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f * * - 'if yMsP*^B * l " FORT MILL TIMES. ~ , ?? rt~ ?, . V 1 ' ' 11 VOL. XIII. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4,1905. - ' ' Nf?.4i REPORT iS UPHELD' Government Officials Claim Accuracy For Cotton Figures b|rleson sides with bureau Doctor North Sets Forth His Position in a Letter to the Texas Member of Congress at Whose instance thS Provision Was Insterted in the Cenr*/? Act Says the Bureau Cannot Compete With the Proposed Ginners Association and That Speculators' High Estimate Would Again Prevail?Mr. Burleson Expresses His and Senator Baileys Concurrence. Washington, Special.?Director of tlie Census North, in a letter to Uepresontative Burleson, made public, takes notice of the situation presented by the cotton statistics given out for publication Thursday and expresses his surprise and concern at the recent alleged movement in the Southern States "apparently approved and augmented by I the cotton growers themselves," to destroy the census reports by concerted refusal of the ginners to make returns. Director North asserts that a continuance of the cotton ginning reports is impossible without the systematic and whole-hearted co-op; ration of the ginners of the South Immediately after the receipt of the' letter, Mr. Burleson, a member of the House census committee, and the author of the provision making appropriation for the gathering of cotton statistics, gave out an Interview in which he upholds the director in the work now being done by his bureau. The letter is as follows: "Washington, Dec. 1904. "Hon. Albert S. Burleson, House of Representatives. "My Dear Sir: It seems proper to invito your attention to certain anomalous conditions which confront tho Census Office in carrying out the provisions of section 9 of the act to establish a permanent Census Office, directing the periodical collection of the statistics of cotton production through the agency of the ginners. This pro- i vision was inserted in the law at your urgent request aiul that of other j Southern Representatives on th? /plea that It was necessary for the protection of the cotton producers against the speculators and others interested in depressing the price of the staplu .... ni.-ii uwu prune. 11 was stated that enormous losses resulted from the untrustworthy estimates put forth every year by speculators and agents of the Liverpool market and that early and trustworthy official information regarding the size of the crop Would protect th<? grower, disarm the speculator and market manipulator, and permit the law of supply and demand to regulate the urice. ACCURACY I!NQUESTIONED. "Since the law was passed, Congress has appropriated and this office has disbursed more than |1125,000 a yhnr In the collection and dissemination of I this information. The system hasl^en i gradually perfected until it ha come more nearly perfect than similar plan for obtaining knowledge of the size of any agi tural crop during the progress of vesting. "No complaint has been made the census reports are not aceu indeed, for a year or two past, we been able to trace the crop so el that practically every bale has accounted for. "The statistics increase in valtn cry year; for it bedOmes possibh comparison of the statistics of one with those of the same date in reeding years, to judge the siz< successive crops with an acci never before known or approxim "The ginning reports of the Cr Ofllce have crowded out the spe. tive and interested estimates ref< to. and the single object which Southern Representatives had in in urging this legislation has successruuy accomplished. GINNERS* MOVE DEPRECATE "In view of these facts. 1 have 1 surprised and eonserned at the p ent movement in the Southern St; which is apparently approved and : mented by the cotton growers th selves, to destroy the census reprts, by the concerted refusal if the ginners to make the returns upon wdch they are based. Thus far the mivement has not seriously affected our work, but if it continues Mid spmds, it will nocessarip' destroy its v?lue during the coming year. It appeal* to have been suddenly discovered hat these reports, undertaken solely at the demand of the cotton grower, are hiirhiv detrimental to his interests.Mr. E. P. Webber, president of the Mtnphis cotton exchange, is quoted as le- i daring that 'the cotton interests of 1 the South have everything to lose aid nothing to gain by their eontinuano; they put the manufacturing Interets in possession of information that ig beneficial.* "My attention has been called to he no-railed 'National Cotton Ginned' I I Association,' the purpose of which is stated to he 'to gather accurate aid reliable information regarding tia w amount of cotton prnduc.od. In advatcc of the government report. 'It also tppears that 'this Information Is to be nent in code and the members of tie association will he sworn not to d.1 vulge it.* The information is stll highly desirable. but possession of It is to bo reotrioted to those who grew and gin the cotton. i Ik. - L HAS ALMOST FALLEN Port Arthur Has Reached the Point of Surrender PROPOSITION IS MADE TO NOGI Japanese Commander Receives a Letter From General Stoessel Relating to the Surrender of the Besieged City and Fortress Original Garrison of 40,000 Men Now Reduced to $15,000?Capture of 203-Metre Hill ' Was the Beginning of the End. Toklo, By Cable.?Great Nogi reports that he has received a letter from General Stoessel relating to the surrender of Port Arthur. The news that the Russian forces at Port Arthur have been reduced to such a strait that at last the heroic commander has been forced to propose surrender follows upon a month of reverses. The siege began almost with the firing of the first gun in the war, now nearly 11 months ago, and when perhaps the greatest stronghold in the world was garrisoned by 40,000 Russian soldiers, supported by a formidable squadron of modern battleships, cruisers and torpedo boats. These worships have been destroyed or dispersed until but a few torpedo boats remain in the harbor. The garrison at latest accounts, had been reducecd to about 15,000 men. On December 4. High (203Metre) Hill, was captured by the Japanese. On December 19, the East Keek wan fort was taken by them and the Rihlung fort fell on December 29. From the hour of the fall of East Keek wan events seem to be hastening to- j ward the culmination for on December : 31, Sungshu Mountain fell into the hands of the besiegers and only a few hours later the "11" fort, another 1 strong position was captured. The report that the non-combatants ] of Fort Arthur had been accorded asylum behind Lino Tie Mountain may have been an indication that the Japanese commander foresaw that the surrender of the Russians within a very brief time was assured. Think Fortress* Fall Near. Tokio, By Cable.?Following t lie j dramatic capture of Sungshu Mountain Saturday morning, the Japanese Sunday captured "H" fort, and a recently constructed fort on Pan Dung Mountain, which gives thorn possession of the entire lline between Kihlung Mountain and "H" fort by way of Pan Lung Mountain. Slmpultaneously, the extreme Japanese 'ight, pressing south al>ng Pigeo* nfured the heights f ?, Shot Out Boy's Eyes. Newport Nowb. Special.?Fred Westinghousc, the small boy who was shot yesterday at Orlana by tho premature explosion of a gun which was being loaded by a negro, will lose his eye- I sight as a result of the accident. The. j shot struck him full' in tho face, dertroying both eyes. Police Officer Shot. Charlotte, Special.?Rural Officer S. E. Cole, of Belmont Park, was killed Sunday afternoon at half-past 5 o'clock by a negro. Will Springs. The homicide was committed at the railroad crossing near Sugar Creek church and within yards of Zion negro church. Mr. Cole's-3on-in-law, Mr. 11. B. Nabors, a machinist at htddell's, was there and was shot also. How seriously he was mounded does not yet appear; it seems ! rnougn. mar ne is not much hurt. Mr. (ole was attempting tne arrest or a i -gro for the larceny of a bicycle belt nging to another negro. WEST STORM SWEPT Heavy Snows and High Winds Cause Loss of Life and Property HALF THE CONTINENT INVOLVED Most Widespread Atmospheric Disturbance in 15 Years Extends From Winnipeg. Canada, to New Orleans, and From the Rocky Mountains to New York?Gale and Snow in the I Northwest, Electric Storms in the South and Fog in the East. Phlrncn ^nnnlol ?Hnn severe storms of recent years has been racing through the territory lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes since early Tuesday morning and has caused much trouble to street ear companies, railroads and telegraphic companies. In its extent the storm was the most widespread of any during the last fifteen years. Counting the fog as a component part of the storm, it stretched clear from the Rocky Mountains to New York and from Winnipeg to New Orleans. The fatalities reported here as due to the storm are three men killed. They were: Alexander Stcincr, a teamster, killed while unloading coal. A coal chute was hlown from its fastenings and struck him on the head, killing him instantly. Thomas Walsh, a laborer, was struck by a heavy board while quartering a new building. The board cut his head nearly off. Frank Kavanaugh was killed at Muneie. Ind., by an oil derrick falling on him. At 10 o'cloek Tuesday night the atorm was reported as subsiding at . Kansas City and at other points on a j north and South line from that city. In Chicago and east of here the storm was ! still raging with great vilocity, and was expected to continue through the nigiii. j the center of the storm being between Chicago and Cleveland. Reports from Kansas City were that : the storm extended from Missouri as i far south as Indian Territory and was j accompanied throughout its entire 1 length by high winds and snow. In the Northwest the storm was even , more violent, in St. Paul the snow i commenced to fall eaily Monday night : and irrcvv tir-rivinr nil tlirnin'h ?K<> nlnl.t while the wind Increased until it was ' blowing fifty miles an hour. The heavy | snow and the gale worked havoc with the wires, ami some passenger trains from the Pacific coast were reported as twenty-four hours over due. The storm reached westward from St. Paul until it covered almost the entire Northwest. In the Scsith. conditions were somewhat better, the snow in many places being changed to a heavy rainfall, wlfich was preceded by thunder and "-htning and followed by high winds, shville, Loujsville, New Orleans, ntgomery and Memphis all reported ecdingly heavy rains, a rapidly ling thermometer and terrific winds, n the Ohio river valley the first ivy rain in five months commenced ling early in the day and continued oughout the night. The storm was j jreciated by the boatmen along the io and its tributaries, for the stage water In these streams has of late n very low. ?he storm struck Chicago shortly afnoon and increased with great ddity until it had assumed liurrie violence at 5::i0 o'clock, when the id tore through the downtown >ets at the rate of 72 miles an hour, 'ell away after that anrl by 7 ock had dropped to 50 miles an if, where it remained throughout night. In the evening the mercury pped from 24 to 11. The late reports m Wisconsin are that the storm was most severe experienced in that tinll of till1 countrv llnmafo in tlin y of Madison is estimated at $luo, . In Indiana the damage done by the ?rni was especially heavy ^1 the oil ids, where fully five hundred derricks re blown down and all operations spended. Loss on derricks alone in e neighborhood of M uncle, is placed at $200,U00, and at $r?0,0G0 around Portland. ] Peculiar Pistol Accident. Atlanta. Special- Max Silverman, traveling salesman for a Now York house, is in the Grady Hospital here in a serious condition with the paper wadding from a blank pistoLcart ridge in his right lung, as a result of having been accidentally shot by Sol Groodzinsky. The accident is one of the most peculiar the . ospital authorities have had to deal with for some time. The pistol was fired at a close range, and so great was the force of the shot that the wadding from the Shell went entirely through Silverman's thick clothing tore through tho body and penetrated the r!Aht lung. Physicians are not yet able to tell whother tbe wound will prove fatal. 1 KOI mi C. K.. in Act rep of t FEMININE FACTS. / * The Queen of tlreeee is a yachtswoman. Queen Alexandra is greatly interested in photography. The Queen of Italy has chosen shooting and motoring as her principal hobbies. There is a boat in a canal north of London which'is entirely "manned" by women. The Empress of Russia has a passion for caricaturiug and the collection of caricatures. Mrs. Louise C?. Smith, whose mother was a sister of Thomas Jefferson, is dead at Louisville. The Queen of Norway and Sweden, outside of her family anil public life, is devoted to religion. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Although eighty-live years old. Mrs. Sarnh McLaughlin, of Lynn. Mass., does a good day's work binding shoes. The hobbies of Queen Wilheiminn. the "girl Queen" of Holland, are skating and riding, but from i hildliood she has devoted hdHself to raising poultry. Women of the Spanish aristocracy have given jewels valued at iiir?.t)ti:? to make a new crown tor the reputedly wonder-working silver image of the Virgin in Seville's cathedral. Louise Michel, the famous French Anarchist, lias almost entirely recovered from the seven? attack of pleuropneumonia which nearly ended her stormy career recently. She is seventyfour years old. Therede Humbert, who is confined in the prison at .lteniies, lias developed such a mania for writing abusive, incoherent letters to otlicials concerning the supposed dissipation of the Crawford millions, that, the authorities are considering her transference to an asylum for ihe insane. Cornell Experiment Station. Cornell University experiment station has issued two important bulletins on grape pests, which have been received by vineyardists in Chautuaqua County grape district. One is by Prof. Murk Vernon Slingcrland and treats of grape berry moth, while the I other, by Prof. Fred Johnson, discusses ! the grcpe root worm and the grape ! blossom hud gnat. The last named is a new enemy of grapes and was <11.eovered by Prof. Johnston last year. For three years these two men havi been studying grape pests in <'hat tit an qua County New Flureeu Chief. Washington, Special President Roosevelt has appointed J. Hampton Moore, of Phila Iclpliia. chief of the Bureau of Manufacturers of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Mr. Moore is president of the National League of Republican Clubs and was former y city treasurer of Philadelphia. He has accepted the appointment and will enter upon the discharge of his duties about the first of the year. Dr. Chndwick Not Arrested. Now York. Special.?Dr. Leroy S. Chadwiek. husband of C'assie L. Chadwick, arrived in this country Saturday on ihe steamship Pretoria, ran ilio gauntlet of big crowds which had waited for hours to sec nini, was haled to Hoboken police headquarters and to the recorder's court, and finally loft for Cleveland, not as a prisoner, but as the ,|iest of Sheriff Harry, who had conulfrom Ohio with a warrant for the /pctor's arrest which he did not serve1! Odds r.nd Ends. Thought fulness doubles the value < f a gift and often halves its eost. There is nothing harder on the nerves or worse for tiie clothes than packing water on both shoulders. When Cod has buried your sins it is sin to dig them up again, even though it he only to show them to your friends. The man who made the biggest fool of himself at election will he the first to denounce the excitement of a revival. Big Steamer Stranded. Norfolk, Special ?Battered by heavy reas that have been lashed iu fury by the 40 mile pale, an unknown steamer i lies helpless on the inner Diamond Shoals, eight tnlle-; oPT Cape Hatteraa, and faint lights seen now and then carry a message to the life saving corps on the shore that there arec hu- j loan lives aboard the wracked craft that cannot he saved until wind and i sea have calmed sufllciently t(? allow , the surf boats to tie launched. Army Officer Found Dead. Washington, Special. ? Quartermas- i ter Humphrey has received a telegram from the superintendent of construe- ! tfon at Chattanoga saying that Capt. j Howard W. French, quartermaster In charge of construction at Cliickamauga was found Tuesday evening near the bordet of the army post reservation. * subsequent telegram read: "French identaly killed himself Monday." 'he accounts of Capt. French are I to be in first-class shape and i nhrey spoke of hint in the 1 hest terms. MOKE THAN ALL ELSE. "Did you see anything in Ituly thai j pealed to you particularly?" "Yes; the beggars!"?New Orleans oies-DemocraL . V ^ STILL HOLDING OUT Port Arthur Stands Firm Against the Assaults of the Japanese GENERAL KONDRACIIKO IS SLAIN Relief is Confidently Expected by March 1st and the Russian Troops Arc Determined to Resist as Long as There is One Soldier Left. Tokio, By Cable.?Trustworthy advices from Port Arthur confirm the report that General Kondrachko has dccu killed, unci mat General ytoessel bus been injured by falling from his horse. General Suiilnoff is also reported wounded. The advices say that the stern of the battleship Sevastopol has sunk in shallow water. Her bow is damaged in two places and the steering room gear is also damaged. The garrison is reported to be confident in the belief that relief will arrive before March 1st. Despite its heavy losses November lid and stibreueqntly, the garrison is said to be i cheerful and resolved to continue, the ttrugglo so-Jong as a singlo soldier icmains. The army claims to have sufficient provisions to last until Febtuary. The i.avy possesses about one month's stores. The price of food In tho belengured fortress is high. Beef is a rouble and one-half per pound* horse meat six copecs per pound; dog meat twenty-five copecs per pound; turkeys 150 roubles apiece; eggs 1 GO roubles per hundred. But few junks hearing supplies reached tho garrison tho past month. It is exported that tho capture of itie heights of Pigeon Bay will furlhoi curtail the landing of supplies. Quiet at the Front. Hunn Shan, By Cable.?Everything j continues quiet along the front of the hostile avmio? There is little expec- i tation of a dccisivo movement till ; : pring. whi n it will be. possible for j both sides to throw in strong re-en- j forcemeats and ro-conunonco the cam- j paign in earnest. In the meantime Hie < hi f Japanese uneasiness seems to bo with regard to their communici.lions eastward. They have an unusually full equipment of narrowguago field railroads, one of which connects General Kuroki's base, at Shahhedzi with Feng Wang Cheng, with a branch to Siamatza. A suppb meritar.v line is being constructed with a caro unusal in tiehl operations. a his oinborato system has been seriously threatened by General Ilonne- ' kampff's raids southeastward. There are many evidences that the t Japanese are strengthening and for- ) tifying their lino *if communications t toward Korea, which necessarily will absorb a considerable force. List of Casualties. Tokio, By Cable.?The authorities publish a list of thirty-three officers killed and fifty-six wounded. No localities are Riven, hut it is presumed that the casualties occurred at Port Arthur. The naval authorities also publish a list, nine officers and sixty-five men j killed on special duty. The nature of the duty is not explained, hut it is sur- ' mised that another cruiser lias been sunk, or damaged, and that the offian(' riK'n 'ost their lives in this j nwiincr. Dcleware Republicans. Wilmington, Delnwrre. Special.?As a result of several serious conferences concerning ;he political situation in this State, tlie {? publicans of both factions have determined to organize tho Legislature without a ripple of dissension, anil for the first time in many years, following out tho harmony agreements of the recent cam paign, the Republican Legislature of Delaware will go into a general caucus on the subject. All the caucusing will be done here, which will be tho c-vo of the asscn oling of tho extraordinary session called by proclama tion of tlif Governor to amend the deftyctiva judgment ion law. Eminent Scholars in Chicago. Chicago, ill.. Special.?Some of the Uiost eminent historians, political | scientists and economists in the United S:ates are in attendance at the convention of the American Historical, the Atreri -an Economic and the American Political Sci( nee Associations which opened lure at the University of Chicago. The programmes I include several joint sessions of the three associations. Among the speakers .are President. Harper, of Chicago University; Prof. F. J. U.oognow, 01 he Political Science Association; A! I T. Alahan, th naval authority and others. Southern Educators Gather. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.?The advance guard for tiie Southorn Educall/?>?1 A iiponi.. * 1 I ? *41?? I party arriving from Texas. others from Southern Carolina and (Jeorgia. Kxsrcises will begin tomorrow < rpjiinp in the hoard of trade auditoriuni\ The hotels will be ill led to the limit |/enervations already heir.g made for slveral hundred. J \ [ I? THREE YEARS AFTER. . Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth: avenue, ticket seller iu the Union Station. Denver, Col., sayR: "You are afc liberty to repeat what I tirst stated through our Denver papers about rl Doan's Kidney Tills In the summer of 1809. for ^BBBk I have had no reason in mmSm^Kr the interim to change my opinion of the remedy. I was subject to severe attacks of backache, al- HB ways aggravated if I sat Ww long at a desk. Doan's Kidney Tills absolutely IBB stopped my backache. I ( MB have never had a pain or a twinge since." **23? Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.' For sale by all druggists. Price 5(K cents per bor. 9- " Story of Terrapin's Memory. That. Dr'er Tarrypin has memory tM proved by a story told by Young IX lianee. who owns tlio birthplace of Chief Justice Taney, on Battle creek. In Calvert county. Mr. 11 unco keeps a small boat under a mulberry tree on tho shoro of tho crock, and on going to tho boat early nnn ninrninp lin nntlcml n Hr?r i"-'* ? ? >"/ "?"U terrapin busily engaged in eating a few mulberries which had fallen. Mr. 1 lance, wishing to assist Hr'er Tarrypin in getting his breakfast, gathered some mulberries and pitched them to him one at a time. In a very shorttime the terrapin began to catch the berries in his mouth exactly as thoy were thrown to him. Every day afterward a slight knock on the side of the boat would bring the terrapin out for his mulberries, and Mr. Ilance often took his friends and visitors to Bee his pet. On ono occasion a fresh young mait *v throw a piece of tobacco to the terrapin instead of a mulberry. Hr'er Tarrypin retired at. onco in disgust, and for days afterward refused to como when called. Although Mr. Ilanco finally Induced him to como again for > Ins mulberries, Hr'er Tarr.vpin remembered the tobacco and would ne-^r at?> proacli unless Mr. Ilance was alone.? Baltimore sun. DOG HAD NOT FORGOTTEN. ? i atung by Bee in Puppyhood, He Chr isi-.pft Resentment. "Something must have stung dog," said a resident of this city\ a suburbanite, whom he was visita few days ago. as he noticed the i> tics of a large collie which, aft snapping frantically at a Hying i: n. sect, lowered his head and carefully licked his right forepaw. } "No." replied the owner of the dog, "that is only a little delusion of hia? When he was a puppy a bee stung him on that foot you see him attending to, ami ever since he has cherished a standing grudge against flying insects. Apparently the sight of ono not only arouses his anger, but recalls most vividly his lirst experience with one, for each time after running after one, whether he catchen it or not, he stops and tenderly llcka the place where he was stung two years ago. As far as I know he has never been stung since then."?Philadelphia Press. Woman Snot Deer from Carriage. Tli?' other day Mr. and Mrs. Daniel mtt of Moulton drove up to B plantation and while Mr. lott. was a short listanco in (he woods after partridge. Mrs. Iott. who was sitting in the carriage, spied a largo bnck deer at the edgo of the clearing and immediately brought her ride to bear upon Mr. Deer. Ho dropped after receiving on? cartridge !.o\viston Journal. HADlT'S CHAIN, t'wtiiiu Habit* Unritiiirluiiil; Farmtd nd ll.?r.I to Itrniik. An ingenious philosopher estimate? tliat the aiuouiil of will power necessary to break a life long Jiabit would, if it could be transformed, lift u weight of many tons. , It sonietiines requires a higher degre? of heroism to break the chains of u pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady write? from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a> lover of cotfee. Before 1 was out of myj teens 1 was a miserable dyspeptic, sufJ fering terribly at times with toy, sloinacb. "1 was convinced that it was coflfe? that was causing the trouble and yet II could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of llti 1 was iu very poor health, indeed. My Sister told met I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking! coffee for breakfast although it kept! mo constantly ill, until 1 tried Dostum. I learned to make it properly according! to directions, and now we can hardly do without Dostum for breakfast, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dysnoilsia. (hi lllil lilvo tin iu nt ... .... ?.. .io ..i omnium, with my stomach th.it used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Name given by I'osluin Co., Battle Creek ??j|9H M Look in each pkg. for the fn mMH little book, "The ltoud to Well'jjJ - t?tpon I