The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 10, 1909, Image 6
WRECK FOUND
Of A British Warship Missing
Eight Years in
THE PACIFIC OCEAN
The (\mdor, With a Crow of Ono
Hundred aiul Forty Mm, Sailed
From Fs<)uimalt and lias Never
Been Hoard From Since Sailing
1'ntil Found a Short Time Ajfo.
The wreck of the British sloop of
war Condor, whose fate and that of
the 140 otlicers and men forming
her company have been one of the
mysteries of the sea since December
3, 11)01, has been located, submerged
in comparatively shallow water,
about one and a half miles off
shore at Long Beach, mid-way between
the southern entrance to Berkeley
Sound and the settlement of
Calyoquot, on the west coast of Vancouver
Island. The wreckage is
about fourteen miles distant from
the village of Clayoquot and seemingly
rests upon an uncharted reef, of
which there are many in the vicinity
of Long Beach and Wreck Bay,
which adjoins it.
The news of the discovery of tlm
long missing sloop of war was
brought from the coast by Bonneycastle
Dale, an Lnglish naturalist
and journalist, who has communicated
his discovery to the British
Admiralty, lie regards the evidence
of identity as incontrovertible, and
it is expected that immediate investigations
will be made by the adniirality
upon his report. The principal
obstacle in the way of salvage operations
is believed to be the prevailing
heavy swell-met within this locality
in the calmest weather.
A surface wave beyond tin? line of
the barrier reel that fronts the bay
..U .. i- - *
nun ^ mi- r>jmil H iu'rc me vessel is
supposed to lie. A few weeks ago a
spar stamped with the admirably
mark, with pitches patched with copper
In naval style, after being visible
four days, lloating attached to
the wreck beneath, drifted ashore.
Upon the same beach some time ago
there drifted a jib boom spar stamped
"Coudor," a life buoy similarly
markinl and several signal rocket
cases marked with the name of the
ill-starred vessel, mute testimony of
* the whereabouts of the long missing
sloop.
About a mile and a half out from
Long Beach the surface ripples over
the ship that Is supposed to be the
sepulchre of one hundred and forty
officers and ineu of ILls Majesty's
navy. At high tide It Is hardly visible
but at extreme low tide the sea
boils about the obstruction. Half
a dozen residents of the west coast
who have gone out to the spot In
smooth water and at low tide declared
that the hulk of the submerged
ship Is plainly visible.
On the morning of December 3,
1901, the sloop of war Condor, in
company with II. M. S. Warship, left
Ksquimalt, the former never to re- '
turn. The Condor was bound for
Honolulu and Tahiti heavily laden 1
w ith coal for a long cruise and carrying
a large consignment of mails for
the British inhabitants in the isolated
South Sea Island.
In the straits a strong southeast 1
gale prevailed and the war ships 1
parted company, the Warspite con- '
tinuing on her way south and the
Condor starting to carry out gun
jjiacuce at me entrance to the straits
prior to making for Honolulu.
Whether this gun practice was carried
out has never been ascertained. 1
Outside the straits that fateful night !
a terrified storm was raging, which
compelled every vessel in the region
to tight for life, and in this storm
the Condor was seen for a brief j ,
moment, laboring heavily and flying j
signals of distress, by Captain James J
Boyd, now of the Bank line steamer
Aymeric, and then In command of
the south bound lumber ship Springbank.
Naturally the name of the struggling
waship'was not made out, but
there was no doubt of her identity
in the minds of Captain Boyd and
his ofllcers. They did not go to
the supposedly disabled gun boat's
assistance. Indeed, they gave her
scant thought or attention at the
time, as they were having all they
could do to save their own ship and
their lives. This was the last seen
of the Condor or any of her company.
The Condor never reached
Honolulu and gradually her name
passed Into history as identified with
one more of the tragic mysteries of
the sea.
Toward the end of that December
a stern suilf and lifebuoy with the
name "J!?. M. Condor" on were
picked up in the neighborhood of
Wreck Bay. Theories are numerous
as to the f:it f On. 1 *
v.> TVooci uuU IIV!
140 lives she carried.
Tho name . night was responsible '
/or nnotner mystery of tho North
Pacific. The collier Mattewan left '
Nanalmo for Han Francisco on Do- '
comber 2 and never reached her ' 1
port. Some believe she foundered. |
Some say she crashed into the Con- I
dor and botl* vessels were sunk. j <
The Condor was similar type to
the Algerlne and the Shearwater, '<
m
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gram galore
HOW TILK PEOPLE 1IAVB 11KKN
IIOHHKD OB MILLIONS.
The Astounding R?T?lutio?N Mud?
by Senator IkkTeridge About the
Stealing of the Tobacco Trust,
No revelation of the extra scssiou
has been more startling than that
which Senator Hoverldge made about
the almost unbelievable graft of the
Tobacco trust for eight years, says
tin- Washington Times. That was a
case of legislative partnership with
a trust in a project to llecce the people.
Somebody must have been
/ fixed," "Ureased," "oiled." It is inconceivable
that congress will plead
guilty to such sublime innocence and i
f- * ...li i. t .? ? l A\ k
I I HO II1 pel tlHt* as ?UUIU Ut) IChllll'"!
bj- tho explanation that nobody in j
congress saw what was being given
to tho Tobacco trust.
Here is what happened: When the
Spanit-h war taxes were imposed, the
internal revenue duty on tobacco
went up. Tho law was so arranged
that tobacco dealers were permitted
to sell underweight packages, deducting
enough from the weight to
compensate them for the Increase
in the internal revenue tax. Thus a
"tobacco pound* was considerably
less than a Hi-ounce pound; but it.
was legal because; of this legislation.
Tho tax was t It utfM'a t ried dov/n
to the consumer, and nobody particularly
felt it.
Hut when the war and the need
of war taxes passed, what happened?
Tho additional tobacco tax was repealed,
but the trust's privilege of
selling underweight packages was J
not stopped. The trust was left collecting
the war tax from the people,
but pocketing It instead of turning
it into the Federal treasury.
Hy this process, in eight years, ti e
trust has got away with $ 1 84,000,uuo
of tho people's money. That
money ought either to have been left
in the pockets of tin; tobacco user3,
or else to have gone to the Federal
treasury. In fact, it went to the
coffers of the Tobacco trust.
It Is manifest that to reneal the
war tax, but to forgot to repeal the
shortwelght privilege must have been
dltllcuK and complicated. Some
skilled person or persons must have
steered that thing through congress
with consummate cleverness. Who
did it? Was he an "inside worker"
or an "outside man?" If he was an
insider, his identity ought to be
known, so that he can be duly defeated
next election by a betrayed
constituency. If he be merely a
smart lobbyist, he shouid at least be
questioned about tiro methods by
which he Induced committees and
leaders and organizations to permit
such a tremendous steal.
Senator Beveridge has gone about
this business in a fashion which indicates
purpose to stick by it till the
whole inwardness of this strange
transaction Is bared. The present
$1'5,000,000-a-vear largess of the Tobacco
trust should tlrst be taken
away; then the process by which congress
was either befooled or corrupted
should be Investigated.
It is a wondrous interesting circumstance
that the trusts which
seem most influential with congress
are those which most often appear
in the criminal courts as defendants i
The Sugar trust has seldom been out
of the criminal cohrts in the last
Lwo decades, on one charge or another
or defrauding the government
Its reward is the privilege of taking
$G60,000,000 in twelve years from
!he people. ?
Why should such a special privilege
be freely given to a criminal of
moat fixed and persistent criminal
habits?
The American Tobacco Company is
now defendant in a great case
brought by tin? government under the
anti-trust laws, charging it with conspiracy
in restrain of trade. That
it is actually, if not techinally guilty,
is tho common knowledge. Does it
not seem strange that it, too, should
he able to have conferred upon it
a special delegation of the taxing
power? *
Does congress have any particular
preference for tho great criminals?
Its distribution of its favors
seems to suggest something of the
kind.
f'yclone Passes Denmark.
A small cyclone passed about one
mile northwest of Denmark about
G o'clock Thursday evening, wrecking
the home and stables of Mr. Asa
Baxter and a tenant house of Mr.
J. W. Baxter. Mr. Asa Baxter's eldest
daughter was slightly injured.
No one killed.
now at Esquimau Station. She had
:i I'crv I/in- f 1 *
.? .</? i.i ww uunra, and I no theory
has been advanced that she shipped
a tremendous sea, and before
it had time to run through, the scuppers
were struck by another, which
caused her to founder. Another favored
theory is that her coal cargo
shifted In the gale, and that she
turned turtel. An Investigation of
the wreck beneath the waves off Long
Heaeh may throw light on the mysterious
happening and will doubtless
disclose the bodies or many or the
bluejackets penned beneath decks
when the ships went to their doom. ,
PlaIN FACTS
About the Tariff bill Told by 1
Senator Smith
ON FLOOR OF SENATE
lie IVoklly Declares That the Whole
Tendency of the Present Legislation
is to Give the Manufacturer
I ndue Advantage Over the Producer
and the t'oiisunier.
Denouncing the pending tariff bill
ns giving the manufacturer an undue
advantage over the American farmer
work lug mun, Senator Smit h,
of Soutli Carolina, unequivocally expressed
his faith in si free trade policy
in an extended steoch while the
cotion schedule was under consider- ,
ation in the Senate on Tuesday. The
following write-up of the speech was j
furnished The News and Courier oy j
its Washington correspondent:
"The whole tendency of this leg- ]
i.slation has been to cheapen the raw .
material and raise the price of the |
finished article," said Mr. Smith, ,
hereby giving to the protected |
manufacturer a double advantage, j
lessening the price of what he has
to buy ;ind raising the price of what ,
he has to sell.
"1 ;tm not pleading for, nor shsill ,
I vole for, protection for the raw ,
material. 1 believe a thing is worth c
what it will bring in the open mark- ,
ets or' the world. What 1 shall vote |
against is the iniquitous and inde- j
feasible system of legislating a profit (
by artificial methods. 1 believe that
American skill and the wonderful t
mechanical devices operated by
steam, water and electricity, our
nearness to the source ol supply for q
the raw niiiterial makes it possible v
for us to compete with the nations of ^
the world." i
Senator Smith said it was abso- j
lately idle to talk about the protee- .
ti\e tariff being a benefit to the cot- u
ton and grain growers of America, j.
In sunnort ol Ills nnsitinn Mr Ktnlfti
quoted, though not by name, a "leading
manufacturer of the South," who,
he said, had told hiui that he be- t
lieved it was right and just that the t
protective feature of the tariff on ,
cotton goods should be entirely wlp- ^
ed out. The protection of the Gov- t
ernment, asserted Mr. Smith, giving
such a margin of profit, has invited t
and brought into the cotton manufac- t
turing business "a lot. of financial ^
buccaneers and plungers, v. ho, by the
marvelous profits that could be figured,
jMissibly on paper, put on foot
impossible schemes, which have resulted
disasterouly to the milling '
industry of the country." He said
that what is true of the cotton industry
is largely true of every other
manufacturing industry. c
"The monstrous injustice of this a
bill is made in two particulars," con- 1
tinued Mr. Smith. "This bill de- 1
claros that It is for the purpose of c
encouraging American industries I
and guaranteeing to them a reason- *
able profit, while on the other hand, K
in sharp contrast with it in the bill,
Is incorporated a tax on the very '
fertilizing element upon which the *
agricultural laborer is dependent for *
the enrichment of his soil. This r
ammonia, or this nitrogenous ele- <1
merit that is so costly and so essential '
in the production of this crop, must J
be taxed because of a few coke and ^
gas companies, who, already protected
and making their millions, cannot
be denied the privilege of mnk- t
tug other millions out of that which the
Government, ought to see that 5
the farmer gets at the lowest pos- ,
sible price." v
During the course of his speech i
Mr. Smith read some interesting r
figures to bear out hiu t.
that the protective tariff worked a f
hardship upon the people of the <1
South, who had to pay most severely S
for the prosperity enjoyed by the g
manufacturers. The eleven cotton i
growing States last year produced
$71 t),3f)2,26G worth of raw cotton, {
he said, and $90,000,000 worth of p
cotton seed. This cotton they had p
to put upon the market at a price 0
fixed by Liverpool. That price was p
fixed in Liverpool upon the basis p
of the cost of labor in ICurope and 0
the price at which they sold the p
finished product. /
"Therefore the whole American n
cotton crop is sold upon the basis o
of free trade," said Senator Smith t
"so that, in the cotton growing
States, according to the census fig- r
ures of 1900, there are engaged in (,
agricultural pursuits 4,000,000 pt?r>- v
pie, and their average earnings for t
the year are $13 3. t
"Tuning the outcome duties on g
articles imported, such as are used d
on the farms, there are consumed t
about $00,357,000 worth. Taking c
the consumption of domestic man- g
ufactured goods, the proportionate
part of the South is $2,885,000,000. s
The indirect tax paid' on this con- tl
sumption, duo to protection, is c
$855,000,000. Now this for the on- a
tire South, regardless of the work n
engaged in. Dividing this by the b
population of the South, the taxation tl
per capita duo to these duties paid S
on domestic and foreign articles is b
$0 1 in round numbers. Deducting a
this $01 from the $133 there Is left a
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LYNCHED A NEGRO
KOlfc SHOOTING A WHITK MAN AT
FllANKFOHT, KY.
The Mob Breaks Dims the Door of
the Jail urn] Take* tho Prisoner
Out.
John Maxey, a aegro, who shot
H. C. Howcrs, a circus man, Wednesday
night, was' taken from Jail at
Frankfort, K>\, early Thursday and
lynched. The jailer showed resistance
to the mob but with little effort
the door was broken down, tho
negro taken out and hanged to the
Saint Clair street bridge.
The action of the mob created intense
excitinent among the lawabiding
citizens of the capital city who
were apprised of the hanging Thursday
morning. H. C. Bowers, the
wounded man, in still in a critical
condition lit the King's Daughters'
hospital. The bowels were evidently
in-net rated by the shot and Bowers
is believed to be fatally injured.
Muxey narrowly escaped being
lyncheii at the time of the shooting
ind a panic among the big crowd
n the main tent was narrowly avered.
The negro was roughly handled
>y some of the showmen, who beat
lim over the head with sticks.
After the shooting a crowd swarni il
around the negro, shouting
'lynch him!" and in a moment a
loose was around the negro's neck;
lie loose end of the rope was thrown
>v< r a tree and the crowd was about
o draw the negro up when two poicenicn
interfered, look the negro
rom the mob and hurried him to
lie county jail.
But for cool heads in the crowd in
lie main tent there would have been
panic, with perhaps many persons
ujured, as a result of the shooting,
'lie tent was well filled, all of the
cliite section being taken. About
in If an hour after the performance
icgati a fusilade of shots was heard
11 the direction of the animal tent,
it lirst tin* crowd thought it was
clown act, hut the circus men be;a?
to run in the direction or the
hots.
The people rose to their feet and
ever.il started to leave, but the atuches
of the circus rushed among
he people, quieting them. In a few
ninutos the crowd bad settled in
heir seats and the performance coninued.
Tho shooting wan the reult
of the negro's effort to get in
he tent under tho flap without a
icket. Bowers' homo is in Valdosa,
Ga.
Ill LI, PASSKD FOll HAIUKS.
jOftLslature (iocs oil Kecord as Favoring
Them.
Discrimination against babies by
old-blooded landlords was stopped
it Chicago., 111., when the Illinois
egislature passed a bill, this week,
>rovidlug that no lease for a flat
?r apartment shall contain a clause
irohibiting children from living
11 flats or apartments. Gov. Deneen
ays he will sign the bill.
Women, as well as babies, come
n for protection from the leglslaure,
which has passed the "10lour
law," a bill providing that wonen
and children shall not be re[iiired
to labor more than 10 hours
n 2 4. This bill is a blow aimed
>y organized labor at the sweat-s
lops.
Sometimes a "pirited' thought
bought strikes a happy medium.
7 2, representing the actual value
eoelved by the laborer for his year's
vork. lie could purchase for $7 1
n Kurope, where the price of the
aw material is flxed, what he would
iuvo to pay $1113 for hore. Thereore.
out of the $800,000,000 prouced
by the cotton growers of the
louth, practically $400,000,000 of it
ocs into the coffers of the protected
nterests."
Mr. Smith said it was not only
rue that the Southern cotton farmer
ind to pay about $?? a ton more to
>roduce his cotton for fertilizer in
u'tler to gi\c a little additional profit
o an already prosperous protected
ndustry, but he must also pay a duty
n his bagging and ties in order to
mild up a bagging industry on
American soil, where no raw jute
material was produced, and on the
ther hand to add to the profits on
he great Steel Trust.
Mr. Smith cited the fact that the
ecenl election of L, W. 1'arker, of
ireenville, S. ('., at Richmond last
reek to he the head of the Manufactirers'
Association on an anti-proective
platform for manufactured
oods, over I>. II. Thompkins for a
uty, was the best possible evidence
hat the cotton manufacturers of tin.'
ountry wanted no such duty on their
oods.
w dcm 5ir. smitn concluded Mis
pooch ho received (ho congratulalona
of practically all of the Demorat
ic members of the Senate, who
sail rod him that what he said was
ot only very interesting, but would
e of great benefit to the tariff queslon
generally. " Several Republican
enatora also came across the ctaamer
and congratulated Senator Smith,
niong whom wore Bevoridge, Nelson
lid LftFollOtle.
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Ch? the Treatment of Disease.
Some original and striking state!
roents with regard to the attitude
[of the public, in general, and the
' medical profession in particular, toj
wards humanity's common enemy,
i disease, are made by Hornarr Mac.fadden
iu the June issue of tbe
j Physical Culture magazine. The fol- f
lowing quotations will serve to illustrate
the standpoint from which
this writer views the ordinary mothod
of dealing with physical ailments,
I and many of his beliefs are gainlDg
j aeoeeptance in the minds of those
who think for themselves the world
over:
"Practically every advanced student
of medicine is prepared to admit.
that disease germs are innocuous
or harmless to those who possess
what might be termed a high degree
of vital resistance. Such persons
are classed as immune, and it
has always been an unsolved riddle >
to me why the germ-seeking scientists
do not turn their attention to
tile study of tlie how and whv r.r
this immunity. They are seeking
a method of insuring immunity
against disease. Why do they devote
so much time to the duty of the minute
details of the disease, instead of
learning something of the nature of
the forces within the body which can
render it practically immune from all
disease?
"Disease I.sj not 5?n enemy! It
is ;i friend! It comes as 51 means of
bringing relief. it is an effort on
the part of the body to right a
wrong. it shows thi?t the body is
struggling for life and health, and on
many occasions of ridding the body
of the vile accumulations of poisons,
death would unquestionably ensue.
Therefore, disease in many case"
actually save life. To he sure, if
there is but a small amount of foreign
material in the circulation and
tissue of the body, the attack of
f }u> /I ...ill ?
.... win iiy slight in char- 4
.. 1
ncter.
Thy CJreater Show.
At a country fair out iu Kansas
says The Argonaut, a man wont up
to a tent where some elk wore on
exhibition and stared wistfully up
at the sign, "I'd like to go in there,"
ho said to the keeper, "but it would
be mean to go in without my family,
and 1 cannot afford to pay for my
wife and seventeen children." The
keeper started at him in astonishment,
"Are all those your children?"
he gasped. "Every one," said the
man. "You wait a minute," said f
the keeper, "I'm going to bring the
elk out and let them see you all."
When a girl Is elghtoen she imagines
that every love letter is the
advance agent of a marriage certificate.