The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 16, 1905, Image 1
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.