The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 15, 1914, Image 4
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BLILKTA UPIIM1SIIC
MEXICAN CiOVKllNMKNT PIjKASEl>
WITH HKCKNT EVENTS.
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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are reported to have withdrawn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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 '
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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.
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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.
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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.