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THE COTTON REPORT. Under Suspicion-Secretary Heste Questions Director North Were Figures Held Back? Washington, October 26.-The cen. sus bureau issued a bulletin yester day placing the cotton ginned in th< United States up to October 18 a 4,940,728 b'ales, rourid bales being counted as -half bales. The statemen is based on reports made by the bu. reau's special agents in the field. No estimate is made of the tota crop for the year, but figures are giv en out concerning crops of formei years. These figures show that up tc this date in 1904 the product of th< gins -had reached a total of 6,417,892 bales out of a total of 13,693,279 bale. for the year. In 1903 the total pro duction was 10,045,615 bales and thi ginning output up to October 25 3,706,248. In 1902 the total was 10, 827,168 and the output to October 25 was 5,683,006. Today's report covere< 26,364 ginneries and the statemen upon which it was prepared were sup plied by telegraph by 102 specia agents in the field, most of them rep resenting one county each. The facc that the bulletin was no issued until two o'clock, two hour after the usual time, caused complain from brokers in different cities, an some df these which reached the bq reau before the document was give to the public, were of a sensationa character. They were summarized a the following from The secretary o the New Orleans cotton exchange: New Orleans, Oct. 25, 1905. Hon. S. N. D. North, Director of th, Jackets! JOc F LADIES, MISSE' A complete I styles.. Come a Mrs. .S'. V Prosper THE PACIFIC MUTUAL I Its peculiar LEGAL organiza Insurance Company in America. the Greatest Gtuarantees written ii pany at less cost. Its non-partici] compan yv doing business in this se The follou ing are the RATES-j ing plan. Age. Whole 20 '$14. 21 15. 22~ 15, 28 15. 24 16. 25 16 26 16 27 . 17, 28 17. 29 -18 30 18 31 19 32 19. ~33 20 34 21 35 21 -36 22 37 23 38 23 39 24, 40 25 41 25 42 27 4:3 28. 44 29 45 35 46 32 "'I47 33 48 34 49 36 50 .- 38 51 39 52 41 53 43 54 45 55 48 56 50 57 53 58 55. 59 58, 60 61 61 65 62 68. 63 73 64 78 65 81 Call to see us. R( Office over Post Office. Census, Washington, D. C. Much disappointment and dissatis faction here at delay in issuing gin gers' report to 2 p. m. Bache and iCompany of New York wire Hay ward, Vick and Clarke of New Or leans as follows: "David Miller has just made the statement to the effect that the ginners' report has been de layed from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock so t as to allow more time to certain par ties to sell cotton and says he will stand by the above." One rumor here is that the report will show counting round as half bales, 6,ioo,ioo. All kinds of rumors are being spread and parties are sell in the market down, under suspicion of something wrong in your bureau. I send this because I think it proper you should -know it. The David Mil ler referred to was the receiver of Sully & Company and is a prominent member of the New York cotton ex charge. H. G. Hester. To this Director North replied: I Washington, D. C., Oct. 25, 1905. t Henry G. Hester, Secretary New Or - leans Cotton Exchange, New Or I leans, La. - Telegram received. Nobody in this office knows even approximately at t the moment how many bales ginned s the report will show. The men en t gaged in compiling it. are locked up I and the door guarded on. the outside. More than half the telegraphic re 1 ports from country agents were re I ceived this morning and their compila i tion prior to 2 o'clock was a physical f impossibility. This telegram was forwarded be fore the bulletin was given out and e after it was issued it was.-stated that kets! Jackets! OR S AND CHILDREN. .ine in the latest nd see thenl. f'. Calmes, -ity, S. C. .FE INSURANCE SOCIETY. tion makes it the STRONGEST Life It is nearly 40 years old. It gives 1 the Policies of any Insurance Comn ating rates are LESS than any other ction. >er $r,ooo on NON-PARTICIPAT Life. 20 Payment Life. 65 $22 60 00 22.95 35 23.30 70 2370 05 24.10 45 24.55 85 2500 30 25.45 75 25 90 25 26.40 75 26.95 25 27.50 8(). 28 05 40 ,2860 05 29 20 70 2985 40 -30 50 15 3120 90 31.95 75 32.70 60 33.50 55 34 35 55 35.25 60 36.20 70 3720 90 3825 15 39.25 50 40.50 95 41.75 50 43.10 15 4450 90 4600 75 .4760 75 4930 85 51.15 10 53.10 50 55.20 10 57.45 85 5985 .80 62.45 95 6525 30 68.16 .92 7145 80 7495 35 7876 50 83.20 )BERT NORRIS, Gen'l Agt., some of the reports from the agents were not received until ten minutes before two o'clock. The ginning product for the pres ent year Eo date by states is as fol lows: Alabama 641,133; Arkansas 117, 511; Florida 38,007; Georgia 1,058.167; Indian Territory 79,222; Kentucky 177; Louisiana 141,780; Mississippi 311,472; Missouri 8,575; North Caro lina 325,298; Oklahoma 95,280; South Carolina 639,974; Tennessee 62,625; Texas 1,417,456; Virginia 4,051. Ben Bennett, who was serving a life sentence in the penetentiary, and pardoned by Governor McSweeney on condition that he leave the sta'te for ever, and that should he come back, should be arrested again and serve TAKE Read this the Rest i VISIT I And you w you are qi are remarl Don't Be This is our t People and < Please bear of OUR -LOMW our Goods ai the market f *WE WERE 50C Jaci pubz COS1 Beati You Will Los You Fail to I L 1,00 .....,,9pric A Cordkt THE FAI the sentnece, last year telegraphed Governor Heyward from Savannah making a pitiful request that he be al lowed to come back into the stace, and see his wife who was living with her family in Hampton county. The governor denied the request, but two weeks later dispatches from Hampton announced tha't Bennett 'had come back, and that his wife was dead. He was afterwards tried for the murder of his wife and was convicted of man slaughter and sentenced to the peni tentiary for five years. He was a.f terwards transfered to the Hampton county chaingang and made 'his es cape. He has been captured in Geor gia, and will be brought iback to serve not only the five years, but his for mer sen,tence. Mr. 'Thomas W. Bacot was sworn TIME; Advertisement to Your Good Ji Js! rill find hundreds jlte familiar with cably low. . . . Surprise iusiness; we are ,ater to those whc in mind, however PRICES, the style re superior to an) or your money. FORTUNATE Ladies and .Mis kets which we rn lic at less than L. There never ha ful Line on exhlibition-Clt se Money If 3uy From Us. 0 Towels worti e, while the lot la IlI Invitatio1 RAN TT ADSQUARE ;)T; jo Sauio14-e 4zti;sip 1UL1SISSLI Se uL United States District court ac Green ville, S. C., on Wednesday. Mr. Thomas Dickson through -his critics is getting a very large amount of free advertising for his play "The Clansman." Fisher and O'Day who were convic ted of the Heath Springs Bank rob bery at Lancas,cer, have ;been sent for a term of fifteen years each, to the state penitentiary. An election has been ordered in Anderson county for N'ovember 21St on the question of voting out the dis pensary from that courry. T.hree conductors and two swit'ch men of the Southern's Greenville yards quit on account of not being able to get along with the yard mas ter. and We Leave idgment. . . of articles that --at prices that the underselling > wish to UNDERB , that regardless a and quality of 4thing offered on FO SECURE. ses' Cloaks anid ow offer to the manufacturer's as been such a to Fit and Very Stylish. 15 cents, our sts, only 9c. 1 to All. NER, DEALER.