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BETIERPRICES Fiaa I* Obtaii Ilea PrifiieJ kj Dr. Vide Stacttwu* rf tfla ; TO BUILD WAREHOUSES ? Farmers Would be Asked to Store at Least One Fourth of Their Cotton in These Warehouses an<l Hold It Until a Suitable Price Could be Had The following is the plan for holding cotton, proposed by Dr. Wade Stackhouse at Dillon, that caused so much discussion at the meeting of the Farmers' union in Columbia Thursday night: "Tkprfl no shame greater than defeat: There is no joy like victory. The Southern cotton grower today is covered with the shame of defeat. Like the union army at Bull Run he Is in full retreat; panc-etricken he has turned his hack to the bears and is hustling to dispose if this crop under the cost of its production. '"Can we do nothing to stop this panic of our brother farmers, which not only threatens this crop, but points to a few years of depression which means a lower level of livng to every man, woman and child in the South. , "The time to prepare for war is before it begins. We have lost the best time to prepare lor this einergercy, but I suggest the following -~1 _ |iiau. "Build warehouses in each Southern State capable of holding onefourth of the largest crop we are likely to produce. My argument applies to South Carolina, but should be duplicated in each cotton State, and then combine all the cotton warehouse cimpanes into a whole. "The farmers should put up the capital stock to erect the warehouses, which should be large storage houses and built at points where substitution and reshipping prvvilege can .be secured. This would imply that warehouses would be built only in towns having more than one railroad, or having water rates and where ample fire protection can be provided?the small warehouse can never pay. Perpetual motion is no more impossible in physics than is the continued exencise of good business sense in the conduct of warehouses and in organizing a holding movement of cotton farmers. The warehouseman must be a man of character. He must be a fair bookkeeper. He must be a sworn weigher, capable of adjusting equitably differences as to moisture, damage, etc., on cotton. He should take the notes of farmers wishing to secure loans on cotton and forward the notes with warehouse receipts to the State trust company organized to handle these receipts. Such men can be found today buying cotton for the leading exporters. They are a set of capable men having good, hard, business sense. It will take around $1,200 per year to employ such men. Then the warehouse must keep a night watch man the year around. It must be built according to certain plans and specifications and must be equipped with automatic sprinklers ani nave two sources of water supply. This water supply must be absolutely sufficent to satisfy the most skeptical insurance inspector. Having all these requisites it is astonishing how small the insurance cost. It can be reduced to 12 cents on $100 valuation for 12 months. The small warehouse can't afford all this. "Our normal crop in South Carolina is around 1,200,000 bales. Onefourth of this, 3 00,000 bales, would need to be warehoused under my plan. I would suggest organizing a South Carolina Cotton Warehouse company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, divided into shares of $50 ea^ch and that the farmers be asked to subscribe for most of this stock. n |?A *? 1 ft n? A 1\ ,-v V\i?l1l ni i iiaif naj i u w a. i unwunrn uv; uuui ai central points in the State, capable of storing the 300,000 bales. That a trust company be organizer to conduct the loans on cotton, and this trust company be located in Colum, bla, S. C., and its acts to bind the $1,000,000 capital stock of all the warehouses. "We would need a high ciass banker to manage the trust company at Columbia He could find in what money centres he conld place his warehouse receipts and borrow the money. With a million dollar asset to back him he could sell his warebouse notes in most of the moneycentres of the country. "This plan is not original, but is toaay empioyeu uy ware nouses or this city, I would suggest that we let alone all the existing warehouses in the State now being conducted as private enterprises. There is ample field for all the warehousing companies now in operation and the system I recommend. "The fttate warehousing companies should take in all friends of cotton in the South. They could cooperate with the Farmers' Union and all other organizations having for their object better selling of the cotton crop,. The exclusive business of the Warehouse companies would be to DEATH CADE SLOWLY FORTUNE AND CREEPING DEATH < WERE CREEPING. A Miner Pinned in ? Sh?tff by a More ' of Rock and Lived Thirteen Days. An old assay certificate, found on the body of J. J. D. Miller, -who died in the shaft of his mining claim, 12 < miles north of Bridgeport, Cal., told two stories when it was deciphered < in the coroner's office there on Wed- j nesday. One side told of gold in Miller's shaft. The other bore the pen- ; ciled record of the man's seven days < * .i. imprisonment, enaea Dy aeaia ui noon Friday, October 13. The body was found last Saturday with the left leg pinned against the side of the 15-foot shaft by a mass of rock. Miller stood upright with his head thrown back. The shaft is slightly inclined and he must have seen the sun, which stood on the meridian, as he wrote the last line of his diary. "Friday, noon?the thirteenth day no hope." The certificate was rolled and had been replaced in his pocketbook. The daily record follows: "October 6?Frank Yparraguierre, Sweetwater: If helps does not come, send this message to M. C. Miller, ? wife, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and wire what to do with the body. J. J. D. Miller." "This occurred Friday morning, October 6. It is now Saturday noon. "No help yet. Why did this come " "Sunday night?It is cold and long. God help me. I forgive mother. "Monday?It is noon. Why did Dick forget? A drink of cold water would taste good. Am getting very weak." "Tuesday night?The end is near. Don't see how Dick can forget me." "Wednesday night?Guess tonight will be last; no hope; the end near." Thursday's record is illegible. "Friday noon?The thirteenth; no hope." The "Dick" referred to is Richaru Barnes, a teamster on the Yparraguierre ranch, where the two men had been employed together. The body wa? found by Barnes. Miller came to California a year ago from Virginia. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the authorities to communicate with his widow in Harrisonburg today. better handle the cotton crop. "Having the warehouses we would ask cotton farmers to store at least one-fourth of crop and sign a contract that if he sold before August 15th, the following year, he would forfeit the difference between the selling price and the minimum price fixed. I suggest for this crop we fix 12 cents per pound for minumum price, and should cotton reach that price before August 15, each holder of cotton is at perfect liberty to sell. Before cotton could sell at 12 cents next August the world must have convincing proof that we are going to make a smaller crop. To convince 4- tmiblin ti?a m uof Kv 1 h a rra\r_ r 111 Vy ^UU1IV> n C 111UOI J/IUIC uj few V - J eminent institute that we have small- r er acreage and have used less ferti- a lizer. i "To get a few farmers to meet at t each county court house and resolve \ to cut the acreage and fertilizer bill t is not going to be convincing proof to cotton spiiiners. To think such resolutions will be lived up to is ? as vain as the dream of a dreamer who dreamed he had dreamed some- c thing. j "I have talked to two or three ^ good attorneys as to the validity of ^ a contract a farmer might make v with the warehouse company to hold j his cotton. They think such contract a can be drawn so as to be legal. The t acreage proposition would have to g be worked the same way. If Mr. A planted 100 acres in cotton in 1911 t and contracts with a warehouseing c company that ho will plant only 75 acres in 1912 and provides that In j case he breaks his contract that all ,? cotton produced on land over and ( above the 75 acres shall go to the t warehouse company. I think such { contract could be made valid. If j some strong bank could act as trustee . for us in 1912 and they would say they had contracts in their vaults, providing for a 25 per cent, reduc- j tion in South Carolina that would j carry weight. "In conclusion we can rally the , panic-stricken farmers of today and win a partial victory for 1912. We can organize so that the present ca- ( lamity may not happen in the future. "First, build warehouses to store | fully 3,500,000 bales of cotton in the . South, to be owned largely by cotton * farmers. "Second, get legal contracts executed. and properly signed to hold } over any surplus. j "Third, get legal contracts signed ( to reduce acreage the following year. "Fourth, precli in season and out , of season." \ i Killing At Negro School. < A state of insurrection is said to exist among students at Alcorn col- < lege, a negro institution, at Alcorn, Miss., because of the killing of Joe : Alexander, a student, by John Hedrick, private secretary to J. A. Mar- < tin, president of the school. ACTIVE WORK BEGUN OOTTON HOLDING MOVEMENT STARTED AT ONCE. Trying to Carry Out Plan Adopted in Columbia by the Farmers and Business Men. "To secure 13 cents a pound for cotton. "To open books in every county in the cotton 'belt to secure pledges trom rarmers 10 noiu cwiou. "To reduce cotton acreage foi1912 to not exceeding 60 per cent. :>f arable land held. "To publish daily the names of :hose who intend to hold their cotton for a higher price." These are the features of the campaign for holding cotton with a view o relieving the present unsatisfactory condition that was launched throughout the States of the cotton 3elt Thursday by the South Caroina State Farmers' union. The plan vaa adopted at a meeting of the farmers' union and business men leld in Columbia Tuesday night and vas contained in telegram addressed to the commissioners of agrisulture and presidents of the State jnlons of the South. The telegram vas signed by Commissioner Watson is president of the cotton congress >f the South and E. W. Dabbs, presdent. of the State Farmers' union. Plan Proposed. The following is the telegram sent >111 Friday. "Following action of nass meeting. South Carolina farm?rs would urge you to take imraedate steps to push with all vigor you jossess, in every township and couny, your State the holding movement on following lines, similar reluest being made of tSate Farmers' inion president, your State. Open >ooks each county seat for signature >f farmers to pledge to hold stated lumber bales until September 1, L912, or until the price has reached L3 cents; prosecute vigorous cam)aign each township for holding coton and getting pledges; get also hedges to reduce cotton acreage for L 912 to not exceeding 10 per cqnt,. >f arable land held; for reports each lay as to pledges filed and publish lames of signers with number of Dales pledged. Call for not less than :wo cents per bale from growers lolding cotton to be sent immediate y to secretary-treasurer, state unon, to defray expenses qui^k campaign for pledges, publishing receipts laily. This plan already under way n South Carolina and quick and pffective retirement of cotton seems issured. It is absolutely necessary to pring the individual producer into ine right now if millions of dollars ire to be saved to the cotton belt. Plans for the future can be agreed jpon later, but a feasible quick campaign of this* kind pushed simultaneously in all our States can and vill effectively stem the present disastrous tide in this critical moment. [ most earnestly appeal to your patriotism in the name of the masses of nn^nl/1 trt O nf 11 HAtl this IX/lHUl 11 ptU IV 14 V/ U ll|'vn vuiw natter and act quickly. Am arrangng for whirlwind campaign through )elt in holding cause for Senator 5mLth, President Barrett and other nembers of national committee creLted at Montgomery. Kindly wire me mmediately if in behalf of every maerial interest in the South you may >e relied upon to take the speedy acion invoked." Cotton Pledge. The following is the cotton pledge: 'State of South Carolina, county of? We, the undersigned, owners of otton of the 1910-'ll crop, hereby )ledge ourselves to withhold from he market the number of bales enered opposite our respective names lptil September 1, 1912, or until the >rice of cotton has reached 13 cents, ind we do severally solemnly de'clare hat we will regard this pledge as lacred. 'We further agree not to plant, for he crop of 1912, more than 60 per :ent. of our arable lands in cotton. "We hereby agree to forward to F. Whitner Reid, secretary-treasurer, Rate Farmers' union, Columbia, S. ?., by postal money order two cents ier bale for the cotton held to defray expenses of the holding cam>aign. Name, postoflice, R. F. D. No. lumber of bales withheld. liOtter of Instructions. The following letter was sent out o the presidents of the county unions Friday by Secretary Reid: "In accordance with action taken it the mass meeting of the State Farmers' union held in Columbia Friday evening, I am directed by the president of the tSate union to address you this letter, impressing, upon you the vital importance, not alone to the cotton producing interests of our State, but to the union Itself, of your prompt, vigorous anu earnest action upon the request made. We are at this moment facing a crisis which demands that the Individual cotton producer shall be reached and reached effectively and It is the sense of all who participated in the deliberations held that we, | as the farmers' organization in South Carolina, owe it to ourselves, to our wives and to our children to exert ourselves to the utmost for the next few weeks, even to the neglect of personal business, to secure in writing, pledges from each individual owner of cotton in every township In every county in the State Feeling I .thus, the call has been sent out In an official manner to every other State in the Union that grows cotton for similar action to be taken simultaneously. "I beg herewith to inclose a copy of the call that has been sent to th other States, which wfil| explain itself, and give you an accurate idea of the call that has been sent to the made in the effort to check the downward trend of the price of cotton. I also Inclose a number of blanks of the cotton pledge that we wish signed by every man that can be reached (through meetings or as individuals, and will ask that you see that this pledge be printed in your county paper, along with a copy of the message to the other States, and that you issue over'your signature a4 call for every grower of cotton in your county to come to the clerk's I rtfflno of nniirfr hmiHP. and affix his signature to one of those papers. We further most earnestly ask you, in discharging the duties of your responsible position in this crisis, to each day furnish by mail to me at I Columbia a statement giving the names of the individuals that have pledged (themselves to hold their j cotton and to reduce their acreage in accordance with the pledge, stating opposite the name of each the number of bales that he agrees or pledges himself to hoid. "It is our purpose to endeavor as far as possible to send lecturers into your county to arouse and stimulate the people to a full sense of their responsibility in this quick-holding campaign, and I would suggest that both you and the county secretary and these lecturers carry a supply of blanks for pledges to each point visited, and that all of you get as many signatures as possible, file tbe documents in the clerk's ofllce and forthwith forward the information to me. It is our purpose to collate this information each day and to publish the names of the holders in the newspapers with the number of bales held, not alone so far as this State is (Concerned, but the same thing will be done in each of the other States. 'After a careful consideration of every plan suggested in the present crisis, the one -that we are putting in operation seems to be not alone practicable, but the only one that is open in this hour of need promising success, and we feel that it is the duty of every man charged with the safe-guarding of the interest of the producing classes ih this State to throw aside as far as possible all personal work and devote themselves for the moment to the earnest discharge of this patriotic duty, which means the conservation of a vast sum of money that justly belongs to our people, which can not be conserved, unless our men heed the call to arms and go into the battle with the spirit that has animated our people ever since the commonwealth was founded. "In regard to the two (cents per bale, in order that the accounts may be kept without any danger of misapprehension or misplacing of funds, it is earnestly desired that you advise and direct every man who signs the pledge to remit this small sum by postal money order direct to me by mail. We desire postal money order remittance for the reason that it I enables us to keep an exact record and any miscarriage in the mails can be easily traced immediately upon complaint, and, further, there is no charge for (collection. "In sending in your daily reports, simply use one of the blanks, a supply of which is sent you, thus making a duplicate of the record in the hands of the clerk of the court. "We desire you to show this letter and all of the accompanying documents to the clerk of the court of your county, ask him to receive and keep these pledges on file and assist you in every way possible with the undertaking. I feel sure that there is not a clerk of court in the State who ? ill i lftrvd this Will 11UI IJC W 111111(3 IVOU ? ? ... ure of assistance to a cause which means so much to the epople. IiYNCH NEGRO IN TEXAS. Fiend Who Attacked Woman is Taken From Officers. Will Ollie, a negro charged with criminally attacking a white woman five miles west of Marshall, Tex., last Friday morning, was taken from officers by a mob at an early hour Monday morning and hanged to a tree near the scene of his attempted crime. It is charged that Ollie attacked the white woman Friday as she was entering a field on her farm, and after choking the woman attempted to hang her and set fire to her clothing. The negro was frightened away, .however, and escaped. He was located in Longview by another negro, who immediately reported Ollie' whereabouts to Marshall officers, and he was arrested I shortly after midnight Sunday night. A mob of about 500 men intercepted the officers as they were bringing the prisoner to Marshall Monday morning and lynched him. a a a More Than He Could Bear. Profound sorrow over the deaths of his wife and a brother, which occurred recently .caused Jake C. Cromer a substantial Anderson county farmer, to become mentally unbalanced and in this condition he committed suicide Monday afternooe. i BANK Of Conwa Hat largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and amp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, B. L. Back, Gfoorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we n ariBanonnnn f VBaw* m >>vjuiwvi?v/ ?/ uv } _ Prbsidknt. Wc continue to pay 5 pe 2FIRST NATI( A OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK W SURPLUS PROFITS ^ TOTAL ASSESTS T DIREC A J. A. (McDermott, John ( /|L B. G. CoJlins, H. L. E jL M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui K Successor te the Bank ol i Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev ^ Republic. Backed by the < J United States Bonds, we are f ? tomers any reasonable acoomi A H. A. SPIVEY, (IS Cashier. TRIBUTE TO WUMLN THE MONUMENT TO HE UNVEILED ON DECEMBER 14. Joseph W. Barnwell of Charleston 8electe<l by Commission as Principal Speaker?Exercises at Noon. The commission having in charge the erection of a monument to the South Carolina women of the Confederacy meeting in Columbia Wednesday decided upon December 14 as the date for unveiling the monument. The exercises will begin at noon. The bronzes will arrive in Co-, lumbia during the Latter -part of November. Gen. C. Irvine Walker of Charleston, chairman of the commission, will open the ceremonies incident to unveiling with an address. The principal speaker for the exercises will be Joseph W. Barnwell of Charleston. He will be introduced by Gen. Walker and during his address the monument will be unveiled. Following the address by Mr. Barnwell, Gen. Walker will turn the monument over to the Confederate daughters and sons of South Carolina. A solid bronze railing will be placed around the base of the monument. This railing will be two feet high. The railing will have several panels of special design, including one of the Palmetto tree. The monument will be located on the south side of the State house. All detailed arrangements for the ceremonies were perfected by the commission Wednesday. It was decided to erect a large stage near the monument. On the stage will be seated only veterans and daughters of veterans. Each camp of veterans, sons and daughters, will be invited to send two representatives each to take places on the stage. The general officers of the United Confederate Veterans, sons and daughters will also be invited on the stage. The comtnission will endeavor to make arrangements with the railroads of the State to run trains to bring ipeople from all sections of South Carolina to Columbia for the exercises at noon. The members of the commission are Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charleston, chairman; C?1. Thomas J. Moore, iSpartanburg; Col. C. A. Heed, Anderson; Capt. John G. ?' ? J- ?- T 11 k-mm IT 111. r<nni Kicnaras, jr., Ijiueriy nui, v?yb. Wm. E. Gonzales, Columbia. ? ? UICHESON FORMALLY INDICTED. Minister Will Re Tried for Poisoning Girl. After he had been formally served at Boston wltn tne indictment cnarging him with itblsoning his former sweetheart, Avis Linnell, the Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson was visited in the Charles street Jail late Wednesday by Attorney John L. Lee, of Lynchburg, Va., a criminal lawyer prominent in the South, who proba bly will direct the accused nflnister's fight for acquittal. iMr. Lee arrived Wednesday but he took up immediately the work of preparing the defence and conferred at length with former Judge Jamee R. Dunbar, hia son, Phillips R. Dunbar, ' HORRY, y. S, C. my bank in Horry county. Mate lus of all other banks ih the county* |60,000 12,600 HOLDERS .... 60,000 ORS ..112,600 ;iors D. V. Richardson* W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. K V. Richardson, will a. fbbbmar Vice President. Oabhibr r cent, on yearly deposits. 3NAL BANK| Y, S. O. Z 126,000.00 T 2,600.00 A .... 126,000.00 A ^lr TORS: ? 3. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, A luck, W. R. Lewis, D. ittlebaum, D. a. Splvey. J ! Conway, the oldest Bank In ]K in Eastern Carolina. Close- jl: elppment of the Independent Government and secured by A prepared to extend to our cue- NT nodatlons. W B. Q. COLLINS, President. ? ?^ PROFESSIONAL CARDS, JEL U. WOODWARD Attorn*j and Councilor At iAli CONWAY, 8. C. i i E a BCARBROUGM CONWAY, a CAttorney at Law. E H. BURROUGHS Phyildan and SnrgeoA / / conway, a a I B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/, f? * Buk of Horry Bolldtag. | "] ^ OONWiY, a. a HE WORLDS GREATEST SEW1N6 MACHWl khUGHT RUNNING^ NEWhoMEi ftwwmt either a Vibrating 8hotUe.fl n tUB] IbntllioraBlngleThread [C/UHnAtioATjj <" Bewing Machine write to V jNHMttf NOME SIWINI MACHINE NWMt k Orange* Mmmm. \jk ' Nra?w1n?msch?ne? are medetoeeHre*w#*eMD gpafttftbut tha Hew Horn* U mada r Oar ruarantr never runa <mt * tNAftVMIkarlMC MMSMMCI ^ iwMitir /J BURROUGHS A COLONS OC4 Donwaj, B. (X and Congressmen Robert O'Harrls, who have been retained in Mr. Richeson's interest. Reports that the family of Miss of the accused, had decided to discontinue financial support to the LUC Hi IIIIOICI D UOIC11VO, WCI?3 BV;U U lt)U by Attorney Dunbar, who was retained by Moses Grant Edmands, father of the young woman. Mr. Dunbar said: "Any statement that Mr. ^ Edmands has ceased to have faith / in Mr. Rtcheson is absolutely false. Mr. Edmands still retains absolute confidence in the integrity and innocence of Mr. Richeson." Child Dies of Barns. At Atlanta, Ga., Luther Dutton, aged three, son of Mr. M. M. button, died Monday from burns received when he overturned a pot of boilixtf water Saturday afternoon. : '<*