money on the ground that iction of fruit would not he just to collect it. Ft mers who purchase nitrate of so from the government should s that the tax is not charged them ctmeiits. , , mistake. The secretary ot igric beb. 11. An (ure recentiy announced that t > persons with fanner mU8t pay $76.50 per t< "ani Haj- plus all transportation charges frc the Industrial jjmj^of entry, and in addition t and others, to fertilizer inspection tax required or laws or the S(ate ,aW8 .. prosecution of y, was returnHRS. C.OOCH LOSES HER Tsons indicted APPEAL IN THE COI R' ?re. Nine oth ?ut San FranAfter l>iscn\ eied Hviilciifo" s charge Wii- I evington l.ady's Suit Not V'oetter. named "Kumeient." ilictment. with of dynamite, osted in con- lhinvijle, \*a., Feb. 11. - The c tempted dynn- ,;iin ll!,s been run;; down on tlie 1 'tephens* home ' K-'l episode in Mrs. Margaret Ik eliffe Conch's tight to secure a 1 n j|,P indict- !"<'r s,1!in' oI ber '"te busband's obstruction of tate Kor Im,re ,han two vears 1 ausing strikes ca8e 1,118 boen in an(1 out of 1 botage Hail <,ourtH wi,b victories for one s 500 to $ ". 000 aml victories for tlie other. 1 nched :i\ Hutt. 1 nlte(1 States circuit court of named, among |HH,S haH now "Htten the w( th whom men ',inis' on the yo,,n* wi(low's a,teml ered into con- lo have u?nulled ante ??P? agreement and she is therefore Ir.ser in the cnco r>nip nl' the do- " ial Workers of While at I-*xlnKton. N. (' . a f nil at Chicago m'nutes before the young wom ie indictmonts. vas marrie<l to the Clarksville <1 the outside to ,il,er? shft ?i?ned a paper which > r work as the h:,s since the proceedii t their follows wore instituted, she did 11 ?t fu it l leing A in or i- un,lerstand. It was in effect a c< to have been '""'i that provided for her only ( doro Pol la k of i,,(ome foni 150,000 of ihe estate as reproduced. I,er hu8bund Wayne II. Gooch. ctinent charges While the Goochcs were lion entered into a mooning in the west, Gooch kil! ith the other himself on the train but for j the Industrial what reason has never been nyt ! to overthrow cI??r. It is supposed general d carry on a however, that there was "anotl Kn of sabo- woman" who objected to Qooc second marriage and that the fear attorney John- hor prompted him to take his li e "had reve.il When the case h id been read many sections the federal district court Jud He said the Waddill ruled in favor of the you nt the destruc- widow but he was reversed by t *rops. appelate court. Mrs. Gooch's la yer then sought to have the distr n fail. tribunal review the case. In the < William T) CIPloil of the nnnellafe the 55 men in- "after discovered evidence" put f ) are chargei ward as a plea for a review is i indicted by a considered sufficient and Gooe lettnie ago and marriage settlement is consider in jail here "ungenerous, but not fraudulen application for His estate has been valued at ni< t a ruling ha? than $300,000. Russia Withdraws. r York. Amsterdam, Feb. n.?RUs 11.?A case of has declared the state of war to id in the coun- it an end and has ordered the t of York, the mobilization of Russian forces on ig white man fronts. , [INSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR , UNSINKABLE SHIPS . TO CARRY SOLDIERS Means Have Been Found to Make Troop Transports That >e Fear No Submarine. it TO CHECK U-BOAT MENACE n * Transports Will He Equipped ,n With New Apparatus Which if Will Make Them Float After hi Explosion of Torpedo. IS ' h New York, Feb. 11.?Means have ?t been found to make troop transports !>r unsinkable by submarine, according to a statement made Saturday by re William L.. Saunders, vice chairman u" of the naval consulting board, in an address at a dinner of the University bp of Pennsylvania alumni in this city. Mr. Saunders said that one of the of ships recently commandeered by the lie government "now lies at an Atlantic ct port and in such shape that she cands not be sunk by an exploding torbe pedo." ge "I can conceive no reason why n- this information should be withheld," he added. "On the contrary, I ItpliPVP it iu WO 11 t h _! t tho onoMitr er - - "" "v" '"v v "'J n_ may come to realize that the time has been reached when American en transports are ready for the transr,j poration of onr troops which that ot eneiny cannot sink. This ship may j, have a hole thirty or forty feet in u._ diameter blown in her side, and she (ja will remain afloat. Such a hole ,ee would waterlog but one-tenth of the j)V honeycombed air tight cells." uj_ Mr. Saunders described in detail the plai. to keep ships afloat after )n they had been torpedoed, and the m manner in which it had been develop oped by William F. Donnelly, a New York marine engineer, working under authorization of the naval consulting board. "Of course, it will take some time to equip similarly the large number PS of transports we have," continued, j Mr. Saunders. "It is my belief, I however, that nothing will be left 1,1 undone by the administration to safeguard the lives of large troop contingents to be moved across the Atlant ie." ur I.i:\DS \ MAY MKAVINfi ,st TO hi: of CONFIDENCE id Washington, Feb. 11.?Announceai-_ ment by Vice Chairman Saunders, ,.s_ of the naval consulting board, that ju, means had been found to make troop ships practically unsinkable id,, lends now meaning to the air of con*jiM fidonce with which both American ap_ and British naval authorities are >r,j facing their task of clearing the (its s,'as ?' 1 -boats. Recent statements ial ''V Admiral Jellieoc, formerly first . a sea lord of the British admiralty, bv Secretary Daniels and other officials have indicated that a campaign has . . . been mapped out and the instrumentalities developed which are expectI is, ed to curb if not eliminate the submarines entirely within the next ^ few months. Discussion of the devices develjn , oped is deplored by officials here. Investigations and experiments have been guarded closely. High officials hatfe been free to assert privately, f ^" however, their belief that the U1,(1 boats would be checked sufficiently "sl by early summer to insure a steady l(*e j flow of American troops and supplies '* to Europe with few incidents such as ier, that of the Tuscania to be anticih s pated. of fo INTRODUCE RESOLUTION TO ABOLISH S. C. SENATE ng hf Speaker of House Kill oh Out Atlinipl at Killing "Hump I/Ogislalet je. tivo lloily." ho or- Columbia, Feb. 11.?Speaker lot Cothran, by a point of order, preh's vented the abolition of that ancient rod enemy of the house of representat." tives, the state senate, ire The point of order was made on a resolution. Introduced by Representative W. W. Smoak, of Walterboro. which, after recitina the iirno isia minies and indignities suffered be from the frigid chamber of dignity, de- hauteur, and oratory, by the lower all body, asked for the speedy demise and rapid interment of the Renate. i