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WORK OUT WELL fwhiiw Gmmatlu C#* bh Wwfcihliy. MUCH HOMEY IS SAVED In Thirteen Months/* Says Cnpt. W. #-i <, ? E. Gonzales, "Floating Debt of $75,000 Wiped Out?No Debts and no Overdrawn Appropriations. Money Saved From Income. The commission form of government has proved a splendid success in Columbia. ' Where <cficlts were shown under the old council rule a surplus is now found and the capital city of South Carolina will this year Bpend more han $100,000 on permanent improvements?a condition heretofore unknown. Next year the city will appropriate $150,000 for such purposes. There are five men in Columbia who make it their regular business to look after affairs of the city. There are four councilmen and the mayor. The councilmen receive $2,000 a year, id the mayor $2,500. Here Is the way the city's business ^ Is apportioned: ' W. H. Gibbes?Officers, accounts and accounting. Police and recorder's court. Taxation and civil service. it J. Blalock?Licences. Sanitation and health Insurance and buildIing permits. R. C. Keenan?Fire department. Street department. Market and lighting. R W. Shand?Law and finance. Schools. Parks and trees. ^ W. F. Stieglitz?Water works and sewerage. Public buildings, charities and city jail. Up in Trenton, N. J., the citizens are making a fight for clean government. The Trenton Evening Times asked Capt. W. E. Ganzales, editor of The State, for a sratenient as to the j results obtained in Columbia and he r I, a a tliA fiiilftuilrtiv f r\ t?-v Mrhlph I u I? ? O I UV AV'liV n 1115 V\/ |L" V? J ft AJJ V4ft * M v V <! ^ the point: | Thirteen months ago a mayor and four councllmen took over the management of the municipal affairs from a mayor and 15 alderman.. Formerly, the mayor got a salary of $1,500, the alderm nothing. Now the mayor gets $2,500, and each of- the councllmen | $2,000. i We have the Des Moines plan with I ^ several improvements. There is civilservice for police, fire and health departments; initiative, recall and referendum. None of these privileges I has been invoked. Ward lines are obliterated, councilmen being elected, ae the mayor, atlarge. The ward boss is dethroned. In the old system there was little || ^ r no grafting, lack of definite responsibility; the unbusiness-like system resulted in waste; a thousand little leaks. There were jealousies and .bickerings among aldermen. All that is changed. For four years before its adoption an earnest advocate of commission government, the results exceed my expectations. There is more in the system than in \ ~ the Individuals. Thirteen months ago the new system found a floating debt of about $75,000?they always had floating debts, the Mdermen. Twenty-five thousand a year was all that could be < given by aldermen (ox street care and : improvement. In ten months, for the 1 \ first time in many years, the city got on a cash basis. No debts. No appro * - i-l - ? - mm T7? /iAi?n/?H_ 1 ( IirtitllUUH UVCIUIttVYII. U?OI J UVUUV1.1- ' I man publicly known to be responsible i for the counduct of a certain depart- < meht. The water works, instead of i showing a deficit of $18,000 to be i paid out of general tares, is paying i expenses and beginning to show a i cash balance. I Besides $25,000 for street cleaning i yand repairs, $100,000 was appropriat- ' ed for expenditure this year for per- ] mature improvements, the citizen ] ai'.ng another $100,001 ?o )t?ali i out of current receipts. Next year the city will appropriate $150,000 for l such improvements. Council meets often; the citizens . ? can have hearings at any time and they are in direct touch with the business managers of this affair. Ordered business supersedes a muddle. From the verga of bank* 1 1 ruptcy we step to a 20 per cent, dlvi- 1 dend proposition. There are more policemen, with 1 three, instead of two, reliefs. The f fire department is more efficient. t power cars have supplanted horses in < several Instances. * I A wonderful change, and a splen- < did success. ? Peculiar Accident. Policeman Horris, of the Yorkvillo \ force, was seriously wounded in a blcycle-motorcycle collision Wednesday ( ' afternoon, and fears are entertained for his life. It seems that Harris was riding a bicycle attached by a rope to a motorcycle ridden by a Mr. Fink, of that place. Just outside of Yorkville a tire of the motorcycle burst and threw Harris who was in t the rear on the bicycle, broking his 1 collar-bone and causing the discharge a of his pistol, the ball entering neat i the upper edge of the *hlp, and In* 1 llictlng a serious and perhaps fatal, 1 wound. J COWARDLY ATTACK ? 0 GANG HOLDS VP AND BOLDL1 BEATS SENATOR BILBO. Physician States Injured Mab i ftvdl Fractured* But Wound Not Necessarily Fatal. State Senator Theodore Bilbo, candidate for Lieutenant governor of 'Mississippi, was BiucKea ana severely beaten at Starkville, Miss., Thursday by J. J. Henry, claim agent of the Mobile, Chicago & New Orleans railroad, and former penitentiary warden, the encounter coming as a diect sequel to a campaign speech delivered by Senator 'Bilbo at Blue Mountain, Miss., recently in which Bilbo Is credited with having vigorously assailed Mr. Henry, impeaching his character. The affray occurred aboard a railroad train in which Mr. Bilbo was proceeding from Columbus to Sturgis, Miss., where he was to have spoken Thursday afternoon. Roes A. Collins, candidate for attorney genei* al, who was accompanying State Senator Bilbo to Sturgis at the time of his encounter with J. J. Henry, has given out the following statement: "When the train reached Starkville I was seated directly in front of Senator Bilbo, in the smoking compartment, talking with Mr. Carruthers, of West Point. Carruthers left the train at Stakvllle and I was looking out of the window at about half a dozen people on the station platform when I heard a loud, dull lick. I heard a man groan and saw Senator Bilbo fall at the blow from a pistol. Immediately a man covered the cr0wd in the smoking car with a pistol, and I understand that another person stood guard with him. Everbody was made to vacate the car, and the two men i revented any one entering while J. J. Henry administered repeated blows upon Senator Bilbo's head and body with the butt of a pistol. Some peo- j pie on the outside of the car thinking ] Bilbo dead, begged Mr. Henry to stop t which he did after having inflicted < probably 20 or 25 blows." I Henry was a witness before the ] legislative investigation subsequent < to the charges of Senator Bilbo that i he had been paid a sum of money to < forsawe ex-Governor James K. Var- < daman In the senatorial caucus of | last year, which elected United States s Senator L?eroy Percy as the successor j to the late Senator McLaurin. i Following the legislative inquiry a ( court trial was had of a Percy sup- j porter inv the senatorial campaign, j and he was acquitted of the charges of bribery prefered by Bilbo. Dur- i Ing the present political campaign ( charges and countercharges between j several of the candidates have fol- } lowed fast and partisan feeling has c reached a high tension. , Reports as to the extent of Bilbo's j injuries are conflicting. At first it r was said that his wounds were not t serious, but late this afternoon a des- t patch from Ackerman, in the immedi- v ate vicinity of Sturgls, quotes Dr. r M'urphy, who was called to attend f Bilbo, as saying that his skull is ^ fractured, but he is not necessarily c fatally hurt. ? c * * # \ arir ra OITT OP PT.ITMR X Short Weights Were Always In Favor a of the Seller. . Mayor Rhett of Charleston has re- * ceived from the bureau of statistics at Washington a report on the scales n and weights in Charleston. The re- 0 port shows a general shortage of 8 weights and measures in use In Charleston. The report criticizes the retention in office of John Duncan, P clerk of weights and measures, who * It states Is 70 year? old and who it 8 says, has not inspected the weights v and measures, the merchants report r n 10 years. The ordinance providing c for correct weights and measures are c aot being enforced, the report states, b The butter scales are especially alluded to as being short and the re- y port concludes with the usual recommendation for accurate weights. < ? + ? t< FIVE KILLED, TWO INJURED. * P Electric Train .Strikes Wagon Bearing Picnic Party. ^ Five persons were killed and two d njured, in a grade crossing accident c lear Ozone Park, in the suburbs of ^ew York. The victims were in a n lorse drawn vehicle, which was d itruck by a Long Island Railroad sJ :rain. The crossing where the acci- n lent occurred is at the bottom of a iltght declivity and a clear view in n either direction is prevented. In the p vagon was a party of five residents >f the East Side, who were out pick- ^ licking, and a driver. Of the four r( Rromen and two men in the vehicle, w >nly one?a woman?is alive and she ft( inobably will die. The other injured ^ >erson is Richard C. Reed, conductor w >f the electric train which struck the y rehicle. 41 looses $1,000 Per Week. J] Speaker Champ Clark ia losing a t< housand dollars a week, It is said, g, >ecauae Congress is remaining in ses- 8i tion at a time when he had expected t< t to have adjourned. The Speaker p: lad a contract with a Chicago lecture oi mreau to take the platform on July u L. 11 FELDER SPEAKS |He Says Criaiaals Kak Saatk Canfaa, Rtfcriay I* Mease. REAPS A FEW LETTERS The Atlanta Attorney Gives Some Interesting Dope at Dublin, Ga.t on Last Tuesday.-?In the Letter He Read Citizens of this State Koast ed Governor Blease A dispatch from Dublin, Ga., nays the barbecue and good roads pally held there on the Fourth, was a big success. A large crowd was present, and all throughly enjoyed the address of Hon. Thomas 13. Felder, of Atlanta, a former Dublinite. Mr. Felder was greeted enthusiastically by the large crowd. Quite a number fram a distance came in automobiles to be present at the barbecue, Macon sending a good delegation The barbecue was held under the auspices of the Dublin chamber of commerce, and was the first public function by that body. "I am unable to restrain ;a natural impulse to refer to an episode in my life of recent occurence, which has brought me into unpleasant notoriety. If in doing so I trench upon the proprieties of the occasion, I plead in excuse and extenuation the fact that I crave above all things the continued confledence and friendship of the people of Laurens county. It is not my purpose to tax audiences with the full details of this episode, but I merely desire to briefly advert to it that you may understand that I shall in the end receive" from you the welcome plaudit, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.' "About four years ago I was employed by the state of South Carolina to assist her splendid attorney general in the Herculean task of cleaning out her Augean stables of their filth and corruption, I feel that [ can in modesty say that the task was not only honorably and creditably performed, but the services met with the approval of the best people >f that state, resulting in the restitu;ion to the treasury of that graftsoaked and graft ridden people approximately, half million dollars, and n the indictment by the grand juries pf the several counties thereof of nore than a score of thieves and plunderers "In the last gubernatorial election he criminal element of that state suc;eeded in electing one of their numper to the governorship. I am in >ossession of evidence, written and >ral, which in my judgment, would lot only justify, but demand his impeachment. If I could read in this presence the hundreds of letters from he good but graft-ridden people of hat once glorious commonwealth in vhich their greatest acknowledgenents are tendpred and their nraver ul God-speeds are wished me in the jreat work at hand in ridding them >f this moral and political leper, his onfederates and allies, I am sure I vould receive from this audience houts of approval as would make the velkin ring I will detain you long mough to read you extracts from but l few of these letters:" Colonel Felder then read the folowing extracts from letters: "The offense which you have comriitted, which is grevious to the sight >f our present governor, is the great uccess you have attained in exposng him and his friends in crime." ( " 'Have you read with interest the >rocee?dings in the controversy beween yourself and our vagabond over nor* * * *1 want to say dth Hub Evans, Blease and Fred )ominick right in Newberry, and in ontrol of things there they could onvict most anybody they wanted to y picking a jury and the plunder und of South Carolina, knowing that , on are the man will go to any extent i ti perjury and forgery to convict 3U, and Blease is making every effort o discredit you in this state and thus ttempt to weaken the evidence you , iroduce against him by declaring ' nnn the lernorant rabble that he had ou prosecuted for attempted bribery * Governor Blease's requisllon is heartily approved by every < ecent law-abiding citizen of South 1 arolina." t "Permit me to say that while I do { ot approve of all you have said and 1 one in this matter, yet it is impos- ( ble to escape the conviction that you ow hold in your hands very largely 1 tie State of South Carolina for the ( ext few years at least. It is to be 5 resumed that you fully appreciate ( tie gravity of the responsibility, -1 hich by reason of circumstances 1 Bsts upon you at this time. There ' lay not be with you the motive to ct that would move a citizen of this tate, but many are hoping that you ill justify the confidence placed in < ou by our people. i "In conclusion permit me to say 1 iat If the reprobate who occupies i le governor's chair can be Induced ' > accept your challenge (which the ' ood people of South Carolina feel i are you will never be able to do), i > sue you for libel, it will give me leasure to furnish you a list of 500 ( f the most prominent citizens resld- ) ig in every portion of South Caro- * na who will cheerfully swear that I THIS STATE LEADS VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS PUBLISHED. Value of Crops In South Carolina Per Square Mile Reached Second of all the States. Some interesting statistics on the agricultural situation in South Carolina have been prepared by Commisioner Watson from the recent federal census. As has been announced this State Jumped from 21 to 13 points in rank in agriculture. Tho value of the aerirultural nro ducts of the State increased by 28.4 per cent, in one year. The value of the crops in 1910 was $140,000,000, which was an increase over 1909 of $31,000,000; an increase over 1906 of $62,288,000 and an increase of $88,685,000 over 1910, all of which shows that the value of the crops has increased over 100 per cent, during te past decade. With reference to the value of the crops per square mile South Carolina ranked second of all the states with 34,518. Other States In comparison: Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743; Texas, $1,369 All other Southern states show the value of crops per square mile to be less than $3,000. The cotton crop of the South accodlng oceo802EN.Plah-AOIVx7.fiff. . cording to the statistics gleaned for 1910 went on the market for $963,180,000. The crop of 1909 was worth $812,000,000 and for 1908, $ 81,23 0,000. It will be seen that the cotton crop of 1910 was worth $1,1,000,000 more than 1 908. There are in the South 440,000,000 acres of land available for cotton and only one out of 12 acres is planted Of the cotton crop 1 9 per cent was consumed In the United States; 49 per cent was exported and 3 5 per cent remained in this country up to February, 1911. Concening the value per bale of ii n J.11 l COllon Lilt? luiiuwiug cuiuyariDuii is given: Value per bale, 1910, $87,15; value per bale, 1904, $50.37; value per bale, 1898, $30.22. ( It Is pointed out that the sum of $604 was received for 20 bales of cotton in 1898 while the farmer re- , ceived $1 ,743 for the same number in ( 1910. In South Carolina there were In ' 1910 175,180 farms or an Increase ; of 13 per cent over the proceeding decade. The value of the lands and ( buildings increased by 16.2 per cent; . implements and machinery 112 per j cent; lands 169 per cent; increase in labor bill 76 per cent , These statistics show that there were 20,825 farms added. There < are 64,227 owners, or an increase of J $4,810, and of these farms 14,987 are , mortgaged. The tenants number 11,097. The Increase in the number of tenants during the decade was 16,113, and the same In proceeding decade, 26,000. ? btjrase appointees enjoined. * Judge Gage Issues Order in Beaufort i County Case. Through a temporary injunction is- 1 sued Monday at Walterboro by his I Honor, Judge George W. Gage, tbe township commissioners appointed oy Governor Blease for Sheldon, Bluff- 8 on and Yemassee townships, in Beau- J fort county, are restrained from ex- ^ ercising the authority of their office until a hearing is had and either a 8 permanent injunction granted or the order of Tuesday dissolved. The re- c Straining order was issued in responso 8 to a petition presented through the * attorney , J. S. Griffin, of Walterboro, 1 by the men whom the Beaufort dele- 11 gation in the General Assembly recommended. The hearing on this matter will likely be held September ? 4, the order requiring the commis- n sioners to appear and show cause f why they should not be permantely t enjoined at the September session of Court for Beaufort. ^ I' A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT b ?*? ' t: Br. Luther Hutchinson Meets Death From Scalding Steam. S Luther E. Hutchinson, an employe n if the D'argan Lumber company's b planing mill at Effingham wa3 fatally scalded by the bursting of a throttle ^ early Friday morning, dying that d light. The funeral, which was in b large of the Woodmen of te World, was held Saturday in the Presbyter- ^ Ian church Rev. M. B. McLaughlin 0 jonducting the services. Mr. Hutch- tl ncAti la aurvlvaH hv hid uilfo and twft [ I1UV/JI1 1U fc? !.? A V A V V> V* M J IIIU TT t?.V ?* \A \ A V ?? W children, Mrs. J. P. Moore and Her- j, bert ?N. Hutchinson. He is also sur- i rived by his father and three broth- 8( jrs. n o Flesh Torn From Finder. b While Mr. Guy Pitts was talking $ jver the telephone at his ice plant T it Clinton Tuesday lightning struck tl the wire and gave him a very se- el rere shock. The flesh on one finger T (vas torn and his arm badly burnt. s< rho shock knocked him to the floor n ind rendered him unconsicous for a few minutes. t< they know the general character of e Blease, that his character is had and t< from & knowledge of hie character tl they would not believe him on oath." n BOOM FOR JOHN Newt aid Caaricr Vaals Sweaiiagn far Careraar tt ike Stale. WIDE PRESS COMMENT The Charleston Paper Says Swearingen May be the Strongest Man When the Campaign Open? up Next Year Because of His Stand in Book Matter. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says the action of the State Board of Education in placing an unnecessary tax of $400,000 on the people, while working under the chairmanship of the governor, has aroused general indignation throughout the State and the latest development is the proposal, editorially, by the News and Courier, of Charleston, that John E. Swearingen, of Edgefield county and State Superintendent of education offer for the governorship because of his courageous stand against the action of the state board of education in taxing the farmers of the State unecesarrily. Under the caption "Swearingen for Governor" the News and Courier has the following to say: " 'Swearingen,, observes the Yorkville Enquirer, 'could get a good vote for governor if he would run, and if elected he would make a good governor, too.' "Right on both counts. The Enquirer knows less about meteorology, li*s name, but it is * s a rule vem.irkably keen in sizing up a political situation. "It is at least not unlikely that conditions may be such when the next ' gubernatorial campaign opens thai the present state superintendent of education may be the strongest man around whom the decent people of the state could rally. It would be possible to make a very strong argument in favor of his availability as a candidate in certain cirsumstances. 1 "The thought so tersely expressed 1 by the Enquirer has occurred, pre])- j ably to many others. It is the habit of the American electorate as soon as a man shows ability in one public position to consider transferring him to another. "We wish to suggest, therefore, * that in the office which he now occupies, Mr. Swearingen has an oppor- ! tunity for useful service to his State is large as any which should come to * [aim were he State's chief executive. We are glad to believe that Mr. 1 Swearingen realizes this. He has a c man'8-size task before him right where he is, and if he doesn't accomplish it we shall be surprised as well ?s disappointed. " "He has courage, ability and conjcience. He is not a demogogue and c le does not play to the galleries. The >eople of South Carolina already have ( eason to be grateful that he fills his r iresent position. Signs are mislead ng if this obligation is not to be enarged. c "Mr. Swearingen at present is not r unning for office. He has more im- * )ortant matters to thin about." The people of South Carolina, and especially, those in the rural districts, ire aroused over the action of the J )oard and there may be further developments. The Darlington News and Press lays: 0 "While it is not known why the y :hange was made, it is known by all a ichool men who are familiar with ru- X] al conditions, now that it was use- f ess?a reckless waste of the people's v noney." p The Allendale Herald says that ^ 'the parents will realize next fall p hen they are required to purchase a lew boom that the charge is well j< ounded." This is with reference to he statement of J. E. Swearingen. p The Edgefield Advertiser says that r the sweeping change can accomplish p > enotu thing, as wetaoinestaoino r ut one thing, as we see it, and that is o take money out of the pockets of p he parents and put it into the treas- n ry of the book publishers. The Florence Times says that Mr. nroorlniroii la viirllt nn d "flio irnvor. M V Wl Ill^VIl ?n * ( O 1 ' V ** VII V pv ? VI or seems to be assuming responsiility for the mater." Tho Union Times says that the fhole thing looks "fishy" and conemns the board for the "star chamer act." P The Greenwood Tndex says that o here ought to he some way to find f< ut who voted so much money out of n he pockets of the people. r< The state board of education meet- d ng eliminated about 80 per cent of n he text books now used by the ? chools. The new books adopted are fi luch higher in price than the old y nes, ana it is esumaiea mat tne * oard placed an unnecessary tax of N 400,000 on the people of the State, d 'he legislature may take a hand, but y hat will avail little as the real truth tl tout the matter will never be known, o 'here was certainly a trick turned d omewhere, but who turned it will ever ,be known. The man who makes it his business o o please everyone he meets is doom- \ d to failure. Not only does he at- n ampt the impossible, but in making a he attempt he loses much of true ft lanhood and of conviction. hi HUNDREDS SUCCUMB THE HOT WAVE PLAYED HAVOC WITH THE PEOPLE. . ~ r ? i . *+ It Caused Over Five Hundred Death* -% ' in Four Days In the North and West. The loss of more than 500 lives is to be credited to the general heat wave of Jul* 1 to 5, 1911. The torrid period will be memorable in weather annals for its wide extent, its loiifc duration, its record-breaking temperatures in many places and the long list of fatalities which it has caused The news dispatches which cities from the North Atlantic seaboard west to the Plains States have exchanged during those four days, account, according to a review Wednesday night for the death of 431 persons. Incomplete as the record is from the failure at many points to report specifically the number of deaths, it fa na aorfoiia na shown na rnmpr bered for many years if not a record. The number of prostrations Is still more difficult to compute, but it appears that thousands have been seriously overcome by the heat in the great cities. Scores of Deaths Reported. At New York, although the forecaster's prediction of "not quite so warm" was literally true Wednesday, the maximum temperature was only 1 degree of Tuesday's extreme heat. The exhausting effects of the hot wave were manifested In a record tally of heat prostrations. The day's list of deaths from heat in the metropolitan district was thirty-six up to midnight A Boston dispatch says another day f excessive heat wilted New Englandera Wednesday. More than forty deaths were reported in New England Wednesday, although the temperature was slightly lower than Tuesday, half a dozen degrees .being reported, There were fifteen deaths due directly to the heat within the limits of Boston during the day. Heat killed thirty-two persons, including twelve babies, and prostrated dozens in Chicago Wednesday, the Rf+Vfc rlo ir r\ 1 a nrnoon i Vinof W O VD Ill ill uaj ujl i/iici j;i vouiit uv<uv ** ? ?v?? The temperature was recorded at 101.5 in the weather bureau at 2 30 Wednesday afternoon, equalling the high point registered Tuesday, while it the street level, and the mercury 2limbed to 108 degrees. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, jays a light breeze Wednesday mornng caused the mercury to drop several degrees, after it had reached )6 degrees in the weather .bureau ind 102 at the street level. The leaths of eleven babies were attribted to the heat. At Baltimore three deaths from the leat and twenty-eight prostrations /ere recorded Wednesday The maxmum official temperature was 97 legrees at 4 P. M. At Philadelphia, Pa., twenty-nine leaths from heat were reported Wedlesday making a total of forty-one (ince the heat wave begun. At Albany, N. Y , the official merury climbed to 98 at 3 o'clock Wedlesday and four deaths were reportd. BLACK HAND FAILS. Cegro is Caught and Stolen Jewelry Recovered by Owner. H. T. Bledsoe, a prominent citizen >f Greensboro, Ala., received a "black land" note Tuesday demanding $250 nd that night recovered jewelry va\led at $500 that had been stolen rom his wife last winter. The noto /as signed with the name of a well mown white man and threatened leatli to Mr. Bledsoe if he refused o hide the $250 in a certain placo nd return later to get his wife's ewelry. Going to the place that night ho ?fl a bobus package and on retiring an upon a negro, who had brought im the original note. Seizing the egro, he searched him and found tie package of lost jewelry. It is elieved the negro used tho white lan's name to the note. ? ? PIED FROM A MOLE. lade Its Appearance 011 the Arm Almost One Year Ago. Augustus W. Mott, of New York, resident of the Mott Iron Works, f which his grandfather was th? mnder and well known as a yachtslan, is dead at his home as the essult of the development of an ois inary pigmented mole into maligant growth. The mole which was n Mr. iMKitt's right arm showed th? rst signs of irritation less than a ear ago. It developed rapidly into 'hat is known as a molane sarcoma, ledical science has no cure for this isease. Mr Mott was not ye* 50 ears old. Until th? development of tie malignant growth lu?fe*d Always njoyed good health. 'Th 10 form of latviat; IH inic. ? ? ? Gave Iiifo for Dog. In the vain effort to save the life f his dog C. L Grant, of Danville, a., was struck by a Southern Railway train Wednesday night and died n hour later at a hospital. Grant ad cleared the tracks hut hsd gone ack for the dog.