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PRESIDENT HAH
JOB FOR GOETHALS
WILSON WANTS GOETHALS TO
BUILD THE ALASKAN
ROAD.
DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE HIM
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Colonel to Be Made' Civil Governor of
Canal Zone?New York
Move Opposed.
Washington.?Col. George W. Goethals
will be made civil governor of
the cannl zone, and when he gets
through with his work there an effort
will be made to have him construct
the proposed Alaskan railway. This
was the opinion exprcssesd by several
persons close to the administration,
COL GEORGE W. GOETHALS
Ab a reward for his service in Panama
it is reported Colonel Goethals will
be placed in charge of the construction
of the Alaskan railway.
commenting on reports that the chief
engineer eventually would become the
commissioner of police of New York
City.
Mayor Mitchell of New York is expected
here to speak at a banquet of
the University Club, and it is likely
tlint he will talk with President Wilson
011 the same day ubout the status
of Colonel Goethals. It Is believed
the president will tell Mayor Mitchell
that he Is desirous of keeping Colonel
Goethals, that his engineering ability
may not bo lost to the United States j
URGES SCHOOLS IN SUMMER j
Commissioner Claxton So Urges?Prac- J
tice of Closing Termed Primitive.
Washington. ? Characterising the i
practice of closing public schools in
summer as "primitive and preposter- .
ous" and declaring the most "import- '
ant problem of today was to keep
city boys from three months' contain- I
inatlon in the streets." P. P. Claxton,
commissioner of the United States bureau
of education, approved a plan ;
which would mean continuous Bchool t
.?? sessions and through which two mil- v
lion children might be enlisted in voca- s
tlonal work. t
A program for summer vocational r
work of public school children was
submitted to the . commissioner by c
* Clyde Alison Mann, secretary of the t
American Society for Thrift, r
"Tho teachers should teach naturo c
study and the principles of horticul- <
lure," said Mr. Claxton, r
"Public schools of the country rep- j
,resent an investment in buildings, t
grounds and equipment of nearly two
billion dollars, and this investment i
stands idle about one-quarter of the
time for no other reason than that I
In primitive days both teachers and t
pupils were needed on the farms three \
or four months in the summer. I
Duehay Will Inspect Federal Prison.
Washington.?Francis H. Duehay, the
newly appointed superintendent of
prisons, will shortly visit Atlanta. Ga.,
to inspect the United States penitentiary
there. His appointment is a personal
dne of Attorney General McRey- ,
nolds. and ho does not have to be <
confirmed by the senate, so he will
enter upon his new duties at once. Mr.
Duehav declined to mako an comment
upon the charges of Julian Hawthorno
aftd others affecting the conduct of
Warden Moyer.
Rebellion in Haiti.
Port Au Prince.?Tho revolutionary
movement in Haiti grows stronger day
by day. Several towns in the north
are in arms against the government
and soveral of the most important
places have been captured by revolutionists.
In the south, Petit Goav, on
the north shore of the southwestern
peninsula, and Mirogoanue, on the
eouth coast of the bay of Gonaives,
60 tnileR from Port Au Prince, have j
joined in the movement The situa- ,
tion ?t Port Au Prince is tranquil. |
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GEN. LOUIS BOTHA
General Botha, premier of the Union
af South Africa, seems to be standing
Firm against the labor agitators and
has proclaimed martial law In reply
to the order for a general strike.
IAPANESE MAKE PROTEST
JAPAN IS STILL GROWLING AT
THE UNITED STATES ABOUT
CALIFORNIA.
Japanese Foreign Minister Says American
Attitude on Alien Land Laws
Is Unsaticfactory.
Washington.?An address by Baron
N'obuaki Makino, the Japanese forilgn
minister, to the parliament of
lapan, outlining the status of negotlalons
over the California alien land
eglslatiou and declaring that the Japincso
government "had come to see
lie necessity of considering some otli;r
ways for solution of the question,"
jecause the replies of the United
states had not been found satisfactory,
vas cabled in full from Tol.io to the
lapanese embassy here.
The address, which was not comnented
upon in official circles, anlounced
that the third r\pie of protest
iresented to Secretary Bryan by Ammssador
Chinda on August 18 remain;d
unanswered. It also revealed the
act that the ambassador, under initructions
from Toklo, saw President
(Vilson on March 5, the day after the
iresldent's inauguration, and asked
hat he make an effort to stop the
hrentencd legislation in California,
vhich since has been enacted. In
>art he said:
"In the Btate legislature of Califorlia
tlio bills ot anti-Japanese chnracer
regularly liavo been introduced at
ts sessions for more than ten years
jast. Thanks to the good offices
earnestly exercised liy the United
States government and thanks also to
iroper steps opportunely taken by the
>eople and government of Japan, nothng
of serious moment did fortunately
>ccur, but at the fortieth session of
he legislature which assembled last
rear a bill known as the Webb bill,
timing at prohibition of ownership of
eal property by Jnpanese was passed
jy an overwhelming majority.
HITS "PURER DEMOCRACY"
:ormer President Attacks "Impractical
Reformers" and "Demagogues."-Phlladelphia.
? Former President
Tuft called a halt in the movement
oward "purer democracy" and greater
locinl and Individual freedom, in u
ipeech at the commencement exorcises
of a local business college he ar- ,
-algned "impractical reformers" and
'demagogues" who seek to arouse <
lass consciousness. He took issue with
lie tendency to inject more dentoc- (
acy into educational metliods, and de- i
darde the spread of "lubricity" in lit- i
jrature and on the stage, and i
ectly in education, was a danger to
roung men und women of the coun- i
ry. ]
Mr. Tuft admitted the benefits of (
nany modern crusades, but added : i
'Tho people nro sufficiently aroused. ]
-low let common sense prevail to dis- (
inguish between what is practical and
vhat is luring but deceitful in its prom- '
se."
Job Landed for Roberts.
Washington.?Judge W. T. Roberts
sf Douglas, Ga? former solicitor generil
of Tnllapoosa circuit, has been nam?A
by Secretary of Commerce Red field
is special attorney for tho bureau of
corporations. This Important position
was landed for Judge Roberts through
the influence of William J. Harris, director
of the census whr?
to the secretary of commerce. Mr.
Harris and Judge Roberts served In
the state senate together and occupied
adjoining sents. Judge Roberts was
chairman of the Judiciary committee.
rtellcs of Davis Given to Heirs by U. 8.
Washington.?Jefferson Davis' two
hieling pistols, a double barreled pistol
and appurtenances, seized by Unon
troops near the close of the Civil
ivnr and which have been in the cusody
of the war department nearly fifty
years, will be turned over to Joleph
A. Hayes, of Colorado, whose wifo
a the eldest daughter of the former
president of the Confederacy. The
ihawl and raglan, belonging to Mrs.
Davis, said to have been worn by Daris
when he was captured, were not
ncluded among the articles.
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THE FORT MILL TIMES, T*
GINNING REPORT.
SHOWS INCREASE
13,589,171 BALES GINNED PRIOR TO
JANUARY 16? INCLUDED WERE
97,034 ROUND BALES.
NINTH REPORT IS ISSUED
Half Million Bales Increase Over This
Time Last Year ? Ginnings by
States and Comparisons.
Washington.?The ninth cotton ginnnig
report of the census bureau for
the season announced that 13,589,171
bales of cotton counting round as half
bales, of the growth of 1913 had been
ginnned prior to January 16, to which
date during the past seven years the
ginning average 97.5 per cent, of the
entire crop.
Ginnings prior to January 16 by
states with comparisons for last year
and other big crop years ginned prior
to the date in those years, follows:
States. Year. Gllnnlngs.
Alabama 1913 1,475,642
1912 1,307,738
1911 1,638,699
Arkansas ... .1913 967,729
1912 741,282
1911 797,597
Florida .... .1913 65,754
1912 57,321 |
1911 88,177
Georgia 1913 2,316,304
1912 1,781,232
1911 2,657,9S4
Louisiana . . . .1913 420,094
1912 369,076
1911 357,758
Mississippi . . .1913 1,176,626
1912 952,520
1911 1,061,859
North Carolina. JD13 784,402
1912 876,493
1911 696,988
Oklahoma . . . .1913 825,112
1912 965,752
1911 915,563
South Carolina. .1913 1,369.434
1912 1.192,574
1911 1,636,085
Tennessee . . . .1913 358,297
1912 252,890
1911 386,293
Texas 1913 3,718,725
1912 4,509,220
1911 3,964,620
Other States . .1913 11,052
1912 83,831
1911 114,176
The glnnings of sea island cotton,
prior to January 16, by states, follows:
Years. Florida. Georgia. S. Car.
1913 . . . .25,356 42,650 8,176
1912 . . . .21,085 39,543 6,629
1911 . . . .39.340 65,577 4,950
1909 . . . .27,883 51,072 13,231
BANDITS ROB MAIL TRAINS
Three Amateurs Believed to Be Responsible
for Train Robbery.
Chattanooga, Tenn.?Three men, believed
to have been rank amateurs,
held up Southern railway train No.
41, local to Tuscumbla, at Facklers,
Ala., at about 8:20 at night. Ascording
to the best authority in this city,
there was nothing of value in either
express or baggage car, which were
looted, the robbers (hiding only Der
ishable articles of food, a lot of trunks
and a pile of sacks containing second
class mall.
The train arrived at Facklers at 8:20
and while standing at the station was
boarded by three masked men. Two
miles west of that place two of the
men entered the express car nnd took
possession of the pouches and safe.
At a given signal, or in consequence
of an understanding, he compelled the
engineer to stop the train while the
others uncoupled the two cars in the
front, one of which was a baggage
car containing federal pouch mail,
mostly newspapers, and then forced
llie engineer to run twelve miles into
the country.
Chicago.?With the assistance of two
reluctant but badly scared porters, a
lone bandit held up four passengers
on the rear sleeper of the Michlgnn
Central passenger train due hero from
Detroit. The robber entered the train
at Jackson, Mich., and left it about
fifteen minutes later, when Lewis
Thombs, one of the porters, signaled
for tho emergency brakes.
Mrs. Wilson Gives $1,000 to School.
Rome, Ga.?A feature of unusunl In
terest at the celebration of the twelfth,
anniversary of tho fftmous Martha
Berry school here was the announcement
of the endowment by Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson of the Edward W. Axson
scholarship of $1,000 from money
obtained from the sale of her pictures.
The scholarship was in honor of her
brother, who was drowned near Rome,
the old family home. Many alumni
from Georgia and Alabama attended
the exercises and most of them made
interesting talks praising the school.
Captain Relieved of Command.
Washington.?Capt. Harry A. Field,
commanding the battleship Louisiana,
has been found guilty by a courtmartial
of "hazarding his ship by navigating
without a chart," when the
Louisiana grounded on a reef off Vera
Cruz, Mexico, last August. Secretary
Daniels made public the findings of
the rourtmartlnl held recently at Norfolk
with the announcement that because
four of the seven members of
the court had urged leniency, he had
modified the sentence by a reduction
from ten to five numbers.
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PBT MILL, SOUTH CAROLlHi
BARONESS DE PALLANOT
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BaronesB May de Pallandt, once of
Chicago, la being sued in London for
$20,000 by Dr. Ernest Vllliers Appleby, |
Tormeriy connected with the University
of Minnesota, because she defaulted
In payment of notes given for
the purchase of pearls and indorsed
by him. The baroness was May Du- J
gus when she was married in 1893.
She was separated from her husband
in 1901, and two years later John D.
Kllpatrick, a wealthy New Yorker, I
committed suicide because she refused
to get a divorce and marry him.
WILSON'S MESSAGE LAUDED
REPUBLICANS AND PROGRESSIVES
JOIN DEMOCRATS IN
ENDORSING WILSON.
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G. O. P. Leader Mann and Senators
Kenyon and Galiinger Endorse
the Message.
Washington. ? President Wilson's
suggestion to congress in liis trust
address that the government and business
men urc ready to meet each other
half way "in a common effort to square
business methods with both public
opinion and the law," fell on attentive
ears and struck a responsive
chord in representatives of differing ;
political parties.
The atmosphere of co-operation and '
"accommodation" in the message; the
reforms proposed, expressed in terms
of conservatism, and the spirit of
friendliness to supersede antagonism
in dealing with big business, which
dominated the president's thoughts,
uroused expressions of approval from
all sides. Few discordant notes were
sounuea in comments from members
of the congress who are to pass upon
legislation urged to prohibit monopoly
and hold men of business within the
law.
LORD STRATHCONA IS DEAD
One of the Most Noted of the Builders
of Canada Oies in London.
London. Kngland.?Lord Strathcona ;
and Mount Royal, high commissioner
for Canada, died here.
Death was due to prostration, the
result of a severe attack of catarrh.
He had been ailing, however, since
the death of his wife last November, i
which proved a great shock.
Lord Strathcona's life spanned near- ,
ly a century and his active career a
full three-quarters. "The best way !
to live to an old age," he explained, !
when found at his desk in London
on his ninety-third birthday anniversary
on August 6, last, "is by not
thinking nbout age at all, but just !
going on doing your work."
From his eighteenth year, when, as
Donald Smith, a sturdy Scot, he sailed
for Canada, to his ninety-fourth year,
which would have been completed in
next August, he lived up to bis maxim
of work. For the past six years he
hnd been periodically reported as
aooiu 10 resign' tl<e post of high
commissioner for Canada, but it was
death and not his resignation that terminated
ills work.
Eugenic Law Declared Void.
Milwaukee, Wis.?The Wisconsin
eugenic law, which provides for the issuance
of marriage licenses only upon
a certificate of u clean hill of hearth,
was declared unconstitutional by Judge
P. C. Escliweiler of the circuit court.
The case will go to the supreme court.
Judgo Esehweiler held that the eugenics
law has unreasonable statutory
limitations so far as physicians' fees
are concerned, and that it is an unreasonable
and material impairment of
the right of persons to enter into matrimony.
Girl S*?s Her Lover Shoot Father.
Mobile, Ala.?"1 have killed her father,"
said C. King Morse, an automobile
supply man, as he walked into
police headquarters here, with Miss
Kleonora Freadhoff and harided the
desk sergeant a revolver, one chamber
of which contained an empty shell.
Miss Freadhoff corroborated the story
which iter lover told the police
that her father, Charles FreadhofT, had
suddenly appeared before them with a
revolver when they were walking near
the girl's home about eleven o'clock,
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PACIFIC COAST
SWFPT RY RTflRM
W ( ! 1 W I W W I I III
SNOW AND RAIN ARE ACCOMPA*
NIED IN SOME PLACES BY
HIGH WINDST
GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE
Five Deaths Are Recorded by Flood j
From Mountains Caused by Cloud- J
burst.?Much Damage Done and All i
Communication Crippled.
Seattle, Wash.?A severe storm !
iwept the Pacific Northwest, snow I
i.nd rain being accompanied by a high ;
wind which at some places attained a i
velocity of 60 miles an hour. The
storm on Puget Sound was the most
severe recorded since the establishment
of the weather bureau here. The j
wind blew 60 miles an hour at Cape j
Flattery aud 54 miles here.
A portion of Kugene, Oregon, was
flooded by the overflow from Amazon ,
Creek. Telephone and telegraph lines '
between Portland and Salem were ,
crippled. At Salem the storm unrofed
a portion of the State Insane |
Asylum and at Baker, Ore., the court
house was damaged and many houses '
wereu nroofed. At Junction City,
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(jir., inw water tower supplying tlie 1
city was blown down.
Sante Barbara, Cal.?Louis Jones- a
wealthy retired banker and his wife, '
whose lionie was in the millionaire col- j
ony of Montecite, were drowned in a |
flood from the mountains caused by a
cloudburst.
Half a dozen houses in this city i
were wrecked and nearly every j
bridge in the county was washed ,
away.
Telephone wires were completely
out of commission and a single telegraph
wire badly crippled, was the >
city's only communication with the !
outside world.
Estimates of damage ranged be- ;
twecn $250,000 and $750.0000.
San Francisco.?A rain and wind j
storm which swept the Pacific coast i
from Southern California to the British
Columbian border, caused much
damage to shiping though no serious
miships at sea have been reported.
Wurni rains have melted the snow in
the mountains causing rivers to rise
Los Angeles. ? Three men were
drowned, a boy was reported to have
lost his life, many persons were driven
from their homes; buildings wer
damaged, and steam and electric railway
traffic was either tied up or seriously
interrupted in Southern California
as a result of the rain which
deluged this section in 24 hours.
Damage to highways in Los Angeles
county alone is estimated at $500,000.
Organize "Boys' Pig Clubs."
\\ asmngton-'-Orgatiization of "Hoys'
Pig Clubs" In the Southern States is
the latest step taken by the department
of agriculture as a means of reducing
the high cost of living. The
department is trying to interest the
young Southern farmer in the breeding
of good hogs. It is asserted that
pork can be produced so. as to sell
much cheaper than beef. "A shortage
of beef" says a statement issued recently,
"means an increased demand
for pork and it seems reasonable that
there should be a steady demand for
all the available supply.
Express Profit.
Chicago.?Charles M. Secrist, manager
of the Pacific Fruit Express, testified
at the interstate commerce commission
investigation of private car
lines that his company had made a
profit of $1,500,000. The Pacific Com- i
pany, owned by Union and Southern i
Pacific railroads. Is the first private
car company to report any consider- I
able profit to the examiners.
A J*
/\r?ivfu ii ii puoi or me railroads j
would ho better than private service,
the witness testified that some profit
which now goes to the private lines
would go to the railroads.
Union Station Burns.
Raleigh.?The union passenger station
and Seaboard Air Line freight
warehouse was burned at Apex, 14
miles soutii of ^Raleigh. Loss, $5,000.
Shooting Still a Mystery.
Savannah, Ga.?The condition of
Xeal Pnlmrc. vlio was mysteriously
mounded at Tmindrrbolt recently, remained
serivd?, w! o Mrs. E. J. Anclroau
is sti" in custody. No specific
charge had .Men entered against her.
Palmer was said to have added a new
version to various stories of the
shooting. This was to the effect that
he accidentally received the wound
while scuffling with Mrs. Andre**!! for
possession of a pistol. Previous narratives
of the shooting which Mrs. Andreau
and Palmer told, conflicted.
Orange Shippers Gain Suit.
Washington.?The order of the interstate
commerce commission reperrait
California shippers to pre-lce and
pre-cool their fruit shipped to Eastern
cities and limiting the charge for the
use of the cais during the pre-coolinsr
stage to $7.50 was upheld by the
supreme court. The commission issued
the order requiring the railroads
to permit shippers to pre-lce when the
railroads withdrew the privilege after
tho commission had reduced charge
for pre-lcing from $30 to $7.50.
Justice Lamar rendered the opinion. I
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HUNTING WAS
RIPPINGJLD TOP
Also Shortage of Food, and AIT /
That Sort of Thino. Added
to Excitement. I
LUCKY KNIFE THRUST I
Returning Traveler Brings a Good H
Story From the Lofty Peaks of the H
Himalayas?Party Was Attacked I
By Band of Savage Men.
New York.?Hero's a tall one from I
the towering peaks of tho Himalayas.
as told by ono Frederic S. Rowen of
Boston, jute merchant and sports- 1
man. who at rived here the other day
011 tho steamer Lapland after five
years in India.
Among the narrator's favorite pastimes
while in India was the pursuit
of the smatl but husky Himalayan
black bear. On bis last trip to the
great mountains, accompanied by
two army officers and a native guide*
some remarkable things happened at
an altitude of 15,000 feet.
"We were having bally bad luck.'*"
began Mr. Bowen, whose long sojourn
amid the Britishers has lent a new:
touch to his original Bostonese accent.
"No game, you know, shortage
of food, and all that sort of thing.
Then we ran smack into a cluster of
hillmen, savage fellows, who didn't
like our looks, but were most eager
tn PPi rilir emia OtlH
"We gave them a bit of u battle, |
but being outnumbered, decided to
retreat. Our guide said he know
where there was a ripping old cave
where we could hide until the party
of hillmen got tired of looking for
us and went on about their business,
y' know.
.Vo clambered down a lot of precipices
over a zigzag trail in the dead
of night and found the cave. My
friend nnd I entered, and were shocked
to hear a loud growl and find ourselves
attacked by a savage female
black bear and her vicious young
cub.
"We succeeded in killing them both,
handily, thus replenishing our larder
considerably. We lny close to the
cave for two days, when in walked
old father bear.
"The hillmen were in our neighborhood
by that time, and we did
not dare to shoot. So we invited the
"Ho Closed With Me."
bear In, as It were, and sat perfectly
still, rte came in, looked us over
and then sniffed at the hides and
pieces of meat that told him what
had become of his wife and little ones,
y' know.
"Ho appeared quite frantic -with,
grief, and I was on the point of feeling
very sorry for the old chap when
suddenly he turned on me and attempted
to bite off my leg. Pity turned
to hate, as it were, and drawing
my hunting knife I slashed the old
chap in the throat. He closed with
me, and would have done considerable
damage but for a timely thrust of the
knife in his heart.
"Wo lived on bear meat for a week,
and got beastly sick of eating it?eating
It half raw as we did. Yoif see,
we could not build a fife, but we cut
mo meat in small pieces and singed
it a little with matches before chewing
it.
"At last our guide reported the hillmen
gone and we made our way to
our base cainp and fed up on canned
goods and copious cups of tea."
Gave Up Live for Girls.
Pana, 111.?Caught on a long trestle
sacrificed his life saving his sister.
Ton Liuenanch, twenty-two years old,
sacrificed his life saving his sister.
Miss Carrie Liuenanch, and his sweetheart.
Miss Lulu Sloat. George Smith.
the fourth member of the party, jump- ^
ed and escaped Injury, making no ef- *
fort to save any of his companions. It
Is charged.
Gould Lost Gaiter.
New York.?George J. Gould's nameis
signed to an ad for the return of
"one brown spat or gaiter, lost on
Fifth avenue." Gould explained he'd
have to discard a whole suit if tio
didn't get the gaiter hack. They
match.