THE FORT MILL TIMES
VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 19Q9 NO. 1
NO POTASH TAX
Congressman Lavor Gats Committee
to Romovo Duty
FROM TARIFF BILL
The Farmers of South Carolina
Will Save Over a Quarter Million
Dollars by the Action of the
Committee In Removing the Tax
From Potash.
Washington, April 8.?A special
to the Columbia Record sayB after
a week of diplomatic activity, Representative
Lever of South Carolina,
today won a decided victory for the
farmers of his State and the South.
Following his represehtatlons as to
the effect of the potential duty of 20
per" cont'on potash and potash salts,
tho ways and means committee today
promised Mr. Lever to remove
by committee amendment the offensive
paragraph from the hill.
The flrBt step in the dlreetion
pledged by the committee was taken
this morning when the committee in
executive session of its Republican
members voted an amendment removing
the duty on all potash salts
except basic slag, a variation of the
standard product. Learning of this
execption, Mr. Lever again called on
Chairman Payne and after explaining
that basic slag, too, was an essential
part of the demand submitted
in behalf of tho farmers, Mr. Payne
said that he thought the committee
would certainly vote a supplementary
amendment at its meeting tomorrow
morning.
The action of the committee Is a
personal triumph for Mr. Lerer and
ho is highly gratified at the result.
The attention which Mr. Levsr's representations
received at the hand:> of
the committee. Republicans, Is the
result of a consistently practiced policy
of conciliation on the part of
Mr. Lever as well as of the respect
his energetic fights on particular
questions bellore ithis have called
forth on both sides of the hous^.
Among both Republicans and 1
Democrats Mr. Lever has many
friends, and in that way ha can always
get a hearing. After that he
relies on bis presentation of his
case. Mr. Lever's activities have
been unceasing since telegrams
reached Washington from Mr. E. J.
Watson, directing his attention to
the possibilities bidden away in the
administrative clauses of the bill.
There is one New Knglander on the
ways and means committee, Mr. Hill
of Connecticut, and as the New England
soil in many localities requires
practically the sans.* kind of fertilization
needed In the South, it
was not difficult for one knowing the
ground as well as Mr. Lever to interest
certain Republicans In his
tight.
The victory of the South Carolinian
will mean something over u
quarter of a million dollar* a year
to the farmers of South Carolina
alone, while to the South as a whole
It will mean more than $2,000,000
1b his speech recently on this subject
Mr. I^ever estimated the possible loss
to South Carolina farmers from the
enactment of thie clause at over
$300,000, and a telegram he received
from Wr. Watson this morning
practically substantiate* his estimate.
The indication* now are that the
Payne bill will go to the Senate with
potash and its salt* on the free list,
and it is not thought that there will
I>e mum cnance oi ion auiy oeirtg
restored in the upper house.
WILL SERVE UIS TIME.
Brought liwk and Put in the State
Penitentiary.
Columbia, April 7.?Sheriff Causey
"has brought to the State penitentiary
Henry Haynes, the desperado
who was arrested in Jacksonvill'
a few days ago and brought back
to this State to serve out Ave yearr
for manslaughter and 16 months on
the charge of breach of trust with
frauduledtt Intent. THe arrest of
Haynes is the culmination of 10
years of evasion of the law?for
llaynes. although convicted in 1899
of manslaughter, has succeeded In
keeping away from the officers of
the law until Sheriff Causey got on
his track and located him in Jacksonville.
Haynes escaped from Monck's Corner
before he could be brought to
Columbia to begin his sentence Just
after he was convicted In 1899. The
guards from the penitentiary had
already started for Monck's Corner
to bring Haynes and a number of
other prisoners here when It was
learned that Haynes had made his
escape. Since 1899 Haynes has been
able to keep away from the officers
of the law.
Sheriff .Causey sthtes (that Just
as soon as he came into office he
started to track Haynes and finally
was able to make the negro move
out of the State which ended In the
arrest at Jacksonville.
Fishermen Drowned.
Naples. April 7.?By the bursting
dyfc* today at Catanzaro, 22
awept to sea. Eleven
of them
GUILTY OF MURDER
EJLLHD ON* MAN AND TWO
HVLFLBSS WOMMN.
Avery Blount, Prospennw LralsUu
' Basiien Mm, Seat to the Gallows
by tfvp Jury.
Amite City, La., April 7.?-Late
this afternoon the Jury la the case
of Avery Mount, charged with the
murder of J. O. Brelaad. Mrs. Breland
and Mrs. Joe Bverette, brought
in a verdict of guilty In the frst degree.
The yerdict carries the death penalty.
The accused man received the verdict
with much ooolnees.
Judge Ellis fited Friday of this
week for the hearing on motion for
a new trial.
Bouut, a prosperous merchant, of
Tlckfaw, wan indloted on the oharge
of murdering "Buz" Dreeland, Mrs.
Breeland and the letter's daughter,
Mrs. Joe. Bverette, and wee tried
first on the separata Indictment of
"Buz" Breeland's killing. (Jarfleld
and Ben Klnohea, two brothers, indicted
for complicity in the assaasinntlnn
o r? wo# /> K? ^i*/i
? V / WW VV UV V1IOU.
The killing of the Breelauds, and
Mrs. Everette waa oat of the most
horrible crimes ever committed In
the State. The tragedy occurred on
the night of January 22. near Tickfaw
several miles south of Amite
City. Breelnnd and his wife were
bringing their daughter, Mrs. Everette,
from her former home in Livingston
Parish to live with them
near Tlckfaw. Mrs. Bverette's husband
had boea killed by Bea Klnch*
en a few days before.
Breelund was shut from ambush.
H? was on foot, and tha two women
wore riding in a buggy. Acoording
to Breeland'B dying statement Arory
Blount, accompanied by some other
person, then levelled guns on Mrs.
Breeland and her daughter. The
latter held her young baby in her
arms. The elder woman was first
shot and killed. Mrs. Everett? in
the meantime was beseeching the
assassins to spare her baby's life.
Her supplications finally resulted
in the child being taken from her
arms and laid by the roadside. The
mother was then shot te death.
TRYING TO KILL OPIUM TRADE.
New Law Prohibits Importation and
Use of I>raf.
Washington, April 7.?One of the
most Important bills paaeed at the
last seeBlon of Congress, and which
became effective on April 1, was
iiiui piuuiuiiuiK uum iuu luipuriikUou
uud use of opium iu the United
Statee for any purpose w-hatever,
except for strictly medicinal ,/urpoBea.
Iu recent years the smuggling of
opium Into this country has ben one
of the serious curses of the time, and
all of the larger cities have experienced
untold trouble from such
J raffle, especially among the Chinese,
as the records of the poliee tsatloaa
and Criminal Courts abundantly
how.
Under the new law. If nny person
jhall fraudulently or knowingly iraoort
er bring Into the United States,
or assist In so delng. any opium or
any preparation or derivatives or
shall receive, coneeal, buy or sel\
or In any manner facilitate the transportation
or concealment ef sale of
any such opium products after their
Importation, knowing them to have
teen Imported eontray to law, such
goods shall be forfeited and destroyed,
and the offender ahall be vned
in any sum not e reeding $R,0<10,
nor less than $u'i. or oy imprisonment
for any time not exceding two
years, er both.
The treasury department had gone
over the new law carefully, and in a
statement Just Issued by Secretary
MacVeagh, Is Is made plain hereafter
there shall be no traffic In this product
if it Is posible to stop It.
In issuing full directions to collectors
at the different ports, these
officers are cautioned to guard closely
against fraudulent Importations hereafter.
In addition to this, the State
and municipal officers have been sent
copies of the new law by the treasury
department with ful directions for
carrying it out, and with instructions
also for making arrests and pushing
prosecutions when such arrests
are deemed necessary.
Although more smuggling of opi-!
um is done perhaps in San Francisco
than in any other city in the
United States, because o the very
large number of Orientals there, the
traffic in the drug has grown to enormous
proportions in New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston and elsewhere
in the East during the last
five years. Not only this, but in
some instances negroes, too, have
been known to become steady and
regular users of the drug, so that
now the Chinese immigrant is not
the only person to feel its harmful
effects.
Many murders among the Chinese
in different parts of the country have
been directly traceable to the illegal
use of this drug, gnd It is believed
by those who have made a caerful
study of the mater that the new law
wll be most beneficial In Its effects
When ita provisions become generally
k^own and ita mandates are carried
jout.
LIVES ARE LOST
And Property Damaged in Various
Section of Country
BY A HEAVY STORM
Several Cities Arc Damaged by a
High Wind That Swept the Middie
Western States, 'Which Crippled
the Telegraph Service and
Wrecked Houses and Schools.
Detroit, Mich., April 7.?At least
eight persons lost their lives in the
storm that visited Detroit and Michigan
last sight and today. Anthony
Kaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadich, a
barber, and Adam Felln, all of Wyandotte,
attempted to cross the Detroit
river in a row boat from Wyandotte
to Canada this afternoon in a
flfty-mlles gale to settle a wager and
all three- were drowned when their
boat capsized. Kadich bet Kaup Ave
dollars that he wonld not dare to
cross in the small boat and Felln was
the stakeholder.
At Jennings, in Missaukee county,
three young men. Bernard CarlsoD,
Charles Jackson and John Torrey,
were killed by being caught .under
m ?mi Luni w?m mown aown oy inp
wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill.
Eight year old Benjamin Hellmer
was killed by lightning near Irona
last night and Ray Miller was killed
at Brightwood today when he was
struck by a roof that had been blown
off.
Many Killed.
Chicago, April 7.?Reports of last
night's storm damage received here
today are that ten persons are known
to have been killed In Mississippi
and at least 15 were injured.
At the Terrell plantation, east of
Weot Point, Miss., a number of negroes
were killed.
Reports from western Tennessee
state that the storm wrecked many
small buildings.
At Wabash, Ind., Mrs. Jas. A.
Hayes and four children were pinned
down beneath the wreckage of
their home, which caught on Are.
The mother was badly burned, being
rescued, and will die. The
children were seriously hurt. The
high wind wns followed by a cloudburst.
Many brid'ges are washed
away. A dozen houses were demolished
in Wabash. The damage wi'n
reach several thousand dollars.
At Perua, Ind., four factories
and Heveral school buildings, many
small structures, were wrecked b>
the wind. ?
Several Men Missing.
Cleveland, Ohio., April 7.?The
fishing tug George Floyd, with seven
men aboard, and the sand sucker
Mary H., with nine men are missing,
and the barge Norman Kelley, with
a crew of four persons, was rescued
tonight after a desperate fight, as
a result of a fierce windstorm which
raged on Lake Erie today. The wind
blow a sixty-mile gale throughout
the day. Life savers have been unable
to do effective work.
Tn* steel bars* Kelley's crow
three m?n and a woman, were picked
up after floating fifteen miles from
Kelley's Island, when the boat
IJroke away and ^drifted to sea.
There was neither an engine nor an
oar on the barge, so the crew was
at the mercy of the waves.
^" vera.1 small buildings were
wrecked and buggies overturned in
Cleveland. Two men were blown
from the shore of the Lake into the
water. Both were rescued.
Injured in New York.
New York. April 7.?The high
gale that prevailed to the west and
north of N^w York city today,
causing havoc with telegraph and
telephone lines, attained its full
force here nt 7:45 o'clock tonight,
when the wind reached a velocity
of 60 miles an hour. Several persons
were hurt and much damage
and discomfort, resulted.
Two persons, an elderly woman
and a child, were badly hurt by
being blown off their feet and dashed
against objects in the street.
At Rochester John Velth was
killed this afternoon during a 51
mile an hour wind storm, and a
12-year-old child sustained a fractured
skull from a v^lnd blown
chimney.
At Buffalo from three o'clock until
five this afternoon the wind tore
through the streets of Buffalo at
the rate of 72 miles an hour. One
man was killed and many people
were Injured by parts of building*
detached by the force of the wind
and hurled through the air.
Great Damage at Toledo.
Toledo, April 7.?Hundreds of
men out of work, thousands of dollars
damage done and many persons
slightly Injured as tho results
of a hurricane that visited Toledo
and vicinity today.
The wind attained a velocity of
89 miles an hour in this city. The
roof of the plant of the Massilon
Bridge. Company, 180 by 4ft feet was
ripped off. and hurled into a field
' and 300 men were thrown out of
j employment until the damage can
j be repaired.
| Pedestrains were Injured by falling
signs, parts of roof, chimneys
and limbs of trees and many women
, were blowed over by the wind.
1 la email town* near Toledo con<
CASTRO LANDS
1 1
HE LEAVES THE STEAMER AT
FORT 1)E FRANCE.
Very Much Annoyed by American
Government's Interference With
His Flan of Visiting Venezuela.
Fort de France, Martinique, April
7.?Ciprlano Castro, in a rage
against the British government and
the State department at Washington,
left the steamer Guadeloupe at this
port today and has taken up quarters
on shore. Finding all ports in the
West Indes, excepting Fort de
France, barred against him, the present
course was the only one left open
to the former Venezuelan dictator.
Senor Castro's wife will continue
on board the Guadeloupe to LaGuaira.
me American monitor Montana
came Into port this morning.
The Guadeloupe, on board which
Castro" and his party sailed from
France,^M arch 28,*after four months
spent-in Europe, came into Fort de
France late last evnlng. While at
Pointe-a-Pitre of the island of Guadeloupe,
where the steamer touched
yfesterday, Castro was notified by
the British consul that the British
government had decided not to permit
him to disembark at Port of
Spain, Trinidad, consequently Castro
decided to leave the Guadeloupe
here.
The decision of the British, acting
on a request from the State department
at Washington not to let him
land at Trinidad, was unofficially
communicated to Castro a second
time this morning. He expressed
himself as annoyed and angry at this
decision, which he characterized as
a violation of the rights of man.
He is furiously angry with the American
government and the French
Steamship Company. The latter refused
to let him continue on board
the Guadeloupe to Colon.
After expressing his annoyance at
this unexpected turn in his affaire.
Castro disclaimed the bellicose Intention
with regard to the existing
political situation In Venezuela with
which he has ben credited and he
declared that his only purpose in
returning to Venezuela was to give
his attention to his private business.
Castro appears still to be in ill
health.
The steamer Gaudeloupe left here
at noon today for Port of Spain and
Venezuelan points. She wns followed
out of the harbor by the cruiser
Montana.
8TABBS I1IS WIFE.
Drunken Negro Trie? to Kill All
Ills Family.
Rock Hill. April 7.?This evening
at 8 o'clock Lawrence Boyd, a well
known negro cook, while drunk, run
amuck on Ratterree hill and succeeded
in a\?}Ost murdering his wife,
Louisa, stabbing her deeply in the
shoulder. He started for their
child of three years old and cut at
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iw. run miua smut?! KUlUUmi til mill
and prevented him from cutting the
baby, but received a nasty cut on
the arm herself. Boyd then fled
and has not been caught.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Two Police Officers Shot Another
Man to Death.
Fitzgerald, On., April 7.?Indictments
charging murder were returned
by the Irwin county grand Jury
today agalnat Chief of Police Druebaker
and Patrolman Johnson, who
on Saturday night sh<$t (to death
Robert Oresham, manager of a local
mill, the officers stating that they
were after him for an alleged theft
and shot him down only after he
had fired shots at them in a dark
alleyway. The officers are in jail
without bond.
Guest of Honor.
New York. April 7.?United States
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman will be
the guest of honor and one of the
speakers at the annual dinner of the
South Carolinians in this city April
22. Members of other Southern
States societies and of the Southern
society have been invited to attend
the dinner.
Fight About Taxes.
Atii a1 r* nln hria A *>? ! 1
iuuuiriruiifi| v/aiaiu ia, n(M 11
Four men were killed and many other#
wounded In a conflict with the
local Carabineers. The authorities
are endeavoring to collect new taxes,
which are exceedingly unpopular.
slderable damage was done. Many
houses were struck by lightning and
the occupants stunned, but there
were no reports of fatalities.
Six injured.
London, Ont., April 7.?Six persons
were injured, one fatally, and
a financial loss of full fifty thousand
dollars was entailed by a northwest
hurricane which pased over this city
today. At the Aberdeen public
school, a tall chimney crashed
through the roof, imprisoning 30(1
pupils, and creating a panic. Mary
Laburltis, aged 9 years, was fatally
I Injured, and four other pupils were
i eevererly hurt. The fire department
worked rapidly and succeeded ir
quieting the children, who were re
moved by me&a& of tedders.
CUT IT OUT
The Farmers Urged To Reduce
The Cotton Acreage
VERY GOOD ADVICE
Which Would Help Out Wonderfully,
If the Cotton Producers
Would Only Follow it Out Generally
Throughout the Cotton Producing
Region.
Columbia, April 8.?President B.
Harris, of the South Carolina State
Farmers' Union, has issued the following
address, which he desires that
the county papers of the State should
copy:
"Again I want to call your atten- ,
tion, farmers, that now Is the time y
to fix price on the 1909 cotton crop. |
Will you make It 8 or 15 cents? It ^
Is in yonr power to make it either. t
"I want to, if I can impress upon j
you, that diversification of your (
crops 1b the keynote of the situation,
i 1 want to urge every Southern farmer ^
' to plant at least 25 per cent of his
cotton land in food crops, so aB to
let's see if It will pay us as farmers
to diversify our crops. To my knowledge,
the farmer who has not been v
making home self-supporting has ^
been swapping $1 for 50 cents. Now p
let's see if this assertion is true. a
"The farmer who bought corn last, ^
year paid $1.10 cash for it. If he 0
borrowed the money to buy with, It 1
cost him $1.25, as he paid interest a
on the money. If he hauled it home e
ten miles it cost him 10 cents. It t
is worth 10 cents per bushel to haul a
corn ten miles, so his corn cost him p
$1.35. Now, any good, progressive 2
farmer can make all the corn he will
need on his farm for 35 cents per f
bushel. You see he gave a dollar
for what he could have raised for a
3 5 cents per bushel. Are any of u
the Southern farmers guilty of the t
above? If so. go and sin no more. n
"Did you buy any bacon? It is n
selling now for 12 1-2 cents ca6h. g
Still swapping $1 for 50 cents. Any
good farmer can raise enough for t
his family use or 3 cents per pound. s
Did you buy any hay? I you did e
you are still at the same old way a
of exchanging. If you bought n n
horse or a mule you paid from $200
to $250. You can raise one just o
as good for less than $100. Now, (
brother farmers, do not say that you
can not raise corn for 35 cents. Try 1
to do it. I have met more than 50
farmers this year that raised it for 11
less than 35 cents per bushel, and 1
as many as 15 who raised It for less a
Minn 0 0 nnnfo
"The farmer who is raising corn n
for 3 0 cents, bacon for 3 cents, rais- 8
ing his own horses and making home
self-supporting has quit swapping $1 o
for 50 cents. The farmer who is la
buying is still at his old job. While 1
the farmer who is buying on a lien
and mortgage on his crop is Just i
swapping $1 for 25 cents, for the
cash buyer is swapping $1 for 50
cents. He can raise it for half what
he pays for it when he buys it.
Brother farmer, if you are guilty of
the above sin I say to you, Bin no
more.
"Now, what price will you have for
the 1909 crop? Will you have 8 or
15 cents? Romember, it is all in J
your hands, and you will get what- d
ever price you make it. To get 15 $
cents you will have to diversify your i
crops and stop exchanging $1 for f
50 cents, or you will never be able i
to get a remunerative price. Now, t
what is the use of the farmers of t
the South to raise 12,000,000 bales
of cotton and not get for it any i
more than they can for a 7,000,000- t
or 8,000,000-bale crop? Think of 1
the enormous expense of raising the I
extra 5,000,000 bales to bear the <
market down. And who does this?
It is the farmer. Think and consld- 1
:-r for a moment what you are doing (
and you will quit it,
"Do you think for a moment that (
the manufacturer would do any such I
ruinous business as this? No, he
would stOD one-half of his machinery
at once and curtail his output onehalf
and make the same profit.
Now, brother farmers, use a littl- .
good business judgment and common (
(TAA/1 hnrcm cmnon T hno r oswin r* f o e
er say Mr. Jones Is going to cut his
cotton acreage and I will just increase
mine. Sad, but thlB is too
true to make a joke of.. This is just ,
what the speculative world says you
will do. The most essential thing
for the farmers to do this year is
to plant 3S> per cent of cotton land
in food crops and live at home.
"I took dinner the other day with
a man who lives in the country. 1
can not say that he was a farmer,
for his dinner did not satisfy me in
calling him a farmer, for everything
he had on his table was bought.
Out of curiosity I asked him how he
cured his bacon. He said Mr. Armour
cured it for him. I asked
him what tomato he found was best
for canning. He told me his were
canned in Baltimore. I asked him
. what kind of turnips he sowvd for
' making salad. He told me he bought
! that also. Then I v;anted to know
I what kind of cotton seed bo planted.
* *nd he quickly answered: 'I plant
' Toole's and Cook's.'
"So you can readily see that he
' was a planter and not a real, real
- farmer. This is the kind of farming
? that causes 8-cent cotton. I was
in a grocery store the other day and
one of these planters caaio in to
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PROVED A FAILURE
-
THE WILLIAMSON PLAN DID NOT
WORK WELL.
Practical Tmto Prove Same Amount
of Fertilizer Will Produce More
Corn Without Stunting.
For the benefit of all the doubting
Thomases in corn culture, I ask you
to publish some tests made in Fairfield
county by good, conservative
farmers. The men had such implicit
faith In the Williamson method that
when approached on the subject of
(rowing more corn per acre, or as
nuch with less expense, they would
reply: "Give me the Williamson
plaa and I will make more corn
ban Dr. Knapp."
But maay are the converts since
harvesting the crop of 1908, and the
rear 1909 will bid a long farewell on
nany farms to Mr. Williamson.
>Vhlle his plan of preparation (that
s, a deep seedbed well prepared) is
vhat we want, we do. nat want , any
nore stunted corn that takes a fertlizer
bill a yard long to pay for half
he yield.
Due credit hag been given Mr.
iVilliamson for having provod that
he yields can be increased, and I
iope the day is not far oil when every
armer in the South will have alvays
a seedbed ten to fifteen Inches
leep, well filled with humus made by
growing cover crops before the corn,
ind when every farmer's fertilizer
till in the fall will read so many tons
if high grade phosphoric acid (and
f need be, some potash), but not
o much 8-4-4 or 8-3-3 that he buys
very year In the face of the fact
hat nitrogen floats in abundance
round him, and can be secured by
ilanting peas, soja beans, crimson
lover and other legumes.
The following are the tests reerred
to:
Mr. W. J. Durloy planted one
,cre of corn on Dr. Knapp's plan,
sing the same amount of fertilizer
hat he did on the Williamson plan,
nd secured ten bushels more per
ere than he made on the Wtlllamon
plan.
F. R. McMeekia & Bro. staked off
wo acres side by si le. using the I
ame amount of fertilizer, and statd
at the time that the Williamson I
ere would "skin" the Knapp aero a
aile. They harvested thirty-five I
ushels on the Knapp acre and thirty 1
a the Williamson acre. Their en- I
ire crop for wages this year will 1
e plantod by the Knapp method. I
Mr. D. L. Stevenson tried the two
aethods, planting the poorer acre by
he Knapp method, using the same
mount of fertilizer per acre. The I
Cnapp acre yielded thirty bnshols
ind the Williamson acre twentyeven.
Mr. M. W. Doty, one of the largst
planters in the county, will work
lmost his entire corn crop on Dr.
Cnapp's plan this year.
W. R. ELIOTT,
,oeal Agent of Farm Demonstration
Work, Winnsboro, S. C.
BLACK HAND SCHEME,
fust a Fool Notion Caused by Dime
Novel Reading.
Atlanta, Oa? April 7.?"It wns
uat a fool notion I got from reading
lime novels," said Daniel W. Johnion,
Jr., the 18-year-old boy who
van jailed here laat night for having
ittempted to extort $35,000 from
\sa O. Candler, prominent hanker
ind Georgia's wealthiest citizen,
hrough Dlaek Hand methods.
The young man at first told thp
>oIice that he had been forced by
hree strangers to write letters to
Mr. Candler, demanding the money
fJe now admits that the scheme was
if his own concoction.
Johnson wrote the second letter
Sunday, repeating his threats of
loath to Mr. Candler in case of his
non-compliance, and then went to
ihurch and took his regular place
In Mr. Candler's Sunday school class.
Commits Suicide.
Richmond, Va., April 7.?Frank
T. Glasgow, Jr., 38 years old, a
well known resident of the city, and
connected with the Tredegar iron
works, shot himself through the
head at the office of the plant today
and died instantly. Ill health resulting
In despondency was the
cause.
buy some corn, flour, bacon and hay.
He asked the price of corn, $1.10:
flour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2
cents per pound, and hay, $23 per
ton. He said to the merchant. 'Are
you going to ron me?' The merchant
told him he had robbed himself.
You did It by planting all the cotton
you could last year.
"Now. brother farmers, let's look
at things square In the face and see
that October cotton Is being sold
for about 9 cents on the New York
exchange. Now, are you going to
plant, another big crop when you
know that 9 cents Is about the cost
of production? Surely not. There
Is just one thing that will keep you
from delivering your cotton crop of
1909 for 9 cents, and that la organize
into the Farmers' Educational
and Co-operative Union of America.
Plant 35 per cent of your cotton crop
Into food crops and yon will get as
much money for an 8.500,000-bale
crop as you will for a 13.000,000bale
crop.
"B. fcUBRlS.
WANT IT BACK ;
* |
The State May Be Asked To Pay
Back a
LARGE SUM OF MONEY
!
Ijoaned It Hy the United States
Government Many Years Ago.
Names of the States That Received
the Money and What Kach
One Received.
Washington, April 8.?If the bill
Representative Murdock of Kansas
has Introduced in the federal house
of representatives, requiring twentysix
States, which in 183 6 were loanoH
198 ftft" '
ior nnernal improvenients,
to return this money, becomes
a law, the federal government
will have a hard tint collecting
from South Carolina, which is said
to have received the sauie amount
as Georgia, $1,051,422.09.
In 1S3 6 there was a surplus of
$23,000,000 in the national treasury
from the tariff taxes, and a bill was
passed lending this amount to the
various States then in the Union,
with the understanding that It was
to be returned whenever they were
called upon to do so. The apportionment
of the money was made according
to representation in congress.
Vv hen three installments had been
paid In 1839, congress repealed the
act. When the repealing act was
passed ( it provided that the money
apportioned "remain with the States
until otherwise directed by "congress."
While some of the States have
kept the fund segregated and loaned
it out at interest, other States have
lost track of it completely. All the
Southern States lost their part of
the fund during the reconstruction
period, and in many cases all the
records relating to it wore destroyed.
New York, however, received
$4,01 4,520.71, and has kept the
amount Intact. It has been loaned
out at interest, and the amount received
from the investment put Into
the State treasury. New Jersey
and Delaware are also said to have
kept their part of the money segregated.
The various accounts are still carried
on the books at the national
treasury department, and each secretary
of the treasury has had to give
a receipt for the money. It is.carried
as "available funds."
Mr. Murdock said recently that ho
simply wished congress to "otherwise
direct" as the bill provided in
1839, and he is confident the amount
can be collected.
It is said the president and the
secretary of the treasury have approved
the plan of Mr. Murdock, and
have agreed that if the bill is passed
Kv I. ~ **44
'i; >.wiif,n;3!j mo nuuruuy general
will have no trouble In settling up
the old account.
The largest amounts received by
the States are as follows:
New York $4,014,520.71
Pennsylvania 2,867,51 4.78
Ohio 2,007,269.34
Virginia 2,198,427.89
Illinois 477,919.14
Georgia 1,051,422.09
South Carolina 1,051,422.09
Massachusetts 1,338,173.58
Maine 955,838.25
Now Hampshire . . . . 669,036.79
Vermont 669,036.79
Rhodo Island 383,335.30
Connecticut 764.670.60
For the last 25 years, say some
of the older members, attempts have
been made to have the nation apportion
the remaining $5,000,000
between the States, but all the bills
Introduced have died in the committee.
The now States that were created
since the money was apportioned are
in favor of having the amounts returned,
but the States that received
the benefit, especially the Southern
states that lost it entirely, will fight
any attempt to force a payment.
The bill has cause-! n y. d deal of
discussion among th? i ebership
of the house, and v. : . is said
the States should be held responsible,
it is not believed the bill can pass.
LYNCHED FOll MI RDER.
Strung l*p and Body Then Riddled
"With Itulleta.
Pensacola. Fla., April f>.?Dave
Alexander, a negro, was lynched here
this morning for the murder of Pollcrmai
Canton, whom the negro
Uceman Canton, whom the negro
slating arrest. While the police station
was comparatively deserted, a
crowd of 25 men, at the point of
revolvers, took the black man from
his cell and hanged him from an
electric light pole, a half block from
the Jail. As the body swayed In the
air, 40 bullets were fired into It by
the mob.
Woman Dies of Wound.
Bogalusa, La., April 7.?Mrs.
Elizabeth King, aged ?.4 years, died
here today from the effects of a bullet
wound inflicted last night by fl
Deputy SherifT R. 3. Carson, who C
was a boarder In Mrs. King's house. I
j The shot which struck Mrs. King I
was aimed at a supposed burglar. I
I Carson was exonerated by the coro- ?
ner'a jury. I