Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I fcf TiMiorum U jli mt? i H Tb« Farmers’and Merchants Bank, OF AIKEN, 8. C. Every accommodation extended te consleten: with eafe, ceneervative — •^a email merchanta and fi cialty. W; take care of ear • Correspo rdenee invited, or eaR In te aee aa when you want leane ea liken teofiiet The Farmers’ and Merchants Bank. OF AIKEN, 8. C. CAPITAL STOCK $60KX». President, J. P. McNair. Vice President, IL W. McCreary. Cashier. B. Monroe Wteks. YOUR ACCOUNT SOLICITED. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1901. Established 1881. Price 551.50 a Year, in Advance. WHAT FARMERS DIO thihiy-twj_miluons SOLONS VOTE RAISE Epitome of Work of National Union at Atlanta. Have Been Spent So Far in Canal Work, Say# Retiring Chairman j Shone# in Banquet Speech. GREAT MEETING CLOSES Wind-Up Session Was One of Un bounded Enthusiasm—Resolutions and Suggestions of Paramount Interest Were Adopted. After what has been unanimously ** , F A described as the most enthusiastic and important niee.icg in its history, the Farmers’ Union adjourned at At lanta Thusrady noon ?.mid songs and congratulatory speeches and general good feeling. Action taken by the convention can be summed up in the following re sume of the three days’ session.-An epitome of th© more important reso lutions is as follows: That the state business agents be required to meet annually ana for mulate plans to that end. The substance of the report of the committee on cotton crop is, that the next national union fix the minimum price by grades taking middling as a basis, after having given due con sideration to the acreage, the supply of new material and manufactured goods on hand and the demand for said goods. That the establishment of cc.tivn warehouses be encouraged by the union throughout the cotton belt; said warehouses to be incorporated under the laws of the seveial states. The report of the committee on cct- ten schools advocates the establish ment of cotton schools in every state in the cotton states, each state to have £ separate school, btu all states to have a uniform grade. The committee on market recom mends that factories be established and owned by farmers for the man ufacture of certain articles used by the farmer. This applies particularly to fertilizers. The committee on education stressed the Importance of urging better edu cational facilities In the rural schools .^throughout the south. The committee on fertilizer recom mended that no union man buy or use the fertilizers of any manufactur ers or dealers who refuses to recog nize union agents and s.ell to them at same price and terms as other agents. By Campbell Russell; That it is the sense of this convention that all poli ticians and others not familiar with th© needs of agriculture who may re tendered appointments as trustees ur other official positions in connection with any agricultural school or to.- lege be asked to show their patriot.- ism by refusing to accept such posi tions for which they are manifestly unfitted. The'.report of the committee on ag ricultural schools criticizes the man agement of a majority of ihose state institutions, and recommends that they shall be placed under the direc tion of the board of public institu tions, that the trustees and boards of directors shall be farmers. The committee on warehouses after advocating the establishment of bond ed warehouses recommends the adop tion of some feasible plan of gelling co'ton direct to the spintic-rs and that the organization as soon as possible be established for the purpose of financing and protecting of cotton in the Farmers' Union warehouses. The committee on diversified crops calls upon all Farmers’ Union mem bers to diversify their crops and there by refrain from living out of “paper sacks.” That a conference of the spinners of the east and the Farmers’ Union be held in May in the city of Binning, ham ov other convenient city in the south. The committee on co-opration rec ommends that the Farmers’ Union co operate with the wool growers and other co-operators of the north and west In the establishment of a co-op erative woolen mill at any suitable point; that the Farmers’ Union will aid iu the capitalization ot the same and patronage of the same. By the committee on legislation : Resolved, That parcels post system should be established and as a bill will be presented to congress to that end, we hereby urge each local coun ty and state union to send petitions to their respective senators and rep resentatives to urge the enactment of a parcels post law. Hon. Thomas E. Watson was se lected as general organizer for the Union. TIED WIFE IN A CHAIR And When He Returned With Doctor She Was Dead. Mrs. Cris Young, au aged woman, ^ie.l suddenly at her home near Daw- t .iville, Ga. She became sick and her husband, fer.ring *he might tail out of her chair while he went lor assistance, tied her to the chair When he got back sn© was dead. Theodore P. Shouts, who on Wed nesday resigned the chairmanship of th© isthmian canal commission, was the giiezt of honor in Kansas City on I Thursday eve/.lng at the monthly diu- ! ner of the Knife and Fork Club, and delivered an interesting aduress touch ing the Panama canal. * The creative per.od,” declared Mr. eb^uts, “has come to an end, and the t eriod of active construction has uegun. As to Uie manner in which .he creative task ha, been performed we aie content to let the facts speak icr themselves.” In ciosing Mr. Shonts quoted as follows from President Koosevcdt s message, written after the chief exec utive teturned from the isthmus: “The wisdom of the canal manage ment has been shown in nothing more clearly than in the way in which the foundations have been laid.” Mr. Shonts denied that his resigna- j lion of the chairmanship had result- j ed from any disagreement with Pivs- j iclent Kfiosavelt, or any member of the coniifiskm, and declared that the best of relations existed between himself and all his canai associates. Regarding tl.e necessary preliminary work he said: "In this preliminary work, we have spent down to Jp.nuary 1, ]9b7, about $•12,000,000. Of this amount $4,500,000 have been spent in government and sanitation; about $7,000 in construc tion of quarters and other buildings, docks, wharves, railway enlargement, v/ater works and sewers in the zone, and in engineering work, and about $12,000,0<X) in permanent plants; over $4,500,000 in miscellaneous materials and supplies, and over $1,500,000 in the construction of sewers and water works and street paving and improve ments In Panama and Colon. The lost naiU'Sd will be refunded ultimately to the government. ‘ We have driven yellow fever per manently from the isthmus. That is the supreme achievement. For four teen months there has not been a single case of this terror cf the trop ics. The stegomyia mosquito of which the extreme period of life is three mbtiths, and which is the bearer ot the yellow fever germ, has been al most thrown out of business. "So far as general health condi tions are concerned I can give you no stronger evidence of their favor able character than by stating the fact that among about 6,000 white Ameri cans, including women and children, on the isthmus, there was for three mouths in the rainy season of laM year—August, September and October — not a single death from disease.” Continuing In his detailing ot ac complishments, he said: ‘ As 1 said to you in the opening part of my address, the work of ac tual excavation was restricted during the creative period to merely pre paratory lines. Still, something has been done in the direction of making the ’dirt fly.’ During the fiscal year ending with June last 1,500,000 cubic jards were taken from the canal prism against 742,000 yards removed during the previous year. “Altogether, the surface In the Cu- lebrn cut has been brought down 65 feet below the level left by the i French. A large amount of the exca- J vated material has been used in tilling for railroad yards and double tracking (;i the Panama railroad.” , National Legislators Give Themselves More Pay. TWENTY-ONE VOTED NAY Henceforth Senators and Representa tives Will Draw $7,500 Per Year and Vice President, Speaker and Cabinet Members $12,000. ^ ^ A ^ ^ Palmetto State News JOB IS UP TO STEVENS. j A Washington special says: The ' senate Wednesday passed the house amendment to the legislative appropri- i a.ion bill, increasing the salaries of j the vice president, speaker, members I of ih© cabinet and members and sen- j j ators by a vote of 53 to 21. The bill j increases the salaries of senatois and ! members to $7,5uu and of the other of ficers mentioned to $12,000. iu th« course of the debate the ven erable Senator Pettus of Alabama paid a trank and sincere tribute to his col league, Senator Morgan, as an illus tration of the lact that a man who entered the public service, sacrificing his personal business and personal in terests and his outside pursuits to de vote his time ana talents and energy to th© government in legislative halls tie-served some recognition. He said Senator Morgan had served thirty years; chat he had not accumu lated a fortume in that time, but that the people of Alabama were proud of l.im just the same and loved him because he hjad not. grown rich in the United States senate. He thought the increase asked was small enough, in view of the $15,(KKi or $20,000 year ly income, which 'Senator Morgan had sacrificed for so many years in or der to remain in the senate. The in cident was a unique feature cf the day’s session. Senator Money of Mississippi voted for the measure and said if he had $750,000,000 per year to disburse he would not, as a business proposition, give absolute power to disburse it into the hands of men whose services were only worth $5,000 a year. A number of speeches for and against the measure were made, the principal ones being delivered by Sen ator Berry of Arkansas, who opposed it, and Senator Tillman, who favored its passage. Senator Tillman, sajing that he had just been elected to six nvere years of service, would vote for the in crease, not because he would get more money, but because he believed it was right. He would rather have voted for it last year before bis - re-election. If fault was found he was willing to resign. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas—Aldrich, Allee, Ankeny, Ben son, Beveridge. Brandegee, Bulkeley, Burnham, Burrows, Carter, Clark of Montana, Clark of Wyoming. Clarke of Arkansas, Crane, Cullom, Daniel, Dick, Dillingham, Dubois, Dupont, Flint, Fornker, Foster, Fry, Fulton, Gallinger, Hale, Hepburn, Hopkins, Kiltredge, Knox, Latimer, Lodge, MoCumber, McEnery, Millard, Money, Newlands, Nixon, Overman, Penrose, Pettus, Piles, Scott, Simmons, Smoot, Spooner, (Sutherland, Tillman, Teller, Warner and Warren.—53. Nays — Bacon, Berry, Blackburn, Burkett,* Carmack, Clapp, Clay, Cul berson, Frazier, Hansborongh, Hemen- way, LaFollette, McCreary, Mallory, Nelson, Patterson, Perkins, Rayner, ftone, Taliaferro and Whyte—21. Chief Engineer Will Also Act Chair man of Canal Commission. Announcement was made at the war department Thursday that the ofiice of chairman and chief engineer of the isthmian canal commission would he combined, and that Mr. Stevens, Ihe present chief engineer, would be given the appointment, the understan ding being that he will maintain a residence on the isthmus. COTTON GINNING REPORT. SWETTENHAM INCIDENT ENDS. Uncle Sam Washes His Hands of the Whole Jamaican Matter. The president has finally dismissed the incident connected with the re fusal by Governor Swettenham of Ja maica of aid from Admiral Davis in a letter made public at Ihe state de partment Wednesday, addressed by Acting Secretary Bacon to British Charge Howard. A LOAN TO JAMESTOWN. Bales Turned Out to January 16 To taled 12.167^73. At Washington Wednesday the cen sus report was issued, which shows that 12,167,F73 bales M cofton, count ing round bales as half hales. ha\\> been ginned from the growth of 190C to January 16. 1067. The number of active ginneries this year is 218,525. The sea islaud cotton ginned to January 16. 1907. distributed by states, was: Florida 23.606 bales. Georgia 24.- 775 ami South Carolina 7,761. LONDON’S BIG MERCHANT KILLED Was Shot Dead by a Youth Claiming to Be His Son. A startling tragedy was enacted in London Thursday when William Whit ley, one of the most unique and at the same time one cf the most promi- r.ent figures in the business world, was, shot dead iu his store by a youth .• aiming to be bis son. The assassin then attempted to ow out hi# own brains. Million Dollars to Be Appropriated, Secured by Lien cn Receipts. The senate committee on appropri ations, Wednesday, adopted as a rider cn the house bill making appropria tions to supply additional urgent de ficiencies, the senate bill appropria ting one million as a loan to the Jamestown Exposition company, this loan to become a first lieu upon the gross receipts. In addition, the com mittee included $65,000 for the pur pose of constructing two piers from the exposition grounds to the water* of Hampton Roads. ■BIDS WILL DECIDE MATERIAL m ! n Question of Marble or Granite Atlanta Public Building. Supervising Architect Taylor of the treasury department at Washington says that the use of granite or marble in the construction of Atlanta's p°">t- office and public building will depei.d upon the bids. The whole cost of con struction must come auder the mil lion dollar approprlatfou. Anti-Cocaine Bill Passed. The house has passed the McMaster LIU, forbidding the sal© of cocaine except under the personal supervision of physicians; also the body passed the Sawyer bill to increase the li cense fee of immigrant agents to $2,- 000, and accepted Clemson’s luvba- tlou to visit that institution. Another Library for Greenville. Greenville is to have two Carne gie libraries—one on Furman Univer sity campus and one i n the city prop er Some time ago the city board of aldermen appropriated $15,000 a year for the maintenance of a library, nnd new Mr. Carnegie has made a donation of $15,000 to erect the build ing. Roosevelt Will Press Button. President Roosevelt will push the electric button at Washington on May 6, firing the first shot, on the target range of the national shooting festi val grounds at Charleston, when the big event opens. A rifle will be set at range and connected with Wash ington by an electrical appliance. The president will lire three shots. En graved invitations will he sent to the president, German emperor, German consul general, German consul at At lanta and Governor Ansel. Emerson Found Guilty of Murder. The jury at Anderson in the case of the £<tate vs. Allen Emerson, charg ed with the murder of T. F. Drake, found him guilty of murder, with a recommendation to mercy, after delib erating about one hour. The defendant displayed little, if any, emotion when the verdict war? read. Emerson, who i\as on guard on the county chain gaug, killed T. F. Drake in the hom© of the latter on the night of the 11th of last August. Emerson, it is? charged, was in the room with one of Drake’s daughters in a com promising position and Drake came in the rodm on t|iem with his pistol in his hand. He fired one shot at Emerson, who fired two shots, killing Drake instantly. Tourist Hotel Opened. The Colona, one of the finest tour ist hotels in the south, was formally ■opened at Columbia the past week when the annual dinner of the Co lumbia chamber of commerce occur red. This is the only social event of Ihe year indulged in by this organiza tion. the purpose of which is the ma terial development for Greater Colum bia. Covers •were laid for 200 guests, hut the demand fer tickets far exceed ed that number. Governor Heyward, who had just retired from office, was the principal speaker, replying to thf toast, “The State of South Carolina.” Another Investigation Ordered. The general assembly has passed a resolution providing for another in vestigation of the affairs of the state dispensaries. The committee, which is composed of three members of the house and two from the senate, is expected to make its report within ten days. The appointment of this new committee is the result of a statement by Dispen sary Commissioner W. O. Tatum, who alleges (hat the present hoard of di rectors. has overstocked the dispensa ry with unsalable goods against his advice. The old investigating committer., which has been laboring for two years and unearthed much irregularity is expected to make its report at the present session. Defied Sheriff, But Was Killed. William J. Harley was shot and killed last. Saturday night by C. C. Parler a.t Harleyville in Dorchester county. Several months ago Harley stabbed a man named Weeks near the court house at St. George. He was arrested by Sheriff Limehouse. but made his escape, and it was charged that the sheriff would not go to Harleyville to arrest him. Harley himself wrote a card to a Columbia paper stating that the sher iff was afraid to come after him. Sher iff Limehouae was removed from of fice by Govern r Heyward on the in- diots^ent of the grand jury for allow ing a mob to take a negro from jail and lynch him. hut was tried recentlv in Orangeburg county and acquitted. Meanwhile Harley had been at large. He went to Parler’s house ?a r - j mda- night and asked for him. Har- I ley had ? shotgun in his hand, and j attempted to enter. Farler shot with a shotgun, killing HarLy instan ! Younci Wifs Kills Aped Husband. YBCuRv W. Blair, a ernduofor or. the Columbia. Newberrv and Lnmers uriroad was shot and killed in Co lumbia by his wife. Blair was about FUUN'DEU 1835. Southern Churchman! Richmond, Va., THE ODDEST PROTESTANT BPIS OOPAD CHURCH paper In the Uni ted States. All Important diocesan end foreign news. Religious mlscel lany and Interesting and instructive family and children’s departments. $2 a year; $1 for 6 months; 50 cent; for 3 montha. Trial subecriptloni 25 cents for 3 months. To clergy men $1.00 e rear. yt-nrs old. whilo his wit© is about 3d. if is understod that after lio ^ ■’s shot and shortly before his death. Blair made a statement that his wife- shot him and that th^ pistol used he- li-nsr^d to a man named Ayres. Mrs. Blair admits thai the pistol was in her band and when it wrs was in her hand when it was fired, but she sav# ;ha* her husband threatened to beat her and she >variied him wilh Ihe pistol, which was fired in ihe scuffle which ensued. Mrs. Blair, before her marriage, was Miss Ethel Wade Barrington of Greenesboro. She has two small chil dren. The man to whom the pistol is said to belong is a passenger conductor running between Richmond and Wash ington by the amc of Amies, who was in Columbia some time ago, and wish whom Mrs. Blair had been friends before ccming from North Carolina, several years ago. She and Blair, it is said, had not lived happily for some time. Laier, Mrs. Blair was committed to jail on a warrant charging her wi’h the murder of her husband, based on the verdict of the coroner’s jury. Bill to Abolish Dispensary. Senator Talbert of Edgefield rather surprised the South Carolina senate when he introduced a joint resolution which provides for the complete abtv lition of the South Carolina dispensa ry, which has been in operation 13 years, and the appouUment of a com mission to ascertain the condition and wind up the affairs o' the in.-ti- tion, preparatory to closing it out. lie introduced a cemnauion measure, call ing for an amendment to that section of the eouatitniii'.i < . the state under which the dispensary is operated, pro viding that it shall be stricken from the constitution. A measure proriding for a change in the dispensary system has been rather expected in the house, but was not looked for in the senate at this rime, and there seemed to be no an ticipation of the length to which the senator from Edgefield would go in his effort to bring about the reform over which the state has fought two hot campaigns. The feature of his effort lies in the fact that he also in troduced the orierinal Child's bill, pro viding for prohibition throughout the state. All of the measures have been re ferred to the comm Uee on dispen sary. INAUGURATED IN CHURCH. Colorado Governor Takes Office With Religious Ceremony. Rev. Dr. Henry Buchtel, formci president of Denver University, was inaugurated governor of Colorauo ou Tuesday, and for the urst time in the history of the state the inauguration took place in a church. The gov’crnoi delivered his inaugural addresa to the legislature in Trinity Methodist Epis copal church, which he aided largely in building while he was pastor oi that congregation. He concluded his address with a prayer, followed b> the Lords 1’iayer in which many */ the audience joined. GREASERS BATTl E WITH YAQUIS Mexican Troops and Indians Come To gether in Bloody Affray. Reports were received iu El 1’asc. Texas. Thursday, of a desperate fish' between Yaqui Indians and Mexican troops in the n-ountaiuoui region southeast of Guaymas, Sonora. In the fight twenty Mexicans were killed, and a number wounded. The Yaquis were defeated with consider able loss, but as they took beth their dead and wounded with them when j retieating, it is not known how man:- weie killed. TWO SCORE MINERS KILLED. In Frightful Gas Explosion in Coal Pit at F,.mero, Colorado. Twenty miners, according to the most authoritative information availa ble Wednesday evening, lost their lives as a result of an explosion which occurred early Wednesday In ihe Col orado Fuel and Iron company's ojal Mine near Prlmeio. Coioiado, twenty miles west of Trinidad. THE HAGNOLIA INN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FOR THE SEASON OF 1306-1907. A flodern Family Hotel. HEATED WITH HOT WATER FURNACES, AND OPEN FIRE PLACES IN ALL ROOMS. ELECTRIC LIGHTS, HOT AND COLD BATH 8 AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. CUISINE AND SERVICE THE BEST. FOR TERMS, ETC., ADDRESS, HENRY BUSCH, THE MAGNOLIA INN AIKEN, S. C. Pine Forest Inn. • , Opened Saturday, December 1st. 1905. High Class Hotel, strictly in the t’.nes, catering to a select them tele. Rooms en suite with Path. Elevator. Electric lights, otsitn? heel nr-d open fires. Pure water and perfect sanitary conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. S&ddlle and harness horses. Fine hunting. H. 11. PATTERS UN, Manager, or V. W. WAQFtVER & Co., Charleston, Sooth Carolina. TuThSlJI «27 Hotel Park in the Pines AIKEN, s. c. Modern in Construction and Operation HARRY W. PRIEST CO„ PROPR8., Management of J. A. Sherrard. SUMMER HOTELS; Hatel Preston, Baaoh Bluff, Mass. The Colonial Arms, Gloucester Harbor. Maas. Holme Crest -i; Private Boarding House First-class home table with the best Cook in Aiken. No accommodation for consumptives. E. Willard Frost, Prop, The Savoy CORNER BROAD AND JACKSON A First-Class Restaurant AND SODA PARLOR J. WILLIE LEVY, 866 BROAD STRE ET, AUGUSTA, GA. Offers to th© people of Aike n Couuty one of the best stocks of Fall and Winter Goods. aver brought to Augusta, J. & M. and Barry's Shoes. Ladies’ 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 $2.5o 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 Listols £lso done. The Mette Wagon Works. W. W. METTE, Proprietor. f--