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Department of Agriculture’s Esti
mate for Not. 1 Makes Total Yield
1^463,017,000 Bushels an Increase
of Ninety Million BusheU Orer Es-
ttmate Made In October.
This year’s com crop pro miser'to
be the most raluable this or any oth
er nation ever has produced, al
though the department of agricul
ture’s preliminary estimate of pro
duction, Issued Monday Indicates It
will be move than half a billion
buahela leas in else than the record
crop of last year, and the smallest
since lies. Baaed en the depart
ment's flgeree ef 74.7 cents per
bushel, the average farm ralue on
November l, the crop ae now esti
mated, is worth $1,741,861,919,
while the value of the 1911 record
crop was $1,680,464,000. The pre
vious most valuable crop was that of
1909, worth $1,468,882,000.
The department's preliminary esti
mate of production Monday Increased
by 90,000,090 bushels the estimate
made In October, end also that made
la September. This wee taken to ta-
dleete that tbe damage from the very
esvere drought is Indicated la tbe fig-
uree for Kansas, which abow the acre
yield Ihar* to have beau reduced to
3 2 bushels, compered with 2 3 buab
els lest year, la Mlaaouri. whera the
yield was 17 1 bushels, compered
with last year'e 31 bethels, and In
Oklahoma, where it wee II boshele.
agalast 117 last year In ITIInola
the yield was If buahela below teat
year a yield ta Iowa. 9 beebete ta
Nebraska • taste* tadteaa. 1 7
hweheie end onto I I bushels
The November fepurt. mete op
from reports of egeets sad corrvapoa ,
deals of the department • teveee ef
etauetira as so eared alee the pre
Haetwery estimate ef the total pro
dertloe ef poteiaea eeeet potet^ee
as4 iehar«o the ytaid par acre ef
eavh the svarage farm prwe os No*
eve he* ! ef the rewatry'i prier- r «;i
aad the emesat ef rure ef v%«
Was Present
to • Isergo Crowd.
The Press and Standard says the
Fifth Annual Colleton County Fair
bis gone Into history and will rank
easily as oae of the most successful
Fairs ever conducted in Walterboro,
and, in fact, as successful as any
county fair in tbe South. Beginning
on Tueadgy, 4th Instant, every day
was a feature day and thousand* of
Colletbnlans returned to their homes
with words of pralhe for the Fair and
the manner In which it has been con
ducted.
On Wednesday Senator B. D.
Smith, who was present by Iftvlte-
tlon, delivered an addreee to a targe
crowd, which mad* a strong Impres
sion on those who heard It. Senator
Smith dealt with the work which has
been done In Washington for the
southern farmers, and cited certain
reforms which are outlined for the
future and to the accomplishment of
which Senator Smith has devoted
htmvclf
He rcv'pwed the conditions which
existed st the time of his election to
the Senate m<i showed the strong
obstacles agi tnut which be had to
contend In Congress He stated that
national legislators were not amiss
towards recognizing the needs the
farmer* and they were not hostile to
the Interest of the farmer* The
great difficulty, however tn rh-
opinion of the Senator, was the great
ignorance sa to farmtrg condition*
and farming nee!* in the mind wf
thoee who legtaiate fur the naUun
Quite amjalng wa* the Senator*
arrount «f the !gooran<e. e»«n of
Southern Senator* concerning the
farm ng condltluna Thla led to the
a'a'etrenta that lawvera ran r. •>* leg
a.ale f<,r farmer* aad that a farmer
tMwt re*T.gtj'ie* the aaed* o # t*# far
m#'v Heaator Smith I h -- a* *r.
• peah < * via * •-* fjr tr.e *taada:<J
tat ion -f cofoa a-*!#* an! e.^a ■*
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ase-a
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TO RESIGN AT ONCE
Friends Continue to Advise Huerta’s
HesftnaUon, Hoping to Bring
About Change in Time to Prevent
Complete Rupture of Diplomatic
Relations With United States.
President Huerta’s attitude Up
ward t£e demands of the United
State# that he make way for g new
government Is that of on# only half
convinced, notwithstanding a few of
his friends and political advisers are
arguing, with dus caution, that he
accede. The representatives of this
element in the Cabinet conferred Fri
day with Nelson O'Shsnghnessy,
American charge d’affaires, but were
given no aeenranees that President
Wilson has unbent sufficiently to war
rant hope that the negotiations will
be reopened.
In spite of this, however, those
friends of Huerta who now are con
vinced that the United States gov
ernment is not "bluffing”, bellevs
they will yet be able to bring about
the desired changes In time to pre
vent a complete rupture of diplo
matic relations This convlctlofi Is
based upon (he fart that W.iahlngton
lias not pul into effect Ita implied
threat to remove the embaaay or an
nounced any new course of action
Sir l. u'el Carden, the Hritlah
m.nla , » i '' has conveyed to Huerta an
Intimation that the United State# i*
:n earneat in It# Intention* and la aald
to have told the provisional-president
•hat the prrt*h government la ills
posed to Ne- k 'he > nl'ed H< a ’ <-« rr. or
ally Huerta la aald to ha«# t-e«-e
1ee»p!, ! rr, p r •■#•«>. 1 when he rea It led
'hat the aatloa eht h he ha-1 h-e
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Wilaom Wa
Both Senators Bees
Bean True and Loyal.
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farms Sevember 1 last year
1‘otataaa Tetai p*m!*«tloe
Umtae/U/ set mated III kt»
baebele last year T^.d per acre
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baahels last year aad »« baskets
the tea year average ytaU Average
fsrwi pvlca. 4*1 dm is per bushel,
compared wfTh 4S 6 caots last year
Qoaltty. t» 3 per oeot compared
wtth the tea year sverage
Sweet Potato** Total pmdoctioo
prellmlaarlly eatlmated. IS.740 000
com pa red wTTh IS.479.000
last year Tlefd per acre. II
compered wtth 95 1 baahels
last year aad 91 baahels the tea-year
yield. Average farm price,
ta par bashel. Quality 99 4
t. of the teo-ypar average
Tobacco—Total product Ions, pre
liminarily estimated. 908.976.009
pounds last jmmr. Held, par acre,
785.6 pounds last year aad 8$ti
pounds, the ten-year average. Qua!
Ity, 97.4 per cent, of the ten-year
average.
Wheal—-Total prodoetton, prelim!
narlly estimated, 76$,283.090 bash
els, compared with 730.287.946
bushels last year. Yield, per acre,
15.2 bushels, compared with 15
bushels last year and 14.2 bushels
the ten-year average. Average farm
price 7? cents per bushel, comparet
with 83.8 cents last year. Weight
per measured bushel, 58.6 pounds
compared with 58.3 pounds last year
and 57.8 lbs.', the 10-year average.
Oats—Total production, prelimi
narily estimated, 1,122,189,040 bush
els, compared with 1,418,337,000
bushels last year. Yield per acre,
29.3 bushels, compered with 37.4
bushels last year and 29.8 bushels,
the ten-year average. Average farm
price 37.9 cents per bushel, compar
ed with 33.6 cents last year. Weight
per measured bushel, 32.1 pounds,
compared with 33 pounds last year
and 31.5 pounds the ten year sver-
age.
The yield per acre aad total pre
diction of tobacco aad com In the
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The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says readers
of that Journal may have noted that
he has never undertaken to explain
the course of the eontent for ihadts -
trtet attorneyship and the marshal-
ship in terms of the president’s con
jectured attitude towards the candi
dacy of OoTenxor Blease for the Sen
ate. Such explanation seems gratui
tous and far-fetched.
All of the evidence which has Come
within the ken of The News and
Courier’s correspondent has led him
to regard the disagreement of the
two Palmetto State Senators over the
dietrlat attorneyship as the cause of
the edminietration’e worry, and not
the probable effect of this or that ap
pointment on the Blease candidacy.
There la no reitfon to conclude that
Attorney General McReynolda recom
mended Weeton and Sima because he
did not think them the best material
presented for the places. As to the
president, he has taken no action
whatever, and wants the Senators to
agree before he does so By the
aame reasoning that explain! the At
torney General'* recommendation! on
the theory of a desire to Injure
Bleeae. the Prealdent'a failure to art
on the Attorney General ! rwcomnvn
datiooi would Ne Interpreted as Indi
cating a deelre to help Hl*aee
The plain tact la that the admin
titration haa fal'/d to rea^-h finally
■ th regard to th* di»t;irt attorn**;
vhlp and the marahaiah p herau*** of
the Brea! lent * *!»h to arrorl *-* h
t^r.a'or feta d je. ar. I par*'rular'y
'»•!*• o' M» wt»h to retain th**
Va' •upt** rt o' va-*-. le-vowrat - !
atnr who * a* n "r-galt' fn
harifng up lt.«* Wlleon p« P--!*-* T v -
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WILSON WILL APPROVE
Measure Provides for Eight Regional
Ranks Under Control of Board of
Reveii,. Ifyich Member to Hold Office
for One Year—Republicans Try to
Amend Bill.
The administration currency re
form bill as It probably will go to the
Senate with the approval of Presi
dent Wilson was completed Friday
night by six Democrats of the Senate
banking and currency committee.
Senator Hitchcock and the five Re
publican members of the committee
continued to write into their draft of
the measure amendments that the
White House has disapproved of.
Arrangements probably be made to
send both bllla to the Senate for con
sideration some time this week.
Tha Democrats completed their
draft after working all day Friday
and well into the evening In an effort
to hurry the bill along As complet
ed the measure provide# for a Bys
tem of eight regional banka, to be
capitalized by enforced subscription
from the national banks of the coun
try *!th unlimited powers of re-dli
fount and currency Isnue and the
power tn hold re#**rvea, the entire
• v«'em to he under the control of a
Federal reserve hoard
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**rr*.e H< . !• Heed <> Gorman
Sh*froth rti»-i•• -ntn^r amend-
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SEVERAL ARE HURT IN A'
DENT AT CAMDEN.
Aeronaut Loses Control of Maehdaw
In Lighting, Knocking
Number of People.
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Several people were Injured when
the aeroplane of Frank Terrell
crashed Into the crowd that was wit
nessing his flight at Camden Friday
afternoon. Mr. Terrell attempted to
land, but as the claw which is used
as a brake on his trailer refused to
penetrate the hard ground, the lost
control of his machine with the ahova
results. Mrs. King, mother of . Wal
ter King, of Camden, was hurt the
worst. She received the full force of
the machine and was severely bruis
ed. It is feared that she received a
broken bone in the shoulder. WI1-
mer King, of Bethnne, also received
the full compact of the maehine and
knocked unconscious for a few mo
ments. His little daughter was
slightly bruised. James Shears was
bruised and his clothes badly torn.
McDowell Lewie received a cat on the
temple end a negro nurse W4U knock
ed down. Little Jack Nettles, who
was with the nurse, was thrown on
one of the planes of the machine but
waa uninjured. Mr. Terrell received
a bruised arm when thrown from hie
seat
The accident happened ao quickly
that people were dutnfounded, women
and children became hysterical and
ru»he«l toward the Injured to see If
any were their friend# or relatives
Othera. more timid, ran towards
eiMNit building feering to look upd^ »
the lajured who lay writhing on the
r ro 1 rul
l r t. .irbelt •»» .u.taed:*’.* ly to the
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gredee of rotloe
The Urwee end fliaalaria say*
Senator flail'h a apeech was dtet'.aet
iy a farmer a ai«*rh aad he delighted
hke large audleoee romp**e*d prlnrl
peUy ef fa/mere, bet among whiah
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Pro
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duction.
Pounds.
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• ere ecauered large a ambers of buei- r
ness and professions! men Rea a to
Rmlth waa constantly Interrupted by
applause and It ta eipreesing U mildly
to aay that hla speech waa well re
ceived '• The farmers are fortunate
In having a man who know* some
thing about their needs to the Sen
ate.
WLATER w shot.
Hon Kills Father For Killing His
Mother.
Lewis Van Luven. 68, a farmer llv
Ing at Harpersfleld, Ohio, shot and
killed hls wife late Friday and then
was killed by his son, Matthews, 17
Young Van Luven snrrendered to the
police. The boy and hls 9-year-old
sister said their mother was killec
while sitting in tbe .kitchen. They
said their father then attempted to
kill them. The boy succeeded In
tearing the shotgun Sway from his
father and brought down the heaYy
stock of the weapon on his father’s
skull, killing him.
Confessed to Killing.;
Six members of the pffirty of strik
ers accused of the murder of four
members of an automobile party at
Trinidad, Col., en route from Laveta
to Oakvlew Saturday have made de
tailed confessions, according to re
ports Tuesday received by Adjutant
General Chase from Major Townsend
at Washington.
— ewe
A University of Kansas scientist
says that a single bacterlim will in
the course of two days rales a fam
ily of 1.000,000.000.000,900. If this
is true, there is not much chance of
cape. But luckily these naiversity
ed an lists are ofleoti
North Carolina
11.101,000
10.144.000
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*ioe fr.ee 1# aar by •*■«!.eg bu roe
igaaUvs to tha pealientta/v
Alv.*e/« <f Huerta *bc are eee4
eg an eoUaeery to treat with Mr
< > Sbaugbneesy lasiat that tM* last
demand of tbe United Statee la an an
nabl# one. aloe# If the nee Con
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greee Is permitted to meet, then there
will be a body to which Huerta tan
send hta resignation In doe form and
maintain hie dignity It has been
suggeeted that In order to aaeure the
United State* that the new Congreae
will be an Inoruous Instltulon, a doc
ument might be prepared eettlng
forth tbe only measure# this body
would be expected to enact and tbat
care would be taken to see to It tbat
among them there was none which
would be objectionable to Washing
ton.
It Is not denied that to permit Con
gress to meet without previous assur
ances from the executive, would be
at best but a gamble, but It Is con
tended that any other course is diffi
cult on account of the laws govern
ing the resignation of the President.
A dispatch from Washington on
Friday let it >be known that the
American government will not re
sume negotiations with those officials
close to HuerU who are now urging
further parleys until assurances can
be given the provisional President
Huerta’s intention to resign. This
was the status of the Mexican situa
tion late Friday night. Efforts by
counsellors of Huerta to induce John
Lind at Vera Crux to re-open the en
tire subject had not been successful
at a late hour, it was reported, Mr.
Lind refusing to go back to Mexico
City unless some definite promises
were forthcoming from General
Huerta.
Chairman Bacon, of the foreign re
lations committee, in discussing dis
patches from Mexico City stating that
Huerta's counsellors were seeking to
re-open the negotiations, declared
that the enly eonditlea upon which
tbat con Id be done weald be the com
plete surrender ef Haerta.
>lspa tehee from Nogales. Son or,
anaonneteg Gen. Carranan’a refanal
to accept nay ^transactIpe" with for-
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i ti*/k**<>e AitaJa Higb
< utio* run.
Keek m a
For fbw firet time la at !w*at 2 9
year# rbsrleetoe baa a*-r<>r1lBf to
statistics cemplle4 ap antil test Frl
day. lakeo fourth position among
files of tke l'ait*4 State* tn tbe
vales of cotton eaportaUoss The
order of standing of tke leadlag cot
ton exporting porta according to this
compilation, la as fol^>we Galves
ton. Savannah, New Orleans. Charles
ton The exports from Charleston
for the season are valued at approxi
mately 112,000,000 and are greeter
than they have been at any prertoua
season np to this time. It Is coriser
vatlvely estimated that the season's
cotton export business from this port
will amount to $25,090,600. This
estimate holding good, the export
season for this year Is aow about half
over. This Is the first season in lome
20 years, it is authoritatively stated,
that Charleston’s cotton exports have
gone beyond those of Wilmington.
This port’s cotton business has been
gradually Increasing for the past
eight years. It will be remembered
that the cotton export business reach
ed the low water mark of $600,000
In the year 1906.
They Found Out.
Finding a vial pf small round tab
lets on the street, Edward Grapt,
aged 27, and William Delehanty, 28,
swallowed some of the contents and
now are in a hospital at Newburgh,
N. Y., In a dying condition. Both
were found semi-conscious on the
river front. "We knew the tablets
were poisonous,” said Grant, "but we
wanted to learn how they taated.”
Olar Has Big Blase,
A fire which practically destroyed
the business section of the town of
Olar occurred early Tuesday morn
Ing. The property destroyed wai
valued at mere than $30,000, half of
which loes is covered by insurance.
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; .* it.* fvoia.c !*r of th« warning*
ihjj.J a-jua../ ■! »14***1 betwee!
'tv govarr.meet aaJ a ?ual to goar
ar.t*>»* l*p.,4:*» Senator Hriatow waa
a time to draft hi* proposal
nto th# earnlr.ga eerUona of it# bill
The adm nletratloa bill will provide
that tbe banka •bail pay S per rent,
dividends oa their stock, accomalate
a 10 per rent surplus and that all
th* earn Inge above tbat flgar* ehall
go to tke government
The Democrat# eliminated from
th# redemption section of th# bill th#
provision that th* new currency
should be redeemable In "lawful
money" as well as gold. Tbe re
demption was made on a flat gold
standard, but it was provided that
the new reserve notes might be held
In the reserve of member banks on
%
geeted that Car ranis’■ declaration
was lotaadaat chiafly to allay any
feel lug ta Mexico that ha waa oator-
lag tato aUlaaeea wtth tha United
the same terms as gold.
Senator Hitchcock and the Repub
licans held that they were the only
bona IWe banking and currency fom-
mittee organtxed by designating Sen
ator Hitchcock, "the ranking Demo
crat." as chairman. They declared
the secret sessions of Chairman Owen
and his administration Senators were
entirely outside the activities of the
committee. The matter probably will
be straightened out when the admin
istration forces go Into the committee
meeting and endeavor to arrange
some program for a report.
Senator Hitchcock and the Repub
licans went after the bill In vigorous
fashion. They eliminated entirely a
provision allowing the appointment
of receivers for Insolvent regional
banks, bolding that a receiver would
only tie up the entire reserves of the
banks and that there was no pdfcsl-
billty of a regional bank failing. The
administration Senators put in a pro
vision that no receiver should be ap
pointed, but that the Federal reserve
board should "take possession of and
administer the functions of any re
gional hank which might become In
solvent.”
It is the man of one Idee that
reaches the goal. If that alone le con
sidered he may be termed a very a ar
row being, but when It le coasMered
tbat la tke effort to gala bis sad tbe
a secures information of
ktaft tbat will kelp him k meet be
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1 4 «*e
' '•-*** i ®a.1 n jda-l * t . k
t>ela# of forelgw not'.n and J! Til
telee of Unt*r* ( uaa.bpviow la col
umn growing Saaiee eaa T TI k4 be.**
and in all other Stale JO.TIJ beta*
» otion on hand n maaufar'urint
•etablUkmanta on Uctuw.-' It lailud
*d II 4 42 bale* of foratgu cotton a
4» 4*7 bale# of Mnter# In ou
growing Slate# manufacturing vet
liehmeot* there waa on hand i7!.lJ9
bale# and In all other Plate* ,»• ilk
bale# Cotton la indepan dec' were-
houae* Included 3,87J halve of .'or-
elgn cotton and 38,1 08 balea of lln-
ten In cotton growing State# In in
dependent warehouse* there were on
hand 2.497.799 bales and Id all other
States 54(185 bales
Imports were: From Egypt 2,11P
bales, Peru, 1,419; China, 751; and
from all other countries, 1,083.
Exports were: To United King
dom, 514,0.54 bales; Germany, 466.-
526; France, 279,469; Italy, 64,282,
and to all other countries, 204,568,
Active cotton spindles during Oc
tober numbered 30,833,024, an in
crease of 803,291, over October,
1912. Those in cotton growing States
numbered 12,071,652 and in all other
States 18,761,372.
Thirty Perished in Shipwreck.
Thirty lives are reported to have
been lost in the wreck of the steamer
Henry B. Smith, of Clevelajad, in
Lake Superior, . near Marquette,
Mich., on Thursday. One body has
been washed ashore and the ship’s
name was obtained from wreckage
picked up on the beach. The Smith
was owned by the Hawgood-Avery
Transit Line.
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Reality After Fire Dream. \
Dreaming that her house was ©a,
Ore, Mrs. Margaret Foster, an elderly
woman of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. #
*woke to And her house ablate,
was with great difficulty that the
man battle for life in the de
smoke until she was rescued by flro-
Homidde la Jacksonville.
B. B. MeWhlte Jr., a young man
from Hendersonvllie, N. C.. wee stab-
*d to dentk at Jacksonville, Fin.,
Thursday night while on hie way*
wtth a Mend, to
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