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1" Maniac Kill* Officers. mi m I ngfltgomeary, Ak, Aug. 22.?A poI mJill vs?rt shot to death and anoth I seriously wbunded in what appar| tly was an attack by a maAfec u Key patrolled a beat nea<r the down lto#n area hare early today. I The attack occurred m the officers, I c. Wright, .88, and Wm. W. smith 4#' e*w*rff*1 frcn^ the4r auAo* mobile after drawing up to the curb. lWiight *** in*t)ently by a bulI ' ^routfh hie cheat after bo had Ln felled by a blow on the head from # Heavy instrument. Smith was timed by two blow* over the head ILm the instrument. Both were t*in clothes men. W J(Kjeph I)odao(n Oboate, 26, was arteted at the scene of the attack afCr calmly informing officers that ha Kid it all." He had Wright's pistol B pocket when he was taken into Kstody. lie was docketed as a "sus| GUS HAYES I Plumbing and Heating I Let us figure with you on your next job. New work or repair work, j PHONE 153 I Automobile Repairing We are now prepared to do all kinds of autornuHhilc repairing. Good Workmanship and moder ate>rices. I DEMPSTER'S 1 GARAGE Formerly Little's Garage ELECTROL OIL "1 BURNER SALES AND SERVICE \ PHONE 846 If. G. BURKE Plumbing and Heating ' repair work at i I REASONABLE PRICES j Bcomer DeKalb and Fair Streets WOBT.\V. M j j Architect * I Crocker Building, \ Camden, S. C. ! * Run-Down I "About seven years ago, I M was all run-down, warn-on*JM and never felt good," ?ay> Jsjjm p Mrs. Harry C&nbrell, of 4?v Cape Girardeau, Mo. --?chair would be more welcome m t'me tl^an my pas so tired [ would oris? morning. Inof being rest* elt terrible, last, mother me to take d, and I did* the first bat[ could tell Lfference, and baMte# I I *ie tired feeling WM all goo?. H I ^H^^other xcotheM wflltiry I I J MANCHURIAN RAILWAY World's Longest Rail Una Now Cause of Threatened War. I China and Russia are using a railI road line for a tug q* war. i The Chinese Eastern Railroad, for I which the dragon and the bear quarrel, is described in a bulletin from the I Washington, D. C., headquarters of I the National Geographic* Society. I Kvil fate dogs the wheels of the I Chinese Eastern Railway, says the I bulletin. Its construction was prompted by 1 China's desire to avenge her defeat I by Japan; it was borrf in the terror I of the Boxer Rebellion; christened I and stunted by the Russo-Japanese war; starved by the plague of 1910; I disrupted by the world war and the I Russian revolution; and munched I inch by inch by the Chinese dragon I ever since 1910. Built by Russia as the worlds longlest land bridge, across an alien terI rttdry, it did not begin to serve ManI churia as a railroad should until 20 J years after its construction. The Chinese Eastern was one of I the few railroads of the world oper[lated jointly by white men and yelI low men. Half the board of directors I has been Russian, half Chinese; part I of the employees Russian, part ChiII nose. Chinese armed guards ride ev-1 II ery train. Chinese and Russian "red I caps" rustle baggage at the stations. '| England and France in the Cri1 mean war thwnrted Russia's attempt il to gain an ice-free port on the MedI iterranean Sea so the Slavs in 1891 || decided to build the Trans-Siberian | toward the Pacific. By 1896 the || tracks reached Chita. Two routes to || Vladivostok were possible; a long || route through all-Russian territory a|| round the arc of the Amur River borMder, a short route along the cord of II th?* arc straight across Manchuria. A 11 concession from China permitted the || building of the latter Manchurian cut-off, clipping nearly 600 miles | from the all-Russian long route. The | Chinese Eastern was opened in 1903 but through traffic to Vladivostok did | not begin until 1906. As a precauM tion the all-Russian long route was | also built between 1908 and 1916, but | except for a short period at the end | of the world war, has never been used '| for express service. That part of the Trans-Siberian !| traversing Manchuria is called the 11 Chinese Eastern railroad. The distance from Manchuli, the western i| border station, to Pograniohnaya, the | eastern border stdtion, is 925 miles, or approximately the rail distanOQ | between Chicago and New York. I Once they had reached Vladivostok J the Russians were not much better, II off for a port than they were before.^ Ice a makes Vladivostok practically | inaccessible by steamers six months | of the year. So when fchey had cross-, ed Manchuria, minions of the Tsar made a new agreement for a 684-mile | branch line to the Liaotung Peninsu-^ la where they found in Dalny a truly ice-free port which they fortified with Port Arthur: The Harbin - Daly j | branch line opened June 1903. Thp | Russo-Japanese war broke otrt eight months later. By terms of the treaty | signed at Porstmouth, New Harop| shire, Rqssia lost to Japan,the port | of Daly (now Dairen) and 437 miles Lof the branch line as far north as | Changchun, or Kwanchengtze. | Japan took no chances. She imme| diately relaid her newly acquired rail| road on standard guage, 4 feet 8 1-2 | inches. The Chinese Eastern and the | Trans-Siberian use the 5-foot gauge. | The result has been that Changchun | has become a city of 50,000 because J ail freight moving from one Hne to J the other must change cars. The JaIpanese have kept the South Manchu| rinn, as it kS called, strictly in their | own hands, employing no Chinese of1 ficials, and inviting no Chinese on the j board of directors. Manchuria, when the Russians built | the Chinese Eastern, was as wild and | wooly as Kansas in the '30's. Slav | engineers wanted tp keep it that way. | The Trans-Siberian was built for Rus| sian trade and Russian armies, not | Manchurian. business. Freight rates | were scaled accordingly. What nvatI ter if the road lost $25,000,00Q amvu| ally while soy beans went to market in carta. The Russian treasury paid | the trill. " t Slav engineers deliberately missed | Manchurian communities. The walled town of Tsitsihar is still 16 miles off the main line. Kirin, capital of Tt fcPoVlrioe, was passed "by. Tfiey thought & &e Chinese Eastern as % thousand-mile Russian bridge across Manchuria. ... ; ^ Complete Russian towns were built along the right-of-way for Russian employees. The railroad provided everything; station, telephone system, steamer service, homes "and schools, churches, clubs and theatres?and the most significant of afi civil government. Where two or three mud huts rtood on tho pWn Rowtaa engineer" built tbo t?Uroud Junction ?*D?d Bur-, " . - 1 .1 Aj.1*. ... ? bin. Today it is the trade capital of Northern Manchuria, a town of 360,000 and known as the only white city in the world run by yellow men. 'Engineers left out two important items from their railroad specifications; the Russian revolution and the Chinese migration to Manchuria. The first resulted in China's getting a real half interest in the profits and the operation of the road, The second converted the Chinese Eastern from a bridge across Manchuria into a main shaft tapping the farm riches of the new granary of-the Orient. Last year Manchuria produced 6,&00,00Q..tons of soy beans. The United States' wheat tonnage for last year, 27,000,000 gives meaning to this Mamhurian figure. Northern Manchuria is the particular home of the soy bean. The Chinese Eastern and the South Manchuria n last year shared the profitable privilege of carrying out (largely to port Dairen) the exportable surplus. The Chinese half of the profits, after all expenses were paid for running the Chinese Eastern, schools and whatnot amounted to nearly $7,000,000 in 1928. The Chinese Eastern uses much American equipment. American locomotives from Philadelphia, Schenectady and Richmond drag passenger expresses and soy bean freights. American box and gondola freight cars by the hundred roll on the rails'. John F. Stevens, famous engineer with the Panama canal development, went to Manchuria by agreement between the United States and Russia in 1918 to supervise the Chinese Eastern railroad. He took with him a hundred American engineers and the operating system they devised for the railroad is largely that by which it runs today. The latest annual figures, 1927, for the Chinese Eastern, gathered by the department of commerce show that 4,380,449 tons of freight originated on the line; 536,436 tons were received from other lines. The Soviet government's discouragement of imports helps make the latter figure so small Rolling stock in operation totaled 134 locomotives, 388 passenger cars, 6,900 freight cars. Operating revenues"in 1927: 59,795,797 gold rubles (one ruble equal 51 1-2 cents); other revenues 178,715 rubles; operating expenses 40,108,465 rubles; other operating expenses, 3,862,736 rubles. The Chinese Eastern railroad is said to "have cost Russia about $200,000,000, borrowed largely from' French bond holders. Terms of the concession permit purchase of the fftRroftd by China at the end of 36 years, that is in 1939; and 80 years after completion China is to receive the road without cost. k.*VNew railroad construction in Manchuria seems to sap the usefulness of the Chinese Eastern. The Chinese themselves are extended the PeipingMukden railroad north. One sector has already cut the Chinese Eastern at- Tsitsihar, west of Harbin. Another cuts it on the east at Hailin. OtheV Chinese roads financed by Japan are pushing through eastern Manchuria to a new Japanese port la northern Manchuria which will compete with Vladivostok and Dairen. Equally significant is a Chinese road already built 150 miles .north of Harbin. Tt Is not of Russian gauge common to Harbin, but is of standard gauge. The main trend of Manchurian , trade is north and south. Unless Soviet Russia finds it necessary to extend her Trans-Siberian trade the famous Chinese Eastern seems doomed to a fqture of local freight service. Apparently it is not vital to Chinese progress in Manchuria. Puts Son Behind Bars. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 24.?-A 20year-old boy was in jail here today because his father, who had "done time" for making moonshine whisky, led Federal officers to his son's still and asked them to arrest him. The father, James Moore, insisted i that he was "doing the best thing [ for the boy" and that "it was the only way to tgach him a lesson." The *feon, William Arthur Moore, on the other hand, was bitter, blaming his crime on his father. Moore led the officers to the still, in the country about 20 rpdles from here, yestenlay. His son and Eugene Moorehead, 40, were tending it. Taking the youth by the arm, Mooro l?aT<i,~fTtak?r th?" bey and let the rest go, I want to teach him not to mess with whiskey." Harmon Moore Granted Bond. Greenville, S. C., Aug. 23. Harmon Moore, ex-deputy sheriff charged with murder in connection with the death of Sheriff Sam D. Willis, was granted bail in the sum of $6,000 toriay by Circuit Judge R. J. Maukttu following * hearing in the Pickens county courthouse. n: Moore wee arrested after A llegro, Blair Rook, imifeseed he bed killed he sheriff at Moors'* instigation. | 222308k ' ? STOKY OF CASEY JONES E??Kineer, Who Died ?t HU Foot ?id Made Name Immortal. The recent lawsuit brought by Mrs. John l.uther Jones against a Hollywood moving picture company for alleged exploitation of photos of her and her child in connection with a movie that has been built around the famous exploit of her dead husband brings to light the story of Casey Jones, railroad engineer, immortalized by the old song of the same name. According to the Washington l>aily News, .Jones was called Casey because ,he came from the town of Cayce, Ky. The News goes on to aay that the accident .which made Casey famous, though it was the cause of his death, occurred on the night of April 12'.), 1900. Casey, who was then 37 years old, had been an engineer on the Illinois ( ontral railroad for a number of years. Everyone along his route knew his train by the jreculiar whistle it gave as he passed. "Well, there J gbes I'asey," they would say. I! 'j On the night of the fatal accident Casey had just finished his regular run when he heard that a fellow-engineer was ill. Casey volunteered to make the run for him and he took his fireman, Sam Webb, with him. While making up time after a half hour delay Casey suddenly saw through the fog a freight train pulling off into a aide track to let him go by. Hut Casey knew the freight would never ba able to make it and he quickly jam-1 med on his brakes and yelled for his fireman to jump und save himself. A few more seconds and the crash came. By sticking to his post Casey had lx??n able to slow the train un enough so that no one on his train was killed?but himself. Casey died a hero and his friends deeply mourned their loss. One day a professional song writer Chanced to be passing two negro engine wipers at a roundhouse. They were chanting something about Casey Jones and his heroic deed. Only a few words and a simple tune which Casey's comrades had strung together during the weeks following his death?but the song writer saw the possibilities. He appropriated the song, dressed it up, and made a fortune out of it. It is said that some ten million copies of "Casey Jones" have been sold, not to mention countless phonograph records and piaino rolls. k Four business houses of Bristol, Va., were destroyed by fire Tuesday | with a loss of $300,000. The machinery of the Clhvchfield Manufacturing company at Marion, started up Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock, after having been idle for some time because of striking workers. The machinery was ipanned by 380 non-union worker* under an agreement between the mill manage ? ?. meat ami the louder* of the s&rikerv pending furilwr developments. ' 1. ? Seven carloads of powder and 11,000 shells stored in Fort Dotnesti, Kumaniu, 12 miles froni Bucharest, .. blow up Monday night. Several soldiers and wot nu-n wore reported killed. mmi ?WHS -it- -... -? ,^-uuu urn- t '..im:. .i....?1 -sasac? First Coast to Coast Endurance JTi^k^Namcrl I Art Walker V V'^"" Vte. 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