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4 VOLUME XXX. HlCViPiuo Tn mv li 17IL/VIUHftO IU ffll I PRICE OF BLOOD Two Sentenced to Die for Kill- ! ^ ing Americans Last Week CONFESS THE MURDER AND PAY THE PENALTY ! i f _ Cattle Thieves Admit Slaying* i of Akers and Must Face ' ( Firing Squad. i y ? ; \ El Paso, Jan. 22.?Bernardo and s M Frederico Dur?" Mexican cattle * P thieves, have confessed to killing Bert J Akers. an American T r?frtrk?rrk (1 ChiivUhua, just below the boundary 11 line and will be executed, according to an announcement bv Andreas Garcia, 1 \ Mexican consul. "The Durans confessed their crime * and w *e sentenced to death and a fir ' ing squad will execute the penalty,"! F If aid Garcia. Akers was shot and kill- c r l od by Mexicans near San Lorenzo, near Chicago, a few miles south of ^ the border whither he had gone with ^ Douglas Downs, another American, * and Juan Barrios, a Mexican detec- f tive, to recover stolen cattle. Downs 1 escaped. Aker's body was brought ^ here today. ' Gen. Gavira, commandant at Jua- ,J ^rez, has issued an order providing a ' further search of civilian homes for 1 arms and ammunition in order, he 11 said, to prevent any outbreak against Americans. Ten thousand weapons of ( various sorts already have been col- * lccted, it was said. ^ A United States provost guard * cue red fire upon Mexican soldiers * JUT.o, while rounding up horses, cross- () ed the international boundary near * here. The Mexicans fled. Earlier in|' the dav customs officials fired in the'^ i direction cf severaV Mexicans attempt: ing to smuggle rags from Juarez into'1 El Paso. The importation of rags into j k the United States had been forbidden , * by the health authorities, who fear * #thev may spread the typhus epidemic prevalent in parts of Mexico. o TWO GENT MILEAGE ENACTED BY HOUSE; 4 ? ; Columbia, Jan. 21.?The House has * passed the two-cent railroad mileage bill to a third reading, after having I refused to strike out the enacting * words on a yea and nay vote of 59 to ( 37. The bill introduced by Messrs. Moore and Graydon, of Abbeville ' county, was brought over from the J 1915 session. Mr. Belser moved to strike out the ^ enacting words. ( Mr. Graydon, one of the two auth- ^ oi*3 of the bill, recounted briefly the 1 history of attempted legislation on the two-cent mileage bill. The Abbe- * ville representative pointed out that ^ ^mileage books are now sold at the * rate of two-cent a mile, which rate if generally adopted, would tend to in- 1 crease the number of people travel- j ? ing and so compensate the railroads ( for the reduced fare. He said that! the postage charge for letters had j1 been reduced from three to two cents, and that no evil results to postal re-i ceipts had ensued. He maintained i ^that if he thought the railroads would be injured by the enactment of the bill he would not advocate it. Mr. Rush, opposing the measure said that about three-fourth of t.hns? ?mv-. eling in this State do so on mileage tickets at two cents a mile. He pointed out that those who do not buy s ^r.iloage books do not travel on rail- < roads to any extent. Mr. Moore spoke 1 in favor of the bill. 1 o 1 Secretary Lansing has announced ! that the Berlin foreign office had In- 1 formed Ambassador Gerard that all 1 German submarines in the Mediterranean have reported, and that none ^ was concerned in the destruction of J the British liner Persia. 1 Whit "W CO DEMONSTRATION ACTS.' ARE TAXING COURSE Interesting Letter About Their Work at Winthrop College in January. Winthrop College, Jan. 10.?During he month of January the Home Denontsartion Agents of South Caroina, about o0 in number are at Winhrop College taking a course in Tome Economics, including lessons n: Home Nursing, Home Sanitation, lome Conveniences, Bread Making, banning, Preserving, Jelly Making, Agriculture, Dairying, etc. Besides he regular class room work the igents are spending time on dcmontrating, making the various products hey will teach their people during the 'ear. Special attention has been givn to the making of Peanut Butter in iddition to the usual work. Mrs. Calvin, Head of Home Econonics Dept. Bureau of Education, Washington, spent last week with hem, giving valuable lessons in Donestic Scie ice, teaching the princi>les that ' rlie cooking. She gave xcellent istrations in making iquid ye J all kinds of bread, drs. Waller, assistant State agent is riving a course in canning and Miss luffington, assistant State agent in general cooking. Valuable lectures " n agriculture are given by Prof. 7 Veeks of Winthrop College. Many E lousehold problems have been taken ip, such as Home water-works, soap naking, preserving of meats, proper are of body, etc. The County agents ire put on to discuss these. Among the speakers and visitors luring the meeting arc Mrs. Calvin, flead of Home Economics. Dept., Mr. ). B. Martin, in charge of Demonstraion Work, Mr. H. H. Mclam, Dept. of )airying, Dr. W. N. Straughn, Dept. ?f Chemistry, all of Washington. Miss Uice Hickman, Assistant State Agent Louisiana, Mr. Hoffman, Marketing . Vgent S. C., Mr. W. W. Long, Mr. 11 Hll and Mr. Purvis of Bureau of Edication and others. Manv of the " f State workers and the Winthrop eachers have given valuable and in- * cresting lectures. Your3 very truly, ANNIE M. DERHAM, 1 Home Dem. Agent, Horry Co. s o SIMPSON CREEK SCHOOL Our school is progressing nicely. ^ Wo have organized a Literary Soiety which meets every Friday afterloon. It is in two sections; the third . ind fourth grades comprising one secion and the sixth and seventh grades he others. Each section is on duty very other Friday. The following ' mpils received Library Diplomas for looks read during the month of I)e ember: r Joe Carter, Lucile Co::, Everett Cox, j ,acy Harrclson, Maggie Carter, Joyce ^ Tyler, Claud Cox, Rollie Sessions. We were very glad to have the fol- . owing visitors a few days ago: Meslames G. W. Gore, J. G. Gore, B. P., leaves, Miss Zettie Cox, and Mr. J.1 W. Carter. vf at: : ? in* < l missus miiuiuie ami maggie i;arter ,wo of our pupils, spent last week-end vith relatives in Brunswick County, *.c. , We arc planning to have our school cpresented at the School Fair next Spring and hope to have a real good exhibit. There will hp a Pie Supper at Simp- } son Creek School House on Friday ' light, February 4, 191 C>. . The proceeds will be used towards ^ getting up our exhibit. j Tho public is cordially invited. Joyce Tyler, Retlia Carter, ( Horry Gore. ^ ?O | Six Believed Killed. . Seattle, Wash., Jan. 22.?Six per- j ions are believed to have been killed ? 4 ;i rwl 1 i?^ ilirA/l oovlif +#>yln .. ? I ?iim xu iiijuk;ii vui iy n?ia(V w IIUI1 LlllJ i west-bound Great Northern Cascade < limited train was tsruck by an ava- ] lanche near Corea station, on the west \: 3lope of the Cascade mountains, and ;. two cars carried down the mountains < side. 5 o j You cannot afford to miss reading 1 as fine a story as the Diamon \ from < the Sky now running in this paper. |< Wwxt OURY COUNTY AND HER PEOPL ?NWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, Ji STILL ROOR jT 7 jf jmA h&JM 5RITISH PAPER DEFENDS WILSON Lnd Says Attitude of English Fress Toward United States is Wrong. London, Jan. 21.?The Daily Chron cle devotes the most prominent posi ion on its educational page today to i Icfense of President Wilson and his oreign policy. The Chronicle declarer hat Mr. Wilson occupies a position oi xceptional difficulty, adding that "i. he British press and public took i ittle more trouble to understand him md were more conscious of the ab lurdity of lecturing a great republi< ?n what its President ought to do i vould be much to the advantage o he Anglo-American future." Discussing the English attitude to vards the United States the Chron cle says: "There is a section of the Britisl )ress that is not treating the Unite< states strictly as a neutral power They have treated the United State: is if they were one of the family. "A recent number of an Americar nagazine contains a symposium giv ng the reasons of English writer: vhy America should come into th< var. This is a piece of gratuitous m pertinence." "The editorial also says: "It is understood that the Presiden )f the United States is now preparing t remonstrance to the Central Power: igainst their inhumane submarim )olicy. "In the future the United State: las further accounts to settle in re ;ards to the atrocities for which am )lc apology or other reparation, ha: iot been given. In the meantime th< "lerman-Amcvicans employ ever; cind of under hand device in the hop: >f creating prejudice against Grea Britain and causing, if possible, frir ion and mis-understanding he twee: as and the United States. "While it is notorious that Amor: :an public opinion is overwhelming!} jn the side of the Allies there is a sec Lion of the British press that is no creating the United States strictly a \ neutral power. The attitude of ou areas on the whole has been consider ite and correct towards the smalle icutrals, such as Holland and tin Scandinavian countries, and also b Italy before that country became ai illy; the same cannot be said of it ittitude toward the United States Dur government, as dispatches am speeches by ministers show, ha 3hown all due consideration to the in terest and susceptibilities of the Unit ?d States consistent with maintaininj sur rights as a belligerent and reap 1! pe E, FIRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVEF UNUARY 27, 1916. IT FOR MORE. ZX-. ^ 1 ?Donahay in Cleveianu nain Dealer. "REVOLUTION BREWS ! IN GREEK KINGDOM i Former Premier Venezelos Said To be Inciting Revolt in Favor of Allies. London.?Alarming reports concern in? conditions in Greece were receivi ed here from various sources. Dis; patches of German origin hint at a 5 possible revolution, hacked by the alf lies and led by former Premier Venif zelos. 1 M Vi vf iul In w ic? f Kn |i\ivm>1???^/*/1 ? I i ?A IU if 10 \,\j ^lULiailUUU III , Greece "in order to put an end to - dangerous rumors/* according to a : Daily Dispatch from Athens which t says government officials, in admitting f that martial law is soon to come, take pains to deny reports of internal - troubles. -o FOR BELGIUM'S SAKE 1 1 Germans Now Suggest Separate Peace. J London, Jan. 22.?An Amsterdam 1, dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph ' -1 company states that the Frankfurter SiZeitung, discussing the possibility of - a separate peace betv/een Germany 3 and Belgium, says that as long as Belgium has not signed the London agreement regarding the making of a t separate peace she is free to do as her ? interests command. The newspaper > is quoted as adding that Belgium un5 til now has been considered by the German chancellor as an object of ex * change and that sensible Belgians - ought to bo told not to wait too long - or Belgium will be considered as a s good prize. r ing the fruits of our predominance in c | sea power, but many of our newspapt eis have not followed its example. - They have not only been severely criti ical of President Wilson and his policy ' but have treated the United States as - if they were of the family. V "Some of our writers even go to the - length of telling him what he ought 1 1 t do. Wc notice that a popular Amcrls can magazine contains a symposium r giving the reasons of Kng'ishwliters - why America should come into the r war. This is a piece of gratuitous e impertinence. I d "We may be sure that the enemy n will take advantage of every indiscres tion which we may commit and of cvi. cry tactless move we make in order [1 that they may strengthen their poiss cnous propaganda among the Ameri can public." o ? D. K. McDuffie of Loris spent some - time in Conway oce day last Hreek. Vitltl. DIFFERENT STORIES I TOLD ABOUT TROUBLE Burr Reaves of Simpson Creek Township Had Throat Cut. About a fortnight ago Burr Reaves about 25 years of age, a son of Mr. John H. Reaves of Simpson Creek township, went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Barker and so frightened them that they went after help. It was at night, it is stated, and ho was unable to speak as he wegt on the porch and his actions in trying to ge t into the house caused Mr. and Mrs. Barker to become frightened and thought that some person was trying] to break into the house. Whon found he was unconscious or about so and his throat was cut from ear to ear. It was stated that Mr. Reaves had a love affair over which he brooded and went insane for the time being and attempted to destroy himself. Rut the injured man claims this is not so and that some person cut his throat. Going into the woods where it was supposed to have happeneu, parties iound the razor cover cd in blood which would seem to bear out the suicide theory. At last ac-! counts the injured man was still alive but hope of his recovery had been given up. He was formerly employed in Wilmington, N. C. GEN. WOOD DECLARES OCEAN NO BARRIER Washington.?Maj. General Leon-1 ard Wood told the senate military! committee that the coast line of the United States was open to attack by j any well organized foreign army de-j spite its equipment of forts, mines i and submarines, and that the oceans formed no serious barriers to invasion. He declared that in the country'i present state of utter unproparedness for war, a trained force of 150,000 men could inflict incalcuable damage before an army could be assembled to meet it. Events of the European war clearly demonstrated, the general said, that the sea was the best medium for the movement of troops and he pointed out that a force of 126,000 men, fully equipped had been landed at Gallipoli from a single expedition of 08 ships against submarines and an underwat- j er screen of barbed wire that fringed] every available landing place. Emphasizing his conviction that troops j can not be imnrovisod In nmof vnon-l J w lars, (ion. Wood declared the funda-1 mental basis of any policy of atle-1 quate national defense must be tbC| principle that with suffrage goes an i obligation for military service. Such a policy had been advocated by! George Washington, he said, and iif' it had been adopted Canada would have] become part of the United States in j the war of 1812. j Was lleady Then. "Only once in our history have we' boon prepared for war," he added, i "That was immediately after the Civil | war, when we had 1,500,000 trained! soldiers. Our diplomatic correspond-j oneo with France concerning Mexico j was very brief. It required only onej note because of our preparedness. They were tohl to get out and they got out. "There not going to he any weak ncss abroad after this war is over. You will find that more male citizens will have been born than have been killed or injured. You will have all the gold, perhaps, but it will not doi I much good unless you stiffen it with | iron." o University of Virginia Will Support] A Missionary. rpu _ a i 1-- - f ji rr ^ i iic siuueiu uuuy ui mo university of Virginia has pledged one thousand dollars a year for three years, for the support of Mr. W. W. I> rock man as a missionary of this board in China. Mr. Brockman, who is now the general secretary of the University Young Men's Christian Association, has been accepted by the Southern Methodist Board and will sail on | March 25th. ] NO. 41 F. & 1 BANK NOW IN RECEIVERS HANDS Following Visit of State Bank t Examiner Here early Last Week TO BE LIQUIDATED UNDER STATE LAW Assets Will be Administered ancl Distributed as Soon as Possible. i Recently a notice appeared in tMs paper to the effect that the Farmers & Merchants Bank would liquidate and pay its depositors and stockholders, and that it would remain open ; until a meeting- of its stockholders in ! February. At that time arrangements ! had been made to meet any run that might be made on the deposits in the bank, and the directors were felt certain that it would not be necessary to i close the institution. I The plans for financing the Iiqui' dation of the bank's affairs fell in j unexpectedly and the hank examiner was sent for to look into the situation. After going over the situation with the directors of the bank it was decided that the best course to take i was to lot the bank, examiner apply ! under the statutes of this state for a ictvivcr iu ue appoiiueu oy tne order of court. The hearing before the judge was sot for one day the first of this week at which time the application was no doubt granted for a receiver and the amount of his bond fixed. It is stated that there is no danger but what all depositors will be paid their money in due time and the stock holders will lose very little if anything at all. LITTLE ROIL NEWS GETTING THROUGH Newspaper dispatches from Vienna by way of Switzerland and Paris report the renewal of active operations by the Austrians against the Montenegrins. One Austrian army is deI'l'l Vrt/I K/-V nuii./iUI.... ' ? ' I VI?1 t<\l VW' UV 1IIUI V 1111]'^ (.Vll/llg U1C UI'I* atic towards Antivari, the seaport of Scutari, Albania, while detachments of the Austrian forces are said to be within 15 miles of Scutari itself. Recent dispatches have stated that the I seat of the Montenegrin government had been established at Scutari. The declaration in a Vienna dispatch denying reports that the peace negotiations between Austria and Montenegro had been broken off may I be explained by the fact that the dispatch was a belated one. All the advices from the Montenegrin side continue to indicate t.o the contrary. A Paris message reiterates the declaration that Montenegro has decided to fight to the end; the announcement coming from the Montenegrin consul. Little further light has been thrown on the situation in Greece, where theentente powers were said in recent German reports to be applying further coercive measures. A Vienna estimate of the captures by the Teutonic allies during 17 months of the war puts the number of prisoners as nearly h,000,000 with 10,000 guns and 40,000 machine guns, while 470,000 square kilometers of hostile territory have been occupied. MAY COMK SOI TH Considers Including This Section in His Speaking Itinerary. Washington, Jan. 21.?President Wilson may speak in the South during the latter part of February while on his second tour in behalf of preparedness. lie probably will go as far west as Denver and may return through the South, making several stops. The first tour will begin this month The President's first speech will be in I Pittsburg January 29. The itinerary | will include Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Dea ^ Moines and Davenport.