The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 16, 1902, Image 4
WE?HESDAY, /ULY 16?, 1902.
The Sumter Watchman was ?ouodec
is ISSO ?od the True Southron ia 1866.
The Watchman and Southron bow has
tee combined circulation and in?uence
of bota of tbe c?ld papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium io
Samicr.
W, S. Graham, Chief of the
Suinter Fire Itepaitment, has replied
in the most effective manner to the
slanderous charges o? the. Camden
pernea- and the Wateree Messenger,
submits ^signed statements from
whose veracity cannot be ques
in direct and explicit con
.diction of the charges made by the
d (^niden firemen and to
statements he adds the signed
statements of She Captains of-all the
r hose wagons teams that the
rnament ?ras fairly and impartially
ducted and that they have no
complaint to make. Mr. Graham's
statement should convince any fair-'
minded man that the charges of cheat
ing made in the Wateree Messenger are
untrue and without the 4east' founda
tion or excuse, and should end the
controversy.
Col \ Elliott who has worked so
< tizizgly and accomplished so much for J
Charleston since he has been in Con
gress, was given an ovation in that
tafy la??i night. Charleston owes Col.
Elliott a great deal and it is gratify
ing to observe this indication that
Charleston people realize that debt
and. have a feeling ?f gratitude.
Gratitude' is a rare thing in politics
and is a virtue to be commendod
when displayed.
Tie. 13oer war is over, Lord Kitchen
er has returned to London and the ]
war office soldiers are in a state of
miisd m a??icip?tion of the inevitable
exposure of their mismanagement of:
the war. It is openly asserted that! an :
ia^?st?ija^ce^ optile/ English war o&ce
will briag to light greater aboses and
scandals than existed in our war de
partment during the Spanish war.
Evans and L?t?mer made a pretense
of wanting to'^?ht. on the stand at
St. (^rgee the other day; where it.
was pract?c??jr certain that they
would be separated by bystanders.
?fter the meeting Latimer went to
Evans* room to see him, but Evans
refased to talk to his. adversary and
left the hotel. For a man who is eter
nally boasting that he is game and
characterizes his opponents a *1 feath
er-legs, ?> this conduct appears pecu
liar. It looks like John Gary "hack
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' John Gary Evans faced a hostile au
dience in Charleston last night and
had to undergo the ordeal of an at
tempt to howl him down. But for the
eSort of Chairman Thayer and the
Other candidates he- would not have
been allowed to speak and as it was
his speech was made under difficulties.
Chickens are coming home to roost,
and the howling down process, of
which Evans was a beneficiary ten
years ago and of which he then evi
dently approved, he now regards as an
outrage.
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Capt, D. C. 3eyward js certainly
the leading candidate for Governor, if
the reception he is meeting with at
the campaign meetings is an index of
^popular sentiment The reports thus
far show that'he is the most popular
candidate in a majority of the counties
the campaign party has vis
ited and in the remaining
counties with perhaps three ex
ceptions, he is regarded as second
choice of the crowd. His vote will be
large in every county in the State and
with the big majorities quite a num
ber of counties will give him he is
sure, from the outlook now, to be in
the second primary.
The press reports to the effect that
the Boers dissatisfied with i;he terms
imposed by tbe British may renew
active warfare, are scarcely to be
credited. There is doubtless much
bitterness toward the British among
the conquered Boers, and that there
will be ill will and friction for years
no one can doubt, but it is entirely
improbable that the Boers will under
take to renew tbe war.
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Cotton mill building goes on stead
ily in the up country while nothing is
being done in that direction in the
lower part of the State. The Pied
mont eection already manufactures
a' great deal more cotton than it pro
duces and it is strange that the capital
ists of that section find it profitable to
lild mills while in the lower and
_?>tern counties where the supply of
>t$on is greatly in excess of the local
demand, cotton mill building has
come to a stand still.
The Senatorial campaign meeting in
Orangefenrg Thursday was the most
largely attended and the most lively
yet lield. \Latimer and Evans had a
hot tilt ank all of the candidates threw
more vim Vigor and bitterness into
'their speeches than heretofore. It is
expected tbott before the campaign
closes considerable bitterness will
develop between Evans and Latimer,
Hemphill and Latimer and Johnstone,
Latimer and Hemphill. As the candi
dates move toward the np country
they are expected to get warmer and
more personal in their remarks and
the political records that some of them
would prefer having the public forget
will be aired.
The Chicago speculators having
made a million out of the forced ad
vance in the price of corn, have with
drawn from the market and the price
dropped '15 cents a bushel yesterday.
1 President Schwab o? the Steel Trust
has made an affidavit that the property
of the trust has a. market value of
$1,400,000,000; and still the trnst mag
na^es ali not satisfied and are trying
to get control of more property.
WEEKLY CHOP Bl?LLET?M.
Columbia, July 15.?The tempera
ture for the week ending Monday,
July 14, averaged nearly normal,
with a weekly mean of .about 81 de
grees. The highest maximum was
108 degrees at Stalvey on the 6th,
the lowest minimum 66 degrees at
Liberty on the 12th. The sunshine
averaged nearly normal, with gener
ally cloudy weather prevailing during
the closing days of the week. De
structive high winds accompanied
thunder storms in Pickens, Newber
ry, Chester and Chesterfield counties,
that damaged corn and cotton over
small areas.
Scattered light showers occurred on
the 7th and 8tfa, and during the re
mainder of the week. at some point
or points, each day, with heavy rains
over the southeastern portions on the
12th, that broke the severe drought
which prevailed in that portion of the
State Other points in the northern,
central and western counties also had
heavy rains over limited areas. The
jrjBatest amount for the week was 4.99
inches at Chersw Although drought
conditions have been greatly relieved,
nevertheless there remain large areas
tfhere the rainfall was insufficient,
and where crops continue to need
rain. Theae areas are not confined to
my particular section of the State,
>ut occur in almost, every county.
The effects of. last week's excessive
2oa? and dryhess are reflected in this
reek's1 reports, . but in places, where
?opious rains fell there already has
>een a partial recovery, except where
he crops were ruined.
Corn was severely injured by last
reek's weather, and some fields of
d? and very young corn were * ruined,
specially over the eastern portions of
he State ; but where not too near ma
urityy it has improved. recently, and
gain looks promising, although the
xceedingly* bright prospects of a few
reeks: ago have been permanently in
ured. Early corn has all been laid
y in good condition, while late bot
om land and stubble com are grow
g nicely.
Cotton received a severe set-back,
ut is slowly recovering, except on
andy soils, where the plants are
bedding leaves and squares, and have
egun to rust, and are blooming to
he top. Hail damaged cotton in sec
ions of Abbeville, Newberry,|Pickens,
Jhesterfield and Chester counties.
Soil worms have appeared in Ander
on. In general, cotton is blooming
reely and fruiting heavily, although
he plants are undersized as a rule,
iea island cotton was greatly benefit
ed by the heavy rains along the coast.
Tobacco was injured by the heat and
rought, and it is too nearly matured
o be benefitted by the weather now
irevailing Cutting and curing made
apid progress, and the crop is being
marketed .
Bice shared in the general deterior
tion, and has also become infested
rith caterpillars in Colleton and
Georgetown counties. Peas look well,
dany sweet potato slips recenti ly
ransplanted, died from the effects of
he heat, and slips for replanting are
ixceedingly scarce .
The Exposition Claims.
By request of the secretary of the
reasury the comptroller of the cnr
ency has formulated a plan for bring
ng the claims within the appropria
;ion of $160,000. He suggests that all
daims be presented and approved be
fore any payments are made. When
ill claims are in and proved the treas
?ry will make out a warrant to each
claimant. If the total amount of the
daims is 8160,000 or less, then each
warrant "will be for the full amount of
;he claim. If the $160,000 is not
mough to pay all claims in full then
*ach warrant will be for a proportion
ne amount of the claim.
Charleston, July 15.?Mr. W. L.
?arris has returned to the city from
??Washington, where he took the oath
)f office as postmaster of Charleston.
3is bond was filed with the depart
nent last week, and the commission
was made out and sent to Oyster Bay
tor President Soosevelt's signature,
rhe commission was expected here
yesterday, but it did not arrive, the
lelay having been caused in sending it
? and from Oytster Bay. It should
irrive here this morning, however,
md just as soon as it is received Mr.
Karris will t&\e charge of the office.
CASES OF WALLER ?ND DAY.
Speculators Unable to buy up all
the Spots?Bui Gates Made
$1,500,000 on the Deal.
Chicago, July 15.?The famous cor
aer in July corn came to an abrupt
termination today when it became
inown that shorts to the extent of a
*ood many million bushels had effect
id private settlements with Harris,
Grates & Co., that the deal was at an
and so far as the steel magnate was
concerned. The July price responded
to the settlement by a quick drop cf
L5$? cents to 6i% Later it recovered
a fraction and closed'at 65}^, substan
tially the price of the cash article.
The corner at one time promised
many millions of profit and the farmer
whose well-filled cribs line the tracks
of nearly every railroad entering Chi
cago is held responsible for the disap
pointing end of the corner. There were
substantial reserves from the bumper
crop of 1900 and the large yield of
1901. This corn has been held for
satisfactory market. The farmer did
Gen. Chafee Says that the Natives
Killed by the Orders of Waller
and Day did not Deserve their
Fate, that Waller was
Crazy and Day Re
sponsible.
Washington, July 14.?The incom
ing Philippine mail brings the full
printed record of the proceedings in
the courtmartial cases of Major J,
W. T. Waller and Lieut John H. A.
Day, of the m?rine corps, growing out
of the killing of some native bearers
in Samar. The record shows that
Major Waller was acquitted of?the
charge of murder, but that Gen.
Chaffee, declaring that "there has
been a miscarriage of justice in this
case," disapproves the finding'and the
acquittal, with the exception that,
while Waller should not have been
found guilty of murder, the Court
should have included a lesser offence.
Gen Chaffee's endorsement is very
strong, and he declares that, with the
exception of three who deserted, no
overt acts were committee by the na
tives, who, on the contrary, "sent to
their death, they continued to their
last to carry the arms and ammunition
of the men after they were no longer
able to bear them, and to render in
their impassive way such services as
deepens the conviction that, without
their assistance, many of the marines
who now survive would also have
perished."
In the case of Lieut Day, who was
also acquitted, Gen. Chaffee disap
proves the finding to the specification
and charge of murder. He said that
Lieut Day should have known that his
commanding officer, Major Waller,
had for three weeks been under a test
of mental and physical endurance such
as few men are called upon to under
go; that he was sick with fever, his
temperature was 105 and his body
covered with painful. sores. Day was
the only officer not sick on duty and
in the full possession of his faculties,
and his plain duty was to counsel
delay in the execution of the orders
to kill the natives. Gen. Chaffee re
fers to the order of Major Waller as
'tainted" and says "that it should
have prompted him (Day) to a posi
tive dis#oedience of the. same,"
Notwithstanding the disapproval
the two offiecrs were released as they
could not be tried twice for the aame
>ffence. ? ' .
SOUTHERN CROP "PfiOSPECTS.
Cotton is Recovering From the
Recent Drought.
Washington, July 15.?The follow
ng is the weather bureau's weekly
nommary of crop conditions :
Very favorable temperatures pre
vailed during the week ending July
.4, in a districts east of the Rocky
noun tains except the central and east
rulf States. The latter have suffered
iomewhat from excessive heat, but
lave received much needed rains, re
ieving to a geat extent the severe
Irought. The corn crop, as a whole,
the principal States has made very
avorable progress. In the southern
states late corn has improved some
what, but the early corn is very poor.
Vinter wheat harvest is about com
peted, except in the northern portion
>f the winter wheat belt.
Spring wheat is sow heading in the
lorthern portion of the spring wheat
egion and the general outlook con
inues promising. Oats continue in
>romising condition.
A general improvement in the con
lition of cotton is indicated, although
the central and eastern districts the
riant is small, and blooming to top is
ixtensively reported. In Texas, except
the region of drought which com
)rises less than 10 per cent, of the
;otton area, the crop has made rapid
growth and in many sections the crop
Drospects are flattering.
Tobacco is doing well, though small
the middle Atlantic States. Cut
ting and curing are in progress in the
Carolinas and some of the early plant
id in Tennessee is ready for topping.
THE JULY C0R?? CORNER.
not begin to take advantage of the
situation until the price of July got
up in the seventies and when it finally
reached 90 cents the Chicago market
was deluged with cash corn. For a
while the Harris Gates people kept
the market cleaned up, but steadily
increasing quantities began coming
1 and the prospect ?f loading up with a
lot of 80 cent, corn which they might
; not be able to later dispose of at over
60 cents|became somewhat appalling.
Without warning they withdrew all
support, settled with the shorts and
closed the deal.
2 It is estimated that Mr. Gates' profit
will not exceed $1,500,000. This
amount will be divided up between
ten or a dozen millionaires who 'were ?
interested in the deal. Mr. Gates and
his friends have between 4,000,000 and
5,000,000 bushels of cash corn which
they must dispose of before the corner
can be called absolutely settled. This
corn represents the "corpse" which
in every corner ever remains the tumb
ling block to success. If the average
price of the Harris-Gates holding
should^ prove well up to the 70 per
cent, point the clique has on hand
several million bushels of corn which
cost its holders in excess of the present
market price. Eight here is the
salient point. Wiill it be necessary to
market this large holding of corn at
less than it cost?
THE FRIARS MUST SO.
The President is not Moved by
the Vatican's Reply.
Washington, July 14.?The reply of
Secretary Boot to the dispatch of Gov.
Taf t has been cabled to Rome. It is
in the nature of instructions as to
what rejoinder shall be made to the
Vatican in answer to its first general
reply to Gov. Taft. These instruc
tions to Gov. Taft were prepared
before Secretary Boot left Washington,
but were submitted to the president.
The position of the United States is
unchanged and tho instructions of
Scretary Boot, issued before Gov.
Taft went to Rome, that the friars
should be withdrawn, are adhered to
in every essential. The . rejoinder is
so couched that there will be a con
tinuation of the negotiations.
geeiig latir yTTegmie;
Openly Object to the Terms of
the New Allegiance.
Pretoria, Transvaal, July 15.? The
settlement of the annexed territories
is not being accomplished without
considerable friction. This is espe
cially noticeable in the bitter hatred
ind persecution on the part of the
Boers who stayed in the field to the
md of the war against the Boers who
served as British scouts.
It is said that some of these nation
si scouts have been shot or beaten.
k> intense is the feeling that many of
?e burghers who fought consistently
:o the end, distinguish themselves
'rom those who surrendered during
;he war by wearing a green badge.
The Transvaal and Free State colors
ire also worn, and the custom is en
?ouraged by the Dutch who did not
;ake an active part in the war.
Many of the burghers assert that
;hey were induced to agree, to surren
ler by the false representations of
;heir leaders, who painted the terms
;oo rosily. Discordant elements are
lumerous and any attempt to place
;he burghers who surrendered during
;he war in authority over those who
ought throughout will conceivably re
mit in a renewal of hostilities. ?????????
The majority of the Boers have ap
jarently in no way abandoned their
?ationality and some of them preach
;he advisability of opening Dutch
?chools so as to keep alive their na
ionality. The whole situation so
jristles with difficulties that there are
lot lacking those who doubt if the
locument signed May 31 was really
;he final settlement of the South Afri
an trouble.
THE BILLION ?OLLAR TRUST.
/alue of Property of the Steel
Trust is Almost Beyond all
Probability.
Newark, X. J., July 15.?The an
swer of the United States Steel cor
DOration to the suit brought by J.
\spinwald Hodse, Wm. H. Curtiss
ind Bernard Smith, who asked for an
njunction to prevent the company
Tom carrying ont its bond conversion
plaD, was filed today before Vice
Chancellor Emery. The case was put
)ver until July 23.
The answer was sworn to by Charles
M. Schwab as president. The assets
>f the properties of the subsidiary com
panies, it is stated, include 400 pro
ducing mills of the value of $300,000,
XX); 75 blast furnaces of the value of
?48,000,000; iron and bessemer ore
properties of the value of $700,000,000;
coal and coke properties of the value
3f $100,000,000: natural gas fields of
the value of $20,000,000; cash in bank
to the amount of $66,000,000, and over
^80,000,000 of material in process of
manufacture.
The total value of the company's
property, including cash and cash as
sets, is placed at $1,400,000,000 by Mr.
Schwab in an affidavit which is part
Df the corporation's reply. The com
pany's earnings are stated to be at the
, rate of more^than $140,COO, 000 a year.
! A saving of $30,000,000 a year is cred
; ited to the ore properties and it is esti
j mated that the ownership of transpor
! tation facilities saves the company
1 $10,000,000 annually.
I The earnings c * the added coal and
I coke properties are stated to be more
than $1,000,000 a month. These
statements as to the values and earn
ings were presented to disprove a
charge by the plaintiffs that Mr.
Schwab, the president, and Mr. Trim
ble, the secretary, made a i:alse certifi
cate when they certified that in their
judgment the properties were worth at
least the par value of the preferred
stock after deducting all indebtedness.
Fell Into the Pee Dee.
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Bennettsville, July 15.?This after
noon while Eobert Chaffin was crossing
the Pee Dee river with a Standard
Oil wagon, a section of the bridge on
the Society Hill side fell and threw
the team into the edge of the river.
Chaffin was severely bruised and one
leg was fractured. The colored driver's \
head was badly hurt, the wagon wheels !
were smashed and the mules were
hurt. All were rescued.
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WANTED?To have 500 bushels
fine R. R. P. Seed oats threshed be
fore August first. Address stating
terms. E. W. Dabbs, Goodwill, S.
O_July 16?It
Furman University,
GREENVILLE, S. C.
Will begin the next session on WEDNES
DAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1902. Location,
convenient and healthful. "Courses of
study, elective or leading to B. A. and SS.
A. degrees. Full corps of instructors and
ample mess accommodations for lessening
cost of boarding. For details apply to the
President.
A. P. MONTAGUE, LL. D.
July 16?2m._.
?rangeburg Collegiate Institute,
ORANGEB?RG, S. C.
BEAUTIFUL and healthful location. Ar
tesian water.. Repaired and remodeled
buildings. Special courses in Music, Art,
and Elocution. Prepares for the Sopho
more and Junior classes in the best col
leges of the country, or the business re
I quiresaer.ts of life. Thorough and syste
! matic foundation work the aim.
? For catalogue ai d particulars write to
; jul 16 JAS. R CROUCH, Pr?sident.
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