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j^~i5^?B WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear ,ot-I*t all thc end, Thou Ahnst at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's. A?g. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. 0. WEDNESDAY. MAR H 21. P<36 THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 186? Sew series-Vol XXY> ^<> 35 Published Every Wednesday., -BY 8STEEK PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. Teems: $1-50 per annum-in advance. Advertisements: One Square first insertion.$1.50 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts - for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. . All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged ^for- _ SENATOB TILLMAN TALKS. He is Too Busy in Washington at This . Time to Attend a Convention, But Has His Eyes Open. Washington, March 16.-Senator ^Tillman says that he knows nothing -ii-----?**? of any plans to hold a convention of the friends of the dispensary. "I have scarcely had time to give such a thing a thought," he said today. feut," he added, "you can say this, that when the time comes and the fight is on, I expect to be in it, wheth? er it begins before the opening of the campaign or after.". j? "jJ^yon expect anything to be done before the opening of the regular cam palgn?" . "Well, I say, I don't know. To hold a convention or to organize, as they call it, would take a bit of conferring and a lot of correspondence, and so far as I am concerned, I haven't the -time to co it. I wouldn't even have lime to attend that convention or con? ference! or anything else, so long as I .am swamped this way." . Then he. turned, to a pile of papers on-nis desk, called a clerk, and added: "Wfcy raa.r>. I feel life*- a fellow ' down in a deep well. I can't begin to see daylight AH I can see is a little gleam of light which will get bigger and Dig? ger's I. climb out of this welL But you know when a fellow's down in such hole _ as this, the sky looks about the sfcze of a doJlar and he can't see even-the sides of the hole-he is in. How |n jthe name of sense can I see outside to organize the dispensary forces or anything else at home?" "Oh, yes, i'm watching it," he con? cluded,-The State. DR. M'DOW CONVICTED. -> ? ? . \ '? Ja tige Klugh Imposes a Sentence of fe Four Months* Imprisonment or $250 Fine. Lancaster, March 16.-Promptly at 9: SO this morning the argument in the McDow case was entered upon, Mr. W. D. Trentham opening for the de? fense in a speech of 35 minutes. Such \ difficulties as this, said he, have been < occurring since the world began and no such\ difficulty perhaps had ever occurred - over so small a matter. Young Witherspoon had the best of blood in his veins, that of Dr. John Witherspoon of Princeton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde? pendence. t McDow was the son of a Tnan now dead in his grave who never avowed a man to tread on his toes. He contended that Witherspoon com? menced the difficulty by insulting Mc /Dow and that when Dr. McDow was knocked down by Mr. Brown he was thrown into a transport of passion un? der which circumstances he nret? thinking "the whole crowd were after him. Mr. B. B. Clark followed in an able and eloquent speech of one hour. . Solicitor Henry closed the argument, consuming an hour and five minutes. Many have expressed the opinion that j it was the best speech they had ever heard Mr. Henry make. Judge Klugh for 15 minutes charged the jury as to the law of the case. ] The jury were out for four hours and j 23 minutes and returned into court with a verdict of assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons. Judge Klugh sentenced McDow to a term of four months in the peniten? tiary without hard labor or to pay a fine of $250. McDow's counsel may appeal, and in the meantime he has been released on a $500 bond. But it is thought the fine will be paid. It is ?sid the jury at first stood five for the highest offense charged and five for ?acquittai.-The State. THE AMENDE HONORABLE. Our Hagood Correspondent Disclaims Any Intention to Reflect Upon Any? one. I wish to thank you. Mr. Editor, for your timely information about that court house matter. It was foreign to my purpose to reflect upon any ono. though I must confess that what T wrote would lead to ? different con BBfeon and I sincerely hope no one is Hfisfeed. Please give this a con ^^^^is place in the Item and oblige ISSSSSSruly, "Hagood." A RAILROAD HORROR. WOUNDED PASSENGERS ARE * SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH IN WRECKED CARS. Forty or Fifty Persons Lose Their Lives as the Result of a Collision of Two Passenger Trains in Colorado. The Injured Were Pinned Down Under the Wreckage of the Cars. Denver^ Col., March 16.-From for? ty to fifty passengers were killed or roasted alive after a collision between two passenger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande railway at 2 o'clock chis morning. The trains, one of them a double? header, met on a curve near Florence, in the Arkansis valley, 140 miles from Denver. Immediately after the collision the wreckage caught on fire and the injured, who were pinned down, were slowly roasted to death, and their bodies cremated. One of the trains was a ?ocaI passenger made up at Leadville and the other was the Utah and California express, which left Denver at 8 o'clock last night. The I impact caused both, engines and the i ( i baggage and day coaches to turn over. But fifteen of the passengers in them were able to escape. It is reported that the crews of both trains are miss? ing. A phvsician who reached Portland from the wreck says forty are dead. A dozen of the injured have been taken to Pueblo. The scene of the wreck after the cars had been' burned is almost too horrible to describe. It is impossible to get a list of the names of the killed and injured until the railroad conduc? tors compare their reports. Every person killed was practically cremated and nothing now remains of the trains except the blackened tim? bers and twisted rods, with here and there a pile of ?shes. The official estimate of the number of dead is 50 and 25 injured. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ; Items of. Interest Condensed and Par agni obed for Quick Reading. Code Commissioner William Elliott, Jr., has just gotten out for distribu? tion the first forty-eight pages of the permanent statutes for the year 1906. This preliminary publication contains forty-eight of the most important and interesting statutes. The new state board of dispensary directors have struck a serious snag in attempting to recall the request blank feature of the dispensary law. This is clearly evident from a very emphatic letter the governor received from the Richland county auditor, W. H. Gibbes, who says it is impossible for him to carry out the law, and pleads with the governor to "devise" some way to relieve an impossible sit? uation caused by the passage of fool? ish and inconsistent laws. The first meeting of the board of trustees of the South Carolina Indus? trial school was held in the governor's office. There were present: Gover? nor Heyward, Assistant Attorney Gen? eral Youmans, Judge A. C. Haskell of Columbia; Dr. Samuel M. Smith Of Columbia, Dr. W. C. Irby of Laurens, Dr. T. A. Crawford of York ville, Professor Henry P. Archer of Charleston, Dr. J. L Mann of Flor? ence, and Dr. D. D. Wallace of Spar t?nhurg. The - board organized by electing Governor .^eyward president; Judge Haskell vice president, Dr. Mann secretary and Dr. Wallace treas? urer. The bond of the treasurer was fixed at $1,000. The board found several propositions before it of a very favorable nature, but as there has not been a general understanding of the nature and extent of the work contem? plated in " the establishment and growth of the South Carolina Indus? trial school, it was thought best not to come to any decision at this time. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says: There are S.S04 pensioners on the lists of the state on account of the Confederate fund. It is a noteworthy fact that one-tenth of all of the pensioners in South Carolina are in Spartanburg dis? trict. Mrs. Mary Coggins, who died a few days 'ago in the mountain section of Greenville -county, was 94 years of age. She had 214 descendants. Of her ll children all are living but 3. the youngest being 52 years of age. She has 202 grandchildren and great grandchildren and f<nn- great-great granchildren. At 12 o'clock Thursday night Mr. M. P. Howell, of Walterboro. filed an c-der from the Chief Justice, staying the remitttitur in the li. A. Adams case until April 19. This means that nothing can be done until after that time, and that Adams will not be hanged until after some new move is made. j TILLMAN DISCUSSES THE HEPBURN BILL i The Necessity or Railroad Rate Regula? tion Made Ciear. THE RAILROADS' STUPENDOUS POWER. His Report to the Senate Contains Startling and Convincing Facts-The Liberty of the Peeople at Stake and the Railroad Magnates Warned That It is the Part of Wisdom to Ac? quiesce in Wise Legislation. Washington, March 15.-"The gross annual earnings of the railroads, in round numbers, are two thousand mil? lion dollars. Their net earnings are seven hundred million dollars. It will thus be seen that once a year ev? ery dollar in circulation in the United States passes through the hands of the railroads, while once in three years every dollar in the United States be? comes a part of their net earnings, and those net earnings equal in amount, annually, the entire expendi? tures of the United States govern? ment." This striking statement was made by Senator Tillman in his formal writ? ten report on the Hepburn railroad rate bill, which he was directed to make by the senate committee on in? ter-state commerce and which he pre? sented in the senate shortly after it met today. , "It is small '.vonder," he continued, "that with such princely revenues the most brilliant'legal minds cf the coun? try are7 at their command to conduct litigation, frame laws and secure their passage through legislatures and congress, and to exercise such an over-mastering influence over the ju? diciaries and executive departments of tooth of states and nation, that the average citizen is almost driven to be live the fight is hopeless, and that the government, instead of controlling the railroads is controlled by them, and that the liberties of the people, to say nothing of their rights, are in jeop? ardy." The report is an extensive one. In conclusion Senator Tillman warns the friends of the proposed legislation that all their expectations may not be realized at this session of Congress. "The great influence of the rail? roads," he says, "might prevent the passage of any bill at all; or the en? actment of one that will prove wholly inadequate." Such action on their part will, in my judgment, be very un? wise and will only dam up the water, and if those most interested in these great properties will not consent to wise legislation to relieve the distress of the people, there is danger of more radical policies and leaders coming to the front, with the result that legisla? tion far more drastic and dangerous than anything proposed in this bill, and amendments will be offered and will be enacted." THE FLORENCE KILLING. The Coroner's Jury Holds Jesse Clem? ents for the Murder of J. F. Baker. Florence, May 15.-J. F. Baker, the man who was shot by Jesse Clements at the transfer yard Tuesday night died last night about 8 o'clock and the inquest was held this morning. The body was lying in the Coast Line hos^. pital. Baker had been under the care of Drs. Grigg and Evans since the night of the shooting but'never rallied suf? ficiently for the balls to be extracted and his death seemed certain from the very first. No More Crop Bulletins. Columbia, March 19.-The South Carolina division will hereafter not issue crop bulletins as it has done for years past. For many years the Co? lumbia station has issued every Tues? day morning, during the crop season a bulletin giving a resume of the crop conditions. This bulletin has been very interesting and hus been well done. Orders have been issued from Wash? ington that hereafter this weekly re? port shall on*, y refer to climate condi? tions, and that there is to be no men? tion of the crop conditions. It is understood that this order has been issued because of the status of the appropriation bill, and the report of the Keep investigating committee. Exactly what will be the nature of subsequent reports, both by State and on the part of the government will, it is said, depend on the verbiage of the appropriation bill providing for mon? ey for tho statistical work of the de? partment, and what conditions are placed in the bill. There has been general regret that these State crop reports are to be dis? continued. ' STRIKERS USE BOMBS. NEW YORK TEAMSTERS BLOW . TJP WHOLESALE GROCERY BUILDING. pion-Union Men Have Been Murder . ously Assaulted and One is Dying in Hospital-Members of Firm Threat? ened With Death and Destruction of Their Property. ? New York, March 14.-Following the strike of the teamsters against the Clark, Chapin & Bushnell Wholesale Grocery Company, three chalk marks were placed on the front office door early today. Later on an explosive was put under the door and touched off. The explosion occurred at 4:12 o'clock this morning, just after the police had been withdrawn after an all night watch for the expected effort to de? stroy the building. The vibration was so great that it was heard for half a mile. Part of the building was wreck? ed. The police quickly surrounded and searched the vicinity but found no trace of the perpetrators. Since the strike the firm has been employing non-union men. The latter have been assaulted on numerous occasions one of whom is now dying in the hospital as the result of the as? sault. The firm has also received let? ters threatening the death of members of the firm and the destruction of their property. TWAIN WOULDN'T BE SENATOR. 'I'm the Laziest 3Ian on Earth and Congress Needs Industry," He Says -Thinks He Could Earn the Sal? ary, but as a Representative of the People Would be "Dead Timber.".. From the New 7ork Herald. Suggestion having come from vari? ous sources that, in the *vent of the retirement from congress of either of the New York senators, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain;- would be named as successor, a reporter for the Herald called t pon the humorist ye> ".erday at his home, in 5th avenue, io git his expressions on the subject Mr. Cit mens, who was clothed in his pajamas and busily engaged in shav? ing when he was asked if he would ac? cept a senatorial seat, instantly stop? ped wielding the razor, and, turning to his questioner with an expansive smile on his lathered face, said: "If such an offer as that were made to me it would be the most gigantic compliment I ever received. I would not consider myself, hfiwever, a worthy successor to Dr. Depew or Mr. Platt, as I am in no way qualified for the post. A senator needs to know the political history of the country, past and present, as well as its commercial Industrial and financial affairs. Of these things I am blissfully ignorant. "Even if I were qualified, the du? ties of a Senator would be distasteful to me. My own particular work is the greatest source of pleasure I have, and for that reason I do not consider it as work at all. I regard myself as the most lazy human being on earth. I have absolutely no industry in me whatever, and to 'make good' as a Senator one must be in love with his job and be industrious. If a man is to succeed in any occupation the work to him must be a labor of love. It has always been so with me and my work, and I think I can justly say, without vanity, that my career has been, to a fair degree, a success. "For five days every week I am busy writing or dictating, and I'm in a mod? ified paradise the while. Saturdays and Sundays I take off, and during these two holidays, as I call them, I'm in a modified hades." When reminded that the senate, as a body, is sadly lacking in humor, and needed livening up, Mr. Twain said, smilingly: "Well, as Falstaff to the Senate, I guess I could fill the bill and earn my salary. But as a representative of the people I would be certain to prove dead timber." "But can't humorists be serious as well as other mortals. Mr. Twain? "Most assuredly. There is no man alive-not even excepting a Scotch Presbyterian minister-who can be more serious than T. Put as a senator the people would refuse tn take me any more seriously than they do in my natural capacity as a humorits, and j I don't care to make an unattractive exhibition of myself. It's a humorist's business to laugh at other folks, not inspire other folks to laugh at him. Mr. Twain is now writing his auto? biography. He started on the book on January 9. he said, and has now 100. 000 words of it completed. He devotes mic hour and three-quarters to th? ?york every morning, dictating it while 'n bed.-New York Herald. Mr. Burr Jolly, a well-to-do farmer of Cherokee county dropped dead in the road Saturday while returning home from Gaffney. Does your baking powder contain alum ? Look upon the label. Use only a powder whose label shows it to be made with cream of tartar* NOTE. - Safety lies in buying only the Royal Baking Powder, which is the best cream of tartar baking powder that can be had. i NO SPECIAL TERMS. Governor Heyward Will Refuse all i Requests for Extra Courts Unless Attorney General Advises Him That the Lau- is Mandatory. Columbia, March 15.-If he finds out from the assistant attorney general that the law allows him such discre? tion, Governor Heyward will not order any special terms of court for this year, and if it is decided that the statute makes ordering them obliga? tory, he will refuse to pay the judges, as the legislature cut off this appro? priation. He will simply report the bill for special terms to the legisla? ture. He will not pay them from his contingent fund. Solicitor Timmerman has asked for a special term for Richland and the application is being held up for an opinion from the attorney general's of? fice. Mrs. Charles Martin Niles, wife of the rector of Trinity, died here today in her fortieth year of cancer of the stomach. She was a native of Ro? chester, Nev? York, and came here with her husband, who succeeded the late Rev. Mr. Satterlee, who was also a New Yorker. McCaw. COTTON TALK. Camden, March 14.-If we fail r.o send you the news as you think we should, remember we are four miles in the country, and have charge of two eight horse farms three miles apart. So you see we are kept on the go all the time, and sometimes don't hear important news in Camden till it is published, and we don't care to be like an old lady we once knew who fold everybody she saw for six months about the death of a neighbor. As our interest is the farm, it is of the Nfarmer we will have most to say. The recent drop in the price of cotton proves that we were right last fall in condemning the action of the Cotton Growers' Association in fixing the price at 15 cents. If they had said xl or 12 cents, which is a fair pf ice, I believe every bale of last year's crop would have brought it. But they were unreasonable, and demanded more than they were in po? sition to force. So you see in place of getting more it is actually worth less. It is impos? sible to control the market without a complete warehouse system. Place the farmer where he can, if necessary, borrow money on his cotton, and he can then sell as he sees fit. It is high time the farmer should have some say so in fixing the price of his own pro duct But he will have to makej the change by little. One farmer cannot say he will not sell sell for less than 15 cents, when his neighbor is selling for 10 cents. The manufacturer does not care whose cotton he gets just so he gets the cotton. As we said before, let the associa? tion preach less acreage in cotton, j more grain and meat, and be in a po? sition to let the price adjust itself. As j long as the South owes the greater portion of the crop, before it is plant- I ed so long will the gamblers take ad- i cantage of his necessity and fix the j .price as they see fit. Let each farm be ' i committee of one to see to making j werything used on the farm, and the ? Sy^uth will soon be in position to defy ! 'he world. But it is useless with your J barn and smoke house in the West j to say that you will not sell cotton for < loss than in cents. You can't eat or j feed mules on cotton. Now don't un- j derstand me to oppose the work of the ! association-we ar.- far ?rom that-| hut think it unreasonable with the j condition <?f nine-tenths of the farm- j ors. \V<- make a large cotton crop, j but raise plenty of corn and meat to { run the farm. And the south will never prosper till she adopts this j method. B. M. Hudson. PRESIDENT KING WARNS. Head of New York Cotton Exchange Says the Time is Critical With the Cotton Planters and Urges That They ilo Not Yield tc the Tempta? tion to Over-Plant. The following very interesting letter from Mr. Wm. V. King, superintend dent of the New York Cotton Ex? change, was received h.- Richard Cheatham, secretary of the Southern Cotton Association: Mr. Richard Cheatham, Secretary Southern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga.-Dear Sir: Your favor of the 18th instant is received. Thanks for Presi? dent Jordan's cotton statistics, etc., which give the facts clearly and intel? ligently. In my opinion the coming planting season will prove to be the most try? ing, if not the most critical, in the experience of the cotton growers of the South. Trying because there are many who believe 10 or 10 1-2 cents will prove so serious a temptation to the planter that he will put every available acre in cotton. This opinion is not confined* to this section of the country alone, but is endorsed by many of the good people of the South, not planters of cotton, I am glad to say. It will indeed prove a critical sea? son for the planter, and for the entire South, should the temptation to over plant in cotton be carried out. The years of splendid work of your Asso r'ation. together with that of xrthers who have co-operated, will be swept away, and a condition of servitude for the planter will be re-enacted, with its consenquent 6 cents or 7 cents for cot? ton. This is not an extreme picture. It Is certain to occur unless the planters stand solidly together and, for their own protection, diversify the planting, putting in a moderate acreage only in cotton. If the planters will not pro? tect themselves in a matter of such vital interest, to whom can they look for help? Certainly not to the buyer and the consumer. To sum up the matter, the situation; for weal or woe, for 7 cents or for 12 cents, is entirely in the hands of the planter. In a brief interval of time the world will know whether he has prov* en false to himself or has had the courage and manliness to resist the temptation, which now threatens to wrest from him the control of the sit* uation. Yours truly, Wm. V. King. The pardon board was hard at work Thursday and disposed of over 20 of the petitions turned over to them by Governor Heyward. There were only four which received favorable consid? eration and all of these were for pris? oners who have a short time to serve. The Farmers' State Mutual Hail In? surance Company has been reorgan? ized with F. H. McMaster of Colum? bia as president, and a strong board of directors. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to con? tribute Lo Wofford college $20.000 provided tho movement on foot reach? es $SO,000 which v. ill te a reality. George Wilsonian A. C. L. brake man. was run over and killed in Charleston Friday night. The drug store, of-Dr. J. A. Torbin Barnwell was burned Sunday. Carroll' S. Moree won the inter society gold medal at Furman Univer? sity Friday night and will represent that school in the State Oratorical contest. Mr. 'C. C. Wy oho will represent the Citadel in the snit;- oratorical contest. Major Alex W. Marshall, a promi net citizen of Charleston, died Sunday afternoon. Tho 4-year-old son of Mr. Judson RtcMaxin was burned to death Friday to Lancaster county.