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IV tiinflfMW Li -Hi mr i M The Bank of Aiken, TOTAL RESOURCES $600,000 >A<hen Timos are Hard, do Business With a Strong Bank, and be Safe. ® ljc %mn rtariiet Itie Bank of Aiken. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $200,000. The Oldest and Strongest Bank lr> Aiken County. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. THURSDAY. JANUARY 17, 1907. Established IlMil. I’riceSl.SOa Year, in Advance. / # ANOTHER MESSAGE I SHAW "* s sidestepped. On Brownsville Affray Sent Congress by Roosevelt. STICKS TO CONTENTION Along With the Message He Sends Evidence of Guilt of Colored Troops in Shape of Bullets, Empty Shells, Etc. President Roosevelt Monday sent to congress a special message re* guiding the Brownsville incident, which gives the additional vidence collected by Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Purdy and Major Blocksom, who were sent to Texas by the president to investigate the affair. The report submitted with his mes sage, including maps of Brownsville and Fort Brown, a bandoleer, 23 empty shells, seven ball cartridges, picked up in the streets a few hours after the shooting; three steel jacket ed bullets and some scraps of the casings of other bullets picked out of the houses into which they had been fired. The president declares that the evi dence is positive that the outrage of August was committed by some of the colored troops that have been dismissed and that some or all of the individuals of the three compa nies the twenty-fifth infantry had knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty ones. The negro troops are referred to by the president in his message as “mid night assassins,” an4 he declares that very few, if any, of the soldiers dis missed “without hcuor” could have i»een ignorant of what occurred. That part of the order which bars the soldier from all civil employment under the government is revoked by the president. This clause, the pres ident says, was lacking validity. The discharged troopers, however, will be forever barred from enlisting in the arihy or navy and as to this the president says that “there is «jo doubt of my constitutional and legal j tower.” Secretary Taft’s report giving the sworn testimony of witnesses is trans mitted with the message. The testi mony of fourteen eye witnesses is given and the president declares that the evidence is conclusive that the weapons used were Springfield rifles now used by United States troops, in* eluding the negro troops who were in the garrison rt Brownsville. Taking but a brief time to pass the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill. carrying nearly ?31,OCO.OOO, the senate devoted the remainder of the day to the Browms- ville affray. The president’s message was read and ordered printed. The speech-making on the subject began and cont'VauoJ until 5:30 o'clock. Mr. Foraker saying he was n^t going to make a speech, “but a few re marks.” observed that the testimony amounts to a great deal, “for the president tells us it is conclusive." “But it does not remove the ob jection I have had from the begin ning of the proceedings. What I have been trying to contend for, and I hope I will be successful, is to secure a hearing for the men charged with this r^fious ( crinie. This testimony has been taken as the other was, behind closed doors, without anybody repre senting the men. Stating that he did not agree with the president in all he has done in this case, Mr. Mallory of Florida di gressed to call attention to what he regarded as the best illustration that could be given of the incompetency of the negro to grapple with great questions. His illustration was the criticism of the president by a negro mass meeting at Boston. A negro, he said, held the most lucrative federal office in Florida, as collector of in ternal revenue; the collector of cus toms at Savannah, Ga., was a negro, and the collector of internal revenue of the state of Georgia was a negro, and everyone knew the fight which the senate had made against Crum, a negro, made collector of the port at Charleston. “But,” added Mr. Mallory, “the pat riots of Boston, who probably are the best representatives of the negro race in this country, allow themselves to be carried away by the passion of the moment, unable to look fairly and and squarely at a proposition which should be judged justly and honestly, forget that they are under great obli gations to the president, and send forth a denunciation of the beet friend they have ever had in office.” FAMILY EXTERMINATED BY GAS. Father, Mother, Son and Daughter Asphyxiated in Brooklyn. At Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday night, illuminating gas, which escaped dur ing the night from a small stove used for heating, caused the death of Meyer Rubin aged 50 years; his wife, Rosa, 58; t their son, Philip I., and their 15- year-old daughter, Rosa. Recommends a Subtrsasury for the South, But Fails to Suggest Where It Shall Be Located. A Washington dispatch says: gec- rtary Shaw has forwarded to the ways and means committee his recommen dation relative to the establishment of a sub-treasury in the southeast. Chairman Payne says the matter will be considered at a called meet ing, and in the meantime refuses to talk of the contents of Mr. Shaw’s communication. It is known, however, that the sec retary has failed to express a prefer ence as to the location of the institu tion. Indeed, he makes no reference to the alleged caucus of the southern stites from which Georgia bolted. He says in substance that if another sub treasury is to be established, it should by all means be located in the south east. He even avoids naming a state. Chairman Payne had intended call ing the matter to the attention of his committee Monday morning, with a view to disposing of the question, but the secretary’s communication was forgotten for the time being. The report of Secretary Shaw is disappointing to many southern con gressmen, but is especially gratifying to the Georgians, who are anxious to have the matter settled on its merits by the ways and means committee. It had been known, however, that the secretary would urge the establish ment of a sub-treasury, instead of leaving it for the committee to de cide whether one is really needed. Congressman Livingston announces, in connection with the report, that if a subtreasury is established it is bound to be located at Atlanta. A CENTURY BEHIND TIME. Pope’s Orders Are Considered by Many as Ridiculously Antiquated. Rev. C. K. Nelson, Episcopal bishop of Georgia, does not agree with the Rev. Robert Codman, Episcopal bish op of Maine, in believing that the troubles between the government and the Roman Catholc church in France warrant official action on the part of the Episcopal church in America. Bishop Codman, a few days ago,* authorized the churches in his dio cese to offer a special prayer in be half of the Roman Catholic church in France. Bishop Nelson was shown the prayer and asked if he Intended to authorize the Episcopal church of Georgia to take similar action or whether he agreed with the policy, and said: “No, I do not intend to take any such action, for I do not think the conditions warrant it. “Some are inclined to lay the trou ble to the fact that the ordeis of the pope are always a hundred years be hind the times. Things that he could order and consistently contend for one hundred years ago are about out of date now, and cannot be upheld. Many have held this view’.” FIVE BILLIONS ARE NEEDED By Railroads of Country in Order to Keep Up With Growing Business. Governor John A. Johnson of Minne sota has received a letter from James J. Hill, president of the Great North ern Railway company, declaring that it would require a permanent invest ment of $1,100,000 a year for five years to provide the railroads of the country with the means to handle properly the business already in sight, and not al lowing for future growth. WHEELER TO ASSIST OBEAR. Son of Noted Sire to Aid in Inspection of Georgia Troops. Captain Jos. A. Wheeler, Jr., U. S. A, a son of the late General Joseph Wheeler, has been detailed to assist in the inspection of Hie troops of the national guard of Georgia. Captain Wheeler has been ordered to report for duty February 1, when the inspections will be begun under the direction of Colonel Obear. WORK HOURS NOT RESTRICTED. Commerce Commission Brings Out the Facts as to Railway Wreck. Investigation by the interstate com merce commission Monday at Wash ington into the block signal sysU-ui in use on the Baltimore and Ohio rail road showed that men engaged in the operation of trains work an excessive cumber of hours without a sufficient period of rest intervening it. It was developed that no restrictions are placed upon the hours trainmen shall work, and that they take advantage of fered to labor for many hours in order to increase their compensation. ANDY PAYS THE MOST. Carnegie Beats Rockefeller by Half in Personal Taxes. Andrew’ Carnegie will be the heav iest personal taxpayer in New York if the list of assessments just made public by the assessors is not amend ed. The value of his personal prop erty is fixed at $5,000,000, and that of John D. Rockefeller at $2,500,000. SOUTH’S DAILY GAIN In Accumulation of Wealth Estimated at $7,280,000. A PHEN0MINAL SHOWING Every Line of Industry in Year 1906 increased Immensely — Agricul ture Kept Pace With Manufactures. “The south is now in the midst of a prosperity that every day is adding to its wealth $7,2SO,OOiO, and which inos brought that wealth close to $20,- 000,000,'’ says the Manufacturers’ Rac' ord (Baltimore) in its current issue. Continuing it says: “Consideration of increasing wealth in the south must add to the $2,00-'),- 000,000 W’orth of farm products now raised each year, $2,225,000,000 worth of manufactured products and $260,- 000,000 worth of mineral products. “Such annual productivity, now’ ag gregating about $4,485,000, accounts for an increase of nearly $50,000,000 in the deposits in national, state, sav ings and private banks and loan and savings companies in that section, and the general progress has an ex pression in and is immediately con tributed to by railroad construction. “In 1906, 3,065 miles were added to the south’s mileage, 26.7 per cent of the total addition since 1900, and bringing the total to 64,035 miles. That is more than double the rail road mileage of the whole country in xS(|i» and within less than 3.0,000 of the total mileage of the country in 1880, “Texas alone has 3,600 miles more railroad than the whole country had In 1850, and during the past year it led in increase in the south, 810 miles, the state nearest to it in new con struction having been Louisiana, with 472 miles. Arkansas ranked third in new mileage, the promise of an enormous advance in the farther south, but it is almost equally sig nificant to note 162 new mileage in Virginia, *192 in North Carolina and 236 in West Virginia, showing mine and timber development in those states. . “In six years, with an increase in the population of about 2,400,000, or something more than 10 per cent, the south has increased the value of its farm products by $728,(00,000, or 57 per cent, and the value of its manufac tures $761,000,000, or 52 per cent. It has added 3,493,000 spindles to its cot ton mill output, an increase of 55 per cent, and its mills used in 1906 about 2,375,000 bales of American cotton, or 48 per cent more than in 1900. “In the six years the south’s an nual pig iron production has in creased by S^S.OOOi tons, or 34 per cent; its coal production by 34,202,- 000 tons, of 69 per cent; the value of exports at its ports $177,00.0,090, or 38 per cent. “With all this money-making going on, it is not surprising that the south is spending millions of money for im provements of many kinds. Counties are building beUer roads, better bridges and better school houces. Mu nicipalities are erecting modern pub lic buildings, installing weter W’orks and sewerage systems, and using up to date methods and materials in im proving streets. “Railroads are double-tracking their old lines, and extending new’ ones, are building handsome passen ger stations, increasing terminal fa cilities and adding to rolling stock. In dividuals are devoting their earnings to improving their homes in town or country, or in building new ones; in enlarging barns, in buying stock, farm implements and machinery in install ing fencing and in adding to the ma chinery for manufacturing. “These Investments are likely to increase during the coming year and to keep pace with the increasing earn ing capacity of the south.” FARMERS MINUS MAILS Because They Insisted on Bucking Against C'-dored Carrier. I he trouble over colored postal of ficials at Indianola and Hattiesburg, Miss., has a parallel in Trigg county, Kentucky, where service on an entire rural route has been discontinued by Washington because the farmers de cline to accept mail from a negro ru ral carrier. W. L. George, the negro carrier, is out of a job, and farmers for miles are compelled to go to “The Sps ings ’ tor their mail. FIVE KILLED; EIGHT HURT In Wreck of Train Whicn Ran Into Open Switch. Running at a high rate of speed, Rock Island passenger train No. 30, which left El Paso, Texas, at 6 ^0 o'clock Sunday evening for Chicago, dashed into an open switch at Harney, N. M., 190 miles north of El Paso.. Five persons were killed, and eight in jured. WE ARE NO “REBELS,” i Senate Substitutes “Civil War” for “War of Rebellion” in Pension Act After Listening to Bacon. A Washington dispatch says: After two hours’ debate the senate Friday passed Senator McCumber’s service pension bill without division, after amending it at Senator Carmack's instance so as to make it apply to survivors of the Mexican war as well J as those of the civil war and so as j to p-rohibit pension attorneys from re- ceiving fees for securing pensions uu- j der the bill. The words in the bill “war of the ! rebellion,” were changed to “civil ! war,” after some discussion as to what i the war of 1861 to 1865 realy was. j Messrs. Money, Bacon and Patter | son contended that it was “war be- | tween the states,” while Mr. Teller ; said it was either a civil war or a | rebellion and he saw no opprobrium in j the word “rebel.” The bill grants a pension of $12 to ; survivors of the civil and Mexican i wars who have reached the age of 62; $15 to those who are 70 years of age and $20 to tnose who are 75 or over. Senator McCumber estimates that if the bill becomes a law it will in- j crease the pension expenditures of the country’ to about $6,000,000 annually, > while the commissioner of pensions thinks that the increase will lie be- J tween $10,000 and $15,0i00 a year. In his remarks Senator Bacon rose and entered an earnest objection to the use of the term “war of the re bellion,” and insisted that the proper j designation should be “ilie civil war,” j and that this title should bo used ! whenever that struggle was referred ! to in official papers. In defense of his contention, Sena tor Bacon, having the undivided at- | tention of the senate, proceeded wPh ! a legal explanation of the reason? j for his stand, and a careful state- j ment of the legal and constitutional ! phases of the question, lie declared: ' “I say that the term ‘rebellion’ is not a proper designation. A rebellion j is resistance to an r.cknoweledged au- j thority. It was a much greater war ! than a ‘war of rebellion.’ It was a great war between the people of the foremost nation new and among the foremost nations then of the earth on a great guestLwv about which they •had been divided for nearly a hundred years, In which there was no resist- ! ance to a recognized authority, but j in which there v’as an insistent and a * 1 * * * * * * * great struggle over tho question as j to what was the intention of the gov- ! ernment from its foundation. “It was a war in support ot a claim of legal right, claimed on the ono side and disputed on the other. It was a war, not a rebellious faction, but one between two great peoples who were made one indivisible hr the result of that warn The senator from Colomdo says that every one v. lj|^ was a confederate soldier should acquiesce in it, and be wiling to abide by the designation of the ‘war of r< - belion,’ and of himself as a rebel. I was a very humble soldier in that war, a confederate soldier, and I object i to it, because it is not correct, and, j not being correct, it is more or less j offensive,” concluded Senator Bacon. | In reply to the senator from Colo- j redo. Mr. Teller, who called attention i to the use of the word “rebellion.” ! in the fourteenth amendment to the i constitution, Senator Bacon said: “It proves nothing, except that in the heat and tempest and flame of 111 feeling, I started to say 1 ate,whirl) was imedlately consequent upon the war, terms were used both noCh a’■ i south, which were designed to bo of fensive and odious. The term ‘rebel lion,’ is odious, and w’hat is odious, j must be in a degree offensive.” THE BRUNSWICK WELCOMED. By Officials and Citizens of Havana Atkinson Dubbed “Admiral.” Tho steamer Brunswick of the Brunswick Steamship company’s new line, arrived in Havana harbor Fri day morning with flags and colors flying and was given a royal wel come on her maiden voyage tc that port. A dinner was given on board tho ! steamer, which was attended by prom- i inent officials, leading merchants and | newspaper men, the speakers welcorn- j ing President H. M. Atkinson as “Ad- : miral” of the new fleet. In. the newspapers of the city Prer- | ideAt iAtkinson is termed “El Almi- j ra.ntq;.” The inauguration of this new line Is looked upon in Havana as the mq^t Important move in years in the matter of promotion of com merce between Cuba and the United States, particularly .fhe states of the south. The visiting party aboard the Brunswick were royally entertained. BONDS GIVEN BY TRAINMEN. Engineer and Conductor Causing the Wreck Near Washington, Liberated. At Washington Engineer Hilde brand and Conductor Hoffmeier o: the equipment train, who were arres- j ted after the coroner’s jury in a ui ring | Into the Terra Cotta wreck had held them with six others responsible for that wreck, have been released, the former under $10,000 bond and the lat- •.ter under $5,000 bond. ti HOTEL GENESTA, 99 Augusta, Georgia, EUROPEAN . , . Right in the heart of the retail shopping district. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. . • Cafo. 5 aPr , x*v'SL*fce X>in.iin.££ R.oom.s- Every Convenience for Ladies while shopping in Augusta. ELEGANT LADIES’ RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS. Johnson’s Bakery. Cleanliness sod Purity of Materials Are characteristics of all the Hrcad, Rolls, Cakes, Ties, Etc. made at JOHNSON'S BAKERY, Park Avenue. Tho Choicest Confectioneries and Can dies always an hand. STONE! STONT.n Eslimato* given and orders proeepv Ij filled for street curbings, and cross ings, flower bed borders, sidewalks ie blocks, hitching posts, door and tor reoe steps, door and window silL cemetery lot copings, rough anr dressed ashlers for fronts of build inga, hearth stones, etc. Lnkerle’? stone a specialty. Stone *rom otli*' quarries if preferred. H. K. OHATF1ELD, Aiken, £). G TAX NOTICE. uant to an act of the Genera, bly, approved Feb. Sth, 19“u, d “An Act to Raise Supplies and Appropriations for the Fiscal Commencing January 1, 1906,’' be at my office at the Court in Aiken from 9 o’clock a. m. ,’clock p. iu., and from 3 to 5 from October 15, 1906, to 15, 1907 (Sundays and Christ- scepted), for the purpose of re- :: the taxes for the year 1966, io commutation road for 1967. levy for all purposes is aa fol- -- tax if paid by December 31. j mills. ity tax it paid by December 31, 5 mills. -ol tax if paid by December 31, ; mills. rict No 1 Special School tax 1 by December 31, 1906. 1 mill, riot No. 66, Special School tax 1 by December 31, 1906, 4 milla he above levy is not paid b. iber 31, 1906, then 1 per cent be added during January. 1907. i n 9 per cent shall be added dvii- j ‘bruary, 1597. n 7 per cent shall be added up j ireh 15, 1907, when execution? p issued. tax on dogs is 50 cents on each commutation road tax is $l.o< ,ch person liable (from 18 to 5t ip the limit) and is payable with malty up to February 2^, 1907. J. A. M. GARDNER. Treasurer Aiken County, aber 5, 1906. * ESTABLISHED A. D. 1846. John R. Schneider IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Liquors, Fine Wines, Havana Cigars, Mineral Waters, Etc. Agent for Veuvc-Clicquot Ponsardin, Urbana Wine Company, Anheuser- Pysch Brewing Association. 601 AND 603 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. THE SAVOY Corner Broad and Jackson Sts., AUGUSTA, GA. A First-Class Retaurant and Soda Parlor for Fsrst=class People. ■pine Forest Inn. Opened Saturday, December 1st. 1905. High Clans Hotel, jtrietly in the .1* nss, catering to a select clientele. Itf oirc en suit.) with «uth. Elevat-r. Electric lights, atsaro heat and open fires. Pure water and per foci, sanitary conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. Faddllo and harness horses. Fine hunting. ' II. M. PATTERSON, Manager, or 1<\ vV. WACENER & Co., Charleston, South Carolina. n 27 TuTliSISt 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. NOTICE CITY TAXES. Office of Clerk and Treasurer, City of Aiken. Aiken, S. C., Oct. 12, 1906. 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 m collecting City Taxes from Oct. 1 Sth, 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 made Tax returns to Mr. D. H. Wise, County Auditor, for taxation in Jan uary and February last, their names with the returns aforesaid, have been copied on the Tax Duplicate of thc- said city, and hence they stand charg ed with the City 'Taxes tor the fiscal year aforesaid, as provided by law. Tax levy as follows: For Current Expenses . . .9 mills For Sinking Fund 1 mill Total Tax 10 mills j. l. McCarter, (f City Olarir infl Treasurer i Hotel Melbourne, Loriaril Iron ifofc 694 BROAD STREET, Augusta, 6a. anil Supply Go., Augusta, Ga. | MRS. P. W. BYA99EE, Proprietress. First class accommodations for per manent or transient boarders. Thor- i oughly renovated and newly furnish- j ed under new management. Table supplied with all the dellca* ! cir-s of the season. Convenient sample room attached. F i niters Demand More Pay. to union piiutors ot Noiuolk, Y’a. ; made a demand for an increase 1 3.50 per week in their wage scale. ( printers, newyaper hand men, mn I e men, foremen, floor men j hinists are included.. 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 and Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred handk. Estimates furnished for power plant* and steel bridges, store front*. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US BEFORE BUYING. .. HAIR CUTTING ffll SHAVING FOB &•» OetMng. Shaving and Shampo*- ’•«. *oto GEO. W. WALTON. Schneider Building, 208 McIntosh St., Augusta, Ga. It Agent. Fire, Li, Cytloi, Accident Insurance, -AND- niiiiii jjumi AIKEN. S. C.