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The Bant of Men, TOTAL RESOURCES $600,000 When Time* are Hard, do Business With a Strong Bank, and be Safe. U U A 8. c. C»l!. s « / 1 Ttie Bank of Men. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $2X#00. The Oldest and Strongest Bank In Aiken County. —~ Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN. S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 28. 1907. Established 1881. Price SI.50 a Year, in Advance. FINLEY STATES CASE Of the Railroads in a Banquet Speech at Atlanta. LOWER RATES INIMICAL A Greatest Need Now is Better Rail Ser vice—Gives Warning That Pres ent Agitation May Do More Harm Than Good. t ■ I ^2^ The 1907 annual dinner of the At lanta chamber of commerce, at the Jt’iedraont hotel Tuesday night was an epoch marker, and one of the most typical gatherings of Atlantans ever mobilized * There were young men and old, men gray, and even white, with the years of experience, but all of them active, energetic and so filled with the Atlanta spirit as to make them all young in seeking the Gate City’s good, while furthering their own Individ ual interest. The principal address of the occa sion was by President Finley of [he Southern. Among those who listened to the speakers none paid closer attention then those visiting members of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of Atlanta. These gentlemen, represent ing one of tire greatest and most Tapidly growing industries In the state, came from all parts of Geor- gia. * Perhaps a reference on the part of President Pope In Introducing Fres- lent W. VV. Finley of the Southern MAJ. PENROSE ACQUITTED By Courtmartial of Misconduct Brownsville Affair, Preferred Against Him by Roosevelt. in Major C. W. Penrose, of the Twenty- ty-flfth infantry, on trial before court- martial at San Antonio, Texas, was ac quitted Saturday of the charge of neg lect of duty preferred against him at the Instance of President Roosevelt for alleged misconduct in connection with the shooting up of Brownsville, Texas, by the soldiers of the Twenty- fifth infantry last August. The decision of the courtmartial was reached after four hours’ delibera tion, and was immediately transmitted to Brigadier General William Mc- Caskey, commanding the department of Texas, who authorized its publica tion. 4 - *16 V.A«..— -.nu- of the evening. This was the ftiggestion that Atlsnta was tho log ical center of the Southern railway, and thp natural place for the loca tion of its headquarters and general offtres This suggestion occasioned a writable storm of applause- and a road and happy smile on the part As the official a me, couplet! with President 'Samuel o< the Southern railway, vtaa nsible for logg continued cheer- dtatrons of Rail tsst Fin ‘¥he Penrose courtmartial has estab lished a record in American military history for duration and quantity of evidence introduced. The argumeits heard Saturday closed seven weeks' proceedings, and nearly twenty-five hundred pages of typewritten matter comprise the record. Major Penrose will now go to Wash ington, where he has been summoned at a witness before the-senate inves tigating committee. BODY RIDDLED WITH BULLE1S. iS Negro Who Attempted Assault Lynched by Alabama Mob. Cleveland Harding, a negro, who at tempted to assault Mrs. Ben F. Rice, near Florence, Ala., Friday,* and who was driven off by Mrs. Rice’s shep herd dog, was summarily executed Sunday by^his intended victim’s hus band and some 200 or 303 sympathiz- .way. caused the greatest enthuei-.^ers. Tied to a tms with his arms up, the negro was riddled with bul lets, the first shot being fired by Rice, following which it Is said every man In the crowd emptied his revolver at the prisoner. It is said that over 1,000 shots were fired. The negro was cap tured Sunday morning half a mile be low town, and was taken before Mrs. Rice, who fainted at Sight of him. TO TEST NEW LAW Railroads in West Decide to Advance Rates. MAY REACH THE SOUTH ipcrease of 12 1-2 Per Cert on Grain, Coal and iron Ordered as the Opening Wedge —Mo\e Will Be Resisted. his speech wi a" -pertinent and Important presantite £ tJAn of the Kubjectf’jh^om the viewpoint OT the. railroad sldo of the the.-railroad sldo of Ills every word was giv«fif attention and „&t the cOn of -JkV. « - I T- ■ <* . 4!tude his address he was given an enthtt*, siastfc ovation by hts many friends and admirers, who. some yeers ago learned to know and respect him as thrlr fallow townsman while lie was vfy, statinnwl la Atlanta as ihairmSu o|: ' I he Southeastern Passenger Assocfa- .. tlOQ.' J '’ In his presentation the subject. President Finley stated that better and more improved factmii&s'for ship ping and transportation were greater .. needm&i the present development of ■v tho so«h than any lowering of rates. J Instated That these rates at pres ent “Were rifTciently low for the sohth- >ducei*' to comr PtOjwtM iis cabt- d. western business' rlVals, gnd < jjropaf^placing of the southern ey contrasted the public tpaaids*,common ^tfiafef^ aifll by fail. He ^ Instated that rail j^unsportation yffts * 'iaridip imffYrtant than. wat»r transpor- P aR< 3^h5rttjas soon as the pe-> t hdlrm^ly stood' and «appre- Awonld be as lao* akSfaclp#s to. the i^they bfi)«se the Improvement 6f *_ • e present agitation regulaUdB^f irail- leglslatjonf^ Resident i-ihat this fedfby sound .judgment, ^uttaffinent cf rail- iSjpn and development and tkms ihado infinitely worse, rath- " than better. ^ v r BIO ^UUffilB PLANT BURNED. Arkansas, Entails $750^00. v . ,,, pine /Bluff, Arky Friday swept, ovet the ogNlre plant ot -the X / Bluff . City Lunfber company -and de- ’‘strojfed several small dwellings owned -yt l-y the company. The loss is various ly estimated gt from $500,000 to $750,-- The Bluff ||fty 'XiAttber^cooip^ one of the largest concern;-, in Pine Bluff, and large quantities vepe stack ed in the 'yards. JThis, \fas destroyed or badly damaged*/ t Upon recovering she fully identified her assailant- Beyond Confessing nig guilt, Hord ing had nothing to say, and was ly indifferent, it seemed, to his fate. ■* ' *y was left tied to the tree h> 4/0 TtHwuiWsro v,t- «» l> uWlx uncue , tempt to Shield their dentity.* The* eheriff overtook the (frowd before the his appeals were un^j A Washington special says: The latest development in the scheme of retaliation by the* railroads of thj country for the adverse slate legis lation recently enacted was tha no tice served on the Interstate com- ircrcj commission Wednesday that an increase of rates on grain, coal and iron of 12 1-2 per cent had been de cried upon to become effective Apri'. 1. The revolt is started oy the roads of the middle west, but may extend to the south. This new move will serve to test the constitutionality of the rate reg ulation law. The roads will attempt to show that they are aow unable 4o carry the above commodities at a profit under the rate which has ex isted for two years and that an ad vance is necessary. For the four years previous to 1904 the tendency was toward an increase of rates. For the following two years it was toward a decreme, and thU teutonoy lias con tinued since the present rate law be came effective. This move of the railroads to in crease revenues because of state leg islation reducing passenger rates has been generally known lor several weeks. When the new rates are sought to he put into effect the interstate commerce commission will be charg ed with the duty of fixing a “juit and reasonable.” rate Members o.* iho in terstate commerce commission believe any action of tho comiahition reriuc- t*«g freight rates will bo taken into Ihe courts by the lailroads and , have arranged to get quick action by the United States supreme court ''should the constitutionality of the law he . thus tested. The department of joV IENDOUS FOREST FIRE Sweeps Patrick Couni? 1 , Virginia,' Do- •' ' ing Immense Damage. A tremendous forest fire is sweep ing Tne county of ^ Patrick, Va., and heavy damage to property has has al ready resulted and thft: lives of many are endangered. ^ Patrick county Is a mountainous county, located about 60 miles south- m*. of Danville, and is famous for its timbp£ lands aud as a fine fruit grow ing 'section. .v> v mattw^.* v v . Since the new rate law has been in effect l,090‘ appUc&tVms have been filed with the commigsioijK for per mit-&1 on to change rates #ilhin five days, as ficquirtd t> . law- W hen a ■ reduction was in tended the petition was granted. Tho present application to raise .rates will be resisted. WHITES AND NEGROES SCRAP. Four People Wounded in Girard, Ala., a« Result of Race Clash. Five persons were wounded, two perhaps fatally,-as the result of trou ble between whites and-negroes, in Girard, Ala., Saturday night. Tue trouble started when a negro butcher cut two young white men. A ne gro "Was cut at the same time. ^ Later on the trouble was resumed and two negroes were shot down In the- street. , k , % £ ^ FlhjAL COTTON REPORT MADE. ’ASYLUM MAY HOLD THAW. Census Bureau Places Number of Bales Ginned at 13,290,677. The final census report on cotton for the year shows that Y3,290,677 bales of cotton, counting round bales as ^ialf hales, including lint^s, have been ginned. The number of active gin neries is 28,702. \ The 1906 crop is compared with 10,725,602 for. 190-5 and( 13,697,310 for 1904. “ONLY SPURT OF DELIRIUM,'' COAL^ COMBINE BIFFED. President of Exchange in Omaha is Fined find Given Jail Sei S. 1*1 UoweU.. president a Coal Exchange has^bet a ^pe of $1,03(1 and six Q»ontbs tat&iq^ounty jail. The • fence, was iinpow^lty Judge Sutton of the d,At til wt»s convicted oi conspiracy in re- traiot ol ton, N. J., Sunday, the. popular gutcry against railroad corporations. We shall gll be ashamed of it by and Jby. There is much that ip,not only groundless, bufWdgpg^jn the off-hand a^acks made’ railroads by thoughHa^dbeoplJ* \Vhat is weU founded in them wllf me cured, but Craze of deoi>2fdlatibn will soon pass. WATERWAYS COMMISSION Will Meek for F|r«t Session at Wash* • « ington April 29. < The Initial -meeting, of th^ inland waterways commission is ttyroe held April 29. Chairman Burton and W. J. McGee, of the bureau of etffrclogy, who ffi symeniber of the J»mmisslon,. had. a tay» with the premdent Sat- abqpt til Prosecuter Jerome Insists That Stan ford White’s Slayer is a Lunacic. A Xew York dispatch sayp: The blow which Harry Kendall Thaw has been In terror of ever since his trial for the murder of Stanford White began, fell Wednesday. District Attorney Jerome did not make formal application fer tho ap pointment of a commission in lunacy, tut in an Impassioned speech he 4iTealed to the conscience of the epurt, asserting that Thaw. &s he sits dfiily in court, is unable intelligently to advise his counsel, and is believed by every one wbo has watched and come into contact with him to be in- 'saiie. Mr. Jerome asserted that hla own alienists--the sU men who testiled for the state—were convjreed wWfen -they- had considered all the facts in connection with the case, that Tnaw was ’ of unsound mind. Mr. Jerome dramatically accused the counsel for the defense of concealing testimony, which, if presented to the court,would make the continuance of the trial a crime So earnestly did he plead that Jus tice Fitzgerald dismissed the jury un til Friday morning, and adjourned ccqrt to decide whether the trial shall go on or whether a commission in lunacy shall be app&inted tc pass on Thaw’s mental condition. BANK CASHIER JONES SKIDGOS Tcok With Him About $>0,000 of Char* lotto Institution’s Coin.; Frank H. Jones ,assistant cashief in Ex-President Cleveland Deprecates At tacks on Railroads. “ThenwJrinuch of the nature of de lirium,” Imd former President Grover , Cleveland in an interview at Prince* Charlo ^» i^- C.. Js-aticpal bank, has left to-vn with a Jpoitage,. it is said, of $68,000,..which, it t<i claim ed. will be made good by the ^direc- ,-*ci.s voluntarily. Jonos iias : oeen si eo ulatirg, R is saiJ;' thl*; is bo- tk’ved to have been the caose x-f his iiiliigid defalcation. It Is estimated tbaf <he tarried SIO.OO or f50,t»00 With him A reward of on* thousand del* iars is offered for ins capture -wp-A* W *• * *»»•■•• BROTE’S FIENDISH DEED. 4 Negro Attacked Woman and Killed Her Two-MonthjyOld Baby When She Escaped to Give Alarm. Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of former Mayor Tolbert, wss brutally assaulted and her two-momiis-old infant mur dered by a negro at 6:30 o’clock Monday afternoon; at their homo at Fairmount. twenty fnllcs from Carters- ville, Ga. When tho negro appeared at tt}e Tolbert home he demanded $50 of Mrs. Tolbert. Upon being refused he told her It was that or her life. She attempted to reach an adjoin ing room, where her two-months-old infant was sleeping when the negro seized her and tore her clothes in an effort to detain her. She could not reach the bahv and escaped from the house In her weakened ccnditloa to give the alarm. Tho Tolbert hovse is only a short distance from tho business center of mo town, and tt» a little while a crowd had collected and proceeded to the house, where ' h «r found that the scoundred had niftiest severed the head of the sleeping Infant with a knife. Mr. Toloert was at his place of business at the time. The while country Is bein? scaured in an effort to aprehend the assail ant, who is described as being a mu latto, with burnsides, weighing about If-O pounds, and five feat ten itches tall, wearing blue overalls. Within a abort time four negroes had been captured; suspected of the ciime. Two were fcaptured over the state line iri Tennessee. Ano:her at Marietta, Ga., and still another at Elowah, sixty mi)$s from Fairmount. They will be hel^'Tor identification It may bo that the aisailant is an exconvict. The Partow county con vict overseer says he released a ne gro from the gang eom? time ago that fills the description. fc DEADLY THRE Two Men Killed RNERED DUEL. the Other Fatally led. H. H. Chambertalne, superintendent of the mines of the Crescent • Coal Company at Sic Creek, a Creek, his iniugiv* the ines Ala, is dead, Joe ilso dead and Will ‘is dying as the senooh^ The-two miners V / f becn drinking and were creating s a disturbance the country store. Mr. Chamber!; tried to quiet them, when Joe Creese fired upon him, knocking his hat f hi;; head and knocking him down./ While he was down Creek fired a aec- ond shot, which resulted in Mr. Cham- beilaine’s death in a Birmingham hos pital several hours later. While mortally wounded and lying on the ground, Ohamberlaine pulled his pistol and fired several shots, one of which killed Joe Creek und fatally injured his brother Will. JEWS FORCED TO REFUGEE. Roumanian Peasants Drive Men, Wo men and Children Across Frontier. According to a telegram received in C’.ernowitz, an Austrian town close to the boundary of Moldavia, Rcuaia- nia, the anti-Jewish outbreak in Rou- rnania has assumed serious propor tions. Peasants have attacked an.i plnnderej Jews at Burduzheni, who are fleeing over the frontier. About t%vo thousand fugitive#, mostly wo- \Wc im n anJFchildren, already aave cross ed the frontier. . f FICe r GUTTED. With Plant of The Chronicle. ock Tuesday mom ent ted the building of the Augtisla Chron cle. wrecking eight NEW8PAPE! Fire Pl$yj- Fire .it 3:10 ing confpjefbly linotype: machines and damaging its posses. > The r-'ain office^ of the Western linion telegraph-ico I nion city ticket pied the sama b enfireij destroyed. The less is estj and is partially covered by insurance. BURTON SCORNED PARDON. SC^OOL CHILDREN MANGLED. * ^ Collapse of Roof of Building Buried Them Under Debris. Niue persons,— eight school chib dreit and’-ckw teacter t- were ii.ftant- ly killed Tuesday, and many others injured at Durargo, Mexico* ly the •of the roof c( a. schufii vhile Uje roon>.3 wtr® crowd- ware Juried fitbi Convicted Senator Says Roosevelt Of fered to Release Him. Former United States Senator Bur ton, after delivering rhe speech whicb he had prepared in advance, made the statement at Abilene, Kansas, Satur day night that the president offered him a pardon. He said: “Five days after I was in jail the president ot tered me a pardon. It came to me per sonally at Ironton. I never answered it. I would not answer 1L I would not accept a pardon from him under any conditions. He is the one that should have the pardon.” A NEW STEAMSHIP LINE Between Savsnnah and Norfolk and Baltimore and Norfolk Planned. Announcement was made in Savan nah Frida}’ by the Merchants and Mi- aers’ Transportation company that be ginning April 23, & line of steamers will be on between Savannah and Norfolk, and BMtimo£| and Norfolk This wiJlbo on accoug# of tho James ■aponJtlvnr HOTEL GENE8TA, Augusta, Georgia, EUROPEAN . . . Right in the heart of the retail shopping district. EVERYTHINQ STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. . • Cafe. £> Dining Rooms. livery Convenience for Ladies while shopping in Augusta. ELEGANT LADIES’ RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS. Johnson’s Bakery. ESTABLISHED A. D. 1846. Cleaafiaess and Paritj of Material! Are characteristics of all the Bread, Bolls, Cakes, Pies, Etc. made at JOHXSOS’S BAKERY, Park Avenoe. The Choicest Confectioneries and Can* dies always on hand. STONE! STONE!! Estimated ly filled for lugs, flower blocks, hitoki race steps, d cemetery lot ren and orders prompt it curbings, and cross •rders, sidewalks Is sis, door and tsr window sills copings, rough anr dressed ashlers for fronts of bnild hearth stones, etc. Lakevisv me a specialty. Stone Irons othe* iee U preferred. H. K. OHATFTELD, Aiken. 8. C Hotel Park in thfiPities Pursuant to an act 190/ Assembly, approved Feb. Stay A entitled “An Act to Raise SuppUeTand Make Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Commencing January 1, 1906,’ I will be at my office at the Court House in Aiken from 9 o’clock a. m. to 2 o’clock p.. m-, and from 3 to -5 p. m., from Octcber 15, 1906, to March 15, 1907 ('Sundays and Christ mas excepted), for the purpose of re ceiving the taxes for the year 1906; and the commutation road for 1907. The levy for all purposes Is as fol- lows; ^ State tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 5 ^ mills. County tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 3 mills. School tax if paid by December 31, 1S06, 3 mills. District No. 1 Special School tax if paid by December 31, 1906, 1 mill. District No. 66, Special School tax If paid by December 31, 1906, 4 mills. If the above levy is not paid by December 31, 1906, then 1 per cent shall be added during January, 1907. Then 2 per cent shall be added dur ing February, 1507. Then 7 per cent shall be add£d up ♦o March 15. 1907, when execution! will be Issued. The tax on dogs Is 50 cents on each dog. The commutation road tax is $l.o« for each person liable (from 18 to 51 years is the limit) and is payable with nut penalty up'to February 28, 1907. J. A. M. GARDNER, Treasurer Aiken County. October 3, 1906. * 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 the purpose of collecting City Taxes from Oct. 15th, 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 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, If City Clark und Treasurer John R. .Schneider IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Liquors, Fine Wines, Havana Cigars, Mineral Waters, Etc. Agent for Veuve-CIIcquot Ponsardin, Urbane Wine Company, Anheuser* Pusch Brewing Association. ., 601 AND 603 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, ^A. THE SAVOY Corner Broad and Jackson Sts., AUGUSTA, GA. A First-Class' Retaurant and Soda Parlor for First-class People. AIKEN, S. C. Modern in Construction and Operation HARRY W. PRIEST CO., PROPR8., Management of J. A. Sherrard. SUMMER HOTELS: Hotel Preeton, Beach Bluff, Mast. The Colonial Arms, Gloucester Harbor, Mass. - ■ i~'-% ■ ■■ eje— "-jt" "■flra’" 1 -ai-"■* .""-.j 1 1 - ■— " Pine Forest Inn. Opened Saturday, December 1st, 1906. High Class Hotel, strictly in the Pmes, catering to a select clientele. Rooms en suite with bath. Elevsit-ir. Electric lights, atcam Lcr.l aud open fires. Pure water and perfcel sanitary conditions. FINEST GOLF LINKS IN THE SOUTH. Faddlle and harness horses. Fine hunting. H. M. PATTERSON, Manager, or F. ~vV. WAGEXER & Co., Charleston, South Carolina. TuThS13t n 27 Iron (forks 1.1 Augusta, Ga. Motel Melbourne, 601 BROAD STREET, Augusta, fia. Over and Over Again. Mias Elderly—To-morrow I expect to celebrate my twenty-third birthday an niversary. Jack Dashing—And yet there are skeptics who deny that history repeats itacifi 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 snd Tools, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heaters and Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred hands. Estimates furnished for power plants and steel bridges, store fronts. DON’T FAIL TO WRITS US BBfORg BUYINQ, ., MRS. P. W. BY ASSISE, Proprietress. First class accommodation!* for per manent or transient boarders. Thor oughly renovated and newly furnish ed under new management Table supplied with all the delica cies of the season. Convenient sample room attached. 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