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BIG FEE :&■/.* tkt OteptMwy ConunlMlon Wn Ti P«y HAS SWUNK AWFULLY Um Darkle*' (aFllsli—COl. Set* Fofth the Facto Share Going to OoU VfUtor, Major and Opt. Wilson. Th« following letter explains Itself; The Atlanta Constitution: I notice that in an article in your paper of Thursday last you state the following: “From reliable sources it has been learned that the Atlanta law Arm of Anderson, Feld er, Rountree ft Wilson will receive between $160,000 and $200,000 as their fee for their services In win ning the famous South Carolina dis pensary case recently decided In fav or of their clients, and involving about a million dollars in cash on hand, and between two millions ami three millions In claims. This will no doubt be the record fee in the South. ' “When this firm was employed In the case, it is understood they were given a cash retainer fee of $100, 000 and made a contract for a com mission of so much on the sums recovered.” This statement is entirely mislead tug' and put* the commission in South Carolina in an improper at titude. If it merely concerned my •elf I should pass it by, but It mis leads the public, many of whom take your paper in South Carolina, and is largely untrue notwithstanding the source of your Information may be reliable. In the first place, the fund in voted was only $600,000, the en tire claims being asserted in that litigation against the fund being only $260,000 Instead of $3,000,000 In the next place, no retainer fee was paid the Atlanta firm at all but they simply were given the con tract at their own solicitation, to be paid Fh par cent of the amount which they might reduce the claims by evidence which they would iurn ish at their own expense. The total amount of claims originally being $600,000 and the possibility of re duction, therefore, not being over ~ $600,000 and If the claims had been entirely eliminated, their fee fo that branch of service could only l>< $60,000. As a matter of fact, claim have been reduced thus far some thing like $100,000, which, on that branch of the case, would entitle th( Atlanta Arm to a fee of $20,000 In addition to that they were to have 60 per cent of what they received back of money that had been paid away illegally and lost, they to b.ar all of the expense and the commie afon to have absolutely no expense with regard to this. *Up to this time nothing has beon recovered back, but I will say that these gentlemen have been very ac tive and spent a lot of money and I am very much pleased with thei work in that line and believe that they will receive a very considerable amount of money in the long run but you will see from this state meat that the commission was done a great injustice in stating that they had been paid $100,000 retainer fee and that the fees would probably run up another $100,000 to these gentlemen, but I am sure from my very pleasant association and con nection with them, that they could not have been consulted before you made the statement. In addition t > that my private affairs and those of Col. Abney seem to have been in- Vafted in that you state that I, as general counsel for the commission, receive a stated sum .for my servic es. That is only partially true, for litigation I receive the usual fee, for advising the commission I re ceive a contract price. You say further of these gentle men "by winning this case the At lanta Arm has won one of the most sweeping victories ever announced from the supreme court of the Uuit- . ed States. , When you reAect that the Atlan ta Arm were not employed by the commlaeion even to assist in the proceeding in the United States su preme court but appeared for the reason that they had a personal in terest in the matter because if the courts retained jurisdiction they would be unable to carry out their contract so as to earn any consid- • erable commission, you will see that you have done the other attorneys an Injustice in the matter. - The fact Is, that the Arm of Stevenson & Mat- thewson, and the Arm of Abney & Muller were the representatives of th$s commissions and the Atlanta inn represented their own interests which waa entirely contingent In the - totofar and the litigation waa so far controlled by the attorney general aoj) the two Arms named, that, al though Mr. Rountree of the Atlanta inn Insisted strenuously In prepar ing the petition for certiorari that AH******* question- npon which the SUto ban Won should not be set forth ill/the assignments* of erorr. >4 eame to Columbia for the pur- 4* of taking up th* matter with . h* wiia there overrated by as, you will SO* that the Atlanta Arm not eatitled to the.aofo credit of victory as it was one in the the portion taken by the 1 the very question on which Jd not be raised in The At- we wore MUST SERVE TME IN THE - PENITENTIARY FOB KILLING SON-IN-LAW. The State Supreme Court Has so Decided in the Case of S. W. Stockman. Among the cases recently decided by the supreme court was that of S. W. Stockman, who was convicted of the killing of tis son-in-law, Hampton J. Hartley, during Christ- mas.-lSOS, In Lexington county, says the Columbia Record. Stockman will now i^ave tb,.serve his sentence of seven years in the State penitentiary, the supreme court on Friday having affirmed the de cision of the lower court. This case has attracted more attention possibly in Lexington county than any case in recent years. Hamp Hartley was yme of the largest dealers In turpentine In the county, and by hard work and close economy had secured a goodly por tion of this world's goods. He mar ried the oldest daughter of Stock- man, who Is a well-to-do farmer and prominent In the community. He Is a member of the wealthy Stock- man family of Newl>erry county. On the night of the tragedy. Hart ley went to the home of Stockman He was under the Influence of whis key, It was alleged, and a general row arose. AtMhe trial the defense tried to make It appear that Hartley had attempted to Insul his sister-in- law, Miss Stockman, and that the killing was the direct result of this. Hut from the testimony of the State’s witnesses, it was shown that Stockman was himself under the in fluence of whiskey, as was a man by the name of Taylor, who was a guest at the Stockman home. Taylor has since been killed by his own son at his home In Saluda coun ty. The first time the case was call ed, the Jury failed to agree. At the second trial Stockman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Dantzler to serve seven years In the penitentiary.- Stockman Is nearing the 60 mile post and is said to be in failing health. It is not known when he will begin his sentence, but It Is supposed that he will make prepara tions to leave home within the next few days. TARIF FIGHT DEATH 0FMR. CAUSEY Ntw On In Rial Daad Eirnast In Tba Sanata HOUSE VOTE MERELY IN AN AUGUSTA HOSPITAL FROM HIS WOUND. He Was Clerk of Court of Hamp ton County and Was Shot by a Negro. The Augusta .Chronicle says Mr.- W. B. Causey, Clerk of Court of Hampton County, died on Monday afternoon a little before six o'clock at the Margaret Wright hospital, having been carried to Augusta the , day after he was shot. Mr. Causey was talking on "Sat urday last with a negro known as Voiced the Sentiments of the Dif ferent Sections—Senator Smith Gives His Views on the^ Meaning of the Democratic Platform on the Tariff Question. The Washington correspondent ofj"p e g Leg" Hughes, on the streets the Columbia Record says all Inter- of Hampton, when, without an,y est In the tariff bill has now shifted | warning, the negro fired upon him with a revolver. The bullet enter- to the senate, where It was known all along the “Payne act” would In reality be drafted. The ^votes in $be house on the various schedules have merely given voice to the senti ments of the sections represented, THE TAX BILL Dtnnonced by Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio At THE ANNUAL DINNER ed the right side, passed through the lower part of the right lung and left the body in the back. He was carried to Augusta by Dr. J. L. Folk and Dr. J. B. Harvey, both of Hampton. At 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon an operation was but in the senate each vote will leave I performed and Mr. Causey lay be lts mark In the final reading of the tween life and de^th until Monday bill when It goes to the president afternoon. The case seemed pra* for his signature. The significance f i r , om t J h \, flr8t 1 f Mr. Causey s wife and his sister, of these senate votes is underscored Mrg n anK ,y accompanied the party by the fact that the president has ( 0 the c |ty a nd remained at the hos made it clear that he has no idea pltal with him until his death, of vetoing the Payne bill., whether I * n or< ! er 1° prevent a lynching the its real author be Mr. Payne or Sen ator Aldrich. Aside from the general Interest the ultimate consumer has in the prices of all articles he consumes. negro was taken to Columbia from Hampton county last Sunday night, and lodged in the penitentiary. Hughes is accused of attempting to assassinate Clerk of Court W. B. Causey, and he also shot Jesse THE WAGES OF SIX. A Game of Cards Causer! and Suicide. Murder At Chicago Joseph Meek, a roomer for twenty years at the home of H Hesterman, was shot to death early this morning by Hesterman. who a moment later committed suicide. The men were the best of friends, had been playing cards and the quar rel arose, it is supposed, over th* game. Hesterman, who was 61 year# *$*J. secured a revolver and fired a shot which penetrated his own head, causing Instant death. Peter Hesterman, son of the sui cide, was awakened by the shooting and running to the room, found both men dead. The cards were scattered around the table. The young man declared he heard no argument. BLACK HAND SOCIETY Charged With Assassination Florida Man. of the only paragraphs that are of any Sheppard, who was with Mr. Causey immediate interest to South Caroll- the li m ®- Hughes had recently na, now that the duty on fertilizing completed a sentence in the peniten- salts has been dropped out, are those Uary for killing a negro, relating to sea island, or long staple The negro secreted himself In a cotton and to lumber. The Payne ^'tch near where the shoting took hill, as it passed the house, fixes Pl®ce. Hughes would have been a duty of half a cent a cubic foot lynched had he not been hustled off on hewn sided or squared timber, of] t0 Columbia. 50 cents a thousand on sawed boards The assassination of Ginseppe Fie- arrota, a wholesale grocery mer chant, and one of the most promi nent and wealthy members of the lo cal Italian colony of Tampa, Fla. lias added the third to a series of murders here which have been charg ed to the blaek hand during the present year. Ficarotta was going to his home from his place of busi- ti'ss at a lath -hour Monday night rftnd was shot by two men from am bush with shotguns loaded with heavy slugs. He was instantly killed weapons and fled, weapons fled. Ml KDEH OF MOTHER Is Charged Against a Young Man at Erie, 1’a. At Erie, Pa., Delmar J. Ypung was arrested Monday "on a warrant sworn out by County Detective Frank H. Watson, charging him with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Vlnnie Young, whose dead body was found in her cellar last Wednesday, horribly mutilated and hidden be neath a pile of old carpet. He enter ed a plea of not guilty and w'as com mitted to jail without ball for a hearing next Thursday. suited in the matter, but the case was argued by Mr. Abney, who open ed, and by myself, w r ho closed. Mr. Rountree was not even to appear and $1 a thousand on sawed lumber not specifically mentioned. “Cotton and cotton waste are left on the free list. Democratic senators are planning a fight to put a duty on both these articles, though Senator E. D. Smith is emphatic in his statement that he will not lend his support to any measure that means protection even for local Industries. He will vote for duties on lumber and sea island cotton, but only a duty fixed at a revenue basis. Both these articles, he said, ought to pay their share to ward the support of the government, but there is no reason, in his opinion, for taxing the w'hole mass of con sumers to benefit the comparatively small number of people owning the timber supply or raising sea Island cotton. It is a question of the great est good to the greatest number, he said, and that, translated into prac tice, means a government supported economically with taxes equaly and equitably levied upon all classes and sections. As to the exact rate of duty this equal distribution of the burden of taxation would imply for lumber or sea Island cotton, Senator Smith is not yet quite ready to say, though he is going through the Imports, ex ports and statistics of production of both products to ascertain a rate satisfying his mind as fair. The $1 a thousand on lumber carried in the Payne bill, he said, might prove fair on investigation the figures might show that the industry could carry protection of $2 a thousand, and the same thing is true of his attitude on cotton. The Democratic platform does not In Senator Smith's opinion, forbid a Democrat’s imposing a revenue tariff u|M»n lumber. His Interpreta tion of the Denver document Is that the present duties on lumber and its products must be reduced to a fair basis of taxation. "I haven’t any idea the Democratic convention meant to say that lumber should b*’ absolutely free of duty," he said, “but simply that It should come down from its pres nt exorbitant taxa- t Ion. The paragraph in the Democratic platform to which the senator re ferred reads: “We demand the immediate r? I'°a of the tanif on wood pulp, p- i paper, lumber, timber and mgs, and that these articles be placed upon the free list.” The plan of the Democratic sena tors in general Is one designed to harmonize the conflicting elements of the party with a view to present ing a solid front In the coming fight. They intend to bring In senators from those States interested in a duty on lumber and those interested in a duty on hides by Imposing rev enue duty on both of these articles, and in this way they hope to avoid the desertions from the party that made the Democratic fight against the Payne bill so pitiable in the house. Prohibitory duties wil be brought down to a revenue basis, if the Democratic plan carries through and free list will be moved up bodily to a revenue basis. CHARGED WITH LUNACY. Bride of n Few Months Ijockcd Up In Savannah. A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta' Herald says Mrs. John Artley, a pretty bride of three months and a sister of President Harmes <vf Newberry college. South Carolina, Is locked up In the county jail on a lunacy charge. Her hus band is John Artley, well known as a member of the Savannah football team, and of a well-to-do Savannah family. The young woman Is residing at a local hotel and Is very positive she Is not insane and has no inten tion of suicide as alleged. She was given the benefit of an investigation by Judge McAIpin and was released, but was again locked up. She was told at the hotel that she should walk out and take some exercise She complied and was led to the county jail, where she was placed behind the bars. Mrs. Artley’s marriage occurred in January. Previously she was Miss Lillie Harmes. BURNED TO DEATH. Six Men Lose Their Lives in Steamer Fire. The Captain, which has just ar rived at New Orleans, reports the loss of six lives as a result of an explosion on the Hamburg-American saetmer Carnia, at Port Limon April 1. The Sarnia, which plies between New York and Central America ports, was tH>d to a pier at Port Li mon when the explosion occurred. Several hundred cans of kerosene oil were stored in the forward hold, and It Is believed that a leak from one of the cans caused the explosion. Five negro laborers and a sailor on the Sarnia were burned to death in the hold. The flames were sub dued before a great deal of damage had been done to the steamer, but a large portion of the cargo, prin cipally cotton, was thrown overboard and much of it lost. If It’S ~ Gibbes’ It’s GMcs laymtl <2 is Dl? AFTER MANY YEARS in the argument, but the court hav ing granted thirty minutes additional The central idea in ihia plan la time, he was given that time to make an oral argurrtent, which came in the midst of the arguments for the attorneys for the other side. It is ^disagreeable to go into the papers about thsas-matters, but th* rank misstatements which have been givan wide currency in South Caro lina and which Is causing criticism; of the commission, necessitates on; doing so, and I am sending a copy of this to the Columbia Daily Kse* ord. wli ch published your editorin', and commented on it In two column article. Please insert this as conspicuously as yon did the article referred to and send -me a copy of the paper, and greatly oblige, Yours most truly. * W. F. STEVENSON. to give to Individual senators their individual demands and yet preserve the seeming of a broad principle—a tariff for revenue only. And In voting this revenue duty, senators from lumber States will be voting a protection to lumber and senators from cattle States will be voting pro tection to hides. The same thing will be true of sea Island cotton. Kenilworth Inn Burned. Fire of unknown origin broke ont at half-past two o'clock Tuesday morning at Kenilworth Inn, ons of the best known hotels In (hil South, three miles from AjA^eVUle. Ths firs is alleged to have started In ths kitchen. The g—ts were roused, snd as far ss is known all succeeded in making their eec|pe. % The Supposed Murderer of a Woman is Found. From a family photograph of Ro sie Tritt, w'ho was murdered 32 years ago at Terre Haute, Ind., Sylvanus Burnham, wealthy white-haired Tex as ranchman, banker and Sunday school superintendent of Tulla, Tex., is now charged with the murder. A farm hand who committed the deed through jealousy a third of a cen tury ago, is now declared to be Burnham, who figures as a new Jean Valjean. Non Partisan Census. It Is stated that President Taft has directed Director North of the census bureau disregard party line* in^ securing sultable men for supervisors and other appointive places under the new census act, in structions, It Is said, have reference to the South. Severe Earth Shock. . ^ At Lima, Peru, a severe earth shock was experienced at three o’clock Tuesday morning. The movement was from east to west, and waa accompanied by subter ranean rumblings. No casualties re sulted. Of the National Democratic Club In New York, the Ohio Governor Protests Against the Present Tariff Legislation, the Encroachment of the Federal Government. Denunciation of the principle of protection and of the tariff leglsla tion now pending in Congress as a pretence and a sham, formed the keynote of the addresses at the an nual dinner of the National Demo cratic Club at New York Tuesday night, in celebration of the one hun deed and sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. A portrait of Jefferson hung over with American flags, dominated the guest table, at whjeh governors Harmon, of Ohio, and Marshall, of Indiana; Senator Chamberlain, State Senator Grady; John Foy, the club’s president; Richard Croker, Alton B Parker, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and former State Supreme Court Judge Morgan J O’Brine and D. Cary Herrick sat Elsewhere at 6 longitudinal tables sat four hundred of the elect of the Democratic party. A protest against what he declared were growing encroachments of special privilege at Washington, es pecially as embodied in tariff legis lation, was the keynote of the ad dress of Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio. Asserting that the reduc tions in the pending tariff bill would be but a mockery of the demand for relief, Judge Harmon, declared that real relief never would be secured except under a Legislature and Ex ecutive following Jeffersonian rules and treating taxation as a means of preventure and not of private gain. The steady tendency since the civil war has been to exalt the Federal Government at the expense of the State, said the speaker, one result being the neglect of economy and the embarkation of the Government in to extravagant enterprises. He in stanced the action of the last Con gress in appropriating two millions of dollars and the raising of salaries of officials in the face of a growing shortage of revenue, and con tinued : "Now instead of seeking methods of retrenchment to meet a present confessed deficit, Lf more than a hundred millions, the President and Congress are devising additional tax es to exart from the diminished means of the people and proposing to issue bonds besides. State of firials who would propose sueh i course would not dare to go home to their constituents and would be for ever disgraced if they should take^ it. "After twelve years of false pte fences, at last confessed, which have bred and fattened countless monop olies and trusts, it is proposed not to shake off their grip, but just to loosen it a trifle here and there so the people may not be utterly de voured.” Of the way the party lines have been obliterated in the fight in Con gress over the tariff Judge Harmon said": "It is hardly fair for Republicans at least, to charge with inconsistency Democratic Congressmen w r ho take a hand in this Selfish scramble. In the last campaign the Republican candidate for President, openly of fered a share of tariff spoil for Democratic votes. When special fa vors ;*fe the order of the day. it natural for a Representative to think he ought to secure a share for in terests at home. To do otherwise requires high courage, and we are proud of the many who show it in the face of the demoralization which legislating for private instead of public interest always produces." Judge Harmon attacked the policy of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a canal at Panama on the part of what he said was a coun try practically without ships, taxed against the possibility of buying any, and with the only proposed means of encouraging shipping, the pay ment of direct subsidies to a favored few out of money raised by taxek on all the people. The speaker added; “And why tax the people to build a costly •canal and secure ships for foreign commerce, while a tariff system is maintained whose purpose and effect are to discourage or kill for ign commerce, except such as consists in selling our products abroad at less prices than are impos ed on our own people. What State Government ever committed such folly?" A MILL THAT WItXi" 0* !**<*•« ta*!* r for Itwlf In • <1»t. Ron with losMrow- Make a waota-haap marketable . THU MACHINE FILLS THE BILL. Oer«alal» tb* beetmaehlae made. Fuller Itt- termatlonnn appllcatloa to -i GIBBES MACHINERY COMPANY. I T OOfl Seller* of “Olbbee Guaranteed Machinery,"-An kind* Box 1290, Columbia. S. C. 'Next Week ; Watch this Space. Southern States Supply Company BUY FROM US Machinery Rlumblnci SuooII COLUMBIA. S. O WORKERS’ PENSIONS. December and May. S. L. Tutle, a well-to-do farmer of Stokes county. N. C., aged 47, elop ed with the 1 4-year-old daughter of H. 4- Tulp. a merchant of the sanie, "county! Wheb The couple “gdF~olT the train at Germantown they were met by the irate father of the bride, who attacked . Tuttle, heating him unmercifully. What the Printers Are Doing Along This Line. The International Typographical union has ever been found foremost in the advocacy and introduction of measures for the benefit of the toil er. In many fields of innovation it has taken the first step. This is true of its determination to provide by a system of assessment among its own membership pensions for the aged and dependents of its ranks. The experiment—for it is looked up on as such by those who are In touch with the trade union move ment—is the object of de n p interest on the part of all labor leaders. If it proves a success the example will be followed undoubtedly by other international organizations. A sys tem of pensioning worthy members/ may become at no far distant day one of the most Important features of the labor movement in this coun try. It ait depends upon thp out come of the efforts of the Typograph ical union. So important is this m/tter that State Commissioner of Labor John Williams of New York ijtate devoted considerable space to it In his bul- letion of labor statistics. Commis sioner Williams remarks: “The progress of this effort of the associated journeymen printers will be viewed with interest by national unions of oth«!r trades, and. if the plan is successful the movement to provide a stipulated allowance for members th their declining years, thus obviating the dread of penury will doubtless become general among associations of labor in the United Statck.” Tjie experiment has been in oper ation for eight months, and there a/e 4 76 pensioners on the rolls. During the eight months $1 20,224. 86 was collected and $19,193.01 paid in pensions. An Analysis of the aga,of the pen sioners develops the notable fact that 280., or 58.8 per cent of them, are between sixty and seventy years; 171 or 3 6 per eeat are septuagenarians, and twenty-one, or 5 per cent, are octegenarians, while one is a non agenarian. The latter member is affiliated with "Big Six" of New York city. In spite of his years he can still write a firm hand and thus expressed his appreciation in a let ter written to the clerk of the ben efit board: "On the 1st day of No vember next ( 1 908), God willing shall then enter my ninety-fourth year and my seventy-third as a typo unionist, forty-two of which I have spent as a member of New York Typographical union—’Big Six.’ deem it an honor and a great bless ing that the officials of the Inter national Typographical union deem • d me worthy of being placed upon the pension fund." Among the pen sioners is one woman who is sixty two years old and who has been a member of typographical ilnlons for thirty-two consecutive years. While the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Amalgamated So ciety of Carpenters and Joiners, both with headquarters in England, have for a long period paid pensions to their old members, "the first distinc tively American trade organization,” in the language of Commissioner Williams, to inaugurate an old age pension for its members is the In ternational Typographical union The enterprise is a worthy one There is nothing so commendable as the care of the infirm and the aged. In European countries the pension system has proved of great benefit. It is a species of insurance to a man against want and alwolute depen dency in his declining years. It gives the vigorous and the healthy and the prosperous an opportunity to set aside for themselves a fund that will aid them on the final stretch of life's span when they will have possibly neither the ability nor the opportunity of providing for themselves. It is a worthy cause, and the Typographical union should -meet wkh -the greatest mea&ure of Agents Wanted; To handle our household specialties — Olocks, Jewelry, etc. Make $30 and more week ly. / Ideal Dust Pan—Something new, every housekeeper wants one; saves her back; sels on sight, by mail prepaid 45 cents. Oriental ' PoHshlng Cloth— Gives a brilliant lustre to gold, silver and /ither metals, 10 cents. / Petrosino Honored. New York paid Its tribute of grief 2nd respect Monday to the memory of Liaat Jos. Pstrosino, of ths New York police department, who was assassinated recently while engaged la secret seprice la Italy. Killed in Runaway. Mrs. W. C. Langnau, the wife of a wealthy manufacturer and the mother-in-law of former Mayor Mc- Klsson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was kill ed in a runaway accident Monday morning. Several of her relatives were injured but none seriously. Double Troged. H. H. Ramey, of Gillsburg, Miss., was shot and instantly killed by a negro Tuesday eveping. Rarwey’s son avenged his fa titer'a death by killing the negro. J Elite Cleaning Pad—Removes dirt and grease from clothing and dress fabrics, speaks for itself, 10 cents. Mall Order Buyers—Write » today for free catalogue. >£— ( Windle Home Supply ; Company. 403 North 03rd Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Clay Peas for Sale—$1.25 per bush- €>1. Raeford Hardware Co., Rae- ford, N. C. Dollar Fountain Pen for fifty cents. Baird, Cedar Avo , Philadelphia. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. 1101 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md. We make you handsome and dur able Rugs from your old wornout carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. Let us send you a price list; Just* write for one. For Sale—One Am. 15-horsepower steam engine; practically good as new; can be seen running. Ad dress J. E. Johnson, Supt. Neely Mfg. Co., Yorkvllle, S. C. 50c for a pair of self-sharpening, 7-inch, tension steel spring shears. Cut anything from tissue paper to tough blanket with case. Cooper Novelty Co., Box 54, Orangeburg, S. C. STOOD LONG FOR LAND. Many U. S. Farmers Have Recoin* Canadian HomesteadorH. The Canadian land office at Ed monton, Alberta, opened last week for the distribution of 464 home steads, some of the land being valued at $20 to $30 an acre at present prices. Some of the home seekers stood outside the office door for three days and nights in order to keep their places in the line and get a pick of the land. A Galician and three half-breed Frenchmen had the first four selections. Many of them were Americans, in fact. Western Canada is being flooded with men from South of the line. ^ • FIGHT FOR FREE POTASH. success in its efforts. Killed Himself. On the eve of his second trial on the charge of embezzling Broome county‘funds, Arthur W. T. Black,'’ former clerk of the Broome county board of supervisors, and former chairnjgn of the Broome county Re publican committee, committed sui cide by shooting himself through the head. Ix»t of Advertising Has Been Given to it Gratis. Editor The Daily Record: All the talk about the victory of a certain congressman from South Carolina concerning potash In the tariff bill is not true and not fair. The congressman and certain Co lumbia parties kept the wires hot about the wonderful fight they wers making, when, as a matter of fact, fertilizer people in Europe, Charles ton, Savannah, Wilmington and Richmond were communicating with congress about the matter and the Republican" Jeadors had given as surances Ithat the item would be taken out of the bill. I happened to be in Washington at the time and know that two other South Carolina congressmen had worked on the mat- tereand had it-^actf^Ry ireTtted S*-' fore the wires were made hot be tween Washington and Columbia for advertising purposes " FAIRPLAY. Richmond, Va., April 14. • % Yll'to Him Hard. At Atla^a, Ga., C. M. Callaway, convicted of running a blind tiger, was Monday sentenced to twelve months on the chain gang or to pay a fine of $1,000. Buy a Shingle Mill I os tbs MB 4U> lOH.R.i Writasa for aloaa OOLtmiA 6UPTLT OO.