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MERELY A BLUFF Gn r^meat Brisgi Suit ! Break Dp Ike * Naltrkns Sled Tro*t. FOOLING THE PEOPLE Bweoping Anti-Truwt Action Taken in ^ the Courts, in which Many Millionaires are Named as Defendants. But It Will All Dikely Knd In WothiiiK But Smoke. A dispatch form Trenton, N. J., gays the government's suit to break up the socalled "steel trust" has been begun in the United States circuit court. It is the most sweeping anti-trust action ever brought by the department of justice. The government asks not only for the dissolution of the United States Steel cornorafion but for the disso lution of all constituents or subsidiary companies which are alleged to have combined in violation of the Sherman law to "maintain or attempt to maintain a monopoly of the steel business." There are 3G subsidiary corporations named as defendants. J. Plerpont Morgan, John D. Rockfeller, Geo. W. Perkins, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schawb, H). IT. Gary r John D. Rock feller, Jr., Henry C. Frick, Sbas. Steele. James Gay ley, Wm. H. Moore, Edmund C. Converse, Percival Roberts, Jr., Daniel C. Reid, Norman R. Ream, P. A. 13. Widener, ?.nd Wm. P. Palmer, named individually as defendants. The United States Steel corpora lion, Carnegie Steel company, Carnegie company of New Jersey, Fedoral Steel company; National Steel company; American Steel and Wire company of New Jersey; National Tube company; American Tinplate company; American Sheet and Tinplate company; American Sheet Steel company; American Steel Hoop company; American Bridge company; Fake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, all of which were organized under the New Jersey laws, and P the H. C. Frick Coke company; Tennessee 'Coal & Iron Railroad company and the Great Western Mining company are named as corporate defendants. Louis W. Mill, James N. Hill. Walter J. Hill, K T. Nichols and J. H. Gruber are named as trustees in connection with ore companies. The steel corporator's lease of the Great Northern Railway's ore k properties, which the directors of the steel company formally decided to camel, is alleged to be illegal. This action of the directors was taken but a few hours before the filing, of the bill. The governmen acknowledges that 3t was advised of the steel corporation's mion in this reepesct but states that under the terms of the lease, ^ no cancellation would be effective unit Januaryl, 1 905, and here is no limit upon the amount of ore that can be taken oil in the meaotime. Sensational allegations fairly topple over each other in the government's petition which is an equity proceeding paying for injunctons to uton continuance of he alleged nio ^ unply and such other relief as tho court may grant. The steel corporation's acquisition of the Tennessee Coal Iron .company during the panic f 1908 is declared illegal and scathingly criticised. The petition declares tha E. H. Gary and Henry C. Fr'jck misled former President Roosevelt when they told him "that but little benefit will come to the steel corporation from the purchase." "Tho president," it says, "was not made fully acquained with the state of affairs in New York relevent to the transaction ae they existed. If lie had been fully advised, he would Shave known that a desre to stop the panic was not he sole moving v cause but that there was also a de^ taire and purpose to acquire the control of a company that had recently si?BiiTriPt1 ft nnfllHrm r>f rmtontlnl competition of great significance. , ? QUANTITY OF MEAL SEIZED. J/libelled Water Ground When It Was Electric Ground. One hundred and twenty-eight packs of corn meal, shipped by an .Asheville, N. C., milling company to two mercantile firms at Greenwood S. have been confiscated by the United States, by virtue of the decision of a jury in the Federal court. The meal was seized upon the grounds that it was labelled in violation of the pure food laws of the United States. Upon the sacks, in red lettering was stamped "water ground" meal. Facts brought out in the Federal court went to show that the meal was really ground by electric power. k Daughter Greatly Shocked. When Miss Ruth Hibbard, at Tampa, Fla., Friday morning joined a curious crowd wtoiich had gathered at the engine house of a drawbridge to view the body of a man who had been killed, she discovered that the victim was her father, Marion M. Hibbard a machinst, while repairing the machinery, was caught and crushed to death. I SOUTHERN RAILWAY WONI>ERFU L GROWTH OF THIS GREAT TRUNK LINE. What It Im Doing for the South Generally and the Towns Along Its Lines Specially. 't < The financial and Commercial Chronicle^ reviewing the annual statement of the Southern Railway Company, issued this month, connects the showing made in that report directly with the recent marked development and commercial and industrial advancement of the South, and characterizes the report itself as "a record of marvelous growth ana development." Either is interesting comment to the Southerner; both are more so, in view of the fact that gross revenues, net revenues, trade and trallic statistics are the best in the company's history. The lengh of road operated in 1900 was 6,306 miles, which earned a gross operating revenue of $31,200,870. In 1911 the total mileage was 7,04 2 and the gross operating revenue $61,696,181. Thus, with on< ly 10 per cent additional mileage there has been an expansion according to quotation from the annual report of over $30,000,000 in gross receipts, the ratio of gain being almost 100 per cent. In 1900 the gross revenues per mile of road were $4,94 8; tor 1911 they were $8,761 per mile. The net earnings per miie (after the deduction of taxes) in th? same interval increased from $1,4 86 to $2,437. As a result of this great growth, the Income account for the year under review is of a highly gratifyiag character. The balance over and above all expenses and fixed charges for the 12 months is $6,670,003. This is more than twice the full 5 per cent dividend to which the $60,000,000 of preferred stock is entitled. Dividends were resumed on these shares during the year, but action was very cautious and conservative, 1 per cent having been pa.'d last April and another 1 per cent the present October, the two together calling for only $1,200,000 whereas the surplus above the fixed charges, as we have seen was $6,670,003. Of the remainder of the surplhs a round $3,000,000 has been chargeu off to represemt the discount, on securities sold, which at the end of the previous year had stood at $4,853,154 and which now a year later (after allowing for some slight, alterations during the 12 months) has been reduced to $1,688,029; $66,045 was also appropriated for additions and betterments. Even after these various deduetjons and allowances, an undistributed surplus of $2,4 03,957 remains on the operations of the 12 months over and above the 2 per cent paid out in dividends. Commenting on thie showing the Financial and Commercial Chronicle says: The results here recorded could not have been achieved except for the advance in operating efficiency and the broad and liberal policy pursued in the management, and conduct of the property. Of course the South itself has enjoyed wonderful growth, but this growth has followed in large measure from the building up of the lines embraced in the Southern Railway system and the development of their efficiency as public carriers. Some figures regarding growth i& population which we find in the report bear out this statement in a striking manner. These show that the population of the stations on the lines of the Southern Railway?or at least the stations of sufficient importance to be returned separately?in the 10 years from 1 900 to 1910 increased O A O /I i OA i,An?n Of .JWI n;t?iiL.f HIIVI in tut? j uu.i o from 1 890 to 1 91 0 75.3 per cent. But the fact to which we wish to direct especial attention is that the growth at these Soutliern Railway stations has in every state l>een larger proportionately than the growth in population of the state as a. whole, indicating what the building up of this system of roads has done for the communities served. In Virginia tho growth in population for the entire state during the last decade was 11.2 per cent, but that of the Southern Railway stations was no less than 42.2 per cent; in North Carolina the growth for the entire state was 16.5 per cent, that for Southern Railway stations 60.5 percent; in South Carolina 13.1 for the entire state and 25.4 for the stations; in Georgia 17.7 for the state and 83.2 for the stations; in Missis sippi 15.8 for the state and 47.9 for 1he stations, In Tennessee 8.1 for the state and 3 4.7 for the stations; and In Kentucky 6.6 for the state and 13.6 for the stations. If one looks at the traffic and train statistics, a record of achievement is found fully as striking as the growth in traffic and iivcome. For example, we find that in 1911 the number of miles run by the freight trains was almost precisely the same as in 1904, seven years before?the comparison being 16,999,638 miles in 1911 and 16,955,900 miles in 1904. Yet, with the mileage practically unchanged 5,111,331,177 tons of freight (including company material) were carried in the latest year as against only 3,812,864,988 ton-miles in the earlier year. In other words 1300,000 ton-miles more of freight were moved in 1911 with no addition to HESTER ON COTTON GIVES ALL THE FACTO ABOUT THE GREAT STAPLE. p Some Figure# That Will l'rove Interesting Reading to All Who Plant Cotton. Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement Issued before the <close of business Friday Bhows an Increase in the movement into sight compared with tUie seven days ending this date last year in round figures of 71,000 an increase over the same days year before last of 103,000 and an increase over the same time in 1908 of 70,000. For tlio 27 days of October the totals show an increase over last year of 225,000, as increase over the same period year before last of 128, 000 and an increase over the same time in 1908 of 209,000. For the 2 7 days of tlio season that liavo elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the 57 days of last year 046,000, ahead of the same days year before last 373,000 and 1908 by 581,000. The amount brought into sight during the past week has been 67 1,042 bales, against 600,534 for the seven days ending this date last year, 586,171 year before last and 601,495 same time in 1908; and, for the 2 7 days of October it has been 2,886,311, against 2,1 01,302 last year, 2,258,2 98 year before last and 2,117,456 same time in 1 908. The movement since September 1 shows receipts at all United .States ports 8,039,065, against 2,487,324 last year, z,680,4 9 4 year beror? lest and 2,386,634 same time in 1909. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potamac rivers to northern mill? and Canada 72,721, against 95,429 last year, 97,097 year before last and 17 0,817 same time of 1908; in-j terior stocks in excess of those held at tlhe close of the commercial year 45 9,143, against 3 71,969 last year, 4 23,760 year before last and 4 63,202 sarnie time in 1 908; Southern mills taking 409,000 against 379;3 55 last year, 4 05,83 7 year before last and 379,424 same time in 1908. These make the total movement for the 57 days of the season from September 1 to date 3,979,929; against 3,33 4,077 last year, 3,607,148 year before last and 3,3 98,597 same tiin? in 1908. Foreign exports for the week have been 400,807, against 285,274 Inst year, making hhe total thus far for the season 218,4 97, against 1,690,33 8 last year an increase of 487,149. Northern mills takings and Canada during the past seven days ahow a decrease of 16,022 as compared with the corresponding period last year, and their total takings since September 1 have decreased 4 9,75 4. The total takings of American mills, North, South and Canada, thus far for the season have been 775,336, aganst 797,822 last year. These include 3 61,828 by Northern spinners, against 41 1,582. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading Southern interior centres have increased during the week 1 15,34 5 bales, against an increase during the corresponding period last season or HD.'iuu ana arc now zjy.ijui more than at this date in 1910. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop, the supply to date is 4,266,9 63, against 3,5 82,629 for the same period last year. ? *? SKAJIC1IING FOR KWFF/THNAKT. Comely Norwegian Woman at Savan?nail l.ooking for Finance. Miss Theresa Just, a comely young woman from Frimstad, Norway, has arrived in Savannah in search of Otto Matheson, her finance, whom alio has come to wed. Three years ago the couple were living in Mobile and became engaged. Miss Just went back to her homo in 'Norway and has been corresponding with Matheson, who said he was in Savannah. She came back lo this country and wired him she was going to Savannah. Arriving she was unable to find any trace of him and is now at the rooms of the Y. W. C. A. She says she is certain her sweetheart did not get her wire and that as soon as he knows she is in Savannah he will come to her. Matheson is supposed to he employ ed on tho river front. Injured In Auto Colli son. At Jacksonville, Fla., Robert Van Ness and L. T. Milton, tire vulcanizes, wero seriously injured when the automobile in which thoy wero riding collided with a trolley car on tho Adams street viaduct, Van Ness, who was riding next to Milton, who was driving died from his(injuries. ? Wild Oats. What awful crops are sown?and reaped?by the idle rich! Robert W. Chambers tells about them in "Tho Danger Mark." Thrilling, absorbing. Formerly published at $ 1.50; now fifty cents at Sims Rook Store. the miles run. This means that' in the seven years the average trainload has been raised from 224 tons to 300 tons. QUEER CASES Lost af I?u; br Ywa Mta Far Maay Years JUpoiUd la Seattle BOTH ARE NOW ALRIGHT Extraordinary Cases of Forget fill 1news?Itiganiy Revealed by an Accident?The Guilty Husband Says He is Sorry of ILis Forgetfulness A Seattle dispatch to The New York World tells the curious story of two instances of lapses of mem ory which coino to light there. George Scott, a rich lumberman of Vancouver, supposed himself a bachelor until 1909, when he married. Now he suddenly remembers that 2 0 years ago he left a wife and children in Edinburgh, Scotland. The other case Is that of S. Chandler Rogers, who was beaten so badly in New York 14 years ago that he forgot his name. He drifted to Seattle, and has been known as George Kelly. An oporator recalled him to himself. In all the years that Scott was piling up a fortune he seemed heart proof until a musical company visited Vancouver two years ago. lie then capitulated to Jane Patterson of Allegheny, I'a., one of its members. Although their gase were far apart thoy lived happily. (Scott finally met with an accident which fractured his akull and brought on, in addition, a serious illness through which his wife nursed him. Memory of his youthful domestic life came with his recovery. In tellIn his wifo of it he said his name was always George Scott and that he never had a physical mishap or illness to explain a loss of memory. All the same his mind had been utterly blank as -to the wife and babies in Scotland. Mrs. Scott didn't question his good faith, but said his story dictated a plain course for her, through the divorce court. They talked it out thoroughly and it was Anally arranged that she should bring action for divorce and Scott return to Scotland and learn what has become of his fmriilv Slionlfl ho fi iwl i ho (irct wifo ho miifit make proper amends to her. If she had died he will come bajck fo Vancouver and the later Mrs. Scott will marry him again. Rogers or Kelly was taken to a hospital October 10, suffering from an attack of acute insanity, with which ho had been taken in IiIe homo. The doctors found that a portion of the skull was pressing 011 the brain. Surgery soon relieved him and ho became perfectly normal. lie called for pen and paper and wroto, "I am in hospital and all O. K.' addressing the envelope to Miss Florence Douels, No. 418 West Thirty-second street, New Yosk. A post*sript to the letter asked that Father Doherty of the Paulist Society, be sent hi in. Picking up a newspaper after he had finished his note, and seeing the date lino "Seattle, Oct. 20,1011," he turned wonuenngiy to Dr. .Milton u. Sturgis and his nurse and said: "Am I really in Seattle " Then he broke down with a fit of sobbing. lie told his story when he had composed himself. The hospital staff think it one of the most remarkable on record. For fourteen years, he said, he did not know where lie had been or what he had been doing. He was born in New York in 1880 and lived with his grandmother. Mrs. Elizabeth Douels, in New York. Ills naime was S. Chandler Rogers. On May 1, 1 807 with a boy friend and two girls, he went to the theater. Having seen his girl to her home he started to walk to his own. Three men stopped him and asked for a match. Ho said he was no match factory and the men pounced on him. On struck him with blackjack. The next thing ho knew he was in the river, naked and swimming. He said he remembered clutching aft something in the river and being dragged out, but that was the last ho knew of himself as Rogers until he awoke in the hospital after the skull pressure had been lifted from his brain. , MAIL CARRIE It R.\1)LY HURT. ?. His Wagon Ran Into From the Rear by an Auto. At Columbia on Friday Rural Mail Carrier Swift Sligh, longer in service than any other of the other carriers there, was badly injured his wagon was smashed, and his horse so badly hurt that he had to be shot, when his vehicle was struck from tho rear on North Main street by an automobile, which tho drfver, William Long, had taken without permission from the Etheridge garage where I^ong was employed. Up to this hour the police havo not located I^ong. Ho brought the car baick to the garage and then disappeared. ? ? A Perfect Widow. That's what a great many people called the heroine of Lilian 'Bell's novel "The Concentrations of Bee." Formerly published at $1.60; now fifty cento, at SIms Book Store. BETTER COTTON FARMERS URGED TO PLANT LONG STPJLE VARIETY. ... . Lewis W. Parker, Rig Cotton Mill Man, Sends Out Letter to the Farmers. | Cloth manufactured by the South Carolina mills from long staple cotton produced In the State this year will be shown at the State fair next week by the State department of agriculture. "The exhibit," said Commissioner Watson, "will be the final word in cotton." There will be an exhibit of long staple cotton f all va rietles up to ono ana three-fourths inches. The department will next year prosecute a vigorous campaign to interest the farmers in the growth of long staple cotton. Results have already been secured. Lewis W. Parker, head of the $15,000,000 cotton manufacturng company, is very much interested in the prduction of the lug staple cotton. He has pened a market for the dotton in this State. Mr. Parker has stilt out of the follwing to the faaniers of South Carlina: "We wish to advise you that we use at several of the mills in which we are interested staple cotton rangng in length from full inco 1-8 to full inch 1-4, and will be glad to get into communication aith you with a view of pdrchasing yorr crop of same. "Our plan is to buy this cotton direct from he farmer where nractica ble, an(j we suggest that if one or more of you will get togeher 1n any community 25 or more bales nt will send our expert staplers, who will examine your cotton on the spot, and mak full market offtrs therefor; but if it be not practicable for you to congregae your cotton, as thus suggoseed, we would advise that you ship your staple cotton to the Standard Warehouse (Company, at eiher Greenville or Columbia, advising I us of the shipment, and we will have! cur staplers to examine tiie same and mako yu full market offers therefor. "We further suggest that if practicable you have all staple cotton ginned on a roller gin in ordtr to avoid cutting or napping the stapple. This will likewise add to till ltngtli of the saple, and correspondingly to its value and price; but if it be not convenient to you so ouse the saw gin, we advise that you watch the roll clsedly and have the speed regulated s as not to cut the staple. Itun the gin slowly. "Whtlier you use a saw or roller gin we would urge hat you s?e that the ins are free from ordinary staple before allowing your Ion staple cotton to be put in it. "e\V shall be lad to cooperate with you in every way possible in the preparations of your staple for the market, in! oirdieri o secure you the best possible results. It is all important that staple cotton should be handled and ginned with greatest care in order that you mad compete with the Mississippi sections and secure tht prices paid them. "If we can be of any service to you we shall gladly assist you and give you information upon request. "Parties in the eastern par of the State will fin(| it to their advantage to communicate with J. L. Colter & Co., llartsville, who will buy cotton for our account at full prices." DIONIIOS Til 10 WHOLE THING. Gaffney Grocer Itepltos to Sensational Story. A story came from Gaffney some days ago to the effect that a man living in Gaffney was suspected of having committed a, ;brutal crin\e in North Carolina some years ago. The story was to the effect that a boy had been murdered in North Carlina by two men one of them whom had since died. The article stated that a minster of Gaffney was in possession of facts which strongly indicated that the other guilty party was now a resident of ttiis city. In reply to this J. G. Simmons, a grocery man of Gaffney, says: "Your paper of October 24 contains an article which Interests every citizen of Gaffney, and especially me. One sentence, by its indeftniteness, involves every minister in the city, and at least one merchant. In response to a direct request, your reporter has given mo the name of the minifltsr to whom reference was made. Feeling convinced by all the circumstances that 1 am the merchant referred to in that article, in .instice to myself, my family, my church, my friends and tlie city which has so kindly received me as a citizen, I bog that you give me space, in order that I may defend myself against an underhand attack, the reason for which I have not the remotest idea 1 have been living in Oaffney since the 11th day of May, 1908. 1 think that I am as well and favorably known as is lie who is trying to blast my name, blacken my character and bring shame on the church of which I am a member. Let me say that there is not one particle of fact for the gross insinuations contained in that article and appar. ently aimed at me. Had I been such ' a vlllian, fleeing from justice, would ANTITROST SUIT TAFT DENIES THAT HIS MOTIVES AKE UNWORTHY. ? .. The President Ix*ts Off Some Hot Air Chicago About Uie Wicked Trusts. Trusts. In a speech at Chicago Friday night President Taft in vigorous language denied that the administration was being influenced by political motives. "I would rather cut off my right hand," he exclaimed, "than do any-' thing to disturb the business of this country, especially with a motive of cultivating political success." The president said ho wanted it to be understood for all time that he intenhed to enforce the anti-trust law to the letter. "Statements as to what I may bo responsible for in bringing about business troubles, however regretful it may be that it is so, can not turn me from duty that lies straight before me," continued Air. Taft. He spoke to an immense throng in the First Regiment armory hall, and his anti-trust declarations caused much applause and cheering. Thero was no doubt as to what was in the president's mind when lie said: "I come to the subject of the trusts at a time when the matter is boiling." The president had declared he believed the railroads of the country had brought themselves within the law and were conscientiously trying to keep within it. "I hope that at some no far distant time the same thing can be said of the great industrial combinations," he said. "Mere zigness of plant mere bigness of company or corporation, does not constitute a violation of the law. It is the purpose to restrain trade, to suppress competition and control prices that transgresses 1 l\n oial nt/\ o ? wl a a ' ^ 1 ?.??vy ouiuiii; aim uju cuyicil.'t' ^uuri has declared that these practices must end. "Through my career," the president continued, "1 have always conducted myself and promoting prosperity. If there is anything that arouses disgust in me it is the calamity howler the man who attacks business and seeks to arouse prejudce against it. Prosperity we all need. We are all in the same boat." It was here that the president declared he would rather cut off his right hand than disurb business for political motive "but," he added, "we have a kind of lawlessness to deal with. We have had it for 20 years. We have gone on organizing combinations in violation of the anti-trust law 011 tlio theory that it either could not or would not be enforced. Mlist Stop Lawlessness. "The supreme court has held that this lawlessness must be stamped out. There is 110 discretion in the executive's enforcement of a statute. It is K i ~ * * " 4 * ins uuiy iu emorce ana uiroci me prosecution of those who violate the law. "I am just now in the remarkable position of being charged with ail attempt to destroy business by enforcing the anti-trust statute and of having set up the supreme court to emasculate the statute in the interests of the trusts. "I am hopeful this period of strain soon will end, that business will soon adjust its self with the law. 1 believe a majority of business is square with the law. There is only oen wan that 1 know to cure the corporations of disease, and that is to eradicate the disease. The law will be enforced to the letter. Now I hoi:? that it will be understood." TUBMAN MOmriUS It MM ARKS. > Says He Said More Than the Report or Said He Said. The following 110(0 from Senator Tillman to the Augusta Chronicle explains itself: In today's Chronicle your correspondent, Mr. McWliorter, has fallen into a serious mistake or omission, lie makes me say "if he (Jones) does that and makes his fight 011 Mease's record, he will win." I went on to say and I now repeat that as the record now stands under the indictment as drawn by the newspapers, I do not believe Jones or any one else ca.11 defeat him. Something new and disgraceful must be brought out which will shock the people and arouse State pride. Very truly yours, H it. Tillman. ? ? ? Fires In Scotland. .Rut they were fires of merriment lighted by three jolly American girls, who took a literary historical and social saunter through the land of the heather. Nothing more laughable than "Penelope's Progress" by Kate Douglas Wiggln. Formerly published at $1.25; now fifty cents, at Sims Pook Store. ? ? ? Dies In the Electric Chair. Norval Marshall, colored, was electrocuted at the North Carolina State's prison thie morning at 10.30 o'clock as the penalty for criminal assault upon a white woman, of Warren county, on September 19. I have stopped in Gaffney, so near my former home and the plaos of the alleged crime?"