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WANT THEM BOUGHT REPORT ON TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH OWNERSHIP < - LET CONGRESS BUY THEM IJurcloson Reports to Senate That In* vest (gating Committee Dei-lares People Can llest he Served by Federal Ownership of All Means of Transmission of Intelligence. Government monopolization of telegraph, telephone and w ircless communication, "and such other meads ' ?r the transmission of intelligence ? hereafter may develop," is rocomonded in a report Saturday suhmit<1 to the Senate by Postmaster Gen tu mireison. Immediate government ownership of telephone linos is recommended, with a system of lloenso for tho other agencies of communication, establishing a government monopoly even where there is not actual ownership. Tho report is that made to tho postmaster general by a special committee, appointed by him, and was transmitted to tho Senate in response to a resolution asking that ho make an investigation of the subject as an extension of the postal service. Tho report points out that the founders of tho nation were alive to tho importance of keeping under government control all means of communication, and provided in tho constitution that congress should have power to establish post ollices and post roads. It was clearly the intention, tho report adds, that the government should control every means of transmitting Intelligence. Tho postal serine has already virtually every leans of transmission except elecrieity, and yet tho United States lone, of all nations, tho committee ,/Oints out, has left, to private enterprises tho ownership and operation of telephone and telegraph facilities. "These facilities are now for tiie classes," tho report comments. "Under government ownership they will bo for tho masses." Government ownership of telephone rather than telegraph lines is recommended for the reason that telegraph service can l>o more readily superimposed on telephone lines than telephone servico on telegraph lines. It is pointed out also that because of the great cost1 involved it would bo unwise from a commercial point of view, for tlio (government to acquire tho telegraph J lines by purchase. Tho telegraph business is on the wane, compared to the telephone business, the report says, and in tho decade from 1900 to 1910 the average( daily telephone connections increased 2 87 per cent, and the number of telegraph messages only 18 per cent. Tho telegraph companies, the committee said, have already h)st most of their short distance business, owing "* the development of the toll telemo service, and probably will lose oh of tho long distance business ?n toll rates become adjusted on a t basis. Another objection to acquiring the telegraph lines is that even the dupll-j cute plants of rival companies would be Inadequate because, the linos have] boon extended only to profitable ter - - - I rltory. Tho cost of acquiring (lie telegraph facilities is estimated at $225,000,000, as against $200,000,000 for tho long distance and telephono lines. As there are some 2,000 proprietors of telephone lines, payments would extend over a period that would allow ample timo to market hornls, the report adds. The report declared that "tho only way to afford to tho people tho complete and modern postal facilities that the constitution makes it tho duty of the government to provide" 1b by carrying out these suggestions: "1. That congress declare a government monopoly over all telegraph, t.olephono and radio communication, and such other means for tho transmission of intelligence, as may herc?ftor develop. "2. That congress acquire by purlase at appraised value tho commeral telephone network, except the irmer lines. "3. That congress authorize tho postmaster general to issue, in his discretion and under such regulation as ho may prescribe, revocable licenses for tho operation, by private individuals, associations, companies and corporations, of the telegraph service and such parts of tho telephono service as may not bo acquired by tho government." ThO rocommen drift ones orrt * ? V ni^uuu by Daniel C. Jtoper, first assistant postmaster general; Merritt C. Chance, chief clerk post office department, and John C. Koona, superintendent division of salaries and allowances, composing tho committee. The report states that the United States Is tho only one of tho leading nations which has left to provlto en torprlso tho ownership and operation of the telegraph and telephone facilities" and that "pracMrally all of tho economists who have treated, the subject are agreed that telegraph and riephono facilities should he conI VILLA HAD HIM EXECUTED I . okedeked tub death of felix DIAZ'S EMISSAHY. t Reports Say That Envoy Was Commissioned by Diaz to Ask Villa to | Denounce General Carranza. Francisco I. Guzman, who figured prominently in the revolt against J President Madero in Mexico City a year ago, was executed Monday in the front yard of a house ocupied by Gen. Francisco Villa at Juarez, Mexico. Guzman had just come from Havana, where, it was charged ho had been given a commission by Felix Diaz to induce Gen. Villa to renounce Gen. Carranza and throw the strength of the revolution to Diaz. Ah soon as he hoard of the proposal Hen. Villa gave Guzman a conference, . and after making sure of the nature , of tlio visit, ordered the messenger shot. Within a few minutes after his arrival Guzman was led out of Villa's room, stood up before an adobe wall, and with his hands tied and eyes blindfolded was executed. The shooting was done by a rebel olllcer in charge of the railroad who happened to be present when the execution was ordered. It was at first reported that Donales Sandoval, an attorney of Mexico City was the victim, but Sandoval, who was reported to be on a similar mission for Diaz took refugo in the United States several days ago. Guzman formerly was a private secretary to Dr. lOmilio Vasquez Gomez, lie was known as one of the promoters of the Orozco revolution against Madero and later joined with liuerta in the conspiracy against the late President. An effort was made at first to conceal Guzman's summary execution, but inquiry as to a pool of blood in Villa's yard revealed the fact, and later rebel leaders admitted Guzman had been buried a few hours after he had been seen alive on the street. The execution of those upon whom the rebels look as political enemies is said to be in lino with a recent order from Gen. Carranza that all those who took an active part in tho overthrow of Madero must he killed. With his army of 1 2,000 rebels already advanced to points north of Torreon, and awaiting word to open the attack on the Federal garrison in that city, Gen. Villa planned to leave , immediately for Chihuahua, from whence, after a stay of several days, ho will march south to direct the , opening of the battle. A courier who arrived from Torreon said the rebel I advance guards had already sur! rounded tho city, but that Gen. Refugio Velasco's Federal soldiers had not opened fire. ( The Federal soldiers in Torreon, it was said, wero being kept in ignor-> < ance of recent rebel victories, and to sustain tlieir courage they were told that Gen. Mercado won a signal vie- i tory at Ojinaga. Gen. Marcella Caraveo, one of the volunteer Federal : generals, who escaped from Ojinaga, i has arrived in Torreon, and was given : a triumphant reception because he informed the soldiers the rebels had been defeated at Ojinaga. Mexican Federal sympathizers protested to the United States army otll- 1 cers in El Paso that Raoul Madoro, ! brother of the late President and an 1 ofllccr on Villa's staff, was permitted to go to tho American side. Madero has been seem daily in tho hotels and at social affairs on tho American side. The Mexicans complained that this was a violation of the neutrality laws and was not tho same treatment that was accorded Gen. Mercado and other Federal officers who are lielcl prisoners at Fort Uliss because they crossed the river. It was said that a protest would be made to Washington. Gives Women Rest Periods. John Skelton Williams, now comptroller of the curronov n->rno,i I appreciation of 500 women counters In the treasury department when he recently ordered two dally rest periods of ten minutes duration. - ? Auto litis Fatal Mishap. Leslie Edwards and Buford Terhune, both aged 22, of Lexington, Ky. will die from exposure as a result of being pinned in the cold waters of a local creek by their overturned automobile. Peru's President Deposed. The president of the republic of Pero, Guillermo Billlnghurst, was taken prisoner Thursday by military revolutionists. lie was later taken to Callao, whence he will bo sent into exiie. trolled by tho government." "The private monopoly," states tho report, "has no incentlvo to extend its facilities to unprofitable territory; but tho government must servo all tho people. This universal service is accomplished by tho equalization of rates. In fixing rates tho policy of this government is to superimpose no charge for taxation, but only to see to it that tho servlco as a whole is self-supporting. Tho private monopoly, on tho other hand, must make a profit and, in providing for this, tends to increase its rates to the highest point that will not, by so 1 greatly restricted tho volume of business, impair the aggroato profit. ME EACH OTHER! , I0TH CAPTAINS CREDIT COLLISION TO CARELESSNESS < COLLIDED AT TOP SPEED Monroe's Captain Declares Nantucket i Came on Him in Such Speed That Collision Was Inevitable?Nan( tucket's Captain Says Monroe Crossed IIis How at Full Speed. Declaring the sinking of his vessel was duo to tlio negligence and carelessness of thoso In command of the steamer Nantucket, Capt. IS. E. Johnson, commanding the ill-fated steamer Monroe, late Saturday filed a libel against tho former vessel in the I'liited States district court at Norfolk. He claims a million dollars' damage. Capt. Johnson alleges that the Monroe was proceeding at half speed or less before the accident and had laid-to after hearing fog whistles. He Bays the Nantucket camo upon him at such speed that a collision was unavoidable, although he bad ordered his ship ahead at full speed to avoiil the on-rushing how of the Merchants' and Miners steamer. Capt. Johnson's story of tho collision follows: He says: "At about 1:38 o'clock approximately, ship's time, a fog signal of ono blast of a whistle from a steamer was heard. It seemed to bo about three points 011 tho starboard bow. Tho Monroe at this time was heading N. E. one-four N\, compass course. Whereupon the engines of tho Monroe were immediately stopped and remained stopped for about a minute, when a bright light was observed, about four points on the starboard bow, but on 1 account of the fog it was impossible 1 to tell at what distance. "As soon as this light was observed two whistles were blown by the Monroo and her wheel was put hard ' astorboard, which was the best thing ' under the circumstances that could ! be done to avoid a collision, and the 1 engines were put full speed ahead. ' With the speed of the Nantucket, to avoid a collision, and the Nantucket < coining on with apparently undiminished speed, struck the Monroe on 1 her starboard side, at tho forward ' overall gangway, just forward of the < pilot house, tho collision taking place ' in less than a minute after the Nantucket's light was first observed. A large hole was torn in tho side of the Monroe, below tho water line. The collision took place approximately 1 thirty-two miles north of Cape : Charles lightship. "Tho Monroe immediately began to 1 (111, and seeing that she was in imminent danger of sinking, orders were < given to arouse all tho passengers ' and clear away the lifeboats. In the 1 meantime, the Nantucket had swung 1 around the stern of the Monroe, and f was lying off about a quarter of a 1 mile. The Monroe proceeded to fill 1 rapidly, and about four minutes after 1 Iho collision, was nearly on her beam ends. One of the lifeboats 011 the starboard side was smashed in the collision, and another was swamped 1 while being launched. The remaining lifeboats on the starboard side were got away as quickly as possible, it being impossible, an account, of the 1 heavy list to starboard, to launch the 1 port sido lifeboats. 1 "Not more than ten minutes after 1 (ho collision, the Monroe foundered 1 in about fifteen fathoms of water, go- i ing down in approximately the same f placo at which the collision occurred, i Many of the Monroe's crew and pas- ? sengers were saved in her own boats, 1 and others were picked up by boats i from tho Nantucket, which was standing by, and rendered all aid ] possiblo under tho conditions. Nine- ( teen passengers were lost and twenty- ] two of tho crew were lost. ( The Nantucket, which was In colli- < sion with tho Monroe, docked in Hal- 1 timoro Sunday. In a written state- t ment Captain Horry said that whU? 1 tho Nantucket was on her usual 1 courso, fog signals of a vessel, after- f ward found to bo the Monroe, were S reported ahead. Tho fog was low- 1 lying and at times clearer than at J others. Tho fog signals of tho Nan- 1 tucket were sounding at regular intervals. The fog signal of tho Monroo again was hoard, and this time on the Nantucket's port how. Tho ( next whistles heard from the Monroe ? were two blasts, which indicated that ( tho Monroo was trying to pass the l Nantucket starboard to starboard, contrary to the rule. I Capt. Berry said that in an en- * deavor to avoid a collision with tho * Monroe, tho Nantucket's helm was < put hard aport to keep to tho right, 1 but tho Monroo proceeded at full 1 speed and tried to cross tho bow of 1 tho Nantucket. Sho succeeded in get- * ting partly past tho Nantucket's stem 1 when tho vessels collided, tho Nan- * tucket's stem striking tho Monroe's starboard bow forward of tho pilot I house at right angles. 1 Tho Monroe passed under such ' great speed, according to Capt. Ber- i ry's report, that the stem of tho Nan- < tucket was bent sharply toward lior 1 starboard sido and tho Nantucket ' was bent sharply toward lior star- 1 5WAM TWO HOURS IN SEA VI AN SUPPORTS I1IS WIFE WHILE WAITING ON HELP. ? Connecticut Man Tolls of the Awful Moments Tliat Followed the Sinking of the Monroe. Survivors of the disaster to the steamship Monroe reached New York over tho Pennsylvania railroad from Norfolk. Among them was Thomas Harrington, of Bridgeport, Conn., accompanying the body of his wife, who died after being taken aboard tbo Nn ntucket. it was Harrington who swam in tho cold water supporting his wife by holding her hair in his teeth. "I am too weak to talk," ho said. "All that I know is that my wife is dead." Harrington's'father, Joseph, met him. ,..h ri t 1 fH ?? l n il niiiH uupiicilt'il, i uill, SUKl 1110 father. "We all want to know and ll will get It off your mind." Then In a dull monotone the young man told his story. He and his wife had a stateroom on the side where the Monroe was rammed. When the shock came, he said, "we got up and dressed and wasted time that might have saved the poor girl's life." By the time they reached the main ^ saloon the ship had keeled so that tho sido wall for their floor. "There was a lurch," said Harrington, "and Margaret was thrown twenty feet and lodged tinder tho bench built along tho sides. I slid and scrambled after her. When I took bold of her she screamed and pointed to her poor right arm. It was broken and hanging limp. 'Don't touch me,' she screamed. 'Let mo die.' I told her she would have to como and she would feel better about it later. Oh, God she was right and I didn't know it. But I got her loose. Then the ship sagged back again and there was a rush of water that washed us out to tho deck. I managed to get I on our outer clothes. Then we let go I and tho ship went away from under I Harrington told how ho tried to E9 swim holding his wife by the broken H irm, but this pained her so that finilly he twisted her long hair into a ^ rope close to her head, and, taking it in his teeth, floated on his back, keeping tho woman's head on his sliest. io, One lifeboat passed within 10 feet, J lie said, and ignored their calls for ? help. After nearly two hours anoth- 1<\ ar boat came. "I held Margaret up ( Lo them," continued Harrington, ? "and a sailor said: ? " 'Let her go. She is dead.' w " 'She is not dead,' I said to him; 1 and you take her aboard if you don't ( want to go to hell with murder on ? your soul.' \V "So they took her in. She opened c her eyes and smiled at me. ( "When they got me aboard the ship ? they put her in one state room and lb ieft her and put mo in another. I c believe that if a doctor had been ( with her right away with stimulants ?ho might ho alive now. Hut they my were all mixed up, and when T found where she was lying all alone she ( was dead." ___ ,o( police shoots max. t c Florence Barber Tries to I'se Axe on Approaching Ofliccr. ' | Thomas Skipper, said to bo from a Wilmington, N. C., and a barber by t trade, was shot and badly wounded ? >y Police Oilicer Edwin C. Harrell at W Florenco Tuesday afternoon and is f low in an infirmary for trentmnnt \ From what could bo gathered, it ii ieems that Skipper wan arrested late ? I- the afternoon by Oflicer Ilarrell Ai ind was being taken to the station c louse, lie had been cursing and ere- I iting a disturbance. t Soon after the start for tlio station ? iouso Skipper broke away from the officer and ran, going into the shop of c Brailey, where, it is alleged, ho se- $ 3ured an axo and when the officer t iamo up attempted to "do the need- ? ful." The oflicer, however, was on Sn :he alert and "banged" away at Skip- ( per, the ball striking him on the ( wrist, glancing nnd going into the } side, passing nearly through the hip. ? Skipper readily surrendered and was F< .aken to an infirmary, whero he was c ?iven surgical treatmont, the bullet c ocated and removed. .1 Tree Falls on Greenwood Lad. Sj Joo Hell, a fiften year old boy of 1 Ireenwood, was crushed to death by I 1 falling treo, which he and his fath- I ^r cut down Saturday. IT is chest was ? jadly mangled. 1,1 f loard side and the Nantucket slewed * 1 round so that her port sldo was ? icraped by the Monroo crashing 0110 ? >f the Nantucket's port boats. The Sl Monroe passed on out of sight. At * ho timo of tho collision the Nan- ^ ucket's engines woro running at full I *peed astern and had been running ? tor some timo previous to the colli- M don. ( "Tho Nantucket appeared seriously 1 njured, but was manoeuvred to aid < n tho work of rescue, continually * ising her searchlight. Wlroless com- ? nunicatlon was established and sev- YV 3ral vessels offered assistance, the 1 Irst to arrive being tho Hamilton, p which conveyed the Nantucket to 1 Sforfolk. c another moment in ph musical instruments in ; The price is easily \ mcnt is a perpetual joy i Come in and hear it jk do without one. ?||\ Other styles of tlie Victort;-% Victors $i0 to $100. Term : J \ WRITE 1 \ JLNFOHMd SIMS HOC - , () ran a con Victor-1 ' MAIL 0 No need to send to the bit you want. We have it here at er. You owe us a trial anyw rentiiro nnrl let tic lumro nn if ?1---- - - *5"'^ *-"? ,L selves out to execute mail c prompt attention. LORICK & LO1 HARD COLUMB CLASSIFIED COLUMN :>r Sale?Shetland Ponies. VV. 1 dclntyre, Tliomasville, Ga. [>r Sale?Poplar and pine trees. Ad Iress James A. Clarkson, Hopkins 5. C. anted to Huy?Ten Gar Loads wel' jerried Holly. Z. M. L. Jeffreys ioldsboro, N. C. anted?Glim logs. Will pay high;st market ]>rices. Choraw Pox :o., Choraw, S. C. [?ok, the great popular game. Fifty outs postpaid. Sims Pook Store, Orangeburg, S. C. c Pay Cash for all varieties of cow md Held peas. Palmetto Brokerage !o., Greenville, S. C. >r Sale?Fruit, Shade Ornamenta rees and shrubs. Catalogue free .ureion nurseries, Austeel, tin. 110 Farm?Forty acres, half-inilo rom depot, excellent soil. Price ml terms by owner, C. W. Waughel, Uptonvillo, Cla. liito Wyandot tea?Yearling stocV or sale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatch ng. W. P. Causey, 1315 Dlckene it., Columbia, S. C. uctionerr?If you need the services ?f an old auctioneer, wlro or write B. II. Darr, Sumter S. C. One of ho oldest in the State. eds?Large, healthy, bright rod, insulated. Heavy layers; 15 eggs, 11.50; 100, $G. Mrs. Addio E. Paterson, Pinelaiul, S. C. ivo $12(> on delivery -wagons, lluy lirect from factory. Any style. Catalogue. Rock 11 ill Buggy Co., lock I-Iill, S. C., (Dept. II.) >r Sale?Ono Flanders 2 0, two new ases, top, extra, seat. Car in exlellont. condition. Price reasennhlA f. P. Burbank, Union, S. C. leoial?Pur? white and Exhibition i'awn and White Runners, $.r>; trio Jtility, $t each or $10 doz. Mrs. J. ?\ Carroll, Hohennald, Tenn. ants of tlie Giant Himalaya Tlorrie or sale. Hundreds of delicious jerries from Juno until frost. 14J Jaluda Street, Chester, S. C. icc<l Nurseries will mail you catalrst class fruit trees, plants and dnes, shade trees, privet hedge and >ecan trees, etc. Morrow, Ga. en and Women earn $3 daily adlresslng letters in spare time. Send luc ior outnt and beginner. AdIresg Morgan, Box 5 5 6, Salisbury, C. orld'H Wonder Cotton?4 5 per cent. Int. Wilt resistant; thrives on any toil; heavy fruiter. Seed, $1 per jushel. Address J. J. Owens, Allenlaio, S. C. ^25^ ^ for this genuine Victor-Victrola l| vhy you should hesitate \ icing this greatest of all your home. vithin reach. The instru?and you won't want to J Victrola $15 to jfpi ;oi j) N ^ctrdla I RDERS 1 * mail order houses for what the same price?if not cheap- |j ray. Send a list of what you . We have specially laid our>rdcrs and you may rely on j iVRANCE, INC., 8 WARE 1 HA, S. C. 1 i IVII11?11TTMITIW I IIIIIHIT"klHfllT ! Wanted?To repair or rebuild that typewriter. No matter what it'B condition, we can improve it. (iibbes Typewriter Shop, 14 10 Main St., Columbia, S. C. "Perfection" Potato Draws?(J. G. Padrlck's) %'2?$1,000; unexcelled; April delivery; book order now by depositing $1. Cabbage Plants, 1,000 $1.10. J. L. Pad rick, Tiftou, Ga. Lespedezza Seed and Hay (Japan Clover) for sale. Grown and sold at our farm. Write for Lespedezza circular, samples, prices. Himinelberger-1 Iarrison Lumber Co., Zachary, La. For Sale?A few choice oggs from all prize pen pullet bred Purred P. Hocks. Eggs perfectly fresh and fertile. $1 per fifteen. Mrs. D. C.ober Anderson, 100 Prawley St., Chester, S. C. For Sale?Eggs for hatching, from thoroughbred S. C. Brown Leghorns at $1 per setting of 15. Special prices on large lots. It. \V. Chaplin, Rantowles, S. C. Stock, Eggs, Baby Chicks, White .-cftuwi ua, nun ana White Rocks, Indian Runner Ducks. Satisfaction guaranteed. Summcrville Poultry Farm, S. Lord Ilyde, manager, Summcrville, S. C. For Sale?Good farms, all sizes, cotton, tobacco and truck successfully grown. Coming section of Horry county. Ten to twenty dollars por acre. Ask us for list. Ream & McKenzle, Loris, S. C. Rest Georgia Sane Syrup?Bright and thick. Direct from producer to consumer. Ten dollars per barrel of 34 gallons; $2.50 per case of GxlO cans; $2.7 5 per caso of 12x5 cans. F. O. B. Cairo, Ga. C .F. Walker, Cairo, Ga. Motorcycle Special Oil?Five gallons $3.7 5, once tried always used Goodyear tires, belts, chains, Ilarlej parts. Expert motor repairing. Everything for the motorcycle. Mail orders a specialty. Get our catalogue. T. S. 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