Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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»»7 The Banh of Aiken, TOTAL RESOURCES $600,000 >Ahen Timet are Hard, do Business With a Strong Bank, and be Safe. likm The Baok of Aiken. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $r ,000, The Oldest and Strongest Bank in Aiken County. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. C.,THUSKDAY. JANUARY 3J, 1901 Establislied Price81.50a Year, in Advance. BEST IMMICRANTS Being Secured for Georgia by Special Agent NOW UP TO OLIVER. Wins Canal Contrast Provided Only Secures Two Independ ent Partners. He MANY SCOTS AND SWEDES May Soon Reach the State Through Good Work of Association—Will Be Godsend to Many Sections Now Needing Them. The Georgia Immigration Associa tion, through the chairman of its exe cutive committee, Mr. John A. Betje man, of Albany, announces that he is conferring with the representatives of the principal steamship lines relative to bringing in immediately a few hun dred Scots and Swedes to relieve the very urgent call for help in some quarters. The result of tWs conference will be given to Commibskmer T. G. ud- son with a request that the state do what is needful at this juncture, i* is hoped to have immigrants m tran sit Tor the port of Savannah within the next three weeks. 1 he greatest care has been taken in gi'lns infor mation about Georgia to only *uch people in Europe as will make de sirable citizens. There is ready in Savannah at any lime a cargo of freight for the returning vessel. Sa vannah, it will be recalled, supplied two-thirds of the cargo for the re turn trip • of the ‘"Wittekinu.” With the heavy freights accessible to Sa vannah, there is no poit on the At lantic coast which can provide a re turn cargo as easily as she can. This, in a large measure, reduces the com mercial side of a line of immigrant steamers to Georgia in securing the immigrants from Kurope. Mr. Betjeman, in discussing recent statements by prominent Georgians and by the state press on this very vital subject, said: “I know of no better way to re assure any man who doubts the wis dom of the work outlined by the Geor gia Immigration Association than to state again that the work is under the direction of eighteen of the be^t far mers, lumber-men, fruit growers, man ufacturers, mill men and professional men in active business in the state of Georgia today. These men have held repeated conferences since the nineteenth of October, and have con sidered not only the fedeial and state laws pn the subject, but have gh'on more time and more serious thought than perhaps ary others to the effect ten the state of Georgia of the intro duction of new blood from Europe. They have been investigating the character of available people in Scot land, in the north of Germany and in Sweden. No man in Georgia has his state’s welfare more at heart than the members of this directorate who are giving their time and thought, to this subject from a purely patriotic motive. Over 30 per cent of the tillable land in the state of Georgia is lying idle for want of suflicient help to cultivate it. A little calcula tion reveals the fact that on an ex ceedingly rough estimate the land .owners are not only losing the ie- tciest on the value of 1,770,000 acres of land which for the sake of this calculation is estimated at fifteen dol lars per acre, but on a tax rate of 4 per cent are paying $205,000 in taxes, the burden of which is being carried by other lands. The need for help in the homes through the c.ttes and in the industries is oven more striking, it being estimated that very nearly every fifth family i n the state has room for one or more domestics, and that nearly 25 per cent of the ma chinery in our industries is cither lying idle or is turning out less than one-half of its capacity because there are not enough people to do the work. ‘It is proposed to lay the details cl our plan before the convention to be held in Macon on February 19th and 20th.” HIGHER POSTAL RATES. For Newspapers of the Country Pro vided in Commission Report. A Washington special says: The report of the joint postal commission consistiing of senators and represen tatives, after a prolonged and excit ing session, altered its original report in so far as daily and weekly news papers are concerned. The commission provided that the postal rates on daily and weekly news papers throughout the country shall be increased 12 1-2 per cent. SIMS MUST STAY |N PEN. ita Man Who Stole $90,000 From Bank is Refused Pardon. Washington dispatch says: G. nan Sims, who was sentenced to ears in the Atlanta federal pris on embezzling ninety thousand rs from the Capital City National of Atlanta, while he was a clerk at institution, has been denied a A Washington special says: Fol lowing a conference at the White House Sunday night, it was officially announced that the contract for build ing the Panama canal would be award ed to William J. Oliver, who, with Anson M, Bangs, was the lowest bid der iu the recent c^mpetilion, pro vided that within the next ten days he associates himself with at least two independent constructors whose skill and experience, combined with his o’vn, shall cover the entire field of work to be performed under the contract. President Roosevelt took the posi tion that since Mr. Oliver had met all the requirements of the government, it would be unjust to reject his b.d of 6.75 per cent for the construction ol the canal, or even to require him to submit a new bid for the con tract. Mr. Oliver had informed the presi dent that it was his desire to submit an. independent bid for the work a.id that when the canal commission of ficials informed him that it would be necessary to form a partnership with some other financially responsible contractor, they even went so far as to suggest that he enter into an agree ment with Anson M. Bangs, of New York City. Mr. Oliver said that after receiv ing this suggestion from Chairman Shonts, he visited the war department and was informed that Mr. Bangs would be entirely satisfactory to the government. Mr. Oliver told the pres ident with this assurance as to the reliability cf Mr. Bangs, he imme diately entered into an agreement with the New York contractor. Powerful influences were brought to bear on the president and Secretary Ta f t to reject all bids and advertise ior new' proposals, but the president insisted that Mr. Oliver should be given a reasonable time in which to ?«ake a satisfactory arrangement to substitute another contractor, or group of contractors, to talLe_th§-bJa!7fi. of Mr. Bangs. At the White House conference on Saturday night the friends of Mac- Arthur Gillespie syndicate argued 7bat the contract figures should be in creased to 9 per cent of the total cost of construction and that the contract be awarded to Oliver, MacAr- thur and Gillespie. This suggestion, how'ever, did not meet with the ap proval of the New York firm, who • insisted that they could not undertake the work for less than 12.50 per cent of the total cost, the figure mentioned in their original bid. The president, Secretary Taft and the canal commis sion officials decided to award the contract to Mr. Oliver, provided he could make satisfactory arrangements with at least two Mier financially re sponsible contractors. Secretary Taft and R. R. Rogers, general counsel to the canal commis sion, were in conference with the president for two hours Sunday night and the whole matter was again gone over. At the direction of the presi- cent Mr. Rogers prepared the official statement for the press. Who i info.med of the statement by the direction of the president, Mr. Oliver’s representative said: ■‘There is absolutely no doubt about Mr. Oliver being able to fulfill the requirements of the canal commis sion. There are now at least twen ty of the most responsible contrac tors of the United States who have expressed a willingness to join Mr. Oliver in the work mentioned in his original bids. Those names will be submitted to President Roosevelt at once, with proof of their financi< ability. Before entering into another arrangement Mr. Oliver wants to know positively that the contractor he chooses will be acceptable to the government.” BANGS ELIMINATEB Oliver Wins Panama Canal Contract on Condition. PEONAGE STORY OF GREEKS Reaches Commissioner Sargent from the Inspector at Tampa A report regarding the six Greeks who called on Immigrant Inspector Seraphic at Tampa, Fla , Friday, was received by Commissioner Sargent, of the in.migration bureau at Washington Saturday. An affidavit by the men ac companying the report substantiated the story they told to the inspector, chat they ha<J been badly treated, and that, an effort had been made to de tain them. BLIZZARD RAGES IN TEXAS. Losses of Stockmen and Fruit Grow ers Will Be Enormous. According to a dispatch from Hous ton, Texas is in the midst of a se vere blizzard, and reports coming from different sections cf the sitne indicate that the losses suffered by stockman and fruitgrowers will be large. MUST FIND A PARTNER New York Man’s Credentials Found to Be Unsatisfactory and He Was Turned Down at Conference at White House. A Washington special says: As ^lie result of an extended conference at the white house Friday, it was decided to reject the bid of Oliver and Bangs, who proposed fo com plete :he construction of the Panama canal for 6.75 per cent of the total estimated cost, in so far as AQson M. Bangs of New York is concerned. While no official statement was given cut, it can be authoritatively stated that if William J. Oliver of Kfrcxville, Tenn., can enter into a satisfactory arrangement with some olher contractor, who is financially responsible, he will be given the big contract. The fact that the MacArthiir-Gilles- pio company of New York, whose bid was 12.5 per cent, was represented at the conference, leads many to be- j'ieve that a combination may be termed between that firm and Oliver. yt is known that the MacArthur-Gil- lespie company has convinced Pres ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft of its responsibility and the canal com mission officials are satisfied that Oli ver is able to carry out his end of the agreement. There would have been no question as to awarding the contract to Oliver and Bangs had the credentials presented by Bangs proven as satisfactory as those fur nished by Oliver. The decision means that Mr. Oliver will be given a chance to take some other contractor into partnership. The canal commission, with this require ment met, will not undertake to dic- trate to him who this contractor shall be. The rejecting of all bids was dls- TTn-kfeu at rutra-rM chuittct moeimg," end this decision had been practically agreed upon before the night confer ence. If Mr. Oliver refuses to consider the contract after the rejection of Mr. Bangs, the canal commission will issue a call for new bids. Anson M. Bangs of New York, Mr. Oliver’s associate, was the contractor for the Soo line canal locks. Mr. Pangs is a brother-in-law of John F. fGaynor of the firm of Greene & Gay- nor, who were implicated with Cap tain O. M. Carter in the Savannah harbor frauds. Thia fact, however, It Is stated, had no influence with the canal commission. After the cabinet, meeting Mr. Oli ver left Washington for New York, and it is admitted by his representa tives that he will ask the MacAr- ikur-Gillespie company to join him in submitting a proposal in place of the bid submitted under the firm name of Oliver & Bangs. It is stated that a compromise arrangement will be con- sidcred by the canal commission, pro vided Oliver succeeds in making a satisfactory arrangement with the MacArthur-Glllespie company to pay 9 per cent of the total cost for the construction of the canal. ECHO OF RUSSO-JAP WAR. Czar’s Government to Complete th* Evacuation of Manchuria at Once. in a cablegram received in Wash ington Friday Mr. Rockhil! advises the state department that the Chi nese government has been Informed by the Russian minister at Peking that Russia would complete the evac uation of Manchuria at once, leav ing only the railway guard, which is ;n accordance with the treaty of Portsmouth. There are about twenty thousand troops to be withdrawn.. WITNESS OFFERED A BRIBE. Sensational Der.oument at Trial of Nashville Doctor. The first witness in the trial of l>r Herman Feist at Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, charged with the murder of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, whose body was inund in the Ohio river at Cairo, 111., was G. P. Stone, and his testimony proved highly sensational Stone de clared that Mrs. Truesdale, sister of the murdered woman, offered him $500 to positively identify a horse and buggy which he saw at the union station on the night of the mysterious disappearance of Mr.*. Mangrum REPORT IS MODIFIED And Postal Rate for Newspapers Will i Not Be Raised. Thi'ough the efforts of Clay, of Georgia, and Moon, of Tennessee, a modification of the original report oi the committee regarding postage on newspapers, both dailies and week lies, lias been made. It is confidently expected that the postage on the newspapers will remain the same as now. SHONTS HAS RESIGNED. Head of Canal Commission Voluntarily Quits Job to Engage in Other Business. The resignation of Theodore P. Shonts as chairman of the isthmian ^anal oummission was announced at ’.he white house Wednesday, having been tendeied to the president and accepted by him, according to cone- spondence made public. It w.111 take ef fect not later than March 4, Mr. Shonts having just been elected as I icsideni of the Interboiougk Metro politan company, which controls the Rapid Tiansit and many surface lines in New York. Ns announcement was made as to who will succeed Mr. Shouts as chair man of the commission, but it was learned authoritatively that headquar ters would be removed from Washing ton to Panama and a high-salaried chairman to serve in that capacity alone will not be num£d. This being admitted, it follows that John F. Ste vens, the engineer in charge of the construction of the canal, would not be made subordinate to another of ficial on the isthmus. Without definite announcement, therefore, it is regard ed as a certainty that Mr. Stevens will be named as chairman of the commission and will assume his du ties as such in connection with his post of chief engineer. Mr. Shonts’ retirement does not come wholly as a surprise. It has been i umored persistently as soon as action had bea>n taken upon the prop osition to build the canal by contract that Mr. Shonts wmuld sever his con nection and resume a calling more congenial to his taste. 'Secretary Taft of the war department confirmed the rumor by saying that Mr. Shonts’ resig nation was voluntary, which fact is lornc cut by the letter of the presi dent accepting it. HARRY THAW TRIAL BEGUN. Rotten Murder Case in New York Now Has the Boards. The trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, millionaire, for the murder of Stan ford White, architect, at the Madison Square Roof Garden the evening of J.une 25, 1906, begaj] \n New York on VLadnesday mornfcug^h.w . The examination of talesmen did iKd. fully develop the line of defense, though there were allusions in the questions of the prosecution both as to the law as it relates to the sanity of an accused person and to the “un written law” of which so much has been said and written since the trag edy was enacted. During the examination of the first talesman, Thaw's counsel objected to the form of questions as propounded by the district attorney as to insanity or the umvritten law', but they told the court they did not object to the questions in principle. Scenes approaching absolute dis order attended the opening of the trial. Most of the clashes w r ere between reporters and correspondents and the police. Of the newspaper men there were perhaps 200 and there was a policeman for each. The great squad of blue coats w’as commanded by a police inspector. Only about fifty news paper w-riters finally wrere admitted, the remainder of space in the court room being reserved for the 200 tales men summoned on the special jury panel. The trial began before Justice Fitz gerald of the supreme court. AT VARDAMAN’S HOME TOWN. Mcb Lynches Negro in Close Proxim ity to Governor’s Residence. Information reported in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday evening was that a negro named Henry Bell was lynch ed at Greenwood, the home of Gover nor Vardanian, Tuesday night, by un known parties. The negro assaulted Mrs. Graves of that place some mon’hs ago, and had been in the Greenville jail for safekeeping. Tuesday night he arrived at Green wood in charge of a deputy sheriff, and W'hile that official was taking htm from the train to the jail he was sur rounded by fifty men, who took him away and strung him to a railroad bridge. The corcner’s jury returned a verdict that the negro came to his death at the hands of unknown par ties. Agricultural Appropriation Bill. Representative Wadsworth of New York from the committee on agricul ture reported the agricultural appro priation bill to the house Wednesday. The bill carries $7,635,790 for the or dinary and regular routine work of the agricultural department. MORE PAY FOR CARRIERS. R. F. D. Men’s Wages to Be Raised to $70 Per Month. The postoffiee and post roads com mittee of the house Wednesday reach ed a decision ia the matter of in- cieased pay for rural free delivery of carriers, and will recommend that the maximum salary be fixed at $S40 per year, or $70 per month. HOTEL QENESTA, Augusta, Georgia, EUROPEAN Right in the heart of the retail shopping district. EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. . • Elegant Cafe. 5 i^rivatie Dining Rooms. Every Convenience for Ladies whiie'shopping in Augusta. ELEGANT LAD3ES’ RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS. Johnson’s Bakery. ESTABLISHED A. D. 184«. Cleanliness and Parity of Materials Are characteristics of all the Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pies, Etc. made at JOHNSON’* BAKERY, Park A venae. i Ur Choicest Confectioneries and Can- ii*s always on band. STONE! STONE!! Enti.nstfl? giTeo end orders prompt y Ailed for street curbings, and cross ngr, flower bed borders, sidewalks in docks, hitching posts, door and ter •so* steps, door and window sills, s metei j lot copings, rough and tressed ashlers for fronts of build age, hesrth stones, etc. Lakaviaw -tone a specialty. Stone ’rorn otba? ^carries if preferred. H. K. OHATFIELD, Aiken, $ Q TAX NOTICE. John R. Schneider IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALBR IN Liquors, Fine Wines, Havana Cigars, Mineral Waters, Etc. Agent for Veuye-Clicquot Ponsardin, Urbana Wine Company, Anheuser- Fvsch 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 First-class People. 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 he at my office at the Court House in Aiken fiom 9 o’clock a. m. to 2 o’clock p. m., and from 3 to 5 p. in., from Octcbe? 15, 1906, io March 15, 1907 (Sundays and Christ mas excepted!, for the purpose of re- celvine the taxes for the year 1906; and iho 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, 1&0G, 3 mills. • District No 1 Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906. 1 milk District No. 66. Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 4 mills If the above levy is not paid i>* December 31, 1906, then 1 per cent •-hall he added during January. 1907. Tpon 0 per cent, shall be added du,- imr February, 1907. Then 7 per cent shall be added nr to March 15, 1907. when executions wdil be issued. The tax on dogs is 50 cents on each . • .i a, The commutation road tax is Sl.oi for each person liable (fiom IS to 5' years is the limit) and is payable wbh penalty up to February 28. 1907. J. A. M. GARDNER, Treasurer Aiken -Co.in«y. October 5, 1906. * Pine Forest Inn. Opened Saturday, December 1st. 1905. High flass Hotel, strictly in the pines, catering to a select cljentsle. Rooms en suite with oath. Elevator. Eh'-trie lights, .jt&tv and open fires. Pure water and pcuTcct. sanitary condi ions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. 1 F add lie and harness horses. Fine hunting. H. M. PATTERSON, Manager, or F. VV. WAGES ER & Co., Charleston, South Carolina. TuThSISt n 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: t Hotel Preston, Beach Bluff, Mass. The Colonial Arms. Gloucester Harbor, Mass. ! Hotel Melbourne, LuM Iron Ms 694 BROAD STREET, Angnsta, Ga. —asss NOTICE CITY TAXES. Augusta, Ga. Office of Clerk and Treasurer, City of Aiken, Aiken. S. C., Oct. 12, 1906. Pursuant to an Act ot the General Assembly and the City Ordinance ihe Tax Duplicate of the said City will be open at my office for the purpose of collecting City Taxes from Oct. 1 oth, 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 the said city, and hence they stand charg ed with the City Taxes lor the fiscal year aforesaid, as provided by law. Tax levy as fellows: For Current Expenses , . .9 mills For Sinking Fund 1 mill Total Tax 10 mills j. l. McCarter, tf City Clerir md Treasurer MRS. P. W. BYAS9EE, Proprietress. First class accommodations for per manent or transient boarders. Thor oughly renovated and newly furnish ed under new management. Table supplied with all the delica pies of the season. Convenient sample room attached. X-T- ' Six Thousand Miners Get Raise. Wages of coal miners in southern Colorado districts were advanced 10 per cent on the 1st. Over 6,000 men are benefited. The increase amounts to $600,000 a year. Engines, Boilers, Cotton, Saw, Fertilizer, Oil and Ice Machin ery and Supplies and Repairs, Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft ing. Pulleys, Hangers, Leather and Rubber Belting and Hose, Railroad end Mill Supplies and Tools, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heaters aed Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred hand*. Estimates furnished for power planus and steel bridges, store front*. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE - US BEFORE BUYING. .. HUH CUTTING aifl SHAVING FOB Pf—ir Oatting. Shaving and Shami-oc- int, got# OEO. W. WALTON Schneider Building, 208 McIntosh St., Augusta, Ga. JJ. Agent. Fire, Lile, Cyclone, Aooident Insurance, -AND- a • ■ I AIKEN. S. C.