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t THE SLUSH FUND W. 9- C**k, VwrmU UMMmaa Sftmli leari EJwiri K*i ? BARGAIN FOR IflMMER On the Stufd, nt Bribery Enquiry, rk??l._^n Da I .(fiAammI WHIla HlnAR UV AMOWUVV WW mmmm-y ? Some One in Springfield to Spare No Expense to Get Lorimer Elected Senator. At Springfield, 111., C. F. Wiche, brothers-in-law of Edward Hines, of Chicago, a lumberman Tuesday admitted before the senate bribery investigation committee that Hines sent him on a midnight mission to the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago in an effort to have W. H. Cook and# William O'Brien, Minnesota lumbermen, evade Cook county process servers at the time the charges that bribery was used in the election of William Lorimer to the United States senate were first published in May, 1910. Wleho's statement roliowea me iestlmony of VVilto Cook of Duluth who, it was brought out, had written a threatening letter to Mines. Wiehe corroborated some of Cook's statements, but denied the pungent part of his charge. Cook declared that ho was in a room at the Grand Pacific hotel, May 26, 1 909, with William O'Brien and Edward Hinee when Mines telegraphed to some one called "Governor" at Springfield. During this telephone conversation by Mines, Cook said that Mines declared that he was ready to take the next train to Springfield with all the money necessary to effect William Lorimer's p election to the senate. Lorimer's election occurred later that same day 1 ^ * H P?nn Invnallirntnl' for tVlf* *11 # If, V/ VJ A II ) HIT VVf * A w ?/..?committee testified that he interviewed William O'Brien in Duluth within the last week and that O'Brien told ahout the same story as Cook only differ!iik that O'Brien got the impression that Former Gov. Richard Yates was on the. Springfield end of the telephone. Following the recital of Cook before the investigating committee Gov. Chas. S. Deneen issued a statement in which ho declared that he had neve at anytime held such a conversation with Mines. Former Gov. nines also denied that ho ever had any such conversation with llines as that related by Cook. Wiehe stated to the committee that ho. alth'oueh not in the room when Hines got the Springfield call, believed that Hines talked to William Lorimer. Wieho testified that on May 2 0, 1909, Hines set out for Chicago from Washington to 8:30 a. m. Hines said he had "put in" several telephone calls to Springfield on that day but did not know whom Hines was calling. Hines at a previous Hearing testified that he talked with Gov. Deneen on that morning from the Continental and Commercial National bank. Cook declared that he answered the telephone in his room at the Grand Pacific when the call came for Hines. "I understood the central girl to say, 'Here's Governor' or 'The governor of Springfield for Hines.' " He then related the conversation as he remembered it as follows: "Ilines took down the receiver out of my hand and he spoke in the phone. He asked: 'Hello, hello, hel lo, is this you, governor? Well, I just loft President Taft and Senator Alclrich last night in Washington. Now they tell me that under 110 consideration shall Hopkins he returned to the senate. Now, I will he down on the next train. Don't leave anything undone. I will he down on the next train prepared to furnish all the money required. Now, don't stop at anyl thing; don't leave anything undone; I will he down on the next train. Or < words to that effect, repeated over ? three or four times." Cook was specific regarding the matter of money being mentioned and on cross examination repeated this part of the conversation. On 1 this point of the Grand Pacific hotel 1 conversation by Hines Wiehe testi- ' fled; 1 "Why, the conversation was sub- ' stantially or practically as follows: < 4T Imim lnof fall/A/l nrWli fhft crr\\rfliMW\r 1 lia W JUDA. I.UIIW14 ? ?l<?* V"V nw * VI IIVI in the long distance telephone and 1 he assures me he will do what you i ask. You know what the admlnistra- j (Jon wants. Now, leave no etone un- 1 turned to he elected. I will get 1 down to Springfield if necessary in t the morning.' 1 "And when he got through talking ^ he turned to the people in the room 1 and said: ( " 'I have just been talking to 1 "Senator" Lorimer.' " > Weihe stated that he, O'Brien, Cook, t Isaac Baker and Ilines were present i at the time. \ Weihe asked to be allowed to ques- \ tion Cook and was allowed to do so. ? Ho charged Cook with trying to t blackmail HJnes and the Weyhauser \ lumber interest. Cook admitted that ho had sent c a letter to F. E. Wyerhauser and also to Wiehe in which he threatened r to tell what he knew of the Lorimer I SUN ECLIPSE OS FRIDAY. Interesting Phenomenon Will Be Observed During Afternoon. A total eclipse of the sun will take place Friday afternoon which will prove an Interesting phenomenon occurring at an hour when with fair weather conditions, it will be generally seen. Occurring as it does just before sundown, the whole progress of the eclipse can not be watched fnom this section of the United State, because of the setting of the sun before the shadow passes off; but there win be ampie time i <> set; the effect of the total shutting off of the sun's light. There will be a greater degree of darkness probabl> than at any other time of the day because of the nearness of the sun to the horizon, and the consequent lessening of the sun's rays in the air. The refraction will not be so great, and it will be night time in the day. The chickens will go to roost early and they will have a long night. The eclipse will be visible in a large portion of the United States. The sun will set eclipsed east of a line drawn from Pittsburg to Matagorda Bay, Texas. Washiri&Qn ia at the northern Atlantic boundary of the area of visibility. The eclipse will be invisible north of a line drawn from Portland, Ore., through Milwaukee and Pittsburg to Washington. The eclipse will be very small in the Western and Middle States. At San Diego less than one-half of the sun's face will be obscured, while at Chicago less than one-sixteenth will be eclipsed. NEGROES HOVCOTT WHITES. Women Driven Off for Washing for White People. Spartanburg letter to The State says according to a story told Magistrate R. J. Gantt certain negroes in the county, angered because they declare Gary Gist's crime of attempted criminal assault was not sufficiently heinous to warrant the death penalty, and because they think sufficient effort has not been made to apprehend Sam Davis, a white man, accused of having assaulted a little negro girl, have organized themselves into a society to prevent the negro women from laboring in white famlilies. The story was told by a negro woman, who claims she was driven from her home, near Glendale, because she washed for white people. She gave the names of the negro men who threatened her, and three of the six, she said, were in the mob, were arrested and lodged in jail. "CAESAR HEAD" TURNED. ? Famous Peak of RIuo Ridge Suffers from Earthquake. 4 * ? - _ a _i. c A . t -.111^ XT /-* a ciispai.cn irom Asueviuu, vv., says belated reports from the mountain section of Transylvania County state that "Caesar's Mead," a famous peak of the Mine Ridge, about twenty miles from Brevard, had been overturned by the earthquake shocks which is said to have been felt in various sections of Western North Carolina Friday night. "Caesar's Mead" has been one of the show places of Western North Carolina since this country was first developed, and it would be greatly missed by visitors if tho earthquake has really destroyed it. matter unless they agreed to settle a fight among the stockholders of the , Virginia and Rainey Lake Lumber company. These letters were produced by Cook, who also testified mnr. rjciwaru nines numoer company held ? 130,000 of Cook's notes and mortgages. Oook also testified that he and Henry Turrish of Duluth met Mr. Hines going through the hotel looby in May, 19 09, shortly before the election of Lorimer. "Mr. Turrish asked him," said Cook, "how he was getting on down in Washington. 'Oh,' he said, 'I am having a hell of a old Stephenson. After I elected him, old Spethenson. After I elected him, he has gone down to Washington and started working there for free lumber. I had a terrible time getting aim lined up." Then he went on and told about what a time he had with the Southern Democrats. He said he would have them all fixed up today and tomorrow they would flop and he would have to go and fix them all aver again. "Mr. Turrish asked him how they were getting along with the senatorial deadlock. 'Well/ he said, 'it is all fixed. I will tell you confidentially Lorimer will be the next Senator. Wo had Boutell fixed for the senaorship. He had promised to work to s . Hi A # O f n 1.1 fY All 1 11 111 V\ 11 f ^ tut? ?p u i en HI uu i 11111 ut;i , uui, vixen the lumber schedule came up ,T xefore the house ways and means ^ jommittee, he was working for free ( umber. I immediately took It. up * vitli Senator Aldrich, and so decided hat we had to have another man, a ? nan whom we could depend on. It 7 vas decided that I should have a talk vith Lorimer I did. Lorimer has 11 igreed to stand pat. He vill listen 11 o reason. I have got it all fixed; he vill be the next senator from Illinois. "That was the substance of the :onversation." v Cook said he "inferred it was Ste- s; ihenson from Winconsin" to whom n lines alluded. r< OUTLOOK FOR COTTON FORTY-TWO MILLION BALES REQUIRED TO CLOTHE All the People of the World When They Become Civilized and Wear Clothes.. "To clothe the whole of humanity would require 42,000,000 bales of cotton each year." This statement was made by President Hobbs of the ? a ? * hi ... xxuiiunm ABButiHiiuu ji v/vuuii *?i mufacturers, at its recent annual meeting in Boston. Mr. Hobbs said that, of the 1,500,000,000 inhabitant*; of the world only 500,000,000 are completely clothed, while 750,000,000 are only partially clothed and 250,000,000 are practically not clothed at all. As civilization advance, the proportion of the partially clothed and the unclothed will decrease, and this with the increase of the population in civilized countries, will call for an increased supply of cot'on. The cotton belt of the United States now furnishes fully two-thirds of the world supply of cotton, and, as the demand increases will be be called upon greatly to increase its annual prod uction. In speaking of the cotton situation President I-lobbs says: "From the present acreage the production could be doubled if proper methods were used." There must be improved methods of cultivation, a better method of pcking a "general improvement in every step and process between the planting of the seed and the delivery of the cotton to the mill." "We have drifted too long," he said, and "the time is now ripe for concerted and determined action if we are to maintain our commanding position." I While the rest of the world is "actively trying to find means to increase the production of cotton," we "continue in the old ways of producing and handling," and little improvement has been made in many years. It is estimated that only about one-third of the available area is cultivated, and if scientific knowledge were applied to natural conditions of soil and climate, "we can well raise 50,000,000 bales" of cotton a year and clothe all mankind. It is a clear understanding of this condition that has led the Southern Railway company to organize a Cotton Culture Department to work in co-operation with the United States agricultural denartment and the a2ri cultural authorities of the Southern states, to keep the cotton production of the South abreast of the demand by bringing about the daption of those cultural methods which will result in larger average yields per acre, thus increasing the profitableness of cotton growing and leaving surplus lands to be devoted to other crops and the growing of live stock. It is clearly more profitable to a farmer to produce fifty bales of cotton on fifty acres than to produce the same amount on one hundred acres, for he will receive the same amount for his cotton and will have fifty acres for other uses. Under ordinary circumstances, every increase yield of cotton per acre reduces the cost of production per pound and yields the farmer a larger margin of profit between the cost of growing his crop and the selling price. NORTH AND SOUTH JOINED. Senator Tillman's Daughter Marries a New Jersey Man. A Trenton, S. C., dispatch says many guests from out of town attended the wedding there Wednesday of Miss TiOiia Tillman, daughter of United States Senator and Mrs. Ben- 1 jamin R. Tillman, and Charles Sum- 1 tier Moore, a prominent lawyer of Atlantic City, N. .T. The ceremony \ ivas performed in the Church op our | Savior. Miss Sallie May Tillman, youngest sister of the bride was the . naid of honor, and the wife of her , mother, Mrs. Henry Gumming Till- ( nan of Greenwood was a matorn of ( lonor. Mr. Arthur Pringle Hume of . Philadelphia acted as best man and \ he groomsmen were Henry Wise j lughes of Trenton, Errington Burn- j ey Hume of Charleston, Erving Fen- f 10 Chapin of San Christobol, Cubo, f ind Nelson Burr Gaskill, of Trenton, A ^ ^ <3 Pullman Car Burned. 1 The Pullman car Yucca, attached 1 o the Palmetto Limited, of the At- t antic Coast Line, was destroyed by s Ire Thursday morning, while the i rain was standing at the station at i cocay Mount, i\. v;., ana m. j. rrou- r tein, a traveling salesman, of New r rork, was suffocated, and Flagman / . C. Russ and Mail Transfer Clerk p V. F. Ireland were badly burned. S !a? from a leaking tank under the b 'ullinan was ignited by the flagman's intern. Ten passengers were asleep n the ear, four of them ladies, 'hey saved only a part of their be- o mglngs. Probstetn was a young e lan and had only been married four lonths. " ? p Five to Hang. At Oklahoma City five negroes t< mre sentenced to hang from the ame scaffold on June 21, for the a niredr of W. H. Archie, who was n obbed and killed March 9, a I SLAIN BY REBELS LIEUTENANT AND TWENTYEIGHT SOLDIERS KILLED. Refusing to Surrender, Mexican Roy Officer and Handful of Men Are Slaughtered. Refusing to surrender or to leave the train on wmcn ne ana nis command of thirty soldiers were being carried to the >City of Mexico, a second lieutenant, little more than a boy, yet engaged in a battle with a force of four hundred rebels at Cajones, Oillerro. At the conclusion of the brief encounter the leutenant and twenty-eight of the soldiers were dead and the remaning two were made prisoners. Ono of the lieutenant's arms was shot away. The rebels were under command of Prudencio Figuro. Learning that troops were being carried on the Cuernavoca division of the National railway, the rebel leader marched to Cajones, some distance from Cuernavaca. When the train stopped he sent forward a messenger to demand the surrender of the troops and request, if they would not surrender, to abandon the train in order that the lives of the passengers be not endangered. Fresh from Aspirantes, a military training school, the boyish ofllcer sent DacK worn tnai ne nan ins orders to continue on train. Little time was lost in beginning the fight. The rebels poured down the embankment on either side of the train and the shooting was begun by both sides. Passengers who had been imploring the young oilicer to yield were in a panic. The cries of women and children were heard in the rattle of the rifles and the shots from the rebels raked the sides of the train. Many bullets entered the coaches occupied by passengers. Only one, however, did any damage. That one killed Luis Bustamente, a civil engineer, on his way to the capital to be married. With the blood of their companions running from the doorways of the little second class coach, the men coolly fired into the ranks of their assailants until only two remained. IIOHHKI) AN OLD FARM Kit. > Two Atlanta Plugs Put "Knock Out" Drops in His Whiskey. Charles Johns and Charles Stewart of Atlanta, both white men of rather unsavory reputations, are about to pay the penalty for drugging and robbing a farmer named S. A. Kent, from the neghborhood of Columbus, whom they got into their toils a few weeks ago when he came to Atlanta on business. Kent came to Atlanta with about $4 00 in a roll 011 his person. Johns and Stewart found it out and made friends with the farmer. Under color of hospitality they lured him to the home of Johns where they plied him with whiskey, put some knockout drops in one of the glasses, rendered the old man helpless and took his money. It seems, however, that while the whiskey and the dope prevented the old man from making any outcry he was able to near an tnat went on. He appeared in court and told how the two men first took the whole $4 00 and how then Johns said, "Oh, H?1, we can't take all he's got. It would bo a shame." So the two 1 thieves magnanimously gave back, < put into the old man's pocket, half of what they had stolen from him. Save the llircls. "There are many reasons why the lives of birds should be protected," 1 says the Washington Herald . 1 "They delight the eye and the ear, 1 they destroy the seeds of noxious weeds, and they wage war upon the ( insects which destroy grain and ' fruit. These considerations have led [ Alabama to sot apart the 4th of May ' mcl 'bird day.' This date is the an- * niversary of the birth of John J. An- ( iubon, the famous bird lover, and is ( :o be observed by a study of birds 1 ind bird life. Appropriate exercises lave been arranged in every school v n the state, so that the children may 51 )0 brought close to the forests, fields, 1 md streams. A part of the plan is t o take the little ones through the n voods and meadows that they may < ttudy nature and the birds, their s labits, and the necessity of their v >reservation. "The position taken by e he state of Alabama is that the con- d ervation of birds should be the bus- h ness of the state; that the restrainng hand of the law should be laid leavily on those who wantonly and t ecklessly destroy bird life. In this tl Alabama is setting a notable exam- 1' ile to other states." And we hope h iouth Carolina will be one to follow n ier example. I) tl A Fifty-Cent Word. c< A little boy had got into the habit n f saying "Darn," of which his moth- A r naturally did not approve. ti "Dear," she said to the little boy, n here is ten cents: it is yours if you romise me not to say 'Darn' again." 11 aii rigni, moiner, no sain, as no ? Dok the money, "T promise." As he lovingly fingered the money hopeful look came into his eye3, oc nd he said: "Say, mother, 1 know Oi word that's worth fifty cents." a* SAYS THBIIE IS NO DAXUEIt. Of a War Between the United States the Japanese. "Japan and the United State* are friends and will continue to be friends, the Homer Leas and sympathizers, to the contrary notwithstanding," declared Representative Sulzer, chairman of the house committee on foreign relations, responding to the toast "peace, friendship and good will between Japan and the United States at the banquet of the American-Asiatic association at New York Tuesday night. In the interest of peace and of progress and of civilization he said, Japan and the United States must ever be friends and war between these two countries Is preposperous and unthinkable." Those who make the wish father to the thought are not In sympathy with the spirit of the times. "Japan wants peace to work out her domestic problems and to achieve her greater destiny in the orient," he said. "The United State abhors war with all the horrors and responsibilities that war entails and we also have domestic problems of our own to work out for the general welfare of the American people." Representative Sulzer said he believed he voiced the sentiments of the patriotic people of the United States when he declared that American sympathizers with Japan in the great work that wonderful country is doing in the orient for progress and civilization. ? ? Tom Johnson's 1'nique Record. The political record of Tom L. Johnson was one of tin4 most unique in American history, principally because when he had attained wealth and power he relinquished the chase for more money and gave his best years to hard and ceaseless work in the service of the plain people. Tom Johnson's battle was a fight to give the masses of the people so square a deal that they would need no charity or philanthropy, lie had the clear and honest comprehension that what the community, the city, could do to make life cheerful and pleasant for its people was simply the fulfillment of an obligation. lie saw that the wealth accufnulating in varying* degrees of possession was in chief part the product of the thrift and toil of all the people, and that to conserve for the public use the wealth which the public indisputably created was not paternalism, but plain honesty. It may have been the very fact that in the first period of his busy life he was a beneficiary of special privlige which made him the more clearly see and feel the injustices of privilege. Benefits received do not often have the effect. They are usually "benefits for effect." It adds luster to the character and the work of Tom Johnson that his own experiences were utilized for the common good, that no sneering suspicion of his integrity could serve him from obedience to his beliefs and service he proved that moral ideals, UUSCU Oil IIUIIIUU 1U11UW snip, <1 1 as potent for getting mankind along as any material incentives. In the future histories of the Amer ican people, it seems probable now that largest credit for the raising of American municipalities to the plane they must occupy in American affairs will he accorded to this truly great mayor of Cleveland. In the adjustment of the manifold intimate relations of a city's life Mayor Johnson developed a field of usefullness as great a-nd as honorable as any ser- 1 vice reserved to the large state or nation. 1 In that field lie labored incessantly. ' fhe more spectacular of his efforts ' ?those for street railway regulation i n d municipal ownership ? gained 1 widest attention, for they hit at the ' oot of the evil of special privilege, j Vet his less dramatic insistence up- ' in just taxation, upon humanely sen- 1 able correction of delinquents, upon he development of civic beauty as a c landmaiden to civic helpfulness to ! ill the people?this stout struggle for filial opportunity stirred and en- ' onraged a vital civic consciousness N hroughout ail the American cities. * ( 11 ?i\r1 o ii /I olio ro/1 Tnm Tnh nuAti ' VIV v VMIIIM QI1U1 V/VI 1 \/ 111 II VII IIUUII vith all its sister municipalities. Not ^ mother city entered a franchise * ight, or planned an extension of ao- : ivitv for the general well being of '' ctivity a square deal in any form s hat it did not receive help and in- * piration from Cleveland's public serant. If there was no other aid givn there was the splendid example of auntless courage and supreme good t1 umor and good cheer in the fight- 1( ig. n And so Tom Johnson, mayor, and (i hen just private citizen, o fone of 6 lie lesser of the big American cities, d ived his public life, and closed all is earthly life, filling a place in the ational sense of public affairs as ig and hopeful and controlling as b lie place filled by one whose direct C oncern had been the national busi- v ess. lie leaves thus for all the a merican people a heritage of many w lings accomplished and, more than p< 11, of high ideals of manhood and itizenship brought closer to fulflilicnt by his life.?-Spartanburg Joural. oi ? ,M The Lunibor Trust buncoes the \\ msumers of lumber out of $.">9,- tl 00,000 per year, and not $.".,000,000 st i we stated a few days ago. R< MINERS KILLED Eiplisin ia Call Miie Briags Death It Uodergroaad Workers TWENTY THREE IN MINE Disaster Occurs at Elk Garden, W. VaM and Cause so Far Unascertained.?Kescuers Begin Work at Once with no Hope of Finding Any of the Victims Alive. At Elk Garden, W. Va., twenty three miners are entombed in Ott mine, No. 20, of the Davis Coal and! Coke Company, as the result of of debris that has thus far deterred the progress of the rescuers. It cannot be learned yet whether the explosion was caused by dust or gas. Officials of the company say they have never known tnelr mines to he gaseous. As soon as the accident became known, Superintendent Robert Grant organized a rescue corps of the miners off duty, and these attempted to enter the mine after notifying the offl/'iji 1? r?f thf* rn:il rnninnnv ft t Cum berland, Md. The rescue parties had not advanced for into the workings before they discovered it would take several days to dig through the heaps of roof coal and slate that had been loosened by the explosion. It was then decided to effect an entrance nearer the probably point of the explosion by cutting through the wall of an adjoining mine owned by the same company. Late Manday afternoon the rescuers had penetrated to No. 20 mine, at a point about 4,000 form the outside entry. They still remained about the same distance to go before reaching the miners. The Ott mine, No. 3 0, is almost directly under the town of Elk Garden, which is on a hill. The mouth of the mine is about half a mile from the town. In striking contrast to the usual mine explosions, the victims in this case, with one exception are Americans. The mine, usually employs 200 men on the day shift, and about the same number at night. A temporary suspension of work, however, required fewer men in the mines, else the casualities might have been greater. After penetrating about a mile down the main entry, the rescuers found the body of a man not yet identifier]. It was crushed beneath a fall of slate, as though the roof had crumbled as he was running out of the mine. The discovery of this body leads (be rescue party to believe that none of the others are alive. Several yards beyond, the passage was completely blocked by the collapse of the roof. Behind and under this fall, it is believed, the bodies of the miners lay. Havoc which was wrought in the mine would indicate that the explosion was terrific. For a square mile or more the slato and coal was slit, and props were splintered, letting the roof fall in large portions. ? BOAT SINKS, FOUR DROWW. Florida Storm Sends Vessel and Cargo to Bottom. , Loaded to capacity with a five thousand barrel cargo of naval stores, the river steamer Belle, from Vernon, Fla., to Pensacola, sank in, !i severe fifty mile gale late Thursday, in the Chotaw Kivcr and four lives were lost. Capt. Fred Burliston, of Pensacola; Engineer M. nolle, of Verlon, and two children, names unknown, were drowned with the sinkng steamer. All of the bodies were ecovered. Several ineinhers of the Tew and two passengers barely es\aped the fate of tlie unfortunate our. The vessel and her cargo will >robal)ly he a total loss. The Belle vas one of the largest steamers in lie local river traffic and was vaL icd at $ IS,000. She was built at 'onion in 1903. and had a gross onnage of 7 4. This is the only Jyident 'of any consequence that ias been reported as a result o! the evere storm which swept the Gulf 'oast Thursday. + 00 i Took Fatal Jump. At San Jose, Cal., Pat Teeling, a rusted inmate of the state hospital or the insane at Agnew, adopted a ovel means of killing himself Tuesay. He climbed to the top of a ,r)-foot smokestack and jumped own inside the stack. ? ? lturned to Death. At Philadelphia two men were urned to death in a tire, destroying has. Dewe's building. The victims fere Andrew jHarrigan, aged 55; -1 T ii ... TaIi o iro/1 J 0 TllPtf Illl I) (IIIICO 9 V II llO\/ll| \A ? V. ere lodgers, and asleep on the uper floors. +++ I Dragged by Train. Tuesday night Mr. S. H. George, f Augusta, was painfully injured at lontmorenei by falling from a train, 'hile his injuries are very painful ley are not thought to bo of a rious nature. His body was drag3d for some distance.