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t BLILKTA UPIIM1SIIC MEXICAN CiOVKllNMKNT PIjKASEl> WITH HKCKNT EVENTS. i PLANS TO PUSH REBELS Constitutionalists in South Aro Heported Short of Ammunition and Federals Say They Will Take Advantage of This Fact and I'ush the Fighting With Vigor. The Federal success at Nuevo Laredo, the good showing made by the Federals at Ojinaga, the reported evacuation by the rebels of Durango, upon the failure of the revolutionalists to renew the attack on Tampico are pointed to by the Mexican government oflicials at Mexico City as1 MlfftirinL' vvoll for tTio ~r I C-, C . W. V??v 1UIIII1I1IU1IV V I President Huorta's recent promise for the early domination of the revolutionist situation. ? The threatened attack on Ran Luis Potosi has failed to develop, both private and government advices indicating this plan has been abandoned for the present, the rebels retiring to the north. The Tampico line is still out of commission, however, and an oil famine Is threatening to cause suspension of railroad service and the factories. Ill all the developments of the past few days the Federal authorities see indication of a serious shortage of ammunition on the part of the revolutionists, of which they declare tbev will take full advantage and push the war with greater vigor. The revolutions under C!en. Contreras and den. TTrbina. who have been in possession of Purango since early summer. are reported to have withdrawn northward to Santiago Papasquiro, about SO miles distant, where they have established a new rebel capital. They are said to have realized the impossibility of making a stand against the federal forces now marching from Torreon. Several thousand troops, many of them re v*i uiin, ii?vti guiiH uui irom in? capital In the hist week. Tt In underetood mont of them will he utilized In a campaign against Chihuahua. The announcement that Prenldent Wllnon'a policy probably would remain unchanged after John Tdnd's trip to Pans Christian In a source of disappointment to most foreigners and many Mexicans who believed the interview between the prenldent and bin pernonnl representative might result In some definite step to put an end to the distressing conditions, which, so far an business In concerned. are fast growing acute. To official Mexico, while outwardly Mr. Tdnd'n vlnit to the president was of little significance, the apparent determination of the United States still to keep Its hands off Is known to be highly gratifying. One official summarized the relation with the United States: "The best Mexico exnectn of Washington Is to bo let alono to work out Its problem." In spite of the critical financial outlook the administration appears to be highly optimistic. President Huerta regards the floating of a foreign loan as far from a vain hope. The premature announcement recently of assurances from the Mexican finance minister, Senor de la bamar, now In Europe that ho had Induced the acceptance by English and French bankers of bonds amounting to $25.000,000, Is now explained as Incorrect interpretation of the code used in the cablegram. The finance department, however, declared that the minister's efforts are progressing favorably and that there Is reason to believe he soon will be successful. The banking situation shows little Improvement and the scarcity of coin for ordinary trading Is work lng hardship on business. SHOOTING AT RAMIIERG. ? Two Negroes Have Scrni>e on Streets of Town. Shortly after noon Thursday a pistol and shotgun duel occurred at Ham berg In front of the colored graded school building between Martin ('.rant and Andrew Bennett, both colored, which resulted In the death of the latter and the serious wound ing of the former. It is said that bad feeling existed between the two men on account of domestic relations and that Rennet had sworn to kill Grant. Thursday they met in the street and afer a few words the shooting commenced. Grant using a pistol and Bennett a shotgun. It Is said that Grant shot twice before Rennett could use his gun. In the battle Bennett received three wounds In his breast and abdomen, which resulted In his death within twenty minutes after the shooting. Grant was severely wounded in the arm and shoulder and lost a great quantity of blood, but It Is thought that his chances are good for recovery. Sumter Negro Killed. Near Brogdens, in Sumter county, Tuesday afternoon Alma Washington, a negro boy, who says he Is only ten years of ate, stabbed and killed Preston Stewart, another negro boy, who was 13 years of age. A playful cufMe led to a fight. k . GIVES FOOLISH ADVICE WASHINGTON PIIKACHKK TKI.l^ NKCJHOK8 TO HI'Y ARMS. In Celebrating Sumner's Hirtbdux Pastor Makes Talk Whirh Can !>< Nothing Save Hurt the Negroes. Negroes were urged to stop buying musical instruments and sending their children to dancing schools, and advised to spend their money for guns and military education at Washington Tuesday night by tho Rev. I N. Ross, pastor of a Washington negro church, speaking to a large crowd assembled to celebrate the birthday of Charles Sumner. The preacher pleaded with the audience to prepare for war for their social, political and industrial rights. "Prepare for war in time of peace is the policy of this nation," he shouted. "It should bo your policy if you wish to break from the oppression. from the fetters of this era of new slavery." Cries of "we are with you; that's right," greeted the speaker, and the audience arose, waving handkerchiefs and urging Ross to go on. When Oswald Garrison Villard, of New York, vigorously dissented from Ross' advice the preacher again rose and repented his declarations, drawing another outburst of approval. Yillanl made an address attacking the attitude of tho Democratic administration toward tho negro, declaring that the position "in which the Democratic party finds itself today, with its president pleaching 'a now freedom,' and a number of reactionary senators, congressmen and cabinet officers urging a new slavery. is indeed extraordinary. "There are no bosses like them," ho continued. "The Vardamans, Tlllmans, TToko Smiths and all tho rest of tho negro-baiting crowd, who have risen to emineneo are back of the negroes, defaming and oppressing them, as they went and are the apostles of reaction. Tint T have another indictment for these men. I claim that they misrepresent the heart and conscience of tho true South." Tho speaker denounced the segregation of negro employees by officers of the Federal executive dpartments, declaring that in many instances the laws of tho civil service commission and tho constitution had been violated. PUTS IT TO THEM. Georgia Judge Rids Fair to Stop Pistol Toting. No mercy will bo shown pistol totera when they aro arraigned before Judge Ilenjamin Tf. Hill of Atlanta, C.a. Judgo Hill Thursday morning, when passing a sentence, announced a flat policy of his court, which means a chain gang sentence without the alternative of a fine for every man convicted before him of carrying a pistol, concealed, or unconcealed. "There Is no excuse for pistol toting," said the juiist from the bench, "and it might as well bo understood right now that every man, regardless of age or color, who is convicted bofore me of carrying a pistol, is going to receive the full limit of the lnw. I am not going to allow convicted defendants the alternative of paying a fine, but on cinvictlon they will be sentenced to the chain gang for twelve months." Judge Hill let it bo plainly known that this policy will apply to persons convicted of carrying a weapon without a license as well as those convicted of carrying a concealed weapon. The case, which caused the comments of the jurist, was against John Harris, a negro, who had entered a plea of guilty to the charge of carrying a pistol without a license. His attorney asked that the court treat the case leniently, and It was then that Judge Hill made hla statement. The carrying of a concealed weapon and the carrying of a pistol without a license are both misdemeanors, and the maximum sentence In Cleorgla Is twelve months on the chain gang or a fine not to exceed $1,000. BURXKD AT SKA. ? Crew of British Bark. Rescued After Drifting Three Days. The German bark Eilbeck arrived at Astoria, Ore., Thursday from Santa Rosalia with Capt. W. Marstors, his wife and two young daughters and sixteen officers and men of the Rritish bark Rattle Abbey, burned at sea December 2 8. The party abandoned the vessel and for three days drifted in a lifeboat before they were picked up by the Eilbeck. Pad weather had caused considerable suffering. The Rattle Abbey was registered under the Rritish flag. She was of 1,4 03 tons burden and was out of Newcastle, N. S. W., October 18, bound for Vancouver, R. O. To Frame Canal htw. One of President Wilson's first acts upon returning to Washington will he to determine the plan of government of the Panama canal zone. Secretary Garrison Wednesday doclined to say whether he had recommended a m'lttary or civil government organisation. Wlu HAVi ii Pa) r.w <)\ INCOMES OVKH ftl.OOO DI E MARCH 1. IXGIPIIIINS ANNIIUNCtll Persons Liable to Taxation Under tin* Now Law Pare Severe I'onalty for Delay in Making Returns or For Falsely Returning Their Incomes to the ('ollectors. The form to bo used and regulations to be followed by individuals in making returns on incomes subject to the new Federal income tax were set out from Washington Monday by the treasury department. Every citizen of the United States, whether residing at homo or abroad, every person residing in the United States and ovory non-resident alien, who lias income from United States investments of $3,000 or more, must make returns. For the past year, 1013, specific exemptions will be $2,000, or $3,333.3 3 in the case of a married person, and in future years $3,000 and $ 1,000. Where the tax has been withhold on part of the income at the source, or where part of the income comes as dividends upon stock of a corporation taxable under the corporation tax section of the law, the regulations set forth that such in-j i-iMuu fMiiin uu uuuuiueu iroin me individual's total not income when computing the amount on which he is taxable. The law imposes a tax of 1 per cent, and provides that individuals who have an incoino between $20,ooo and $7)0,000, shall pay an additional tax of 1 per cent, on such amount; on all between $7.0,000 and $77>.000, 2 per cent.; $7f?,000 to $100,Q00, 2 per cent.; $100,000 to $27.0,000, \ per cent.; $2 7.0,000 to $7.00,000, 7. per cent., and all over $7.00,0 0 0, 0 per cent. Returns must he in the hands of the collector of internal revenue, in the district where ho lias his principal placo of business, not later than March 1, failure to observe this limit to he punished with fines ranging from $20 to $ 1,000. Refusal or neglect to file returns, except in case of sickness or absence, will result in an addition of 50 per cent. of the tnx assessed. In the ease of false or fraudulent returns 100 per cent, will be added to the tax assesed and any person required to make, render, sign or verify such returns, who makes a false or fraudulent statement with intent to defeat or evade the tax, will bo guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not moro than $2,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both. An extension of thirty days from March 1 in case of sickness or absence may bo allowed by the proper collector, provided an application is made by the individual concerned. Returns must be accompanied by oath or affirmation. Expenses for medical attendance, store accounts, family supplies, wages of domestic servants, cost of board, room or house rent shall not be deducted from gross Income, and Individuals who own their own residences can not deduct the estimated value of the rent. The farmer ?is required to include in his net income all money from produco and animals sold, for wool and hides of slaughtered animals, provided they are sold. Tie may deduct the sums actually paid for the animals sold or slaughtered during the year, hut the value of animals raised shall not be deducted as expenses or loss. The farmer also may deduct money paid as expenses for producing farm products, live stock, etc., and for repairs for the current year. Tho cost of tools or machinery Is deductable. Persons receiving fees or emoluments for personal or other services must Include all actual receipts for services during the year, together with all unpaid accounts, charges for services of contingent income for the year, "if good and collectible." Debts contracted within a current year may he deducted from gross income, when found worthless, hut not before legal proceedings have proved unavailing. Debts contracted In previous years, which eventually prove worthless, may he deducted subsequently under tho bead of losses, when they are charged ofT. Amounts duo or accrued to Individual members of a partnership from net earnings shall be Included in the return of the individual, whether distributed or not, and <3?o?o,o ' * v i.iK u ivjmvuo |?cTiiniuiia IIIUSI oo included as Income. Estimated advance of real estate value Is not required to be reported unless placed as an asset on the Individual's books. Costs of suits and other legal proceedings arising out of ordinary business may be treated as expense and deducted from gross Income of a business. In computing net Income compensation of all ofllcers and emplovees of a State or any political subdivision thereof shall be excluded, but not where paid by the United States. cw.rt in your subscription to thin paper now. CALLS FOR SANITARIUM Mr A !><)() WANTS I'HLLAUHA HOSPITAL FOR SOt'TH. ? Secretary of Treasury Considers it important to Take Steps to Meet This Kiiicrgency. Secretary McAdoo Wednesday asked congress to appropriate $4 7,000 for a pellagra hospital in tho South In his letter to the speaker, the secretary pointed out that pellagra burdens 011 communities in which it prevails and that, while investigations of pellagra have been systematically carried on at tlie marine hospital at Savannah for several years and important bacteriologic mid epidemiologic studies are being carried on from that station, that institution has no facilities for the conduct of metabolic and physico-chemical studies. The latter studies are necessary at this time, according to the public health service, because of the suspicion of the association of the disease with diet and metabolism. Secretary McAdoo added: "A number of food products are under suspicion, thus implicating several important industries, and it becomes important from both sanitary and economic standpoints to determine once and for fill what bearing, if any, foods have on the continuance of the disease. These studies necessarily will tie of a highly technical nature, requiring special facilities to guard against the possibility of errors creeping in during the experiment. In order to carry on these special studies, temporary hospitals and laboratory facilities will be required in some locality where pellagra is highly prevalent. The need for this hospital and laboratory is to meet an emergency, as judging by the past, the disease will recur in the early spring in increasing virulence. When the emergency shall have passed and the special studies completed the hospital and labratory can ho readily discontinued." To carry out this plan, Secretary McAdoo proposed to embrace in the recommneded $47,000 these items: Equipment of hospital with 2f> beds, $0,000; equipment of chemical laboratory $3,000; 'payment of personel, exclusive of pharmacists and commissioned officer, $22,000; maintenance of hospital, $21,000; maintenance of laboratory, $4,000. LEGISLATURE MUST ACT. Party Convention Can Not Safeguard Primary. I The reader of these lines, If ho is I one of the thousands who have helped manage any of our primary elections, can write a better set of regulations than *ve now have. The great problem has been not what to do, but to get anything done. Why Convention Does Not Art. W? have depended on party conventions. Time after time the conventions has side-tracked proposed reforms. If you have ever been to a State convention you know why. It is an unwieldly crowd of men who rush through a lot of business In a few hours. They get to a consideration of the report of the committee on rules late In the program, sometimes it is near midnight. There is no time to deliberate, and rather than adopt changes they do not understand the convention does nothing. Even should the session be extended to two days and the second given to the rules, there could be no thorough consideration. Delegates twice as numerous as the whole legislature, unorganized, split into warring factions, many of the individual candidates in an impending primary can noi De expected to giro tno calm, fair, non-partisan attention and decision without which there could be no satisfactory change in our primary system. We are not guessing at possibilities, but facing facts established in our conventions. Something Stronger Than Rules Needed. Rut Ruppose for a minute that we could eliminate factionalism for once and hold the convention in session long enough for careful deliberation, we would then get only party rules and not State laws. Wo protect our hogs by law, shall we trust the birth hi. vji win duina^o iu u party ruio: When our people go to the ballot box there is set in motion one of the mightest forces that ever move them. Deep convictions are stirred, strong prejudices aroused, wild passions loosed. Along with the many moved by high motives march the determined band of avaricious seekers for personal advantage, and those lusting for power. Mere if anything in the life of our people the strong arm of the law is needed to protect us from forces of evil, in the exercise of the most sacred and fundamental act of citizenship. At the hands of the legislature we can get redress. It can build a bulwark to protect our ballot, a bulwark butrossed by the law and backed by all the forces of our government. Even in States where the primary nomination is not equivalent to an election they control every detail of their primary elections by lawn. How much more neceieary are legal Mfe il) WAIth II OUT IMTKI) STATUS HAS NOTHING TO DO IN MKXICO. HHAUY FUR tMKKGLNCIES land's Conference Willi President Wilson is Not Indicative of a Change in Policy as Wilson Considers That Huerta or Kehel leaders Must Make Next Move. The ripple of interest caused by the unexpected visit to Pass Christion of John Lind last week and his three-hour conference at night with President Wilson has died away anc government officials there have settled down to another period of patient waiting on internal developments in Mexico. Any change in the relations between the United States and Mexico, they believe, must follow some action taken by one or the other of the Mexican factions. It has been hinted that during his six months' stay in Mexico Mr. Lind has arrived at certain conclusions that are not entirely reassuring as to the ability of the Constitutionalist lenders to establish n stable and sat Isfactory government in the event Huerta retires. It is believed at Washington that the conference on board the cruiser Chester related in part to the conditions that might arise in Mexico, following the end of the "crumbling" process and the elimination of Huerta. State department officials have been giving thought to the treatment likely to be accorded foreign creditors and other claimants against Mexico by the victorious Constitutionalists, particularly in view of the proclamation of Gen. Carranza, early in the rebellion, of his intention to repudiate all loans made to the Huerta government. Some of the money loaned to the ITuerta government came from the United States, but the larger portion was contributed by European financiers. Consequently one necessity of some preliminary understanding between the United States and the probable successors to the present regime already has been considered, with the purpose of preventing dangerous clashes with the European governments and also to protect the rights of American claimants. Preparations by the navy for the mid-winter manoeuvres in West Indian waters have led to the renewal of reports that several battleships of the Atlantic ffoet, which made the European criuse, are to be dispatched to Mexican waters. At the navv department it was said the original plans made for the manoeuvres remained unchanged, exOr>f n a Minx? Vva/v? M ? vyv. j/o no iin vc UCCII 11131'UHSciniy modified by the diversion of so largo a portion of the fleet to patrol duty on the Mexican coast.. It is frankly admitted, however, that the ships at Culebra, Porto Rico, or Guantanamo, Cuba, would be much more available for Mexican service than if they were lying in New York harbor and Hampton Roads, and that they would be ordered to Vera Cruz or any other Mexican port the moment the State department called for them. The principal function of the American military force on the Mexican border at present is almost purely humanitarian; the soldiers are succoring the Mexican sick and wounded though, of course, incidentally enforcipg neutrality laws. Heports from the battlefield of Ojlnaga and Nuevo Laredo tend to greatly minimize the first reports of loss of life, though they indicate the fighting has been severe. guards with us where the primary is everything. Our legislature has felt the necessity of primary protecting statutes and has enacted some. Rut they are scattering and apply only here and there, leaving such wide spaces unprotected that they amount to little or nothing. Ry passing them we have admitted the nrinoinnl? nt utory regulation, but by etoppinf with only a beignning accomplished our effort has been futile. Now is the Time to Acv. It only remains for you, the read era or mis article, and the rest of tho rank and file of the party, to say t<our representatives, "Give us a 8im pie, plain, strong law to protect oui primary without taking away the ballot from any honest Democrat." No* Is the time to act. All the legislators want Is tho word from you They can work out the details 1l their forty-day session. But it is uj to you to insist that they act. Interested men may try to have then I postpone again as they have In tht past. You must look after you' rights or they will be lost by defanli Legislator. Decorates an American. Third Officer W. Wynon, of the Rer Star steamship Kroonland, an I American, was Thursday decorated I hv the Belgian Government for courage in assisting at the rescue of the survivors of the Volturno when she was burned in Mid-Atlantic last October. Send in your subscription now. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C ' I Published Every Thursday. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1014. PROFESSIONAL CAKDS. II. li. WOODWAUI), Attorney and Counsellor at Ii?w. U.ll, ?. t. li. li. SCAHliOUOLOil. Allurue) at i.avv. CONWAY, S. C. 11. II. liUKUOUl.liS, Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. C. W. E. McCOKD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. i HENE HAVENKL I .auil Surveying and Drainage Rpivey Rnilriing Cnnwav. S. O. SOIL Sl'KVKYS COMPLETED. During 11)15 I . S. (Government Finished Soil Surveys. The bureau of soils of the United States department of agriculture continued the soils surveys in South vaioiiu.i (luring mo year 1913, and tho field work was completed in Bamberg, Orangeburg and Union counties, comprising an area of approximately 1,994 square miles. These counties, together with the work already accomplished in tho State, make a total area of approximately 13,111 square miles, or 8,391,040 acres. It is the plan to carry on work in Chesterfield and Florencecounties during the present season and the work in Chesterfield has already begun. Four men will be maintained in Chesterfield and two In Florence, making six men in all. These facts appear from the forthcoming annual report of E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture. The following list gives the names of the areas surveyed in the State and those assigned for the present season, together with the number of squaro miles. Square Miles Abbeville area 1,006 Darlington area 59 5 Campobello area HI 5 Charleston area 3H2 Lancaster county 486 Cherokee county 361 York county 66t Lee county 411 Oconee county 65? Sumter county 587 Anderson county 097 Conway aTea 592 Saluda county . . . . 442 Clarendon county 72f> Fairfield county 75 8 Georgetown county 808 Barnwell county 87 0 Chester county 592 Bamberg county 371 Orangeburg county 1,131 Union county 492 Chesterfield county 837 Florence county 607 MERCHANT KILLED. ? Xegro Shoots Country Storekeeper of Beaufort. About dusk Tuesday word was brought to Beaufort that I. Donen, a storekeeper at Tomotley, about fifteen miles above Beaufort bad been shot. SherifT M. O. D. White, State Detective Hammand, Deputy Sheriff Cooler and a physician immediately left for the scene of the shooting and on reaching there found that M. Donen had been fatally wounded by an unknown negro. Medical attention was rendered the wounded man, while an unsuccessful search was made for the negro, Mr. Donen died J Wednesday. it seems that the negro came Into the store of Mr. Donen, as If to buy something, and was talking with Mr. Donen, when without any warning or i apparent motive he suddenly whipped out his pistol and flred at Mr. Donen, who fell to the floor unconscious. Whilft ? ..vinii v*tm in mis condition the negro rifled the store of small articles of little value. Nothing is known of the man. He is thought to he the same negro who several weeks ago shot a man at Wiggins. Trainman Meets Death. Richard Sondley Jr. was crushed to death Wednesday night in the Seaboard Air Line yards at Abbeville. He was a flagman for the company and was on his way to go out on his run, when attempting to avoid one train he stepped directly in front of sn engine backing up to the roundhouse.