Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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K, : ' v ->£ MB. W.ATSON TALKS. S^SSST* to ' >r "‘*‘ ,>out u “ l, Commistioiitr of Immigration tolls Vow York Paper 07 11W 8TATX DlPAftTXHTT. Com; iMioner Watsoa Makes s State* meat of What Ho Hopes to Aecomplish 10 Bringing Whits Labor Here. - • • ' • . . ^ •*" ° By an act of the South Carolina legislature which went into effect on *Teb. 26 there was created in the State 0 department of agriculture, com merce and immigration. E J. Wat ion of Columbia, a representative of the new generation of energetic youni business men who are the impelling force back of the recent awakening pf southern industries and commercial activity, has been selected by Gov. Heyward as tbe first commlsgioi the new department , Mr. Watson has been in New-York for several days on business connected with bis office. This summer be will make a trip to Denmark, Norway, Sweeden and Germany, with a view to presenting the advantages of South Carolina as s field for tbe desirsbje class of immigrants wto cope from those countries. Speaking Wednes day of his visit to New York and of tbe (circumstances which led to the creation of the department of which he Is the head Mr. Watson said: “The department has been fashion ed upon tbe best features of national and State departments of like nature, and tbe scope is broad enough to admit of its handling any conditions that may arise affecting industrial develop ment. “I am here now to set tbe ball in motion toward getting that which we so greatly need—intelligent white labor of Saxon origin. Tbe work, so far is of constructive character, but I trust it will be prolific of genuine results. I am dealing with all having any interest in tbe situation that is attracting Attention to tbe middle south—tbe southern France of Amer ica—and thus far effectively. I am trying to see all who are interested in any way, for I feel that those who Invest or settle In South Carolina have a bright future awaiting them. Wben places have been populated tbe act under which we are operating Is so constructed that we can turn our attention to other plans of develop ment as,tbe necessity for them ar es. ~ """" ‘ ~ 5 T~ “There is no part of tbe country that offers so many inducements as does tbe middele south j,ust now to tbe native and foreign settler sod investor. Our State department has just been launched; but I believe it is constructed upon better and broader lines than any similar State depart ment in the country, and I expect noteworthy results.' We are now in a position to offer to the desirable farm er from across the water lands upon which be can raise something tbe M, preseiKe In Ne. York-.t tblr «« .1 time Is due to the new conditions that have arisen In the middle south, and H Is do unmeaning errand considered in the light of tbe development of the country. Tbe rapid development of southern manufacturing and the con sequent robbing of the fields of tbe white tenant farmer class, the demon stration given to tbe worldliest fall of tha dependency of its cotton manu facturing interests on the south for raw material^ not alone in this coun try but abroad—these and tbe ten dency of tbe negro to move to the centres of population and thence to the east are the three essentials to be considered. "It is perhaps a strange and yet not unexpected condition that tbe very rapid development of the manufac turing industry of the foutte—particu larly in my State—should result in in jury to agricultural interests. The explanation, however, is easy. When we went ahead •and put nearly 140,- 000,000 Into cotton mills, which could only be operated with white' labor for reasons it is not necessary to discuss, we simply robbed our fields of tbe white tenant farmer class and left the agricultural interests in such s condition as to demand the attention of thg, State government. Then came a move of Sully and Brown which has revealed to the whole cotton manu facturing world its dependency upon the cotton growing states of this country, accentuating tbe acuteness of a situation already seen and realiz ed. Tbe farmers fared well and they have protiited. Now they realize their power and their optortunlty, but they find themselves without tbe neoetsary labor, and intelligent labor they must bave. They consequently want something and want It quickly. "Another phase of this situation, is tbe negro question. Our farmers bave always bad plenty of negro labor ou their places. Today they are crying for labor with which to work tbelr crops. Having lost thA white tenant farmer for tbe reasons assigned, have suffered the additional partial loss of the negro farm laborer. This is due to the fact that tbe negro’s ten dency, in our State at least, In tbe last few years has been rst, to seek IBs larger centres of pppulatioo and commerce. In the cities he finds him- •elf poorly clad, irregularly and ill fed and a natural victim of immorality— tbe cousequeut sufferer from disease* which tend to balance the death and birth rate. Again, hi& tendency is. to seek railroad construction camps and to move north and east. The exempli fication of this can be most strikingly found In Washington and Baltimore, and even here' In New York, tbe in crease in the negro population in tbe two first name cities having been reached in tbe last two or three years. "AH of these things bavooombined, together with tbe appearance of tbe boll weevill in Texas, to awaken the agricultural interests of the South te a realization of tjhe fact that something must be done. The great ne^fi is white Mftfcn from this country and abroad. My Stite has seen tbe situation, and that is why I am here. Our farmers know that the boll weevil, unless ail Insect to destroy him is discovered, is likely to cross tbe Mississippi at any moment and do what Sully had done this year, with the additional feature that the effect on prices will be per manent. They know that if the weevil does come prices will remain high, and that the danger of tM pest is an ele ment in the situation. They realize that they want diversified and Inten sified farming, and, knowing this, they have succeeded in establishing, mar tbe heart of tbe State, tllverslfl- eattoo farm No. 1, by tbe federal gov* eramant, under the boll weevil appro* prtatlon. "Further, knowing the need of in* talllffent labor, tbe State has estab lished Its department of agriculture, commerce and Immigration, at the head of which I have been placed for four yean, with tbe view of Inducing desirable Investments and settlers from north European and American > potato to come to South Carolina—the real garden spot of tbe world, possess ing a aoH and climate producing some ^ -— round. We have thous- iof wherein tbe elemeet Of failure enters. 1 know r we have obstacles to sur mount, but obstacles are ever an element in the success of any import ant undertaking which is of itself a departure from tbe beaten tracks. r, AH the Southern States are begin ning to awaken to the value of their own resources, and it is safe to pre dict that in The next few years this part of the United States will texme a considerable factor in the produc tion of tbe wealth of tbe country at large. Eistt rn capital is at this time paving more attention to southern land and other investments than ever before, and the spirit of progress Is today running strong in places where a few years sgo the people seemed to be ignorant of their opportunities.”— E»w York Sun. , ' i-— The New Stamp*. The new series of stamps commem orative of the Louisiana purchase ex position will be. placed ou sale by tbe postoffice department April 30 and will be oontioued till December 1st. Tbe designs are as follows: Oue cent, with portrait of Robt. B. Livingston, of a &sw Englander Who Wants His People TO SETTLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. One Among Many Who Wish to Settle Ip a More Temperate Climate. A Sincere Yankee Dec laration. To the Editor of Tbe State: -*• I bave received two letters from my friend, Mr. Howard, who is deeplyTo- terested in getting Massachusetts men to settle in South Carolina. ^ In his letter of March 23d Mr. How ard says:. Ware, Mass., March 23, 1904. Col. John P. Thomas, Charleson, S. C. Dear f Str: The Columbia State at band. Your editorial O. K. I am inclined to think Mr. Watson thinks you and I have tod much to say. At any rate he don’t condescend to ac knowledge our good intentions. I see M. V. Richards,has sent a man to Columbia id the interest of Southern railroad. We no doubt.will see th4. workings of the bureau oL immigra tion in good time if we only will have patience. Mr. Watson is no. doubt working his brains. Tbe class of peo ple this very State of Massachusetts has allowed to come in last year arl a curse to any country, and are contin ually dumped over here—to tbe bene fit of the country they leave, and a Lion to sH conditions I. cannot see curse to the one they oeme to. If south.” you don’t believe it visit any of the manufacturing cities of Massachu setts. I am, Very truly yours, W. V. Howard. In bis letter of March 24th Mr. Howard says: . My Dear Colonel: I sent you a few clippings yesterday and 1 see - one in last night’s paper I thought I would ary society. Acoording to his figures, the influx of foreigners last year was as follows: Maine, 1,997; New Hamp shire, 1,861; Vermont, 1,611; Massa chusetts, 65,767; Rhode Island,-^,467, and C nnecticut, 21,813, a total of 102,506. Southern Europe supplied a great number of these Immigrants, for of the total 28,151 were Italians Mid 11,877 Poles.”—Springfield Re publican. - The third clipping I give Is from tbe same paper, the Springfield Re publican: "Tbe south wants white immigra tion, but is denied it; and why that section in vain seeks to attract such immigration is thus stated by tbe Wilmington (N. C.) Star: " J As long as we lynch in the south, and furthermore draw our guns and shoot other to death on the streets, we are wasting time Id estab lishing immigration bureaus. People will be deterred from Immigrating to a State where a big murder record is made year In and year out/ ‘The Charleston News and Courier says of this that ‘that is the plain truth plainly spoken. Only the des- perately adventurous and most unde sirable would seek residence In a com munity or State where acitkeo’s.’abll- ity to draw a pistol and shoot first is his greatest security.’ ^tihch talk from southern newspapers Is very en- encouraging. No sltuationj however bad, is hopeless Where tbe truth finds outspoken and fearless utterance.” Whereypon Mr. Howard comments a& follows:• “There are knifing, cutting, sboot- ing and crimes of all sorts 50 percent, tnore in New England than in the Told by a Presbyterian Missionary to ths Can a Free Stats. THE C1NNABAL ARMY MURDERS send you today, with'my views of it. I have advertised my property for tue i bureau of immigration. I wish to add that Mr. E. J. Wat son, the State commissioner, has in formed me that it is bis purpose to communicate with Mr. Howard With the view of ascertaining how he can advance the cause of immigration to the south In New England. It is such men as Mr. Mattbtaon the Southern that advance In a prac-] aroun<I ™ eIr necks ' tlcal way tbe main purposes of tbe Let them be Innocent Women and Children Who Are Captured to Show that Work o< Raiding Village* la Well Done. Dr. W. M. Morrison, Southern Presbyterian missionary to the Congo Free State, in an address at Louisville, Ky., gave an impressive alleged barbarities practiced on the natives of Congo by the authorities, and of the obstacles thrown in the way of their correction by |the of ficials. ' rs : _ He said: . “I lived with these peo ple-seven years, and know what I am 1_JT3U J/U1U i-here.. A /native cannibal army of twenty thousand men, offioued by white Belgians awl armed with repeating rifles. They are c^en re presenting the worst and mostsavage type" of natives, caught and carried 1 ar from their homes and forced into ndilitary service. In turn this soldiery is used to compM tbe natives to bring enormous tribute of ivory and .rub ber. It is worth m-thlng that tbe vlng of Belgium is today Is reputed to be the largest dealer in ivory and rub ber in the world. As a^re&ult.of forced military sirv- ce and labor, great and unspeakable cruelties are practiced on the natives have seen live thousand tleeiog to the forests te- escape the soldiers of King Lxpold. I have seen 1 , soldiers scouring through the forests catching men wanted by the government as laborers and taking tbe captives away with made, some are killed,“Others sold into a hd he Is expected in tbe city soon last three weeks In 10 papers, viz.: Boston- Globe, Boston Herald, Wor cester Gazette, Springtield Republi can, Springfield Uniqn,' Sprinufield Homestead, Hartford Courant, Ware River News and Barre Gazette. Yes, 10 papers, ahd I have had but one man to call to look at my farm and some six letters of inquiry. The trouble In New England is tbe cold winter for me;<that is the one great reason I want a change and 1 can’t see why the west part of South Caro lina is not an ideal place for me, a full blood, dyed-iu-tbe-wool Yankee, and lots more of us who have always been workers, and are willing to let our arm out if we c&d. come with, tbe United States minister to France, ri{|bt hand of fellowship extended. who conducted tbe purchase negotia tions; two cent, red, portrait of Thos. Jefferson, president at ttfK time the purchase was made; three ceqt, pur ple, portrait of Jas. Monroe, special ambassador to France; five cents, blue, portrait William McKinley, who as president approveiL. the act of con gress officially connected with the ex positions ten cent, brown, bearing United States map, showing the ter ritory of tbe purchase. _ Can't Pay More Kent. Cenerai and concerted demands of landlords on the lower East Side of New York for more rent will send thousands of people, homeless into the streets within a week. Unable to meet the demand-for increased rents they the tenants, wild are the poorest of the poor, told the landlords that they are' unable to keep the miserable hovels they call home. Notices of an inccrease of nearly thirty per cent have been served. Several families have already bean evicted and a hun dred dther eviction notices have been secured from the municipal courts and are ready for service. — -TiT^~iriiin-i;^ iM-.T.-r -r~rr. sr— , — —7-tija BoUev Wanted. Because be jTOted-for ALcKixx] 1896 James R. Gordon, a leading busi ness man of Richmond, Va., has been compelled by party pressure to with draw from the race for mayor. Mr. Gordon announced himself as a candi date in response to the request of The city’s business interests. His oppon- ent*ascertained that be bad declined tp support Bryan and bad warmly it£ dorsed ip Kinky. This aroused sucb a storm among tbe "regular” people that Mr. Gordon Is out in a letter an nouncing his withdrawal add express ing pleasure at being relleved froai what he only undertook as a patriotic duty. A Heavy Loaa. At 2 o’clock Sunday morning fire destroyed tbe barn and stables of T. H. Auld, at Eastover, resulting in a loss of 85,000, with only 8700 insur ance. Six buildings adjacent to the barn yard were also destroyed, includ ing five bones, one ffiUTer’flve cows, several fine hogs, all hay, corn aufl farming implements. The fire is said to have been of Incendiary origin. Sheriff Coleman was telegraphed for and be, together with Deputy Sheriff Catbcart, went to tbe scene with bloodhounds, but the weather being so dry tbe hounds oould* dot aocom- pUahAPythlug. J She Played The Kaeee. *j_ 7 The story is circulating In official circles and exclusive society, ■ that I know tbat there are some people lu South Carolina who look upon tbe New England Yankee as tricky, sharp and always looking for the^ajmlghty dollar. This may be so to an extent, but thqse"yarns as to tbe Yankee be ing aj “uegro lover” is all bosh; the class of people I would like to see have a chance to better {/themselves want none of it. Tliere may be in and around Harvard college and Bea con street a few so-called “nigger lovers," but they want them at arms length. Now ijn my town of 9/0011 people there has never been in tbe past' 50 years but oue colored family. 'Our people outside of tbe cities know nothing of them and want nothing of them, only they would like to see the oolored man, as long as the Great Creator has put him on tbe earth, given a chance to bave a home and country and some of God’s blessings that are given to others; and the most of tbe people, that is, the clats I bave requested ypp to present to the chief of the bureau of immigration for bis consideration, would much prefer this government (instead of. the millions that bave tx'ea blown in foolis dy and heedlessly in the Philippines on a lot 1° 90 pwc/oenU of tbe people of this country waotTio part of them) would give to the head of every colored fam ily a home of 25 or.,58 acres of land in, we will say, Central America, Cuba or Jamaica. Give the colored man a country of his own and a flag; establish him on his land with proper coking after and advice till his chil dren can have the benefit of schools. That tbe colored people can live in this part of the world and a white man would have a hard time of it, is well known; that is the way the Yan kee who works for a living would solve the negro problem. My dear oolonel, I started to tell you hoyr I was trying to sell out here and don’t have the success I could wish; the fact is there are 1,000 farms for sale to oue buyer; farms are a encouraged and sustained for tbe public good. . Jno. P. Thomas. March 30, 1904. ‘ * p — ■ ■ 1 —* PightiiiR l*»porTrust. The resolution of Re^esentatlve Ltlley instructing the secretary" of commerce and labor to investigate the high price and scarcity wf .news print paper and the causes-"which have produced these conditions, was the subjact 1 of discussion before the house, committee on Judiciary. Don C. Sfitz of the New York World, and JohnNorris, business manager of the New York Times, were beard. Both covered practically the same ground in statements and tbe Inter national Paper company and the Gen eral Paper company bad divided the United States between them in the control of the news print paper,, The iDterhatiohal controlled all tbatisec- tlon east of the Indiana tine and the General company the territory west of tbat line. This combination, it was testified to, had raised tbe price of news paper during the last four years 814 a ton and during the past year as much as 85 a ton; it was sell ing paper in London, counting the freight and insurance, at 30 per cent, less than It did in New York. ■ — Rioting Follow* Strike. Although it was announced Tues day night that the strike at the American Can company's plant in Chicago bad been settled tne rioting around the place was fieroer Wednes day than It has been at any time and one man, John Nichols, lost his life by a bullet fired, it Is said, from a train on which were a number of non union men being taken back to tbe city after the conclusion work. The fighting beagn early in tbe morning, when 300 Greeks who have been employed during the strike at tempted to come to the factory,. They were met at the gates by a large num ber Of union pickets who attacked them with stones and clubs. A large detachment of the police had their hands full Id protecting the Greeks when a shot fired from the crowd aroused the Greeks to fury. - Those who had entered tbe factory came pouring out armed with knives anti revolvers aud attempted to attack the union men and their sympathiieFwh’6' were assaulting those Greeks who had not yet reached the gateway Tbe police after a desperate struggle managed to keep the two bodies men apart. Is this fight a number of men were battered up. At night ddKaxx tihft Iftft th« ▼T IIvJLl . vlAv XJt t wjuD *V» V Vuk/ they were attacked bv a mob fully 10.000 strong tbat pelted them with stones, sticks and bottlesr 7^ Had None to Out. — The House of Representatives drug in New England. L intend to write you from time to time anyway in order to keep posted as to Immi gratiou, etc. I am, Very truly, etc., W. V. Howard. Miss Alice Roosevelt has been banished to Nsw York for the-rest of the Washington racing season because she made bets ou races aqd was photo graphed in Abe act by some 'photo grapher on the grounds. The man who took the snap shots tried to sell njimu fra uara uiu«- ^ Pictures to newspapers, but tbe land lying idle at this president and friends suppressed tbe at this 1 „ On pirtpw M ttelvMm This is one clipping Mr. Howard sends i “Tbe Hartford Post lightly says: ‘Four Waterbary hotels were plum faU tbe other' night wben a oolored clergyman applied for a room in one after another of them.’ It is for this reason that so many nortberuers see fit to protest against tbe introduction of Jim Crow cars iu tbe south. They have an easier methodJiere.”—Spring : fleld RepubHcag,, Thisis auptber: .. "Tables of figures showing the im migration of foreigners into Nsw England during 1903 have just been completed by Rev. Joel 8. Ives of Hartford, who for the past four yean baa conducted a census of the foreign population df the six States in behalf of the Congregational Home Mission- They Were AMftelted by One White , Man and Two'Negroes. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says M. S. Sullivan, a lineman of tbe Postal Telegraph company, was shot and seriously, perhaps fatally, wounded iu au affray with State Con stables J. T. Owens aud O. T. Hud son, which occurred Thursday nigbt on the steam launch Hornet, between 11 and 12 o’clock on the cove beach at Mount Pleaiant. The shooting grew out of the capture of contraband li quor which Sullivan was conveying from tbe Clyde wharf to a storehouse ou tbe water front. Two negro men with Sullivan at tbe time, one of whom, it is said, was also wounded by the constables. /Their names could not be learned, for neither has been seen since tbe affair. Both ne groes fled from the boat, it Is said, when the shooting commenced. It la nbt positively known which constable shot Sullivan. At the St. Francis Xavier infirmary Thursday, Sullivan, it is alleged, stated that be was shot by Constable Owens a»d that the negro was shot by Constable Hudson. Sullivan is thought to be in a critical condition. He was brought to ^tbe city Thursday about 3 a. m. and sent to the infirmary. An operation was performed upon him and it was found that the ball had passed through his left arm, entered Commissioner Watson Well Pleased With Prospect for Immigration. GREAT HTERX8T IV THE SAIT. The Sowth’e Opportwnltle* for tier* and Investments A ra Attracting Attention In All Cl the side and perforated the intestines in six different places. Tbe bullet was not located. : Constables Hudson and Owens ar* rived in tbe eity this morning at 3 30 o'clock fdth 19 gallons of whiskey, which they had captured from the Hornet, Sullivan's launch, having cannibal*! hired a row boat at Mbunt Pleasant and rowed tbe goods over to Cbarles- Ralds upon villages are constantly captivity and others forced into labor and military service. One can buy all the slaves wanted for tenor fifteen dollars each. In these raids innocent women and children are killed or cap tured. Tbelr hands are cut off toba taken bhck~ to the Belgian officers to show that the work has been well done. Ou one of these raids near the mission stations, one of our mision- aries counted eighty hands cut off; drying 'by *»- Hre to be taken to an officer and forty-live dead lying near. "Tbe Belgian government make a stereotyped denial of all charges. I lave seen personally the Governor of /be Congo Free State and have-been in the palace ol the King of Belgium; □eltber will do anything. The British government is interested in tbe situa tion. { Consul Roger Casement, as tbe -£ngUSh and American representative to Congo, baa-lust made a tour of in vestigation. His report is now in tbe hands of the government at Washing ton and presents a most- deplorable situaeion.” - ~ — Tbe Columbia State says Col. B. J. Watson, commissioner of commerce and Immigration of South Carolina,' {eturntf Wednesday evening after a ten day’s trip to New York in the nterrnt of the new work of wbleh he has been placed In charge. The commissioner has the faculty of taking up everything he does un dertake with enthusiasm, aud this In stance is no exception. He is highly pleased with tbe results of his trip and seems fully imbued with a deter- mlnalTon to accomplish something In the field to which be has been called. he Interview and editorial Is re produced from tbe New York Sun show that Ool. Watson "caught on” n New York, aa sucb a paper as Tbe - Suu does not open its columns, to a nobody: - . . Soon after reaching the city Wednesday night CjI. Watson had A talk with Gov. Heyward and tbe governor was well please with tbe la*^ formal report which be made. Wednes* day tbe governor received tbe follow- ng note from Mf. William Williams of the New York department of oofii- merce.and labor: Mr. E. J. Watson, tbe head of your department of agriculture, com merce and immigration called at Ellis sland today with your letter of in ton. Chief Constable Holmes was troductlon; It gave me great pieas- immediately notified of the shooting of Sullivan and the capture of tbe 11- ropes lied q U or. Chief Slate CansUble llaromel was informed of the shooting early Friday' morning by Constable Holmes to make an iuvestigation. Oonsta-' bles Owens and Hudson, acting upon the advice of Constable Holmes, sur rendered to Sheriff Martin about 11 o'clock Thursday and were sent to jail to awaltj further developments. A WOULD-BE SWINDLER. Co< bed up the Money When the Doctor Dosed Him. Clearing a Mystery. The first trace . of “Mrs. John C. Turns since her disappearance from Chicago hotel two years ago was found last week when James Taylor, negro, was arrested at Cincinnati, illttle too late, however, for At Columbia Wash Kinsler, a young negro man, will be given a prelimin ary before United States Commission er Vernor shortly on the/charge of at tempting to pass counterfeit money. The story of Kinsler’s attempt to escape and his attempt to evade the charge is strange. Kfttsler"walked into the fruit_Store of the Syrian, George Mack, on upper Main street, Saturday night at 12:30. He purchas ed a palr-ef cheap earrings and some fruit and carelessly threw down what purported to be a 82 bill. Mack spott ed tho counterfeit at once. Officer Dunning happened to be passing and was called in. - The situation was taken in at a glance and the officer grabbed Ktnsier. He was just Kainsler He bad In his possession, Mrs. Burns' Daugiiter of the American Revolution pin, engraved with her name, as well as several articles of jewelry whlph bore initials. The prisoner is said*to have disclosed the biding places of other jewels, which are alleged to have been the property of Mrs. Burns. The total value of the property re rammed the ijill in liis mouth aud swallowed it, despite the choaklQg lie received. Then Mr. Dunning callec for Dr. Pope, the city physician, anc the rest was easy. A hyperdermic injection was given Wash, which acted as an emetic and the bill "came up" in about three minutes. The negro was searched for more counter covered is nearly 85,000. About two Jeit bills. No bills were/ found, but years ago, Mrs. Burns announced tbgi away on a short yistj^ ajftd Her husband was believed to be Europe. Taking several trunks, but leaving many of her belongings in her room, Mrs. Burns left/the hotel ,gtv- ,ttuntil she sent her forwarding address. From that day to this no word has been re ceived from her or her husband. Mrs. Burns was prominent as a member of the Daughters of tbe American Revolution, and* also was connected with several women’s clubs, most of tbe organizations to which she belong ed haying been donated ih the East, where she resided' before coming to a watch he had stolen was recovered nsgro stands a Chance of aerv ing a term for the State for larceny and for the United States for ing to pass counterfeit, money, the Chicago. penalty for the latter, according to the revised statutes, being from five to fifteen years. The bill which Kinsler attempted to pass is an old Richland Building and Loan certifi cate, this association flourishing about 1878. The certificate looks" very mucti like money and there are a num her of them floating around. Kinsler lives on Gates street, near Senate, and his reputation’ heretofore^lias been very good. „ ure to see him and I will aaslst him to the extent of my ability on hla present mlsslfin to the east.” When seen Wednesday night Com missioner Watson talked most inter estingly of bis trip tod tbe prospects for his work. While all tbat he bad earned, considered aud undertaken could uot be reviewed lo tbe time then at bis disposal, be consented to tell of a few things tbat had come un der his observation. "1 have been iu tbe east,” be said, for the last ten days giving the most earnest attention to tbe southern Im migration problem, and arranging all tbe preliminaries for the founding of tbe work of tbe new State department upon a substantial basis. I kn«»at tbe outset that tbe work was one of many ram ill oat ions, aud tbat speedy action and vigorous measures would be necessary. ‘Sincestudying all con ditions aud tbe methods employed by tbe trunk lines of the west and tbe transatlantic steamship companies, who control the great bulk of the ever Inflowing tide of foreign population, I can say 7 hat tbe task ahead of us la no easy oue. . 1 am greatiy gratified at tbe man ner in which I was met by tbe officials of tbe government and by those who really control tbe tide of immigra tion, and feel tbat the first fortnight of the new department!* career baa been well utilized. .. What struck me’’most forcibly in the east waA the widespread interest in all circles—whether Wan street or on Ellis Island, or Iu eastern business or official circles, or at tbe national capitial—In the movement in tbe south for immigration and emigra tion. Tbe federal government, I gathered, would be glad to see the tide turn southward, thus preventing tbe congestion iu large centres of commerce aud the consequent misap plication of Intelligent farming cltaere to trades aud callings for which they are totally unfit, resulting In depor tations. Never bave the eyes Of < ast beeo so- thoroughly turned to the ./T' Mtole the Mormon'* Wive*, Prospectors from the lower Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico, south west of El Paso, bring the story of a plant] raid made by Guan Uoloroda, alais "John Redhead,” upon Don Felipe, a newly formed Mormon colony. The noted bandit and- his band pillaged the settlement, carrying away three of Elder Hiram Jotinson’s wiveso-DneJ.M. in Knife In the Brain. At New Ha ran, Con., a portion of a long thin knife blade, which had been imbedded more than twenty years in all, penetrating an inch into the results in a taort time brain, was removed from the head of Christopher Osborn by Dr/ M. J. Adams. The patient is a negro, £7 years old. He is employed by BrofTJ. Weir, of Yale. According to Washington was considering a bill to prohibit the docking of horses’ tails. Congressman Perkins was speaking in favor of tbe measure when be was in terrupted by Mr Cooper of Wiscon sin, wbo asked: "WHYdoes anybody dock a bone’s tail?” Mr. Perkins re plied: 1 Chiefly because it looks a great deal better. Wby do you cut your balr instead, of having it down over your sholdere?” Tbe humor of this reply if any, lies in the fact that Mr. Cooper s barn of which is the favorite household. A po^^of of his large Mexican rural police and a sqwafl oV Mormons, who as a vigilance committee, style them selves "avenging angels/’ pursued the bandits for thirty-six hours ly surprised them in the fi the Sierra Madra Mountains; "A took plack in which two of the laws were wounded. The band leaving the women. They had Osborn’s history of the knife blade, lie quarreled with another negro, who jstruck him in„the head with a knife. The blade broke off and the steel close to the skull. Osborn waasent to jail for hirshare in the fight, but recover^ is about as baTd as a turnip. New Postal Card. A new style of postal card for re turn message will be issued by tbe postofflee department as soon as tbe stock of tbe present series Is exhaust ed. The card will bear two portraits, OMup&Gen. William Tecumseb Sber- mm for tbe side bearing tbe message and one of Gen. Phil Sheridan for tbe return side. Many millions of tbe new card will be ready for distribution at an early date and all offices sending requisition for tfiem will receive tbelr quota as rapidly as they can be sup plied. ■ -Zg - --- ^—' kept two days in a cave, where a con siderable amount of bullion treasure was found^hlch, it is believed, was stolen from a pack train recently. Served Him Bight. At Savannah, Ga., Henry-Olsoh was found guilty In the United States court Wednesday morning of shang haiing sailors out of Savannah. A re ceipt was shown In court indicating that Olson had received 8250 for the shipping of eight negroes who were subsequently discharged penniless in Bristol, Eng., whence they were re turned to this country by the Ameri can council. There are other cases of a similar oharactsragainst Olsen. of led and suffered no inconvenience until fight f» weeks agik,when he began to out-f Ipwe convulsions. They grew in fre fled, quency, until last week he had them been!every half hour-and paralysis be- jgan. Dr. Adams says the man will recover. middle south not only in population movements but Ininvestments. Tbe easterners realize the value of our re sources better than our own people, and 1 bave received tbe heartiest as surances of earnest aid and co-opera tion on all lines. “In Washington the liveliest inter est iSr/ffiffbMTested on all sides, as has been manlfestesUu tbe prompt, favor able action taken on Senator Sim mons’ Immigration information meaa- ure. I am more than ever convinced of tbe opportuneness of tbe move/- ment launched in this State, imd 1 sincerely trust our effort will crowned with success. One danger is iu tbe people expecting too great The work is necessarily slow, and upon a determination to handle only such matters as posses tte elements of success, patience is an es sential. However, 1 trust results can be shown in certain branches of ^be work at an early date. Another dan ger is in the possibility of landowners wishing prices for their lands at first that will make their utilization diffi cult. I trust that this danger will not materailze. In a few days a call will be issued for information wanted immediately in tills office concerning available lands, and official -blanks calling for the exact information will be furnished the land owners. The department is already receiving scores of inquiries from all parts of tbe conn- - PaMtnjc of* Fad. The Chicago board of education has condemned the vertical system Of ting. Through its official bulletin tbe board says: "It is an injustice to tbe child to impose a system of hand writing upon blm and force him to adhere to it through bis growing years st tbe cost of not only suppressing bis Individuality lu this acquired mode of expression, but also at tbe sacrifice of his time and tbe mental fluency that comes with tbe ease which accompan ies a mods di expression lilting the individuals characteristics” **.'l has been accomplished and wbat bails haVe been set In tion at the country’s chief port of eq* try I do not care to speak just now, as competition In Immigration work f so strong I can only say that thus far obtained exceed my lions. ♦ ‘ Concise pamphlefli of; as to our resources are ‘ and thegewlll be i possible moment, issued in the ( languages fori ~"ii