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Dillon, S. ('., August 14, 191!).
If our memory is not at fault we
think it is something like half a
million dollars the government wastes
each year blowing stumps and logs
out of Little Pee Dee river, and Little
Pee Dee is not a navigable stream.
If that half million dollars were
spent dredging the creeks and swamps
in the sixth congressional district it
would be worth millions of dollars
to the people of Eastern Carolina.
The government has acted wisely
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Ill rt?CUlug lilt* uruidiuu mat 111^1^
will be no furtlfer sales of army supplies
in Europe. These supplies are
needed over here, and the time has
come for the government to let Europe
look out for itself and tarn
its attention to the work of recon-'
struction at home. It would give some
of the big fellows a jolt, but it might
not be going too far if the govern-1
ment would close down on American
exports to foreign countries for a
few weeks.
The man in Dillon county who has
a smoke house full of meat and a'
crib full of corn wonders why the'
/ laboring man in the city is kicking
over the high cost of living. The|
answer is simple: The laboring man1
in the city lives from day to day?j
from hand to mouth. The price of
his breakfast is fixed before he gets
out of bed and if he doesn't happen
to have the price in his pocket he
eoes hunerv. When his wifp aoes to i
the corner grocery to purchase the
day's ^supply of rations it is not a
question of how much it is worth, but
how much will you take. The
cash must come before the goods are
delivered, nnd in many homes the
cash runs out before the Saturday (
night pay envelope arrives. These are
the people who have suffered and
they have a right to kick. The man
who lives out of the grocery
store, pays twice as much for what
he gets, and with the average wage
less than $4 a day it is difficult t
see how a family of four manages to;
live. There will have to be a read-!
justroent of food prices and wages.'
Until this is done there is bound to be
a spirit of unrest among the laboring
classes of the nation.
THE U. S. BUREAU OF MARKETS.
When the U. S. Bureau of Markets
was organized it was considered a fine
step forward for the producer of food
Btiilfs. It would keep him informed,,
of the trend of the market and would j
enable hira to get top juices at all'
times.
The weakness of the arrangement,
from the standpoint of the public,
however, is that it has enabled the
middleman to know exactly what to ,
pay the producer and what to charge
the public. It has enabled the middlman
t0 squeeze an extra profit out of
the business. J
The U. S. Market Bureau, operating
at a remarkable mileage of leased
wires, collects a lot of information at
a great cost and hands it out free?
the public pays the freight through
Congressional appropriations and gets
milked
Middlemen and cold storage interests
regard the Market Bureau
prices as "fixed by the Government." i'
They are not, of course?merely being
prices as "fair'* or "proper" by;
the government?but the pyschologi-!
cal effect is to give government sane-'
tion on certain prices that the entire
army of food profiteers regards 1
as official. Nobody, it seems, needs
to sell below the market bureau
prices, no matter what the glut of
goods in the market may be.
Sonde radical change will have to
be made in connection with this market
bureau if the interests of the publie
axe to be safeguarded. If the
bureau is going to be used as a
means of mulcting the consumer it
were better to eliiminate it altogether.
A6 tor the producer, for whom the
bureau was created, he must not be
kidly disposed to an institution that
is undoubtedly being operated for
the benefit of the commission houses
and similar gentry.
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' .ilCilOLAS FATE KEL'ASOLVEi).
I Continued irom page one.)
tuiten place, has given in his book,
'"Trailing tue uoisneviKi" tScrihnersj
a resume 01 ail the tacts, rumors and
wicones that he couiu gather upon
me subject, anu leaves it still invested
1 wuu an atmosphere 01 mystery and'
douot. Alter setting forth a state-!
litem said to have been made by
Furien Dominin, a body servant of the |
czarf in which a circumstantial ac-'
count is given of the last days of the!
czar in tne lpatieff house at Ekater-,
I II fillPC g\T r Ha />7l i-'o Koiivr 1
uway from his family lor midnight J
trial before the Ural District Soviet,'
and of his subsequent execution, "no- i
'bouy knows where," during the night I
|oi juiv 16, by a squad of Red army;
soldiers, Ackerman sums the evidence
up thus:
"Throughout the time the czar and
his family were imprisoned here elforts
were being made to release him.
On more than one occasion the czar
received a message stating that he 1
would soon be freed. General Dunekin,
who is now commanding tne!
Cossacks near Kieff, an old and intimate
friend of Nicholas, was endeavoring
in every possible way to savei
his former imperial master. General J
Dutoff, another friend of the czar, op-'
erating in the Urals, also was seeking I
to deliver his friend. The Czechoslovaks,
despite their revolutionary
tendencies, were bent upon snatching
the czar from the Bolsheviki.
"There were Independent Russian
and foreign business interests in
Ekaterinburg which wanted him re-J
leased. More money was spent in try-'
ing to free Nicholas Romanoff than |
the Bolsheviki ever used in guarding;
and transporting him or maintaining;
an organization to prevent his escape.
At times he was guarded by only i
three Red guardsmen. (
"Thus in advance of the czar's trial i
before the secret night session of the
Ural District Soviet a bitter and cease, j
less contest between the friends and
enemies of the czar was being waged. ;
Ekaterinburg was the center of in- .
trigue and the czar himself was playing
no unimportant part.
"After the trial where the czar is ;
said to have been condemned to i
death, the Moscow wireless station <
sent out a nofficial communication
addressed, as are well messages under <
control of the Soviet. "To all, to all, (
to all,' announcing that the czar had i
been executed at Ekaterinburg, but i
that the family had been removed to <
a place of safety. % l
"But was Nicholas II killed? If so, i
how and where? This is where she j
real mystery of the czar'3 fate begins.
From that date until today the ]
world has speculated. Evidence of alk.i
kinds has been published to prove I
his death and to announce that he 1
is still alive. Weighing the evidence j
regarding the czar himself, I should '
say that six-tenths of the weight in-p
dicates that he is dead; four-tenths;i
that he may be alive. The czar was <
tried, condemned to death, and tak- ]
en from the court room back to the '
Ipatieff residence. Some maintain
that he was evecuted immediately in
the basement, or on the first floor
of this house. Other citizens declare
that he wa^taken outside the city and I
shot. Some hink that he was murdered i
in the house without trial. |<
"To show how the testimony dif- 1
fers I shall refer to the published i
statements of Prince Lvoff.
"He declared in Vadivostok and in
Japan that he and the czar were kept |
in the same prison and had the same <
jailers. That can not be true as far 1
as Ekaterinburg Is concerned, be- '
cause I could not find a man in Ekaterinburg
who had heard that Prince
Lvoff was in the Ipatieff residence
as a prisoner Prince Lvoff and many
others declare that the czar and his (
whole family were killed in the 1
Ipatieff house, and they point to the 5
bullet holes in the walls of the room. 1
"The nun from the monastery who '
took eggs and milk to the czarwitch
told me that she is positive none of
them was executed in this house, and <
thdt th/v r>7orino 1
V??v?v VbHilua, IUC V.tai C? Utll anu J
the daughters were taken away in a t
motor truck which she saw standing
in the grounds of the Ipatieff residence
July 15. She believes the czar
is dead, but that the family is still t
alive. On the other hand, one of the (
priests from the same monastery, who
died short services upon a few occas- ions
in the house for the imperial
family assured me that the family is
alive and well.
"While I was in Tiumen the chief .
city between Omsk and Ekaterinburg
one of the members of the Russian
nobility, who was an intimate friend
of the czarina, received a message
from the interior of Russia by courier,
saying, 'Your friends are well.' When
I questioned the American, British
and French consuls, who were in the
city during the Bolshevikist occupation,
as to their opinions, they stated
frankly that they did not know wheth- '
er the czar was dead or alive, and
they were still conducting tfteir investigation.
Professor Ipatieff, who is
now living on the first floor of his
house, surrounded by most of the
furniture used by the imperial family,
showed me through the house on '
two occasions and described in details
how the whole family was
brought from the second floor to the
main floor by way of the servants'
stairs lined up aginst the wall and
shot.
"A member of the judicial investigation
committee believes the family
was killed in this house, but the only
evidence any of them possesses is the
bullet holes in the walls and floors
and the finding of certain property
of the czar and czarina in the ashes of
the stoves. I saw the room in which
they were supposed to have been
killed enmasse, but I was not convin- .
oed hv the evidence presented there
for their reasons:
'If the whole family was executed
in this room, then seven persons were
killed. The bullet holes were in the
walls and some 'blood clots.' There,
were no pools of blood and it seemed
doubtful to me that seven persons
should die a horrible death and leave)
only small blood clots in tlte bullet j
holes and small stains 0n the floor.
"If killed here the bodies must
'have been removed because they were
not found in this room nor in the
house. By removing seven bodies
from such a room, in midsummer,
when it was hot and sultry and the
members of the family did not wear
heavy clothing, it seems that bloodstains
should have been found iu
other parts of the house, but none
were found.
"It is stateu that the bodies were
burned in the house after the execution.
This I believe impossible because
none of he stoves in the house
are large enough. Th#> opening t(
each stove is not more than a foot
wide or deep. Still, in one of these
stoves the investigating committee
found a military cross which the czar
once wore, corset stays and a large
diamond belonging to the czarina. T:n
stove in which these things were
found was in the bedroom of the
czar's daughters. This stove was never
used by the Bolshevist guard, and
it is plausible that the czar and czarina
burned these things themselves at
the last hour so that the soviet would
not find them. The committee failed
to find any traces of human bodies in
the ashes.
"After examining all the evidence
presented by Professor Ipatieff I made
an investigation of the testimony that
the czar was taken away and executed.
The Bolsheviki claim that this
is what happened?that he was executed
outside the city before a firing
squad. But was he? Is it not possible
that he czar was kidnapped after he
left' the house, surrounded by only
the three red army soldiers? Considering
all the efforts which were
being made in end about Ekaterinburg
to save the czar, does it seem
possible that his friends, who were
numerous in this city and watchful,
should permit three soldiers to take
him away? Is it not possible that
some of the disloyal Bolshevist soldiers,
who were accepting bribes end
transmitting secret messages to and
from the czar, were among that
oiiq r/1 9
buaiu
"I asked these questions of many
Ekaterinburg citizens. In reply I
received all varieties of answers. The
fact is that no one knows, but all
have their opinions. Professor Ipatien
thinks the questions are without justification.
The priest thinks that the
czar was saved. The nun thinks h?.was
killed afterward, but the family
saved. The investigating committee udivided.
The allied consuls don't
know. And still there is the testimony
of a prominent Russian merchant
that he saw the czar and hi.
Family in the private office of the railroad
depot master July 20, four days
after the alleged killing.
"Ekaterinburg is divided. Since the
latter part of July, for seven months
the city and surrounding country has
been searched, and no remains of the
podies, no authentic traces of the
Family, have been found. Some day
when it is possible to go into European
Russia and question other witnesses
the puzzle may be solved. Nicholas
II, the former czar of all the
Russians and his family may be dead
They may still live. Who knows?''
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For Congress
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for Congress from the 6th Congressional
District, subject to the
ules of the Democratic Primary.
PHILIP H. STOLL.
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Congress from the Sixth
District, subject to the rules and regjlations
of the Democratic party.
J. J. EVANS.
FOR CONGRESS.
I hereby announce myself a candilate
for the Democratic nomination
'or Congress from the Sixth District,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
irlmary.
r-31-tf?363 Julius S. Mclnnes.
I hereby announce myself a candilate
for Congress from the Sixth
District, subject to the rules and regllations
of the Democratic Primary.
J. W. LeGRAND.
I am a candidate for Congress from
he Sixth District subject to the rules
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NEAL & DIXON BROS
Sam J. Gerald.
494 pounds at $70.00 $345.80
456 pounds at 70.00 319.20
950 $665.00
Atkinson & Coleman
/ 450 pounds at $59.00 $265.50
254 pounds at 70.00 177.80
704 $443.30
E. M. Gerald s
244 pounds at $72.00 $175.68
234 pounds at 59.00 138.06
234 pounds at 61.00 142.74
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712 *$456.48
W. H. Crawford
330 pounds at $71.00 $234.30
64 pounds at 59.00 37.76
394 $272.06
Rogers & C.
330 pounds at $75.00 $247.50
70 pounds at 65.00 45.50
400 $293.00
; Nathaniel Mullins
218 pounds at $59.00 $128.62
220 pounds at 62.00 136.40
206 pounds at 63.00 129.78
644 $394.80
Atkinson & Snipes
342 pounds at $65.00 $222.30
328 pounds at 65.00 213.20
670 $435.50
B. J. Martin
506 pounds at $60.00 $303.06
J. D. Lewis
340 pounds at $60.00 $204.00
290 pounds at 59.00 171.10
630 $375.10
Edwards & G
130 pounds at $61.00 $79.30
H. C. Bass
480 pounds at $60.00 $288.00
R. W. Brown & Martin.
490 pounds at $60.00 $294.00
G. W. Huggins
406 pounds at $63.00 $255.78
180 pounds at 63.00 113.40
586 $369.18
Rogers & H.
600 pounds at $62.00 $372.00
580 pounds at 61.00 353.80
1180 . $725.80
IH. K. Gerald
210 pounds at $69.00 $144.90
E. V. Henderson & H.
392 pounds at $64.00 $314.88
J. S. Atkinson
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440 pounds at 66.00 $290.40
856 $510.88
N S. H. Owens
58 pounds at $53.Q0 $ 30.74
54 pounds at 67.00 36.18
100 pounds at 67.00 67.00
212 $133.92
Robert Owens.
186 pounds at $61.00 $113.46
M. W. Stroud
366 pounds at $60.00 $219.60
290 pounds at 59.00 171.10
656 $390.70
Smith & Amnions
198 pounds at $61.00 $130.68
504 pounds at 59.00 $297.36
702 $428.04
G. E. Kearse
208 pounds at $65.00 $135.20
100 pounds at 55.00 55.00
308 $190.20
G. B. Kearse
178 pounds at $67.00 $119.26
180 pounds at 69.0>0 124.20
J. W. Rogers
, 428 pounds at $60.00 $262.80
W. P. Norton and Daniel
478 pounds at $59.00 $282.02
300 pounds at 59.00 177.00
216 pounds at 61.00 131.76
994 $590.78
B Andrew Rowell
202 pounds at $66.CO $133.32
Sallle (lasque
70 pounds at $60.00 $ 42.00
GO pounds at 63.00 37.80
130 $79.80
T. M. Connally & S.
562 pounds at $62.00 $328.44
Atkinson & Coleman
642 pounds at $69.00 $442.93
274 pounds at 69.00 189.06
916 $632,04
Herbert Baker
244 pounds at $66.00 $158.40
540 pounds at 53.00 286.20
784 $444.60
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Curry & Floyd
438 pounds at $60.00 $262.80
256 pounds at 64.00 163.84
694 $426.64 .
J. D. Gerald
220 pounds at $66.00 $145.20
452 pounds at 60.00 271.20
672 $416.40
W. H. Crawford
120 pounds at $64.00 $ 76.80
114 pounds at 64.00 72.96
254 pounds at 65.00 165.10
488 $314.86
S. B. Gerald
140 pounds at $70.00 $ 98.00
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otv puuuus at ou.uu AVI.VU
520 pounds at 55.00 286.00
1000 1588.00
t Curry & Casque
512 pounds at $61.00 $312.32
D. G. Hugging
496 pounds at $60.00 $297.60
512 pouds at 06.00 337.92
1008 $635.52
W. D. Small
186 pounds at $64.00 $119.04
M. C. Gerald
260 pounds at $65.00 $169.00
506 pounds at 51.00 288.06
766 $457.06
Herbert Baker
406 pounds at $65.00 $263.90
James & McDaniel
370 pounds at $60.00 $222.00
414 pounds at 54.00 223.56
784 $445.56
McOall & Gerald
304 pounds at $63.00 $191.52
512 pounds at 54.00 276.48 ,
816 $468.00
Henry Brown
190 pounds at $60.00 $114.00
E. J. Jones
390 pounds at $65.00? $253.50
pounas at ou.uu zb4.uu
830 $?17.50
Henry Coleman & Jones
364 pounds at $67.00 $243.88 S
380 pounds at 64.00 243.20
744 $487.08
Mrs. W. H. Price
120 pounds at $66.00 $ 79.20
116 pounds at 64.00 74.24
236 $153.44
E. F. Casque
108 pounds at $62.00 $ 66.96
220 pounds at 60.00 132.00
328 $198.96
W. C. Lovell
602 pounds at $63.00 $379.26
420 pounds at 61.00 256.20
1022 $635.46
Mrs. Lilly James
514 pounds at $60.00 $308.40
H. L. Rogers.
500 pounds at $60.00 $300.00
Wiggins and Graham
210 pounds at $62.00 $130.20
Masons & Godbold
510 pounds at $66.00 $336.60
Bostic & Brown
290pounds at $60.00 $174.00
B. J. Martin
426 pounds at $64.00 $272.64
D. J. Atkinson
326 pounds at $60.00 $195.60
376 pounds at 63.00 236.88
702 $432.48
G. E. Kearse
130 pounds at $61.00 $ 79.30
140 pounds at 69.00 $ 96.60
150 pounds at 67.00 100.50
420 $276.40
Sam Moody & M.
580 pounds at $66.00 $382.80
D. J. Atkinson
400 pounds at $68.00 $272.00
290 pounds at 61.00 176.90
690 $448.90
Rogers & T.
500 pounds at $61.00 $305.00
142 pounds at 065.00 92.3
642 $397.30
Willie Roweli
218 pounds at $62.00 $135.16
Charlie 1 to well
360 pounds at $66.00 $237.60
248 pounds at 59.00 146.32
608 $383.92
J. C. Holiday
142 pounds at $70.00 $ 99.40
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290 pounds at 59.00 171.10
772 $488.10 w JL
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