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iMioner Watsoa Makes s State*
meat of What Ho Hopes to
Aecomplish 10 Bringing
Whits Labor Here.
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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
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