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VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1910 NO.23 ENDED AT LAST Bhe D4MM sayidsg Up oise Gsnk.h ksWork U) MAES ITS REPORT The Board Express's Satisfactot That the State Dispenary Ha Bee Wound Up and Is Now $ Thing of the Past, After Giving the Detags of Their Doings. The eommisslpon appointed by GoT ernor Ansel under an Act of th legislature to wind up the air of the old State dispensary hal drafted its final report to the Gov grow. and- L now in the hands Of the printer, and will be laiL o the desk of the members of the leg Islature In a few days. The re port is an exceedingly. interestin one, and the commIsSion has appar' gitly made a line business show tg. TLe total net money result is $453.464.56. of which $275.000 ha been, paid itno 'tae State treasury. $30,332.80 Is on hand in cash. $22. 631.76 due by counties, and $7h. Goo is real estate, this being the %summary of the businees from the timo the commission asumed charge on February 16. 1907. up to Jar ry 12 of the present year. And more is to come from overjudgments. amounting to over $200.000. The commision has realized grand total receipts of $974.536.55. of which $56,936.36 is interest earu.i by deposits of funds in the banks ov or th tSate at 4 per cent. The to tal amount paid out was $893.753. '75, IncludikT the $275.000 turned wer to the State treasurer. On mer ehande account a gross proft of $12,024.86 is shown. while on capi tal account of $400,000 there Is -a ft lom of only $4.189.76. The supply account shows a ust low of $33,286.42, "which loss Is .ccounted for in running the dis pensary several months, using these supples in suppying the various dis pensaris for goods sold to them. 'T'he "COnzWInce money" receiTeI -6sfrom old creditors. who had no ac gm on the books." amounted to $3AW.0 *the -attorneys receiving 0 per Nt cMmission on all they could recover on claims of this kind." The 11dgadon in the Federal eourts was costly. the report says. but this was charged against the whiskey houses and the commin ''o "considers that this litigation baa colt the State practically noth lug." , --Exhiblt *1D shows the assets an'd lintiitan part of which we con sider a contingent llablltiy amount tw to $41.277.63. being amounts claimed by parties who have ap pealed from the findings of this comn mission to the Supretne court for Sual setwemenit," isys the report. --Exhibit "E gives Itemized state ments of all expenses per diem and mieage incurred by this commis ,lo during the entire period, which fully explana Itself. We call at tention to the total, which is $7. 07.54." "The results of the efforts" of Anderson, Felder. Rountree & Wit eaon. of atlanta, who were paid 10 per cent on all savings from over charges and 50 per cent of the conscience money "is shown In ex hibit 'G.' The amount so charg-d -up to creditors was $173.831.95. of -which $20,446.08 was for expenses of litigation.'' unfortunate business, we desire to expres our satisfaction at having reched the end .of a business that has been burdensome in detail an'd responsibility, annoying in the ex reme in that we were compelled to~ go contrary to the wishes of the clamnts and were frequently un justly misrepresented by the public prints, and disgusting in the revela tions of corrpution which had so de plorably permeated the business ths' it renders tumigation, fgsratively speaking. necessary to approach th subject with -comfort." "We desire In conclusion," say' the report. "to thank your Excel leny for the courteous considerati!on ishown us In aU matters and for your -unwavering loyalty through all vi' students, and to congratulate you and the State on being delivered ' your admInIstration from baneful et fects of the most corrupt institution iwhich ever existed In this State as a part of the State government while our own people were controningl pub lic sfairs." The report is signed by the fuli ommIuson,.Consisting of Dr. W. 1 Murray, of Columbia. chairman: Avery Patton, of Greenville; John Mie~ween, of Tlmmonsvlle: J- P Brie, of Yorkvinle, and A. N. Wood, of Gaffney. ChLd Dies of Burns. The three-year-Old child of Ni Chavis at Neeces died on Wednes day from the effects of burns suffer ed the previous day. The child wa playing ne a wash pot when its lothes caught fire. Before the flames coud be extinguished ths child sustained fatal burns. About three weeks ago the four year-od daughter of Lucius Davi was badly burned in the same wa, and now Is in a critical conditiot with little hope of recovery. Rejects the Bonds. A Providence dispatch says Rhod< Wand's repudiation of the gift C over half a millon dollars worth o~ orth Carolina bonds was practi ally completed a few days ago. whel the senate w~ted to reject the gil -an retur the bonds to the donors DON'T MAKE TM BILL TAFT SPEAKS OF DFMO CRATS AS YELLOW DOGS. Objects to Minority's Selection of Members for Oommittee to Probe Ballinger-Pinchot Row. Zach McGee In his Washington k letter to The State says President ; Taft not only disapproved of put ting Henry T. Rainey and Ollie James on the committee to Inves tigate the Interior department but he Is hot about it. and he calls the two Democrats "yeliow dogs." A number of newspaper men and oth era were in the ofice of the presi dent's private secretary when the president walked in. "What Is the news about the in surgents?" asked the president. "You ought to know. Mr. Presi d&t." replied one of the correspou dents. "They have been calling on you." *Yes." said the president. his face clouding. *but they can not per suade me to accept two yellow dors. [ do not propose to play a game with loaded dice." The committee to in vestigate the Interior department and the conduct of Secretary Ballinger is to consist of four Republicans and two Democrats. The question being asked is. "Is Mr. Taft afraid that Messrs. James and Rainey might make political capital out of the Investigation?" The onlT possible way they could make politiceal capital would be to 2nd smethiag discreditable to the administration. If Ballinger has nothing to his discredit, not even a "yelow dog" gould make capital out of It. NEWLY MARRIED BRIDE Seeking a Divorce From Her Old Preacher Spouse. I A special dispatch from Spartan burg says sfter giving married life less than a month's trial, Mrs. No gie James Burnett, wife of Rev. George W. Burnett. a Baptist minis ter of Aberdeen. Miss., who, before her marrise was Miss Nogle James of Wellford. has returned to Spar tanburg county, pending an appli cation for divorce. which has been filed In the offce of the clerk of court of Monroe county. Miss. The -tp plication for the divorce is made by consent of both parties on the ground that Mrs. Burnett declares that she does not love her husband. Rev. Mr. Burnett. it is said. loved his wife with a love akin to worship. He Ia a man 58 years of age. while Mrs. Burnett is but 25. They knew each other but a month before mar rying. A dispatch from Aberdeen. Miss. says "Parson Burnett hs applied for divorce: case pending. Court sow in session. No refiec tion on lady, who has respect andi sympathy of all who know her." it is said that Rev. Mr. Burnett was a widower with ten children at the time of his marriage to Miss James, which was on Sunday De cember 26, 1909. Mrs. Burnett gave out a statement In regard to her asking for a divorce, in which she says her husband was lrind and loving, but that she was just dis satisfled and did no: believe it the Lord's will that she remain his wife. THREW BRIDE INTO WELL. Husand and Male Companion Tried to Murder YOung Woman. Knocked in the head. thrown into a well by her husband and a malo ompanlon and left for dead, was. the fate that met Annie Moskill. a bride of three days. who was ma? ted In Chicopee, Mass.. on Friday. On striking the water the woman regained consciousness and drew her self out ot the water by means of n Iron pipe. This she clung t" until the next morning. when she was found. Her feet are frozen. and will have to be amputated. The men checked a trunk belong ig to the woman, which she sadi contained $700 to Springfield. Suicidal Attempt Foiled. 'Erhart Willis has tried several times to commit suicide in Pitts burg. Pa. A few nights ago a: he Iraned a bottle supposedly of car bolic acid, he told his wife he wouM be dead in an hour. He lay down on a couch and two hours Iater awoke. companing ".the de'rn stuff's no good." He had swallowed a harm less preparation of violet creami the: :ruggist had given him, having been~ warned by the man's wife. Teddy for' Congress&. That Theodore Roosevelt has agreed to run for congress In the First district of New York State-. embracing Nassau and Suffolk couti ties and Oyster Bay. with the un derstanding that he will be support ed for the speakership. Is the report that spread Thursday among the~ members of the house and senate. Will Fight It Out. The war in Nicaragua will go c-n. President Mad rlz announced Thurs day that Gen. Estrada's reply had served to end abruptly th- peace Snegotiations and the reinforc'nseVn Shad been ordered to the fronr with 1the puropose of striking a de :site blow at the insurgents. Turned the Tables. At Mohawk. N. Y.. Chief of Po~ flice Bronner was captured by fois rburglar-s Thursday morninc. tak--n - to a room in the postoffice and bOur." Sand gagged. The robbers blew open r the postoffice safe and fled with the REFORM NEEDED The State Asylum for the Iasane is in Bad Condition. SHOUD BE REMODELED - Many Improvements Urged, and the Sanity Arrangements Said to be Deplorable and the Institutio' Very Much Overcrowded-A Ma jority and Minority Report Filed. Last year the General Assembly appointed a special commission to in vestigate the conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane. On this commission were appointed Senators Christensen. Hardin and Bates. and Representatives Carey. Harrison. Sawyer and Dick. The committee has been diligent in its work an% -e search. Days were spent in taking testimony and studies were made of other hospitals for insane. Much of the results of this inquiry is placed before the people in the reports re leased a few days ago. The committee is entirely at va riance in the most essential feature. what should be done to further al leviate conditions? There are two reports. one signed by Senators Christensen and Bates and Repre sentatives Harrison and Dick. The other report is signed by Senator Hardin and Representatives Sawyer and J. P. Carey. The reports are so entirely at variance in point and suggestion that there is but one way to gut the varying views. and that is by reading both reports, which are very long and volumous. Without placing the blame on any particular person. the majority re port states that the eviednce shows: I That fifteen patients of one ward 1 were bathed in the same water in I a bath tub. That the foulest water closet, cen- ( tre of wide soil pollution. without a screens is located within a few fear I of an outdoor kitchen. That the bodies of dead patients are buried one on top of anothar I in the same lot, with as little can sderation as if they were so many dogs. That cholera bogs and the dead are kept in the same lot. That the wards. even of the white women. are overrun with vermin and the patients are allowed to go un kemrpt and ragged. The report also states that som- c of the attendants are reported 11- C Ifterate and brutal. many cases of brutality being reported and that the food served the patients is badly c prepared by persons who never learned to cook and is served in d dirty. greasy tin dishes. Govern ment reports are quoted to show that n the South Carolina Hocpital the eath rate is the highest in the nited States, 21.54 per cent, as c ompared with a general average of Z 1 per cent. It is estimated that it will re uire $350.000 to put the plant in roper shape, and It is suggested the resent plant be sold, the land be- E ng worth $400,000. and two plants. t o cost $500.000 each, be erected by j he State elsewhere.C The minority report. submittedt y thre members of the commis don, disagree with the main fea ures of the majority report. It olds that the lack of funds to put he institution on a modern basis. ue to the State's heavy indebted - ess. Is the principal source of rouble. It states that the patients. s a rule, are well cared for, that he food served is of good quality nd well cooked, and that the man gement of the State's farm is sys emraic and efficient. The minority report states that it 1 s ..,necessary to create a great debt for the Statm in tbe purchase of new1 sites, and that the expenditure ol bout $50.000i annually for several years will meet the requirements of the situation. They say that the superintendent is overworked--doing the work of three nmen. On December 1.' last there were in the institution 1.533 inmates 50 whie womien. 3, 0 white men. 3?1 negro women. 322 negro men. The board of regents is composed of .\essrs. W. J. Gooding. Hampton: J. Perry Glenn. Anderson: W. W. Ray. Congaree: J. H. Taylor. Colum bia. There are no better men in the State than these. For their work these regents receive a per .tim of not more than $250 a year. and mileage when th.-y attend meet ings. The superintendent, who i ah\ the c-hit.- prhysician. receives $J.000 a year and a residence on the grounds. Both re-ports speak well of the farm. The r(-ports :ogeth''r with th--y 1'ss of testimnorny have bee~n pu!she.i in hack Zorm -the reports and evidence make about a thousand (.,tly liuttermilk. Five yozars- hard labor on the chingan: or in the State poniten riary- is what Harry Ellis. a negro. wll pay for a c-np of buttermilk. This was all he secured wh--n he last summe-r broke into the house of W. J. Ashmore in the southern par? of Greenville county. He was foun-i guity in the court of gen.-ra, ses sions there a few days ago of house breaking and larceny and given the minimum sentence. Damages the South. nr. JTooph A. Danna, hous~e sur geon of th.- Charity Hospital at New Orans, thinks that there is a good deal of humbug about the hook wormi. 'The very fact that Rock efele-r gave $l.000.000 to help stamp out the hookworm has added much to the talk of the disease,'' e-,id Dr. Danna Thursday. ENDS LIF WITH ACID HARD PRESSED BANDIT SWAL LOWS A DEADLY POISON. Unknown Man Shoots Jeweler, Prob ably Fatally, and When Pursue' Takes Deadly Capsule. Frederick Boettcher. a Brooklyi jeweler, was sandbagged and fatall, shot in his store late Thursday af ternoon by an unknown man. wh< ended his life by taking a capsul of carbolic acid before he could bx locked up. Boettcher identified h!7 assailant as a man who come tc his store not long ago and looked at some diamond rings. It was or his plea that the stranger entered Thursday presumably with the in tent of robbery. When the jeweler started to come from behind the counter, the strang er pulled a chamois bag. filled wit.1h sand and shot, from his coat pocket and struck him a crushing blow on the head. As Boettcher reeled the man fired a shot .which took effect behind the jeweler's left ear. Tha hot brought Mrs. Boetteher down rom her apartments over the store nd the man led, leaving one re olver in the store and throwing mother away as he ran along the treet. Hard pressed by the police, who ad been attracted by Mrs. Boett her's screams, the would-be robber ras seen to raise his hands to his ips and swallow hastily. In a mo ent more he was under arrest and bough apparently suffering. h.e ralked back to the store where oettcher Identified him as his as allant. The prisoner was taken to the olice station and preparations were oegun to search him. e"" he co' apsed and died before medical as stance could be summoned. An !xamination by a surgeon later howed beyond doubt that he swal owed carbolic acid in capsule form. othing was found on the man to dicate his identity. His attempt t robbery was a complete failure. O'NVIUCT BLOWN TO PIECES. 'ied to Put Out Dynamite That Caught on Fire. A Chester dispatch says David bell and Biddle Gist. two negro onvcts serving sentences on the ounty chaingang. were instantly lled a few days ago, near the amp. on the York road near Ches er by the discharge of a stick of ynamite. The dynamite was being hawed out preparatory to blasting hen it took fire. Abell attempted > extinguish the blaze by beating he stuff on the ground and this aused a general explosion of dyna ite. Abell was torn into fragmenta, is head and ot::er parts of his ody being blown to a distance of 25 feet in one direction and other arts being hurled equally far in ther directions. Gist, while not r up so badly. was instantly kill d. Guard Ed Schuit was knocked own, but not seriously hurt, al bough one eye is injured. JAIL DELIVERY AT CAhIDEN. 'e of the Thirteen Prisoners in County Prison Escape. At Camden Tuesday afternoon everal of the prisoners in jail over lowered the jailer. John Boone, and nade their escape. Five of the hirteen prisoners escaped. They rere Elerbe Thomas, with a number if aliises. charged with fraud in aking 0rders for a Chicago house hich he claimed to represent; Miu on Banks. convicted of larceny and Lwating the action of the supreme ourt in an appeal: Sam Green. louse-breaking. and another negro iamed Truesdel, charged with house )reaking. Truesdel was recaptured nf hour later by Mr. John L .Team. 'eids and Banks are white. Jailer 3oon was pretty badly used up. le is an old Confederate Veteran .d stood to his post of duty faith ully. A blanket was thrown over ui and after beating him the keys ere taken from him. NEGRO SHOT AT AIK~EN. Livery Stable Hand Probably Fatal. ly Wounded. At Aiken Joe Jones. a negro. was hot Monday afternoon by I. Monro' -teks.. a prominent white man. and probably fatally wounded. Jon'e was empldoy.ed by Weeks. who is pro* pietor of the' W.'eks Liverr and Tansfer Company. Monday after noon he so'nt the ncgro cut driv ne wth a cus~.mor. and in a fe Anothr boy war. sont v.h he mm~ru: A li:t!'e while lat--r the n:.gro be ~me insolent. ani upon bein.:: repr! manded by We-:k5. is said to hay made at weeks with a pitchfork whereupon We.eks pick.r' up a sha? un and shot him i nthe stomach' Te ne.-ro is still alive. but wil probably die. Walsh in Prison. John E. Walsh. the convicte: bnker, arrived at the Federal pens tetiary at Leavenworth. Kan.. a noon Wednesday. and at once bega: serving his sentene of five y-ar. is number as a convict will b Big C'oal Mine Tax. One thousand and forty-five live were lost in coal mines in Pennsyl vnia last year according to report STATE BAR MEETS GEN. M. L. BONHAM OF ANDER SON ELECTED PRESLPENT. Othor Officers Elected by the AA. I soratinn and the Circuit They Represent in the State. The South Carolina Bar Assocla tion meet in CVoumbia last weK a-0 enjoyed their usual banquet. The following ofiera were elect*d for the ensuing year: President-M. L. Bonhom, Ander son. Vice president, First circuit-D. Hart Moss. Orangeburg. Vice president. Second circuit George H. Bates. Barnwell. Vice president. Third circuit Thos. G. McLeod. Bishopville. Vice president, Fourth circuit-W. F. Dargan. Darlington. Vice president. Fifth circuit-P. H. Nelson. Columbia. Vice president. Sixth circuit-A. L. Gaston, Chester. Vice preeident. Seventh circuit Stobo J. Simpson. Spartanburg. Vice president. Eightk circuit Walter H. Hunt, Newberry. Vice president, Ninth crealt-J. P. K. Bryan, Charleston. Vice president. Tenth eireat William G. Sirrine. Greenville. Vice president. Elereath cireit B. W. Croueh, Saluda. Vice president. Twelth cireui-J. P. McNeill. Florence. Secretary-John J. Earle. Colum bla. Treasurer-W. S. Nelson. Colum bia. Executive Committee-W. T. Ay cock, W. F. Stevenson, J. L. Glenn. John J. Earle. ex-officio; W. S. Ne son. ex-officio. Committee of Arrangement Christie Benet. H. N. Edmunds. R. B. h-rbert. Francis H. Weston. Rteception ComUittee - R. W. Shand. John P. Thomas. W. H. Lyles. John J. McMahan. Local Council-First circuit. W. L. Glaze. R. E. Copes; Second circuit. W. S. Smith, J. F. Carter; Third circuit. Louis W. Gilland, L. D. Jen nings; Fourth circuit, G. K. Lany, J. K. Owens; Fifth circuit, L. A. Wittokowsky. A. G. Belser; Sixth circuit. J. H. Foster. A. S. Douglas; Seventh circuit. W. S. Hall. S. J. Nichols; Eighth circuit. A. C. Todd. S. F. McGhee- Ninth circuit. A. C. Tobias. Jr., B. A. Hagood; Tenth circuit. T. Frank Watkins, . T. Jaynes: Eleventh circuit, N. G. Evans. J. Brooks Wingard: Twelth circuit. E. T. Hughes, Henry . Da vis. General Council-First cirsuit. R .S. Weeks: Second circuit, JameI F. Brynes; Third circuit. W. C. Da vis: Fourth circuit, T. L Rogers; Fifth circuit. Frank G. Tompkins; Sixth circuit. Thomas F. McDow: Seventh circuit. J. Gordon Hughes; Eighth circuit, F. B. Grier; Ninth circuit. J. H. Peurifoy; Tenth oircuit. J. K. Hood; Eleventh circuit. C. M. Efird; Twelfth cicruit. Henry Mul lins. SEVENTEEN MEN CLAITMEn. Dread Beri Bert Atetacrs Crew of Ill-Fated Ship~ Goodwin. Captain Peter. of the good ship Coodwin, wil1 probably make an ef fort to recruit his greatly decreased crew before he sails frm Savan nah, Ga. The Goodwin got into port on Tuesday of last week with 17 of its crew of 63 men short. The Goodwin sailed from a Chilean port November 18th, with a crew largely made up of Lascars or East In dians. The men developed bert beri and three of them died at sea. Others ied at ports that were touched en rorute to Savannah and at Monte video, eight men had to be left be cause they suffered with the disease. Just before the Strait of Magellan was reached the ship struck a heavy sea and the carpenter was washed overboard not to be seen again. Be tween illness and fatalities of 17 ot the crew who had orIginally sailedl with the ship were missing when this port was made. Captain Peter said it was the wors; voyage he had ever made. Tfls three Lascars that dIed at sea. were buried according to the rights of followers of Mahomet. KILLED OVER HORSE TRADE. Third Killing in Locality in Short Time Arous~e Citizens. A dispatch from Anguila, Miss.. 1ays the third killing in three day:: in that neighborhood1 took place. Weid.esday of last wook on the Sun Gower river near there. The fre quency of such events of late ha. aroused many of th.e citizens wh'o hav. to~egraphe-! the governor ass in:hat so:(dier~s Le. sent there Co r.c:ore order The.< tr: i:ro.y was the kilin. 'f Noah !'or0 il--fei:. r-cchant Silver City 1,y Jesse Martin. a plan: e-. :troub.le arose~ over a her. trade. MIartin swapped Dorodarfsky ai horse which he said would woi;t :o a huzggy. The deand man, it is. stated, claimed the animal wuld not do ,s represented and wanted -all the :rade off. which Martin r~ fused to do uvi rorodarisky cove. ed him with a t.i.'Ol. Martin. at enc went to his home. procured his !h~t gun and me-ting Borodarfsky in rt* road shot him. Deadly Ga.woline. One man was consumed by the fames, and six others are in hos ptals suffering with burns received shortly after 3 o'clock Thurday S morning, when a huge gasoline tark -exploded at the soap plant of te a Walker Brothers, on Herrs Island. j afe iles from Plttshnur Pa. GHASTLY CRIME ITwo Women and One Man Found Mr dered in New York's East Side. KILLED WITH HAMMER The Man Was a Prosperous Young Italian, and One of the Women -Was His Wife and the Other Was Probably His Wifo's Mother-Rob bery Was Motive. A trilIe murder was revealed In an obscure flat in the heart of New York's East Side. at No. 10 and 20 Montgomery street. at dusk Thurs day. Two women and a man are the victims, and the manner of death was horrible. Gagged with silk handkerchiefs and their heads erush ed with a hammer or axe. they were left bleeding and fully dressed on the floor with a whimpering bull terrier as companion for the dead. Robbery was the motive. or else it is another case of the Black Hand. Salvatore Scalpone. a well-to-do young Italian barber, his wife and a middle-aged woman, believed to have been Mrs. Scalpone's mother. are the victims. His failure to ap pear at his shop started an inves Ligation, which resulted In the dis covery of the crime. Policemen. summoned by the janitor of the apartment. entered the locked tat by way of a fire escape. In the kitchen Scaipoze's body was found. It was t!ed to the door. the fact battered beyond recognition and lying in a great smear of blood. Near his master stood the whining bull dog. cowering and blood spat tore-d. The animal hal peed sim lessly from boDdy to body, sniffing onie and then the other, staining the floors crimson wtih his foot prints and waiting for human aid. In the next room were the bodies of the women, gagged as was the man. the handkerchiefs similarly knotted and the heads battered as if the same instrument had been used on all three. But so weapon with which such wounds could have been Inflicted was found In the lat. Inspection by the officers revealed dire confusion: drawers w ere dump ed out, cupboards ransacked, mat tresses ripped open and every con seivable hiding place for money or valuables pried open. In a little hallway the last traces of the mur derer or murdererm were found. There, concealed under a potato sack was a basin half-iled with bloody water. . blood-stained vessel and a pair of overals. also blood spattered. The water had probably been crimsoned as the slayer washed his hands before securely loeking the apartment and making his es ecape by the fire escape. Whoever took the three lives worked quietly, else next door neigh. bors are confused in their state ments. It was late at night that the crimes were committed, for Scapone worked as usual In his shop until 10 o'clock. Joseph Jingo. Scalpone's assistant barber. alarmed at the failure of his employer to appear for work gave the frst clue to the muarder. He called at the flat late in the afternoon, found it locked and sum moned the janitor. The two tried the doc,r. but with n6 avail. Then the police were called and by the familiasr fire escape entrance stood aghast before the three lifelesq forms. The police are of the opinion that more than one person took part In the murders for, with the bull dog on ,guard and three persons to cope with, one man would have been pow 'rI'oss. Also. it is shown that Scal pones body had been dragged from the dining room to the kitchen. where it was tied. There is no di rect clue, however, to the murder ers. TRAIN LEAPS OVER PRECIPICE Tow Killed and Three Are Hurt in Preight WVreck. A freight train jumped over a precipice near Leadville a few dayi ago on the Colorado M~dland Rail way and two trainmen and Edwar-i Davenport. of Van. Mich.. were kill ed. and thr.'e other persons were injured. Albiert Hfarter, of Grand Rapids. Mich.. was slightly hurt. .An extra freight, east-bound. starred down the steep grade from the oast port:' of the Busk-lvanho tunn-: to Arkainsas Junction. At Windy Point. on a sharp curve, th' iocomtotiv.' and the eleve'n cars let: 'he track andt p~unzed do-wn a preei pic. Th.- acrid-:7t was cause.d by .i broken rail. an.1 fotun'! Engine&er i-rcst tIf::: fo... fronm his enia hu:ried under :1h. ruins ot a box car. The body of Fireman Rich w-is found iunder th engine. cu:t in two. !')avenport was found u:l.r a tix car. AuZIusta Wide Open. nrohibition law is practically of ar for:" ir .x1Auu:. Tha town, he says. is as wat ase it was ho'fore th' Srate-wide prohihition law wa' adopted. Woman Dead. Mrs. Mary Do'nnan. ared ~.Z. fell exhausted after fightin~ againsr the blizzard a: PrnvI-ence. R. I.. and died a few minutes later in a cal. in which she was being taken to her home. WRECK OF TRAIN Canadian PaCifC Cars Pinge IU. Waltes of Spaish Rirer. FORTY-EIGHT PERISH And Nearly One Hundred Persons Sustian Injuries-Passengers Meet Death in the Cold Waters of the River, Many Dead Found In the Submerked Cachw. Though It is impossible to se cure names of the dead and injured and details of the Canadian Pacinc wreck reported on the "Soo" branch of that line near Espanola, Mich., Friday afternoon, It Is asserted that 48 lIveS were lost and 92 passengers injured. According to reports the rear por tion of a westbound train was de railed by a broken rail on the bridge over the Spanish river. A rst-classs coach and dining car were submerg ed. It is said. in the stream. All of the killed are thought to have been in those cars. A special relief train with a u'D marine diver aboard left the Soo it 9 o'clock Friday night for the scene of the wreck. Until the diver reached the submerged- cars none of the bodies of the dead can be res cued nor the names of the victims secured. A portion of the injured were transferred to Sudbury on a special train where they are being cared for. Espanola. the scene of the accident. is 140 miles east of the Soo. HEAVY FERTIIJZER SALE. This Season's Business Probably Greatest in Years. The News and Courier says, "from all reports, the fertilizer sales for the present season are greater than have been known in the business in a number of years. "The farmers seem to be invest ing heavily in fertilizers, which might Indicate an Increased crop acreage, or perhaps, a desire to build up lands that havie been heavily taxed drring the past few years, when the unancial condition of many planters forced economy along all agricultural lines. particularly in the use of fertilizers. Practi eally every farmer now has money ahead, as the result of last season's fne crops and high prices and at least a portion of the surplus could not be put to better use than that of improving the soil. "Another evidence of the pros perity of the farmers is the fact that many who have heretofore bought their fertilizers on credit have paid cash this season. Those who have done so will be relieved of the necessity of meeting heavy obligations when their crops are harvested. FLOWERS ON L.EE'S STATUTE. Virginia Woman Honors Memory of Great Southern Leader. In an unusual, in fact, unpr+ sedented maner was the memory of Robert E. Lee honored at the capital at Washington on Wednes day, despite the opposition which developed in the senate Tuesday against any action of the United State. government looking toward honoding the distinguished Confed erate general. Members of congress passing through statuary hall saw the extraordinary addition to the statute of a huge bouquet of flowers adorning that of Gen. Lee. These statesmen commernted upon the departure, but those who had expected to hear criticism on the part of senators who opposed in the upper house the reception of the statute were disappointed. Inv.a tigation revealed that the bouquet bore a card reading: "Mrs. George W. Bolling, R. E. Lee Chapter. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Falls Church. Va." Attaches of the capital declared that the plac!ng of the 11oweru on a statue in the hall of fame in homnor of the birthday of the man thus commemnoratod marked a pre cedent. Not a single employe re memn~bere:i a similar occurren ce. Price of Shoes to Rise. The price of shoes is going up The oilleial announceent to this *ffect was made Monday at Boston by the National Shoe Wholesale As sociation. The association says that th,- existing hi;:h price of Ieather and manterialis make the increase *a,-Utssary.V but that th.. new prices will be so ad'::sted as "to permit the addition. to eaca ;tradle of such valno' as wi:! comp,-nsate the wearer for increased cost." Woman Awkward in skirts. The ward-a of the j:ail at Montreal, gu... iscov.red the. past week that a 7-rsonl committedi two weeks ago un'.-r th-- name of William Dubers. ;. v..ars old. is a woman. She ad mi:teli has n:: mastqu-raded as a man for 25 yeairs. most of the time gain i her livirag as a deck hand on lum har har;:es. "William" now is in thA irdrmary of the- jail wearing a skir:. which she $nds most awk ward. Sniclded on uay o te d~ad. James Burton, a widely known marine photographer, of New York, committed suicide at the Lymbrook. Long Island club on the anniversary of the death of his wife, who a year ao also died by her own act. BOLL WEEVIL PEST HAS COTTOy PLANTERS TOO FRIGHTENED TO FIGHT. Dr. Knapp Urges Farmers to Take Heart and Combat Blue Devil's and In%ect Pest. Boll weevils have cost the UnILed States untold nundreds of thousands of dollars in the destruction of the cotton crops, but most of it Is we be charged against the "bIuf' that the insect puts up. or rather. the fear that its approach inspires. According to Dr. Seaman A. Knapp of the department of agriculture, the average cotton planter was defeated before he ever began to fght the pest. Of all the drawbacks that een front the cotton planter, Dr. Knapp Is convinced that pessimism is the worst. He said so plainly and em phatigally at Memphis Wednesday in an address on the weevil and the evils that follow in its train. "The frst and most serious of these." he said. ''is the wave of discouragement and pessimism in ad vance of the weevil. Many honeit but mistaken men affirm in advance of the weevil, that cotton can not be successfully made where the wee vil appears. Immediately the banic era and the merchants withhold credit. Labor is compelled to leave. The farmers do half work and fra quently abandon a portion of their crop. This frequently results in a loss of 20 per cent before the wee vil has done any damage." This "beaten-in-advance" attitude. Dr. Knapp went on to say. resulted In the humiliating surrender of planters and their "throwing up of the sponge" in the second year. wIth the resu:t that the weevil Is erralzted a free territory i which to ravage and multiply and tdi crop falls to 25 per cent of its average. ".Much of this loss is failure to plant, and to cultivate," he said, with an earnestness that impressed his audience. "I will give you nu merous examples in proof of what I say by quoting reliable government figures and instances in Texas and Louisiana.' The speaker then submitted a mass of statistical information touch ing on conditions in many counties in Texas and a number of the par ishes of Louisiana. He insisted that from 30 to 40 per cent of the de cline in production in the second year of the weevil was due entirely o discouragement and the conequent nability to obtain advances from the bankers. 'All of this depression. Dr. Knapp declared, was charged to the boll weevil, while it rightfully should be char-ed against the planters who succumbed to opposition and threat ened invasion. Followir.g up his arraignment of he planters themselves. Dr. Knapp furnished seven rules for the guid nce of those who would fight the st successfully. They are as fol ows: 1. Early destruction of the stalks. 2. There must be better drainage >f the soil so there will be a good stand and the crop can be workal soon after rains. 3. There must be excellent pro ;aration of the soil for planting Plant early as the season will per it and be safe. 4.~, Seed of an early maturing va riety must be used; one that puts ut its fruit limbs low on the stalk and fruits heavily. Rows wider apart tha': asual. The seed also :ust be of the best 'uality. 5. Cultivation sb .uld be intes sive. 6. Do not lay c- the cotton as usual, but continue to cultivate until he boils begin to open. Cotton is thus made all the time. If the rules >f producing cotton are followed a good crop can be made. In addition to giving rules for the fight on the boll weevil .and the prod uction of good cotton crops In the face of all emergencies. Dr. Knapp advised his hearers not to forget that cotton was far from the only crop worth while cultivating. He declared the plantation should produce all the food necessary for men and live stock. and that, in ad dition, the other crops should pay :ost of the runni::g expenses of the p'antation. Concluding. ha 'saidI the de~ta lands were the mo vatnable on thlc tine::t. They w-sr.e intrinsica!!y worth $2') an aer". *'ven if thu" boll weevil w-'r'. an lich dee"p over every foot of the. rol. Caused by "I',pe."~ The North Carolinia corpnariet: comissonhas r'*nde!red its doce' ion as to raus~e of the~ wre~ck of a n.ar (Gr,--.2'ro. on D).-ee~mber 1~,. in tr:. comm.Icn has undei: .;,:::::i i. :a- e: rmiss.ion at r;iway ecas Crushed to D~enth. .\t Ft. Piere. Fla.. H.nry I Kle. pp. a l'eading arch:i- :. and h:a - r of th.' Florida --ast ecast, wasi stanty kili' W \.-<:resday a!:.'rno whena su;p,.rinntrdn the movinz o a large~ ircon .aafe i:::o th.e n"ow court amos.. The. workatn. in 5mme' un acoiuntb: mann'-r. !et the hoist i ealons-.. crushinc Mr. Klop PBlaclc Dolit. The cngregttion of the St. .Tame~ A. M. P. church, at Wilmitngton, D~e-. has p!::ced the han on white dolls. It was decided thIs week that black mothers shall allow their offspring to play with black dolls, as a matter o ra e pride.