Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I , EXPOSITION OPEN? Gates of Jamestown Show ? Swing Ajar to Public. ROOSEVELT AT THE HELM ^ Elaborate Program Carried Out In Inauguration of Big Enterprise. Many Thousands in Attendance. | With President Roosevelt as the guest, and with diplomatic and military officials from all of the most important nations of the world in attendance, the Jamestown Tercentennial exposition was thrown open to j the public Friday. Every steamer ^ and every train reaching .Norfolk brdught thousands of visitors. The 1 city was decorated as seldom before, and the governor of Virginia proclaimed a holiday. The details of the program of land and water ceremonies were careiully worked out, and i the opening was a notable epoch in the history of tidew-ter Virginia, i President Roosevelt, who left Wash- ; ington Thursday afternoon on board j the Mayflower, arrived off Fort Mon- j roe Friday morning shortly after 8 j o'clock. He immediately proceeded | tr> rpvipw the rnaaniflcent fleet of for- j * eign arid American warships now at . anchor in Hampton Koads. This imposing ceremony and a brief reception to the flag officers on board the Mayflower ended, the president set out for the shore, landing at the exposition at 11 o'clock. He was driven at once to the reviewing stand on Lee Parade, a magnificent drill grounds, skirted by blossoming aspine blooms, and there delivered the opening and dedicatory address of the ' exposition, which was received amid | deafening cheers. President Koossvelt concluded by pressing a gold button as a signal tor the formal opening of all the finished departments of the enterprise. The president and his immediate ? party then received several hundred invited guests in the auditorium building. After this function he was entertained at luncheon. He returned to the reviewing stand during the afternoon to witness the land parade of soldiers and sailors, several companies of the latter being landed from the foreign vessels. This concluded i the opening ceremonies. ' Thursday witnessed the arrival of the most formidable of .the visiting warshiD squadron. The Austrian ships Saakt George and Asbern, and the British cruiser squadron, composed of J the Good Hope, the Argyll, the Hamp- | shire and the Roxborough passed in ; the capes within a few hours of each other. With saluting cannon and dip,< ping flags they cruised slowly up v Hampton Roads. The flagship Connecicut of the American fleet exchanged salutes with the Sankt George and the Good Hope, and later Admiral Sir George Neville of the British squadron and Commodore Hermann Prescott of. the Austrian squadron put out in small boats to visit . Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans on the Connecicut". They were ' warmly welcomed and had hardly gone over the side to return to their own flagships when the American commander was in his launch returning the official call of courtesy. ; The arrival of the Britons and Austrians, who had been preceded two days by the German squadron and the'Argentine ship Sarmiento, lent immeasurably to the attractiveness of f the flaval display arranged for the opening day of the exposition. The steamer Jamestown from Washington, bearing the congressional delegation to. the exposition, arrived at Old Point Comfort Thursday night The steamer Newport News, with the diplomats and naval and military attaches of the foreign embassies and legations on board, arrived early Friday morning and disembarked her distinguished passengers at the expo sition grounds* h REMARKABLE STATEMENT 1 * 1 \ Made in Court by Harry Lyle, Who Killed Wife.and Babe. Hary E. Lyle, the alleged murderer of his wife and four-months-old baby in Waycross, Ga., on the 20th of January last, made a statement in his own behalf in Ware county superior court Wednesday, pleading that the killing of his wife was an accident, and stating that he does not know when or how the shot was fired which killed his babe. Lyle was one of the coolest persons in the court roofii when he made his , statement. JILTED WOMAN USED GUN. Killed Recreant Swetheart and Then Committed Suicide. Thaddeus S. Ross, 35 years old, a clerk in the postoffice at Oil City, Pa., was shot and instantly killed Wednesday by Miss Isabelle Stroup, 28 years old, a former sweetheart, who immediately shot herself through the heart. Both victims of the tragedy were of prominent families. wrir- .... - .:V i TOO MUCH WALL STREET Permeates Plans for Dealing In Cotton and Farmers' Union Will Hoid Aloof. That the Farmers' Union does not endorse the movement begun at Birmingham, Ala., to organize a plan of cotton warehouses and a guarantee | company, is stated emphatically by j I J. Lr. JliUUiliitvs, vxtoigxa siaic uuj.nes3 agent of the Farmers' Union. President K. F. Duckworth, of the Georgia division of the Farmers' Union, endorsed Mr. Eubanks' statements. ^ "We were invited to this meeting," stated Mr. Eubanks, "in order tiiat we might hear this question discussed. Our Alabama state business agent, Mr. P. F. Parker, was there, and also a few other Farmers' Union representatives. "The announcement has gone out," continued Mr. Eubanks, "that a plan was agreed upon at this meeting, and that it had the endorsement of both the Farmers' Union and the Southern Cotton Association. Nothing could be further from the truth. Alabama State Agent Parker has already sent out a denial of the statement published in an Atlanta paper and making it clear that the Farmers' Union has not endorsed the plan promulgated. "1 may as well be frank," said State Agent Eubanks, "and say that as soon as we got to Birmingham we found that the meeting was all cocked and | primed by the 'Southern Cotton Association. The invitation we received came not from it, but from others, the Southern Cotton Association evidently j fearing to take the lead in the moveI ruent on account of its odorous con! nection with Mr. Hoadley of Wall street. So we were invited by others, - - - ^ i but we aid not tane me u<uu num ; all we could see, one end of the fisliI ing pole was in Wall street, and we | have no doubt that Speculator Hoad| ley was eagerly feeling for tremors i at the handle end to see whether or | not the nibblers at the other end of the line meant business. | "We must make it plain now that i we cannot, and will not, co-operate ! with the Southern Cotton Association as long as it is officered by men as close to Wall street as are some 01 its present head officers. Less than six months ago Mr. Hoadley in an interview boldly made the statement that he was kept constantly in toucn I with cotton development in the south ! by almost daily communication with j President Harvie. Jordan?that Mr. I Jordan let him know 'just what was I going on/ That came only a short while after the time when the South| era Cotton Association endeavored to I force the Farmers' Union to make j a stand for 10-cent cotton for last season. We would not do it, but made a straightout fight for 11-cent cotton, and largely as the results of our efforts most of the last year's crop has sold at nearer 11 cents than 10 cents. If we had agreed to 10-cent cotton, not one bale of cotton in the south would have brought more than that figure. "As to the Birmingham warehouse 4 ? TM?AT\ncoH hv I movement, <x yiau *> pivpv?vu *>j this convention to establish a cotton exchange for handling warehouse receipts, closing contracts on them instead of spot cotton. Our plan is for the Farmers' Union to deal only in spot cotton and to sell direct to the spinner. We are establishing warehouses throughout the south and at the present rate of increase it will not be long before our warehouses are ,available to the entire cotton belt. But we propose to retain the identity of a bale of cotton from the gin to the spinner, giving the producer the benefit to be so derived. TO PASS ON PURE FOOD. Board of Three Experts is Appointed by Secretary Wilson. Secretary Wilson Thursday created an executive order for the board of food and drug inspection, whose duty it shall be to administer the national pure food laws. Une board consists of Dr. Harvey Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, chairman; Frederick L. Dunlap, associate chemist, and George R. McCabe, solicitor of the department of agriculture. A SHORTAGE OF $92,000 Revealed in a Circular Letter issued by "Buncoed" Company. A shortage of about $92,000 in the accounts of the Woonsocket Electrio Machine and Power company at Woonsocket, R. I., was revealed on Thursday by the issuance to the stockholders of the company of a circular letter announcing that a heavy shortage had been discovered. . The letter further stated that the resignation of Levi Cook Lincoln, secretary-treasurer and general manager a# the company, had been accepted. KANSAS TO OUST BREWERS. Attorney uenerai wins ngnt to enforce Liquor Laws. The Kansas supreme court late Monday afternoon allowed the suit of Attorney General Jackson for receivership in the ouster cases against the brewery companies in Kansas. The court did not name the receivers, but will do so in a day or so. PEACE IS BOOSTED! ' Pan \ | By President in Address at Jamestown Exposition. plet OUR HISTORY IS TRACED 1 sl is ( I si Mighty Task of America's Early Set- T tiers is Graphically Set Forth. by Virginia's Fight for Life iius Recounted. ^ro' GOO ' gati President Roosevelt opened his ad- j ing H I'D O C* of tVi a T O rv> 1 I ef O t uivoo u-i uic u t;uicolu ? 11 CAyUblLlULi U/ *<-*** extending cordial greetings to the representatives of foreign countries i u . j D> i present, showing America's intimate -*1 connection w'.Ci practically* every na- can; tion and race on the globe, and also for making a plea for universal peace. tors Along this line he said: W c "We have met today to celebrate con the opening of the exposition, which on 1 itself commemorates the first perma- t0 * nent settlement of men of our stock cou in Virginia, the first beginning of this what has since become this mighty ai)p republic; "Three hundred years ago a handful t0 of English adventurers, who had wor crossed the ocean in what we should aric* now call cocklebcats, as clumsy as te they were frail, landed in the great tioi] wooded wilderness, the Indian-haunted Per waste, which then sketched dowi> to the water's edge along the entire At- gre: lantic coast. l^e "They were net the first men of v^e European race to settle in what is oue now the United States, for there were already Spanish settlements in.Flor- ' ida and on the headwaters of the gln< Rio Grande; and the French, who at tha1 almost the same time were strue- *)e gling up the St. Lawrence, were like- can wise destined to form permanent set- *r01 tlements on the great lakes and in niai the valley of the mighty Mississippi ^av before the people of English stock tud< went westward of ihe Aiieghenies. to "Moreover, both the Dutch and the this Swedes were shortly to found colonies gre: ?those that grew up around the Poto- aw*? mac, and those that grew up on what for is now the New England coast. Never- tha theless, this landing at Jamestown hon possesses for us of the United States an altogether peculiar significance and p this without regard to our several ori- { gins, Bro "The men who landed at Jamestown and those who, thirteen years later, landed at Plymouth, all of English j stock, and their fellow-settlers who sist during the next few decades streamed Str; iu after them, were those who took : g00 the lead in shaping the life history i gml of this people in the colonial and } (jay revolutionary days. It was thev whn i - * ?~ I 1 bent into definite shape our nation ! nrir wfiile it was still young enough most j ytr( easily, most readily, to take on the ! characteristics which were to become sll0 part of its permanent life habit. "Yet let us remember that while , this early English colonial stock has ! ai^ left deeper than all others upon our .! national life the mark of its strong tr< twin individualities, the mark of the ? Cavalier and of the Puritan?nevertheless this stock, not only from its t0 1 environment, but also from the presence with it of other stocks, almost a 11 from the beginning, began to be dif- y l'erentiated strongly from an Europe- betl an people. As I have already said,- ?ee about the time the first English set- tria tiers landed here, the Frenchman and the Spaniard, the Swede and the the owi Ducthman, also came hither as per- attc manent dwellers, who left their seed timi to inherit our national life. The Ger- ? man, the Irishman, and the Scotch- cou man came later, but still in colonial the times. Smi "All through the colonial days new mac waves of immigration from time to Str< time swept hither across the ocean, firei now from one country, now from an- effe other. The same thing has gone o? A ever since our birth as a nation; and noo for the last sixty years the tide of his immigration has been at the full. The jurj newcomers are soon absorbed i:*o it v our eager national life, and are rad- and ically and profoundly changed there- ting by, the rapidity of their assimilation being marvelous. But each group of c newcomers, as it adds its blood to the * life, also changes it. somewhat, and cas this change and growth and development have gone on steadily, generation by generation, throughout three T centuries." sist He dwelt at length on the enormous icin nature of the task which the first set- tlie tiers of America faced when they set Ldol foot on our shores. Especially, said t he, was this the case with the pio- acra ner settlers at Jamestown, who were an from the start menaced by famine, j pestilence and war. He went op to show that other portions of America agk were not settled until after the Jamestown pioneers had begun to prosper. Ul> TROLLEY CARS TIED UP. SUl Strike Declared at Salt Lake City and Traffic at Stand-Still. A strike was declared Sunday cn the A lines of the Utah Light and Rail- has way Company at Salt Lake City, 450 Ctm men walking out. Numerous scenes app of disorder followed attempts to oper- the ate a few cars with non-union crews, acc< and all efforts to maintain even a 0011 I partial service were soon abandoned. ' stla . - ' ' ' .t-, <SeiVr?j?-V.J 2* WITHIN EIGHT YEARS ama Canal Will Be Doing Business, Prophecies Taft, in Address to Business Men. [f the Panama canal is not camed within eight years from now, | tall be greatly disappointed, if it completed in l?ss time than that, tall not be greatly surprised." his statement made .Monday night Secretary of War Taft before the iness Men's Club of Cincinnati light forth uproarious titters, the members of the club who wete lered inside the banquet hall risto their feet and cheering the onionr and the SHPJilvHr With tl*e idous enthusiasm, eferring to the rejection of bids contractors the secretary said: ^Ye adverii. >d for bids on the al work, and then declined them the reason that we found mat rould be necessary for the contraci to have the help of capitalists and would be compelled to allow to the tractors, seven per cent interest :he money they would be compelled >orrow from the capitalists. As we Id borrow money at 2 per cent, i 7 per cent proposition did not eal greatly to us. I wish to pay a high compliment Chief Engineer Stevens for his k in connection with the canal also for his efforts to transfer to government the entire organizai on the isthmus, which he had fected at such great labor. To us in responsibility, it is a at comfort to be able to introduce army engineers upon the work, have three of them there and if of them falls out, the continuity the work will be undisturbed. It >nly fair to say of the army enters that there will be no graft t they can suppress and there will no bad work accepted that they supervise. Xo doubt engineers 11 civil life would act in a similar mer, bujt if any of you gentlemen e ever managed a work of magnib where everybody had the right poke in his nose and insist upon ; and that, you would know how at is the relief to have that aone ly with. The record of the army the last fifty years is a guarantee t the work will be capable and estly performed." _ RINTER FILLED WITH LEAD. ther Applies "Unwritten Law" in Defense of Sister. harging that he had betrayed his er, an eighteen-year-old girl, L. D. mg, manager for Kessler s dry ds store, shot and killed H. D. ith, a printer in Macon, Ga., Monhe shooting occurred at Smiih's iting office. Four bullets from >ng s pistol taking effect. Smith j ; hurried to the hospital, but died rtly after reaching there. He made statement before ' his death, but ited before he could sign it. '.e said in that statement that inn had shot him about his sister. that lie was innocent of the charg.. trong surrendered and was carried he police station. trong contends that Smith, who is tarried man, and who is survived his wife and several children, had rayed his sister. A warrant had \ n sworn out for Smith and the 1 was to have taken place Monmorning in a justice court. But ng' to the absence of Joe Hill Hall, irney for Smith, the case was conled. oth- Strong and Smith left the rt room a few minutes later, so report gees, and Strong passed th's office. Smith, it is claimed, le some taunting remark, and Dng thereupon pulled a pistol and d four times, every shot taking ct. t the city hospital Monday aftern, Coroner T. E. Young completed investigation of the killing. The r returned a verdict declaring that ^as a case of justifiable homicide, there was no time lest in acquit; Strong. g UT RATE PRICES INVOLVED. e is Before United States Supreme Court for Adjudication. he question whether. retail drugs have a right to sell, patent mea es below a price established by manufacturers is involved in the 3 of Hartman and Company, patmedicine manufacturers of Omo, inst John D. Park and Sons Comy, of Kentucky, in which a petii was presented to the supreme rt of the United States Monday ing that court to bring the case for review. ES FOR SHARE OF EARNi.NGS. lois Wants Five Millions of Railroad Company's Dough. ttorney General Stead, or" IKinois, filed a suit against the Jilinois tral Itailroad Company to recover roxiraately $5,0iK>,d00 claimed by state as due from tlio railroad in ordance with provisions oi the ipany's. charcer, giving the state a re in the road's gross earnings. \ ^ _ V ' ... ' JORDAN ATTACKED By Chattanooga Tradesman in Caloric Article j ON WAREHOUSE SCHEME Well Known Journal Alleges That President of Southern Cotton Association is in Hands of Manipulators. Commenting upon tlie removal of the headquarters of the Southern Cotton Association from Atlanta to Birmingham, the Tradesman, (.Cnacta nooga), the best known industrial publication south of Baltimore, says that "Mr. Harvie Jordan has been playing Birmingham against Atlanta, and this is so transparent that it is astonishing the fact seems to be overlooked at the Birmingham end. Borne1 of the methods which this modern mogul of finance uses to exploit his schemes, are so patent on their face they would be extremely ridiculous if they were not so dangerous." Commenting upon the warehouse receipt system recently promulgated at the Birmingham meeting, in wnich movement the Farmers' Cnidn refused to join, the Tradesman, among other things, says: "It does not seem possible, however, for Mr. Jordan to keep out of the toils of schemers, or to horn in y?Vv thnon nrnmnlinps nr hi<5 inner VUCV/|>. cuvoc Wi. ? . consciousness that are so constantly leading him into the most glaring inconsistencies and paths of danger and disaster to his blinded followers. "Just consider for a moment those policies which he aided in fastening on the cotton farmers that permitted the marketing of a large portion or the crop of 1905 at medium prices and then playing into the hands of speculators for higher prices when the farmers had parted with their product. Why, it was one of the most notorious of these speculators, and the very chief of 'hot-air artists' in America, who boldly and publicly proclaimed his admiration of Harvie Jordan, so much so that he said he had 'given him $20,000 for his plan to buy up cotton for higher prices.' This was at the meeting of the Southern Cotton Association held in Birmingham in January last. Does any cotton farmer know the result of that 'deal?' Did any of the profits go into the treasury of the Southern Cotton Association for which Mr. Jordan was presumed to be acting? Oh, no?for that association was so near bankrupt that Mr. Jordan would not consent to accept renomination unless it was better financed. "At this writing he is in Birmingham for the purpose of establishing there a great 'system' of warehouses that would have one parent 'stock' there with 'branches' all over the south. -The cotton of the farmers is to be stored in these warehouses, and for which they are.to be given "warrants," or certificates. "This scheme has been maae so attractive to some cf the mcst prominent of his followers that they are trying to form a gr^at southern cotton exchange to deal in these warrants. /The Tradesman endorsed in 19U5 the only warehouse plan that seems feasible or desirable, and that was known as the 'Waco' plan, and this is now in successful operation all over Texas. Under that plan the farmer needs no one to help him except his local banker. He puts his cotton in his own warehouse, under his own control, and that is the best collateral he can give for any loans he may require?better than any kind of a 'warrant'?and then he can sell as suits him and to the manufacturer direct if he wishes. That plan is well established. It is very simple and very efficient. The Jordan plan cannot improve or supersede it, because it is not in the real interest of the farmer, but it is another form for pro moting gambling, she very thing Mr. Jordan is fighting. RESfECT PRESIDENTS OFFICE. Sensible Action Taken by Labor Union at St. Louis. The Central Trades and Labor Union of St. -Louis Sunday refused to endorse a resolution by the pattern makers' organization attacking Presi- J dent Roosevelt for his denunciation of Mover and Haywood, officers of the Western. Federation or .Miners, cnarged with complicity in the murder o? ex-Governcr Steunenlerg. Members of the Central Labor body declared "No matter what v/e think of Roosevelt, we must, as good citizens, respect the office of chief magistrate of our republic." TORNADO SWEEPS TEXAS. One Town Destroyed and Eight Lives Known to Se Lost. One village totally destroyed, extensive damage done to property and crops at other points and eight lives known to have been lest is the result of a storm which was general over Texas late Saturday, and which at several points assumed the proportion of a tornado. " POLICE GUARD TILLMAN, ti Senator Delivers Characteristic Leo- V: ture in Pittsburg, Pa,?Some Excitement, But No Trouble. As a precautionary measure twentjr' 5? two detectives and a squad of unlI formed policemen were stationed In the Carnegie Music Hall at Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday night, during the address of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina, who discuss- 3 v **;i ed the race problem before the Park Avenue (Allegheny) Athletic Club. :> Several incidents occurred, but 110 ft trouble resulted. There were but ten negroes in the audience, which filled the music hall to overflowing. At the close of the address, in which ^ he declared the races in the south -a were gradually becoming more op- 'f posed to one another, Senator Tillman ..Jj called for a vote of the audience as to whether the negro was the equal of the white man. The entire audi- J ence, except the ten negroes, voted in the negative. One man took exceptions to Till- fx man's remarks, and made several interruptions. Tillman made him admit he came from Europe, and he bitterly denounced Europeans who undertake Ji to judge questions concerning this ^ country. In discussing whether the negro "^n be educated, Senator Tillman declar- 3$ ed that Booker T. Washington waa Ji the harbor of refuge and safety to ...Jj which people flee when other places fail, and that Booker T. Washington was but one negro in ten million and *j?3 was half white at that. REPUBLICANS IN SOUTH Are Solid for Roosevelt According to --|1 Report of Hitchcock. First Assistant Postmaster General ;^B Hitchcock returned xto Washington ;i|| Wednesday from the south, where lie has been for the past week, primarily ' /Ja on an inspection tour of the south- ;|a ern postoffices. Mr. Hitchcock said he ;|?| had only just learned that his trip had been given a political significance ?? nnrfh in V/Ki<>h in newspapers m iuc uui m ?... \h the statement appeared that he was :-J9| on a mission tor the president to j|j8 ascertain nrst hand regarding anj '%m new direction in the republican sentiment in the south. Mr. Hitchcock denied with empha- -? sis that President Roosevelt directed his movements. "It is true," he continued/"that while my trip was praotically one of inspection and one which I had planned months ago, I'Jj discussed politics to some extent This Jgg was only natural, as I was calldi on by many southern republicans officially connected with the government and otherwise interested. >' "I saw no evidence to justify pub- J lished reports of disaffectioh in the ranks of some of the republicans la" the smith, such a3 organization of opposing movements and that sort thing we have been hearing about for some time "In the states I visited, South Car? Jgj jlina, Georgia aud i'iorida, the re- :_||| publicans are in hearty accord with :J|S the administration. They are Roosevelt men through and through." RECEIVERSHIP IN TENNESSEE For Chattanooga Southern Confirmed by Local Courts. , , v |? The receivership for the Chatta- "|g| nooga Southern railway created in Atlanta Tuesday by order of Judge -Jl I ton A. Pardee of the United States / % circuit cour fo<* Georgia and AJabai^ M ma. was affirmed in the federal court -|1 in Chattanooga Wednesday as to Ten- - nessee, auxiliary pruceeuiuga uanu^ m been instituted in that city to confirm the appointment made there. HEARING GIVEN POSTMASTER. || Deposed Tennessee Official Appears Before Postoffice Department. .ytf A Washington dispatch says: "A. B. Hughes, who was recently deposed as ,.;a postmaster at Columbia, Tenn., was jig given a hearing Wednesday by Postmaster General Meyer and First As- ;'-J| sistant Postmaster General Hitchcock. No conclusion was reached. VAST HORDE OF IMMIGRANTS. ;1 Month of April Will Show Total Ar? J rivals of 140,000. How stupendous is the rush of im- 75 migration to the New York port this spring is shown in a tabulation which makes its appearance this month that the arrivals will total more than 140,000. ' There are waiting in the harbor 10.49S men, women and children, chief- :|j ly Italians. When the twenty-five ,% ships due within the next few days 2 arrive there will be waiting in the * harbor and at the piers about forty thousand immigrants. % BINGER HERMANN ACQUITTED. ,|? Jury Was Out 21 Hours Before Reach- 3 inn a Verdict. Binger Hermann, former congress- 'M man from Oregon and former com- J9 missioaer of the general land office. / was acquitted of the charge of destroy- M ing public records by the verdict of : a jury rendered in Washington, Satur- J day. The trial had progressed for twelve weeks and the jury deliberated " r|s 21 hours before reaching a verdict. . \p