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r JB SU9CTKB WATCHMAN, established Cfesolidated Aug. 2,1881. Published Sirsry Wednesday, S?MTER, S. C. tc&ks : 50 per aaoam?in advance. aotie?!Six:iit: Jae Square first jwiatSon.$1 00 Evsry subsequent insertion-. 50 Contracts for three montb% or longer wil. be made at red need rates. AH comniaoieatiocs which subserve private interes ts will be charged for as advertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. THE PHOSPHATE ROYALTY. Annual Report of the Inspector Filed?Small Increase in Ton nage of Rock Mined. Colombia, Jan. 5.?The annual re port of State Phosphate Inspector T. J. Cunningham to the governor as chairman of the board of phosphate commissioners, <vas filed with that offi cial yesterday and by him turned over to the State printer. The report covers in detail the operations of the mines for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1902, and the amount of royalty accru ing to the State from the sales of phosphate rock for the same period. The inspector says: "The phosphate mines have had to contend with an adverse market for their rock; only in one instance has the price of rock ex ceeded $3 per ton, the Coosaw com pany being the only company to pay additional royalty?-$187.65. A large per cent, of the rock was shipped to foreign markets. The Central Phos phate Company has operated two dredges continuously during the year in Coosaw Biver. The Beaufort Com pany also operated two dredges con tinuously in Coosaw River. Both ' of these companies made application for a renewal of their licenses which was granted them. The Coosaw Company operated two dredges in Coosaw River until they suspended mining in April last. They still have 5X0 tons of rock on hand. The Empire Mining Com pany when in operation uses only hand pickers in the spring and summer mouths. They have on hand 8,100 tons of rock. The New Cut Mining Com pany still reports 600 tons of rock on hand. This company suspended busi ness about" two years ago. The rock on hand has never been kiln dried and they are having trouble in finding a favorable market for it. The Stono Company worked one dredge continu ously in-Stono River until November, when they suspended for repairs and other improvements. They anticipate being ready for work during the pres ent month, possibly with an addition al dredge. The Charleston, S. C. Mining and Manufactureang Company have recently been granted licenses to mine in Coosaw.River. 4 4 Your attention is called to the statements in- detail of the monthly operations of each company. The re port shows . a falling off of the rock mined and sold by some of the com panies and a gain by others. The ag gregates for the fiscal year jnst closed will compare fvorably with those of previous years.'' The following is the summary for .the fiscal year 1902, 1901 and 1900ior the?ve companies now operating in the territory: Mined dur- Ship'd dur On hand ing yeai* ing year Tons Tons Tons 1902 . . 37,913 82,119 100,502 1901 . . 55,174 84,941 97,527 1900 .. 87,697 121,225 72,209 Foreign Domestic Royalty Tons Tons 1902 . . 66,793 33,706 $25,310.65 1901 . . 37.727 59,800 $26,279.19 1900 . . 39,435 32,774 $21,5666.49. A Big Combine's Dividends. New York, Janaury 6.?The directors of the United States Steel Corpora ' tion today declared the regular quart erly dividends of 1 per cent on the common and 1% per cent, on t|je pre ferred stocks. A financial statement "was issued, showing net earnings for the calendar vear, v;ith December, estimated .for $13*2,662, G00. The net earnings for the qnarter ended December Sl were $31,330,613, an increase of $1,579,700 as compared with the same period of 1901. The transfer books close for the preferred dividend on January 20 and for the common on March 16. From the net earnings for the year deductions are made of $24,528,183 for sinking funds, depreciation and re serve funds and for a special fund set aside for depreciation and improve ments ; of $15,200,000 for interest bonds; of $3,040,000 on sinking funds for bonds and of $56,052,869 for interests on tho stocks. These deductions leave un divided profits amounting to $33,841,565 for the year, applicable to increase, de preciation and reserve fund accounts for new construction or surplus. The cash on hand is $54,724,106. It was reported to the board that the plan for stock subscription was being well received by the employees and that within three days after oppor tunity to subscribe was given upwards of 16,000 shares had been subscribed for. Finds Way to Live Long. The atartiing announcement of a discov e y that will surely lengthen life is made oy editor O. H. Downey, of Churubusco, IndN **I wish to state," he writes, "that Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption is the most infaliiole remedy that I have ever known for coughs, colds and grip. It's invaluable -to people with weak lungs. Having this wonderful medicine no one need dread pneumonia or consumption. Its relief is instant and cure certain." JcF. W. DeLorme guarantees every 60c and $1 bottle, and gives trial bottles free. April, 1850. "Be Jm SUMTE THE PENITENTIARY REPORT. Supt. Griffith's Annual Report Shows That the State Prison and Farms Are in Fine Condition. One of the thoroughly efficient and successful officers of the State Govern ment is Capt. D. J. Griffith, superin tendent of the State Penitentiary. He has had an eminently successful term. A summary of his report, in "which he makes a condensation of the facts con nected with the institution, will be of great interest. His report shows for the year 1902: CONVICT STATEMENT. The population of the Penitentiary, including those located at Clemson College, the State farmr convict camps and the reformatory, at the close of the last fiscal year was 778. We have received under new sentence 183, re captured 10; total in prison during the present year 891. Discharged by expiration of sen tence, 191; pardoned, 30; escaped, 11; died, 45 Total loss, 280, leaving in confinement December31, 1902, 701. Of the 45 deaths as reported above 22 died on the chain gangs, State farms, Clemson College or were sent in here from the county chain gangs in a hopeless condition, from which they never recovered. Also we had an epi demic of pneumonia last January and February, which caused the death of several. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The financial condition of the insti tution at the end of the present year is very satisfactory. We had cash on hand Dec. 31, 1901, $11,787.02 Total reciepts for the year 1902, 72,282 19 Total, $84,069 21 Curent expenses for the year, $62,657 07 Permanent improve ments, 4,300 00 - 66,957 07 $17,112 14 Balance December 31, 1902, 6,300 00 Cash in sight available, $23,412 14 We have during the year expended for permanent improvements $4,300, of which $1,500 was spent in building a new gin house, $625 for a 12-horse power engine, $400 for new electrical armatures, $200 for a smokestack for boilers, $375 for a grain thresher; the balance was expended m the purchase of mules, mowers, reapers, grain drills, etc. Had it not been that our corn crop last year was almost a complete fail ure, which necessitated^ our buying most of all the corn used, and also the fact that all provisions and supplies, most especially meat, coal and convict stripes, have cost this year almost double what they have in previous years, our cash balance would have been much larger, and it must be re membered that we have not nearly so many prisoners as we had in years pre vious; therefore our net earnings could not be as great as heretofore. Agirculturally we have been very suc cessful this year. Our crop of corn, peas, "wlieat, oat, rice, rye, potatoes, cane and cotton have yielded well and we will have a sufficiency of every thing, including molasses, to supply the farms, Reformatory and Peniten tiary proper, and will have for sale about 3,000 bushels of peas, 5,000 bushels of corn and 500 tons of hay. By rotating crops as we do, sowing grain and following it with peas broad cast, the farms are being brought up to a higher state of cultivation each year. We have done a great deal of work on dikes around the bottom lands on the Reed and DeSaussure farms, and they are in much better shape than the have ever been before. They have been made much stronger and in many places much higher and wider. At the Keforrnatory on Lexington farm we have 33 boys under 16 years of age, who are kept employed at all kinds of farm work. They are guided by a man especially appointed for that purpose. They are kept entirely to themselves day and night. I have inspected most of the camps in the State where convicts are hired out to chain gangs, and find that the prisoners are well cared for and humanely treated. I be? to call attention to the old building occupied by the guard force. It is of wood, very poorly constructed, old and dangerous on account of fire, not at all comfortable, and I would recomme. d that a building of brick he erected, to be used as guard quar ters, as soon as possible. We have furnished this year, as the law requires, 33 prisoners to Clemson College, also an average of seven per day and one guard to the State House: for these hands we have received no remuneration. The report of the clerk, Capt. W. D. Black, shows a complete statement of the receipts and disbursements of the institution. The Bamberg Cotton Mill was sold at auction on Monday under foreclos ure proceedings. It was bought for $50,000 by ten Bamberg men, who will reorganize the company and en large the mill. ? Jobey Williams, colored, was killed in Chester county on Monday night, his throat being cut and head crushed with an axe. His wife and a negro named William Sterling have been ar rested, although there is no positive proof of their guilt. New Century Comfort, [ Millions are daily finding a world of comfort in Bncklen's Arnica Salve. It ! kills pain from burn?, scalds, cuts, bruises ; conquers ulcers and fever sores; cures eruptions, sale rheum, boils and felons ; removes corns and warts. Best pile cure on earth. Only 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's drag store. titan st and Pear not?Let all the Ends thou R. S. O.. WEDNESD, GENERAL STAFF ARMY 1 BILL PASSES HOUSE. i Country to be Protected and War Waged by Bunch of Bureaucrats Sitting in Washington. Washington, Jan. 6.?The house to day passed the bill for the creation of a general staff for the army by a vote of 153 to 52. By the terms of the bill it becomes the duty of the general staff to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the army in time of war, to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the service and to render professional aid to the secretary of war and to general officers and other su perior commanders. The general staff corps is to consist of one chief of staff and twc general officers, all to be de tailed by the president from officers of the army at large not below the grade of brigadier general; four colonels, six lieutenant colonels and twelve majors, twenty captains to be detail ed from officers of the grades of cap tain or first lieutenant who while so serving shall have the rank, pay and allowance of captains mounted. All officers in the general staff shall be de tailed therein for periods of four years. During the debate on the bill Mr.. Kluttz of North Carolina criticised it. He believed that a general in the field was better able to command the army than a board of strategy sitting around the table in Washington. He said that the strategy board during the Spanish war was ridiculed and that it was only after Dewey had cut the cable that he had free hand which gave him an op portunity to win the great victory in Manila bay. RUSSIAN SUGAR DUTIES. Opinion Handed Down by U. S. Supreme Court. Washington, Jan. 5.?In an opinion handed down by Justice Brown today, the United States supreme court decid ed in the Downs case that the money paid by the Russian government in sugar exported is a bounty and that the collector of customs at Baltimore was justified in levying a countervailing duty on Russian sugar under the terms of the Dingley law. In delivering the opinion of the conrt Justice Brown said it involved only the one question as to "whether under the laws and regulations of Russia, a bounty is al lowed upon the export of sugar which subjects sugar upon its importation in to the United States to an additional duty." It appears that free sugar which may be sold in Russia at the normal excise of 1.75-100 rubles per pood may be ex ported under a permit from the excise office upon the return of a free sugar certificate . with the custom house ex port mark, the excise then crediting the exported quantity of sugar to the free surplus of the mill, which is sub ject to double the tax of 1.75 rubles. Discussing this certificate Justice Brown said: "It is practically admitted in this case that a bounty equal to the value of these certificates is paid by the Russian government, and themain argument of the petitioner is addressed to the pro position that this bounty is paid, not upon exportation, but upon produc tion. The answer to this is that every bounty upon exportation must to a certain extent operate as a bounty upon production, since nothing can be ex ported which is not produced and hence a bounty upon" exportation by creating a foreign demand stimulates an increased production to the extent of such demand. Consequently a boun ty upon production operates to a cer tain extent as a bounty exportation." Blizzard in Dakota. St. Paul, Min., Jan. (>.?Meager re ports have readied St. Paul of a terri fic blizzard which is racing tonight in South Dakota and moving rapidly east ward. Sioux Fails, S. D., is almost entirely cut off from the world, as but one wire is worknig between that placo and Sioux City, Iowa, and this used exclusively by the railroad* for train service orders. The wind rose almost to hurricane velocity, one report putting its speed at ninety miles an hour and before it the snow was driven in sheets making traffic of any kind almost an impossi bility. Fuel is very scarce in some sec tions and the cold wave which natural ly will follow the blizzard will cause much suffering. Only 4,000,000 gallons of the whis key made in 1S95, 1896 and 1897 re main in bond, and the whiskey dealers are alarmed. About 7,000,000 gal lons of six, seven and eight-year old whiskey is used annually, and the dealers say there will not be a gallon in bond by July 1. Heretofore there has always been much more than was consumed, and a famine is a problem that was never before considered. The leading dealers say the condition may result in the whiskey made in 1S95, 1896 and 1897 being cornered, and the prices doubled. In this event the blenders, who use most of the six, seven and eighty-eyar-old whiskey, will be compelled to use goods made later.?Louisville Courier Journal. Unconscious From Croup. During a sudden and terrible attack of croup our little girl was unconscious from strangulation, says A. L. Spafford, post master, Chester, Mich., and a dose of One Minute Cough Cure was administered and repeated often. It reduced the swelling and inflammation, cut the mucus and shortly the child was resting easy and speedily recovered. It cure3 coughs, colds, lagrippe, and all throat and lung troubles. One Minute Cough Cure lingers in the throat and chest and enables the lungs to contribute pure, health-giving oxygen to the blood. J S Hughson & Co. Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's JANUARY 14, 1? i SAFER TO BOirWTEl Lemon Juice Does Not Kill Typhoid Germs Quick Enough. New York, Jan. 4.?Dr. W. H. Park, bacteriologist of the Department of Health, has made several experi ments to determine the value of lemon juice in destroying typhoid bacilli, regarding which much has been pub lished recently. Several microscopical examinations of cultures of typhoid bacilli which had been subjected to the action of the lemon juice showed that, although the acid killed the micro organisms, it required to much acid and too much time for the chemical action to take place to render lemon juice as an agent practicable Dr. Parks' negative opinion in re gard to the efficacy of the acid as a typhoid prophylactic was corroborated, for, after the bacilli had been acted upon by a 5 per cent, solution of the acid for thirty minutes, it was found that all of them had not been destroy ed. Dr. Park when questioned regard ing the experiments said: '' My suspicions were confirmed by the tests. It is far safer to boil the water or filter it probably than to trust to lemon juice to destroy any typhoid bacilli that may be in it. Of course, the statement that the acid would de stroy any typhoid germs that might be contained in oysters by sprinkling it on the outside is ridiculous." THE GOAL STRIKE COMMISSION. Tuesday's Cumulative Testimony as to Alleged Outrages. Philadelphia, Pa., January 6.? Twenty-two men, all but one of whom were employed in and about the coal mines, appeared before the anthracite coal strike commission at its first ses sion in this city today and recited the 6ft-told tales of persecution they and others underwent during the late coal strike, because they chose to work rather than join the strikers. The single exception was Charles H. i Schadt, of Scranton, the sheriff of' Lackawanna County, and his presence on the stand under the cross-examina- j tion of President John Mitchell, of the Miners' Union, proved to be the principal feature of the day's proceed ings. The sheriff said that he issued a proclamation shortly after the strike was inaugurated, calling upon all per sons in the county to keep the peace; that it was difficult to get men to act as deputy sheriff; that in most cases where there was trouble it was usually over when the sheriff's men arrived; that he attempted to keep the peace in all localities and that the disturbance became so numerous that he had to call on the Governor for troops. He bad appealed to Mr. Mitchell, whom he knew quite well to assist in keep ing the peace, and the miners' presi dent promised to do so, and in several instances was of material help to the sheriff. Sheriff Schadt was then turned over to the miners for cross-examination. To the surprise of most persons Mr. Mitchell took up the examination. It was the first time that Mr. Mitchell had attempted cross-examination to any extent. When Mr. Mitchell finished Gen. Wilson asked the witness why the county did net pay the deputy sheriffs. The sheriff replied that the companies had made the request for protection, and counsel for the witness explained that it was the law in Pensylvania that the company asking for protection was compelled to pay for it. This explan ation rather surprised Chairman Gray, who, as he straightened himself up in his chair, said: "I am not familiar, with such an Unamerican law. When the countv or the State relinquishes the duty of maintaining and protect ing life and property and keeping the peace, then they are open to criticism." To Prevent Bursting of Water Pipes. During the recent cold weather in this city many people experienced great annoyance on account of the bursting their water pipes. The fol lowing rules have been given out as a reasonably sure means for preventing the bursting of water pipes. First. When the thermometer falls below 32 degress, turn off water at cut off, which is usually located in front yard. Seond. Immediatey after cutting off water have every drain valve and faucet open, and empty all closet tanks. Third. If weather continues below freezing put a handful of salt in each trap and do not turn water in fixture. If compelled to run water on during freezing weather, have all faucets, etc., open so water will run until it is cut off in yard. Chicago, January 6.?Four persons lost their lives in a fire at the Hotel Somerset, an eight-story brick struc ture, at Wabash avenue and 12th street, early today. Question Answered. Yes. August Flower stiil has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers' and grandmothers' never thought of using anything else for indiges tion or biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of appendicitis, nervous prostration or heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigest ed food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the s> stem, and that is all they took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green's August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is noth ing serious the matter with yon. You can get this reliable remedy at China's drug drug store. Price 25c and 75c. outhror and Truth's." THE TB?I SOUTHRON, Established Jane, IS66 03. New Series?Vol. XXII. No. 24 Fill out this blank, mail or deliver it in person to T. B. Jenkins, Jr., Sumter, S. C, and your name will be entered as a competitor in our Big Word Contest, which will close on the First day of May, 1903, the contest to be decided by the fol lowing rules : Anybody will be allowed to compete. No re strictions as to age or sex. The competitor, who shall make the largest number of words from the single word I GREYHOUNDS J fiimm mmm maummm m mum shall receive as his or her prize our handsomest Drop Cabinet, Automatic Lift, Ball Bearing, NEW HOME Sewing Ma chine, which retails at In case that two or more persons have the same number of words, the one sending in his or hers first shall receive the prize. No proper names shall be counted, and anyone using a letter not in the word, shall have their entry forfeited. You will be allowed to use the plural of a word already used ; for. instance, making the word ground, and making again, grounds. The name of the winner will be published in. all three of the weekly papers published in Sumter, with all the words given in full, and the date of delivery. Competitors are advised to keep a copy of their lists, and remember that the NEW HOME dewing Machine is without a rival .for beauty, ease of running, and durability, and is sold in Sumter only by T. B. JENKINS, JR. Any other information furnished cheerfully on application. CUT THIS OFF AT BLACK LINE. T. B. JENKINS, Jb., Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir : I wish to have my name filed as a competitor in your word contest for the handsome, Drop Head NEW HOME Machine, and agree to abide by all rules governing the contest. ' ; Name Address. Age. Name of Machine used in Family .'. How long in use. Yours respectfully,: LOCKJAW IS RAGING. Seven Boys Have Died in Charles ton Since Christmas. Seven young boys, five white and two colored, have died in Charleston since Christmas of tetanus, or lock jaw, caused bv powder barns while fir ing toy pistols, charged with blank cartridges. Three deaths from this frightful malady were reported to the board of health yesterday and more than one physician in this city is treating children suffering from lock jaw in its most virulent form. That the burns from the ammunition nsed in charging these toy pistols should precipitate fin epidemic of tetanus, a disease which nearly alway terminates fatally, is too alarming a contingency to be'dealt with in an indifferent or dilatory manner. Certainly the most drastic municipal legislation should be enacted to control the sale of these instruments of death in Charleston.? News l id Courier. "Mexico City, January 0.?But little news Etos been received from the plague-stricken city of Mazatlan, but the Federal Government is doing everything in its power to solve the distress there and exterminate the dis ease. There is practically no business doing in Mazatlan. No ships are enter ing the port, which has no railroad connection with the rest of the coun try. EQUITABLE PAYS ?65,000. Honors First Wayne Policy. But Will Contest Two Others. The Washington Post revives the discussion of the advisability of abolishing from the statute books of the states all laws enacted to aid in the collection of debts. It believes that the reform in this direction begun by the abolition of imprisonment for debt is progressing at too slow a pace and that, instead of the states yielding to the legal profession's hand for uni formity of collection laws, the states should uniformly repeal all collection statutes and their cumbrous, costly machinery and stand on the broad principle that credit must rest on the basis of personal honor. Pekin, Jan. 4.?Sir Laing Cheng, minister designated to the United States, will marry the daughter of the Chinese minister at Paris, Yue Keng, before leaving for Washington. Yue Keng's daughter was educated abroad and speaks English and French. She is one of the few Chinese women of modern education and modern ideas. Louisvile, Ky., Jan. 7.?The Equit able Life Assuran e Company paid 865,000 yesterday to the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Company, which is administering the affairs of the R. C. Whayne estate. It is the first payment by that company, the heaviest loser of all from Mr. "Whayne's death, has paid. However, another $65,000 will be paid within a few days, leaving $130,000 to be contested in court. Mr. Henry Powell, the local repre sentative bf ' the company, is at the home office's in New York in con ference as to' the future policy regard ing the outstanding Whayne claims. Thefirts two";policies taken out,by the late Mr.'Whayne contained the one year suicide clause, but the limitation "had passed, and in conference it has been conceded all along that the company would have to settle these two * $50,000' policies with their added dividends of- 815,000 each. However, it is certain that Mr. Powell's pres ence in New York at the presnet ume is to decide-on the actual steps to be taken relative to the two policies which were secured by Mr. Whanye less than a year before his death. The one-year suicide clause had, of curs?, not ex pired in those two policies and so if the company can prove self-destruction the 6120,000" would be saved. Indianola "Is All Right." The Secret of Long Life Consists in keeping all the main organs of the body m healthy, regular action, and in quickly destroying deadly disease germs. Electric Bitters regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purify the blood, and give a splendid appetite. They work won ders in curing kidney troubles, female complaints, nervous diseases, constipation, dyspepsia and malaria. Vigorous health j and strength always follow their use. Only 50c, guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, druggist. Indianola, Miss. January L? T!:ls j town has assumed its normal c?ncition." Mail is being received by indejen-. dent carriers and evervthing is quiet WHAT MINNIE COX SAYS. Columbus, Miss, January 7.?Mrs. Minnie Cox, who recently resigned as postmaster, at Indianola. with her husband and late negro assistant, pass ed through Columbus today en route to Birmingham. Mrs. Cox stated that she expected to he allowed to reopen the postoffice at Indianola soon, as she was forced to resign through the acts of a few people of that place. She further said that the most prominent residents of the city had always en dorsed her for the position and that they were still her friends. She stated that these friends are working in her behalf and an effort will be made to have the postoffice reopened under her charge, but with another assistant, such as the postoffice shall approve. Heads Should Never Ache. Never endure this trouble. Use at once the remedy that stopped it for Mrs. N. A Webster, of Winnie, Va., she writes : uDr King's New Life Pills wholly cured me o sick headaches I had suffered for tw years/' Cure headache, constipation, b" iousness. 25c at J. F. W. Ds^onne's store.