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- T - VOL. XIII. THE OIL TRUST. Hi? -tfttier* States Are Fighting the Standard. I CAUSE OF THE FIGHT. w~"* ' " (cresting Account of the Trouble as Told by a Correspondent of the Omaha World-Herald, Wf^ Makes Out a Bad Case Against Them. The fight against the Standard Oil Trust by the people of Kansas is attracting world-wide attention and people In all seotlons of the country are ahowlug their sympathy for Kanaka. On February 21, tho Illlnol>. legislature adopted a resolution offering to lend the State of Kansas the sum of 1100,000 without Interest, for a period of six years to aid In establishing a state oil refinery. This res olutlon referred to the Standard Oil trust as "that merciless octopus whose icn&aoies now encircle every state. In the union." Another resolution provided for the appointment of & joint commission to confer with the state ctllcials of Kansas and to agree on stops to be taken for pipe lines to aid common carriers. Indiana oil producers have organized to fight the (il! trust and they will urge the erection of a state refinery. The bill has been introduced In the Texas legislature, making the pipe lines of that state available to Independent pro ducers and It Is proposed by some that tbc state erect a refinery. Oklahoma |g likewise considering the erection of a state refinery, together with the proposition to make oil producers preserve a uniform price throughout the state. An Interesting description of the troubles between Kansas and the oil trust Ik given by Frank P. Gallagher, tbe stall correspondent for the Omaha ..WTliti^rald, In a dispatch to that newspaper, under date of Topeka, Feb 21. Mr. Gallagher says: ''It was a bitter experience with the sinister influences of Standard Oil that led the people of Kansas, but as late as two years ago the oil Industry amounted to little. Twelve years ago Standard Oil wriggled Into Kansas under the deceptive title of the Forest Oil company. Departing from Its historic Dolicv. thft Standard Oil irianRi/i-mnnt. determinedjto develop the fields without waiting for the people to catch the 014 fever. Near Neodesha In Wilson county many wells were sunk, but the oil refused to gush and the borings were abandoned. Standard Oil relinquished its leasts to hundreds of acres and surrendered the task of development to the prospectors and promoters." The tlrst important strike was made by Charles Knapp, six years ago, at Chanute, near one of the abandom d properties of the Forest Oil company. A little later it was found that Peru, Kansas, was located on a vast oil deposit. Soon nearly every town lot had its oil well, and the Forest Oil oompauyreturned to the Held with renevodjp^igor. As the business developed the Forest OH company underwent several ohanges. Its small oap italization disappeared, and on Janu ary 7, 1001, it took the name of the Prairie Oil and Gas company and increased its capital stock to 82,500,000. The company then built pipe lines to Neodesha from Chanute and at the latter point a refinery was established. In 1902 tbe supply of oil wa* till unsatisfactory to tbe Standard Oil folk, and in order to create a boom it suddenly raised tbe pi ice of crude oil from 90 cents to 11.10 a barrel The effect was magical. In twelve months tbe output grew from 322,000 barrels with a value of $289,000 to 1,018,000 with a value of $1,120,018. A greater part of tbe output was taken by tbe Standard Oil company, but each day E. J. Webster, who has built an independent refinery at Humboldt, Kan., took 200 barrels. In the meantime, Standard OH, according to Mr. Gallagher, had been whetting its oimltar -vith the Intention of striking down the entire independent oil Industry of Kansas. capacity of Its plant at Neodesba w&n added to until It had reaohed 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day. The pipe lines were extended until the maiu conduit ran from Tulsa In the Osage nation south of the Kansas state line through Kansas to Kansas City, Mo At Chaney, Neodesha, Altoona and C\Hiiraboldt, the Prairie Oil and Gas my built giant tanks, and began store oil. By January 1, 1906, it had a total stock on hand of 6,448,034 barrels. Until last August, when the Standard finished its system of pipe lines through the state, oil had been bringing prices ranging, from *1.20 to *1.40 a barrel, according to its specific gravity. It was at this juncture that Standard Oil sprung hstrap, in which the oil producers and consumers of Kansas and the single independent o4 S finer, E. J. Welster, are still squtr* but**VHh a show of vlife that astonishes the captor. The price of crude oil began to fall. In fcur reductions tbe prioes were cut to 72 cts. lor a barrel of the btsb oil. Another smash of 2 cents was made on January 31, 1906. To what a low level prices for orude oil bad sunk Is lllus trated In the following comparative table: Western orude oil prices?32 degree and above, 70c; 31} to 32, 66c; 31 to 31}, 60c; 30} to 31, 66c; 30 to 30}, 60c; 29} to 30, 45c; 29 to 29}, 40c; 28} to 29, 36o; 28 to 28}, 30c; 22 to 28 heavy, 29o per barrel. Bartlesvllle, I. T.# 82o per barrel. Eastern orude oil price: Pennsylvania, *1.40; Tiona, II.66; jOorning, *1.67; New Castle, 1.31; North Lima, d3c; South Ioma, 88o per barrel. Indiana, 88o; Somerset, 81o; Bagland, 63o; Petrolia, Ont., *1.33 per barrel. The Prairie OH and Gas Company then made such rules relative to tests that the owner of a high quality oi oil received no more than one whose output was of an Inferior quality; moreover, the Standard Oil's Inspectors did all the grading. In some in) (J stances they graded the oil high and 1 when the time came to buy they re graded the same oil In a lower classldoatlon. There were other Injustices that aroused Intense Indignation tlon among the produceis, but th<* , worst blow was yet to fall. Ass/On as the Standard had completed Its conduits it could transport its oil without shipping by rati. This the Independent dealer could not do. It was then that the railways advanced the rates from 10 cents to 17 cents per 1 100 pounds. In addition to this, the railways arbitrarily ruled that a gallon should be held to 7J instead of 4 pounds. The etfect was to rais? the cost of shipping a oar of oil to Kansas ' City and o her river markets from $45 to $08. The further effect was to prevent the producers from shlpiing their oil and they were compelled to accept Standard Oil prices at the wells. The mist remarkable fact In this connection is that the four rail ways Involved, the Santa Fe, the Missouri Pact lie, the 'Frisco and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, absolutely went out of the lucrative business of h transporting oil and they did this v simply because the Staudard had so commanded. Speaking to this correspondent, J. M. Parker, secretary of the State Oil Producers' association, said; "If the railways would g've us the original rate of 10 cents per 100 pounds, or $45 a car, we could ship all of our oil to Kansas Olty and other points and it would give us $1 per barrel at the well. It would glvo the railways 100 carloads of freight every day. Put the Standard Oil company tells the railroads to desist from hauling any oil whatever, and bv a.i exorbitant. rate forcing us to sell to the Stand- 1 ard, the only market In the Holds, at a price of 47 cents a barrel, which, under the compulsory rates demanded from the railways by the trust, nets the producer 7 cents more than If ho had used the railways." Mr. Gallagher adds: "Whllo the men who are attacking Standard OH realize the great pewer of this c ?oratlon tliey express contidence that Kansas will yet be able to gain the mastery. A BLIND TIGER MAN killed l>y Train Wlillo Transporting Contraband Whiskey. The Columbia Record says at halfpast one o'clock Friday morning Chief Constable Osborne was Informed that a mi..i transporting contraband liquor had been run over and killed at Hianey's by the Seaboard train. That station Is In Kershaw county, twentyone miles from Coulumbia, and It is has been a favorite station for blind tiger dealers to bold their shipments of liquor, afterwards transporting it by w .gons to Columbia. Chief Osborne immediately detailed Constables Pegurs, Ilarley and Roland to go to Htaney's by buggy, and early Friday morning he had a conversation with them over the 'phone. Chief Osborne says that he learned that the man's name is Charles Thomoson and that. h? wns nHuinniiv from Lexington county. He was a ? white man who was an employe oi I W. II. Sellers, the so-called "blind 1 tiger king,'.' of Columbia. A car on- ? tainlng the shipment of liquor had < been side tracked, according to Mr. ' Osborne's information, and Thorn- 1 son had loaded a two-horse ' "^.oa 1 with the booze. The wagon confined ' live barrels of half pints of a brand < alleged to be dealt In by Sellers and 1 known by his customers as "King's I Choice." In all there were a >ut. 200 < b ?ttles in the barrels and besides i them there were bIx kegs of liquor, i Thorn ,on In his journey Columb i ward ?iad occasion to cross the Sea- < board track. i The hour, so far as can be learned ' about 11 o'ck ck Friday night, and ' the Seaboard vestlbuled train, which ; was late, was thundering its way s northward. According to Mr. O.o 1 borne's information received Friday 1 morning, Thompson, who is said to have been drunk, either drove over 1 an embankment on the railroad, or in ' endeavoring to cross it his team somehow got'"stuck." From persons in ' the neighborhood .he constables learned that immediately after the wagon got on the track the train running at a rapid pace hove in sight aud 1 but a short distance away. It is said ( that Thompson, though drunk, made a frantic effort to wave the train 1 down, but his wagon getting on the track and the approach of the tlylng 1 train were events too close together for the one to get oil or the other to stop. It is not known why Thornp son did not save himself by getting 1 riff1! hn frnnl/ Knf Kn /llsi**)* T1 |'U(VUV uiwvn, uuu IID UIU11 u. JL lit! iritlll struck biro and the wagon, killing him and two mules, and ccatterlng the vehicle and boozj to the winds. Wonderful to relate, however, little of the whiskey was destroyed. One barrel with Its bottle contents w?s broken, but the rest wps Intact and was confiscated by the constables. Monitor llate Dead. A dispatcn from Washington says Senator Bate o' Tennessee died at 0 o'clock Thursday morning at the Ebbitt House, of pneumonia and deTfectlve heart. He was seventy-eight J years old. He attended the Inaugura tlon ceremonies and death is beliwted to be due to expe&ure on that occasion. He suffered a slight chill that day. He occupied his seat in the Senate Tuesday wet k. He became suddenly 111 that evening at the dinner table and steadily grew worse. His lungs improved, but weakness of the heart continued. He was entirely consolous and asked to be burned at Nashville. He served in the Confederate army, from private to major general. /I fiuMinoMN Woman. Mr. E. S. McKlnzle died at Grove, Greenville county, on Monday night of last week aged 00. Since her husband's death ten years ago she had run successfully a large farm and the largest dairy in the Piedmont section, her herd consisting of 110 cows. Mliooting Horape. In a fight between Robert Whitlock and two negroes near Sp&rtani burg on Tuesday of last week the ne' groes fired several shots from a breachi loading shotgun, missing Whltloc'c ; but hitting his aunt and her little girl. Whitlock responded with a six. shooter, but missed. iwe CON WHAT IT MEANS. What the Southern Cotton Association Proposes to Do. WHAT IT STANDS FOR. 'resident Harvie Jordan Makes a Siic* cinct Statement of What the Move* mcnt Hopes to Accomplish and How it Proposes to Accomplish It. Ah many people throughout the louth are not thorounhly familiar vlth the purposes of the Southern Jotton association, President Harvie [ordan has written an article which ully sets forth the scope of the work vhlch has been undertaken and ex)lalns in detail what Is to bo acjomdished. Mr. Jordan calls attention X) the fact that the movement is by io means con lined exclusively to the armers of the south, but states that t Is a movement for the whole south u whioh every line of budncss Is Invested. Mr. Jordan's artl.Je Is as ollows: WHAT WK STAND KOK. There are thousands of people who lo not yet understand what the South.rn Cotton assoclntlon stands for, who created the association or what the issociatlon Is now undertaking to perorm. People In all lines of business, 'armers, merchants, bankers, editors if newspapers and others still have a /ague and indistinct idea of the scope >f this movement. Many people in all walks of life appear to think that tl e southern (Jetton.association Is distinctively a farmers' movement to 1)6 op crated along the line of the old Farmers' Alliance, and In wlilch the inter)st of other lines of business is only Incidental to the immediate carrying out md perfection of the resolutions Introluoed and passed at the New Orleans cotton convention January 24 to 2(1, Ly06. The mind of every man whooniertains such opinions, which are only partial outlines of this great movenent, should better inform himself md begin to fully understand that the Southern Cotton association Btands 'or no particular class, that It stands for tne solid south and all classes in Jie south that are Interested In advancing and promoting the future prosperity of this Immediate section >f our great union. The original idea md intention of the Farmers' AUI nice was good as far as it went, but jnfortunatcly it did not go far enough, was not sutliciently broad and liberal n its scope among its tenets taught intagomsm and prejudice between the farmers and those with whom they lad to deal. The result was disaster iven before that great movement be same dually stranded on tne barren rocKH o; a political upheaval. The Southern Cotton association will avoid the dangers and pitfalls which wrecked and ruined the efforts of the farmers in the past and which failed to enlist the active cooperation and support of the business interests of the ; >untry. The interest of the farmer, merchant, banker, and southern spinner are all joined together and tl o luccess or failure of one is interdepe lent upon tire other. We, therefore, most rise or fall together and no unglc class can expect to succeed that undertakes to monopolize and Jeopardize the interests of the others. W stand for the supremacy of the soul., agriculturally, commercially and financially. To succeed we must all join hands together to work in a common cause for the attainment of a uommon end. The cardinal principle of the association is to safeguard and piotect the value of the great moDey crop of the south?cotton. Upon the price of raw cotton paid to the farmer depends not only the prosperity of the growers, but the prosp. rlty of every legitimate business and profession in the south. By the price of cotton is regulated real estate values, increased or decreased school facilities, the improvements or retardment of the public highways, Increased or diminishing manufucturing industries and banking capital. Indeed the price of cotton regulates the pulse of the south's industrial advancement when it sells at a protit to the producer, and locks the wheels of trade and oreates financial depression wiien sold at prices below the cost of production. To bring the whole south together in an earnest and active effort to assist tho growers in regulating the supply of raw cotton to meet the legitimate demands of the world for corsumption and to maintain the price at a stable figure, nrnf itablc alike t j Uoth the producer and the spinner, Is the primary purpose of the Southern Cotton association. NO KNOWLEDGE OK CONSUMPTION. The southern people are only Informed as to the production of cotton. They know but little or nothing about the distribution of raw cotton amon^ the spindles of the world and the co? sumption of the finished fabrics among the civilized nations of the globe whose peoples buy at.d wear cotton goods. Toe southern people are not Informed as to the cost of manufacturing raw cotton into cloth, although the spinner is well Informed as to the cost of both the production of raw ootton by the grower and the cost of manufacture. The south is not Informed as to the prioe at which manufactured goods are sold or the actual amount of American cotton required for consumption in 12 month by the spindles of the world, while the manufacturers are always posted as to the price of raw cotton and the amount of the crop produced each year. Yet the south, controlling a complete and permanent monopoly of the most valuable and useful agricultural product grown, has sat suplaely down and seemed to be content in only making the effort to produce, taking no interest in the matter of controlling the prioe of her ootton and not even seek Mm " ~ V WAY, S. C., THURi InK the necessary Information wh'ch would enable southern people to even approximately reach an intelligent idea of the true value of this great raw material to the nations of the world who are absolutely dependent upon It for olothirg. The efforts of tire Southern Cotton association will be studiously directed along these lines and in the further endeavor to sroure safe and accurate statistics of the cotton crop, from planting to tlnal delivery to the consumer each year, and distribute this information in tabulated form throughout each State, county and civil subdivisions of its members, so that the entire people will have a full and thorough knowledge of everything pertaining to the production, distribution, manufacture and sale of this great and valuable agricultural staple. The object of the association will be to regulate the marketiug of cotton In such manner as tj maintain the price at the stable iigure of 10 cents per pound to the grower and the united cooperation of the entire people of the south Is to be enlisted iu successfully putting this feature into practice and permaneut operation. CO M 1'ETITION 81IUT OKK. At ten cents per pound to the growers of American cotton there is no fear of other materials used in the production of cloth entering the markets jt the world as a competitor. American cotton has but four competitors, these are wool, llax, silk and foreign grown cotton, neither of which can he used jn the manufacture of cloth and sold against our cotton so long as the price of our cotton does not cost the manufacturer more than 10 to 12 cents per pound. The only competitors which actively enter Into the depression of the price of American cotton below 10 cents per pound are the overproduction of American cotton and the bad system of marketing cotton by the producers which has for so many years allowed the price to be fixed In foreign markets. These are the real, true causes operating in the markets agaiDst us today, either of which can be easily overcome by Intelligent act'on and united effort. The Southern Cotton association stands for the Immediate proper solution of these simple problems and will bend Its efforts to secure the emancipation of the southern farmer and Its people from the yoke of foreign doml nation. llltOADKN OUll MAKKHTS. The Southern Cotton association undertake to solve the fear of overproduction In future years by broadening the markets for our cotton and cotton goods. To Induce the rapid building of cotton mills In the south, to develop southern ports and prepare for the Immense trade that will spring Into existence between this country and the Asiatic nations of the far cast through the opening of the Panama canal; to bring about better and more direct trade relations between this section and the Central and Sot1 uh American republics; to teach divorsltication In agriculture; to bettor perfect the educational s>stems of the uAllfh. l-? ? I -U * - -1 nuuun, tu uiin^ auuut u ueLLer unucrsiauding and closer relationship among the growers and the southern business men with whom they have to deal; In order that by mutual cooperation a tidal wave of prosperity may sweep over this southland from the farm to the bank, to the mill, and to every line of business aud profession | In this country. These are some of the principles of | reforms inaugurated at the great New j Orleans cotton convention and which are to be put into practical operation | and experience, through the Southern Cotton association, the greatest movement ever conceived by the brain of man. To say that this work will fall is a reflection upon the lutelllKence and manhood of the south. To say that it will succeed but emphasizes the fact that every man who gives utterance to such a statement realizes that he is a factor in this great movement and has faith in the ability of the south to execute as well as to res olute and he who doubts, or denies that success cannot be attained, has no faith in himself and none in his country. Harvib Jokdan, President Southern Cotton Association. Caught IJ|> Willi. Itev. Benjamin W. Ashley, a minister of the Christian church, residing near Newport, Tunn., was given a sentence of fifteen months in the penitentiary in the federal oourt Wednesday, for violating the pension laws, in investigating his case, a pension examiner discovered that he wrs a bigamist. After Ashley had been placed on the pension rolls, a North Carolina woman claiming to be bis wife, made application for a division of the pension. Ashley swore she was not his legal wife, but that his wife was a Tennessee woman. In vcsuikaiiiuu yruveu buai< AHiney married his first wife In 1865 and had never obtained a divorce, but had abandoned her thirty years ago, mar rylng a second time after coming to Tennessee tto reside. lie pleaded guilty of perjury and may be prosecuted for bigamy when he has served his federal sentence. Fearful Death Hate. X dispatch from Calcutta says the deaths from the plague last week numbered 34,000. Statistics show that the deatas from bubonic plague In India wlthli a few years re&ohed nearly 3,000,000 In 1903 the mortality In India from the plague alone wrs 850. The number of deaths recorded last whek while extraordinary Is not unprecedented. The infection recently spread to Burmah where it is making rapid strides. This season of the year always favors Its spread. A Hrnto Hung. Charles Hammons, a white man, was hanged at Morrllton, Arkansas, on Wednesday for a criminal assault upon his 11 year-old step-daughter last October at Plumervl le. Ham mons enlisted in the army during the Spanish-American war and later went to the Philippines. Upon his return he married Mrs. A Hoe Thomas and > shortly afterwards the assault on the child was committed. The supreme court refused to reverse the verdict of a lower court and Governor Dav * > positively refused to interfere with the execution of the sentence. mm ^mrr mwm *""? v SUAY, MARCH 1(1, THE JAPS WIN. The Russians, After Fighting Hard Several Days, Retreat IN VERY GOOD ORDER, Saving Their Guns, Stores and AinunN tion. The Losses on Both Sides Were Very Heavy, but the Japs Seemed to Have suffered Most. The battle which has been raging In the vicinity of Mukden between the Russians and Japanese for the last two weeks came to a close last Friday by the retreat of the Russians. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the dispatch announcing the with drawal of the Russians from their positions on tho Shakhe river and that they were in full retreat, was the tirst definite news received here to the effect that the battle was ended and that General Kuropatkin was making Ihe best or his way northward. It does not como unexpectedly The defeat of General Kuropatkin has been expected air.ee Field Marshal Oyama made hla brilliant stroke against the Russian right. CONFLICTING llKPOHTS. The Associated Press says advices from the Manchuriau battlefield leave little doubt that General Kuropatkin has suffered another reverse, but whether his defeat is a rout or whether he has repeated his strategy of Llao Yang and succeeded iu withdrawing his army and the bulk of his supplies is uot clear. Dispatches from General Kuroki's headquarters say that the Russians evacuated the whole line along the Shakhe river and are In full retreat northward with the Japanese in close pursuit. Admitting the coriectness of this, dispatch, the fall of Mukden seems imminent, and its probability Is in a measure confirmed by the report that the Japanese have taken Manchlatun, a villiage some tcu miles southeast of Mukden. St. Petersburg Insists that nodisaster has occured, but admits that Kuropatkln's left is In a critical podtlon, Kurokl having driven a wedge in between Llnovitoh's main army an Ronnenkampf's corps. The report that Kuropatkin's communications have been cut is denied at the western capital, where It is staUd that a report from the commander was receiv ed Thursday Contents are not known, however, beyond the statement that Mukden Is still in possession of the Russians. The dispatch from Mukden makes the significant statement tnat the Japanese are extending their great turning movement still further north in the direction of the immensely lm-. portants trategic point of the Tie Pass. Dispatches received give details of the blow which turned the Russian i*inrli t- rt ?->rl oa *?o f ^ D .. ?1 - ? 1 - ? ruu ctuu oara uuau bllC lVUsSllill IOSSBS In this fighting were very heavy. WHAT TilK JAI'S CLAIM. The Japs claim that tlie tirst four days' fighting on the Hank lias ended as successfully as the Japanese could wish. It has resulted in the oomplete turning of the Russian right and prom lscs the certain defeat of the en'ire Russian army. It is hard to see how the Russians can possibly hope for other results The left Japanese armies have swung north to a point on the main highway, live miles north of the Mukden line, the two left armies which are executing the turning movement are now parallel to and four miles westward of the railroad. The two armies swung around with Chan Tan as a pivot until they reached a position at right angles with the original line and are now advancing directly east. RUSSIANS IN REVOLT. The Russians made a strong tight at the start, but later their resistance was slight, their men retreating in disorder before the onward rush of the Japanese who have advanced over 20 miles in four days constantly in touch with the Russians. The Russians had many strong defenses in several lines, but did not defend them as strongly as expected. The soldiers everywhere were disheartened by the fall of Port Arthur, and it is believed they are. almost in open revolt. A number of strong positions werfe given up without a show of resistance and the batiletields show evidence of hasty retreat, being covered with clothing, heavy felt boots and thousands of whips thrown away probably because f.Rno I m f R/v R - ? 'l1 ' i UIIOJ ILUpOUCU l/IJC l^USIItlll Ili&Siy Many rifles and thousands of clips of | rltle cartridges were also thrown away, the Russians retiring cast and north I in confusing. It was evident that all their plans for retreat were disconcerted by the rapid rushes of the Japanese. COSSACKS DISORGANIZED, The entire Russian right seems altogether disorganized. The reports show the,Russian troop3 are almost in a panic striken condition, one army corps opposed to the Japantes extreme left armies retiring rapidly and prac tlcally making no attempt to stop the Japanese, movement. The Japanis; victory was even greater, morally fhon w%V\ 11 T i. 1? ? 1 ' 4 ' uunii ^/iijraiuaiijr. lb IH BMblDlilKn ID&l the Russian losses were over ten thousand. The prisoners' statement*, give evidence of even greater loss. The Japanese loss with the left armies during the four days does not exceed four thousand. The Russian centers near the railroad when last heard from retained its former position, but it may since thdn have retired. The entire command, it is believed, will be surrounded and cut off. RUSSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT. A dispatch from SC. Petersburg says the atmosphere of the war office is Intensely gloomy. The officials aomit that Oen. Kuropatkinhps suffered a bloody defeat, but they Insist tuai it is not a decisive disaster. Their ' explanation of the dispatches of Oen. iPfdttt 1905. Kuropatkln and Gen. Sakhan II, reporting fighting on the "north front," Ik that they refer to Japanese attempts to break through the Russian line screening the communications with Tie pass, but the publlo regards it as an acknowledgment that Gen. Noui has already severed the Russiar line of communications and enclosed at least a portion of Gen. Bllderllng's J army which was bringing up the rear. The dispatches of the Associated Press show beyond doubt that Gen. Nogi has actually succeeded in reacting the railroad, although It was specifically htlirmod that the line was ] repaired and reopened. It Is possible c that this temporary Interruption may have caused the Toklo report. The most important know 11 develop 1 merit of the day is the report that a c Hying Japanese column has appeared ] northeast of Mukden and is heading s rapldlv west. This probably Is part of Gen. Kurokl's army which Is making c a detour by forced marches and swing- c ing around to etfect a Juncture with j Geu. Nogl. If the manoeuvre sue v ceeds the net will be closed. It is said there that Gen. Kuropatkln with * hcadquai jrs staiT is now at Faukla- 1 tung station on the railroad, 10 miles below Tie pass. The general stall ad- e mtts that the carnage in the battle t will probably exceed anything in mod- a ern warfare, although the staff ofll- < cers Insist that the Japanese must t have sustained the heaviest lcsses. i The Russians believe they surely will c reach 50,000. < GONE BACK TO HEATHENISM. { t itoturnu to 11 Ih Old Tribe anil Ho- 1 a comes Its Chief. t A dispatch from Huntington, Ind., says: The executive committee of c the missionary board of the United 1 Brethren In Christ has dropped from j the rolls of the chruch Daniel Flick- c Inger Wllhcrforce, a native African, f who was brought to t lis country as a s child and, after being educated, wa i returned by the board to his old trlb) q as a missionary. It Is charged by the t board that after a service of 25 years v as a missionary the negro minister has l been lured back t6 heathenism, has c become chief of his old tribe of devil- a worshippers and has contracted plural s marriages in the wilds of Africa. s Nearly 50 years ago Daniel Kumier e Fllckinger, then secretary of the mis- <j sionary ooard of the chuch, was in v west Africa on mission work. While li v.siting a Cougregational missionary, d announcement was made that a male a child had been born In the negro vll lage. The host of Dr. Fllckinger \ christened the baby Daniel K Icklnger ]i Wilberf roe. Twelve years later the a boy had been brought to America by 'J a returning missionary. Dr. F?ick- p inger accidentally discovered his 2 namesake at work at the missionary t house in New York. Dr. Fllckinger h took the lad to Dayton, O. Tl^ boy |] was sent to school, then throug!.*hlgh p shool and later to a medical cohVge at i Cleveland. He married a negress at n Dayton. Later the two went to Af- s rica to do missionary work among the e o'd tribes from which Wilberforce ( me. Later the m sslonary and e ..mlly returned to this country and t W 'berforce lectured throughout the ii central Slates. His four children, two t daughters and two sjns attended c Central college there. c Two sons are still in this country, e one at Otterbeln college and the other v In the Dayton High school. Wilber c force returned to Africa. The board s h'UQ ho.<n IrW/yrnMirl r\t Klo ?/?L? * " . ...^ 'jwu .1..UI luvk ui inn iciap.it: uu [ heathenism, of accompanying plural t marriages and of his becoming chief c of the tribe. The venerable Dr. c Filcklngcrls much depressed over the c backsliding of iris protege, but sane t tious the action of the board. r No Jiu-jitsu For WoHt l*nint. ' Congress expres->ed its lack of faitt) in jiu-jitsu by striking out in conference on the military academy appropriation bill a provision for an I annual salary for an Instructor to leach that Japanese art to the cadets. The original item appropriated $4,500 for instructors in "fencing, broad l sword and jiu-jitsu." The provision i was cut down to $3,000, providing for ( inly two instructors. The manner In i which some of the West Point foot- ( ball.squad threw a jiu jit.su Instructor f rcccntly was discussed by the commit- j toe and seemed to have considerable ] effect. One of the conferees told the c story of the instructor easily throw- ( ing some of the cadets by his skill, i but added that the result of his en- | counter with a member of the football < quad had put him in the hospital with a broken shoulder. The con | feres promptly cut out the approprla f tion. ; Three* Drowned. While boat riding on Lake Monroe j near Stndford, Fla , Sunday night Miss Maggie Looney, of Thomasvllle, 1 Ga., Oito McElroy and lteese Boyd, 1 of Sand ford, were drowned. The young people left the dock at 10.30 p. m. in a small row boat. Screams were heard on the lake soon after but their friends on the dock supposed the young men were simply trying to frighten the young lady and neve dreamed of the true condition. Alarmed by the long absenoe of the oarty a boat was secured and searchers went out but found nothing. A daylight Monday morning the boa was found upturned not a hundred yards from shallow water and the three dead bodies were dragged from beneat i the boat. Ik.tik'f lillrn I # The president Wednesday sent to the senate the nomination of Charles W. Anderson, the colored Demosthenes, to be collector of Internal revenue for the second district of New York. ThK republican politicians of that stv>?e do not at all like the appointment of a negro to this fat Job, but thev will have to stand it. The president did not consult Senators I Piatt and Depew until after ho bad determined upon the appointment, and then it was to tell them he proposed to take this appointment as personal to himself. Killed by Train. Baltimore and Ohio train No. 12, which left Cumberland, Md., Tuesday night, struck four Wabash employees three-quarters of a mile east of Evltts creek, Instantly killing three and slightly Injuring the other. t FLOATING- PALACE. The Biggest Ship Ever Built Arrives at New To k. { rho Monster VtHnvl Marks an Advanoo in Helenee ol Marine Architecture. The Cunarder Caronia arrived at ''lew York from L'verpool Wednesday in her maiden voyage after a passage >f seven days and nine hours from the atter port, made at an average speed if kno's. The Caronia brought 55 saloon, 258 second cabin and 1,288 terage passengers, making, with her irew of 440, a total of 2,138 persons in board. One death occurred on the >assage, on March 3. The steamer vas not urged on her passage, owing ,o tue engines being new. She made t 9 knots on her trial trip. ^ The Caronia is the newest and larg- v >sb of the Cunard fleet operated lie 1 ,wcen New York and Liverpool. Con* v itructed in accordance with the re- ? juirements of the British admiralty, 1 ,hc Caronia is prepared for service, n both times of peace and war, and c ,an be converted Into an auxiliary r iruiser with all armament jrequired 1 or a vessel of tliat class. Provisions 1 rave been made for speedy installa s 4on of twelve rapid-lire guns of large I .all bar. iind in hr>r hnIS umriln nr<.?i e lion is made for tho storage, caro and c landltug of all necessary ammuni- c ion. c As a passenger liner there are ac- 1 lommodatlons in the Caronia's iirst labiu for 300 passengers, provision is N nade for 350 more in the second cab- N n, and the steerage has room for 2,- c too. With a crew of 150 men, there c oJe, the steamer can carry 3,100 per f ons under normal conditions. She c las accommodations for an immense [uantlty of freight and fuel beneath ^ ler deck. Nearly 14,000 tons of dead rn veight cargo alone can be stored away \ n her hold. An Important feature if the Caronia's construction is the M ystem of water-tight doors in the 11 hip's bulkheads, which can bo closed 1 lmultaneously from the bridge, op- 1 rating a simple mechanism. The ^ loors will close automatically also If s vater enters the compartments, it 11 s claimed that this arrangement ren- c lers the steamer unsinkable under 1 ,ny circumstances. The Caronla was launched at Clydetank, July 13, 1904. She is 075 feet ong, with a gross tonnage of 21,000, 1 ,nd a displacement of 30,000 tons. f Che engines are of the quadruple ex- ' tanslon type, capable of developing 1 0,000 horse-power. She Is expected 11 o maintain an average speed of 19 k mots per hour. TheCironials the ' irstof a quartet of great ships to be tut into service in the near future by H his line, each of which indicates a a intable step in advance of any steamhips now in service, in construction, ^ (julpment, and furnishings. 1 The pub:lc has bee irae so accustom- ^ d to great and startling tilings that v he mere statement that the Uaronia a s 675 feet long d >es not carry with it 1 he full impression of its greatnes?, ^ xcept by comparison. Tills enorm a us lengtti becomes apparent, howver, wlien one realize tiiat if she v vcre set down on tiie east side of the apltol at Washington she would abolutely iiide it from view, except hlrty eight feet at either end, and tot even the roof line, except the lome, would be visible over her upper leeks. Some cor.ception of the Sl/.d if the Caronia's two sm jkcstacks may >e had from the statement that they each to a height of 150 feet above .he keel. FOREIGN TRADE GROWS. Decline In Farm Products Kxportod Offset By Increase In Cotton. The department of agriculture has ssued a report on foreign trade in arm and forest products In 1604, somplled by the division of foreign narkets. It shows that the balance >f trade In farm products in each year rom 1890 to 1904 was in favor of ex>orts. There was a distinct gain in 1898, when the export balance inireased to $555,000,000, a gain of 1257,000,000 over the preceding years, jcglnning with 1898, the annual export balance for farm products exjeeded $410,000,000. Domestic exports of farm agricultural products for the year 1904 were >19,000,000 less than In the preceding /ear 1904 and $6,000,000 less than the annual average for 1899 to 1903. The total value for 1904 was $859,160,264. The exports of forest products in 1904 aggregated $69 600,430, and were an increase of $11,000,000 more than 1903 and $36,000,000 more than the annual average for 1894 to 1898. For the period of 1890 to 1904 tiie total value of domestic exports of farm .. NO. 49. ONE WILL HANG Vnd One Will Go to the Penitentiary for Life. SAVS THIS VERDICT. L Darlington Jury of White Men Convicts Two Lawless White Men for Alurdcring an Inoffensive Negro on the Public Highway February 6th. A dispatch from Darliugton to The >tate says a verdict unprecedented In iouth Carolina was rendered there frlday when ono whltS man was condoled of murder and another of courier with recommendation to mercy, >oth for killing a negro. The sentence uuder the law for nurder Is death and for murder with ecommend itlon to mercy Is life 1mirlsonment. The judge has no dlscrelon In either case, and only a reveral of the court's ruling by the su>rcme court or tlie mercy of the govirnor can alter the sentences. The ;ourt records of South Carolina can loubtless bo searched In vain for a ;ase wherein a white man has been langed for the murder of a negro. The two men are ltob Small, convicted of murder and Hob Noll, convicted with rcommendatlon to mer y. xney amen rrank Scott, negro, in the the public highway four miles rom Da rl nig ton on February Oth? lot six weeks ago. Small and Noll wero from North Carolina and worked at Harper's saw nil], nine miles from Darlington. L'hey came to town on Monday, Feb. til, eacb bringing a shot gun. After taying in town several hours, and, it * said, drinking heavily, they began heir homeward march. All along he roa 1 they are said to have been * loisterom and abusive to passersby, hcoting at travelers' horses and nules. Finally they met this negro n a load of cotton seed for his emiloyer, W 1'. DuBuo.se, with whom te had been working 12 years, which s a testimonial te his good character. Bob Small hailed the negro and afer a few words shot him. Iliscomtanion, Noll, drew his gun to shoot dm again, when R. F. llowlc, county reasurer, traveling this road,.came ip in his buggy. Knowing tiie no:ro, he protested against the act and ^oll turned his gun on Howie and ired, hitting him in the face with one hot and the horse receiving the bal,nce of the load in Ills head and neck. They continued their onward march o their shanties at the saw mill. Mr. Iowlc cared for the negro and drove iack to town for the sheriff, who, vith iiis deputies, pursued the men ,ud with several neighbors captured hem at 1 o'clcck Monday night in heir shanties at the mill, tied them nd brought them to jail. The negro was a peaceable, reliable workman. It was developed that hese characters had become a dread o the people in the community of the aw mill and had been coming to D&rIngton for several successive sale days o drink and carouse on their return lomc. The trial of this case took up the vhole of the session Friday. Thedecndauts were represented by Senator leorge W. Brown as attorney. The ury remained out one hour and 30 ninutes and rendered a verdiot of fuilty as to Small and guilty with ecommendation to merev as t*? "NVUi The case of the State vs. Dock Moore ind William Slmms for the killing of lim Young, all colored, in 11)03, was llsposed of Tuesday night. Slmms vas acquitted. Moore was found guilty jf manslaughter with recommendtlon io mercy. lliown Up. An explosion of illuminating gas in jhe cellar of the M >rmon meeting louse at Granger, fourteen miles southvest of Salt Lake City, caused the 1eath of one young woman and serially injured twenty six o^her porlons, mostly young women and children. Tho meeting house was wreckid. Willie the Granger Mutual Improvement Association was in session Lhe lights went out. A boy went Into iho cellar with a lamp to see what was wrong and the explosion followed. Miss Nellie Macky, the church organist, ;who was standing directly over the ? {as tank, received tiie full force of the explosion and was Instantly killed. A panic ensued among the audience In their eiforts to e>cape from tho wrecked building, many who had not been Injured by the force of the explosion were trampled upon. WantH I'tu in to (Scatter. Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Rabbltt jf Brooklyn, president of the commission on the race problem, in an address at Washington Thursday night advocated the voluntary exodus from the South of negroes, lie urged that through industrial combinations, cooperative societies and State immigrant boards created for the purpose they should seek settlements in the Northern, Middle and speolal Western States, s > that the proolem of the negro race s lould not be any longer a Southern one. If tne negro were distributed among the Northern and Western States, his political rights, he said, not only would be protected^ but through a balance of power between the parties he would obtain political and industrial recognition and there would be a lessening of race prejudice, now impossible for him in tho congested South. Killed a Policeman. At Colon an American negro named John Wells, from South Carolina, on being refused addmlttance to a dance Thursday night, shot and killed a policeman and wounded two other persons. The murderer was arrested and probably will be sentenoed to a term of imprisonment In Ohirque Jail as there Is no oapital punishment In Panama, * a / products aggregated $11,000,000,000. Total Imports of farm products In 1904 were $402,434,851, an Increase of $5,000,000 more than 1903 and of $54,- \ 000,000 more than the annual aver age for 1899 tc 1903, and of fores. ' produots $79,619,290. The value of 1 Imporui of forest products exceeded , the previous year by $8,000,000 and the annual average for 1899 to .1903 1 by $19,000,000. The value of the cot 1 ton exports increased $55,000,000 from 1903 to 1904, although the quantity exported in 1904 was 479,000,000 1 pounds lesR than In 1903. No Decoration for Hay. I In the senate Thursday Mr. Cullom reported a bill from the commitb e on foreign relations authorizing Seore t&ry Hay of the state department to accept the decoration of the grand oross of the national order of the L~- 1 gion of Honor tendered his resignation through the state department by the government of the French republic. Mr. Spooncr objected, and no response was made to the question. Th's ended the matter. Important Meeting. Columbia is preparing to entertain in a suitable manner t^be members of the conference for education whloh meets In that oily in April. ^Ti;e 0011 ference will be oomposed of leading eduoators of the whole country.