The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 11, 1913, Image 3
MAKE A BIG HAUL
BANDITS SECURE SIXTEEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS
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WAS VERY BALD HOLD HP
Throe White Bandits With BlackenI
ed l^ju'es Held I'p the Cashier and (
Two Assistants ??f a Construction
Company at l*arr Shoals Station
in Broad Open Daylight.
Three daring highwaymen, alleged
to have been disguised with blackened
faces, held up and robbed three
oillciale of the J. G. White Engineering
Company at Parr Shoals Station
on the Southern Railway about twenty
miles above Columbia, in broad
open daylight on Friday afternoon of
$ 1 6,000.
The money was sent out from the
National Loan and Exchange bank of
Columbia on Southern passenger
train No. 13, of the Columbia and
Spartanburg division, which is due at
Parr Shoals at 3:10 p. m., and was
addressed to .1. T. McLellen, superintendent
of the J. G. White Construction
company.
The money had been receipted for
by II. W. Mahar, the cashier of the
J. G. White Construction company.
A few minutes later as lie, with Fred
Dultiuan, assistant cashier, and J. C.
Joyner, Fairfield county deputy, were
on their way to the olliccs of the com
pany, they were confronted by three
white men, each armed with two revolvers.
Deputy Joyner hesitated to raise
his hands and reached for his pistol.
As ho did so he was shot, receiving a
painful though not serious llesh
wound in the thigh. Three other
shots were fired, it is said, but there
went wild. The money was in three
packages, one containing $11,000 in
gold, another $12,655 in currency,
and a third tilled with $353.11 in
small change.
After the hold-up tho robbers
oasnon across mo railroad and Into
tho woods on the oast side of the
track. The entire plant of the construction
company was shut down
that the men might assist in scouring
the woods. The searchers were
divided into parties, each headed by
a captain, and as many as 2,000 men
are believed to be hunting the robbers.
As stated above, the money was in
charge of 11. W. Mahar, cashier of
the engineering company, Fred Bultman,
assistant cashier, and Deputy
Joyner, a policeman at Parr Shoals.
The robbers were also three in number
and had blackened their faces
that they might appear like negroes.
As (lie bearers of the money were
passing through a railway cut between
a string of box cars and the
side of the cut they were confronted
by the highwaymen and had six pistols
thrust in their faces.
At the command to throw up their
hands, Deputy Joyner hesitated and
made an effort to pull his pistol. As
he did so he was shot through the
thigh, the bullet inflicting a painful,
though not serious, flesh wound. Maliar
and Bultman did not offer resistance,
it is said, after the deputy had
been shot. down. Seizing the three
packages of money the robbers dashed
down the railroad track by tho
station and on into the woods down
the Mayo creek.
The ofllces of the company are only
about a quarter of a mile from the
station up a hill. There is a steep
embankment on the west sido of the
railroad track, and a stairway leads
to tho top of this. As the three men
in charge of the money ascended the
stairs, they had to pass between a
part of the embankment and a group
of box cars. It was while in this
narrow gorge that they were confronted
by three white men, who had
blackened their faces. Each of the
assailants carried two revolvers, and
those were thrust into the faces of
the bearers of the money with the demand
that their hands be thrown up.
Two minutes after the bandits
made off with the money, the whole
camp was thrown into confusion by
the news of the daring deed of the
bandits. The news flashed instantly
to all corners of the camp, and the
700 laborers were at once released
that they might join in scouring the
woods for the highwaymen. The
men were organized into small eompanied,
each directed by a captain,
and were sent out in every direction
to patrol roads and to keep a sharp
lookout for any suspect.
Telephone messages were sent to
tho police department in Columbia
and to Sheriff McCain of Richland
county for bloodhounds. Richland
county happens to have no flogs of
its own, but the message was transferred
to the State penitentiary, and
William H. Sondley, captain of the
guard, dispatched the dogs kept at
tlie penitentiary. They left Columbia
at 4 o'clock and were under the supervision
of .T. C. Robbins, guard,
who has led many chases in South
Carolina for fleeing criminals. Sheriff
Miller of Lexington county was als
. so notified and he also went to the
scene.
As the robbers passed tho statior
J. A. Hancock, tho camp boss, attempted
to intercept them. He wat
CHARGED WITH MURDER I
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WALKED AN1? RON INVOLVED IN
1)10 ATI I OF 1IAHTKH.
The Testimony Drought Out Causes
Authorities to Keep Them llotli in
('list o<ly.
The coroner's jury of inquest over
the dead body of J. R. llarter, chief
of police of Allendale, who was killed
Sunday afternoon at Lena, 1 lampion
county, Monday evening rendered
a verdict that the otllcer "came to
his death by pistol shot wounds from
a pistol in the hand of J. F. Walker,
aided and abetted by Den Walker, his
son." Don Walker the eighteenyear-old
son of Joo F. Walker, was
arrested, and the coroner's jury implicated
him in tho shooting of Darter.
The Inquest was held at Estill. J.
M. Patterson, R. P. Searson, Jr., and
.T. Ilenry Johnson, of Allendale, conducted
the examination of witnesses
for the coroner, while Cieorgo Warren,
of Hampton, was present looking
after the interests of Walker,
though he did not examine any of the
witnesses.
D, J. Peoples was the first witness.
Ho testified that ho heard Walker
make some threat against the Allendale
l)ol iceman. Oscar Pnslnfnn T
H. Prosser, T. J. Mcintosh and J. E.
Young, all eye-witnesses to tho killing,
testified in substance to the following
state of facts: On Sunday afternoon
at about 3 o'clock Mr. ITarter
was sitting on bench on tho depot
platform at Lena in company of the
Rev. William J. Langston, of Columbia,
and Octor Carlton. J. F. Walker
and his son, Ben, came walking down
the railroad from tho direction of
their home. On arriving at the
bench, Mr. Walker demanded his pistol
from Mr. llarter, who stated that
he did not have it. When the request
was refused Walker hit Mr.
llarter over tho head with a pistol.
Mr. llarter attempted to resist but
was pushed back by Walker repeatedly,
while Walker and hi.s son, Ben,
kept, up a continuous fire in the direction
of llarter,- the younger man
standing on tho left of his father.
The attention of the witnesses was
not called to tho affair until after
several shots were fired. Each of
them swore that ho did not seo llarter
shoot at all.
After shooting the witnesses walked
about 3 00 yards to the place of
the shootiug and found llarter gaping
and dying. There was a 38-calibro
pistol with ono empty cartridge
in it lying half way between the dyintr
moll nnif -I"1
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form. It was teRtified by several witnesses
that Walker had threatened
the life of ITartor because Harter had
officially taken a pistol from the prisoner
at Allendale a year iiko,
l)r. Daw ton, who held the post
mortem examination, testified that
four 3 8 pistol halls entered the front
of the body and passed through
the body, one of them going through
the heart, and two 32 pistol balls entered
the left arm. One of them was
cut out and introduced in evidence.
The doctor stated after the inquest
that he dressed a slight scalp wound
on Mr. Walker after the tragedy.
One of the witnesses stated that
Walker was bloody. Several testified
that Mr. Harter never rose from
the bench on which be was sitting
The elder Walker was Interviewed
Monday and referred every one to hi?
attorneys, Messrs. Warren and Warren.
The attorneys, when asked foi
a statement, said that the defense
was self-defense. Beyond this nc
statement was given out.
.TAILED FOR WHITE SLAVERY.
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Ri'oiiiiiicnt Farmers of Georgia Lur<
Little Girl.
George and William Walker, prom
nent farmers of Walker county, Ga.
are in jail awaiting trial on a serioui
charge. It is alleged that they luret
from her home, Susie Fricks, the
pretty 14-year-old daughter of 5
neighbor, took her to the homo o
George Walker, in the absence of hi
wife, where she spent tho night, con
coaled her the next day from her par
and put her on a train hound fo
Alabama City Ala., where Georg
Walker, it is said, promised to joii
her.
Tho child attracted the nttentioi
of tho railroad conductor, who per
suaded her to return home. The par
onts and put her on a train hound fo
conducting a vigorous serch who
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.in; ill in; F.HI uauriHJU. . li()I?rO HO
departure she had loft a note statin
that sho was to marry in a short tim
and go to Oklahoma to live. Oeorg
Walker, tho alleged instigator of th
crime, is a married man. Williar
I Walker is being hold as an accessor]
fired upon three times, none of th
! shots hitting him. After passing th
. station tho robbers made their wa
. down tho railroad track for som
distance and then turned off and (lit
, appeared in the woods. Six hundre
i dollars reward has been offered fc
the bandits and every effort will t
made to catch them. Tt. was one c
5 tho boldest robberies that ever too
place in this State.
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Old newspapers for sale at this o
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TWENTY ONE KILLED
NEARLY SIXTY MORE ARE INJURED
IN WRECK ON
NEW ENGLAND BA1LRTAD
R|khh11iik ut Forty-Milo Hate in Thick
l'"u?, M'hito Mountain Express
Crashes into Second Section of Ear
Harbor Express? EiiKiilO Goes
Through Two Pullman (Kirs.
Twenty-one persons were killed
and nearly ilfty injured, some of
whom may die. In a rear-end collision
shortly beforo seven o'clock
Tuesday morning 011 the Now York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad six
miles north of New Haven, Conn.
The iirst section of the White
Mountain Express, bound for New
York, speeding along at probably forty
miles an hour, in a thick fog, rushed
by a danger signal, it is said, and
crashed Into the rear of the second
section of the Har Harbor Express
standing 100 feet beyond the block
signal.
The White Mountain engine cleaved
through the two rear Pullman
cars, both of wood, splitting them in
two and losing their wreckage and
three-score of mangled human be-1
ings, some alive, some dead, on elth.
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or side of the track.
The third car, also of wood and
occupied by forty boys on their way
from a summer camp at Monmouth,
Maine, was lifted Into the air and fell
on its side, crumpled up and crushing
two of the boys to death and Injuring
others.
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ijwunj \ji i iiki virnuiM ui 111(3 two
roar Pullmans woro hurled from
berths over a fenco paralleling' the
track fifty foot distant; mattresses,
bedding and clothing found lodgment
In the telegraph wires.
It w?s tljo third serious wreck the
Now Haven has suffered within a
year and Inaugurated the first day of
the regime of Howard Elliott, the
newly elected head of the road. Mr.
Elliott, returning from his summer
home in New Hampshire to assume
his duties, pased over tlio scene of
tho wreck on an earlier train less
than an hour before.
Practically all tho passengers on
both trains were returning home
from summer vacations and all but
two of a camping party of nine,
guests of S. Crozer Eox, of Elklne
Park, returning from Maine, were
wiped out. Fox was among those
killed. No 0110 was hurt in tho White
Mountain train.
I lio Now Haven officials wore
frank to admit that the Ho-eal)od
"banjo" block signal ay stem, which
on this part of the lino has not yot
boon replaced by the semaphore system
recommended by the public utilities
commission last Docombor, was
in a measure responsible for the
wreck, although the question as to
whether the engineer of the White
Mountain train, Augustus II. Miller,
was making too much speed under
the weather conditions is under investigation.
According to Vice-President Whaloy,
of the New TIaven, it. would not
1 have been posible at the speed the
train was making for Engineer Miller
' to have stopped within l,f>00 feet
? after ho saw the signal. The engineer
did not see it, he said, until he
was almost upon it, or scarcely more
than one hundred feet from the rear
) of the Par Harbor Express, and at
the same moment he heard the torpedoes.
"I do not wish to place any blame
on the engineer," said Mr. Whaloy,
, "hut in view of the foggy condition?
a question to be determined is whoth
or ho was running too fast undor the
circumstances. Tliore Is no rule ol
tho road which would require him tc
? mako up time, and take a risk while
9 running in a fog, and as far a? 1
* know, ho received no Instructions tc
! in'ake up time."
Chief Enginoor Elwell said Tues
^ day night that tho New Haven ha<
9 been twice advised by tho public util
ities commission to abolish tho "ban
Jo" system, onco last December am
r again in March, following minoi
0 wrecks, in both of which tho blame
n was laid at tho door of tho "banjo'
system.
There are eighteen in the hospital!
and somo are in a serious condition
" Some of tho loss seriously hurt wen
1 on to New York.
The death list grow from thirtoei
r to exactly twlco that number durinj
^ tho afternoon and evening. Severn
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or iitubb UtKiiy injuruu cueu 011 11101
0 way to hospitals or after reachinj
0 there.
11 First steps to determine who wa
r' to blame wero taken in secret. No
? will the inquest ho public if Corone
e Mix adheres to his announced plan
o At the preliminary hearing Tuesda
y afternoon trainmen of the two train
lo were examined.
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d Every one is satisfied with Prosi
dent Wilson's Mexican policy excep
o Alsorandolph ITearst. and Coverno
>f Please. So the President will have t
k pet along without their valuable sup
port.
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f- Tho new tariff bill will soon bo
law of tho land.
REPORT CAUSES RISE
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COTTON ENJOYS SENSATIONAL '
ADVANCE or TO POINTS.
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Prices Sbi>ot Ypwaril as Kosult of
Poor (Vtiulition llcport'?biggest
Jump hi Itm'nt Years.
Tho government report report making
tlie condition of tho coming cotton
crop only 08.2 per cent., compared
with 7 4.8 per cent, last year, and
711.2 two years ago, was followed by
one of the most sensational advances
that lias ever occurred on a government
report day during recent years.
Private condition figures had prepared
the trade for a bullish report
and tho market had advanced very
rapidly since the middle of last
month, but tho official figures proved
even less favorable than anticipated
and Inspired a general movement.
I Tho South was credited with selling
on the advance, supposedly agalast
tho coming, but both trade interests
and speculators were heavy buyers,
and while offerings were heavy
enough to cause slight reactions the
general tendency of the market was
> upward.
December contracts sold at 12.94
in t lve late trading, practically the
13-eent level, and 211 points, or
% I O.r.f) per bale above the low record
of August M. Closing prices were
8 or i points off from the best, but
the final tone was firm :it ;i not entn
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o# f>7 to 7 1 points as coin pared with
the clotting figuies of last b'rhlay.
New York statisticians said that on
the basis of the acreage the official
statement that 1 <>0 per cent, at this
season of the year is equivalent to
252 pounds to tin4 acre, Tuesday's
figures -pointed mathematically to a
crop of not over 13,500,000 bales,
and while the figures did not seem to
ho at all generally accepted, the action
of the market certainly suggested
a considerable scaling down of
average crop views, particularly as
deterioration reports have continued
to come i .. upd 1 he bulls claim that
cotton ha*' 'os? ground since the government
i port was compiled.
Liverpool made a firm showing
over the 1 r' holidays, and the market
at No York opened firm at an
advance < 8 *o 23 points, Prices
sold 30 t 3 5 oo'nts net higher hefore
the [""""riiMioni report was issued
and 'he m: . ?.et was extremely
ucuve (in 11 g onure <ioy. according
t( vVv York firuros 1 ho commercial
crop of 101 2-1 3, 14.1 03,7f>7
bales and I ho Now Orleans Kxchauge
ofltimatod tlio world's consumption at,
14.000.000 bales, suggesting a big
decrease in the world's mill stocks for
the season.
"KIUL" >11 NICK'S CAKMKIl lCNDtil). j
Notorious Koblier Dies W hile Prisoner
on Georgia State Farm.
Death has freed "Hill" Miner, notorious
robber, jail-breaker and "gentleman
of fortune", from bis last
prison term. His picturesque career*
which included clashes with the laws
of more than a score of states and
several Canadian provinces, ended
Wednesday night at the Georgia
State prison farm near Milledgeville.
lie had been ill for several months
from gastritis. Ho was seventy-live
1 years old.
Miner's criminal career began
nearly sixty years ago, l?o is aaid to
have left his home in Kentucky be'
fnr? liD U'na fI ftofin vnaro r?l/l nn/1
! gone West. Ho admitted stage coach
robberies and train hold-lips and was
several tinies incarcerated for burglarizing
banks. ITo was known
throughout the West, worked into
* North Canada and then invaded the
> Eastern States. ITo escaped many
' tinies from jails and State prisons.
- Three years ago he was brought to
5 Iho Stato prison farm at Milledgevillo
f for robbing a train near Taila, C.a.,
> and began a term of twenty years.
' He has since escaped and been recap[
tured twice.
> For several years Miner was a
member of the outlaw band led by
- Jesse James. His real name, he told
I prison authorities a few days before
" he died, was Ceorge Anderson.
1 "Mt'KI>KltKI>" MAN ALIVE,
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- I)issaj?erc<! Ton Years A#o?Cilvon
1'p for Dead,
The mystery that surrounded the
Hli nnntirt/1 mnr/lor /if I f/?nru A \T I n /\r
.'? !/|fw?iv\i a iiui viv/i wj i IUIII J *TI llll/l
1 in St. Louis, ton yoars ago lias been
solved by the finding of Mr. Minor in
1 Morton, Ark. Minor was yoars of
' ago when bo disappeared from St.
' Louis. On the morning bo was missed
r bis trunks were found to liavo been
'' rifled and all bis valuables taken.
Blood on the floor Indicated murder,
s After seven years he was pronounced
1 legally dead and bis wife received
r $1,000 on his life.
Recently, while holding religious
y services in llorton, Ark., the Rev.J
a 10. Stout saw Minor enter the church
Ifo recognized him intsantly.
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The sweetest music, heard now ir
t. these parts is tho sound of the hum
r mlng cotton gin. It means that the
o farmers are about to put the wonltl
?- he created this year oil tho marke
for tho benefit of all.
a The farmer is driving dull tlmei
frPm all the mfasts of trade.
WINS DELAY IN FIGHT
tii.wv ur/ri h\i:i) to j ail l?kni>in<;
ji ik;k*s iwcision.
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Fugitive from New York Now Face*
Influence <?f Attorney (acnerul of
l'ro\ hu e.
Harry K. Thaw won another delay
in his tight against return to the
Mat tea wan asylum and Tuesday night
lie %a? hack in the Sherhrooke, Que.,
juil. There he will remain until
Superior Judge Matthew Hutchinson
renders his decision on the question
of sustaining or dismissing t.ho habeas
corpus writ, arguments on which
wore hot*rd Tuesday in champers. The]
decision may ?omo at any day, hut
more probably Thursday.
It was a day of alternate joy and
depression for Thaw. At the opening
of the lulling he faced a. new
and dangerous opponent in Ainie
(Jeoffrion of Quebec, special emissary
from the provincial attorney general
and premier, Sir Lorn or (louin, *nd
from ids lips Thaw heard that the attorney
general was insistent that
there bo no more delay in the case
and that the habeas corpus writ failing,
other steps would be taken to
insure Thaw's release and seizure by
the immigration authorifies.
From his counsel Thaw heard nr
gumonts against sustaining (ho writ;
pleas for delay; from the crowd (hat
packed (he court house and fit reamed
over tho lawn he ho*ird cheers and
whouts and words of rncourniement.
tie was nervous throughout the ordeai
and returned to his cell tired
out with the excitement.
Thaw's lawyers characterized the
proceedings by which Jerome I'.ou
droau, the chief of ipdiee of Oonticook,
s<M-ks to free the man he arrested
two weeks ago as smacking of
fraud and hvprocrisv.
The Txdief pevailod in Sherhrooke
that if the writ Is thrown out the at
torney general will take immediate
steps to have the commitment quashed.
Thaw will then ho free that is.
for the brief instant before he is taken
in charge by the immigration au1
horit iefi.
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SMITH'S ml,I, VVIWINH.
ItcliovT^ That ('uncus May < 'lutiigo
and Support I lint.
Senator 10. I). Smith of ?outh Carolina
and Senator Clarke of Arkansas
had a spirited colloquy in the Senate
Monday over their respective cotton
hills. Senator Smith proposes to require
all contracts for future delivery
to specify tho grades proposed to be
delivered, while Senator Clarke proposes
to levy a tax of 50c per bale on
11 cotton eold for future delivery.
Senator Clarke made a long speech
in behalf of his bill. Senator Smith
took the position that such a law
would not stop speculation, hut would
amount to a tax on cotton, lie alsc
read into tho record over a hundred
letters from farmers of South Carolina
protesting against the Clarke
bill. Several Southern State Farm
ers' unions have sent resolutions op
posing the Clarke hill and favoring
the Smith bill. The Clarke hill hat
been indorsed by tine Democratic can
cus as an amendment to tho tarifl
bill, hut the feeling is growing ilia!
this was a niistako, A caucus ol
Democratic senators was called foi
Tuesday night and the outlook is thai
the Smith bill will he substituted foi
the Clarke nmondmont norlinnu \t-5?i
modifications. The discussion was
tho most spirited that has l)oon hat
on any subject since the tariff bil
was taken up, but Senator Smith wa
at all times more than master of tin
situation.
I>LI0S WIIKX HOME lit UN'S.
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I'ciidleton Man's Charred Ilody i
Found in ltiiins.
F. W. Jones, ?a white man abou
fifty years of ago, was burned t<
death in his homo on tho outskirt
of Pendleton and his houso and con
tents were destroyed Tuesday night
in a tire which is supposed to hav
been started through his own care
lessnoss. Jones was drinking, it i
said, and ran off members of his fam
ily. Tt seems that one of the boys re
turned hater, when his father was no
noticing, to secure his clothes and h
noticed that tho father had built
roaring nro in mo stove. It la pre
sinned that the firo started from th
, stovo and that Jones' condition pre
vented liia setting out. A charre
mass of hones and flesh was foun
In the embers.
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The Gaffney Ledger puts tills on
I In tho question box: "If, as the e?
I ports tell us. hookworms stay In th
sand and dirt, how Is It that the
i weren't all parched to death durln
. the last two months.'' It seems tht
. tho hook worm and the boll weev
can survive all sorts of weather.
i The General Assembly at Its no:
- meeting should apply the provlslor
5 of the Webb law to South Carolin
i Then we would be in a position f<
t State wldo prohibition that won
prohibit.
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* Why don't they let Tha\v go? N
body cares.
THE COTTON REPORT
SHOWS BIG CHOP DETERIORATION
SINCE JULY
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SOUTH CAROLINA GAINS ]
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Cotton Condition Is Way Itolow TcnVoar
Average, but Crop in This .<
State Holds its Own?Croatest
I a >ss Has Horn Felt in Western
I'ait of Ifailt.
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Announcement Tuesday by the de- '
partmeut of agriculture, that the
condition of the growing cotton crop
of the United States was OS.2 per I
cent, of a normal on August 25, disclosed
the facts that, the crop had de- |
terlorated 11.4 per cent, since the
July report was taken.
The August figures wore the same
as those of August, 1 900, and the
condition at this period has been lower
only three times during the past
twenty-two years; in 189G, when it
n an ?>i.? |H'I 1 fill . , IJl I !IUu, WI1C11 It
wuk 64 per cent., and in 1909, when
it as 6:5.7 per cont.
The greatest deterioration was in
Oklahoma, where the condition dropped
3 6 per cent, to 4 5 per cent. In
Texas the condition of 64 per cent,
showed a deterioration of 17 percent.
Deterioration in other States in the
part of the belt stricken by drought
w a s:
Arkansas, 15 per cent.; Missouri,
| 14 per cent.; Louisiana, 12 per cent.;
Tennessee, 10 per cent.; Mississippi,
8 per cent., and Alabama, 7 per cent,
in all the States the condition was
much lower than the 10-year average
report.
Comparisons of conditions, by
States, follow:
Ity States.
Aug July Aug
2 5 2 5 2 5. 10-yr
1 9 1 3 19 13 1912 Av.
Virginia so Si so S2
North Carolina . . 7 8 7 7 7 5 7S
South Carolina . .77 7 5 7:5 7 7
(leorgia 7 0 7 6 7 0 7 7
Florida SI 8 2 7 3
Alabama 72 79 75 7 5
Mississippi. . . .69 7 7 7 0 7 5
Louisiana 6 5 7 9 7 1 6 t
Texas 64 SI 7 6 7 2
Arkansas 7 2 S7 7 7 7 7
Tennofcsee SO 9 0 7 6 8 3
Missouri 7 2 S6 7 8 8 4
Oklahoma 4 5 8 1 84 7 6
California 96 1 00 95
United States. 68.2 79.6 74.8 74.7
nmuo in'* .1111y rcpori growing con
ditions had been generally favorable
' throughout the eastern section of tho
cotton belt and (ho condition of tho
i plant in tho states east of tho Missisi
sippi. was expected to show up well.
r In the states west of tho Mississippi
I conditions were not so favorable,
i drought In Texas and Oklahoma,
[ parts of Arkansas, Missouri and
- Louisiana marking the early part of
> tho period which Tuesday's report
covers. High temperatures prevailed
- prevailed throughout most of this
j section. Tho drought was partially
i relieved during tho last week of tho
- period.
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h At Nashville, Tenu., Monday four
1 persons were killed and three injur1
ed when four of tho six racing autos
mobiles competing in a twenty-fivoe
mile race at tho State fair grounds
track were wrecked. A Labor day
crowd of 5,000 witnessed the accident.
Tho dead are: John W. Sherrill,
driver; Thomas I*. Bridges,
mechanician; William Sherrod, drivs
er; "Gooch" Brown, mechanician.
The injured are: Clydo Donovan
and Kdward I'olk, drivers, and Freet
man Ormsby, mechanician,
o Tho accident occurred at a point
s on tho mile track directly across tho
- field from tho grandstand and in
nhiin alcrht r>f tlir? ernwrU Ttio at*
o cars were running1 nt a torriflc rato
!- when Donovan, who was loading, was
s compelled to cwervo suddenly to
- avoid running down a small negro
!- hoy who had run across the track,
t In doing this ho burst a front tiro,
e and in an effort to clear tho eourso
a turned his car into tho fence. Tho
!- car crashed through tho harrier,
o which fell hack on tho track. Tho
5- car just behind was ahlo to avoid tho
d wrecqage, hut tho machines which
d followed were not so fortunate. Sher
rod's moor struck tho obstruction,
leaped high in tho air and turned a
0 complete somersault. Into this mass
f_ of wreekago plunged Sherrill's car.
_ Tho machino was demolished, driver
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v and mechanicians beilng instantly
killed. The machino driven by Polk
lt was only slightly damaged. All tho
jj deed and injured lived at Nashville.
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A religious fanatic says that tho
Kt drouth that affected Kansas and
is some other states this summer was
a. Clod's punishment on tho people of
>r thoso states for raising so many hogs.
Id Peoplo may easily differ as to tho
value of pork as an article of food,
but it is rank foolishness to talk
o- about divine Judgment in such a connection.