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Th« Farmers’and Merchants Bank, OF AIKEN, 8. C. *ccommodation extended to customers, conslsten. with safe, conservative Banking. Accents of small merchants and farmers a spe cialty. We take care of our customers. Correspo dence invited, or call in to see us when you want loans on Warehouse receipts, ~■ I ft Mm IT a un tMbti The Farmers’ and Merchants Bank. OF AIKEN, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000. President, J. P. McNair. Vice President, It. W. McCreary. Cashier. B. Monroe Weeks. YOUR ACCOUNT SOLICITED. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1901. Established UW1. Price 81.50 a Year, in Advance. ASK FRAUD ORDERI di QUEST FOR MORE PAY Cotton Growers Move Against New York Exchange. Made by the Conductors, Switchmen, Erakemen and Trainmen of Offi cials of the southern Railway. APPEAL TO CORTELYOU Congressman Livingston, Harvie Jor dan and Charles Barrett Call on Postmaster General and Present Evidence. A Washington special says: Con gressman Livingston of Georgia ap peared before Postmaster Cortelyou Wednesday afternoon, and urged the department to investigate the specific charges of fraud against the New York cotton exchange, which he pre sented. Colonel Livingston was ac companied by President Harvie Jor dan of the Southern Cotton Associ ation, he having invited President Jor dan and President C. S. Barrett of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-Op erate Union, to come to Washington and help push the case against the New York cotton exchange. The charges recite that the ex change operates under fraudulent con tracts; that its business is largely speculative, and has become a mere gambling game, and that the officials and members should be forbidden the use of the mails in advertising their business. The action of Colonel Livingston in moving against the New York cotton exchange was provoked by what plan ters consider proof of fraud being practiced by the exchange to the harm and detriment of the legiiimate cotton trade of the south. This proof appeared in the official market re port of the New York cotton exchange issued on December 28, which was notice day. On that date the price of cotton futures on contracts calling for December delivery was 9.02 and 9.04, while the price of spot cotton was 10.65. The disparity between the actual value of the staple, and its value on future contracts made on the floor of the exchange was thus 163 points, which would make a dif ference of $8.15 per bale. On the same day, New Orleans ' was nearly 100 points above New York, its quotations being 9.98 on futures and 10 3-16 on spots. In dis cussing the matter Colonel Livingston laid particular stress upon this sit uation as proving the claims of fraud in connection with the New York exchange transactions. He said: “If McFadden or any other cotton operator had bought cotton on that date at 9.02 and could have secured the actual cotton, he could have sold it in the spot market and made a profit on the 114,000 bales traded in on that exchange that day of $11,- 411,000. He did not buy, because he knew, and all knew that there was no cotton to be had. If the New York cotton exchange operates on the same plan as the stock exchange, or the corn exchange, and I am informed that such is their charter, they must keep on hand for actual delivery the cotton traded in, just as does the bro ker w ho sells railroad or other stocks. I do not know that such is their charter, and 1 have been unable to find out, but, if it is true, they must keep commercial salable cotton on hand to meet their contracts.” Harvie Jordan was of the opinion that if he had at his disposal a f ind of fifty thousand dollars to employ the legal talent to push the case, he could put the New York iilock Ex change completely out of business on this ground, provided this provis ion is found to be a part of its char ter. It is declared, however, that there is no purpose to prevent the legitimate transactions of the ex change, but simply to break up the alleged fraudulent contracts. The postmaster general referred his callers to Judge Goodwin, assistant general for the postoffice department. It is likely that a hearing will be held by Judge Goodwin. The conductors, switchmen, brake- men and trainmen of the Southern railway have sent representatives to Vashington to confer with the chief ecutives of the road for the pur- ’.e cf securing an increase in wages, 'iose who are now' at the capital e the regularly elected delegates of e organization of. the conductors and the trainmen known as the Bro- herbood m" Railwa> Trainmen. These delegates also have instruc- (ions to remain in Washington until hoy secure the advance in \yages or a direct and absolute refusal to grant the request. If the increase is granted, and it is confidently expected by all of the trainmen and conductors, the •: av of the delegates in Washington will be a short one. If the request is erased, it is stated on the very best of authority and frefn those In a position to know officially that a strike over the entire Southern rail- vay system will be declared and that almost every conductor, switchman and trainman will, go out to a man. I uder the present conditions of traf fic these railroad men do not believe that any- such drastic measures will bo necessaiy. They say that the busi- icss is more thau the road can han dle and that what with the shortage of cars, the delayed schedules and other disadvantages to the shipper and tha traveling public that the high est officials of the Southern railway will grant their request rather than tie up the entire system of more than 7,000 miles. The conductors state that during the past few' years and especially the past year or two, the necessities of life have incieaced from 25 to 50 per cent and that with their present wages they are unable to meet their monthly bills that belong to the average-sized family. Requests for an increase in wages have been made and the mat ter taken up only to be deferred from time to time by the officials having the authority to make this Increase that is asked for. It was stated by an official that the conductors of the Southern rail way are making from $110 to $120 per month, the exact amount of the wages depending on the length of the run. A 10 per cent increase in these wages is asked for. As to any compromise or postpone ments, the instructions to the dele gates were that in this case both com promises and postponements were barred. The switchmen, who now belong to (he B. R. T., instead of the former organization of their own composed only of switchmen, say that they are asking for the standard scale, which is $2.65 per day. They also state that they are now getting $2.15 per day. The conductors’ organization, the Order of Railway Conductors, is cme of the strongest in the country. It is stated that far over 90 per cent of the conductors of the Southern rail- w-ay are members of this organization and that they aie absolutely a unit in regard to the demand for higher wages, as is proved in the instructions to the delegates to remain in Wash ington untM some definite answer is received. The Brotherhood of Hallway Train men is also very strong, and has been greatly stlengthened lately by a num ber of organizers who have been at work along the Southern railway and other southern roads preparing for just such conditions as now r confrnt the executives of the Southern rail way in Washington. IN TEDDY’S DEFENSE Culberson of Texas Takes Up •Cudgels in the Senate. CASE OF NEGRO TROOPS Texas Senator Asserts That President Was Entirely Right In Dlscharg- charging Colored Soldiers at Brownsville. COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT OFFICE Defeated Incumbent of Job Long Held Goes Gas Route. Depressed, it is believed, over his defeat of re-election to an office he had filled for twenty-five consecutive years, Thomas Temple, who was until Wednesday the register of deeds for Suffolk county. Mass., took his own life at his home in Neponset Thurs day by inhaling illuminating gas Temple was 70 years of age. EDITOR HEARST SWEARS OFF. I CALL 3 TEDDY THE -BELOVED.- Says He Will Never Again Be Candi date for Political Office. William R. Hea.rst reiterated Thurs day to a coinmittee of the independ ence League in New York that he will never be a candidate for office again. Mr. Hearst said: “I myself will net be a candidate for any office, but l am as much in terested as eves, and more interested than ever in the promotion of the principles of the Ir.d: pendence League.” M’CREA SUCCEEDS CASSATT As Head of Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg. At a meeting in Philadelphia Wed nesday, James McCrea of Fiitsburg, first vice president of the Pennsylva nia lines, west of Pittsburg, was elec ted president of the Pennsylvani' Railroad company by directors of the latter corporation, to succeed the lat° A. J. Cassatt. Fulsome Flattery is Bestowed on Roosevelt by Sultan of Morocco. President Roosevelt has received a letter from the sultan of Morocco expressing gratitude for the appoint ment of Samuel R. Gummere as Amer ican minister to Morocco. The su’tan addresses the president as “The Be loved. the Most Cherished, the Most Exalted, the Most Gracious Friend. Most Honored and Excellent Presi dent of the Republic of the United State.; of America, who is the pillar of its great influence and the direc tor of its most important affairs.” DECEMBER GINNING REPORT. Bulletin of Census Bureau Shows Up 11,099,001 Bales to Date. According to a bulletin issued by th« census bureau at Washington there had been ginned up to Decem ber 13 of this year’s cotton crop 11,- 099,001 bales, against 9,297,818 at this time last year. The number of ginneries reported In operation this season prior to Decem ber 13 was 23,322. Senator Culberson of Texas was the first speaker in defense of Presi dent Roosevelt’s action in discharg ing, without hetnor, the Browncville battalion of colored troops, and re viewed the whole subject exhaustive ly in a most interesting speech in the senate Thursday morning. Senator Clay is scheduled for a speech in which he will follow Cul berson in support of the president’s action. Senator Culberson scored a point that was appreciated immensely by the galleries, when he said it was no more essential whether the battal ion was discharged because they were negroes than it was whether the con troversy arose in the senate because they were negroes. Although a senator from Texas, Cul berson is veiy close to Georgia. He was himself born in Alabama, but his fattier came from Troup county, -Ga, and his mother', from Columbia coun ty, Ga. He is closely related to many prominent Georgia families. His speech, the first gun in the contest, brought about by tne Foraker reso lution, was listened with interest. Senator Culberson said that he would have kept quiet but for the fact that great injustice had been done the pee-, e of Brownsville. Mr. Culberson said the conduct of the negro soldiers had been very ir ritating to the Brownsville people, and especially so to the women. He related that ’on August 4, last, the day before the shooting uo of the town, a criminal assault had been committed by one of the soldiers on the wife of a reputable citizen, and said that no arrests had been made for the crime. Mr. Culberson defended Captain McDonald of the Texas Ran gers, to whom Mr. Foraker had re ferred because of Major Blocksom's referonce to him as a man who w f as “so brave that he would net hesitate to charge hell with a bucket of wa ter.’* Mr. Culberson also said he knew Major Blocksom to be a g ntleman. In defending President Roosevelt for his dismissal of the troops, Mr. Culberson said the fact that the troops w r ere negroes had nothing to do with their discharge. Confusion as to the legal questions involved was, he said, responsible for the statement that the president had no authority to make the discharge. The president’s legislative authority and the author ity given him by the articles of war clearly covered the ease, and made his action legal, he declared. lie contended that discharges for crimi nal offenses are covered in the arti cles of war as are also , the charges made to effect punishment. To establish the motive actuating the negro soldiers in creating the al leged disturbance, Mr. Culberson read resolutions recently adopted by negro citizens of Boston,which admitted that the soldiers ‘shot up” the town and said they “were determined to do for themselves what the uniform of their country would not do—protect them from insults and punish at the same time the authors of their misery.” Disclaiming any partisanry for the president, Mr. Culberson created a wave of meriment by saying: “I have nothing to do with the president in this matter. I care nothing about him. My personal relations with him are about as coridal as those of the sen ator from Ohio.” (Mr. Foraker.) In all fairness, Mr. Culberson said, the country ought to know that the re port made to the president was re liable. GOTHAM'S VITAL STATISTICS. Hustling New Yorkers Do Not Believe in Race Suicide. Health Commissioner Darlington made public Tuesday the deaths, mar riages and births staMsties of Greater New York for 1906, with the comment that the figures indicated a prosper ous twelve months. During 1906 there were reported 114,772 births, an increase over 1905 of 8,000; 48,355 marriages, an increase of 2.492. The birth record is tlr3 greatest ever reported. WIRE HOUSES SHUT UP. Georgians Can No Longer Place Cash on Elusive Futures. Pursuant to the provisions of the Boykin bill which passed at the last session of the Georgia legislature, the last of the wire houses in Atlanta and other cities in the state closed Monday night for good, and no more will speculators be able to place their money on futures with houses in the state. Palmetto Stale News , ^ t V * r^rn A Killing In Chesterfield. Frank Perdue, 24 years of age, w’as shot and killed by Duncan Wilkes, age 28. Both were said to be drinking. The affair occurred in Chesterfield county. Studying Immigration Question. Mr. F. J. Warne, secretary of the immigration department of the na tional civic federation, is in South Carolina investigating this state's im migration movement. He has been given etery facility for obtaining infor mation by Commissioner of Immigra tion Watson. Burned Jail, Gained Liberty. On Sunday night Samuel Rollins vvas arrested by the chief ol police of Belton and placed in the guard house. He was charged with violating the dispensary law and also with ne glecting his family. Some time during the night he burn ed a hole in the ouilding and escaped after extinguishing the fire. He spent Chiistmas week wnere he pleased and is still at liberty. bise&sa and health REVIVO restores vitality “Made a Well Man of Me. M THE M3VIVO produces fine results In 30 days. It acts powerfully and quickly. Cures when others fail. Yount: men can regain their lost manhood, amd old men may recover their youthful vigor by using ItE%‘lVO. It quickly and quietly re moves Nervousness. Lost Vitality, Sezna* Weakness such as Lost Power. Failing Memory, Wasting Diseases, and effects of self-abuse or excess and indiscretion, which untits one for study, business or marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of disease, but is a great nerve tonic and blood builder, bringing back the pink glow to pale cheeks and re storing the fire of youth. It wards off ap proaching disease. Insist on having REVIVO, no other. It can be carried in vest pocket. By mail. $1.00 per package, or six for $5.00. We •>ive free advice and counsel to all who wish it, with guarantee. Circulars free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO., Marine Bldg.. Chicago, HI. For Sale in Aiken by H. H Hall, Druggists. fmrfcmp isss. Southern Churchman, Richmond, Va., Card Game Cauacs Tragedy. Jas. Kimbrough and John Cunning ham, white operatives at the Lau rens cotton mills, in Laurens, had a quarrel over cards and Cunningham was shot in the abdomen and is se riously injured. Kimbrough is in jail. He attempted to escape out was cap tured by Chief of Poiiee Bagwell. Ho is from Tennessee. Clemson Opening Postponed. The opening of Clemson College has been postponed on account of a short age in the coal supply. Dr. Mell ha? been in telegraphic communication with the officials of the Southern rail way in Washington, but he does not hope for coal before the 9th. The coal companies say that it is impossi ble to get cars. Baseball FrenaJk.se Sold. A r.ew T company has been organized taking over the Charleston baseball franchise for a consideration cf $2,500. The capital stock of t?ie new r company is $5,000. Wilson Matthews, who managed Sa : vannah last year, was elected Charles ton manager. Matthews will begin work at once and a hard effort will be made to land the South Atlantic league pennant. To Study Child Labor. Mrs. J. Elle Foster, who holds a personal commission from President Roosevelt, has for several days been inspecting the cotton mills of South Carolina with reference to the condi tions of child labor and employment of women. She t^ill snake a report to the president, on which he will base a special message to congress. Young Man Burned to Death. M. D. Smith, a young white man who lives in Chesterfield county, about five miles north of Patrick, was burn ed to death at his home a few nights ago. He had been to Ciieaaw and was said to be drinking. The house caught fire and it is supposed that Smith was unable to save himself. He was found in the yard with his clothes burned off. Do Not Believe Porter's Story. The sheriff’s posse which went to Mount Zion, the block telegraph sta tion on the Southern railway, six miles from Spartanburg, in response to the appeal for help sent out by Operator Porter, at that station, re turned to Spartanburg and expressed the opinion that no negroes had at tacked the station. Porter declared that shots were fir ed into the block tower, and that at the time he sent the message he was penned up in the f ttion by a mob of drunken negroes. Members of the sheriff s party attributed the excite ment to fright of the operator. The message sent to Spartanburg by Por ter was as follows; “I am penned up in a blockhouse and surrounded by a inob ot negroes, who have threatened my life. Tbov a e beating down the door. For God’s f ike send me help.” Died as Four Taps Came. Fire Chief O. G. Margenhoc, for twelve years at the head of the Charleston Fire Department and ex-of ficer of the National Association of Fire Engineers, a frequent contributor to firemen's and insurance publica tions dropped dead at midnight at his home, coming after a battle with s troublesome fire just as the four teps on the fire bells announced to the city, “fire's out.” He was about 00 years of age and was very highly re garded for his intelligence and splen did ability as a fire fighter. He leaves a large family. He had extensive business interests, wholesale and retail, and was looking forward to breaking all records for THE OLDEST PROTESTANT EPI8 COPAL CHURCH paper in the Uni ted Statei. All important diocesan and foreign news. Religious miscel lany and Interesting and Instructive family and children’s departments. $2 a year; $1 for 6 months; 50 cents for 3 months. Trial subscriptions 25 cents for 3 months. To clergy men $1.00 a year. small fire loss of 1906 in Charleston. He was generally beloved and re spected throughout Ihe city. A Lynching Averted. Tiney Chavis, a white man, was shot and killed near Springfield, in Orangeburg county, by ^ Stephen Clemens. Chavis wont to Cteintm? 1 house and asked him for some money, the negro owed. Clemens picked uj. a gun and shoved Chavis out of the door. He followed him into the yard and shot him dead- Chavis was not armed. The negro was captured later and taken to the jail at Barnwell for safe-keeping. There was consiue;able excitement at the inquest and friends of Chavis were anxious to get the negro. A mu latto from New York made himself conspicuous asking questions and as a result he is nursing a brokaa head and a well-tanned skiu. Charleston Projects Park. A project has been launched at Charleston, supported by Congress man Legarre and a number of capital ists, to construct a beautiful resort across the Ashley river from Charles ton, a feature of which will be a Japa nese garden, with lakes, labyrinth, fairy islands and other attractions, making a unique pleasure ground. A race track of a mile in length will be built, to be conducted by an in dependent company, in connection, however, with the gardens, and Ibis race track organization will be a mem ber of the national racing associations to insure racing by blooded horses. An electric railway will be con structed, having its terminus in the upper section of Charleston, crossing the river on a steel bridge, for which the permission of the United States government has already been granted, and extending beyond the pleasure re sort through a string of islands for the better accommodation in the move ment of the products of the many truck farms. WOMAN FIRED AT JUDGE. Arose from Seat in Court Room and Let Loose with Revolver. Incensed at bis recent decision in a partition suit in the estate of her father. August Weil, Miss Rosa Weil attempted to assassinate Judge Jesse A. McDonald, in the circuit court at St. Louis Wednesday. Miss Weil's aim was unsteady, and the bullet went wild. After the excited woman had been overpowered, the judge ordered her taken to the pm ate office of ihe sher iff. He then resumed hearing court motions. “I ought to have got him,” Miss Weil was heard to exclaim, as she was taken from the room. RUSSIAN COUNT KILLED. Assassin Fires Six Bullets Into Body of Alexis Ignatieff. Count Alexis Ignatieff. a membei of the counci! of the Russian empire, and ex-governor general of Kiev, Vo mynie and Podolia, was shot and kill ed by an unknown man in the refrosli- ment room of the hall occupied by the nobles’ assembly Saturday. The as sassin fired six bullets from a revolv er into his victim’s body, and then tried to commit suicide, but was seiz ed before he could do so. THE fl AG NOLI A INN. AIKEN, SOU I H CAROLINA. / * ^ FOR THE SEASON OF 1906-1907. A riodern Family Hotel. HEATED WITH HOT WATER FURNACES, AND OPEN FIRE PLACES IN ALL ROOMS. ELECTRIC LIGHTS, HOT AND COLD BATHS AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. CUISINE AND SERVICE THE BEST. FOR TERMS, ETC., ADDRESS, HENRY BUSCH, THE MAGNOLIA INN, AIKEN, S. C. Pine Forest inn. i Opened Saturday, December 1st. 1905. High Class Hotel, strictly in the Ptota, catering to a select clierslole. Rooms o-n suite with bath. Elevator. Electri * lights, steam kc?.-. a”d open fires. Pure water and perfect sanitary conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. Faddlle and harnesa horses. Fine hunting. H. M. PATTERSON, Manager, or F. vV. WACHNER & Cc South Carolina. TuThSISt *-} Charleston, 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, Mass. The Colonial Arms. Gloucester Harbor, Mass. Holme Crest Private Boarding House FIRST CLASS HOME TABLE WITH THE BEST-COOK IN AIKEN. NO ACCOMMODATION FOR CONSUMPTIVES. E. Willard Frost, Proprietor. INDUSTRIAL LUMBER CO Manufac turns or Yellow Pine Lumber, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Etc. OFFICE AND Y^ORKS, NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED ON APPLICATION ON EVERY CLASS OF WORK. YOUR OR 11ERS SOLICITED, LARGE OR SM ALL. UGUSTA, GEORGIA. POST OFFICE, A J. WILLIE LEVY, 866 BROAD STRE ET, AUGUSTA, GA. Offers to the people of Aike n County one of the best stocks of Fall and Winter Goods. ever brought to Augusta. J. & M. and Barry's Shoes. Ladles’ Suits of latest styles. Odd Skirts. Shirt Waists. A full line of Men’s and Boys’ clothing and furnishings. Call and examine before going elsewhere Fine Horseshoeing AND REPAIRING. Fine Horses scientifically shod at $2.50 per set. The very best mate rials used; and all work guaranteed. Our Repairing and Horseshoeing Department are newly equipped Expert Repairing of Fine Guns an d Pistols also done. The Mette Wagon Works. W. W. METTE, Proprietor.