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■ ■ "v. f if TiStrir'im C *:t Oil Kbll/IM The Bank of Aiken: TOTAL RESOURCES $600,000 When Times are Hard, do Business With a Strong Bank, and be Safe. liken limmVf. The Bank of Aiken. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $200,000. The Oldest and Strongest Bark in Aiken County. Arthur 1*. Ford, Editor and Proprietor* AIKEN, S. (\, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1 DOG. Established 1881. Price 81.50 a Year, in Advance. A RELIGIOUS WAR BUU£I f0B ex-senator Looms in France Between Catholics and Government. Discarded Woman Shoots Lawyer in a Washington Hotel—Both Hail from Salt Lake City, Utah. SITUATION IS RIDICULOUS Allleged-\That Pope Has Decided t* Attempt Overthrow of the Re public—Government Maintains Firm Attitude. A Paris special says: The presa unanimously recognizes the extreme gravity of the religious issue in France, precipitated by the pone’s in- ' diately put upon the operating table, tansigent attitude, and many papers rwo shots we re fired, one grazing predict a veritable religious warfare. Former United States Senator Ar- thui Brown, of Salt Lake City, lies in a critical condition in Emergency hospital at Washington from a pis- ! l ^l shot wound i n the abdomen in flicted by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake, who arrived at the capitol Saturday from that city. The shoot ing occurred in Senator Brown’s apaitments in the Raleigh hotel, where Mrs. Bradley aieo had register ed under the name of “A. B. Brown.” She was arrested. Senator Brown was dOinveyed to the hospital, where he was imrr.e- BAR CONVICT GOODS Each State is Given Preroga tive by the House. A STRENUOUS SESSION Democrats Oppose Porto Rican Fran* chise—Three-Cornered Appropria tion Bill Introduced and Made Special Order. FINLEY MADE PRESIDENT Of the Southern Railway to Succeed Lamented Sam Spencer—Directors Hold Meeting in New York. shots bis left hand and the other en*er- .... i n « the abdomen and lodging in the the governments calculations hav* pelvic cavity. * 5 clearly been upset and new legisla- | Mrs. Bradley arrived shortly after live authority may be necessary to noon After being assigned a room, enable it to cope with the situation. I f immediately went to Senator It having been decided that aftat; , Ermvns apartment. There were no Tuesday religious service may not ! witnesse ’ *0 the shooting, but a floor be held without a prelimihary dec la- ! n,a ‘ ( i heard the shots and at once no- ration under the law of 1881, the pope's order entails the immediate initiation of prosecutions in 36,00.0 communes and logically the invasion of churches by the police for the purpose of pronouncing their dissolu- tion and expelling the parish.priesta. The militant Catholics seemingly hail with enthusiasm the prospect of war fare and the attendant excitement of religious passions. M. Jaures, the socialist leader, pro fesses to believe that the Vatican has deliberately decided to test th« strength of the party of reaction in an attempt to overthrow the republic. The socialist organs generally, how ever, regard the pope’s instructions as being the result of the govern- weakness in offertejj any con- ces!*Wi> ^vond the T^iatlon of the cultural ^JH^m^j^^fomplated un ' der thj the on declarations made to s£* ow the ecclesiastics the door. t , ** . / The cons^-.-yulve pa | nyy^^visythe government to remjup true to its~TW eral principles, r^^mcling that the more thef ch\u^^ intolerant and panic-strick^^ lll e more authority it will ne^p^* rovJ(ie d the government does lose its head. -ihe government has made prepara tions to cope with the situation, but is keeping them secret. The cabinet .maintains a resolute front. Instruc- jions to the prosecutors were tele graphed broadcast Monday. Premier Clemenceau»is quoted as lying; "If the church elects tc have war, will have it, but the world will ?ar witness that the Vatican is like foreign power trying to dispute le authority of the French govern- ient.” Briand, minister of public wor- says he thinks the pope yielded to the importunities of the ultramon- taines, who are over-possessed with ‘the mad idea that out of disorder and civil war they will emerge trium phant. The government now does not face a revolt of the consciences of French Catholics, but a purely politi cal enterprise.” The situation is likely to he fur ther complicated when explanations of the government’s intentirfi will ba demanded. REPORT ON COTTON GINNED. Census Bureau Gives Output to De cember 1st at 10.025,445 Bales. The census bureau at Washington, j Monday, issued a bulletin showing i the total amount of cotton of the crop ( of 1006, ginned to December 1, *o > havf been 10,025,445 bales, counting rouid bales as half bales. The total nurtOcr of ginneries in operation is giWn as 28,211. fhe statistics of this report include i/.FsS sea island halos for 1906 and 1,6>5 for TBfe sea island cciton for 1906 is istributed by states as follows: Flor id^ 19,159; .Georgia, i 7,190; South Carolina, 5,167. • i- — 'TAMPA CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE. V-Sfc. • - - Demand . JJetter Street Car Service and free Use of Ferries. Mote tfcjin jbOOO cigar makers went r iMi strike Tampa, Fla., Monday me .of poor street car across the s rebuiH;..’An employees 1C side of the aceeded to the city lonstration. A • ‘taayjor and ofll- Ctrio- qGtnpany, rouM ret urn ferriage lifted the management. In a state ment at the police barracks Mrs. Bradley said came to Washing ton to demand that Senator Brown marry her. She said their relations were well known in Salt Lake. “I asked him if he was going to do the right thing by me,” she said, maintaining a remarkable composure. “His reply was to put on his coat and start to leave the room, and l shot him. I abhor acts of this charac ter, but in this cace it was fully jus tified." She said she urged Senator Brown to marry her, that he had been in strumental In the divorce between her husband and herself, and that as his wife was dead, he now could “do the right thing” by her. This, she fald, he positively refused to do. Mrs. Bradley is about 38 years old rst act after being taken to the (1 for Senator Sutherland, of Utah, who calle had a long talk with her. Senator Sutherland regretted being brought inio the case, bin said that Mrs. Bra 1- _ ley had sent, for him because he was the only man in Washington she knew. To him she unbosomed herself and told the story cf her relations with Senator Brown. She alleged that two < f her children owe their parentage to Senator Brown, and she had nam ed one of them after him. Mrs. Brad ley was reluctant to speak of her former husband, but questioning brought out the fact that he was liv ing in Nevada with a second wife. Further questioning disclosed the fact that Mrs. Bradley for two years, 1900 and 1902, had served in the ca pacity of secretary to the state repub lican committee, and was also at one time editor of the official organ of the •State Federation of Women’s Clubs. According to a dispatch from Salt Lake City Brown left there for Wash ington several days ago to argue a ease before the United- States su preme court. Mrs. Bradley left the city two days after Brown’s depar ture. Her friends announced that she had gone to San Francisco. Abou» three years ago a charge in volving immoral conduct was filed against Senator Brcwn and the Brad ley woman by Senator Brown’s wife. Before the case came to trial Mrs. Brown withdrew her charge and Brown was released. Mrs. Bradley pleaded guilty. Before sentence was imposed, however, she was permitted to withdraw her plea and the chargo against her was dismissed. The wife of Senator Brown died about two years ago. esUy manufactured prod- LONE ROBBER RAIDS BANK But Failed to Make Good and Was Forced to Surrender. After a daring,attempt to rob the J. V. Brinkman Company bank at Great Bend, Kas., a man who gave his name as George A. Lewis, of Kansas City, was surrounded aud cap tured. Bud Westfall, a driver for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, was killed by a shot fired by one of the pursuers. ATLANTA’S POPULATION. Current City Directory Shows Gain of 8.000 the Past Year. The new city directory of Atlanta shows that the city and its environs has 8,000 more population than it had one year ago. Accoiding to the last A Washington special says: By a practically unanimous vote the house Friday passed the bill limiting the regulation of interstate commerce be tween the several states in articles manufactured by convict labor or in any prison or reformatory. The bill was introduced by Mr. Hunt of Missou ri, a practical stone-mason. Under the Wilson bill, which be came a law in 1890, convict labor made goods may enter into active competition with goods manufactured by “free labor,” and under this fed eral law a state could not pass a law that would prevent the shipping into the state prison made goods of ether states. The law passed abrogates the Interstate commerce law, as at present applied to convict made goods, there- by affording to the different states and territories the right to inhibit the shipping of convict made goods with in the confines of any state or ter ritory. Mr. Hunt asked for its passage not only for the interest of the free labor, but in the interest of the manufac turers. He said it was an attempt to curb the criminal competition of th* penitentiary with the free labor of the country. “It is cruel,’’ he said, “to ask the free labor of this country to main tain its dignity and its self-respect, if it has to wait until the product of --Die_state prison is sold before the emplojTh-v^ji get a reasonable price for his honestl nets.” lather spcoT^fces wcj ley ol Kentuolv Henry o. 1 Texas and (7 Ohio. The democrats in the posed the consideration of the bill conferring United States citizenship on the inhabitants of Porto Rico. Chair man Cooper of Wisconsin, under the call of the committees, called the at tention of the house to the erroneous position of the bill on the union cal endar, insisting that its proper place was on the house calendar. Mr. Clark of Missouri, leading the minority, objected to its transfer, but Speaker Cannon decided with Mr. Cooper that it properly belongs on the house calendar, which would give it a different status than on the un ion calendar. The chairman of the committee on insular affairs attempted to have it called up for consideration. Again Mr. Clark protested, insisting that the house had a right, to have notice of the possible consideration of the measure. The speaker sustained the protest, and the bill went over. The discussion disclosed a determi nation of the democrats to fight the measure whenever possible With an appropriation of $20,<’00,000 and provisions barring “simplified spelling” in documents authorized by law or ordered by congress, the leg islative, executive and judicial appro priation bill for 1906 was reported to the house by the appropriations com mittee, which was made a special or der for Monday. The amount carried by the bill is $685,842 less than the estimates. The appropriation for the current fiscal year aggregated $30,168,4485. The en tire number of salaries carried in the bill is 14,727, or 220 less than in- eluded in the estimates therefor, and 29 more than provided for the current year. An increase from $1,200 to $1,400 is made in the . owance to members of the house foi clerk hire, and the requirement that members certify they have spent this amount is omitted. The appropriation for miscellaneous expenses for the yf-ar Is cut from $100,- 060 to $50,000. The salary of the sec retary to the speaker is increased from $3,000 to $4,000. The directors of tho Southern rail way, in session at New York, Wednes day, elected W. W. Finley of Wash ington, president cf the company, to succeed the late Samuel Spencer. Mr. Finley has been second vice presi dent of the road since September 15, 1896. Ho has been in active railway service since 1875. Prior to lerfering the Southern’s service Mr. Finley was second vice president of the Great Northern rail way; before that he was third vice president of the Southern railway. For two years he was chairman cf the Southeastern Passenger Association at Atlanta, Ga Mr. Finley was at times associated with .James J. Hill. The election of Mr. Finley caused very general satisfaction in the Wash ington railroad world, and it is be lieved this feeling will extend among railroad men throughout the south. HOTEL GENESTA Augusta, Georgia EUROPEAN . , . Right in the heart of the retail shopping district. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. . • CJaFo JE» IDiniing* IRooms. Every Convenience for Ladies while shopping in Augusta. ELEGANT LAPSES’ RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS. Johnson’s Bakery. EGGS FILLED WITH ACIDS k.L-W. ESTABLISHED A. D. 1846. Used Against Strike-Breakers by the Strikers in Chicago. A startling exposure of the methods employed in the teamsters’ strike of last spring was given in the trial of Cornelius P. Shea and his fellow la bor leaders before Judge Ball, in the criminal court at Chicago Wednes day, when Joseph Schultz, alleged slug ger, who, with' Albert Youi^, turned state’s evidence, was on the stand as witnesses for the state. Schultz de clared that Shea had told him to break the legs and arms of the strike-break-* ers, and especially to attack the ne groes. When this means of bringing about desired results did not work satisfac torily, Schultz asserted that Shea or dered the hired pickets to throw* eggs Pursuant to an act cf the Genera* filled with acids at the horses being Assembly, approved Feb. 8th, 1906, Cleanliness and Purity of Materials Are characteristics of ail the Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pies, Ltc. made at JORXSO.\\> BAKERY, Park Arcnue. The Choicest Confectioneries and Can dies always »a hand. John R. Schneider IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Liquors, Fine Wines, Havana Cigars, Mineral Waters, Etu. Agent for Veuve-Clicquot Ponsardin, Urbana Wine Fysch Brewing Association. Company, Anheuser- 601 AND 603 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. TAX NOTICE. driven by non-union men. The acid throwers, according to Schultz, were responsible for many runaways, and were considered a great aid in the against the employer^. and other pickets were call- •iur captain gave u» a num Tlt ^ -onte'nts had been removed and the she.. fin e( i with acids. Shea was there, aad tom uc that if we carried out the plan proposed it woulh create a stir among the strike-breakers Shea raid that if thte scheme was no suc cessful he had another in mind Hint he believed would do the work. v He said he had seen a man squirt aid from a syringe at a team of hors?, being driven by a non-union teai*^, ster, and that six policemen were ui^' able to stop the runaway that resuWed in State street, which was crowded with traffic at the time.” entitled “An Act to Raise Supplies and Make Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Commencing January 1, 1906,” I will be at my office at the Court House in Aiken from 9 o’clock a. m. to 2 p. lo_ Pine horest Inn. Opened Saturday, December 1st, 190J , strictly i Rooms on suita with bath. Elevator. Elecric lights, steam open fires. Pure water and perfec i. sanitar conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN FH^ SOUTH. Saddlle and harness horses. Fine hunting. H. M. PATTERSOI South Carolina.- TuThS13t clientele, heat and Manager, or F. \V. WvGENER & Co., Charleston, n 27 TO PACIFY CALIFORNIANS President Explains Expression in a Message Regarding Japs. A Washington special says: The California delegation in congress has received what they consider satisfac tory assurance that the president did not desire to be understood as saying in the Japanese section of his mes sage that he would use military force of the United States ih forcing Jap anese into the California schools, in which white children are taught. K Is said to have been his purpose to convey the idea that he would use the military to protect Japanese against mob violence. Californians take no offense at this interpretation of the message. Inquiry Wednesday disclosed the fact that the legal proceedings to he taken in San Francisco by the United States district attorney in the mat ter of admission of Japanese to the public schools of that city without discrimination, were inspired by Sec retary Root, who expressed the opin ion that it would be one way of ef fectively disposing of the controversy. That the president's views on tho subject met with the hearty approval March 15, 1907 mas excepted), for the purpose of re ceiving the taxes for the year 1906; and the commutation road for 1907. The levy for all purposes is as fol lows: State tax if paid by December 31. 1906. 5 mills. County tax if paid by December 31, 1900, 3 mills. School tax If paid by December 31, j&OC, 2 mills. District No 1 Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 1 mill. District No. 60, Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 4 mills. If the above levy is not paid bv locember 31, 1906, then 1 per cent 11 be added during January, 190?. Pen 2 per cent shall be added dur- ii A February, 1907. n 7 per cent shall be added up to If arch 15, 1907, when executions will me issued. Tb\tax on dogs Is 50 cents on each dog. TheVommutation road tax is $1.0( for eaA person liable (from 18 to 5< years i\he limit) and is payable with uff pen^y up to February 28, 1907. J. A. M. GARDNER, reasurer Aiken County. October % 1900. * 1 (ERFORD & GG. DEALERS nr BRICK, LIME, unrm.AND AND ROSKDBILE CEMENT. PLA8TE1 HAIR AMR LATHS K00FIN9 ETC. Corner of WMblagtoa aad Rajmolds Street*. vt. X* £S t , PEACE IZE FOR TEDDY. High Parliament of^iorway Pays Honor ^ Roosevelt. The Norwegiamparliament Monday conferred the X^jpi peace prize on President Roosevc The American mltister, Mr. Pierce, in an eloquent speed thanked parlia ment in the president’s name. He said that words were inadequate to express the deep emotion wijich he experi enced receiving th* distinguished testimonial in behalf of-the president, I who recently cabled tha\ he regarded of the Japanese government was lhis prize as 0 n e of the Watest hon- made evident Wednesday when Vis count Aofi, the Japanese ambaasador. said that he had personally thanked the president for what he had said. WOMAN NEARS GALLOWS. High Court Refuses Application of Mrs. Myers, of Kansas City. The supreme court of the Unite 1 States, through Justice Brewer, lias denied the application of Mrs. Aggie Myers, of Kansas City, Mo., for a writ VALE SIMPLIFIED SPELLING. directory, Atlanta had a population of error, which, if it had been allow ed, would have had the effect of bringing her case to that court. Mrs. Myers is under senteiice of' death in Missouri on the charge of murdering her husband in Kansas City a year or more ago. The effect of the de rision will be to leave the matter in the hands of the state authorities. of 108,00 persons. The new directory shows a population of'll6,60<T. According to the figures given At lanta, with the addition of the sur rounding towns, reachable by street o%r. Including Decatur, College Park, . Ihe flumping station, and other points. [.has a population of 152,000. Its Death Blow Given by House Com mittee on Appropriations. Simplified spelling xeceived a hard blow' Friday in the legislative, execu tive and judicial appropriation bill for I&OIS, reported to the house of repre sentatives by Ufe committee on ap propriations, which says; “Hereafter, in printing 1 documents, authorized by law or ordered by con gress, or either branch thereof, government printing ot low the rules of ed by Webster’s ors which any mun. in j^y positior., throughout tfm, world, cuMfi reccing. The aw'a^i^rtfr. Pierce ad awl would deepl^^ipeal io the heartR of the Ajrfmdcan people. Mr. Pierce read a message ..’om President Rm S evelt expressing nis thanks, and ^ying thc'c was no gift he could appJL:i a t e more. The president also J^Jounc; lie had elected to u% ’M- tablish at Washington, industrial peace, -ct view of maints in the indi imperti pes Lomliaril Iron fforts aai Sipply Co., Augusta, Ga. 40 j mm nr Hotel Melbourne, 604 BROAD STREET, Aagnsta, Ga. MRS. P. W. BYA99EE, Proprietress. First class accommodations for per manent or transient boarders. Thor oughly renovated and newly furnish ed under new management. Table supplied with all the delica cies of the season. Convenient sample room attached. Engines, Boilers, Cotton, Saw, Fertilizer, Oil and Ic« Machin- | ery and Supplies and Repairs, Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft- j ing. Pulleys, Hangers, Leather ana Rubber Belting and Hose, Railroad and Mill Supplies and Tools, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heater* aad Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred hands. Estimates furnished for power plants and steel bridges, store fronts. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US RRFOJBF Bl Agent. Fire, Lile, Cyclone, Accident Insurance, -AND- I:-: AIKEN. S. C. NOTICE Cl tOUTgSL. . .A FOR ALABAMA COMPANY j^udge Appoints FTeceiver at of Polioy Holders, of the law and equity ■ A ». - . ^ * ,ond, JThnrsday, appofnt- r^for the Prudential Fire West^ Insui cepted dicj a uage Bngl MILLION for WATERWAYS. Congress is Urged to Appropriate Sur of $50,000,000. The final session of the rivers and WastvlngtJr C£NTI fanoar -<*♦1 was> Wednesds Jut and fickle. .. E. ferrate Veterans, issued by command of General Assl lursds on 36,9U t . Poto-Tjaster Mc- lade pubic a report of the At U.to Dej S* 1 tltie Mere in op as erat fablisbi jag. The M \fa new emplol