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HUB flUMTER WATCHMAN, ConMilldated Aug. 2,188 Cbr Waft bin m anb Sontbron. Pa Mi shed WeriiHwday and Saturday -BY ?STEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8UMTBR, 8. a Tanna: U M par annum?In advance. Admrtlsssnrnta: Square drat Insertion.Il.it subsequent Inaartlon.10 Contracts for three moi will be made at redu< All communications which eub privat? laUraata will ha charged tea aa advertisements Pact we list and tribute* of respects will te oh arge d tor. VOHT IN WATEREE SWAMP. ?.aa J. M. Twrhev Ha* Been Goae for a Dsvg and Night and Dthgetit Search Failed to Find Trace of Him. Mogltah. Fab. I.?A lot of excite? ment la aroused among the family and friend* of J. af. Tucker of this place, Mr. Tucker left early yesterday morning to go Into the Wataree t swamps to look after a herd of hogs, tip to now ha has not returned and no Information of any kind can be obtained. Last night a party com? posed of relatives and friends spent the entire night making an unsuccess? ful attempt searching for him. There j 1* nothing to indicate what is wrong, but l. more diligent search will be made. ANOTHITR SEMIXOLE SWINDLE. Southern Agency's Affairs Tied I p by Court. Chattanooga. Tenn, Feb. 7.?The Great Southern Agency Company, an Arlaona corporation, with headquart? ers kn this city, headed by C. J. Her? bert, was in Chancery Court to-day through an injunction obtained by r Attorneys Williams and Smith, of this city, and Frank P. Bond, of NauhvllN. representing stockholders holding several thousand dollars' worth ol stock. The injunction restrains the de? fendant company from paying out P any money In Its poseeslaon, parti? cularly to the Great Southern Insur? ance Company, a corporation that Mfef^Aftlcy company is charged with PWWw*ii^H^^ m\oii-\ lag of lit own shares. Three stockholders obtained an W Injunction restraining the complain? ants'.la I.he cross bill from suing the comftjAy. AH the assets are at taoJsiif ' Meeers. Williams, .Smith and wMd, having executed bonds of 122.fee for the attachments and In l Junctlloe. / * All manner of charges of fraud and misrepresentation are made. The caao com aa up for hearing In March. The Great Southern Agency Com pan' Is said to have 18,00*1 Share? holders In the South. The salt involves directly upwards I. of IKO.OOO, which amount, it la al T leaed. Is all there Is left of over $400. eeO collected by the company from share-ho Idar*. Her">ert Wanted In this State. Columbia. Fab. 7.?C. J. Herbert, president of the Southern Agency Company, la now under indictment in South Carolina, in connection with the Sernlnole Securities deal, for fraud. In which John T. Garllngton and J. Stobo Toung were convicted last month. Oovcrnor Ansel, of South Carolina. Issued requisition papers for Herbert, but Qovernor V Fatterson. of Tenneasee, refused to honor the requisition, though giving no definite reason for his refusal. The Indictment charges Herbert, together with officers of the Southern Ufa Insurance Comapny, of Fayette ville. V C and the Sernlnole Se V ourltlea Company, with "conspiracy f and obtaining money and other prop? erty by false pretence and misrepre sen tat lona" It was Hebert who engineered the deal by which the Sernlnole Securi? ties Company purchased the stock of th* Southern Life, and it was alleged that Hebert's commission was exor? bitant. \? tor Commits Suicide. Augusta. Feb. 8.?W. w. Ibams Iof Chicago, an employe in "The Cat and F'ddle" musical extravagan/.a, committal suicide to-night, drinking carbolic .icld. Ho did his work at the matinee and was present In h theatre when the performance be^an tonight. He left and returned to bis hotel and drank the poison. A love raffair with <>ri?> of the company Is supposed to be the cause. Six hundred hsdsjg of Egyptian cot t"t\. consigned to cotton mills In the upper part of the State, have been received at Charleston. \ Ished April, 1850. ?Be Jost Ai 1. SUM' SCHOOL CHILDREN HUNGRY. TARIFF LAW DOES XOT HELP 15,000 LITTLE ONES IX CHICAGO. Texas Congressman Draws Statistics On Boutell, I>efemler of Payne A l?l rich Iniquity?Makes Warm Comment. Washington, Feb. 8.?Five thou? sand children who attend the public tichools In Chicago are habitually hungry, and 10,000 other children in that city are not sufficiently nourish" ed, according to a letter from the su? perintendent of schools of Chicago from which Representative Henry (Tex.) read excerpts in the house to dsy. "Texas," declared Mr. Henry, re? plying to a recent speech in defense of the new tariff law. delivered hyf Rep? resentative Boutell (111.), "Is pros? perous In spite of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. If that law had anything to do with the prosperity of Texas, why does It not bring prosperity to Chicago and other great cities of this country?" Again replying to Mr. Boutell's speech, Mr. Henry said he did not think the -price of cotton was y>o high, nor were any other farm prod? ucts too high, on the farm. Cotton being on the free list, was not affect <J by the tariff, he declared, but its price was fixed by the markets of the world. "Yet," he added, "cotton ties and ootton bagging are taxed for the ben? efit of the steel trust." Referring to high prices, Mr. Henry was Interrupted by Mr. Boutell, who said that with prime heavy beef sell? ing on the hoof In Texas at $100, he dlj not see how the people of Chicago could buy them at $6 on the hoof. "Does the gentleman ' from Te::as want to reduce the tariff on cattle?" Inquired Mr. Boutell. "I will repeal the duty on beef if the gentleman from Illinois will h dp put every member of the beef tr ist m the penitentiary'." retorted Mr. Henry. "To whom doe* the gentleman ra? rer?" asked Mr. Boutell. "To the beef trust." "But to whom does the gentleman refer?" "Don't you know?'" asked Mr. Hun ry. "Then the 15,000 hungry child? ren" oTTTtTcaPro shotttd haunt the gon tleman from Illinois." Mr. Boutell, replying to statements by Mr. Henry, declared that today there were no hungry children in 'he public schools of Chicago, that that statement applied only to conditions attending the panic of 1907. Mr. Boutell at length revlevect conditions in Texas to show the pros? perity of that State which he claimed was the result of national Republican policies giving stability to the business affairs of the State. Henry's Statement Verlfled. Chicago, Feb. 8.?The statement that 5,000 children In Chicago go to school hungry each day and that 10, 000 more are not properly nourished was verified today by Assistant Su? perintendent John D. Shoop. "I am certain the figures are not overdrawn," said Mr. Shoop. "I know from personal observation that many children do not make progress in school because they do not receive good nourishing, food." McLEOD FOR LOCAL OPTION. Lieutenant Governor will not be In Gubernatorial Race on High Li? cense Platform. Columbia, Feb. 9.?Lieutenant Governor Thomas O. McLeod made the following statement to-night for The News and Courier: "Your correspondent states in to? day's communication to your pa.ier that as the situation appears today there would be a high license candi? date for Governor, and that I wo aid be that candidate. In Justice to riy self, I beg to state that this state? ment was without authority from me, and Is Incorrect. I will be a candi? date for Governor this year, and as far as the liquor question Is concern? ed, will advocate local option. This statement I have heretofore made and now reiterate. Of course, tharc are other mattery of far reach importance. Upon these I will an? nounce at the proper time. (Malted) "Thomas (i. McLeod." J. T. Klneald, a newa butcher run? ning out of Augusta was arrested at Laura na Tuesday for selling llqu< r, W. H. Avant has not Bucoeeded In raising t:; $3ooo bond required to obtain his release from the peni? tentiary whero he Is confined for killing Mrs. BUham. ad Fear not?Ix?t all the ends Thou AUx rER. S. C, SATURD WAVES BLOODY SHIRT. IDAHO SENATOR TAKES A FLING AT THE SOUTH. Resolution to Lend Government Tents For Use at Alabama Confederate Veterans* Reunion Provokes Pas? sionate Speech From Westerner? His Protest in Vain, Every Repub? lican Senator Voting With Demo? crats. Washington, Feb. 7.?Protesting against loaning government tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion in Mobile, Ala., next April, Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, In the senate late today, made the sharpest comment upon the is? sues of the civil war that has been heard in Congrtrs in twenty years. He inveighed against men in "re? bel" uniform oeing permitted to oc cvupy government property, or the "rebel" flag being allowed to float above it. Finally he drifted into the question of honoring men by placing their statues in the Congressional hall of fame, and by unmistakable in? ference condemned the action of Vir? ginia in sending the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, to Washington. "Take it away and worship it if you please," he thundered, "but do not intrude it upon the people who do not want It." Democratic senators moved un? easily about the floor, conversing with each other or sat frowning and angered, listen'ng to the speech. Fin? ally when Senator Heyburn had con? cluded, Senator Eankhead said: 'I am sure the Senator from Ida? ho feels much Letter, and I ask for a vote." "By roll call," shouted a dozen or more Senators, and hands went up In a second to that request from every part of the Senate chamber. When the vote was held on the tent*loan? ing measure all of the Democrats and all of the Republicans except Mr. Heyburn, voted for it. His negative vote was uttered in a loud and defiant tone. This measure was reached near the close of tho session. Mr. Heyburn was prompt, to raise an objection, and Mr. Bankhead Just as alert in moving the "nmbideratlon, regardless of the objection. It immediately was evident that the objection roused some feeling, for with a flushed face and animated voice. Mr. Bailey declared that If this measure was to be ruled out of order no other business could be transacted. The Bankhead motion being unde batable, the Senate Immediately pro? ceeded to an aye and nay vote on the question as to whether the reso? lution should be taken up, and it was adopted unanimously, Mr. Heyburn himself refraining from voting. With the resolution adopted, Mr. Heyburn took the floor, made a speech Jn which he went over many of the Issues of the war and declared himself as much a patriot now as he had been In 1862-1863-1864. The Southern Senators held a hur? ried consultation, while the Idaho Senator was proceeding and decided to make no reply. It so chanced that Mr. Heyburn's colleague, Senator Borah, of Idaho, was the first of the Republicans to be reached in the roll-call. He voted in favor of the adoption of the reso lut'on. LATHAN TO SUCCEED ITEMPHILL. Will be Editor of The News and Courier After Major Hemphlll Goes to New Field in Virginia. Charleston, Feb. P.?The friends of MaJ. J. C. Hemphlll will tender him a banquet tomorrow night at the Commercial club. It will be a sort of a gridiron club affairs. It i3 under? stood, designed to keep the dinner frcm assuming a too solemn aspect. There will be a number of interest? ing and amusing stunts and MaJ. Hrmphill will not be permitted to *hink of the function as being In the rature of a farewell affair, although It will prove a memorable event to MaJ, Hemphlll and all who attend it, Maj. Hemphlll will leave Charleston In about two weeks for Richmond, where he goes to edit The Times-Dis? patch, p. Robert Lathan Will succeed MaJ. Hemphlll a? editor of The News and Courier. He is a young man of abili? ty, well trained and experienced in editorial work and his many Charles? ton frlenda are delighted that he is to aucceed to the position. The Carolina Brick and Tile Com? pany of Charlotte will establish a plant in i;reenvllle. The lumber plant of Williams A McKelthan at Darlington was de? stroyed by lire. Loss $65,000. (TO0 i ta't at be thy Couutry'3, Tliy God's ar AY. FEBRUARY 12, PINGHOT EXP8SES GRAFT. TEMPORARY CHIEF FORESTER FLAYED BY PREDECSSOR. Solicitor or the Department of Agri? culture Accused by Deposed For? ester of Issuing Secret Orders to Abolish Ranger Schools?Misrepre? sentation Also Alleged. New York, Feb. 9.?Gifford Pln? chot, deposed chief forester of the United States, but still loyal to his policies as president of the national conservation commission, defended the rangers of the forest service In a speech delivered before the Nation? al Arts Club, in New York, and bit? terly assailed the action of George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department of agriculture, who as temporary chief, after Pinchot's dismissal, took action to abolish the collegiate train? ing of foresters at government ex? pense. This action Mr. Plnchot de? scribed as a "secret attack on the service, prostitution of the law, a method so effectively used by special interests against the people and a cruel and neiedless loss." 'He spoke, in part, as follows: "Now let me give you the best il? lustration I have seen in recent years of how a public officer under pretext of obedience to the law may traffic with It and abuse it to the public in Jury. "Upon my dismissal the solicitor of the department of agriculture (Geo. P. McCabe,) pending the arrival of another officer from the field, was made acting forester for three or four days. It appears that he learn? ed then of the ranker schools at the four State unlverslt'es and sent tele? grams to the disbursing officer in the field to pay no expense connected with them. These telegrams were kept secret from e\ery member in the service In Washington, except the stenographer, wI?o wrote them. With equal concealment from all the men In the forest service a letter was pre? pared and sent to the comptroller asking for a speedy advance decision as to tho legality of the ranger schools. This letter was clearly 'n tended, and was so framed, as to se? cure a decision against the schools, and It was successful In doing so. "This letter is a misrepresentation because it omits to state the central, essential and incontrovertible facts, First, that the forest survey must have trained rangers, and, second, that it can get them only by training them after they enter the service." Referring to Mr. McCabe's action, Mr. Plnchot says: "Both as solicitor and acting for? ester, he was in honor and duty bound to forward the work of the forest service ?y every lawful means at his command. By his official po? sition he was its counsel and advo? cate. Yet he made no attempt to as? sist tho service In this matter. On the contrary he led the secret attack upon it and used anxious and success? ful care that no attempt to defend its course should be made by any other man. The men of the forest service were first Informed that the legality of their work was in question only after adverse judgment had been rendered without giving them any hearing whatsoever. "I am not concerned with the mo? tive behind this indefensible sacrifice of the public welfare. It Is a typical illustration of a certain way to obey the law. Of course, it is not obed? ience to the law at all, but the pros? titution of the law. It is the method so effectively used by the special in? terests against the people, and there is nothing to be said in its favor." KILLS ESCAPING CONVICT. F. L. Fleming, (.uard of Clarendon County Chaingang, Shoots Down Fleeing Negro Prisoner. Manning, Feb. 8.?A middle-aged negro convict, working on the county chaingang, made a dash for liberty yesterday and was shot and killed by the guard, F. L. Fleming. The guard was armed with a double-barreled1 Shotgun, which was loaded with one charge of small shot and another of heevy shot. He first find the small charge, with the hope of stopping the fugitive, but as it did not have the desired effect he fired the heavy charge, and 'he fleeing convict fell dead. The shot entered the back :uid passed through the lungs. The convict had served about four years of a ten-year sentence. At the coroner's inquest the jury found a verdict in accordance with the facts ;is stated and declared the killing Justifiable. The Insurgents seem to have given up the war dance for the party co? tillon. Washington Post. - HI d Truth's." THE TRU 1910. Sew 8er P1NCH0T AS A CRITIC. AS NEW PRESIDENT OF CONSER? VATORS, HE SENDS IN RE REPORT. Says It ' Contains No Sufficient Anti Monopoly Clause," and "One May Re Evaded With Ease." Washington, Feb. 9.?The necessity for the passage at the present session of congress of good laws for the pro? tection of the natural resources of the United States, is the keynote of a report Just made to the National Conservation Association by Gifford Pinchot, the recently chosen presi? dent of the association. Mr. Pinchot takes up in what ho calls "a spirit of constructive critic? ism" the nine bills relating to the conservation of natural resources in? troduced into congress on January 18 on behalf of the Secretary of the In? terior, one of which has been report I ed from the Senate Public Lands Committee, while the other eight are still in the hands of the association to put foith Ftiong efforts to have en? acted into law the bill on the with? drawal of public lands which has been reported from the committee by Senator Nelson, after it had been amended as a result in part, at least, of conferences between the commit? tee and officers of the conservation association. This bill, Mr. Pinchot thinks, should have the "unqualified support of the members' of the asso? ciation." Of the other eight bills he believes that some merely require amendment, while others must be recast altogeth? er The coa* V ill and the phosphate oil, asphaltum and natural gas bill, he reports, are fundamentally sound in principle but need some amend? ment. They wisely separate, he says, the surface of the land from the un? derlying minerals and provide for the disposal of the minerals by lease and not by sale. But the coal bill, he objects, con? tains no sufficient anti-monopoly clause. The clause which purports to regulate rates to be charged the public is so framed that it may be evaded with ease. Another clause of the bill, he adds "may reduce the standard of mining to the wasteful level of the 'prevailing commerce practice.' " In regard to the bill for ihe sur? vey of railroad land grants he ex? presses the opinion that it will en? able the railroads properly to per? fect title3 to their lands, "but it over? looks the long-pending understand? ing between eeita'n of the roads and ihe Forestry S? rvlce for the return "#f railroad lands within the national forests to the United States in return for the right to cut in one body an amount of timber equal to that on the lands returned." This understand? ing, he says, requires only legislation to make it effective. Speaking on the Water-power bill Mr. Pinchot declares that "it repeals In silence the existing water-power law and curtails the already ample power now exercised, with the ap? proval of a former attorney general* by the department of agriculture." The provision of the bill for the com? pensation to the government by the companies, he holds, is good. Wa? ter-power sites shuld be protected from private appropriation under the land laws, he says, and it should be made possible to Issue to the com? panies permits good for and definite? ly terminating at the end of 50 years. The fault found by Mr. Pinchot with the Reclamation bill is that it opens reclaimed lands to absentee landlords and to speculators. The worst feature of the bill for the sale of timber and timber lands, he declares, Is that it replaces the ob? jectionable feature of the Timber and Stone act, which was the inducement to speculation In government timber, with provisions which promote spec? ulation and retard the development of agricultural and mineral hands far beyond the act it repeals. In falling to separate the surface from the underlying mineral the bill for the classification of public lands is Inconsistent with the Coal bill, he finds. ??Tin? Withdrawal bill as amended and reported by Senator Neleon makes easy/' says Mr. Pinchot. "the protection of all natural resources on the public domain until good laws can be passed." The whole Influence of the conser? vation association, he declares, should be thrown behind this bill. l>. v. Miller, white, of Greenvtlh <u< <\ nf io? k Jaw resluttng from a knife wound Inflicted by Will Foster. Well, if politics is kept out of the i - usus this year it will be the first time.- -Indianopolls News. K SOUTHRON, Established June, IHM ies?Vol XXX. *<o. 49. ON THE ANXIOUS BENCH. REPUBLICANS PEAB THE RE? SULT OF THE FOOD INVES? TIGATION. Presentation of the Facts May Have Disastrous Effect Upon the Coining Elect lens. Washington, Feb. 9.?Whether the senate and house will conduct rival investigations into the causes of the high cost of the i ecessaries of life is a question that concerns the Repub? lican political leaders more deeply than any other problem now before congress. If both bodies conduct such an examination they fear that differ? ent conclusions may be reached and that such differing reports, on the eve of the congressional elections, would be likely to prove embarass ing to the Republican majority. Nevertheless the Republicans of the senate apparently are determined to order such an Inquiry and conduct It with the utmost dispatch, regardless of the views of the house leaders on the subject. The Lodge resolution, which was reported from the senate committee I on finance, has been amended as to I provide for a committee of seven I senators, and it probably will be re I ported today from the committee on I contingent expenses. The enlarged I committee will give Senator Elklns I opportunity to serve as one of the I investigators if he cares to do so, and I will unite the Republicans In favor of I the Inquiry. There is a possibility I tyhat the investigation proposed by I the house committee on ways and I means may not be ordered but no de I cislon has thus far been reached. That the inquiry will be virtually I political in character is admitted on I every side. The Republican leaders I concede that the agitation over the I cost of living will play a prominent I part in the congressional campaigns I and they show no disposition to dls I guise their purposee to "fix up their I fences" as well as they can. 1 Especially they want it would 1 seem, to refute the charge that the [tariff is responsible for the increase. I The Republicans have brDught forw I ard the theory that the expensive I methods used by American merchants I in advertising and distributing their I goods is largely responsible for h'.gh I prices. They will try to show that I there is a wide difference between I wholesale and retail prices and that I the tariff is not responsible for these I differences. I It is reported that President Taft I desires the effect of the tariff upon I necessaries of life to be determined I by the inquiry, however it is conduct I ed, and that he will not tolerate any I effort to gloss over any ill effects that I may be disclosed. He has not ex I pressed himself publicly on this sub I ject. Appropriation bills will continue to I occupy the attention of the house I during the coming week but in the I senate an effort will be made to com I plete the postal savings bark bill In I order to have a vote not later than I Thursday or Friday. Of. the presl I dent's policies It Is likely that the I Statehood bill next will be conslder I ed by the senate. Practically no Interest is btdng I taken by either hearings on the ad I ministration bill for the creation of I a court of commerce and amending I the railroad rate laws. Open sessions I have been held but few members of I congress have taken the trouble to I Investigate the progress, and even I the members of the committee have I not shown the interest usual to such I legislation. There is a disposition to I pass the bill In about the form In I which it was presented by Attorney I General Wickersham. The hearings I are little more than perfunctory. I Friends and enemies of ship sub I sidy legislation in the house are lin? ing up for a sharp contest. There is nothing to indicate when a vote may be had on the bill, however. Legis? lation of this character has never been successful In the house al? though it has passed the senate on several occasions. It is likely that the subsidy measure will pass the senate and If held up In the bouse will be sent to that body as a r:der on the postoffice appropriation bill. The postoffice appropriation bill will be completed by the house com? mittee In all probability before the close of the week, but the indications are that the diplomatic and consular bill and the Indian appropriation bill will prevent Its com.deration. There Is a number of Important hearings scheduled for the week, In? cluding one on Tuesday before the house comm'ttee on agriculture, to prevent gambling In futures of pro? duct! of the soil. You have there hit the nail on the heal.?Robelals.