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PIW4,- * **■ r. v- RiJ »»? tH B oi The Bank of Aiken. TOTAL RESOURCES $600,000 W hen Times are Hard, do Business With a Strong Bank, and be Safe. Mm The Bank of Aiken. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $200,000. The Oldest and Strongest Bank in Aiken County. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. C., THURSDAY,'JANUARY 3, 190; Established 1881. Price 81.50 a Year, in Advance. BE OF GOOD CHEER Is Message to Country From Secretary Shaw, PROSPERITY UNBOUNDED Head of Treasury Says Money Short age, Car Shortage and Other Subjects of Complaint is Due to Good Times. ‘•There is no occasion for alarm. Our only anxiety need be lest we fail of facilities to properly garner, store, transport and market our multiplied blessings. Let every man be of good cheer and try to be conservative in everything except thankfulness.” Secretary of the Treasury Shaw thus concluded i resume ot the year’s financial resources which he says has been prepared in response to multi plied requests, in round numbers he places the receipts for the calendar year 1906 at $('.25,000,609 and the ex penditures at $566,000,000, or an excess of receipts over expenditures of $59,- 000,000. As there has been no change in the tariff laws or ti e laws relating to internal revenue, Secretary Shaw says the large increase in receipts is due solely to the extraordinary trade activity. The total expenditures, how ever, for 190>J, as compared with 1905, he says, shows a decrease of but $5,000,000. Discussing the finances of the gov ernment for the six months of 'the present fiscal year just closed the sec retary says that the books o? the treasury show surplus receipts over expenditures of $25.00i),000 as compar ed with a deficit of $8,000,000 for the corresponding months of the prev ious fiscal year. The cash in the treasury is $190,000,001) as compared with $171,000,000 a year ago, an in crease of $19,000,000. The cash in na tional bank depositories is $159,000,000 as compared with $65,000,000 a year ago, an increase of $;)4,(?00,000 and the total cash in *he general fund is $;]5G,000,000 as against $242,000,000 a year ago. — Against this there are liabilities at the present time $13,000,000 greater than at the same time last year. The available cash balance has incresed during the year $lul,000,000. With the general fund at $237,000,- 000, Secietary Shaw remarks that the bonds maturing July 1, 1907, can be paid, if it shall be deemed wise, and still leave a working balance of more than $120,000,000. During the last twelve months, the secretary continues, the money in ac tual circulation-, exclusive of the amount in the treasury vaults, has in creased over $200,000,000. Of this in crease $145,000,000 is available for bank reserve and $60,000,000 is in na tional bank circulation. * “This,” he says, “seems to be a complete answer to the official re peated and ill-advised criticism that the treasury system necessarily re sults in contraction when money is most needed.” He maintains, therefore, that the existing money stringency, world wide in its extent, is traceable in no re spect and in no degree to the inde- pendent treasury system of the Unit ed States. He says the manifest short age has been caused by the unpre cedented prosperity in this country and reasonable prosperity everywhere. JAP FLEET MAY NOT COME. Opposition Develops to Proposed Visit to Jamestown Exposition. Advices have been received from Yokohama, that considerable opposi tion is being developed as a result of an anti-American feeling in Japan, over the proposed visit of a Japanese fleet to the Jamestown exposition and I nited States ports. An influential member of the house of peers is quot ed as stating that the proposed outlay of $400,060 to send, the fleet and Ad miral Togo to the United States must not be approved. PASSENGERS LOSE VALUABLES. Brace of Robbers Loot Sleeping Car on Seaboard. Near LaCrosse, Va., on the Sea board Air Line, at 2;20 oclock Mon day morning, the passengers in the sleeper of train No. 81, out of Rich mond, were held up and i ebbed of about $800, besides jewelry. The rob bers, two in ni'mbi.r, got on at Rich mond as passengei s. The Pullman conductor, while attempting to arrest them, was shot through the arm. The men then pulled the emergency brake cord, stopped the train, and escaped. HOUSEKEEPERS FEAR SERVANTS Families in Houston, Texas, Dispens ing With Colored Help. A supposed attempt to assassiunte Mrs. T. H. McGregor, the wife of Representative-elect McGregor and the announcement that members of the family of t\ Charles Hmne' had been poisoned has led many Houston, Tex as, householders to discharge their negro servants. WRECK HORROR GROWS. List of Dead in Collision on B. & O. Road, Near Washington, Reaches 52 and Others May Die. A Washington special says: The Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Terra Cctta Sunday night, grows in magni tude as the hours pass. The most conservative estimate ol the dead made Monday night was 52. with three score of injured at the hos pitals or at their homes, suffering from wounds and fractures sustained in the rear-end collision, which com pletely demolished the two day coaches and the sn oker attached to the local Frederick, Md., train. No. 66. Several of the most seriously injured are expected to die, and the death list may reach 60 or more. Heart-rending and pitiful were the scenes at the city morgue Monday, where hundreds of persons flocked to assist the police in the identification of the dead. Women, girls and even men witii iron lerves, sobbed aloud and fainted as their relatives or friends were found among the corpses strewn about tbe floor. Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are conducting an investiga tion of the wreck in Baltimore for the purpose of placing the responsibility for the disaster. General Superintendent Todd exon crated Milton V. Phillips, the operator at the Takoma block station, the last signal station that ihe equipment train passed before crasning into the pas senger train at Terra Cotta. The sup erintendent declared that Phillips was obeying instructions when he went home at 6:30 o'clock, leaving the dou ble green signal burning. While mak ing no positive charga. Superintendent Todd intimated tnat the burden bf the blame would fall upon the engineer and crew of ihe extra. The five mem bers of the crew who were arrested shortly after ihe accidet, are now be ing held to await the result of official investigation. They are; Harry H. Hildebrand, engineer; Ira C. McClel land, fireman; Frank F. Hoffm/er, con ductor; Ralph Rutter, brakemaa; Wil liam A. Norris, baggagemaster. Gazing vacantly between the Iron bars of his cell at tbe police station. Engineer Hildebrand is too full of emotion to make any definite state- mgnt. “it will all come out at the in- vestigauou, fie SiXicr ”1 cram: oe* lieve that there is anything for me to say and I could not say it if there was.” Before he was arrested, the engi neer made a statement, in which he declared that if the danger signal light was displayed at Takomo, he failed to see it, owing to the dense fog. Milton V. Phillips, the operator, who is also held a prisoner at the Tenth precinct, said that the equip ment train ran past his danger signal board at a speed of 50 to 60 miles an hour. He said there was a heay^ fog. but not enough to hide the red light. He declares that he immediate ly notifled the operator at University station that the train had taken the block against bis orders. His state ment is corroborated by the Univer sity station operator, who says he re ceived the message. AWFUL SLAUGHTER Wrought in Frightful Wreck Near Washington. THIRTY-EIGHT ARE DEAD While Sixty Are on List of Injured. Trains Crashed in Dense Fog. Heartrending Scenes Enacted. EDUCATORS NAME OFFICERS. Tighe Eelected at Montgomery Meet ing to Head Southern Association. The Southern Educational Atsocia tion at its session in Montgomery, Ala., elected the following officers: President. R. G. Tighe, superintend ent city schools, Asheville, N. C.,; first vice president. Dr. E. B. Craighead, president Tulane University, New Or leans; second vice president. State Superintendent C. L. Floyd, Montgom ery; secretary, Principal J. B. Cun ningham, Birmingham, Ala.; treasurer, E. P. Burns, member board of educa tion, Atlanta, Ga. After the adoption of this report, the association received invitations for the holding of the next meeting. Three cities were prominently mentioned, New Orleans, Jamestown, Va., and Lexington, Ky. Decision on this will be announced later! It was decided to found a depart ment of libraries. GUGGENHEIM FOR SENATE. Colorado Republicans Endorse Him By a Vote of 68 to 1. Simon Guggenheim’s election as United States senator to succeed Thomas M. Patterson is assured by the action of the Colorado Republican members of the general assembly In caucus at Denver Monday atlernoon. Mr. Guggenheim's candidacy was en dorsed by a vote of 68 to 1. Seventy of the 100 members of the legislature are Republicans and all but cne of them participated in the cau cus. INTEREST RATE IS RAISED. Seven Atlanta Banks Will Pay Deposi tors Four Per Cent. By the decision of seven banks in the city of Atlanta, which are either exclusively savings banks or have sav ings bank departments, to raise the rate^of interest on deposits from 3 1-2 to 4 per cent per annum. $15,000 will be saved to the small depositors ol the city. PLEDGE TO BACK BRITAIN. United States Will Aid in Amelio rating Conditions in the Congo. It was said at the state department that the United States government, through its ambassador in London, had pledged to Great Britain its sup port in any steps taken by the Brit- j ish government toward ameliorating | conditions ot affairs in the Congo. This is the first tim e that any ofli cial announcement has been made, and sets at rest all questions as to the stand the United States will take in the matter. “TEDDY MAKES A MESS’ Everry Time He Touches the Negro, Says Tillman—Snator Expresses Himself Tersely In Lectures. An appalling disaster cccurred Sun day night at 7 o’clock on the Balti more and Ohio railroad at Terra Cotta, about three miles from Wash ington, in which thirty-eight per sons were killed and over sixty in jured, some ot them so seriously that they will die. The accident was caused by the col lision of train No. 66, due in Wash ington at 6:25 p. m., from Frederick, Md., known as the Frederick special, with a dead-head passenger equip ment special of eight cars. Over 200 passengers were aboard the ill-fated train. The railway officials arc unable to assign any cause for the collision. As soon as the news of the wreck reached the city all ambulances avail able, with as many physicians as could b® assembled, were sent to the scene. Ot the injured seven were taken to Freedman’s hospital, fifteen to the United States Soldiers’ Horne hospital and twenty were brought into the ciiy on a special train to be carried to the various hospitals. Frann P. Bodlitz, a newspaper man of Frederick, Md., who was slightly injured, in describing Lie experience, said: ”1 was in the car next to the smok er, talking with a gentleman and his wife from Detroit, Mich. We were all standing up, the car being crowded. Suddenly we heard an awful noise and then a crash. Women began scream ing and the next thing 1 knew I found myself rolling down an embankment, where some one o ' 1 1 IIIT ’ ,| ' r » * l " I found I was hot badly hurt. It is impossible to describe the scene. Women and children were running about crying for their parents, and mothers and fathers were rushing around trying io find their children. The dead and injured were strewn along the track for a distance of a Utile.” The dead bodies were found lying beside the track for a considerable distance. The wreck occurred at 6:39 p. m. A dense fog was prevailing and made objects perceptible but a few feet ahead. It was impossible at first to determine the exact extent of the catastrophe. The ill-fated train runs only on Sun day for the benefit of Washington ians who either have country places cm the line or go to visit relatives. It leaves Frederick at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and is scheduled to reach Washington at 6:25 o’clock. C. W. Galloway, superintendent of transportation of the Baltimore and Ohio, stated that it was impossible yet to determine the cause of Hie wreck. He said: “We have on this division the most modern block system. Just what oc curred we are unable at this hour to say. Because of the confusion inci dent to the collision, of caring lor the dead and injured, we have been unable to consider the proper causes. We have not yet interrogated the opera tors and until wo Jo so we cannot be certain what the situation was.” It is stated that the danger signal at Takoma Park, a short distance from the scene of the accident, was set when the train of empties passed. The train was going ai the rate of sixty miles an. hour, and Engineer Hildebrand stated that on account of the heavy fog he could not see the signal. His train ran into the Fred erick train just as it was pulling out of Terra Cotta, where it had stopped to take on four or five passengers. “Roosevelt does not know anything about the negro, and every time he touches him he makes a mess of it. He had no business discharging the negro troops at Brownsville before making a careful investigation. I doubt very much whether or not he is vested with the authority to take such matters in his own hands any way.” Thus spoke Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, as he step ped from a Louisville and Nashville train In Birmingham, Ala., Saturday ai te moon. Senator Tillman addressed a large Birmingham audience at the theater Saturday night, which enthusiastical ly cheered the vigorous sentiments he expressed. The senator talked on the regro question largely, and said that the white man owed all Ms good qual ities to the women of the race. The negroes have not the women possessing qualities which will make them high-minded, and this has teen their greatest drawback. Speaking of lynching; which he said would continue as long as the crime of rape continued, the senator exclaimed: “With the oath on my lips to up hold the law I would lead a mob any tinue to lynch a man, black or white, who haif ravished a woman.” Thursday night Senator Tillman de livered his lecture, “The Race Ques tion in the' South,” in the court room at Tifton, Ga. The audience was a large one, made up of the best people of the City. Mr. Tillman prefixed his address with a remark that he had been intentionally and otherwise so persistently misquot ed and misrepresented that he was always pleased to come before a new audience and let them cce what sort of an animal he was. He then called attention to the fact that negroes out numbered whites in South Carolina r.nu Mississinni Mnn that, in severaL. other states ihe wMi*5“scarcely oqum*- led the negro nunliiially. He sounded a ^ te of warning against social equality and amalgama tion, and declared that all the long- nosed Yankees between Cape Cod and hell would never be able to saddle negro rule upon the south; that the grandparents of the present people of the north had traded ruin and glass beads for negro slaves and had then bartered tnem to our grandparents, and that, so far as the original question of slavery was concerned, they were as deep in the mud as we are in the mire. He paid a high tribute to southern womanhood and declared that it stood as the one great bar io racial amal- gamtion, the one strong defence and protection against a 'ginger-cake race.” Taking up the history of Romo, he declared that the dark skinned deca dent Dago of today was the result of the mingling of the blood of Roman masters and negro slaves. Senator Tillman paid his respects to the African race, tracing us history and commenting on the poverty ol its achievements. Declared that it was designed by God as a race oft bunion bearers and unfitted by nature for any other duty. “Had I the absolute pow er today,” said Senator Tillman, "to frame such legislation as conditions demand, I do not know that 1 would be able to save this negro people from final butchery—and I am not blood thirsty either.” Mr. Tillman says that he likes to “sass” the Yankees and that they have shown their appreciation of his abili ties as a truth teller, by engaging all of his spare time during the coming year. Mr. Tillman stated that the present system of educating the negro was a j farce, and that the only result of it ! was to make him a candidate for -one : of the three P’s—Politics, Preaching ; or the Penitentiary. HOTEL QENESTA, Augusta, Georgia, EUROPEAN . . Right in the heart of the retail shopping district. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. . • Elegsint Cafe. 5 Private Dining Rooms. Every Convenience for Ladies while shopping in Augusta. ELEGANT LADIES’ RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS. Johnson’s Bakery. m f STONE! STONE!! Estimates givcm and order* prompt ly filled for street curbings, and oroaa- ings, nov/or bed borders, sidewalk* In blocks, bitching posts, door and tor- race steps, door and window sills, cemetery lot copings, rough and dressed ashlers for fronts of build ings, hee-rth stones, oto. Lakevlew stone a specially. Stone *rom other quarries if preferred. H. K. CHATFIELD, Aiken, 9- & TAX NOTICE. Pursuant to an act of the Genera» Assembly, approved Feb. 8th, 1906, 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 o’clock p. m-, and from 3 to 5 p. m., from Octcber 15, 1906, to March 15, 1907 (Sundays and Christ 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, 1906, 3 mills. School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 3 mills. District No 1 Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 1 mill. District No. 66, Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 4 mills. If the above levy is not paid M December 31, 1906, then 1 per com t-hall be add^d during January, 190.. Thmi 2 per rent shall be added du.- ing February, 1907. Then 7 per cent shall be added nr to March 15. 1907. when executions will be issued. The tax on dogs is 50 cents on each dog. The commutation road tax is $1.0< for eaeh person liable (from 18 to 5! years is the limit) and is payable with -.vt penalty up to February 2'j, 1907. j. M. GARDNER, Treasurer Aiken County. October 5, 1906. * NOTICE CITY TAXES. FIGHT IS BETWEEN UNIONS. Engineers on Southern Pacific Go Against Firemen. Numerous conferences were held in Houston, Texas* Saun Jay by Commis sioner of Labor Neill, who is endeavor ing to effect a settlement of the strike of the Southern Pacific locomotive firemen and the contending parties, but without success. The railroad company has virtuaih been eliminated from the negotiations and the effort is now to find a corn mou ground upon which the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers and the firemen’s brotherhood can stand. RACE FEELING IS HIGH. INTENDED TO KILL HIS WIFE. Negro Soldier Assaults White Woman at El Reno, Oklahoma. Race fueling at El Reno, Oklahoma, is at white heat and threats of lynch ing are heard on every hand as a re sult of an assault committed on Mrs. T. Clifford, wife of a prominent physi cian Thursday afternoon by a negro soldier of the tw'enty-fifth infantry. But Shields Shot Off Leg of His Daughter. Instead. William Shields, a farmer, shot at his wife in the country near gomery, Ala., Saturday. The load of bird-shot missed her, but tore off the leg of uis little daughter, .. dition is serious. A posse gathered and started in pursuit of him. ESTABLISHED A. D. 184*. '<rr> Cleanliness and Purity of Materials Arc characteristics of all the Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pies, Etc. made at JOHNSON'S BAKERY, Park Avenue. fho Choicest Confectioneries end Can dies always en hand. John R. Schneider IMPORTER A’ND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Liquors, Fine Wines, Havana Cigars, Mineral Waters, Etc. Agent for Veuve-Clicquot Ponsardin, Urbana Wine Company, Anheuser- Fusch Brewing Association. 601 AND 603 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA, GA. W. i. RUTHERFORD & CO. -DEALERS Ilf- BRICK LIME, PORTLAND AND ROSEHDALK CEMENT. PLASTER HAIR AND LATHS HOOFING ETC. Corner of Washington and Xojaelda Strata. -\ xa.i r.^. Opened Saturday, December 1st. 1906. High OIpss Hotel, .strictly in the Pines, catering to a select clientele. Rooms en suite with oath. Elevur. -v. Eloetrie lights, attain l.eat ami open fires. Pure water and perfer sanitary conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. Faddlle and harness horses. Fine hunting. H. M. PATTERSON, Manager, or F. W. WAGES HR & Co., Charleston, South Carolina. TuThSISt n 27 Hotel Park in the Pines AIKEN, s. c. Modern in Construction and Operation HARRY W. PRIEST CO., PROPRS-, / Management of J. A. Sherrard. SUMMER HOTELS: Hotel Preston, Beach Bluff, Maes. < The Colonial Arms, Gloucester Harbor, Mass. Hotel Melbourne, Lomlanl In Ms 604 BROAD STREET, Angnsta, Oa. i. j Augusta, Ga. Office of Clerk and Treasurer, City of Aiken, Aiken. S. C., Oct. 12, 1966. Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly and the City Ordinance the Tax Duplicate of the said City will be open at my office for ’he purpose of collecting City Taxes from Oct. LSth, 1906, to March 1st, 1907, for the fiscal year, commencing January 1, 1907. All persons residing within the lim its of the City of Aiken, and who j made Tax returns to Mr. D. H. Wise, | County Auditor, for taxation in Jan- | nary and February last, their names j with the returns aforesaid, have been copied on the Tax Duplicate of the said city, and hence they stand charg ed with the City Taxes for the fiscal year aforesaid, as provided by law r . Tax levy as follows: Cor Current Expenses . . .9 mills For Sinking Fund 1 mill Total Tax 10 mills J. L. MoCARTER, if City Clef^ *»nd Treasurer. MRS. P. W. BYA39EE, Proprietress. First class accommodations for per- luanent 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. Tt Parisians, who like to have a desig- j nating epithet for everything and ev- i erybody, call the actresses who ride j in touring cars, wrapped up in auto- | mobile coats, “the little hears of the boulevards.” Engines, Boilers, Cotton, Saw, Fertilizer, Oil and Ice Machin ery and Supplies and Repairs, Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulleys, Hangers, Leather ana Rubber Belting and Hose, Railroad and Mill Supplies and Tools, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heaters aad Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred bands. Estimates furnished for power plant* and steel bridges, store front*. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US BEFORE BUYING. .. BAIR CUTTING M SHAVING FOR Sait Getting, Shaving and Shampoo- GEO. W. WALTON. Schneider Building, 208 McIntosh St., Augusta, Ga. JJ. Agent. Fire, Life, Cyclone, Accident Insurance, AND i • AIKEN. S. C.