The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, June 30, 1910, Image 8
Bfind Siwoloi Gore Exposes
Bribery Attempt,
CONCERNING ATTORNEY FEES.
Senators and Representative and
Other Ex-Officials and Prominent *
People Involved, in Ugly Charges 8{
Affecting Congressional Legisla- ei
tion?Legislators Stirred ? Lobby ?j
Maintained?Investigation Will bs w
Ordered. ^
TX7 L: a o a A? tn
tt aauiugiuii, opecim. ? ocuoiui ??
Gore of Oklahoma disclosed in the re
Senate Friday what he interpreted as
an effort to bribe him in connection UJ
with legislation affecting the fortune ti
in attorneys' fees claimed by J. F.
McMurray of Oklahoma for services T!
rendered to the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations in land and town site *
eases. Cl
O
The charge created a sensati .1 in ~
the Senate which later extended to
the House. The latter body in consequence
sent back to conference the ot
general deficiency bill which carried
an item relating to contracts between
the Indians and their attorneys.
As a reult of the denouement, Sen- 5J
ator Gore finally involved a member .
of the Senate committee on Indian 1D
affairs, a member of the House committee
on Indian affairs, two former .
Senators?one from Nebraska and 01
the other from Kansas?but whsoe
names were not made public in de- ]
bate.
It is not improbable that an in- "
vestigation will be ordered. Mr. Gors
was compelled to address the Senate 51
three times before that body was fully
aroused to the seriousness of the ^
charges which be matffe. His first ^
effort was in connection with the ^
adootioil of tVlA pnn f oron no
the deficiency bill, which had been '
presented by Senator Hale. As passed .
by the Senate, that measure contain- 1
d an amendment which would render "
null and void contracts made by the
Cboetaw and Chickasaw nations and a
by individual members of these tribes r
with their attorneys, unless the contracts
were approved by Congress.
This provision was in accordance
with a resolution introduced by Mr. ?
Gore on May 4 last. It was designed .
to prevent Mr. McMurray from obtaining
fees which, it is said, would ?
aggregate $3,000,000 and which Mr. L
Gore complained hud not been earned
by the attorney.
Mr. Gore explained that on May 4
last he had offered a resolution sim- at
ilar in terms to the amendment he :J
had placed in the deficiency bill in 1
the Senate and that it had been re- r<
ferred to the committee on Indian af- ^
fairs. On the following day Senator
Hughes had been directed to make a "
favorable report on the resolution, he 1E
aid. ?'
"On May 6," excalimed Mr. Goie,
"a man came to me with an imr?rr?T\n?- 1,1
suggestion. He was a representative a*
of Mr. MeMurray. a resident of my "
borne town, and had been my friend w
in time of need. He assured me it P1
. would be to my financial interest if ?u
I would call on the Senator from In
Colorado and advise him not to re- eT
port the resolution. There was a suggestion
that $25,000 or $50,000 would ?c
be available if tbe contracts were not hl
prohibited. I am informed that a m
similar proposition was made Thurs- ei
day to a member of the House of Rep- P'
resentatives." nt
Mr. Gore also charged that an "ex- w
Senator from Nebraska and an exSenator
from Kansas are interested ct
in these contracts" and declared that a
a large lobby was maintained in P
Washington in that interest. He said el
that be felt in honor bound to continue
these efforts "to prevent this ?
teal from those defenseless Indiana u
in Oklahoma." w
n
(Boost Taft Administration. ?
St. Paul, Minn., Special.?Indorsing
the "Wise Conciliatory" admin- I <j
iatration of President Taft but laying
on the table by an overwhelming vote
a resolution "reaffirming our unalterable
support of the policies promulgated
by Theodore Roosevelt" the g
Minnesota State Republican Conven- n
tion met Wednesday and nominated t
a full State ticket. 0
Twin* Borned Joined Tofether. t
& ' . Vienna, By Cable.?A curious pair nl
of freak twins, on the "Siamese" tl
Wr plan, has been bom to gypsy parents n I
at the village of Havric. in the Aus- j I
B trian Tyrol. Both are boys, and they 3I
> are joined together below the waist.
"While their npper parts are distinct. I
r there is only one pair of legs. There 8I
K is a marked difference in the consitu- j.
Wt- tion of the two twins, one being 8
lusty and voracious, the other?fair- a
skinned in contrast to his brother? a
is rather languid and delicate. nl
Beth the parents are swarthy skin- t
Md.fypays of the true type. h|
Hot Timoa Ahead in Methodism. |
j , Memphis, Tean., Speeial.?Bishop n
; w E. B, Hendrix. of Kansas City, will J
ha eHed for trial before a committee 0
of twelve elders of the Methodist ?
V Hi. &*rel1 sixty days. Chancellor J t,
1pit HXL Kirkland, of Vanderbilt Univer- n
, BW'eitv, win he removed by the Meth- s
f con*:, of Bishops next month, I 8
Z and nineteen members of the board a
]? ' -of treateee of tbo university will be
ffi Bojeetod from their trusteeships for \\
dt. R insubordination and ddlanee of ehnreh p
Be" #
VORK FOR CfflOLINJkS :
* _
ktracts From Address of Olsrenee 1
Foe, Editor of The ProgTsssiTS \
Farmer and Oasette, Raleigh, N. i
0., Before the South Carolina Press t
Association, Glenn Springs, S. 0., r
June 14. 1910. 1
Both Carolinas need and must hare 1
larger proportion of white people, *
he whole South, in fact, is still too t
larsely settled. Our eleven South- ki
*n States, excluding Texas, support b
ily 16,000,000 people of both races, o
id only 10,000,000 white people v
hile the same area in Europe sup- a
irts over 160,000,000 white people.
nd it must be remembered that up t
? a certain point which we shall not n
lach for centuries yet, and other *
lings being equal, prosperity depends v
x>n density of population. Popula- b
on makes wealth, provided that it t
normally intelligent and efficient,
he Sort of Immigration We Need, u
Of course, wc do not want the low- t
'-class European immigration. If we /
in get immigration from England,
sotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland, t
weden, etc.,?the countries whose C
ood has gone to make up our vigor- (
is American stock?it would be of a
-eat help to us. We are all of us e
ich immigrants ourselves or descen- r
ints of such immigrants. From t
?me countries of Southern and
astern Europe, on the other hand, li
amigration is of a decidedly lower u
rder and objectionable because of i ^
w standard of intelligence and effl- d
ency. t
On the very same principle, how- C
rer, immigration of a normal or high t
andard of intelligence and efficiency d
i desired. Such immigration can be v
ad, and ought to be had?in some a
leasure iierhaps from our English, d
cotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk e
cross the sea?but chiefly from our o
'orthern and Western States. For n
ears now hundreds of thousands of u
ne most enterprising and progressive 1
aimers in the Middle West have I
een going into Canada with its lone r
artl winters and bitter climate, nol t
nlv cririnrr nn A ?t-1 _ -
--j p? - * **mf> u p iiuicui mi rituuiisiiljJ, u
?t actually paying two to three times r
s much for land in that inhospitable I
egion as land of the same fertility 1
ommands in the South. We ought r.
o have brought these men to the i
outh. They know our institutions, r
ur language, they are industrious, I
hrifty, wide-awake, and many of *
hem are of Southern ancestry who g
hould naturally come back home, f
et's bring them back. t
Imm'gration to Solve the Race i
Problem. s
If there were no other reason for c
dvocating such immigration from r
ic Noith and West, I should favor a
s our surest deliverance from our
i*f' problem. The proportion of neroes
to whites is too large in every j
outhern State, and ray hope is that e
Itimatelv the tides of migration and g
emigration will equalize population
itil the proportion of negroes in no 0
tata will exceed 20 per cent. We
ust train the negro?the more ignor- v
it he is the greater the burden on t
le South?but at best the process g
ill be slow, and at present it would
robably not be too much to say that a
i considering our whole population. ^
eluding our great constructive lead- v
s and captains of industry, the i.
rerage negro in the Carolinas in
lonomic worth and efficiency is only
ilf as useful as the average white
an. In other words, in rating gen al
average of efficiency we should
at the white man at 100 and the '
;gro at 50, so that a county half
hite and half negro would have an *
/eraflre effii'ienrv nf 7A o w
? UttUUl*
ip of 25 per cent as compared with ^
county with an exclusive white
opulattion of a normal. decree of ^
Bciency. y
Whether or not the difference is as
luch as I have indicated, certain it <
i that the larger the proportion of \
'hites, the higher the average of efcieney,
the more prosperous will be ]
ur every industry, and the better it <
rill he for every individual citizen,
deluding the negroes themselves. 1
'wo Ways to Build Up the Carolinas. <
There are just two great ways to
uild up the Carolinas. First and of ?
>aramount importance is Education (
f all our people; and I should only
upplement this by putting more earest
emphasis upon practical educa- j
ion, education that trains for effi- y
iency, not education suited to the
Teat urban centers of Europe and j
he North, but education suited to the 1
eeds of a great, awakening agricul- 1
oral citizenship such as ours is and
lust be. 1
And second only to Education, is 1
mmigration. '
,000,000 Instead of 600,000 White
South Carolinians. '
vr i ?
nuw lei us start right?not by
eeking immigrants from Southern
'urope, but by advertising our re- ,
ources to the thrifty, enterprising |
nd Progressive farmers of the North <
nd West?men of our own stock who <
ow only need an invitation to make
hem come. Emerson was right wlier ^
e said that ''every man who comes ]
ato a city with anv purchasaole
alent or skill in him gives to every
lan's lahor in the city a new worth,"
nd if an ignorant n^gro slave in the
Id days was wortS $1,000, certainly ^
r? may assume that a thrifty and in- *
sllig'ent white Westerner, bringing 1
ot only himself, but in most cases ^
ubstantial accumulations as well. ^
hould be worth manv times as much 1
s an asset to the State.
The last census year North Caro- ^
na bad only 1,200,000 white people. 1
t should have 4,000,000. South Car
tlina had leas than MQ.OOO* whites
vhen it aboold bar* 3^00,00<K-*nd
Krould then be, even with ita 800,000
legroes, only one-third as thickly
lettled as Maaaachuaetts! Consider
for a moment how much more inluenlial
our papers would be, how
nueh more important every instituion
in the State would be, how much
nore varied i^ould be our industries
iow much easier it would be to pjet
:ood roads in counties in which the
vhite population is now too small to
naintain them, how easv it would be
o double the -? ?L
WL UU1 PUU*
w schools, how quickly we shoulduild
railroads in sections which must
therwise remain dormant and backward
for long, long, years how import
nt our cities should become and how
luch more attractive would be counry
life in our thickly settled communities,
and how much easier it
would be to get telephones and waterworks
and trolley lines and local litaries
and all thfe advantages of
wentieth century rural life!
, Let us take as our watchword "Edcation
and Immigration?Both of
he Right Sort."
L Dream of South Carolina's Future.
In the last census v ar 234,062 naive
sons and daughters of South
'arolina were living in other States
to say nothing of the million sons
nd daughters of South Carolina
migrants), while South Carolina had
eceived from other States and counries
only 60,744 settlers.
For seventy years now our Caroinians
have been going West to build
p the new States of the great empire,
low let us welcome back their chiiron
and neighbors to help us build
wo great, prosperous and populous
Commonwealths, where the masses of
he peopled trained to as high stanlards
of efficiency as anywhere in the
world, shall develop a symmetrical
nd well-rounded civilization: a splenid
and forcible democracy of traind,
intelligent and thrifty homewners
from among whom shall come
iot only a Jefferson and a Marshall,
lot onlv a James J. Hill and a
fhomas A. Edison and a Seaman A.
vnapp, not only men whom all the
tation shall know as leaders in indusry
and in public affairs, but poets
ind seers, sculptors and artists?if
iot a Titian at least a Reynolds or a
dillet. if not a Michael Atigelo at
east a St. Gaudens or a War.) if
Lot a Shakespeare at least a Brownnc
or a Tennyson, if not a Savona olo,
at least some great religious
eader who shall put the church into
dtal relations to modern thought and
five it a new baptism of spiritual
lower?all these until our long and
ragic years of war and struggle and
-ebuilding shall find their fruitage in
in outburst of achievement such as
?ur fathers yearned for, and it is
low our high privilege to help bring
ibout.
Georgia Legislature in "Session.
Atlanta, Special. -The Georgia
egislature Sas opened what it is genrally
belie zed will be a 50-day sesion
without special features. The
onsideration of only two measures
f more than routine improtance is
xpected, it- is believed an attempt
pill be made to change the regisration
laws, and to adopt biennial
essioos.
There is hardly a liklihood of any
ittempt to change the prohibition
aw. Governor Brown is pledged to
eto any such change in the present
aw.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Mexico agreed to an umpire In the
boundary dispute.
Governor Hughescut the New York
State appropriations $4,713,747.
The Railroad and Statehood bills
tvere passed with few dissenting votes
?y the House.
Appropriation bills passed by the
Mew York Legislature this year totalled
$46,970,571.93.
Fordham University adopted the
"case system" in its medical branch,
to provide better physicians.
Mr. Asquith carried his House of
Lords' veto resolutions in the House
r>f Commons by large majorities.
The Gillette bill to Dermlt Jtwrflce
Moody, of the United States Supreme
Court, to retire on full pay was passed.
The Metropolitan Opera Company,
af New York, gave a performance for
charities in Paris, at which nearly
$40,000 was raised.
Secretary Dickinson, of the War
Department, opened the military tournament
in Nashville with a review of
United States troops.
An Investigation of bribery charges
In connection with the election of
Senator Lorimer was reported in the
Senate at Washington, D. C.
Moses Sacks, an aged jeweler, was
Found murdered, and his body packed
In a trunk in a tenement house in
Goerck street, New York City.
Magistrate O'Reilly, of New York
City, when discharging an ice dealer.
salrt the delivery of ice on Sunday did
ao harm to the observance of the day.
England, France, Russia and Italy
will land troops on the island of Crete
If the Cretan Assembly shows any
liaposltlon to dispute Turkish sovereignty.
The Illinois legislative "jackpot"
was once robbed, says Representative
Beckemeyer in describing past of
Fund exposed in Lorimer bribery
icandal at Springfield.
WOMAN'S WILES I
>h, woman, In your hours of E's,
Vhy do you spend so many V's?
>oor man must mind his P's and Q'e;
*p earn the X's that you U's;
Vhlle he is working like the B's
?he dough he needs you're prone to
C's;
rot, with such tact you put him T'a,
rou seen an angel to his I's!
?Puck.
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WTEECSTONG STATE NEWS
Wmitf Onrmt Imti OmcM
1m Bray County Froa Coast to
Mountain Cap.
The Sominoles Security Co. Trouble.
Taking the testimony of trustees
end officers of the Seminoles Securities
Co. will commence on July
12. The referee was appointed by
the Richland county 'i/jurt as tire
result of receivership proceedings
which were commenced against the
trustees and officers of the company.
Mills Subscribe to Stock for Car Line.
Tbe directors of the felzer Manufacturing
Company have decided to
subscribe 25 cents per spindle to the
capital stock of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson
trolley line.
The Peizer Mill has 135,000 spindles,
and the subscription will total
about $33,000.
The Belton Mills also subscribed
on the same basis as Pelzer, their
subscription, amounting to about
$14,000, based on 59,000 spindles.
Erects Her Own Monument.
Sue Peters, the colccad woman
who holds the distinction of being
the only person from Sumter to attend
the Paris Exposition, has had
her own monument erected in Walker
cemetery. Her monument is in
the center of her lot and those of her
husband and son stand on either side
of it. The three stones are alike.
Sue's husband and only son are
both dead and Sue gives her reason
for having her monument erected
noiv as that she knows of many
peoplr? who accumulated something
of this world's goods who .did not
even have small slab3 to their graves.
She does not care to leave this matter
to others.
On Sue's monument is this inscript
ion:
"Mrs. Sue Peters, wife of Andrew
D. Peters and mother of Walter D.,
bom 1855. An earnest Christian,
faithful wife and loving mother.
The three stones cost about $2,000.
Two Native Sons Get Jobs.
Claude I. Dawson of Anderson has
oeen appointed by the president to
be consul at Puerto Cortez, Honduras.
Mr. Dawson attended school in Washington
years ago and left the law
school there to enlist in the Cuban
war.
He was secretary to several government
officials in Puerto Rico and
has for the past five years been secretary
of the Anderson Traction
company.
Julius D. Dreher. of Selwood, former
consul at Tabaitv, Society Islands,
was transferred to Point Antonio,
Jamaica.
Dispensary Auditor West Resigns.
After a service of three years as
State dispensary auditor, W. B. West
has sent in his resignation to Gov.
Ansel. Mr. West has resigned to
take the position of chief inspector
in the department of agriculture in
the enforcement of the pure seed
and commercial food stuffs acts. He
asked that his resignation take effect
on July 1.
Col. Edwin R. Cox Resigns.
Col Edwin R. Cox. of Darlington,
has tendered his resignation as commander
of the Second Regiment.
South Carolina National Guard, after
a service of twenty years. Col. Cox
was first lieutenant of Co. A, Second
Regiment, South Carolina volunteers,
and was one among the most popular |
officers in the regiment. The soldiers I
will never forget him.
Mail in South Carolina.
There are in this State 750 rural
letter carriers who handle 100,000
pieces of mal matter per day, from
354 postoffices.
Pellagra Claims Two More Victims.
Miss Mary Stalling is the second
victim of pellagra to die in Columbia.
Miss Stelling died Sunday afternoon.
Her case had not been absolutely
diagnosed as pellegra at first and
w.o.c nnc umer cumpucauons. The
other death was reported Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Oreen of Lancaster being:
the victim. Mrs. Green diid late
Saturday night.
Variety of News Briefly Stated.
W. \V. Ball of Columbia has been
appointed a member of the board of
trustees of the South Carolina Industrial
school at Florence to take
the place of Dr. T. A. Crawford, who
resigned.
The Florence city council has let
the contract for the erection of the
new city jail, which is to cost $6,750.
S. B. Aiken, of Greenville, has been
awarded a lieutenancy in the army,
which is annually awarded the graduating
class at the Virginia Military
institute by the secretary of war.
The Tri-State Aerie of the Order
of Ragles, in Convention at Brunswick,
Ga., decided hereafter to hold
but one annual Convention of the
three State aeries and the organization
perfected was made permanent.
The 1911 Convention will be held at
Charleston.
The Retail Hardware Association
of the Caml?n?? 1
? "iscw in i>oane?-1
ton, July 12-14. Mr. T. W. Dixou I
of Charlotte, ia secretary and treas-1
arer of the aaaociation. ? I
MOTOR TRUCKS ON IMPS
Vnt Difference in the Oost of Tranaporting
Farm Produce on Oood
Sonde and on Mod Highways.
Culpeper, Va., Special.?A splendid
object lesson in the value of good
roads was given and the advantageous
use that may be made of the
motor truck, supplementing the transportation
facilities offered by tbe
railaoads to the yreafc benefit of
farmers and owners of industrial
plants and mines, not located directly
on rail lines, has been demon
strated in a striking manner by
the movement of a oar of coal from
the tracks of the Southern Railway
at this point to Sperryville, a distance
of twenty miles, a three ton
motor truck being used. The 18 tons
of coal were hauled to the tannery
in two and a half days, six trips being
made. In the past it has taken
a good mule team two weeks to accomplish
the same work. The road
over which the hauling was done is
a good hard road but leads into a
mountainous country and has many
long and heavy grades. The experiment
was made by the C. C. Smoot
Sons Company, which operates a
tannery at Sperryville. So satisfactory
were the results that the
company has purchased a truck and
will hereafter use it in transferring
coal and hides to the tannery and
its products to the market.
The saving of time and labor in this
case shows what can be done to reduce
the cost of moving farm, min?
eral and industrial produce to rail
or water lines for shipment to market.
Statistics show that while
freight rates arc lower in America
than in any other country, the American
farmer loses the advantage that
this should give him over his European
competitor chiefly through the
high cost of transporting his products
from the farm to the railroad. Reports
by United States consuls from
twenty-three points in Europe show
that the average cost of carrying a
ton over a mile of dirt road is between
ten and twelve cents. In the
United States the average cost is
25 cents. It has been stated that it
costs as much to haul a bushel of
grain five miles to a railroad in
Illinois as it then costs to send it i
j.,iuu nines over tlie railroad to
Buffalo. In the tobacco region of
West Virginia it costs five times as
much to deliver that product over
eight miles of mud road as it then
costs to send it more than -UK) miles
to Richmond. These instances were
given by Hon. Thomas M. Bell, representative
of the Ninth Georgia dis-1
trict, before congress, urging federal
aid for good roads. Others as striking
could be given from all mparts of
the South.
"An improved wagon road from a
farm to a market or shipping point
is equivalent to moving the farm
nearer the market or shipping point."
said President Finley of the Southern
Railway in addressing the Mississippi
Society of Washington City.
In this address Mr. Finley urged that
every possible means he taken to rid
the fanners of the South of this
"bad roads tax."
The successful use of the motor
truck by the Smoot tannery can
doubtless be duplicated in many parts
of the South at the present time,
and the rapid increase in the mileage
of good roads in the near future u
the result of the great movement now
attracting so much attention, will
possibly soon bring the day when the
farmer or manufacturer, remote from
the railroad, can use this method to
effect a great reduction in the cost
of moving his product to market.
New Tork Murder Mystery.
New York, Special.?The police are
apparently balked at the skilfully
planned murder of Moses Sachs, the
aged jeweler who was murdered for
$3,000 worth of diamonds and $309 in
bank hills and then stuffed into a
trunk.
Last Supply Bill.
Washington, Special.?The general
deficiency bill the iast of the regular
supply measures to receive the approval
of both houses of Congress at
the present session, was passed by
the senate Tuesday. It carries appropriations
aggregating nearly $8,000,000,
an increase of about $1,800,000
over the house mesaure.
University and Church Lock Horni.
Nashville, Tenn., Special.?"The
church is going to contend for its
rights and not surrender a hair's
breadth," said Bishop Hoss, referr'd?
|1?> ~o a. i *
. ,v v..v miiuii mi uiu Doara or
trustees of Vanderbilt university in
raising to seat the three members
elected by the general conference.
The bishop threw down the
gauntlet to the board of trustees, declaring,
"The church believes that 1
the decision of the commission appointed
by the church to consider
the university matter was in everyway
sound and just and it will contend
for it to the end.
Alabama Law Unconstitutional.
Anniston, Ala., Special.?In the
first test made since the measure was
enacted by the last Alabama legislature,
section 16 of the Fuller liquor
law is declared unconstitutional by
Justice J. F. Creen, of this city.
Section 16 prohibits the storing of
intoxicating beverages in a building
used for soft drink stands. The
state has five days to appeal and if
not appealed before then the confiscated
goods of John Jobelss, defendant,
must be returned. !
VBR
CAPITALFACTf^
Interesting News Gathered in *r!
the District off Columbia. Uad
1KB AMESJOAlf C0W0RES8. ^
Personal Incidents and Important jj^HR
! Happenings of National Import ^
1 Pablished for the Pleasure and In- B
formation of Newspaper Readers. ;J .
OoTernment Makes Money.
The government swung a little boa- I
iness project on its own account in "ft
connection with the building of the
great Roosevelt dam on the Salt .^Br*
River irrigation project, and all that
remains for that particular part of ^^Pt;
the job is to close it out at a profit.
Secretary Ballinger has taken the
first steps to that end.
It required nearly 4harrele
of oement for the work on 'the project,
and the beat bid the reclamation
service could get from outsiders >
was $4.89 a barrel. So the engineers
set up a mill, and turned out all the ^^Bl
cement the job required, and the cost,
figuring the mill and all, was only
$2.90 a barrel.
Now Secretary Ballinger has ordered
the mill sold at public sale. Not
only did the government save money
for itself, for the settlers, whp will . ^^R
have to pay- back the reclamation
charges. The government's saving in
the manufacture of cement alone was
$675,000. The proceeds from the
sales of the mill will add to them
still more. ^
Report on Labor in Cotton Mills.
The report of the bureau of labor ,
on the employment of women and mKK
child labor in the cotton textile industry
has been sent to Congress by
Secretary Nagel, of the department j,
of commerce and labor. jflRJ
A summary of the report prepared
by the bureau shows that in forty- gfffi
six New England mills investigated ^1
43.3 per cent of all the operatives
were females over 16 years of age,
and 5.2 per cent were children under
16 years, while in 152 Southern mills
women constituted 27 per cent of the
total and children 20 per cent. >
The greater percentage of children
in the Southern States is accounted
for by the fact that, at the time of ^07$
the investigation, it was legal and
customary in those States to employ
children 12 and 13 years old, while
in New England employment could
not legally begin before 14 years.
uuuvjr sees nover on Horses. L
An army of 80,000 bees disturbed
in their hives by a pair of horses
made wild by a couple of hoes which ^f|H
had been stinging them and which
then ran in among the hives, upsetting
them, caused the death of the horses. ^^^B
The negro driver was terribly stung
hut lives. His face was swollen to " j?
twice its natural size and both eyes H
were closed. \Vhen the bees began "r^HB
to pour out of their hives he ran, ; M
but was pursued by hundreds of the 1 3
honey-gatherers. The bees belonged JmB
to Dr. Reginald Munson, whose home 1 .*?
is on the Virginia side of the Potomae j B
river, opposite the national capitol. fl
Big Trade With France.
The largest trade on record between ,^fl ?
the United States and France, aggregating
about $*250,000,000, was trans- ; B
acted during the fiscal year whicH^nds '*3 fl
ihis month. Should the rate ^nown fl
in the 10 months' figures at hand be '^B J
maintained in May and June, the ^
imports will aggregate - $130,000,000 9 ;-J
and the exports $120,000,000. v ^
To Uark a Historic Point. $
As one of the chief historic points 9 jS
of Washington, the site- of the first 3
railroad station is to be marked with
a permanent tablet. This point is
at the northwest comer of Second 3!
street and Pennsylvania avenue, now 3
occupied by a clothing and fruit
store. 9
nntuueu I or JjOCK liHt 03. ^
Four steel manufacturing concerns SB
competed for the contract of furnish- JQB
ing and erecting forty-six lock-gates ^B$i
for the Panama Canal. Five bids
were submitted. B
The lowest bid was that submitted
by the McClintoek-Marshnll Con- -|j
at ruction Company, of Pittsburg,
which offered to erect the total mm- B
ber of locks for $5,374,474. "|Be j
100 Girls on Special Train. .1
One hundred girls are seeing Wash- iBB
ington and incidentally cooing "Rah- B
rah! Radnor College! Nashville,
Tennessee! B
They are living in eight coaches, *^^B
made into a special train, in which
they have traveled through Niagara ^B'l?
Falls, NewYork, At>ntic City, Mount B
Vernon and Washington as if they ^^^B
were all brides. Dr. A. N. Eshnor,
president of Radnor College, is in
charge of the expedition. B
The Radnor girls Uke Washington, ^Bjl
and say so frankly. { XjjH
After they depart from B^B
ton the girls will see the Hot Sfyiii&i ^B^S
and Asheville. S
President Studying River Bill. B
President Taft is still hnMln? ? ?
? ~s .?(.
the rivers and harbor bill which has I
been on his desk ready for signing
for several days past. The 10 days
in whieh to act upon the measure fffm
expire Saturday, 25th. Mr. Taft
wants to make a thorough study of jS
the bill before giving it his approval. H
He haa been too buay with other
matter* to do this up to the pre*- H8
ent tima "j25
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