Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VOLUME XXXIV. COLONIZATION BY CCDUIU? Dl tuucn uuimniitf i Lnmii-u Land in Mexico Is Objective, ^ According to Preparations Started 200,000 HECTARES WILL BE IRRIGATED t , Corporation Is Floated by Mexican Capitalist, Jose Makany. Mexicoi^City.?Concrete evidence of German colonization plans for Mexico was revealed here with the announcement of :in ont.prnri.?u? for tV?o i rricrn tion of 200?000 hectares of land in the Fuerte river valley in the state of Sinaloa, where thousands of German emigrants are expected to buy small parcels of land on a twenty year pay ment plan. The corporation is being floated by Jose Makany, a Mexico City capitalist, with the support of General Ramon Aturbe, gofernor of Sinaloa. it is proposed to construct a dam at Saint Bias, securing from the govern ment a concession for the use of enough water from the Fuerte river for the proposed colony. The land is declared to be extremely fertile and the plans being backed by German |>ankers here. Few Months Ayo. Until a few months ago the water concessions for the Fuerte Valley was afield by the United States Companies t>f i/os Mochis, Sinaloa, headed by Benjamin F. Johnson, of Chicayo, ,111. The concession of the sugar 'Companies granted twenty years ago was for the use of 7ft tier eent. of the river's flow but it is declared to have been decreased cubic metres per pound. Promoters of the present irrigation project declare the old concession was reduced because of the opposition of many land holders along the Fucrte river to the companies' controlling 75 pei* cent of the water while only owning five per cent, of the land 5n that rgion which could be irrigated. o SUPPLIES ARE SHORT. There is one very apparent cause of the high prices of supplies, and that is a shortage of many things which before this were always plentiful. Mfi^ny articles which were easy to obtain In years gone by, are now getting hard to locate as a source of supply.# o? Col. J. M. Johnson, of Marion, S. C., spent several days in Conway last week, in attendance upon the court as a witness in the case of Holliday against Jordan. GEORGE D. RHEUARK , HAS PASSED AWAY George D. Rheuark died last Sunday night at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Oliver, in Conway, at an advanced age, and after an ill*lc3S of several weeks. His death wasJS^nexpected tor tne reason tnai Uie had greatly improved from his iIllness of some time ago. The interment took place on last Tuesday afternoon at Union Methodist churcl near the family home in Bucks town ship* He was predeceased by his wife anc one so**; Wm. D. Kheaurk, a shori >p&jme ago. He is sui-vived by severa nons, Arthur Rheuark of Georgia, Hai ry Rheuark, Albert Rheuark of Cus. setta, Ga., and George F. Rheuark o Allen, S. C., and his daughters, Mrs Willie Goldfinch of Conway, Mrs Fra \k Oliver of Conway, Mrs. Georg< Price^vf Galivants Ferry, and Misi Mat'* Rheuark, now of Georgia. Tk (^deceased was a man of quie . - 1 i l 1. _ and unassuming manners, hk<mi u< all v-ho knew him; he was a good cit izen, a kind neighbor and friend. ? r : (the * HOLUDAY-JORDAN THREE DAY CASE Resulting in a Verdict for The Plaintiff for Land in Dispute and Also Damages. The last case tried last week in the Court of Common Pleas was that of Flora J. Holliday vs. S. Agnes Jordan. This was the second time this case had been tried here in Conway. The first time was in 1917, when the plaintiff won a verdict and the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court granted a new trial on error of law and the second trial took place here last week, beginning the first thing on Thursday morning and ending after dark on Saturday night; with a verdict for the plaintiff for all of the land in dispute and the sum of ten dollars damages. Besides the Jordan ca-se the court did not dispose of but four of the long list of cases placed on the roster of the court and published the week before court. Most of the cases docketed here are still on the dockets untried. TOTHEUDiB OF CONWAY There will be a regular meeting of the Civic League Wednesday afternoon, November 5th at four o'clock at the Methodist Hut. ?Mrs. M. G. Andersen, Recording Secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus G. Melson, of Horncll, N. Y.f arrived in Conway the first of last week and spent the greater part of the week of court. Mr. Melson was interested in a damage suit for cutting timber against the Conway Lumber Co. PEOPLE ARE PUZZLED ABOUTTHIS SCHOOL To the Editor of Herald: We, the people of this community, are some what puzzled to know what to do with the proposition which is now put up to us to buy the Horry Industrial School or have it brought to our community. We want the school if it is possible to got it or at least we want a good school established here; and we are willing to pay the price that some of the managers of the Horry Industrial School set for bringing it here. We had understood, however, that the people in the community about Horry had contributed largely of their means tc cause the school to be located there when it was first established. And did the Horry Industrial School not gc into the hands of the receivers and the people of Horry have to come in with their money again to keep it going? Is the Horry Industrial School now not run largely by public funds? Did the people not have tc vote on several mills of special taxei to keep it going? We do not knov the condition that exists there but w< , do not feel like taking the school fron t Horry if the people there have pair for it. We should like to know wheti er the people at Horry paid for th< school or not, and if the people o ; Horry have paid for the school, wil . the contributors who were large! \ . responsible for the school heintr es . tablishcd there be reimbursed if it i i moved or will it be a dead loss to then - ?a mere blighted hope? If the schoo is to be moved contrary to thei 1 wishes and over their protest wha t assurance have we that it would no 1 also move away from us wiiun w [ have spent our money, and go t - places where the people are stil f flush, Was the Horry Industria . School established for the improve . ment of local conditions and the bet 2 torment of boys and girls or was i s established to he a rolling macliin for the collection of money and to sol t itself a-s it goes. v Respectfully, ?H. M. Reynolds. Calivants Ferry, S. C., Oct. 28, 1919. P<rr* OONWAY, S 6 , THURSDAY SERIOUS STRAIN ON MEXICAN RELATIONS Washington.?A further and serious strain has been put upon the relations between this country and Mexico by the kidnapping and holding for ransom of William O. Jenkins, United States consular agent, officials admitted. The incident is regarded as especially flagrant because of the size of the ransom?$150,000?the bandits who kidnapped Jenkins are demanding and because the kidnapped man is an official of the United States government. There were developments in the case today. Assistant Secretary of State Phillips announced that a- sharp note had been forwarded to the Carranza government that the United States. expects it to take effective I steps to secure Jenkins' release even to paying the ransom demanded. Qnrx o f iu*tv/i iiA^yuio, mv/ii vcvua, liuiuiiuv cl a resolution declaring it the sense of the senate that the armed forces should be used to bring back Jenkins alive or his abductors dead. The dispatch of the state department's note to Mexico recalled the sending- of another note several months ago warning that strong action might be taken by this country it Carranza showed any unwillingness or inability to protect Americans. At that time, it was said, that the first step in carrying out this threat would be withdrawal of American support from Carranza. ONE MAN EFFECTED | JENKINS'RELEASE Mexico City, Oct. 28.?The release J of William O. Jenkins, United States consular agent at Puebla, who was held captive by Mexican bandits in! the mountains south of that city, and who returned to Puebla yesterday, was effected by one lone man, Senor Mestre, the personal attorney of Mr. Jenkins, according to advices received here. j At the beginning of the negotiations for the ransom of Mr. Jenkins, Fedcrico Cordova, leader of the bandits, stipulated that any effort on the part of the consular agent's friends to appear in force at the bandit rendezvous would result in the death of Mr. Jenkins. Senor Mestre, therefore, met Cordova at Hacienda Chavarra, which is situated about two hours ran by anitomobile south of Puebla. He was then conducted to a room where he found Mr. Jenkins lying on a bed. After a short parley the ransom money, $300,000 Mexican, was counted out and a receipt was signed by Cordova. I T i.1 1 1 1 Mr. jenKins was men released ana, an the arm of Senor Mestre, left the 1 house, being accompanied for some distance by Cordova's men who acted ' as a goard. The two men finally ' reached another hacienda and were ' conveyed to Puebla by automobile. i NO CROP ESTIMATE IN COTTON REPORT j Washington.?The department of i agriculture has announced that in the \ cotton report to be issued October 31, 1 it will estimate the condition but will 1 not estimate the yield per acre nor 2 forecast the total production. Repf resentative Byrnes of South Carolina. 1 author of the resolution ordering the , publication of this supplemental re r.ort. stated that he has been urcrinir I w the department to include in the roi port an estimate of the yield per acre I and the total production, so that it r will be similar to reports of other t months. He says that the departt ment officials claim that it is impose siblc tc comply with tbi* vonnost. beo cause their estimates are based cn II the average condition of previous >1 years on the same date and as no rei ports have been issued in previous - years for cotton during October that t they have no basis for their estimate, e The department states that prior to 11 1915 the reports included only an estimate of condition and the trade will have to make its own estimate of total production just as it' did prior to 1915. ? f* OCTOBER 30, 1919. FRENCH DEMAND FOR MUCH COTTON Atlantic City, N. J.?French cotton requirements for the next year will total 1,000,000 tons, of which 700,000 or 800,000 tons must come from the American crop, American textile men were told by Arthur Waddington, of the French delegation to the International Trade conference here. He pointed out that the reconstruction of French factories and the reconstruction of her machinery, all of which is provided for by the government, and is to be paid from the German indemnities, will enable her mills to resume 100 per cent, prewar production in 1920. John Lawrence, of Boston, speaking for the American committee, explained that rainy weather and labor conditions in the South would be responsible for a production below the world's requirements. Italian importers told American food delegates that Italy's present wheat crop is 509,000 tons less than last year, when she imported 3,000,000 tons of cereal. America, they said should furnish f M'A-f In l*/lo rvT T f nl !?'.? 1 * " ? - * i.ii v-viuiti? vi iu?tv n tfi iHii luvjuirt'ments and she could obtain the remainder from, Argentina. Other Italian food requirements were frozen and canned meats which the* Americans said they could furnish, 40,000 tons of sugar, edible oils and dairy products. Creation of a permanent international organization of business men whose membership shall be limited to countries represented in the league of nations was unanimously voted by 350 delegates, representing 46 subcommittees of the conference. This plan will be put before the general conference of 2,000 delegates probably on Friday and its acceptance by that body was considered by the leaders of all allied missions as a foregone conclusion. | o NOTICE TO BAPTISTS OF WACCAMAW ASSOCIATION The Executive Committee of the W.ipcnmnwr A c vi n f i r> will linl/1 ito (Annual Meeting in the Pastor's Study at Conway Baptist church next Monday at 11 a. m., November 3rd. All who have business to bring before this body should either be present or present their matters to the Secretary, D. L. Hill, by the date mentioned. ?D. L. Hill, Sec'y. MUCH TIME LOST I IN CONFERENCE I I i Industrial Meeting Wipes Slate Clean and Back at Beginning. Washington.?After a day of uncertainty, during which President Wilson sent to Secretary Lane, chairman, a message of conciliation to be used as a "last resort," the national industrial conference cleaned its state by rejecting all collective bargaining resolutions as well m the 11bor proposal for intervention in the steel strike. The public group aligned with capital on the vote against both the original collective bargaining and steel strike resolution although the declaration on collective bargaining was proposed by the public delegates. Prior to the vote on the original declaration, the employers subsbtitute and two new amendments by Thomas L. Chadboume, chairman of the conference's central committee, met defeat. Only the employers favorer , the substitute and labor and capita 1 united in their opposition to th< amendments. When the conference reconvenes, il will be in practically the same posi tion as at the opening on October G In adjourning the session Secretary Lane declared that the conference I "had produced nothing" and advisee lit to take a new start by adjourn in 1 j for several days while a coordinating committee of not more than si? 1 members framed a program of ac ' lion. raid. GALLS ON WORKERS TO RESCIND ORDER Chief Executive Issues Statement With Support of Entire Cabinet. t "Washington, Oct. 25.?Holding the [impending coal strike to be not only unjustifiable but also unlawful. President Wilson in a statement issued tonight, with the support of his en- j tire cabinet, called on the coal miners' ol the nation, both union officers and! members to vosrirwl H-?o ?>?!?" I effective November 1. The president declined to enter into the merits of the controversy between the miners and operators, but J emphatically declared that the strike which he characterized as the most far reaching1 proposal in the nation's history to restrict production and distribution of all necessaries of life, had apparently been ordered without a vote of the individual miners concerned. For this reason, the president seiwed definite notice "that the law will be enforced and the means will be found to protect the interests of the nation in any emergency that may arise out of this unhappy business." The president's statement was issued tonight! after his cabinet had gone over the situation with Secre-1 tary Wilson of the labor department, whose efforts to bring miners and operators together in negotiation^ had failed. The cabinet, with only Secretary Lansing detained at his home by illness, missing, met first in the morning and again tonight. Rear Admiral Urayson, the president's per sonal physician, was summoned to the evening session. Apparently he agreed to the submission of the matter to his patient, for soon afterward the cabinet meeting broke up and the president's statement was issued. U s ^ iMrs. Frances E. Moulton, and her daughter, Miss Moulton, were here last week from Roxbury,* Mass. Mrs. Moulton is the plaintiff in a suit brought against Conway Lumber Com pany, and others for cutting timber on her share of the Melson estate lands after the alleged expiration of the time limit in a timber deed. VON BERNSTORFF ON WITNESS STAND Berlin.?The committee which is to investigate the responsibility of various German officials for bringing on the war held its first session with Count Johann von Bemstorff, former German ambassador to the United States as the principal witness. Von Bemstorff related for the benefit of the committee details of all I the good offices of President Wilson > to end the war, giving the dates. One date mentioned was August, 1914. and another September of the same year, to which Von Bcmstorff said the entente apparently did not reply. I The former ambassador said President Wilson held the opinion that the United States was the only power possessing sufficient influence to bring about a termination of the war. He referred to an important memorandum written personally by Emperor William October 9, 191 f>, which ! at first it was intended to hand to James W. Gerard, the American ambassador in Berlin, but which finally was telegraphed to von Bernstorff 1 for transmission to Col. E. M. House, i President Wilson's confidential ad visor. | In this memorandum, von BernI storff said the government asked I | President Wilson to expedite his peace proposals in view of the fa' t that the methods of warfare were bct coming increasingly severe in form. Von Bernstorff expressed the be. lief that the Gorman government <lid ' not desire President Wilson to inter) fere in territorial problems, but wish 1 ed him to favor the idea of a cenferi once of all the states of the world foi ? the discussion of the problems of n i league of nations, the freedom of the - sens, international courts of arbitrations and the like. WO. 28. MFISfiM ESTATE PACE kimwii lu i n i l umulr ENDS BY VERDICTS Directed By the Court Against Contention of Mrs. Elizabeth Melson MELSON HEIRS WILL TAKE AN APPEAL Several Lawyers State That in Their Opinion Supreme Court Will Reverse Decision. The case of Melson vs. Conway T nmLni' ?u:_\. " viimivi wn^aiiv, >viucii ca-iiie up ior trial in the Court of Common Pleas here last week, created some interest among: thee people because it involves the construction of a time clause in timber deed made by Byron B. Moulton on the Melson estate lands to Will A. Freeman in 1906. Besides the case of Elizabeth Melson against the Conway Lumber Company alleging the cutting of timber anl trespassing on the land upon, the theory that the time limit in the timber deed had expired there was also two other cases brought by the heirs at law of the late W. P. Melson to wit: Mrs. Frances E. Moulton anil [Mrs. Katie G. Rollinson. These cases have been pending jupon the dockets here for five or six years, several things having been responsible for the delay. Col. D. A. Spivey bought the share of one of the heirs of Melson and enjoined the Conway Liumber Company some years ago from cutting the timber before they got to the land. Mr. Spivey won his case in the Supreme Court and, although, it had been agreed by the attorneys for the Conway Lumber Company that these present cases would be governed by the decision in the Spivey case yet they have shown a disposition to depart from their understanding with the attorney for the Melson heirs and have insisted upon fighting the cage through as if the Spivey case had never been tried. These cases came up in the Court on Wednesday of last week and after the trial had gone on the entire day the Court construed the tihiber deed against the contention of the heirs and directed a verdict in favor of the defendants in alt three of the cases. Many questionsof law came up in the cases and a great many of thc.se questions the Judge decided against the heirs and in favor of the Conway Lumber Company; but distinguished lawyers who heard the case tried say that there is | no doubt in their opinion but what i the Supreme Court will reverse the decision of Judge Mauldin and send all three cases back to be tried in the ! Court here. I The heirs of Melson will appear the | cases to the Supreme Court of South j vjaronna. ONE OF LARGEST BUILDING AT LORIS One. of the largest stores in the County is being erected at I,oris by John P. Cooper of Mull ins, the pur' pose being to secure ample quarters j for the Loris Grocery Company, founded by Mr. Cooper and his associates, and which is having a constantly growing volume of business. The store is being erected on some valuable property on the Main Street of the town which Mr. Cooper recently purchased from the J. C. Bryant Company. In years gone by The J. C. Bryant Company had a large wooden ! store on the lot and in it transacted a large mercantile business for a long number of years. j Reports from Loris of recent date [show that groat quantities of cotton has boon sold there lately at satisfactory prices; but some of the farmers ! are still holding their cotton for a | better price.