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VOL. XXVI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1911 NO.8 SAW II ALL rites That He S-w &attie Club d Then Sh6t His life. ES THE SCENE arily Sensational Turn in Virgina Murder Trial Rich Man for Killing g Wife on a Longly Road Night. the evidence closed which rely of a cihcumstantial in the famous murder trial field, Va., of II. C. Beattie, the murder of h:s young and antiful wife a few months ago -'road some miles from Rich Ad. all calculations were upset as ben the case would end by Spec secutor Wendenburg's an ent on Thursday that he the court to re-open the case t the testimony of a man laims to have been an eye wit o the tragedy. -.Wendenburg received the in on which may change the e aspect of the case in a recent . The writer, who until a few after the murder of Mrs. Beat -was a farm hand employed on a near the scene of -the crime, he aetually saw young Beat his wife-saw him knock her e automobile with the butt t gun and shoot her as she le on the ground. He at 'Beattie had threatened he found that he had wit e deed and the following _ye him a suit of clothes -and -.with which to get away. iiigh he. kept quiet at first be was afraid, the man says he does not want Beattie to es Dunishment and is willing to ,.:The Chesterfield farmer men in17the letter acknowledged an by the name used by the was employed by him until a says after the murder, and fur $eclared it was a fact that the and was chasin a runaway on the night of the murder. In his story the alleged witness beOiwas looking for a cow when meupon the man and woman in .utomobile on the iWidlothian ike some time after 10 o'clock. eattie the accused husband says while he and his wife were out :,on the Midlothian turnpike, -were held up by a man, who athim and killed his wife who sated by his side in the front 6ftheir automobile. This.story 'otbelieved, and Beattie was ar and put on trial for murdering e. The State had made out a -trong case against him, based ether on circumstantial evi ecand now comes in -this new ~wess who says i'n part: asin the pine woods on'the mi and side of the Midiothian. ~t~ke as you go out from Rich nid and I saw a light. As I walked ~ie~to the road I saw an automo ~Itanding almost in the middle of ~~oad facing toward Richmond. heewere two people In. it-a band a woman. They were beth ahg in the front seat. ~ hey were quarreling. I could Sthem talking loud, so I did not homyself, but waited behind a botten feet from the edge of '-~.oad in the thick pine woods to ~rwhat they said. ~'he woman was pleading with the She was say'ing that she wanted rlove back again, and she did not wtthe man to be cruel to her. The m answered roughly. tone time Iheard him say, I'm Aone time. I heard him say, 'Tm t.Then I heard the -woman say, Sware you going to end it?!' The asaid somnehting I could not hear 'iraid something I could not hear uhow I'm going to end it.' .,.fe got out of the machine and 'wted across the opposite side of teroad from where I was and then tr he had been there a minute he '~e back with something- in his ad. I could not see what it was In ttdark. The woman was standing he machine in front of the ien h.d seat in the front part of the au '.obile when the man came back. th had been sitting in the front etbefore he went away to the side he road. ?Just when the man came back I ~rd' the woman. scream once. Then teman who was standing in the odswung what he had in his hand adhit the woman on the right side ~he face. She fell from the ma hie to the road and she did not ae a sound. or a minute the man stood lot gat her and then I heard him say, Dmn you. you're not dead yet. I'll xou.' Then he got up with a gun. ich was what he had hit her with, lhe shot her where she lay in the ad by the front seat of the auto ole. I did .not see where he shot eI saw him throw the gun some hre and be began to lift his wife's oy in the front seat of the automo ieand I came out from the trees. he man turned around and saw adhe said to me 'Did you see I od i yes that I had seen It. mn you what the hell are you go gto do about it?' he said. I didn't syanything. Then he began to ~eaten me. He said he was rich d had lots of friends in Richmond if I told on him he would have ekilfrd somehow. He said nobody wuld belive my story if I appeared .court against him anyway, and I 1 better get out. He said he would ie me some money. and a suit of othes if I would go away. -I told the man I would go away. Ten he told me to come to Beattie's stre the next day and there woug some money for me. I went the n et da nd het some money a'ng WAS PAID TOO MUCH COMISSION WILL GIVE PUBIC NEWS VERY SOON. That Will Be of Possible Interest to Mr. T. B. Felder, So Declares Mr. Dominick. "At the next meeting of the com mission there will probably be some thing to give out of particular in terest to Mr. Thos. B. Felder," said Mr. Fred H. Dominick, following a meeting of the dispensary winding-up commission, held in Columbia Tues day at about noon. Only three members of the commis sion were present, Messrs. J. V. Wal lace, chairman; Fred H. Dominick and E. M. Thompson. The commis sion held another session -Tuesday night and then adjourned until the next meeting, which It is stated will probably be in the next two or three weeks. When interviewed regarding. the work of the commission the three members were in 1ir. Dominick's room at the Columbia Hotel. "We are still at work on the roucher mat ter," said Mr. Wallace. "There -is very little to give out at present. We have been delayed by the sick Dess of our accountant or we would have been further advanced in our work than we are. "However, there will .probably be something of interest to the public to- give out at our next meeting.ln a few weeks from now-something of particular Interest to Mr. Thomas B. Felder," said Mr. Dominick. 'ome interesting figures as to money- got ten by 'bm, particularly some 'that was overpaid, a portion of which he. 3ow has on hand and which runs In :o a good many thousand dollars. After a pause Mr. Dominick add od: "According to the partial re orts of our acountant the amounts ;aid for attorneys' fees by the form !r dispensary commission exceeds the unount collected from the graft ac :ount-by'about $15,000 in round iumbers. There will be something loing at our next meeting," he con luded after a few seconds. OFFICE A PERSONAL ASSET. iotaries Public Must be Friends of the Governor. Governor Blease seems to regard >ublic office as a personal asset. He ecently wrote the following letter .o Hon. G. W. Sullivan, Senator from anderson county: State of South Carolina, Executive ,hamber, Columbia, Sept. 2. 1911. Hon G. W. Sullivan, Williamston, ;. C. Dear sir: I have received an appli ation from James Waliter Kelly of ~elzer, S. C., requesting that I ap oint him a Notary Public. I notice that you signed the same. hve just had to revoke the com nissons of two men at Pelzer, and miess you can -personally certify that. dr. Kelly is a friend of mine I can lot and will not commission him; Lnd n this, I wish you would make a horough examination, so as to make 1 mistake when you give your er ificate.' Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Governor. DANCED SEVEN ROURS. dan and Girl Friend Test Their En durance on Floor. At St. Paul, Minn.. after dancing or seven, hours, A. F. Scott, a ba're >er, took his lady partner to a re ~reshment~ stand, at Dreamland, in ~hat city, Tuesday night and toppled >ver dead as he was about to drink .glass of soda water. Miss Mamie Webb, Scott's partner, stood by hfs ide as he toppled to the fioor. It vas in the spirit of fun that they had yromised to try out each other's en lurance. They started to dancing is soon as the pavilion opened at six o'clock and kept at it constnatly save for the 30 seconds' wait of the archestra until one o'clck, a. in., wben Scott exhausted, decided to give p the struggle. The pair walked yver to the refreshment stand, or iered soda, and as Scott was about to raise the glass to his lips he fell 'n a swoon. He was dead when by standers started to assist him to his feet FIFTY' KILLED IN FIGHT. Soe More Fighting Going on Over Among the Mexicans. A battle is reported to have occur red between federal troops under General Morales and a force com manded by General Zapata, near Chinamoca, Marales, in Mexico. News reached the department of the inter ior that fifty Zapatists were killed. Zapata is said to have been seen to fall from his horse. Gen. L. Zapata, who was formerly an adherent of Francisco I. Madero, is reported to have gathered several hundred men at Chinamca in vioation of an agreement with Diadero -to disband his men. Eighty-One Drowned. A dispatch from Limna, Peru, says, the Chilean steamer, Tucapel, ha! been wrecked and is a total los Eighty-one persons were drowned The steamer Tucapel was enga.ged it trading on the west coast of Soutl Amercia. She was 1912 tons and was commanded by Captain Mar bought a suit of clothes. I stayed it South Richmond for two days then but i was so scared and got so ner vous that after two days I took thi a in othis place." NOTED TRIAL Ends ia Caviie of Rich Ying ian fir ardering Is Youg Wife. CASE WAS FOUGHT HAD The Jury Which Was Composed of Farmers Sought Divine Guidance in Reaching Verdict-Prisoner and His Attorney Gives Notice of Their Intention to Appeal. Twelve Virginia farmers knelt at dusk Friday night in the obscurity of the small jury room of Chesterfield court housie, praying fervently that they might pass judgment aright on Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for the m-urder of his wife. Grjimly determined they arose a moment Ia ter and silently, one by one, recorded a unanimous verdict of guilty. Pausing in solemn contemplation for 58 minutes, weighing carefully the meaning of their decision and, once more on bended knees beseech ing divine assistance that they might not err, they filed into the hushed stillness of a crowded court room and with startling suddenness, 12 voices instead of the usual one of the fore man, spoke the solemn word 'guilty." It was almost a shout. The spectre of death which stalk ed the Midlothian turnpike July 18, last, when the .life of Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie was taken away with the single report of a shotgun, stared hard at the young husband and, ready to claim its victim of electrocution on Friday, ?November. 24th, next.But the prisoner returned the gaze unswerv ing and unafraid. The eurt of appeals to be sure, wiU be asked to grant a writ of error and a-new trial. Young Beattie, cog nizant of the legal weapons yet at his disposal, did not surrender. Instead he consoled his broken down father, white-haired and wrinkled, and com forted him as he whispered, "I have not lost yet, father." Unusual as has been the tragedy and the grewsome stage where it oc curred, the 12 juymen did not hesi tate to admit to their friend that they stood in judgment not only over the cold-blooded * murder but upon his martial -infidelity as well. It perhaps was the dramatic climax of Vinginia justice which in the last half century has swiftly sent to death such famous murderers as Cluverius, Phillips, and McCue. 'At the close of a powerful argu ment by L. 0. Wendenburg, the vol untary assistant of the Common wealth in the case, the suspense was felt not alone in the court room but in Richmond where thousands of peo ple waited the outcome. The jury had for eleven days heard evidence, for two days speeches, but the 'words of Wendenburg rang in their ears as the~y left the court room to find their verdict. "Let that man go free!" he crieo. "What! Let that man go free! Why he motherhood of Virginia, the wo manhood of this nation, will shudder in terror as the security of its life is hreatened. Let this man go free! he man who basked in the degraded sunshine of another woman while at is home a young wife nursed his hild? "Gentlemen, I merely ask you in the name of justice to do your duty." Mr Wendenburg concluded his ad :ress a few minutes after 5 p. in., a brief respite was given the jury, and t 5:28 o'clock it began considera tion of the case. For 58 minutes they were together in deep consultation, a juy of farmers. who each morning sag hymns, and strove 'to forget the story of dissipation, with its filthy hapters as related day after day on the witness stand. What had been generally predicted was true-their minds were well made up before they left the court room. W. L. Burgess. a square jawed man with an earnest face, was elected foreman. They bal loted and it was no surprise, they aft erward declared, that all voted for conviction. They prayed that they might not take a life in vain, and they opened their consciences to one another for nearly an hour, so that they might go back to the court room firmly con vinced of their duty and of one mind. In the court room sat Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., the sporting 'page of a newspaper spread before him. But he did not read long. He folded the paper and concealed his face in it. Those who sa+ near the young man o iron nerve observed a twitching of his lips as though murmuring a prayer as he sat with closed eyes awaiing the return of the Jury. he raised his head 'for a moment, drop ped 'the paper and again began read ing. Then he whispered a few words to his father and brother. It was for them he felt and to them he counsel ed cheerfulness. It was nearly dark in the court room when the jury returned. Three oil lamps gave meagre lustre to the scene. Sunset's red rays still streak ed through the windows. On every sill rested a telegraph instrument and operators tensely waited for the an nouncemert of the verict. Masses of upturned faces stared at the jury men. Famous jurists looked down, too. fromt fl--pecked paintings. In| the minds of the crowvd remained the thmought of the powerful speeen the prosecutor and his denouniciation o the man who exchanged the glow of virtue for passion's feeble taper." The court asked the prisoner to rise. He drew' himself up calmly and waited. Have you gentlemen agreed on a verdict?" asked Judge Watson. "We have," said 'Mr. 'Burgess, the foreman. The prisoner had confident1' ext pected a hung jury, nor acquittal nor conviction. The court requested the audience not to manifest its approval or disapproval, whatever the verdict. TO FLY ACROSS OCEAN VANIMui TO MAKE HIS START DURING OCTOBER. His Airship Will Be Larger and Far More Powerful Than That of Well rman's.-No Equilibrator. Arrival at Atlantic City, N. J., last week of the huge'silk envelope, that is to form the sustaining power of a big dirigible in a daring attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Mel van Vaniman at the helm, has again given the seaside resort the airship "bug." The balloon is 268 feet.long, 20 feet longer than the one in which Wellman started for Europe and which was lost before he had trav eled many miles. It has a gross lifting power of 26,000 pounds. It is made of 2,200 pieces of tough fabric. The gas bag is of the.cigar shape with an extreme diameter of 45 feet. Vaniman expects to sail some time before the middle of October, but the exact date and the course to be taken are problematical. depending entirely on weather conditions. The path of the big flying machine will be in a general way that taken by the steamships but the buffeting of the adverse winds and storms may cause a change at any time during the flight The game little Englishman speaks of the trip as a little "voyage" and does not seem to realize its magni tude and the possibilities should he successfulty accomplish the deed he and Walter Wellman tried last Octo ber. Not that he is not confident and anxious to make a get away, for he continually puzzles himself over the smallest details to make sure that everything is in shipshape. He eats, sleeps and drinks aeronautics. He said this week: "I'm sure it can be done If con ditions are only what I want. We will take every precaution My trip with Wellman has helped me. to guard against the greatest dangers. M4y ship will be larger, that is long er, but not so wide as was the Amer ica. The engines will be twice as powerful as those on the America, >f driving us at wonderful speed. With the new shaped envelope, and faster engine we will be ready to ake advantage of favorable c6ndi; ions and make great headway .and when things are against us will have the power to put up a better flight. "No there will -be no equilibrator 5n my ship. Instead I have discov ered another device, that will 'keep. the vessel on an even keel. By use f this the weight of the airship will e lessened when we get within dan gerous -proximity of the water and ncreased should we start to soar to mndersired heights." * FAMINE HORROR IN CHINA. Red Cross Aid for Flood Sufferers Will Be Asked. The enormity and horror of. the amine situation confronting Chi~na, ~aused by the Tang-Tse Kiang River lood, was officially reported to the tate department at Washington: by American Consul General Wilder, at Shanghai, and the q1uestion of ten ering Red Cross aid is under con sideration.' The entire territory between Han ow and Shanghai, a distance of aout six hundred miles; has bien >verfowed. Cities and towns are tUm cler water, many dwellings being en tirely submerged. Conditions among Lhe people are distressing, and a amine threatens them. Unless the tide of the Yang-Tse .oon subsides it is believed that con ditions will become far worse. udte Watson turning again to Mr. Burgess. ."Guilty," answered Burgess, but his voice was swelled by the shout of 1.1 others. Unversed in the law or forms o' miurder trials the jurymen bad no-, specified what degree of mur der. Asked what degree, Mr. Bur gss answered simply, "guilty as in dicted." Under Virginia practice mur der is presumed to be second degee unless otherwise specified. It was in umbent on the jury to fix the degree so Judge Watson addressed the jury men to confer again on the .point and seven minutes later they con formed this time with the verdict of "murder in the first degree." The prisoner stood erect and mo tionless. His face, in color yellowish green throughout the day, was im mobile. The light of the lamp cast a dreary shadow on his upturned chin -as he faced the jury. His eyelids sagged but did not blink. In steady gaze he fast ened his eyes on the faces of the 12 men who had pronounced his punish ment as if to penetrate their minds and determine the reason why. It was not a resentful expression, however, and when the court asked i the pisoner had anything to say he answered: "I have nothing to say." Then he sat down., The perfunctory motions for a new trial were made by counsel for the defense. The usual granting of per mission even to' argue the point was denied, as Judge Watson, in a stern voire declared that all rulings of the court were on comparatively unim potant details and in no way could have influenced the verdict. A stay of execution of 90 days was granted, however, in order to give counsel an opportunity to apply for writ of error when the court of appeals meets In November. * Eitten by Mad Dog. A yellow cur, supposed to be rabid, zreted a sensation in two of the mill village about Greenville Thursday. miorningr b-y attacking and biting four little children and two dogs. The dog was surrounded by a crowd of men and boys and stoned to death, af ter it was decapitated and its head was sent to Columbia for exami mnin_ POEM LOOSENS DE - - OREGON GOVERNOR TOUCHED C-M BY STANTON'S VERSES. The Warden Arranges Dramatic Cli m&x to Announce That the Gover nor Had Commuted Sentence. Affected by reading the newspa- For per poem, "They've Hanged Bill Jones," by Frank L. Stanton of the B Atlanta Constitution, Gov. West, of t Oregon Tuesday saved esse P. Webb from the gallows by commuting his sentence to life imprisonement. The of Governor himself says the poem mov- s ed him to exercise clemency although ed a Webb's daughter, eighteen. years old, lhas pleaded with the Go*ernor for We months to give her father's life' and the has striven in every way to save him. ter The announdement th'at - Webb in t] -would not be hanged was-.bade most pres theatrically under the s'tgamanage- sena ment of the Warden of the State pen- thes itentlary. .Webb was convicted of 6 killing W\ A. Johnson, whose body fore was found in a trunk In the Union take Passenger Station there. Noon Tues- pres day was the time fixed for his execu- and tion. tora Five minutes before 12 all the con- are victs in the peni1enu.ry were. cou marched into the main dining room or s and Webb was ordered to stand at sivei the head of the long central table. d When commutation of his - sentence pa ,was proclaimed discipline disappear- shoi ed, cheers for Gov. West ecioed from nI the walls and reverberated down the don' corridors. Although Webb, alone of ed, the prisoners, may, have known that sona his life was saved, he seemed much I a afected. pub led n ROAD .I M VEMENT TP.AIN. F the whic Southern Railway Helping Good " Roads fovemeu. cn clar( The special "Road Improvement were Train" belg operated by the South- the em Railway, -the Augusta Southern the Railroad and affiliated lines in co operation with the United States of- not flice of public roads, will commence resp Its tour of South earolina and Geor- "I gia September 4. It will apend prac- Cans tically a month in South .,Carolina Ing making exhibitions at points along resul the Southern Railway, and, on Sep- the : tember 29th will - enter -Georgia to tions visit points along the Augusta South- and. grn. Railroad. they The "Road Improvement Train" is if -al being sent out by the Southern Rail- ties way to further the movement for bet- Al ter wagon roads throughout the with South and at the same time to. give take, practical information to farmers and bills, road officials as to building of roads "I and their repair. The schedule for sive the South Carolina and Georgia kille points so far as arranged is as fol- pare lows; the Sept. 4, Monday-Blacksburg, 10 tion, a. in.; Gaffney, 2 p. m. |stant Sept. 5, Tusa-patnug 10 "I a. m. 2. the;1 Sept. 6, Wednesday-Greenville, aave 9:30 a. in.; Easley, 2 p. in. .. ing Sept. 7, Thursday-Calhotin, 10 a. Payr i., Walhalla, 2:30 p. m. the:i Sept. 8, Friday-Seneca, -9:30 a. for i.; Pendleton, 2 p. m. sort1 Sept. 9, Saturday-Anderson,-10 a. give i.; Belton, S p. m.'P Sept. 11, Monday-Abbe-hle, 10 inte: a. in.; Greenwood 2 p. mn. . ecle Sept. 12, Tuesday-Newberry, 10 as I a. mn.; Prosperity, 2 p. mn. ''the Sept. 13, Wednesday-Union, 10 a. cent1 m.; Columbia, 3:30 p. m. . and Sept. 14, Th-ursday-Winnsboro, war4 10 a. in. . y Sept. 15, Friday-Chester, 10 a. -M m. = ,.er Sept. 16, Saturday-Rock Hill, 10 fiend a. mn.; Yorkville, 2 p. mn. . mad Sept. 18, ifonday-Lancaster 10 a. bill m.; Camden, 3 p. m. .Elki: Sept. 19, Tuesday-Sumter, 1:30 IM p. mn. .,Pres Sept. 20, Wednesday-Orangebulrg with 9:3 , a. in.; St. Matthews, 2 p. mn. ~ fore Sept 21. Thursday-Bamberg, 9:- expc 30 a. in.; Denmark, 2 p. mn. icy.' Sept. 22, Fjriday-Barnwell, 10 a. Al i.; Allendale, 2 p. m.n. proc Sept. 23. Saturday-St. George. prett 9:30 a. mn.; Sumnmerville,.2 p. mn. ''wil Sept. 25, Monday-Charleston, 10 enla: a m. es iI Sept. 26, Aiken, 10 a. mn.; Edge f~ield, 2:30 p. m. C] Sept. 27, Wednesday-Btesburng, 10:30 a. mn.Ar Sept. 28, Thursday-Lexington, 10 Ar a. mn. Sept. 29, Friday-Hepbibah, Ga., 9:30 a. in.; Wrens, 1 .p. in.; Gibson, T 4 p. m. . the Sept. 30, Saturday-Sandersville, yeaz Ga., 9:30 a. in.; Warthen, I p. mn.; Nei Mitchell, 4 p. m. star Free lectures and demonstrations Thu: showing the importance of good Stra roads and -how to build them and LCe keep them in repair at the smallest aerc necessary cost will be conducted at whea each by two road building experts of repo the Ujnited States department of ag- for ricuture, Messrs L. C. Boykin and mac H. S. Fairbanks, assisted by a rep- ana resentative of 'the land and indue-..ator trial department of the Sbuthern 'skul Railway. Two coaches of the train frigl are filled with exhibits, pictures and working models, and the lectures are illustrated with stereoptican views. B At great expense the Sout/hern Rail- farm way and affiliated lines ar~e bandling Spa: this train without cost to the govern- tein ment in order that the people along year its lines may have the opportunity Judi to receive the valuable information Frid as to road building which it affords. jail y e ,war Shot Four Times. -ter At Natchez, Miss., Fred Dyers, a married man was shot and killed at 2 o'clock Fridaly morning by L,. C. Spen- A cer at the latter's homne. Spencer re Bes turned from Mobile unexpectedly and wen when he reached home he found.Dy- Fris ers in a room with his wife. He shot Thu four times, each ball taking effect. inju Dyers' wife and daughter are visitingwa is brothe in Wasngton, D. C. pori ES FOR TAFT mings, a Progrenive Senator, Op posed to His Renfminalio. GIES HIS REASONS Opposing the President, Who, e Says Is Not in Smypathy With ie Progressive Element of the Re iblican Party, But Is a Supporter the Standpatters. .nator A. B. Cummins in a sign tatement given out' at Ohicago on nesday declares his opposition to nomination of President Taft. Af a discussion of the main issues ie Taft administration, which are ented chronologically, the Iowa tor summarizes his opposition in e terms:, dy general conclusion is, there that in every struggle which has n place since Mr.- Taft became ident upon vital things his allies supporters have been the sena and members of -the house who known from one border of the try to the other as reactionaries, tand-patters, and not progres :f the voters of the Republican y believe that the old leadership id be perpetuated they can find etter nominee than Mr. Taft. I t believe It ought .to be continu and therefore, without any per I disparagement of the president, i hoping that a progressive Re ican will be nominated and elect ext year." Lrst in the bill of - particulars is Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and of h Mr. Cummings says: Ir. Taft's associates in the mak of this tariff law, which he de d to be the best ever passed, i Mir. Aldrich and his followers in senate; Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalzell, Camon and their .followers in ouse. It seems to me I am jus I in the conclusion that he did take 'the progressive view' with ct to this measure. t's hard for me to think of the Adian bill as progressive, believ is I do that its passage was the It of an understanding betw4en president and the eminent reac ries-Penrose of Pennsylvania, Lodge of ]fassacusetts-that would see it throtlgh the senate V other- tariff bills reducting du should be vetoed.", ter damning. the peace treaties faint praise, Senator Cummins s up the woolen and the free list of which he says: haven't heard of any progres rejoicing over the. vetoes which d them. They were both pre a with the greatest care and in full light of advanced informa and both amply ustified by the lard of protection. predict that these bills gave resident the only chance he will to sign acts of congress reduc the iniq:uitionus duties of the ie-Aldrich law, :but -preserving system of protection, In waiting his tariff report he lost an op-. uity which Democrats will not him again." ssng to a consideration of the ~state commerce law, the Iowan res that if the bill had passed nsisted upon by the president. werk of nearly a quarter of a rry would abave been swept away we would have taken a step back I in the regulation of our rail any parts of the committee bill so bad that. they found no de era and such efforts as were e to defend the administration were led by Mr. Aldrich and Mr. r. Cummins further avers that ident Taft is 'out of harmony those who were recognized be his advent Into office as the best nents of the conservation poi rid taking up the Canadian reci ty bill .he says: "It is a false mse from beginning to end," and 1 not reduce tihie cost of living or rge our markets for manufactur tCanada." [AIMS TWO MORE VICTIMS. plane Tank Explodes Kiming Two in Mid Air. wo more names were added to long roll of persons killed this in aeroplane accidents. Lieut. man, a German military aviator, ed from Mulhansen., Germany, rsday morning in the direction of ssburg, carrying a passenger M. nte, a French aeronaut. The plane hardly had gone 15 miles a the gasoline tank exploded. The rt of the explosion was audible a distance of several miles. The hine dropped at Blizheim from Ltitude of 60 feet and both avi s were instantly killed. Their s were :broken and they were itfully injured about the body. * Charge Attempted Assault. uford Young, a prominent young er of the Walnut Grove section of -tanburg county, charged with at ted criminal assault on a girl 14 -s of age, was granted bail by ge Hydrick of the supreme court ay. Young spent last night in here, having been arrested on a rant issued by Magistrate J. Wal West of Walnut Grove. * Train Goes Through Trestle. train load of pipe. en route from semer, Ala., to San Diego, Cal., t through a 60-foot trestle on the co railroad, near Cardova, Ala.. rsday and killed a brakeman and red other trainmen. The trestle demolished, as well as a large RAI AMT uiw Last Year's WINt.0 Wight lifre &K . Tha hatufd uYtar. GREAT COTTON VIMES Secretary Hester Shows Splendid Money Value of 1910 Crop-Over 1908-09 Crop, Although the atter was 1,700,000 Bales Greate.-Es. timates for. this Yea% s Crop. "No American cotton crop ,ver grown has sold for as much a th one just marketed, the totaI v'alue including the seed, having been 1 030,000,000." The remarkable statementis con tained in the detailed statistics - last season's cotton crop issued cently by Col. Benry G. Hestesed retaryb of the New Orleans Cotton li change. With ,700,0.00 -bales less tha coni tained in the bumper crop off 1908-09 the crop just- marketednetted the South $254,000;000 more. The1 511,000 -bale crop of 1906 1broug $222,000,000 less than the pakst-ea son's crop. - As -a whole, thecg within a shade of strict i i the farmer was paid 'an average e 16.04 cents per -pound or 7O pe bale. IRegarding the consumption ofe'ot ton and the mill situatio-geierally ' in this country; the reportsays: "In the United States, ;the .-mis North and 'Southhavd-consuied nearly as much as lastyeaniaddi tion to which they have imported the -' greatest -quantity.'of foreign cotton ever brought to this countriin any one.. season. Thus far the uese ,of :4reign eagon . u. -ths- 4odatzT 'is small compared with the total con sumption, but' its Increase Is signi ficant. A continued Interesting feature is.. 'the widening of idifference between quantit of American t.toaoon sumed North and- So &uh theidri ses of the latter ave ieased to 1o-OO ,bales -Coneernins' ' North, a heavy artalment of pro duction 'was quite good dunithe latter moments of the sen. "The complainth.las been hat'when cotton strengthened, good did. not agree. - "The situation recently has Improv ed; -and. there- Is an aunderlyinr Im pression that -matters wil readjust themselves on a more satisfatory basis -in the iear futir"^ Secretary Hester puts the 19O10-1. cropjat 12,126,095 bales, afni -crease oves ithat of 1909-10 oft;510,427, andkia decrease under that of 1908-09 of 1,I05,362 Tb' -increase In Texas over last year 4was in round numbers, 582,000 bales! in the group of "other Gulf States," embracing Louisiana, Mivs sissippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mis souri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Ariz ona, alforni'a and New Mexico, it was 704,000, and in the gi'oup.- of Atlantic States, Including North and South5 Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentu~ky, 'Alabama and Virginia, 324,00e. ~Mr. HIester's report Is given as-fol-. lows in thousands of bales:. Alabania, 1209, Egainst 1,078 last year. - 1 Arkansas, 846, :against 7(18 last year. Florida, ~8, against 66 .last year. Georgia, 1,853, against 1,927 last. year. Loiin,'473, against 282 last year. iMississippi, 4239, against 1,121 last year. Oklahoma, 724,5 against 566 last year. - 'North Carolina, 794, agaInst 67$ last year. South Carolina, 1,231 against I, 184 last year. Tennessee, 424, agant 5.16 'last year. Texas, 3,259, against 2,676 l'ast year. *-K. Total crop bales, 12,21t), against 10,610 last year. "'he consumption of:American cot ton of all kinds he puts at 4,678,000 bales, against 4,665,000 last'year. - He puts the vworld's consuniption American cotton at 12,034,0:00 bales, an increase over last year of .269,000 and a decrease the -year before of 1',123,000 bales. In the South Mr. Hester makes the consumption 22,313 bales over last year and 196,257 under the year be fore last. ORDERS RIOTERS BEHFADED. Drastic Measures Being Taken In One Chinese Province. The disaffection in Mongolia, where the princes and religious h'ads are uniting against the Chinese develop ment schemes, seems now to be trac eable to the Tibians. The princes, it is said, have appealed to Tibet for protection. Regarding the situation in Sziechuan province, where the peo ple have risen against the railroad projects, Sheng-Ha'omsa-Huai, who Is the strong man. in the Peking Gov ernment, ordered a score of decapi tations 'of the ringleaders of the riots. Perish In Collapse. The restaurant connected with .the Eldorado, the largest theatre in Nice, France, collapsed Friday night bury ing a number of Italians in the .deb ris. Late that night 11 dead and 16" severely Injured persons had. -'been taken from the ruins, but it was fear ed more persons still remained be neath the wreckage. It Is said the building In which reinforced cozicrete was used was being hurried by the contractors, who were liable to' a heavy fine for each day' they exceed ed the contract time for finishing the THE CROP MUST FAT CHEAP COTTON IS DISASTROUS - TO THE COUNTRY. High Prices Essential to the Growing of the Staple as Other Crops Are Just As Profitable. In an interview on the cotton sit uation, Richard H. Edmunds, Editor cf the Manufacturers Recora. is quot ed by the Boston Transcript as saying that "a permanently high price for cotton is esentially to the best inter ests if not to the very life of the cot ton manufacturers who are andious to see lower prices by reason of the probability of a larger crop this year would inevitably drive cotton grow ers to other pursuits, and the smaller yield next year, with consequent ab normal high prices, would bring back all the evils from 'which the in dustry has suffered during the last few years in which it has had to con tend with the high cost of raw ma terial and low price of finished gooda. "The world must adjust itsalf to paying a higher price for cotton goods. The sooner it is done the better it will be for all interests and especially for the manufacturers. The time has passed when Southern far mers were compelled to raise cotton. In former -years they were forced by necessity to raise cotton, and cotton alone. Conditions have change& Un less prices be -high, that is, high as compared with former years, they can make more money doing other things. There is no moral obligation to the world to compel them to raise cotton, though many people seem to think so. If New England could turn Its cot ton mills into, shoe factories and dou ble the profits. on' the investment, and pay better wages to the laborers, no body would say that New England must contlneuato make cotton goo.ds because the world -needs cotton goods. -Now the Southern farmer can do a dozen things more profitably than to raise -and sell cotton at a low 'price, and even 10 and 11 cents a pound may now -be counted as a low price. He can do things that -he could iot have done a few years ago. Industrial development is affording employment for thousands who raise cotton. Urban growth is drawing tens of thousands from the country into city activities. City growth and industrial development conibined are making it possible for thousands to engage in diversified farming. and truck growing to supply the -home eeds. "In the last ten years industrial development in the South increase#i largely over one hundred per cent, while its population Increased only about sixteen.per cent. Thus, indus trial activity gained six or seven times as rapidly as population. The extension of railroad facilities to all parts -of the South, and the ever in creasing demand In the North and West for early fruits and vegetables make it possible for a very large num ber of Southern farmers to make money in meeting these requirements than in raising cotton, even at four teen or fifteen cents ,a pound. The South Is now annually shipping to the North and West of fruits and vegetables over $100,000,000 worth. "The development of transporta tion facilities throughout the South is making the extension o-f this in dustry possible In sections which were formerly compelled to raise cot ton. Under such conditions, the world might as well face the situa tion frankly and fully and -under stand its meaning. It is much safer for manufactures to squarely face this condition than to blindly imag ine that we can again go back to low priced cotton over a long tperm of years. Last year- the South's cotton crop,.the seed included, was worth $363,000,000. If the South, by rais ing a small crop can sell it for such'a figure, it is certainly not going to raise two or three billion bales more and sell -it at two or three hundred million dollars less., "Nearly three quarters of a cen tury ago a report made to the British Parliament advised the spinners of England to do all in their power to keep cotton at a low price, because, said this report, the farmers of Amer ca would undertake to so increase .heir production when prices were low as to get as much money In the aggregate as when prices- were high. The English spinners have always gone on the principle that by forc ing the prices down they would in crease the supply. Three-quarters a century past and even up to a few years ago that was the case. It is not so any longer. Conditions have ab solutely changed. Economic devel opment has made it posible for -the South to turn its attention to other crops and to other activities which yield a far larger profit thaa cotton, unless cotton commands what manu facturers regard as a high price. "If during the last few years the cotton manufacturers of this country had given more attention to educat ing tlie public to paying a higher price for cotton goods, instead of spending their time, as they have done, in seeking to put down the price of the raw material, the situa tion would have been far more fav orable to them. Persistently claim ing as most of them do, that prices of the raw material were too high, they convinced the buyers that cot ton goods ought to decline in price, and therefore the price of the fin ished article continued low, while economic conditions forced an ad vance in the price of raw material. The sp~culators who were credited with being responsible for these high er prices did not create these condi tions. They only took advantage of the situation." Killed by Automobile. Running at a high speed in an auto, which struck a telephone pole, Glenn Elkin was killed and three other members of the party were ser onsly Inured at Lexington, Ky..