The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 12, 1918, Image 1
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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
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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