Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IO, ?902. The Svmter Watchman was touade' io ?S?O and the Tra* Sovlhron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is mani festly the beet advertising medium in Sumter. There is the beginning of a very pretty fight in the Republican party. The Roosevelt and the anfa-Roose velt factions have preserved an armed truce for some time, but the President's anti-trust speeches have strengthened the hands of his enemies and they hope, with the backing of the trusts, to force Roosevelt to re Cant on the trust question or 'to pre vent his re-nomination. Some of the Charleston people seem' to be wrought up over the primary election frands and there is talk of prosecuting the managers who commit ted the frauds. The men who actually committed the frauds were probably the tools of bigger politicians, and if the prosecution is pressed, interest ing revelations will undoubtedly fol low Some Democratic Congressman claim to be elated over the prospect that the Democrats will have a majority in the next House of Representatives, but we fail to perceive what cause they have for elation. If the Democrats should control the House, what good will it do the party or the country while the Senate remains Republican and Roose velt sits in the White House? The accident to President Roosevelt and his party may be the means of bringing about a wholesome and long seeded reform in the management of trolly cars. There have been hundreds of accidents similar to the one in which the President came so near death and hundreds of persons have lost their lives through the reckless-, uese and carelessness of the motonnen. In many places they exercise no care whatever, having no regard for the safety of those who have to cross the tracks, and run down any who cannot escape by their own agility. The prominence" of the victim of this most recent accident will focus public at tention upon the evil, end the enact ment of laws for the protection of the t>ublie and punishment of trolly car ^operators may follow criminal care lessness. Solicitor Hildebrand, at the request of County Chairman Thayer, of Charleston, has taken charge of the prosecution of the case against the men accused of perpetrating frauds in the first primary. If the truth comes out and a just verdict rendered by the jury Charleston politics wiil be some what purified. They need it. President Roosevelt is coming south on a politicai campaign tour. He will have a pleasant trip but not many converts to Republicanism will be made. The people of the South are not to be bamboozled by his soft talk against the trusts. SoYermaent Crop Report. Washington, Sept. 9.?The agricul tural department's weekly summary of crop conditions says : 4 * Although the week was cool in the central valleys and lake region with more than the average rainfall in por tions of the tpper Mississippi valley, maturing crops have made generally favorable, though not "rapid advance ment. The greater part of Texas, in which State .?severe drought prevailed at the close of the previous week, has received abundant rainfall,and drought conditions in the middle Atlantic coast districts have also been largely reliev ed. "Notwithstanding the prevalence of low temperatures throughout the corn belt, and copious rainfall in portions of the upper Mississippi valley, the corn crop has made very satisfactory advancement toward maturity, and wholly escaped in States eastward of the Mississippi river from frosts oc curring on tie 4th and 5th, with but slight injury in the States to the west ward. "Texas and a large part of the cen tral and eastern districts of (the cotton belt have received abundant rainfall during the week, but it is doubtful whether the beneficial effects of these rains to lat) cotton will offset the injury done to the open staple. Cotton has opened more rapidly than it could be picked. In portions of the central and eastern district many fields are already nearly cleaned, and the reports generally indicate that the crop will be gathered much earlier than usual. "Late tobacco has experienced a general improvement in the Middle Atlantic States and Ohio valley and cutting and housing have progressed under favorable conditions in all to bacco States." Washington, September 9. ?Mr. Ebrman, vice consul general at Pan r.advises the State department by < .' :?? : at A?rua Dube has been sur ;? tj -, : my the government forces, rev > ioaary war vessels are in > m; .y b5 mama and the revolution i ?;;*?. are reported to be moving toward t?e railroad. Mr. ICbrman considers t je situation at Colon and at Panama s 3ricus. Washington, September 9.?Mr. Powell, United States minister to Hay ti, has cabled the State department that he has a report that Admiral Killick and two of his officers went down with the Crece-a-Pierro:. recent ly sank near Cape Hay tien by the Ger saeaa genica': Panther. HEYWARQ OUR NEXT GOVERNOR. Talbert and His Effort to Revive Fac tional Bitterness Rebuked. Latimer Defeats John Gary Evans by Big Majority. Col. J. Harvey Wilson Probably Defeated by Ganti. Columbia, Sept. 10.?The State says: ' * Hey ward for Governor, ' ' Latimer for the Senate, Sloan for Lieutenant Governor, Gantt (probably) for Secre tray of State, Jones or Walker for Comptroller General, Frost for Adju tant General and Caughman for Rail road Commissioner. The ballots were cast yesterday in the second primary for senator and State officers. The State presents this morning the results as indicated by re turns from nearly seventy thousand voters. This is by far the fullest and most complete report ever made of an election in South Carolina on the morning after the event. ? Interest centered in the gubernato rial race. Hey ward has all along been the favorite in the betting, but a great deal of money was waged on the size of his majority, and this has been won and lost. Because of the threatening weather, it was thought an unusaully light vote would be polled, but the reports to night indicate that the total will not fall very short of that in the first primary. While in some cases the vote is close there is no reason to believe the position of the candidates will be changed, except as to comptroller gen eral. Here is the vote for each candidate as received last night: For Senator, A. C. Latimer 40,448, John Gary Evans 27,499; for governor, D. Clinch Hey ward 39,455, W. Jasper Talbert 29,623; for lieutenant governor, John T. Sloan 34,513, Frank B. Gary 30,423: for Secretary of State, J. T. Gantt 33,692, J. Harvey Wilson 31,776; for Comptroller General, A. W. Jones 32,167, G. L. Walker 33,192; for adju tant General, Jno. D. Frost 37,285? J. C. Boyd 29,298; for Railroad Com missioner, B. L. Caughman 36,794, W. Boyd Evans 27,88L The total votes accounted for in each race are as follows: Senator 67,947, governor 69,078, lieutenant governor 64,936, secretary of State 65,468, comp troller general 65,359, adjutant and inspector general 66,674, railroad com missioner 64,675. WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN. _ Columbia, S. C, September 9.?The first part of the week ending Monday,, September 8th. was warmer, the latter part cooler than usual. The average temperature was about 76 degrees, or slightly below normal. The highest was 95 degrees at Greenwood on the 2d, the lowest 57 degrees at Spartan burg on the 6th. The sunshine was generally deficient, but a . few points reported it above normal. There were no hailstorms or violent wind. The western portion of the State had light but very beneficial rains, and the east central portion heavy rainfall, with amounts ranging from one to two inch es, but the week's rainfall was poorly distributed, and many points * report no rain for the week, to the detriment of growing crops. The weather was favorable for farm work during the greater portion of the week, but show ery weather interfered, in places, with cotton picking. The rains put the soil into good condition for fall plowing and sowing oats, although the latter work has not become general. Late upland and bottom land corn continue to thrive and are very prom ising. Marlboro County reports the corn crop sufficient for its own needs for the coming year. Insects infest green corn in Newberry and York Counties. Cotton opened rapidly, in places pre maturely, during the week, and nearly all the reports indicate that from one half to two-thirds of the bolls are now open. Picking made rapid progress, but failed to keep pace with the opening. Picker s are scarce in a few counties. There is a reiteration of former com plaints of the prevalence and harmful effect of rust and blight, causing the plants to die, making it evident now that there will be but a small top crop, and only in favored localities where the plants are free from rust and have continued to bloom and fruit There is an almost unanimous expression by reporters, that the crop will be below average in yield, although a few cor respondents state that the yield will equal or exceed last year's. Some open cotton was stained by rain, although it is generally being gathered in fine condition. Sea island cotton is well fruited, but the prospect for a top crop is poor. It is opening, and some has been picked and marketed. Caterpillars infest many of the cen tral counties, moving westward, and are destroying grass fields in their pathway. Peas are fine, as a rule, and all reports indicate an unusually large crop of sweet potatoes. Other minor crops improved during the week. Rice harvest is well underway, and the yields ar>3 above average. Tea plants are thriving. Late fruit is scarce. Killed With a Rock. Greenwood, September 9.?Saturday, near Verdery, Lem Bishop in an alter cation with John Heard killed the latter by hitting him in the head with a rock. The two negroes were both drunk, it is said, and got into a fight in the public* road. According to Lam's tale John first threw the rock at him and that he then picked up the same rock and hurled it back at John. The rock entered his head, causing death. John lived several hours after the blow. Coroner Sheppard went down Sunday and held the inquest. Bishop was arrested yesterday and put in jail. Hudson Goodman was the only wit ness. Ke said that the two negroes were coming down the road together cursing each other and thsn commenc ed to fight. It seems that there had been an old quarrel between them for sometime. Both negroes were over forty years old. THE CUBAN LOAN. The Conditions Fixed For the is sue of $35,000,000 in Bonds. Havana, September 9.?The loan bill passed the House of Representatives t?-day by 48 votes to 2. President Palma is authorized to make the loan in the name of the nation for the amount of $350,000,00, the minium price of issue to be 90 and the maxi mum rate of interest to be 5 per cent. According to the bill the loan is pay able in forty years, paymeni to begin ten years after issue. Four million dollars of the loan is to be devoted to the encouragement of agriculture and the cattle industry, and the; sum of $31,000,000 is for the fulfilment of obligations contracted during the revo lution and the payment of the Cuban ! army. ! The Executive is authorized to guar antee the custom receipts of the na tion. In order to provide for the ap pearance in the regular budget of f unds for the payment of interest an'd to maintain a sinking fund a consump tion tax on alcoholic drinks is specially imposed, besides 10 per cent of the total receipts from customs. The bill will go to the Senate con ference committee. New York, September 9.?The consul general of Venezuela has receive! the following undated cablegram from President Castro: "A.fierce battle was fought today at Finaquillo, in ^which the revolutionary army, under Gens. Luciana Mendoza and Riera, was com pletely defeated, thus insuring nation al peace.'* ENFORCING COMPULSORY EDUCA TION. ? Truancy Laws of Indiana Catch 24,784 Children. Indianapolis, Sept. 7.?The State Board of Truancy today issued a bul letin on compulsory education for the school year 1901-2, based on the re ports of the 112 truant officers. The average aggregate expense for each child put in school by the truant offi cers was $1.48. The bulletin follows: " 'The first step in juvenile crime is truancy. ' This is the statement of the superintendent of compnlsroy educa tion of Chicago. Judge Lindsay,*of the Denver Juvenile Court, says : "Our experience clearly demonstrates that most cases of Juvenile delinquency brought into this court begin^with truancy. : .... ^%*s "In view of these facts, the Copera tions of the compulsory education law in this State have deep interest. At a cost of about $20,000 for the sala ries of the officers, an average of 78 cents a child, and 17,000 for books and clothing for the poor, 28,784 chil dren were brought into the schools during the year?23,921 ?to the public schools and 863 to private or parochial institutions. This does not include those who went to school voluntarily because of the requirement of the law. This is the fiftth annual report of the board, the records of the five years be ing as follows : Children Cost in Brought into Salaries and School Assistance. 1898 21,447 f$51,35L04 1899 19,160 43,442.54 1900 28,974 48,314.31 1901 25,025 47,686.98 1902 24,784 36,745.80 "The report for 1901-2 shows that the work of the truant officers of Marion county resulted in;' bringing 2,232 children into the schools, the largest number of any county in the State. Vigo county comes next with 1,231; Knox county shows 893; St. Joseph, 707; Perry, 635; Harrison county has the lowest number 8. "It was found necesasry to provide books and clothing for 10,808 children during the year, and this was done at a cost of $17,190.05, or ?$1.59 for each child. Of the children thus add ed, 10,669 were pupils of the public schools. The remaining 139 attended private or parochial institutions. "In eighteen counties during the last year the officers succeeded in bringing the children into school with out resorting to the prosecution of their parents. In the remaining seven ty-four counties there were 325 pro secutions. A comparison of the re ports of the past year with those of former years shows a noticeable in crease in the number of prosecutions. In 1889, 113 were reported ; in 1900, 272; inl901, 177; in 1902, 325. Jackson county had the highest number, 32 : Vigo comes next with 21. The officers in St Joseph county report 15, in Clay county 13 Clark and Grant each had 12, and Greene and Marion, 10. "Efforts have been made to get the opinion of those informed as to the operations of the law in every? county. With but few exceptions thel expres sions are favorable. Generally speak ing, the law is upheld both by the courts and by public sentiment." ; OUTLAWS ?ND OFFICERS FIGHT. Two Murderers Killed by Sheriffs Posse in Tennessee. Knox ville, Tenn., Sept. 8.?A special to The Sentinel from Rogersville, Tenn., says: Jim Wright and John Templeton, noted Hancock county des peradoes, were killed and Wright's son was captured by a posse of 25, headed by Joe Moss of Gate City, Va. In the engagement Wright shot and probably fatally wounded George Wolf of Spears' Ferry, Va., and Jack Rogers of Rogersville, both of whom were members of the pursuing posse. Two fights occurred and in the first, which began at 10 o'clock last night, Templeton was instantly killed and Wright's son was captured. Jim Wright, however, retreated to a near by house, v.' h e re he en gazed the officers until daylight, when he was routed and killed as he could not be taken alive. Wright was an escaped convict from the Tennessee penitentiary, where he was serving a sentence for murder. Wright and Templeton are said to have killed as many as six men each. The scene of action was about 18 miles east of Rogersville. Moss had been hunting for Wright and Temple ton for many weeks. THE VIEWS OF AN EXPERT. What Has Been Done in Development of Dairying and Stocking Raising. ? Mr. L. A. Ransom, who is well known in the South on account of his conspicuous work in agricultural mat ters and his connection with the South Carolina department of agriculture, and now with the Southern Cotton Oil Company, as District Manager, at At lanta, Ga., in writing about the influ ence of cotton seed products on the de : veloflj?ient of dairying in the South, says: j "About 1850, a few wealthy and en j terprising Southern planters imported i some Devon cattle from England. ? These were turned loose in cane ! brakes with the native scrubs and al lowed to roam over large areas of wooded country, picking up a precari ous living on the scant pasturage af forded by the woods freshly burned over by the forest fires- in the spring. Although widely scattered and a few in number, the prepotency of this breed was so great that in many sections the evidence of this infusion of good blood is still visible in the stock. "No well-to-do planter at that time considered that he had milch cows enough to supply the wants of his fam ily unies he owned at least twenty-five or thirty head. These droves of half wild and half-famished animals were located towards nightfall by the ring ing of a bell hung around the neck of the leader. They were driven to the j cow-pen, sometimes miles from where ! they were found in the woods, a spas modic effort was made to extract milk I from them, penned .up over night, and a second attempt made upon them the next morning. The 'average yield' was about one quart per cow. "The idea of increasing this produc tion by judicious feeding was not thought of. This was the rule, but of course there were notable exceptions. People who did not own unlimited acres of land, and who appreciated milk and butter, took better care of their cows, fed them regularly, and allowed them to pasture during the day on their neighbors' land. This pasturing was more to give them proper exer cise, and keep them healthy than to afford them any means of subsistence. To such an extent had the cattle in terests of South Carolina in 18S0 depre ciated that the repairs to the farm fence cost more than the value of the cattle in the State, and the probability is that the same was equally true of nearly all the Southern States." Then came the "No Fence Law," which compelled the owners to fence the cattle instead of the crops. This forced the farmers to own good milch cows, or none at all, as it became too expensive to feed poor stock. About this time, or perhaps a little earlier, appeared the "Jersey" on the scene, a breed of cattle as suited to the needs of those who were "too poor to own a cow, and too proud to milk a goat." But this beautiful little animal soon demonstrated that she was not a "quitter," and, furthermore, that she "filled a long felt want." and, with uroper attention, gave rich returns on her cost and keep, and, like the Irish man's pig that he raised in the cabin with his children, she "paid the rent" as well as the freight. As compared with ?the Devon, she was smaller ?in statue and gave less milk, but the pro portion of cream to water in what she did give, far exceeded that of the De von, the Durham, and Holstein, and she promptly became the prime favor ite of small families and butter-mak ers. But she could not live without feed, and butter could not be produced profitably on corn meal, wheatbran, or cowpea diet, nor could it be produced at all on what the Jersey could pick up in the pastures. Nature, always lavish, but provident, hid away coal in the earth for ages, only to be uncovered when the world needed it most, pointed the way to the gold fields only when this precious metal was absolutely required for the world's commerce, and covered from sight the phosphate rock of the Caro linas until improvident man had de stroyed the fertility of the fields, like wise she held, back the material re quired to make dairying in the South possible and profitable, until condi tions were favorable for its use. The advent of the Jersey cow cre ated a demand for a cheap and rich food, which the oil mills supplied with hulls and meal. In a list of fifty of the leading feed materials of the Uni ted States, the National Department of Agriculture ranks cotton seed meal first, in feeding value and places the value of cotton seed hulls for, the same purpose above the best timothy hay. The use of these products has fully sustained the department's reports, and dairy farming is fast becoming an industry of importance, and this has been largely the result of the liberal policy of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. of the Carolinas and Georgia, which has headquarters at Columbia. S. C, Atlanta, Ga., Savannah, Ga. and Char lotte, N. C., Goldsbor^ N. C, and Au gusta, Ga. Around the large cities in the South, dairies are successfully operated, sup plying the people with wholesome milk, and rich golden butter from cows fed on hulls and meal. The country mills have accomplished the same thing for the farms and small towns. Around the factory towns the small mills make dairying possible, and pro fitable, as the demand from the opera tives, is sufficient to consume all the milk and butter that can be produced, and the use of meal for fertilizing the land, which is sold reasonably by the Southern Cotton Oil Company, has greatly enlarged the area devoted to truck farming of all kinds. Without oil mill products dairying would be Impossible in many sections of the South. The abundance, cheap ness and convenience of the products has already developed the business to an interesting extent and it is only in its infancy, and its growth will in crease rapidly each year with the steady improvement in the grade of milch cows. Oleomargarine contains about forty per cent, milk, and the compound is a wholesome product. The establishment of co-oper?tive fac tories for its manufacture in the vi cinity of oil mills where refined ?Oll can be had would give a tremendous impetus to dairying in the South. Roanoke, Va., September 9.?The mystery surrounding the wreckings of ai Norfolk and Western passenger train on the Shenandoah Valley divi sion, forty miles north of Roanoke, last Sunday was cleared up today when Johnnie Barger, an eleven-year-old boy, who lives near the scene of the wreck, confessed that he had placed a spike in the joint between tb.6 rails and hammered it half way down with a rock for the purpose of seeing it flattened by the train, and that he did not think it would throw the train from the tracks. Jenkins Bros, have just received a large shipment of ball bearing, drop head. New Home machines. See them. Under Ma sonic Temple. July 30. hot? IPCWCW? ?cm* i.-?aDCTMVijn,.^mmOTir>aii< m ?mi ? m?. GLENN SPRINGS WATER Cures Dyspepsia. For sale by A. J. Chin<% J. F. W. DeLonne. TO OUR BOYS. This is the week in which you are supposed to do your shop ping in anticipation of the open ing of school, and we know of no place in which you can do so more advantageously or eco nomically than with us* We hare the largest line of Boys' Suits and Pants ever carried by ns9 and that is saying a great deah The suits vary in price from 75 cents to $7.50, and the pants from 25 cents to $ 1 per pair. We have about 150 boys' suits in three or four different patterns that we are offering at $1 per suit, and they are surprising values : have to be seen to be appreciated. The suit that we want to call the school boys' particular attention to is the Mrs. Jane Hopkins Brand, Double Seat and Double Knee. This is the best investment ever made by a boy, as he gets bet ter returns for his money. Mrs. Hopkins must have been a School Maam and had practical observation of the weak spots in a boy's wear ing apparel, and every mother owes her a debt of gratitude for inventing the Double Seat and Double Knee School Suit. THE LAST GALL We are receiving daily the fruits of our buyers' efforts in the Wew York Market. This does not signify that the summer is over. We have on hand in our various departments, "Odd Lots of Desirable Goods" We prefer not to carry any goods over till next season, so these will have to'go. "We Will Not Stand on Price.55 This means we intend to sacrifice them. You will find things that you can use next sea son that it will pay you to buy now.