The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 30, 1929, Image 7
1" Maniac Kill* Officers.
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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|
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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. |
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' ? 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
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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.
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Julv 73.8 88.66
I August 76.7 89.45
I September ' 75.07 89.02 . \ . Z
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