The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 21, 1909, Image 5

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\ MUST SERVE TIME Federal Circuit Court Sustains Verdict in the Case of Morse WHO GOES BACK TO CELL Only the Ppcsidpnt or tlx? VniUtl States Supreme C^ourt Can Now Save the Former Ire King, Steamship Lino Organizer, Hunker ami Capitalist fiDin Serving. Unless the Supreme Court of the United States reverses the decision, or the President of the United States interferes. Charles W. Morse, of New York, one time "Ice king," coastwise steamship nne oir.anizer, banker ana capitalist, will serve fifteen years at hard labor in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. After having been at liberty under 1125,000 bail since June 17, last he is back in the Tombs prison, where he contemplates the decision of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rendered Monday, sustaining j Hit* i t w) rrninn n t V*/? 1 rv tt? a - 1 I juuhiiiuuv vjl vhc r I'UI'I ill Court, which found him guilty In November last of violating the nat-l ional banking laws. There was solace in the decision of the court of Appeals, however, in that only ten of the fifty-three indictments on which he was convicted were sustained, and on the strength of this, his counsel, Martin \V. Littleton, will immediately carry the case before the United States Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari. To this end the United States Court of Appeals has granted a forty days stay of execution and pending a decision by the Supreme Court, application will he made to have the prisoner again admitted to bail. Morse took the decision calmly, though he was plainly grief-stricken and surprised. Mrs. Morse was with her husband in the marshal's office during the entire morning. When word came that the decision was against him she said: "All along we had the utmost confidence that a new trial would be granted. The decision came as a surprise to us. But my husband is j brave and he will continue to struggle for his liberty." One of Morse's keenest regrets at being forced to return to prison is the Interruption of his beaver-like struggle to rebuild his fortunes. Since his liberation under bail he had been re-elected president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, a New England corporation, and of IT.. J ? I I.... rinmnnno r\ lilt? n UllKUIl iXUVIKtlUWll VAMli p<l 11 > , w|j- I erating a line of boats on the Hudson. )s. He is credited with having discharged the bulk of his debts. From a the two big transportation linos that i ' had within the week elected Morse as their president, there was no official statement forthcoming after the decision. It was understood that for the time being, at least, the elections would stand. JUMPS FROM TRAFX. Prisoner Being Brought to North Carol inn Kscapes, With his two wrists handcuffed to\ gether, Edward King, alias Davis, a negro convict, en route from I.)atine mora, N. Y., to the North Carolina State prison, leaped from the St. I.ouls express on the New York Central Monday and escaped in the fog. L The warden of the North Carolina prison, whose name is not known, jumped from the train afterr his prisoner, but was hurt. A heavy fog hung over the railroad track at the time and the convict was able to make his way unobserved into fl . the woods. King, who is !if? years old, finished a term in the State prison at Dannemora Monday. On his discharge he was taken into custody by the warden of the North Carolina prison from which he escaped several years ago. At Tivoli, N. Y., the train slackened speed on account of a block signal. The negro noticed it, slipped out of his seat by the side of the warden and tiptoed out th? nlntform. He was able to It open the door and jumped off, rolling over and over. By the time the warden had realized what had happened and reached the platform, the train was running quite fast again, so that in jumping he received much of a shock and was quite badly cut and bruised. I The negro was nowhere to be seen in the fog and the officer was too badly hurt to follow him. The train was stopped and backed up, but the warden declined to continue with it. He made his way to the village and told his story to the constable, who organized a posse and began a search w ^ for the convict who is supposed to be hiding in the woods. Fatal Gin Accident. 91 Henry Ward, the 12-year-old son HI of .Mr. Jesse Ward, of Pickens, had 9 his hand caught in a cotton gin on H Tuesday and his arm and one side H of bis body were terribly mangled, Bj ^ causing his death in a short while. PRICE OF COTTON RKING ASSAULTED BY THE GERMAN MANUFACTURERS. Their Claim That an Enormous Amount \Va? Drought Over From Past Year is Denied. Henry S. Reed, editor of the Atlanta Cotton Journal has isHiiiwl n statement about the alleged large stocks of that commodity carried over and now held in reverse. Ho says: "Statements have been made relative to the enormous stocks of cotton carried over, etc. But the carry-over shown by the following figures for September 1, 189 8, and September 1, 1909, was but normal: "Spinners stocks in Great Britain on September 1, 1909, were 202,000 l^ales as against 2 7 7,000 bales on September 1, a year ago, or an actual shortage of 75,000 bales this year as compared with last. "Spinners stocks on the continent of Europe September 1, 1909, aggregated 1,2 2 4,000 bales against 1 ,18 7.000, September one year ago. This is an actual increase of 12 7,000 bales, making the increase in foreign stocks September 1, 1909, over September 1, 1908, 02,000 bales or enough to run the continental Ml.. t I .1 * minis in ret- unys, or cnougn io run English mills live days. The English mills used 80,000 bales per week during August, 1909, and 60,000 bales during August, 1908. The continental mills used 1 10,000 bales per week during August, 1909, and 1 908. The total weekly consumption abroad during August, 1 909, was 190,000 bales against 172,000 during August, 1908." * Iteming the ITioe of Clot ton. Under the above caption the Columbia State editorially discusses the effort being made by the manufacturers as follows: Certainly intelligent and strenuj ous efforts are being made to "bear" the price ot" cotton. Already we have I heard that if the present prices of cotton are maintained that it will be imperative that the Southern mills close down?not on account of the lack of cotton, be it known, but because the high prices ou cotton leave no margin of profit for the manufacturer of the finished goods. Of course it is true that high prices of cotton do hit the Southern mills harder than other mills because of the fact that the Southern manufacturers turn out as a rule the coarser grade of goods, in which the element of the first cost of cotton enters more largely than in the liner grades of goods. Hut now the International Confer-I enco of Cotton Spinners, ho we nre told, at Frankfort, Germany, have adopted these positive and painful resolutions: Whereas, all the Fupropean spinners have expressed the opinion that the large visible and invisible supplies of cotton, together with tin? prospective favorable Fast Indian and Egyptian crops, will sullieo to cover the requirements, even notwithstanding the unfavorble outlook. Therefore, it is urgently recommended in view of the unusually high price of cotton and the unremuneratlve selling price of goods, that the existing restrictions must ho maintained and extended as far as possible. Of course these resolutions may have seen Frankfort or Wall street l?and mnvhe both. - And of course the information that the Egyptian and Fast Indian cotton crops are especially good will serve to alter the tone of the American market a whole lot?maybe. The Egyptian and Fast Indian crops must have increased a great deal in importance since the last time cotton was picked. In fact and soberly, there is every reason why cotton will hold its present price?unless Indeed it advances. The outlook is for around an eleven-million-bale crop, when a thirteen-million-balo crop is' necessary to keep the mills going and to meet the demands of the spinners. Under these circumstances it. is certainly reasonble and almost inevitable that the price of cotton will he maintained?or advanced. That Is the logic of the situation and a dozen resolutions adopted at Frankfort can not alter this logic of the situation. If the farmers hold tight for reasonable prices, if they refuse to be scared by resolutions and by reports of Fast Indian and Egyptian cotton crops that have never no lore arrectod markets of the world, if they simply sit easy and rest upon their oars, wo imagine that. In tho end they will get the price that the exigencies of supply and demand exercise. It would certainly he interesting to trace these Frankfort (0?ermany) resolutions to their ultimate source. Somehow, they have a touch to lis of "Home, Sweet Home." * Yeggmnn Caught. At Fort Worth, Tex., three members of an alleged gang of safeblowers were captured a few days ago. following their escape from jail at Hamilton, Tex., Sunday night. Tho men are Ed Marvin, Will Probst and John Bowen. PEARY'S STORY ? He Issues Statement Denying that Dr. Cook Reached the Pole BASED ON ESKIMO'S TALE Ho Claims That lloys Who Woro ? With Cook Whon Ou?'stJonod by ! , j ' McmlH'iN of Poary*s Party Sai<l j1 Cook Did Not Co Near the North j 11 Polo. The following statement nf fnnu I 1 mandcr Robert E. Peary, which he j ( submitted to the Peary Arctic Club ! i in support of his contention that Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole 1 is now made public for the first j J time: Some of my reasons for saving that j Dr. Cook did not go to the North j Pole will be understood by those who j road the following statements of the 1 two Eskimo boys who went with him, and who told me and othors of my | party where he did go. Several EsI kimos who started with Dr. Cook j from Anoratok in February, 1908, j were at Etah when 1 arrived there j in August, 19 *>8. They told mo that Dr. Cook had i with hiin, after they left, two Eskimo boys or young men, two sledges j and some twenty dogs. The boys! were I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I ' had known them from their childhood. One was about eighteen and the other about nineteen years of; age. On my return from Cape Sheri- I dan and at the very first settlement ; I touched (Nerko, near Cape Chalon ) j in August, 1909, and nine days before reaching Ktah, the Eskimos told ' mo. in a general way, where Dr. 1 Cook had been: that he httd win-j to red tn Jones Sound and that he I had told the white men at Atah that j he had been a long way north, but that the boys who were with hint. I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah, said that this was not so. The Eskimos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On reaching Btah, I talked with the Bskimos there and with the two boys and asked them to describe Dr. Cook's journey to members of my party and myself. This they did in the manner stated below. (Signed.) It. B. Peary. Here is a synopsis of the statement made by the Bskimo men to Peary, and others of his party and vouched for by them: The two Bskimo boys, I-took-n- j shoo and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied j Cook while he was away from An- | oratok in 1 P "?8 and 1900, were ques- | tinned separately and independently,! and were corroborated by Fanikpah, the father of one of them (1-took-ashoo). who was personally familiar! with the first third and the last third of their journey, and who said that | the route for the remaining thirrl as shown by them, was as described to him by his son after his return with Dr. Cook. Notes of their statements were j taken by several of us. and no one j of us has any doubt that they told * the truth. Their testimony was unshaken by ! cross-examination, was corroborated! by other men in the tribe and was I elicited neither by threats nor prom- j ises, the two boys and their father talking of their journey anil their! experiences in the same way that i they would talk of any hunting trip. To go more into details. One of j the hoys was called In, and, with a j chart on the table before him. was imkl'it tn nKnrfi V,.. ' V x, .nivn "11*1*. lie lltvu with Dr. Cook. This he did, point-I ing out with his finger on the map. j but. not making any marks upon it. I As ho wont out, tho othor hoy camo in and was asked to show whore ho had gone with Dr. Cook. This ho did, also without making any marks, and indicated tho same route and tho same details as did the (irst hoy. When ho was through. Panikpah, the father of l-took-a-shoo, a very in- j telligent man, who was in the party : of Eskimos that came back ffom Dr. Cook from the northern end of Nansen's Strait, who is familiar as a hunter with the Jones Sound region, and who has been in Commander Peary's various expeditions for some fifteen years, came in and indicated t Vw? en m o lona Ht 1 ao ? A A ^ ~ ttiv "MIIIM IVM IIIIVIVO nuu IK'Kliift I the two hoys. Then the first boy was brought in a Rain, and with a pencil he traced on the map their route, members of our party writing upon the chart where, according to the boy's state- j ment .they had killed deer. bear, some of their dogs, seal, walrus and musk-oxen. The second boy was then called in and the two went over the chart together, the second boy suggesting some changes as noted hereafter. Finally, Paniqpah, the father, was again called in to verify details of the portions of the route^ with which he was personally familiar. The hulk of the boys' testimony was not taken by Commander Peary, nor in his presence, a fact that obviates any possible claim that they were awed by him. Certain questions on independent POINTS TO MURDER ! A OKl'KSOMK F1NI> M.\I)K 11V HI'HAL MAIL CA Hill Hit. ? IHscovcml Scvonxl Lim!>s of Woman in I>ress Suit Case in an Outlying Portion of Tiverton, H. I. The fmdinc of tho severed loss of ? woman 111 a uress suit case among Bonio bushes in an outlying section j :>f Tiverton, U. I., Monday brought I to light what the authorities are convinced is a case of murder. The discovery of a New Bedford newspaper of Sunday's date with the portions of the limbs is regarded as the most important clue thus far obtained, indicating possibly the place of the murder, if murder there was. The authorities Monday night were of the opinion that the woman was i murdered in New Ih di'ord, that the | legs were placed in the suit case there and brought by team or automobile to Tiverton Sunday night. According to the medical examiner, Dr. John Stimson, the supposed murder was committed not more titan twelve or fifteen hours before the suit case was discovered. That a murder was committed, and that the cutting was not done by the experienced hands of a surgeon or ; by a medical student, is the belief of the medical examiner, who says that apparently a common handsaw was used to sever the legs from th<* trunk. A search for the other portions of the body in the woods nearby is being made. The body might have lain undiscovered for days had not a rural letter carrier, (Joorge Potter, chanced to ku iu 111? spui. I'oiier was musing his rounds, passing along the road, when he noticed three portions of human legs aprtially wrapped in ' newspaper in the case. Later Investigation by the medical examiner showed that the suit case contained the upper portion of a right leg, that from the thigh to the knee, and the entire left leg, cut in two pieces at the knee. The medical examiner, after taking measurements of the limbs, estimated that the woman (or girl) probably was five feet, three Inches high, and weighed perhaps 120 pounds. A large callous spot on the bottom of tho foot indicated that the girl was accustomed to walking much or to standing, and suggested that she may have been a working girl. j CXJUNTItY KMTOKM TOI'I LAIL I In Minnesota, Where Many of Them Hold OlTiee. The late Governor Johnson, shortly before his death, wrote for the Youth's (Vm pan Ion an interesting article dealing largely with the newspaper man in ofllce. lie said that it has often been observed that Minnesota is "governed by the country editor," and shows that the assertion is not without good foundation. Here is his partial summary of the situation. "The governor, his private secretary, and executive clerk are country newspaper men; so are the labor commissioner, the executive a"eot of the game and ilsh commission, the State oil inspector, the State librarain, (he secretary and assistant secretary of State, the assistant labor commissioner, the State fire warden, the assistant fire marshal, the deputy public examiner, the secretary of the dairy and food commission, the assistant clerk of the supreme court, the secretary of the hoard of control. Hoth political parties have recognized the capability of the country editor for official position from the earliest histerv of the State, and he has always been an active force in legislative councils and in the minor places under the national and State government. Wants to Move Away. A committee of three from the Aiken city council has been appointed to confer with Miss Mary V. Kirk, the alleged leper, or her agents in regard to the sale of her property in the city of Aiken to the city authorities. It is stated that Miss Kirk desires to sell her property and move away from Aiken. Nothing can make a girl more indignant than to treat her as a flirt except to treat her as if she didn't know how. lines from the direct narrative of the Eskimo boys were suggested by Commander Feary to some of us, and were put by us to the Eskimo boys. Still later, Commander Peary asked the Eskimo boys two or three casual questions on minor points that had occurred to him. During the taking of this testimony, it developed that I)r. Cook had told these hoys, as he told Mr. Whitney and Billy Prltchard, the cabin hoy, that they must not tell Commander Peary or any of us anything about their journey, and the hoys stated Dr. Cook had threatened j them if they should tell anything. R. E. Peary, U. S. N\ Robert A. Bartlett, Master S. S. Roosevelt. D. B. McMillan. George Borup. Matthews A. Henson. STORM WRECKED The City of Key West, Florida, Becomes a Mass of Wreckage. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED . (iiil<? of Cyclonic Cro|M>i'tioitv Sm-cpw Southeastern Curt of Kloridu IS' niiiNiitar, Taking a Northeasterly Course anil l>otng (irrut Damage to Property. As a result of the hurricane, who h struck the southern coast o f Florida Monday morning, Key West is a mass of wreckage, and the da.tnage to property is estimated at $2,000,000. Martial law was proclaimed by the mayor at 0 o'clock Monday and the Key West (luards are patrolling the city. Chaos reigns on every hand, and few people remain In their homes, hundreds of which have eith? r been totally wrecked or damaged. It is impossible at this hour to say whether there has been lo^s of life. It is feared that many lives have been lost along the coast. The storm reached its height at I o'clock Monday afternoon, when the wind reached an estimated velocity of one hundred miles an hour. There I .. I >.1 r- O -- ii no <i limn, .m nvij IMI/VV i I I'lii 1 <1. I m. to 3 p. ni., when the wind b? gaii I to die down, and by 1 o'clock the centre of the hurricane had passed this point. While the hurricane is the worst that Key West has ever experh need the local weather observer announced that the indications are that the entire east coast of Florida will suffer terribly. Of one hundred local vessels in the harbor Monday morning but five remain at anchor, the others having either gone to sea or been washed upon the beaches. The streets along the water front are a mass of wreckago. Brick as well as frame buildings throughout the city suffered alike from the fury of the heavy wind, and many miraculous escapes from death or serious injury have been reported. Besides the several scores of residences each totally wrecked or blown from their pillars, nine factories were partially destroyed, including the Havana-American, Mar| tine/,, Nichols, Buy Lopez, Manuel Lopez, Fleitas Torris, Cortez, and Wolf cigar manufacturers. No. 1 and No. 3 engine houses of [ the city firo department were destroyed, the firemen narrowly escaping. but several of the horses being killed. The top of the First National Flank was blown off, the postoftiee damaged and two running gears of | the Government coaling station were { wrecked. lOvery telephone and electric light I pole on Davis street, the principal I thoroughfare of the city, were blown i down. I As soon as the wind had subsided plundering began. The city police I was unable to cope with the situaI tion and the mayor decided to take 'stringent measures to Mnnntvw th?. I looting, his proclamation of martial j law resulting. I Almost every nationality is rep reseated among the city's population of | more than 11(1,000, about one-half of whom are employed in the e?*ar ; manufactories, sponge fisheries and salvage companies. l'ui|M>se of Store Advertising. The purpose of store advertising is not merely to sell goods, but to sell more goods?to make friends, : build up a patronage that will not only stick hut grow. Newspapers reach the greatest number of people in the immediately vicinity in the most natural way, at the least expense, and they are therefore the best of all mediums for stores. In a newspaper you follow the lines of least resistance?you follow with the stream?you talk to an audience already assembled, to the people who want to read?their mental cosmos is right- they are on your wire, and they won't ring off if you I hold tlvdr Interest. Attraction is | the basis of all advertising?the store is the sun, the customers the ; planets that revolve around it. (Jive This a Trial. Here is a puzzle (hat puzzles everybody: Take the number of your Iivlng brothers, double the amount, add to it three, multiply by live, add to it the number of your living sissers, multiply the result hy the add the number of deaths of brothers and subtract 150 from the result. The right tiguie will be the number of deaths, the middle will be the number of living sisters and the left will show the number of living brothers. Try it and see. Charged With Stealing. Oscar L. Lilly, a young white man of Columbia, is dn ja|l there on the charge of grand larceny?the charge being that he stole $U9.90 from the pocket of W. J. Steward on the night of the 9th while Steward was asleep. MONEY IN UVE STOCK Kl<"IIIjAN l> KAKMKK PITS TRM TIIOIKANI) IMIM.AIM ? 1 In Kt?M*rs unci U ill Develop Industry Nrnc Coluinhia, |f| < WmmiN.sioiier Wwtson, Tin- State says a KfiitliMnan from llichlarid county left Cnlumtda for the West Wednesday, according to Cornni'isHioner Watson, with i i n ftftti where he goes to put that mu?!t? money in steers to be brought barb, placed on his tarm m-ar ColumbU( fattened and then bold for beef. Phis is probably trie largest amount of South Carolina lucu'-y cvnr pat into a business of this nature and its d*?veloptnent and nuecesM w III DO watched witli interest. There lb a lot of meat shipped in to the State front the WeBtern markets. On the Hitchcock farm hi Aiken county tt?e 4g same kind of experiment is being made, only on n smaller scale. Several of the farmers of Lexington county are conducting the same of business. The live stock, industry in South Carolina is just developing ami it is believed that there is considerable money to be made along this line. The report of the seventh annual iH" ting of the South Carolina lave ^tock association has just been Ibh sued from the press. I lie motto of he report as given on the cover in "More live stock and better Uvo stock." Commissioner Watson In his report on live stock statistics to the convention gave some very interesting data. The commissioner say a in part: "I shall not attempt in th??* report to give you the facts as to f he live stock industry of the State by counties, but suull content myself to dealing with the ligurea ha applying to the entire Stale. Thev reveal conditions that show beyond , all question why it is we are sending out of the State to other States millions of dollars every year for nogs, mules, horses and meats of every kind, that it has been demonstrated time and again can be raiseed cheaper in Mouth Carolina than in the section fixitn whence they ^ come. "lietween 1880 and 1800 considerable headway was made wiirt*tl%0 stock, the increase in value being about $4,300,000. Tills rate of Increase was kept up in the next, decade after 1800, though not quite so large. Between 1800 and 1904 the industry developed to such an extent that the increase in value was about $1 1,250,000. Then cane* the best inc rease I hat we had sine*; the Civil war in the two years between 1901 and 1900, when the increase amounted to almost $10,250,000, and 1900 gave us the maximum value of live stock that we ever had. During the year 1907 there was a decline in value as com-' pared with the preceding year of" nearly $2,250,000 in value. "This year there has been a ve?y slight increase over 1907, $ 1,697,000, but still we lull $050,038 be- ' ' low the valuation of our live stock ' of two years ago; hut I give the actual figures as to the value of all llvo stock in the State for the years* referred to in the above analysis* applying, of course, to horses, mules, milch cows, other cattle, sheep and swine, these values being as follows: 1880, $12,199,510; 1890, $16,572,4 10; 1900, $20,199,859; 1904, $3 1,457,693; 1906, $4 1,425,038; 1907, $39,078,4 19; 1908, $40,7 7 5,000. "On the tirs- of .January, I90'l, the total num ??r of '-end of Itva stock of all classes indicated was" 1,333,000, and the total value w.m $40,7 7 5,000. The following showli the total number of each live stock, the average market value per head, the total vaio; of each: Horses?number, 85,000; value ' per head, $121; total value, $10, Znn.UUU. Mules Number, Ml,000; value a head, $110; total value, $19,9*0,000. Milch rows?Number, 19 9,000; value per head, $27; total value, $3,759,000. Other cattle? Number, 229,000; value per head, $11.50; total value, $2,588,000. Sheep?-Number, 58,000; value per head, $2.20; total value, $128,! 000. Swine ? Number, 685,000; value | per head, $6.25; total value, $4,281,000. Total number, 1,398,000; total value of all stock, $40,775,000. Engineer Electrocuted. Kred Thomas, engineer of the city electric lighting plant at Newborn, N. C., was instantly killed early Sunday morning by coming In contact with some part of an ar? machine carrying 2,300 volts. Ha was alone in the generator room when the fireman heard him outcry and, investigating, found his lifeless body near the machine. (Thnttunooga Visited. A severe electrical storm nnssetl over Chattanooga, Tonn., shortly a~ ftor 7 o'clock Thursday evening. Telephone and street oar service wore badly hampered for an hour or more. Ilixon, Cleveland and other nearby points report the most dnnfraging hail and wind siorm in year*.